Re: How to set umask for apache2

On 28/05/2025 21:34, Chris Green wrote: chris$ more /etc/systemd/system/apache2.service.d/override.conf [service] UMask=0002 [...] chris$ systemctl show apache2.service | grep -i umask UMask=0022 So why can't I set it!!?? I think, you can, but you need to fix a typo

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 28/05/2025 09:06, accipiter wrote: but also had IP4 parameters with the 169.254... crap. Ignore it, it should not harm as an additional address. It is a link-local address and it should not prevent routing to the gateway. It *may* mean that some tool is trying to get an IP address through

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 28/05/2025 06:44, accipiter wrote: Oh - sorry forgot: there's *nothing* in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ While I have no reason to not trust you, it would be more convincing to post exact command and its output, e.g. grep -RE '^\s*[^#]' /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.d In

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

On 27/05/2025 02:20, accipiter wrote:    nmcli c edit eth0 [...] Attempting to delete/remove the connection entry with the wrong data simply caused the defective connection entry to be replicated, only now with yet another UUID. Is there a chance that NetworkManager is under control of netp

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

On 15/05/2025 15:52, Jonathan Dowland wrote: FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for Developers, with clusters of pa

Re: Shell function.

On 15/05/2025 22:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Given this function. You have not described use cases ev () { case $# in 0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;; 1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;; *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac } Can improvements be suggested? Install shellcheck

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 14/05/2025 11:29, tomas wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:57:17AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I have noticed that deprecated wireless-tools have some kind of integration with ifupdown while README.Debian from iw explicitly states that no helpers are provided. Do you use in /etc/network

Re: Dell wifi switch

On 14/05/2025 10:15, xuser wrote: Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side In the past I had an ASUS laptop where the "hardware" switch, the LED, and the actual WiFi card were living their independent lives. The switch generated state change events, but I did not find a

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 13/05/2025 22:55, tomas wrote: sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning To avoid a tool that is claimed to be a deprecated one: sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are far more knowledgeable folks than me around here). Tomas, since Paul has written

Re: enable wifi on sid

On 12/05/2025 02:00, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:02:38 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: I have tried booting with the last several kernels that I have installed doesn't seem to work. I also can't find iwconfig. iwconfig comes in the package wireless-tools. You may need to (re)instal

Re: Open source, multiplatform password manager with sync capability

On 06/05/2025 16:25, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: I put keepassxc database in ~/Sync folder and use it on every comp + phone (keepass2android), sometimes simultaneously. Even if i does not have link to any other device (sometimes internet is broken), i can use credentials from local copy of database.

Re: Open source, multiplatform password manager with sync capability

On 05/05/2025 21:59, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: - install keepassxc, create a master password and a database file [ alternative: keepass2, but mono dependancy ] - make sure that database file is on a git, pushable to a remote repository (I like git-on-SSH), and push/commit it when required

Re: gnome-shell: can't change PATH at gnome-shell level

On 02/05/2025 12:19, Max Nikulin wrote: On 01/05/2025 14:37, Farid Cheraghi wrote: I expect that when I press alt+f2 and type an executable name which is present in `~/.local/bin/` to be executed. See below for some ideas for debugging. As a workaround you may try to change Environment for

Re: gnome-shell: can't change PATH at gnome-shell level

On 01/05/2025 14:37, Farid Cheraghi wrote: Package: gnome-shell Version: 48.1-1 Despite my first impression, it is not a bug report sent to a wrong mail address. Below: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104035 and there Jeremy Bícha: This sounds like a request for user sup

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

On 28/04/2025 20:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: At some point, it'd been interesting whether yours were IPv4 zeroconf "link-local" addresses, i.e. in the 169.254.0.

Re: Different Debian for different users

On 28/04/2025 20:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: That's the kind of solution I was hoping someone has developed enough to iron out those major security issues (e.g. letting GDM do the chroot before it changes its UID to that of the user). See RootDirectory in systemd.exec(5). It can be set for specif

Re: Keyboard stopped working

On 25/04/2025 15:06, John Crawley wrote: I also have that problem occasionally, and the same fix works. But the USB socket is in a rather inconvenient place. The mouse still works on these occasions so a custom menu item to click that ran a command to emulate the unplugging and re-plugging of t

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

On 25/04/2025 02:17, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 05:18 +, Johannes Krottmayer wrote: Settings->Shortcuts->Plasma->Activate Application Launcher Widget On my system (running Debian 12) there was ALT-F1 predefined for opening the KDE menu. Aha! I didn't know that mapping was alr

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

On 24/04/2025 15:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: ISO 14289 is an accessibility standard for PDF. It allows for the creation of a "Tagged PDF" where semantic information, including table structures (, , , ), can be embedded in a separat

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

On 23/04/2025 09:56, jeremy ardley wrote: On 23/4/25 10:37, Max Nikulin wrote: Accidentally I have noticed [...] <https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/page.html#Page.find_tables> I have not tried it [...] One underlying problem with tabular data in pdf is the order the text is e

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

On 24/04/2025 03:54, Van Snyder wrote: I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the little red dot and Discover said there were 250 updates occupying 454 MB. What does apt list --upgradable say (or "apt list '~U'"

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

On 22/04/2025 09:51, jeremy ardley wrote: Some LLM can also accept pdf for input but you'd need to snip out the pages you are interested in. I consider that slightly more risky as what you see rendered or printed and what some programs see internal to the pdf varies I would be great if a data

Re: Keyboard stopped working

On 22/04/2025 09:06, David Wright wrote: Searching the web with SBAT self check failed turns up several hits, and they range from Windows updating the list of bad signatures It just mean that you need to download new image and to create a new boot media from it. If you are sure that you

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

On 20/04/2025 10:37, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:32:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: P.S. DotFiles does not mention that PATH may be set through /etc/login.defs. I don't think this is true; it changed in Debian 10 when the shadow-utils suite was dropped in favor of util-

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

On 19/04/2025 22:12, peter wrote: In https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles the sixth paragraph states, "You should therefore always have command source ~/.bashrc at the end of your .bash_profile in order to force it to be read by a login shell." # ls ~/.bash_profile ls: cannot access '/home/root/.ba

Re: Potential bug report for Realtek MicroSD Card Reader

On 19/04/2025 02:10, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 Installing a unsupported backports kernel will not actually fix the problem. It is better to file a bug against the stable kernel and let the developers determine if they need to bac

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 19/04/2025 15:39, David wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: You could run a command like: $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. Doesn't this pattern match "oldstable'? M

Re: replacement for apt-xapian-index?

On 16/04/2025 08:36, Mike Kupfer wrote: I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian (and it looks like Ubuntu, too). I can't say I entirely understand the reasons for the removal. Perhaps the package has no maintainer. Moreover debtags have been abandoned. After reading your mess

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

On 12/04/2025 07:16, coffeeforblood.pardon117 wrote: I performed some very basic testing using a Debian 12.8.0 Live CD. Likely nobody will be interested in minor bugs for versions released a couple of years ago. At current moment it is better to try trixie weekly builds. Upstream developers o

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

On 14/04/2025 06:52, Lee wrote: I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf printing ability. It's nice being able to print when I'm at home. I don't know how to turn this stuff off when I'm not at hom

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

On 12/04/2025 09:58, jeremy ardley wrote: The thing to remember is you can't have NetworkManager and systemd- networkd running at the same time. I had both running without conflicts on my old laptop with Ubuntu-20.04 LTS focal. I hope, Debian does not differ in this case. Just set what device

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

On 22/01/2025 16:06, Rafał Lichwała wrote: I cannot successfully set shared clipboard between host and guest machines when both run Wayland desktop. [...] So I cannot copy some text to clipboard on host machine and paste it on guest machine. [...] 1. On guest machine installed spice-vdagent p

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

On 09/04/2025 22:46, Petric Frank wrote: Due i am not firm with udev rules - any hint on these ? try udevadm info --query=all --name=sda or udevadm info --query=all -p /sys/block/sda The /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/ directory contains a lot of examples.

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

On 08/04/2025 02:34, coffeeforblood.pardon117 wrote: I am curious what nmcli subcommand reports when the cable is plugged in, but the connection has not activated manually. Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available to others users" enabled for the "Connect Automat

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

On 07/04/2025 10:36, hlyg wrote: in bios Setup, i can choose "Legacy" for mbr disks or "UEFI" for gpt disks if i press F12 during boot, options are shown, i can boot both mbr and gpt disks It seems you have solved your issue (using BIOS menu), so feel free to ignore my question. It is pure c

Re: Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

On 07/04/2025 02:35, David Christensen wrote: On 4/5/25 20:26, Max Nikulin wrote: > UEFI almost certainly can boot from mbr (DOS) partition, otherwise it > will be impossible to boot from USB pen drive. ... AIUI the USB pen drive must be partitioned specially, each partition must be for

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

On 05/04/2025 21:54, hlyg wrote: i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work [...] how to remove them? I am curious which way you boot Debian if UEFI entry does

Re: "solved" in message subject

On 05/04/2025 05:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:22:47AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Again when reading mail, if subject is changed almost completely: "Old" to "New (was: Old)" to "New" with "(was: ...)" stripped by e.g. Thunderbird

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 27/03/2025 14:34, W. Pepperdine wrote: dmesg (http://paste.debian.net/1365575/) I am confused. I have impression that you described your trouble as rather severe freeze with no reaction on keyboard an mouse. Am I wrong? How have you managed to get dmesg output in that state? /var/log/kern

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

On 05/04/2025 07:33, coffeeforblood.pardon117 wrote: I think there is still the question of why this setting must be ON for this to work properly. I followed the steps suggested by Max Nikulin and I think there is something interesting in the output of 'journalctl -f'. I do not th

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

On 05/04/2025 04:00, Eben King wrote: Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I gotta find out where that's controlled. Either your desktop environment or systemd had a hope to reduce your electricity bills. Check power management setting for both. For the latter see /etc/systemd/slee

Re: "solved" in message subject

On 05/04/2025 03:35, Andy Smith wrote: Do you understand that Max and I are saying that the way the web UI for gmail and other large mailbox providers works is that as soon as you change a subject line it breaks the thread and places those mails in their own separate group? Disclaimer: I have n

Email threading and display managers (was: Re: Frequent freezing around login screens)

On 29/03/2025 04:14, George at Clug wrote: I do not fully understand "email threading", even after reading up on it. I don't use email threading, and I do not think my email client does either. The message, I am replying to, have these headers, however References contains single Message-ID (f

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 21/03/2025 20:38, J wrote: But i must mention that *this passage from Debian Wiki seems incorrect* Bind mount various virtual filesystems: # for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /run; do mount -B $i /mnt/$i; done https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall#

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 20/03/2025 03:22, J wrote: But before this oopsie deletion I have saved as a back-up at least something from /boot folder, or maybe even everything. Copy files from backup to /boot and to the EFI system partition EFI/debian/BOOTX64.CSV EFI/debian/fbx64.efi EFI/debian/grub.cfg EFI/debian/g

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

On 02/04/2025 21:31, J wrote: I expect that this mount is a part of local-fs.target, so qbittorrent and other processes started from user session should be stopped already. Unfortunately i don't know what the local-fs.target is. Quick search shows that it is probably a part of syst

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

On 04/04/2025 05:56, coffeeforblood.pardon117 wrote: Here is the output of 'ip addr' for USB Ethernet Adapter #1 under different circumstances: You have not written it explicitly, but almost certainly you use NetworkManager. That is why its configuration should be inspected nmcli n

"solved" in message subject

On 02/04/2025 05:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I see the changing of title or subject to add things like "SOLVED" is not included in the FAQ. I am neutral to this recommendations. Just some considerations... I rarely use Gmail web UI, but this time I was curious enough to check its behavior. I

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

On 03/04/2025 22:05, J wrote: And i want to ask again: can these problems lead to information loss? It depends on details you (likely) may find in logs. If an application is terminated by SIGKILL (from your description I suspect that it happens sometimes) when it is writing data then you can

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

On 01/04/2025 18:31, J wrote: Apr 01 14:19:20 deb systemd[1]: Failed unmounting mnt-8cd66b97\x2dbde6\x2d4475\x2db875\x2d8f3928a8b14d.mount - / mnt/8cd66b97-bde6-4475-b875-8f3928a8b14d. Apr 01 14:19:20 deb systemd[1]: mnt-8cd66b97\x2dbde6\x2d4475\x2db875\x2d8f3928a8b14d.mount:

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 31/03/2025 23:29, W. Pepperdine wrote: Apologies for the poor email threading. There seems to be no way to do it from a browser interface. It is a known gmail web UI bug that clicking a reply button on the mailing list archive pages causes missed headers.

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

On 31/03/2025 20:38, J wrote: Do timestamps in the output match the moment when you experienced the issue? I would expect "-b -1" rather than "-b1", however the latter still may be valid. I see no errors in logs. Do you execute journalctl as root? 90 seconds timeouts and following

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

On 01/04/2025 03:09, hlyg wrote: in the end i use mbr, as one of my PCs doesn't support gpt It depends on firmware, but I expect that UEFI spec describes requirements for ESP in the case of MBR partitions. btw what is recommended size of efi partition? default size is 512M sgdisk(8)

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

On 30/03/2025 21:52, J wrote: Also, is there a way to see these messages on black screen during reboot in the system logs somehow? i can't find it in journalctl -b1 -r Do timestamps in the output match the moment when you experienced the issue? I would expect "-b -1" rather than "-b1", howe

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

On 30/03/2025 12:32, George Kirkham wrote: Now with Journalctl, is it still possible to connect the failed-to-boot disk drive to another computer and read logs?  How? [...] https://man.archlinux.org/man/journalctl.1.en -D DIR, --directory=DIR There is

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 26/03/2025 18:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -". Before buster, nobody would have used that on a Debian system. It's horrible. The fact that people are now embracing it as a norm is even worse. It seems I have to clarify why I suggested name

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 28/03/2025 05:13, George at Clug wrote: Max suggested checking with journalctl which may help, but I am thinking that if the computer is freezing, then nothing can get written to the logs anyway, so searching logs may not help. For example: # journalctl --priority=err --no-pager To be cl

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 27/03/2025 03:26, George at Clug wrote: I tried "$ journalctl | grep -i error" First of all, likely it should be "#", not "$" (run it as root: either sudo or su). Next journalctl --priority=err or journalctl --priority=warning instead of grep. However in the case of obscure is

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 25/03/2025 19:47, J wrote: Notice that the page suggests "# for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc " so it is assumed that users should run $ sudo -i sudo *SH -c '...' -* as mentioned above. But it is not written in WIki. In my opinion, "sudo -i" might be added to the wiki articles. I wo

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 26/03/2025 00:10, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-25, Max Nikulin wrote: I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. [...] If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have something to do with how the webmaster coded the page. It is broken in the

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 26/03/2025 01:41, mick.crane wrote: I generally use Geany or Nano for typing and although of not major importance I earlier wanted to move bits of text around and thought being able to make random selections, as one thing, would be handy. Read manuals, perhaps that editors have some close f

Re: laptop options

On 24/03/2025 15:23, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Product Name: HP ZBook Fury 16 G10 Mobile Workstation PC [...] Support is so good, that when I go into "Software" in the Gnome applications menu, It will show me if a new firmware for the Thunderbolt dock is available, and suggest to install i

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 25/03/2025 10:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: eg. alpha beta charlie delta select only "alpha" and "charlie" text with mouse drag and copy. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. [...] If that doesn't work at all on any

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 25/03/2025 02:40, J wrote: user@debian:~$ sudo for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/ efivars /run; do mount -B $i /mnt/$i; done Notice that the page suggests "# for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc " so it is assumed that users should run $ sudo -i # # more commands given above... #

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

On 18/03/2025 14:11, Loris Bennett wrote: Max Nikulin writes: apt policy [...] My sources.list was correct, but 'apt update/upgrade' failed to install anything, so I assume Andrew is correct in pointing the finger at some sort of caching issue which removing /var/lib/apt/lists/

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

On 18/03/2025 02:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As ever with apt problems, it's really useful if you can copy you *actual* /etc/apt/sources.list file to the mailing list. Output of apt policy while being more "noisy", is a more reliable source for troubleshooting. The first step is to chec

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

On 14/03/2025 22:32, Lee wrote: Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from the repository? [...] W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python3.11/idle-python3.11_3.11.2-6%2bdeb12u4_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 443] apt polic

Re: Stunnel startup. Was "Native systemd services."

On 09/03/2025 23:15, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/Pan . There we read, To enable Stunnel edit /etc/default/stunnel4 ENABLED=1 /etc/default/stunnel4 exists but lacks ENABLED. My best guess is that systemd obsoleted it. Stunnel needs https://wiki.debian.org/Stunnel with curr

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

On 09/03/2025 15:47, Miriami wrote: About the projects I've found - I searched with three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and 'fuse'. Device mapper (dm) might give some alternatives to fuse. Perhaps VeraCrypt or some other encrypted container might be used to store filesystem. Of course, it i

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote: xdg-mime query default application/pdf Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or xdg-open will use the reported handler. E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit different way. exo-open (that i

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to supposedly "solve" the problem. A wrong assumption. On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote: Before toda

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote: I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer. Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install another application that may open PDF files. If media type association is not explicitly configured then it is i

Re: evolution recovery

On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution for it? Good idea.  Thanks. It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication method. I hope

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote: Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be smaller than size exposed to virtual machines. However likely

Re: evolution recovery

On 06/03/2025 15:08, Russell L. Harris wrote: Obviously, my preference is to get Evolution working right, without the necessity of spending two or three days reinstalling Debian. Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution for it? It may help if your mail provider h

Re: [SOLVED] pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 06/03/2025 17:50, Gerard ROBIN wrote: settings -> settings manager -> default applications in xfce4 fixed the problem. (Editing the mimeapps.list file has no effect) But the XFCE settings tool writes selected option to mimeapps.list...

Re: Problem with /var

On 07/03/2025 09:33, Maureen Thomas wrote: 141523 517216 -rw--- 2 root root 529625088 Nov 7 21:42 ./lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-42-2204_176.snap du -ms /var/lib/snapd Likely you need to move this directory to another partition.

Re: web browser recommendation

On 07/03/2025 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: One of the possible answers was to switch to "uBlock Origin Lite", which is less capable (it can't "phone home" to update its block lists because Manifest v3 doesn't permit that), but may still be good enough for most people. I believed that main limita

Re: filesystem damage

On 06/03/2025 00:00, Eben King wrote: On 3/4/25 21:59, Max Nikulin wrote: In this particular case I do not think it is a drive failure. I suspect mounting /home was a mistake. Indeed.  "-ro" is not read only when a journal is in play. In some post on data recovery I have seen

Re: filesystem damage

On 05/03/2025 23:33, Greg wrote: Given the cryptic nature of its results and the fact that a positive result implies that the test itself can be a factor in precipitating the very failure it intends to preclude, I see no reason to run this program, which seems to produce more confusion than anyth

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 06/03/2025 07:09, Gerard ROBIN wrote: xdg-mime query default image/png com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.desktop I am currently using Trixie and have uninstalled and reinstalled pdfarranger. So you have several applications installed that may handle PNG files. Which way should other app

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 05/03/2025 18:46, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I use Bookworm and Trixie. With Bookworm no problem when I click on "file:///home/user/file.png" the file file.png opens with display (imagemagick) but with Trixie it is pdfarranger that opens the file. What is output of the following command? xdg-mi

Re: filesystem damage

On 03/03/2025 00:03, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500 Eben King wrote: So what can I do to fix this, while still keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc? I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is failing. I would first boot to a live CD and r

Re: filesystem damage

On 03/03/2025 17:03, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: [...] ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   082   064   006    Pre-fail Always   -   146369262 146 million read-errors.

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: P.S. "pdftotext -layout" in some cases is better than without "-layout". I think the results are roughly comparable with my scrapings, for this document at least. Perhap

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: With mupdf, I don't even know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around. I have not tried it, but... https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mupdf/mupdf.1.en.html#Right~2 On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: When

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 21/02/2025 08:00, David Wright wrote: I dragged the mouse across the Males table and dumped it in a file. David, I recall you mentioned xpdf in your messages. It allows to select rectangular regions. Sometimes it is convenient since this strategy does not depend on order of objects inside

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

Steven, it seems you have managed to print your PDF file, so perhaps you should stop debugging evince (unless you need it for some feature with worse support in okular or browsers: form filling, printing, annotating, etc.; or you need to run another application with deep mandatory desktop integ

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error messages: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: Looks like missed DISPLAY environment varia

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

On 14/02/2025 21:49, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-02-09 11:46, Max Nikulin wrote: I recommend to compare     apt policy linux-image-amd64 and     apt policy I can't see any differences between them on the various systems. If it is true and the latest kernel is installed on all systems

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 15/02/2025 05:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. Have you tried printing PDF files from Firefox or Chromium? There are some other PDF viewers like zathura and atril, but I have never tried their printing fe

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

On 14/02/2025 00:33, Ceppo wrote: Well, it was worth checking. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'll file a bug report. Something might change outside your machine: you installed another router, more devices have been added to your wifi network, including ones actively using multicast (IPTV

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 13/02/2025 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 08:56:47 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: - *browser alternatives - BROWSER environment - mailcap for text/html I have realized that I do not have an example of an application that determines https: scheme handler from mailcap (it is

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 13/02/2025 01:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: Now Debian has*two* completely separate ways to specify a default application for a role. I believed there are at least 4 ways (besides settings specific to particular applications) - *browser alternatives - BROWSER environment - mailcap for text/html

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 22:09, Greg wrote: On 2025-02-12, Max Nikulin wrote: Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard (XDG) way to configure media types and applications associations. Unfortunately, as Greg Wooledge has already pointed out, there is no universal standard

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 20:55, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (HE12025-02-12): I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented. At worst, the source code is the documentation. Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard (XDG) way to configure media types

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 12/02/2025 17:23, Nicolas George wrote: If you want a Linux way to solve the issue: first, read the documentation of xfce-terminal to see how it decides which web browser to run; I would not be surprised if it is not explicitly documented. Perhaps XFCE has a configuration menu. Most GUI app

Re: Firefox

On 12/02/2025 17:24, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 2/11/25 à 23:39, e...@gmx.us a écrit : Is there a way to manually suspend or crash a tab? I don't know if you can do this natively in firefox, about:processes right column. The button appears on hover. I have no idea what "crash a tab" should

Re: software to document and develop projects

On 08/02/2025 22:13, Michel Verdier wrote: Emacs org mode can handle mixed code / documentation Specifically for octave some examples are provided in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-octave.html (use the .org suffix to get the source file). Using "bare" engine promp

Re: Firefox

On 11/02/2025 08:08, David Wright wrote: On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in browser profile (list of

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