Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-29 Thread George Kirkham
Hi, 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see why it could no longer boot.  As well as to inspect other things. (apologies that

Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-29 Thread hlyg
i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed." "This is a fatal error." how to solve it? i bet it is caused by other bootloader in installation target disk

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-29 Thread Chris Green
George Kirkham wrote: [snip disk drive question] > PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the > any other good email clients that support email threading and are > packaged in Debian? I use mutt, command line MUA, excellent. -- Chris Green ·

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider spurious emails. The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" m

Email threading (was Re: Frequent freezing around login screens)

2025-03-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 08:51:48PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > The complete algorithm is here: > > https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html > > and is implemented in every good email client: there are no good > email clients which don't use it. It's a prerequisite to being > considered "good".

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have been worked). The WiFi router usually assi

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:01, jeremy ardley wrote: On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have be

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 05:36:46 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > *TILT*!!! > I don't believe them to be spam. Show us an example of what you are talking about. Go to the list archives and find one of these messages, then paste its URL here.

OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
Dear list, just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan without any router? I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:41, Hans wrote: It is not important, if a router is givng the devices an IP-address. So I do not need any dhcp. The IP-addresses can of course be set manually by me. The more problem I see, will be the encryption and passkey-exchange, if needed. However, I do not need encryption,

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-29 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Maybe. If you haven't created an /etc/default/su file, then something > like this: > > $ su > # adduser richard > > may fail. You could work around it in various ways (e.g. explicitly > typing out /usr/sbin/adduser richard). > > My recommendation is to create a

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
To clarify the access point will typically assign a subset of a class-C > range for DHCP. It will usually be O.K. to assign static addresses in > the same class C but out of the DHCP range > > An alternative depending on the router is to configure the router to > have fixed DHCP addresses based o

nut on Debian bullseye: issues with UID and default config

2025-03-29 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I run a nut-server & nut-client on Debian bullseye connected to an UPS. It works very well: there are syslog messages for when the current is down and it's on battery, I can see the various statistics with upsc. However, it does not seem it really shuts down when low on battery. I noticed

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > ignore that. > > Example at: > > http://souktha.github.io/misc/create-ap-linuxpc/ > > Cheers, >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, > a software router is sklower than a hardware device). No, if one of the PCs is the AP, then c

Has anyone noticed Bluetooth stop functioning on recent kernels?

2025-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
I have a Beelink EQR6 running bookworm, and which has a Bluetooth chipset. Yesterday I tried to turn on Bluetooth (as I don't normally leave it enabled) and it wouldn't turn on. The only thing that appears in the log is this: gnome-control-c[985685]: BluetoothHardwareAirplaneMode: 0 I tried switc

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Joe
On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:37:39 +0100 Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore that. > > > > Example at: > > > >

Re: Has anyone noticed Bluetooth stop functioning on recent kernels?

2025-03-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I have a Beelink EQR6 running bookworm, and which has a Bluetooth > chipset. Yesterday I tried to turn on Bluetooth (as I don't normally > leave it enabled) and it wouldn't turn on. The only thing that appears > in the log is this: > >

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > > > spurious emails. > > > > > The only change to m