Re: OT: Livesystem - grub is counting up

On 25/09/2023 18:01, Hans wrote: But today there is first a memeory counter "(XXX/528M)" counting up, then, when 528 is reached, the kali menu appears and I can boot as normal. At certain moment Ubuntu live images started to verify files on the media comparing their checksums. Earlier it was j

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 27/09/2023 03:28, Valerio Vanni wrote: I found the issue on latest versions of Clonezilla, but then I tried ^^ with plain Debian live and the behavior is the same. Does it mean that you can not boot your *old* Clonezilla live after booting a latest Clonezilla?

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 28/09/2023 05:35, Valerio Vanni wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:54:31 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: My opinion is that just loading boot images without installing OS should not modify firmware state. In this sense it may be a bug. Not only I didn't install any OS, I didn't boot any i

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 28/09/2023 16:45, Valerio Vanni wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:08:27 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: After a vulnerability found in shim or grub (that allows to boot malicious code having no proper signature) old keys used by Linux distributions are revoked, new ones are generated. New images

Re: On the uses of secure boot [was: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot]

On 29/09/2023 17:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: He-said-she-said. Warning! Flammable! Let's wait till Valerio's issue will be solved. E.g. nobody has posted commands to get list of secure boot keys so far.

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

On 30/09/2023 03:36, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 15:21, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:15:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I have SSD's for swap on an rpi4b, so to lessen the abuse of the u-sd cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo swapon -s Filename    Type

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

On 30/09/2023 02:54, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 15:17, Andy Smith wrote: Probably, but adding a label to a *filesystem* is easy, so will that suit your needs? "man e2label" for ext* filesystems. That is what I couldn't remember Andy, thanks. In the case of GPT, partitions may have names

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

On 01/10/2023 10:21, hw wrote: Well, zram is the way to go; why would you still use swap partitions or swap files instead? The topic of this thread is a *Pi board. It does not have as much RAM as significant part of x86_64 laptops and desktops with installed Fedora. It seems, Gene it trying

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

On 01/10/2023 01:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 01:50:57PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo: dphys-swapfile: command not found ... unicorn:~$ apt-cache search dphys swap dphys-swapfile - Autogenerate and use a swap file From my poin

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

On 02/10/2023 17:05, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Before you say: $ apt list '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(Debian)))' The problem with that is there are packages that I added from the Linux Mint repos (not manually) and that I want to keep and they all have the tag "local". For example: mintme

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 30/09/2023 20:53, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 29/09/2023 05:39, Max Nikulin ha scritto: That is why I am suggesting to check for discussions related to shim & grub and to ask people involved into their development. I'll try. I don't feel confortable at the idea that a live envi

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

On 02/10/2023 03:01, hw wrote: Once you figured it out, you add sufficent amounts of RAM and use zram. Is it possible for *Pi boards? Even laptops may have soldered RAM with no spare slots. ZRAM may be fast, but if you need, say +2G in comparison to physical RAM size, the chance of success

Re: How can I get verbose shutdown from the GUI (Mate)?

On 03/10/2023 16:14, Ottavio Caruso wrote: $ sudo systemctl poweroff ... Is there a way to force verbosity during shutdown without opening a terminal window or creating a keyboard shortcut? Perhaps all you need is sudo journalctl -b -1 -e when you boot your machine next time. Likely so

List packages from non-default repositories

Hi, What is the recommended way to find deb packages installed from repositories other than stable? My current variant is apt list '?narrow(~i, !~Astable|~Astable-backports|!~O^Debian$|~o|~c)' I can not say that I fully understand how apt-patterns(7) work, so I am afraid that I may miss so

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

On 04/10/2023 01:29, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Max Nikulin wrote on 03/10/2023 12:11: apt list '?narrow(~i, !~Astable|~Astable-backports|!~O^Debian$|~o|~c)' In my experience the only tool that gives correct answers, is apt-show-versions in the package of the same name: $ apt-sho

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

On 04/10/2023 09:58, Mike Castle wrote: The following UNTESTED commands (ran as a normal user): (apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F apt-thinks-you-installed.txt > rest.txt The file "rest.txt" should

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

On 04/10/2023 11:58, David Wright wrote: Explanations for these hits: linux-image is the previous kernel, xtoolwait is from squeeze, youtube-dl is the last I found before I started using yt-dlp, and I don't have backports in my sources.list. Besides youtube-dl, these packages should

Re: List packages from non-default repositories

On 04/10/2023 15:42, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: $ apt list '~i' | grep -v '/testing' and $ apt-show-versions | grep -v '/testing ' show the same packages, correctly, but $ apt list '~i!~Atesting' is missing some packages. It is the reason why I added '?narrow'. Try apt list '?any-version

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 03/10/2023 01:34, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 02/10/2023 18:45, Max Nikulin ha scritto: But neither Asus (bios from start of September) nor Microsoft (Windows 11) do that blacklisting. Do you mean Windows install on hard drive or Windows install image? should be "inst

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 05/10/2023 04:06, Valerio Vanni wrote: I don't know if there is an EFI shell. I am not sure, but some motherboards may have it preinstalled. Check files on EFI system partition. It may be available in boot menu invoked by some F* key (not grub menu), it may be necessary to enable it in F

Re: Git for backup storage

On 06/10/2023 16:14, Nicolas George wrote: Unfortunately, Git is very bad at removing old data I have no idea if it is possible to do it in place, but "git clone" and "git fetch" have the --depth option. So you can specify how many last commits you would like to have in the cloned repository.

Re: Bullseye wi-fi. I have to restart NetworkManager every 5 minutes

On 06/10/2023 16:23, Ottavio Caruso wrote: For some reason, every time I am connected to wifi, pages can't load after 5 minutes of activity and I have to restart NetworkManager to get them back. Does it help to just disable/enable WiFi in the NetworkManager applet? You may try to disable po

Re: Bullseye wi-fi. I have to restart NetworkManager every 5 minutes

On 06/10/2023 16:23, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I have the latest kernel from Bullseye backports. I don't want to upgrade yet. You may try to boot from a live image and to check if up to date software stack behaves better without touching of installed OSes.

Re: Intermittent WiFi on Network Manager

On 07/10/2023 18:11, gene heskett wrote: On 10/7/23 05:17, Ottavio Caruso wrote: options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0 swcrypto=1 11n_disable=8 to /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf Another possibility is a leaky microwave oven in the vicinity. I consider buggy firmware as a more plausible cause of c

Re: Understanding package dependencies

On 08/10/2023 01:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:27:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: In the current case, "aptitude search '~Plsb-base'" does the trick. Why on EARTH was this not ported to apt-patterns(7)? It is one of two features I miss in "apt list". Another one is --sh

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

On 11/10/2023 08:46, Valerio Vanni wrote: Now I've tried Fedora live: it doesn't act like Debian. After it, I can still boot old Clonezilla. Not only at grub page: I can also load live environment. If the Fedora image is fresh enough then there are some patches either in Fedora or in Debian.

Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

On 15/10/2023 02:10, Van Snyder wrote: The culprit is tcsh, not XTerm. With bash, Alt-Shift-P produces a colon. In tcsh the default bindings are almost the same as in bash: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/tcsh/tcsh.1.en.html#history-search-backward history-search-backward (M-p, M-P) P.S

Does debian installer use volume names for LVM? (was: Re: trixie update/upgrade strangeness)

On 12/10/2023 09:55, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:49 PM Andy Smith wrote: - they were using LVM - they'd taken a snapshot of their root fs - they were finding and mounting their root fs by fs UUID - snapshot obviously had same fs UUID - the kernel was finding the snapshot fi

Re: Does debian installer use volume names for LVM?

On 15/10/2023 15:49, Erwan David wrote: Le 15/10/2023 à 10:32, Max Nikulin a écrit : I am curious if debian installer uses volume names in /etc/fstab when LVM is involved (either guided or manual partitioning). In guided partitionning, it uses the /dev/mapper name Thank you, Erwan and

Re: xrandr 1600x900 (ThinkPad X220T VGA-port) becomes 1440x900 (Samsung SyncMaster S20A300B)

On 20/10/2023 07:46, riveravaldez wrote: Certainly, but it hasn't. It has only VGA and DVI-D (Dual Link) inputs, and the laptop has only DP and VGA outputs, so, VGA is the first option... A decade ago I used a HDMI to DVI adapter plugged into the monitor (a case a bit larger than a DVI male co

Re: xrandr 1600x900 (ThinkPad X220T VGA-port) becomes 1440x900 (Samsung SyncMaster S20A300B)

On 20/10/2023 20:13, Anssi Saari wrote: Max Nikulin writes: A decade ago I used a HDMI to DVI adapter plugged into the monitor (a case a bit larger than a DVI male connector having a HDMI slot). I would check if DP to DVI or DP to HDMI converters exist and have no compatibility issues (e.g. I

Re: cli_ how to find_ firefox versions available in all suites

On 22/10/2023 04:32, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: $ apt-cache policy firefox That should help, but it will only provide query results that are relative to your sources.list lines above. To show suites not represented in sources.list, the already recommended packages webpage covers those. The rmadi

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 21/10/2023 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 21 Oct 2023 at 17:35:21 (+0200), Reiner Buehl wrote: is there a DNS lookup command that is installed by default on any Debian Bullseye or Bookworm install? nslookup is in busybox. busybox is an optional package, so it may be absent. "getent hos

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

On 22/10/2023 00:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you're asking us to tell you how to *make NetWorkManager behave* then you might be frustrated. Most of the people on this mailing list don't use it. There are some who actively despise it, and go out of their way to ensure it's never installed. I j

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

On 22/10/2023 19:22, Pocket wrote: What version of NetworkManager is installed with bullseye? Maybe a newer version is broken? I upgraded this VM to bookworm months ago. apt policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 1.42.4-1 Candidate: 1.42.4-1 Version table: *** 1.42.4-1 500

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

On 23/10/2023 04:43, gene heskett wrote: As I keep repeating Dan, there is not a local dns, its all a 15 entry hosts file atm. So that cannot bite /me/. It can. Some day .den TLD may be registered and chosen by a 3d printer manufacturer. It might happen that you would not be able to access d

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

On 23/10/2023 09:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: I can relate to Gene's feelings since there's been indeed some churn over the years, but `/etc/hosts` seems like an odd example because this one is among the most stable part of Unix/Linux. Gene's issue was with resolv.conf and he was refusing Greg's

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

On 23/10/2023 15:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: - Why no "fork() = " after the lines which show their number for the first time ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530663/printf-anomaly-after-fork fork clones stdout buffer and child exit flushes its content.

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 23/10/2023 20:52, David Wright wrote: AFAICT, if you don't have busybox installed, then I think it's likely that you removed it yourself. Or it is a LXC container installed using the "download" template. It uses systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. I have never tried qemu with kernel and

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 22/10/2023 18:39, Richard Hector wrote: But not strictly a DNS lookup tool: richard@zircon:~$ getent hosts zircon 127.0.1.1   zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz zircon That's from my /etc/hosts file, and overrides DNS. I didn't see an option in the manpage to ignore /etc/hosts. getent -s dns ho

Re: Can't upgrade my desktop

On 24/10/2023 06:53, Jeffrey Walton wrote: $ grep -iIR -E 'bookworm|bullseye|buster|stretch|jessie' /etc/apt may list additional suspects, especially if they are hidden away in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. I would prefer either apt policy or apt-cache policy to get list of config

Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP

On 24/10/2023 19:04, Henggi wrote: - iptables on server are cleared/open (firewalld or other firewall frameworks are not used/installed). Nowadays nft or iptables is not the only option to drop packets. Another one is eBPF used e.g. by systemd. I have the following link in my notes, but I ha

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

On 24/10/2023 12:18, tom kronmiller wrote: so I unbuffered stdin and that seemed to make it happy. It might be performance killer. Even fflush(NULL) before fork() may be better. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50110992/why-does-forking-my-process-cause-the-file-to-be-read-infinitely "Why

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

On 22/10/2023 23:29, gene heskett wrote: My whole home net has no dhcp server, host files do it all. NM, and avahi, seems to want to assign a default route in the 169 block if it cannot find a dns server, [...] IF I can prevent NM and avahi from assigning a totally bogus 169. route, it just

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

On 25/10/2023 02:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: At this point I still don't know *why* glibc rewinds stdin intermittently on exit(). Consider a parent process that reads some file. When a specific keyword appears there, it should start a child that parses the same file till another keyword. When th

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 25/10/2023 15:04, Anssi Saari wrote: You have some kind of mysterious internet connection from something. That needs to connect to the router's WAN port. My guess is the following: - Source of weak WiFi - WiFi booster - WiFi adapter in computer - ethernet port in computer - ethernet port of

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 25/10/2023 18:24, Martin wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 03:17:09PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: So packet forwarding should be enabled on the computer. sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward almost certainly enabled since you have the docker0 network interface However I suspect an issue with IP

link-local 169.254.x.y addresses

On 25/10/2023 00:21, Pocket wrote: On 10/24/23 12:48, Max Nikulin wrote: There was a thread several months ago with discussion of link local 169.254.x.y addresses. Where may I find that thread? See latest threads with the "mdns" keyword. Despite mDNS-SD (e.g. printer discovery

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

On 22/10/2023 22:46, Lee wrote: but /etc/network/interfaces over-rides /etc/NetworkManager - correct? So maybe I'm just using dhclient and have no idea if this works for NetworkManager or not. NetworkManager may use built-in, dhclient, or dhcpcd, see NetworkManager.conf(5). It has a plugin fo

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 26/10/2023 02:20, Martin wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:33:52PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: should have something like table ip sharedconnection { chain postrouting { type nat hook postrouting priority srcnat; policy accept; ip saddr 192.168.231.3/24 ip daddr != 192.168.231.3

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 26/10/2023 17:06, Martin wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:54:22AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: #!/usr/sbin/nft -f table inet sharedconnection {} flush table inet sharedconnection # table ip shared connection { ... } from above I did create FILE.conf and after executing it I can connect to

127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts and dnsmasq

Hi, 127.0.1.1 appeared again is a perpetual thread. I have another question, so I decided to start a new thread. unicorn:~$ grep unicorn /etc/hosts 127.0.1.1 unicorn.wooledge.orgunicorn This line makes various dnsmasq instances (they may be started by lxc-net.service, for NetworkMana

Re: [Bookworm] collecting sensors data

On 28/10/2023 01:39, Greg wrote: I just noticed that there is no rrdcollect in Bookworm. What is the "proper" way of collecting sensors readings? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029995 : please consider removing rrdcollect. Its a tool/daemon to collect metrics from the local

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

On 28/10/2023 02:02, The Wanderer wrote: for the case of hierarchical snapshots qemu-img(1) allows to create snapshots of disk images that are stored in the same file. In addition the "create" command has the "-b BACKING_FILE" option If the option BACKING_FILE is specified, then the imag

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 28/10/2023 05:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Yeah, just file a bug and let whomever else deal with it. Whatever text is proposed, it will be rejected in favor of what the person with check-in privileges wants. Or worse, the person with check-in privileges will torture the submitter with an endles

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain nameto use on home networks

On 27/10/2023 23:03, gene heskett wrote: I suggest you file a bug against this command to among other things, clean up the language to refer to FQDN's or aliases which we are familiar with, "static, transient or pretty" as so called choices. If using new words for old, either define them so w

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 27/10/2023 21:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: More importantly, why on earth would this be recommended over editing the /etc/hostname file, which is *much* simpler, and which appears to be independent of the init system that's in use? hostnamectl tries to prevent split brain /etc/hostname vs. kern

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 30/10/2023 00:08, Pocket wrote: On 10/29/23 12:24, gene heskett wrote: I have also made a very painfull attempt to change my domainname from coyote.den to home.arpa, and finally reverted that, Gene, have you posted what exactly you did to switch from coyote.den to home.arpa? You have been

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 30/10/2023 01:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Also see , where the systemd folks said to modify the hostname by hand because hostnamectl butchered the fully qualified hostname. Debian boo

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 29/10/2023 23:24, gene heskett wrote: finally solved by editing resolv.conf to put the nameserver address into it, followed by a chattr +i resolv.conf. I have no d clue where mangler I have realized that it is a nice stance taking into account that the topic of the original thread was confi

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 30/10/2023 20:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: sudo less /etc/resolv.conf domain home.arpa search home.arpa nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 I do not see "# Generated by NetworkManager" here. nmcli connection nmcli device NetworkManager --print-config ls -l /etc/resolv.

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 31/10/2023 04:02, Pocket wrote: On 10/30/23 15:50, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I know it is using dhclient because I typod the domain name supersede domain-name "home.apra"; and it populated .apra in resolv.conf. Sorry, it is not clear for me what did you do and what result you got. The

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 30/10/2023 23:09, gene heskett wrote: Making resolv.conf immutable seems to be the way to permanently insulate me from NM's broken idea of whats right. Gene, from what you have written in this thread I see nothing wrong in behavior of NetworkManager. Certainly it is easier to continue barki

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

On 31/10/2023 01:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: for Gene's systems I would recommend traditional Debian ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). It's by far the simplest, and the most widely supported among the community, in case he has questions. Notice that in the default configuration NetworkManager r

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain nametouse on home networks

On 30/10/2023 00:00, gene heskett wrote: Somebody who /can/ report it. I changed ISP's over a decade back, so I am not me to bugzilla, and because I am known also by name, I can't re-register. I can't even get a pw reset cuz it (I'm guessing here) is sending it to my earlier ISP's Sorry, it i

kill -9 firefox (Re: Performance of my computer)

On 31/10/2023 01:56, Van Snyder wrote: Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with "kill -9", so that it reopens everything when I restart it, my memory usage immediately drops by 75%. Then it creeps

Re: Default DNS lookup command?

On 30/10/2023 14:03, Richard Hector wrote: On 24/10/23 06:01, Max Nikulin wrote: getent -s dns hosts zircon Ah, thanks. But I don't feel too bad about not finding that ... 'service' is not defined in that file, 'dns' doesn't occur, and searching for '

Re: Performance of my computer

On 31/10/2023 01:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:45:38PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: I haven't partitioned my hard disk. I have Toshiba L200 Laptop PC Hard drive 1 TB, 5400 rpm, 128 MB/8MB buffer That doesn't sound right. 128 MB of RAM? It is buffer size of the h

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 01/11/2023 00:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I have a new laptop. An issue I have is that the touchpad buttons often stop working for several seconds (under X11). Can you move cursor during these periods? KDE has the "disable touchpad when typing" feature (likely a kded5 plugin exposed as D-Bu

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 30/10/2023 20:04, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: sudo less /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Pixel5.nmconnection [...] [ipv6] addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy dns=2001:4860:4860::,2001:4860:4860::8844; dns-search=home.arpa; ignore-auto-dns=true #I tried with this on, commented out and set

Re: Alternative to NetworkManager on Debian 12

On 01/11/2023 21:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I was just pointing at the fact that even ifupdown can automatically bring up an interface on connect (cf. allow-hotplug), courtesy of udev. Doesn't allow-hotplug means adding a network adapter (e.g. a USB one), not plugging network cable into an ex

Re: Alternative to NetworkManager on Debian 12

On 01/11/2023 18:31, Nicolas George wrote: systemd-networkd plus netplan. It was terrible, the network would get de-configured if somebody pulled the ethernet cable (and that happens a lot here!) and rebooted the machine while they were at it, and the NIS and NFS do not appreciate it much. I

Re: Populating IPv6 DNS addresses in resolv.conf

On 01/11/2023 17:41, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: All, Thanks for all your help. I was able to get it mostly working: # Generated by NetworkManager search home.arpa nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 nameserver 192.168.104.233 # NOTE: the libc resolver may not support more than 3 nameservers

Re: Alternative to NetworkManager on Debian 12

On 02/11/2023 00:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:00:45PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Doesn't allow-hotplug means adding a network adapter (e.g. a USB one), not plugging network cable into an existing adapter (built-in or connected earlier)? Following the man

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 02/11/2023 04:51, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-11-01 20:15:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-11-01 09:09:45 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Can you move cursor during these periods? Yes, no issues with the cursor (mouse pointer). I would still try to disable typing detection to test

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 03/11/2023 01:55, Vincent Lefevre wrote: (EE) event14 - VEN_04F3:00 04F3:311C Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded. See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.22.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details I can actually see 6 messages like that in /var/log/Xorg

Re: Alternative to NetworkManager on Debian 12

On 03/11/2023 00:58, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 10:41:06PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I am a bit surprised by a use case when temporary unplugging of cable should be ignored. I have not tested it, but I hope, a setting, I have noticed in docs, allows NetworkManager to

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 05/11/2023 13:48, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2023-11-04 at 20:08 +0100, Martin wrote: [...] BTW putting above script into /etc/nftables.conf (at the bottom of file) did not ever worked - I had always to run that file manualy as root. Command 'nft list ruleset' only then showed this table. I have no

xorriso and SIGTERM/SIGINT handler (was: Re: How to use dmsetuup?)

On 05/11/2023 15:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If you want to abort earlier, do not press Ctrl+C but rather do touch /var/opt/xorriso/do_abort_check_media I do not have an optical drive around for last years, so feel free to ignore my question. Are there obstacles making implementation of prope

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 04/11/2023 15:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-11-03 09:48:16 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: From the "See ... for details" page Note This warning is ratelimited and will stop appearing after a few times, even if the touchpad jumps continue. [...] https://wayland.freedesktop.or

Re: limit on attachment in mail to list

On 09/11/2023 14:04, hlyg wrote: list doesn't seem to accept my mail, because of big attachment i believe https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Code of conduct - Avoid sending large attachments. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#Posting_Rules.2C_Guidelines.2C_and_Tips Posting Rules, Gu

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

On 08/11/2023 20:39, Martin wrote: Here is output from phone connected to WiFi setup program: Default gateway: 192.168.231.3 It seems dnsmasq is able to serve reasonable settings with minimal configuration. chain postrouting { type nat hook postrouting priority src

Re: AW: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)?

On 10/11/2023 00:36, Schwibinger Michael wrote: $ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/tmp/dvd.bin bs=1M dd: konnte '/dev/sr0' nicht öffnen: Kein Medium gefunden Is it real disk or peace of plastic that is put into the box to protect stack of recordable disks?

Re: PATH question

On 12/11/2023 21:37, Greg Wooledge wrote: It doesn't help that "apt install ./file" is not documented in the official man pages. People can only learn about it from the wiki, or from word of mouth. It is documented in various guides: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.

Re: Password managers

On 10/11/2023 01:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: KeepassXC if you want a primarily GUI solution which also happens to be open source. (There's also a command-line version keepassxc-cli which can either be driven from the command line or used interactively in a terminal session.) Having system boote

Re: Password managers

On 13/11/2023 21:29, Erwan David wrote: That was a bad idea : lokking closer I see that kpcli does not support the latest keepass file format (v4) Trying "apt search" I have noticed some python tool "secrets" having python3-pykeepass in its dependency. Does anybody use it (or at least have tr

Re: Password managers

On 14/11/2023 09:58, paulf wrote: As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. [...] Plus, it will insert any line in the password file into the clipboard. In general it is better to avoid secrets copied to the clipboard. Even JavaScript from a web page might read

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

On 14/11/2023 19:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote: To my surprise, reportbug asks me to use bullseye-backports (= oldstable-backports) on my bookworm (= stable) machine: Might it happen that you have bullseye-backports in apt sources.list? apt policy apt policy linux-image-amd64

Re: Password managers

On 15/11/2023 03:05, Anssi Saari wrote: Max Nikulin writes: For Chromium it is better to have a password manager (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. Encryption is not applied otherwise

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

On 15/11/2023 05:01, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: # $ wget -qO- 'https://qa.debian.org/madison.php?package=emacs&text=on&s=oldstable,stable,testing,unstable,experimental&a=source,all,x86_64' The same request without s=... returns

Re: Password managers

On 15/11/2023 15:40, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2023-11-15, Max Nikulin wrote: For Chromium it is better to have a password manager (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. Encryption is not applied

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

On 14/11/2023 19:52, Махно wrote: > # apt-get install debian-handbook This package contains the English book covering Debian 8 “Jessie” Package description has not been updated. debian-handbook (11.20220922) unstable; urgency=medium [...] [ Raphaël Hertzog ] * Update the book to be base

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 16/11/2023 20:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: The question is what suppresses software buttons. If this is libinput that suppresses them (just like it suppressed pointer moves when typing, while pointer moves are still reported by the kernel), then this is unrelated to my issue. I am unsure if k

Re: touchpad buttons sometimes stop working for several seconds

On 17/11/2023 19:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: BTW, what model of touchpad do you have? Device: SYNA30AC:00 06CB:CDEB Touchpad Kernel: /dev/input/event11 Group:9 Seat: seat0, default Size: 106x61mm Capabilities: pointer gesture Tap-to-cli

Re: Part II dd copy destroyed DVD

On 18/11/2023 23:35, Marco Moock wrote: it maybe a stupid DRM? ... or a blank disk because nothing has been written there. AW: Anybody familiar with dd (copy)? Sat, 4 Nov 2023 13:28:16 + https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/as8pr10mb742781d572af09e5dc874f1dc5...@as8pr10mb7427.eurprd10.pro

Re: no smartd in logwatch

On 21/11/2023 04:56, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: it seems my bookworm doesn't have a daemon log https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#rsyslog-creates-fewer-logfiles Chapter 5. Issues to be aware of for bookworm 5.1.9. rsyslog creates fewer log

bash vs. dash and stdin

Hi, There was a thread on stdio buffering and fork a month ago. That time I thought shells should be rather careful with input/output handling when spawning subprocesses. Consider a file (ssh.sh) containing a couple of commands: ssh localhost echo remote echo local Let's try to run it

Re: bash vs. dash and stdin

On 22/11/2023 19:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 07:06:58PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: ssh localhost echo remote echo local This is like <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/089>. ssh grabs all of the stdin (until EOF) and leaves none for bash. Thanks. I ex

Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12

On 23/11/2023 21:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: For this setup, I'd go with the ~/.xsessionrc file. Create the file/home/gene/.xsessionrc and put this in it: PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/AppImages:$PATH SDDM (default for KDE and I assume it is Gene's case) reads ~/.profile that contains the following

Re: Modify user PATH in GNOME in Debian 12

On 23/11/2023 21:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: Usually, creating ~/.xsessionrc (on Debian only, as it's specific to Debian) will suffice for this, as it gets read in by the X session before it spawns your window manager, and then the WM spawns everything else, all with your desired environment. (Agai

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