Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
Ok, throwing up the bat signal. I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but before I do, want to clean up my current system. I have to kernels: 4.19.0-25 and 4.19.0-24. The latter will boot fine, the former (newer kernel) will not. it just goes to a blinking cursor, indefi

networking issue upon reboot, i need to restart networking for it to work properly.

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
hello, Have a funky issue with Debian 10, that is network related. Whenever I restart my computer, I cannot access the internet. I need to restart networking either via CLI, or from the networking panel turn off/on networking. Then, everything works. But, that is rather annoying. Trying to

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Marco Moock
Am 03.01.2024 um 11:36:03 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: > Key information: > I am aware that there are two different installation paths for the > nvidia driver, either through the repos or from nvidia downloads. > I think I did the later, but I have misplaced, lost, and cannot > download the drive

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
Here is the output. Wow, a lot. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Marco Moock
Am 03.01.2024 um 11:52:59 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: > Here is the output. Wow, a lot. All those lines with ii at the beginning mean the package is installed. apt remove *nvidia* -s Check if the result is ok and then run it without -s (-s only simulates).

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 2 Jan 2024 20:17 -0700, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com (Charles Curley): > Jan 02 20:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors This is not the problem. This is smartd reporting something about the drive's health which you might be inter

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Marco Moock writes: > Am 03.01.2024 um 11:52:59 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: > >> Here is the output. Wow, a lot. > > All those lines with ii at the beginning mean the package is installed. > > apt remove *nvidia* -s > > Check if the result is ok and then run it without -s (-s only > simulates).

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 08:17:55PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 00:29:42 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > If a SMART long self-test came back clean then it already has been > > re-mapped as a long self-test reads every user-accessible sector. > > I'm not so sure about that.

Re: Fluidsynth and pipewire: No sound

2024-01-03 Thread riveravaldez
El martes, 2 de enero de 2024, to...@tuxteam.de escribió: > Hi, > > Debian 12, bookworm. I'm trying to get fluidsynth and pipewire > playing together. Hi, IIRC qsynth has an option to indicate which sound server to use at launching. I've used it with JACK and PulseAudio: $ qsynth -a jack $ qsynth

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Hans
> dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms > Hi all, I am using a NVidia card, which is using the Tesla-driver version (525.147.XX) and used the 470.XXX version before. Both could not be installed by using the above package. But it got installed using package module-assistant. Suggestion, how to

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

2024-01-03 Thread Franco Martelli
On 02/01/24 at 19:15, Valerio Vanni wrote: This way, I don't have to remember to close kaffeine before suspend. If you have Kaffeine always running on your system you can try this script: #!/bin/sh # Run from sys

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:18:19PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > /usr/bin/su YOURUSER -c 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > DISPLAY=:0 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE /usr/bin/kaffeine >/dev/null 2>&1 &' > In place of YOURUSER you've to put your username, if you doubt the command > "whoami" w

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

2024-01-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Am 03.01.2024 um 17:41 schrieb Greg Wooledge: ... Bear in mind that this entire approach is a bit of a hack, with some baked-in assumptions about who's logged in on which DISPLAY. If this works for you, then that's great. Manually restarting whatever application was affected would be simpler,

The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi guys My Debian distro has a kernel version of 6.1.69-1 and the installed wpasupplicant's version for Debian Bookworm is 2:2.10-12. I don't use Network Manager; instead I rely solely on the ifup and ifdown scripts to bring up my network interfaces. My wireless router in my BFF's residence is

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thanks a lot, Macro! it worked. Sorry for delay, I got side tracked with "my day" =) On 03/01/2024 12:03, Marco Moock wrote: Am 03.01.2024 um 11:52:59 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: Here is the output. Wow, a lot. All those lines with ii at the beginning mean the package is installed. apt rem

Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very broken Grub. Am I missing something?

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Eddie
I have had very good results using "Boot-Repair" software to recover Grub difficulties. Eddie On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote: So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any trouble. B

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 11:05:10 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > Since both tests finished without > finding any errors, there _should_ have been no unreadable sectors. Agree. > > I'm inclined to believe that your drive is fibbing SMART data. Sigh. I am inclined to agree. O

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
Thanks, this actually did the job. I don't know what it was, but my guess is it was the step "purge Grub before reinstalling it". PS: rewrote to the old subject, as this is clearly an answer to the original problem, as it doesn't have anything to do with replacing Grub all together. On 03.0

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Stella Ashburne writes: > Unfortunately, the current package wpasupplicant is unable to do > WPA3-Personal authentication. Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the support. Even the package description says that. > What alternatives to it exist? I don't think ther

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/1/24 18:36, Thomas Anderson wrote: I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but before I do, want to clean up my current system. I am running Debian 12 with the nvidia driver. It's mostly OK but I recently had to reboot as the Xorg process had taken around 70% of my 3

Re: Fluidsynth and pipewire: No sound

2024-01-03 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 01:12:24PM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > El martes, 2 de enero de 2024, to...@tuxteam.de escribió: > > Hi, > > > > Debian 12, bookworm. I'm trying to get fluidsynth and pipewire > > playing together. > > Hi, IIRC qsynth has an option to indicate which sound server to use at

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM > From: "Anssi Saari" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm shou

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 10:40:33PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM > > From: "Anssi Saari" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support > > WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives t

Re: Change suspend type from kde menu

2024-01-03 Thread Valerio Vanni
Il 03/01/2024 17:18, Franco Martelli ha scritto: On 02/01/24 at 19:15, Valerio Vanni wrote: This way, I don't have to remember to close kaffeine before suspend. If you have Kaffeine always running on your system you can try this script: I had an idea to do a relaunch, but it's not always run

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 05:40, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM From: "Anssi Saari" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist? Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 06:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 10:40:33PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM From: "Anssi Saari" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authenticati

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi Tomas Thanks for your reply. > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 6:18 AM > From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: "Stella Ashburne" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > >

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 6:57 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > I do not know whether you have heard of the search engine

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 07:04, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi Tomas Thanks for your reply. Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 6:18 AM From: to...@tuxteam.de To: "Stella Ashburne" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wpasupplicant > > > The main heading of that web page is Package: wpasupplicant (2:2.10-12) > > Immediately below it is the sub-heading that states > > client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Pocket
On 1/3/24 17:57, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/1/24 05:40, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM From: "Anssi Saari" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exi

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:03 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > On 4/1/24 06:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03,

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 07:11, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 6:57 AM From: "Bret Busby" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist? I do not know whether you have

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:14 AM > From: "Pocket" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > > Are you comparing the same package/version arch to debian?

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:16 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > It is unfortunate that you refused to read the Debian pack

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/1/24 07:20, Stella Ashburne wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:14 AM From: "Pocket" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist? Are you comparing the same packag

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 13:25:26 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > I now have a writing test (-w) running. It has reported no failures on > its first pass. OOPS! -w is the destructive test. I now have a hard drive full of 0x00s. I should have used the -n option. However, it reported no failures. -- Doe

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:13 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > Then "fail" seems to be the appropriate word. > > And you

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stella Ashburne
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:25 AM > From: "Bret Busby" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal > authentication. What alternatives to it exist? > > > but, as you insist on whining, rather than making an effor

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 22:40:33 +0100 Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have > > the support. Even the package description says that. > > > Could you provide me the URL to the package description please? You can get the package description of a

Name calling? [WAS: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?]

2024-01-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:28:56AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 7:13 AM > > From: "Bret Busby" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support > > WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the >> support. Even the package description says that. > Could you provide me the URL to the package description please? I think it's better to refer to the actual behavior, since that's the only thing that matters in the end. H

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:57 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the > >> support. Even the package description says that. > > Could you provide me the URL to the package description please? > > I think it's better to refer to the actual

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 06:36:24 PM, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hi guys > > My Debian distro has a kernel version of 6.1.69-1 and the installed > wpasupplicant's version for Debian Bookworm is 2:2.10-12. > > I don't use Network Manager; instead I rely solely on the ifup and ifdown > scripts to brin

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner wrote: > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I seriously doubt this is the case. I'm guessing the problem lies elsewhere. > I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without > any trouble

Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do they do with the contents? Is it only used to show names to a user or take names from a user instead of MAC addresses, like in tcpdump? The Linux man page says the entries in /etc/ethers should be numeric IP addresses or names wh

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 02:07:06AM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do > they do with the contents? unicorn:~$ ls -ld /etc/ethers ls: cannot access '/etc/ethers': No such file or directory > Is it only used to show names to a user or >

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread John Hasler
The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does not exist on my Sid system. The man page: NAME ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database DESCRIPTION /etc/ethers contains 48 bit Ethernet addresses and their corresponding IP numbers, one line for each IP

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does > not exist on my Sid system. > > The man page: > > NAME >ethers - Ethernet address to IP number database > Isn't that file a somehow surviving BSD-ism? > -- >

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:35:41PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > > > The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does > > not exist on my Sid system. > > > > The man page: > > > > NAME > >ethers - Ethernet addres

Re: Re: Rescue mode when root account locked

2024-01-03 Thread Larry Tyree
What do I do with no access to another computer?

Re: Re: Rescue mode when root account locked

2024-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:44:16PM -0600, Larry Tyree wrote: > What do I do with no access to another computer? The original Subject: line says "Rescue mode when root account locked". Putting the Subject: and the body together, I conclude that the question is "How do I enter rescue mode when there

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jan 03 2024 at 08:35:41 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:23 PM John Hasler wrote: > >> The man page for /etc/ethers (a file) is in net-tools. The file does >> not exist on my Sid system. >> >> The man page: >> >> NAME >>ethers - Ethernet address to IP numb

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Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do > they do with the contents? AFAIK it's mostly unused nowadays. I have such a file on my DHCP server, where `dnsmasq` reads it (lets me give static IP addresses to some of my machines, even though they're configured via DHCP, i

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > What's not really stated anywhere is *why* these library functions > exist. I don't see many practical application for a library function > that reads a text file full of MAC addresses and hostnames, looks up > one of them, and spits out the o

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner wrote: > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, > I am not sure what you mean by "broken beyond repair." I have no issues with Grub on Debian 12 on AMD64. I had no issues with Grub on Debian 11 or Debian 10 on AMD64 eith

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. First, if it wasn't for Eddie recommending boot-repair, "broken beyond repair" in fact was the very fitting term. Second, have you maybe considered that I've already read the home page of rEFInd and came to the same conclusion? Besides the fact that the pa

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
I have kept the referral to the old problem in the topic for a reason. Been there, done that. I'm not entirely sure how, but boot-repair was the only thing that was able to fix Grub. Before that I've reinstalled it countless times, thanks. But since this is very much not an answer to the question