Re: Debian Trixie: Nested Logins Always Failing

What is the use case for running login in a running session? Have you filed a bug report? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Debian Trixie: Nested Logins Always Failing

Thanks for the very, very, very helpful reply. A short check regarding the sources of the "login deb-package" shows that the old implementation from the "shadow-utils" source (https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow) has been superseeded by the new implementation from the "util-linux" source (ht

Re: Will this in-place conversion from LEGACY/MBR RAID1 boot to GPT/EFI boot work

On 10/6/25 18:13, Ram Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I have an old machine that I installed with MBR/legacy BIOS/RAID1 So, RAID1 in the motherboard chipset? What motherboard? What chipset? What Setup settings? on two intel nvme 2TB SSDs. Model numbers? Luckily, RAID1 is on a partition and

Re: Brother MFC-L3730CDN not working with cups 2.4.10

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM basti wrote: > > I have get a Brother MFC-L3730CDN I have try to print via my central > cups server running cups 2.4.10. For what it is worth, I just retired a Brother MFC-J870DW all-in-one used by my mother because Brother only provides 32-bit drivers, and not 64-b

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

On 10/6/25 05:36, Greg wrote: On 2025-10-06, David Christensen wrote: On 10/5/25 05:12, Greg wrote: On 2025-10-05, David Christensen wrote: Encrypting "at-rest data" is the starting point -- e.g. the disks are powered off and an adversary tries to access the computer and/or disks. data inac

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

On 2025-10-05, Andy Smith wrote: >> >> You're not Andy Smith (see above), and I wasn't referring to you. > > I said what I said because I also don't rate anyone's chances against > their government. People will believe what they want though, including, > it seems, your active imagination about me

Re: Video/Firefox crashes kde-session

Hallo, Am Sonntag, den 05. Oktober schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM M G Berberich > wrote: > > > > I have the problem that videos in firefox often crashes the > > kde-session and the system. System is Trixie. > > > > In Bookworm crashes were very seldom, the system was ru

Re: Video/Firefox crashes kde-session

On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 at 19:02, M G Berberich wrote: > I have the problem that videos in firefox often crashes the > kde-session and the system. System is Trixie. Short answer: maybe this helps: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-hardware-acceleration-gpu-rendering-in-mozilla-firefox-4-0-to-f

Re: Video/Firefox crashes kde-session

On 2025-10-05 20:34:26 +0200, M G Berberich wrote: > Hello, > > I have the problem that videos in firefox often crashes the > kde-session and the system. System is Trixie. > > In Bookworm crashes were very seldom, the system was running for > days/weeks (with hibernate every night > > With trixi

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

On 2025-10-05, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 03:16:54PM -, Greg wrote: >> On 2025-10-05, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: >> > Andy Smith writes: >> > >> >> It won't help you against your government who will just compel you by >> >> law to give up your passphrase. If your data's wo

Re: Might NOT be a Debian problem

On Saturday, October 04, 2025 07:09:55 PM Van Snyder wrote: > Another correspondent advised me to add > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="processor.max_cstate=1 idle=nomwait" > > This seems to have solved the problem. For the peanut gallery, where did you add that?

Re: Debian 9

At Sun, 5 Oct 2025 12:21:03 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 16:44:03 +0100, David wrote: > > I realise that Debian 9 is very old, but it's the version that should > > work with the application I'm trying to load. Newer versions don't > > work. > > > > The issue I'm getting

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

On 2025-10-05, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > >> It won't help you against your government who will just compel you by >> law to give up your passphrase. If your data's worth the prison time, >> you're already in a threat category beyond what we can advise you on. > > This may be tr

Re: libreoffice 7 problems

Hello Paul, Obviously, I could be mistaken, but what you see as a Libreoffice problem, I'm inclined to interpret it as a global upgrade problem: Libreoffice 7.0 was present in Debian 11 Bullseye (OldOldStable), Libreoffice 7.4 was present in Debian 12 Bookworm (OldStable). In Sid (Unstable)

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

Hi, On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 01:25:52AM +, whiteman...@paraboletancza.org wrote: > I want to store on NAS a lot of random downloaded stuff like movies, > music and also my backups of servers. Only you can decide if it's worth it or not. Full disk encryption will help you mainly against unsoph

Re: Might NOT be a Debian problem

On Thu, 2025-09-25 at 09:37 +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > Van Snyder wrote: > > > I upgraded my computer with a new MSI Z90 board, Intel I9-14900K, > > > 32 > > > GB, 1 TB NVME drive. Another correspondent advised me to add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="processor.max_cstate=1 idle=nomwait" Thi

Re: Should I encrypt servers at my home lab?

I forget to mention I live in democratic country at EU, not in authoritarian to clarify my threat model. Not sure if I did good taking into account worst possible secenario (not actually probable most of the time) in my security threat model analysis. October 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM, whiteman...@par

Re: /.cache directory

On 03/10/2025 18:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri 03 Oct 2025 at 02:59:47 (-0400), Avinash Sonawane wrote: Over the coming weekend I'm planning to install Debian again. This time I'll be using debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso. What can I do to catch the culprit in/after the action? [...] Another

Re: Recommendations for RDAP client in Bookworm?

Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It looks like Bookworm does not provide a RDAP client. Searching for > rdap and openrdap in Debians packages does not provide meaningful > results: > > $ apt-cache search rdap > ruby-discordrb-webhooks - webhook client for discordrb > libxrda

Re: libreoffice 7 problems

On 10/3/25 10:23 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 10/3/25 4:33 AM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 14:18:27 +0300 Roland Mueller wrote: You have to provide some more information on this issue: - What error messages you got when attempting to open the documents? to 2.10.2025 klo 21.22 Paul Scott (wa

Re: diff files

On 2025-10-03 15:38, Greg wrote: On 2025-10-02, John Hasler wrote: mick writes: So I wondered, is it line feed, encoding, the patch protocols, some issue with the html. ChatGPT isn't going to run diff to generate a patch file. It is going to produce a block of text that looks like one.

Re: forums.debian.net still down

marchhare% lynx -head -mime_header http://forums.debian.net HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:48:00 GMT Server: Apache Location: https://forums.debian.net// Cache-Control: max-age00 Expires: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:18:00 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 I

Re: forums.debian.net still down

I can ping it but not connect via browser. Server seems to be up: toncho/~ 22 telnet forums.debian.net http Trying 2a01:4f8:1c17:7bb3::1... Connected to forums.debian.net. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: libreoffice 7 problems

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 14:18:27 +0300 Roland Mueller wrote: > You have to provide some more information on this issue: > - What error messages you got when attempting to open the documents? > > to 2.10.2025 klo 21.22 Paul Scott (waterhorsemu...@aol.com) kirjoitti: > > > I'm not sure if this is appr

Re: libreoffice 7 problems

You have to provide some more information on this issue: - What error messages you got when attempting to open the documents? to 2.10.2025 klo 21.22 Paul Scott (waterhorsemu...@aol.com) kirjoitti: > I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this list. > > My laptop died and I have most of my files

Re: searching repo

On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 02:07:18 +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2025, John Hasler wrote: > > > apt list ~sScience > > thanks Just for the record, the ~ should be quoted (using any of the ways you can quote it in the shell) to avoid a possible tilde expansion. That expansi

Re: /.cache directory

>> On Fri 03 Oct 2025 at 02:59:47 (-0400), Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Over the coming weekend I'm planning to install Debian again. This time > I'll be using debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso. What can I do to catch the > culprit in/after the action? As soon as you can login as root, see if /.cache

Re: Copying calendar and address book to/from flip phone

On 30/9/25 08:47, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a TCL Flip 2 phone (model 4058G).  I've just switched to this phone, having gone through a few phones to find one I like.  And, of course, my calendar and address book are lost each time.  I've been able to hook up a USB cable to the phones and acce

Re: searching repo

apt list ~sScience -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 12:40:19PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: unbootable installed OS != not bootable/installable What's your point? If you boot a debian install image you'll find out whether debian will run on it with absolutely no need to poke around on a disk with a broken old install.

Re: searching repo

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025, John Hasler wrote: > apt list ~sScience > -- > John Hasler > j...@sugarbit.com > Elmwood, WI USA > thanks

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:14:53PM -, Greg wrote: On 2025-09-29, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 05:26:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Underlying my question was the assumption that when a processor was referred to as 32 or 64 bit, it was a reference to the width of the data

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

> How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit? Others replied already. > How do I discover the CPU's bus width? That's probably not what you want to know. My crystal ball tells me that you probably want to know which "instruction sets" a.k.a "processor architectures" are supported by the C

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 04:14:53PM -, Greg wrote: > I also believed there were actually two types of widths: the data bus > width, and the CPU architecture width, and that the two didn't > necessarily have to match. +1 A great example of that was the Motorola M68000 series of processors, it

Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:59:59 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 19:50:10 +0200, Michael wrote: > > On 9/29/25 19:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 19:27:04 +0200, Michael wrote: > > > > 1. How can I achieve that bind is not started? If I kill the > > > >

Re: Combine PDF files

Dunno, if this was mentioned before. I am using "pdfarranger" to combine padf files. It is a nice graphical tool with easy-to-use. Maybe it is this, you are looking for? Best Hans

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

Richard Owlett composed on 2025-09-28 07:00 (UTC-0500): > I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. > I need to know the data bus width. > I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version . > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit? > How d

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 9/28/25 9:24 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:01:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: # lscpu | grep mode CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit I'm guessing THIS is what the OP really wanted. The rest is noise. (This use of this command new to me; I've never s

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

Hi, i wrote: > > I am astonished that K3B from Debian tries to use cdrecord. > > Shouldn't it try to use wodim ? > > What do you get from: > > > >   ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 15  2024 /usr/bin/cdrecord -> wodim I must have missed the poin

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > [...] > Jeff Walton wrote: > > $ sudo setcap cap_ipc_lock+pe /usr/bin/wodim > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1583845#c12 > > A newly appeared demand for CAP_IPC_LOCK would be a candidate. > getcap /usr/bin/wodim > does n

Re: diff files

On Thursday, October 02, 2025 12:27:47 PM Greg wrote: > Right. I tried to use diff for word and syntactical changes, but the > verbose output and the diff by line seemed to make the app impracticable > for literary (in the broadest sense!) use. I did mention wdiff -- you should try that on text --

Re: diff files

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 07:02:55PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: [...] > I asked ChatGPT [...] > So I wondered, is it line feed, encoding, the patch protocols, some issue > with the html. Or ChatGPT bullshitting its way through a syntactically wrong diff. Correct syntaxes (not just "statistically c

Re: kali

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM Giusi Sergi wrote: > > non mi fa scaricare il software kali

Re: /.cache directory

ed appstream. Interesting. I got curious, similar situation here. # ls -lad /.cache drwx-- 1 root root 0 Sep 16 2023 .cache/ I had assumed that this machine was older but I probably re-installed it around then, because most of the files I expect to be created at install-time are created

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:45:56 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 9/28/25 7:23 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett > > wrote: > > > >> > >> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. > >> I need to know the data bus width. > >>

Re: diff files

mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-10-02 12:24, john doe wrote: > > On 10/2/25 1:13 PM, mick.crane wrote: > > > Please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. > > > I only ever used diff once before. > > > > > > > > > I was trying to get ChatGPT to post a patch file rather than the > > > whole thing

Re: diff files

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 01:36:20PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > mick writes: > > So I wondered, is it line feed, encoding, the patch protocols, some > > issue with the html. > > ChatGPT isn't going to run diff to generate a patch file. It is going to > produce a block of text that looks like one.

Re: diff files

mick writes: > So I wondered, is it line feed, encoding, the patch protocols, some > issue with the html. ChatGPT isn't going to run diff to generate a patch file. It is going to produce a block of text that looks like one. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM Joseph Loo wrote: > Did you add yourself to the group cdrom? > I am already a member of the cdrom group. tmb@hppavilion:~$ groups tmb cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev scanner bluetooth lpadmin > > > On October 2, 2025 7:44:15 AM PDT, Timothy M B

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

Did you add yourself to the group cdrom? On October 2, 2025 7:44:15 AM PDT, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the following >> > error me

Re: diff files

, e.g., sometimes showing, e.g., long portions of text deleted and then re-added when they have only been moved in the document.) Right. I tried to use diff for word and syntactical changes, but the verbose output and the diff by line seemed to make the app impracticable for literary (in the bro

Re: diff files

d diff program utilized) (wdiff >>> is >>> one available in *nix). (Some of the programs do not always represent the >>> changes in the best possible way, e.g., sometimes showing, e.g., long >>> portions >>> of text deleted and then re-added when the

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the following > > error messages: > > cdrecord has no permission to open the device. > > I am astonished that K3B from Debian tries to use cd

Re: diff files

e.g., sometimes showing, e.g., long > portions > of text deleted and then re-added when they have only been moved in the > document.) > Right. I tried to use diff for word and syntactical changes, but the verbose output and the diff by line seemed to make the app impracticable for literary (in the broadest sense!) use.

Re: Laptop resumes each 1h13 after suspend-to-ram

I am a bit tired that I was so unsuccessful. I think I will give up and live with the error. Instead of pressing the power button, I will use a command (a shell "alias") to suspend it and to automatically re-suspend it when it awakes, if I do not ctrl-c it. Thank you for all yo

Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:55:17 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > You've got bind9 running. If you want dnsmasq to run as your local > DNS resolver, remove bind9. Or, if you want both (say, bind9 for the local network, dnsmasq for the virtual network), inhibit bind9 from using the virtual network. Edit

Re: diff files

(Some of the programs do not always represent the changes in the best possible way, e.g., sometimes showing, e.g., long portions of text deleted and then re-added when they have only been moved in the document.) On Thursday, October 02, 2025 08:03:24 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 20

Re: diff files

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 12:13:11 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Does anybody know how the system/syntax for diff files for Bookworm can be > explained? If you mean how diff(1) and patch(1) are used, it's not specific to Debian or Bookworm. diff has three different output modes: legacy, context, and u

Re: diff files

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 12:13:11PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. > I only ever used diff once before. > I was trying to get ChatGPT to post a patch file rather than the whole thing > but it's been unsuccessful. > Does anybody know how the system/syntax

Re: /.cache directory

Henrik Ahlgren writes: > I have noticed the /.cache directory present on two of my machines that > are running desktop environments. It appears to be absent from my > headless server machines. The timestamp indicates it is from 2023, so I > assume it was created during bookworm. The directories a

Re: diff files

On 10/2/25 1:13 PM, mick.crane wrote: Please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. I only ever used diff once before. I was trying to get ChatGPT to post a patch file rather than the whole thing but it's been unsuccessful. What thing are you talking about (repo where the commits are co

Re: LibreOffice Writer "Missing hyphenation data"

On 2025-10-02 at 07:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:40:19 +, Ceppo wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:51:12AM +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: >> >>> I'm using Debian 12 XFCE and when I first open LibreOffice >>> Writer, it shows the following message: >>> >>> Missin

Re: LibreOffice Writer "Missing hyphenation data"

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:40:19 +, Ceppo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:51:12AM +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > I'm using Debian 12 XFCE and when I first open LibreOffice Writer, it > > shows the following message: > > > > Missing hyphenation data - Please install the hyphenation pac

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 9/28/25 10:12 AM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. I need to know the data bus width. I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version . How do I find if the installed

Re: Webcam not sending feed in firefox-esr

And if for whatever reason you prefer the regular version of Firefox to the ESR one, you can install it from the Mozilla Debian repo instead of installing the Mozilla flatpak: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#From_Mozilla_APT_repository_.28recommended_by_Mozilla.29

Re: Webcam not sending feed in firefox-esr

Le 02/10/2025 à 09:55, Nicholas Armstrong a écrit : I enabled this setting, and all settings related to openh264, but it still would not send the feed. Hello Nicholas, Apparently, Microsoft only support supports the last three versions of Firefox (as of today: Firefox 143, 142, 141) so Firefox

Re: LibreOffice Writer "Missing hyphenation data"

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:51:12AM +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: I'm using Debian 12 XFCE and when I first open LibreOffice Writer, it shows the following message: Missing hyphenation data - Please install the hyphenation package for locale "en-AU". Which package am I missing? Is it LibreO

Re: Re: Webcam not sending feed in firefox-esr

I enabled this setting, and all settings related to openh264, but it still would not send the feed.

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

Hi, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the following > error messages: > cdrecord has no permission to open the device. I am astonished that K3B from Debian tries to use cdrecord. Shouldn't it try to use wodim ? What do you get from: ls -

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [...] >>> tmb@hppavilion:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0 >>> brw-rw+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 1 20:15 /dev/sr0 >> >> I tried changing it to: >> >> tmb@hppavilion:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0 >> brwxrwxrwx+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 1 22:24 /dev/sr0 >> >> I

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the following > error messages: > > cdrecord has no permission to open the device. > Modify device settings in K3b to solve this problem. > > I looked through settings and

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM Timothy M Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM Charles Curley < >> charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wro

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM Charles Curley < > charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:26:16 -0400 >> Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> >> > I am trying to burn a data

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:26:16 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the > > following error messages: > > > > cdrecord has no permission to open

Re: K3b fails to burn data CD

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 20:26:16 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I am trying to burn a data CD with K3b and I keep receiving the > following error messages: > > cdrecord has no permission to open the device. > Modify device settings in K3b to solve this problem. > > I looked through settings an

Re: spam in bugs.debian.org pages

vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: >Why isn't spam in the bugs.debian.org pages cleaned up, or at least >hidden? > >For instance, I had reported this one in 2021, and spam is still >there: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537198 It's a problem, yes. It needs manual effort to clean thing

Re: systemd[1]: bpf-restrict-fs: Failed to load BPF object: No such file or directory

On 30/09/25 at 08:57, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Franco Martelli writes: So the question is: how can I add libraries (not modules) to my "initrd.img" file? Take a look at initramfs-tools(7) man page – I believe a hook script using the copy_exec command is what you're looking for. Thanks, I did

Re: Copying calendar and address book to/from flip phone

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:04:51 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: Hello Charlie, >to figure out where the phone holds its address book; I'm assuming that According to the manual; --8X-- From the contacts list, press the Right Soft Key (circled minus sign) to show more options. Settings • Sort contacts

Re: BINGO - was [Re: Identifying CPU and current OS]

On Oct 01, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/30/25 12:25 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [SNIP] And based on OP's original question of "How do I discover the CPU's bus width?", he probably should have asked how to determine the register size of the CPU. I think that was closer to what he wanted to kn

Re: BINGO - was [Re: Identifying CPU and current OS]

On 2025-10-01, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I now formally ask: > How do I determine the register size of its CPU (its architecture)? What's the make and model of the machine? Have you opened it up and looked at the CPU (label/part number). Just remember the word size might not fit the bus width pr

Re: BINGO - was [Re: Identifying CPU and current OS]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I now formally ask: How do I determine the register size of its CPU (its architecture)? I formally ask: why are you starting this again? What possible purpose can another 100 messages about the same topic, slightly rephrased, act

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 2025-09-30, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 04:08:56PM -, Greg wrote: >> In computing, a word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word >> is >> a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware >> of >> the processor. > > It has that

Re: Solved Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On Wednesday, 1 October 2025 04:11:46 -03 Michael wrote: > On 9/29/25 21:21, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:27:04 +0200 > > > > Michael wrote: > >> 1. How can I achieve that bind is not started? If I kill the > >> process > >> "/usr/sbin/named -f -u bind" with "kill -9 1227",

Solved Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On 9/29/25 21:21, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:27:04 +0200 Michael wrote: 1. How can I achieve that bind is not started? If I kill the process "/usr/sbin/named -f -u bind"   with  "kill -9 1227", it is immediately restarted with a different process ID. Use the standard systemc

Re: Why oom killer?

Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2025-09-30 16:29:44 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> >> Debian sid laptop: Recently during backup (==zstd process compressing >> content, but I am not sure I started to get processes be killed by oom >> killer) >> Laptop has 20GM RAM + 32G swap, no one is working on it,

Re: Why oom killer?

Michael Stone writes: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 04:29:44PM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: >>Debian sid laptop: Recently during backup (==zstd process compressing >>content, but I am not sure I started to get processes be killed by oom >>killer) >>Laptop has 20GM RAM + 32G swap, no one is working on it

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Monday 29 September 2025 01:21:08 pm Felix Miata wrote: > mick.crane composed on 2025-09-29 18:07 (UTC+0100): > > > I never really knew what this meant but liked the sound of it. > > > > "32 bit extensions and a graphical shell Windoze 95 > > [on top of] a 16 bit patch msdos > > to an 8 b

Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:27:04 +0200 Michael wrote: > 1. How can I achieve that bind is not started? If I kill the process > "/usr/sbin/named -f -u bind"   with  "kill -9 1227", it is > immediately restarted with a different process ID. Use the standard systemctl commands to stop it, disable it,

Re: debian 13 - no virtual machines

On 9/29/25 19:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 19:27:04 +0200, Michael wrote: 1. How can I achieve that bind is not started? If I kill the process "/usr/sbin/named -f -u bind"   with  "kill -9 1227", it is immediately restarted with a different process ID. Define your goal. Do

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 9/29/25 9:19 AM, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 05:22:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: My underlying question was explicitly the character of the installed processor. When you ask… On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: How do I find if the installed

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 05:26:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Underlying my question was the assumption that when a processor was referred to as 32 or 64 bit, it was a reference to the width of the data bus. Not really, which is why this was a weird/misleading/confusing question. A "bus" is

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 9/28/25 8:12 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:45:56 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/28/25 7:23 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. I need to know the data

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 28.09.2025 16:12, Robert Heller wrote: But the results of uname is difinitive. A 64-bit kernel won't run on a 32-bit CPU, although a 32-bit kernel will run on a 64-bit processor. So if the *kernel* is 64-bit, the processor is 64-bit. It is possible to have both 32-bit and 64-bit user-mode pro

Re: Lost graphical ssh-askpass with Xfce4 in forky

On 28/09/2025 21:21, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 12:12:27PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: In my notes I have a mention of gnome-keyring-daemon for GNOME session on Ubuntu and it was 5 years ago. The related setting was "SSH Key Agent" in gnome-session-properties. Thanks! I can't

Re: What is creating directories under my home directory?

On 28/09/2025 11:02, Mike Castle wrote: Mike, I think you described a proper way to disable the XDG path to run autostart scripts, but I suspect there are still might be systemd user session units. In my XFCE setup, under Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart I disabled th

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:15:30 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit? > > Others replied already. > > > How do I discover the CPU's bus width? > > That's probably not what you want to know. > My crystal ball tells me that you probably want to know w

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

Michael Stone composed on 2025-09-28 14:42 (UTC-0400): > On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 14:30:47 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>Why download or burn anything before knowing whether it could possibly suit >>your >>needs? > Because downloading a minimal install image will take a heck of a lot > less time

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. > I need to know the data bus width. > > I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version . This is not reliable because a user can edit the file. See b

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 02:30:47PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Why download or burn anything before knowing whether it could possibly suit your needs? Because downloading a minimal install image will take a heck of a lot less time and be a heck of a lot more reliable than coming up with silly w

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

Michael Stone composed on 2025-09-28 14:18 (UTC-0400): > On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 12:40:19 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>unbootable installed OS != not bootable/installable > What's your point? If you boot a debian install image you'll find out > whether debian will run on it with absolutely no ne

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