Re: Serial Port Issues

Chris Rhodin wrote: > I checked the permissions and group memberships but they're already > correct.  I also tried executing at root privilege, no luck. 'R you sure about the baud rate (9600)? It might be something higher ... also did you setup agetty accordingly?

apache 2.4 configuration

I am searching for a guide for configuration of Apache 2.4 on Debian 10. Thus far, my web searches have found guides for Debian 9 and guides for Apache 2.2. I am aware of "https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/"; and am digesting it as rapidly as I can. I have been working my way through the Chapte

Re: [?]Identify BT Card, enable BT to pair with BT enabled Loudspeaker

Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I need help with BT card identification in my laptop, enable it and > pair it with a BT enabled loudspeaker. > > My daughter, a Graphic Designer, does this so easily with her Doze > laptop. Why should it be a problem with Linux, as all the core device > programs are in asse

Re: Serial Port Issues

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Permissions? (they would have to be a bit funny, write but not read, > but hey, it'd be possible). I checked the permissions and group memberships but they're already correct. I also tried executing at root privilege, no luck. Chris

[?]Identify BT Card, enable BT to pair with BT enabled Loudspeaker

To, The Team Laptop, debian-lap...@lists.debian.org, The Team User, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Debian.org My dear illustrious Team Leaders, Good morning. I need help with BT card identification in my laptop, enable it and pair it with a BT enabled loudspeaker. My daughter, a Graphic Designer

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

On 04/05/2020 01:29 PM, Marco Möller wrote: Once you have your list of packages in a text file, for each package one line, you could apply the list like this:     apt install $(< mylist.txt) Good to know that is known to work. Consider to first do a simulation run for finding problems in

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 4:36 PM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 05/04/2020 08:24, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Vi, 03 apr 20, 20:41:06, Bernard wrote: > > >> But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..." > >> > > > > > and then boot "normally" (this time in text mode). > > > > Log i

Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

I see on the error logs after making sure the printer is ready to receive print jobs (based on its own menu) http://localhost:631/admin/log/error_log ... D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state=3(idle) D [06/Apr/2020:01:19:35 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state-message="Filter failed" D [06/

State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

I got a: _OFL="hwinfo_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_hwinfo_printer.log" hwinfo --printer --log "${_OFL}" 2>&1 17: USB 00.0: 10900 Printer [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: L0iK.+dt1oXx0UKE Old Unique ID: vxkL.pGWWNSDBYN7 Parent ID: 2UT6.DFkaVl_rzX0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:12.2/usb

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

Le 05/04/2020 08:24, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Vi, 03 apr 20, 20:41:06, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, Having done some minor resettings on alsamixer with no results, I thought I had to reboot. But : "Oh no, something has gone wrong..." Apparently I missed this on

Re: Security issue ... please could someone help !!!

Hi. On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:03:00PM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > I kept digging down and saw that anything below 32 bytes is not accepted > (by cryptsetup --key-file option) but anything above 32 bytes is > discarded. cryptsetup(8), "-s" option. > Does this mean that cryptsetup plain

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:52:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Is it worth running rclone config with -vv, and --log-file pointing > somewhere? The documentation suggests this will show what rclone is > trying to do. Not any more, since my ln -s trick worked. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:03:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you should > look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet. And that was it. Thank you. Now if only rclone actually did what I needed This is getting we

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

On 4/5/20 4:53 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: I have not tried Nextcloud or ownCloud for a couple years. I only remember both being either too complex or missing the options I wanted. What options did you not have with the own/Nextloud ? [...] You can send the 56 character "device identification"

Security issue ... please could someone help !!!

Hi,  Attached is something I found. I see that cryptsetup --key-file arguement uses only first 32 bytes of the file and anything beyond is unused.  I am on debian bullseye $ cryptsetup --version cryptsetup 2.3.0 $ Following is my test $ cat b #!/bin/bash #create  a file dd if=/dev/zero of=./A

Re: fetchmail timeout

On 2020-04-04 21:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 04 apr 20, 19:30:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > You have to keep also a Python 2 interpreter for it. same question: why would it disapear ? Because it's not supported upstream anymore. https://legacy

Re: GUI does not start after stretch to buster update

Isaac N composed on 2020-04-05 22:29 (UTC+0300): > After upgrading to debian buster i cannot access gui. I boot up and it > stops services like UiD1000 then stops at "started update utmp about system > runlevel changes". > I can log on using tty to terminal; startX terminates with > "xinit:connect

GUI does not start after stretch to buster update

After upgrading to debian buster i cannot access gui. I boot up and it stops services like UiD1000 then stops at "started update utmp about system runlevel changes". I can log on using tty to terminal; startX terminates with "xinit:connection to X server lost" Starting a GUI application like firefo

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

Once you have your list of packages in a text file, for each package one line, you could apply the list like this: apt install $(< mylist.txt) Consider to first do a simulation run for finding problems in the list: -s Consider to use the following flag in order to not draw in a maybe

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

On 04/05/2020 12:00 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 10:30:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of Buster. The desired inventory shall list *ONLY*

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On 05.04.2020 18:53, Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection. > True. But not relevant. >> Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or >> just hardcodes firefox). >> > I asked wh

Re: fetchmail timeout

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it. As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version, I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail support reappears. actually, I was too drastic: as "apt-get upgrade" g

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 10:30:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. > I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of Buster. > The desired inventory shall list *ONLY* top level packages. > [ E.G. if gfortran wa

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

On 04/05/2020 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-04-05 at 11:30, Richard Owlett wrote: I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). I currently ha

Re: fetchmail timeout

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, songbird wrote: Celejar wrote: ... https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=157365887605305&w=2 let them remove getmail if thay are not able to support it. As I'm perfectly happy with the present Debian version, I'll just keep it, disabling my upgrade process, until getmail supp

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 09:53:13 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current > > selection. > True. But not relevant. > > Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or > > just hardcodes

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

On 2020-04-05 at 11:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the > first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I > wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). > > I currently have a configuration of Stretch that m

Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. As the installation was performe

Re: Serial Port Issues

On 4/5/2020 3:06 PM, Chris Rhodin wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a rack mount server running a fresh install of Debian buster. On > this system a serial port can only receive data and not transmit. This is > true for both the built in serial port and USB to serial adapters. I'm > testing this with

Re: Serial Port Issues

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Permissions? (they would have to be a bit funny, write but not read, > but hey, it'd be possible). definitely, because it is usually read only for the group by default. $ ls -al /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 Apr 5 11:40 /dev/ttyS1

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:28 AM Kent West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > >> >> Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >>> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >>> red characters : >>> >>> EXT4-fs (sd

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West wrote: > > Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >> red characters : >> >> EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock >> >> this repeated three times

Re: Debian Stretch broken !

Things are looking a bit more promising now... On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:14 PM Bernard wrote: > > > Le 03/04/2020 21:05, Kent West a écrit : > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM Bernard > > wrote: > > > > > > Having done some minor resettings on alsamixer with

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

On 4/5/20 5:43 AM, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: On 4/4/20 5:56 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: To add one data point for that: the most cases (by far) I've needed a backup is when I have deleted stuff by mistake. Close second is some buggy software having deleted or mangled files I've needed. Last [1

Re: Serial Port Issues

wrote: ... > Permissions? (they would have to be a bit funny, write but not read, > but hey, it'd be possible). that was my first thought too... songbird

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On 4/5/20 8:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The output above shows epiphany-browser as being the current selection. True. But not relevant. Maybe rclone is not using x-www-browser, but some other mechanism (or just hardcodes firefox). I asked what other mechanism could be used in the original, a

Re: Serial Port Issues

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 06:06:43AM -0700, Chris Rhodin wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a rack mount server running a fresh install of Debian buster. On > this system a serial port can only receive data and not transmit. This is > true for both the built in serial port and USB to serial adapters. I'

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:18:04 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: >>> Well, you don't name your ISPs, but I'm pretty sure the big ones >>> generally forbid running servers (for anything beyond "personal" use) on >>> residential connections.

Serial Port Issues

Hi All, I have a rack mount server running a fresh install of Debian buster. On this system a serial port can only receive data and not transmit. This is true for both the built in serial port and USB to serial adapters. I'm testing this with a loop back cable and the command "minicom --baudrat

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 07:18:04 -0400 Dan Purgert wrote: > On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:11:33 -0400 > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:46:00 -0400 > > > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Apr 03, 2020,

Re: completion prompting

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off I don't know what you mean by "turning this off". The helper doing thi

Re: completion prompting

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > with bash completion returns a message like > Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) > how can i turn this off I don't know what you mean by "turning this off". The helper doing this is the readline library. Your shell picks

Re: I Miss ckermit in Buster.

I installed microcom and like it as it is very similar to the functionality I had with ckermit. I briefly thought of compiling from source but laziness got the better of me and I am happy with microcom. Expect is what I am using for scripting so I just took my kermit scrip

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

On 4/4/20 5:56 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: To add one data point for that: the most cases (by far) I've needed a backup is when I have deleted stuff by mistake. Close second is some buggy software having deleted or mangled files I've needed. Last [1] come actual physical damage to storage media.

Re: completion prompting

On Du, 05 apr 20, 14:31:06, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > with bash completion returns a message like > Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) > how can i turn this off man readline Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On Du, 05 apr 20, 07:35:00, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Please post the output of > > > > update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > > carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > There are 4 choices for t

completion prompting

with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off

Re: fetchmail timeout

Celejar wrote: ... > https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=157365887605305&w=2 well that didn't happen and as soon as anyone expressed any interest in carrying patches Osamu pretty much just said take over the package because he wasn't interested in it any more. and then the topic dropped because nobo

Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote: > > So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran > > update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't > > even include firefox-esr: > > Th

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

On Apr 05, 2020, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:11:33 -0400 > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:46:00 -0400 > > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > > On Apr 03, 2020, Celejar wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > Fair enough - but has anyone l

Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom

Hi all, The links below contain many suggestions (of which a percentage has already been mentioned in this thread). However I am putting the links here because there are a few more options inside. I guess there are many recent similar threads in many FLOSS lists/forums/other discussion platforms a

Re: mutt does not find mailcap entry

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:05:28AM +0200, Beatrice Torracca wrote: > On Sat April 4th tomás wrote: > > > Since > > mutt takes posession of the screen, it seems best to direct > > strace's output to a file and examine it later. Like so: > > > > strace -f -o my_trace_file -e trace=open,%process mu

Re: mutt does not find mailcap entry

On Sat April 4th tomás wrote: > Since > mutt takes posession of the screen, it seems best to direct > strace's output to a file and examine it later. Like so: > > strace -f -o my_trace_file -e trace=open,%process mutt Hi, I tried that. Then I realized I have to apologize. My first try with m