On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 00:41, deloptes wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here,
> > assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following
> > debian-devel.
> > In my opinion the most important message is this:
> >> >
On Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 18:02:48 +, Gareth Evans wrote:
> It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root
> password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct
> (root) password at least once.
I love the way you have completely misinterpr
I smile at this discussion, having gone through this same thought-cycle so
many times.
I claim this is motivation for the separation of a graphical client
workstation, simpler and separate from the server, having ONLY a
single-user identity at a time. In other words, re-implementation of the
XWindo
On Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 19:33:53 +0100, john doe wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 6:34 PM, Tixy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:
> > > On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > > On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > > > > I finally got around to installing
Hi Greg,
Thanks. Apologies if I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this
situation could have arisen other than because of password errors somewhere or
other.
Jerry said:
> When I booted the system
> and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would
> not le
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +, Gareth Evans wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks. Apologies if I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this
> situation could have arisen other than because of password errors somewhere
> or other.
>
> Jerry said:
>
> > When I booted the system
> >
[re-sending to list as I initially replied from a non-subscribed address]
Hi Greg,
Thanks. Apologies if I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this
situation could have arisen other than because of password errors somewhere or
other.
Jerry said:
> When I booted the system
> and tr
On 12/15/2020 6:34 PM, Tixy wrote:
On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:
On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
removing the i386version I had originally ins
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:02:48PM +, Gareth Evans wrote:
> It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root
> password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct
> (root) password at least once.
>
> How else could changes to /etc/sudoers
It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root
password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct
(root) password at least once.
How else could changes to /etc/sudoers (which I imagine is what is meant by
"the sudouse(r) file") have been
On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > > I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> > > removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install we
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 02:40:47PM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[...]
> > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> > support you should probably look into contributing.
>
> What does it mean exactly? Contribute how and where?
I'd ask in debian-dev
Deloptes, Joe,
SUCCESS. Thanks for all the help.
Keith
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> support you should probably look into contributing.
And how does one do that?
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Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here,
> assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following
> debian-devel.
>
this is true - thank you
I became aware of the i386 issue on the geode dev news list (AFAIR) some
time ago (may b
On Ma, 15 dec 20, 11:47:49, deloptes wrote:
>
> Hi Andrei,
> thank you for posting on this very important topic.
>
> I want to share my experience and view hoping that you draw some useful
> conclusions and we can keep i386 in some way available.
Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just t
On Ma, 15 dec 20, 11:36:50, john doe wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if
> > you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.
>
> That doesn't look to be the case anymore, I ju
Hi Andrei,
thank you for posting on this very important topic.
I want to share my experience and view hoping that you draw some useful
conclusions and we can keep i386 in some way available.
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[snip]
>
> My intuition is also that i386, although becoming less popular, was
On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted t
On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
> well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system
> and try to do "apt-get update a
Relevant for those who need i386 support.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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