Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Ma, 22 iun 21, 11:25:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Christian wrote: > > Hi Andrei, > > > > thanks a lot for your reply. 😁 > > > > > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be > > > > Well, from the man pages (man comm) : > > > > /comm [OPTI

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:44:50PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 15:30:35, Christian wrote: > > > > > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > > /var/log/instal

Re: How to create dictionary and spell checker for my locale language (Malay) ?

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 11:53:47, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hello Debian! > > TLDR; How I can generate my own dictionary and spell checker file? Try asking on debian-i18n. > I from Malaysia, we use Malay (Bahasa Melayu) as our primary language but we > don't mind using English for user-interface of softwa

Re: debian installation issue

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 19:43:14, Richard Hector wrote: > > Is that something that needs to be done by one company? Perhaps because of > how SecureBoot is implemented? For a logistic point of view, at least for x86, Microsoft appears to be the natural choice: many mainboard manufacturers, but most ha

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 09:22:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Pack

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 16:49:28, David wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Mistery solved by looking at the html part (the '/' are meant to denote > > italic), the correct co

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? > > I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive > mounted in a caddy. > > How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the > drive, plea

Re: "ls -d" OK, but not "ls"

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 16:43:51, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2021-06-23 10:27:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > $ ls /etc/systemd > > > ls: cannot open directory '/etc/systemd': No such file or directory > > > > > > Any explanat

Re: Messed up Email

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 07:52:02, Michael Grant wrote: > > It's quite shocking to me to have conversations with young people, > even into their early 20s who do not understand this distinction. And > there are many people who do not understand the distinction between a > standards based system such as

Re: Messed up Email

On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > > list. > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as > WhatsApp. Maybe more private, but unless you know something I don't, > Signal doesn't talk

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

On Jo, 24 iun 21, 16:42:34, Marco Möller wrote: > On 21.06.21 07:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 20 iun 21, 10:20:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Package: release-notes > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, a...@packages.debian.org > > > >

Re: Messed up Email

On Vi, 25 iun 21, 19:29:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the "delete" reque

Re: Messed up Email

On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:04:13, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > &g

Re: Messed up Email

On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you can't > write your own Signal client and have it talk to their

Re: Debian stable - updates

On Vi, 25 iun 21, 20:44:51, Francesco Florian wrote: > > You may want to change all instances of 'buster' to 'stable', so that > you don't have to bother changing it whenever new version of debian is > released as stable. > This is, if you really want to track 'stable', i.e., automatically > sw

Re: Debian stable - updates

On Vi, 25 iun 21, 15:02:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Christian wrote: > > Hi altogether, > > [...] > > > I quote: > > > [...] There is a tradeoff, though. The software in Debian Stable is > > usually fairly outdated. > > In fact, it's usually outdated w

Re: Messed up Email

On Sb, 26 iun 21, 13:31:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal makin

Re: Debian stable - updates

On Vi, 25 iun 21, 15:50:56, steve wrote: > Le 25-06-2021, à 06:38:32 -0600, D. R. Evans a écrit : > > > For years I have run debian stable on my main desktop machine (the one I > > am using to type this e-mail). It has had fewer major issues than any > > other distribution I have tried. > > Some

Re: Messed up Email

On Sb, 26 iun 21, 07:41:51, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Sure. In my opinion, a communication service that does not > federate with open-source clients and servers is a proprietary > service, even if it is free-gratis to use. The owner of that > service can do

Re: Messed up Email

On Sb, 26 iun 21, 14:05:04, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > An interesting read. Countered at > > https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom Looking forward for them to prove Moxie wrong, really! Ki

Re: Debian stable - updates

On Sb, 26 iun 21, 08:12:07, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Unstable is challenging when you rely on that system for any kind of > > useful work, regardless if a movie night with friends or a big > > presentation at work, as each and every upgrade has the potential to > > break your system

Re: Synaptic error message

On Sb, 26 iun 21, 19:11:25, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 10:46:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > This group keeps reading _INTO_ my questions things that aren't there. > > This group also continues to answer the same questions you have asked > time and time before :) and received resp

Re: add disk to LVM

On Du, 27 iun 21, 13:30:06, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > and mount it on a directory at boot ? > > Wait: this is orthogonal to the above. Usually, whatever you want > mounted at boot is in /etc/fstab (or, perhaps, in some systemd > un

Re: Disklabel type

On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:04:54, mick crane wrote: > I don't know what happened here. > Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary ? Careful, 'Disklabel' below is a synonym for 'Partition table' (of type 'dos' in this particular case). > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda >

Re: Messed up Email

On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:27:39, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:31:33 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on why in your opinion an entity providing a service > > should automatically accept connections from third-party clients and/or > &g

Re: Messed up Email

On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:50:59, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:51:21 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > ... > > > Well, apparently lots of people[1] seem very upset about and hell bent > > to change Signal's (the service) policies on federation, third-party

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

On Lu, 28 iun 21, 09:46:17, David Wright wrote: > > But your evening run of apt-get -y dist-upgrade was unconstrained, > and so shim-signed could be removed because it was no longer being > held onto as a Depends or Recommends. Except that `apt-get dist-upgrade` doesn't do that (`autoremove`

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

On Ma, 29 iun 21, 22:41:10, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Even if I had made use of upgrade rather than dist-upgrade, presumably > a dist-upgrade would have been indicated here (by the existence of > packages kept back) and the same position would have resulted - ie. > having to wait for a potentiall

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

On Ma, 29 iun 21, 04:56:55, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-06-28 11:13 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > (Avoid ANY proposed solution that talks about xhost. Seriously.) > > > Yes, solutions using xhost maybe a bit a pain in the ass but they are > also some of the nice one th

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

On Ma, 29 iun 21, 17:08:16, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > I can only hope that one day someone will knock you off with a shovel in > the face because you said something wrong. This will be a great day and > you'll get back what you serve to others. Seriously? > This is a figure of

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

On Mi, 30 iun 21, 05:57:19, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-06-30 at 05:23, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > > On 2021-06-30 4:32 a.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> On Ma, 29 iun 21, 17:08:16, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> >

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

On Mi, 30 iun 21, 11:02:43, Thompson, Brian wrote: > > Is this mailing list usually used for philosophical debates, persuasion, and > primitive name-calling? Genuinely curious so that I can unsub if it is. It happens more or less every time during the freeze, as there are less problems to solve

Re: X server running on a different machine [Re: Wanted: a special purpose Debian installer]

On Mi, 30 iun 21, 11:44:42, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > Now here's what will amaze you... > You can do the same with a computer. > Take risk... > Make your computer unusable... Sure, it's a great learning experience. > Type "alias cd=rm -rf" In my opinion it's generally a bad ide

Re: Buster on Win 10 Problems

On Ma, 29 iun 21, 09:28:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > First, let me assure the list that I am not trying to ignite a flame war. > > > > I have a legitimate reason for installing Debian Buster on my Windows 10 > laptop using Windows Subsystem Linux and X410. I have a very important > applicatio

Re: 2 NIC's

On Ma, 06 iul 21, 07:03:38, David wrote: > > The first question from Jeremy, the value of > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is 0, connecting to the thin client via > putty and using nano as an editor, it tells me I can't alter this > value, I am logged in as root. Because it's a special file and an

Re: text size xfce4 panel

On Ma, 06 iul 21, 12:36:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-06 12:18, Dan Ritter wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > > > hello, > > > recently got 4K monitor, I struggle to read the tiny text in > > > bullseye xfce4 > > > desktop. > > > I see how to increase size of desktop items but the panel text and >

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 08:21:17, Markus wrote: > Am 24.06.21 um 18:51 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: > > > grub-efi-amd64: > > >Installed: (none) > > >Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > > >Version table: > > > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 50

Re: Oracle Java 16.0.1 CPU usage 100% after kernel update to 4.19.0-17-amd64

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 09:35:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > Yes you can downgrand > apt-get downlaod linux-image-4.19.0-16-amd64 > dpkg -i linux-image-4.19.0.16-amd64.deb Why so complicated? If APT can download the package it can also install it (by calling dpkg itself, of course).

Re: Buster error no release file

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 06:20:21, kris wrote: > Install completed but when open software in desktop no release file > error. > Where do I obtain file and how do I install it? Please show us the full content of the file /etc/apt/sources.list and any file that might exist under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Re: badblocks

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 13:30:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I got a cheap SATA to USB external adaptor and used it to look at a 500Gb > [...] > > Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter > > thing ? > > In my experience, USB<->SATA adapters are not super-reliable (cheap or >

Re: Oracle Java 16.0.1 CPU usage 100% after kernel update to 4.19.0-17-amd64

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 16:05:13, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi ! > > On 2021-07-07 2:47 p.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 07 iul 21, 09:35:17, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> > >> Yes you can downgrand > >> apt-get downlaod linu

Some stuff about DPI [was: Re: text size xfce4 panel]

On Ma, 06 iul 21, 13:05:26, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-06 12:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 06 iul 21, 12:36:31, mick crane wrote: > > > On 2021-07-06 12:18, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > mick crane wrote: > > > > > hello, > > > > &g

Re: Oracle Java 16.0.1 CPU usage 100% after kernel update to 4.19.0-17-amd64

On Mi, 07 iul 21, 20:11:20, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-07 5:55 p.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > The default in the grub menu is typically the newest kernel installed, > > regardless of when it was (re)installed. > If this is true then all this

Re: Mail Reader

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 04:09:48, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On Jo, 08 iul 21, 09:24:32, didier gaumet wrote: > > > By default Thunderbird manages an mbox file for each folder you > > creates, which contains all the messages of the folder. So potentially > > these mbox files can be big and

Re: Mail Reader (updated)

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 04:17:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-07-07 11:41 p.m., Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > Hi guys (and possibly girls), > > > > I am currently using Thunderbird as a mail reader. > > It did a good job until now. > > I am also using the PGP p

Re: Mail Reader

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 10:53:09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 11:39:42AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > Any folder with more than a few hundred messages should probably be > > converted to Maildir, unless it's used as an archive and

Re: Some stuff about DPI [was: Re: text size xfce4 panel]

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 12:06:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-08 01:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Hope this provides at least some idea on the topic, because it likely > > doesn't really explain much. > > > Thanks, it seems like a minefield and not the e

Re: Mail Reader

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 12:26:14, Curt wrote: > On 2021-07-08, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > I understand that the use of terminal software may be some advantage but > > The use of terminal software can be fatal. > > I use alpine myself, but the core members of the group---who sometime

Re: Mail Reader

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 18:14:22, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > As do those of us who use fetchmail to feed procmail, and procmail with > > some spamassassin for deaths and diversions to feed the TDE version of > > kmail-1.9, all totally background processes. So it is all automatic... > > Poly

Re: Mail Reader

On Jo, 08 iul 21, 19:38:36, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I can only recommend things I have reasonably recent experience with. > > Mutt's awesome. I use it many times a day. [...] > Only mutt can handle 500,000 pieces of mail in an ar

Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here > > Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? It depends :) In my opinion I'd say the order from less to more da

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

On Sb, 10 iul 21, 14:38:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> > >>> Hi

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

On Du, 11 iul 21, 06:54:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > While your testing + stable as needed mix is pretty simple[1] the > > reverse mix stable + select packages from testing requires adequate > > pinning and can qui

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

On Du, 11 iul 21, 14:25:31, The Wanderer wrote: > > The issue turns out to have been that /dev/dri/renderD128 is owned by > group render, and my user was not a member of that group. I don't know > of anything which should have told me that it needed to be. As far as I understand, this should be t

Re: Buster no release file

On Sb, 10 iul 21, 18:44:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I was going to link you to the DebianBuster wiki page where I had put > the standard sources.list for buster, but it appears someone doesn't > want you to have that information. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster?action=diff&rev2=23&rev1=

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

On Lu, 12 iul 21, 06:08:27, The Wanderer wrote: > > That said, AFAIR it was never necessary to have a daemon like that in > order for my user to wind up being a member of group video (and having > access to the GPU via GLX), so for such a daemon to be necessary in > order for my user to be a membe

Re: APT Sources.list Line Format for Security Updates

On Lu, 12 iul 21, 18:55:30, Gregory McPherran wrote: > Hi, > > This shows the new security line form as: > DebianBullseye - Debian > Wiki > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-secur

Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]

On Ma, 13 iul 21, 20:54:22, Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Jul 2021 at 15:38:26 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 11:27:03 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > BTW, for those who don't want to run their own server, there are still > > > other reasons to avoid Github: my rule is

Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

On Mi, 14 iul 21, 08:02:19, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100 > > Joe wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> Back when we had TV advertisements > >> for beer, it was always the rubbish beers that got the publicity. > > > > her

Re: Strange email behaviour................

On Ma, 20 iul 21, 11:37:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 08:07:22 AM Charlie wrote: > > Nothing happened when I ran the "filter all messages in folder" or when > > I ran filter "filter selected messages". So then selected, highlighted, > > the message and used the "move" co

Re: where can i find a list of wireless adapter that debian support

On Jo, 22 iul 21, 04:33:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2021 00:58:23 loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > > > Thank Georgi! > > the tricky part of my search for ideal adapter(needn't non-free > > firmware) isthat many vendors claim they support linux, but i'm afraid > > they require no

Re: where can i find a list of wireless adapter that debian support

On Vi, 23 iul 21, 17:11:25, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > > Thanks, as most adapters require firmware, it's not handy for user to > supply them during installation > can't debian do a better job? i care more about ease of use than > freeware philosophymany other distro just supply them http

Re: where can i find a list of wireless adapter that debian support

On Vi, 23 iul 21, 07:17:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 10:20:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On the other hand, if the device would accept only firmware signed by > > the manufacturer the code itself could be open sourced. > > > > User

Re: where can i find a list of wireless adapter that debian support

On Vi, 23 iul 21, 13:15:46, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 08:09:07PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Unless I'm missing something (which is very much possible, I'm way out > > of my depth here) rebuilding to verify it matches the official binary >

Re: explanation of first column "v" is hiding

On Lu, 26 iul 21, 13:40:46, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 07:22:49PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > 26 juil. 2021, 19:01 de mrma...@earthlink.net: > > > # man dpkg-query > > > aptitude man page: > > > > "Each search result is listed on a separate line. The first > > character

Re: explanation of first column "v" is hiding

On Lu, 26 iul 21, 13:22:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > P.S. If we're complaining about the lack of documentation for the cryptic > output of the Debian tool set, can we say some words about aptitude? There are many things to be said about aptitude. Lack of documentation wouldn't make my list. Cry

Re: Security

On Jo, 27 ian 22, 21:44:07, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this > > system I should worry about", the bad guys could still find ways to get &g

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: > I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is > compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- > e.g. would you expect to be able to swap data drives > between machines running either? In general yes. > I've got an old i386 instal

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

On Vi, 28 ian 22, 11:34:44, Yvan Masson wrote: > > Could it be because `mount` uses kernel driver and `mount.ntfs` uses > ntfs-3g, and that the latter has better "quality" even for read-only? (Note > that this sentence is a complete guess) Try 'ls -l /sbin/mount.ntfs' ;) Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

older > versions of a particular file system[1], but the other way around can be > a problem. > > That's interesting in itself. Makes some sense. > > On 1/28/22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: > >> I was wondering if

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

On Vi, 28 ian 22, 10:15:58, Steven J. West wrote: > Dear all, > > TL;DR/summary: > >- Tuning vm.watermark_boost_factor to 0 (disable) on Debian >significantly improves performance on memory-intensive tasks that utilise >SWAP space, by stopping preemptive kswapd freeing of memory, and

Re: Android apps on Debian

On Sb, 29 ian 22, 14:38:50, John Hasler wrote: > local10 writes: > > First, identify the app you want to install, then download it from > > apkpure ( https://apkpure.com/ ) or similar sites. > > Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason > to, not having an Android ph

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

On Sb, 29 ian 22, 16:39:31, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Many of the raspbian distributions have a #1 partition > that is a small fat32 lba partition for Windows users to be able > to activate debian from Windows. Is this even necessary once one > is using unix tools on the disk? At least f

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

On Du, 30 ian 22, 11:02:34, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > alsactl --init > > may help. > > However alsa makes .lock files in /var/lock/alsa and you may find it > > helpful to delete the lock file first then once card is set run alsactl > > store. Those lock files sometimes p

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

On Du, 30 ian 22, 12:47:27, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > >> During the boot process, the system detects everything. So there must be > >> something in the init sequence that I can trigger manually. > > > > You can try to unload and re

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

On Du, 30 ian 22, 14:58:29, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > Something is keeping the module busy, but according to lsmod it's not > > another module. > > > > In case you get any output from > > > > lsof | grep /dev/snd &g

Re: Security

On Du, 30 ian 22, 15:54:17, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 01:36:06AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 29/01/22 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > Servers shouldn't have pkexec installed in the first place, anyway. > > > > > > > libvirt-daemon-system depends on poli

Re: Security

On Du, 30 ian 22, 19:27:56, Reco wrote: > > > > > How does "people installing without recommends" translate to "GNOME > > users" is beyond me, > > Easy. Look closely at two graphical frontends to libvirt they provide in > main archive. > Now ask yourself - would I need these on a server? Who wo

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

On Mi, 02 feb 22, 13:49:38, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > I'm unclear on how NFS v4 works. Everything I've read about it in the > > past says that you have to set up a user mapping, which is shared by > > the client and the server. And that this is *not* optional, and *is* >

Re: One-user system. Was "One user system."

On Vi, 04 feb 22, 10:34:38, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > root@joule:/root# df | grep sd > /dev/sda27159288 6635136140768 98% / > /dev/sda4 131124764 12951820 111512132 11% /home > /dev/sdb13658244 2026200 1446196 59% /home/root/MY > > Note that / is 98% full wherea

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

On Jo, 03 feb 22, 06:35:40, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 3/2/22 5:42 am, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi 4B. The requirements you listed elsewhere > > > would make this a cheap and workable alternative. The only issue is > > > that any SATA disks would have to be run t

Re: Wrong libvirt version in bullseye installation

On Lu, 07 feb 22, 14:34:20, Gary L. Roach wrote: > I have been trying to get a cleen copy of qemu/kvm installed but when I try > to install qemu-system I get: > >     libvirt-clients : Depends: libvirt0 (= 7.0.0-3) but 8.0.0-1~bpo11+1 is > to be installed. > >  The same for libvirt-daemon and som

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

On Ma, 08 feb 22, 17:49:16, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-02-08 17:44 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > [Install] > > WantedBy=multiuser.target > > Changed that to > > [Install] > WantedBy=network-online.target That's like putting the carriage before the horse ;) (and it probably

Re: Installation "Bullseye"

On Mi, 09 feb 22, 15:51:13, piorunz wrote: > On 09/02/2022 15:13, Dynosaw wrote: > > 2. Is it possible to install Debian-11 on an external, > >     pluggable, medium  such as a USB-pendrive or > >     a USB-harddisk? > >     Please note: I'm NOT talking about making a > >     "live USB" with dd

Re: One-user system. Was "One user system."

On Jo, 10 feb 22, 11:11:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, February 09, 2022 06:08:16 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I've switched to using sudo because it encourages me to use root only > > when strictly required. > > That's a good idea, but I'll men

Re: 5.15 kernel just won't do on Intel Rocket Lake...

On Jo, 10 feb 22, 09:27:26, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 10 Feb 2022 at 03:39:26 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > ...if you have a bad BIOS, and wish to boot with more than one connected > > display. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/4762 explains the issue, > > which > > has j

Re: Request free live CD

On Jo, 10 feb 22, 20:05:32, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:47:18 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Dozzyjean Dozie wrote: > > > Please I will be very much interested to get a live CD from you, please > > > what are the prerequisites that are needed to be arch

Re: Stalled system shutdown

On Vi, 11 feb 22, 13:36:09, José Luis González wrote: > > I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something. If I remove > it nothing else complains. I didn't know this package before. At least on buster/arm64 nothing depends on it. Was the package manually installed or does the descript

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > scrunched into the top third or so of the screen, with two copies > across the top. They are damn near unreadable. That's likely because your graphic chip is not properly recogni

Re: Memory leak

On Du, 13 feb 22, 08:03:39, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 07:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resou

Re: Stupid question

On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > partition indicates that. > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). So the first > thing that > happe

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > would have its grub.cfg kept up-to-date, but would never touch the > MBR by running grub-install. Ano

Re: Stupid question

On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > That's a good clarification that the active partition is a Microsoft thing > implemented by the bootcode Microsoft installs in the MBR of the device > chosen to boot from. Now for an unanswered question: What > does bootcode installed by Debi

Re: 5.15 kernel just won't do on Intel Rocket Lake...

On Mi, 16 feb 22, 00:50:21, David wrote: > > I just wrote about two places where Debian kernel packages with > "trunk" in their names are visible. But I do not know what those > packages are. If you can explain what those packages are, > what their life cycle is, and why they are named "trunk", th

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel > > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a mini-

Re: Stupid question

On Ma, 15 feb 22, 11:59:59, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > > the OP is asking. > >

Re: Misremembered

On Ma, 15 feb 22, 12:41:28, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > When it loads a kernel or chain-loads another boot-loader it basically > > hands over control completely, > > Which is what DOS does. That was possibly not the best choice of words from my sid

Re: Homebuilt NAS: System Drive Filesystem?

On Du, 23 aug 20, 14:26:15, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-08-23 11:22, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I'll use "relatime" instead of "noatime." "Relatime" is said to > > create less problems with software that needs dates/times when files, > > etc. were last modified, accessed, etc. > > I onl

Re: stretch vs iptables auto-start

On Du, 23 aug 20, 21:34:12, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 23 August 2020 15:45:22 Joe wrote: > > > > My server iptables is inherited from, I think, sarge, so it's probably > > not done optimally today. It's an init script run from /etc/rcS.d. > > Ah,/etc/rcS.d/S18netfilter-persistent > but that

Re: Homebuilt NAS: System Drive Filesystem?

On Lu, 24 aug 20, 09:26:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Since F2FS is not supported directly for an install, one would have to > convert to it after or configure the flash drive with another computer > before the install. I don't know if it is worth the time to do so. > EXT4 without journaling would

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