Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-21 Thread Alex Wahl
Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled if I don't have a specific technical reason? The reason I asked it really just because I'm wondering if I accidentally set a unit to that in the past I shouldn't have; I don't really know what a "normal" system looks like

Debian on OpenWrt One router?

2024-12-10 Thread Alex King
WRT, which sounds promising but at the bottom I see "last modified 2015-12-06" which is not so promising... Where else should I look? Thanks, Alex

Debian does not start on ASUS Vivobook S 16

2024-10-13 Thread Alex Petrov
After installation of Debian Bookworm 12.7, Debian list a bunch of hardware errors and hangs at start on a ASUS Vivobook S 16 laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU and AMD 890M GPU. I am going to test Ubuntu that some people say works. It is stange that Debian can not. Do you know a way to run Debi

Re: Nearly-spam mail causes unsubscription threat

2024-08-13 Thread Alex King
that score just below the spam threshold in the unsubscription algorithm), or whether we're (perhaps unconsciously) trying to play a game of who's right and wrong Cheers, Alex

Re: Using a Python script as a login shell

2024-02-16 Thread Alex King
something should happen. Have fun, Alex P.S. this brings to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Coker#SELinux_Play_Machine, which is no longer operating. When you say "expose it to the internet via SSH", do you mean expose it to everyone (e.g. by publishing the pss

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-11-18 Thread Alex
On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:58:41 -0800 Peter Ehlert wrote: > Question: with IMAP is it feasible for a mail client to Leave > messages on the server? That's why IMAP exists to begin with. IMAP was made to make it possible for multiple clients to manage the same mailbox[1]. IMAP clients will therefor

selinux causing problems

2023-10-30 Thread Alex King
s does not seem to work. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Release:12 Codename: bookworm # cat /proc/version Linux version 6.1.0-13-686-pae (

Crossgrade instructions seem broken

2023-08-05 Thread Alex King
nd won't even download them for me.  This is pretty inconvenient. Does anyone know any force- or allow- that will persuade apt or apt-get to do this?  I tried --allow-remove-essential.  No luck. I'll continue using wget, dpkg and manual dependency resolution. Maybe someone has some clues for me? Thanks, Alex

Re: acpi

2023-05-25 Thread Alex
On Thu, 25 May 2023 20:55:02 +0200 Aleix Piulachs wrote: > When i start the computer it gives me acpi errors What error specifically? -- Current PGP KeyID: 0AFB427F1800FD89751C4035292228735AE707FF https://blueselene.com/pgp-archive/0AFB427F1800FD89751C4035292228735AE707FF/key.pub pgpnv6jxyf

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Alex King
ernel module was available but no userspace tools. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=d-i.debian.org;dist=unstable Thanks, Alex On 21/05/23 06:17, Tomasz Wolak wrote: On 5/20/23 19:49, Tomasz Wolak wrote: On 5/20/23 19:17, Stefan Monnier wrote: I will not go to further details

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-06 Thread Alex King
come with a health warning:  "We supply this software as-is in the knowledge that it has known faults, and will not work reliably for all users.  We wish there were a way that Debian users could reliably print, but there is not.  You may get some help on Debian User, but in general printing

Re: Gnome Evolution charset question

2023-05-06 Thread Alex
On Sat, 06 May 2023 20:59:38 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG (黃炳熙) wrote: > My point is that: > Evolution should do encoding by UTF-8 *really* like as Thunderbird. You should bring this up at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues, or at their mailing list. -- Current PGP KeyID: 0AFB427F1800

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Alex King
then it is installed after a successful editing session and the temporary file is deleted. Like others, I've hardly ever met people who do things the first way, but it likely was the original way of doing things. Thanks, Alex On 7/04/23 17:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 202

Re: Instalación de tor mediante terminal

2023-02-01 Thread Alex
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 05:23:35 + tvcasaraf1 tvcadaraf1 wrote: > Buenos días, soy usuario de Debian recientemente aunque anteriormente > he usado ubuntu y Linux mint. Estoy intentando instalar tor y otros > paquetes mediante terminal con usuario root y no funciona con dpkg -i > ni con sido apt-ge

Re: Syncing Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account

2023-01-22 Thread Alex
On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:01:15 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account? I think you may be looking for something like xBrowserSync https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app -- Current PGP KeyID: 11ADE4393600C1BDFFCBC0A598DE15942B08CA00 https://bluesel

Re: user accounts in docker group

2023-01-21 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 1/21/23 04:42, L L wrote: The banner at the top of https://wiki.debian.org/Docker says: "The Docker daemon has setUID root, and by design allows easy access as root to the host filesystem. This makes it trivial for a malicious user to read and alter sensiti

Re: Debian 11 - How to install Gtkmm

2022-11-10 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/10/22 01:09, Amn wrote: Trying to install Gtkmm 4 in a Debian 11 box I do this : sudo apt install libgtkmm-4.0-dev But then I get this error : Unable to locate package libgtkmm-4.0-dev What am I doing wrong? rmadison libgtkmm-4.0-dev libgtkmm-4.0-dev | 4.8.0-2 | unstable | amd

Re: exif --remove not idempotent, and a Debian man page bug

2022-09-23 Thread Alex King
be removed from the AUTHORS section and moved to a HISTORY section. I'm sure we can all agree this should not be mandatory, but those who feel most strongly about it could contribute patches... -- Thanks, Alex King

Re: Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few minutes

2022-09-07 Thread Alex King
know if it works on FF 104.) Textarea Cache: Allows to save automatically the content in a text input field. Great for retrieving text you wrote into a website, e.g. if the submission failed for some reason. Not sure if it stores text from text input fields on discarded pages or not... T

Re: How should learning to program in c++ be approached, if learning objectives are sought to be customised?

2022-05-31 Thread Alex King
asks one day, but I think there are still some more years for human programmers. I love programming, it is not a chore. So I'd still do it even if a machine could do it. But more likely AI will produce tools, and the best programming will still be done by humans with AI tools to help them. Cheers, Alex King

Re: Report a bug against which package - unattended-upgrades / apt / dpkg ??

2022-03-21 Thread Dr. Alex Sheppard
On 21/03/2022 14:02, Dan Ritter wrote: Dr. Alex Sheppard wrote: Hi,     Unattended upgrades ended up removing some of the packages it was was going to upgrade ... bind9 being one of them and thereby breaking DNS on a client's network.     Is this a bug in unattended upgrades, or a b

Report a bug against which package - unattended-upgrades / apt / dpkg ??

2022-03-21 Thread Dr. Alex Sheppard
1 libisccfg163 2022-03-19 06:27:27,161 INFO *Packages that were successfully auto-removed:* avahi-daemon *bind9 bind9-host dnsutils host* libavahi-core7 libdaemon0 libnss-mdns 2022-03-19 06:27:27,161 INFO Packages that are kept back: libirs161 liblwres161 """ Thanks, Al

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/29/21 1:10 AM, Gavin Henry wrote: Hi, (I reply assuming you seek packaging help, because that appears in your subject, even though you don't mention that in your message) There is another mailing list specifically for packaging questions: https://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: using pam-ldap to allow ssh logins from only *some* ldap accounts (and not all)

2021-12-10 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/10/21 12:31 PM, charlie derr wrote: Hi again everyone, Having gotten an excellent (and quite simple) response to my query about automatic homedir creation upon ssh login, i'm going to push my luck (expecting @ any moment to receive responses with RTFM or somethings close to that senti

XOrg issues with Rage 128 Ultra graphics: No screens found.

2021-10-18 Thread Alex McKeever
Essentially, my screen can be found (I have an iMac G3 in which I’ve ran Sid on)… however it can’t find any usable configurations, and manually generating an XOrg configuration (editing it to give certain options) doesn’t help. Is this an XOrg, driver, or kernel issue? I’d like to know as this

Bug in senddoc

2021-10-02 Thread Alex
Hello I found a bug and do not know if it belongs to the package libreoffice or apparmor! When I want to send a document directly by E-mail in libreoffice, it doesn't work. I started libreoffice --calc in a shell and choose File-> sned -> send document as e-mail, i got an error message in t

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/24/21 11:27 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:22:00AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 9/22/21 8:53 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:09:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/22/21 8:53 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:09:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: Without setting directory and file permissions to 777, how do you allow the above? What combinations of groups, directory owners/permissions and file owners/permissions might make this po

Re: Docker installation problems

2021-07-08 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
tion comes without daemon.json file. Try to remove it and see if docker comes up. It also doesn't look like Debian related issue tbh, since it is a third party package. Alex

Re: IPFS tools not in the repos?

2021-05-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 5/4/21 8:19 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Uhm... why aren't the IPFS tools in the Debian repos? Very interesting stuff! https://ipfs.io/ Well, most likely because nobody found it useful enough and also because it is go and js based which are not really friendly for packaging with their tenden

Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable

2021-03-05 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 3/5/21 9:02 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: Hi all, What is the best way to install the latest version of the inkscape on Buster? Buster installs inkscape 0.9 and I still encounter lots of bugs with it. I would like to try the latest but what is the best way to install newest version? Download

Re: command to build a Debian package

2021-01-22 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
There are different ways to build a package for sure. Best, Alex

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/12/20 3:35 PM, Marco Möller wrote: On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? On 12/12/20 1:03 AM, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: Even if you plan to use sudo for 99%

Re: VPN ideas

2020-12-08 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
e a charm. Another interesting approach is VirtualGL over ssh: https://virtualgl.org/About/Introduction In some cases works really smoothly. Best, Alex

LXDE is unusable on Dell Inspiron Duo 1090

2020-11-22 Thread Alex McKeever
The user interface is too small but is silky smooth on said device. LXQT is better usability wise but is not as smooth. Windows after 10 RTM is not usable on this hardware due to some random under the hood changes that made the GMA 3150 not function after a certain build. Sent from AT&T Yahoo

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Hi, another option is hd-idle package available via backports for stable and oldstable. On 11/12/20 1:18 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-05 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
just a git repo with post-receive hooks ) which would rebuild the source package if the new version is pushed to the repository. Once this is done, uploading to reprepro isn't a big deal I guess. Still you might need manual intervention if you sign the packages. Best, Alex

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-22 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/17/20 1:27 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2020 16 Sep 12:08 -0500, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: btw, there is package authprogs, doing exactly that and not only. It seems to only be in Bullseye right now. It's not in Buster nor Buster backports. As the target computer is a Freedombo

Re: Securing local host of reverse SSH tunnel?

2020-09-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 9/15/20 8:53 PM, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Nate Bargmann writes: > >> I am going to be deploying a Debian system at a location where I am >> unsure if I can make any inbound connection into that system. I am >> going to set up an SSH tunnel from that system to a host in my LAN. >> What I

Re: Why does Debian not include POSIX-specified commands like bc and ed by default?

2020-09-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
OSIX compliant AFAIK :) Also the certification is kind of costly. But looking from the technical point of view, obviously none of reverse dependencies of ed or bc are installed on your system and thus theses packages are not needed. See apt-cache rdepends ed for example. Best, Alex

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
may be you need to import zpool before? try zpool import Best, Alex On 9/3/20 10:34 AM, James Allsopp wrote: This is just debian grub recovery mode so on the same machine, so hopefully zfsutil will be there. Looked at this; zfs                  4214784  9 zunicode              335872  1 zfs

Two-finger Scrolling Under GNOME.

2020-07-28 Thread Alex Dowson
med issues upstream with Ubuntu that are similar (though for Xorg): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1765832 No idea what package is the cause of this? The reporting guide says to contact this mailing list for advice. Any pointers? Is there a report already open? Regards, Alex.

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-14 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 7/14/20 3:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:04:38PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Since you anyway use tools like awk or tr, here is the perl code: echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | perl -F'\\\|' -lanE 'say "\"".$

Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...

2020-07-14 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
code: echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | perl -F'\\\|' -lanE 'say "\"".$_."\"" for @F' Best, Alex

Re: Chromium randomly crashes

2020-07-13 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
lt to tell when it happens as it's really random, just reading a page and scrolling down, the window disappears and the process ends, it could be after 2, 5, 10 minutes... totally random: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00129.html Best, Alex

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 7/13/20 9:31 AM, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. Thank you! perl -E 'say eval(math expression)' Math::XX modules for more complicated stuff :) Best, Alex

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

2020-06-06 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 6/6/20 11:06 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could > have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot > and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the distros.  This would > eliminate having ke

Re: Zoom- best practice?

2020-06-06 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 6/6/20 12:13 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: > Peter Ehlert writes: > >> Family is using Zoom, International. >> They will use Zoom, and I need to participate. >> >> I use Debian Mate Stable, and Firefox ESR >> >> I am concerned about security, duh! >> Looking for ideas. >> >> my current thoughts, in orde

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 4/6/20 9:33 PM, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:49:53PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> Regarding Python and R modules of unknown quality. What quality? > > My question exactly. Who build it? From which source? What toolchain was > in use? How can I b

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

2020-04-06 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 4/6/20 5:11 PM, Anil F Duggirala wrote: >> Python provides virtualenv, plus one can install most of the modules >> locally with pip3 install --user which will install the >> modules >> in ~/.local/lib and tools in ~/.local/bin, so don't forget to add >> this >> to your PATH. >> > > Could you p

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 4/6/20 6:44 PM, Anil F Duggirala wrote: >> I'm assuming it's this one: >> https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#linux > > Thats the one. > > >>> Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? >> >> Extracts a HUEG tar.bz2 archive full of (presumably) Python and R >> modules

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

2020-04-04 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 4/3/20 11:54 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I've been using apt (and friends) to maintain my systems, including > python. Today I discovered the Debian version of the more-itertools > module is on version 4.2.0 and is three years old. Meanwhile, the > version documented on pypi.org is at version 8.

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

2020-03-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
with Andrei's answer as well. > I thought initially that Debian only provides ruby engine/framework, not > packages containing ruby code as well ;) There are many packages using ruby and it's modules, so if a software package depends on some ruby gems, they need to be packaged too. But that's the cool thing about Debian and binary packages, one can simply run apt-get install to get a complicated software installed. > > Best regards, > l0f4r0 > Best, Alex

Re: Best practice regarding Ruby gems installation on Buster

2020-03-28 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
curity of the packages in Debian stable, if the package has a known vulnerability it is very likely that the security team will take care and fix the package. So this is not an issue. Regards, Alex

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 3/2/20 6:52 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Tony van der Hoff writes: > >> Hi, >> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with >> a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running >> fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this >> storage

High DPI (4K), laptop screen, mode settings, fonts and initramfs-tools

2020-02-22 Thread Alex Yuriev
way of implementing them? This is initramfs-tools 0.13deb10u1 Thanks, Alex

Re: Ansible recommendations?

2020-02-11 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 2/11/20 4:08 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I'm considering using Ansible (from Debian packages) for maintaining multiple remote Debian servers. The master server will be my Debian laptop. I have three questions: 1. If you have experience with Debian ansible, are you or were you satisfied with the

Re: debian format usb drive that a Mac likes

2020-02-04 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
is kind of miserable. Best, Alex

Re: fmtree: line 0: unknown keyword sha256digest

2020-02-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 1/16/20 11:31 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Jan 2020 at 20:55:28 -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-01-15 12:28, David Christensen wrote: Do I build from source?  If so, is there a good tutorial? https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation The only change is the installation step -

Re: Ethernet trouble

2020-01-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
My shell scripts are all broken now and I'm afraid that next week, after I change all my scripts, something will change things back. Or increment them again. Anybody have an explanation? Or somewhere I can start looking? Or know how whatever labels Ethernet ports does it (or why they weren't call

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-29 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 10/29/19 12:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>> >>> You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one >>> can install

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-01 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
tall it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the divergence between buster and testing is not that big right now) wget it from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hd-idle/hd-idle_1.05+ds-2_amd64.deb or any other Debian mirror and edit /etc/default/hd-idle in order to start the daemon. See man hd-idle for the details. Best, Alex

Re: NSS-LDAP group preventing proper boot

2019-09-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
and didn't face the problems listed above, however since quite some time I've switched to libnss-ldapd/libpam-ldpad. As far as I remember these are drop-in replacements for libnss-ldap but you'll need to configure nslcd daemon too. Another option would be to switch to sssd which "just wokred" for my use cases. Best, Alex

Re: Coordinated Design: Debian.org

2019-07-13 Thread Alex
Hey Debian.org Team, Hope you are doing good ! Your website “ Debian.org ” communicates in many different manners to the visitor. "If you build it properly they will come" *Wanna to give us a chance to revamp your website? * Love to share our credentials. *Kinds Regards,* A

Re: Debian Perl or Brew Perl for production application?

2019-07-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
ges on a "development" node and install binary packages on the production. In case you need to replicate the setup, or you have more than one machine one can maintain a repository,making installation of a new system way easier. And you also can contribute back to Debian in case you packaged a new software. Best, Alex

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 5/24/19 11:19 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 5/24/19 10:03 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: >>> On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote: >>>> On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: >>>>> Perl is happily off on

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
gt; chris > That is not true. The freedom to write unreadable code doesn't mean that the language is bad. Just as an example, look on Perl Dancer[0] framework. It's so damn easy and clear, one can start using it just after going through the tutorial. Best, Alex [0] https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Tutorial

Debian 8.10 PowerPC issues with eMac G4 retail model

2018-12-18 Thread Alex McKeever
I remember having no luck with getting a display on Debian 8.10 on my eMac G4... had to go back to 7.11 to get a working system if I remember right. Anyhow I am wondering why 8.10 doesn’t work like it should? It’s technically the last official PowerPC 32 release... Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPh

Debian 8.10 and later on eMac G4 1.25 GHz

2018-12-13 Thread Alex McKeever
like to try a distribution based on Buster without this turn-off of an issue. -Alex Sent from my iPad

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-05 Thread Alex Gould
Thanks for everyone's help. I looked into what deloptes and tv.debian suggested. In the course of this I have become convinced that I am afflicted by bug #902943 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902943 . So I'll subscribe to the bug and see if there's any way I can help troubles

Re: Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-04 Thread Alex Gould
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, at 3:08 PM, deloptes wrote: > Alex Gould wrote: > > > I imagine I will need to fix some settings for initramfs, grub, crypttab, > > fstab, or something, but I'm not sure how to proceed. > > I would compare content of new and old initrd

Trouble booting lvm raid/luks system with latest kernel in Testing

2018-07-04 Thread Alex Gould
Hi, I'm hoping for some advice for a problem with my system that is tracking Debian Testing. The system has two equally-sized internal hard drives. They are partitioned in the following way: Disk A has a smaller ext2 partition that serves as /boot, with the remainder being a physical volume fo

Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter

2018-01-04 Thread Alex ARNAUD
procedure continues to work on Stretch ? Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology" Le 03/01/2018 à 09:51, john doe a écrit : Hi list, My system locale is 'C.UTF-8'. Obviously, this is not desirable for the users. So I wan

Machine freezes and crashes with the message "soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s!"

2017-12-30 Thread Alex ARNAUD
t. I've Googling a lot without find any information that could help me. Any thoughts? Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Re: vbox installation

2017-12-14 Thread Alex ARNAUD
I use Virtualbox 5.1.8 with the extension pack without issue on Debian Jessie. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology" Le 14/12/2017 à 14:57, Jack Dangler a écrit : All Just letting you know that virtualbox on a linux host stops at 5.0.

[RESOLVED] Re: How to enable Plymouth ?

2017-11-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
this question. I've reset all the GRUB settings to the default and I've repeated and it now works correctly. Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

How to enable Plymouth ?

2017-11-20 Thread Alex ARNAUD
dure works well on Debian Stretch but I'm not able to make it to work on Jessie. I'm using the Kernel from backports (4.9). Does anyone of you have an idea on how to make Plymouth to work on Jessie ? Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-10-23 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Le 28/09/2017 à 15:45, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit : Hi Alex, Based on a quick `git grep -i iris` on the sane-backends source code, the only Irisscan device known to be supported is the "Express 2". If the "executive 4" has a USB port, could you provide the USB product ID?

Re: Security updates for Chromium on Debian Jessie

2017-09-29 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Thanks for your reply. You can also install Google Chrome from the Google Debian repository. It's up-to-date and it works for Jessie. Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-09-28 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Le 28/09/2017 à 15:45, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit : Hi Alex, Alex ARNAUD writes: Dear all, I install Debian GNU/Linux on computer for visual-impaired users and I've a request about the compatibility of a Irisscan executive 4 scanner. I've sought on the internet without finding an

Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-09-14 Thread Alex ARNAUD
ane and if yes where I could find a tutorial to install it? Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD Visual-Impairment Project Manager Hypra - "Humanizing technology"

Debian Live CD standart

2017-03-19 Thread Alex
Здравствуйте! Скачал Debian Live CD standart записал на флешку программой Win32DiskImager. Запускается окно с выбором, выбираю первый вариант, после некоторых процессов просит ввести логин и пароль. Что нужно вводить? Ранее линуксами не пользовался. Версия 64-битная.

XFCE - move items in notification area

2017-03-16 Thread Alex
How does one move items within the notification area?

Re: Once again: alt as my meta key

2017-02-09 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 02/09/2017 07:27 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > When I boot my Jessie it brings me, as desired, to a bash command line > prompt (no X at this stage of the game). > > If I then launch the jed editor (or emacs -nw) from that prompt, > pressing Alt-x on the keyboard, produces the M-x prompt where jed

Re: Debian-compatible "compute stick" thingy

2017-02-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 02/03/2017 06:32 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > Inspired by the recent discussion of installing Debian on smartphone. > > I'm thinking of getting one of the tiny-format PCs like the Intel "Compute > Stick". They're mostly ARM-based systems with a video out and two or three > USB ports, and often WiFi a

Re: Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

2016-12-26 Thread Alex Gould
Thanks Michael and Gene. This model (MS310d) doesn't have a built-in server, or ethernet or wifi networking, so that's not an option. I installed dfu and tried "dfu-util -l" with the printer powered on and plugged in by USB, but it wasn't listed. So I guess it's not supported by dfu. I think I'l

Installing Lexmark printer firmware via USB

2016-12-25 Thread Alex Gould
that I've noticed. Thanks, Alex

Re: firefox + flashplayer on slow pc

2016-12-21 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/20/2016 11:10 PM, deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installing later firefox when watching some > YT it slows down and video breaks. even lowering qual

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

2016-12-17 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/17/2016 11:05 AM, John Naggets wrote: > Hi Alex, > > By installing the previous package version from the apt cache archive > as you mention I managed to find out that it is the libtomcat6-java > package which is broken. You just need to downgrade that package back > to deb7

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

2016-12-17 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
n: > > libicu-dev libicu48 libservlet2.5-java libtomcat6-java tomcat6 > tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common > > Any ideas? I can't find anything yet on any debian mailing lists... > > Best regards > H.N. > Hi, As a temporary workaround disable the unattended-upgrades, and try to install the previous version from /var/cache/apt/archives. It solved the problem for me. ( of course if you don't clean the apt archives ) Best, Alex

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

2016-12-09 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/08/2016 08:53 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > On 08/12/16 16:27, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> 0) backport it yourself. It is not that hard to dget a dsc file from >> testing and try to build it for the current release. Often works without >>

Re: potential damage to Debian "stable" when installing packages from "testing"

2016-12-08 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/08/2016 02:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:58:18PM +0200, Martin T wrote: >> let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from >> Debian "testing": > > Let's not say that. > > Let's instead say "I am running jessie, but jessie's version of weechat

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

2016-11-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/12/2016 09:14 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Alex, > > thank you for your reply and your testing. > > On Saturday 12 November 2016 16:40:40 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 11/12/2016 08:37 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >>> + Alexandre, hdparm maintainer >>>

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

2016-11-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
ent level: 64 Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 250 sdd Advanced power management level: disabled Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 128 sdf Advanced power management level: 48 Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 0 The values are set after reboot or after init script restart. Best, Alex

How to use Mate in multi-screen ?

2016-09-05 Thread Alex ARNAUD
stion is : why do all the panels configured on two screens separately appear on one of the two screens when one of them is unplugged? Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/27/2016 10:49 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-07-27 10:14 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> Here is the manual describing how to build binary packages: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ > > This is o

Re: How to create package without source code

2016-07-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/27/2016 09:39 AM, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to create a debian package with my own additions (added an icon and a > button for the kde-menu, changed groups and user rights). > > But there is a problem: > > The file is just a script. I read in the dokus, and all told, they want t

Disable a sound card

2016-06-23 Thread Alex PADOLY
nd-atiixp-modem # blacklist snd-intel8x0m # blacklist snd-via82xx-modem # Comment this entry in order to load snd-pcsp driver blacklist snd-pcsp Thank you for your help. Alex PADOLY

Re: Upgrading from Backports

2016-06-08 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 06/07/2016 11:46 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Need to upgrade claws-mail installed from regular repo to a newer > version in wheezy-backports. I don't want to end up with two installed > versions. Have done research, but have found nothing specific about > this particular procedure. Would > >

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