Slow connections - DNS problems?

I read Usenet (including this mailing list via the newsgroup linux.debian.user) on my laptop. so I can keep up from anywhere. It works well, but at home it takes 20 or 30 seconds to connect to my NNTP server, newsguy.com. If I take my laptop to the office and run slrnpull there, it connects insta

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > > > > > I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would > > > > just prefer some minimalistic hypervis

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

didier gaumet wrote: > Le 23/03/2021 à 10:54, Victor Sudakov a écrit : > > > 1. Does qemu use hardware virtualization (VT-d, whatever is in the CPU)? > > Yes, I think that basically, KVM requires it (and that Qemu does not) The relation between qemu and kvm confuses me. "apt install qemu-kvm" is

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On 3/23/21 12:31 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:40:01AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I use Stretch for my daily driver laptop (Dell Latitude E6520) and UniFi Controller VPS. ... I need to migrate the daily driver to Buster, but Buster does not like the Optimus grap

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

On Tue, 23 Mar, 2021 at 17:06:47 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > didier gaumet wrote: [...] > > This one will probably do: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization > > (particularly the 3rd chapter "System Virtualization" if I understand your > > usecase) > > This is a comprehensive docu

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what? Is this worth pursuing?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:03:08 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: > Other than that: Intel has acknowledged the defect as an official > erro^Werratum and documented it. So "case closed" in that regard. Agreed. Thanks. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurl

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what? Is this worth pursuing?

Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:52:27 -0600 Charles Curley > wrote: >> I ran an amd64 VM for 24 hours, and no errors. I just fired up a 486 >> VM, and no errors. I will let that run 24 hours and see what that >> does. >> >> The i386 VM is "qemu32". I see a kvm32 in my list of op

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 21:21:32 +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > On 3/23/21 5:51 PM, Viktor Vogel wrote: > > An observation from a native English speaker - > > > > I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly > > good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I foun

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what? Is this worth pursuing?

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:52:27 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I ran an amd64 VM for 24 hours, and no errors. I just fired up a 486 > VM, and no errors. I will let that run 24 hours and see what that > does. > > The i386 VM is "qemu32". I see a kvm32 in my list of options. I may > try that as well.

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:40:01AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/23/21 9:44 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 07:52:52 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > > On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use th

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On 3/23/21 5:51 PM, Viktor Vogel wrote: An observation from a native English speaker - I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it much more difficult than Chinese. Chinese has different sounds,

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

On 2021-03-23, Viktor Vogel wrote: > An observation from a native English speaker - > > I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly > good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it > much more difficult than Chinese. > I remember seeing an inter

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On 3/23/21 9:44 AM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 07:52:52 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use this buster-proposed-updates thing, which I've never heard of before." Actually I thought

Re: Re: Copying stuck

It's current testing. And other versions are mentioned in the bug repport https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434145 I am sorry I didn't mention this before but the problem appears only with Dolphin and Krusader. It has to be something with Kio I think, because there is no problem when copying

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Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 09:31:52 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 3/22/21 8:34 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 17:26:14 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > On 3/22/21 5:03 PM, Keith Wyatt wrote: > > > > > > > As o[f] > > > > now it will include the following bug fixes. Th

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 10:39:07 (+0200), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 mar 21, 18:53:54, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > If I search https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/linux for those > > package names, I find linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64-unsigned, but I do not > > find linux-image-5.10.0-4-a

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 07:52:52 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use this > > buster-proposed-updates thing, which I've never heard of before." Actually I thought David wanted to do what I did, w

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On 3/23/21 4:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:34:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 17:26:14 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 3/22/21 5:03 PM, Keith Wyatt wrote: As o[f] now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in "buster- pro

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On 3/22/21 8:34 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 17:26:14 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 3/22/21 5:03 PM, Keith Wyatt wrote: As o[f] now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in "buster- proposed-updates", which is carried by all official mirrors. Plea

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

An observation from a native English speaker - I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it much more difficult than Chinese. Chinese has different sounds, and tones that need to be mastered, but

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

Hi. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 01:44:23PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > IMO the problem is that if it is not a partition the mdadm can not > assemble as it is looking for a partition, My mdadm.conf says: # by default (built-in), scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) and all # containers for MD

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Ma, 23 mar 21, 07:52:52, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use this > > buster-proposed-updates thing, which I've never heard of before." > > > > Here's a wiki page:

MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

I've been use MATE almost since it came out. IIRC I used to use a series of mouse clicks to determine the file name {including path} of the current icon. On my current systems {one Stretch, one Buster} if I: 1. right click on the Launcher 2. select properties 3. left click on the current ico

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

deloptes wrote: > A friend told me that he found out it is a problem in some BIOSes with > UEFI that can not handle a boot of md UEFI partition. > Perhaps it also depends how they handle the raid of a whole disk. > Are you trying to boot from that raid? Forgot to ask what is in your /etc/mdadm/md

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

Gary Dale wrote: > It's not just me but a lot of other people have been having the same > problem. It's been reported many times as I discovered after trying to > use whole disks. Moreover, the fixes that I'd used in the past don't > seem to work reliably without partitions. A friend told me that

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use this > buster-proposed-updates thing, which I've never heard of before." > > Here's a wiki page: > However, I would not follow its advice litera

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:34:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 17:26:14 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 3/22/21 5:03 PM, Keith Wyatt wrote: > > > > > As o[f] > > > now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in "buster- > > > proposed-updates", wh

Re: SERIOUSLY DANGEROUSLY OFF-TOPIC verb conjugation

On 2021-03-23, wrote: > > > And, oh, Weaver: either you have no clue or you are pulling our > legs. Possibly both. > The uncritical ease with which it promotes its particularly narrow sentiments to the broadness of general law is astounding.

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 6:03 AM Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 20:26:47 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > I think my best, followup is to state "how to recreate the problem" > > Indeed. I should not have offered the advice in that manner > and tone. Aplologies. > Absolutely accepted. No pr

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Victor Sudakov wrote: > Robbi Nespu wrote: > > On 3/23/21 10:20 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > > > I don't need any fancy manage

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

didier gaumet wrote: > Le 23/03/2021 à 11:06, Victor Sudakov a écrit : > > > My usecase would be, among other things, to access external media > > attached to the host from inside the guest, e.g. those partitioned and > > encrypted in FreeBSD-specific ways (geli encryption, gbde etc). > > this li

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Le 23/03/2021 à 10:54, Victor Sudakov a écrit : 1. Does qemu use hardware virtualization (VT-d, whatever is in the CPU)? Yes, I think that basically, KVM requires it (and that Qemu does not) 2. Can qemu present the NIC and drives to the guest paravirtualized? FreeBSD understands VirtIO Block

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Le 23/03/2021 à 11:06, Victor Sudakov a écrit : My usecase would be, among other things, to access external media attached to the host from inside the guest, e.g. those partitioned and encrypted in FreeBSD-specific ways (geli encryption, gbde etc). this link, albeit a little old should be of i

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

didier gaumet wrote: > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would > > just prefer some minimalistic hypervisor managed from the C

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 20:26:47 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I think my best, followup is to state "how to recreate the problem" Indeed. I should not have offered the advice in that manner and tone. Aplologies. -- Brian.

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Robbi Nespu wrote: > On 3/23/21 10:20 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > > (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > > I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

Hello from what I understand: - in Bullseye, as indicated in its webpage on the Debian packages website, the linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64 binary package is built from the linux-signed-amd64 source package - the purpose of Debian Backports is to provide to Stable users binary packages of sourc

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:42:17AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/22/21 7:20 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > >Dear Colleagues, > > > >What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests > >(serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? > > > >I don't need any fancy mana

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

On Lu, 22 mar 21, 18:53:54, The Wanderer wrote: > > If I search https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/linux for those > package names, I find linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64-unsigned, but I do not > find linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64 itself - even though apt reports that it > is, in fact, present. >

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

Le 23/03/2021 à 03:20, Victor Sudakov a écrit : Dear Colleagues, What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would just prefer some minimalistic hypervi

Re: SERIOUSLY DANGEROUSLY OFF-TOPIC verb conjugation

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 01:41:42PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 23-03-2021 06:06, deloptes wrote: > > Weaver wrote: > > > >> Not an easy language to learn, however, unless you already have Slavic > >> roots. > > > > You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than French? > > And I

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

On 3/22/21 7:20 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: Dear Colleagues, What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would just prefer some minimalistic hypervisor ma