Re: Package Identification Assistance

On 16/02/2024 12:16, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:16 -0500 Neal Heinecke wrote: I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads "Ubuntu Software" I have no idea what a "software sources

Re: Package Identification Assistance

On 16/02/2024 21:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 09:05:28PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I suspect that program name is the question. If "ps awf" gives no clue then perhaps the following may help (untested): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/362731/how-to-ident

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

On 16/02/2024 23:35, Franco Martelli wrote: On 16/02/24 at 03:03, Max Nikulin wrote: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=it aptitude why firefox-esr here seems to override, tested twice with "it" and "it_IT.UTF-8": ~# env LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=it script -T ~/test.time -a ~/test.scri

Re: partition reporting full, but not

On 17/02/2024 09:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: If so, you *could* have data inside the /home directory of the root file system, which is hidden by the /home file system that's mounted over it. You'd need to unmount /home to check. A less intrusive way to inspect shadowed directories is bind mounts

sudo udisksctl

I have decided to ask the following in a separate thread. On 17/02/2024 02:59, David Wright wrote (Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive): lulu () { sudo udisksctl unlock --block-device /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Lulu01 && mount /media/lulu01 } I am evaluating if udisks2 D-Bus API allo

Re: sudo udisksctl

On 18/02/2024 11:40, David Wright wrote: $ ssh bhost $ udisksctl unlock --block-device /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Nokia01 Passphrase: AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock === Authentication is required to unlock the encrypted device Multiple Card Reader (/

Re: partition reporting full, but not

On 19/02/2024 06:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote: So later yesterday afternoon I created a new snapshot with no obvious change is free space. Effect of snapshots is delayed. When you remove a file that does not belong to any snapshot, some disk space is reclaimed. However to restore a file (even

Re: sudo udisksctl

David, feel free to stop discussion if you find me annoying. My problem in some sense is close to your one and I am trying to figure out if missed some udisks feature and the result is some inconvenience. On 19/02/2024 11:26, David Wright wrote: On Sun 18 Feb 2024 at 12:41:29 (+0700), Max

Re: Timer doing apt update

On 19/02/2024 14:35, Erwan David wrote: After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in background, through policykit (apt database is locked by policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to disable this when my laptop is on expensive link (eg 4G

Re: Timer doing apt update

On 20/02/2024 02:35, Erwan David wrote: Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit :     systemctl disable --now apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer Perhaps it is possible to write a script that will respect connection.metered property set by NetworkManager. I disable the timers, thanks

Re: Timer doing apt update

On 20/02/2024 19:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: 1) This apt-daily.timer stuff is quite complex and difficult to discover and understand. I am sorry that I confused enough people by my statements. I believed that by default this timer runs "apt update" every day while upgrades are not enabled ou

Re: Timer doing apt update

On 20/02/2024 14:48, Erwan David wrote: Le 20/02/2024 à 03:20, Max Nikulin a écrit : busctl get-property \   org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \   org.freedesktop.NetworkManager Metered It would also require to configure NetworkManager to set this correctly

Re: Selective rotation of journald logs

On 23/02/2024 17:15, Nicolas George wrote: How do I tell systemd's logging system to keep authentication logs for one year and mail logs for one month? I am realizing that the following is not an answer to the asked question. The thread is no more than useless arguing anyway. Some ideas tha

Re: Selective rotation of journald logs

On 24/02/2024 21:09, Byunghee HWANG wrote: When I read the question I decided that syslog for auth facility is a kind of solution. Really i would like to learn more. Can you show a more specific example? Also i'm using Debian (sid). Install rsyslog and logrotate and read their configuration f

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

On 05/02/2024 12:08, Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 13:41 -0600, David Wright wrote: So it would appear that your question is exactly as in the reference you quoted, that ifupdown was configuring wlp4s0 when /w/n/i was in place, resulting in NM displaying a question mark. Th

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

On 27/02/2024 08:28, Gary Dale wrote: $locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory What desktop environment do you use? Have you checked its settings? Did you choose locale in you

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

On 27/02/2024 20:59, Gary Dale wrote: The en_GB seems to be coming from Plasma 5's Region & Language settings. However I see the message that it is "unsupported", which seems appropriate. en_GB is missed in the output of "locale -a" you posted. I have no idea if it is intended or not. It ca

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On 28/02/2024 10:35, David Wright wrote: In which case, I'd write the remaining cron line as: @reboot sleep 99 && echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id I am in doubts if it is a task for cron. Wouldn't udev rules be better? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/442833/how-to-

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On 29/02/2024 00:00, Kamil Jońca wrote: How precisely linger works? (what it starts? What not etc) I read about lingering some time ago, and I have had impression (wrong?) that it may conflict with my normal session. Multiple sessions may be started for a user: DM, ssh, VT logins. I am unsur

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

On 29/02/2024 11:32, David Wright wrote: On Wed 28 Feb 2024 at 22:32:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: On 28/02/2024 10:35, David Wright wrote: In which case, I'd write the remaining cron line as: @reboot sleep 99 && echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id I

Re: DNSSEC status of deb.debian.org

On 03/03/2024 16:39, Andre Rodier wrote: Is there a stable domain we can use that doesn't rely on a CDN, please ? https://www.debian.org/mirror/list APT relies on GPG signed metadata, so DNSSEC is not necessary for repositories.

Re: Encrypted home and pam_mount

On 03/03/2024 02:46, Andrey Dogadkin wrote: Automounting works fine, but I'm having trouble with auto-unmounting when I log out. The partition stays mounted and I can see "target is busy" errors from umount in the journal. It is an issue with ecryptfs and fscrypt as well. https://github.com/sy

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On 05/03/2024 09:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:49:34AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: I think ^ has been deprecated recently. I failed to find a reference on the web just now though. So, ^ isn't "deprecated". It's just not portable to sh. Running shellcheck on a *sh* scr

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 02:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: We might *guess* that this change was made to make dash more strict about POSIX minimalism (removing extensions), but without documentation we can't do more than guess about motives. The motivation is to avoid difference in behavior when compil

Re: Encrypted home and pam_mount

On 05/03/2024 03:37, Andrey Dogadkin wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:27 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8598#issuecomment-376845082 "systemd-user doesn't properly close its PAM session" I saw that issue and it didn't strike me a

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

On 08/03/2024 07:17, gene heskett wrote: I have NDI how to extract chrony's logs from journalctl. - man journalctl, - docs listed on the systemd web site.

Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping

On 08/03/2024 12:35, hw wrote: On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 23:15 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I have a USB thermal printer for the shipping labels, . This printer has only 300dpi. If you print QR-codes on it make sure you can scan them: they have to be

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 09/03/2024 19:08, hw wrote: On Fri, 2024-03-08 at 23:21 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/03/2024 12:35, hw wrote: On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 23:15 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I have a USB thermal printer for the shipping labels, <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08V28J3JS>. This p

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/03/2024 04:41, hw wrote: \psbarcode{textblah foo}{height=0.6 width=0.6 eclevel=L}{qrcode} That works for 600dpi laser printers. When you print the QR-code with a 300dpi label printer you can't reliably scan it, not even when you make the QR-code 1x1" in size. Perhaps that's not a reasona

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/03/2024 03:48, jeremy ardley wrote: Standard thermal label printers are 203DPI (8 dots per mm). Thanks, this number suits better to my expectation. I just trusted hw earlier. I have asked the postal service to generate labels at 203dpi which will print just fine at 600 dpi and so wor

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 10/03/2024 10:51, jeremy ardley wrote: I have far less problems with the QR code (in my case data_matrix code) than with the barcode. The pixel elements of the QR code are much larger than the lines in a barcode so there is much less chance for pixel ambiguity. From your earlier message

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

On 10/03/2024 21:07, Jan Krapivin wrote: Hello! I have a problem with sound quality when using bluetooth headphones on Debian 12 GNOME. Every ~20 minutes, sometimes less, sometimes more, sound interrupts for a 1-5 seconds with complete silence. Are there anything in journalctl output (execut

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

Please, respond to the mailing list. On 11/03/2024 11:50, Max Nikulin wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp Last resort might be dumping bluetooth traffic The link above has an example dumpcap -i bluetooth0 Another tool is hcidump -w /tmp/bt.pcap However at first I

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 11/03/2024 08:06, hw wrote: On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 09:50 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 10/03/2024 04:41, hw wrote: \psbarcode{textblah foo}{height=0.6 width=0.6 eclevel=L}{qrcode} That works for 600dpi laser printers. When you print the QR-code with a 300dpi label printer you can't rel

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

On 12/03/2024 03:48, Jan Krapivin wrote: As for journald i have a lot of such errors, but they don't influence the audio quality: "Mar 11 22:20:13 deb wireplumber[1357]: RFCOMM receive command but modem not available: AT+XIAOMI=1,1,102,85,88,27,174" Headphones might expect some response to

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

On 12/03/2024 15:11, fran...@libero.it wrote: 13:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) lspci -vnn -s 13:00.0 should give more detailed info concerning your network adapter. Finally while trying to find the

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

On 12/03/2024 03:48, Jan Krapivin wrote: "Mar 11 22:20:13 deb wireplumber[1357]: RFCOMM receive command but modem not available: AT+XIAOMI=1,1,102,85,88,27,174" Just a wild guess, unlikely it is true. Headphones might report battery charge level using a vendor protocol extension. 85 and 88 a

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

On 13/03/2024 21:52, Franco Martelli wrote: Do you have configured both NetworkManager and Debian /etc/network/interfaces? They cannot coexist, They can coexist. NetworkManager in default configuration ignores interfaces under control of ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). Detailed messages

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 13/03/2024 02:50, jeremy ardley wrote: Getting back to pixel registration, the latex CUPS route is very unlikely to work well. TeX with MetaFont fonts worked well with low resolution dot matrix printers. Rasterized fonts may be generated for specified resolution. It should be still possibl

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

On 13/03/2024 17:43, Jan Krapivin wrote: While watching */pactl subscribe /*command output, i have noticed that there was a change from sink 414 to sink 213 when sound interrupt occurred "Event 'change' on sink-input #414 Can this information be of any help? It is expected due to Mar 11 23

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

On 14/03/2024 19:06, Jan Krapivin wrote: What do you think about QUANT parameter in */pw-top/*? Can it influence sound quality? I wasn't able to change it with pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-quantum 2048 Sorry, my experience with tuning PipeWire is limited to switching audio profile

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

On 13/03/2024 23:53, Franco Martelli wrote: On 13/03/24 at 16:06, Max Nikulin wrote: On 13/03/2024 21:52, Franco Martelli wrote: They can coexist. NetworkManager in default configuration ignores interfaces under control of ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces). Detailed messages from

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

On 16/03/2024 16:18, fran...@libero.it wrote: root@debian:/home/frantal# networkctl WARNING: systemd-networkd is not running, output will be incomplete. OK, so all devices are under control of NetworkManager and there is no modification of its global configuration. root@debian:/home/franta

Re: Debugging an USB array issue

On 16/03/2024 00:45, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:30:08PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: I have never had long-term happiness with multiple disks connected via USB. However: I have a similar disk array running 24h/24h for the last three years on a Debian buster with no problem. I

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

On 17/03/2024 16:25, Tim Woodall wrote: args() { echo a b c d; } count() { echo $#; } count $(args) args() { printf '%s\0' a b c d; } args | xargs -0 sh -c 'count() { echo $#; }; count "$@"' sh-count It would be easier in the case of script file instead of shell function. An assumption is tha

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

On 17/03/2024 23:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 11:14:56PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: args() { printf '%s\0' a b c d; } args | xargs -0 sh -c 'count() { echo $#; }; count "$@"' sh-count It would be easier in the case of script file instead of sh

Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

On 18/03/2024 23:17, Thomas Schweikle wrote: Maybe it fails installing grub? Maybe /var/log/installer contains some logs?

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 13/03/2024 12:25, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 23:45 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: It seems you expect some number that you can use for any QR code. There is no size that fits for all codes. It's because you said: "I believed that 300dpi is high enough resolution for QR-codes of

Re: Root password strength

On 20/03/2024 23:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: The network attacker cannot (yet) reach through a monitor and read a sticky note. It may be visible during a video call performed from a smartphone.

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

On 20/03/2024 01:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: When vector graphics, that does not match device resolution, is rasterized, the result is either non-even sizes of similar elements or fuzzy lines due to dithering. Nitpicking: "Dithering" in raster graphics is emulatio

Re: $USER vs. $LOGNAME and the EnvironmentVariables wiki page

On 26/03/2024 02:48, Patrice Duroux wrote: 1. Using CodeSearch, it is not clear to me when to use one or the other. Some additions to Greg's answer. From (info "(libc) Standard-Environment") https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Standard-Environment.html 25.4.2 Standard Environmen

Re: Dependencies between components.

On 30/03/2024 22:54, Tim Woodall wrote: I'm unclear whether backports is allowed to depend on -updates You have not mentioned bookworm-security. contrib  : non-free non-free-firmware main non-free : non-free-firmware main non-free-firmware    :

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

On 31/03/2024 11:46, David Wright wrote: Double-clicking on the directory mounts it and displays the files in it. Opening a text file displays it. At least for a small file, FF does not hold the file open, so I can immediately unmount the stick. Gmail may do something more fancy - https://devel

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

On 31/03/2024 22:35, David Wright wrote: On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing files off my USB stick. I've no answer for that, particularly in view of Max's reply to my previous post. I've always copied f

Re: network-priority?

On 05/04/2024 04:29, David Wright wrote: autoconnect-priorityint32 0 [...] from https://developer-old.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/settings-connection.html (I don't know the significance of -old.) It is documented in nm-settings-nmcli(5)

Re: Internet Access Problem

On 11/04/2024 20:53, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Bullseye and attempting to use QEMU/KVM virt-manager, on the computers on my LAN rather than Oracle VM VirtualBox. [...] However, when I pinged yahoo.com. I got the result: Reply from 169.234.75.136: Destination host unreachable. I

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

On 16/04/2024 01:52, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application that supports IMAP. Gmail supports IMAP since more or less

Re: Automatic reboot on kernel crash in Debian 12 - how?

On 16/04/2024 16:17, Michael Kjörling wrote: I have a handful of Debian 12 systems that I want to configure such that they reboot automatically in case of a problem. [...] That leaves kernel-level issues. I have not tried it, but I have seen some systemd options related to configuration of h

Re: tbird troubles

On 16/04/2024 23:11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Makes sense, TB seems to remember its window configuration [1] [...] [1] Can't they just let the window manager do its job? I am in doubts if saving list of windows and list of folders and messages opened in all tabs of each window could and shoul

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

On 18/04/2024 17:05, David Christensen wrote: $ mv .config/xfce4-20240418-180045/ .config/xfce4 Restart -- back to Xfce panel with no Network Manager. Try to create a new system user and log in. Is nm-applet present?

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

On 23/04/2024 00:49, Thomas Schmitt wrote: This aims at an undocumented habit of EFI implementations to look in any FAT filesystem for a \EFI\BOOT directory with a suitable BOOT*.EFI file and to start it, if found. (Officially documented is to look in FAT filesystems of partitions with MBR type 0

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

On 23/04/2024 13:21, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Out of curiosity, does the requirement of specific GUID exist for removable drives? It is disputed, whether the specs say that the partitions must be marked by 0xEF in legacy MBR tables and by C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

On 25/04/2024 13:51, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: "12.3.3 Number and Location of System Partitions ... Further, UEFI implementations may allow the use of conforming FAT partitions which do not use the ESP GUID." Another problem with the statement is that it only talks o

Last line [was: Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition]

On 26/04/2024 10:56, David Wright wrote: Editor examples: a windowed emacs buffer has a ≣ decoration at the extreme left edge after the last line of text, so that you can distinguish an absence of lines from empty lines. Perhaps that decoration should be explicitly enabled. However it reminded

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

On 01/05/2024 21:58, Sirius wrote: I was right about .Xresources that it is one of the files used for loading settings into the X server, but urxvt looks at .Xdefaults instead. It is a bit strange. Applications should not read these files directly. Content should be loaded during X session st

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

On 02/05/2024 10:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 09:34:13AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 01/05/2024 21:58, Sirius wrote: I was right about .Xresources that it is one of the files used for loading settings into the X server, but urxvt looks at .Xdefaults instead. It is a bit

Re: realpath quoting

On 03/05/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: I still insist that this is a workaround that should *not* be used to try to cancel out quoting bugs in one's shell scripts. There are still specific cases when quoting is necessary, e.g. ssh remote command (however you have to be sure concerning shel

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

On 02/05/2024 12:19, Sirius wrote: If your wifi is also the AX200 (maybe a different revision), it *should* work. lspci -nn may help with more precise identification. It requires firmware-iwlwifi from non-free-firmware, so check that install image contains firmware. I would avoid installin

Re: realpath quoting

On 03/05/2024 11:31, jeremy ardley wrote: My use case is very simple. Give an argument to a program that expects a single filename/path. Role of realpath in your workflow is not clear for me yet. If you need to copy its result to clipboard then you may use xsel, xclip, etc. realpath --zero

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

On 03/05/2024 13:27, Paul Scott wrote: In the mean time, an install seemed to be working but gave an failure error which said it would be in the log and visible on virtual terminal 4, I didn't know how to get to a virtual in the installer.  Various combinations with F4 didn't seem to work. It

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

On 04/05/2024 13:52, Paul Scott wrote: On 5/3/2024 11:25 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: It may happen that F4 is not F4 unless you press and hold Fn first. It is default on some laptops and may be changed in firmware setup. Inst all docs say Left Alt F4 but no combination of other keys with F4

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

On 03/05/2024 12:16, Paul Scott wrote: I don't have linux on the machine for which I want the information.  I now have the driver name from Windows/Settings. Booting a live image may help to evaluate if hardware is supported and to get lspci output. Even when windows is booted, it should be

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

On 02/05/2024 15:17, Richmond wrote: It understands the font names from xfontsel which is a major improvement on zutty. I have nothing against raster fonts for terminal applications, but I am surprised that support of X Logical Font Description may be considered as an improvement in comparis

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 06/05/2024 20:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 02:53:10PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote: s-nail: $MAILCAPS: /etc/mailcap: text/english: ignored unknown string/command: then exec emacsclient --alternate-editor = --display=\\"\\$DISPLAY\\" \\"\\$@\\" The question (one of the ques

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 06/05/2024 21:41, David Wright wrote: On Mon 06 May 2024 at 14:53:10 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: * In Bookworm:    mailcap/stable,now 3.70+nmu1 all [installed,automatic]    j-nail/stable,now 14.9.24-2 amd64 [installed] ↑ Has anyone else seen this? Do you have emacs installed?

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 06/05/2024 21:24, Max Nikulin wrote: It seems there are a couple of bugs in update-mime: 1. It does not perform an unquote pass that should retain only a half of backslashes from Exec field of .desktop file. I was wrong here. mailcap(5): (In fact, the backslash can be used to quote any

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 07/05/2024 18:40, Jesper Dybdal wrote: On 2024-05-06 16:24, Max Nikulin wrote: 2. It does not skip x-scheme-handler/* entries. Are there applications that may use such entries? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291015 mime-support: run‐mailcap to understand URL notation and

Re: Wifi getting disconnected randomly

On 10/05/2024 06:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM Unni wrote: [  278.360447] iwlwifi :09:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x0. [  278.360571] iwlwifi :09:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 72.daa05125.0 cc-a0-72.ucode [...] Install the la

Re: Wifi getting disconnected randomly

On 10/05/2024 22:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM Max Nikulin wrote: On 10/05/2024 06:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM Unni wrote: >     [  278.360447] iwlwifi :09:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. >     Resta

Re: Wifi getting disconnected randomly

On 11/05/2024 10:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:18 AM Max Nikulin wrote: I am not trying to dispute your suggestion, I had a hope to get a data point with a success story. In 2006 I was doing sysadmin work for the Nuclear Energy Institute. NEI performed a

Markup in mail messages (was: Re: OT: Top Posting)

On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks were added is that they're being placed a

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 07/05/2024 23:24, Max Nikulin wrote: On 2024-05-06 17:04, Max Nikulin wrote: So doubled backslashes (as in .desktop files) are correct. What is wrong is lack of backslashes added before ";" and it is a bug. I have filed https://bugs.debian.org/1071036 update-mime does not escape

Re: Regression in Radeon driver in latest Debian Stable kernel

On 16/05/2024 17:35, piorunz wrote: As much as I would like to try vanilla kernel, I don't want to break my system. I use Debian Stable, don't know if things would just work with vanilla kernel. You may try bookworm-backports kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 You may check https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

Re: Markup in mail messages

On 16/05/2024 20:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. I am not familiar with pandoc features enough to rea

Re: Regression in Radeon driver in latest Debian Stable kernel

On 16/05/2024 22:53, piorunz wrote: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ will they be interested in Debian specific error? I don't use vanilla kernel so maybe it's Debian only problem. If you *find* a similar report there then it is likely an upstream issue. (Developers of specific driver may use anot

Re: Markup in mail messages

On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: #!/bin/sh # I am puzzled by this wrapper. I expect that "$@" is enou

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

On 16/05/2024 14:48, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed May 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM BST, Max Nikulin wrote: https://bugs.debian.org/1071036 update-mime does not escape semicolon in .desktop Exec entries Re-reading your bug report I'm struck by how hard to reason about (and test) the emacs .de

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray | Partial Solution

On 18/05/2024 08:15, Charles Curley wrote: charles 2913 0.0 0.9 545852 36740 ?Sl May12 0:26 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/onboard --not-show-in=GNOME,GNOME-Classic:GNOME --startup-delay=3.0 Perhaps it starts through /etc/xdg/autostart/onboard-autostart.desktop I have no idea if -

Re: Markup in mail messages

On 18/05/2024 02:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. Please don't settle for markdown. I would love a org fil

Re: Markup in mail messages

On 17/05/2024 18:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: #!/bin/sh # [...] ht

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On 27/05/2024 21:28, Michael Grant wrote: What I want to do is get the system back to just using the packages from stable rather than testing. I have never tried the following, so it is better to test it in a virtual machine or inside a container. I would try to set priority of bookworm relea

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On 28/05/2024 01:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: But that's not the whole story of what `-t` does since the above does not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages resulted in `apt` saying " is already the newest version". My guess is that -t increases priority of the specified

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

On 28/05/2024 06:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: I think it's called a "wireless bridge". Any device with a wifi card and (at least) an ethernet port can do that. Features like MAC VLAN may be unavailable with *any* device. Some vendors offer it, but compatibility may be an issue in the case of de

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On 29/05/2024 00:00, Michael Grant wrote: 4) dpkg -i libc6_whatever.deb libwhomever.deb 5) Repeat until it works. Apt is NOT built for downgrading. Agree. Ah I see, I did not realise that's what you meant by downgrading it, thanks. The thread is becoming excessively long. Have you p

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

On 29/05/2024 00:51, Michael Grant wrote: The culprits that seemed to be causing the massive dependencies were libsasl2-2 and libsasl2-modules-db. Though not libsasl2-modules which i also have installed. With adjusted priorities these packages are not an issue for "apt upgrade". More serious

Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

On 29/05/2024 23:20, Thomas Schmitt wrote: How could i get a list of only the automatically installed obsolete packages ? (I still did not find any documentation about the '~c' or '~o' with "apt list".) apt-patterns(7) and dpkg(1). Apt can not distinguish packages installed by dpkg directly an

Re: timeout in shutdown, mutt killed by SIGKILL

On 29/05/2024 07:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote: But I don't understand why there was a timeout. Does this mean that mutt didn't react to SIGTERM? Any reason? Have you tried to send SIGTERM to mutt? If it ignores this signal or the reaction is some prompt then you need to find another way to stop m

Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

On 30/05/2024 16:22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: apt-patterns(7) Wow. What kind of programming language can have inspired the developers to define such a syntax ? https://blog.jak-linux.org/2019/08/15/apt-patterns/ "apt list" has some limitations in comparison to

Re: timeout in shutdown, mutt killed by SIGKILL

On 30/05/2024 23:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Have you tried to send SIGTERM to mutt? I didn't. AFAIK, systemd sends a SIGTERM to all the processes of the session: that's the Yes, SIGTERM is the default that systemd tries first. There are various kill modes, another signal may be configured f

Re: timeout in shutdown, mutt killed by SIGKILL

On 31/05/2024 15:10, Vincent Lefevre wrote: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/999 I'm wondering whether there could be a same cause. I can imagine that mutt may start a GUI handler for some attachment and that application uses XDG desktop portal. However I would expect that

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