Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
It's documented in the man page of apt-patterns. Regards, Jörg.

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
c.) looks like. If you think there could be a discrepancy between the list of packages known to dpkg and apt, you could test with something like this one-liner $ dpkg --get-selections | awk '{gsub(":amd64","") ; print $1}' | (apt list '~i' | awk -F'/' 'FNR > 1 {print $1}' | sort | diff /dev/fd/5 -) 5<&0 Regards, Jörg.

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 06/12/2024 14:49: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD. I was able to "repair" unreadable se

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 05/12/2024 18:41: On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:26:18PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: 1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted. Therefore,

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
After making a backup, do a "secure erase" of the SSD. Of course that needs reformatting the drive and rebuilding the system. I was able to revive a Samsung 960 Pro this way. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Franco, Franco Martelli wrote on 25/09/2024 17:07: 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.

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
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.

Re: Brightness Control Hotkeys not working on Debian 12, Lenovo IdeaPad3

2024-09-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
First thing is to check if any events are produced by the keys in question. Try the 'xev' program from package 'x11-utils'. Regards, Jörg.

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

2024-09-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe your account is missing some authorizations. What's the output of `id`? Is your account member of the groups 'video' and 'input'? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Which tool for upgrade in commandline?

2024-08-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
, Jörg.

[Solved] Re: Cannot execute any container using podman run

2024-07-02 Thread Jörg Kastning
On 02.07.24 19:36, CToID wrote: On 7/2/24 22:38, Jörg Kastning wrote: :~$ podman run --rm hello-world conmon: option parsing failed: Unknown option --full-attach Error: write child: broken pipe Maybe try run with `podman --log-level=debug run --rm hello-world` to get more information

Cannot execute any container using podman run

2024-07-02 Thread Jörg Kastning
Dear Debian users, I have installed Podman via `sudo apt install podman` on Debian 12 (Bookworm) and setup subuids and subgids for my user to use rootless podman. However my host seems to have some issue as I'm not able to run (instantiate) any container using the `podman run` command. Plea

Re: No $DISPLAY variable set over ssh

2024-04-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
allan wrote on 18/04/2024 13:37: Bug report submitted. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069236 Hi, may I ask how you disabled IPv6 on these machines? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
og: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=349099 Regards, Jörg.

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Henning Follmann wrote on 21/02/2024 14:16: On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:00:17PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Somewhere I read, for maintainance of an SSD all it's cells should be read from time to time like this sudo dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress Where did you

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
d off for a longer period. At least, it shows the current read performance of the device. An SSD should regularly be trimmed, if in use. This is to assist it's wear leveling process. What's your opinion? Regards, Jörg.

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
self use the MX Mechanical Mini. Can be configured from Linux with solaar. Regards, Jörg.

Re: locate question

2023-11-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
If you just want to see files in /home/gene try locate -r 'home/gene/.*\.scad' In that way, regex syntax can be used to narrow down the search. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Understanding package dependencies

2023-10-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
^^ How about apt list '?reverse-depends(?name(lsb-base))' or apt list '~RDepends:~nlsb-base' Regards, Jörg.

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thanks for the detailed inspection. I'll have a closer look into the apt abilities. Regards, Jörg.

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-04 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Max Nikulin wrote on 04/10/2023 04:22: On 04/10/2023 01:29, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Max Nikulin wrote on 03/10/2023 12:11: apt list '?narrow(~i, !~Astable|~Astable-backports|!~O^Debian$|~o|~c)' In my experience the only tool that gives correct answers, is apt-show-versions in t

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

2023-10-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
, that it works with a database which should be updated before asking something. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Printer HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw 5085B1

2023-09-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With this printer CUPS driverless printing works, see https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting . No need for hplip. Regards, Jörg.

dangling symlinks [ was: Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"]

2023-08-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 24/08/2023 14:00: A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks. find . -follow -lname "*" How about find -L . -type l Regards, Jörg.

Re: Hddtemp in Bookworm

2023-06-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The linux kernel has a module for reading the drive temperature called drivetemp. Therefore, using the package lm-sensors should also show the drive temperature. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: After upgrade to bookworm: Keyboard layout

2023-05-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Could you show us the content of your /etc/default/keyboard ? Regards, Jörg.

Re: OpenCL with Radeon GPU

2023-04-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Arno, Arno Lehmann wrote on 25/04/2023 12:54: Hi Jörg-Volker, Am 25.04.2023 um 11:19 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: Hi, which mesa packages do you have installed? None providing OpenCL capabilities at that time, but if you followed this thread, you are aware of this already: # LANG=C

Re: OpenCL with Radeon GPU

2023-04-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, which mesa packages do you have installed? In Debian testing I see the package `mesa-opencl-icd`. I have no experience with opencl and AMD graphic cards but are very interested how it works in Debian. Regards, Jörg.

Re: grep: show matching line from pattern file

2022-05-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
f the regexps in patterns.txt, that match entries in /var/log/syslog. Is there a way to do this? -Jim P. How about this: $ grep -of patterns.txt /var/log/syslog.1 | grep -n -f - patterns.txt Regards, Jörg.

Re: intel-media-va-driver segmentation fault in unstable

2022-03-24 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Is already in Debian BTS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007992 Regards, Jörg.

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at https://dotclear.org/ which is PHP based. Some time ago Debian also had it packaged. Regards, Jörg.

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 10/03/2022 14:44: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote: ... i did install the dummy package and uninstalled the intel but that did not leave me with a system that booted to the desktop so i put it back. Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 08/03/2022 16:35: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: Something like Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graph

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
n in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf` or `/etc/X11/xorg.conf`. Keep just the `xserver-xorg-video-dummy` on the system for dependencies. And for video acceleration the package `intel-media-va-driver`. Regards, Jörg.

[SOLVED] Error in the certificate verification

2021-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Solution was to sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates and trust the certificate `ISRG_Root_X1.crt`. I read about it here: https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/ Regards, Jörg. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/10/2021 13:56: Hi, on Debian testing, when trying to update

Error in the certificate verification

2021-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
0146DC6D4A0B2914BDED34DB648ACFD622F3D138 and using RSA key A7236886F3CCCAAD148A27F80E98404D386FA1D9 Any idea anybody? Regards, Jörg.

Re: bitz-server: package is not in any development repository ...

2021-05-17 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Hello Albretch, bitz-server has 4 RC-Bugs[1], which could not be fixed by me. No fixes came from the upstream either. Therefore the package had to be removed from testing and unstable. CU Jörg [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=1;src=bitz- server -- New: GPG

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computer monitor)

2020-11-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In Germany (Europe probably) it might be a Fransenflügler or thrips. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fransenfl%C3%BCgler#Fransenfl%C3%BCgler_und_TFT-Monitore for some suggestions. It's a german text. The english Wikipedia page doesn't have this section. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Upgrading python3.8 from 3.8.3-1 to 3.8.4~rc1-1 breaks xpra

2020-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
; versions? > Yes, there is: http://snapshot.debian.org/ Regards, Jörg.

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
to heavy programs for doing simple calculations. For that I also use `bc -l`. It has a line editor: you can write your whole calculation in one line and scroll back to previous lines to change and repeat them. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

2020-05-10 Thread Jörg Kampmann
ed from neutral background to the window of the application. I have the impression the applications hinder the mouse to move. could this be a priority problem? kind regards Jörg

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

2020-05-09 Thread Jörg Kampmann
case firefox of the DVD) the mouse mostly does not move. It jumps. And when there is a button something similar, the mouse behaves even worse. I did not dig into the "InputClass" because I did not find it. So any help is urgently needed. tia Jörg

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

2020-05-03 Thread Jörg Kampmann
libinput libinput: /usr/share/man/man4/libinput.4.gz Any ideas? Jörg

Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

2020-04-29 Thread Jörg Kampmann
can I do? tia Jörg -- = Joerg Kampmann, Dr. Dipl.-Phys - IBK-Consult for Climate Physics - D-31228 Peine +49-177-276-3140 ===

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As far as I understand, kernel 5.4 supports your GPU. What is the outcome of the two commands $ lsmod | grep amdgpu $ find /lib/modules -name 'amdgpu*' The packages you try to install are not from Debian, maybe they are not up to date. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
.4.0-4-common/include/drm/drmP.h I don't have access to that GPU or experience with Radeon 520 Mobile. According to https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=pci%3A1002-6660-103c-8331 it should be supported by Linux kernel 5.4. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Try it without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and read the Debian Stretch part in the Debian wiki. What's the output of the "xrandr" commands listed in the wiki? Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Keywords are "hybrig graphics" and "PRIME". Maybe, these links can be helpful: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME Regards, Jörg.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
m package firmware-linux-nonfree, I think; file names beginning with "skl_")? Regards, Jörg.

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
change the cpufreq governor permanently even when rebooting. I suppose, you somehow changed the default behavior. Regards, Jörg.

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
what is the outcome of the following command: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_governor Regards, Jörg.

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stephan Seitz wrote on 16/12/2019 20:50: > On Mo, Dez 16, 2019 at 08:32:01 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Does anybody else see such a /pulse directory? > > Yes, here as well (two testing systems). > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan > Thanks for confi

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 16/12/2019 20:32: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 16/12/2019 17:29: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> $ dpkg -S /pulse >>> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /pulse >>> >>> fails to giv

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 16/12/2019 17:29: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> $ dpkg -S /pulse >> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /pulse >> >> fails to give any clue. >> The directory is generated at boot-time. But I wa

Re: unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Brian wrote on 13/12/2019 21:29: > On Fri 13 Dec 2019 at 20:26:32 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> does anybody know which package generates the directory /pulse ? This is a >> bug >> in unstable I think, but I can't find which package is

unstable: directory pulse in root directory : /pulse where from?

2019-12-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hello, does anybody know which package generates the directory /pulse ? This is a bug in unstable I think, but I can't find which package is the culprit. Regards, Jörg.

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
f, YCM core for Swift." Regards, Jörg. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 22/09/2019 09:52: > Searching for "sadbart lesson" with startpage gave me these two links: > > better completion for c++ > http://nosubstance.me/articles/2015-01-29-better-completion-for-cpp/ > > G

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ntal Swift completer) https://github.com/oblitum/YouCompleteMe Regards, Jörg. c...@riseup.net wrote on 21/09/2019 12:56: > Hello, > Does anyone know what kind of font and color themes used in this terminal and > editor setting, > https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1e2F0A123h

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thank you Greg for the clarification. I find your third link https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles very worth reading. Regards, Jörg Greg Wooledge wrote on 05/06/2019 14:52: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:18:55AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> As user of thunderbird you best set the en

Re: Date format for Thunderbird 60.7 -- partial success in changing it

2019-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As user of thunderbird you best set the environment variable LC_TIME in your profile, e.g. via ~/.bash_profile . Check it with the command $ locale You have to log out (from desktop and from computer) before changes in .bash_profile get applied. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you could then try some of the switches for ps2pdf, for example $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer old.pdf new.pdf "/printer" makes it 300dpi, "/ebook" 150 dpi, and "/screen" 72 dpi, the documentation can tell you more. Regards, Jörg.

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of ghostscript: $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf Documentation can be found in ghostscript-doc. Regards, Jörg.

Re: which program can test cpu speed

2018-10-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ndan Gregg. Regards, Jörg.

Re: Thunderbird 60 ignores LC_TIME environment variable

2018-10-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The locale en_GB.utf8 uses 24 h time format. Regards, jvp.

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote on 06/14/18 17:44: > On 6/14/18, Siard wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: >>>> >>>> I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to >>>

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to version > 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite the systemd > packages having version 238. > It looks like things will be back to normal after the nex

Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which version of the systemd packages (udev, libsystemd0, etc.) is installed? On my testing/unstable systems X can be started using "startx" with xorg-server version 2:1.20.0-2 but systemd packages in version 237. systemd 238 is not working. Regards, jvp.

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Alexandre Rossi wrote on 12/11/17 10:05: >> could you show your Xorg.0.log files? > > Here it is attached. > >> The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of >> grep firmware /var/log/dmesg > > $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware > [9.165601] i915 :00:02.0: firmwa

Re: on-screen artifacts (red pixels) at high resolution with Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake)

2017-12-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, could you show your Xorg.0.log files? The Kaby Lake GPU needs some firmware. Therefore, what is the print out of grep firmware /var/log/dmesg ? Regards, jvp.

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 10/30/17 15:54: > Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > >> imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version >> >> cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) >> >> The real imagemagick package is at 8:6

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Hector wrote on 10/30/17 11:13: > imagemagick-6.q16 Provides: imagemagick, but not a specific version > > cups-filters Depends: imagemagick (>= 6.4~) > > The real imagemagick package is at 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1 (on my > machine anyway), which satisifies the cups-filters dependency. >

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200 > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original >> mail. >> On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only >

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original mail. On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only recommends it. And I use APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Therefore, on this system imagemagick could be removed. Regards, j

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote on 10/23/17 04:12: > I have tried two different things. First, I added this directive to > /etc/network/interfaces under the eth0 stanza: > > dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1 > > That did not appear to have any effect because taking eth0 and eth1 down > and then bringi

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Since I use a pure 64-bit system, I overlooked that only one of imagemagick-6.q16 or imagemagick-6.q16:i386 can be installed. I think it's better to re-install imagemagick-6.q16. And then show the output when trying to purge imagemagick, please. I think there must be involved a i386 version of some

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Celejar wrote on 10/20/17 19:05: > Thanks. Okay, I did that, and I was then able to remove imagemagick, but only > if imagemagick:i386 is installed instead - and that's also marked as a > dummy package that can be safely removed or purged. > > At this point: > > ~$ aptitude search '~iimagemagick'

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look which imagemagick packages are installed: $ aptitude search '~iimagemagick' Probably there is a line beginning with i A imagemagick-6.q16 which shall replace imagemagick. Also see the dependencies of package imagemagick: $ dpkg -s imagemagick So before purging imagemagick you ha

Re: Redmine on server in DMZ

2017-08-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Johann Spies wrote on 08/02/17 11:56: > A few years ago we got redmine working on a server in the DMZ on our > network using ruby gems copied there from another computer with access > to the internet. > > This server has now been updated to Debian Stretch - which broke the > redmine installation.

Re: Power draw from UPS

2017-07-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe this is helpful APC UPS - ArchWiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/APC_UPS Please report back if and how it works. Regards, jvp.

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

2017-07-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 07/17/17 10:06: > Maybe, the output of "pactl info" can shed some light? > Or try "pacmd dump-volumes". Regards, jvp.

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

2017-07-17 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, the output of "pactl info" can shed some light? Regards, jvp.

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 07/14/17 14:10: >> Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >>> there's this nice blog in German: >>> https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ >>> where the firmware update procedure from L

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi Joerg, I use an older Garmin device, so have not tested what follows: there's this nice blog in German: https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to the firmware files for your device is given http

Re: How did you update to stretch?

2017-06-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
For every release the Debian developers take the trouble to write down an upgrade guide https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgradingpackages . Did you take a look at it? In my opinion it's written very clear and easy to read. Many thanks from me for all

Re: is there a firewall which blocks the connection

2017-05-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, openssh-server is linked against libwrap0 which in turn is controlled by the files /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. What is the content of these files on your system? Regards, jvp.

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

2017-04-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote on 04/26/17 16:46: > On Qua, 26 Abr 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I would go further saying iproute2 is non-functional due to being >> functionally >> un-documented. >> >> https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/iproute2/ip.8.en.html is useless. >> >> Functional commands, fo

Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

2017-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Harry Putnam wrote on 03/11/17 13:03: > Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > >> Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have >> similarly close but still different flags/commands? > > I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. > > I've noticed that som

Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

2017-03-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Greg Wooledge wrote on 03/06/17 14:38: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:25:49PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> If you need floating point numbers, bc (or dc) are your next stops. > > Or awk. For some problems, awk is fantastic. > Yes, it helps to sample the number of "bytes" like so: owl1=$(awk

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

2017-03-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Owlett wrote on 03/01/17 00:45: > On 02/28/2017 05:06 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: >> On Monday 27 February 2017 13:17:56 Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" system >>> provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible size. >> >> Wou

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/25/17 16:40: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: >> Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: >> >>> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it >>> remains stable after several days. I just applied the

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: > Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > >> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it >> remains stable after several days. I just applied the change suggested >> by Benjamin in another message in

Re: stretch apt-get -u dist-upgrade does not result in sid

2017-02-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Felix Miata wrote on 02/18/17 06:10: > I changed sources.list to point only to sid, then apt-get clean, then apt-get > update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade. /etc/debian_version and /etc/issue still say > I > have 9.0. Can held back non-essential packages stonewall a dist-upgrade? mc > and > mc-lang 4.

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it > remains stable after several days. I just applied the change suggested > by Benjamin in another message in this thread. > > Kind regards, > Daniel > Meanwhile I had the first crash of t

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/15/17 23:52: >> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >> now) > > It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has anyone tried it? > > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=thunderbird > I'm using a mixed testing/sid syst

Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9

2017-02-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, on a laptop with testing, updated init packages, and freshly rebooted, the priority of the packages is still "required": # cat /proc/1/comm init $ mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,lazytime) $ dpkg -s sysvinit-utils | gre

Re: detecting hardware for custom kernel

2017-01-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
deloptes wrote on 01/11/17 09:50: > HP Garcia wrote: > >> Is there a command to detect hardware for a custom kernel? I would like >> to take advantages of the newer kernels. > > It is not clear what you want to achieve. > Most probably your current kernel has already detected the hardware for you

Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How?

2017-01-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In order to separate reading from writing or to store the directory structure for several writings one can use find and tar: find PATH -xdev -type d -print0 \ | tar cf FILE --no-recursion --null --files-from - The directories will be stored in the file FILE. It can be extracted with tar

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-01-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
David Wright wrote on 01/02/17 15:41: > On Sun 01 Jan 2017 at 12:39:26 (+0100), Xen wrote: >> rhkra...@gmail.com schreef op 31-12-2016 15:12: >> >>> But, info pages could work. >> >> Yes, let's propose that. They are just impossible to navigate if you >> are not an insider. > > I don't know what a

Re: [repost] Equivalent of "aptitude --without-recommends" OR "apt-get --no-install-recommends" in preseed.cfg?

2016-12-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/26/16 15:49: > > Try something like > > aptitude -R search '~pstandard' mate-desktop-environment synaptic pluma > gparted Thinking about it, I would even reduce it to aptitude -R search '~pimportant' mate-desktop-environme

Re: [repost] Equivalent of "aptitude --without-recommends" OR "apt-get --no-install-recommends" in preseed.cfg?

2016-12-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Richard Owlett wrote on 12/26/16 14:54: > I had gabled the subject line and some of the text. > > On 12/26/2016 7:45 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> When doing my version of a minimalist install, I use lines >> similar to: >> tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard >> d-i pkgsel/include string mat

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