Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/24/20 10:08 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 24 Feb 2020 at 10:54:28 (-), Curt wrote: On 2020-02-24, Mark Allums wrote: george@martha:~$ gvfsd --no-fuse bash: gvfsd: command not found george@martha:~$ systemctl stop gvfsd Failed to stop gvfsd.service: Unit gvfsd.servi

Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Uwe Bolick
Hi, On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:14:29PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > ... > Anyway, before I burn "SDDM Bridges", is there anyway to configure it to > refer to Username, instead of "GIven Name"? > ... Although marked as "never mind", a hint for anyone having a similar problem but wants to keep SDD

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-24 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 21:38 +0100, steve wrote: > Hi there, > > Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 > secondes: > > Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port > 54422 [preauth] I'm getting that too. > And when I say every 12 seco

Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
Most of my original email is . After verifying SLiM on the USB Stick, I went over to that KDE Buster System, with SDDM and all those Users and wondered, "What happens if I install SLiM"? Turns out that Debian has our Back! First off, it didn't have the many Dependencies, like on the Text System

Buster won't boot with Xen hypervisor

2020-02-24 Thread Garrett Reid
Hey, Debian folks! After updating to Buster, my system is unable to boot with the Xen hypervisor. When I try and boot, the screen gets stuck loading the ramdisk: > Loading Xen 4.11-amd64 … > Loading Linux 4.19.0.8-amd-64 … > Loading initial ramdisk … I’m immediately suspicious of the version mis

SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
First, back to the, related SLiM Thread, I had Success, after "apt install xinit" (required package, but not selected). My next bootup brought up an intriguing Startup Screen that I hadn't seen before, but which has, only one Request, obviously modified by Debian, to add the Debian Logo, and with,

Re: Local search broken for documentation of numpy, matplotlib

2020-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:23 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I suggest to check the changelogs (upstream and Debian-specific, > whichever applies to the delta between the version you had before and > the version you now installed from sid) to see if the issue is > _knowingly_ fixed - becaue if not t

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 6:49 PM Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:51 PM ghe wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> >> >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. >> >> > Oh. I've never heard of th

One more thing about slim: It may no longer be a Maintained Package

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
Based on another Thread, I decided to try out the slim Package on a new, Text-Only Debian Buster system (on USB).I got the same issue, about not getting into Graphics. But the reason for this Thread? The Package slim may not even be a good Package to use anymore. According to an Arch Wiki ar

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello! On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 2:51 PM ghe wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. > > > Oh. I've never heard of that one. Neither had I. But, if it can replace SDDM, I'd love t

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-24 Thread john doe
On 2/24/2020 9:38 PM, steve wrote: > Hi there, > > Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 > secondes: > > Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 > port 54422 [preauth] > > And when I say every 12 seconds, it is really every 12 seconds, an

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
steve wrote: > Hi there, > > Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 > secondes: > > Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port > 54422 [preauth] > > And when I say every 12 seconds, it is really every 12 seconds, and this > is now g

Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-24 Thread steve
Hi there, Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 secondes: Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port 54422 [preauth] And when I say every 12 seconds, it is really every 12 seconds, and this is now going on for more than 13 days, wi

XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread ghe
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager. > Oh. I've never heard of that one. It's cruel and unusual to make a > display manager that doesn't have the letters "dm" in its name. A good point, well ta

(OT) Resolved: Windows partition filling up (quickly) while Windows is running but not doing anything

2020-02-24 Thread rhkramer
I've learned a few surprising things about Windows that I thought I'd share with the list. Computer: Dell Inspiron 1501 with Windows Vista (on which I'm installing Buster but want to keep Windows to update my Garmin GPS once or twice a year). When I was booted into Windows (Vista) on this machi

(OT) Resolved: Windows partition on /dev/sda3 instead of /dev/sda2 on a laptop with Windows Vista

2020-02-24 Thread rhkramer
I've learned a few surprising things about Windows that I thought I'd share with the list. Computer: Dell Inspiron 1501 with Windows Vista (on which I'm installing Buster but want to keep Windows to update my Garmin GPS once or twice a year). I was surprised to find two partitions formatted as

Resolved: Re: Laptop: External monitor, keyboard, and mouse "disabled" -- how re-enable without rebooting?

2020-02-24 Thread rhkramer
Aside: I meant to update this a little while ago, but better late than never? (Except that some of the details are more vague, now ;-( To partially summarize / restate the problem: after setting up a (new to me) laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1501) on a new to me Belkin F1DS104J 4-port USB / PS/2 KV

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-24, David Wright wrote: > > > which suggests a bit of misunderstanding about what gvfsd is. > AIUI it's a daemon (hence the d), and not in anyone's PATH, > which is why you have to find out where it's running from and > what might be consulting the value of GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE. > Also I t

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Feb 2020 at 10:54:28 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2020-02-24, Mark Allums wrote: > >> > >> How to set an environment variable in a DE is left as an exercise for > >> the reader. > > > > The gvfsd --no-fuse doesn't do it for me. > > > > That may be David's exercise then. I think not. I

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in > >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and > >> startx starts XFCE just fine. > [...] > > But, if you want to diagnose your disp

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and >> startx starts XFCE just fine. [...] > But, if you want to diagnose your display manager, first figure out > which one you were trying to use. He said

Re: Local search broken for documentation of numpy, matplotlib

2020-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ replying via mailinglist, assuming private reply was accidental ] Quoting Raj Kiran Grandhi (2020-02-24 15:33:26) > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jonas Smedegaard > wrote: > > > > Sounds like a bug, probably in one of the packages suggested by > > doc-base: > > > > $ apt-cache show doc-base

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 05:43:38PM -0700, ghe wrote: > I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in > slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and > startx starts XFCE just fine. Yay! It's working! ... oh, you expected a graphical login? Meh. T

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:03:58AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I totally agree with Stefan: for an OS > with a working and transparent patch/release cycle, "classical" AV > strategy is nonsense. The only sensible use of an anti-virus program on Linux is on a mail server (or certain kinds of f

Re: Unable to use Buster as an nfs client

2020-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 10:27:41AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, February 22, 2020 09:42:32 AM Mark Raynsford wrote: > > It's a new VM, but this actually _was_ the problem, amusingly. I had > > the following in the bhyve device.map: > > I sometimes get too curious, but is bhyve a

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-02-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You want to debate the validity of running av on any system these days is > ridiculous Then it should be trivial to prove me wrong by pointing to the large body of evidence to support your claim. Stefan

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-24, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> How to set an environment variable in a DE is left as an exercise for >> the reader. > > The gvfsd --no-fuse doesn't do it for me. > That may be David's exercise then. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de m

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/23/20 3:02 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:58:10PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Explain this, then: george@martha:~$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1 Unmounted /dev/sdb1. george@martha:~$ sudo e2fsck -c -c -k -p -f -C 0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck: Cannot contin

Cross-compilation, with a twist

2020-02-24 Thread Reco
Dear list, Recently I acquired an arm64 SBC to replace my aging PC, installed Debian buster on it (had to use third-party kernel and u-boot, but that's beside the point), and started using the thing. And I can tell that you really start believing in progress then you see a box of the size

Re: Best practice to allow a program to write its logs

2020-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 05:31:21PM +0100, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: What is the best practice please to allow a program to write its logs into my home folder? In the near future (systemd ≥ 245), using journald's "Journal namespaces" feature to run an isolated journald instance, logging to a file i

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-02-24 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 02:07:00PM -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 14:04 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a Linux > > > anti-malware? > > > > No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat