Hi,
On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 09:13:15PM +, Shy Rouge Gaming wrote:
> I'm a new linux debian user that's learning to navigate the
> operating system. A common issue has popped up when I attempted to download
> certain services: "user namespaces must be enabled" is a message that pops
> up consta
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 01:25:52AM +, whiteman...@paraboletancza.org wrote:
> I want to store on NAS a lot of random downloaded stuff like movies,
> music and also my backups of servers.
Only you can decide if it's worth it or not.
Full disk encryption will help you mainly against unsoph
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 01:12:27PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit?
>
> $ file /bin/true
No doubt good enough for the OP who is not going to be part way through
a multiarch cr
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:29:32PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> I noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It
> seems to be created at the time of installation. What is it?
It's one of the XDG standard directories.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 11:35:41AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > If I will use the kernel of Debian Trixie or more recent, do I still
> > need to worry about SMR drives, or will they just work?
>
> They should just work (see
> https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/14nz7ow/extensive
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 09:30:44AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> In order to download and compile simple-scan, it seems I need to
> install the Flatpak development environment. Is that going to cause
> any problems with the normal Debian install//update environment?
Can I ask why you need to c
Hi,
In that case then, sorry I misunderstood. Even after you provided more
information here it still makes no sense to me as to what you are
actually asking about. Baffling to me why all the information about
Links and Elinks and the Google complaint if that is not relevant to
your query. Anyway.
eemingly are unqualified to
> answer, perhaps simply ignore this thread then?
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2025, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In that case then, sorry I misunderstood. Even after you provided more
> > information here it still makes no
Hi,
I hesitate to post in this absolute car-crash pointless thread, but with
this it's going even further off the rails.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 08:57:32AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/21/25 8:22 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> > Ask on a RaspberryPi forum. Raspberry Pi OS is derived from Debian
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:51:45AM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> I would like to ask if people in Vietnam can use Debian OS without any
> restrictions. I am very interested in using Debian and want to make sure it
> is fully available and supported in my country.
>
> Thank you very much for y
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 07:11:03PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> I also wonder what is the x86 mainboard with the currently largest
> amount of usable RAM ...
It is now getting even more complicated because with CXL you can add
external banks of RAM connected by rack and datacentre-scale PCI
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 08:55:06PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
> I want the check to start on the first Monday of each month at 5pm, I made
> these changes:
>
> ~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/mdcheck_start.timer.d/override.conf
> [Unit]
> Description=MD array scrubbing
>
> [Timer]
> OnCalendar
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:21:46AM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> Hello Debian Team,
We still aren't the "Debian Team", as has been pointed out to you
multiple times now by multiple people.
> I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to kindly ask if there are
> any plans to release De
On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:08:38PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> That is what Robert was talking about. That is the basis of my reply
> to Robert.
Apologies, that should of course be Roberto!
Thanks,
Andy
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:24:48PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > > I'd hope th
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the
> > XLibre community.
> >
> >
> > https:/
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:46:08PM -0500, Aaron Johnson wrote:
> it would be a joy to see the Debian project bring on XLibre as a valid
> alternative to other X implementations as well as Wayland, etc.
I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the
XLibre community.
htt
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 03:54:49PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 11/09/25 at 21:53, Andy Smith wrote:
> > # systemctl --list-timers mdcheck_start.timer
> >
> > where you will see that its next trigger is still the Sunday.
>
> Here "--list-timers"
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:00:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2025-09-10 at 15:55, Andy Smith wrote:
> > It's done by systemd timers now.
>
> Which does leave those of us who don't use systemd out in the cold.
> Sadly, this is (IIRC from when I saw something
Hi Alain,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 04:19:33PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> In the general operation of a machine: how aware of the causes of a program
> failing would you be ? Most programs would generate some vague error message,
> the system might contain something more specific.
Are you askin
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith wrote:
> > If you have no redundancy (RAID, LVM mirror, btrfs, zfs, …) you may
> > have lost data.
>
> I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and
> vice-versa,
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 08:55:48PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
> - Which rules "mdadm" now follows to start an array check?
It's done by systemd timers now.
$ systemctl list-units --all mdcheck*
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
mdcheck
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 02:24:07PM -0400, Bruce Halco wrote:
> it really bugs me that running smartctl from the command line
> conflicts with the automated messages. Which I never got before
> upgrading to trixie.
I don't think that trixie has anything to do with it. That kind of
alerting has
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:30:47PM -0400, Bruce Halco wrote:
> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors and Device:
> /dev/sda [SAT], 30 Offline uncorrectable sectors These seem to come within a
> day or so of a reboot, but it hasn't been long enough to know if that's a
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 11:13:29PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:50:04PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> > > Setting up gitweb (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1) ...
> > > dpkg: error processing package gitweb (--configure):
> > > installed gitweb
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:29:19PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
>
>
> Setting up systemd (257.8-1~deb13u1) ...
> /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf:14: Duplicate line for path "/run/lock",
> ignoring.
>
>
Apparently intentional but Luca's communication skills as usual leave a
lot to
Hello,
On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 12:35:26PM -, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On 07/09/2025 03:10, David wrote:
> > CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network
>
> Is systemd-networkd the default on Debian?
No.
For the rest of your ill-informed rant, it was a nice day
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 11:16:09AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> On Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 2:00 AM, Andy Smith
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 04:24:59PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> > wrote:
> > > You mean Debian doesn
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 09:58:57AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 12:36:15 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> > "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP
> > address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any
Hi,
"inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP
address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any of its
machine-readable output formats.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2025 07:40:16 am Andy Smith wrote:
> > Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not
> > being able to reliably hold data if left powered off for years.
>
&
On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 07:44:55AM +, Stefan K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > 15.08.24 cupsfilter 2.0.1
> >
> > libcupsfilters2/stable 2.0.0-3+b2 amd64
> cups-filters (1.28.17-6)
> so in my debian trixie it looks older ^^
I don't know much about CUPS but the 1.x series of cups-filters is
for klegacy pr
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 05:41:12AM -0300, riveravaldez wrote:
> What's the best kind of distro/system, installation and use, for an SSD?
SSDs are now mainstream, commonplace devices that don't really need any
special handling¹. These ideas of dramatically having to change your
working practic
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:40:05AM +, Stefan K wrote:
> The following packages are all released before softfreeze
> 12.03.25 smartmontools 7.5
smartmontools/stable 7.4-3 amd64
> 15.08.24 cupsfilter 2.0.1
libcupsfilters2/stable 2.0.0-3+b2 amd64
> 08.04.25 cups 2.4.12
cups/stable 2.4.1
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 12:18:46AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense?
By avoiding abusive vendors [works also in other aspects of life].
Fortunately most free markets (with just a few sad exceptions) have a
range of vendors.
Thanks,
Andy
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
> > a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable
> > block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links
> > alone.
>
> This is generally not a good thing
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial
> > amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other
> > rsync-based backup syste
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 09:07:26PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> No big harm in that case but if a technical person like Debian
> project leader can fail (to respect) encryption then anyone can and
> the whole email encryption idea is doomed or restricted to really
> known trus
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 04:24:59PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> You mean Debian doesn't inform you if your OS needs an update?
It is dependent on the desktop chosen. GNOME by default downloads
updates, and notifies you of them with a desktop notification.
The package "apti
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 04:01:53PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> As far as
>
> 1) Your dyndns.org entry is not pointing to the correct IP address.
>
> ping and looking at my account on dyndns.org, the IP is correct.
>
> 2) Your ISP is blocking incoming connections, either on port 22 or on
>
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > There are backup suites
> > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many back
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:13:54PM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> If your purpose is backup - then you are *far* better mounting the disk as a
> file system and then copying files somewhere using tar or cpio. That somewhere
> could be a disk - although something like a USB memory stick would b
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 06:10:30PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> Yes, I have in the past written to the wrong disk.
Tip: Try to stick to using the links in /dev/disk/by-* and keep looking
at the output of:
$ lsblk -d -oname,size,model,serial
to keep fresh in your mind what is what.
Thanks,
An
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:55:22AM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating
> systems on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and
> be able to copy them back.
The best way to do this depends upon whether you intend this t
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:53:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
> view.
Last time you asked about this we got as far as:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00526.html
Can you reply to the points raised th
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 08:58:30AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> P.S. I admit I can not suggest a better approach to protect servers against
> aggressive crawlers, but I still do not like this kind of measures that
> require JS to be enabled in browsers.
SourceHut evaluated Anubis but switched to a
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 05:33:44PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm looking for Anubis [0] for Debian Server. It appears Anubis was removed
> after Wheezy,[1] but I was not able to locate the reason why.
[…]
> Does anyone know why Debian removed Anubis?
> [0] https://anubis.techaro.lol/
>
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:03:41PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> Someone mentioned SVLUG during the discussion. They have a website, but it
> doesn't look like they've had meetings in years, so I'd consider them
> dormant. And I don't personally know of any U.S. based LUGs which are still
> o
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:19:16AM +0100, alain williams wrote:
> Before that were Unix User Groups. The first one that I joined was UKUUG (UK
> Unix User Group ‡‡) in the 1980s.
I went to a couple of UKUUG conferences in the late 90s / early 2000s. I
always paid for my own attendance as no e
Hi,
Background: For almost 25 years I've been involved in the operation of
https://lug.org.uk/ which provides details of, and hosting for, LUGs in
the UK. My company still hosts all of lug.org.uk's infrastructure.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:24:56PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Having a discussi
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 03:55:27PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Putting "Subject:" in the Subject header is indeed bad, but repeating
> the Subject in the body of the email is *good*.
Well, okay then, but it just looks weird to me and so I hope very few
people agree with you on that.
> Many
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 08:44:03PM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> Subject: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian releases
Your email already has a Subject: header which we can all see. There's
no need to repeat the word "Subject:" in it, nor to repeat the entire
line again.
> I apologize
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 06:49:07PM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> is it possible to use a USB Wi-Fi adapter during installation to get
> internet access?
Yes, I have used both USB wifi and USB Ethernet to install Debian on
laptops more than 10 years ago. There was no problem as long as the
dev
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 09:26:16AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote:
> Good mailers have different reply modes. "reply" use only From, "wide
> reply" use also Cc and adresses from To (I think you used this one), and
> "reply to list" which is the good one to use. If you don't have it and
> don't wa
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 09:24:27AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I believe I did exactly as suggested. I copied the template to
> create the file ~/.spanassassin/ user_prefs and did not change
> the default values. Instead I appended to the user_prefs file a
> list of addresses I would like
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 07:12:39PM -0400, Alex McKeever wrote:
> I wonder if someone over at Debian Ports would be up to the task of
> making [i386] net installation images available?
Everyone at Debian that has the ability has already made clear over a
period of years that they don't think i
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 06:47:57PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> the updates dir seems to be a link to itself:
I think it was because there used to be an /updates in the sources URL
so the virtual link was put there so that people's configuration
wouldn't break. i.e. it's historical.
Than
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 04:20:39PM +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> Indeed, /tmp is already on tmpfs. Isn't /var/tmp supposed to be as well now?
No, and that would violate user expectation since while /var/tmp is
expected to be temporary, it is also expected to be persistent across a
r
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 12:33:17PM +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> Could you send me the new tmpfs lines in /etc/fstab? I don't want to
> improvise and mess up my system...
For a bunch of releases now Debian has not had an explicit entry for
/tmp in fstab and as far as I am aware Deb
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 06:27:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm looking for an idea of what size disk would be pleasant/comfortable.
Most people's disk space requirements are related to the kind of media
they actually work with, not the install size of their OS. Whatever is
comfortable
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 09:12:17AM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> What I want to say: Running Debian Trixie on them will probably work
> just fine on both, decide on other criteria.
I find this to be highly optimistic.
Common problematic areas for Linux on laptops continue to be things like
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 05:40:33PM +0200, john doe wrote:
> Note that VPN providers will know what web site you are looking at.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
The Internet is increasingly centralised with for example so many web
sites served by Cloudflare. The host and URL that the browser requests
is
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> As of a few months ago ssh hangs trying to access my desktop.
>
> ping [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> ssh [username].dyndns.org works.
>
> and
>
> ssh [IP address given by the ping]
>
> also hangs.
Did you really mean to say
Hi Jonathan,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 02:51:38AM +, Jonathan Wiebe wrote:
> I am going through the process of preparing my bookworm system for upgrade to
> trixie.
>
> The following statement from section 5.15 of the release notes caught my eye:
>
> - Before starting the upgrade, make sure
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 03:20:43AM -0700, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> "Sijmen J. Mulder" writes:
> > Is this a temporary situation?
>
> This package will no be part of Trixie suite. But if the maintainer
> fixes/upgrades the package, it is possible to request that this package
> be backported to tr
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 06:23:31PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> I am not actually having any problem,
> the system seems to be working okay.
All I can see is people making ominous warnings about, "the system might
be under more memory pressure", which I don't find at all compelling.
But if
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 11:49:31AM -0400, Default User wrote:
> So . . .
>
> Should I go back and repartition with a 2 Gb /tmp partition, as it was
> before? And would I have to create a new initramfs? (I did not do that
> when I removed the /tmp partition after the upgrade).
>
> Or just le
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:36:46AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 8/11/25 8:58 AM, songbird wrote:
> >remember that things can change between boots so any
> > mentions of specific devices may be out of date the next
> > boot.
> >
> >as an example my /dev/sda can change to /dev/sd[b
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 02:13:42AM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I have a clue ... If I run on the 2 disks "fdisk -l" I see a difference in
> layout that I had not noticed before. The start of partition 1 is not in the
> same place. On sda it is at 64 (not 2048) which might be the "short
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:36:03AM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> The main disk is 2 disks in a RAID-1 pair (mirroring). The boot partition is
> /dev/md0 that is built thus:
>
> md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
> 510976 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>
> I get an error installing gr
Hi Gary,
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 05:10:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> I recognize that maintaining both network manager and systemd
> networking (and X11 and Wayland) is difficult, but perhaps we should
> be waiting until the newer technology reaches a mature enough state
> that it actually can ma
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 04:14:16PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> I have had to do Timeshift restores before. As I recall,
> Timeshift restores the system fine, with one minor
> exception. Instead of restoring the exact same /etc/fstab
> file, it insists upon replacing it with a "stripped"
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 01:08:08PM -, Greg wrote:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html
[…]
> The new filesystem defaults can also be overridden in /etc/fstab, so
> systems that already define a separate /tmp partition will be
> unaffected.
It's interesting
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 08:57:09AM -0400, Default User wrote:
> My system has 8 Gb of physical memory.
>
> On a 256 Gb SSD, I have:
>
> nvme0n1 259:00 238.5G 0 disk
> ├─nvme0n1p1 259:10 512M 0 part /boot/efi
> ├─nvme0n1p2 259:20 23.3G 0 part /
> ├─nvme0n1p3 259:30
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:10:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> AIUI SSH, RSA keys, and SHA-1 are now considered bad practice:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196504
The link you cite explains that this relates to the ssh-rsa signature
algorithm, not rsa public keys as used f
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 08:49:43AM +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote:
> Would it be safe to perform the deduplication with a single command on
> /home instead of each user's folder separately? Will it create
> problems if the same file is found in several home folders but has
> different ow
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 01:36:24PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com
wrote:
> I would like to install the editor for tex, But problem is I would
> like install texlive through TUG [1] not through the package manager.
> I know there are dummy packages apart from them can someone help
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 02:31:44PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> I would:
>
> 1. Backup the computer and the NAS.
>
> 2. Move as much data as possible from /dev/sdb HDD to the NAS. Leave home
> directory login, profile, desktop environment, app configuration/ profile,
> etc. files loc
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:01:56PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-07-30 at 19:55 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g.
> > in a prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all.
> > That would be a neat trick.
Hi Eben,
[2TB HDD booting MBR to 256G SSD booting UEFI]
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:41:19PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
> eben@cerberus:~$ lsblk
> NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
> sda 8:00 238.5G 0 disk
> └─sda18:10 238.5G 0 part
> sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
>
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 08:42:07AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> Removing sudo (1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1) ...
> You have asked that the sudo package be removed,
> but no root password has been set.
> Without sudo, you may not be able to gain administrative privileges.
Hah, so it seems we have
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:38:15AM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> serial console/ parallel is likely me not understanding terminology.
> These Raspberry Pis, Arduinos with the connection with all the pins, what
> protocol is that expecting?
Raspberry Pis and Arduinos are normally talking serial o
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 07:55:12PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> There's an argument that sudo should refuse to uninstall itself (e.g. in a
> prerm script) if the root user doesn't have a password at all. That would be
> a neat trick.
That's an interesting idea. sudo pre-rm could say, "please
Hi José,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 07:47:35PM +0200, José Esteban wrote:
> Is it realistic to hope you to remember such many little things like this
> each time you setup some system ?
Yes, that is part of the administrator's job. That and many other little
details, including reading command output
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 05:56:23PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> The general solution to this is
>
> 1. express your dependencies
>
> 2. use dangerous commands
carefully
and the general advice to me is to proof read emails better
Thanks,
Andy
Hi José,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:48:45PM +0200, José Esteban wrote:
> I'I've written to sudo package maintainer, but he suggests me to
> report that here and so I do.
I am surprised that a package maintainer has told you to report anything
to debian-user. Are you sure about that? Here we are a
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> I was going to add that the default sshd installation does leave it
> open to brute-force password attacks.
sshd is not installed by default though.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 05:29:38PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-28 15:13 (UTC):
>
> > I have a Debian 12 laptop with quite a small screen which is quite high
> > DPI — 13" diagonal with resolution 2880x1920.
> ...
>
> The only
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 01:33:12PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-29 13:34 (UTC):
> > I found a bit of time to tinker yesterday but unfortunately no matter
> > what I put with video= always led to no difference and a log line
> > saying:
>
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:58:55AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-28 15:35 (UTC):
>
> > The video= kernel command line looks promising and I will try this when
> > I've finished using my laptop for work today :)
>
> > It would he
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 07:41:32PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
> >
> You might also try 'GRUB_GFXMODE="auto"' (this is the default, so leaving
> GRUB_GFXMODE commented out has the same effect).
As I say I already boot it with that commented out and the text is way
t
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 12:22 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Libreoffice generally works - but you could always try Gnumeric from
> > the GNOME project.
>
> Someone else suggested Gnumeric.
> Tried it. It appears more satisfactory. For me
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 04:04:12PM -, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote:
> > It really depends on what you're looking for.
>
> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions here.
>
> I use a search engine and u
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:56:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file
> > is so complicated that LibreOffice can't read/write it properly, I
> > suspe
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Does Debian have a spreadsheet program that can competently read/write xlsx
> format?
I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file
is so complicated that LibreOffice can't read/write it properly, I
sus
Hi Hans,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:25:38PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I believe, you should simply remove or comment out the
> entries in /etc/default/grub, and then just do an
>
> upgrade-initramfs -u
>
> as root to make it permanent.
Which entries? I do not currently have any settings in /etc/def
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:39:21PM -, Greg wrote:
> Every question is non-answered by an intimate clan of aging men with
> toxic attitudes and enormous anal-retention, who believe everyone
> should be using mutt or gnus like them and don't know or give a shit
> about anything else.
>
> I
Hi,
I have a Debian 12 laptop with quite a small screen which is quite high
DPI — 13" diagonal with resolution 2880x1920.
I like to remove "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel command line in
grub settings as I prefer to see all the text fly past. In this case
this is somewhat ruined by the fact
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 08:10:11PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Vim has the ability to use Gtk+3, but when you install vim, you do not
> see apt trying to pull Gtk+3 too: Debian builds several variants of the
> package with various options enabled or disabled.
>
> The same thing would be po
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:28:36PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Andy Smith (HE12025-07-27):
> > How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make the
> > move at some point.
>
> Speaking for myself (but agreeing with a few friends), I say I do n
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