Bug #862397 (thunar freezing) is closed, but I'm still hit. What to do?

HI all. I run a stretch (stable) xfce desktop, and I'm regularly hit by thunar (v1.6.11-1) freezing. I've found: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862397 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868704 but these have been closed since (apparently) the bug is fixed in lat

isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

Hi all. I'm running a freshly-installed minimal stretch box. It connects wirelessly to my lan and it's a dhcp client, so /etc/network/interfaces contains: iface myInterface inet dhcp wpa-ssid mySsid wpa-psk myPsk It works (almost) perfectly! For ages I've been baffled by why my dhcp server ne

Wrong sizes for single disk in different usb enclosures.

Hi. I'm trying out my 1TB Toshiba MQ01ABD100 SATA hard disk in three different sata-usb enclosures. I'm testing the size of the drive by viewing both /sys/block/sdb/size and by using "hdparm -I", and I see different figures for the size. Here are the results: 1st enclosure (USB ID 14cd:6116): /sy

hp laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

Hi all. I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move the mouse). The closest debian bug report that I've seen is: https://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

On 24 November 2017 at 17:33, John Cunningham wrote: > FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is > fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried > it yet. > --John Well I didn't manage to wake the screen (in the end, I just did a "sy