Re: Installing Buster (improvements)

2020-06-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i assume that you are better off with your complaint at debian-b...@lists.debian.org One can see in the list archive that bug reports about partitioning during installation get re-attributed to package "debian-installer". E.g. in https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2020/06/msg00065.html

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

2020-06-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On 6/29/2020 11:37 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:10:44PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: But I cannot figure out where this might be, or even if this is the correct interpretation. Check out the contents of /etc/systemd/system first. Rebuild initramfs second. Reco Hi, I

Re: Unidentified subject!

2020-06-30 Thread songbird
Dan Ritter wrote: ... > You want to ignore the USB ports and focus on the attached > devices. udev is the mechanism here. > > For example, in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-ups I have: > > SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0764", ATTR{idProduct}=="0501", > SYMLINK+="ups0", GROUP="nut" > > Which means that

Re: Installing Buster (improvements)

2020-06-30 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/30/20 1:36 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, today I installed Buster on my laptop. It would be very helpful to know which of the many install ISOs you used. As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest the follwing improvements to the Graphical install: a) At som

Installing Buster (improvements)

2020-06-30 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hello, today I installed Buster on my laptop. As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest the follwing improvements to the Graphical install: a) At some point the process informed me, that a firmware module is missing and asked whether I would like to supply it from a

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread davidson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Intentionally cross posted) This reply is to Debian List with BCC to OP so he would have my email address The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music no

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Now who's being pedantic? > > Precisely. > > > > > And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 01:00:41 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For us non-musical Debian users, we need: >1. informational links to Rosegarden and mcow Sorry, mcow is an acronym that I use, not sure how widely it might be used, it stands for

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Now who's being pedantic? Precisely. And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't perform the raid function. And it's OK to refer to the

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Intentionally cross posted) This reply is to Debian List with BCC to OP so he would have my email address The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music notation (mcow) program. A user is describi

Unidentified subject!

2020-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > (Intentionally cross posted) > > The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- > Rosegarden > is a music notation (mcow) program. > > A user is describing a problem in which it appears the MIDI ports (connected > via USB ports) change on each

OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread rhkramer
(Intentionally cross posted) The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music notation (mcow) program. A user is describing a problem in which it appears the MIDI ports (connected via USB ports) change on each boot (or maybe even each start of the Rosega

Re: Newbie

2020-06-30 Thread Martin McCormick
=?euc-kr?b?yLK6tMjx?= writes: > Hi Arun, > > Yes this is question place. > > Sincerely, Byung-Hee > It is one of the most helpful groups I know of as sometimes, there are questions that don't lend themselves to a search engine string although one can get really lucky if you try to not u

Re: Systemd user environment variables not picked up for me

2020-06-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:14:41AM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > It seems you can reconstruct those "early" variables like the following: > HOME=/home/@{PAM_USER} > > Or use @{HOME} directly since PAM 1.2.0. > > Source:  > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258246/why-does-pam-environment-

Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2020 07:38 PM, David wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can update-alternatives do for me today?". IOW the manpage gives fine details but no sense of perspective. Have a read of this page [1] about half-way

[Solved, for information only] How to Restore Ethernet Connection, if accidentally deleted, for any System?

2020-06-30 Thread Susmita/Rajib
To, The Team Debian-User, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Debian.org My dear illustrious Team Leaders, Good afternoon. I had a serious but luckily temporary problem with my Wired internet connection, losing internet via wired line, as I uninstalled wicd. Debian Squeeze 9.11.0 Live ISO has lxde wh

Re: Cannot get systemd to forget about swap space on a failed disk

2020-06-30 Thread deloptes
Bob McGowan wrote: > Please see thread with subject "Be careful when editing /etc/fstab" for > a bit of background. > > My computer had two swap partitions, on two different disks, when one of > them started to generate CRC errors, seek errors, etc. > > Once I determined which of the two it was,