Should I enable "testing"

Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb http://deb.debian.org

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On Sb, 09 mai 20, 07:44:43, J.Arun Mani wrote: > ``` > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good, > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I > feel like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me. > The question is, shall I revert

Re: ...

On 08.05.2020 23:14, Thomas McAtee Jr wrote: > For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the > Linux Image as well. > > Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I > did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I > did t

Re: Should I enable "testing"

Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debi

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : [Good advice snipped] > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main > > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian > > te

Re: Should I enable "testing"

J.Arun Mani wrote: > The question is, shall I revert back to "stable"? At this point, the only sure way to downgrade to stable is via a reinstall, because downgrading a package is not supported (in general). Why is this? While many programs don't store anything on disk that is version dependen

Re: Should I enable "testing"

On 5/9/20 4:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is impossi

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Hello list, I did some further research. In particular I used the live-ISO-image of Buster (amd64) on DVD and bootet the system. And I found the following: Mouse still is irrational. It works fine, when no application has startet after logging. When then an application is started (in this case

saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop background. Applications > Settings > Desktop In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as well as a picture that goes in the center

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the desktop > background. > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including a Style, > such as "Scaled", a Color, such as "Horizontal gradient", as w

Re: saving the xfce desktop background, including color gradients on the sides

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:53 PM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/9/20, Dan Hitt wrote: > > With the xfce desktop, there's an application that lets you set the > desktop > > background. > > > > Applications > Settings > Desktop > > > > In the "Background" tab, it lets you set a few items, including

Re: advisable to use installer script?

On Sat, 9 May 2020 08:00:54 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 mai 20, 11:31:13, Celejar wrote: > > > > Indeed. It's just not clear to me that a typical package in Debian will > > have fewer bugs than the same software downloaded straight from > > upstream. > > The main "selling" point for

Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

I recently did a "apt update ; apt upgrade" and it died for lack of space in /boot when trying to install the latest kernel. I purged a couple of old kernel packages (still present in the 'stable' repo, so they weren't obsolete) to make enough space and tried again. Worked this time, but I wou

Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing Kali Linux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Windows 10 and downloaded Kali Linux 64bit ISO file, Then I created a new virtual machine (Debian 64bit)  and started installing Kali Lin

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

Hi Rick, On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM and grow your /boot but it's a procedure fraught with da

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

Another thought that is maybe a little outside the box: If your BIOS supports booting from USB or media slot then you could maybe make a new boot partition on one of those devices and switch to booting from that from now on. Ties up a USB or media slot forever of course, but possibly an acceptable

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

On 2020-05-09 at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Rick, > > On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? > > There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and > run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM

Re: Hmmm... /boot is too small. what's the best way to increase it's size?

On Sat, 09 May 2020 20:05:48 -0700 "Rick Thomas" wrote: > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4 30G 9.9G 19G 36% / > /dev/sda2 ext2 248M 78M 158M 34% /boot Odd. That should be good for more t

Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

On 10/5/20 1:24 pm, Harry Brown wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing KaliLinux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed *Oracle VirtualBox* on my *Windows 10* and downloaded *Kali Linux 64bit ISO file*, Then I created a new virtual machine *(De