Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

2019-09-14 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 14, 2019 03:48:40 AM Joe wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:20:18 -0500 > > John Hasler wrote: > > rhkramer writes: > > > When I used Windows, it was not multiuser. > > > > Which version? Win95 was MSDOS with a GUI stuck on with bubblegum. > > Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98 and Me

Re: Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Nicholas A Fleisher
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-fstab-generator.html > > The passno field is treated like a simple boolean, and the ordering > information > is discarded. However, if the root file system is checked, it is checked > before > all the other file systems. > > So appar

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-09-14 Thread Mike Kupfer
Andrea Borgia wrote: > how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as > locking when suspending? For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup settings. mike

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-14 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas D Dial composed on 2019-09-14 13:30 (UTC-0600): > As a first "next step" I suggest the following: > When you see the "Debian page" - that is the Grub boot menu - press the > 'e' key. This will present the boot control instructions for the default > boot into your Linux in a form you can ed

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-14 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 08:46 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 9/14/2019 7:36 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote: > > > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed > > > properly. > > > > > > What I have done so far is to > > > > > > Make a free space p

Re: update and upgrade file size problems

2019-09-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-09-14 at 14:50, Ryan Dean wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:57 PM The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2019-09-14 at 13:26, Ryan Dean wrote: >> >> > I have problems with update and upgrade with several packages since >> > buster 10.1 new release on September 7th. Even with apt-get upgrade >> > -

Re: update and upgrade file size problems

2019-09-14 Thread Ryan Dean
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:57 PM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-09-14 at 13:26, Ryan Dean wrote: > > > I have problems with update and upgrade with several packages since > > buster 10.1 new release on September 7th. Even with apt-get upgrade > > --fix-missing, still does not work It always says Fi

Re: update and upgrade file size problems

2019-09-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-09-14 at 13:26, Ryan Dean wrote: > I have problems with update and upgrade with several packages since > buster 10.1 new release on September 7th. Even with apt-get upgrade > --fix-missing, still does not work It always says File has unexpected > size (3108672 != 3134284). Below is the log

update and upgrade file size problems

2019-09-14 Thread Ryan Dean
I have problems with update and upgrade with several packages since buster 10.1 new release on September 7th. Even with apt-get upgrade --fix-missing, still does not work It always says File has unexpected size (3108672 != 3134284). Below is the logs, any ideas how to solve it? The following packa

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-09-14 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hello, Christopher. If this is the same problem I had (and discussed prior on this list), there is a bug in light-locker that seems to cause this behavior randomly even without hibernation. Consider switching from light-locker to xscreensaver; this resolved the problem for me. Thing is, I ne

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

2019-09-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 06:57:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I think what is needed is an essay comparing/contrasting the proper usage of > "sudo" versus "su" versus "su -". It should also include a discussion of the > change from "su" to "su -". A lot has already been written about t

Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-09-14, Nicholas A Fleisher wrote: > In the /etc/fstab written by the installer, the sixth field of the > /boot/efi line has the value "1". My understanding is that only > the root > partition should have this value (and it does in this case; the > installer wrote two lines in /etc/fstab

Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-09-14 04:32 +, Nicholas A Fleisher wrote: > In the /etc/fstab written by the installer, the sixth field of the > /boot/efi line has the value "1". My understanding is that only the > root partition should have this value (and it does in this case; the > installer wrote two lines in /et

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-14 Thread Esteban L
What Video card do you have? I experienced annoyance with AMD video card/driver. If that is the case, you can search on google, or ask the mailling list again for how to install the required firmware. Unfortunately, it is not smooth. On 14.09.19 01:45, Anne wrote: > > Hi, I am new to debian and

Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Nicholas A Fleisher
I've just installed Buster using the installer's guided partitioning and noticed a possible error in the resulting /etc/fstab. Under guided partitioning, I chose the option to use the whole disk with LVM on LUKS. Apart from the LUKS partition and the LVs inside it, the installer created an ext2

Re: Installation problem

2019-09-14 Thread Joe
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:36:06 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote: > > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed > > properly. > > > > What I have done so far is to > > > > Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then > > > > 1. do

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

2019-09-14 Thread Joe
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:20:18 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: > > When I used Windows, it was not multiuser. > > Which version? Win95 was MSDOS with a GUI stuck on with bubblegum. Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98 and Me didn't have file permissions. Every other version had, though in the h