Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 19/10/2019 14.46, Étienne Mollier wrote: > # apt install sysvinit-core firefox-esr > > I don't exclude to have done things the wrong way myself, in my > test though... ... for instance, I could have appended at least the "--dry-run" option, and also triggered

Re: Buster: any graphical browser not depending on systemd?

2019-10-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
install sysvinit-core firefox-esr I don't exclude to have done things the wrong way myself, in my test though... Cheers, -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: how to get odbc working for connection to mariadb in debian buster

2019-10-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
is not yet in backports. > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=odbc-mariadb&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search > I was merely thinking that if it becomes useful to people, then it might be worth putting some effort in a backport maintenance. Kind Regards, :

Re: how to get odbc working for connection to mariadb in debian buster

2019-10-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
sary libmariadb-dev. Maybe this was your missing bit ? The header landed in /usr/include/mariadb/{,server/}mysql.h though; but using the DSC package, the build went quite well. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.

Re: how to get odbc working for connection to mariadb in debian buster

2019-10-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
challenging, especially if security vulnerabilities are requiring corrections, and packages made available in Debian Buster are not sufficient any more. Definitely something to put on the table with the client, one way or another... or giving a hand with buster-backports ? Kind Regards, :) -- Étie

Re: how to get odbc working for connection to mariadb in debian buster

2019-10-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
gt; has a MySQL driver, though possibly not written by the masters of > Not-Invented-Here I have a feeling it came from MySQL themselves. Well, in regular societies, it's the client that brings the money to the company. Should this being put on the table, better make use o

Re: how to get odbc working for connection to mariadb in debian buster

2019-10-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
table 3.1.1-1 i386 ODBC driver for MariaDB It looks like a good candidate as an ODBC driver for MariaDB. Note that I am running Sid, so your output may differ if you are running Stable. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 88

Re: [OT] Dependencies et al

2019-10-07 Thread Étienne Mollier
(Warning: irrelevancy ahead.) On 07/10/2019 21.29, Brian wrote: > I am not overly bothered whether my answers are read. That is up to the > OP. For all I know, all my mails are deleted on sight by all users on > this list. :) Wrong, there is at least one that hasn't. QED ;) -- É

Re: 3d acceleration broken out of the box on h/w that has been supported correctly in the past.

2019-10-07 Thread Étienne Mollier
roblem does come from garbled OpenGL libs, purging then reinstalling the NVidia driver might help, but I am referring for myself to a situation where the .run file from NVidia was in use (specific driver qualification in professional context); not sure how things would work with Debian packaging. K

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
rk almost everywhere, /including/ in SB context. So the second case makes absolute sense as being the default in Debian. SB support is a new, most welcome, capability that landed in Debian Buster, and I'm thankful for it made it there. There may still be a few rough edges for the newcomer, l

Re: amdgpu setup questions

2019-10-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
ch purpose would you need specifically the amdgpu-pro driver? Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

2019-10-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
ment variable to point to the location of that custom libpng12 of yours before running your application: $ env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/pathto/yoursoft/lib64 /pathto/yoursoft/bin/executable I hope this helps, Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
capability of the motherboard for one, and second to always use the Restart button instead of Shutdown, which actually put the machine in some kind of deep-sleep. Which little luck it may just be that. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
corner base, but signed kernels, bootloaders, drivers, and the like are only required if one wishes to, or has to, boot with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. That's the only configuration I can think of where it would be needed. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Étienne Mollier
y apply to ASCII text as well. Indeed, Injection of control codes in a plain text email, if those are improperly escaped along the way, may mangle the terminal of the unsuspecting user. ;) That takes a lot of "if"s though... -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff

Re: Email based attack on University

2019-10-02 Thread Étienne Mollier
he resources available on the machine, in case some operation on untrusted data goes rogue[1]. [1] although, the apparmor profile does give a lot of margin to the /usr/bin/thunderbird process relative to the home directory, primarily to not break the “Save as...” button, so it depends

Re: Help debug : DNS failed when recover from suspend

2019-09-18 Thread Étienne Mollier
anaged to get the proper resolv.conf setup out of NetworkManager alone (in situations where I didn't have access to the DHCP server configuration), so would look here first; but it may be just me, never having been able to figure out how to use properly that program. Kind Regards, :) -- Ét

Re: UEFI Secure Boot lockdown effects (Was: Installation suitability for Dell laptop)

2019-09-18 Thread Étienne Mollier
Didier Gaumet, on 2019-09-17: > Le mardi 17 septembre 2019 22:00:05 UTC+2, Étienne Mollier a écrit : > [...] > > I am seriously considering sticking to UEFI > > Secure Boot, not exactly for security, mostly to have a general > > idea of how things work, by practice. >

Re: Help debug : DNS failed when recover from suspend

2019-09-17 Thread Étienne Mollier
ready the case. Are affected machines mobile ones ? If so, it could be caused by a complete change of network during the hibernation (while moving from home to the high school typically), and the resolver configuration was still the one from home somehow. À plus, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

UEFI Secure Boot lockdown effects (Was: Installation suitability for Dell laptop)

2019-09-17 Thread Étienne Mollier
Didier Gaumet, on 2019-09-17: > Le lundi 16 septembre 2019 21:00:04 UTC+2, Étienne Mollier a écrit : > [...] > > does someone know if UEFI > > prevents unsigned "driver" or "firmware" loading ? (or both?) > [...] > > it forbids it if SecureBoot is a

Re: Installation suitability for Dell laptop

2019-09-16 Thread Étienne Mollier
e proprietary NVidia driver, and UEFI Secure Boot active, UEFI prevents loading the driver somehow. I haven't had the opportunity to test, does someone know if UEFI prevents unsigned "driver" or "firmware" loading ? (or both?) Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fi

Re: OT: Missing sidebar; was buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
bringing this option back to Konqueror, but hope it will open interesting perspectives nevertheless. Don't hesitate to play with the "Text Position" and "Icon size": the bar tends to use as much space as it requires, without a handle to reduce its width. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

2019-09-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Ale, on 2019-09-08 : > On Thu 05/Sep/2019 22:00:58 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Out of curiosity, which Ubuntu release did the job? > > > It was Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. > http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso > > > > It could give

[Solved] buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-06 Thread Étienne Mollier
D. R. Evans, on 2019-09-05: > Étienne Mollier wrote on 9/5/19 1:38 PM: > > $ konqueror . # brings up a new window showing the CWD > > If I map "alt-S" to "konqueror " instead of just > "konqueror" then it seems perfectly happy to start multiple i

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

2019-09-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
Ale, on 2019-09-05: > On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Thank you Sven for pointing this out! You're right, I've been > > confused by personal experience with other chips. Installation > > of "firmware-amd-graphics" should

Re: buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
(const QString &profileName, const QUrl &url, const QString &mimetype) { Q_UNUSED(profileName); // the concept disappeared return createNewWindow(url, false, false, mimetype); } It's been more than a decade since I used konqueror on a daily basis, not sure how helpful is my intervention, but hopefully it is informative. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

2019-09-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
Sven, on 2019-09-03: > On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > It is possible that your hardware is a wee bit too recent for > > Debian 10 vanilla: Vega support for the amdgpu driver landed in > > Linux 4.20, but Debian 10 ships with kernel version 4.19. > >

AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10 (Was: Is Buster ready?)

2019-09-03 Thread Étienne Mollier
u will have more chances with Linux 5.2 from buster-backports. Also there is a faint possibility that your chip might require a firmware update through the non-free package "amd64-microcode". Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
Misko, on 2019-09-01: > On 9/1/19 1:20 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > > > Hi Miroslav, > > > > Pascal is probably right. If you manage to have access to the > > command "dumpe2fs" in your rescue environment, what is the > > output of: > &g

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
e defined your /, /usr and /var in fstab ? It could be interesting for us to see the differences, since you mention those are mounting properly. Cheers, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Étienne Mollier
Misko, on 2019-08-31: > On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > If operations here over do not make any difference, then you > > really should consider creating a Rescue drive on an USB thumb. > > I have had a good experience with SystemRescueCD over the > &

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Étienne Mollier
option would be to edit the Grub menu entry, and in the linux line, edit (or append if non-existent) the following "init=" option (hit 'e' to edit the menu entry and F10 to boot): linux root=UUID=[...] ro init=/bin/bash This is a last chance option, do not expect yo

Re: starting a new trail for a pi3b.

2019-08-31 Thread Étienne Mollier
occasion to consider Xenomai in the past ? Do you think it could be compatible with your CNC toolset ? > Cheers, Gene Heskett Happy hacking and kind regards, -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
ismatch: cfa1=7+48 cfa2=7+40 > > > what does it means? Short answer, it means that the -march=bdver2 optimization flag is interfering with the static stack frame analyser at kernel build time, probably by adjunction of unrecognised CPU instructions, at least unrecognised by objt

Re: Solution to "pathetic email complaints"

2019-08-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
discussion. Besides, even when paying for your mail provider does not mean Google won't read the mail received on the Gmail inbox of your recipient. We are all in the same boat, somehow. Kind regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
Its heuristics may not apply very well on kernel object code however. If you can reproduce this issue and identify it as a false positive with a sample code, that is another story of course. Cheers, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signatur

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-16 Thread Étienne Mollier
Franco Martelli, on 2019-08-16: > On 16/08/19 at 17:22, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > > Compilers may have good optimization routines to boost the speed > > of the code in several situations, but in other ones there are > > trade-offs to take between size and perfor

Re: Debian latency test

2019-08-16 Thread Étienne Mollier
careful with the injection of code at trace points or kprobes: the more you inject code for your measure, the more the targeted kernel operation will take time, thus slowing the machine et providing you with underestimated results. Have fun, :) -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-16 Thread Étienne Mollier
Bonjour, Franco Martelli, on 2019-09-14: > On 13/08/19 at 19:35, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > > I would do a few tests with a virtual > > machine supporting bdver2 instructions before going live anyway, > > and backups stored far away from the mach

Re: Compiling Linux with "bdver2" gcc optimization option

2019-08-13 Thread Étienne Mollier
horonix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-50-march&num=1 Of course this may not be the case for your own typical load, but I would recommend to do a few measures, to assess the actual performance gain on your machine with, and without, CPU specific compiler optimizations. Kind

Re: Buster Mate: how to set default user nae

2019-08-10 Thread Étienne Mollier
# blblbl You may have to type in your login one last time, so that the greeter knows which one(s) to print. I hope this helps, Kind regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
Greg Wooledge, on 2019-08-09: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > It [plymouth] seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by > > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the > > quick test I did, it ap

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
en Good day Sven, It seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be installed: $ sudo apt install task-gnome-desktop This looks like a compo

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
t tried it on my Buster machine, but the only notable difference that appeared. was that now I have asterisks when typing in the passphrase of my ciphered drive. I'm not even certain this is related. > dmesg showed nothing that looked wrong. > > There is no problem with par

Re: [OT] Helpful attitude

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
“The FCC regulations regarding "fleeting" use of expletives were ruled unconstitutionally vague by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on July 13, 2010, as they violated the First Amendment due to their possible ef

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
haviour. I'm not sure about what to look at. A blind shot at the following might bring some additional information too: $ sudo journalctl -xe In case you were encountering some hardware issue (but I doubt so for the moment), perhaps a look at the following could be welcome: $

Re: [OT] Helpful attitude

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
t;. > > To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profanity in the first place; it's > vulgarity. > > Profanity deals with matters religious. Interesting! If agreement there is on this definition, then this would explain the point about illegality on radio waves in various c

Re: [OT] Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
tomás, on 2019-08-09: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > >My message was actually addressed to anyone > > on the list, especially some writers with stronger language than > > usual, but I can't recall you being

Re: [OT] Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > tomás, on 2019-08-09: > > > (Yes, and there's some hidden message in my seemingly OT comment, > > > but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader ;-) > > > > Oh my

Re: [OT] Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
f the list; in addition to other items, it prohibits profanity: https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Should this be observed more closely, this kind of situation would probably not have happened. -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 04/08/2019 11.58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 04 aug 19, 11:46:31, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> This space is most likely taken up by file system metadata, such >> as inode tables, or journaling space. 0.5 G looks a lot like 5% >> of a 10 G partition, which is the def

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
ournaling space. 0.5 G looks a lot like 5% of a 10 G partition, which is the default setting for Ext4 metadata as provided in Debian Installer. Kind Regards -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Étienne Mollier
rally it avoids to scan files which are not members of the partition. The "du" command also accepts this option, by the way, but is a bit tricky to use when scanning /* as one would have to exclude explicitly mount points such as /sys, /proc and /dev with several --exclude= options. Kind Regards -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Étienne Mollier
e early days of virt-manager in Debian, there were several subtleties to be aware of once you wanted an advanced setup, but I believe things went better in later Debian revisions. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 22/07/2019 21.52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 iul 19, 18:41:01, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> Orthogonally, you may also want to investigate the use of >> setupcon(1) and the configuration file console-setup(5) to set >> alternative, more readable font. The configuration

Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

2019-07-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
ppercase is so FORTRAN IV... :) Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
FONTFACE="TerminusBold" FONTSIZE="12x24" BEEP="polite" VIDEOMODE= But you could specify a font size up to 16x32 px per character, if you wish so. Once a change is done, just type: $ setupcon And there it is, a readable font! Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5AB1 4EDF 63BB CCFF 8B54 2FA9 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
. What does your kernel tell you this time? (Use the command dmesg, and perhaps inxi if the driver loads happily, to get this information hopefully.) Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5AB1 4EDF 63BB CCFF 8B54 2FA9 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
tectHome= on my side. I moved data outside /home, to clear things up since then. Thank you for your insights Sven! -- Étienne Mollier 5AB1 4EDF 63BB CCFF 8B54 2FA9 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
so, I don't know. It could be some subtlety with Systemd, as once, one of my daemons crashed because of a new option introduced in an update, and preventing access to /home. Double check mount options on your system, it could be worth a look anyway. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: [SPAM] Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
ate the command lines at boot time: $ sudo update-grub See how things evolve after issuing a reboot. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5AB1 4EDF 63BB CCFF 8B54 2FA9 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
ettings applied to Grub, in case it affects boot environment? $ cat /etc/default/grub I suppose that once the question of KMS is cleared, it will be possible to go further with other good advices given previously. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 5AB1 4EDF 63BB CCFF 8B

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-17 Thread Étienne Mollier
on is needed to have a clue about what is going on with that driver loading. Would it be possible to run the following commands and publish the result? $ dpkg -l | grep -iE 'amd-graphics|amdgpu|\|fglrx|radeon' $ sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'amd-graphics|amdgpu|\|fglrx|radeon&#

boinc messages (Was: gpm messages)

2019-07-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
]: No protocol specified Inspired by your intervention I created, in my configuration tree, a file /etc/rsyslog.d/boinc.conf containing: :msg, isequal, " No protocol specified" stop Then restarted the logging service: # invoke-rc.d rsylog restart Spam from boinc is no

Re: How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

2019-06-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
s sent: 613 Total bytes received: 53 >>>>>> sent 613 bytes received 53 bytes 1,332.00 bytes/sec total size is 1,884 speedup is 2.83 See what it gives when you test transfers of you plzip archives. Happy hacking, -- Étienne Mollier 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

2019-06-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
should have read this myself earlier: I found the two days mentioned by Greg in one of the entries relative to Testing. :) Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

2019-06-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 6/20/19 8:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 08:45:51PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> There is an unconditional ten days delay for introduction of upgrades from >> Sid to Testing, hence the missing securi

Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

2019-06-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
efully it should land on time for July, the 6th. Paradoxically, if security is a concern, Sid is preferable over Testing. Of course Debian Stable remains the best choice in that situation, if applications or hardware allow it. Kind Regards, - -- Étienne Mollier 59DA 56FE FFF3 882D -BEG

Re: konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

2019-06-13 Thread Étienne Mollier
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Perhaps it could have been just this validation missing? Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

2019-06-12 Thread Étienne Mollier
Thomas, on 2019-06-12 : > Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2019, 20:56:44 schrieb Étienne Mollier: > > Or did the connection to your SSH server actually worked ? > > #ssh root@192.168.1.20 > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > . > ECDSA host key for 192.168.

Re: konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

2019-06-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
acity to make use of your sftp client, so nothing to report here. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: konquerer access to Stretch with fish or sftp not working

2019-06-10 Thread Étienne Mollier
stem. Maybe you are encountering the same. Otherwise, it would be nice to get more details of what is happening, using the verbose flag of the command line, to see when, and hopefully why, it breaks: $ sftp -v root@192.128.1.20 Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
his init process. systemd.index(7) alone is almost 1500 lines long in the meantime, but it references some manual pages that are not listed by `apropos`. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: OpenGL forwarding via ssh session: works on jessie, does not work on stretch

2019-06-05 Thread Étienne Mollier
and ssh -X still worked fine. True, it is not needed. I guess it may even be unwelcome on CNC. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: OpenGL forwarding via ssh session: works on jessie, does not work on stretch

2019-06-03 Thread Étienne Mollier
*/ Anyway, error messages are not the same as yours, so there may be something else in play in your setup that might have been missed. For instance my architecture was different from yours, the X server is run on Debian instead of Ubuntu, the graphic card is an Amd instead of an Nvidia

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

2019-05-24 Thread Étienne Mollier
r my test with upstream kernel. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: nother problem I can't access my crontab, no perms

2019-05-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
; crontab's former UID has become systemd-timesyncd one. Perhaps >> a well placed `chgrp -R crontab crontabs/` will do? Whoopsie, for the sake of precision, I mostly meant GID (Group Identifier) instead of UID (User Identifier). > Absolutely spot on, Étienne Mollier, thank you very much. Now cron has > about 2 weeks work to catch up on. :) Glad to read that :) -- Étienne Mollier

Re: nother problem I can't access my crontab, no perms

2019-05-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
p -R crontab crontabs/` will do? Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: kvm errors with 4.9.0-9 kernel.

2019-05-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
ty update. In which case, you can report a bug against the linux-image package that is installed on your system. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: is xdvi broken?

2019-04-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
removed 'my_document.pdf' removed 'my_document.ps' David Wright, on 2019-04-20: > On Fri 19 Apr 2019 at 18:10:14 (-0500), rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > On 2019.04.19 17:33, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > > Are you running your Xfce desktop with or wi

Re: is xdvi broken?

2019-04-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
-> Window manager tweaks `-> Compositor (tab) `-> Enable display compositing (checkbox) I have no idea what changes this parameter will do to the behaviour of discrepancies you observed, but I bet there will be a change in the general feeling of the program. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
18:46:20 UTC 2019 :) -- Étienne Mollier

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-09 Thread Étienne Mollier
l free to have à look at /usr/share/zoneinfo/, to have an idea of the available locations. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
ndard to the next between the two versions of Debian spotted by Reco. C.UTF-8 landed a few Debian versions earlier to give an "Unicode aware" variant of this behaviour. See locale(1), locale(5), and eventually locale(7), if you are interested in the topic. :) Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

2019-04-08 Thread Étienne Mollier
g that > can show buster's date in stretch's format? > Good Day Reco, >From Sid: $ LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=UTC date Mon 08 Apr 2019 05:07:44 PM UTC $ LC_TIME=C.UTF-8 TZ=UTC date Mon Apr 8 17:08:59 UTC 2019 If you speak C, it looks like a good bet. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: text editors

2019-03-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
f_with_thirdparty_program If I need some configuration, or a sort of shell functions library, this is something I would consider. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier All opinions are my own.

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
e the resolution used by this menu, which should be readable, contrary to the following steps. Other values should be possible if you want a better, still readable, resolution: set gfxpayload=1280x1024x32 This may answer at least the first question, hopefully. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier All opinions are my own.

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
/blog/linux/RyzenApparentlyStable It has been a while since the last time I checked those AGESA updates for the motherboard, and am not sure if the problem would still hold true with latest kernel/firmware upgrades/etc though. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier All opinions are my own.

Re: Why do we have a default activated man-db.timer?

2019-02-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
e, the patched service does a clear the cache of unused raw man pages, which should not be referenced anymore by mandb. Part of all this is more or less described in the manual pages man(1), most particularly in sections "OVERVIEW" and "DEFAULTS", which have a succinct descrip

Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

2019-02-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
ould also proceed to installation offline, and follow the recommendations to proceed to the upgrade of the package manager without being exposed to the vulnerability, but that is definitely not recommended for the beginner, or the security wary (I look at you unattended-upgrades). Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

2019-02-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 2/11/19 8:42 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > I believe I found those firmware images in the package > firmware-misc-nonfree. You can install it using: > > $ sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree Whoopsie, one should read "firmware-iwlwifi". Anyway, the iwlwifi-8625

Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

2019-02-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
anywhere online. I believe I found those firmware images in the package firmware-misc-nonfree. You can install it using: $ sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree Then reboot. If it doesn't work on first try, you may need to use the package from the repository stretch-backports instead. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: Can not shutdown

2019-02-11 Thread Étienne Mollier
ht have helped, but I'm coming quite some time after the battle, and am not sure it was really, at 100%, the same symptoms: $ sudo invoke-rc.d avahi-daemon restart Anyway, I hope this helps someone someday, Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

2019-02-03 Thread Étienne Mollier
, actually. :^) Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: Thunderbird + Enigmail + saving draft with encryption

2019-02-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
information indeed, even without being able to decipher what's inside the fold. Not sure if it's worth the pain though, since mail servers use these metadata to properly route your email anyway; but I may have missed interesting novelties on autocrypt side. Cheers, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: Has NFS changed recently?

2019-01-27 Thread Étienne Mollier
the "mbox" in read-write mode, and causing these kernel cache inconsistencies across machines. Kind Regards -- Étienne Mollier PS: To answer to the question in the Subject header, yes. NFS changed between Jessie and Stretch.

Re: Enet names

2019-01-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 1/25/19 9:29 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: > If you are trying to say that you wish to go back to the ethN > network interface naming convention, then one way to do it is [...] > > > Now the interesting part, if you want to reliably identify your [...] My apologies, on rereading

Re: Enet names

2019-01-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
f to if0. Sounds like the end result could be interesting to you. Even though it's systemd, it sounds clearer than udev rules and moving to sysvinit (or any other init of your choice). Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: Log in details

2019-01-12 Thread Étienne Mollier
tly: https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#210 Kind regards, -- Étienne Mollier

Re: digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

2019-01-06 Thread Étienne Mollier
upstream bug page and, if possible the patch fixing it. Put information necessary to the context, but no need to copy the entire thread on KDE bug tracker. Kind Regards -- Étienne Mollier

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