libsmbios/smbios-utils removed from Debian?

2025-03-24 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, I noticed a removal of the package from unstable: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1626825/removed-243-2-from-unstable/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsmbios I am frequently using getSystemId to reveal the HW info. Especially the Dell Service Tag. Yes the Service Tag can be discovered using

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM Xiyue Deng wrote: > > Nicolas George writes: > > > Barry Newberger (HE12025-03-24): > >> package: dpkg > >> version: 1.21.22 (amd64) > >> > >> Using Discover update following error occurred: > >> > >> Package failed to install:Error while installing package: > >>

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Stefan Monnier [2025-03-19 17:34:07] wrote: >> In essence, what you are asking is "how can I re-share an NFS share >> that I'm mounting as a client, to another client". >> To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible. >> >> However, what *is* possible, because I've done it, is to mount an NFS

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > phrase. I was able to then choose a few more random snippets while > holding the CTRL key do

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know > what the misfire is, but selecting text insists on copying huge, > unwanted chunks of a page, if

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: > xfce4 > In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select > blocks > of text. > Is there some way by a combination of key presses/drag mouse to > select > separated sections of text? > eg. > alpha > beta > charlie > delta > se

selecting text with mouse

2025-03-24 Thread mick.crane
xfce4 In things that display text you can drag the mouse over to select blocks of text. Is there some way by a combination of key presses/drag mouse to select separated sections of text? eg. alpha beta charlie delta select only "alpha" and "charlie" text with mouse drag and copy. mick

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-24 Thread J
> sudo sh -c '...' > Didn't know such a thing. Wasn't mention in the wiki. Have you considered doing something crazy like creating the mount points? > Can't say so. I have fixed my problem a few days ago (see above about mounting), now i am discussing with Max if Wiki is correct. https://wiki.d

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Xiyue Deng
Nicolas George writes: > Barry Newberger (HE12025-03-24): >> package: dpkg >> version: 1.21.22 (amd64) >> >> Using Discover update following error occurred: >> >> Package failed to install:Error while installing package: >> installed linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 package post-installation script

Re: dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread David
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 20:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:51:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] (= aggressive deletion to save readers' time) > I think

Re: confusing printer definitions [solved, more or less]

2025-03-24 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 4:52 PM, I wrote: > The software setup for my Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless laser printer is > confusing the hell out of me. I'm running bookworm. > ... CUPS (apparently) set up a printer Brother_DCP_L2640DW_USB automatically. > ... I also installed the driver (DCPL26

valgrind (ioctl 0x5395 - CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN)

2025-03-24 Thread Tim Woodall
Bit of a wild guess/hope that someone might know what this is. I'm getting a strange error from valgrind about an ioctl that I'm definitely not calling directly and I've got no idea why it would be trying to do anything with a cdrom. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/l

Re: dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:51:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > This 30 second system freeze/lag is driving me nuts, not that its a long > > > drive. > > > > > Hi Gene, > > > > > Jus

Re: dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread gene heskett
On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: This 30 second system freeze/lag is driving me nuts, not that its a long drive. Hi Gene, Maybe just build another simple machine and migrate data to it? There should be lots of them availa

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-24 Thread J
I have rechecked. It doesn't work with sudo also. Not in a one line, not when i tried to make line breaks with \, not in a bash script. user@debian:~$ sudo for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /run; do mount -B $i /mnt/$i; done bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'

Re: dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > This 30 second system freeze/lag is driving me nuts, not that its a long > drive. > Hi Gene, Maybe just build another simple machine and migrate data to it? There should be lots of them available in the time coming up to October whe

dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread gene heskett
This 30 second system freeze/lag is driving me nuts, not that its a long drive. Just read about dumat, but it deps aren't installed. Has anyone written a script that installs all this so an analysis can be done on an amd64 bookworm system that is otherwise uptodate a/o an hour ago? UsrMerge ha

Re: kernel 6.12.12 panic, where and how to place a bug report

2025-03-24 Thread songbird
Marco Möller wrote: > Often during boot, not always though, and never after KDE Plasma already > began to start, I observe a kernel panic. The system is Debian stable > "bookworm", but using kernel 6.12.12 from backports. I know, this is not > the officially recommended way to use Debian stable.

Re: laptop options

2025-03-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 23 March 2025 05:44:57 pm Russell S. wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100 > > lina wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian, > >> The purpose is related to work, not game. > >> > >> Mainly for computation, R a

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 04:56:33PM CET, Felix Miata said: > Barry Newberger composed on 2025-03-24 08:05 (UTC-0500): > ... > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 > > cpio: write error: No space left on device > > E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 2 > > update-initramfs: failed

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Felix Miata
Barry Newberger composed on 2025-03-24 08:05 (UTC-0500): ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 > cpio: write error: No space left on device > E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 2 > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-32-amd64 with 1. > run-parts: /etc/kernel/po

Mariadb syntax error in existing triggers after 12.10 point release update

2025-03-24 Thread Virgo Pärna
After installing 12.10 point release existing databases started to give syntax errors on existing triggers, when using FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1..NEW.FIELD2 DO loop. It works, when there are spaces around ".." - like: FOR VAR IN NEW.FIELD1 .. NEW.FIELD2 DO It also still works without spaces, w

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 09:16:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/24/25 8:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > "List-Id" is not an option in setting up filters in SeaMonkey. > > > > [...] > > > > This wou

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/24/25 8:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] "List-Id" is not an option in setting up filters in SeaMonkey. [...] This would make that MUA practically useless (most of them are, mind you). But I think they are better than

Re: laptop options

2025-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:23:00 +0100 Ralph Aichinger wrote: > It is strange having this machine > boot Debian with the Windows Logo hardcoded in UEFI on boot ;) Well, there, at least, the ThinkPenguin laptop clearly out-performs. It has the ThinkPenguin logo on the outside of the lid and in the bo

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Nicolas George
Barry Newberger (HE12025-03-24): > package: dpkg > version: 1.21.22 (amd64) > > Using Discover update following error occurred: > > Package failed to install:Error while installing package: > installed linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 package post-installation script > subprocess returned error exit s

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:05:32 -0500, Barry Newberger wrote: > Setting up linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 (6.1.129-1) ... > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms: > dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64. > dkms: autoinstall for kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64. > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initram

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:24:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > "List-Id" is not an option in setting up filters in SeaMonkey. [...] This would make that MUA practically useless (most of them are, mind you). But I think they are better than this. Try that: http://kb.mozillazine.org/M

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/24/25 7:11 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: El 24/3/25 a las 12:34, Richard Owlett escribió: Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider spurious emails. What do you mean exactly by "spurious"? That I did not associate them to be related to my needs/desires/expectations

Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Barry Newberger
package: dpkg version: 1.21.22 (amd64) Using Discover update following error occurred: Package failed to install:Error while installing package: installed linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Ran following: uname -r 6.1.0-31-amd64

kernel 6.12.12 panic, where and how to place a bug report

2025-03-24 Thread Marco Möller
Often during boot, not always though, and never after KDE Plasma already began to start, I observe a kernel panic. The system is Debian stable "bookworm", but using kernel 6.12.12 from backports. I know, this is not the officially recommended way to use Debian stable. But as this backported ker

Re: Laptop trackpoint (pointing stick) detected as "PS/2 Generic Mouse". Bug?

2025-03-24 Thread Jaime
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 10:36, Marco Moock wrote: > You can change the speed, either in the gui or with xinput. > xinput gives you the list, xinput list-props ID gives the values. > You can then increase the speed. Hi Marco. Thank you for your reply. Yes, I have changed the speed to maximum using

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila
El 24/3/25 a las 12:34, Richard Owlett escribió: Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider spurious emails. What do you mean exactly by "spurious"? Are any of those messages present in the list archives? https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/03/threads.html Can

Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider spurious emails. I've set up a filter to send them to a separate sub-directory. The filter detects either of 2 conditions: From,To,Cc or Bcc Containsbugs.debian.org *OR* To

Laptop trackpoint (pointing stick) detected as "PS/2 Generic Mouse". Bug?

2025-03-24 Thread Jaime
I have installed Bookworm on an HP EliteBook 850 G1 and the trackpoint is unusably slow. The first thing that I notice is that the kernel is detecting the trackpoint as a "PS/2 Generic Mouse": [62635.123626] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input59 I have tried a

Re: Instalación

2025-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Julio Gil Garcia wrote: > Buenas tardes, me llamo Julio: Como Tomas te has escrito - suele hablar en ingles por aqui <3 Si estas haciendo la copia y lo todo con Rufus - falta que lo hagas en modo dd para copiar. We normally work in English here. You need

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-03-24 Thread john doe
On 3/24/25 05:39, jeremy ardley wrote: On 24/3/25 12:29, jeremy ardley wrote: You could use MFA on the SSH connection and then use certificates to establish the VPN connection? My SSH MFA setup has clients must connect using a certificate, then they must enter a pasword, and then they must co

Re: laptop options

2025-03-24 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 08:37:58AM +0100, lina wrote: > Which laptop option is friendly with Debian, > The purpose is related to work, not game. > > Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis, > > Ideally at least > 16 cores, decent memory. At work we use both Tuxedo laptops, as w

Re: xorriso dry-run.

2025-03-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > A xorriso dry-run analogous to rsync -n? You could use command -rollback_end to refrain from writing: xorriso ...the.desired.commands... -rollback_end This will perform the commands but then just end the program run instead of writing the result and thus reading all the content of the f