Re: cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

On 13/12/20 8:46 am, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 5:47 PM Marco Möller > wrote: Dear Giuseppe Penone! Dear Evgenii Gurianov! Dear Andrius Merkys! Thank you very much for providing Cherrytree in Debian again! Maybe

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

Unsurprisingly, at least in my (perhaps jaundiced?) view, running ikiwiki out of /var/www/html resulted in much snappier behaviour: http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/Bob2084/posts/first_post/ -- These are not the droids you are looking for.

Re: cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 5:47 PM Marco Möller < ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> wrote: > Dear Giuseppe Penone! > Dear Evgenii Gurianov! > Dear Andrius Merkys! > > Thank you very much for providing Cherrytree in Debian again! > Maybe I missed an announcement about it. I just found it in the testing

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

So I have an install of Ikiwiki limping along. I know ikiwiki is a bear of a package to maintain, since it depends at least half of all known perl modules. To get where I am tonight I had to go out and apt-get libcgi-session-perl and libcgi-formbuilder-perl. I suspect the deficiencies I'm seein

Re: AMD GPU ^H^H^HSea Southern Islands Problem

Guyenne Tsui composed on 2020-12-06 22:17 (UTC): > Felix Miata composed on 2020-12-05 16:27 (UTC-0500): >> Which Sea Islands do you have? > Radeon R5 M430. I checked it again and it seems to be Southern Islands. > I am not sure. If M430 is true, then it is Southern Islands, which is GCN 1st gen

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

Guyenne Tsui composed on 2020-12-12 16:23 (UTC): > I tried to purge xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati. > However it offered me to remove my entire desktop environment. So I > hesitated. I had a Pop!_OS installed on my drive which also encountered > the same graphical issues.

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. > But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root > partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? yes, it is - more problematic is the password of the encrypted drive - you rea

Re: Guest Samba shares

Paul M Foster wrote: > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even read/post there. > It's been decades since I had anything to do with newsgroups. > > Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. > you are po

cherrytree is available again, now in testing !THANK YOU!

Dear Giuseppe Penone! Dear Evgenii Gurianov! Dear Andrius Merkys! Thank you very much for providing Cherrytree in Debian again! Maybe I missed an announcement about it. I just found it in the testing repository when searching for it before checking for updates for my flatpak installation of it.

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: According to (1) you should use: % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup" I went back and began again. I appear to have been much more successful. The fly in the ointment now is that although the needed cgi file was created, my system seems to t

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: According to (1) you should use: "% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead. % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup" I used the latter of the two above methods to create my initial setup f

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

I have the answer about that but my email is blocked and posts ereased Enviado via UOL Mail _ Assunto: Re: Emergency mode when root account locked De: amaca...@einval.com Enviado em: 12 de dezembro de 2020 10:16 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat, De

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 20:51:26 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 12 dec 20, 22:53:41, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > > > > There was a d

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On 12/12/2020 8:38 PM, john doe wrote: On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" D

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directory exist? No. If I crea

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directory exist? No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup comman

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

On 12.12.2020 21:23, Guyenne Tsui wrote: Try purging xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati, then restarting X. That should automatically result in using the modesetting X driver. It does for my sea islands. If it's OK, either keep it that way, or try reinstalling only xserver-xo

Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3

Dan Hitt writes: > Does anybody have any experience using Microsoft Team on debian, and is there > anything i need to be cautious about > (of course apart from running software from a giant software company)? I use Teams at work everyday, on a Dell laptop which has an integrated camera, with Ub

Re: Guest Samba shares

On Sb, 12 dec 20, 11:39:26, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I changed the mount to /music, owned by root, but with 777 perms. As a > guest, samba won't permit her to write to the directory. The permissions of the underlying directory are irrelevant, except to prevent regular users from writing by mista

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

On Sb, 12 dec 20, 16:23:40, Guyenne Tsui wrote: > > Try purging xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati, then > > restarting > > X. That should automatically result in using the modesetting X driver. It > > does for > > my sea islands. If it's OK, either keep it that way, or try rein

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sb, 12 dec 20, 22:53:41, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on our systems.

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

On 12/12/2020 7:34 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster. From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directo

Ikiwiki on Debian

Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster. From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Here is the top of that Bob2021. setup file. I hope I have th

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 17:13:53 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On a "normal" as opposed to an Advanced/expert install, it prompts you to > give a password for a root user. > If you effectively tab through this, not setting a password at all, then you > get a normal user account. Hardly surpris

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:35:58AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 8:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPES

Re: Guest Samba shares

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:15:22AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > For what it's worth, I drafted this last night but couldn't send it - > > kicking self as I knew most of you would be active whilst I was asleep: > > > > This a

Re: Guest Samba shares

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:45:01AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I made various minor changes (like changing the mount to /music) and now > > the problem appears to be resolved. As is sometimes the case, the > > problem gets solved without you knowi

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 8:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > > Is t

Re: AMD GPU Sea Islands Problem

Try purging xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and xserver-xorg-video-ati, then restarting X. That should automatically result in using the modesetting X driver. It does for my sea islands. If it's OK, either keep it that way, or try reinstalling only xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. I tried to purge xserver-x

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12/12/20 3:35 PM, Marco Möller wrote: On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even re

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12.12.20 15:18, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? It is not even required to mount your disk from other hardware

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

Not sure is that was already answered, since I lost track of the thread. But resetting the root password is just matter of booting with root partition it rw mode and init=/bin/bash isn't? On 12/12/20 1:03 AM, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: Even if you plan to use sudo for 99%

Re: Guest Samba shares

Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > For what it's worth, I drafted this last night but couldn't send it - > kicking self as I knew most of you would be active whilst I was asleep: > > This article seems to confirm my thought that macOS supports sshfs: > > https:

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 13:15:41 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > >

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > > > > There

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 22:53 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on our syst

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > AND run sudo as root, for additional safety > > Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. > > > There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue > on o

Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd

On Fri 11 Dec 2020 at 21:33:42 -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, I'm having an issue with a Brother HL-3150CDN printer on Debian Testing. You do not say, so we will assume there is a USB connection. The device probably does IPP-over-USB; you will want to read https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverl

Re: Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

Hello, On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:51:17AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > That generates a followup question, out of curiosity. Presumably for > that to work, all the info needed for the computer to learn about the VG > at boot must be stored on the PV. What happens when there is more than > one

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: AND run sudo as root, for additional safety Is this supposed to be ironic? I really can't tell. There was a detailed discussion here about sudo being a security issue on our systems. It appears to be default in debian 10, so most of us get it as defa

Re: Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:53:59PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:46:46PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I feel > > like I can't follow the instructions in the HOWTO because it wants me to > > unmount the file systems, export the LVs and so on, on the old machine > > befo

Re: [OT] Re: Guest Samba shares

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:14:49 +1100 David wrote: > > In case you don't know, the 'pi' user can be renamed to whatever you > want, so that might be an alternative way to reach your goal instead > of creating a separate 'paulf' user. > I didn't know what other undocumented quirks might apply to

Re: Guest Samba shares

On Vi, 11 dec 20, 17:52:03, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I do use mutt, and have downloaded nn, trn4, tin and slrn to try them > out. I'll pay special attention to slrn. Thanks. Neomutt has built-in NNTP support. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Desc

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

On Sb, 12 dec 20, 13:43:09, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 11:03 am, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote: > > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > > > Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, > > > there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency > > > situations w