Re: Failed to boot on linux-image-4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64 under Xen 4.7

2024-07-24 Thread DdB
Am 25.07.2024 um 06:52 schrieb Sam Lander: > Rackspace Xen 4.7 linux-image-4.19.0-26-cloud-amd64 works, > linux-image-4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64 does not work. FWIW: I do not use the *clowd* kernels, but the regular ones in my VM's: > uname -a > Linux SuperServer 4.19.0-27-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.316

Failed to boot on linux-image-4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64 under Xen 4.7

2024-07-24 Thread Sam Lander
Summary Rackspace Xen 4.7 linux-image-4.19.0-26-cloud-amd64 works, linux-image-4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64 does not work. I am running Buster on Rackspace inside a 1GB basic model VM At the end of June, linux-image-4.19.0-27-cloud-amd64 was added as a security update My unattended-upgrades script trust

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 09:50:43 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables?action=raw&rev=33 > > has one empty line after "<>" while rev=22 has 2 empty > lines and it may be more significant than a space before "<<". I assume you mean "while rev=32". I removed the

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/07/2024 02:05, Franco Martelli wrote: I'm using firefox-esr version: 115.13.0esr-1~deb12u1 Here I see the TOC not indented (no space before << tag): https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables?action=raw Here instead I see the TOC indented (a space before << tag): https://wiki.debian.org

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 6:22 PM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: >>> On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that do

SOLVED: Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer > software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? > > Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and > "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So

Re: Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

2024-07-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/07/2024 20:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon". Every time we try to tell Chet, "Hey, man, please add examples that show BOTH syntaxes", he blows us off, because this is the way POSIX documents it. If it's good enough for POSIX,

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machine

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer >> software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? >> >> Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and

Re: browsers crashing.

2024-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 3:10 PM Christopher Judd wrote: > > Since a recent upgrade, Opera and Chrome crash with error messages like the > following: > > [5913:5913:0724/111632.892713:ERROR:url_pattern_set.cc(287)] Invalid url > pattern: chrome://startpage/* > [5913:5913:0724/111632.893319:ERROR:

Kali Linux is not Debian - no support here [WAS Re: LINUX-IMAGE-6.8.11 headers cannot be installed]

2024-07-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Aleix Piulachs wrote: > How do you install them and tell me the characteristics of your computer > > El El mié, 17 jul 2024 a las 2:38, Greg Wooledge > escribió: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 19:30:20 -, Prajnanaswaroopa wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I a

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/07/24 at 20:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/Permissions?action=raw here there's a space before the << tag and, as I said, clicking on the "Preview" button when in edit mode, it didn't help. Well, the table of contents is indented on that page as well. It sounds like you'

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 20:08:08 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > On 24/07/24 at 15:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Could anybody tell me what I did wrong? > > You had a leading space before the << tag. That caused the TOC to be > > indented. I removed that. > > Oh, Thank you very much Greg, what

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/07/24 at 15:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: Could anybody tell me what I did wrong? You had a leading space before the << tag. That caused the TOC to be indented. I removed that. Oh, Thank you very much Greg, what confused me it was the page that I took as reference: https://wiki.debian.or

Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-24 Thread MailGuard01
Hi all, I am trying to complete the network configuration on Debian 12 using the default installed `ifupdown` package. I have noticed some confusing behavior with `ifupdown` while following the manual pages. Specifically, when I place `iface eno1 inet6 auto` with `privext 2` after `iface inet eno

Re: Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

2024-07-24 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 09:50:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon". Thanks for this one. I know /I/ did for long enough. Greg, this place would be a lot less helpful... > Every time we try to tell Chet, "Hey, man, pleas

Re: Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

2024-07-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > maybe i am just too dumb to read the manual, or maybe i made an > > archeological discovery in the shells we use. Greg Wooledge wrote: > Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon". Oh well. Too dumb and not alone. I did read the sentence immediately

Re: Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 15:33:11 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > GRUB's test scripts often show this gesture > > : "${TMPDIR=/tmp}" > > Well known and described is > ${X:=Y} > which assigns a default value to variable X if it is empty (man bash > says: "If [...] unset or null"). > Also known a

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 15:19:29 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables > > The trouble is that the page has lost indentation, the text begins on the > left side of the page. The only part that was indented was the table of contents itself. I fixed that. >

Maybe off topic: Where is bash gesture ${X=Y} described ?

2024-07-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, maybe i am just too dumb to read the manual, or maybe i made an archeological discovery in the shells we use. I came to a strange shell gesture which i find neither in man bash nor man dash. Nevertheless it works the same in both shells. GRUB's test scripts often show this gesture : "${TM

Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

2024-07-24 Thread Franco Martelli
Hi, I've added <> (the index of all paragraphs inside the wiki page) directive to this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables The trouble is that the page has lost indentation, the text begins on the left side of the page. In addition when I'm in editing mode and I click the

[SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-24 Thread Ian Molton
Hi all, I have solved the boot issue. I got physical access to the machine, and connected a monitor and keyboard to it. As usual, it booted the initramfs, and started dropbear, but this time, I entered the disk key on the keyboard. The machine attempted to boot, but failed, dropping back t

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 21:08:29 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > So when I opened my xterm this morning, I saw: >  keith@lenv0 > >  Tue 23Jul2024@19:19:30 205.2024 AEST >  :~   $> > > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/keith > > > Pressed enter, and the day# updated: > >  keith@lenv0 > >  

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc then :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR So you're setting

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 24 Jul 2024 03:09 -0700, from rick.tho...@pobox.com (Rick Thomas): > I'd like to install CUPS to interface the OpenRDs to my HP laser > printer, but I haven't found any way to configure CUPS with only a > CLI text console. The recommended way in the CUPS docs is to point a > web browser at "loca

Re: info is not dead

2024-07-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 23 Jul 11:53 -0500, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-23 13:03, songbird wrote: > > i run debian testing most of the time with bits of > > unstable (firefox). > > > > once in a while i want more detail than man pages > > supply and so i reach for info pages instead. > > > > if you've n

Re: LINUX-IMAGE-6.8.11 headers cannot be installed

2024-07-24 Thread Aleix Piulachs
How do you install them and tell me the characteristics of your computer El El mié, 17 jul 2024 a las 2:38, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 19:30:20 -, Prajnanaswaroopa wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using a Kali Linux > > https://www.google.com/search?q=kali+linux+support > >

How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a GUI (though I realize they have a VGA

Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-24, Ian Molton wrote: > I'm stumped - I cannot see why the initramfs environment fails to mount the > rootfs and execute init. You could run with kernel parameter "debug=vc" if you have a console. Else with "debug" you get logs in /run/initramfs. Also initramfs uses busybox (if you ins

Re: Logs like .xsession-errors

2024-07-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > A bit off-topic question. In what wiki page you would expect to find > > > suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and journalctl output? I wrote: > > I pasted ".xsession-errors" into the "Search:" field at the upper right > > corner of any Debian wiki page and