Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:24:36 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I just got a Brother ADS-2700W sheet-fed scanner and am trying > to access it from xsane. I've done a lot of flatbed scanning, > first with an HP 3970, and lately with an Epson WF-2650 all-in-one, > but I have a lot of old manuals I want

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/21 3:28 PM, Dan Norton wrote: David Christensen wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:49:56 -0700: I would do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' ('autoremove', 'clean', etc.). Once apt-get(8) is done, I would revert the changes to /etc/resolv.conf and see if name resolution breaks or remains

Re: Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimenta

2021-03-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Dan Ritter writes: > Laura Smith wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter >> wrote: >> >> > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a >> > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...] >> >> Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you would

Re: Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:24:25PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:31:59PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and > > now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) > > don'

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 4:26 PM Moritz Kempe wrote: > Up until now i used my AVM Fritz!Box (my router) with the (supported) > firmware version FRITZ!OS-Version 07.21. > > Just now, i upgraded the firmware to FRITZ!OS-Version 07.25 and the DNS > is now working on my Raspberry Pi 400. > > > I cannot

Re: Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 31 March 2021 17:31:59 Paul M Foster wrote: > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, > and now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like > Synaptic) don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? > > Paul Give this comman

Re: Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimental

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Laura Smith wrote: > On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a > > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...] > > Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you would say that, wouldn't you ;). Co

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
David Christensen wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:49:56 -0700: I would do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' ('autoremove', 'clean', etc.). Once apt-get(8) is done, I would revert the changes to /etc/resolv.conf and see if name resolution breaks or remains working. (I would test by renaming /etc/

Re: Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:31:59PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and > now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) > don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? > > Paul > > -- >

Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Paul M Foster
A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/21 1:58 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:43:23PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Is there technical documentation that explains how name resolution works in Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 and/or Debian 10? (e.g. design and implementation, userland tools, etc..) It's not the

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
Up until now i used my AVM Fritz!Box (my router) with the (supported) firmware version FRITZ!OS-Version 07.21. Just now, i upgraded the firmware to FRITZ!OS-Version 07.25 and the DNS is now working on my Raspberry Pi 400. I cannot yet say, if my problem is solved but it seems like it. I will

Re: Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimental

2021-03-31 Thread Laura Smith
On Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 at 18:28, Dan Ritter wrote: > That was the subject line of a message I just received from a > - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal [...] Unless you were a very bad covert agent, you would say that, wouldn't you ;).

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Scanning the output to a server just seems plain obvious to me. > What's the downside? It has its advantages, indeed. On the downsides: - the scanner usually has a very limited UI, making it difficult/inconvenient (if at all possible) to control and select the scanning options, compared to

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:43:23PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Is there technical documentation that explains how name resolution works in > Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 and/or Debian 10? (e.g. design and implementation, > userland tools, etc..) It's not the kernel. At all. The standard name res

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-31 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 30 mars 2021, 08:16 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > $ rmadison linux-signed-amd64 > linux-signed-amd64 | 4.19.118+2+deb10u1~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | source > linux-signed-amd64 | 4.19.171+2| stable| source > linux-signed-amd64 | 4.19.181+1| stabl

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Joe
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:25:55 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > But going back to the OP's original scenario, a broken¹ router would > be an ideal solution for linking two wifi laptops, with no possibility > of accidentally joining the Internet (horrors!). > > ¹ Is this a common mode of failure? My

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/21 11:58 AM, Dan Norton wrote: Thank you, Felix. This post is coming from Debian with names resolved: #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) Also resolv.conf is un-messed with: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain attlocal.net search attlocal.net nameserver 1.1.1.1 nameserver 1.0.0.1 nameserver

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread David Christensen
On 3/31/21 10:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: As of right now, we have at least two people posting to debian-user about DNS failures involving what appears to be their home router's forwarding DNS service, and Debian 10.9. Switching the nameserver lines in resolv.conf to something *other than* the

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
On 3/31/21 3:22 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:08 AM Moritz Kempe > wrote: On 3/31/21 1:55 PM, Lee wrote: > On 3/31/21, Moritz Kempe mailto:deblist%2bdeb...@moke12g.de>> wrote: >> On 3/31/21 1:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread David Christensen
I have reorganized the content below to improve comprehension. On 3/31/21 9:46 AM, Dan Norton wrote: Thanks to all who responded. > Thanks for your detailed help. Let me know if I can dig out more. YW. We are making progress. See below. Have not changed any of the gateway settings that I

How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 07:18:14 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a > > USB flash drive. It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, > > scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick. > > If all else fails, I c

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 10:45:59 (-0400), Marc Auslander wrote: > Anssi Saari writes: > >Brian writes: > > > >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > > > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
Thank you, Felix. This post is coming from Debian with names resolved: #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) Also resolv.conf is un-messed with: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain attlocal.net search attlocal.net nameserver 1.1.1.1 nameserver 1.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.1.254 All is well again. Thanks

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:26:32PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Norton composed on 2021-03-31 12:46 (UTC-0400): > > > # cd /etc > > # cat resolv.conf > > domain attlocal.net > > search attlocal.net > > nameserver 192.168.1.254 > > [something removes additional nameserver lines that I add]

Subject: Mr. Dan Ritter, why is it that you appear to be posting your POV on my posts? Are you a covert agent of the anti-FSF cabal, trying to subvert something "positive for FSF, but detrimental for

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
That was the subject line of a message I just received from a Debian-user member. In case anyone is confused: - I write my point of view because that's the one I have - I am not a covert agent of an anti-FSF cabal, to the best of my knowledge. - I have no idea what 'trying to subvert someth

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2021-03-31 12:46 (UTC-0400): > # cd /etc > # cat resolv.conf > domain attlocal.net > search attlocal.net > nameserver 192.168.1.254 > [something removes additional nameserver lines that I add] > I c

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Norton
Thanks to all who responded. This problem makes me post from a Windows laptop and transfer terminal output via thumb drive to the laptop. Not pretty. To David: Yes, I have done a cold reboot since upgrading. # apt update 0% [Connecting to deb.debian.org] [Connecting to qgis.org] [Connecting to b

Re: IANA port ups/401

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Roger Price wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > > Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 > > > "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? > > > I'm looking for protoc

Re: IANA port ups/401

2021-03-31 Thread Roger Price
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? I'm looking for protocol documentation or reports of usage. The p

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:24 AM, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 14:23:31 CEST schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > > Hi, > > please check in /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane1.rules if there is an entry fo

Re: IANA port ups/401

2021-03-31 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 > "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? > I'm looking for protocol documentation or reports of usage. The port > was assigned in 2008 to Mr. Charles B

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Anssi Saari writes: >Brian writes: > ... >> >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The >router may have a DHCP server running though which you may want to >disable. In my experiance, you should put the

IANA port ups/401

2021-03-31 Thread Roger Price
Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? I'm looking for protocol documentation or reports of usage. The port was assigned in 2008 to Mr. Charles Bennett as both assignee and contact. Mr. Bennett himself died in

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 14:23:31 CEST schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: Hi, please check in /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane1.rules if there is an entry for your scanner. In my case with a brother scanner I had to manually add it, as the brother packages installation is missing this. Good luck!

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Brian
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 09:23:31 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 30/03/2021 23:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a > > USB flash drive.  It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, > > scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the sti

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread songbird
Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks for replying Darac. ... >> It might be helpful to see the relevant lines from your /etc/fstab. >> > - --8<--- current fstab ---start->8--- > /dev/sda2 /mnt/backb ext4defaults,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 > 2 > /dev/sd

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 8:08 AM Moritz Kempe wrote: > On 3/31/21 1:55 PM, Lee wrote: > > On 3/31/21, Moritz Kempe wrote: > >> On 3/31/21 1:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: > -- Firefox Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
On 3/31/21 2:44 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf -- hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mymachines I don't know what "mymachines" is. I don't see it in the man page. What happens if yo

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
On 3/31/21 1:55 PM, Lee wrote: On 3/31/21, Moritz Kempe wrote: On 3/31/21 1:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: -- Firefox Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at github.com. -- Chromium This site can

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: > > grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf > -- > hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mymachines I don't know what "mymachines" is. I don't see it in the man page. What happens if you get rid of the "mymachines" field?

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 30/03/2021 23:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a USB flash drive.  It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets, scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick. If all else fails, I can work with it that way.  But I'd really like to let

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Lee
On 3/31/21, Moritz Kempe wrote: > On 3/31/21 1:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: >>> -- Firefox Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t >>> connect to the server at github.com. >>> -- Chromium This site can’t be reachedCheck

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > > The best possible method of learning appears to be minimal > explanation, but exhaustive implementation of code lines in a > console/terminal. While you may think that this is the best way for you to learn about command lines, most people don't do well this way. Most

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
On 3/31/21 1:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: -- Firefox Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. We can’t connect to the server at github.com. -- Chromium This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in github.com. DNS_PROBE_F

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Darac Marjal writes: > On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now >> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. >> >> I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/b

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: > -- Firefox > Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. > > We can’t connect to the server at github.com. > -- Chromium > This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in github.com. > DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN > moke@rpi4-

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > I'm beginning to wonder, though, whether fashions are changing. > Scanners nowadays seem to want to push data to a server, rather > than being commanded to scan by a computer. Is this really > happening? If so, whither (or should that be "wither") xsane? In office envi

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
I am experiencing a potential related issue, (Subject: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)" on this list) can you please install dnsutils (sudo apt-get install dnsutils) and try to use dig to get an ip from a domain and send us your output? Because if i try to use host it returns -

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:15:13 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] > Message-id: <[🔎] 258050bc-618b-e8ae-6a93-fc4483c42...@darac.org.uk> > In-reply-to: <[🔎] > CAEG4cZVHeUrD5Ke1iMd_MLSXuw6j8+k+AhEteKfYoQPO2v=m...@mail.gmail.com> > References: > > > >

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Darac Marjal writes: Thanks for replying Darac. > On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now >> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. >> >> I have 2 data drives on m

Re: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 31/03/2021 10:46, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Follow Up from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01459.html, > > Motivation: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01358.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01362.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20

Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts

2021-03-31 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Follow Up from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01459.html, Motivation: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01358.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01362.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/msg01365.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-us

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Darac Marjal
On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now > happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. > > I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are > 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb. It mig

backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb. Backb is n

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
Am 31.03.21 um 09:23 schrieb Klaus Singvogel: Moritz Kempe wrote: [...] I noticed the problem, while i was browsing the internet and got confused because after a while some domains could not longer be found/connected to by the browser. (On both, Firefox and Chromium) I had similar issues, when

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Moritz Kempe
Am 31.03.21 um 09:23 schrieb Klaus Singvogel: Moritz Kempe wrote: [...] I noticed the problem, while i was browsing the internet and got confused because after a while some domains could not longer be found/connected to by the browser. (On both, Firefox and Chromium) I had similar issues, when

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-31 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Moritz Kempe wrote: [...] > I noticed the problem, while i was browsing the internet and got confused > because after a while some domains could not longer be found/connected to by > the browser. (On both, Firefox and Chromium) I had similar issues, when I changed DNS configuration at my DSL route