Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Markus Schönhaber
01.03.22, 06:04 +0100, Stella Ashburne: Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 7:18 AM From: "Brian" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? Om all my systems: brian@5740:~$ ls -l /etc/network/interfaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Nov 3 19:23 /

cups

2022-02-28 Thread Malcolm McQueen
I use the standard cups system which has been working fine. But it now stalls showing a status of now fails with a status of: Processing - "The printer is in use." The printer is a Canon MG3600. And this works correctly from another (Mac) computer on the LAN. Restarting cups did no good as did rei

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:18:25PM +, Brian wrote: [...] > Om all my systems: > > brian@5740:~$ ls -l /etc/network/interfaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Nov 3 19:23 /etc/network/interfaces That's absolutely right. I already posted a correction, but it doesn't seem to have made it through

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:43:52PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Dearie [...] > According to Debian Wiki WiFi How To Use > (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse), the reason for doing the split is: > > (sic) Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent > pre-shared key (P

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 5:47 AM > From: "Bob McGowan" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su- > > On 2/28/22 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: > > sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" > > Some comments on this, without knowing just how it failed:

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 28 2022, Felix Miata wrote: >> However, removing modesetting_drv.so from >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers did. That solved the problem. > >> But it didn't switch to nouveau; it went to fbdev. > > You likely created a new problem. modesetting_drv.so is the default DIX for > AMD, > Int

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 7:13 AM > From: "Dan Ritter" > To: "Stella Ashburne" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su- > > > > > In a terminal, I typed: > > > > username@hostname:~$ su -l -c "wpa_passphrase JupiterRising 1234567890 > > >

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dear Ash > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 5:36 AM > From: "Ash Joubert" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > qrencode -s 20 -o wifi.png "WIFI:S:Your Wifi SSID;T:WPA;P:Your Wifi > Passphrase;;" > Thanks for the tip. Best regards

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 7:18 AM > From: "Brian" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > Om all my systems: > > brian@5740:~$ ls -l /etc/network/interfaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 Nov 3 19:23 /etc/network/interfa

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
John Goerzen composed on 2022-02-28 22:11 (UTC-0600): > Interestingly, purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau didn't change > anything. That means you must have been /using/ the modesetting DIX driver. > However, removing modesetting_drv.so from > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers did. That solved the

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 28 2022, Felix Miata wrote: > There are two nouveau drivers: > > kernel device > display device > modesetting > nouveau > > Both possible full-function display device drivers depend on the nouveau > kernel > driver (module). inxi -Gayz will show

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 3:43 PM John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with a GeForce 1050 Ti on bullseye. > > On this system, if I log in as a regular user and run startx, everything > works fine; KDE Plasma comes up and it's all good. > > But sddm doesn't work. In fact, when it starts, it

Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

2022-02-28 Thread José Luis González
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:44:18 + Ralph Katz wrote: > On 2/27/22 14:32, José Luis González wrote: > > Hi, Hi, > > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a > > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings, > > no longer shows the applications

Re: Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread Felix Miata
John Goerzen composed on 2022-02-28 15:43 (UTC-0600): > I have a system with a GeForce 1050 Ti on bullseye. > On this system, if I log in as a regular user and run startx, everything > works fine; KDE Plasma comes up and it's all good. > But sddm doesn't work. In fact, when it starts, it causes

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Brian
On Tue 01 Mar 2022 at 10:36:54 +1300, Ash Joubert wrote: > On 01/03/2022 09:25, Nicolas George wrote: > > In typical domestic settings, the wifi password is on a post-it near the > > access point, safe from neighbors but convenient for guests. > > For even greater convenience, especially for thos

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Brian
On Mon 28 Feb 2022 at 21:25:01 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Stella Ashburne (12022-02-28): > > I quote from Debian Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse) : > > > > "Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared > > key (PSK) disclosure (alternatively use a se

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On 2/28/22 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" Some comments on this, without knowing just how it failed: 1.  There is no reason I can see to using both 'sudo' and 'su' together.  By default, they both let you run a command as the root user. 2.  Using both '-' and '-

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 5:09 AM > > From: "Dan Ritter" > > To: "Stella Ashburne" > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su- > > > > Stella Ashburne wrote: > > > sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" > > > > > > It didn't

Re: systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-02-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:45 PM KCB Leigh wrote: > I installed Debian 11 (Bullseye) with GNOME 3.38.5 (Wayland), LINUX kernel > Linux version 5.10.0-11-amd64 (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, > GNU ld 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) on a USB stick, and am > using it with an

Re: systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:28:49PM +, KCB Leigh wrote: > This operating system has worked excellently for months, but for the last 2 > days has suddenly been taking a very long time to boot.  The cause of the > delay can be seen from the syslog: Obvious question 1: what changed 2 days ago?

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Brian
On Mon 28 Feb 2022 at 21:17:25 +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Dearie, > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:08 AM > > From: "Brian" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > > > > You do not want just anyone to read /etc/netwo

Re: XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

2022-02-28 Thread Ralph Katz
On 2/27/22 14:32, José Luis González wrote: Hi, Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings, no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button on my panel appears pressed without th

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Ash Joubert
On 01/03/2022 09:25, Nicolas George wrote: In typical domestic settings, the wifi password is on a post-it near the access point, safe from neighbors but convenient for guests. For even greater convenience, especially for those of us who inflict long randomly-generated passphrases on our guest

systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-02-28 Thread KCB Leigh
I installed Debian 11 (Bullseye) with GNOME 3.38.5 (Wayland), LINUX kernel Linux version 5.10.0-11-amd64 (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) on a USB stick, and am using it with an ACER Aspire 514 laptop. This operating system has worke

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 5:09 AM > From: "Dan Ritter" > To: "Stella Ashburne" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su- > > Stella Ashburne wrote: > > sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" > > > > It didn't work > > Copy and paste the actual

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:21 AM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 09:20:07PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > (in Debian, at least) /etc/network/inte

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:20 AM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > However, if I remember your original post correctly, there were security > reasons mentioned (about a possibly world re

Startx works, but sddm/lightdm/xdm doesn't

2022-02-28 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I have a system with a GeForce 1050 Ti on bullseye. On this system, if I log in as a regular user and run startx, everything works fine; KDE Plasma comes up and it's all good. But sddm doesn't work. In fact, when it starts, it causes my monitor to go "no signal". Oddly, though, if I can lo

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Stella Ashburne wrote: > sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line" > > It didn't work Copy and paste the actual error; they contain real information to help us figure out what is happening. -dsr-

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Nicolas George
Stella Ashburne (12022-02-28): > I quote from Debian Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse) : > > "Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared > key (PSK) disclosure (alternatively use a separate config file such as > /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 on newer

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 09:20:07PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > (in Debian, at least) /etc/network/interfaces is only root-readable. So This is wrong (note to self: double-check things. Gah). Sorry for any confusion. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 08:59:03PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Dearie, > > Thanks for your reply. > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM > > From: to...@tuxteam.de > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > > > > So if y

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie, > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 4:08 AM > From: "Brian" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > You do not want just anyone to read /etc/network/interfaces? > > chmod 600 /etc/network/interfaces > That's the recommended

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie Thanks for your offer of help; however. > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM > From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su- > > > If you use sudo: prefix the above command with sudo > > It may be that you need > > su

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Brian
On Mon 28 Feb 2022 at 19:49:32 +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > I quote from Debian Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse) : > > "Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared > key (PSK) disclosure (alternatively use a separate config file such as > /etc/netwo

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
Dearie, Thanks for your reply. > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? > > > So if you have this in your /etc/network/interfaces somewhere: > > ... > ## Bahn ICE > i

Re: Re (2): Archiving on optical media

2022-02-28 Thread John Conover
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > From: rhkra...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:52:35 -0500 > > What has been your experience with reliability of SD cards for backup? > > My explanation was ambiguous. =8~| The primary medium here is SD. > The backup is optical. > > The oldest SD car

Re: Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 07:54:39PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > According to https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse, > > "Use the WPA passphrase to calculate the correct WPA PSK hash for your SSID > by altering the following example" > > the command to type is > > su -l -c "wpa_passphrase mys

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > I quote from Debian Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse) : > > "Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared > key (PSK) disclosure (alternatively use a separate config file such as > /etc/ne

Authentication failed after su-

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
According to https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse, "Use the WPA passphrase to calculate the correct WPA PSK hash for your SSID by altering the following example" the command to type is su -l -c "wpa_passphrase myssid my_very_secret_passphrase > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" The ou

What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-02-28 Thread Stella Ashburne
I quote from Debian Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse) : "Restrict the permissions of /etc/network/interfaces, to prevent pre-shared key (PSK) disclosure (alternatively use a separate config file such as /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 on newer Debian versions): " What should I put in

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Well, that's interesting. You *can* specify an absolute directory by > this mechanism. I guess I learned something today. :) > So, what exactly was the complaint? That songbird shot themselves in > the foot by specifying an absolute directory for core dumps that w

Re (2): Archiving on optical media

2022-02-28 Thread peter
From: rhkra...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:52:35 -0500 > What has been your experience with reliability of SD cards for backup? My explanation was ambiguous. =8~| The primary medium here is SD. The backup is optical. The oldest SD card I have was purchased about 2012. The la

Re (2): Archiving on optical media

2022-02-28 Thread peter
From: "Thomas Schmitt" Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:55:40 +0100 > Beware of "Combo" drives. Make sure the product description mentions > _write_ speed for BD-RE and BD-R, not only read speed for BD-ROM. > ("Combo" drives are usually a bit cheaper than real BD burners.) Critical point, thanks. >

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:41:27AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > By default, yes, that's the case. However, from songbird's original > post: > > i have the following set in my /etc/sysctl.conf: > > # core file location and file name format > kernel.core_pattern=/crash/core.%u.%

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:41:27AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > > >> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a > >> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited > >> >> cor

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> >>> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a >>> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited >>> >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >>>=20 >>> i

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a >> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited >> >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >> >> i had accomplished the ulimit ch

Re: Archiving on SD cards (was: Re: Archiving on optical media; was Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.)

2022-02-28 Thread Chris Ramsden
Monday, February 28, 2022, 2:52:35 PM, rhkramer wrote: > On Monday, February 28, 2022 12:37:49 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> Backing data in a 4 or 16 GB SD card is a modest requirement. >> PC Galore might have a drive in stock.  http://www.pcgalore.com/ > What has been your experience with reli

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a > >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited > >> core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > > i had accomplished the ulimit change already, but the lack of > the proper permission

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Just put 'ulimit -c unlimited' into the appropriate dot file to put > things back to how they used to be. > > This changed a *really* long time ago. I don't know exactly when, or > how. It pissed me off too, but it's the norm now, because everything > has been dumbed do

Re: getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:01:05AM -0500, songbird wrote: > > i had some fun trying to figure out why a regular user could not > dump a core file Just put 'ulimit -c unlimited' into the appropriate dot file to put things back to how they used to be. This changed a *really* long time ago. I don'

getting a regular user to dump core when a program crashes

2022-02-28 Thread songbird
i had some fun trying to figure out why a regular user could not dump a core file and i had all the settings figured out. since it was a silly and obvious thing but it stumped me for a bit i figured it would be worth sharing. :) the answer is at the end... using Debian testing. i have my

Archiving on SD cards (was: Re: Archiving on optical media; was Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.)

2022-02-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, February 28, 2022 12:37:49 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Backing data in a 4 or 16 GB SD card is a modest requirement. > PC Galore might have a drive in stock. http://www.pcgalore.com/ What has been your experience with reliability of SD cards for backup?