Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread john doe
On 6/15/2021 8:10 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 07:50:05PM +0200, john doe wrote: On 6/15/2021 7:26 PM, Wil wrote: How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? By following the instructions available on the Debian web site (1)! In a nutshell, change 'buster/st

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Wil
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:03:20PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +, Wil wrote: How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? Hi Wil, Don't - at least not directly. If your /etc/apt/sources.list says "stable" anywhere in it, you probably want

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 4:22 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 14:34:12 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > I wonder whether using dpkg-divert(1) would help in preserving your > modified file? > > Yes, this option was intentionally avoided by me because of scripting the maintainer scripts. I on

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/16/21 1:56 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-06-15 13:26, Wil wrote: How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? It's not really an upgrade. It's more a switch in priorities. However to answer your question directly, as root do either     sed -i -s 's/buster/bullseye/g' /etc/apt

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 6/16/21 9:11 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Forwaring for information... - Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert - From: Joerg Jaspert To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:44:28 +0200 Subject: Debian Presence on Freenode Hello everyone, as you may know,

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-15 at 22:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:53:09PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: > >> I was sure to have seen something about a new software going to be >> implemented when I read thru the different post regarding the action >> done by "Korean King

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:53:09PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I was sure to have seen something about a new software going to be > implemented when I read thru the different post regarding the action > done by "Korean King" & friends + Christelle. Something about a new IRC > da

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-06-15 9:27 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-06-15 at 21:15, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> Hi, >> Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version >> release as Debian package ? > > ...huh? > > Do you have a reason to believe that libra.chat is using

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-15 at 21:15, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version > release as Debian package ? ...huh? Do you have a reason to believe that libra.chat is using new software, not already in use on other IRC servers, such as F

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version release as Debian package ? On 2021-06-15 9:11 p.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: > Forwaring for information... > > - Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert - > > From: Joerg Jaspert > To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.

[jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Forwaring for information... - Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert - From: Joerg Jaspert To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:44:28 +0200 Subject: Debian Presence on Freenode Hello everyone, as you may know, Debians official IRC presence moved from Fre

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-06-15 13:26, Wil wrote: How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? It's not really an upgrade. It's more a switch in priorities. However to answer your question directly, as root do either     sed -i -s 's/buster/bullseye/g' /etc/apt/sources.list or     sed -i -s 's/sta

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:20:09PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > A lot of the people here don't have to look up the answer; > they know it already. And as demonstrated, the answer isn't that difficult > to express. At least two people have given a *wrong* answer in this thread.

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
On 6/15/21 6:08 PM, Francisco M Neto wrote: Honestly worth a lot more. There are a lot of people that are not that familiar with Debian, and sometimes it's comprehensible that they don't look for search engines right away; a lot of times the answers that come up on a search apply to der

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hey there, I don't want to just add a meme here, but someone give this man a medal. On 2021-06-15 18:03, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > If you want to update to what is _currently_ Debian testing - now is a > relatively safe time to do so because it's in a state of freeze before it > is rel

Re: xhost-command in Debian11 [solved]

2021-06-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:17:25PM +0200, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello tomas, > > > thanks for your answer. > > On 15.06.21 21:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >No. It's the su, dropping the DISPLAY environment variable. Try adding > >the option `--whitelist-environment=DISPLAY to your su comman

Re: xhost-command in Debian11 [solved]

2021-06-15 Thread BerndSchmittNews
Hello tomas, thanks for your answer. On 15.06.21 21:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: No. It's the su, dropping the DISPLAY environment variable. Try adding the option `--whitelist-environment=DISPLAY to your su command works like a charm. Thank you Bernd

Re: xhost-command in Debian11

2021-06-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:21:10PM +0200, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello. > > I used to use xhost-command and su -l ... -c ... to run programs as a > different user in debian10. In debian11 I get an error about having no > DISPLAY env variable specified. > > Does xhost work different now? No. I

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 17:26:29 +, Wil wrote: > How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? Surely you are pulling out legs? You are well aware of the file /etc/apt/sources.list ? Maybe you have something else in mind apart from a ome sentence throwout? Hoping to hear from you.

xhost-command in Debian11

2021-06-15 Thread BerndSchmittNews
Hello. I used to use xhost-command and su -l ... -c ... to run programs as a different user in debian10. In debian11 I get an error about having no DISPLAY env variable specified. Does xhost work different now? $ uname -a Linux VB-Deb400 4.19.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) x

Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

2021-06-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But in any case, I'm not sure about booting Grub on an SSD from the > BIOS, because AIUI Grub uses sector addresses to find its core.img, > and AIUI sectors get shuffled around by the SSD controller. That shuffling is purely internal and hence completely invisible (barring bugs and the need to s

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
> > On 6/15/2021 7:26 PM, Wil wrote: > > > How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/releasenotes https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBullseye

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 07:50:05PM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 6/15/2021 7:26 PM, Wil wrote: > > How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? > > By following the instructions available on the Debian web site (1)! > > In a nutshell, change 'buster/stable' to 'bullseye/unstable' in > /et

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +, Wil wrote: > How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? Hi Wil, Don't - at least not directly. If your /etc/apt/sources.list says "stable" anywhere in it, you probably want to change that to reference "buster" today, anyway. Bullseye - Debia

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread john doe
On 6/15/2021 7:26 PM, Wil wrote: How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? By following the instructions available on the Debian web site (1)! In a nutshell, change 'buster/stable' to 'bullseye/unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list'.: $ apt-get update && apt-get full-upgrade Note

Re: upgrade to testing

2021-06-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:26:29 + Wil wrote: > How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing? The first thing I'd do is some searching on the Internet. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=debian+upgrade+stable+testing&t=vivaldi&ia=web -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlesc

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2021-06-15 Thread Wil
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Re: Thunderbird problems

2021-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 6/15/21 8:05 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 15.06.2021 06:46, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: ... I didn't had any issues with Thunderbird before and after update. It works normally as usual. I think, the root cause for this issue could be elsewhere.

Re: Thunderbird problems

2021-06-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.06.2021 06:46, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving me problems connecting to gmail. How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running Bullseye Let me guess, you unable to con

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Jun 2021 at 14:34:12 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) > file /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain > the old configuration file without prompting during automatic upgrades but

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 2:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, jaikuma...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) file > /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain the old > configuration file without prompting during automa

Re: Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:34 PM Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) > file /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain > the old configuration file without prompting during automatic upgrades but > it i

Re: Thunderbird problems

2021-06-15 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:22:41 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > I filed a bug report with Mozilla. Perhaps I should do the same with Debian? Of course, Mozilla cannot solve Debian bugs and it looks like the bug is from Debian. It is possible the bug is from Thunderburd (not Mozilla as Thunderbird i

Preserving locally modified configuration files - Dpkg::Options --force-confdef & --force-confold not working on command line

2021-06-15 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, In debian 9.13 server, i'm using custom configuration (locally modified) file /etc/samba/smb.conf , I do not want to upgrade this file and retain the old configuration file without prompting during automatic upgrades but it is still giving me the prompt even after specifying on command line :

Re: cannot mount smartphone anymore

2021-06-15 Thread Emanuel Berg
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > This suggests (no pun intended) it was installed manually > (`apt list usbguard` would confirm this), as Suggests are > not installed by default. alias ai='sudo apt-get --install-suggests install' https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/apt -- underground experts united h