Re: Dolphin as root

On 2/3/20 10:44 am, Peter Ehlert wrote: If it was me I would just install Pluma and be done with it. I used be a KDE devotee, changed a few years ago. I use caja as my gui file manager of choice. It has the option of dual pane - allowing you to open source & destination directories. Or mc

Re: gmail occasionally bouncing list email

On Lu, 02 mar 20, 06:03:52, mick crane wrote: > hi, > gmail sometimes bounces email from list. GMX as well. I should probably write to Listmaster to suggest ignoring bounces from the major providers, subscribers most likely can't influence that anyway. > Occasionally is spam that got through li

Re: [SOLVED, sort of] System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

On Du, 01 mar 20, 14:59:49, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > If there's any interest I can follow up with any significant findings > but otherwise I won't spam the list. In my opinion it would be good to have your findings on a public list to be found by search engines. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wi

Re: gmail occasionally bouncing list email

On 2/3/20 5:03 pm, mick crane wrote: hi, gmail sometimes bounces email from list. Occasionally is spam that got through list server but last one was genuine that was bounced because of DMARC or something. I can't see a way to whitelist list domain before it gets to the filters at gmail. Any su

gmail occasionally bouncing list email

hi, gmail sometimes bounces email from list. Occasionally is spam that got through list server but last one was genuine that was bounced because of DMARC or something. I can't see a way to whitelist list domain before it gets to the filters at gmail. Any suggestions ( apart from not using gmail

Re: mplayer with -loop 0 but w/o volume reset?

On Mon 02 Mar 2020 at 02:15:51 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Can I use mplayer with -loop 0 _but_ with the > > volume not resetting when the file ends and > > begins again? > > mpv with --loop-playlist does this if one cares > to change media player. Yes, as mpv's manpage points out: "Nor

Re: mplayer with -loop 0 but w/o volume reset?

> Can I use mplayer with -loop 0 _but_ with the > volume not resetting when the file ends and > begins again? mpv with --loop-playlist does this if one cares to change media player. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal

mplayer with -loop 0 but w/o volume reset?

Can I use mplayer with -loop 0 _but_ with the volume not resetting when the file ends and begins again? I'm on Debian Buster if that matters, with $ uname -a Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux and mplayer version 2:1.3.0-8+b4 (according to 'ap

Re: Dolphin as root

If it was me I would just install Pluma and be done with it. anyway, dedoimedo is kinda smart and a newfound KDE fanboi https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kde-dolphin-as-root.html On 3/1/20 10:56 AM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Some time ago somebody decided that Dolphin was too dangerous wh

Re: High DPI (4K), laptop screen, mode settings, fonts and initramfs-tools

Darac Marjal wrote: >> Is there an "official" way to accomplish this via hooks in >> initramfs-tool? Are there user/system hooks that would be preserved >> across initramfs-tool updates and a correct/conventional way of >> implementing them? >> >> This is initramfs-tools 0.13deb10u1 I don't have

Re: High DPI (4K), laptop screen, mode settings, fonts and initramfs-tools

On 22/02/2020 20:57, Alex Yuriev wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 4K laptop in a 12" package with Intel HD520. I have been > running Debian 7 and Debian 8 on it for a while and now I have updated > to Debian 10. > > I'm sure that you already have an idea of the issue - the console > fonts on 4k are tiny,

Re: Bringing CPAN,Gems, PIP, PyPi, etc. under APT package management

Dan Ritter wrote: ... > There are good reasons for doing this on a local basis. sure, and nothing prevents that from being accomplished. it isn't like the tools would go away. > For example, let's say you have an organization that develops > a software service and sells access to it. When an e

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

Mikhail Morfikov wrote: ... > Also, I'm trying to configure refind EFI boot manager, and basically I do= > n't > want to change its config file with each kernel update (the numbers in th= > e file > names change). that's exactly what i've been doing. they work fine no matter where they end up a

Re: Zoom conferencing

On 2/29/20 10:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > (I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users > lists.) > > Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us > > Anyone using it? > > Issues? > > Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories? zoom is propri

Dolphin as root

Hi all, Some time ago somebody decided that Dolphin was too dangerous when being used as root. (Don't lecture me on using sudo and not su.) My hobby work load is not subjected to any security problems, I am behind a pretty good firewall and I am a single user. I have to switch between user and

Re: Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

k. jantzen composed on 2020-03-01 19:17 (UTC+0100): > I have installed Buster without any problems. > When booting however it hangs with the following messages (seen in > recovery mode): > [...] r8169 :03: 00,0 enp3s0: Link is Up - 1Gps/Full - flowcontrol off > [...] IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_C

Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

Hello, I have installed Buster without any problems. When booting however it hangs with the following messages (seen in recovery mode): [...] r8169 :03: 00,0 enp3s0: Link is Up - 1Gps/Full - flowcontrol off [...] IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): enp3s0: link becomes ready Obviously it does

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 02:08:27PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: If you are interested in a free video/ voice conference tool look at jitsi. Jitsi (or perhaps it is "jitsi-meet" has a free web-accessible service which does not require

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

Brian composed on 2020-03-01 16:10 (UTC): > On Sun 01 Mar 2020 at 08:41:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Grub does not like symlinks to un-versioned kernel and initrd in /boot/. > I am probably missing your point but I have just booted successfully > with: > root='hd1,msdos5' > linux /vmlinuz.

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 02:08:27PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > (I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users > lists.) > > Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us > > Anyone using it? > Maybe, not me tho > Issues? It's proprietary > > Known reasons they don't put it in the

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 10:15:45 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > Rather than install Chrome, consider installing chromium. I believe it > is the open source base of Chromium. Sorry. I believe chromium is the open source base of Chrome. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 03:44:27 +1100 David wrote: > If anyone can advise me how to make this version of Firefox work > on current Debian buster or stretch, I will be grateful to be > corrected. I've had to reluctantly install the Zoom client, > preferring that compromise to installing Chrome. Rathe

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On 01/03/2020 17:15, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-02-29 18:17, Mikhail Morfikov wrote > >> vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4-amd64 >> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root   24 2020-02-24 00:37:53 >> vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-5.5.4-amd64 >> > > .old is pointing to a newer kernel ? > > mick > Y

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On 01/03/2020 16:53, David Wright wrote: > I've read here that Grub can decrypt LUKS, but currently only v1, > at least in buster, so no help to you. Actually grub supports LUKSv2[1], but I haven't tried it yet. [1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=365e0cc3e7e44151c14dd29514

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 23:41, Dan Ritter wrote: > If someone sends you a link to use their service, they have a semi-hidden > web client available -- take the conference identifier from the regular > URL, and append it to > > https://zoom.us/wc/join/ > > This works in Firefox and Chromium. My ex

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On 3/1/20, Brian wrote: > On Sun 01 Mar 2020 at 08:41:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >> >> Grub does not like symlinks to un-versioned kernel and initrd in /boot/. > > I am probably missing your point but I have just booted successfully > with: > > root='hd1,msdos5' > linux /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On 2020-02-29 18:17, Mikhail Morfikov wrote vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-4-amd64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2020-02-24 00:37:53 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-5.5.4-amd64 .old is pointing to a newer kernel ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On Sun 01 Mar 2020 at 08:41:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2020-03-01 13:26 (UTC): > > > On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:15:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > >> On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:17:39 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > > >>> # ls -al / > >>> ... > >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 roo

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On Sun 01 Mar 2020 at 15:09:34 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > On 01/03/2020 02:15, David Wright wrote: > > They're a convenience. If you want them kept in /boot, then edit > > /etc/kernel-img.conf and linux-update-symlinks will recreate them > > there when the kernel is updated. Ditto if you

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 21:45:48 (-0500), John Kaufmann wrote: > On 2020-02-29 20:20, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 27 Feb 2020 at 17:13:26 (-0500), John Kaufmann wrote: > > > On 2020-02-27 09:41, Lee wrote: > > > > > > [The free/non-free distinction] ... is well-explained, and in fuzzy > > > prin

Re: [SOLVED, sort of] System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

Hello again all, For those of you who haven't been watching, here's the problem, er, in a nutshell: After a Debian upgrade in two steps from Jessie to Stretch and then from Stretch to Buster on an old Intel E3815-powered box, performance was degraded by at least one, and usually more than two or

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On 01/03/2020 02:15, David Wright wrote: > They're a convenience. If you want them kept in /boot, then edit > /etc/kernel-img.conf and linux-update-symlinks will recreate them > there when the kernel is updated. Ditto if you want them removed. I didn't know there's even such an option. But yes, i

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

Brian composed on 2020-03-01 13:26 (UTC): > On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:15:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:17:39 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >>> # ls -al / >>> ... >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2020-02-14 17:22:18 initrd.img -> >>> boot/initrd.img-5.4

Re: What's the purpose of initrd.img{,.old} and vmlinuz{,.old} symlinks in the root dir?

On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:15:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 29 Feb 2020 at 19:17:39 (+0100), Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > > I have an encrypted (LUKSv2) LVM setup with a separate unencrypted /boot/ > > partition. When I install a new kenrel in the system, the following > > symlinks are > > cr

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 08:07:58AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, March 01, 2020 07:41:18 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > If someone sends you a link to use their service, they have a semi-hidden > > web client available -- > > I guess that should be web server? > > I mean, unless this

Re: Zoom conferencing

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, March 01, 2020 07:41:18 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > If someone sends you a link to use their service, they have a semi-hidden > > web client available -- > > I guess that should be web server? > > I mean, unless this is like the backwards (to me, and I'm fam

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sunday, March 01, 2020 07:41:18 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > If someone sends you a link to use their service, they have a semi-hidden > web client available -- I guess that should be web server? I mean, unless this is like the backwards (to me, and I'm familiar with the justification / arguments

Re: Zoom conferencing

Joel Rees wrote: > (I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users > lists.) > > Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us > > Anyone using it? > > Issues? > > Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories? It's not free in any sense. If someone sends you a lin

Re: Zoom conferencing

[ replying only where I am subscribed ] Quoting Joel Rees (2020-03-01 06:08:27) > (I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users > lists.) > > Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us > > Anyone using it? > > Issues? > > Known reasons they don't put it in the general reposit

Re: Zoom conferencing

On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 02:08:27PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > (I hope no one gets upset about double posting debian and ubuntu users > lists.) > > Questions about zoom -- www.zoom.us > > Anyone using it? > > Issues? > > Known reasons they don't put it in the general repositories? Perhaps becaus

Re: Net Install: Installation halts for disk change

On Sb, 29 feb 20, 21:45:48, John Kaufmann wrote: > > I have to agree with that script: a Thinkpad without wifi could fairly > be called a non-working system... which comes back to my two-part > first question, about the philosophical/operational aspect of the > "free" commitment: > - Is it a c