Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
ср, 17 июл. 2024 г. в 10:35, jeremy ardley : > A basic linux LAMP server will fit on 10GB disk and can run on 1GB ram > with a swap file. Even lower and without swap for basic usage with optimized setup (mostly --no-install-recommends) At my work (small hosting provider) we sell vds from 512M RAM

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:01:30 +0200 Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello Daniel, > >I opened a bug report but didn't get an answer. >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076210 > >Someone has a workaround? See; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075760 Which is very simil

Re: LINUX-IMAGE-6.8.11 headers cannot be installed

2024-07-16 Thread George at Clug
Prajnanaswaroopa, What sources are you using to upgrade from? e.g. what do you see for: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list I do not know what Kali Linux might use for non-free firmware. Debian Bookworm can use something like: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free non-free-firm

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/07/2024 10:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: hobbit:~$ cat .config/systemd/user/service.d/env.conf [Service] Environment="FOO=%h/test123" "BAR=b a r" hobbit:~$ systemctl --user daemon-reload hobbit:~$ systemctl --user start xterm.service daemon-reload is not enough in KDE. krunner and plasmashell

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread jeremy ardley
On 17/7/24 05:47, DdB wrote: Since you do not object to the use of current Windows, i would be surprised, if it would be impossible to run it in vbox. One thing though: Back in the days, i was using commodity hardware, limiting the things, i could do. My current box has plenty of RAM, processi

Re: LINUX-IMAGE-6.8.11 headers cannot be installed

2024-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 19:30:20 -, Prajnanaswaroopa wrote: > Hello, > I am using a Kali Linux https://www.google.com/search?q=kali+linux+support

LINUX-IMAGE-6.8.11 headers cannot be installed

2024-07-16 Thread Prajnanaswaroopa
Hello, I am using a Kali Linux 6.6.9 version. When I tried to update and upgrade, the terminal shows that the header linux-header-6.8.11-amd64 cannot be installed. I tried several commands, but all seen to return the same comment. In addition, the error the terminal shows is as follows:     dpk

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 16, 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somehow I'm glad I stayed away from DEs and systemd up to now. Perhaps I > > just retire before the alternatives aren't viable anymore. Or perhaps, as > > with PulseAudio, I can leapfrog that "tech". > > Retirement is no

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 17-07-2024 at 07:47 DdB wrote: > Am 16.07.2024 um 16:31 schrieb jeremy ardley: > > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. > OMG, that came as a shock to me! > ... because i am relying on vbox since more than a decade now. (It began > on Windows Vista, next Ubuntu was my OS, and

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Le 16/07/2024 à 16:31, jeremy ardley a écrit : VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. why ? I use it daily and it works well on my debian 12... There are alternatives that include: - KVM/QEMU - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) cool ! will try it too :)

Listing packages installed on broken system, was systemd errors

2024-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Jul 2024 at 21:35:39 (+0100), mick.crane wrote: > I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a > treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using > the nouveau module thing. > Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread DdB
Am 16.07.2024 um 16:31 schrieb jeremy ardley: > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. OMG, that came as a shock to me! ... because i am relying on vbox since more than a decade now. (It began on Windows Vista, next Ubuntu was my OS, and Windows kept running in a VM. Next i switched to debian (O

Debian for Limited memory

2024-07-16 Thread Jeff Pang
My tiny vps from vultr has 512m ram only (it’s 2.5usd/m so cheap). Should I install debian 9 in it for this limited memory? Thank you -- Jeff Pang jeffp...@aol.com

Creating custom rspberry image using ansible

2024-07-16 Thread Stefano Prina
Hello, I am trying to create a custom raspberry image starting from the code here https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs I added the ansible step in this file raspi_master.yaml: - apt: install packages: - ansible - python3 - ca-certificates - dosfstools

systemd errors

2024-07-16 Thread mick.crane
I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using the nouveau module thing. Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get rid of the nvidia module. It still works with "startx" but th

Re: apt-mirror can't read bookworm-updates

2024-07-16 Thread Yuri Konotopov
This is known issue in the apt-mirror [1] You can use apt-mirror2 [2] which fixes all known apt-mirror issues [1] https://github.com/apt-mirror/apt-mirror/issues/144 [2] https://gitlab.com/apt-mirror2/apt-mirror2 -- Best regards, Yuri Konotopov

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM wrote: ... > I use it every day. Mind you, I'm running XP, > but I do Windows program development on it and it runs just > fine. I give it 512MB of memory, and programs run on it at > least as fast as on a native Windows box. Thanks, but I now have a good solut

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:06 Kent West wrote: ... > I use "Virtual Machine Manager" now, instead of VirtualBox (mostly > because of the more-libre licensing; last I used VB, you had to use > their proprietary pay-for add-on for USB3 support, if I recall > correctly), but I used to use VB. Thank

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread debian-user
Darac Marjal wrote: > I'm not saying that what you did was wrong, but systemd provides a > few shortcuts which can make things a bit more user-friendly. > > On 16/07/2024 04:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > OK. Let's follow this path a bit. > > I googled "how to create a systemd user service" and got

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Darac Marjal
Debian is a multi-user operating system. Decisions should be made accordingly. I suppose umask is a moot point on phones and tablets, where single-user is often the use case. On the contrary, modern Android is strongly multi-user. Each "app" tends to be allocated its own user ID. The logic is

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Darac Marjal
I'm not saying that what you did was wrong, but systemd provides a few shortcuts which can make things a bit more user-friendly. On 16/07/2024 04:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: OK. Let's follow this path a bit. I googled "how to create a systemd user service" and got

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM wrote: >[...] > > (The most probable outcome though is even less rosy: everything'll run in > the browser, and Secure Boot will make sure that your hardware refuses to > run anything else, because the chips are sponsored by the Ad Industry. Lol...

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Somehow I'm glad I stayed away from DEs and systemd up to now. Perhaps I > just retire before the alternatives aren't viable anymore. Or perhaps, as > with PulseAudio, I can leapfrog that "tech". Retirement is no solution. What shall we retirees do when X11 is laid t

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread cgibbs
On Tue Jul 16 11:11:54 2024 jeremy ardley wrote: > On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: > >> I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for >> a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to >> support the Raku language. > > Thus my question is: Has anyo

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 11:52:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 22:21:23 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > Greg, do you have an example when Environment= in service.d works, but an > > environment.d file does not? > > Oh gods, there's MORE shit to worry about?? Of course ther

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 22:21:23 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Greg, do you have an example when Environment= in service.d works, but an > environment.d file does not? Oh gods, there's MORE shit to worry about?? Of course there is. Bloody hell. In previous years, I remember exploring environment.d

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/07/2024 19:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 18:42:40 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 16/07/2024 10:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: hobbit:~/.config$ cat systemd/user/xterm.service I am a bit afraid that corner cases might exist because there are no .service files for applications

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 09:42 jeremy ardley wrote: … > VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. > There are alternatives that include: > > - KVM/QEMU > > - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) > > In my experience KVM/QEMU is fairly stable. The VMWare product not so much.

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread jeremy ardley
On 16/7/24 19:31, Tom Browder wrote: I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Kent West
On 7/16/24 6:31 AM, Tom Browder wrote: I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it b

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 23:39:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Now we just need for GNOME users to discover a way to configure the > programs that are started as children of dbus, and then we can move > forward. Documentation would be my top priority. If other people want > to try to drum up inte

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 18:42:40 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 16/07/2024 10:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > hobbit:~/.config$ cat systemd/user/xterm.service > > I am a bit afraid that corner cases might exist because there are no > .service files for applications started from menus and runners Wel

Re: purely local DNS

2024-07-16 Thread Adam Weremczuk
My intention was to send emails to a single domain with any other email traffic being disabled. In order to achieve this I considered smart host, dnsmasq and even bind9. The 3-liner solution that I've found seems the simplest, least intrusive and appears to be working fine. On 16/07/2024 01

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Lists (12024-07-16): > In that case you were correct. I had found posts online where people were > pointing in the direction of systemd and due to the problem with > systemd-cryptsetup you warned us about I was inclined to take those posts at > face value. It seems that was not "fair". That happen

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/07/2024 10:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 09:58:20 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: cat ~/.config/systemd/user/service.d/umask.conf [Service] UMask=0007 I googled "how to create a systemd user service" and got The following blog posts (0pointer.de) may be a bit outdated, but

VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
I haven't looked at VB in a long time, but I have a real need for a Windows host to port some Linux libraries to Windows in order to support the Raku language. I now have lots of memory and disk space which was always a significant issue when I used it before, and my use case is much different. Th

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-16 Thread Lists
On 2024-07-16 12:51, Nicolas George wrote: Lists (12024-07-16): That referred to a warning I got after booting up after d-i finished installing the system. The exact message shown was this: cryptsetup: WARNING nvme1n1p3_crypt: ignoring unknown option 'x-initrd.attach' This message comes from

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Lists (12024-07-16): > That referred to a warning I got after booting up after d-i finished > installing the system. The exact message shown was this: > > cryptsetup: WARNING nvme1n1p3_crypt: ignoring unknown option > 'x-initrd.attach' This message comes from /usr/lib/cryptsetup/functions, a fil

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-16 Thread Lists
On 2024-07-16 11:52, Nicolas George wrote: I do not know what you are referring to when you talk about x-initrd.attach, you were too terse. But I notice that you talked about it in the same paragraph that you reported the inaccurate information that systemd has its own implementation of cryptset

Re: systemd-cryptsetup

2024-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Lists (12024-07-15): > For the most part I understand your point of view. As a matter of fact I am > not even opposed to systemd as such [1], but over the years I have had my > share of problems that in the end proved to be caused by some transition to > systemd. This has made me a bit wary of it.

Re: EFI El Torito image on ISO9660 (was: [PATCH] bli: Fix crash in get_part_uuid)

2024-07-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Tested with debian-12.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso on QEMU+OVMF and real hardware: > (proc) (memdisk) (cd0) (cd0,apple2) (cd0,apple1) (cd0,msdos2) I wonder from where (cd0,apple2) comes. A Debian amd64 netinst ISO has a single APM partition which marks the EFI El Torito boot

Re: Bug Report

2024-07-16 Thread gene heskett
On 7/16/24 02:06, Richard Bostrom wrote: Bug in my opinion. /etc/resolv.conf does not block out pornography That is not its job. Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom Sent with Proton Mail secure email. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-16 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12024-07-15): > Neither am I. But more to the point, it appears that the default umask > literally *cannot* be changed in any kind of universal way. There are, > like, half a dozen different places you'd have to apply a change in > order to cover just the *most common* workflows.

hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-16 Thread Daniel Schröter
Hello, someone else has the problem with hp-check since last update? $ hp-check /usr/bin/hp-check:630: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' lsusb_pat = re.compile("""^Bus\s([0-9a-fA-F]{3,3})\sDevice\s([0-9a-fA-F]{3,3}):\sID\s([0-9a-fA-F]{4,4}):([0-9a-fA-F]{4,4})(.*)""", re.IGNORECASE) Tr

Re: Bug Report

2024-07-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 03:32:36AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Richard Bostrom wrote: > > Bug in my opinion. > > > > /etc/resolv.conf does not block out pornography > > > /etc/resolv.conf is where you configure one or more DNS servers. > Three is usually optimal. > > If you choose DNS servers t

Re: Bug Report

2024-07-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Bostrom wrote: > Bug in my opinion. > > /etc/resolv.conf does not block out pornography /etc/resolv.conf is where you configure one or more DNS servers. Three is usually optimal. If you choose DNS servers that resolve everything, you get everything. If you choose DNS servers run by cen