Re: bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > AIUI you really want to avoid using accented characters or any sort > of composition in your username and password. The reason is that if > your computer gets set in any unexpected language setting (or unset), > you might not be able to login at all, and unable to correct thi

Re: Bullseye: exo-utils 4.16.0-1 and exo-preferred-applications???

2021-04-10 Thread John Crawley
On 10/04/2021 00:26, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 15:03:24 +0900 As near as I can tell, exo-preferred-applications has gone away entirely. That does seem to be the case. https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/commit/c955a4806f92eb25d341ad71714f558800efa55c#b0e6c4c10d3fff48da

Re: bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 19:11:15 (-0400), mcgarrett wrote: > > On April 10, 2021 at 5:53 PM laurent aerens > > wrote: > > > > Package: unknown > > > > Version: debian 9 - 10 > > > > Severity: minor > > > > When I type accent marks (¨^´`) in the terminal followed by a letter > >

Re: bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 23:53:27 (+0200), laurent aerens wrote: > Package: unknown > > Version: debian 9 - 10 > > Severity: minor > > When I type accent marks (¨^´`) in the terminal followed by a letter > (that does not match with the accent) (for example ^ and the letter n) > nothing happens and

Re: bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:53:27PM +0200, laurent aerens wrote: > Package: unknown > > Version: debian 9 - 10 > > Severity: minor This looks like you're attempting to generate headers for a bug report, except that you're writing to debian-user rather than to the bug tracking system, and you've a

Re: bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread mcgarrett
> On April 10, 2021 at 5:53 PM laurent aerens wrote: > > > Package: unknown > > Version: debian 9 - 10 > > Severity: minor > > When I type accent marks (¨^´`) in the terminal followed by a letter > (that does not match with the accent) (for example ^ and the letter n) > not

bug considering accent marks

2021-04-10 Thread laurent aerens
Package: unknown Version: debian 9 - 10 Severity: minor When I type accent marks (¨^´`) in the terminal followed by a letter (that does not match with the accent) (for example ^ and the letter n) nothing happens and the keystrokes get ignored. Typing an accent mark and a space allows you to

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 01:21:21PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > My start-up files, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and other files that > they source, contain permanent printf commands. When they finish > printing their output, the next thing that's going to happen is > that the shell will emit a prompt. S

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:05:23AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). It > looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?). Not quite. They both use the same libraries to do the actual work, but one does not actually exe

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-10 Thread Lee
On 4/10/21, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 07 Apr 2021 at 21:46:30 (+), Lee wrote: >> On 4/7/21, Marco Ippolito wrote: >> >> Where I want output, I protect it with: >> >> >> >> [ -n "$PS1" ] && printf … >> > >> > Maybe consider: >> > >> >[[ -t 1 ]] && printf ... >> >> Until your script

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 07 Apr 2021 at 21:46:30 (+), Lee wrote: > On 4/7/21, Marco Ippolito wrote: > >> Where I want output, I protect it with: > >> > >> [ -n "$PS1" ] && printf … > > > > Maybe consider: > > > > [[ -t 1 ]] && printf ... > > Until your script that was started via crontab silently fails

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 10:05:23 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/10/21 4:59 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > ... I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from > > version 78.6 to version 78.9. > > I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). > It loo

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 12:59:12 (+0100), Eric S Fraga wrote: > > I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is > working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed > to upgrade. > > So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from > ve

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x & LGA1155

2021-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-04-08 22:30 +0200, Grzesiek wrote: > On 3/18/21 9:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2021-03-18 21:03 +0100, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> >>> I noticed recently that efibootmgr stoped working. On all my Sid >>> machines I get the following: >>> >>> # efibootmgr >>> EFI variables are not support

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/21 4:59 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: ... I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). It looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?). I use apt-get(8).

Re: different internet speed in debian and smart phone

2021-04-10 Thread kaye n
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:23 PM David wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 23:51, kaye n wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:34 AM David wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 23:39, kaye n wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:45 PM IL Ka > wrote: > >> > >> >>> Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM431

Re: different internet speed in debian and smart phone

2021-04-10 Thread David
On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 23:51, kaye n wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:34 AM David wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 23:39, kaye n wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:45 PM IL Ka wrote: >> >> >>> Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter >> >> >> ok, this is your

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-10 Thread George Shuklin
On 4/9/21 9:26 PM, Brian wrote: In response to this well-argued post: which is less risky when not installing a package from the archives? * Install the vendor .deb. * Install from the snap store. Both are providing about the same level of isolation. One can make more bad things with you

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-10 Thread George Shuklin
On 4/6/21 2:49 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 11:20:58 +0200, Yoann LE BARS wrote: Hello everybody out there! On 2021/04/06 at 01:53 am, Paul Johnson wrote: There's nothing user-unfriendly about .debs.  They just don't want to maintain their software and are looking for a "fire and fo

Re: different internet speed in debian and smart phone

2021-04-10 Thread kaye n
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:34 AM David wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 23:39, kaye n wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:45 PM IL Ka wrote: > > >>> Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter > > >> ok, this is your card. > > >> Lets see output of > >> $ iw dev [you

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > Did you try to completely stop all of the previous version's processes? > > With new Firefox updates I frequently observe that the already > running old version "disintegrates" [...] Very polite way to put it :) Yes, that's my

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread Linux-Fan
Eric S Fraga writes: Hello all, I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed to upgrade. So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. Start up t

upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread Eric S Fraga
Hello all, I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed to upgrade. So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. Start up the new version and not a

Re: ping gateway ok, ping any other local network address fails

2021-04-10 Thread Mart van de Wege
rudu writes: > > To configure the printer, I first have to be able to ping it on the > local network, which every over computer can do. So all other peers on the LAN can get to the printer. > And they can print all right, so this desktop must have some network > misconfiguration of some sort, I