configure asus amd uefi bios for netinst

2020-02-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have not yet managed to figure out the proper BIOS configuration to get an AsusPRO (desktop computer) to boot from a USB flash stick for netinstall of Debian 10. The USB flash stick has Debian 10.2; I used it about a week ago for a netinstall on another machine. The machine was shipped from th

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/2/20 5:22 am, songbird wrote: it looks questionable to me just in that you may be writing to that file at the same time as you when you're doing something else that is also trying to write to that file. Thankyou Songbird and Roberto. The solution was to escape the % signs in crontab (

Re: dislocker package broken, fix in 'sid'. How long 'til in backports?

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/2/20 4:27 pm, Michael Bonert wrote: I am running Debian stable (buster). The dislocker backport doesn't work for files from Windows 10 1903 (as noted here: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1710592.html ) I noted that the latest version of dislocker in '

dislocker package broken, fix in 'sid'. How long 'til in backports?

2020-02-01 Thread Michael Bonert
I am running Debian stable (buster). The dislocker backport doesn't work for files from Windows 10 1903 (as noted here: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1710592.html ) I noted that the latest version of dislocker in 'sid' (unstable) is 0.7.1-5 ( https://

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-01 04:51, didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello David, - probably, you were not asked about grub during installation because you did not chose the expert installation mode - possibly, your problems originate, at least in part, from the fact that albeit creating a new ESP (EFI) parti

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/2/20 7:53 am, Ben Lavender wrote: Even though RTM always applies, sometimes things do get more complicated with lesser experienced users regardless and sometimes other peoples issues aren't always related to FAQ/DOC/MAN etc This is a users mailing list after all. On 01/02/2020 19:31, mic

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
mick crane wrote: ... > I have heard that expression RTFM before, I dunno, I'm probably out of > order yet feeling is things are getting more complicated when you'd > think things should be getting simpler. do it for 40yrs and get back to us... songbird

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2020 at 15:45:07 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > On Sat 01 Feb 2020 at 19:31:31 (+), mick crane wrote: > > I probably shouldn't post this. > > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. > > It is supposed to be files with documentation what they d

Re: no mouse in midnight commander

2020-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/1/20 2:39 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 13:46:52 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I noticed this morning that my mouse no longer works in MC. When I use it, it leaves keycodes on mc's command line at the bottom of the screen. Because I use Rox-filer to put icons on the desktop, I call

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread deloptes
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 01 Feb 13:48 -0600, Joe wrote: >> Whether you read or not, Debian is getting more complicated, and >> therefore more problems are occurring. > > True to a point but then we have more complicated systems to deal with, > including but not limited to, EUFI and Secure

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 01 Feb 13:48 -0600, Joe wrote: > Whether you read or not, Debian is getting more complicated, and > therefore more problems are occurring. True to a point but then we have more complicated systems to deal with, including but not limited to, EUFI and Secure Boot, which I use on this deskt

[solved] [sid] xorg keymap modifying

2020-02-01 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
On 2/1/20 6:11 PM, Siard wrote: Grzesiek Sójka wrote: I do have sid running on tablet pc. I decided to use one of the physical keys as F11. Its keycode is 125 (the one with windows icon). To do it on console i put the following in /etc/rc.local: echo "keycode 125 = F11" | loadkeys And it work

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 08:11:17PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 20:11:17 +0100 > From: Jörg-Volker Peetz > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: cpu frequence > Then, take a look at the available governors: > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/sc

Re: sudo security flaw

2020-02-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 07:56:48AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Details can be found in the upstream advisory at > https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/pwfeedback.html . It worth noting that to exploit CVE-2019-18634 in Debian one has to configure sudoers a very specific way. > For the st

sudo security flaw

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good morning All I guess most people here are on debian security announce. But just in case, it refers to a vulnerability in sudo: Details can be found in the upstream advisory at https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/pwfeedback.html . For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixe

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Ben Lavender
Even though RTM always applies, sometimes things do get more complicated with lesser experienced users regardless and sometimes other peoples issues aren't always related to FAQ/DOC/MAN etc This is a users mailing list after all. On 01/02/2020 19:31, mick crane wrote: I probably shouldn't pos

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I probably shouldn't post this. > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. > It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. > Is there a reason things seem to get more complicated ? What's with all these "I"s? Stefan

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Feb 2020 at 19:31:31 +, mick crane wrote: > I probably shouldn't post this. Certainly not with the subject line you have given it, no. Adding "and dolls" would have been led to a lengthier thread with more discussion. :) > I see all these questions people trying to get their instal

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread mick crane
On 2020-02-01 19:35, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 07:31:31PM +, mick crane wrote: I probably shouldn't post this. I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. Is there a reason things see

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Joe
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 22:35:49 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 07:31:31PM +, mick crane wrote: > > I probably shouldn't post this. > > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations > > to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what the

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: ... > My question would be: > > Which directory is your current directory—what does pwd say? > After all, the error messages say "reading directory '.': Protocol error", > and not knowing where you are is unsettling for any command. in the script i'm using a variable but the

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
Reco wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> i don't care if it is returned, i just wonder why it isn't >> redirected to /dev/null like i'm asking it to do. > > Because you're redirecting stderr of a wrong process. > This one-liner should do it. > > find . -type f -exec printf %.0s. {} + 2>/dev/null | wc

Re: no mouse in midnight commander

2020-02-01 Thread Joe
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 13:46:52 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > I noticed this morning that my mouse no longer works in MC. When I > use it, it leaves keycodes on mc's command line at > the bottom of the screen. > > Because I use Rox-filer to put icons on the desktop, I call > MC from a small script

Re: guys

2020-02-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 07:31:31PM +, mick crane wrote: > I probably shouldn't post this. > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. > It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. > Is there a reason things seem to get more complica

guys

2020-02-01 Thread mick crane
I probably shouldn't post this. I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. Is there a reason things seem to get more complicated ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Then, take a look at the available governors: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_available_governors or using cpupower, if available. As the name says, "powersave" would be the better choice. Take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling as how to change the cpufre

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2020 at 13:38:55 (-0500), songbird wrote: > Reco wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. > >> it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the > >> device is turned off). > > ... > >> > >> i

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread Reco
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 01:38:55PM -0500, songbird wrote: > Reco wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. > >> it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the > >> device is turned off). > > ... > >> > >>

no mouse in midnight commander

2020-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
I noticed this morning that my mouse no longer works in MC. When I use it, it leaves keycodes on mc's command line at the bottom of the screen. Because I use Rox-filer to put icons on the desktop, I call MC from a small script file in $home which loads an xterm, with some parameters to put u

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
Reco wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote: >> the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. >> it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the >> device is turned off). > ... >> >> i just want the answer to be 0 or the number of files. > > Fuse does not w

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Good evening All > > I have a niggling problem.Any suggestions, please? > > If I run > echo `date +%d%b%Y` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > in a xterm (Mate I think always), I get the expected result: a line in > .bash_history reads > > 2020Feb01 > followed by > echo `dat

Re: bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote: > the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. > it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the > device is turned off). ... > > i just want the answer to be 0 or the number of files. Fuse does not work that wa

bash, find and error message question

2020-02-01 Thread songbird
i'm trying to get the following search to give me the answer and at the same time discard any error messages. the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the device is turned off). mtab says: fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,n

Re: [sid] xorg keymap modifying

2020-02-01 Thread Siard
Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > I do have sid running on tablet pc. I decided to use one of the > physical keys as F11. Its keycode is 125 (the one with windows icon). To > do it on console i put the following in /etc/rc.local: > > echo "keycode 125 = F11" | loadkeys > > And it works as expected. Unfo

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 04:04:29PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:04:29 +0100 > From: Jörg-Volker Peetz > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: cpu frequence > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on bendel.debian.org > X-Spam-Level: > X-Sp

Re: cpu frequence

2020-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
what is the outcome of the following command: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_governor Regards, Jörg.

Re: Can't find a way to preseed keyboard layout for all d-i questions

2020-02-01 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 31/01/2020 à 21:48, john doe a écrit : On 1/31/2020 9:38 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 31/01/2020 à 20:54, john doe a écrit : On 1/31/2020 8:37 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 31/01/2020 à 16:50, john doe a écrit : On 1/31/2020 10:36 AM, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 29/01/2020 à 18:16, MAS Jean-Louis a

[sid] xorg keymap modifying

2020-02-01 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
Hi there, I do have sid running on tablet pc. I decided to use one of the physical keys as F11. Its keycode is 125 (the one with windows icon). To do it on console i put the following in /etc/rc.local: echo "keycode 125 = F11" | loadkeys And it works as expected. Unfortunately, I did not fi

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 09:42:25PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Good evening All > > I have a niggling problem.Any suggestions, please? > > If I run > echo `date +%d%b%Y` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > in a xterm (Mate I think always), I get the expected result: a line in > .bash_history re

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-01 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello David, - probably, you were not asked about grub during installation because you did not chose the expert installation mode - possibly, your problems originate, at least in part, from the fact that albeit creating a new ESP (EFI) partition on your USB key, the installer try to use also

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, David Wright wrote: > I take it that Bil[d?]schirmbild means Screenshot: Yes, and sorry I meant "Screenshot" > yes, it does appear > that TABbing doesn't reach that button (including using modifiers). Hmm! Does it a bit weird! Is it so by design? > Would you be able to navigate

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, Nektarios Katakis wrote: > Did you install any proprietary drivers after installation? No, I didn't. The mouse pad didn't work during installation and it started working right back afterwards lbrtchx

Re: entirely keyboard based installation ...

2020-02-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 1/30/20, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:37:11 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > >> If you file a bug, make sure the model number is specific (which >> I think yours is). > > You should be able to get model, serial and other numbers from > dmidecode. dmidecode 3.0 Getting SMBIOS da

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 1/2/20 10:10 pm, Teemu Likonen wrote: If you don't want this % effect you need to escape those characters with backslash: echo `date +\%Y\%b\%d` Thankyou Worked just as I wanted. -- Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com 0447 667 468

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
Keith Bainbridge [2020-02-01T21:42:25+11] wrote: > echo `date +%Y%b%d` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > I have this line as a cron-job, and constantly get error messages: > > /bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end

Re: cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 09:42:25PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I have this line as a cron-job, and constantly get error messages: > > /bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > and no ou

cron error - date command

2020-02-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good evening All I have a niggling problem.Any suggestions, please? If I run echo `date +%d%b%Y` >> /home/keith/.bash_history in a xterm (Mate I think always), I get the expected result: a line in .bash_history reads 2020Feb01 followed by echo `date +%Y%b%d` >> /home/keith/.bash_history