Re: [DNG] kernel-update: initramfs fails to find swap

2022-01-24 Thread Bruce Perens via Dng
Florian, I'm glad that worked. What I found with initramfs-tools was that kernels I built on my workstation were not working on my laptop because they ended up having hardcoded device references built into the initramfs. Thus must be especially relevant to people who build kernels for inclusion

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-24 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:44:35 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > (...) Sorry, list, it was not my intension to talk politics here, damn: This had been meant to go offlist! I fell for the "$sendername" (via Dng) in the 'From' header. libre Grüße, Florian

[DNG] Bug in synaptic package manager?

2022-01-24 Thread tito via Dng
Hi, while trying to open the Settings>Repositories menu in Synaptic package manager i get: synaptic-pkexec ERROR:root:Cannot import UbuntuDrivers: No module named 'UbuntuDrivers' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 101, in app =

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-24 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:51:09 -0600 o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Will have to take a look at this 'constant contact'. As you are considering "cloud based" solutions, depending on your and the recipients' attitude towards "left-wing activism" [1], you might want to have a look at riseup.net: They

Re: [DNG] kernel-update: initramfs fails to find swap

2022-01-24 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:28:39 -0800 Bruce Perens wrote: > Isn't this one of the things the "dracut" alternative to > initramfs-tools was intended to fix? Hallo Bruce, thank you for the hint: My system just accomplished the second power-on (of two, this time from hibernation) with its new

Re: [DNG] Early Days at Bell Labs

2022-01-24 Thread Steve Litt
Bruce Perens via Dng said on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:02:24 -0800 >Busybox is GNU. The fact that FSF doesn't own it is immaterial. I >developed it for Debian GNU/Linux. Bruce, Thanks for developing Busybox! SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: [DNG] Screen readability (was Re: The Daedalus desktop needs some love)

2022-01-24 Thread Steve Litt
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 11:32:56 +0900 >About not being able to change what you can't read, a screenreader >might be able to solve that but I don't think it's something seeing >folks would be comfortable using, let alone set up when cannot even >see what you're doing ;-)

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-24 Thread o1bigtenor via Dng
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 7:59 AM Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > > How about PHPList? It works like constant contact or mailchimp. > mailchimp has a "free" level of service. So far mailchimp has been > enough for the small concert choir I do work for. > Hm - - - did a took a look at phplist - -

Re: [DNG] software question

2022-01-24 Thread Curtis Maurand via Dng
How about PHPList?  It works like constant contact or mailchimp. mailchimp has a "free" level of service.  So far mailchimp has been enough for the small concert choir I do work for. --Curtis On 1/23/22 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:29:27PM +0100, Florian Zieboll

Re: [DNG] kernel-update: initramfs fails to find swap

2022-01-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, Florian Zieboll via Dng writes: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 12:07:07 +0900 > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Florian Zieboll via Dng writes: >> >> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:34:28 -0500 >> > tempforever wrote: >> > >> >> Something to check/verify: >> >> If swap is listed in