pen() and mkdir() to the right underlying device.
> Again, agree. OP didn't indicate that any of his partitions were LVs,
> so I didn't suggest it.
Somebody who sees a sda13 and a good occasion and does not suggest to
use it to switch to LVM is not giving good advice.
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ns, choosing the
repartition and the sizes in the light of past uses of the system, mount
them with their intended structure and copy the contents, letting Linux
worry about the split.
And even better to do it with LVM volumes rather than partitions.
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vidual who wants to upgrade their computer
cleanly but without too much work?
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do not have to dig deep to realize that just dd will not
work.
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to the single sda1 partition.
What? Absolutely not, that does not match at all what Eben wants.
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Nicolas George (HE12025-07-31):
> That would work to copy the whole system to a larger drive.
Rectification: not even that, as the secondary GPT would not be at the
right place. It works only for an identical drive.
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Detlef Vollmann (HE12025-07-31):
> I would go for the first option (dd)
That will not work. At least not with a lot lot more details. That would
work to copy the whole system to a larger drive. For this setup it is a
terrible idea.
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reinstall the
bootloader.
Good luck, and do not forget to take notes of all you do at each step.
> sda is the new SSD. sdb is my HD. sdc is another SSD. nascent is a NAS.
> No idea what sdd is:
>
> eben@cerberus:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdd: No medium found
Almost certainly a card reader, but it is surprising you do not know and
did not take steps to.
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derstand" all possible configurations of each
> tool!).
Debian should embed an AI in apt to detect when users are about to make
a mistake and prevent them from doing it.
> (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
(This is ineffective. Just put a reply-to header like I do.)
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version I run) onto the SSD, then modify
>/etc and whatever else so stuff works. This sounds error-prone.
> 3. Wait until I upgrade to Trixie, then let the installer hash it out.
The most convenient method depends on what exactly you have right now.
Can you share the output of lsblk and df?
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t will not annoy you with
mismatches of keyboard layouts.
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hat happened. The console display at
confirmation that José did not proofread carefully enough is
alphabetically sorted even if the log apt writes into a file is not.
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Detlef Vollmann (HE12025-07-31):
> 3:2 is there and is actually become more popular these days
> with business oriented notebooks.
What we really need are monitor with
1.4142135623730950488016887242096980786 and
1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177 aspect ratio.
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bout the other
consequences)” is a terrible way to design an interface.
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Anssi Saari (HE12025-07-30):
> It seems to me udisks2 is the library and a CLI interface to it is in
> the package udiskie. I haven't used udiskie, not into remoble media
> much.
~ $ dpkg -S =udisksctl
udisks2: /usr/bin/udisksctl
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Andy Smith (HE12025-07-30):
> I am surprised that a package maintainer has told you to report anything
> to debian-user. Are you sure about that?
It might be something like “I don't have time for that kind of nonsense,
please ask on debian-user@lists.debian.org”.
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iling-list.
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> an ssh server is installed for a large variety of reasons.
Starting with backups and remote administration and continuing with
accessing one's own files from elsewhere.
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network map with it.
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framebuffer?
Test it and tell us what you found out.
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ly with those formats.
You just cut yourself on Hanlon's razor. If it was Apple, thinking it
was on purpose would have indeed been a very likely hypothesis, but
Microsoft…
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ion were along the lines
“read this doc and try this” rather than “let me do all the work for you
for free”.
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l the features I need, but it
> is a good suggestion, thanks.
Please share your conclusions.
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e used.
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libreoffice --headless --convert-to csv:44,34,76 REDACTED/*.xlsx --outdir
REDACTED/
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ecisely. Now remember that “the Xorg task” is supposed to do the
graphics on behalf of the clients.
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g over. However, the windowing system remained responsive. See
> screenshot.
This is not normal and proves that what you propose is not a fix but
just a partial countermeasure.
> On 7/25/25 4:04 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Top-posting is contrary to the etiquette of this list.
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local and playing with symlinks and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an even more convenient solution than a chroot, but
it requires more know-how.
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sts would have
let you discover that by yourself.
> On Friday, July 25th, 2025 at 2:52 PM, Veronica Cisneros
> wrote:
Please do not top-post, it is against the etiquette of this list.
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principles of the web.
Yes, that is my point: breaking compatibility with eaters of soup of
tags was what was necessary to get something that worked well.
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e web? It started becoming usable for decent layout when it
stopped applying this principle and trying to make something decent out
of any soup of tags.
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only one parameter in these heuristics.
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Y was broken by X only in a stupid implementation from the
1990s and all other Libre software have been doing X without breaking Y
for decades.
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g that looks like breaking signatures. Do you mean
dash-dash-space-LF signatures or digital signatures?
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it
still requires running programs: if the issue is that the system does
not want to run programs, chroot will not convince it.
What is needed is to extract manually enough of the shared libraries.
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Greg (HE12025-07-14):
> Sure. All the old hands (Hasler, Wright, tomas, Wooledge et. al.) are
> using Gnome, the default Debian desktop.
Any evidence to support that claim?
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using Gnus to read this mailing list,
> please get real.
So, you would have a webforum with new users asking questions and
experienced users who could give answers still on the mailing-list.
Is it a underhanded plan to have the experienced users quietly by
themselves?
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Greg (HE12025-07-11):
> Does that mean to a different filesystem on the same disk it's a move rather
> than a copy?
The fact that it is on the same disk is not relevant. Apart from that, I
suggest you re-read Dan's mail more carefully, everything was in it.
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of the process it's no longer a "copy."
Indeed. And you might notice it is exactly what Dan said.
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selves in order to attract hypothetical users.
It is bound to fail, and it denotes quite a bit of condescension. That
the condescension is mostly warranted does not make it ok.
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hw (HE12025-07-11):
> (S)FTP is still in use like for cameras, scanners (printers) and phones.
Do you have a few examples of brand and models of cameras and phones
that use FTP?
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r boot.
> That's possibly because the Linux drivers perform some settings on
> the hardware. The boot firmware (EFI ?) and GRUB obviously don't do
> what is needed.
Indeed. The described problem is EXACTLY what we should expect if the
firmware has lost ability to drive USB but the Linux kernel still works.
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Felix Miata (HE12025-07-09):
> This may have nothing to do with Debian or any OS. It could be either
> firmware in
> the motherboard
Nit: the firmware in the motherboard is an operating system.
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scribe is an issue in your system firmware: the devices start
working when Linux takes control, the problem is not Linux.
> Later, after other system updates, the the keyboard and the mouse are
> working again during boot, and so on: the on/off cycle repeats.
That was not clear.
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Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-07-01):
> However, setuid on a script is considered a security
> flaw.
Was. Now it just does not have any effect.
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actice might trigger one of the ineffective anti-spam constraints that
the oligopolistic operators are forcing on every body for other reasons
than fighting spam.
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n
MUA bounces. And MTA forwards are much closer to MUA bounces than MUA
forwards.
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Greg (HE12025-06-27):
> It is not the accepted meaning of the term.
Did you not already tell that? Was not Greg Wooledge precisely replying
to that?
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ords used in different fields?
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ail, then the previous relay has to generate
delivery status notification message.
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seriously wrong here, but I cannot guess if it is in
SpamAssassin's design or in the way it has been set up in this instance.
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sage completely wrong.
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um to the safe place.
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ical damage or theft.
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apis;x86_64" \
-d pixel_7
emulator -avd Pixel_7A_x86_64 -no-boot-anim -gpu off
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rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):
> What lesson is that?
Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.
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put.
There are always good reasons to use zsh.
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einstall.
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rewall rules.
What you are trying to achieve looks a lot like VPN software, look it
up.
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he correct way of booting Debian 12 without a graphical interface?
Hi.
You need to look at `systemctl set-default`.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because
> it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use everyday) :
>
> https://winswitch.org/dev/
Please tell us if you find it useful once you have tested it throughly.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> Usually I check after that someone gave me some general idea.
Then I suggest you apply the same rule even more strictly to saying.
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Mario Marietto (HE12025-04-28):
> I think i can detach an application with ssh and a proper parameter.
Checking is better than thinking without checking.
Be sure to tell us the results of your experiments.
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;>>> even over laggy ADSL links and you can detach the window from the local
>>>> display and reattach it to another.
And once again, partially, when I replied to one of your own suggestions:
>>>> Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis
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een mode, and that would require changing the way I have been
doing things with regard to hot-plugged screens.
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ime. If I run firefox through x2go for example,
will I get (1) one big window with the firefox window in it, and if
firefox opens a save dialog it will be inside the big window, or (2) a
window for firefox, integrated with my local wm, and the save dialog
ditto?
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ending bitmaps of
its windows.
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t fast and
detachable.
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window, still responsive.
I am rather fond of Xpra. Before considering installing it from sources,
I wanted to ask:
Do anybody know another tool with the same features, still packages for
Trixie?
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enefit? Will I find a trove of package already
implementing network protocols and standard algorithms, or be able to
run Perl 5 packages somehow? And so on.
Do you know the answer to these questions? Or a place where somebody
wrote them?
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lar-expressions.html
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kwrite/index.html (I presume kwrite does
not support regular expressions)
If I have understood your query (which seems unlikely), is the answer:
Kwrite does not support regular expressions whil eKate and Katepart support the
same regular expre
unning "ls ~/.bash_profile" as root?
To my knowledge root's home directory should be /root, not /home/root.
For me:
# ls ~/.bash_profile
/root/.bash_profile
Did you create a user by the name "root" ?
George.
>
> So the DotFiles page isn't consistent wi
point where average
human eyes start losing alignment.
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ately, that is just
not true.
> Then again, looking at their site, so is everything
> else they do, including their TOU.
What do you think is wrong in their terms of use?
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Oq8mb1L"
(do not worry, this is not the real key).
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Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
> Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem
> solved. Roger
“I did. I am sure my mail is blue. Is it not?” and join a screenshot.
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believe you).
Monochrome is rather stretching it in this day and age. Better evoke the
situation of people with sight disabilities, because it is true that
they might have special needs, including about color, to be able to read
something.
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3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored
> in
> an e-mail message body.
>
> Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Not possible.
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source-files/TFP2021.pdf
> ].
>
> Suggestions?
Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV
delimiters using a powerful editor. The rectangle selection of Vim might
be useful.
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rive. If it did,
it would not cal it unknown-block(0,0).
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nient if you want to run several
> commands as root instead of just one.
Not true: with a root shell, you need to be extra careful at all time.
With sudo in front of the privileged commands, you only need to be
extra careful when you type sudo.
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robably because of
radio interferences.
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ifying it that sudo makes things more complex than su.
Please, when replying to this, double check you do not commit the second
fallacy to assume that one thing is simpler than another when the
difference is you already know the first and not the second.
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That includes the root data structures of
most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that
will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of
effort.
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emote X or Wayland client like VNC.
Apologies if I have misunderstood your question.
George.
On Saturday, 05-04-2025 at 03:07 Eben King wrote:
> Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian
> yesterday:
>
> eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
of LF, as Tomas
mentioned? For that, you would need to hit ctrl-enter and see ^M in the
terminal, each time before you hit enter.
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On 30/3/25 20:50, David wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote:
'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk
drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer
as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the l
journal
Is my interpretation of the man instructions correct?
Has anyone had the occasion to do this? And if so, does it work well?
George.
PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the
any other good email clients that support email threading and are
packaged in Debian?
I am getting more emails
coming in than I have time to read. I will try to keep my emails to a minimum.
George.
On Friday, 28-03-2025 at 14:14 Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 05:13, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > Max suggested checking with journalctl which may help, but I
reason why I decided to use some option to set
> $HOME.
I strongly suggest you learn to use sudo as sudo is intended to be used
rather than using it as an imitation for su. You would not have had this
problem if you did.
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.
# grep -i "SYSFS" /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules
George.
On Thursday, 27-03-2025 at 18:34 W. Pepperdine wrote:
> > Here are outputs of a few queries on log entries
> > from one of my XFCE installations. How do they compare
> > with your logs? Can you see any reports on
ailed to call Lookup:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera
Mar 27 09:12:17 tugll03 wireplumber[1473]:
Failed to call Lookup:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera
On Thursday, 27-03-2025 at 07:26 George at Clug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is any
on for a
reinstall, though I doubt this will help.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm
This was another log check I noticed someone doing:
journalctl | grep -i "broken pipe"
https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/using-journa
for those is convenient.
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ot; without really
> understanding how it works.
Must not comment. Must not comment.
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jeremy ardley (HE12025-03-26):
> One reason to choose VPN over ssh is that many ISPs block incoming ports
> including ssh, telnet, RDP, smtp, and smb ports.
And they do not block ports used for VPNs. How convenient.
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binary files with it.
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: if your users might not be able to install port knocking software,
not allowed to run VPN clients, or if an annoying firewall is in the
middle, you have no choice but to let a public access.
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hrough the VPN to internal systems.
> Why do you think SSH is less secure than any other VPN ?
Why do you think Jan says ssh is less secure than a VPN when Jan is
saying that ssh is less secure than VPN+ssh?
I suggest to add port knocking to protect the VPN.
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