Re: Debian manuals.

2024-10-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/06/2024 07:21 PM, knomadness wrote: Is there a paper book type of manual that I can get of Debian? Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer Might https://www.debian.org/doc/books or https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22debian%22%20%22books%22 be helpful?

RE: Firefox

2024-10-06 Thread Maureen L Thomas
There was an upgrade so I did it and it is now even worse as far as getting pages to load.  I keep getting error 404, and other messages. But if I copy the addy and put it in Web it comes up right away.  What the hell is going on.  I love firefox but can I install an old one without a ton of pr

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

2024-10-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 8:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > Paused downloads is a more apparent symptom, however I have not tried to > reproduce it (I prefer wget that sets file modification time accordingly > to Last-Modified header). True. wget would have been ideal for large downloads. But sometimes

Debian manuals.

2024-10-06 Thread knomadness
Is there a paper book type of manual that I can get of Debian? Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer

Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-06 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Sunday 06 October 2024 05:28:26 am Michael Kjörling wrote: > The only other simultaneous package upgrades in my case are the libgsf > and oath-toolkit security upgrades, which seem unlikely to be relevant > to this. > I just got a notice about libgsf in a security mailing list: https://securi

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-06 Thread eben
On 10/6/24 14:44, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed Oct 2, 2024 at 12:33 AM BST, Default User wrote: May I ask why you decided to switch from rsnapshot to rdiff-backup, and then to borg? The main issue I hit with rdiff-backup was if I wanted to move files or directories containing large files ar

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Oct 2, 2024 at 12:33 AM BST, Default User wrote: > May I ask why you decided to switch from rsnapshot to rdiff-backup, and > then to borg? Sure! At the time I was using rsnapshot, I was subscribed to some very high traffic mailing lists (such as LKML), and storing the mail in Maildir forma

Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-06 Thread local10
Oct 6, 2024, 09:28 by c9bc136c6...@ewoof.net: > A data point: KeepassXC has been doing the same for me (with the same > mouse cursor theme, no less) for a very long time; I chalked that one > down to it being a Qt application in a GTK environment. > KeepassXC seems to be not affected by the issu

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 15:50:59 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Run the "id" command with no arguments to see your current group > > memberships. You'll see that "sudo" is not one of them. > > I found that if I then tried "id rprice" I could see "sudo". Y

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL The %sudo line in /etc/sudoers has no effect. Is there some other incantation needed in /etc/sudoers ? You need to log out and back in, or at least start a new authent

Re: OT: Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

2024-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 6:39 AM john doe wrote: > > On 10/5/24 19:38, Roger Price wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, err...@free.fr wrote: > > [...] > > > > Could a moderator or administrator remove and BAN Espacebusiness from > > the Debian list? Their commercial messages have no relation to Debian,

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 13:34:01 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I also tried to use sudo to call synaptic and failed: > >rprice@maria ~ sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic >[sudo] password for rprice: >rprice is not in the sudoers file. > > I see in /etc/sudoers > ># Allow members of group sudo

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Joe wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: ... As with Debian 11, a synaptic popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root password I get "Authentification failure". This worked on Debian 11. One test to try is to open a te

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread tomas
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > Hello Joe, > > >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the > > As does mine. > > >root password, and it says so explicitly. > > Here, I get a different r

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:24:03 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > Hello Joe, > > >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the > > > > As does mine. > > >root password, and it says so explicitly. > > Here, I get a different

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100 Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the As does mine. >root password, and it says so explicitly. Here, I get a different result. The requester asks for authentication but does not specify root password. In

Re: Reading an old HDD

2024-10-06 Thread Will Mengarini
* Henrik Ahlgren [24-10/06=Sun 11:20 +0300]: > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: >> However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't >> usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of >> course SSDs are utterly silent. > > I wonder

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to > install other packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic > popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root > password I get "Authentification f

Re: Bookworm: Mouse cursor issues after upgrading to FireFox v128?

2024-10-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 4 Oct 2024 21:59 +0200, from loca...@tutanota.com (local10): > After upgrading to Firefox v128 from v115, Firefox seems to have > stopped using some mouse cursors as per the active KDE theme (the > Oxygen White theme, in my case). For some reason, instead of showing > the white arrow mouse curso

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: Hello Roger, >I click on "details" but all I see is "Action: >com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic". PolicyKit is installed: you must use the user's password. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / )

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 6 Oct 2024 10:47 +0200, from ro...@rogerprice.org (Roger Price): > I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to install other > packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic popup asks for the > super user password, but after entering root password I get > "Authentifica

Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

2024-10-06 Thread Roger Price
I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to install other packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root password I get "Authentification failure". This worked on Debian 11. I click on "details" but all

Re: Reading an old HDD

2024-10-06 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't > usually audible, although I've had a few very noisy 5¼ drives. And of > course SSDs are utterly silent. I wonder how ancient drives you are using? Have there even bee

OT: Re: Information mise à jour de vos données professionnelles

2024-10-06 Thread john doe
On 10/5/24 19:38, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, err...@free.fr wrote: On 10/4/24 2:05 PM, Espacebusiness - via Espacebusiness wrote: Bonjour, Depuis plus de 30 ans, Espacebusiness.com met en relation des entreprises Bonjour Est ce qu'un modérateur ou admi peut supprimer et BANNIR Es