Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you want to know how to run (fairly) > vanilla Debian - but including the non-free raspberry pi firmware > and rpi-eeprom - it's possible using either Gunnar Wolf's images > or Pete Batard's version of UEFI for the Pi 4 and the Debian > arm64 ISO file. _That_ I can he

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 20:07:45, David Wright wrote: > > Because the basic /etc/hosts file looks something like: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.1 router.corp router > 192.168.1.2 cascade.corpcascade > 127.0.1.1 acer.corp acer# 192.168.1.10 > # The following lines a

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2022-01-22 at 23:53 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 ian 22, 10:00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > *Poof*, your Ethernet device name changes, since, by default [1] it's > > named after the path in the USB device tree leading to your device. > > Don't forget to stick your Ethern

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread peter
From: Andy Smith Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:07:23 + > > Two parts are available to mount /root; /root can be on /dev/sda1 or > > /dev/sda2. > > I don't understand what you mean by this statement. I should have referred to / rather than /root. peter@joule:/home/peter$ lsblk --list |

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 10:01 PM Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 9:08 PM John Hasler wrote: > >> gene heskett writes: >> > Obviously that, being my banking, has never been written down. >> >> Always write down important passwords[1]. You can then use long, >> secure, random ones

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 9:08 PM John Hasler wrote: > gene heskett writes: > > Obviously that, being my banking, has never been written down. > > Always write down important passwords[1]. You can then use long, > secure, random ones and keep the little black book you write them in > secure. > > > I

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-22 at 21:23, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:08:02 PM EST David Wright wrote: > >> On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 19:07:35 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: >> > This is the line which contains the directives involved. >> > >> > The 'files' directive tells your system to check

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:08:02 PM EST David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 19:07:35 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2022-01-22 at 18:38, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > > > This is the line which contains the direc

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread John Hasler
gene writes: > I found I did not own the .mozilla/ firefox directory but a recursive > chown -R gene:gene * did not fix it. Try chown -R gene:gene .mozilla Doing chown -R gene:gene * will skip all files starting with "." Bizarre that you would not already own it, though. -- Jo

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:52:24 PM EST Lee wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On 1/21/22, gene heskett wrote: > > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue > > what todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. > Once you realize that that your machine getting a

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread John Hasler
gene heskett writes: > Obviously that, being my banking, has never been written down. Always write down important passwords[1]. You can then use long, secure, random ones and keep the little black book you write them in secure. > I have foolishly depended on my browser to remember all that. You

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 19:07:35 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-01-22 at 18:38, gene heskett wrote: > > > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > This is the line which contains the directives involved. > > The 'files' directive tells your system to check local fil

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 13:57:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 12:14:20 PM EST David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:13:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:38:04AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday, January 22, 20

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:20:55 PM EST Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/22/22, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all ff experts; > > > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering > > that dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever > > retention of book

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Lee
Hi Gene, On 1/21/22, gene heskett wrote: > > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue what > todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. Once you realize that that your machine getting a 169.254.x.x address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/22/22, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all ff experts; > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that > dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of > bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a timeout that is > quicker than it

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 23/01/2022 00:14, gene heskett wrote: Firefox is working absolutely fine. PEBCAC. Learn to use it a bit more. Please try again with ~/.mozilla/firefox and "firefox -P" and bookmark Library tricks as mentioned above. But first, I have to own it,and I don't. man chown -- With kindest regar

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 23/01/2022 00:01, gene heskett wrote: Here it is: gene@coyote:~/.mozilla/firefox$ cat profiles.ini [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=t7o642n4.default Default=1 [Profile0] Name=default-esr IsRelative=1 Path=cfkfrtdm.default-esr [General] StartWithLastProf

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 6:57:25 PM EST piorunz wrote: > On 22/01/2022 22:52, gene heskett wrote: > >> Sorry but I don't understand your connection between logged in pages > >> (in cookies) and bookmarks. Are you saying now, that you lost > >> bookmarks list in your Firefox profile? > > > > l

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-22 at 18:38, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:20:07 PM EST Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 01:57:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > >>> So my resolv.conf says to search coyote.den, and failing that, >>> use my isp's nameserver [...] >> >> Again:

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 6:18:37 PM EST Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-01-22 18:03 (UTC-0500): > > I may have an amanda backup from a time in late october when that > > shingled seagate committed suicide, but no clue at this point, which > > amanda file it might be in. Scat

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 22/01/2022 22:52, gene heskett wrote: Sorry but I don't understand your connection between logged in pages (in cookies) and bookmarks. Are you saying now, that you lost bookmarks list in your Firefox profile? lost bookmarks, hundreds. I see. I didn't understood you originally. You were sa

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:20:07 PM EST Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 01:57:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > So my resolv.conf says to search coyote.den, and failing that, use my > > isp's nameserver [...] > > Again: that is NOT what the resolv.conf file does. > > The /et

[SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 22.01.22 15:24, songbird wrote: > > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > ... > > > When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual > > > conflict. > > > This mail by Norbert Preining > > > > > >https://lists.debian.

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2022-01-22 18:03 (UTC-0500): > I may have an amanda backup from a time in late october when that > shingled seagate committed suicide, but no clue at this point, which > amanda file it might be in. Scattered willy nilly about another 2T drive, > the only spinning rust l

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 5:45:00 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:05:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all ff experts; > > > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering > > that dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 05:20:49PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:33:56 AM EST Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:47:01 +0100 > > > > wrote: > > > Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The > > > magic > > > word seems to be simply

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 10:00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > *Poof*, your Ethernet device name changes, since, by default [1] it's > named after the path in the USB device tree leading to your device. > Don't forget to stick your Ethernet dongle into the same port > afterwards. Else... *poof*. I thoug

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:02:37 PM EST piorunz wrote: > On 22/01/2022 20:05, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all ff experts; > > > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox > > Oldstable (Debian 10 Buster), and Oldoldstable (Debian 9 Stretch) are > using EXACTLY the same ve

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 09:52:45, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:32:17 (+), piorunz wrote: > > On 22/01/2022 07:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > > > > enp5s

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 09:40:39, David Christensen wrote: > > A simple case is to image the entire device. Boot the Debian Installer > (d-i) (or a live Linux distribution) and use dd(1) to copy the entire USB > drive to the entire HDD: > > # dd bs=1M if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-... of=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:05:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all ff experts; > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that > dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of > bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a ti

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:33:56 AM EST Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:47:01 +0100 > > wrote: > > Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The > > magic > > word seems to be simply `hostname', these days, at least. > > Interesting. > > I have systemd 247

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:18:27 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via > /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... > Jan 22 08:49:1

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, at 20:05, gene heskett wrote: > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that > dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of > bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low ... I doubt my comment will be what you want to

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 01:57:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > So my resolv.conf says to search coyote.den, and failing that, use my > isp's nameserver [...] Again: that is NOT what the resolv.conf file does. The /etc/nsswitch.conf file *SHOULD* tell your system to use the /etc/hosts file first

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 22/01/2022 20:05, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all ff experts; Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox Oldstable (Debian 10 Buster), and Oldoldstable (Debian 9 Stretch) are using EXACTLY the same version of Firefox, 91.5.0. Nothing has changed on that front. See here: https:

Re: Kodi (SID)

2022-01-22 Thread SDA
Here is the deets for my report: Bug#1004214. Please add any additional information to the report itself if you suffer from same issue. Thanks!

Kodi (SID)

2022-01-22 Thread SDA
Greetings! The past week or so, up until today Kodi has been segfaulting on me - Anyone else? Starting from a term: failed to open zone.tab libva info: VA-API version 1.13.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_

firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all ff experts; Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a timeout that is quicker than it is useful. Looking at bookmarks, and its

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 22.01.22 15:24, songbird wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual conflict. This mail by Norbert Preining https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html describes his view on his demotion from Debian Developer

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 07:01:24PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, max wrote: > > > > > WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS SECURITY FIXES? > > > snip rant. > > I could have the opposite rant. WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH > ABOUT ITS STABLE DISTRIBUTION. > > B

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:18:27AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > smartd reports to syslog. > > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via > /usr/share/smartmontools/s

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, max wrote: WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS SECURITY FIXES? snip rant. I could have the opposite rant. WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS STABLE DISTRIBUTION. Because I have a machine (actually more than one) sat running buster that has SSH liste

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 12:14:20 PM EST David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:13:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:38:04AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 2:04:32 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > On

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > smartd reports to syslog. > > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via > /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... > Jan 22 08:49:18 joule

smartd

2022-01-22 Thread peter
smartd reports to syslog. Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Jan 22 08:49:18 joule smartd[563]: Warning via /usr/share/sma

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 1/21/22 11:36 PM, lou wrote: i've installed bullseye on usb disk can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in /etc/fstab and then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? Thanks! I have a SOHO network with about a dozen IoT, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Debian GNU/ Lin

Re: inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Little Bill wrote: > I dont want to use nfs. And considering the inode appears correct > initially. It appears there is a bug somewhere. > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 11:28 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Little Bill wrote: > > > Provided the mount? This inode issue doesn't occur on Debian 8 and nfs. >

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:13:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:38:04AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 2:04:32 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Once that part is flying, tackle names :) > > I stay still by this :) > > >

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Jan 2022 at 21:34:35 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > My whole system here, 7 machines atm, has been as high as a dozen, is > dhcpd-less, all host name based with a common hosts file on all machines. > And until avahi sticks its camel nose in, it Just Works. So how do I get > rid of the

Can't switch to different wifi network after switching users

2022-01-22 Thread Luiz Romário Santana Rios
Hello, I'm running Debian 11 with KDE and I can't switch to a different network if I switch to a different user. The first noticeable problem is that every single listed network appears with the "Disconnect" button, as if all of them are simultaneously connected (which they're obviously not). If I

Re: inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Little Bill
I dont want to use nfs. And considering the inode appears correct initially. It appears there is a bug somewhere. On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 11:28 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Little Bill wrote: > > Provided the mount? This inode issue doesn't occur on Debian 8 and nfs. > To > > the same nas and content >

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 10:00:34AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:28:34AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > > > enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. >

Re: inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Little Bill wrote: > Provided the mount? This inode issue doesn't occur on Debian 8 and nfs. To > the same nas and content Then why don't you try it with NFS and see if two networked filesystems give the same results or different results? -dsr-

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:53:00AM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > That doesn't tally with my experience. Two paragraphs before Table 2 is: > >ID_NET_NAME_MAC=prefixxAABBCCDDEEFF [...] > which describes what I observe here. MAC is definitely a better choice in this (USB) context. A

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 07:33:56AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:47:01 +0100 > wrote: > > > Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The magic > > word seems to be simply `hostname', these days, at least. > > Interesting. > > I have systemd 247.3-6, a

Re: inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Little Bill wrote: > not sure which group > > inode count is wrong on a cifs mount to a synology > > 394500 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root media 1460761806 Jan 22 09:36 'Magnum P.I - > S04E12 - Angels Sometimes Kill.mkv' > littlebill@tvmedia:/opt/mounts/vnas/tv/Magnum P.I/Season 04$ sudo find > / -inum 39450

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 10:00:34 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:28:34AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > > > enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. > >

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:32:17 (+), piorunz wrote: > On 22/01/2022 07:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > > > enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. > > > > Those names are supposed t

inode issue with cifs

2022-01-22 Thread Little Bill
not sure which group inode count is wrong on a cifs mount to a synology 394500 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root media 1460761806 Jan 22 09:36 'Magnum P.I - S04E12 - Angels Sometimes Kill.mkv' littlebill@tvmedia:/opt/mounts/vnas/tv/Magnum P.I/Season 04$ sudo find / -inum 394500 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/IB

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 02:23:48PM +0100, max wrote: > This is a text-only version of my post on > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 > > It is missing hyperlinks and illustrations. Comments, corrections and > suggestions are v

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:47:01 +0100 wrote: > Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The magic > word seems to be simply `hostname', these days, at least. Interesting. I have systemd 247.3-6, as provided on Bullseye. The man page mentions set-hostname only. Looking at your f

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... > When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual > conflict. > This mail by Norbert Preining > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html > > describes his view on his demotion from Debian Developer to Debian > Maintainer by t

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread songbird
max wrote: > This is a text-only version of my post on > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 > > It is missing hyperlinks and illustrations. Comments, corrections and > suggestions are very welcome. ... > Will Debian ever live u

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marco Möller wrote: > a statement like the following would provide some transparency: > "the package maintainer was asked to comply to the following rules > ...(stating which ones...) but apparently no conciliation was reached; > therefore the committee ...(stating which committee)... decided

Re: Chromium security updates

2022-01-22 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:20:26PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 20 ian 22, 00:08:52, Richmond wrote: > > I see debian 10's chromium is currently on version 90.0.4430.212 > > (Developer Build), whereas google-chrome is on Version 97.0.4692.99 > > (Official Build) (64-bit). Does that me

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, 2022-01-22 at 14:23 +0100, max wrote: > > WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS SECURITY FIXES? > I was interested, until I realized your Medium post is that Google Chrome is not updated fast enough by Debian. -Jim P.

Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread max
This is a text-only version of my post on https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 It is missing hyperlinks and illustrations. Comments, corrections and suggestions are very welcome. --- WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT IT

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 16.01.22 22:36, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Anders Andersson wrote on 16/01/2022 at 17:09:01+0100: On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:29 AM Marco Möller wrote: Does somebody has information about what in the background has happened, which made Norbert leaving the team? Considering that Debian i

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 5:13:59 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:38:04AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 2:04:32 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > > > > Once that part is flying, tackle names :) > > I stay still by this :) > >

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/22/22, lou wrote: > i've installed bullseye on usb disk > > can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in > /etc/fstab and > > then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? There's also "update-initramfs -u" that can be run in between /etc/fstab and one's boot manager (LILO, G

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
2022-01-22 12:36 GMT+05:00, lou : > i've installed bullseye on usb disk > > can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in > /etc/fstab and > > then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? yes, i do this: 1) make neccessary partitions and fs and mount them -- man parted, man mkfs, m

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 22/01/2022 09:00, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Hahaha:) Actually, they're supposed to be/predictable/. Now assume the following situation: you've got just one USB port (Apple, I'm looking at you). Your Ethernet adapter is a dongle hanging off it. You now realize you need some USB storage to do yo

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread piorunz
On 22/01/2022 07:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. Those names are supposed to be stable. Are you doing any changes to the hardware when that happens? Kind r

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-22 Thread arun
Many thanks Thomas - there is a write up by XAH LEE (can google it) he has a nice tutorial -- Regards Arun Khanna On 12/01/22 4:04 pm, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, A KHANNA wrote: How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not having options available in ubuntu. It seems that a

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 04:38:04AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 2:04:32 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Once that part is flying, tackle names :) I stay still by this :) > But, I found, quite by serendipity, in the raspios version of bullseye, a > fix. Lo

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread lou
Thank Andrei and David! i've tried, it doesn't work, i give up if install by copy is complicated, i won't do it that way instead, i just install as usual

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, January 22, 2022 2:04:32 AM EST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:51:20PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue > > what todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. > Start d

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:03:06AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:27:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > >> On Friday, January 21, 2022 6:45:52 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:42:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:27:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> On Friday, January 21, 2022 6:45:52 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:42:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: >> > > So how do I officially set the hostname so its reboot

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:28:34AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > > enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. > > Those names are supposed to be stable. Hahaha :) Actually, they're supp

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread David
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 18:42, lou wrote: > i've installed bullseye on usb disk > > can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in > /etc/fstab and > > then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? Hi, in general this kind of thing is quite possible, and I would encourage you to try,

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 02:36:27, lou wrote: > i've installed bullseye on usb disk > > can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in /etc/fstab > and > > then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? Something like that should be possible, yes. For more visibility you might want to re-s

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 ian 22, 23:51:20, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2022 10:46:35 PM EST Greg Wooledge wrote: [lots of good stuff] > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue what > todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. In order to even try

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-22 Thread Toni Mas Soler
Please, note that's my own criteria. - Each new user must have their own group to prevent security issues. - Most of users are per-app users, following (more or less Android methods). So only real (login) users are added manually in the GID=100. Thus they can share what they want only who then wa