Re: selinux causing problems

On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 18:36 +1300, Alex King wrote: > Now it seems that selinux is active again, and even when I try to set > selinux=0 to disable it, it is still running and spamming the logs with > messages like > > logrotate.service: Failed to read SELinux context of > '/lib/systemd/system/l

selinux causing problems

Does anyone know how to disable selinux? I had selinux installed on this system a long time ago. Recently I believe apparmor was active (and therefore selinux not active). Today I upgraded to Debian 12. apparmor was preventing named (bind9) from running; whatever I did, it was denying read

Re: Performance of my computer

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory > > leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with > > "kill

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 30/10/2023 14:03, Richard Hector wrote: On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote: getent -s dns hosts zircon Ah, thanks. But I don't feel too bad about not finding that ... 'service' is not defined in that file, 'dns' doesn't occur, and searching for 'hosts' doesn't give anything useful either

kill -9 firefox (Re: Performance of my computer)

On 31/10/2023 01:56, Van Snyder wrote: Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain nametouse on home networks

On 30/10/2023 00:00, gene heskett wrote: Somebody who /can/ report it. I changed ISP's over a decade back, so I am not me to bugzilla, and because I am known also by name, I can't re-register. I can't even get a pw reset cuz it (I'm guessing here) is sending it to my earlier ISP's Sorry, it i

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 31/10/2023 01:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: for Gene's systems I would recommend traditional Debian ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). It's by far the simplest, and the most widely supported among the community, in case he has questions. Notice that in the default configuration NetworkManager r

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 30/10/2023 23:09, gene heskett wrote: Making resolv.conf immutable seems to be the way to permanently insulate me from NM's broken idea of whats right. Gene, from what you have written in this thread I see nothing wrong in behavior of NetworkManager. Certainly it is easier to continue barki

Re: Performance of my computer

> Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and > tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage. Not necessarily, no. It may consciously decide to hold on memory that was used in the past in order to avoid having to re-allocate and re-initialize it

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 31/10/2023 04:02, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 15:50, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I know it is using dhclient because I typod the domain name supersede domain-name "home.apra"; and it populated .apra in resolv.conf. Sorry, it is not clear for me what did you do and what result you got. The

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:43:43 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > …but for Gene's systems I would recommend > traditional Debian ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). It's by far > the simplest, and the most widely supported among the community, in > case he has questions. It has the further advantage th

Re: Performance of my computer

Piotr writes: > No, it's just buffering everything it can to satisfy hunger for speed, > set by Chrome and other competitors. Launch Chrome on your computer, > you will experience similar behaviour, memory hogging. It's not a > leak, it's new modern "design" for the browsers. I believe you can adj

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30/10/2023 19:49, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 30 Oct 2023 13:36 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz cpu MHz : 798.205 cpu MHz : 798.173 cpu MHz : 798.250 cpu MHz : 798.223 There's something. You have a 4 x 1.8 GHz C

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30/10/2023 22:19, Van Snyder wrote: Then why does it use 1/3 as much memory to display the same pages and tabs when I kill it and restart it? That's a symptom of memory leakage. No, it's just buffering everything it can to satisfy hunger for speed, set by Chrome and other competitors. Launch

Re: Performance of my computer

On 10/30/23 12:04, David Christensen wrote: On 10/30/23 11:45, William Torrez Corea wrote: How can improve the performance of my computer? I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. My browser: Firefox B

Re: Performance of my computer

On Oct 30, 2023, Van Snyder wrote: > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > > F4, but with"kill -9", so

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > Hi all, > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > > When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to > > - set the address to /32: "ip addr add $IP/32 dev eth0" > >

Re: Performance of my computer

On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote: > On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: > > Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have > > memoryleaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt- > > F4, but with"kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart >

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

With Fedora Live I could see the difference, using # mokutil --list-sbat-revocations. When the system is in one of these states: -new -reflashed -after old clonezilla (grub entries) load -after Fedora live load or Fedora install This list is sbat,1,202103218 After load of grub page of a new

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:53 PM Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > > When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to > > - set the address to /32: "ip addr add $I

Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

Hi all, I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to - set the address to /32: "ip addr add $IP/32 dev eth0" - set the traffic to the gateway to go

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 14:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:37:48PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:29:37PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Gene writes: Std image dd

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 14:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:37:48PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:29:37PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Gene writes: Std image d

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 10/30/23 15:50, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 1:18 PM Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 09:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Hello All, I have been following the recent emails regarding resolv.conf. I almost have my system running perfectly. The only thing

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 1:18 PM Pocket wrote: > > On 10/30/23 09:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have been following the recent emails regarding resolv.conf. I almost > have my system running perfectly. The only thing I am missing is the > population of IPv6 DNS addresses. >

Re: Performance of my computer

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. > > ... > > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) > > My system: Linux 5.10.0

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30 Oct 2023 13:36 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz > > cpu MHz : 798.205 > cpu MHz : 798.173 > cpu MHz : 798.250 > cpu MHz : 798.223 There's something. You have a 4 x 1.8 GHz CPU but it's actually running at 800 M

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 11:09 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/10/2023 20:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > sudo less /etc/resolv.conf > > domain home.arpa > > search home.arpa > > nameserver 8.8.8.8 > > nameserver 8.8.4.4 > > I do not see "# Generated by NetworkManager" here. > > nmcli conn

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote: Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps ba

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30/10/2023 19:36, William Torrez Corea wrote: total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available Mem:           7.7Gi       4.3Gi       2.6Gi       373Mi       830Mi   2.7Gi Swap:          8.8Gi       1.4Gi       7.4Gi Last step: Run command: sudo inxi -m And paste the

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30 Oct 2023 12:04 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): > # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a The kernel and Firefox version specified in the original question match current Bullseye, so that seems a likely guess. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael

Re: Performance of my computer

On 30 Oct 2023 12:45 -0600, from willitc9...@gmail.com (William Torrez Corea): > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. I'm fairly certain that when you say that "the system blew up", you do not mean tha

Re: Performance of my computer

On 10/30/23 11:45, William Torrez Corea wrote: How can improve the performance of my computer? I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) My system: Linux 5.1

Re: Performance of my computer

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am using > the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. Sounds like you want more memory. > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr (64 bit) > My sy

Re: Performance of my computer

On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 12:45 -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > How can improve the performance of my computer? > > > I have problems when I have a lot of tabs opened in my browser, i am > using the libreoffice or playing on Steam. The system blew up. > > My browser: Firefox Browser 115.4.0esr

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 14:30, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Gene writes: Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. Why won't "sudo apt remove --purge network-manager" work for y

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:37:48PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:29:37PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > > Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? > > > > > > Gene writes: > > > > Std image dd'd to u-

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:29:37PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? > > > > Gene writes: > > > Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away > > > from it. > > > > Why wo

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:40, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Gene writes: Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. Why won't "sudo apt remove --purge network-manager" work for you? It did, but took the network down to

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

I wrote: > Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Gene writes: > Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away > from it. Why won't "sudo apt remove --purge network-manager" work for you? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:29, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:48, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 12:43, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:16, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. You can only

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:29, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 13:21, Pocket wrote: apt purge network-manager This is what I get running the above sudo apt purge network-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automat

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:21, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 13:09, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:40, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 12:15, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? That is an interesting question for Gene. apt purge --autoremove network-manager will fix that.

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 12:48, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 12:43, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:16, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. You can only make it somewhere near right and sudo cha

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:21, Pocket wrote: apt purge network-manager This is what I get running the above sudo apt purge network-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longe

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 13:09, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:40, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 12:15, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? That is an interesting question for Gene. apt purge --autoremove network-manager will fix that. I can do that?  The last 3 or 4 t

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 10/30/23 09:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Hello All, I have been following the recent emails regarding resolv.conf. I almost have my system running perfectly. The only thing I am missing is the population of IPv6 DNS addresses. sudo less /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf supersede domain-name "

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 12:40, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 12:15, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? That is an interesting question for Gene. apt purge --autoremove network-manager will fix that. I can do that? The last 3 or 4 times I tried that, dependencies took the

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 12:43, gene heskett wrote: On 10/30/23 12:16, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. You can only make it somewhere near right and sudo chattr +i the files before networkm

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 12:16, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? Std image dd'd to u-sd card install on the arm64 stuff, can't get away from it. You can only make it somewhere near right and sudo chattr +i the files before networkmangler discovers you've fixed it. Cheers

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 12:15, John Hasler wrote: Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? That is an interesting question for Gene. apt purge --autoremove network-manager will fix that. I take a bit different opinion from Gene, instead of chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf I work to figure out how to

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 10:57, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/10/2023 23:24, gene heskett wrote: finally solved by editing resolv.conf to put the nameserver address into it, followed by a chattr +i resolv.conf. I have no d clue where mangler I have realized that it is a nice stance taking into account that the

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 08:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 08:19:24AM -0400, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: [ipv4] address1=192.168.71.55/24,192.168.71.1 dns=192.168.71.1; dns-search=hosts;nameserver; ^ this is incorrect nmcli connection modif

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

Why do you have NetworkManager installed at all? -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

Am 30.10.2023 um 22:08:46 Uhr schrieb Max Nikulin: > On 30/10/2023 20:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > sudo less /etc/resolv.conf > > domain home.arpa > > search home.arpa > > nameserver 8.8.8.8 > > nameserver 8.8.4.4 > > I do not see "# Generated by NetworkManager" here. That is because N

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 08:20, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally r

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 05:15, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 3:55 AM gene heskett > wrote: On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: >> On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: >>> I have also made a ver

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 30/10/2023 20:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: sudo less /etc/resolv.conf domain home.arpa search home.arpa nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 I do not see "# Generated by NetworkManager" here. nmcli connection nmcli device NetworkManager --print-config ls -l /etc/resolv.

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 29/10/2023 23:24, gene heskett wrote: finally solved by editing resolv.conf to put the nameserver address into it, followed by a chattr +i resolv.conf. I have no d clue where mangler I have realized that it is a nice stance taking into account that the topic of the original thread was confi

Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

Hello All, I have been following the recent emails regarding resolv.conf. I almost have my system running perfectly. The only thing I am missing is the population of IPv6 DNS addresses. sudo less /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf supersede domain-name "home.arpa"; supersede dhcp6.domain-search "home.arpa";

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 08:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 08:19:24AM -0400, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: [ipv4] address1=192.168.71.55/24,192.168.71.1 dns=192.168.71.1; dns-search=hosts;nameserver; ^ this is incorrect nmcli connection modif

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 08:19:24AM -0400, Pocket wrote: > On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: > > [ipv4] > > address1=192.168.71.55/24,192.168.71.1 > > dns=192.168.71.1; > > dns-search=hosts;nameserver; > > > ^ > > this is incorrect > > nmcli connection modify Network_Int

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 08:19, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/30/23 03:54, gene heskett wrote: On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally reverted that, Gene, have you po

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 3:55 AM gene heskett wrote: > On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: > >> On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: > >>> I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from > >>> coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally rev

Libreoffice in Debian bookworm-backports starts with 1 pixel wide window

Hi, just FYI: I hit https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019423 with Debian bookworm-backports rd@h370:~/.config/libreoffice/4/user$ apt-cache policy libreoffice libreoffice: Installiert: 4:7.5.6-1~bpo12+1 Installationskandidat: 4:7.5.6-1~bpo12+1 Versionstabelle:

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 10/29/23 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally reverted that, Gene, have you posted what exactly you did to switch from c

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote: On 22/10/2023 18:39, Richard Hector wrote: But not strictly a DNS lookup tool: richard@zircon:~$ getent hosts zircon 127.0.1.1   zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz zircon That's from my /etc/hosts file, and overrides DNS. I didn't see an option in the manpage t