Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
gt; No worries. We are all here to help and learn. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
uot; or any other package based on vulnerable "zlib1g" in > bookworm, that may be a security risk, right? The minizip package in bookworm does not come from zlib1g, so this particular vulnerability still does not apply. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
a vulnerability. If fixing it is important to you personally, then you are welcome to figure out the patch or patches that apply, apply them, test the resulting package, and the communicate with the security team and release managers to have it included in the next stable point release (which will probably be sometime in March). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Most recently: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/ I was going to post a link to this very article when I saw that you already had :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
vileges). And for "stable" it definitely leans hard toward "no behavior change at all when possible, and only minimal change when change is unavoidable". If your needs for "secure" and "stable" don't line up with how the Debian Security Team approaches those things, then it is worth considering alternatives. I hope this helps you to understand the overall approach. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
e rest of us would thank you kindly for availing yourself of one or more of those options. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ially from what was released in Debian stable. In other words, they may break your existing whatever (programs you are compiling in the case of a library, scripts you've written in the case of an interperter, etc). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Nvidia packages kept back

2025-01-17 Thread Livio C.
s not yet available, or > available somewhere else. > > This problem is always sorted out by the passing of time. How much you want > to wait is subjective to you I would think. > > Time is the revelator. > > -- > C. > >

Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

2025-01-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t; > > > I know the answer, the question was to the person I replied to. > > Can YOU answer that question? > > It is why I use a rolling release distribution for anything important > And that is your choice. Others, for various reasons, choose a stable distribution to which security patches are backported. Each has its place. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Nvidia packages kept back

2025-01-16 Thread Livio C.
I have Debian 12 installed on a server with NVIDIA ADA RTX4500 GPUs (used for machine learning with Tensorflow via Docker images). When I upgrade ("sudo apt upgrade"), I get the message that a number of packages (all related to Nvidia) have been "kept back". I am not sure what to do: should I upgr

Re: Bash expression to detect dying RAID devices

2024-12-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
\] ]]; then BAD=1; break; fi; done < /proc/mdstat; echo $BAD Note that I changed to a regex match, and also added a 'break;' after assigning BAD=1, because there is no need to continue processing the input at that point. Regards and Merry Christmas, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Thunderbird imap certificates

2024-12-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
affic, perform whatever filtering the organization's policy requires, and then pass it on to the destination. Does the same sort of prompt appear when attempting to view a web page over HTTPS? If that is what is going on, most likely a self-signed certificate is being used and you would need to explicitly trust the certificate. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian Trixie Dolphin Issue

2024-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
transition: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dolphin What you have done is, well, not a generally good approach. Testing transitions are done for good reason and if as a user you choose to use testing then it is best to exercise patience when it comes to transitions. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Unexpected prompt during package update

2024-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
to tweak the behavior of debconf. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debconf-doc/debconf.7.en.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Swap a good drive to another computer

2024-11-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
present (e.g., specific MAC address on the network hardware, specific USB devices present, etc) then those things may break. However, you should have a sufficiently functional system to be able to deal with those things. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Reg. Debian OS hardware certification for Servers.

2024-10-28 Thread Mahendiran C Mahendiran C
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Re: Reg. Debian OS hardware certification for Servers.

2024-10-27 Thread Mahendiran C Mahendiran C
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Reg. Debian OS hardware certification for Servers.

2024-10-22 Thread Mahendiran C Mahendiran C
of 16 x 2.5" NVMe and 8 x 2.5" SATA SSD drives. Regards, Mahendiran C Mob.: 91-9677305572 | E-mail: mailto:mahendi...@velankanigroup.com Work: 91-8046537132 Velankani Electronics and Automotive Pvt Ltd., 43, Electronics City| Hosur Road| Bengaluru| Karnataka 560100.

Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

2024-08-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 08:18:44PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 20:04:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > sync && sync && sync && swapoff > > > > I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I know that it's

Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

2024-08-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
amp;& swapoff I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I know that it's how I've called swapoff since as far back as I can remember. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: The lack of a future for 32-bit x86 installs (Was Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ])

2024-08-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
3, 4, or 5 years old Debian release, you should really question whether that is a good idea. And then realize that if you decide to install anyways that support will become progressively more challenging. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

2024-08-04 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 3:12 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 16:15 john doe wrote: > > On 8/4/24 06:48, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > > On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: > > >> > > >> If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, > > >> w

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:45:21AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:37 AM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:16:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM Brian wrote: > > > > > &

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
might be "bind9 update 9.16.50 -- too many record" from > the debian-security mailing list at > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2024/07/msg3.html>. > Which seems unlikely on a system running buster. -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:55:55AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? > > >

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ced in that particular DSA. Brian, can you provide more details about what specific packages were updated and from what version to what version? You can find that information in /var/log/dpkg.log*. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian LTS

2024-07-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Apart from that, you look like you are configured properly and should be able to use bullseye until the end of its LTS support period (2026-08-31) [0]. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: UEFI secure boot issue

2024-06-20 Thread Bhasker C V
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > > > > I generated a pr/pk pair and the kernel is signed. Placed them in the > > kernel tree and compiled the kernel. > > I don't think you are

UEFI secure boot issue

2024-06-20 Thread Bhasker C V
between PE/COFF sections? signature 1 image signature issuers: - /C=US/ST=Washington/L=Redmond/O=Microsoft Corporation/CN=Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 image signature certificates: - subject: /C=US/ST=Washington/L=Redmond/O=Microsoft Corporation/OU=MOPR/CN=Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher

Re: date for week

2024-06-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
; > does date command has this option? > > Thanks. > You probably want: $ date +%a Mon $ date +%A Monday -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t; It seems like an extremely obvious thing, the sort of thing that we wouldn't let happen. But then this XKCD from a year or two ago wouldn't be such an accurate representation of so many projects: https://xkcd.com/2347/ (I'm sure it's probably been linked in a 1,000 different threads in a 1,000 different forums related to this problem by now.) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
c4ad3b > > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.39.3-11_changelog > The fix has also been made to stable and oldstable: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00058.html Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
id and other leading edge distros.) > > > > Thanks, > > Andy > > O-o, is there any simple test to check if I have infected version or > not? > KJ Yes. It is mentioned in Andres' email and provided as an attachement at the end. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Fwd: [oss-security] backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

2024-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
re not subscribed to debian-security-announce. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: update-ca-certificates

2023-12-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
w me to become my own CA. > > The man page states that the cert needs to have a suffix of .crt. > > By definition certs ending are in der format. > > Will pem format type certs work? > Have you looked at the examples? /usr/share/doc/ca-certificates/examples/ca-certifica

Re: Upgrade to 12.3 fails due to missing nvidia firmware package

2023-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-nvidia-gsp You won't get version 525.147.05 in stable (which is what 12.3 is). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-16 Thread Bhasker C V
ieb Bhasker C V: > > I forgot to answer the question on why I am doing this > > I am experimenting on a no-log system where there is no writes > > what-so-ever to /var/log (except for mails) or systemd journal > > (currently kept volatile) > > /tmp/ is tmpfs mounted > &g

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, so I wanted dual storage. If you can get by without that, then this much cheaper machine might work for you: https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-006Y-00079 I haven't purchased either one yet, but I plan to purchase the first in the coming weeks. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-13 Thread Bhasker C V
, Nov 12, 2023 at 1:46 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 12.11.23 um 08:18 schrieb Bhasker C V: > > Hi, > > I have tried removing PrivateTmp=no in the rsyslog service file and it > > still doesnt work > > I assume you mean PrivateTmp=yes? > > > I have removed the

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-11 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I have tried removing PrivateTmp=no in the rsyslog service file and it still doesnt work I have removed the service file which I had created too. I found that when I run the daemon manually, it works well. Hence I have disabled rsyslog and I have put the daemon startup in my rc-local But yes,

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-10 Thread Bhasker C V
000, Bhasker C V wrote: > > > I moved my syslog to a different location '/tmp/server.log' > > A rather strange decision, since /tmp is usually pruned on reboot. > > > This was working all fine until I moved to selinux in enforcing mode. > > > > I have t

Re: Password managers

2023-11-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n the internet (and which is free as in beer)? > KeePassXC (or KeePassX if you're still on buster). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-08 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I moved my syslog to a different location '/tmp/server.log' This was working all fine until I moved to selinux in enforcing mode. I have the file context as system_u:object_r:syslogd_runtime_t:s0 now, the file is empty Strangely ... lsof shows rsyslog is using this file rsyslogd 25561 root

Re: can you parse and "tail" at once? (and if you can't why not?)

2023-10-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
only > I am trying to use a one liner like: > cat "${IFL}" | grep "${DESC_DIR}" | tail -c+$_DESC_DIR > but this one liner repeats the output and the tail > The way that -c operates for tail is based on 'each file' provided as input: -c, --bytes=

Re: zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg

2023-10-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ormation, but that is probably the simplest. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
libvirt and for the life of mine I could not find why the other xml file doesnt work and why this does. Happy libvirt-ing On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:58 PM Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > I have tried that too and that did not help either (i.e adding the format > type=gpt) > The outpu

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
t/WINDOWS/WIN11-BASE protocol type: file file length: 60 GiB (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26.5 GiB ``` On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:52 PM Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:50:07 +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Attaching win11.xml > > Please note that this u

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Attaching win11.xml Please note that this used to work fine. It is failing now on libvirt- 9.7.0-1 On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 9:13 AM Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:05:43 +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Adding libvirt mailing list > > apologies for cross-posting >

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Adding libvirt mailing list apologies for cross-posting libvirt version: 9.7.0-1 On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 8:39 AM john doe wrote: > On 9/21/23 09:32, Bhasker C V wrote: > > I am getting an error with libivrt when I create a VM > > > > ``` > > $ sudo virsh create ./

Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
I am getting an error with libivrt when I create a VM ``` $ sudo virsh create ./win11.xml error: Failed to create domain from ./win11.xml error: internal error: mishandled storage format 'none' ``` This is after I have done a dist-upgrade (was working fine before) debian trixie. error message

Security question about daemon-init

2023-08-29 Thread Bhasker C V
under my homedir . Has anyone faced this problem? What is this daemon-init program and why does it want access to my home thunderbird directory ? Regards Bhasker C V

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

2023-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
our use case? What will you do with that information? What decision will you make? What action will you take? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-21 Thread Bhasker C V
For future reference There is another package mailutils which also provides /usr/bin/mail. This is working fine with selinux in enforcing mode. This is a good alternative On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > Thanks Nicholas > However, it doesnt to my knowledge looks l

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:58 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 9:20 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > >> Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system >> Pretty much everything is working except >> >> ``` >> $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@y

mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system Pretty much everything is working except ``` $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found in headers Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 ``` howe

Re: Oddity when accessing Courier IMAP from Android

2023-08-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the account from the device, re-install the CA root cert (the one that issued the server cert), and re-add the account to the device. At that point it started to work. :shrug: Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian OS Upgradtion from 9.9 to 11.13

2023-08-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
again. One thing, however, that I can point out is that upgrading by skipping major releases is not recommended or supported at all. You should really upgrade from 9.9 -> 9.13 first, then to 10, then to 11. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Oddity when accessing Courier IMAP from Android

2023-08-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
cess the server and the account without issue. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

2023-08-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
oject Funding initiative and it was accepted and work was done on it for several months: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/19 However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that have halted progress. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Why are there multiple ways to do things in Debian? (Was Re: package managers problem)

2023-06-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
All of that to say, Andy, that you are 100% right that if someone wants things the Debian way, they can use Debian and if someone wants things not-the-Debian way, there are a great multitude of non-Debian options out there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

CVE-2023-1393 and TigerVNC

2023-04-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
CVE-2023-1393 ? Thanks, -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK and...@aitchison.me.uk

Re: Libembree, but static

2023-03-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
wishlist a bug against the libembree-dev requesting inclusion of the static .a. When static archives are shipped they are generally shipped in the -dev package. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . .

2023-02-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
wnloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by APT and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine. That sounds to me like your exact use case. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable

2023-02-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
but you might find other parts of the discussion illuminating as well. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: re-compiling package twice errors out

2023-02-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
orrectly (or at all), and so you are forced to start by unpacking each team in order to have a clean build. The correct solution is to fix the 'clean' target so that you can repeatedly run the build without having to remove the package directory and unpack it again. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Why Debian packaging structure is so difficult

2023-01-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
specific or detailed recommendation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: recover old files after key deprecations in openssl3

2022-11-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Thanks Dan, i did that anyway. I compiled 1.1 and decrypted and re-encrypted them. My data is back. I didnt know that there is such backward compatibility issues with 3.x On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:16 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > C

recover old files after key deprecations in openssl3

2022-10-27 Thread Bhasker C V
ith legacy provider. I have tried fips, base, legacy -- Bhasker C V Secure Mails:http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D05FEEC54E47413 Registered Linux User: #306349

Re: A way to set the minimum time between double clicks?

2022-10-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
icon in the top left and type in "click". That should get you the accessbility-releated options in one of the results and you can adjust it there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: no JAVA_HOME in the path

2022-08-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
erparts in $HOME for setting it on a per-user basis. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: openssh server

2022-08-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
heir dependencies (which can happen when mixing packages from different Debian releases). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian Certifications

2022-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
nks >Tim >-- >⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ >⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system >⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ [1]https://www.debian.org/ >⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀ > > References > >Visible links >1. https://www.debian.org/ -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: CVE Applicability Inquiry

2022-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
r/CVE-2022-24675 >7. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-28327 >8. https://www.servicenow.com/ >9. https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow > 10. https://twitter.com/servicenow > 11. https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc > 12. https://www.facebook.com/servicenow -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > apt-get --only-source --download-only source > >

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
without downloading the package and parsing the > dsc? > If you are not opposed to installing the devscripts package, then you can do this: $ rmadison -u debian -a source -s unstable firefox-esr firefox-esr | 91.10.0esr-1 | unstable | source Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
abilities. That information is necessary for the Debian security team to properly support packages in a stable release. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: debian app on UserLAnd: upgrading to bullseye

2022-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
e, requesting > opinion or suggestions here. > Have you read the release notes? That should be considered an obligatory step. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: 64 bit not 64

2022-06-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
are getting? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:31:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > For those following along, a little while ago the problem "went away". > That is, context menus, tooltips, and application menus now all show in > the expected places in Firefox. I really hope that this i

Re: Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 04:17:12PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:09:10PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > > > > > I have recently decommissioned my main desktop workstation and switched > > > to using my l

Re: Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:09:10PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > > > I have recently decommissioned my main desktop workstation and switched > > to using my laptop for daily work (rather than only when travelling). I > > acquired a USB-C &q

Firefox context menu and tooltip on wrong display?

2022-05-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
I have recently decommissioned my main desktop workstation and switched to using my laptop for daily work (rather than only when travelling). I acquired a USB-C "docking station" and have connected two external monitors (which were formerly attached to my desktop machine). For so

Re: openjdk 18?

2022-04-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
18 in >Debian?  It was released last month.   >[1]https://jdk.java.net/18/ >-- >Dale Harris >[2]rod...@gmail.com >/.-) > > References > >Visible links >1. https://jdk.java.net/18/ > 2. mailto:rod...@gmail.com -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
hine > "into the wild" :-) > I very much agree with Tomas. After having tried a few different solutions years ago, I have settled on this one and I am convinced it is still the best available solution to this particular problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

2022-04-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 05:42:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez composed on 2022-04-09 17:16 (UTC-0400): > > > Have you tried the option to manually enter the mirror information? In > > the past I have successfully used this point at archive.debian.org for &

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

2022-04-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n archive sub-directory. The contents of archive.debian.org are not the installers themselves, but the actual package archive. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: configure archive.debian.org installation source from NET installer cmdline?

2022-04-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ian.org for an installation of an older version of Debian. You should be able to use the URL http://archive.debian.org/debian/ (IIRC). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: updatedb.mlocate

2022-04-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ackage installed, but you would need to keep the database updated manually. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

2022-04-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

2022-04-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
now what the next logcheck report will contain (e.g., because you've tweaked the ignore filters and you want to make sure that it excludes the right thing), you can do something like this: sudo -u logcheck -s /usr/sbin/logcheck -t -o Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: No man page for gcc

2022-03-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
age [0]. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://packages.debian.org/gcc-doc -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: exim4-base dependency on mysql?

2022-03-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
, embedded Perl interpreter, and the content scanning extension (formerly known as "exiscan-acl") for integration of virus scanners and spamassassin." Perhaps you installed exim4-daemon-heavy when you intended to install exim4-daemon-light. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Screen not blanking

2022-02-05 Thread c. marlow
Sending this message to both groups: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Screen not blanking Date: Saturday 05 February 2022, 03:13:19 pm From: "c. marlow" To: us...@trinitydesktop.org Fresh install of Debian 11 ( as of yesterday) Trinity Desktop 14 My screen is no

Re: No sound in Flatpaks

2022-02-05 Thread c. marlow
On Saturday 05 February 2022 06:23:47 am gene heskett wrote: > That, in the case of firefox is not a flatpack issue, debians latest is > the same, every video played has muted sound until you find the gd mixer > and unmute and bring up the gain of that channel, even if you reload the > page to

No sound in Flatpaks

2022-02-05 Thread c. marlow
Fresh install of Debian 11 ( installed yesterday) TDE 14 ( Trinity Desktop) Hi, I am having problems with flatpak installations. Firefox, VLC, and Telegram has no sound at all when you try to play something. But reverting back to the repo version of Firefox ESR and VLC, the sound works fine

Re: [CODE OF CONDUCT REMINDER - WAS Re: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?]

2022-01-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
particular invidual in a somewhat threatning way. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: [CODE OF CONDUCT REMINDER - WAS Re: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?]

2022-01-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
roblem in this case in addition to delpotes. Could you perhaps describe precisely what offense was caused or what boundary was skirted in this instance? In the future, messages such as yours would appear less menacing and more constructive with this additional bit of information added. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

DNS resolver issue

2022-01-24 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, Please could someone help me with what I am doing wrong ? I am running example.local domain on my interface(192.168.2.1) (bind9) The domain is resolving fine. However I want to use 1.1.1.1 public DNS server for looking up other domains (external domains) Hence I have put both servers

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > > > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
know the group "users" which every user was > a member of, by default. > New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default. So, new users are members of the group without having to be added to the group in /etc/groups. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

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