Re: Offline install from CD - not allowed to install SSH server

2020-03-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 mar 20, 16:32:42, Cichas wrote: > > Hello guys, > > sorry if this is documented somewhere but today I decided to ask here as it > is something fundamental I cannot understand. After 20 years I decided to > try Debian again (as VM for start). I am installing it from debian-10.3.0- > amd

Re: Offline install from CD - not allowed to install SSH server

2020-03-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 mar 20, 18:00:12, john doe wrote: > On 3/4/2020 4:32 PM, Cichas wrote: > > I have checked the ISO image and SSH server should be on it > > (/pool/main/o/openssh/openssh-server_7.9p1-10+deb > > 10u2_amd64.deb) so that's also not reason why it is not offered to > > install > > If I'm not

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. Disable your caches! now! What? Your computer is just 1/3 as fast as it used to be? Computing is about lying -- and trying to not get caught. Cheers -- t signature.asc Desc

Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Toni Casueps
Hi all, I wanted to install a Debian Linux system (with LUKS) on the remaining space left by a Windows 10 install (with BitLocker and Secure Boot), without messing with the Windows boot or the main disk (nvme0n1 below) boot sector . As I needed an unencrypted filesystem to put the Linux kernel+

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 07:19:43AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 23:19:47 + > > Okay, substituting 9100 as the port number, the contents of > /etc/nsswitch.conf were printed. This eliminates the ethernet cable and the printer part of the issue. The remaining component of the

debian/testing: plasma5 - systemsettings is crashing

2020-03-05 Thread Hans
Hi folks, some weeks ago I told about several issues with instability of the x-server when using plasma on my EEEPC (32-bit/graphics card: Intel I945) Now things are getting worse! First of all, after an upgrade it appeared, that the compositor is not working any more. When I tried to reacti

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:26:43 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, > lp -d XXX -o raw out.dat Output on the command line is; request id is Officejet_6700-14179 (1 file(s)) However, although the printer receives something (the control panel illuminates) nothing is printed. Looking at the jobs list

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 11:45:29AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 11:26:43 + > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > > lp -d XXX -o raw out.dat > > Output on the command line is; > > request id is Officejet_6700-14179 (1 file(s)) > > However, although the printer receives som

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 12:23:02 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >That looks like a failure in the backend, doesn't it? The outputs of the Err, I'll say "yes"? :-) >two commands asked for, please. My apologies. lpstat -t; scheduler is running system default destination: Officejet_6700 device

Re: Offline install from CD - not allowed to install SSH server

2020-03-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 5/03/20 12:10 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 5/3/20 8:37 am, Richard Hector wrote: >> I am installing it from >> debian-10.3.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso. No I didn't. The OP (Cichas) did. > Is this CD #1 of the set of 3 or 4 or more? The .deb you are looking for > may be on one of the other CDs.

About "Debian is independent of the linux kernel"

2020-03-05 Thread Yongxian.Yao
Hi Recently, I want to use the linux-4.9.90 on Debian9.12,but I doubts when compiling the kernel. 1、Is it necessary to use the config-4.9.0-12 to compile the linux-4.9.90 kernel? 2、Does Debian9.12 have any special kernel configuration? 3、How to understand that the Debian distribution is indep

Re: About "Debian is independent of the linux kernel"

2020-03-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:25:07PM +0800, Yongxian.Yao wrote: > Recently, I want to use the linux-4.9.90 on Debian9.12, Why? The kernel shipped by Debian for stretch is newer than this (upstream version 4.9.210 currently). >but I doubts when compiling the kernel. If you want to use an *old* ke

Re: About "Debian is independent of the linux kernel"

2020-03-05 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:25:07PM +0800, Yongxian.Yao wrote: > Hi > > > Recently, I want to use the linux-4.9.90 on Debian9.12,but I doubts when > compiling the kernel. > 1、Is it necessary to use the config-4.9.0-12 to compile the linux-4.9.90 > kernel? > 2、Does Debian9.12 have any special k

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. > > Disable your caches! now! > > What? Your computer is just 1/3 as fast as it used to be? > > Compu

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:38:12PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 12:23:02 + > Brian wrote: > > device for Officejet_6700: hp:/net/Officejet_6700?ip=192.168.1.53 I see nothing wrong with this URI, so, until we know better, I'll take it that the bug is in the hp backend. I ca

Re: Offline install from CD - not allowed to install SSH server

2020-03-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:46 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 5/03/20 12:10 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 5/3/20 8:37 am, Richard Hector wrote: > >> I am installing it from > >> debian-10.3.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso. > > No I didn't. The OP (Cichas) did. > > > Is this CD #1 of the set of 3 or 4 or m

Re: Buster Live DVD Gnome Issues

2020-03-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:23 AM Kenneth Parker wrote: > About a couple hours back, I downloaded > "debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-gnome.iso from the Debian site. I then used > Brasero (3.12.2-5) to burn it to a Sony DVD-R. In other words, I wanted a > Live-DVD of, what I created on a Laptop through th

Re: Buster Live DVD Gnome Issues

2020-03-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:48 AM Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:23 AM Kenneth Parker wrote: > >> About a couple hours back, I downloaded >> "debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-gnome.iso from the Debian site. I then used >> Brasero (3.12.2-5) to burn it to a Sony DVD-R. In other word

cannot view Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends, I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email earlier, so here it is again. My system: Host: laptop Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) There is a Trash icon on the desktop screen. If I double-click it t

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:28:00 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >I can think of no other troubleshooting to do, although I suppose you >could backup /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp and replace it with the 3.19.12 >one. Just tried that, and still nothing printed. Reverted the change. >This URI should giv

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread songbird
Brad Rogers wrote: ... just on the off-chance, have you completely removed/purged cups and related packages as much as possible and then reinstalled from scratch again? i know this sort of thing isn't really often the kind of way to figure out what is going on, but sometimes it just fixes what

Re: cannot view Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email earlier, > so here it is again. No, that is not how this mailinglist works. If you are in doubt that your message was processed, you can check if it appears in the public archive at https://list

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 08:26:58 (+0100), Klaus Singvogel wrote: > 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > with cron: > > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute: > > * * * ** /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/ > > Wha not using "hdparm"? Would you be more specific and include the options you are suggest

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 12:05:50 -0500 songbird wrote: Hello songbird, >just on the off-chance, have you completely removed/purged >cups and related packages as much as possible and then >reinstalled from scratch again? No, I haven't. Frankly, it makes me feel weak to even think about doing so. I

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 11:18 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 08:26:58 (+0100), Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > > with cron: > > > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute: > > > * * * ** /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/ > > > > Wha not using "hdparm"

Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:19:11AM +, Toni Casueps wrote: > Later at the boot loader part, it didn't ask if/where to install GRUB. With an expert installation I have never know d-i not to ask. -- Brian

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

2020-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Mar 2020 at 18:11:07 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > On 01/03/2020 17:15, mick crane wrote: > > On 2020-02-29 18:17, Mikhail Morfikov wrote > > > >> vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4-amd64 > >> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root   24 2020-02-24 00:37:53 > >> vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmli

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Brad Rogers wrote: > The reason for Brian patiently walking me through some diagnostics is > because he's involved with the dev team. At least I think he is. Either > way, he clearly knows his stuff, and managed to demotrate that; > > a) the printer is fine > b) cabling is good > c) networking i

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread Klaus Singvogel
David Wright wrote: > > Wha not using "hdparm"? > > Would you be more specific and include the options you are suggesting. > There are over 60 available, some dangerous. I don't use hdparm anymore and can't memorize. But I'd gone to Google, and they tell me: "hdparm -I /dev/sdX -S 0" Regards,

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:45:32PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:28:00 + > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >I can think of no other troubleshooting to do, although I suppose you > >could backup /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp and replace it with the 3.19.12 > >one. > > Just t

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > > > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > > earlier, so here it is again. > > No, that is not how this mailinglist works. > > If you are in doubt that your message was proc

Re: HPLIP - upgrade to 3.20.2 and can no longer print. (version corrected)

2020-03-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 17:59:34 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >> >I can think of no other troubleshooting to do, although I suppose you >> >could backup /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp and replace it with the 3.19.12 >> Just tried that, and still nothing printed. Reverted the change. >Further confirma

Subject: Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 0...@caiway.net wrote: > -dsr- wrote: > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that > would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This > tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible > performance. > with cron: #

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:13:54 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > off topic, but how many times do we have to tell gmail users they have to > have 2 accounts, one to send to and one to receive? Otherwise gmail > thinks the echo from a mailing list is a duplicate and deletes it, > making the poor user t

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:13:54 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > off topic, but how many times do we have to tell gmail users they have to > have 2 accounts, one to send to and one to receive? Otherwise gmail > thinks the echo from a mailing list is a duplicate and deletes it, > making the poor user t

Re: Music players that save (different) volume settings for each song (was: Re: mplayer with -loop 0 but w/o volume reset?

2020-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 03 Mar 2020 at 07:22:49 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 03, 2020 05:57:27 AM Curt wrote: > > On 2020-03-02, David Wright wrote: > > > $ mplayer -volume 50 -fs -loop 0 -softvol Youtube/Come\ Live\ With\ > > > Me-_bVNd_sRlMk.mkv > > (I'm not the OP.) I wonder if there

Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
running install through the menu, you get a choice of grub or lilo. Other installers even beyond these two are available on other distros. When I do an install additional to turning the screen reader on; I get to menu, save logs, set priority to low, test disk integrity, choose non-free from reposi

Re: don't hijack a thread

2020-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2020-03-05 19:13:54) > off topic, but Please change subject line when, well, changing subject. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep privat

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:11:55AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. Disable your caches! now! What? Your comp

Re: Subject: Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 18:01:57 (+), G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > > -dsr- wrote: > > > > > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that > > > would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This > > > tended to cause a short

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 05/03/2020 20:55, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! My system: Host: laptop Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) There is a Trash icon on the desktop screen. If I double-click it to open it so I can view its contents, I get a dialogue box

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/03/2020 11:29, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: What gvfs packages do you have installed? See with: dpkg -l "gvfs*" Some gvfs-* packages are optional and one might include the handler for trash: urls. apt-get dist-upgrade on sid recently tried to remove gvfs-backends during the python3.8 transit

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/03/2020 11:39, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I tried purging gvfs-backends and was still able to access Trash via Thunar, so missing this package is not likely to be your issue. But if I purge gvfs itself, Trash vanishes from Thunar and cannot be accessed by manually entering the location "t

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 05 Mar, 2020 at 13:13:54 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > > > > > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > > > earlier, so here it is again. > > > > No, that is not ho

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:56:27 PM Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:11:55AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > That

Re: don't hijack a thread

2020-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 March 2020 13:55:18 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2020-03-05 19:13:54) > > > off topic, but > > Please change subject line when, well, changing subject. > It was germain to that thread. Not the answer expected, but that thread is reconstructed at least monthly an

Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-05 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
Basically there's an option to load/unload a kernel module via modprobe and modprobe -r . Is there a way to do this with, for instance, WiFi firmware? Also, what happens to the loaded firmware when you unload the corresponding module? And another question: when I compile a module into the kernel

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread kaye n
I forgot to mention that I've made spacefm the default file manager of my system. Double-clicking the trash icon in the desktop screen and then choosing a file manager to open it results in /home/user being shown, not the trash directory, regardless if I choose thunar or spacefm. Please also see

now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 6/3/20 5:43 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:13:54 PM Gene Heskett wrote: off topic, but how many times do we have to tell gmail users they have to have 2 accounts, one to send to and one to receive? Otherwise gmail thinks the echo from a mailing list is a duplicat

Re: Cannot open Trash?

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/03/2020 16:28, kaye n wrote: I forgot to mention that I've made spacefm the default file manager of my system. Double-clicking the trash icon in the desktop screen and then choosing a file manager to open it results in /home/user being shown, not the trash directory, regardless if I choose

Re: cannot view Trash? now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-03-05 18:13, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2020 12:15:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting kaye n (2020-03-05 18:02:45) > I'm going to assume that none of you saw or received my email > earlier, so here it is again. No, that is not how this mailinglist works. If you are in d

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread ghe
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 5, 2020 8:24 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I am slowly working towards a better email server, but it takes time. Check out protonmail.com. I moved there from gmail recently. Free (lower tier -- $4 a month next step up). Open sourcing thei

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-05 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Basically there's an option to load/unload a kernel module via modprobe > and modprobe -r . Is there a way to do this with, for instance, WiFi > firmware? Also, what happens to the loaded firmware when you unload the > corresponding module? And another question: when I co

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-05 Thread deloptes
ghe wrote: > Free (lower tier -- $4 a month next step up). Open sourcing their code. > Significant security features -- end to end encryption, etc.). Great user > support. In Switzerland, far away from crackers and the NSA... This is a joke as recently was publish that a swiss based company was d