Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 15:07:45, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 29 apr 20, 13:03:47, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > This topic has been on LWN.net for the past several days and should be > > > > free to vie

Re: Output from date command defaults to 12-hour in Buster.

2020-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 apr 20, 19:18:14, Nicolas George wrote: > Andrei POPESCU (12020-04-29): > > Could you please kindly elaborate on this for the rest of the world > > where LANG is not some variant of en_XX ? > > I live in the rest of the world, and I do NOT want my numbers to

Re: Trouble installing wine on system with foreign arch

2020-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 mai 20, 14:05:42, Dale Harris wrote: > > It was pretty much a fresh install from DVD. I did have some issues > remounting the install DVD from the ILO, but otherwise it pretty normal > install. Was the system fully up-to-date before attempting to install wine32? > It's working now. T

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 01 mai 20, 22:32:58, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I had an accidential / in a > > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / > > command. Changing the ownership / recursively is certainly not a good idea. Ugh. For such situations one should either have good backups or a reasonably fast a

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 mai 20, 17:38:59, Ken Heard wrote: > > The next series of tests involves connecting the two HDMI cables I have > between the laptop and the monitor. Both have standard size plugs at each > end. On is a cheap 3 metre one; the other is 5 metres long and of a higher > quality. For these t

Re: Is there a Debian oriented Rasberry Pi list

2020-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 mai 20, 07:49:51, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I had browsed that list. It would definitely be appropriate if I already had > chosen specific Raspberry Pi hardware and needed help getting Debian > installed/running. My current problem is selecting components which mutually > compatible elec

Re: armhf: buster: TLS / HTTPS partly broken

2020-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 mai 20, 14:40:14, Mark Jonas wrote: > > Does anybody have an idea what the problem might be? Who can / should > tackle the problem? > > I did not report the problem using reportbug because I have no clue > which package is causing the problem. You could check what curl, aria2 and LMS h

Re: Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 mai 20, 17:51:06, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 03 mai 20, 17:38:59, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > The next series of tests involves connecting the two HDMI cables I have > > between the laptop and the monitor. Both have standard size plugs at each > > end. On

Re: How to start offlineimap systemd

2020-05-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 03 mai 20, 15:28:11, jose...@posteo.net wrote: > > systemctl --user start offlineimap > Failed to start offlineimap.service: Unit offlineimap.service not > found. > > You can see that the service is not found. I have also tried starting > with socket activation but it is the same. > > Is

Re: armhf: buster: TLS / HTTPS partly broken

2020-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 05 mai 20, 08:44:43, Mark Jonas wrote: > > I am also very much interested in getting the attention of the right > person to fix the official Debian Docker base image. Do you have an > idea whom I shall contact? You didn't mention where you got your images from, but maybe this is a start:

Re: nft bewilderment

2020-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 05 mai 20, 10:57:24, ghe wrote: > Buster, Supermicro desktop, nft noob > > Can anyone recommend a book or website with a thorough explanation of > nft (the iptables replacement)? It's not clear from your message if you've seen this. https://wiki.nftables.org Kind regards, Andrei -- http

Re: mount an external usb hdd and share it through samba

2020-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 06 mai 20, 01:35:02, Michael Morgan wrote: > > Since automount works, and samba will work well if I restart it, my guess is > that on boot, samba (smbd service) starts before /usb-hdd is mounted. To > make it working, > I need make sure the fstab mounting happens before samba starts. Can a

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 08 mai 20, 11:31:13, Celejar wrote: > > Indeed. It's just not clear to me that a typical package in Debian will > have fewer bugs than the same software downloaded straight from > upstream. The main "selling" point for Debian is that the software is properly integrated with the rest of th

Re: gnome-disk-utility User Session Defaults issue

2020-05-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 08 mai 20, 22:34:30, Default User wrote: > > Anyway, are labels even needed anymore? These days everyone and > everything wants to use UUID numbers for partitions, to the seeming > exclusion of all else. UUID is the preferred method for automating such stuff[1], because they are (for all

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 mai 20, 07:44:43, J.Arun Mani wrote: > ``` > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good, > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I > feel like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me. > The question is, shall I revert

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 mai 20, 22:05:40, Will Mengarini wrote: > * Rick Thomas [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > > [...] died for lack of space in /boot [...] > > Long ago I stopped bothering with a separate /boot, and behold, I yet > live. ISTR the Debian installer doesn't default to creating one > either. Agre

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > So... Here's another question: > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by the installer, so > small? Disk (even SSD) is cheap enough these days that the default > size could be as much as a GB without great pain. > > Has this been thoug

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 04:03:29, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 10 mai 20, 02:02:45, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > So... Here's another question: > > > > > > Why is the default size of /boot, as created by th

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

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 12:30:29, David Christensen wrote: > > As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can get > the job done. That said, I have about a half dozen machines and have been > feeling the need for installation and deployment automation. I have heard of > Puppet m

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 mai 20, 22:03:20, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains links to buster, buster/updates, > buster-updates and buster-backports repositories. I run apt update / apt > upgrade very frequently. > > As you may know, Debian 10.4 was out yesterday. > Now, apt lis

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

2020-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 mai 20, 01:09:46, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-05-10 23:12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 10 mai 20, 12:30:29, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > As for using GRML, I have never heard of it. The Debian Installer can get > > > the job d

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 mai 20, 19:12:52, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Below were the results before I applied the upgrades: > > apt list --upgradable [snip] Nothing unusual. You also have i386 packages installed so this will also increase the number of updates. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FA

Re: SystemVirtualization: Debian-wiki page update?

2020-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 12 mai 20, 10:24:51, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 12 mai 2020 à 09:55 de riveravaldezm...@gmail.com: > > > not sure if this is the place for this, but I've found a little > > confusing to find where to mention a debian-wiki issue... > > > I'm not answering the "issue" part itself but he

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

2020-05-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 13 mai 20, 10:47:32, David Wright wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages > > I think I understand how that's expected to work now. Checking on two > top-level packages I have removed (cryptsetup/pdftk), I notice that > though they are in Sections admin/text in the Packages lis

Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

2020-05-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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 testing as in unstable. 'apt list ' is c

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: 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

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

2020-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 15 mai 20, 12:41:07, Albretch Mueller wrote: > What documentation, books, videos, ... would you suggest for me to > read up if I were to investigate what exactly is "find" 's magic to > hook other processes and keep a running instance for multiple "found" > files? The man page is a good st

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? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 15 mai 20, 12:38:12, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 5/14/20, Nicolas George wrote: > > > The question was not how to find the files, the formulation of the > > question indicates that Albretch has that covered. > > Yeah, my problem is not finding the files per se. I have them or > could ha

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? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 15 mai 20, 07:48:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Compare and contrast these commands: > > find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; > > find . -type f -exec ls -l {} + > > How do they differ? > > The first one issues one "ls -l" command for each file found. > > The second one gathers up multiple

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? . . .

2020-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 15 mai 20, 11:27:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > As the programmer, you need to know which commands can be invoked in > which way(s). Usually a quick glance at the man page will suffice. > > Now, in the case of msgfmt(1), I don't actually know the right answer > for you -- it's not a tool I'

Re: make apt show packages in column

2020-05-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 16 mai 20, 20:14:15, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 May 2020 at 17:39:14 (-0700), Ihor Antonov wrote: > > > > It is very inconvenient to inspect the list of installed packages in > > such output. Is it possible to make apt output this in a column? > > You could use the dry run as in the

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mai 20, 10:10:38, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian > > 10, yet somehow you did it. > > perhaps what is meant here is apt-get from source with unknown gpg key. I > personally do not see another option. But I also

Re: cron problem

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mai 20, 19:14:46, ghe wrote: > > Is MAILTO an environmental var? There's no MAILTO in 'env' when root or > backup (the amanda user) or ghe (me). There's a MAIL in the users' > environments, but I don't think that's what you're talking about. It's > pointed at /var/mail/ anyway. See man

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 mai 20, 12:30:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 17 mai 20, 10:10:38, deloptes wrote: > > Reco wrote: > > > > > Please elaborate that. I haven't found any way to enable that in Debian > > > 10, yet somehow you did it. > > > > perh

Re: downloading debian blue rays

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 18 mai 20, 11:50:34, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Dear readers of debian-users > > I lately wanted to download the jigdo-dlbd of debian-stable as well as > debian-testing. However jigdo-lite always reports the same error: "found 0 > of the 23514 files required by the template - will not cr

Re: dual screen: some operations are slow (nouveau driver)

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 18 mai 20, 15:57:05, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I use Debian/unstable with the nouveau driver and the 5.6.0-1-amd64 > kernel. Switching to the stable kernel does not seem to change > anything. Hardware specs? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.a

Re: dual screen: some operations are slow (nouveau driver)

2020-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 18 mai 20, 19:11:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-05-18 19:53:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 18 mai 20, 15:57:05, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > I use Debian/unstable with the nouveau driver and the 5.6.0-1-amd64 > > > kernel. Swi

Re: APT::Install-Recommends "0";

2020-05-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 21 mai 20, 19:46:44, Marco Möller wrote: > (1) I understood that setting the following parameter in > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/myconfig will have the same effect as manually using > the flag --no-install-recommends as in apt install --no-install-recommends > somepackage . > APT::Install-Rec

Re: How about sources.sources? (Was: Question Regarding sources.list)

2020-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 mai 20, 14:55:33, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sources.sources > > DISCLAIMER: This format was originally found when something like "man > apt-get", "man apt", or "man sources.list" referenced a standalone > "man sources.sources" type deal. I can't find it just th

Re: problem with slow network transmission

2020-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 mai 20, 17:02:58, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > My network transmission rate seems much slower than it should be. My desktop > runs Stretch (v9, oldstable) on a Pentium 4 (3 GHz) with 4GB of RAM (the > maximum) and a 1Gbps network interface card (NIC). We pay for fiber optic > serv

Re: apt has a bug, cannot believe it!

2020-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 mai 20, 22:04:45, Marco Möller wrote: > If installing (default parameters in use: with recommends) a package, and > right afterwards removing it, then the by recommendation drawn in packages > do not become removed automatically. This behaviour is intended and controlled by the AutoRem

Re: What Needs to be Done here?

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 26 mai 20, 16:11:06, Martin McCormick wrote: > $sudo apt-get update [...] > N: Repository 'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its > 'Ve > rsion' value from '10.0' to '10.4' apt(-get) is informing you that a configured repository has changed one of its values (in t

Re: Fwd: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 27 mai 20, 02:12:34, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Actually, my email address has been down since last Tuesday, only fully > returning yesterday. Meaning that for all that time bounces to the list > would get counted for my address. Got this very e-mail several hours ago. > Kare If I understan

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 27 mai 20, 20:50:12, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I recall some of the early smart phone models having a slide-out > keyboard, the Blackberry being about the most popular, at least a lot of > techs where I used to work had them at the time. I've always been leery > of putting my phone in my po

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 27 mai 20, 20:12:44, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi Gene. > > I've had the same exact model since last September. Overall it's a good > phone except my older Motorola could get data and service in places this > one won't. Getting used to Android in 2013 had me befuddled for a bit > but a bit w

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 00:04:01, Gene Heskett wrote: > I need to get something here wifi enabled so I don't run my sprint > bill up. Just getting the weather does that. I probably need to update > my dd-wrt router and enable the wifi in it, but I'll have to set it so > the neighbors are locked out, p

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 12:31:33, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > In Debian, there is no such separation. There are only "packages", and > > these packages can be essential (what you'd consider part of the base > > system), or frivolous, or anywhere in between. The packaging syste

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 01:43:06, Gene Heskett wrote: > > They are dumb, but the offender apparently has a cracker app on his > phone. Changing the simple pw only locks him out for 3 or so minutes. > He's a cast iron PITA in person too. Your router is not configured properly. Kind regards, Andrei -

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 10:56:14, John Hasler wrote: > Victor writes: > > But *many* people do install productivity tools, office tools, games, > > developer environments separately after the install, and then regret > > it and wish to get rid of them cleanly. > > What does > > apt remove --purge

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 06:43:00, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:58:54 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I've been carrying by mobile phones in the back pocket of my jeans since > > they became slim enough to fit (i.e. smartphones) and never cracked a &g

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 07:39:12, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > You might want to write the password on a piece of paper to show it to > > guests that you want to grant access. > > You should write it down in the same little black book or card you write > all your passwords down in. And since

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 13:35:38, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2020 07:29:30 -0400 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > If one of your machines is always on, and your router can do it > > > (most can), you could try RADIUS... > > > > They are up 24/7. tell me more plz. > > The comment was a bit li

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 12:40:44, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Thank you for your polite response. The wifi access point is open so > it does not use a password. There was a bug where the installer wouldn't connect to open networks. It's probably solved in the meantime, but probably worth a try anyway.

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 07:02:49, Peter Ehlert wrote: > Use the non-free netinstall ISO Fully agreed. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 mai 20, 09:00:52, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 28 May 2020 at 12:40:44 (+), Matthew Campbell wrote: > > > I will consider trying DHCP instead of static to see if it makes a > > difference. > > I have no experience of setting up wifi statically—I don't see how > this would work with

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 10:37:33, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2020 11:23:42 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Why should anyone bother with RADIUS for a wireless with at most a > > couple of *trusted* users? > > > > I think the issue is usuall

Re: files under /boot

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 08:29:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:20:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > >> $ dpkg -l "*4.9.0*" | grep ii > > > > > > First I had to figure out (google) to find what the leading ii > > > means, > > > > It took me a moment to catch what you meant by this

Re: files under /boot

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 06:40:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > 2.a. (I said I can't count) And, presumably, to get my system closer to a > correct configuration, I should consider finding and removing the package for > the oldest kernel? We can probably have a huge debate about what the "correct"

Re: waaay offtopic

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 14:26:25, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2020 15:25:16 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > And what would the advantage of RADIUS be over WAP2-PSK, for Gene's > > use-case? > > I believe he is using passwords and his unwanted user can c

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 09:29:26, David Wright wrote: > > In the second half, I wasn't doubting that static would technically > function, but that almost any user would be unsatisfied by a tablet > or laptop with a statically configured wifi connection. It "works" > about as well as locking one's OAP bu

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 10:51:37, Victor Sudakov wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Perhaps what you want is something which will tell you which programs > > have gone unused for the longest time. > > That would be nice too. As already mentioned, the package popularity-contest does that, somewhat.

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 14:51:23, David Wright wrote: > > I'm not sure which default you mean. The defaults of the user-oriented network managers, like Network Manager and Wicd. They provide a much friendlier experience for laptops that are carried around and are frequently connected to different wir

Re: Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 17:24:54, Daniel De Lellis wrote: > > I am part of a team who manages a very large production cluster with very > little hardware consistency, especially when it comes to network > configurations, and we support multiple debian-based distros and versions > with local mirrors. We

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 10:27:14, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 08:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 30 mai 20, 10:51:37, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Perhaps what you want is something which will tell you which > > > >

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

2020-05-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 04:52:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > > *PROBLEM* > As package is not installed, that directory does *NOT* exist. Midnight Commander (and probably other file managers as well) can browse downloaded .deb files. apt download popularity-contest mc (browse the CONTENTS directo

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 19:54:09, Marco Möller wrote: > > From the view of a user, it does not sound so complicated ;-) . I guess, and > this will be fair, that I am now asked to program it, it's open source and I > should contribute. But unfortunately I can only contribute ideas, I am not a > programme

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-05-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 31 mai 20, 20:52:06, Tom Dial wrote: > > Moreover, ZFS is not DFSG and GPL compliant, and quite a few > users would avoid it because of that. ZFS is licensed under the CDDL[1], which is both free (as in freedom) and DFGS *compliant*. It is also *incompatible* with the GPL, which means di

Re: Can't get started

2020-05-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 16:09:46, David Wright wrote: > > My only worry was whether systemd-networkd gives way gracefully > to a configured ifupdown, or fights it like systemd-timesyncd vs ntp. systemd-networkd is not enabled nor configured by default in buster. > > > I've yet to see any virtue in us

Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

2020-05-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 mai 20, 16:05:54, David Wright wrote: > > For man pages, I type man foo into google. That usually throws > up one or two links from different sources. I have/had these configured as search engines in Firefox (Vimium): dpkg: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=%s (Understand

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 iun 20, 12:26:28, Marco Möller wrote: > On 01.06.20 08:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 30 mai 20, 19:54:09, Marco Möller wrote: > > > > > > From the view of a user, it does not sound so complicated ;-) . I guess, > > > and > > > this

Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files

2020-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 iun 20, 17:34:10, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 1 juin 2020 à 15:25 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org: > > > I would not even *attempt* to do what you are trying to do here. Your > > life would become enormously simpler if you would just put this shell > > script inside a file, and Exec it as a script.

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 iun 20, 11:03:48, Victor Sudakov wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > It's many years since I ran servers in what one might call "hostile" > > environments, so the current situation suits me, and I don't keep up > > with discussions like those in > > https://manpages.debian.org/experimen

Re: Syntax regarding "Exec" instruction in .desktop files

2020-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 iun 20, 20:33:28, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 1 juin 2020 à 20:03 de andreimpope...@gmail.com: > > > > Question for you: how much would it have taken you to write that into a > > script compared to the time you spent trying to get the quoting right? > > > HaHa, of course the latter is much m

Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

2020-06-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 iun 20, 11:14:25, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > There is an office where the standard desktop OS is Manjaro (a > clone of Arch Linux). There is not much choice actually. > > I don't very much like Manjaro's packaging system and its lack of many > essential packages in bin

Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)]

2020-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 iun 20, 10:48:45, Richard Owlett wrote: > > My problem with dman revolves around running Stretch and debian.org > defaulting to serving up information about "stable" {i.e. Buster}. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931992 Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/

Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

2020-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 iun 20, 20:23:21, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > 'systemd-nspawn'. You can use 'debootstrap' to create the Debian chroot, > > it was explicitly created to run also on other distributions (it's > > written i

Re: pkg-bsdmainutils mail "Host not reachable" (421)

2020-06-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 03 iun 20, 00:22:10, Emanuel Berg wrote: > FYI, I got a > > ERROR_CODE :421, > ERROR_CODE :Host not reachable. > > for this: > > pkg-bsdmainut...@teams.debian.net The domain is not listed[1], so it's probably inactive. You should report a bug against bsdmainutils to update the Mai

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 04 iun 20, 09:32:48, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 31 May 2020 at 18:43:46 (+0100), Michael Howard wrote: > > > > Well then it's not pristine, which is what the OP wanted. > > That begs the question of what pristine means, because it has never > been defined even by the OP. Their closest at

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 05 iun 20, 13:04:08, Marco Möller wrote: > > After your post nicely confirmed that my idea was perfectly understood, I > will leave it here in the thread as it is. In the near future I will > organize my words, probably copying some of the statements from this thread, > and send it as a fea

Re: Finding application's description

2020-06-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 iun 20, 09:37:11, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've just installed Buster and am selecting which apps on my Stretch machine > I wish to continue to use. > > For some reason I had installed Gdebi. > I can't find a good description on which base a decision. > https://packages.debian.org lists n

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 iun 20, 14:06:42, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I > could have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) > containing /boot and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the > distros.  This would eliminate h

Re: Firefox over JACK in Debian Testing

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 00:25:30, riveravaldez wrote: > > By other side, I've seen in Arch a different approach: using a JACK > plugin for ALSA and ad hoc configuration file to make kind of a > "bridge" that sends I/O audio through JACK. It works fine.[4] > Is it possible to do something similar in Debi

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 21:21:07, Marco Möller wrote: > > Yes, design options exist. However, I never tried out if the user root could > be blocked by the graphical session manager only, in the case of KDE usually > sddm is in use. But I know that the login of user root can be blocked in > general: when

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 19:23:24, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind > how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. > > The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. > > I just installed Picard, an

Re: USB HDD issue with buster-backports kernel

2020-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 10:56:41, Christopher David Howie wrote: > > * On the 5.5 kernel, I was getting throughput between 10MB/sec and 20MB/sec. > At apparently random points, dd would stop reporting any progress and a > "usb-storage" process in top would be consuming 100% CPU. Any commands > against

Re: Return a Debian system to a pristine state

2020-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 14:32:29, David Wright wrote: > > I was impressed by apt-get's performance, probably because of dim > memories of how dpkg would react on being asked to install ~2000 > packages at once. The latter doesn't have the logic for sorting > operations into a sequence that preserves an

Re: Trouble with 2011 iMac Sound Card On Debian

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 16:11:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > Hi all, > > So I installed Debian on a 2011 iMac and it is working ok, except for the > sound. There is no sound from either the speaker or the headphone jack. > > When I go to the system settings, the volum option is completely greyed out. > > Run

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iun 20, 20:09:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > From: Dan Ritter > People are suing Western Digital for sneaking those SMR disks into their > supply chain. They're supposed to be red in color if what I read in the > news is correct. > > > > https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 iun 20, 17:55:07, Default User wrote: > > Well, when I did an alternate Buster Stable install on a spare drive, > I was surprised (not happily) that when running from that setup, > various programs demand the root password, and will not accept the > user password. So, now I have to reme

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 iun 20, 10:00:48, Michael Stone wrote: > > IME performance peaks at 16-64k. Beyond that things don't improve, and can > potentially get worse or cause other issues. Even so, bs=1M is easy to remember and type ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signa

Re: SimpleBackportCreation attempt says: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release

2020-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 iun 20, 22:02:12, David wrote: > > But step 3 fails: > $ apt source -t unstable cgdb > Reading package lists... Done > E: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a > release is not available in the sources > E: Unable to find a source package for > $ apt source -

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 iun 20, 22:45:13, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 12 juin 2020 à 22:32 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > > Of course, > > refraining from sending html e-mails here would be easier solution ;) > > > I'd like nothing better but it seems this is not possible currently on > Tutanota web app. You co

Re: [solved] Re: SimpleBackportCreation attempt says: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iun 20, 15:30:08, David wrote: > Hi, first thank-you to everyone who replied for taking an interest in > assisting me and improving Debian guides. I feel very lucky to have access > to you folks here with expertise and experience plus the goodwill to help > someone without expecting anyth

Re: SimpleBackportCreation attempt says: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 iun 20, 18:27:45, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:15:26AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 04:40:22PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > For "apt source" to work you need to add two lines: > > > > > > deb http://approx:/debian/ unstable main c

Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iun 20, 00:58:57, Matthew Campbell wrote: > I hope I don't create a fight with this. > > I booted the Debian netinst disc and installed Linux on /dev/sdb1 as > the root partition. My computer is old. The system BIOS does not see > this hard drive, nor does Grub, but the Linux kernel do

Re: SimpleBackportCreation attempt says: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iun 20, 12:25:55, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:08:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 12 iun 20, 18:27:45, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:15:26AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

Re: Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iun 20, 08:41:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have a LG Flatron 24EN33TW-B LED LCD Monitor on my Debian Buster Linux > platform. > > I have just changed the screen driver from nouveau to nvidia by running > 'sudo apt install nvidia-driver. > > Before the change of drivers the initial

Re: FLTK version needs updating

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iun 20, 20:49:19, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Debian currently packages the FLTK library as libfltk1.3 (version 1.3.4) > but the FLTK developers (fltk.org) have released version 1.3.5 (stable) on > March 3, 2019. Why is Debian (even testing and unstable) still using the > old 1.3.4 versi

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