Re: NTP fails to sync local clock

2024-09-27 Thread Steve Keller
Many thanks to Urs and George. > In Debian 12 the default /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf file contains the lines > > # Comment this out if you have a refclock and want it to be able to > discipline > # the clock by itself (e.g. if the system is not connected to the network). > tos minclock 4 minsane

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

2024-09-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/09/2024 18:53, George at Clug wrote: 3) I am not confident that constant switching between display manager, e.g. LightDM, SLiM, XDM, GDM, SDDM, KDM, Ly will not cause issues. Besides the frustration of changing the configuration each time you want to jump into another DE. Is it really n

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

2024-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 10:00:01AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 28/9/24 06:42, Andy Smith wrote: > > # ip address add 85.119.82.225/32 dev enX0 > > # ip -4 route add default via inet6 fe80::1 src 85.119.82.225 > > > > Is it possible to configure that using ifupdown's > > /etc/network/inte

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/09/2024 06:47, tom arnall wrote: the hardware is a bluetooth headset  LG-HBS-XL7. thanks for getting back to me. ___ Hopefully Kamala Harris will be a president whom all of us end up both respecting and loving. If God-centered people are working for her, the chances of that happe

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/09/2024 21:01, J wrote: So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. I expect that to use thunar as a file picker it should provide file picker desktop-portal D-Bus interface and DE should allow alternative d

Re: ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

2024-09-27 Thread jeremy ardley
On 28/9/24 06:42, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Here is a manual network setup I have created by use of the "ip" command: $ ip address show dev enX0 2: enX0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 85.119.82.225/32 scope

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread Geoff
J wrote: Hello! So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. Yes, i use Gnome. I have used the command |xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory| So. |$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory thunar.desktop

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread Dan Ritter
George at Clug wrote: > I really hope I am wrong, and there is a way to change the theme > for "file management" dialog boxes. Does any know of any DE's in which > this can be done? It's not a function of the desktop environment. In Android, it's an externally callable standard function. In Win

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread J
I am not a clever person, so most of these options are not for me : ) I have already given up on that subject. But I read about something similar for KDE and it was solved. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256289 сб, 28 сент. 2024 г. в 02:30, George at Clug : > > > On Saturday, 28-0

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread George at Clug
I really hope I am wrong, and there is a way to change the theme for "file management" dialog boxes. Does any know of any DE's in which this can be done? George. On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 09:29 George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 08:59 J wrote: > Thanks for your reply! But i am

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 28-09-2024 at 08:59 J wrote: > Thanks for your reply! But i am sorry, you completely missed the point. I > know what a file manager is. > > "Then i understood that it is not Nautilus, but Gtk File chooser. > > Now i wonder if there is a way to use "native" Thunar and not this GTK

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread J
Thanks for your reply! But i am sorry, you completely missed the point. I know what a file manager is. "Then i understood that it is not Nautilus, but Gtk File chooser. Now i wonder if there is a way to use "native" Thunar and not this GTK file chooser?" The question was if there is a way to mak

Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread George at Clug
J, I am sure that others will correct me if I am wrong. Point 1 - Whatever File Manager (File Picker, as you call it?) you choose to use, it is a program, a specific program and has nothing to do with what file management system of your current Desktop Environment as used by other programs (li

ifupdown and inet6 gateways for inet interfaces

2024-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Here is a manual network setup I have created by use of the "ip" command: $ ip address show dev enX0 2: enX0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 85.119.82.225/32 scope global enX0 valid_lft forever prefer

Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread J
Hello! So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. Yes, i use Gnome. I have used the command xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory So. $ xdg-mime query default inode/directory thunar.desktop But then i n

Re: CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

2024-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 03:21:21PM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > oh well, the sensationalism around this is probably overdone > nevertheless. As far as I understand it, you would need cups-browsed running on an unfirewalled host in which case an attacker could create a bogus printer that ex

Re: CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

2024-09-27 Thread Ralph Aichinger
On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 01:16:07PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I put "CVE-2024-47176" in to that and the first result was: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-47176 Thanks, Andy. Not quite the information i had hoped for (that stuff not being relevant for Debian ;), but oh

objtool errors message while compiling the Kernel (was: Is the CPU microcode updated?)

2024-09-27 Thread Franco Martelli
On 26/09/24 at 14:53, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: A new microcode for your CPU should be inside of /usr/lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin since it says 'family: 0x15' in your output. There is a little program on https://github.com/AMDESE/amd_ucode_info to look into the microcode fil

Re: CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

2024-09-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 02:22:10PM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > Is there some place tracking CVE 2024-47176 and related ones in Debian? I put "Debian CVE" in to my favourite search engine and the first result was: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ I put "CVE-2024-47176" in

CUPS vulnerability (CVE2024-47176 and related ones)

2024-09-27 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hi, everybody. Is there some place tracking CVE 2024-47176 and related ones in Debian? https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/cups_linux_rce_disclosed/ /ralph

Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience

2024-09-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/26/2024 09:42 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 23 Sep 2024 at 06:31:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: A primary deficiency of Debian documentation is lack of indexes [despite having file titles of form index.html ]. [q.v. https://differencesfinder.com/index-vs-table-of-contents-key-differen

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

2024-09-27 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 27-09-2024 at 12:40 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 26 Sep 2024 at 09:52:18 (+0100), Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:19:26 +1000 George at Clug wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 25-09-2024 at 12:37 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: > > > > > An other

Re: Is the CPU microcode updated?

2024-09-27 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 14:53 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > There is a little program on https://github.com/AMDESE/amd_ucode_info to look > into the microcode file. For the package amd64-microcode on Debian testing > version 3.20240820.1 it yields: > > $ amd_ucode_info.py /usr/lib/firmware/amd