Re: Zoom conferencing

2020-03-02 Thread Nazar Zhuk
On 2020-02-29 23:08, 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? As others have pointed out, it's proprietary and wil

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Tony, On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:28:58AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > My plan would be to install the SSD in the cage, and dd the contents of the > array onto the SSD. I would then change the BIOS to boot from the SSD, > making the RAID array redundant. Just as you have two HDDs in a RAID

[SOLVED] Can I run dnsmasq as boot server in my environment

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > On 2/29/2020 6:20 PM, deloptes wrote: >> john doe wrote: >> >>> I would rather look there to get it working with your current setup. >>> >> >> looks like dnsmasq is more cooperative - I don't know how to do it with >> the current setup :/ >> It seems however dnsmasq does the

Re: authentication failing through PolicyKit

2020-03-02 Thread D. R. Evans
john doe wrote on 3/2/20 12:31 PM: > On 3/2/2020 8:22 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am trying to run a command that appears to need super-user privileges. When >> it tries to run, I get: >> >> --- >> >> AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec === >> Authentication is needed to run

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > -1, unecessary busy work +(-1) configurations grown during the years broken - hard to restore

Re: authentication failing through PolicyKit

2020-03-02 Thread john doe
On 3/2/2020 8:22 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > I am trying to run a command that appears to need super-user privileges. When > it tries to run, I get: > > --- > > AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec === > Authentication is needed to run `/tmp/hda-jack-retask-0TDDG0/script.sh' as t

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 3/2/20 6:52 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Tony van der Hoff writes: > >> Hi, >> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with >> a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running >> fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this >> storage

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:22:45PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: On 3/2/20 2:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-03-02 03:28, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is runn

authentication failing through PolicyKit

2020-03-02 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to run a command that appears to need super-user privileges. When it tries to run, I get: --- AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec === Authentication is needed to run `/tmp/hda-jack-retask-0TDDG0/script.sh' as the super user Authenticating as: D. R. Evans,,, (n7d

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
On 3/2/20 2:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-02 03:28, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with >> a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running >> fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevi

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-02 03:28, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > Why you do not simply prepare the SSD (partition/align) and after that > add the SSD as 3rd drive to the raid? > > When all is synced you can kick off the HDD's or that them to "Write > mostly". +1 However partitioning is still required, but the best way to copy the data is to us

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

2020-03-02 Thread Nicolas George
David Wright (12020-03-02): > which sets the volume at 50%, and changed it with / and * whilst > playing. The volume resets to 50% with each loop. The reinit of the audio chain and the reset of the volume is hardcoded in the source code, and there is no option similar to -fixed-vo to disable it.

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Tony van der Hoff writes: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with > a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running > fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this > storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or ma

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

2020-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Mar 2020 at 09:01:56 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2020-03-02, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Can I use mplayer with -loop 0 _but_ with the > > volume not resetting when the file ends and > > begins again? > > It would seem a flabbergasting thing that a soft with a thousand flags > wouldn't > hav

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Mar 2020 at 08:40:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:26:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > Now the first question was "Please choose which locales to generate." > > As it happens, I don't need to *generate* any, because I selected > > en_US.UTF-8 at instal

Re: Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

2020-03-02 Thread Felix Miata
k. jantzen composed on 2020-03-02 16:19 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Are you sure a login prompt didn't sneak in out of expected order? That has >> happened fairly routinely here. I Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 at that point to find a >> login >> prompt. >> On a recovery mode boot immediately subseq

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2020 #206

2020-03-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: 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

Re: [SOLVED, mor or less] System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:50:09AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: > ...There were in fact three instances of Postgres running (9.4, 9.6 > and 11.7) after the two jumps from Jessie to Stretch to Buster... I don't think this is related to your perfo

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread basti
On 02.03.20 16:39, Dan Ritter wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a >> 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm >> becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a > 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm > becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm > planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or mayb

Re: Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

2020-03-02 Thread k. jantzen
On 3/1/20 7:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote: 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

Re: Dolphin as root

2020-03-02 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/1/20 11:41 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 2/3/20 10:44 am, Peter Ehlert wrote: If it was me I would just install Pluma and be done with it. oops, I intended to say caja 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

Re: Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

2020-03-02 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2020-03-02 09:07 (UTC-0500): > On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Are you sure a login prompt didn't sneak in out of expected order? That has >> happened fairly routinely here. I Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 at that point to find a >> login >> prompt.

Re: Buster 10.2 hangs while booting

2020-03-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Are you sure a login prompt didn't sneak in out of expected order? That has > happened fairly routinely here. I Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 at that point to find a > login > prompt. Or just hit Enter on tty1 to get another login prompt.

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:50:09AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Yesterday more out of desperation than anything I moved the Postgres > database (mainly the security camera stuff) from Postgres 9.4 to the > 11.0 instance which Buster installed and started. There were in fact > three instances of Po

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

2020-03-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:26:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > Now the first question was "Please choose which locales to generate." > As it happens, I don't need to *generate* any, because I selected > en_US.UTF-8 at installation time. *sigh* When you run dpkg-reconfigure locales, you are te

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 March 2020 06:28:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with > a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running > fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this > storage, so I'm planning

Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or maybe 1TB SSD from Crucial. My pla

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

2020-03-02 Thread Dan Ritter
songbird wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > ... > > Many of the language-specific tools have a tendency to > > automatically acquire the latest version of a library or module > > every time they are invoked, or to spit errors if they can't > > pull down the version that they were asked to get. That's ra

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

2020-03-02 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-02, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Can I use mplayer with -loop 0 _but_ with the > volume not resetting when the file ends and > begins again? > It would seem a flabbergasting thing that a soft with a thousand flags wouldn't have one or two to set the volume. What have you tried so far? mplay

Re: How to report bug / enhancement request for official debian docker image

2020-03-02 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:14:59PM +1030, heman wrote: > hi Tomas, thanks for the response, pretty sure the docker image was the > official debian:buster from dockerhub. I'll double check. > > I hadn't thought of looking for an issue reporting link on dockerhub, as I > figured it would be part o