On Mi, 18 nov 20, 07:18:25, Serkan KURT wrote:
> Hi. Debian 10 freezes after a while when I watch a video with VLC or
> in a video conference call (with Firefox or Chromium). It is not clear
> when it will freeze. This problem was not happening in Debian 9 8 7.
>
> I can turn off the system by
On Mi, 18 nov 20, 12:44:57, Philipp Ewald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certbot-users-preparing-for-the-isrg-root-transition-january-11-2021/138059
>
> certbot is on Version 0.31.0 in Debian Buster.
>
>
> > As of January 11, 2021, we’re planning to make a change to our
On Mi, 18 nov 20, 09:46:04, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 17 Nov 2020 at 17:43:43 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > Depending on when in the release cycle the dist-upgrade is done the
> > newer kernel image may not even be available yet
>
> All the kernels listed abov
On Mi, 18 nov 20, 13:01:46, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:42:27PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote:
> > can i install the package from unstable and after that i remove the entry
> > in sourses.list?
> > or is this risky?
>
> I wouldn't do that, just download the appropiate debs from
On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build
> and get the same behaviour with both.
>
> I've also read the relevant part of the release notes:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch04s05.en.html
>
> and t
On Vi, 20 nov 20, 15:15:42, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:30:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build
>
On Du, 22 nov 20, 14:36:06, Gareth Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 08:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > Please, don't hijack threads
>
> ...but what did I do wrong re thread hijacking?
>
> I understand that to mean changing the content of an existing thread,
> as a quick google seems to
On Du, 22 nov 20, 13:25:09, Alex McKeever wrote:
>
> The user interface is too small but is silky smooth on said device.
That can happen if your display has relatively high pixel density (e.g.
above 120 dots per inch), but the graphic system (Xorg) by default
assumes 96 dpi. Check the output o
On Du, 22 nov 20, 08:01:16, Charles Curley wrote:
>
> * Starting a new email is usually easier than hijacking a thread, so
> why bother?
Starting a new e-mail requires filling out at least the To: address so
it is easier to reply instead (especially with many addresses in To: and
Cc: that one
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> So does htis get a new subject in the list?
>
> Good afternon All
>
> I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail
> collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like
> this is a common practice.
>
> What a
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote:
> > Joe wrote:
> > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox.
> >
> > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection.
>
> Well, they do in a way -- if you use
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 17:10:56, Kanito 73 wrote:
> Hello
>
> Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I
> backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running
> for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will
> erase
On Mi, 25 nov 20, 17:38:44, Fred wrote:
> On 11/25/20 2:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:12:03PM -0700, Fred wrote:
> > > fred@ragnok:~$ uname -m
> > > i686
> > > fred@ragnok:~$ file ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage
> > > ClipGrab-3.9.2-x86_64.AppImage: ELF 64-bit LSB execut
On Mi, 25 nov 20, 21:56:06, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> In situations like this, I think not of Occam's, but of Hanlon's Razor:
>
> Never attribute to malice that which can
> be adequately explained by stupidity.
+1
> At this point, though, a little voice in the back of my mind says,
> "Bu
On Jo, 26 nov 20, 01:29:13, Kanito 73 wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de Wrote:
>
> > This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely
> > nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy
> > competing ecosystems. Magic!
>
> HAHAHAHAHA (with capital letters)... As far as
On Mi, 25 nov 20, 20:17:01, AW wrote:
> Ive got a new Dell Lattitude 3410 with "Integrated Intel UHD for 10th
> Generation Intel Core i3-10110U graphics" and Intel wifi but I cannot get
> either of them working properly on Debian 10. Ive tried installing
> firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-linux
On Sb, 28 nov 20, 00:46:22, David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-11-27 22:39, David wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply. :-)
>
>
> > On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 16:22, David Christensen
> > wrote:
>
> Please configure your mail client so that it does not put the sender's
> e-mail address into the body o
On Sb, 28 nov 20, 09:07:14, Rh Kramer wrote:
> Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter
>
> Background: a few months ago, I bought a generic / inexpensive USB-Type C
> Multipoint Adapter (with VGA output) and around the same time ordered a
> laptop
> that advertised a
On Ma, 01 dec 20, 08:11:01, Robert Tonkavich wrote:
> I am very sorry for my Input.
What is there to be sorry about?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Ma, 01 dec 20, 19:26:13, kaye n wrote:
> Hello Friends!
>
> This is my system:
> Host: laptop Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4
> Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
>
> >From this web page, https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad
> I tried this
>
> $ mkdir -p /et
On Ma, 01 dec 20, 18:14:47, Sylvain Faivre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a Debian Stretch server with the security repo enabled, I have an error
> today when trying to install zsh :
>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> zsh : Depends: zsh-common (= 5.3.1-4) but 5.3.1-4+deb9u4
On Mi, 02 dec 20, 10:26:43, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>* I don't have enough knowledge (yet) to confidently pick a laptop that
> will
> work with the multiport adapter I bought with VGA output
It would probably help to determine whether the multiport adapter
contains a VGA video chip con
On Mi, 02 dec 20, 12:10:33, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.en.html#boot-initrd
> >
> > Quoting paragraphs 2 and 3 from your link above ...
> >
> > Alternatively, if you intend to keep an existing partition on the hard
> > drive unchanged during
On Jo, 03 dec 20, 08:49:58, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, December 03, 2020 04:35:37 AM David wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 02:27, wrote:
> > > I did find out that a USB-C cable / connector has 24 conductors -- so it
> > > is conceivable (with my lack of knowledge) that some laptop
>
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 09:54:24, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 4 déc. 2020 à 04:49 de guik...@gmail.com:
>
> > Forgive my ignorance, I am not an expert.
> >
> No worries
> > How exactly do I attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log immediately
> > after restarting lightdm and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-lib
On Jo, 03 dec 20, 07:39:14, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> So, I need to read more general information about the
> differences between systemd and what we've been using up to
> recently.
The Wikipedia page and/or https://systemd.io might be a good place to
start.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Jo, 03 dec 20, 19:13:11, David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian
> > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit
> > version for intel on the system.
>
> Why?
Becaus
On Jo, 03 dec 20, 20:17:25, John Hasler wrote:
> Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian
> > release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit
> > version for intel on the system.
>
> > Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HO
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 00:03:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Fail2ban does not come configured to do anything. In this case, not even
> waste cpu cycles. I've now read thru most of the configs, which may have
> been semi applicable in 2013, the date of its last update. But this, in
> case no one has not
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 18:55:22, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 04 December 2020 17:37:02 Tixy wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll do your proofreading...
[...]
> Fat fingers syndrome, I've suffered from that for 86 years.
Typing errors happen to everyone. Triple-checking the result when
something is not work
On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:00:14PM +, deandre wrote:
> > My problem is when I try to boot up deepin(Debian 10 buster)
>
> Deepin is not Debian. It's a derivative. Your problems with Deepin
> should be asked on a Deepin support list, because
On Sb, 05 dec 20, 12:20:02, Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> I am also on Gmail. When I click (or tap) on Reply, it invariably wants me
> to send the Reply to the individual who sent the email, as opposed to the
> Debian Users List. So one additional task for me is to edit the "To"
> field, so that it
On Du, 06 dec 20, 12:23:43, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> An on-going problem about self-education is that it's
> easy to limit the scope so much that we miss connections.
> Systemd timers doesn't even sound like a replacement for cron but
> think of it as cron on steroids.
It is also a repla
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 15:35:16, Tixy wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> [...]
> > Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root
> > password if you don't use it once in a while.
>
> For machines that are personal, single user machines, it just makes
>
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 14:11:01, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> The thing is the forwarding setup is the same for port 22 as it is for port
> 80. I know that the port 80 forwarding is working so why isn't the port 22
> forwarding?
>
> I still don't know the answer to that one, but when I changed the external
>
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 09:58:26, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> caja-admin not working in Bullseye Mate
There are many ways in which some software is "not working".
If you expect this to be solved somehow you must provide more details,
like describing (step by step) what you are doing and what is (not)
happ
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 23:27:25, ellanios82 wrote:
> Hi List :)
>
>
> - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no specific
> purpose, but only to add a little more privacy ??
This is quite vage. VPNs are generally used for two purposes:
1. Connect a remote system (e.g. a la
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 18:06:43, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the
> > testing installer at this time, or by first inst
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 09:47:53, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Hope it's OK to ask an Ubuntu-related question here, after all
> Ubuntu is Debian architecturally, isn't it?
Debian is often used as a base for other Linux distribution because it
is very easy to customize.
Debian derivati
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 11:44:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 07 dec 20, 23:27:25, ellanios82 wrote:
> > Hi List :)
> >
> >
> > - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no specific
> > purpose, but only to add a little more privacy ??
&
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 16:45:08, MichaIng wrote:
>
> Jep, based on the way the list mail address was shown on the Debian bug
> report page, I was actually hoping to reach official maintainers, but this
> seems to be more an end-user support list?
Yes, this is an end-user support list.
The idea is tha
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 15:57:17, MichaIng wrote:
>
> root@VM-Bullseye:/tmp# cd /root
> root@VM-Bullseye:~# mkdir testdir
> root@VM-Bullseye:~# chmod 1777 testdir
> root@VM-Bullseye:~# > testdir/testfile
> root@VM-Bullseye:~# chown www-data testdir/testfile
> root@VM-Bullseye:~# > testdir/testfile
> -ba
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 12:27:40, Joe wrote:
>
> This application is also useful with a home VPN server, if you're not
> trying to hide anything, but just want to use the Net reasonably safely
> from an unsafe location e.g. Internet cafe. You can tailor a set of
> firewall rules to allow nothing in or o
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 17:37:43, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:00:44 -0500
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:48:26PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 11:44:36 +0200
> > > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > >
> >
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 12:08:11, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> >
> > drivers can be:
> >
> > - kernel space only - Network Interface Card (NIC) for example, USB,
> > SATA controllers, etc.
>
> They come in the form of *.ko files under /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/kernel/drivers/,
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 20:39:35, David Christensen wrote:
>
> If you want to use the drive for some other purpose, such as burning a
> Debian Installer ISO image onto it, do not mount the drive using the
> desktop. (You may have to disable the desktop automounting feature).
> Instead, open a terminal
On Ma, 08 dec 20, 19:37:12, Dan Hitt wrote:
> One of the local government agencies that i would like to interact with
> communicates using Microsoft Team. The software actually has a debian
> package, which i have downloaded, but not installed yet.
Teams also has a web interface (teams.microsoft.
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 10:21:46, Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:49:45 +0200
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Ma, 08 dec 20, 12:27:40, Joe wrote:
> > >
> > > This application is also useful with a home VPN server, if you're
> > > not trying
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 11:00:41, Joe wrote:
>
> I suppose it may depend on where you are. In the UK, public wifi
> normally uses no encryption, because there are no local staff who can
> help with problems. So any unencrypted protocol you use can be
> overheard.
It doesn't matter much whether the publ
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 14:10:54, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020 at 07:57, Carl Fink wrote:
> > They say that "window" sharing is not available. "Screen" sharing is.
> > That is, you can't share a specific application, but you can share your
> > entire screen.
>
> Exactly. And very fru
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 15:54:53, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've run in a weird problem. After a reboot, only Ipv6 address is setup on my
> wired network card.
Did something change or has it "always" been like this? What about other
systems on the same network (if any).
> The workaround is fa
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 16:46:17, MichaIng wrote:
> Please note that it by default appears on Bullseye only. See that last mails
> regarding this issue, the related changed sysfs setting has identified
> already do:
> ---
> sysctl fs.protected_regular=2
> ---
> and retry the steps, which will the
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 10:58:48, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> My ISP has confirmed this seems to be a generic issue with that
> modem/router. While I suspect that a firmware update could fix it, I can't
> find any way to upgrade the firmware, which is another good reason for
> having an inner and outer network
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:06:27, Joe wrote:
>
> It's not more secure, (apart from using wifi only occasionally) but the
> kind of people looking at other peoples' network activities are more
> likely to target public wifi than to sit outside my house. It will
> require significantly more resources and
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 15:23:44, Celejar wrote:
>
> I'm curious about this because I can't imagine that FUSE performance is
> as good as native, so why would automounters pay the performance
> penalty of FUSE when native mounting would seem easy enough to do?
The ntfs-3g developers claim there is no si
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:10:42, Joe wrote:
>
> I haven't investigated it thoroughly, but when I have casually checked
> what is mounted, I see that any USB sticks plugged in are on fuse. Xfce
> on sid, no usbmount, automounting done by systemd, by the way.
That is likely to happen for NTFS, because t
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 11:53:20, Celejar wrote:
>
> As to ProtonMail, as we've discussed in the past, I'm sort of tempted,
> but I'm not willing to give up standards based email, nor am I that
> interested in running their proprietary (albeit apparently GPL?) bridge
> application.
Yes, lack of IMAP/SM
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:47:14, Joe wrote:
>
> I believe a mount point will always be owned by root, regardless of the
> permissions of the underlying directory,
Nitpick: in the relevant documentation a "mount point" is the underlying
directory.
You're probably referring to the filesystem's root d
On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:01:55, Dominique Dumont wrote:
>
> After boot, NetworkManager lists 2 eno2 interface:
> - one created at boot time with Ipv6 and no DNS (even though /etc/resolv.conf
> contains the dns entries given by dhcp)
> - one configured before which requires Ipv4
There can only be on
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 11:26:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 09 dec 20, 19:01:55, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> >
> > After boot, NetworkManager lists 2 eno2 interface:
> > - one created at boot time with Ipv6 and no DNS (even though
> > /etc/resolv.conf
> > conta
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 09:10:42, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> This brings up an interesting thought. In the situation where you align
> user IDs across a number of machines for ths purpose, you'll inevitably
> end up with situations where users are created on some of the machines
> only for the purpose
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 10:29:02, PstrfZ wrote:
> On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all
> debian-based. Is it possible to select which system to boot
> while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system
> by sending the command via SSH)
1. Change the default
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 12:52:56, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:46:02AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > passwd -l/--lock
>
> sudo -u /bin/bash -i
>
> That little trick defeats "locked" account status, an absence of a
> password and even
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 13:34:55, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:07:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Jo, 10 dec 20, 12:52:56, Reco wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:46:02AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > >
> > > > passwd -l/
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote:
>
> For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777.
Please show the output of 'mount' and 'ls -ld' for /media/pi/music
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Vi, 11 dec 20, 07:23:16, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:11:57AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> > >
> > > For vari
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 13:43:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 12/12/20 11:03 am, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge writes:
> >
> > > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work,
> > > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency
> > > situations w
On Vi, 11 dec 20, 17:52:03, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> I do use mutt, and have downloaded nn, trn4, tin and slrn to try them
> out. I'll pay special attention to slrn. Thanks.
Neomutt has built-in NNTP support.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Sb, 12 dec 20, 22:53:41, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety
> > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell.
>
>
> There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 16:23:40, Guyenne Tsui wrote:
> > Try purging xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati, then
> > restarting
> > X. That should automatically result in using the modesetting X driver. It
> > does for
> > my sea islands. If it's OK, either keep it that way, or try rein
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 11:39:26, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> I changed the mount to /music, owned by root, but with 777 perms. As a
> guest, samba won't permit her to write to the directory.
The permissions of the underlying directory are irrelevant, except to
prevent regular users from writing by mista
On Du, 13 dec 20, 19:02:17, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the feeling that Firefox ist deteriorating.
>
> In 'Preferences' I have set FF to be the default browser. But whenever I
> open FF on a link in an e-mail FF tells me that it is not set as default
> browser and asks me to make FF t
2020 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving
> > > you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can
> > > achieve t
Relevant for those who need i386 support.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:55:49 -0800
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To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-rele...@lists.debian.org,
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Subject: Re: Release status of
On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
> well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system
> and try to do "apt-get update a
On Ma, 15 dec 20, 11:36:50, john doe wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if
> > you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.
>
> That d
On Ma, 15 dec 20, 11:47:49, deloptes wrote:
>
> Hi Andrei,
> thank you for posting on this very important topic.
>
> I want to share my experience and view hoping that you draw some useful
> conclusions and we can keep i386 in some way available.
Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just t
On Ma, 22 dec 20, 11:13:59, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Jan Girke wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am searching for a good tutorial for setting up Gnome and KDE as my
> > desktops with a screen at the start to choose which one I want today /
> > this start.
>
> sudo apt install xdm
> and whichever of the followi
On Ma, 22 dec 20, 12:11:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>* or if: "you simply forget your password" -- it seems unlikely that
> you'll
> forget the "normal" password (the one you most often use) but remember a
> backup password (although maybe you'd use something really easy to remember
>
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 10:56:36, Nicolas George wrote:
> Andy Smith (12020-12-23):
> > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit
>
> No, gigabit is 10³ bits, there is no "per second" involved either.
>
> Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to
> measure an
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 11:48:31, David Wright wrote:
>
> Some sort of rough calculation between the expected/nominal bit rate
> and the actual data rate achieved is certainly useful, if only to
> ascertain whether the link itself is performing well. For that, you
> need to reduce the amount of processi
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 18:28:43, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
>
> If a server is truly unattended, then it needs unattended-upgrades to
> somehow manage to restart services that it has upgraded.
> And if there are good reasons why these specific services cannot simply be
> restarted directly by unattended-upgr
On Mi, 23 dec 20, 19:27:49, David Wright wrote:
>
> I thought Michael Stone had already covered that, by suggesting sparse
> files (with which I'm not familiar) and /dev/null for conducting his
> encryption tests. I don't think any other posts had covered what's
> *between* the PCs, rather than in
On Vi, 25 dec 20, 06:38:14, gru...@mailfence.com wrote:
> over the years i've noticed that some command files are put in what i would
> call not usual locations
> for example /usr/lib/dropbear/dropbearconvert
dpkg -L is very helpful in such cases.
> and to add insult to injury many times the man
On Sb, 26 dec 20, 11:38:30, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> This is not 100% clear. For one, some terminal emulators do have escape
> sequences to change "cursor style" on the fly (xterm [1], among others),
> so a terminal-based application /could/ try to make use of that,
(Neo)Vim can take advantag
On Sb, 26 dec 20, 17:19:32, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> With the new GPU in place, I get video output during POST and in the
> BIOS (yes, this machine is old enough that it doesn't have a UEFI)
> without problems. That demonstrates that the GPU isn't dead on arrival,
> and that signal is getting throu
On Du, 27 dec 20, 17:31:37, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> I do see various modules listed in the grub.cfg load_video function, and
> it's not impossible that the process of trying to use one or more of
> those includes some action which triggers this behavior. I haven't found
> a place to configure that
On Du, 27 dec 20, 07:08:28, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-27 at 02:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Sb, 26 dec 20, 17:19:32, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> With the new GPU in place, I get video output during POST and in
> >> the BIOS (yes, this machine
On Ma, 29 dec 20, 06:52:12, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> That would indicate that this will have been using the ISOLINUX boot
> path, because as previously noted, this motherboard has a BIOS; if my
> memory is correct it predates UEFI entirely,
According to Wikipedia in 2011 major vendors launched sev
On Ma, 29 dec 20, 21:37:01, Thomas A. Anderson wrote:
>
> I have been using it for years, and while not a bad "thing," in
> retrospect, not sure it actually meant my critieria (eh, who knows,
> maybe it did), but now I have a more clear use case, basically to have a
> clean backup. I was using RAI
On Mi, 30 dec 20, 00:05:55, Kanito 73 wrote:
>
> What can it be? What can I do? Would you recommend to perform a new
> REAL AND FULL INSTALLATION (not restore of backed up brand new
> installation) with latest Debian 10?
Yes.
(unless the backup is pure Debian, without any third-party software
On Mi, 30 dec 20, 16:56:25, mick crane wrote:
>
> I just confused myself. Initially I read somewhere that to make the raid
> first copy the OS from one disk to another.
Do you mean copy as in 'cp' or 'rsync' or similar? RAID operates at a
lower level, typically below the filesystem (except for Z
On Mi, 30 dec 20, 13:35:19, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Again you stripped context. Managing media is a component of most backup
> systems.
> Labeling is an integral component of such management, as is storage of the
> media.
> I've yet to see a USB stick storage system that accommodates either label
On Mi, 30 dec 20, 13:29:05, Marc Auslander wrote:
>
> IMHO, there are two levels of backup. The more common use is to undo
> user error - deleting the wrong thing or changing something and wanting
> to back out. For that, backups on the same system are the most
> convenient. And if its on the sa
On Vi, 01 ian 21, 23:09:01, deloptes wrote:
>
> Each LSI card has a 6 bay cage attached and I have raided 6x2TB WD RED
> spinning discs (for data) and 2x1TB WD RED spinning discs (for OS)
1TB for OS (assuming RAID1) seems... excessive to me. All my current
installations are in 10 GiB partitions
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 10:05:11, deloptes wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > The speed gain of SSD vs. spinning discs for the OS is hard to describe.
> > Think jet aircraft vs. car.
> >
> > I've done this for a laptop (partially out of necessity, after I dr
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 04:35:59, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> / itself (excluding child filesystems) contains 23GB of data. 22GB of
> that is under /root. 17GB of *that* consists of backups of other
> data that isn't read-time-accessible to any other user - both because it
> isn't convenient to create the b
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 01:40:14, David Christensen wrote:
>
> On Linux (including Debian), MD (multiple disk) and LVM (logical volume
> manager) are the obvious choices for software RAID. Each have their
> respective learning curves, but they're not too high.
An interesting article I stumbled upon:
h
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > How many package versions do you keep around?
>
> Basically all of them. In theory I go in and delete the oldest unneeded
> ones from time to time, but in practice that
On Sb, 02 ian 21, 13:49:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> > At the very least, I'd need to be able to keep the .deb files for
> > whatever version is presently installed - and probably more than that,
> > given that
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