Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 09:03:51PM +0200, deloptes wrote: this is not supposed to be mounted there from the command line. use the file browser and don't forget to add the user to plugdev (if I am not mistaken) after adding to the group you have to logout and login again This is a misleading/mis

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-05-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
This is an awkward corner-case. I wonder, can you identify the affected packages using an aptitude query, or similar? If so, then it might be possible to write a script to perform the apt-mark based on the output, and put it in a hook to be executed after apt or dpkg runs. (I forget which of apt

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

2020-05-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT ├─sda1 8:10 512M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:20 244M 0 part /boot What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ? First, o

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

2020-05-14 Thread Marco Möller
On 14.05.20 08:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 13 mai 20, 17:40:45, Marco Möller wrote: Unfortunately I now see that there are already many packages from /sid residing in my supposed to be /testing installation. FrankenDebian detected. This might happen if the package has the same version in

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 5/12/20, Eric S Fraga wrote: > If pmount is installed/available, 'pmount sdc1' will mount the disk onto > /media/sdc1. I don't think pmount is installed, but I will check anyway. My options seems hopeless. I can't even understand why they would mount a drive as root. Isn't that more problem

How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of issues. lbrtchx

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 mai 20, 12:43:53, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I can't even understand why they would mount a drive as root. Isn't > that more problematic from a security point of view? In a typical *nix environment it shouldn't matter who mounts the filesystem, permissions are anyway at directory / f

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas George
Albretch Mueller (12020-05-14): > The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files > > Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with > the same kinds of issues. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html Regards, -- Nicolas George signa

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

2020-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 mai 20, 11:40:51, Marco Möller wrote: > On 14.05.20 08:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 13 mai 20, 17:40:45, Marco Möller wrote: > > > Unfortunately I now see that there are already many packages from /sid > > > residing in my supposed to be /testing installation. FrankenDebian > > >

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 mai 20, 12:52:26, Nicolas George wrote: > Albretch Mueller (12020-05-14): > > The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files > > > > Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with > > the same kinds of issues. > > http://man7.org/linux/man

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-14 at 06:43, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 5/12/20, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> If pmount is installed/available, 'pmount sdc1' will mount the disk >> onto /media/sdc1. > > I don't think pmount is installed, but I will check anyway. My > options seems hopeless. > > I can't even underst

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files > > Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with > the same kinds of issues. find . -name "*foo" -print that confirms that you're getting the files you want. When you're h

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12020-05-14): > find . -name "*foo" -print I have not not noticed where Albretch told us that the millions of files where all together and could be selected by a simplistic pattern on their name. The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the question indicates th

Re: 1Gbps Ethernet drops to 100Mbps

2020-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:58:16PM +0200, Nazar Zhuk wrote: I have a 1Gbps network port that correctly connects as 1Gbps full duplex on boot, then drops to 100Mbps 4 seconds later. I'd check that autonegotiation isn't disabled on the other end, then try another cable.

Passing multiple ethernet adapters to QEMU guest

2020-05-14 Thread Andrew Wood
How do I pass more than one ethernet adapter to a QEMU guest. Doing it like this seems to attach them both on virtual bridge br1 kvm   -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:00:01:08,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=br1p5 \ -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:00:02:08,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=br3p8 Thanks An

Re: Passing multiple ethernet adapters to QEMU guest

2020-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 03:13:50PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > How do I pass more than one ethernet adapter to a QEMU guest. > > Doing it like this seems to attach them both on virtual bridge br1 > > kvm   -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:00:01:08,model=rtl8139 -net > tap,ifname=br1p5

I'd like to use private snippets with UltiSnips.

2020-05-14 Thread Yukiharu YABUKI
Hello, Debian folks. I am confusing that I wasn't able to achieve to use private snippets with UltiSnips. Vim with UltiSnips works fine basically. Then I advanced next step. I tried time and lorem can expand. Then I did $ cp /var/lib/vim/addons/UltiSnips/all.snippets \ ~/myUltiSnips/changelog.s

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12020-05-14): > > find . -name "*foo" -print > > I have not not noticed where Albretch told us that the millions of files > where all together and could be selected by a simplistic pattern on > their name. > > The question was not how to find the files, the f

Substance and form (was: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch) --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12020-05-14): > What effect did you mean your message to have? > > Was it to cause me to change my behavior? > > Or did you just feel like being mean? > > I hope your day gets better. I imagine it was pretty stressful. > That's the case for lots of people these days. “I was wrong, b

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-14 at 07:28, Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12020-05-14): > >> find . -name "*foo" -print > > I have not not noticed where Albretch told us that the millions of > files where all together and could be selected by a simplistic > pattern on their name. > > The question was not how

Re: Re: Slow performance due to llvmpipe being used despite Radeon kernel and X modules being loaded

2020-05-14 Thread EoflaOE ViceCity
Thanks for the response. However, I am not using VMware on my old PC to virtualize Debian; I have installed it as a dual-boot system. By the way, when I have executed "sudo apt list firmware-amd-graphics", it returns the following: Listing... Done firmware-amd-graphics/testing,now 20190717-2 all [

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/05/20 11:41 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote: > unicorn:~$ sudo sh -c 'du -sh /boot/efi/EFI/*' > 1.2M /boot/efi/EFI/Boot > 41M /boot/efi/EFI/HP > 25M /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft > 5.1M /boot/efi/EFI/debian > > I have no idea what the "HP" directory is for. Here's what's in the > next level down: >

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:57:53AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-05-14 at 07:28, Nicolas George wrote: > > The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the > > question indicates that Albretch has that covered. > > As far as I can tell, the find invocation has nothing to d

Re: How could you load only once a Linux ultility without a batch --input-files kind of option and repeatedly use it on many files? . . .

2020-05-14 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12020-05-14): > There are two main ways to operate on files in bulk: > > find ... -exec something {} + > > find ... -print0 | xargs -0 something > > Pick one. Learn how they both work, so you know which one is most > appropriate in any given situation. Oh, I guess ./some_to

Debian 10 installer using serial output

2020-05-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I would like to install Debian on a headless board using a USB drive. The board has a serial port and I would like to use that to install Debian 10 using netinst. It is an APU board [1]. I found a guide [2] on how to install Debian 9. Unfortunately I get stuck at step 4 where the installer

Re: Debian 10 installer using serial output

2020-05-14 Thread john doe
On 5/14/2020 7:36 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I would like to install Debian on a headless board using a USB drive. The board has a serial port and I would like to use that to install Debian 10 using netinst. It is an APU board [1]. I found a guide [2] on how to install Debian 9. Unfortunatel

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-14 Thread Marco Möller
On 14.05.20 18:22, Richard Hector wrote: Really handy for upgrading the BIOS/whatever when the only alternative is a Windows executable. Unfortunately I'm not good at making notes, so I have to figure out how that works each time I try :-) I am searching for this! I have the BIOSupgrade.exe fro

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so. Okay. Have you removed or inserted any

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 14/05/2020 à 21:22, Yvan Masson a écrit : Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so

Re: Passing multiple ethernet adapters to QEMU guest

2020-05-14 Thread Andrew Wood
On 14/05/2020 15:50, Reco wrote: Qemu uses /etc/qemu-ifup by default which deliberately puts tap interface to the bridge which corresponds to the default route. Im sorry I dont understand where the default route comes into it as none of the interfaces, virtual, bridge or the correspon

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

2020-05-14 Thread Marco Möller
On 14.05.20 13:09, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Concerning the Cherrytree and python-chardet problem my plan is to even more trust in 'hope' that cherrytree will after years soon find its way back into the currently updating Debian repositories. :-( Debian intends to remove Python 2 as soon as possib

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-14 12:22, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 13/05/2020 à 02:30, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: What is the model/ part number of your computer? It is an Acer Asp

qemu/kvm reboot problem

2020-05-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, System: Debian Buster host           qemu/kvm virtual machine           CAELinux Guest I load the software from an .iso file in my Download directory. The guest files seem to be loading and working fine until I try to reboot the Guest. Then I get the following: Booting from

Re: Passing multiple ethernet adapters to QEMU guest

2020-05-14 Thread Reco
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 09:03:50PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 14/05/2020 15:50, Reco wrote: > > > > Qemu uses /etc/qemu-ifup by default which deliberately puts tap > > interface to the bridge which corresponds to the default route. > > > Im sorry I dont understand where the default route

Re: Debian 10 installer using serial output

2020-05-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for you fast response, John. This helped a lot. > If you see the option the Debian installer page (Graphical install', > 'install', 'install with speatch') press escape use the below at the > boot prompt Here was the problem. I do not see those options. The output waits after 'ISOLINUX 6.0

Re: qemu/kvm reboot problem

2020-05-14 Thread riveravaldez
On 5/14/20, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > System: Debian Buster host > >qemu/kvm virtual machine > >CAELinux Guest > > I load the software from an .iso file in my Download directory. The > guest files seem to be loading and working fine until I try to reboot >

vlc and access modules

2020-05-14 Thread moelmoel2714
Greets! not sure how I got into this bind but I seem to have lost the 'access modules' that allow vlc to view video files (and likely do many other things; I know I cannot convert video). when I try to look at an mp4, I get Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///h

Re: vlc and access modules

2020-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:05:41 -0400 (EDT) moelmoel2714 wrote: > Greets! > > not sure how I got into this bind but I seem to have lost the 'access > modules' that allow vlc to view video files (and likely do many other > things; I know I cannot convert video). > > when I try to look at an mp4,

Re: vlc and access modules

2020-05-14 Thread moelmoel2714
On Fri, 15 May 2020, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:05:41 -0400 (EDT) moelmoel2714 wrote: Greets! not sure how I got into this bind but I seem to have lost the 'access modules' that allow vlc to view video files (and likely do many other things; I know I cannot convert video). when I

Re: vlc and access modules

2020-05-14 Thread moelmoel2714
On Fri, 15 May 2020, Jude DaShiell wrote: Have you tried aptitude install vlc -r yet? That switch on the end installs additional recommended packages. didn't know about that. didn't yield very much (line wraps ahead): sudo aptitude install vlc -r vlc is already installed at the requested ver

Installing Debian using serial console error 'Undefined video mode'

2020-05-14 Thread john doe
Debians, I'm trying to troubleshoot what I'm doing rong when trying to install Debian through serial console. If I start a Qemu VM like so: qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso -nographic -vga none -m 1024 At the Debian install prompt pressing the escape key ge