Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:41:55AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-26): > > I was once sitting at a $(DAYJOB) where they blocked everything but > > 443 (and 80). I tunneled ssh over socat (with TLS, so that the handshake > > didn't look suspect, in case their firewall sn

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-04-05 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > > Where does this come from? reprepro is version 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1. Did > > somebody tried to turn back the clock? How can I recover from this? > > > PS: Seems this came up with the reprepro "upgrade" 2 days ago: > > reprepro:amd64 (5.4.6-3, 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1) Please see https://

Re: Does secure old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining > >> available > >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it'

Re: Installation Process

2025-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Ife Wright (HE12025-03-28): > I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase > everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without erasing > my hard disk You do not need to erase anything, the installation process will overwrite whatever it needs. That includes

Re: array suggestions

2025-04-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > Prices via Newegg 24 hours ago. Here's a 4x for $28: > https://www.newegg.com/p/3C6-00SN-00045 Of course, now I understand. My problem is I don't have a spare x16 slot to put the card into, just an x4. Hence the bridge chip needed. Next build, definitely going for a motherbo

Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
William Torrez Corea composed on 2025-04-04 23:01 (UTC-0600): > I have two memory RAM SO-DIMM in my two slot > The two memory have the following characteristics: >- 12800MHz >- 4GB >- DDR3L > But the BIOS only reflects 1600MHz, why? What happened to the rest? 12800 is MB/s bandwidt

how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work most probably they are resulted from previous installation on gpt disks how to remove them?

Re: laptop options

2025-04-05 Thread Lists
On 2025-03-23 08:37, lina wrote: Dear all, Which laptop option is friendly with Debian, The purpose is related to work, not game. Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis, Ideally at least > 16 cores, decent memory. Thanks, About half a year ago I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad P

Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 . When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 . There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which results in a 404 error. I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi. T

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-04-05 Thread gene heskett
On 3/19/25 16:19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -0400, Eben King wrote: I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and se

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread J
> > "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -". Before buster, > nobody would have used that on a Debian system. It's horrible. The > fact that people are now embracing it as a norm is even worse. > Why horrible?

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

2025-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Hans writes: > This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Every packet is routed by the kernel. There is no seperate "AP". How much delay matters? Ping should be under a millis

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (HE12025-03-27): > I'm certain sudo has its use cases, but all I do personally is su to > root and update and upgrade my stable Bookworm using apt, so I feel no > need to complexify the issue with sudo. The fallacy in here being assuming, without stating it and without justifying it that sudo

Re: Package kde-config-mobile-networking - what does it do?

2025-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 19:54:19 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Try running `sudo apt info kde-config-mobile-networking` and see what the > info says. You don't even need sudo for that.

Re: libsmbios/smbios-utils removed from Debian?

2025-04-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Václav Ovsík wrote: > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1626825/removed-243-2-from-unstable/ > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsmbios > [...] > I am surprised the smbios-utils is removed from unstable. https://tracker.debian.org/news/1626825/removed-243-2-from-unstable/ links to the discuss

Re: Trixie Wayland login issue

2025-04-05 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > After installing updates this morning I am not able to login to a KDE > Wayland session. The login just cycles back to the login screen. I am able > to login to a X11 session. Is anyone else

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

2025-04-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/03/2025 14:34, W. Pepperdine wrote: dmesg (http://paste.debian.net/1365575/) I am confused. I have impression that you described your trouble as rather severe freeze with no reaction on keyboard an mouse. Am I wrong? How have you managed to get dmesg output in that state? /var/log/kern

Re: array suggestions

2025-04-05 Thread Will Mengarini
* Eben King [25-03/21=Fr 15:32 -0400]: > I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds > a backup. It's starting to become too small, not because it's > shrinking, but because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to > do something that ends up with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 >

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > 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? Presumably that error message was f

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
On 4/1/25 05:20, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Make it simple for yourself. If you are at all unsure when you install, just take guided partitioning. That should set up a 512M partition for boot, a 1G partition for swap and the rest of the disk for / Unless you *really have* to partition things you

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250404)

2025-04-05 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Still missing a topic or discussion of "SOLVED" in the subject. > We're all waiting for Gene to put "SOLVED" on his never-ending network of threads. But what would it would mean or communicate to future anthropologists remains yet another puzzle left to the

Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread David Christensen
On 4/4/25 22:01, William Torrez Corea wrote: I have enabled swap memory, but if i disable the swap memory the machine is slow. I tried running computers without swap and found that they crashed when the running programs used too much memory. Now I allocate 1 GB swap on the system drive duri

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 3/31/25 15:24, gene heskett wrote: I blame it on the busted bookworm installer. Anything plugged into usb triggers it to put orca and brltty in whether you want it or not.  I don't own a wired mouse. I did close to 40 installs trying to find a way around that but probably 30 of he reinstal

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-04-05, Hans wrote: > Maybe for someione interesting: As I also have Windows on my drive, there is > an entry for Windows. I deleted this, because then I only have the entry > "debian". And this is tarting grub, which got an entry for Windows. > Dunno, if this is a good way, but it is w

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM hlyg wrote: > > i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show > > under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian > > but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work > > most probably they are resulted from previous installation o

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 02:04:45PM +0800, An Liu wrote: > AFAIK, > > Exporting a nfs mounted location is possible via nfs-ganesha I have no experience with this one. Thanks for reminding me :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread J
> > I would investigate why my ext4 disks were not being unmounted cleanly > on shutdown if it were happening here. I suppose my suspicions would > first fall on any network connections. Yes, i want to investigate it too, but i don't know where to start. SMART of the disks is OK, btw. I have exp

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

2025-04-05 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Hans writes: > 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). I haven't tried this, but take a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc https://help.u

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 17:35:18 (+0300), J wrote: > Every time i restart the PC i have an error message while rebooting > process: "[FAILED] failed unmounting *disk-mount-point*..." > > It didn't bother me really, because this message usually just immediately > disappeared. But last time the *compu

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ > /bin/su --login > Password: > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05 > host 09:57:59 ~# cd /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3 > host 09:58:08 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/progra

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who: Bookworm v.Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread gene heskett
On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 11:19:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet peeve. That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to those of us who have been using hosts files for local dns sinc

Re: Web server access

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 03:55:08PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk (HE12025-04-02): > > Well, practically it makes no difference. If I send with or without an > > HTTP version I get the same Bad Request response. And it makes no > > difference whether I use HTTP/1.0 or HTT

SOLVED

2025-04-05 Thread Greg
On 2025-04-04, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > I hope this is satisfactory to all concerned: if it isn't, please reply > in a new mail with a meaningful subject. > > With every good wish, as ever, > > Andy Cater > (amaca...@debian.org) > >

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/2/25 9:32 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: try here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet That page tries to load. Evidently doesn't like my configuration of SeaMonkey. Doesn't surprise me as I've got a strange configuration. However Debian's default configuration of Firefox has

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-04-05 Thread songbird
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi, > > backup2l is simple and has been reliable for me for years. > > Cheers, > Jerome interesting, at first glance it might help me out, but i don't know for sure. i'm a bit worried though that the debian package doesn't look like it is actively maintained. i have ol

Re: Web server access

2025-04-05 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 20:00 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM Van Snyder > wrote: > > This might be the wrong forum for this question, but most likely somebody > can tell me a better place. > > I have a w

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

2025-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Try it! If you notice an important performance penalty, *then* come back with the numbers and the details of your setup, so someone c

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:28:24PM -0500, David Wright wrote: I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN address when 127.0.1.1 is just as good. If the line is correct, it does nothing; if it's incorrect, it can cause har

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > the traditional behvior of "su" (before it was broken in buster). > > > > I don't understand the

Re: Web server access

2025-04-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site using the above IP > address and URL on port 80 but not 443. I got a certificate error on > 443.  I've never before set up a secure server. I followed instructions at a web page, whose UR

Re: Installing old Debian releases

2025-04-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, keller.st...@gmx.de wrote: > For comparison, some research and portability tests I'd like > to install old releases of Debian, i.e. versions 8, 9, 10. > Are there archives and old repositories to install from? Old installation and Live ISOs are at https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/a

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM Charles Curley < > charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > >> On bookworm who (GNU coreutils 9.1) operates more or less as I have >> expected it to operate for se

Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just received a 68 page PDF document. I don't know proper terminology but visually it resembles an outline in many of it's items are multiple paragraphs. The points are "collapsible". When everything is collapsed, the document index is 9 lines. Due to vision/perception issues I find it mo

Re: Installation Process

2025-04-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 28/03/2025 18:42, Nicolas George wrote: Ife Wright (HE12025-03-28): I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without erasing my hard disk Before to do so, you want to make a backup of your data (basic

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re:Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread gene heskett
On 4/2/25 23:29, David Wright wrote: On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote: On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:

Re: laptop options

2025-04-05 Thread Russell S.
>> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian, >> The purpose is related to work, not game. > >System76 has usually good and nice offers: > > https://system76.com/laptops I can personally vouch for System76. I bought a Darter Pro (darp5) about 6 years ago and it's still running well. It could

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 10:03:36AM CET, to...@tuxteam.de said: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:41:55AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-26): > > > I was once sitting at a $(DAYJOB) where they blocked everything but > > > 443 (and 80). I tunneled ssh over socat (with TLS, s

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:09:31AM +0800, hlyg wrote: > > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Thank Wright! i have solved

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
Thank Hans! it is really Dell issue. i follow your instruction, it works.

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 5. April 2025, 16:54:24 CEST schrieb hlyg: > i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show > > under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian > > but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work > > most probably they are resulted from previous in

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

2025-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:40:07 +0200 Hans wrote: > > Then use NGINX with RTMP-module listening on its standard port and > streaming with RTMP from Computer A to Computer B to the standard > port. > > Everything without any AP or router between. > > The stream can then be made visible with VLC

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

2025-04-05 Thread Lee
On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM Lee wrote: > > > Can you try it with Make available to other users ON > > Toggling "Make available to other users" to ON solves the problem! First I > tested this with the built-in Ethernet adapter. After this was successf

Re: "solved" in message subject

2025-04-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/04/2025 05:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 10:22:47AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Again when reading mail, if subject is changed almost completely: "Old" to "New (was: Old)" to "New" with "(was: ...)" stripped by e.g. Thunderbird or Emacs; then the thread is split into 3

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

2025-04-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/04/2025 21:54, hlyg wrote: i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work [...] how to remove them? I am curious which way you boot Debian if UEFI entry does

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

2025-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > > [...] > > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > > something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN addres

Re: Instalación

2025-04-05 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Julio Gil Garcia wrote: > Buenas tardes, me llamo Julio: ¡Hola, Julio! Primero: esta lista es en inglés: la mayoría de la gente aquí no podrá ayudarte. Si prefieres ccomunicar en castellano, hay una lista sobre Debian en este lenguaje: debian-user-span

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
Thank Wright! with more than 20 years of experience in installing and using debian, do i have to read installation guide? it is said that installing debian is as easy as pressing Enter it is dumb to report fatal error after all configuration and copying after 30 years of development, install

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-05 Thread Eben King
On 4/4/25 17:00, Eben King wrote: Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I gotta find out where that's controlled. /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults looks to be a likely candidate, as in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/748759/disabling-suspend-etc-on-debian-12 I changed it