Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space

2021-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ting files from January. ..any chance they have white-space-character-only names? E.g. " ", " ", " " etc, or Norwegian æ, ø, å, or some invisible non-Latin alphabet soup not supported by your fonts nor locales? You should still be able to cu

Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights

2021-03-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
years, around the once very unpopular > stance of init-choice. Don't put that at risk. ..IMNTHO, I believe Devuan as a distro should support and endorse RMS coming back to the FSF etc boards, for precisely that reason, lowering the long term risk to Devuan's reputation, by standing firm on spine

Re: [DNG] Remote two-way sound?

2021-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ve). Not yet got the > audio quality/rate quite right yet (want it lower) but plenty of > scope to play with in the settings. ..beware of file name conflicts and weird rx responses ;o) ... arnt@d44:~$ which rx /usr/bin/rx arnt@d44:~$ dpkg -S $(which rx) lrzsz: /usr/bin/rx arnt@d44:~$ dpkg -l

Re: [DNG] [3.0] Time in AM/PM format ?? [SOLVED]

2021-03-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
$(cat /etc/default/locale ) ;do echo $i \ && export $(echo $i |cut -d"=" -f1 ) &&grep $i \ /etc/default/locale &&export |grep $i ;done -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scena

Re: [DNG] FSF, RMS and a danger to almost all GPL code

2021-03-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
only last a few hundred or couple of > thousand years then disappear. ..looks like a global tradition going back all the way to the trilobites some 400 million years ago... "Yeehaw." -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar

Re: [DNG] [3.0] Time in AM/PM format ??

2021-03-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
he dust(?) off my screen, and essentially saw my forearms disappear into some grey screen hole. Best ever bed time hint I've ever seen. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in set

Re: [DNG] Screen flickering

2021-04-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
se, open your machine and clean it out with e.g. pressurized air in a well ventilated area. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _

Re: [DNG] Steps to recover from borked grub-update

2021-04-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
r choice, using the live CD's kernel. Can Refracta already > do that? ..huh? Did we|Devuan remove the "rescue" boot options from our boot or install isos? If we didn't, a booted iso should offer Debian style advice on how to do things once you start hitting "F1&quo

[DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-04-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
t users and sysadmins. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. --- End Message --- ___

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-04-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
= with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:00:25 -0700, Rick wrote in message <20210504170025.gb18...@linuxmafia.com>: > Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:37:20 +0200, Arnt wrote in message > > <20210430143720.7311bc82@d44>: > > > >

Re: [DNG] End of free open source software?

2021-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ench etc on it. Keep your eyes open. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng m

Re: [DNG] End of free open source software?

2021-05-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 9 May 2021 14:27:24 +0200, Dr. wrote in message <202105091427.24515.off...@klepp.biz>: > Anno domini 2021 Sun, 9 May 11:57:59 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen scripsit: > > On Sun, 9 May 2021 09:18:47 +0200, Dr. wrote in message > > <202105090918.47488.off...@

Re: [DNG] Please don't imply this kind of equality: was Re: End of free open source software?

2021-05-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 10 May 2021 14:44:49 -0400, Steve wrote in message <2021051019.6e43f...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > Lars Noodén via Dng said on Sun, 9 May 2021 13:52:05 +0300 > > >On 5/9/21 12:57 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 May 2021 09:18:47

Re: [DNG] PartialSolve Re: Chimaera; Lost sound

2021-05-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
> speakers, or bluetooth speakers. > > This fixed it for vlc, qasmixer and alsamixer in that they correctly > took the speakers I wanted as default and I didnt have to manually > select the motherboard sound chip. > > I'm still working on why

Re: [DNG] Devuan eBook Reader

2021-05-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
and chamaera?)? > Just use okular with the extras. all in the appropriate reposiroty. ..and if you don't like okular, find alternatives with e.g. "man -k e-book" or "man -k ebook" or "apt-cache search e-book", and find the details on each with e.g. "apt-cache sho

[DNG] ..maybe webmin?, was: Cockpit removal might make sense

2021-06-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=intitle%3A%22Cockpit%22&ns0=1 ..turns out ebox changed its name, and, it does not support Procmail: https://zentyal.com/features/ ..webmin supports procmail. -- ..med venn

Re: [DNG] USB mount problem

2021-06-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
" will give you more details on each search find. ..I'm really a little too old fashion to advice on those new fancy usb key etc automount things. Anyone? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of pol

[DNG] ..udisksctl dump bug?, or just not yet started, was: USB mount problem

2021-06-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
l dump immediately restarted, another '^C' did what it should have done the first time, and now 'udisksctl \ dump' appears to work just fine, responding as it should to both 'q' and to '^C'. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen .

Re: [DNG] [OT] historical note

2021-06-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
e, there were hundreds of thousands of us doing Groklaw. It was addictive. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.

[DNG] ..hillybilly-style time setting, was: ntp setup

2021-06-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
an trying to nail it down with https://time.is/ reloads. > and Yes, My System Clock Is Possibly Way Off, ..aye, https://time.is/ will happily tell you "Your time is exact!" anytime you're inside its error margins. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen .

Re: [DNG] APT upgrade (was Re: USB mount problem)

2021-06-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
t; On Beowulf, a `man apt` gives a manual page dated 2019-01-27. If you > didn't install man-db and/or are looking for on-line manual pages, try > > https://manpages.debian.org/apt -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunter

Re: [DNG] USB mount problem

2021-06-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
r" to keep your apt depencency puzzle database manageable, and keep yourself proficient on the other members so you can use those to find solutions whenever your goto member fails to solve a puzzle. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of pola

Re: [DNG] problem with apt after restore after crashed disk...

2021-06-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
wrote: > > > > If not, can anyone tell where I can get the devuan libapt-pkg5.0 > > package file? ..try "aptitude update &&aptitude download libapt-pkg5.0 \ &&ll |grep libapt-pkg ". -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...wit

[DNG] ..how to installing it from a git repository "the good old Debian way", was: Hopman and inotify

2021-06-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
zable: read man hopmanrc. > >     To uninstall, 'sudo make uninstall' .."the good old Debian way" would allow both "dpkg -P hopman", "dpkg -r hopman" and "apt remove hopman" etc, using the apt database to help avoid conflicts etc with other so

[DNG] ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity ditches spyware.

2021-07-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ed vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

Re: [DNG] Refracta have a static IP

2021-07-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:59:23; fixed-address 192.168.1.222; } This will assign IP address 192.168.1.222 to a client with ethernet address 08:00:2b:4c:59:23." ..nd, I found out why I found myself searching for "fixed", rather than "static." ;o) -- ..med vennl

Re: [DNG] deprecated options (Was: Refracta have a static IP)

2021-07-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
changelog isn't > relevant to the user's use case) - but does provide a warning that > the config needs re-visiting. ...which would warrant an email to root at that box. Don't we? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Ar

Re: [DNG] Remote power management

2021-07-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
eluded me. ..if you control the building power, follow up your First solution by cutting power at say 7:00:30pm, to kill off the rebooting desktops. Dirty, yeah. ;o) Just restore building power the next mornings to have your careful desktop riders welcome their live console logins. -- ..med

Re: [DNG] [OT] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ware. We end up to have 20-30 > > testruns a day distributed among different test setups, SoC cpu > > generations, operating systems. The only missing thing is kind of > > developer slap robot to punish the developer who made the bad > > commit automatically :-) >     Not sure th

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ns did that cause? ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dn

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
o before I > write it. > > This is a planning document. ...and what a lot of bug hunters would wanna have handy to answer the "What the F*** were they even trying to do here???" debugging things. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with

Re: [DNG] Marker

2021-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
n" for filtering, plugins, "Tags" or "Actions" ideas, or down the other 4 menus for search and help ideas. ..e.g. [Ctrl]+[3] to color your Marker thread pink. ;o) > SteveT > > > Steve Litt said on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:58:07 -0400 > > >This serves

Re: [DNG] May I use Netaid source as an example of good code?

2021-08-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
find the safest approach to run the suid binary > because this is important not only for simple-netaid, but also for > hopman, which will require granted permissions for running the > *eject* command or the like (among others?). > > Cheers, > > Aitor. ..that eject command

Re: [DNG] difficulty issuing commands

2021-08-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
h nice, e.g. "nice -n 18 ~/.backup.bal &" ? ..or tie it to some specific cpu core(s)? Etc for your Emacs sessions. > It may be that this is a problem specific to emacs. > > I'll take the further steps if you think wise. It maey be that the > problem with .back

Re: [DNG] Only a few packages now still on hold

2021-08-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
output into my own list. arnt@d44:~$ cat how-can-I-help |grep https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ \ |cut -d" " -f5 |sort |uniq |wc -l 806 arnt@d44:~$ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always c

Re: [DNG] Only a few packages now still on hold

2021-08-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ibpam-ck-connector or some such. Purge them. ..hitting [e] and then [Enter] on a package, will find possible version numbers of that package at the bottom, picking another newer or older version may also solve your conflict. ..as Tito, Mark, Tom, Rod and I advices, apt, apt-get and probably a

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
it. Welcome to the club. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailin

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:05:39 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803140539.4kor7lhfljf7t...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803104933.5ics6no

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
it boots with 2 udev processes, each eating 100% cpu of each core, I simply kill all udev processes and restart the udev service. Uptime now 51 days 18:30, I haven't gotten around to test the other isos down my /boot/images. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ..

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803173240.qrlp2elbnda6c...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:05:39 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803140539.4kor7lh

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf now OK

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 14:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803184933.5jt3g3ludpinl...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 08:06:26PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803173240.qrlp2el

Re: [DNG] grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
/ > > It seems that the grub-install cannot see the mbr on /dev/sdc ..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc, e.g. killed by that mlterm crash. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards fro

[DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
> > Brad ..any of you guys wanting to package what you have running? To me, this sounds like a viable basis for the bare metal hypervisor idea in the "[DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?" thread. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlse

[DNG] ..another viable basis idea for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: Announce: FlyingTux project

2021-08-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ry experimental and fast changing. Don't > expect anything field-ready yet. But it's already good enought to > isolate some common desktop apps like gimp, chrome, etc. ..I see no .deb package? Pretty soon we'll need debug packages to shake out bugs. -- ..med vennlig hils

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
n't imagine ever running Windows on the bare metal > again. > > Between spice and rdp, there's not much you can't do. > > Brad ..I get the impression you have what we're looking for here. Your 'dpkg --get-selections' would get us started, you also hav

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 17:29:47 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210807212947.zzv7byj56xdfk...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:20:15 +0800, Brad wrote in message > > : > > > > >

Re: [DNG] Err; hardware!

2021-08-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
f. ..closest I've ever been was testing QubesOS-3.2 on hw that can't run QubesOS-4, had VT-x but no new fancy VT-d last time I chkd. ..I'm thinking a _minimal_ Devuan Xen install, is there a better way? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a numb

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 18:21:30 +0800, Brad wrote in message <81f66ac4-b595-2e58-04d9-90fc5dd00...@fnarfbargle.com>: > On 7/8/21 5:26 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:20:15 +0800, Brad wrote in message > > : > > > >> On 6/8

Re: [DNG] Microsoft: Really?

2021-08-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
my dead body! ..you guys have biometric passports? :o) I don't. ;o) Imagine where those data get to go playing... ;oD > My present computer - - - wasn't cheap to setup some 9.5 years ago > but its stats would still > blow the doors off that offering! > Oh well - - -- the s

Re: [DNG] Advice sought on kernel upgrade

2021-08-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
and build and install it Devuan's good old Debian way. ..if that kernel fails, chk for 5.13.11 etc, if those fail, your rig might be "too old", so fall back to try 5.10.58 or whatever the next version there is. Etc down the longterm trees. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind R

Re: [DNG] ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity ditches spyware.

2021-08-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 03:34:46 -0700, spiralofh...@spiralofhope.com wrote in message <20210709033446.7...@spiralofhope.com>: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 07:09:18 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..tenacity replaces Audacity like Devuan replaces Debian? Tenacity > > ditch

Re: [DNG] random sudden stops

2021-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
driver. Caviat: My last Radeon purchase, 9 years ago was a 2nd hand HD 4890 that required a new powersupply with (an 8 pin plug AFAIR?), so I had to use that box filler Nvidea GeForce GTS 250 that came along the 4890 to get that powersupply, the 250 came bang right up on X @ 2048x1536

Re: [DNG] /run/user/#

2021-08-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
local_host# diff /tmp/catch0 /tmp/catch1 ..a "dpkg --get-selections >>/tmp/catch$B" on each Beowulf might tell you why your Beowulf systems act differently. If not, you'll have to e.g. diff both /etc etc trees, but you shouldn't have to take it as far as diff'ing both / tre

Re: [DNG] fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-09-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
nel command line > $cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-?.??. root=/dev/ ro quiet splash > i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of

Re: [DNG] Stability will be achieved when you spend all of your time reporting on the nothing you did.

2022-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
uploaded by user preference, > > then why in the H,E,double hockey sticks is so much of it being > > collected? > > Sorry, but in what way is this a Devuan question rather than a > Firefox one? ..me, I read this as an heads-up to the Devuan community on this question to t

Re: [DNG] Another reason for why I use Devuan

2022-02-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ing distracted from backup-ing blue smoking the red and blue wiring off my other Precision M4400, crisy clear green monochrome at 1920x1200@60Hz didn't leave enough video memory for any X on any plug-in screen, all the while while the consoles were annoyingly consoling. ;oD -- .

Re: [DNG] mouse driver question

2022-04-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
trying:~$ man -k xorg.conf ...and the educational: $ man -h # ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.

Re: [DNG] New build + extras

2022-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
x27;d lean towards more cores rather than higher speeds, you can much more easily throw things into vms and let them chew thru with a dozen cpu treads, with 2, virtualization approaches virtual uselessness. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...

Re: [DNG] New build + extras

2022-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 31 May 2022 14:37:36 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote in message : > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:48 AM Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 31 May 2022 09:18:43 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote in message > > : > > > > > On Tue, May 31, 202

Re: [DNG] Lennart now working for Microsoft

2022-07-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ng that additional insight that Lennart Poettering > has said he will continue to work on Systemd. > > And yeah, the role of Microsoft regarding free software IMHO is not a > good one in general. No, they did not change. There are still about > creating monopolies. Office 365 shows.

Re: [DNG] Chimaera CPU stuck

2022-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
machine loads you > might want to use "deadline", assuming your disk is sda, the first > command checks your scheduler, the second changes to deadline. > > cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > > echo "deadline" >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > ..a p

Re: [DNG] Chimaera CPU stuck

2022-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:56:43 +0200, Luciano wrote in message <4mswlm0ldwz1f...@baobab.bilink.it>: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:16:27 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > echo "deadline" >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > > > > > > > ..

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