On 2019-09-14, Nicholas A Fleisher wrote:
> In the /etc/fstab written by the installer, the sixth field of the
> /boot/efi line has the value "1". My understanding is that only
> the root
> partition should have this value (and it does in this case; the
> installer wrote two lines in /etc/fstab
On 2019-09-16, Mark Allums wrote:
> I need advice diagnosing and dealing with this:
>
> E: zfsutils-linux: installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation
> script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Maybe one or both of these bug reports apply:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.
On 2019-09-17, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923377
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915831
>
> The first doesn't apply, and I don't think the second does, either. See
> my new post in this thread.
Well, what you provided in the
On 2019-09-16, Brian wrote:
>>
>> The dist-upgrade will have resulted in installing the systemd-sysv
>> package, which (despite its name) has nothing to do with sysvinit; it is
>> the package which sets systemd as the primary / active / default init
>> system.
>>
>> Installing sysvinit-core will
On 2019-09-17, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Why he would say "despite its name" eludes this correspondent,
>> because the package has *everything* to do with sysvinit, providing
>> as it does the "links needed for systemd to replace sysvinit.
>> Installing systemd-sysv will overwrite /sbin/init with a
On 2019-09-17, The Wanderer wrote:
>>> Yes, but unless I'm greatly misunderstanding matters, /sbin/init is
>>> not specific to sysvinit.
>> That's okay, as I never came close to claiming it was. But you focus
>> uniquely upon this "point," while ignoring the part about the "links
>> needed for s
On 2019-09-17, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2019-09-17 11:10 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, the only link *needed* is init, hence its dependency on package
>> init, whose sole function is to keep the number of init configurations
>> more than zero and less than two.
>>
>> The rest of those l
On 2019-09-19, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I recall it was something in /boot/cmdline.txt that had to be removed to
> make the mouse move in real time, but can't find that msg now, I assume
> because its been expired.
I'm reading not removed, but added?
usbhid.mousepoll=0
You can experiment with
On 2019-09-20, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> We had this same problem with the mouse when the rpi3b+ was new, seems to
> me it should have been fixed by now. But raspbian is weird. In lots of
> ways. But wading thru the search results on thier forum is a cast iron
> bitch, "laggy mouse" gets you 800
On 2019-09-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> My instant show stopper is in (fresh git clone today)
> linuxcnc-dev/src: ./configure --with-realtime=uspace
> [...]
> checking for GTK 2.4.0 or above... no
> configure: error: GTK2 missing. Install it or specify --disable-gtk to
> skip the parts of LinuxC
On 2019-09-22, Curt wrote:
It occurs to me that maybe the rpi isn't considered a Debian-based
platform, in which case, sorry for the disruption.
> On 2019-09-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> My instant show stopper is in (fresh git clone today)
>> linuxcnc-dev/src: .
On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give
> the script address as absolute path:
>
> python /path/to/script/script.py
>
I make my local scripts executable and stick them in '/usr/local/bin'.
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
On 2019-09-22, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 22 Sep 2019 at 16:31:22 (-), Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> >
>> > So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give
>> > the script address as absolute path:
>>
On 2019-09-24, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> That's the "auxiliary" module of SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX.
> https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Library_modules
> In a bootable Debian ISO for amd64 it is supposed to have the path
> /isolinux/ldlinux.c32
>
Anything to do with this (it's old but s
On 2019-09-28, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> apt-get doesn't clean by default. apt/aptitude probably do.
>
> Is there a way to choose the behavior other than typing apt-get instead of
> apt?
>
I think it's something like
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";
in a file perhaps called
On 2019-09-27, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use option 66 (tftp-server-name) as explain at (1) with
> the Debian installer in combination with Qemu.
>
> As I understand it, the following Qemu command should be used:
>
> boot -n -net user,tftp=,tftp-server-name=qemutftp,bootfile=pxelinux
On 2019-09-28, Curt wrote:
>> boot -n -net user,tftp=,tftp-server-name=qemutftp,bootfile=pxelinux.0
>
> I know nothing about option 66; I did notice that in the man page it's
>
> -boot n -net
>
> not
>
> -boot -n net.
Sorry, I meant not 'boot -n -net&
On 2019-10-02, Torben Schou Jensen wrote:
> Interesting story.
>
> I am missing technical details.
> I do not understand how preview of e-mail can result in hackers stealing
> userid and password, what kind of mail program was used?
>
Yeah, it's better to go directly to the publicly available inc
On 2020-03-24, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> hello,
> I am running Gnome in Debian Buster, which comes with the Night Light
> feature. I have set up night light in the Sunset/Sunrise setting. I
> have also correcly set my timezone (location?). My issue is, sunset is
You might check if
/org/gno
On 2020-03-27, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>>
> Thanks Curt,
> I cannot access /org/ I cannot find this folder or file. What am I
> doing wrong. Is this just a regular file that supposed to be on my
> system?
>
Yeah, sorry, that might have been something of a wild goos
On 2020-03-27, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:12:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 17:35:19 (+0300), Reco wrote:
>> > I'm not that familiar with the languages to qualify Romanian as a Latin
>> > or a non-Latin language,
>>
>> I think we can agree that the
On 2020-03-27, deloptes wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
>> Reco meant Roumanian (a Latin language). Or does everybody
>> already know that?
>>
>
> Yes, Romanian or Rumanian is Latin, but here in the context Latin is
> ambiguous.
>
My confusion stemmed from the
On 2020-03-28, wrote:
>
>> My confusion stemmed from the fact I thought the correct word was
>> "Roumanian," not Romanian, which I took for a typo, exposing my
> ^^
>> ignorance (which paradoxically seems to be increasing the more I know
>> (because the more I know the more I realize I don't)
On 2020-03-28, Joe wrote:
>> >
>> >> Reco meant Roumanian (a Latin language). Or does everybody
>> >> already know that?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes, Romanian or Rumanian is Latin, but here in the context Latin is
>> > ambiguous.
>> >
>>
>> My confusion stemmed from the fact I thought the correct
On 2020-03-28, wrote:
>
>
>> > This betrays a little your French background :-)
>> Yes, you're right, that's it.
> Lest it be interpreted the wrong way: I'll venture to describe
> my relation to France and its culture as a kind of love afair.
Not at all; I'm an expatriate who's lost some of hi
On 2020-03-31, n...@dismail.de wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:17:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
>> […] Recently I was looking at zoom.us - seems to be in
>> hype now - can be installed in debian and can be used as video conferencing
>> tool.
>
> Based on zoom's "privacy" policy and everything I'
On 2020-04-01, Celejar wrote:
>
> How easy is it in practice to install on Debian? The following statement
> in the FAQ scared me off:
>
> *
>
> BigBlueButton requires Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. See Install BigBlueButton.
>
> We (the core developers) have not installed BigBlueButton on any other
> v
On 2020-04-02, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> I was just reading this little item about zoom from the G-men (actually,
>> Kristen is a Boston G-woman, apparently):
>>
>> https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/press-releases/fbi-warns-of-teleconferencing-and-online-classroom-hijacking-dur
On 2020-04-04, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote:
> On 3/25/20 11:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> If a file is corrupted, deleted, etc. in one place that will be
>> propagated to all copies.
>>
>> Depending on the features provided by the synchronisation tool they
>> could be *a part* of a backup solutio
On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have
>> so many overlapping ways to register default applications?
>
> Probably a case of competing standards.
Seems more like the distinction between a user-defined preference
(*Prefe
On 2020-04-08, Charles Curley wrote:
>>
>> that together with the apparent need for paid licensing for business
>> use... not interested.
>
> I don't know where you got that idea. You certainly can get support for
Having looked up this detail I think I know where he got that idea,
because the E
On 2020-04-07, Ihor Antonov wrote:
>>
>> Finally, when all else fails, and if you've read this far,
>> you can just capture the screen contents with ffmpeg's
>> x11grab and record it to an mpg file. The disadvantages are
>> that you capture extraneous screen decorations, and you've got
>> to dedi
On 2020-04-09, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> This is interesting. I see that my Firefox is set to "Block websites from
> automatically playing sound". I hadn't realized that, because if I play a
> YouTube video or movie trailer in Firefox, I get the sound just fine anyway.
> That's confusi
On 2020-04-06, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of which I
> should at least listen to. Unfortunately, they are doing the conferences
> with Cisco Webex. Webex uses an app that's not available for Debian Linux.
There's a *browser
On 2020-04-10, wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote:
>> > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it usually
>> > puts me on the other side of the state) but it works more often
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote:
>
> The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs.
It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and the OP I
believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation services.
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/privacy-locati
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote:
>> >
>> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs.
>>
>> It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, thou
On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote:
>> >
>> > And GNOME Maps has this neat library as a dependency that can use
>> > geolocation regardless of the said setting.
>>
>> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in
>> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off
On 2020-04-10, wrote:
>
>> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in
>> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in his
>> privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings?
>> That is really an egregious bug, then, and should be reporte
On 2020-04-10, mick crane wrote:
>
> What I'm not understanding is why there are these complex window manager
> things.
You're hijacking the thread (and trolling). Please refrain.
> Presumably people want an easy way to click on a picture and make use
> some software ?
>
>
> mick
--
On 2020-04-11, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise
>> location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all.
It would be interesting to know if there is an appreciable diff
On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote:
>
> This is precisely my issue. I set Location Services to Off in Gnome
> settings. And then a Gnome app, like Gnome Maps, provides me with my
> location. If you can advise me on how to report this to the Gnome
At what level of granularity (country/city/neig
On 2020-04-11, wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 09:49:50AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I should not have said a 10 meter radius, thats not fair. I would say,
>> always, within a 50 meter radius. Which imo is pretty precise for IP
>> based location.
>
> Just for kicks, I entere
On 2020-04-11, Anil F Duggirala wrote:
>> >
>> > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in
>> > thinking that you are located in your DC?
>> So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia.
>> And
>> Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10
On 2020-04-11, wrote:
>
> Note that I'm not recommending that site. It was just one
> hit in the search engine.
I found another outfit that nailed me within a 50 meter radius (if that
demonstrates anything).
https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo
I'm not recommending these people either, BTW.
On 2020-04-11, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:48:00 - (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>
> Hello Curt,
>
>>BTW, I fed my IP address to this site
>> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address
>
> That puts my IP in West Sussex. Still a long way off
On 2020-04-11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:48:00 AM Curt wrote:
>> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site
>>
>> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address
>>
>> and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius
On 2020-04-11, Joe wrote:
>>
>> BTW, I fed my IP address to this site
>>
>> https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address
>>
>> and it nails my location approximately within a 50 meter radius (I
>> entered the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate output into
>> Google's search engine, whi
On 2020-04-12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Do you have your own static IP, or do you use an IP from your ISP?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Did I ask the wrong question? I don't understand -- you have both?
>
>
I have a static ip (I think) attributed by my ISP (the one not precluding
the other).
This sit
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote:
>> Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to
>> determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the
>> OP's privacy settings are being res
On 2020-04-12, wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the
>> internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using
>> this information for (internal only or prov
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> I was only trying to point out that just querying an external geoip
> database has similar privacy implications as any regular internet access
> (the server will learn your IP and can, at will, get your aproximate
> location from a geoip database).
>
> The
On 2020-04-12, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
>> On Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:21:42 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> > On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> > > I know I will be out here.
>> >
>> > I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut
On 2020-04-13, wrote:
>
> It is as easy to moderate a mailing list as it is a platform la
> discourse. So this isn't a criterion to decide between both.
It is, on the contrary, the *primary* criterion for the proposed change
as given by the primary proponent of the change:
Why are you doing th
On 2020-04-13, wrote:
>
>> Why are you doing this?
>> I have two motivations. First, is moderation. Discourse has built in
>> tools to allow community moderation on a much better scale than our email
>> lists.
>
> This one is surprising to me. Why should community moderation be
> easier for d
On 2020-04-13, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 13/04/2020 17:49, John Hasler wrote:
>>> Michael Howard writes:
>
In your opinion. Total rubbish in my opinion. Far better to have
more channels open than just one where possible.
>
>>> Not when the channels connect to diff
On 2020-04-13, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 18:33:13 - (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>
> Hello Curt,
>
>>There could be a channel to connect the pools
>
> There have, in the past existed gateways between mailing lists and usenet
> newsgroups. They worked
On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> It doesn't matter much as nobody is proposing to replace debian-user
> with Discourse.
>
Nobody but Neil McGovern himself.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html
What about the mailing lists?
This may or may not be a replaceme
On 2020-04-13, Tom Dial wrote:
>
> 3. I also know nothing about Discourse. Although the remarks so far in
> the thread don't particularly make me want to use it, I don't find the
> idea entirely abhorrent.
Color me stupid but I mosied over to the test site and couldn't figure
out how to post. May
On 2020-04-14, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html
>> What about the mailing lists?
>>This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list.
>> Be specific!
>>Ok... I think debian-user, debian-vote and possibly debian-project
On 2020-04-16, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> When attempting to listen to a recorded pipe organ broadcast posted on
> a web site of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), I am taken to a page which
> has the message,"To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and
> Adobe Flash Player must be installed."
On 2020-04-17, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> https://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes/2020/04/13
>
> Curt: I am running Firefox ESR 68.7. It seems that about once a week
> Firefox notifies me that it has automatically loaded an update and
> must be restarted.
On 2020-04-17, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
>>
>> Dan Ritter & Kenneth Parker: The mp3 link Dan provided works. I
>> searched for it in the page source, but without success; so that I can
>> find the link to the next program, kindly tell me where it is buried.
>
> I think I went
On 2020-04-19, wrote:
>
>> My half-assed understanding of bouncing is this: When you get a
>> message that wasn't really meant for you, and you know where it ought
>> to go, then you should "bounce" it there [...]
>
> Correct. This was bounce's original purpose. It has the property
> that it pass
On 2020-04-20, elvis wrote:
>
> On 19/4/20 8:35 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Apr, 2020 at 19:11:55 +1000, elvis wrote:
>>> On 19/4/20 5:03 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
Note: "bouncing" is also called "redirect" in some mail clients and is
*not* forwarding (should
On 2020-04-20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> "back to the sender" makes me unsure now: does ":exec bounce-message"
> let you choose the target, or is it just "back to sender"?
>
What did I tell you?
On 2020-04-20, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> n...@n0nb.us wrote:
>>
>>Seems our old friend Bill Gates (remember him?) is behind much of this
>>push for a required vaccination and also, according to some sources,
>>wants everyone to be chipped, as in having a permanent RF ID microchip
>>embedded somewher
On 2020-05-17, Ihor Antonov wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> when installing a package with multiple dependencies apt gives an output:
> (example: apt install gnome)
>
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>
>> accountsservice aisleriot apache2-bin apg baobab bluez bluez-obexd
>> bogofilter ogofil
On 2020-08-01, riveravaldez wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> Hi, to clarify: I would like to connect to a remote home-machine
> (dynamic IP) through SSH session but without using a third-party
> server (free or paid), just with software running in both machines.
If the client machine (the one from
On 2018-06-19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, June 18, 2018 11:27:55 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> So I think your cable is much less "Serial" than you think.
>
> Just because I'm tired of seeing this thread (even though I make an often
> feeble attempt to ignore it), I will mention that Et
On 2018-06-20, wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 02:27:24PM +0200, Adam Cecile wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I still thinks it *sucks* to have no alternative then considering
>> packages signed by an expired key like unsigned packages
>
> That was my impression too: there should be a separate option
On 2018-06-20, wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 05:04:33PM +, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-06-20, wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> What does this do?
>>
>> -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update
>
> NOTE: this is just from what I understand from the m
On 2018-06-24, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> Thank you. I'm interested in only:
> Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host Bridge
>
> I'm missing understanding of "something" everyone takes for granted.
Many of your gooses seem a little wild.
> While following chain of links I found "discover -t".
On 2018-06-25, Hans wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Juni 2018, 10:13:21 CEST schrieb Mike Castle:
> Hi Mike,
>
> thank you very much for this very informative response. So it looks like, I
> have to search for a solution which will exactly fit my needs.
>
> The primary goal or interest will be, to rend
On 2018-06-26, Kent West wrote:
>>
> This morning I removed "timidity" from the "audio" group, and rebooted. All
> seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - don't
> really know what it is). I do notice that a "ps ax | grep timidity" does
> not return anything.
>
Seems l
On 2018-06-28, terryc wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:27:30 -0400
> Jape Person wrote:
>
>> My suggestion is late, and possibly not much of a contribution due
>> to my not having read the entire thread.
>>
>> I have two motherboards which BIOS settings which allow the
>> front-side USB ports t
On 2018-07-01, Stefan Krusche wrote:
> Am Sonntag 01 Juli 2018 schrieb Michelle Konzack:
>> Hello *,
>>
>> under wheezy, I had the LibreOffice 3 Templates under
>>
>> ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/templates/
>>
>> but when I installed Stretch, they where automatical moved to an
>> unexpected place:
On 2018-07-01, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> This is also a strong recommendation to use a new drive whenever
> upgrading your distro of choice, you can always mount the old drive and
> copy your usefull things to the newer one. One of the reasons my email
> corpus is so big, some folders go back to
On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
>
> apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I
> tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it
> threw the message:
>
> Error writing to out
On 2018-07-02, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500
> David Wright wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful
>> about preserving the system's integrity to run.
>>
>
> Less and less with each version.
>
> I have a wheezy: I cloned it to a spare
On 2018-07-03, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> Should anyone reading this know hjow to get exim4 to connect to
> outbound.att.net I'd love to hear about it.
>
There's the (perhaps outdated) wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/ATTUverseExim4
Maybe you are already aware of the wiki.
On 2018-07-05, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> Equally, if I want to know what the time is, I can ask you.
> If you don't know, I can tell you.
> Then I can ask you, and now you'll know, and I'll find out.
>
> Right?
>
> We must be looking at different problems.
>
> I'm assuming that if you're trying to
On 2018-07-05, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:09:36 + (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>
>
>>
>> The problem I'm looking at is that the Debian testing/unstable
>> releases do not have a version number and are not going to be
>> receiving one any time soon
On 2018-07-06, David Wright wrote:
> Hmm, I struggle to see the connection between what I asked for and
> what you wrote. From your later post, I guess the answer is that
> editing /etc/debian_version risks provoking expletives from other
> users of the system.
>
> That said, I do agree with what
On 2018-07-06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>>From this, I conclude that Joey Hess is a skilled manipulator.
>
(I didn't say this.)
On 2018-07-06, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> On 2018-07-05 at 17:29, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>
>> But what I'm trying to point out here is that there seems to be no
>> such canonical (sic) Debian tool which CAN tell me what release and
>> version I'm running.
>
> That's not true. /etc/debian_version, i
On 2018-07-07, davidson wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Curt wrote:
>
>> On 2018-07-06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>>
>>>> From this, I conclude that Joey Hess is a skilled manipulator.
>>>
>>
>> (I didn't say this.)
>
> Observation:
On 2018-07-08, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>
> Debian package "gwaterfall"
>
"Times" fonts look the most terrible while quickly toggling through my list.
Playing with "Hinting" "Autohinting" "Anti-aliasing" "Subpixel
Smoothing" seems to have little or no effect.
An eventual impression of losing my
On 2018-07-09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 07:55:26AM +0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2018-07-07, davidson wrote:
>> > Speculation: I suspect that the listserv software escapes "From" after
>> > a newline, and that its chosen escape is sy
On 2018-07-10, David Wright wrote:
You following up to Woolege:
Hmm, I struggle to see the connection between what I asked for and
what you wrote. From your later post, I guess the answer is that
editing /etc/debian_version risks provoking expletives from other
users of the system.
That s
On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote:
> On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key.
> I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want
> to install connman, but I do not success to apt-cdrom on an USB.
> I have googled but did not find a corr
On 2018-07-10, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting messages like this in auth.log:
>
> PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers
>
Found this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843450
Apparently after updating the libpam-cgfs packages (as linked in the
t
On 2018-07-11, Brian wrote:
>
> The interest being expressed is one in printing a PDF directly to a
> printer, so CUPS isn't (or needn't be) be involved. No conversion to
> or from PostScript (which is no longer being developed) is undertaken.
> Any delays would lie in transporting the file to the
On 2018-07-11, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 13:14:22 +0000, Curt wrote:
>
>> On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>> > On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB
>> > key.
>> > I have installed stretch (without GUI) fr
On 2018-07-11, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> What I DO NOT WANT is for the name 'prename' to go away. Because then
> all the programs that call prename will fail.
>
> What I DO NOT WANT is for someone in Debian to tell me that I should be
> calling 'rename' instead, because this is dangerous. There i
On 2018-07-12, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>
> It is know as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872543
>
> But the workaround proposed here does not work for me : I have no
>
> /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.cloudera.com_* file
>
> Any idea...?
>
I don't see exactly how that bug explains y
On 2018-07-13, Nicolas George wrote:
>
> Adam Weremczuk (2018-07-13):
>> What's the safest and quickest way to temporarily triple the size of /run=
> ?
>
> Do not.
Why not (not a rhetorical question)?
man logind.conf
RuntimeDirectorySize=
Sets the size limit on the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runti
On 2018-07-13, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:29:42AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>> westk@westkent:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
>> > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
>> > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>>
On 2018-07-13, Kent West wrote:
>
> It was on the network manager's end of things. I don't know the details,
> but he fixed it.
So it was indeed the *network manager* and not the *NetworkManager*. The
disambiguation tombe à pic.
On 2018-07-15, Octopus Octopus wrote:
>
> which thunderbird produces
>
> /usr/bin/thunderbird
>
> launching it through the terminal does not alter the results.
> *I have disabled all addons and seems to have solved the problem. *I
> might go through some further testing to see if it relates to
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