Desktop environment and VNC

Hey, I am having some difficulty connecting to Debian 11 Bullseye via VNC. I am trying to understand the situation comprehensively. There are many VNC servers that can be installed from apt, but you also need a desktop environment, which can be installed from tasksel. I see in tasksel that I al

Re: CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3)

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 05:21:56PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > (When switching between Unix and Windows, I need t adjust the CMOS clock on > > the next boot.) > > Side note: You could presumably skip this by configuring your Windows > installs to use UTC for the CMOS clock. See e.g.: > >

Re: CMOS clock (was: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3)

On 4/21/22 14:21, Stefan Monnier wrote: (When switching between Unix and Windows, I need t adjust the CMOS clock on the next boot.) Side note: You could presumably skip this by configuring your Windows installs to use UTC for the CMOS clock. See e.g.: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sys

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

On 4/21/22 13:50, David Wright wrote: On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 01:02:56 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: What package do I file a bug report against? It's not clear from reading your posts (unless it requires some correlation, on my part, of your observations) whether you have had storms on US

Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

I'm using Mate 1.20. I noticed a continual flood in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front. I tracked down the error at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645553 I used more or less the procedure documented by pkoz 2018-12-28 08:17:40 UTC and t

Re: Grub question

David Wright composed on 2022-04-21 12:28 (UTC-0500): > On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: >> When creating a partition with Gparted the is a box titled "Label:". >> I was referring to the content placed there. > There are lots of partitioners, but only one set of use

Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

On 2022-04-21 at 14:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: > >> When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a >> virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I >> could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks >> in the vm. And zfs f

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 13:04:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/21/2022 10:12 AM, Christian Britz wrote: > > On 2022-04-21 16:34 UTC+0200, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > My browser is a SeaMonkey stand alone executable. > > > > There is such a thing? The SeaMonkey I know, consists of many

Re: backing up backups

On Mon 18 Apr 2022 at 16:06:48 (-0400), Default User wrote: > BTW, I think I have narrowed the previous restore problem down to what I > believe is a "buggy" early UEFI implementation on my computer (circa 2014). > Irrelevant now; I have re-installed with BIOS (not UEFI) booting and MBR > (not GP

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 01:02:56 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/20/22 15:31, David Christensen wrote: > > > The rear USB 2.0 ports are down right now.  Are there any commands > > I should run before rebooting (to test if the problem is hardware > > software)? > > > I ran the desktop with

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 4/21/22 05:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:03:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home rem

2FA

thank you dan. I'll think it over and will come back more clearly. thank you again. regards, steef

Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. The main problem was that dpkg would k

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 04/21/2022 10:12 AM, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-04-21 16:34 UTC+0200, Richard Owlett wrote: My browser is a SeaMonkey stand alone executable. There is such a thing? The SeaMonkey I know, consists of many different files in a directory, not one "stand alone executable". And it will st

Re: Grub question

On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I have a machine set aside to test several c

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 07:03:01 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on > a different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain > on its current partition. >

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 11:15 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/21/2022 08:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett > wrote: > > > >> I am not upgrading in place. > >> > >> I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > >> different pa

Re: 2FA

steef wrote: > Hi folks, after long time back home. with a question. > Is 2FA installable on my OS debian11 and, if yes, how do I do that? Yes, and it depends on what you want. For example: You can set PAM to require a TOTP: libpam-google-authenticator libpam-oath which can be required on all

2FA

Hi folks, after long time back home. with a question. Is 2FA installable on my OS debian11 and, if yes, how do I do that? Thank you, Steef Groningen  Holland

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 21/4/22 8:03 pm, Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its current partition. I'm aware of cautions about up

Re: Grub question

On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I have a machine set aside to test several co

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 04/21/2022 08:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 2022-04-21 16:34 UTC+0200, Richard Owlett wrote: > My browser is a SeaMonkey stand alone executable. There is such a thing? The SeaMonkey I know, consists of many different files in a directory, not one "stand alone executable". And it will store it's settings and stuff in a profile directo

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 04/21/2022 07:59 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:03:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /ho

Re: openjdk 18?

It looks like an early access build was uploaded into unstable on February 17. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-18 Regards, -Roberto On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:06:47AM -0400, Dale Harris wrote: >Hi, >Just wondering if anyone is aware of the status of packaging OpenJDK 18 in >D

openjdk 18?

Hi, Just wondering if anyone is aware of the status of packaging OpenJDK 18 in Debian? It was released last month. https://jdk.java.net/18/ -- Dale Harris rod...@gmail.com /.-)

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On 04/21/2022 07:34 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its current partition. I'm aware o

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 8:21 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on > its current partition. > > I'm aware

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:03:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its > current partition. >

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its > current partition. > > I'm aware of cautions about upgrading

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:03:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I am not upgrading in place. > > I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a > different partition. > > I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its > current partition. >

Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

I am not upgrading in place. I currently have Debian 9.13 installed on one partition with /home on a different partition. I will install Debian 11.3 on a fresh partition and have /home remain on its current partition. I'm aware of cautions about upgrading in-place cf [https://www.debian.o

Re: Grub question

On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 05:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I have a machine set aside to test several config

Re: how to register a system service

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 04:13:20PM +0800, Henrik S wrote: > Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal system > service such as postfix. > > How can I setup this? A beginner's guide is at .

Re: Grub question

On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11. Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automaticall

Re: Live usb version of testing

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:51:59AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't > working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather > crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these? > > Thanks

Re: Live usb version of testing

Hi, James Allsopp wrote: > I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather > crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these? I'd expect "bookworm" in https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage

Re: Live usb version of testing

Hi, I would suggest having a look at https://github.com/ventoy I hope it helps. Sebastian On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 11:52, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't > working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rath

Live usb version of testing

Hi, My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these? Thanks James

Re: how to register a system service

On 2022-04-21 10:13 UTC+0200, Henrik S wrote: > Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal > system service such as postfix. > > How can I setup this? The man page for systemd.service contains examples for simple service files. Even I was able to create one and that d

Re: system freeze

On 2022-04-20 21:52, Felix Miata wrote: You left out the S part of inxi -SGayz, so we don't see the kernel parameters to confirm whether radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 was in effect on the current boot. Ah, it didn't change. seems "grub-mkconfig" isn't the thing to type. should be "up

Re: how to register a system service

On 4/21/2022 10:13 AM, Henrik S wrote: Hello Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal system service such as postfix. How can I setup this? If I understand you correctly, you will need to create a Systmed's service file. -- John Doe

how to register a system service

Hello Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal system service such as postfix. How can I setup this? thank you.

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

On 4/20/22 15:31, David Christensen wrote: The rear USB 2.0 ports are down right now.  Are there any commands I should run before rebooting (to test if the problem is hardware software)? I ran the desktop with the keyboard and mouse connected directly to the rear USB 3.0 ports. I did not se