thunderbird / icedove directory snafu ?

2019-07-21 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. I am aware TB in Debian went through a rebranding to Icedove and back to the original name because... well, reasons. The new userprofile directory is supposed to be .thunderbird and the system checks whether .icedove still exists and it's not a symlink: in this case it will abort and dis

Re: (bad) firewall status

2019-07-21 Thread Teemu Likonen
Charles Zeitler [2019-07-21T15:25:54-05] wrote: > i have: > debian@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status firewalld.service > ● firewalld.service >Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) >Active: inactive (dead) > how do i restore it? The unit is "masked" which means that it can't be started. You can un

Re: usenet connection solved

2019-07-21 Thread Charles Zeitler
it turns out my firewall was borked. thanx again charles zeitler On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:11 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > for a couple of days it sufficed me to stop firewalld service > to get a usenet connection. > > today i get : > Sat Jul 20 08:59:46 2019 - Error connecting to > "news-v6.fr

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 20:13 (UTC-0400): > my console is no longer 80x25, the way I want it; it's something much smaller, > pretty much impossible for me to read. At 1600x900 you're seeing 200x56 with the standard 16x8 font. > Many thanks, Etienne, Alexander, Felix, Carl,

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread hobie
> On 21/07/2019 22.04, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still >> at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. What the heck is this all about...?? > Greetings, > That is a good question. What does your kern

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 16:04 (UTC-0400): > Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still > at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. > What the heck is this all about...?? IME, problems with random screen colors typic

(bad) firewall status

2019-07-21 Thread Charles Zeitler
i have: debian@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status firewalld.service ● firewalld.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead) how do i restore it? thanks charles zeitler -- The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good Enough

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 21/07/2019 22.04, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still > at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. > > What the heck is this all about...?? Greetings, That is a good question. What does your kerne

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread hobie
> hobie, on 2019-07-20 : >> Thanks. :) I have a faint memory of inserting 'nomodeset' long years >> ago >> in the interest of keeping my console screen at 80x25. >> >> cat /proc/cmdline >> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-[...] root=UUID=[...] ro nomodeset reboot=pci >> quiet >

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-21 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:50 AM Michael Kesper wrote: > Am 21. Juli 2019 02:45:39 MESZ schrieb Shahryar Afifi > : > >here is my setup: > >X61 with Middleton's bios (SATA 2) > >... > > ... > The X61 will throttle SSD throughput as it has less bandwidth than modern > SATA adapters. So, transferrin

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2019-07-21 Thread Stanislav N

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What is the proportional size between RAM and swap? There's no such thing. They're both sized depending on your particular needs. Stefan

Re: I Can't use adminer

2019-07-21 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > I want to use adminer for php operations. I installed it via apt install > adminer. > But I am not able to open it on localhost. Can anyone help me? You must also install and setup a php-enabled web server for it to work. The simplest way to get it running is: $ cd /usr/share/adminer $ php

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

2019-07-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:48:15 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 20 iul 19, 12:29:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:34:12 -0400 > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > I recommend you file a bug report with the author(s) of that driver. > > > > Discovered the "bug" was not

Re: Hibernation takes too long

2019-07-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Afaik it's advised to copy files to SSDs and not copy blockwise (dd) because > layouts can differ very much and performance would suffer. As long as the filesystem is properly aligned on a 4KB boundary, I don't think there'll be any noticeable difference. I highly doubt this explains the 2 minu

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
Sven Joachim, on 2019-07-21: > On 2019-07-21 02:42 +, Tan Shao Yi wrote: > > May I know if something has changed recently to cause this? > > It is the ProtectSystem=full directive in logrotate.service which causes > /usr to be mounted read-only for logrotate. See the SANDBOXING section > in sy

I Can't use adminer

2019-07-21 Thread Bapi Dey
I want to use adminer for php operations. I installed it via apt install adminer. But I am not able to open it on localhost. Can anyone help me?

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-07-21 02:42 +, Tan Shao Yi wrote: > I upgraded to Debian 10 recently and it looks like logrotate is not > working on files outside the /var directory: This is correct. > For example, > > Jul 21 00:00:01 server-name logrotate[8874]: error: error renaming > /usr/local/apache/logs/https

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
Good day Tan Shao Yi, Tan Shao Yi, on 2019-07-21: > For example, > > Jul 21 00:00:01 server-name logrotate[8874]: error: error renaming > /usr/local/apache/logs/https-error_log.12.gz to > /usr/local/apache/logs/https-error_log.13.gz: Read-only file system Here I would have suggested to have a l

Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Tan Shao Yi
Hi, I upgraded to Debian 10 recently and it looks like logrotate is not working on files outside the /var directory: For example, Jul 21 00:00:01 server-name logrotate[8874]: error: error renaming /usr/local/apache/logs/https-error_log.12.gz to /usr/local/apache/logs/https-error_log.13.gz: Re

Re: usenet connection

2019-07-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 19, 11:50:45, Charles Zeitler wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:11 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > > > for a couple of days it sufficed me to stop firewalld service > > to get a usenet connection. > > can someone tell me how to confirm > sudo systemctl stop firewalld.service? For ty

Re: SOLVED: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

2019-07-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 19, 12:03:05, David Wright wrote: > > Perhaps if you try turning off your dongle port and then turning it on > again, you can get the same effect as plugging it in. Another thing to try would be to remove the kernel module and reinsert it. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debi

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

2019-07-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 iul 19, 12:29:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:34:12 -0400 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I recommend you file a bug report with the author(s) of that driver. > > Discovered the "bug" was not wpa_supplicant's, but mine: I was > leaving the USB wireless plugged in durin

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-21 Thread Reco
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 12:23:47PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Is there a simple way to demonstrate something reported to a log? > Similar to "telnet a.smtp.server 587". wget -O - http:// curl -vL http:// >/dev/null nmap -sT -p 80 Reco