Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

On 19.08.23 21:19, Christoph K. wrote: Could you please recommend a "suitable" sans-serif font that a) (...) b) (...) c) (...) d) (...) Thanks, Christoph Having had the same problem to solve for myself I ended up to use: Noto sans for all my GUI Liberation Mono for coding

Re: Plasma 5: USB-Stick not recognized when second time put in

On 31.10.22 17:15, Hans wrote: Dear list, there is an issue in plasma5, I can not find the cause. When pluggin in an USB-stick at the first time, plasma5 sees the stick and using the plasma-applet I can manually bind it. This is working always. After my work is done, I can then correctly unbin

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

On 29.04.22 21:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Tom D. wrote: I really need the latest tutorial. Why? Unix system administration changes very slowly. Most of the core concepts haven't changed much since the early 1980s. I disagree with this statement. Unde

Re: Wayland vs X

On 14.03.22 18:28, Anssi Saari wrote: Marco Möller writes: I am not sure if I understood your answer. Is it a suggestion of what should be of importance, or is it the confirmation that Wayland is capable to configure clipboard access restrictive like this? Um, I thought a question mark is a

Re: Wayland vs X

On 14.03.22 16:23, Anssi Saari wrote: Nicholas Geovanis writes: Isn't it all about X by design to not be able to safely protect a running X applications to snoop on other running X applications, something like the content of a window cannot safely kept private? Well, what about somethi

Re: Wayland vs X

On 11.03.22 14:14, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and a desktop that has two monitors. So far I have not had a

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

On 28.01.22 22:55, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 17:31 +0100, Marco Möller wrote: On 28.01.22 11:15, Steven J. West wrote: Comparing the Ubuntu and Debian kernel parameters using sudo sysctl -a showed two key differences in virtual memory (vm) management parameters.   * Ubuntu:   o

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

On 28.01.22 11:15, Steven J. West wrote: Comparing the Ubuntu and Debian kernel parameters using sudo sysctl -a showed two key differences in virtual memory (vm) management parameters. * Ubuntu: o vm.swappiness=60 o vm.watermark_boost_factor=0 * Debian: o vm.swappiness=10

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

On 23.01.22 00:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: On 22.01.22 15:24, songbird wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual conflict. This mail by Norbert Preining https

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

On 22.01.22 15:24, songbird wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual conflict. This mail by Norbert Preining https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html describes his view on his demotion from Debian Developer

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

On 16.01.22 22:36, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: Anders Andersson wrote on 16/01/2022 at 17:09:01+0100: On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:29 AM Marco Möller wrote: Does somebody has information about what in the background has happened, which made Norbert leaving the team? Considering that Debian

Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

Does somebody has information about what in the background has happened, which made Norbert leaving the team? Considering that Debian is a community project and myself feeling to be part of the community, although not actively involved in its maintenance and development, I am wondering what is g

Re: freeing up some space

On 11.01.22 19:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many versions of the same package, some of them many years old, going all the way back to 2013. I guess

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

On 08.01.22 17:54, John Conover wrote: I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD. The swap partition size installed on the HD is 1 GB. Buster, etc., used to be about the size of memory, (8 GB in my case

[SOLVED]: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

On 30.12.21 17:38, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Aside from shell loops, I've also in the past used dsh which is still packaged in Debian: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html Other similar options are pdksh, public

[SOLVED]: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

On 30.12.21 15:06, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:54:40 +0100 Marco Möller wrote: Do you know about such feature to be implemented in some Linux tool? Take a look at mssh. I will test it, although I spontaneously from reading do not expect it to be as comfortable as tmux

[SOLVED]: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

On 30.12.21 15:13, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:54:40 +0100 Marco Möller wrote: In search for a software recommendation: The remote session management app "mRemoteNG" for MS Windows comes with a functionality by which a command can be entered to its "Multi SSH&qu

[SOLVED]: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

On 30.12.21 18:04, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Marco, On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:49:38PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: As my aim is to interactively run the same commands on several machines, in order to observe if they everywhere behave the same or what different results they would produce, does each

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

On 30.12.21 16:42, Andy Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:15:18PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: Marco Möller writes: this command is then sent to all SSH connected remote systems at once as if the command would have been typed in at each single of the SSH connected remote systems CLI

[OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

In search for a software recommendation: The remote session management app "mRemoteNG" for MS Windows comes with a functionality by which a command can be entered to its "Multi SSH" input field, and this command is then sent to all SSH connected remote systems at once as if the command would

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

On 09.12.21 21:44, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:11:05PM +, piorunz wrote: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Web-Browser-Packages-Debian :( -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.d

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

On 01.10.21 03:37, Rick Thomas wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 6:02 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2021 30 Sep 15:15 -0500, Marco Möller wrote: SUMMARY: I never observed problems with ext4 on my since 4 years heavily used USB pen-drive. Good Luck! Marco Thanks Marco! That is a very useful

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

On 29.09.21 14:59, Nate Bargmann wrote: Earlier this year I purchased a nice Lenovo Carbon X1 with an NVME SSD with Win 10 Pro installed. Ordinarily I would reformat the drive without a second thought but in this case I really do have occasional need to use Win 10 (Kenwood radio programming mo

Re: Dependency check: qml-module-org-kde-newstuff

On 29.09.21 14:35, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am using debian/stable i386. After the updgrade to bullseye, I got into the issue, that I could not change several settings for icons or mouse pointer in plasma. Examination showed, that the module "org.kde.newstuff" could not be found. And indeed,

redmine to arrive in bullseye-backports soon?

Hello, how are the chances that redmine and required dependencies are becoming soon available in stable Debian (bullseye-backports), so that I could install it with the apt command without hassle? Would someone know if there is reasonable hope to see this to happen, or is packaging of redmine f

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

On 26.09.21 00:24, Default User wrote: Hello! I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: /home/debian-user I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type exclusions that I can just cut and p

Re: write only storage.

On 21.09.21 19:15, Marco Möller wrote: On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them (other

Re: write only storage.

On 21.09.21 17:53, Tim Woodall wrote: I would like to have some WORM memory for my backups. At the moment they're copied to an archive machine using a chrooted unprivileged user and then moved via a cron job so that that user cannot delete them (other than during a short window). My though was t

Re: LUKS encryption help

On 29.08.21 07:09, detr...@tuta.io wrote: (...) Before: NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda ├─sda1 │    vfat   FAT32   A2BD-D233  70,8M    26% /boot/efi ├─sda2 │ ├─sda3 │    ntfs   2AD4C9CED4C9

Re: Network down incorrect........

On 28.08.21 15:38, Charlie wrote: From my keyboard: Hello all, Since Bullseye went stable, updated on my 12 month old HP laptop. When attempting to bring up the wireless interface with ifup. The message on the screen tells me the "network is down", whic

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

On 20.08.21 18:22, piorunz wrote: On 17/08/2021 15:03, Marco Möller wrote: I have no experience with SSD, but running my Debian Desktop from a USB Memory Stick since years, please allow me to share information which supports the suggestion of Linux-Fan to also investigate if there is

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

On 17.08.21 15:30, Linux-Fan wrote: Pierre Willaime writes: I have a nvme SSD (CAZ-82512-Q11 NVMe LITEON 512GB) on debian stable (bulleye now). For a long time, I suffer poor I/O performances which slow down a lot of tasks (apt upgrade when unpacking for example). I am now trying to fix th

moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

ow. Marco Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:41:42 -0400 From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside To: Marco Möller On 2021-08-14 3:38 p.m., Marco Möller wrote: On 14.08.21 21:35, Michael Howard wrote: Give

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

On 14.08.21 21:35, Michael Howard wrote: Give the normal amongst us a break. This stuff is NOT debian, it is social ineptitude and it has to stop. Form yourselves a chat group somewhere, just NOT here. Please? -- Michael Howard. +1 --- Marco

Re: [OT] browsable archive of OFTC debian channels?

On 14.08.21 13:36, Linux-Fan wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > Hello! Is there somewhere publicly accessible an archive of the > conversations taking place in the #debian[*] OFTC channels? Would be great, > beca

[OT] browsable archive of OFTC debian channels?

Hello! Is there somewhere publicly accessible an archive of the conversations taking place in the #debian[*] OFTC channels? Would be great, because I am not constantly online and thus am unable to fully follow conversations there. --- Always stay in good spirits! Marco

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

On 05.08.21 00:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

On 03.08.21 18:26, IL Ka wrote: inxi shows that only 3 GB are available as the TOTAL, although it finds the 4 GB to be physically installed: $ sudo inxi -m -x Memory:    RAM: total: 2.88 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (73.2%) Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max module size: 2 G

Re: bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ?

On 05.08.21 15:28, Marco Möller wrote: Hello! Do you have bad experience using Thunderbird as an IRC client for IRC in the OFTC network? In the past I used HexChat, now running KDE Plasma I am considering Konversation to be an option, but as I anyway use Thunderbird for email, maybe I simply

bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ?

Hello! Do you have bad experience using Thunderbird as an IRC client for IRC in the OFTC network? In the past I used HexChat, now running KDE Plasma I am considering Konversation to be an option, but as I anyway use Thunderbird for email, maybe I simply use Thunderbird also for IRC? Thanks for

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

On 03.08.21 00:42, IL Ka wrote: i have 2 memory slots memtest86+ shows each has 2G, but total is 3G after booting linux, top shows total is 3G why 1 G is missing? Thanks! You probably have 32bit OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

On 29.07.21 12:52, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, On 2021-07-29 6:48 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, (...) Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, (...) Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with his laptop. The system crashes post-update. He need to do clean install every time. And this is probably time consuming for him. If other user has some hints... Without havi

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

On 24.07.21 22:14, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: Hello! Let's help developers to test upcoming Debian version 11 by filling out the community-driven list of tested hardware configurations: https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/master/Dist/Debian_11

Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing

On 22.07.21 13:49, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 12:23 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Hello everyone! The Debian development branch "bullseye"(/testing) is in status "full freeze", if I am correctly informed, and packages from /unstable are for quite some time already n

kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing

Hello everyone! The Debian development branch "bullseye"(/testing) is in status "full freeze", if I am correctly informed, and packages from /unstable are for quite some time already no more automatically moved from /unstable to /testing. Do you know how Debian handles situations like the curren

Re: Buster on Win 10 Problems

On 29.06.21 15:28, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: First, let me assure the list that I am not trying to ignite a flame war. I have a legitimate reason for installing Debian Buster on my Windows 10 laptop using Windows Subsystem Linux and X410. I have a very important application for my Computational

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

On 26.06.21 11:54, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) Very good points, all appreciated. Feel free to suggest patches for it through bugs against the harden-doc package, or merge requests in Salsa if the Maintainer is accepting them. I'll do so. I decided, motivated also by observing how you are d

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

On 21.06.21 07:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 20 iun 21, 10:20:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Package: release-notes X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, a...@packages.debian.org On Sb, 19 iun 21, 22:07:35, Marco Möller wrote: Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

On 20.06.21 17:36, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:07:35 +0200 Marco Möller wrote: Hello Marco, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do Coincidentally, I recently got notification of a pertinent blog post by Julian Andres Klode. See; https

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

On 20.06.21 14:11, Darac Marjal wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:07, Marco Möller wrote: Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/  . But how

[OT] openPGP: keeping primary key offline?

Regarding openPGP usage, it is recommended in several user guides to keep the primary key offline and keeping on the main computer only subkeys. The argumentation is that if keeping it on the main computer then it could be used in an unauthorized way. Of course, what is offline, like a good back

Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

On 21.06.21 17:29, Richard Owlett wrote: Many see the need for examples to be associated with man pages. Sometime back a post mentioned a web page that could return examples for most(all??) Linux commands. I failed to bookmark it and have not rediscovered it since. In another forum I was poin

apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ . But how should I manage the keys saved there, for instance how to update them, or what t

Re: PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

On 31.05.21 22:57, deloptes wrote: apt-cache show kleopatra apt-cache show kgpg I think the above parts of the package description explains quite well the use cases. With kleopatra you manage certificates in KDE (such like SSL) With Kgpg you manage GPG keys and you can encrypt/decrypt GU

Re: thunderbird

On 31.05.21 16:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: Thanks, but I'll prefer a decentralised, end-to-end encryptable, well established messaging infrastructure with a rich choice of user and transfer agents. It's called e-mail. Actually, matrix.org aims to be that as well. It probably doesn't yet qualify

Re: thunderbird

On 31.05.21 08:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: (...) How does "web based" and PGP go together, anyway? Web based means mail handling (and thus encryption/signing) is done on other people's computers. (...) Web based apps can process data locally at your own computer, for instance by using JavaScri

Re: thunderbird

I forgot to mention another weak point if using it under KDE Plasma: I did not find how to sync its calendar with the calendar widget of KDE (the calendar popping up when clicking on the clock in the system task bar of KDE Plasma). I never have had need to sync it with other entities and theref

Re: thunderbird

On 30.05.21 20:29, fxkl47BF wrote: for a few decades i have used pine/alpine. i'm considering a new mail application. there are more out there than you can shake a stick at. what are your thoughts of thunderbird. I am using Thunderbird without problems for years now. I have never had it crash

PGP: difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, both from KDE

Hello, Could someone explain for a raw beginner concerning the usage of PGP the difference between Kleopatra and Kgpg, what the typical work case is for the one and the other, what important feature the one and the other is missing? Sorry for the related but low specific questions in the fol

Re: examples for man pages

On 29.05.21 15:41, Richard Owlett wrote: A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with adding examples to all man pages. Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts to do a web search failed.

hashdeep abandoned? alternatives?

Hello! Package hashdeep shows activity in the Debian changelog, but this appears to only be about the packaging of the Debian package, while the upstream code did not see any version update since 2014. https://github.com/jessek/hashdeep Is this tool so reliable and widely in use that I shouldn't

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

On 24.11.20 01:14, Gareth Evans wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + mag...@autistici.org wrote: Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering US

Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

Hello, Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, institutions, universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing to Debian, i.e. as package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific code programmers, and alike? I found the list of the Debian Developers, but this is onl

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 19:28, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: (...) I don't think there is a Debian DVD iso I can use to install Debian Bullseye. I think I'll have to install Buster and then switch to Bullseye. Is there a better option? To my knowledge, there is a Bulleye installer available here: https://www

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 13:51, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: (...) My last doubt is if should use Debian 10 with KDE Plasma or Debian Bullseye instead. I recommend to use "testing" (currently Bullseye) on an individual Laptop/Desktop Computer, and leave "stable" for server or cooperate end user installation

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

On 10.03.21 04:34, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian 10 with the KDE Plasma task on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 GHz, it doesn't have a GPU. Do you think it would run without problems or would it be slow and laggy? Thanks in advance fo

authentication bug (or feature?) with multiple encrypted lvm2 volume groups

Two volume groups (lvm2) exists, Each of them is encrypted and thus protected by its own password. Lets call the volume groups and their corresponding passwords like this: VGpassword "A" "pwA" "B" "pwB" "pwA" and "pwB" differ from each other. Step 1: during boot I am asked for the

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

On 08.02.21 03:49, John Berden wrote: Hello. I'm installing Debian 10.8 with a console installer. I use ISO debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso. After starting the system, I get a request for the user's password. I enter the correct password that I specified during installation. But I get a messag

cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

Dear Giuseppe Penone! Dear Evgenii Gurianov! Dear Andrius Merkys! Thank you very much for providing Cherrytree in Debian again! Maybe I missed an announcement about it. I just found it in the testing repository when searching for it before checking for updates for my flatpak installation of it.

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even required to mount your disk from other hardware

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 04.12.20 13:00, deandre wrote: Hi My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster) I get the message “cannot open access to console, the root account is locked See sulogin(8) man for more details” and after I press Enter it continues to give me the same message, at this point I

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 17.09.20 20:58, Brian wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2. reph

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote: Agreed. Where the menu says "Debian desktop environment" I would:    1. remove the check-box.    2. rephrase it as "Chose a Debian desktop environment".    3. add a default check by GNOME. YES, Exactly this

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 10.09.20 18:43, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 08:24:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/10/2020 02:28 AM, Marco Möller wrote: On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

On 10.09.20 11:16, Long Wind wrote: On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 1:22:36 AM EDT, Felix Miata wrote: Have you cleaned the inside of the PC? Is dust clogging cooling fins or fans or case vents? Are fans spinning? PSUs can overheat and cause breakdown as well. i don't have such skill

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

On 10.09.20 08:13, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/09/2020 12:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 19:56:05 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09 sep 20, 08:27:13, Richard Owlett wrote:    1. Download bandwidth or data cap constraints.   {aggravated by treating "recommends" as "depends

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 30.08.20 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2020 20:39:29 Marco Möller wrote: On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote: (...) [liveuser@localhost-live <mailto:liveuser@localhost-live> ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress (...) 14386462720 bytes

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 30.08.20 00:01, Long Wind wrote: (...) [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M status=progress (...) 14386462720 bytes (14 GB, 13 GiB) copied, 151.001 s, 95.3 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 1719+0 reco

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 29.08.20 14:20, Long Wind wrote: it pass write test!  i really don't know where installation go wrong. After the disk itself seems to not cause the problem, at least not because of bad blocks, confirm that the data highways on your motherboard and any involved data caches are all still ope

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

On 29.08.20 10:18, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 29.08.2020 07:59, Long Wind wrote: installation of linux to sdb1 fails i believe hard disk has bad sector If hard drive has bad sectors or recently encountered them, information about this should be noted to hard drive's SMART table. Alternati

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 15:50, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:44:04AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 04.08.20 10:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 13:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:44:04AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: As my root account is disabled, I do all administration as the "normal" user with the help of sudo for running administrative commands. The user "root" shall not login

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 10:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo usage permission if working at the physical console, See pam_securetty(8) for that. Sorry I can't

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

On 04.08.20 10:38, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 4/8/20 5:47 pm, Marco Möller wrote: I have the root account already deactivated, and am using in principal only one main user who also has the sudo permissions for being able to do all the system administration, exactly as Debian was setting this

[OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of its sudo usage permission if working at the physical console, not granting to this user sudo permission when i.e. logged in via ssh? To keep it simple, I could imagine to even have all sudo for all users deactivated auto

Re: how to install cherrytree?

On 13.07.20 22:42, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! Having trouble installing cherrytree app. /kaye@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update/ [sudo] password for kaye: Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:3 http://deb.

Re: what calculator do you use?

On 13.07.20 09:31, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. Thank you! I prefer: speedcrunch Good Luck! Marco.

my Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!

!THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers! My Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!! My old laptop running on Debian/testing since the update from today flies like a rocket!! It before was fine, I didn't feel any need to upgrade the hardware. Concerning its responsive

Re: Disabling recommends - was [Re: bash-completion pros/cons]

On 19.06.20 23:12, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/19/20 09:28, Brian wrote: On Thu 18 Jun 2020 at 14:15:00 -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 17 Jun 2020 at 20:48:50 (+0100), Brian wrote: AFAICT, it appears Recommends are *always* installed using the Installer, irrespective of preseeding. Not *someti

Re: technical terms overhaul

On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms: "allowlist" and "rejectlist" instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

On 16.06.20 12:59, John Radek wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41, Marco Möller wrote: sudo sysctl vm.swappiness= sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure= sudo sysctl vm.dirty_background_bytes= sudo sysctl vm.dirty_bytes= Thank you Marco. I checked my current values --- sudo sysctl vm.swappiness

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

On 16.06.20 10:11, John Radek wrote: It usually takes 30sec and then the desktop unfreeze and everything is fine again. This could be caused by the "vm.swappiness", "vm.vfs_cache_pressure" or "vm.dirty" settings. These could be configured permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/myf

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple. To my knowledge, this is not true! It is the Dolphin

Re: Investigating internals of Debian packages

On 11.06.20 13:03, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm interested in the installer  menu titled "Software Selection". I want to know explicitly what happens when "Debian desktop environment" and/or "MATE" is checked. TIA The for me most important observation is, that if deactivating all listed deskto

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still originally based upon Stretch. It was set up with both root and user passwords. And I use good

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

On 08.06.20 01:49, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze wit

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

On 07.06.20 19:54, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: (...) And I will add, it was never the ambition of Debian to replace the User experience with Windows or OSX, unlike Ubuntu and many others. I've stuck with Debian for what I cannot find in Ubuntu; stability and security. But user experience is well

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 07.06.20 02:42, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 7/6/20 8:30 am, Marco Möller wrote: I would easily agree with you concerning not to log into a graphical session as the user root. But Dolphin is also not running with sudo prepended. And here I was thinking that the dolphin issue ran here

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

On 06.06.20 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User > wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User mailto:hunguponcont...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable

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