Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-30 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you can't say something constructive Brian, please just stfu. I won't > claim to speak for the rest of the list, but I am damned tired of your > negative attitude. You have, I assume the same clothes to get glad in > that you got mad in. Use them. In yo

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 August 2019 03:47:09 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you can't say something constructive Brian, please just stfu. I > > won't claim to speak for the rest of the list, but I am damned tired > > of your negative attitude. You have, I assume the same clothes to

"partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too focused on "What is a partition?" I'm looking for authoritative articles whose purpose is to exam

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) > I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first > time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just > encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too > focused on "What is a partition?" > > I'm lo

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:51 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2019-08-29 19:49 (UTC-0500): > > > Unfortunately, virtually every conversation about any of your systems > > begins with a tirade about how Debian is completely broken, whether > > it's the... > > I'm guessing most of

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/30/2019 06:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the articles I found were too focus

Re: "partition name" versus "filesystem label" -- authoritative references?

2019-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 August 2019 07:52:45 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-08-30 13:42:27) > > > I've just encountered GPT, and thus "partition name", for the first > > time. My web search turned primarily threads titled of form "just > > encountered GPT ..." ;{ Similarly the article

Re: udev being an ass

2019-08-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 07:47:09 -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > If you can't say something constructive Brian, please just stfu. I won't > > claim to speak for the rest of the list, but I am damned tired of your > > negative attitude. You have, I assume the same c

tasksel

2019-08-30 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi What tool is used to produce the graphical interface for programs such as tasksel - screen shot below will be up for 30 days. https://upload.disroot.org/r/2sBMygyH#8FzOfwj8v/TZNGUW4OnbR7Hum+xAJXLPJdpp6rxPMpQ= I think it is something like curses, or ncurses but I am not sure. Thanks Paul -

Re: tasksel

2019-08-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:31:50PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > What tool is used to produce the graphical interface for programs such > as tasksel A program named dialog, or whiptail which is basically "dialog lite". Both of these are in packages with the same name as the program. ii dialog

Re: Buster:  Konqueror as File Manager

2019-08-30 Thread franiortiz hotmail
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 09:55:24PM -0300, R.Lewis wrote: > I posted the following to the debian-kde list last week and didn't get an > answer to my question about the sidebar, so I thought I'd try here. Please > keep any follow-ups to debian-usr, thank you. > > Regards, > Robert > > **

starting a new trail for a pi3b.

2019-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I found the u-sd card with a debian-arm buster net-install on it. And I generally like what I see. Then I noticed there was a newer kernel marked preempt-rt. What the hell, give it a shot, and installed it along with the mesa-utils pkgs. rebooted, runs fine. Ran glxgears full s

Checksum file not signed

2019-08-30 Thread john doe
Hi, I'm trying to verify the file at (1) with GPG. From what I understand and according to (2) there is no signed checksum file. Still according to (2) the 'Release' file is to be downloaded along with the signature file to do the verification step, then 'Release' grep or alike is to be used to se

Re: tasksel

2019-08-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 13:11:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:31:50PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > > What tool is used to produce the graphical interface for programs such > > as tasksel > > A program named dialog, or whiptail which is basically "dialog lite". > Both of t

Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread Charlie Gibbs
My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the ability to access the Internet. cjg@cjglap2:~$ ping pop.surfnaked.ca PING pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36) 56(84) bytes of data. --- pop.surfnaked.ca ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 20

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread tomas
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the > ability to access the Internet. > > cjg@cjglap2:~$ ping pop.surfnaked.ca > PING pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36) 56(84) bytes of data. Hm. Host resolution seems to w

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread Charlie Gibbs
[Oops! Mistakenly replied to to...@tuxteam.de - here's where it should have gone.] On 30/08/19 03:42 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the >> ability to access the Interne

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread mick crane
On 2019-08-30 21:45, Charlie Gibbs wrote: My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the ability to access the Internet. What has happened to my routing and how can I restore it? Is it possible that networking has somehow got Gateway confused with a machine called "gateway"

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread deloptes
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use > Iface > default         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 > wlp3s0 > default         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 > enp0s25 you can not have two defaul

Re: Where did my gateway go?

2019-08-30 Thread john doe
On 8/30/2019 10:45 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the ability > to access the Internet. > > cjg@cjglap2:~$ ping pop.surfnaked.ca > PING pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36) 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- pop.surfnaked.ca ping statistics --- > 3 pa