Re: Suspicious output during apt update

2020-05-12 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:05 AM Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. > > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ? > > > $ sudo apt update > [sudo] pas

Suspicious output during apt update

2020-05-12 Thread Ihor Antonov
Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below) Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue. Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ? $ sudo apt update

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Rick Thomas wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: >> Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: >> > I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB >> > is fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be >> > just opinions. >> I had

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 May 2020 22:49:48 Tom Dial wrote: > On 5/12/20 09:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 > >> > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 12

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Keifer Bly
I am not backing this machine up to a physical drive, it is a VPS, so being hosted in the cloud and all. We are not dealing with databases, but just pushing traffic between nodes, etc. They strongly advise be running both the most secure version of the OS and their software at all times, that's why

Re: How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

2020-05-12 Thread Yuwen Dai
Le mer. 13 mai 2020 à 09:40, Yuwen Dai a écrit : > Dear all, > > I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc > client, the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application. There's > no error message. It looks like a privilege issue. This is what I did: > > >

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/12/20 09:05, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@gmail.com: > Is there a wa

How to debug a vnc issue in Debian 10?

2020-05-12 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I setup a vnc server in Debian 10 and connect to the server by using vnc client, the desktop shows, but I cannot launch any application. There's no error message. It looks like a privilege issue. This is what I did: sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies gnome-icon-theme tightvncser

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Keifer Bly
Right, so according to i0f...@tutra.io's advice, I changed the line " 'Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false" to 'Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true" in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Upon checking /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades I see the lines: APT::Periodic::Up

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: > > I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is > > fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just > > opinions. > I had the same doubts about a year

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-05-12 08:04, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Was the memory in your computer installed by Acer? I believe so. Okay. Have you removed or inserted any memory modules? Not before the issue arose. Okay.

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-12 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just opinions. I had the same doubts about a year ago and went with the recommendation of a larger partition, abo

Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
Hi! All, I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just opinions. Anyone know for sure? I hate having to waste hundreds of megs for a partition that only needs to hold a few megs, if that much. This applie

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 23:44 de cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Hmmm, I looked in man apt.conf and for the periodic options it said to > look in /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily and that script does not > mention the option you mentioned. Is there some other place I should > look for its description? > APT::P

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread John Covici
Hmmm, I looked in man apt.conf and for the periodic options it said to look in /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily and that script does not mention the option you mentioned. Is there some other place I should look for its description? On Tue, 12 May 2020 16:47:33 -0400, David Wright wrote: > > On Tu

Re: Lost the firefox windows

2020-05-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 21:29 de d...@randomstring.org: > Are you running a window manager which has the concept of > minimization/iconization? > In the same vein, I've already lost sight of some windows because of the roll-up functionality under Xfce ;p Best regards, l0f4r0

Re: Lost the firefox windows

2020-05-12 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 03:29:10 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On debian wheezy: > > > > I might have fat fingered something (or not) but the firefox windows have > > disappeared. I was about to restart firefox (which would cause me to > > lose the content on my private fi

Re: Lost the firefox windows

2020-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 May 2020 at 15:29:10 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On debian wheezy: > > > > I might have fat fingered something (or not) but the firefox windows have > > disappeared. I was about to restart firefox (which would cause me to lose > > the > > content on my

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 May 2020 at 15:14:51 (-0400), John Covici wrote: > To get back to the topic -- I have unattended updates set supposedly, > but they do nothing. > > Here are the relevant files from my apt.conf.d directory > > 20-auto-upgrades > apt::periodic::unattended-upgrade "1"; > > Here is my 50-u

Re: Lost the firefox windows

2020-05-12 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On debian wheezy: > > I might have fat fingered something (or not) but the firefox windows have > disappeared. I was about to restart firefox (which would cause me to lose > the > content on my private firefox window), but I ran a ps command and see that > firefox

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread John Covici
To get back to the topic -- I have unattended updates set supposedly, but they do nothing. Here are the relevant files from my apt.conf.d directory 20-auto-upgrades apt::periodic::unattended-upgrade "1"; Here is my 50-unattended-upgrades // Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern controls which pac

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-12 Thread deloptes
Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ mount --types vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 > mount: only root can use "--types" option this is not supposed to be mounted there from the command line. use the file browser and don't forget to add the user to plugdev (if I am not mistaken) after adding to the gr

Lost the firefox windows

2020-05-12 Thread rhkramer
On debian wheezy: I might have fat fingered something (or not) but the firefox windows have disappeared. I was about to restart firefox (which would cause me to lose the content on my private firefox window), but I ran a ps command and see that firefox is still running, but I've checked all my

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, May 12, 2020, 10:55 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > > Hello > > > > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using > all the > > available cores instead of j

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 9:55 AM: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: >>> Hello >>> >> >> I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the >> available cores instead of just one. I don't know wh

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > Hello > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the > available cores instead of just one. I don't know whether that's a debian > change or an R chang

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 May 2020 at 07:48:49 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 02:22:13 AM Keifer Bly wrote: > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that > > needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx. > > If there is a comand named "needrestart" (I don

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 May 2020 11:05:55 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@gmail.com: > > > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-12 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 12/05/2020 à 03:37, David Christensen a écrit : On 2020-05-11 10:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Hi, I installed Debian 10 on a Acer AspireOne (32 bits processor, 1GB RAM). Installation failed two times with corrupted packages, each time on same package (tcllib). I finally manage to re-download and

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@gmail.com: > > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a > > > package that needs to be restarted is upgraded?

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread D. R. Evans
Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > Hello > > I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R > language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) > and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering > if the R packages on Debian ha

R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering if the R packages on Debian have been built with any flags that account for the d

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread John Hasler
Keifer Bly writes: > I am wondering, does the OS need to be restarted for the upgrade to > take effect? Only if the kernel was upgraded. > What file would I check to make sure the unattended upgrades is > working and the packages it updated? >From the man page: All operations are logged to /va

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 07:48:49AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 02:22:13 AM Keifer Bly wrote: > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that > > needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx. > > If there is a comand named "need

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 07:48:49AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 02:22:13 AM Keifer Bly wrote: > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that > > needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx. > > If there is a comand named "needrestart" (I d

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 02:22:13 AM Keifer Bly wrote: > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that > needs to be restarted is upgraded? Thx. If there is a comand named "needrestart" (I don't see it on my Wheezy system), then presumably a (bash?) script could be w

Re: trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-12 Thread Eric S Fraga
If pmount is installed/available, 'pmount sdc1' will mount the disk onto /media/sdc1. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.6 on Debian bullseye/sid

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 12:03 de ghesk...@shentel.net: > I can see a major disaster in the making, what if that reboot was > commanded in the middle of your nightly backup run, leaving your backup > program with a totally bogus database it cannot recover from? > > Frankly the update shouldn't be allo

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-05-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-05-07 18:24:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 06 May 2020 at 12:31:35 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I use unstable. I doubt that packages get renamed in stable > > (except between full upgrades, where the issue has already > > been solved with the oldlibs section). > > I don't u

trying to mount a micro USB disk as a regular user on a Linux laptop on which I don't have admin rights ...

2020-05-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab $ umount /dev/sdc1 $ mount --types vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can use "--types" option $ mount /dev/sdc1 /media/user/5C51-D400 mount: only root can do that $ mount /dev/sdc1 mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /et

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@gmail.com: > > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a > > package that needs to be restarted is upgraded? > > I think 'Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";' should do i

Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

2020-05-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer@gmail.com: > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a package that > needs to be restarted is upgraded? > I think 'Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";' should do it in  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. If I were you,

Re: SystemVirtualization: Debian-wiki page update?

2020-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 12 mai 20, 10:24:51, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 12 mai 2020 à 09:55 de riveravaldezm...@gmail.com: > > > not sure if this is the place for this, but I've found a little > > confusing to find where to mention a debian-wiki issue... > > > I'm not answering the "issue" part itself but he

Re: SystemVirtualization: Debian-wiki page update?

2020-05-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 12 mai 2020 à 09:55 de riveravaldezm...@gmail.com: > not sure if this is the place for this, but I've found a little > confusing to find where to mention a debian-wiki issue... > I'm not answering the "issue" part itself but here are two pointers regarding how to contact the Debian Wiki team

SystemVirtualization: Debian-wiki page update?

2020-05-12 Thread riveravaldez
Hi, not sure if this is the place for this, but I've found a little confusing to find where to mention a debian-wiki issue... The SystemVirtualization[1] wiki-page offers as first 'Debian solution' VirtualBox[2], which is non-free and "not available in Debian 10 and won't be in buster-backports ei

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 mai 20, 19:12:52, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Below were the results before I applied the upgrades: > > apt list --upgradable [snip] Nothing unusual. You also have i386 packages installed so this will also increase the number of updates. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FA