Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log and Greg Wooledge`s reply

2020-09-27 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/09/20 2:47 pm, David Wright wrote: > If you make yourself a member of the adm group, you can read your logs > as a normal user. You'd need to type into any terminal > > $ sudo addgroup myloginname adm > > replacing myloginname as appropriate, but you will need to login again > before the ad

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 28/9/20 1:06 pm, 황병희 wrote: Tox!c illude writes: ... and the $~ I’m completely new Ubuntu is good for beginner like as you, i think. And Debian is not easy to handle, IMHO. Sincerely, Byung-Hee I'd go one further and recommend linux mint https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281 a

[LibrePlanet]: New Presentation

2020-09-27 Thread Goo Goo Knox
Hi All, I am planning to apply for a session in upcoming LibrePlanet conference, to present a topic on this project. Here is the self-shot version of the presentation, https://fs333.gounlimited.to/tea5ur5c2h2qzxfffn4yv5jg53piwzbdni5tp7o7twot3lgjhc2w5gxv2g5a/v.mp4 Please leave me a feedback. :-

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 11:06, 황병희 wrote: > > Tox!c illude writes: > > > ... and the $~ I’m completely new > > Ubuntu is good for beginner like as you, i think. > And Debian is not easy to handle, IMHO. > > Sincerely, Byung-Hee > > -- > ^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))// This could mean that OP skipped de

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread 황병희
Tox!c illude writes: > ... and the $~ I’m completely new Ubuntu is good for beginner like as you, i think. And Debian is not easy to handle, IMHO. Sincerely, Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: traps: courieresmtp

2020-09-27 Thread David Wright
(Reordered quotes.) > Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020 schrieb Philipp Ewald: > > maybe i found a bug in courier. > > > > courier crash's when a E-Mail address contains "–" (EN DASH) > > > > traps: courieresmtp[36082] general protection > > > > mail.log: > > courieresmtp: Crashed child process 41

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 16:47:43 (-0500), Charles Zeitler wrote: > so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for > parted --list /dev/sdb ? > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > > su -c 'parted --l

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread Charles Zeitler
hanks, all. On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} > lists partitions from /dev/sda 9system drive) > even when /dev/sdb doesn't exist! > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb pro

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Felmon Davis
what are you logging into? provide some details like: "I was running Debian Linux fine, rebooted the computer and..." or "I was trying to install Debian. I used instructions at___." you'll need to provide more details going forward, people will chip in and advise, but at least this is a sta

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Sep 17:04 -0500, Tox!c illude wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone I've no connection to this site but found it years back: http://linuxcommand.org/ Don't sweat it. All of us were new at this at some point. I know I did a lot of reading. A LOT of reading. - Nate -- "The optimis

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Pariksheet Nanda
Hi Tox!c illude, The $~ is telling you that you're in your home directory and is asking you to enter commands. Hmm... are you running Debian on a small microcomputer? Did you install Debian yourself or was it pre-installed? What are you looking to do and learn? That would help us point you i

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I???m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Dan Ritter
https://linuxnewbieguide.org/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-beginners-guide-to-surviving-in-the-linux-shell-cda0f5a0698c/ -dsr-

When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

2020-09-27 Thread Tox!c illude
Sent from my iPhone

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-09-27 at 17:47, Charles Zeitler wrote: > so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for > parted --list /dev/sdb ? It's normal behavior for 'parted --list'. The '--list' option to parted doesn't take an argument. The '/dev/sdb' is being ignored. As indicated by Thomas Sc

Re: parted lists wrong partitions

2020-09-27 Thread Charles Zeitler
so, is displaying partitions of all drives normal behavior for parted --list /dev/sdb ? On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:02 AM Charles Zeitler wrote: > > i'm working on a thumb drive to use it as install media. > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} > lists partitions from /dev/sda

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 13:09:02 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 09/27/2020 12:44 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to > > > /opt/brother/scanner. However, sudo

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:18:00 +0200 wrote: > > If you just hit the front panel reset button, there's not really a > > lot any software can do to help. > > Oh, yes. A better error message (in this case, it turned out juk > decided to rebuild its cache, which takes time -- so a message > "rebuild

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 09/27/2020 12:44 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to /opt/brother/scanner. However, sudo apt purge brscan4 I got: comp@AbNormal:~/Downloads/Brother/tmp$ sudo apt purge brsc

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to > /opt/brother/scanner. However, sudo apt purge brscan4 I got: > > comp@AbNormal:~/Downloads/Brother/tmp$ sudo apt purge brscan4 > [sudo] password for comp: > R

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 09/27/2020 09:21 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: 19: > > > /var

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 09/27/2020 09:21 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: 19: /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/udev_config.sh: not found You

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:34:07 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >It was a soft-reboot: KDE menu > Power/Session > Reboot I couldn't remember what you said in original post, nor could I find a copy locally, so thanks for reminding me. I think a bug should be reported. In the first inst

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread local10
Sep 27, 2020, 12:58 by b...@fineby.me.uk: > Depends how you went about your system reboot; > > If you just hit the front panel reset button, there's not really a lot > any software can do to help. If, however, you used your DE's reboot > or other 'clean' (IOW, OS friendly) command then yes, somet

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found > /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: 19: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/udev_config.sh: not found You have checked whether tose files ex

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 01:58:58PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:25:14 +0200 (CEST) > local10 wrote: > > Hello local10, > > >like juk developers could've handled the situation in a better way > >but whatever... it > > Depends how you went about your system reboot; > > I

Re: favorites disappear from application menu

2020-09-27 Thread Glenn Holmer
I recently upgraded to Debian Testing (fresh install, following the instructions on the wiki), and I'm still seeing this issue. Anybody else? On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 9:19 AM Glenn Holmer wrote: > I continue to have this problem, and have submitted a bug report. If > anyone else is experiencing t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:25:14 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >like juk developers could've handled the situation in a better way >but whatever... it Depends how you went about your system reboot; If you just hit the front panel reset button, there's not really a lot any software

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 01:25:14PM +0200, local10 wrote: [...] > OK, I ran strace and it helped me to understand what was happening [...] Glad it helped :-) Strace can be a bit intimidating, but can be invaluable in such cases. The next-heavier armory would be GDB. But some error message cultu

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 09/26/2020 06:06 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-26 at 05:18, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 09/25/2020 08:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-25 at 07:48, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: This morning this resulted in the error The following partially installed packages will be configured:

[SOLVED] Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread local10
Sep 27, 2020, 10:06 by to...@tuxteam.de: > Ugh. It could tell us where it looks for its cache, couldn't > it? > > OK. If you don't fear some text output, you could run it under > strace (in Debian package strace), like so: > > strace -f -o /tmp/trace > OK, I ran strace and it helped me to under

Re: traps: courieresmtp

2020-09-27 Thread Stefan Krusche
Hello Phillip, I'm not sure if I understood your problem correctly, but I'll try :-) See below. Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2020 schrieb Philipp Ewald: > Hello, > > maybe i found a bug in courier. > > courier crash's when a E-Mail address contains "–" (EN DASH) This does not seem to be a dash

Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:36:02AM +0200, local10 wrote: > Sep 26, 2020, 15:45 by to...@tuxteam.de: > > > Possibly the application has left behind a lock file. This might > > live somewhere in /run. > > > > Didn't find anything related to juk in /run, /var/run or /var/lock > directories. > > >

Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread local10
Sep 26, 2020, 15:45 by to...@tuxteam.de: > Possibly the application has left behind a lock file. This might > live somewhere in /run. > Didn't find anything related to juk in /run, /var/run or /var/lock directories. > You might try to start the application from the command line, > perhaps there

Re: Juk hangs after launch

2020-09-27 Thread local10
Sep 27, 2020, 04:40 by andreimpope...@gmail.com: > Does it work for another / new user on the same computer? > Yes, for a new user on the same PC it works fine. Thanks