Re: Recs for new Linux laptop? (to replace Zareason)

2021-11-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 09.11.21 at 18:47 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Results may vary: cheap Lenovo may be a very different experience to > Thinkpad. There is a quality difference which depends on original price, > I think. Sure, I know, I wanted to express that if even a cheap low end IdeaPad with no stated support

Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

2021-11-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 10.11.21 at 09:37 lina wrote: > I intend to downgrade qt5 to qt4.  Don't do it. You will probably ruin your system. Many packages depend on qt5. As others suggested, you migh try running an older version of Debian inside a virtual machine.

Re: Package: nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver

2021-11-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 10.11.21 at 13:25 Greg Wooledge wrote: > I've never used an nvidia card myself, so I don't have first-hand > experience with them. From what I understand, the process of getting > graphics to work properly with nvidia goes something like this: > > 1) Install Debian. > > 2) Install firmware

Re: release date on website with notes

2021-11-10 Thread Christian Britz
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 07:08:07AM -0500, Jeremy Brown wrote: >> >> My computer has had a number of malware incidents, so I am taking extra >> precautions. This morning I got an update notification about my os. Is >> there somewhere I can get notices directly from the debian website with an >> of

Re: Mouse locator

2021-11-15 Thread Christian Britz
On 15.11.21 at 13:33 Nicolas George wrote: > Richard Forst (12021-11-12): >> In Debian I want to locate my mouse pointer. And after searching there >> are some suggestion using > > Just install and run oneko. > > Regards, > Killer app! Works even over my Citrix Windows session! :-D

Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread Christian Britz
On 26.11.21 at 09:56 deloptes wrote: > lou wrote: > >> sorry, i use wrong word >> >> i mean wifi adapter, not wifi card >> >> in Chinese, it's called wireless card, though it's really USB wifi adapter > > I think you are looking for usb/WUSB-Design-overview.txt which I found with > > grep -r -i

Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread Christian Britz
(Sorry for replying to the personal adress first...) Stefan Monnier wrote: > AFAICT most of the files in `linux-doc/Documentation` are compressed, > so you'd need to use `zgrep`. This actually works recursively with the zgrep command from the zutils package, thank you! The installation of it t

Re: where to find wifi card info in linux-doc

2021-11-26 Thread Christian Britz
Christian Britz wrote: > This actually works recursively with the zgrep command from the zutils > package, thank you! And still it doesn't find the file mentioned by deloptes, amazing! :-D

Re: stability level of testing

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
daggs wrote: > I'm thinking of migrating my main server to Debian, I need stability and > recent version of small number of pkgs. > in addition I need to recompile with a out of tree patch. > I had Debian stable before but replaced it because upgrade broke the system > and the versions used for t

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
Whats the exact problem? GRUB does not show up and Windows boots directly? You could try the rescue mode of the installer to reinstall GRUB, reFind is normally not needed on a PC system to dual boot with Windows. Once you get GRUB up and running, you should consider installing the package os-probe

Re: stability level of testing

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
has no timely security support. Current Debian stable 11 ("Bullseye") has not so old software and good security support, consider using it for a server. You can search for software versions using packages.debian.org Good luck, Christian

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-01 Thread Christian Britz
Joe wrote: > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on its > menu. IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that.

Re: why Debian?

2021-12-02 Thread Christian Britz
Piper H wrote: > For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as my personal > development  system? The question is almost blasphemic; The original (Debian) of course! ;-)

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Christian Britz
Am 02.12.21 um 09:26 schrieb Joe: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100 > Christian Britz wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >>> measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on >>> its menu. >> >> IIRC, you have to install package os-pr

Re: How to force compilerversion

2021-12-03 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Hans, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > for kali-linux I need to build a kernel-module (it is the nvidia kernel > module). > > Make module does not work, as it says, kernel is build with gcc-10 and > installed is gcc-11. > > Setting IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH is set to 1 (which is default). > > How

Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

2021-12-03 Thread Christian Britz
boot... Regards, Christian Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems > to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC, > or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when > listening to

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Christian Britz
Security is the reason why I download and install browser and mail client directly from the vendor, not Debian repositories. For Chromium the situation is (was) even worse IIRC. Am 09.12.21 um 11:12 schrieb piorunz: > Hello, > > I noticed that Debian Stable uses Firefox ESR 78.15.0, which is fin

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2021-12-09 19:09 UTC+0100, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 7:01 AM Christian Britz <mailto:cbr...@t-online.de>> wrote: > > Security is the reason why I download and install browser and mail > client directly from the vendor, not Debian reposito

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Christian Britz
ions). You prefer to live with https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/thunderbird ? Regards, Christian

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2021-12-10 10:25 UTC+0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Indeed, and with absolutely no appreciation for the effort put in by all > of you Debian folk. Especially in having "stable" *mean* stable! I love Debian and I appreciate the work of the developers, but I don't like stability in the sense of

Re: How to get linux headers or source code for debian 8.0 kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64 ?

2021-12-14 Thread Christian Britz
build which never was distributed by Debian. Please issue the command uname -a. linux-3.16.84 might be really the source for 3.16.0-4. Regards, Christian

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-16 Thread Christian Britz
d support is available elsewhere. What is you specific issue? What do you want to do? Regards, Christian

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Linux Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-16 Thread Christian Britz
st. There should be some Linux expert available at HCL, otherwise I would suggest to pay a Debian consultant. Please give an indication that you actually read the replies on this mailing list, otherwise I will stop trying to help you. Regards, Christian

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Christian Britz
On 2021-12-16 20:01 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: >> bnep 20480 0 >> bluetooth 483328 1 bnep >> ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth >> ecc40960 1 ecdh_generic >> >> That's relevant output from lsmod. >> If I run inx

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Christian Britz
dmesg for messages. If it tells you firmware file "ExampleFileName" is missing then issue command "apt-file search ExampleFileName". It should tell you, which package to install. Regards, Christian

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-18 Thread Keith Christian
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 04:37 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Free(dom) Software was never meant to exclude comercial use or > developers earning a living (or a fortune) from it. > > > Agreed,.Andrei! > >

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Keith Christian
One could run 'tcpdump' or a while loop logging the output of 'netstat -an' to a file for the duration of the interaction with the Debian servers, then, examine the file afterward.

Re: Authentication required message window after nvidia drivers installation.

2022-01-21 Thread Christian Britz
Hi, this is certainly very strange behaviour which I never experienced at the time when I was using the NVDIA closed-source drivers. It actually sounds a little bit alarming to me. Regards, Christian On 2022-01-21 14:24 UTC+0100, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > the title of the

Re: Special installation issue

2022-01-21 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Hans, didn't you ask this question already three years ago? ;-) According to https://openrt.gitbook.io/open-surfacert/ it should be possible to run ARM based Linux distributions on Surface RT, but there might be inconsistencies, for example regarding power management. Regards, Chri

Re: Chromium security updates

2022-01-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-24 12:44 UTC+0100, Richmond wrote: >> I've built Version 100.0.4845.0 (Developer Build) (64-bit) and it seems >> to be working fine here on debian 10. > > Not OK actually, it is very slow. The reason are probably enabled debug options. Personally I am not satisfied with the securi

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 3/15/21 10:47 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 mar 21, 20:24:56, Sven Hartge wrote: (I still vividly remember using memmaker and manual ordering the drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat to shave another 2KB from the lower memory so the IPX driver would fit so Doom would run.) For me it

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-27 Thread Christian Nzhie
r Linux, Hurd is OK), though. > > > Let us please keep ourselves positive. Life on earth was also random. > > But this is what fractal, Self-similarity, can achieve. You have the > > entire earth as an example. Let us allow self-organisation to happen. > > > > We should take a step and then step back and let things self-organise. > > > > I believe in the Magic of life. I also often contemplate on whether we > > are actually simulated. People such as you, me, ..., we all are just > > islands of rationalism in a random ocean of reactive irrationalities. > > Though I would never have trouble terming our rationality as only as > > deep as a thin veneer that could easily be lost by a random accident, > > but that you, i, ..., exist as unique beings seeking continuity in our > > thoughts throughout our entire life speaks to me as a Test in a > > simulated environment to perfect our physical neural networks (or > > holographic computer programs). > > Sorry, but I have to say this: > > Ok, totally off-topic here, so I will do the same here. Yes, life looks > like magic, but how do you know it is random? In nature, I only see > not random things, it looks like everything was especially designed to be > that way. Things doesn't self-organise, there is a cause that produces > an effect. In the case of nature, it is done to keep organized itself > by its own mechanisms. In the case of community-driven projects, > if you throw a drop, you influence people; that people will try to make > progress on where you initially tried to. Not everything made by the human > ends right and self-organized. > > Em, and I don't think we live in a simulation. Dreams and nightmares > look like a simulation, real life don't. > > Finished. > > El sáb, 27 mar 2021 a las 12:12, Susmita/Rajib > () escribió: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:47:27 +0200, George Shuklin > > > (...) Yes, it has old pieces (all OSes have), (...) > > > > So do we need Artificial NeuNet to clean up Debian? Or write from > > scratch Hurd OS in a highly structured way? > > Don't try to do everything from scratch again. We just need to fix > manually > what is wrong and well done this time. Today, artificial inteligence > doesn't > look to know too much about organization (maybe I'm wrong). > > 3. END > > Thanks to everyone for all their contributions to this discussion. > Dear Susmita/Rajib, keep sharing those ideas. > > -- Christian.

Buster 10.9 why does apt -y update followed by apt -y upgrade not proceed with upgrades

2021-04-07 Thread Keith Christian
Looking on the www, some people recommend using apt-get -y upgrade or apt-get -y install to avoid the following message: "NNN packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them." Is "apt" unable to perform an "upgrade," or am I missing a command line option (e.g

Re: going beyond a ch341 uart-usb convertor

2021-04-12 Thread Christian Seiler
ck if another software (ModemManager, or something else) is currently using the serial device by calling: lsof /dev/ttyUSB0 (Run the command as root.) Hope that helps! Regards, Christian

Re: dovecot packages

2021-04-23 Thread Christian Schmidt
Debian, too... Kind Regards Christian Schmidt -- Signature not available.

Re: KVM: GPU passthrough

2021-04-27 Thread Christian Seiler
want to pass through in order for this to work, or vice-versa, depending on the specific situation.) Note: the GUI tool "lstopo" from the package "hwloc" is _very_ useful to identify how the PCIe devices are organized in your system and may give you a clue as to why your system is grouped together in the way it is. Hope that helps. Regards, Christian

how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-03 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using gdm3. regards, chris

Re: how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-04 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/3/21 7:57 PM, Floris Renaud wrote: Christian Groessler schreef op 2021-05-03 19:19: Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using

Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

2021-07-14 Thread Christian Groessler
On 7/14/21 5:02 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange wrote: > here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure > you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether > they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtua

Re: where can i find a list of wireless adapter that debian support

2021-07-20 Thread Christian Britz
At 20.07.21 11:01 loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: Thank Andrew, Stefan and nick! i prefer old wifi adapter if new one often requires non-free firmware it seems that Windows is better supported than linux in this aspect On Windows, everything regarding the driver is non-free, not only the fi

Re: Uninstalling Chromium

2021-07-20 Thread Christian Britz
On 20.07.21 19:58 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 01:15:32PM -0400, andre...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon, I am uninstalling chromium from Debian 10 and the procedure automatically installs firefox and the same happens when uninstalling firefox. How to solve this? Thanks. You

Re: Uninstalling Chromium

2021-07-20 Thread Christian Britz
On 20.07.21 23:00 Greg Wooledge wrote: unicorn:~$ apt-cache show gnome-core | grep firefox Depends: [...] firefox-esr (>= 78) | firefox (>= 78) | chromium | chromium-browser | epiphany-browser, [...] In other words, it only accepts the browsers specifically stated in that list, and will not p

Re: Problems with an X220 potentially related to linux-4.9.0-16-amd64 update

2021-07-23 Thread Christian Britz
Ivan Krylov wrote: Does anyone have any hints on how to diagnose this further? Switching to the old kernel version for some days?

Re: Framework PC

2021-07-23 Thread Christian Britz
Dan Ritter wrote: Dr. Gideon Fell wrote: Colleagues, Has anyone bought a Frameworks PC https://frame.work/ and installed Debian?? Pretty sure that they are in pre-order only at this point, so the answer is "not yet". There is nothing obvious there that should be difficult for Debian.

Re: Framework PC

2021-07-23 Thread Christian Britz
Dan Ritter wrote: Dr. Gideon Fell wrote: Colleagues, Has anyone bought a Frameworks PC https://frame.work/ and installed Debian?? Pretty sure that they are in pre-order only at this point, so the answer is "not yet". There is nothing obvious there that should be difficult for Debia

Bluetooth: Disabling ertm via sysfsutils

2021-07-28 Thread Christian Britz
/parameters/disable_ertm ... Jul 28 07:53:03 amiga5000 sysfsutils[619]:  failed! [...] If I manually restart sysfsconf.service it works! Any Idea? Best Regards, Christian

Re: Bluetooth: Disabling ertm via sysfsutils

2021-07-28 Thread Christian Britz
Reco wrote: 1) First, if all you need is modify a kernel module option - you do not need to tinker with /sys. Just create a file like this: cat /etc/modprobe.d/bluetooth-ertm.conf << EOF options bluetooth disable_ertm=1 EOF update-initramfs -k all -u Great, straight forward and works, thanks!

Re: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine

2021-08-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 04.08.21 12:24 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I think you may have a personal crisis. But something for sure, you already wrote a message on this subject. Or it is sophisticated trolling.

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Christian Groessler
On 8/6/21 2:01 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: find . -type d -exec chmod -v 0644 '{}' \; to change the folder find . -type f -exec chmod -v 0755 '{}' \; to change files Pah. Use 'xargs' :-) $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 $ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Christian Groessler
On 8/6/21 2:52 AM, David wrote: I was commenting on how I have always been puzzled why someone made the effort to give 'chmod' an '-R' option, but never made it actually useful for common cases. As it is, it seems that it's really only useful for modifying the write attribute. Hmm. "chmod -R go

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the > kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to > mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for > confirming what I supposed): this

Re: chrome mailto:?

2022-01-31 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-31 23:19 UTC+0100, cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > > I used to use claws-mail, and installed it. I now want to use > thunderbird, (NOT thunderbird-esr, I installed thunderbird and update > it manually.) > > Under Xfce, the default mail handler can be set to thunderbird, wh

Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-01 Thread Christian Britz
drwxrwxrwx 4 xyz users 4.0K Aug 10 10:28 Directory2 Why can't user xyz access the mountpoint? Thank you for your support. Regards, Christian

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-01 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-01 17:36 UTC+0100, Bob Weber wrote: > On 2/1/22 10:32, Christian Britz wrote: >> This is my entry in /etc/fstab: >> diskstation:/volume1/Medien /Daten nfs >> nfsvers=4,rw,x-systemd.automount,noauto 0 0 >> > Have you tried the user option in fstab? 

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-01 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-01 17:28 UTC+0100, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:32:57PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> 2. Accessing the mounted share with my personal user: The access rights >> for /Daten look right, the user on the NAS has the same name as the user >&g

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 02:01 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > Thank you, that was the right hint, the solution to get it work (with > NFS4 support) with IP based "security" was: [...] > Is my assumption right, that I would have to setup a Kerberos server to > achieve real se

Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
Inspired by my previous attempts to implent NFS on my Synology NAS, I am thinking about buying a mini server where I install Debian to serve as file share (SMB and NFS) and DLNA server. It should fully support Debian Stable, have a low price but be capable of performing the tasks well, ideally hav

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 15:30 UTC+0100, Grzesiek wrote: > I used Zyxel NSA310 some time ago, Debian howto: > https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,29970,30036 > More devices are supported The successor Zyxel NAS326 sounds interesting, but I am looking more for something which I do not have to hack before

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 15:25 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > How small is small for you? A small box which fits under my desk. > And do you need RAID, or just storage, and if so, how much? RAID is overkill and I need approximately 500G of storage. > For example, an ASRock 4X4 BOX-R1000V will run Debia

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 17:55 UTC+0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 03:11:57PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> Do you have any recommendations for me? > > I have much the requirements and my current solution is documented here: > <https://jmtd.net/hardware/phobos/> ...bookmarked! :-)

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 02.02.22 23:06, Bob Weber wrote: > On 2/2/22 07:36, gene heskett wrote: >> >> Sounds like how my network grew, with more cnc'd machines added. But I >> was never able the make MFSv4 Just Work for anything for more than the >> next reboot of one of the machines. Then I discovered sshfs whic

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-03 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-03 08:52 UTC+0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2022-02-02 at 17:06 -0500, Bob Weber wrote: > [...] >> I second the sshfs approach.   I use it between several Debian servers and >> have >> been happy with the results.  Once setup in the fstab a click in a GUI or >> mount >> command on th

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-05 Thread Christian Britz
The list doesn't seem to like attachments, so please see a picture of my new server here :-) http://amiga5000.ddns.net/raspi.jpeg On 2022-02-05 19:35 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-02-02 20:24 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> >> >> On 202

Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
is probably quite simple, I was very surprised that I could not find anything usefull on the web. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 16:46 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> I want to know how I can execute a command as root once after the >> network is available. > >> Is this to be done via systemd? > > Yes, that&#x

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 17:44 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > [Install] > WantedBy=multiuser.target Changed that to [Install] WantedBy=network-online.target Now it works! :-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

OT: Network-Manager

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 17:48 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 05:44:25PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> Yes, I need some more help in the context of using Network-Manager. > > "Don't." > > Unless this is a laptop or something, in which case,

Re: Plop in Debian install HDD into entirely new system

2022-02-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-11 21:34 UTC+0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an > entirely new system: I would guess it would work, with some minor adjustmenst being necessary. Typically, all needed kernel modules for hardware support are available and D

Re: Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
the Windows partition and use a VM and sometimes WINE. The only thing I am missing from the VM (tried both qemu/kvm/libvirt and VirtualBox) is 3D and video acceleration, but this is no big deal for me. Regards, Christian On 2022-02-15 10:37 UTC+0100, Sébastien Kalt wrote: > Hi, >

ssh -X and size of GUI elements (KDE/Qt)

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
noticed it only for KDE/QT apps. Any idea? Both the desktop and the server are running Bullseye currently. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: ssh -X and size of GUI elements (KDE/Qt)

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-15 17:26 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > It's probably a disagreement on screen dpi settings. Check your > native setting and then replicate it on your headless server's > KDE config? Wouldn't this mainly/exclusively affect the fonts? I set dpi in both systemsettings5 tool explicitly to 9

Re: Any plan to upgrade bash to 5.1.16 on bullseye?

2022-02-16 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-16 10:16 UTC+0100, Daniel Qian wrote: > Hi, > > There is a severe bug on GNU Bash which is fixed in 5.1.16. > > Bug info: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-01/msg00020.html > > While currently debian bullseye GNU Bash is 5.1.4. Without reading the details: If you th

Re: Cannot login to my user?

2022-02-18 Thread Christian Britz
a clean profile). Regards, Christian On 2022-02-18 18:15 UTC+0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I have Debian 9, I know I need to upgrade my dist, will do that tonight > or tomorrow =) > > Last week, I made a new user say "Sally." > > Previously, fo

Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-19 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Debian users, I would like to update the Python3 packages which I installed for my local user via pip. The command "pip list --user --outdated" gives the following error messages. This is on Debian stable. Any ideas? ERROR: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/

Re: Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-19 Thread Christian Britz
It happens also when I run sudo pip list --outdated, so I think it is not related to my user profile. On 2022-02-19 21:59 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I would like to update the Python3 packages which I installed for my > local user via pip. > >

Re: Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-20 Thread Christian Britz
a symlink to pip3. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Keith Christian
I plan to bring a Buster machine which has been shut down for quite a while online again. Before connecting it to the internet, I looked for instructions on how to add the LTS security updates entries to sources.list. My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the /LTS/Using

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Keith Christian
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:31 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:25:35AM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > > My first search brought me to wiki.debian.org, where I landed on the > > /LTS/Using page, but it contained no Buster-specific instructions. &

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-21 15:45 UTC+0100, David Wright wrote: > AFAICT, running buster, nothing has yet changed. My sources.list > is attached (ignore the first line), and as of this morning it > yields: And I think nothing will change in the future. Take the Stretch example at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

Re: Trying to deug initramfs boot delay

2022-02-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-22 00:50 UTC+0100, Michael Lange wrote: > First, when I run lsinitramfs on the initrd in use, the first items of > the command's output are: > > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-22 Thread Keith Christian
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 7:33 AM Tixy wrote: > I assume because Buster isn't in Long Term Support yet, it's still in > normal support by the security team. From the schedule on the wiki, > it's due to go into LTS this July. Thanks Tixy, I remembered that I made a copy of the original sources.list

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-22 Thread Keith Christian
> The OP is tilting at windmills. > > The example I posted has been used every three hours of my waking day > for the past 2½ years. It fails when my cable company fails. > > The OP has quoted some hearsay off the web, period. And not a single > reference with it. The OP calls this "pre-startup res

Re: packages kept back on Debian stable

2022-02-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-24 18:50 UTC+0100, L Dimov wrote: > I do indeed use apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and I am aware that > there are ways I can force them to upgrade, but should I? At least it will help you to analyze the situation, you still can cancel the operation. IMO this is not a normal si

Re: packages kept back on Debian stable

2022-02-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-24 19:32 UTC+0100, L Dimov wrote: > The following NEW packages will be installed: >   libabsl20200923 libopengl0 linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64 These are legitimate Debian packages which are also installed on my Bullseye system. Apparently, some dependencies have changed. -- http://www.

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

2022-02-25 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Karel, please try it with a temporary clean profile. Regards, Christian On 2022-02-25 13:12 UTC+0100, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using debian testing so not sure if this is the right ML, but after > Feb 24 update I'm no longer capable of loggin

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

2022-02-25 Thread Christian Britz
ince Feb 24 update on monitor rotation on R5 > 230 GPU. > > Question: is there any forum where should I report this conclusion to > get attention of the X11 packagers/developers? > > Thanks! > Karel > > > > On 2/25/22 16:56, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >

Re: Crash on starting cheese

2022-03-02 Thread Christian Britz
eport a bug to the package maintainers, see http://bugs.debian.org. Regards, Christian On 2022-03-02 10:38 UTC+0100, akallab...@posteo.net wrote: > Hi, > > > I´ve just experienced the following crash on starting cheese on my > installation. > > Since I´m not sure where to

Re: Debian 11 hangs on boot

2022-03-02 Thread Christian Britz
Maybe a problem with the video configuration? Checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log could be a good first step. Cheers, Christian On 2022-03-02 11:11 UTC+0100, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > boot gets stuck on > > "[OK] Started GNOME Display Manager" > > Apart fr

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-03 Thread Christian Britz
in the package. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Cutefish desktop environment

2022-03-03 Thread Christian Britz
. Any idea? If it turns out to be really that good as my first impression is, I would love to get this included in Debian. I have no maintainer experience, but I would be willing to colaborate in every possible way. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
ently fallen in love with Cutefish (not yet in Debian). Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 16:10 UTC+0100, Hans wrote: > There are also other WM available, which may be faster, like fvwm95, openbox, > twm. amiwm ;-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
I userd getmail instead of fetchmail in the past, and a quick web search reveals that it seems to support OAUTH2: https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html. Regards, Christian On 2022-03-04 16:59 UTC+0100, Marc Auslander wrote: > Google has now said they are pulling the plug on use

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 18:30 UTC+0100, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Find another mail host. And you could find a mail client which correctly replies to messages. ;-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

2022-03-06 Thread Christian Britz
but you could try to install xinit package. This contains the startx command. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

2022-03-06 Thread Christian Britz
it. > Yesterday it was fine ;{ If you have an Android phone (probably with iPhone too), you could try to put the sim card into the phone and connect it via USB. USB tethering works out of the box for me on Debian stable. Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story

2022-03-07 Thread Christian Britz
companies that support Linux well, like Intel and AMD. Best Regards, Christian On 2022-03-07 19:49 UTC+0100, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > how find the correct words, without being upset or stepping on someones feet. > But I believe, debian hates Nvidia, and debian does not want, t

Re: Legacy Dell 760 apt-get updates?

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
free. And I have learned from Thomas that it is nicer to tell you how I found it out: $ apt-file search /lib/firmware/i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin firmware-misc-nonfree: /lib/firmware/i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin Greetings, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
ndler/https; StartupNotify=true Actions=Private; [Desktop Action Private] Exec=/opt/firefox/firefox --private-window %u Name=Open in private mode You should create a similar seamonkey.desktop file. HTH, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-08 15:50 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have SeaMonkey launched from "Internet" sub-menu of "Applications" > menu. IIRC it was only a couple of mouse clicks to get it there. If you don't have some Debian/Snap/Flatpak package from some source available, I know no other way to i

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