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

2025-01-28 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/01/2025 01:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: The question is about this dangling symlink: hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service [...]

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/01/2025 06:57, George at Clug wrote: I am one of the the other people who are experiencing Firefox freezing up the whole desktop computer, requiring the computer to be turned of (hold down the power button or throw switch at the power point). sudo journalctl -e -b -1 after reboot (or

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
ainly have customers who need access to VM desktops. However I am not sure if only SPICE viewers are deprecated or it includes spice-vdagent as well. On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 14:47 Max Nikulin wrote: the blog post still gives some hints: - check that /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 is cr

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2025 14:12, Rafał Lichwała wrote: so I am not sure if the following link from my notes would be helpful. At least it might give some hint for debugging or some keywords to search for. Gerd Hoffmann. Adding cut+paste support to qemu. 2021 https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2021/05/qemu-cut-

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2025 14:17, Thomas Anderson wrote: $ nmcli connection show IP4.ADDRESS[1]: 192.168.1.6/24 IP4.GATEWAY:    192.168.1.1 IP4.ROUTE[1]:   dst = 192.168.1.0/24, nh = 0.0.0.0, mt = 100 IP4.ROUTE[2]:

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
session from system context. It might give some ideas. A message from it: Max Nikulin. Re: Change suspend type from kde menu. Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:44:31 +0700. <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/unddo0$pdh$1...@ciao.gmane.io>

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/01/2025 16:06, Rafał Lichwała wrote: I struggled with this for several days and tried everything, but nothing seems to work. I cannot successfully set shared clipboard between host and guest machines when both run Wayland desktop. I have not tried to run Qemu in Wayland-Wayland variant

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/01/2025 16:42, mick.crane wrote: Selected "OS default DNS ( when available)", as selecting the pfsense pc by address for this DoH was not accepted. I believe pfsense creates a DNS cache and wondered if pfsense can be configured to do DoH. Was curious where requests were going. I do not

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/01/2025 20:30, Frank Guthausen wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:42:20 +0100 wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: [...] DoH can circumvent manipulation by the ISP [...] It just replaces one bully by another bully. I won't bet on Google not manipulating i

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/01/2025 03:17, Marco Möller wrote: Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/01/2025 23:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:38:51PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/01/2025 17:21, mick.crane wrote: The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. Maybe the previous router was configured to serve .home DNS zone. Judgi

Re: ISP's router being helpful

2025-01-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/01/2025 17:21, mick.crane wrote: The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. Maybe the previous router was configured to serve .home DNS zone. If vivaldi uses the same settings page as chromium than you may try to disable "secure DNS" chrome://settings/secur

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/01/2025 23:37, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/01/2025 23:29, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 20. Januar 2025, 17:15:40 CET schrieb Adam Weremczuk: Try "chkdsk /F /R C:" in windows, this should help. Perhaps some tool already "repaired" the drive and some filesystem structure is

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/01/2025 23:29, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 20. Januar 2025, 17:15:40 CET schrieb Adam Weremczuk: Try "chkdsk /F /R C:" in windows, this should help. Perhaps some tool already "repaired" the drive and some filesystem structure is really corrupted by e.g. mbr code. You may try to get somethin

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/01/2025 20:37, Adam Weremczuk wrote: sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/nvme0n1 mount: /mnt/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ nvme0n1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. Is it for the drive plugged directly into a M.2 slot or through a USB adapter?

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Max Nikulin
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 and massive. The upstream teams do not maintain stable version

Re: Monitoring a single process

2025-01-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/01/2025 11:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: One of my main uses is when a tool is sitting there without giving me any feedback and I'm wondering what it is that it's doing. E.g. recently this occurred with `bup`, where I wanted to see if it was mostly talking to the remote `bup`, or mostly reading

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the sites you browse (and are here

Browsers on remote DISPLAY (was: Re: What is going on with firefox)

2025-01-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/01/2025 00:38, Tim Woodall wrote: I don't think you understand my setup. Remote XDMCP thin client. I have not checked current state of affairs. I believed that it was working greet 20 years ago before hardware graphics acceleration and client-side font rendering. That is why I mentioned

Re: Report Bug

2025-01-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/01/2025 10:45, watt kennet wrote: When using the Persian (Windows) keyboard layout , the right Alt+Shift shortcut can switch the keyboard from English to Persian, but it does not switch back from Persian to English. The issue appears to be specific to the Persian (Windows) layout. Steps

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's n

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/01/2025 07:53, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and have the ability to show an em

Re: getting started with pipewire

2025-01-11 Thread Max Nikulin
Adding the mailing list back. The message was sent off-list by mistake, so overquoting. On 10/01/2025 19:15, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:01:57AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 09/01/2025 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: Moral of the story: NEVER EVER run "wpctl". M

Re: getting started with pipewire

2025-01-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/01/2025 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: Moral of the story: NEVER EVER run "wpctl". My guess is that it may be a consequence of "wireplumber" you executed earlier. Having no notion what particular components of pipewire/pulse do, I would avoid running random commands supposed to be started

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/01/2025 15:51, gene heskett wrote: stuck very early in the boot process waiting for orca to come alive. Gene, my congratulations. You have managed to derail the discussion another time. I suspect, this kind of deviations is the reason why you are so successful in earning bans. Good lu

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 1/7/25 06:01, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I also ran into the Orca and brltty Hell problem Gene described Just a reminder: this thread started as "new computer arriving soon". Gene hijacked it and Orca is off-topic even in this subthread. Read the subject. Gene does not remember what he

Re: getting started with pipewire

2025-01-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/01/2025 00:08, Haines Brown wrote: I have no idea how to use pipewire. Do you simply run the comand $ pipewire to get an interface like alsamixer? Why are you trying to start pipewire manually? Systemd should do it for you as a part of user session. It is not an application with GUI. Y

Re: Monitoring a single process

2025-01-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/01/2025 21:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the filesystem, MB/s written to the filesystem Just some ideas, perhaps to be discarded after evaluation. It seems io

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/01/2025 14:09, gene heskett wrote: On 1/5/25 21:21, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/01/2025 23:28, gene heskett wrote: As for bug number, I'm not the OP, just a canary. Then ask the author to add the bug number. Tell them that without a link you were not be able to check current sta

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

2025-01-06 Thread Max Nikulin
98138] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: CACHE_ERROR - ch 5 [systemd-logind[502]] subc 0 mthd 0060 data beef0201 Note: Before installing the firmware, I installed the nvidia drivers from sid. But the graphical interface did not open and I had to reinstall it. Do you have any other advice? Max Nikulin ,

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/01/2025 23:28, gene heskett wrote: As for bug number, I'm not the OP, just a canary. Then ask the author to add the bug number. Tell them that without a link you were not be able to check current state of affairs and, as a result, you have secured your reputation as a liar.

/dev/serial/by-id (was: Re: new computer arriving soon)

2025-01-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/01/2025 17:19, gene heskett wrote: One does get tired and short tempered when a copy/paste error post bullseye that wrecks udev is said to not be fixed before trixie. Thats not excusable when the fix is a one line patch we've all done years ago. Get it from a pinned post on discord/klippe

Gene and networkmanager (was: Re: new computer arriving soon)

2025-01-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/01/2025 17:19, gene heskett wrote: On 1/3/25 22:51, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/01/2025 23:05, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 10:38 AM "Max Nikulin" On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, I wrote my previo

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 02/01/2025 23:05, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 10:38 AM "Max Nikulin" On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, Do you really believe it is a precise enough reference? My impression is that despite NetworkM

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computerarrivingsoon]

2025-01-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/01/2025 11:06, gene heskett wrote: On 1/2/25 21:32, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/01/2025 05:01, gene heskett wrote: sudo apt install sgdisk unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Suitable substitute? Display is wayland so X is out. root not allowed. Gene, have you

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

2025-01-02 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/01/2025 05:01, gene heskett wrote: sudo apt install sgdisk unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Suitable substitute? Display is wayland so X is out. root not allowed. Gene, have you tried to type this command name into a search engine prompt? Have you read "man man

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-02 Thread Max Nikulin
On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, Do you really believe it is a precise enough reference? My impression is that despite NetworkManager can easily handle his cases, he often demonstrate unmotivated aggression against NetworkManager developers. The

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-02 Thread Max Nikulin
On 02/01/2025 11:22, gene heskett wrote: On 1/1/25 21:57, Max Nikulin wrote: The problem is that he can not use some search engine to find guides related to LVM. He believes that everything must be documented in man pages, but he ignores any tool that may help to find locally installed man

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 02/01/2025 09:36, poc...@homemail.com wrote: From: "Max Nikulin" On 01/01/2025 20:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Try to get it corrected and you will/must be attacked. My experience does not match yours. Of course it doesn't, people here are not 100% against you What

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/12/2024 11:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: What about LVM?  Is it usable (or even useful) with UEFI? Do you expect expect UEFI boot from purely LVM drives? Out of the box EFI system partition (fat) must be outside of LVM volumes. There is a chance that somebody has written a LVM driver for UEFI

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/01/2025 23:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: You forgot this one. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail Description=Fetchmail After=network.target [Service] User=fetchmail ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail --pidfile /run/fetchmail/fetchmailrc.pid -f /etc/fetchmailr

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/01/2025 20:58, poc...@homemail.com wrote: In the great number of cases most look to Archlinux for setting up and running packages. Why because the wiki is no nonsense and just works in almost every case. debians wiki is woefully incomplete and contains old out dated information which in mos

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/01/2025 00:55, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:32:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Good question Marc. I'm searching for someone who knows how to combine 4 ea 4T SSD's into one volume for use with amanda, the lvm docs are somewhat confusing, lacking the context that actu

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/12/2024 18:07, Serkan Kurt wrote: nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv84_xuc00f (-2) nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nv84_xuc00f (-2) nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nv84_xuc00f failed with error -2 Have you trying to find

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/01/2025 01:50, Hans wrote: # apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver firmware-misc-nonfree Do NOT update any other packages, even if aptitude is suggesting it. Most people in the past believe, they must upgrade other packages, too. This is NOT necessary and break your system! You have

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/12/2024 01:15, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: it was less sharp than I get with my old Epson Perfection 2400 (from 2004) It might be difference due to technologies. The older one likely use "white" lamp and color filters over CCD array. New cheaper approach is a line of red, green, an

Re: booting by UEFI?

2025-01-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/12/2024 18:43, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-12-31): Are you sure that fwupd will never try put a large enough file to update firmware of some device? Firmware updates are exceptional and critical operations. They should not be left to unattended daemons. The system

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-30 Thread Max Nikulin
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 have the bootloaders for other systems on it. I have been using

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 30/12/2024 00:19, e...@gmx.us wrote: eben@cerberus:~$ ls /boot/efi ls: cannot access '/boot/efi': No such file or directory Create EFI System Partition: it should have proper partition type UUID and it is not recommended to make it too small (<500 MB). Configure mounting it to boot/efi, cr

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 23:26, Eben King wrote: I swear I ran a program that showed me EFI boot vars (if they exist) and it showed nothing. efibootmgr -v however you need to boot in UEFI mode at first, e.g. using a live media. Alternatively if firmware boot menu allows to pick an .efi file then you

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 01:06, gene heskett wrote: It runs when it gets around to it, opening a local file is an automatic lockup for 30 seconds. And no one has identified that problem. Nobody can guess what the mess you are able to create on your machines. If you did not hate systemd then you would hav

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 10:18, John Hasler wrote: On Unstable: toncho/~ 20 systemctl cat fetchmail.service # /run/systemd/generator.late/fetchmail.service ^ # Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator ^ [...] [Service] Type=forking Re

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 20:50, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 02:16:42PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fetchmail What is your point? There is a native systemd service unit for fetchmail in the next release of Debian. Your constant

Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

2024-12-28 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/12/2024 23:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 17:21:08 +0100, Roger Price wrote: root@titan ~ /etc/init.d/fetchmail --quit Not starting fetchmail daemon, disabled via /etc/default/fetchmail. The correct way to use a legacy sysv-rc init.d script to stop a service is:

Re: How to update fonts

2024-12-28 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/12/2024 02:28, Alain D D Williams wrote: I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy Christmas in Korean). [...] They fail to display in either Mate terminal 1.26 or in Firefox 128.5 so I suspect it is a system

Re: Firefox and XFCE

2024-12-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/12/2024 16:42, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote: On Thursday, 26 December 2024 00:10:47 -03 Max Nikulin wrote: You may try to search for mozilla, window manager (fvwm?), gtk bugs or discussions related to client-side decoration and rising on click. Are there other applications that use

Re: upgrade debian + postfix/dovecot

2024-12-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/12/2024 02:41, Thomas Anderson wrote: I did get them from Debian sources, so I should be good. "Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian 11 (bullseye)" from "Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm)" suggests

Re: Firefox and XFCE

2024-12-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/12/2024 14:11, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: Max Nikulin writes: does switching between regular window title and client-side decorations changes anything? (right click menu for toolbar, "customize toolbar") That was exactly it. It fixed the unwanted raising of firefox's w

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/12/2024 21:25, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/24/24 4:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/23/24 8:26 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/12/2024 19:56, Richard Owlett wrote: Is 'command' documented somewhere? Déjà vu... <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/722ee1ce-bfb6-facd-2

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/12/2024 09:47, 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? Do you really need to configure browser specifically to Netbeans wi

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/12/2024 19:56, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/23/24 4:39 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: `command -v brave`. Is 'command' documented somewhere? Déjà vu... Richard Owlett to debian-user. Using terminal commands - corner cases. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:38:30 -0600.

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/12/2024 20:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 01:16:31 -0500, Alex Wahl wrote: Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled if I don't have a specific technical reason? The reason I asked it really just because I'm wondering if I accidentally set a unit t

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

2024-12-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/12/2024 04:30, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:42:40 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: Have you compared results on machines where it works and where it does not (with your actual domain)? getent hosts _apt_proxy._tcp.YOUR.DOMAIN None of my hosts return anything from this

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

2024-12-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/12/2024 10:12, Charles Curley wrote: Because of the NATting for the VMs I have defined an alias for the cache in bind per the auto-apt-proxy man page. This works as expected, even on the non-virtual trixie machine. Disclaimer: I have never tried this tool. Have you compared results on ma

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/12/2024 16:21, Chris Green wrote: In fact my feeling is that password is slightly better because if you are using ssh-agent as you may well leave your system for short periods without logging off and then an intruder will be able to log in to all those remote systems for which ssh-agent has

Re: Writing passwords down

2024-12-19 Thread Max Nikulin
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, unmemorable, passwords would be useless. Generate a private key and add its public counterpart to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote m

Re: Firefox and XFCE

2024-12-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/12/2024 18:55, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: I have grepped through prefs.js and haven't found anything that sounds related, A shot in the dark: does switching between regular window title and client-side decorations changes anything? (right click menu for toolbar, "customize toolbar") I

Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/12/2024 04:56, Roger Price wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead of USB3 or vice versa)? Try full power cycle, not just reboot. All the 10 USB ports on my T5820 are specified as USB 3.1 Gen 1.  I always

Re: Enc: Option menuSearch in fluxbox init

2024-12-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/12/2024 21:07, Paulo Igor Barra Nascimento wrote: 1.3.5. It seems 1.3.7 is scheduled to be present in Trixie (Debian 13). [...] 1. So, to compile 1.3.7, I had to make a "build" directory on my $HOME where I untar fluxbox-1.3.7.tar.xz (got from fluxbox.org) and get into th

Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

2024-12-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2024 15:45, Roger Price wrote: So I re-inserted the USB installation stick to redo the installation. This took me to the GRUB command line. Am I right that you have internal SSD (SATA? NVME?) and a USB stick? Have you tried to plug the stick into another USB port (e.g. USB2 instead

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2024 06:15, gene heskett wrote: This is your t-bird doing that, beta is working fine, you are reading it. To be fair, the comparison must include new user profile for the ESR release packaged in Debian. By the way, the ESR branch is approximately half a year old. Beta is for tester

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/12/2024 03:24, gene heskett wrote: On 12/14/24 12:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Our std night shift procedure was to pump the big tank down to under 2 or 3 psi, which put the bottles up around 7400 to 7800 psi at midnight. The morning shift at 8AM had 5200 psi to play wit

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 23:44, gene heskett wrote: ● gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service loaded failed failed Virtual filesystem service - digital camera moni> Have you managed to fix it? The most suspicious entry in relation to camera issues. On 14/12/2024 21:26, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:~$

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 23:38, David Christensen wrote: On 12/14/24 07:43, Max Nikulin wrote: systemd-analyze verify rsyslog.service [...] My daily driver, for comparison: # systemd-analyze verify rsyslog.service I noticed an imprint of a sledgehammer in Gene's "dpkg -V". Config

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

2024-12-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/12/2024 20:27, gene heskett wrote: On 12/14/24 23:00, Max Nikulin wrote: /var/log/installer/hardware-summary that is quite lengthy, 75+ kilobytes, what would I be looking for? ^ I am interested in some

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 23:44, gene heskett wrote: What is suricata, first I've heard of it I was expecting that you would walk through every item reported by "dpkg -V" and "systemctl --failed". For the former, you have enough data locally to get more info dpkg -S /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml and

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

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/12/2024 05:27, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Installing using the standard installer: Have you tried it when some stepper motor drivers are connected using USB to serial port adapters? I do not remember if I explicitly chose some installer menu to save logs, but I have /var/log/installer/

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 22:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: hobbit:~$ mount | grep portal portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) That looks reasonable. I don't know what it's *for*, but at least it's not in a system-wide location that doesn't exist on

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf ??5?? c /etc/sane.d/gphoto2.conf On 12/13/24 22:20, Max Nikulin wrote: reports anything besides conffiles? Have you read the output before posting it? Actually I do not see anything really suspicious besides that /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service may be replaced

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 21:23, gene heskett wrote: In my employment history I learned a thing or two about helium as I probably tested the pressure regulatores that gave John Glenn his first rides, primarily that man has no material that will contain it, the molecule is so small it walks right thru 2" of

Re: Thunderbird imap certificates

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 14:09, Dima wrote: Using VPN via SOCK5 Got a message notification pop-up "Certificate for imap.google.com does not come from the trusted source." with a button "activate". Likely imap.googlemail.com For HTTP, providers sometimes use "captive portal" to request user authenticat

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 20:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 10:36:55 +0100, Michel Verdier wrote: portal on /var/data/steam/.cache/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1001,group_id=1001) Curious. I have steam running, and I don't have this. I can say nothing relate

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/12/2024 07:04, gene heskett wrote: I've done that to both orca and brltty, the dependency's seem to have been removed now. What is output of the following command? dpkg -l orca brltty Does dpkg -V reports anything besides conffiles? Fighting with orca you could remove files t

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/12/2024 23:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: Recommended package *ARE* installed by default. Apt can be configured differently, but out of the box, you should expect them to be included. Gene claimed that he can not remove it, but recommended packages may be removed. gnome (gnome-core in trixi

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/12/2024 22:00, Charles Curley wrote: orca is pulled in by "apt install task-xfce-desktop". On this way it is an optional package (Recommends, not Depends). So Gene has something different.

Disabling orca (was: Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze)

2024-12-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/12/24 22:15, Max Nikulin wrote: minute delays. Do you really need GNOME? -- DE's in your messages. Either reinstall orca and *properly* disable it or uninstall it completely using package manager. The citation above is retained for purpose

Installer and assistive technologies (was: Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze)

2024-12-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/12/2024 13:37, gene heskett wrote: IMNSHO the installer is busted. But mentioning that was a no-no. Have you tried to explain your issue to installer developers in a *polite* and *constructive* way? Please, post a link to prove it.

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/12/2024 01:15, gene heskett wrote: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver[...]>   bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Device   bInterfaceSubClass  1 Boot Interface Subclass   bInterfaceProtocol  2 Mouse So it is a HID and should not

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/12/2024 15:44, gene heskett wrote: So I wound up finding and rm'ing the executables. Having orca yelling every keystroke at around 130 db, during which time other keystrokes are missed makes using a computer VERY frustrating. Warping your system with a sledgehammer certainly may cause ha

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/12/2024 11:51, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your gateway and/or access points: - Enable WPA2/WPA3 security and set a secure password. - Enable MAC filtering, enter the MAC addresses of your devices, and block all other MAC addresses. MAC filtering adds almost nothing to pr

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/12/2024 06:23, Charlie Gibbs wrote: 1. Do a network install on the new drive; It was advised assuming that you would not do the following, otherwise it is wasting of time:     sudo rsync -av /etc   /mnt/backup     sudo rsync -av /lib   /mnt/backup     sudo rsync -av /lib64 /mnt/ba

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/12/2024 00:14, Michael Stone wrote: Not all drives support 4k, and many that do get no benefit from such a configuration. [...] # nvme id-ns -H /dev/nvme0n1 | grep Rel LBA Format  0 : Metadata Size: 0   bytes - Data Size: 512 bytes - Relative Performance: 0x2 Good (in use) LBA Format  1

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

2024-12-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/12/2024 19:53, Anssi Saari wrote: I think every desktop environment has this. Even X has this. 'This' being a timer since last mouse or keyboard event and the ability to trigger a command on the timer. I looked recently but didn't really find a way to do the Windows like thing, turn off scr

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/12/2024 23:31, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is "idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that the device should not be in some deep power sa

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/12/2024 21:05, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As a check if the defective sectors are all mapped out I did read all sectors of the partitions:   sudo dd if=/dev/sdaX of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress I am curious if "nvme device-self-test" might be more effective. Michael, thank you for

Re: From SSD to NVME - oops!

2024-12-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/12/2024 05:58, Felix Miata wrote: Felix Miata composed on 2024-12-05 17:52 (UTC-0500): Here ya go (Pastebinit on Bookworm refuses to accept images.): https://paste.opensuse.org/a556a79e8015 expires in 7 days, shows DFSee menu open for "Convert an MBR disk to GPT". Oops. My mistake. Tabl

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-05 Thread Max Nikulin
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, enter the BIOS of the computer and let it running for ca. an hour. Then restart the computer. I am curious which w

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

2024-12-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/12/2024 22:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/4/24 9:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Is it different from docs available in khelpcenter? To what URL do you refer? I mean local

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

2024-12-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions:   1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? Is it different from docs available in khelpcen

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