Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [an abridged version of the release notes] > > > Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to f

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [an abridged version of the release notes] > > > Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to follow.

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-08-18 08:40, Tixy wrote: I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. You can't blame a horse for wanting to see the chemical analysis of the water and checking the vicinity for corpses. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:03 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > [an abridged version of the release

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:06 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-08-18 08:40, Tixy wrote: > > > I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a > > horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. > You can't blame a horse for wanting to see the chemical analysis of the > water

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > > > What, in this helpful thread, do you find difficu

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread piorunz
On 18/08/2021 08:40, Tixy wrote: I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. Amazing analogy. Gene has been given plenty of water, but he keeps coming back for more while not taking even one sip yet. He failed to RTFM but

Re: Can't do apt-update because code name is changed from bullseye to bookworm

2021-08-18 Thread Frank
Op 18-08-2021 om 06:51 schreef Richard Forst: When doing apt-get update, debian throws following error. It looks like because the code name changed from bullseye to bookworm. E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org testing-security InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bullseye-secu

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread mick crane
On 2021-08-18 09:32, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:06 +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2021-08-18 08:40, Tixy wrote: > I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a > horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. You can't blame a horse for wanting to see the chemica

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a lot of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the official Debian mailing list s

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread piorunz
On 18/08/2021 07:57, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 01:53:16AM +0100, piorunz wrote: Why are you repeating this? Because Andrew is a nice person. Which I do appreciate highly. Why shouldn't he? Why would you not want him to do? Please see my other reply: "> Amazing analogy

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-08-17 at 15:11, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:07:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 August 2021 09:08:43 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:01:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> You literally have the word "oldstable" in your sources.li

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a > > lot > > of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. > > I think the way forward this time would be to request

Re: apt-get and signatures couldn't be verified etc

2021-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 01:52:52PM +1000, Fred 1 wrote: > > vagrant@buster:/mnt/debian_build/apt-1.8.2.3$ ls -ld /var/lib/apt > /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists/partial > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 17 04:22 /var/lib/apt > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 18 01:12 /var/lib/apt/lists > drwx

Re: Can't do apt-update because code name is changed from bullseye to bookworm

2021-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 12:38:53PM +0200, Frank wrote: > The Suite for testing changed from bullseye to bookworm, so you get this > message. Fix it by adding the --allow-releaseinfo-change switch to > apt-get update. Or by running "apt update" one time, to get the prompt that apt-get doesn't give

Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:00:57 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> Do the update to Buster - take it as slow as you need to. Bring it >> bang up to date. >> >> For the Buster to Bullseye - >> >> READ RELEASE NOTES :) > > Of course! Do users not do this as

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:12:24AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:03 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew

Re: Debian-user Please contact me if you have smart lock product requirements 12:50:22

2021-08-18 Thread piorunz
On 18/08/2021 05:50, lockas wrote: Dear Debian-user : Our smart lock can help you make more profits in the market. We sincerely seek cooperation from high-quality customers, I believe you are one of them! Please write me back and let us talk about more details! No webpage, no signature? No HTML

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 07:27:17 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. That sounds like a useful thing -- somebody could point out that a post is off- topic and

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, August 18, 2021 07:39:26 AM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > > Of course! Do users not do this as a standard procedure? :) > > I don't - because I don't upgrade from one stable release to another; I > track testing, continuously, throughout the development

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the > official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, > such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead* > of off-topic conversations on this list. Does anyone think that > d-c

Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
I've tried a couple of ways to get a USB stick to boot (bios not efi) with persistence from debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso. Just stuffing that to the stick produces a working stick, just no persistence. The sparse instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/LiveUsbPersistence re

Re: You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced).

2021-08-18 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 8/17/21 21:55, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2021-08-17 19:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: How can I make sure I don't have to change passwords on 400+ hosts? Do not run sid on 400+ hosts. Do not run testing either, especially in the first months after a release. Of course not. But sid become

/bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello. After the new release a tsunami of new packages arrived to unstable. They all installed ok but after the upgrade the graphical interface didn't show up. A quick look in .xsession-errors showed tempfile command was missing. tempfile must be in debian-utils package but it isn't https://pac

Re: /bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > A quick look in .xsession-errors showed tempfile command was missing. > > tempfile must be in debian-utils package but it isn't > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/debianutils/filelist > > Is this a bug or a change in the

Re: /bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Thanks Greg https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992385 It is xorg-common still using tempfile. So... if you need X your choices are downgrade debian-utils or wait until a new version of xorg-common is available. Greetings

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > But, if I did do an upgrade from one version to the next, it would not > surprise me if I forgot to read the upgrade notes. For me, the instructions for upgrading in the release notes are the only way I know how to find out how to upgrade Debian from one release to t

Re: /bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-08-18 at 08:57, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Thanks Greg > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992385 > > It is xorg-common still using tempfile. > > So... if you need X your choices are downgrade debian-utils or wait > until a new version of xorg-common is available. Fro

Re: /bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 02:57:57PM +0200, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > Thanks Greg > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992385 > > It is xorg-common still using tempfile. > > So... if you need X your choices are downgrade debian-utils or wait until a > new version of xorg-common i

Re: Relatively boring bullseye upgrade reports

2021-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:37:13 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > > rock: ASRock DeskMini 300 with a 3400G, 32GB RAM, NVMe disk. > Used as an XFCE4 desktop. > > No issues at all. > > > shield: Asus AM1I-A with AMD 5150 quad0core, 4GB RAM, SATA SSD, > lots of gigabit ethernet nics. > Used as router, fire

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The sparse instructions at > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/LiveUsbPersistence result in a stick > that doesn't boot. Maybe your question finds better experts at the debian-live mailing list. Said that, some background info and a link to proposals at stackexchange: The described proc

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 00:44, Gareth Evans wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from Buster stable to Bullseye stable last night, with > apparent success eventually, but it went less than smoothly and I would > be grateful for any advice as to why that may have been. > > I followed the preparation a

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 07:39:26 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:00:57 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >> Do the update to Buster - take it as slow as you need to. Bring it > >> bang up to date. > >> > >> For the Buster to Bullsey

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 14:27:13 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the > > official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, > > such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead* > > of

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 18 August 2021 08:05:43 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:12:24AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:03 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:01:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400

[Maybe OT] How to launch nextcloud without launching Plasma

2021-08-18 Thread steve
Hi, I don't know if the question is related to the recent bullseye upgrade which explains the OT in the subject or just a nextcloud configuration. So I noticed that if Plasma is not running, the nextcloud client won't be launched no matter if I connect via ssh or not. So if I remotely reboot, I

apparmors extra profiles.

2021-08-18 Thread Georgios
Hi! Im trying to install debian 11 on virtual machine manager in order to prepare my self for moving my laptop to debian 11. Default install leaves unconfined a lot of apps so I tried to install extra profiles. According to documentation it supposed to install extra profiles at /usr/share/apparmor

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > For legacy BIOS booting there is the need for an MBR which knows what > program of the boot loader to start. The Debian x86 ISOs have such an MBR > which knows the block address of the isolinux.bin program. But it does not > get copied to the USB stick by the 7z run sho

Re: apparmors extra profiles.

2021-08-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 18/08/2021 à 21:32, Georgios a écrit : Hi! Im trying to install debian 11 on virtual machine manager in order to prepare my self for moving my laptop to debian 11. Default install leaves unconfined a lot of apps so I tried to install extra profiles. According to documentation it supposed to i

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

2021-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:26:18AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 07:39:26 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2021-08-17 at 13:36, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:00:57 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > >> Do the update to Buster - take it as slow as you need

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:36:30 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Is there anything I can do about this without changing > /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to > systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces file exists. Can you get anywhere by editing the templ

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread piorunz
On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0_1.18.4-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0/Gs

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
El mié, 18 ago 2021 a las 8:38, Anssi Saari () escribió: > > > I've tried a couple of ways to get a USB stick to boot (bios not efi) > with persistence from debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso. Just > stuffing that to the stick produces a working stick, just no > persistence. > > The sparse in

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-18 Thread Morgan Read
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00:38PM +, Morgan Read wrote: >>> Starting that from / is horrifying. I would have started from >>> /home, >> >> But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to >> achieve the end sought? > > I'm not quite sure what that "end" is. W

bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi, I upgraded my virtual server to bullseye already and I found one issue in the logs: Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop failed: Connection timed out Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online re

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Willaime: > > Using fstrim seems to restore speed. There are always many GiB which are > reduced : > > # fstrim -v / > / : 236,7 GiB (254122389504 octets) réduits This is probably the total amount of unused space on that SSD. The first fstrim run after a reboot always trims a

how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread songbird
let's suppose you have a directory where there are various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so it can be tracked down (location would be nice too, but that could be found lat

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/18/21, songbird wrote: > let's suppose you have a directory where there are > various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > > you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, > etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so > it can be tracked down (location would b

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 08:55:12PM -0400, songbird wrote: > let's suppose you have a directory where there are > various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > > you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, > etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so > it can be

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 19/8/21 8:55 am, songbird wrote: let's suppose you have a directory where there are various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so it can be tracked down (location would

metaSendsEscape not working after power outage

2021-08-18 Thread Nicholas Croft
Hello List Members, After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. I added a new user and it works there. I've tried adding "xterm*metaSendsEscape:true" to my .Xdefaults and loading it with

Watching a directory, was Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote: > let's suppose you have a directory where there are > various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc. > > you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries, > etc. use them and to log each caller to know the name so > it can be tr

Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a little shell script called fullstereo which works fine. It's short so I'll show it to you. It records sound from a Creative Labs usb sound card which is probably much happier on a Windows box but that's not where I need it. It has only 1 sampling rate that works under debian and that is

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0_1.18.4-3_amd64.deb > > (--unpack): > > t

Re: metaSendsEscape not working after power outage

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 12:16:29 (+1000), Nicholas Croft wrote: > > After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is > defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. > I added a new user and it works there. > > I've tried adding "xterm*metaS

Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:19:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > I included Experimental which probably was a mistake and I probably > > meant Unstable. (I can see Greg rolling his eyes...) > > > > Here's a blog post I was looking at: https://

Not booting after motherboard replacement (XPS 15 9500) - (Solution)

2021-08-18 Thread Michael Bonert
Issue: "No bootable devices found" after motherboard replaced Background: previously functional Debian system where hardware quit (so called "No POST"). I spent a few hours on a "No bootable devices found" issue: The fix was in the Dell BIOS (got to by pressing 'F2'): -> Boot Configuration -->

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > > [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive > > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-

Re: Swiss Army Knife of Sound has me Baffled.

2021-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 21:41:06 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a little shell script called fullstereo which works fine. > It's short so I'll show it to you. It records sound from a > Creative Labs usb sound card which is probably much happier on a > Windows box but that's not where I ne

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi On 2021-08-17 6:05 p.m., Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? > > What, in this helpful thread, do you find difficult to understand? > > You have a collection of important machines in your charge

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-17 7:04 p.m., Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 14:56:30 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > >> Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a >> lot >> of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. > > Nice? Really? There was one. It

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-17 7:21 p.m., Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 22:48:34 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:54:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Where do I find the recipe to update stretch to buster? >>> >>

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-18 12:57 p.m., Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 14:27:13 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> >>> I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the >>> official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But, >>> such a list will only serv

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z writes: > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. > It is too tricky to get the live images working with persistence. Thanks, but I actually

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Jochen Spieker writes: > Stay away from the "discard" option and do not worry about SSD life. What's the issue with the discard option? AFAIK, there may have been issues with it in the decade before last but again AFAIK, today some distros enable discard and some run fstrim on timer, both work.

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > You seem pretty good a drawing a line between *good* and *bad*, always > putting yourself on the *good* side. > see this is exactly the attitude I am reffering to. > What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing > over old sub

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:34:24AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: What if ? What if there wasn't any *bad* user ? You are the one bringing over old subject that you consider off-topic. You seem really touched by giving your self a role as governor of a mailing list or policing what

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal Debian install on a USB key. That saves the trouble of the overlay filesy

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > > > [1mdpkg:[0m err