Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 21:07:31 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Since you don't want to purge pdftk, why did you decide to purge it > above? Because in Real Life, pdftk is an empty transitional package. In your hypothetical example you said it wasn't. So you shouldn't be surprised that its fate

Linux & AD mixted authentication issue

2020-04-24 Thread Jean-Luc Chandezon
Hello, I configure AD authentication (I followed https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingL ... eDirectory), and it works fine. I added AD group to debian sudoers, no problem. @mydomain.ad is the default suffix for login. USers does not need to put this. My issue: Even locally I can not open sessio

Working (but not fully understood (was: Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?)

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
Intentionally top posting. Well, the mouse is working now. Since the last time I wrote, I did try rebooting, and rebooting did not make the mouse work, so I tried varioius things, like unplugging the mouse cable from the kvm and plugging in a spare mouse (which I'm pretty sure was good, but di

Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

2020-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 April 2020 14:51:26 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Some followup: on my Wheezy system, I find kpsmoused running, I don't > see that on either my Jessie or Buster systems. > > I'm guessing that kpmoused might be what helps the mouse run in Wheezy > / non systemd. I'm pretty sure that Bus

Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

2020-04-24 Thread Phil Wyett
On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 22:40 +0200, 0...@caiway.net wrote: > Hi, > > On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working. > > Another user does have sound on stock firefox. > > I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not > be > loaded any longer. > > 7 Chapters of t

Linux & AD mixted authentication issue

2020-04-24 Thread Jean-Luc C.
Hello, I configure AD authentication (I followed https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingL ... eDirectory), and it works fine. I added AD group to debian sudoers, no problem. @mydomain.ad is the default suffix for login. USers does not need to put this. My issue: Even locally I can not open ses

firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

2020-04-24 Thread 0...@caiway.net
Hi, On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working. Another user does have sound on stock firefox. I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not be loaded any longer. 7 Chapters of troubleshooting pulseaudio did not help me in 4 hours: https://wiki.archlinux.org

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
Here is where I am at now. Inspired by em's posts I went back and looked back at the Arch Wiki and decided to start from basics and try getting the mount working from /etc/fstab and that succeeded. Doing so led me to read the systemd.automount(5) and systemd.mount(5) pages a bit more carefully ag

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 14:13:49 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 24, 2020 12:40:56 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 08:24:44 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:59:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote:

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-23 13:59:29 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 23 Apr 2020 at 02:53:06 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2020-04-22 16:07:28 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > For trivial renames, which yours looks like, as do those I've done, > > > it would be pretty easy to script. I've never made

Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

2020-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Today I had to reboot my Jessie system, after Firefox totally hung the system > (for over an hour, with 20 tabs open). After the reboot, it seems that most > things are working (well, the things I can test without a mouse), but the > mouse is not working. > > The J

Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
Some followup: on my Wheezy system, I find kpsmoused running, I don't see that on either my Jessie or Buster systems. I'm guessing that kpmoused might be what helps the mouse run in Wheezy / non systemd. I'm pretty sure that Buster is systemd, and maybe so is Jessie. In any event, I can't fin

Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
Today I had to reboot my Jessie system, after Firefox totally hung the system (for over an hour, with 20 tabs open). After the reboot, it seems that most things are working (well, the things I can test without a mouse), but the mouse is not working. The Jessie system is connected to a KVM syst

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, April 24, 2020 12:40:56 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 08:24:44 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:59:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote: > > > > Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way? >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 08:24:44 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:59:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion. > > > That's a step up on what we have at pr

Re: Backup ideas

2020-04-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:34:24 + Andy Smith wrote: ... > Something like restic backup is a very good all around solution. OP: also look at borg. > You could consider backing up to a cloud like Amazon S3. Using the > Infrequent Access or Glacier storage classes you can store 100s of > gigabyt

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 24 Apr 11:06 -0500, emetib wrote: > nate, > > my instructions are for system wide for kvm(qemu) not vbox. Right, that is what I am working on too. > when i look at your config file that you posted there is > "ServerAliveCountMax=5". i've had looked at all the man files that i > can thi

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread emetib
nate, my instructions are for system wide for kvm(qemu) not vbox. when i look at your config file that you posted there is "ServerAliveCountMax=5". i've had looked at all the man files that i can think of and can't find anything like that. don't know if it's a vbox command or what. yet it se

Backup ideas

2020-04-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:52:05PM -0400, Default User wrote: [vast mounts of quoted text snipped - please don't quote too much!] > So, in backing up my home partition, is use: > > sudo rsync -avvzHAXPish --delete /home/default > /media/default/USBHD005/Backup_of_home_directory_of_Dell_De

Automating email forwarding using kmail 1.13.7 (on Wheezy)

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
See the section labeled -- I think I've picked a direction to work on, but am sending this anyway in case someone has a better solution or for documentation of the problems I ran into. As it is for old versions of kmail, xdotool, and dbus, it may not have much value. I'm using kmail 1.13.7

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:59:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote: > > > > Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion. > > That's a step up on what we have at present and is (I assume) very easy > > to implement. > > > > Does Moin

Re:

2020-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-23 17:52, Default User wrote: Thanks to all for the information. I may just stay with what I have, for now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it? I would not make any changes because of the smartclt reports. BTW, aside from neglecting to put a subject line in the original post, l sho

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 19:56:15, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > So I tried the next set of commands: > > $ sudo systemctl start home-nate-share.mount > [sudo] password for nate: > Failed to start home-nate-share.mount: Unit home-nate-share.mount not found. This looks for units in /etc/systemd/system, but

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote: > > Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion. > That's a step up on what we have at present and is (I assume) very easy > to implement. > > Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way? It's easy to add. The FA

Contributing to Debian documentation [was: Debian is testing Discourse]

2020-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 23:42:35, Marco Möller wrote: > Admittedly, I (by now) never volunteered to report a bug in the > documentation or even write a patch, because I am afraid to introduce > another mistake and then becoming bashed by the real experts, or even worse > my mistakes staying uncovered and