Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
l (Shift-3) nor the pipe character. What language is your keyboard, what do those keys type, and where is your pipe key? Cheers, David.

Re: exim configuration.

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
d. Thanks. I reviewed exim4 more for interest than necessity. > When there is time, can follow up on your suggestions. I'm not sure it's worth trying to configure Exim without having a clear picture of what you want it to do with it, and how it will fit into your overall email strategy. (Obviously I'm talking about going beyond sole use of dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config in a LAN with a single PC.) Cheers, David.

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-30 Thread David Christensen
On 5/30/25 10:20, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 02:18:06AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Perhaps you could take Debian Live media to Blair and test before purchase? Regrettably, no.  Blair is in Kentucky; I am in Texas. Okay. Reading ahead, Debian should work fine on

Re: amd rx550

2025-05-30 Thread David Christensen
, sound cards, network cards, PCIe drive cards, disk drives, etc., it would be better to start with a full tower case, vibration isolated internal drive bays, sound absorbing liner, big power supply, large fans, and suitable motherboard/ CPU/ memory. This is how I built my SOHO servers. David

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-28 Thread Erwan David
me to work, you need some svg lib which is recommended by one of the plasma* package. Check whether you install recommended packages, or only dependencies. I am not on my trixie, thus cannot give you now the package name for the library -- Erwan David

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

2025-05-27 Thread David
On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 23:37, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. > I did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The > upgrade went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in > KDE's application

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/25 13:02, David Wright wrote: On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and install Debian onto the SSD: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb Can you boot it on both BIOS and EFI mac

Re: dual boot or windows vm?

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
oting: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/hsb220sat25b https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/s25slotr For laptops: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb David

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 May 2025 at 10:11:50 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 5/26/25 01:32, riveravaldez wrote: > > Hi, I would like to make a minimal Debian Stable -with only the packages I > > need- available as a LiveUSB bootable system (nomadic, USB-stick, which I > > can use

Re: Random locks ups in qemu

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
Debian, I tried running without swap. The computers always crashed under load. When I added a 1G swap partition, the crashes stopped. Since then, I always provide a 1G swap partition when installing. David

Re: Debian LiveUSB persistent/upgradeable (howto)

2025-05-26 Thread David Christensen
ash drives do not have a substantial RAM buffer, so interactive use was choppy. Now I connect a SATA to USB adapter cable to a 2.5" SATA SSD and install Debian onto the SSD: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb David

Re: Strange (cosmic ray?) corruption.

2025-05-25 Thread David Christensen
/.ssh/id_rsa_backup backup@backup17 'cat >/dumps/proxy17.20250525.1/_.log' Please run and post: # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a Does your computer have ECC memory? Are you using integrity assured filesystems (e.g. btrfs or ZFS)? Can you reduce your process to a minimal Bourne shell script that exits with 0 on success and exits with 1 on error that readers can run on their computers to debug the issue? David

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread David Christensen
ot flag on sda1 and/or sdb1, install/configure LVM to access the contents of your 2T drives, and install/configure software. David

Re: Repair or Replace

2025-05-20 Thread David Christensen
drive into the computer. Mount the old drive filesystems read-only. Install desired software. Configure software by referring to contents of old filesystems. Shutdown. Remove old drive. Take an image. Backup all filesystems. David

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-20 Thread Erwan David
estion: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > official release? Clearly, I would recommend to wait for some weeks : you'll get then a tested upgrade path with documentation, and most integration bugs corrected. -- Erwan David

Re: What file does Linux use to...

2025-05-19 Thread David Christensen
ow the command(s) to do so, state that and ask for clarification. David

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-18 Thread David Christensen
cludes .gz compressed log file backups, Flatpak crud, and /var/cache/apt/archives buildup. I frequently do: # apt-get autoremove and # apt-get autoclean And when I really want to go on a diet, I do: # apt-get clean Thanks again to all! YW. :-) David

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

2025-05-17 Thread David Wright
.bashrc # enable bash completion in interactive shells #if ! shopt -oq posix; then # if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then #. /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion # elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then #. /etc/bash_completion # fi #fi $ Cheers, David.

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-17 Thread David Christensen
#x27;s my story. Again, thanks for the input! I use a version control system to track all of the relevant details for each of my systems. This makes backup-wipe-install-restore much easier. David

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-15 Thread David Christensen
l, I would use the Setup utility on the old laptop to reset the settings to factory defaults, wipe the NVMe drive, reinstall Windows over the Internet (including Dell bloatware), and unlink the Windows license from any Microsoft account. You could then repurpose the old laptop. David

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-13 Thread David Wright
> > ifupdown, network manager, systemd-networkd or whatever. > > > > (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are > > far more knowledgeable folks than me around here). > > > > Cheers > > Thank you. I just found the first of those commands. > > sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up gives: > > RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill $ /sbin/rfkill should show what's blocked, and sudo rfkill unblock all should unblock it. Cheers, David.

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

2025-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 May 2025 at 19:04:55 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > > > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file p

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread David Christensen
onents via craigslist. In more recent years, eBay seems to be the best source. When myself or people I support want recent hardware with warranties and Windows support, Dell Outlet and Dell Refurbished work. David

Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread David Christensen
> not work I installed debian 12.2 along side the other one and now it > works I suggest that you take an image of your OS drive now. Raw dd(1) works. Clonezilla is the canonical FOSS live distribution for imaging: https://clonezilla.org/ David

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread David Wright
prohibitively expensive to replace. Yes, though in that case it would be unwise not to have a number of systems available for spare parts, including interfaces. But other possibilities include as a personal hobby, or for a museum. Cheers, David.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread David Wright
sarge from 2005–2007 on two machines: Pentium II (Klamath) with 384MB Pentium III (Coppermine) with 512MB Cheers, David.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread David Christensen
mple. Failure can include catching on fire (!). I would recycle that computer, rather than burn my house down. David

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

2025-05-04 Thread David Wright
(I don't see any report of the "bug", 482194, being reproduced by anyone, and I didn't catch up with the change for another nine years, as you may or may not remember.) Cheers, David.

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David Wright
reverts to root. There are several answers posted, but after you have finished and unmounted all the filesystems in /media, remember to revert the permissions/ownership of /media to drwxr-xr-x root root and leave it like that. Cheers, David.

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown wrote: The private message that I have quoted here ... > On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 10:51:17AM +0000, David wrote: > > On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key moun

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

2025-05-03 Thread David
On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 10:23, Haines Brown wrote: > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a directory > under /media. Hi, what type of filesystem is on the USB key? extt4? vfat? Something else? > I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but >

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

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > possible that the Debian v

Re: keyboard light MacBook Pro mid 2009 running Debian.

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
difiers to press at the same time: shift, fn, control, option, command (some modifiers have left and right), or even none. Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult > > to see whether anything had changed. > > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it > > m

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

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
/local/lib/ ls -ult Now we run into another problem: the OS could be caching the targets of the symlinks and the contents of the libraries, avoiding the necessity of rereading them. # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches each time, should prevent it doing that. Cheers, David.

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
├─┼───┤ │5│ graphical.target │ ├─┼───┤ Is the break in communication between Grub and the kernel, or the kernel and systemd? I'm not best qualified to answer that, because my graphical.target.wants includes solely udisks2.service, and I suspect that I don't even depend on that. Is a DM startup placed only in graphical.target.wants, and not multi-user.t.w? Cheers, David.

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-26 Thread David
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 12:32, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:01:06 +0000 David wrote: > >Because you are running this: > > > > https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-arm64/package/handbrake > >which is not packaged by Debian. >

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-26 Thread David
On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 at 11:53, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-04-26 07:32, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:15:41 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > >> I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed > >> Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it. > > Install handbrake-

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 15:29:39 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-25, David Wright wrote: > >> > >> Considerable extra typing susceptible to error, and as I suffer from a > >> digital deformity, I prefer less to more. > > > > You could read man bash

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 22:44, Lee wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:33:54 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > Also, you should quote "$tempf". [...] > > But why take the chance? > You're right - I should be working on the habit of putting quote

Re: How do I start the Handbrake GUI?

2025-04-25 Thread David
On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 at 16:55, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed > Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it. > > The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop > menu and the command line program has too many options for

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/25 07:43, Gareth Evans wrote: On Fri 25/04/2025 at 02:54, David Christensen wrote: If all you need is an SSH or Samba file server for a SOHO network, most any x86_64 computer built in the last ~15 years can work. Hi David, I thought it was still the case that some NICs, for example

Re: systemd misses services

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
d. > > Why are exim and spamassassin automatically present as services? You could try installing bash-completion. Subsequently: $ systemctl status exi← TAB pressed twice exim4-base.service exim4-base.timerexim4.service exit.target $ systemctl status exi Cheers, David.

Re: Gnome to XFCE

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up > > > the

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-25 Thread David Wright
e. You could read man bash from the line that starts with ALIASES and save yourself a lot of typing. For example, when I want to check up on my clock synchronisation, I type: $ clock Its alias is: alias clock='chronyc activity; echo; chronyc sourcestats; echo; chronyc sources -a -v; echo; chronyc tracking; echo; timedatectl; echo; systemctl status chrony.service' Cheers, David.

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
d to use HDD's for data storage and to use SSD's for caches and/or metadata. David

Re: Staples Dell refurbished computer for bookworm and trixie

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
E3-1225 v5 processor, 2 @ 8 GB ECC memory, and a 60 GB SATA 6 Gbps SSD (Debian). Performance is good and standard fans are adequate (and quiet). David

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread David
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 20:54, Van Snyder wrote: > > KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. > > 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

Re: [Bookworm] ZFS shutdown

2025-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 4/23/25 16:21, David Christensen wrote: On 4/23/25 14:49, Greg wrote: Hi there, What is the proper way of shutting down ZFS? After: # /etc/init.d/zfs-share stop # /etc/init.d/zfs-mount stop # /etc/init.d/zfs-import stop pool 'backup' is not mounted but: # zpool export bac

Re: [Bookworm] ZFS shutdown

2025-04-23 Thread David Christensen
How it is possible that it is not mounted but is still busy? PS. Shutting down the server is not an option. Regards Greg On FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE-p4, `zpool export ` works for me. David

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 12:01:57 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 13:55 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > > > > On 4/2

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > > On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > When I had an IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect > > > as a windows key

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread David Wright
n IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect as a windows key from holding down both Ctrl and Alt. Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated >

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-22 Thread David Christensen
ipment. Some computers have a self diagnostic utility in the motherboard firmware Setup utility. If you computer has such, please run it. Memtest86+ is a popular FOSS memory test utility. Please download, burn to USB flash drive, boot, and run at least one full pass. Run for 24 hours if you have doubts: https://memtest.org/ David

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-22 Thread David Wright
ering those questions may change expectations of getting an error message like that. Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
… but not being able to find 4.14! That's remarkable :) > # Table A4.12. Thrifty Food Plan Market Basket for males age 51–70, > June 2021: quantities, costs, and cost shares of Market Basket > Categories in weekly amounts Cheers, David.

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstab

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
ngful names, like Kirk-swap and Kirk-home. You then write PARTLABEL=whatever or LABEL=whatever in your fstab file, instead of error-prone UUIDs. ¹ Not easy, I realise, when there's no case. Cheers, David.

Re: Keyboard stopped working

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
machine to its own ends. So I'd keep the machine switched off, and do some research to see what applies in your case. Your PD bit (is that a postscript?) isn't very clear about when the 'Screen Blackout' occurred. Was this when the keyboard originally stopped working, or after you rebooted and got the error message? And which password was it that you typed? Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
I found that my late install of ISPY/AgentDVR > had carried an update... Still, I haven't solved my problem. You may have little option but to complete a full-upgrade to bookworm, but I wouldn't act hastily as your system still works, albeit without playing videos. Cheers, David.

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread David
On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 17:42, wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:58:31PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Err, did you notice the bit in that reference that says: "It documents > > regular expressions in the form available within KatePart, which is not > > compatible with the regular

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

2025-04-20 Thread David Wright
> > Did you create a user by the name "root" ? To save a rehash, see the thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/02/msg00035.html Cheers, David.

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread David
On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 14:17, George at Clug wrote: > Sorry, but I do not understand the meaning of your words: > "universe of discourse" > "entity goals" > And I am confused by this sentences: > "A significant number of which mention Kate *or* Kwrite *or* Katepart." > "In a discussion of "regul

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread David
On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 13:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I need to understand the entity goals of Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart. > I.E. In a discussion of "regular expressions", does it mat

Re: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart

2025-04-20 Thread David Wright
es which an application or library can implement to provide advanced plain text editing services. Applications which utilise this interface can thus allow the user to choose which implementation of the editor component to use. The only implementation right now is the Kate Editor Component (Kate Part). . This contains the Kate Part plugin. Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-19 Thread David
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. If that command produces any output, th

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

2025-04-18 Thread David Wright
tunately, this H 264 decoder > is not found on your system…" > > Must have been there before, though !! It looks as if the scripts might have built and installed some library with a higher version number (look at the libva.sh script). 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. Cheers, David.

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

2025-04-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 14:24:35 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/16/25 8:35 AM, David Wright wrote: > > Ironically, a copy/paste from xpdf seems to do a better job > > than -layout at preserving the columns widths over the page break. > > (Perhaps the text at the bott

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread David Wright
everse video for root. I colour the status bar in mutt, the mode-line in emacs, and the hotkey (bottom) line in mc. I also colour the menu (top) line in mc differently when one panel is displaying a remote host. FWIW. Cheers, David.

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Apr 2025 at 13:09:29 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use > > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instea

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

2025-04-16 Thread David Wright
/02/msg00493.html is worth rereading. It seems to be the same operation on the same report from 15 years earlier. As for tutorials, no, I can't think of any in particular. It's just a matter of thinking how to apply tools that you've got or can gain access to. With luck, you'

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-16 Thread Erwan David
ves via mDNS. > > I'm not sure I understand, but > $ sudo systemctl stop cups.service > > $ lp -d Canon_MG3600_series check-for-updates.sh > lp: Bad file descriptor You stopped cups (ie the whole printing system), not cups-browsed (the mDNS listener to get printers of the local network announcing themselves by Zeroconf) -- Erwan David

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

2025-04-15 Thread David Christensen
r input documents, then I suggest looking for PDF parsing libraries for your favorite programming/ scripting language and coding a solution. Alternatively, ask the author for the table in CSV format. David

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic > > > resources on a

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 13:07:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put > > >

Re: hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/25 08:35, David Christensen wrote: On 4/10/25 00:14, Michel Verdier wrote: A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ I assume you mean Microsoft Windows (?).  Which version (4.0, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.5, 10, 11, etc.) and which edition (Home, Pro, Workstation, etc.)? Here is a better

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

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
hould be no secrets in the files, unless you also have some wireless configurations involved; but do obfuscate any sensitive items.) AIUI making User connections is the way Windows and some desktop environments are designed to work by default. Cheers, David.

Re: hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread David Christensen
should facilitate obtaining trouble-shooting advice via this mailing list. David

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > > [...] > > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > > something to coyote.coy

Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

2025-04-06 Thread David Christensen
apters/firmware, optical/disk/flash drives, etc.. It "mostly" works on "most common" computers. David

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread Erwan David
, ssh is usually a lot easier to tunnel to > > sneak through than a VPN. > > My bet was that 443 is always open because otherwise mid- and hi- > level mgmt would be on top of the poor admins because they couldn't > go to their share trading casinos: I won :) Admins would also have problems to get security updates (and not accessing *overflow) -- Erwan David

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
t; how to solve it? Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? Cheers, David.

Re: Does secure old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports| amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | testing | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable| amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | buildd-experimental | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | experimental| amd64 ~# Works ok. Cheers, David.

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
utdown if it were happening here. I suppose my suspicions would first fall on any network connections. (As you probably know, with FAT disks, it's completely different. You typically have to chkdsk them yourself (or not bother). It can be tricky to get scanners, cameras and phones to unmount their sticks and cards cleanly, so here they often live with their dirty bit set.) Cheers, David.

Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread David Christensen
during installation and enable the System Load Monitor applet in the Xfce to watch swap usage during operation. If the programs use up memory and start to swap, I can do something about it. David

Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-04 Thread David Christensen
5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. Comments or suggestions? David

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/25 16:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256: They are different modules. https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256 https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA Digest::SHA256

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > > > I don't know why you have problems with usin

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > Thank Wright! i have solved it on m

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v.Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > I don't know why you have problems with using /etc/hosts for lookups > > on your LAN. I use it here without any problems, and it has to work > > because there's

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread David Christensen
ification IconNo icon -> Appearance Conditions File Pattern* Appears if selection contains check Other Files -> OK -> x (Close dialog window) Thunar -> navigate to directory containing executable file Right-click on file -> Run David

DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
guring myself, plus the fact that it's always powered on. [ … ] > Sorry to disappoint you but that seems to be working Just Fine, but > once again, you make no attempt to either explain why its wrong, or to > tell us what the right way is other than demanding we waste a week > making dhcpd actually work. Then why the complaint? Cheers, David.

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
ly guessing that hostB might be the drone.) So you configure hostB to find and connect to a fixed AP, just as most hosts do in a home network: in this case, it's hostA rather than a router. And hostA just waits for hostB to connect to it. > I intend to build a full preconfigurated livefile system based on debian, so > that people with Windows-computers can boot it in the fields and can use it. > > But - this will be a long way. Cheers, David.

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread David
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote: > 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk > drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer > as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see why it > could no longer boot.

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > > > spurious email

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
that's fine by me. The benefit of the method above is that you only have to reconfigure one host, A, and leave B untouched: B knows how to connect to an AP, so you can focus all your attention on getting hostA to work, and test it with any normal wifi device that happens to be on hand. Cheers, David.

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
ect that AP to the rest of the network, so that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just ignore that. Example at: http://souktha.github.io/misc/create-ap-linuxpc/ Cheers, David.

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-28 Thread David Wright
ve, https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/MM/msg00NNN.html If the header is short, showing perhaps two or three "Received:" lines, with no mention of bendel, then it's unlikely to have anything to do with the "Debian hierarchy", whatever that is. Cheers, David.

Re: Installation Process

2025-03-28 Thread David Christensen
isor, and add a virtual machine for each additional operating system. David

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