Re: Zoom

2025-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM Gregory Forster wrote: > > Hi, I've been using Debian for about 3 months, still a newbie. I'm > trying to get totally off of Windows.One program I'm not sure about is > Zoom.If you go to their web site, they detect you're using Linux and ask > which distro you're u

Re: Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM Patrice Duroux wrote: > > Of course, maybe I misspoke but my point wasn't about the configuration files > remaining as expected just removing the package and not purging it. It is > about > the broken symlink to its service file which is for sure no more present >

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM Maureen Thomas wrote: > > I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the > updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that > I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds before it > tur

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 28/01/2025 à 20:42, didier gaumet a écrit : > [...] > > the installation of the package (seemly the default policy in Debian), > [...] > > sorry for my poor english: please replace "seemly" by "apparently" Don't apologize. Your English i

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: > [...] > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing > list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird

WebAuthn and non-JavaScript implementation

2025-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
For the folks who like to use the web without JavaScript, you might want to comment on this beg report from the WebAuthn working group: . According to comment : the biggest challe

Re: EFI partition - some questions

2025-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM Hans wrote: > > > I am using UEFI now for the first time. Everything is worḱing fine, but I do > not understand everything. Please allow me to ask: > > 1. In /etc/fstab there is my entry > > UUID=5ABD-D634 /boot/efi vfatumask=0077 0 1 > > and

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM Frank Guthausen wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:46:16 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > > How can it do that in reality? It's connecting to the outside world > > via the router. It would have to 'tunnel' through the router somehow > > wouldn't it as otherwise the

Re: sunscribe

2025-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM Róbert László wrote: > > help subscribe

Re: About booting... and installing debian from your iso's

2025-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM John Hasler wrote: > > Do you understand what Sid is? If you want to run it install Stable and > upgrade. That's the way to "Get it fucking running by all means and > then when you can customize it further". > > CJE writes: > > so i wonder what the hell you're tes

Re: Subject: Re: HFS+

2025-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM wrote: > > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:58:51 -0500 > > I looked at the package file lists for those two packages, and one of > > the things that looked interesting was "hpfsck". > > Thanks for the reply. > > # hpfsck -v /dev/sdc2 > *** C

Re: HFS+

2025-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM wrote: > > From: didier gaumet > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:25:10 +0100 > > I would look at theses packages: > > ... > > hfsplus/stable 1.0.4-17 amd64 > > ... > > hfsprogs/stable 540.1.linux3-5+b1 amd64 > > ... > > hfsutils/stable 3.2.6-15 amd64 > > ... > >

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium > > (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 > > Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Using compression to minimize writes is part of a write leveling > > strategy to extend drive life. > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+disk+write+leveling>. >

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > > > > > Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to > > > > > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle. > > > >

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives, > > <https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa11/tech/slides/wei.pdf>, > > The word compression does not appear in

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle. > > I find that statement highly dubious. Do you

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/14/25 10:13, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:02, Michael Stone wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > >>> I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later. > >> ... (Storage frau

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > I've recently purchased Samsung 990 PRO Heatsink NVMe M.2 SSD 4TB. > > I installed it on board of a modern beefy Ubuntu 22.04 system and > formatted with GPT/NTFS. > > I started copying (with rsync) a large chunk of data to that drive (26+

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton 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 >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > Glad to hear it. > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum. Please do not change the title

Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. Try

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

2025-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > As the knowledge base on this list is wide and deep, I am asking to cut > through the commercial clutter. Ideally, what I would like to find is a > WiFi (802.11a/b/g) capable device that would plug into the end of an > extension cord (commo

Re: ApacheBench broken for (most) SSL sites on Bookworm?

2025-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM cen wrote: > > It seems that ab encounters some kind of an SSL issue with most https sites I > tried (google, cloudflare proxied sites etc). > > Not all, seems to work fine with a personal blog site I host on > Debian/apache2 server or with https://www.debian.org

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM mick.crane wrote: > > On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote: > > Tomas writes: > >> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch > >> the US still on their Imperial measures, > > > > Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperia

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units > >are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory > >modules: alignment requirements,

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > > space. > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > into

Re: kvm/qemu

2025-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating

Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > hello everyone, > > I am looking to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in my Debian 12 > machine. This is a clean install on a Dell XPS 9550 laptop. > > I have Secure boot enabled. The instructions say that I need to enroll an mok > k

Re: debian kernel compiler

2025-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM wrote: > > > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2025 at 11:54 AM > > From: "Lee" > > To: "Franco Martelli" > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: debian kernel compiler > > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > > > > > On 02/01/25 at

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computer arrivingsoon]

2025-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 05:01:19PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/2/25 10:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > sudo apt install sgdisk > > unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. > > Can you remind us why you do not ask the

Re: "lists.debian.org - where can you help?" (Video)

2025-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Perhaps not quite on topic but over the holiday period I watched this > presentation about lists.debian.org and found it very interesting. > > > https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/talks/12-listsdebianorg-where-can-you-help/ > > Or if y

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM wrote: > > I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed. > Can you suggest one for that purpose? Can you state the problem you are having selecting a laptop among the near endless choices? > Happy new year all debian members. Jeff

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/12/2024 16:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > Max Nikulin (12024-12-30): > >> Create EFI System Partition: it should have proper partition type UUID and > >> it is not recommended to make it too small (<500 MB). > > > > Only if one wants to

Re: double-boot laptop with Debian Trixie

2024-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM Rafał Lichwała wrote: > > I plan to switch completely from Windows 11 to Debian on my laptop, but > as a first step I'd like to configure double-boot setup to give it a > try, look around and check if all hardware works fine under Debian. See

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

2024-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am running Trixie full updated. > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest > kernel. > The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the computer is > completely unresponsive. > I have gone back t

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM George at Clug wrote: > [...] > > eben@cerberus:~$ type command > > command is a shell builtin > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Builtin-Commands.html > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html > > command >

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 4:12 AM Arbol One wrote: > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser in > Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? `command -v brave`. Jeff

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:36 PM wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:22:29AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote: > > > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently > > > (lots of > > > different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorab

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:10 PM Chris Green wrote: > > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 17 Dec 2024 21:41 -0600, from deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk (David Wright): > > > As you have to select the subset from some listboxes with a mouse, > > > I would guess that the step is designed to defeat key-loggin

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 17/12/24 at 22:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > There may be one logic error in the code -- if you insert one item, > > then you may double free the node because you free 'p' and then yo

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > On 17/12/2024 17:44, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > [...] > > Under the heading "Should I use a password manager?" the opening is: > > "Yes. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge > > advantages in a world where there's fa

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Here's the problem: > > > > void dealloc() > > { > > for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) > >

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Do you have a reference? > > > > > > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice, > > >

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >Do you have a reference? > > > >I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice, > >too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very int

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

2024-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > songbird writes: > > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > > > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > > > to set everyth

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM Poon Weng Chee wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP > address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. > > Despite

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to > check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was > used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available anymore for Bookworm > (does anybody know

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
yourself as an authority-authorized credit card owner? Whatever... *Plonk* > Op ma 16 dec 2024 om 08:49 schreef Jeffrey Walton : >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM 🦓 wrote: >> > >> > YubiKeys is a password manager in a dongle, thus the exact opposite of

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
zo 15 dec 2024 om 15:35 schreef Jeffrey Walton : >> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 6:47 AM 🦓 wrote: >> > >> > my mother is currently struggling to memorize all of my dead stepfather's >> > identities and passwords and that makes me wonder how would you l

Re: Orca install repeating - can't reproduce [WAS Re: Installer and assistive technologies]

2024-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 9:28 AM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 11:39:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > >This ceaseless saga has been dragging on for over five years: > > And as long as people keep playing along this mailing list will continue > to be a one man comedy hour. ++

Re: a passwordless operating system

2024-12-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 6:47 AM 🦓 wrote: > > my mother is currently struggling to memorize all of my dead stepfather's > identities and passwords and that makes me wonder how would you like an > internet of hosts who store everything undeletably and barrierlessly readably > with no secrets what

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 6:17 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really > slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for > wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running. > Memory is half f

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:17:46 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Many years ago, I believe when I was being taught 'C' programming, we were > > taught to use two instructions named malloc and (I believe the other > > important corresponding ins

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

2024-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:42 AM 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 may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which > sometimes hangs when attempting

Re: Audacious media player - help using GUI

2024-12-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > [SNIP... ] > > I'm looking for documentation for optimal use of the GUI. > My initial problems revolved around pause/resume. > Those raised the question "How do I go to point x minutes into a file?" > > Then I started speculating about taki

Re: shall i install snapd

2024-12-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM Bitfox wrote: > > I am just not sure, should I install snapd on debian 12 for package > management? or just use apt for everything? > > I found that there are some apps like certbot and the latest ruby are > installed by snapd only by default. I don't believe that'

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM 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

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

2024-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:56 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth >> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM Jeffrey Walton w

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

2024-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > [...] > After troubleshooting a bit I found that squid is not binding a socket to > 3128 when started manually. > > root@hp-debian:/home/tmb# squid -a 3128 > 2024/12/06 05:01:01| FATAL: vector::_M_range_check: __n (which is 1) >= > th

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > Michael Stone composed on 2024-12-05 16:51 (UTC-0500): > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 16:16:53 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > >>At least one does. I provided URL to the one I use, for some definition of > >>"automated", upthread @2024-12-05 12:24

MBR to GPT + UEFI (was: From SSD to NVME)

2024-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:24 PM Hans wrote: > > as promised I send you my experiences with cloning to NVME. > > So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in BIOS > (my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive. > > Firts reboot worked well, no problems. B

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > Daniel Harris wrote: > > Seeing the similarity especially that we are both using similar drives > > (mine i( Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB) makes me think it might be a hardware > > instead of a software issue. > > The referenced Samsung SSD 980

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 11:07 AM Daniel Harris wrote: > > I have been using the stable branch but recently it has not been so stable. > I have experienced some unexpected behavior Not sure if its related to this > ubuntu bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1805816 ) > > Se

Re: ACPI Error During Boot - Dell Laptop

2024-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 11:37 AM Marcelo Laia wrote: > > Hello Debian Users, > > I’m encountering an issue with my wife’s Dell laptop running Debian. During > boot, the process halts with the following error message displayed: > > [ 96.594541] ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in pac

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 12:52 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 7:47 PM Felix Miata wrote: >> >> Andy Smith composed on 2024-12-03 19:48 (UTC): >> >> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 14:31:14 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> >> pocket's system is the outlier here. It's the only

Maling list for Debain wiki issues?

2024-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, Does anyone know which Debian mailing list should be used for wiki discussions? Here are some resources, but I cannot find contact info or a mailing list. * List of mailing lists: * Debian wiki: * Debia

Re: where is mail.log

2024-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 5:32 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 07:51:40PM +0100, Scott Andrews wrote: > > > The version of systemd in trixie (and also in sid) is 257 according > > > to packages.debian.org. > > > > > > I don't know whether that's the version trixie is going to use up

Re: RAID60 question

2024-12-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/1/24 04:27, Greg wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm setting up MD-RAID0 on a top of HW-RAID6 devices (long story). I > > would like to confirm the following: > > > > 1. The RAID0 chunk size should be the stripe width of the > > underl

Re: scan on Canon mf643

2024-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM Bruno Volpi wrote: > > When I try to scan ( x-sane or simple-scan) from my canon MF643 since few > day I get this error message : > > *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated > > Printing work fine. > > I tried from two PC with same configuration : same probl

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

2024-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:52 PM wrote: > > Ahh, ok, thanks -- that's pretty clear that there is no memory slot, and, even > though I wouldn't use the laptop for much -- to demo some software "on the > road", 4 MB is very limiting. The SSD might be soldered onto the motherboard, too. I found that

Re: SOLVED (I think): Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 22/11/24 23:20, D. R. Evans wrote: > > > > To my simple mind that suggests that some auto-configuration magic that > > is supposed to happen when the new printer was plugged into the network > > was not handled correctly by debian stable.

Re: SOLVED (I think): Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 1:27 PM D. R. Evans wrote: > > D. R. Evans wrote on 11/19/24 09:38: > > I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. > > > > When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my > > Debian > > stable system, everything seemed t

Re: help: disable all manner of sleep/suspend/hibernate - Debian 12

2024-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 22:57:35 (-0800), Michael Paoli wrote: > > > remove power (and it goes down cold - laptop battery no longer holds > >charge and has been that way for many years now - cannot withstand so > >much as even a full

Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

2024-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 4:02 PM D. R. Evans wrote: > > I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. > > When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my Debian > stable system, everything seemed to be fine. But now, a few days later, I can > no lon

Re: needrestart no longer depends on libmodule-scandeps-perl?

2024-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 1:39 PM Mike Kupfer wrote: > > I noticed that after updating 'needrestart' to 3.6-4+deb12u2, the > 'libmodule-scandeps-perl' package now shows up in the autoremove list. > (In a VM that still has the 3.6-4+deb12u1 'needrestart', trying to > remove 'libmodule-scandeps-perl'

Re: sudo question

2024-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 9:42 PM Bitfox wrote: > > In my bash shell script, when I say: > > sudo echo "something" >>/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps > > it could not run with the prompts: > > bin/mask.sh: line 18: /etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps: Permission denied > > > but, if I just say: > > echo

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM Hans wrote: > > I am searching the cause of a little issue, which some day appeared. > > The issue is the following: > > In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially annoying, when watching a

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM Hans wrote: > > I am searching the cause of a little issue, which some day appeared. > > The issue is the following: > > In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially annoying, when watching a

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM Anssi Saari wrote: > Christian Britz writes: > > Am 16.11.24 um 05:42 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > > >> If your Windows machine can run an ssh daemon that you can log into, > >> then you could use it as your SOCKS proxy, though I have no idea how > >> you'd go about

Re: Modern HP MFD printers and Debian

2024-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 6:07 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 09:49 Charles Curley > wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:40:54 -0600 >> Tom Browder wrote: >> >> > I just bought a new printer, an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw, to >> > replace my nine-year old HP MFP black an

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 10:18 PM wrote: > > Retrieved utelnetd 0.1.11 from here. > https://public.pengutronix.de/software/utelnetd/ > > Installed gcc and tried make. > # make DEBUG=1 -f ./Makefile > make: Nothing to be done for 'all'. > # > > This is the "all" stanza in Makefile. > > all: $(PROGS)

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

2024-11-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 9:42 AM 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. Lol... So true. Jeff

Re: absent last login report on vtty login

2024-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 07:15:50 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 08:17:57 -0500 > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > This used to be a normal announcement on vtty login. On Trixie it's > > > missing. > > > > Odd. It's presen

Re: Debian 12 installation - installation USB stick boots to grub prompt

2024-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 12:17 PM Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:31:41AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > [...] > > Is a BIOS update available? > > > Possibly, but I bet I'd need an MS-Windows system to do the update. This situation sucks. My father has an Acer laptop like it -- the

Re: Failed Debian 12 install, need help with boot loader re-install

2024-11-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 9:22 AM Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 11:10:03AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 05:34:49AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > > It's usually a good idea to disable CSM support (legacy/MBR booting), by > > > whatever > > > term your p

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

2024-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 4:04 PM Christian wrote: > [...] > Well yes, and it's pretty confusing because I disabled secure boot, and > the problems remained. Which makes me really clueless, because there is > not much information left on the dmesg. Maybe its something with BIOS or > ACPI? By adding l

Re: playonlinux - bug?

2024-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 12:28 PM Hans wrote: > > it would be nice, if one could check, if the application "playonlinux" is > running correctly on debian/stable. > > Here it starts, but when I update the list of installable games and apps, it > only shows some games. Also all icons for other categor

Re: nautilus not showing files in debian 12

2024-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 10:23 AM Semih Ozlem wrote: > > I did a recent upgrade from debian 11 to debian 12. Nautilus is sometimes not > showing all the files in a directory, although from the command prompt > through ls command I can see that the files are there. Why could this be and > how can

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 9:48 PM Eddie Seymour wrote: > > The brscan4 i8s on the Brother Printer site. Use the script for linux to > install it . My Brother functions fine as printer and scanner when installed > with the Brother script from their site. Also see

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

2024-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:25 PM Christian wrote: > > Hello Kevin, thank you for support. I choosed Nvidia again deliberately > because I want to play with Tesorflow, Scikit-Learn and GPT. And yes I > had my experiences with Nvidia over the year as well. But I decided to > take Nvidia again. Maybe

Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

2024-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 29/10/2024 20:14, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: > >> and I am no longer able to save or download files to usb drives from > >> chrome or browsers, I get the message Need permission to downl

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. > > I run it with this bash script: > > asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf \ > -a pdf-theme=binder \ > -a pdf-themesdir=./data/themes \ >

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. > > I run it with this bash script: > > asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf \ > -a pdf-theme=binder \ > -a pdf-themesdir=./data/themes \ >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM 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. > > >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the > company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS > emulation and the original DOS s

Re: Re: 回复:Re:_回复:Re:_回复:[OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic_from_China_IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 2:07 PM David wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 13:07 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > Somewhat related, does anyone know what happened to Tank Man, > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man>? > > > > I've looked fo

Re: Re: 回复:Re:_回复:Re:_回复:[OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic_from_China_IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM wrote: > > Hi,David > Let me tell you the truth,Here is a case that programmer was put in prison > due to criticize Chinese leader. > CNN report > https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/29/china/china-blogger-sentenced-program-think-intl-mic-hnk/index.html > The actual ev

Re: FTDI USB Serial Console

2024-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:33 PM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I have the following device: > Bus 003 Device 010: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd > FT232 Serial (UART) IC > > I expect the device to show up as: /dev/ttyUSB0 but i am not finding any > ttyUSB devices i

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 3:20 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > 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. This

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