Re: What is going on with firefox

Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock > > origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and > > javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

Bret Busby wrote: > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was > > solved.. ... > If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject field, > reads the messages in the thread, th

Re: What is going on with firefox

Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to say that reluctantly I have started using

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

Paul M. Foster wrote: > I would suggest moc (Music On Console). It's a terminal app, but it's very > easy to operate. Simple single character commands, but no real menus. It's > not a GUI per se, but uses ncurses. If you can deal with the terminal > visually, moc should work for you. I use moc re

Re: Monitoring a single process

Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process? > > Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly > refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the > filesystem, MB/s written to the filesystem, maybe even with mo

Re: job is killed

hen...@privatembox.com wrote: > my job consumes a lot of memory (almost consumes all of the system allowed > ram). > when the job is running, it will have the chance to be killed. > I just got the reminder in terminal: Killed. and job exits. > who is killing my job? linux kernel, or VPS management

Re: Recovery help needed for remote server: file system mounted read-only

Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:37 Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > I suspect a failing disk, > > > > My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it > > when > > I bought it). A few y

Re: Firefox alternatives?

Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In Firefox, amongst the other add-ons, I have Bluhell Firewall, uBlock > > Origin (I recommend those two , together, as a minimum) , AdBlocker > > Ultimate, AdGuard AdBlocker, AdBlock Plus, and, I think that is all f > > the ab blocking and anti-tracking and gene

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extr

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > DISPLAY=:0 > > (of course, this will only work if there /is/ an X server running > in the first place :) (of course, if there is no X server running, only the console setting has any meaning.

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

Tom Browder wrote: > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? There are three things that could be called screen saver settings: - the console blanker is controlled via setterm -blank 0 (t

Re: From SSD to NVME

Anssi Saari wrote: > > Yes. Also not many drives can sustain a multi-gigabyte write rate > > anyway... > > I have to say I was quite disappointed when I cloned a 1TB SSD to a 2TB > one, average speed wasn't much higher than writing to an HD. I don't > remember what the target drive was though. Si

Re: directories I can't get rid of

Mike McClain wrote: > I've a couple od directories in ~/.cache I can't read or get rid of. > find: '/home/mike/.cache/gvfs': Permission denied > find: '/home/mike/.cache/doc': Permission denied > ls, rmdir and unlink also get 'Permission denied' when executed by root. > Suggestions? You may have

Re: From SSD to NVME

Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> That is a SATA SSD, not an NVMe. > > Interesting, thanks. Apparently either it was misrepresented to me, or I > > misremembered. That explains some stuff. > > The switch from SATA to the NVMe interface/protocol happened basically > at the same time as the switch from

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

Bitfox wrote: > > after downloading, is it possible to convert all html files into a single > pdf? any tool in linux to do that? Thanks. Yes, pandoc is packaged and can do that easily. -dsr-

Re: where is mail.log

Bitfox wrote: > My OS is debian 12 without GUI. > > After I installed postifx by apt, I can't find the path to mail.log. > > the log file in /var/log doesn't exist. > > do you know where is my mail.log now? by default, it's in /var/log. If it is not there: - does /etc/postfix/*.cf specify so

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

Hans wrote: > I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 > processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. > > 2 questions: > > 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluently work? > These processors are also b

Re: Lost password need help!

e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are > > moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to > > recover this without losing data? Thank you. > > Boot off rescue media, mount the vic

Re: auto interactive jobs

e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/21/24 19:24, Bitfox wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a interactive command like the following, > > > > $ ./filen > > / > upload upt-snappy / > > Uploading upt-snappy [] 100% | ETA: > > 0s | 1.4 KiB / 1.32 KiB > > / > > > > > > > the co

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > >

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

Chris Green wrote: Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm pretty sure you can set that. Go look? -dsr-

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

hlyg wrote: > > easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee > shall be blue As it turns out, that's not a requirement. USB A ports can be white, black, blue, red, yellow, green, teal or purple... or pretty much any other color in the future. It's normal for a ma

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

Bret Busby wrote: > With the "5 monsters", each having a separate keyboard and mouse, I wonder > whether the "monsters" means users... > > UNIX, to serve up to 32 users), and that, if this is the case, the > workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve > the keyboard

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

Mindaugas wrote: > Yes, yes. After all, you yankee imperialists with world savior syndrome are > very fond of going to psychotherapists and taking the drugs they prescribe > for you. > > On 11/7/24 08:09, Andy Smith wrote: > > such as your therapist's > > office. I'm pretty sure: a) Andy lives

Re: No kernel

Van Snyder wrote: > I tried to use the netinst to install Debian 12.5 onto a Dell Inspiron > 15. Eventually, after the usual things, it said there was no kernel. So > I tried the 12.1.0 netinst and it also said there was no kernel. What > happened? How can I install? "no kernel" is not an error t

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > Typical! I'm sure I tried that yesterday, but anyway it mounts > manually perfectly OK now. So all I'm missing is the automatic > mounting. > > ... and that's just in settings. While I'm here what's the diff

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

Chris Green wrote: > I have a Kobo Forma reader (like a Kindle), on xubuntu versions up to > 24.04 it automounted without problems. Now I'm running Debian 12 it's > failing to automount, I can't mount it manually either. > > I get the usual messages at the Kobo end and fdisk shows me /dev/sdc >

Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

B.M. wrote: > Thanks a lot for your inputs. In the meantime I disabled zram and added a 2 > GiB swapfile. > > What I don't understand: how can the system have not enough memory problems, > while it's showing ~ 2 GiB cached/buffer? I'd expect it to free some of that > and be fine again... 2 GiB is

Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

B.M. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small server (Raspberry Pi 4 in fact) and since a couple of weeks it > repeatedly hangs after some days until I reboot it (after months of uptime > without any problem - but I changed a few things in the meantime, so maybe > load is now higher than before). > > At

Re: Trouble with lvreduce and / read-only

gene heskett wrote: > On 10/27/24 10:03, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:04:19AM +, Jonathan Wiebe wrote: > > > > I ran into an issue with my root partition being too small. My plan > > > > was to reduce

Re: Trouble with lvreduce and / read-only

Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 05:04:19AM +, Jonathan Wiebe wrote: > > I ran into an issue with my root partition being too small. My plan > > was to reduce the size of my home partition and increase the size of > > my root partition. Here is what I have done: > > > > First,

Re: battery tester

Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen. > > > > Start "journalctl -f" as root b

Re: state of /etc/profile

Hans wrote: > But I wondered, why this file is not modified during my updates. As people > told, /etc/profile is > part of the package base-files and is copied from > /usr/share/base-files/profile. > > Examination of the files showed, there is a differnce between /etc/profiles > and /usr/shar

Re: Bug in 'more' command

Chris Green wrote: > > Hasn't the whole linus/unix world moved to using less instead or more? If it continues to build and work, there's no reason to discard it. Some people have habits ingrained over 40 years, more or less. -dsr-

Re: If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

Chris Green wrote: > I'd like to force a different password from my own password when I do > 'sudo -i' to get root privilege. However I'm a bit frightened about > what might happen if I set 'Defaults rootpw' in the sudoers file but > forget to actually create a root password. (This is on systems

Re: Configuration of files on Debian GNU/Linux

William Torrez Corea wrote: > I configure a file for example /etc/network/interfaces.d > > Configure the file, save and exit but the changes are not made. I need to > make a second configuration. Do you mean that the file was not saved to disk, or were you expecting something else to happen? Mo

Re: popcon use?

Lee wrote: > There was this bit in the debian-devel mailing list > > >> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it. Anyone having > >> the old 'signify' package on their system would get OpenBSD's signify > >> instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade. Is that > >

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

Jochen Spieker wrote: > I have two disks in a RAID-1: > > | $ cat /proc/mdstat > | Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] > [raid4] [raid10] > | md0 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sdc1[0] > | 5860390400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > | bitmap: 5/44 pages [20KB],

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

e...@gmx.us wrote: > > I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" (its job is serving video > content to the TV box over NFS) and ran into that problem, so what I did was > write a series of scripts that relinked identical files. It's not perfect, > I suspect there are still bugs. It tries t

Re: Change file picker in browsers

George at Clug wrote: > I really hope I am wrong, and there is a way to change the theme > for "file management" dialog boxes. Does any know of any DE's in which > this can be done? It's not a function of the desktop environment. In Android, it's an externally callable standard function. In Win

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

Franco Martelli wrote: > On 25/09/24 at 18:16, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Is the CPU updated to the latest microcode? > > Yes. > > > > Resources I needed to find that out for you: > > https://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/CPUID.pl?CPUID=22328 > > Thank yo

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

Franco Martelli wrote: > On 25/09/24 at 14:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > What is the output of > > > > sudo dmesg | grep -E '(microcode|model)' > > > > ? > > This should show information about your CPU model and if its microcode > > is actually updated. > > > > Regards, > > Jörg. > > > > I

Re: subnet subset blocked

Adam Weremczuk wrote: > On 24/09/2024 22:29, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > What does > > > > ip route show > > > > give you on the VM in question? > > ip route show > default via 192.168.4.1 dev ens192 onlink > 192.168.4.0/24 dev ens192 pro

Re: subnet subset blocked

Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just launched a Debian 12 VM in VMware (ESXi 7.0.2) and installed > apache2 / php / postgres stack on it + ssh access. > > Generally we have 3 subnets (IPv4 only): > > - 192.168.4.0/22 (Ethernet LAN) - which starts with 192.168.4.1 and ends > with 192.16

Re: NTP fails to sync local clock

Steve Keller wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Does it work without the -6 option? > > No, the same problem. And ntpq shows that IPv6 is also used, when -6 > isn't given. But, my NTP server is used by other hosts in the network > and that works fine. > > &

Re: NTP fails to sync local clock

Steve Keller wrote: > This is on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm 64 Bit, > ie. Debian 12. I have uninstalled systemd-timesyncd and installed > ntpsec, then have commented out the 4 NTP servers > {0,1,2,3}.debian.pool.ntp.org, and instead added my own server with > > server -6 my

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Didn't the initial message say that the Internet *was* working, and then > suddenly *stopped* working, right in the middle of a download? > > That, together with the interface not being UP, points to the > configuration being OK, but something going wrong at the hardware

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 03:24:22PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > ip address show > > 2: eno1: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default > > qlen 1000 > > link/ether 44:87:fc:d8:3b:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname enp0s25 > > > I am no expert but it seems to look

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

Frank McCormick wrote: > I am faced with a strange problem. I have no internet access on Trixie on > one of two partitions on my ssd. > I was attempting to solve a problem I am having with Vivaldi by installing > Seahorse. Apt quit halfway through downloading the necessary files > complaining it

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

Pierre Willaime wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading from Strech to Booworm (I know: not recommended to jump > versions), I have some trouble to start X server. > > startx returns this error: > > "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports -03ff (Operation not > permitted)". Stretch to Buster to

Re: Help upgrade to JDK-21

Arbol One wrote: > I'd like to upgrade from JDK-17 to JDK-21. > Since I am new to, well, Linux in general, I'd like to know from anyone > who'd done this upgrade if this would be OK under Debian 12 (No > free-firmwarepackages please). > Any advice would be much appreciated. Debian stable (12) do

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

George at Clug wrote: > When installing KDE for people, I have been leaving Wayland as the > compositor, believing that X11 was no longer supported. However > recently I tested X11 and found the experience was much better. This is not unusual. Wayland is young and immature. Wayland has been in t

Re: [HP][Debian Strixie] Unable to install Debian with GUI interface

Tsai, Letitia (CW) wrote: > Hi > Not sure which category I should submit so I am writing this letter to gain > your guidance on the issue I encountered. > Hope the information I provided is valid and easy to understand. > Thank you ! > > [Summary] > Unable to install Debian with GUI interface >

Re: laptop installs

Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's > simply a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting > the appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one, > things get a little weird. > > O

Re: DEBIAN documentation: which 64 bit processors run current release?

Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/27/2024 08:14 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support > > > current Debian release. ... > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch0

Re: DEBIAN documentation: which 64 bit processors run current release?

Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for for where *Debian* documents which processors support > current Debian release. > > I have three machines whose processors are 64 bit capable. > Processors identified by running lscpu: > > Machine 1: > Architecture: i686 > Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i

Re: New System, Problem with FTP

Steve Matzura wrote: > The following is specific to Ubuntu 24.04. If it should go to a > Ubuntu-specific list, let me know and I'll find out how to make that happen. Yup. This is a list for Debian users. > The problem is also related to FTP, which I can't seem to get working. I > modified /etc/s

Re: processes, interrupts, and cpus

fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> i have a video capture card with 4 separate chips > >> when i start up i get bttv0 - bttv3 > >> i'm getting a lot of errors in sysl

Re: processes, interrupts, and cpus

fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i have a video capture card with 4 separate chips > when i start up i get bttv0 - bttv3 > i'm getting a lot of errors in syslog on bttv2 and bttv3 > like > bttv: 2: timeout: drop=3888442 irq=27910652/28054718, risc=338f048c, bits: > HSYNC > bttv: 3: timeout: drop=

Re: Finding a Debian consultancy for help with large-scale platform upgrade (Was Re: Systems upgrading)

Andy Smith wrote: > Just as some free advice though… > > 1. I find it hard to believe you have more than 2000 Debian installs >without some sort of existing automation / configuration >management > > 2. Given (1), I would approach the task by learning your config >management and modi

Re: domain status in registry and registrar

Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/8/24 21:00, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Even less than that: just a DNS record, i.e. some entry in the global > > name database mapping the name to... anything (an IP address, another > > name, a mail exchange, whatever). > > > > You can reserve the name and postpon

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

Michael Kj??rling wrote: > On 14 Aug 2024 21:22 -0600, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com (Charles > Curley): > >> I am looking at Contacts+ as a possible solution. Has anyone had any > >> good experience with it, or do you have a better solution to > >> recommend? > > > > Take a look at Nextc

A definitive answer to "what domain should I use at

home?" Reply-To: X-Message-Flag: WARNING: Danger from LLM misuse - find shelter! X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/ The summary: use .internal for internal naming. it will not conflict with any future TLD.

Re: Little typo bug - package unknown

Hans wrote: > Wheh connecting a mobile fdrom Samsung to my computer, the message in > /var/log/syslog > tells: > > > 2024-08-07T13:11:14.047644+02:00 protheus2 kernel: [ 2649.347050] usb 2-1.1: > Product: > MSM8952 > 2024-08-07T13:11:14.047647+02:00 protheus2 kernel: [ 2649.347054] usb 2-1.

Re: iptables to nftables?

Wesley wrote: > We have several debian servers, all running iptables. On average each has 200 > rules, mostly deny rules. From a best practice perspective, do we need to > upgrade to nftables? > iptables is currently implemented in terms of nftables. While it is possible that someday that inter

Re: dot internal and mDNS

George at Clug wrote: > It is not iptables anymore, it is nftables. It is not 'reboot' or 'shutdown > -r now' it is 'systemctl reboot', it is not syslog it is journalctl. iptables still exists, and it calls nftables to do the work underneath. If you are using systemd, it's systemctl reboot,

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i have a asrock q1900 pro3 > 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' > i have debian 11 running with no problems > the board has vga and hdmi > i am only able to get a display via vga > any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi > i see nothing related in the

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Lee wrote: > uh oh .. > "It would be as well to check whether any functioning print queues > have been automatically installed by cups-browsed prior to a manual > setup. This can be done with > lpstat -a" > > $ lpstat -a > Canon_MG3600_series accepting requests since Sat Aug 3 00:00:28 2024 > H

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Lee wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the > > network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't > > care about the DNS name, either, but it's more convenient if you &g

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Lee wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the > > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is the source of truth in > > my networks ... > > Do you have any network printers? That work without

Re: nsswitch what should come first

George at Clug wrote: > Do you know if there is a good place to post Bind9 DNS server configuration > questions to? There's a bind-users list: https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users Do search the archive before posting questions; there's a high likelihood that the answer is already

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

Andy Smith wrote: > This whole thing just seems like the normal process of developing > and packaging a distribution. Poor interactions are found, reported, > hopefully will be fixed. But once again there's people trying to use > this as a daily driver and having weird expectations. And then some

Re: need help: unmet dependencies

Michael Morgan wrote: > When I ran "apt --fix-broken install", I got the following message: > > The following additional packages will be installed: > chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra > The following packages will be upgraded: > chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra > >

Re: nginx or apache for php?

Walt E wrote: > I have been using apache2 + php for years under debian. > But I heard people says nginx + php has better performance. > Do you have experience on both of setup and share a bit with me? I have experience on both. Do you have a performance problem? If not, don't change. If you do

Re: Network-manager issue after installation, was: Re: your mail

Franco Martelli wrote: > On 30/07/24 at 17:29, Tawsif wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 01:08:39PM +0600, Tawsif wrote: > > I have a very small storage size for my laptop (64gb). So, I installed > > debian minimal in it. > > If you can, reinstalls Debian as usual, my KDE's installation takes abo

Re: Looking for a qr code reader/displayer

gene heskett wrote: > Un-fortunately, in synaptic, only the first hit seems to have a displayable > screenshot. All the rest only have an empty box. > > So assuming i'm missing the display things, what am I missing? > > And assuming I could display them since the first hit seems to have a > scre

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-07-28, Michael Grant wrote: > > +1 to all you say. > > > Maybe one of you younger folks can teach me how one deals with keeping > > up with a forum like that. > > Once upon a time there was usenet. After a while there was a mail-to-news > gateway. It ease a lot c

Re: vim on Debian 12: How to disable the mouse GUI mode ?

Greg Wooledge wrote: > In my testing, I ran vim with no arguments, and typed in a single line > of gibberish. Then, I moved the cursor to column 0. Finally, I typed > out the command 20l in a different terminal, highlighted it, and pasted > it into vim. Rather than moving my cursor 20 character

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

Stefan Monnier wrote: > > - software updates that run as root (including Debian updates) > > can run anything else as root > > So, maybe a more relevant discussion is: what will happen when a Debian > stable security update comes with a "big blunder" that crashes the most > machines in earl

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

Richmond wrote: > Jeffrey Walton writes: > > Yes the updates should be tested at every stage. Maybe people think that > they cannot stop updates, but they can use Group Policy to stop Windows > Update. Or maybe they are afraid if they don't allow virus updates then > they will allow a virus? Th

Re: Detecting change in running kernel version between reboots

Mike wrote: > I have a TV card in one of my boxen, which requires a kernel module to > be built. I've got that all nicely scripted and so I can kick it off > with relative ease. > > The issue is detecting when it needs to be done. ie after a change in > the running kernel. At the moment, it's

Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

Celejar wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently on kernel 6.9.8 (amd64 / Sid). Installing 6.9.9 fails due to > running out of space on /boot: ... > I'm not sure why I'm hitting this now - did Debian just change > something? Is anyone else hitting this? Is this documented somewhere? > Is there a str

Re: web site displays blank page

e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 7/18/24 02:06, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > My ISP is RTA.  I am in a rural area near Austinn, Texas, and have a > 10/1 > > microwave link.  Could the problem be with RTA? > > It's probably a routing issue between you and them. Or maybe "delivery > content network" (That'

Re: Bug Report

Richard Bostrom wrote: > Bug in my opinion. > > /etc/resolv.conf does not block out pornography /etc/resolv.conf is where you configure one or more DNS servers. Three is usually optimal. If you choose DNS servers that resolve everything, you get everything. If you choose DNS servers run by cen

Re: Program Not Showing Up in Menu

Patrick Wayodi wrote: > I have installed a program but it's not showing up in the Applications > menu. The program is called Monero. I installed it using these commands: > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install monero That's because it has no graphical interface. It's a daemon plus command li

Re: ask for drivers

Jeff Pang wrote: > greetings, > > I am trying to install Debian on my counterfeit pad. Do you know where to > find touch screen drivers? Can you run lsusb and lspci or otherwise provide details on what hardware is installed? cat /proc/bus/input/devices might be of use. X11 touch screen input

Re: stty permanently undef "start"

Franco Martelli wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I sometime use "rtorrent" (apt show rtorrent) to download isos and other big > files. It happens that when I had to quit rtorrent by press Ctrl-Q I cannot > because the key combination Ctrl-Q is trapped by the console due to "stty" > default configuratio

Re: Automatic creation of last-known-good boot configuration

Jens Schmidt wrote: > On Debian testing I've been bitten by the systemd upgrade and the > systemd package split recently, rendering my dracut-LUKS-based > system unbootable. I know that my warranty is void since I'm on > testing, but both these issues would have been much easier to cope > with if

Re: General questions

타토카 wrote: > Hello, dear Debian Community. I have several questions: > 1. Are all subscriptions to Debian free? Yes. There are non-Debian businesses which can sell you support, if you like, but Debian software is all free. > 2. How to check Debian Image Authentication? Is checksum verification >

Re: Installing gitlab on sid

Lucio Crusca wrote: > Il 03/07/24 13:48, Jeff Pang ha scritto: > > > > maybe you can use rbenv to install the required ruby toolkit? > > > > I'm afraid that's not the point. I assume that > > # apt-get install gitlab > > should just work out of the box, or there is a problem, either on my par

Re: timeout for iptables

Max Nikulin wrote: > On 02/07/2024 19:28, Dan Ritter wrote: > > iptables (which are currently implemented in nftables) don't have a native > > timeout; > > nft sets have the timeout option. Isn't it to specify interval of time to > remove elements? It works w

Re: timeout for iptables

Jeff Peng wrote: > Is there a tool for maintaining the timeout for iptables rules? > > for example, one IP would be blocked by my iptables for 24 hours, and > another IP should be blocked for one week. iptables (which are currently implemented in nftables) don't have a native timeout; you need t

Re: Shell UA

Jeff Peng wrote: > Do u know if there is a shell UserAgent that can be used to log in gmail? > mutt can support OAUTH or an app-specific password; if you can set up the latter, most other mail agents can also use it. -dsr-

Re: how2 format a flash drive

Lee wrote: > My gripes and difficulties are the same thing. No universal image > viewer like Ifranview, `apt search image viewer` suggests: eog, eom, ephoto, photoqt.. among dozens of others. But start with one of those. > an html editor would be nice -- something along > the lines of the sea

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > > > I need to replace ANY occurrence of > > > > > >thru [at most] > > > > > > by > > > > > > > > > I'm reformatting a Bible

Re: fail2ban: default 5 attemps == 1 SSH client connection?

Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I encountered multiple times that debian based containers use fail2ban by > default with a max attempt value of 5, even for SSH logins using strong > asymmetric keys. There is no "debian based container" standard. Talk to whoever built your container. (Why isn't it you?)

Re: Why can't i get gnome extensions installed on bookwork?

DdB wrote: > Hello list, > > i am out of luck and into a rabbit hole, please help me out! > > Now, i am lost. I thought, in stable, the Fox-esr would be compatible > with the gnome extensions, but it claims, that would not be case. > > What am i missing? As far as I can tell, this needs two p

Re: htmldoc default font size

Roger Price wrote: > I'm using htmldoc 1.9.11-4+deb11u3 to convert html files to pdf. When > playing with the fontsize option I discover that the default is not a whole > number, more like 11.2 points. Is this the expected behaviour ? > > Background: The manual at https://www.msweet.org/htmldoc

Re: MoinMoin wikis and Debian 11+

Greg Wooledge wrote: > As we're nearing the end of life for Debian 10, I'm still wondering > what MoinMoin wiki users are supposed to do. (This includes > as near as I can see from SystemInfo.) ... > Or should we burn the entire site down, migrate to some other wiki >

Re: disable GUI/X?

David Chmelik wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:47:58 +0200, tomas wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 04:39:50AM -, David Chmelik wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:39:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > >> > David Chmelik composed on 2024-06-19 02:24 (UTC): > >> > > >> >> How can I disable GUI/X fo

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