Re: Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker

2024-12-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
Look at message #47 to bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089181 which has a link to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2024/12/msg0.html which advises to use "apt full-upgrade". As I was seeing the failure when trying to upgrade through the aptitude TUI,

Re: Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker

2024-12-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 07 Dec 17:24 -0600, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Some is offering de-installs of chromium in the normal debian update > process, they need to be stopped. > > This morning someone was trying to get away with de-installing > chromium-common and c++ software using the debian upda

Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker

2024-12-07 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Some is offering de-installs of chromium in the normal debian update process, they need to be stopped. This morning someone was trying to get away with de-installing chromium-common and c++ software using the debian update process. They need to be stopped forthwith. Good luck.

Re: Debian Trixie Dolphin Issue

2024-12-07 Thread Adrian
Thankyou, however as it seems the konsole panel in dolphin is dependant on matching versions, then konsole could also have been held back until dolphin was ready to go. Using aptitude upgrade cleaned up the forced install business to good effect. regards Adrian Fewster On 7/12/24 23:59, R

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-07 Thread Adrian
Thankyou, however as it seems the konsole panel in dolphin is dependant on matching versions, then konsole could also have been held back until dolphin was ready to go. regards Adrian Fewster On 7/12/24 16:47, George at Clug wrote: On Saturday, 07-12-2024 at 05:35 Dominique Dumont wrote:

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

2024-12-07 Thread Will Mengarini
* Felix Natter [24-12/07=Sa 20:27 +0100]: > [...] no significant load during the last hour [...] The system doesn't keep track of load for a full hour, but it does for fifteen minutes. uptime|awk '{print $NF}' is load average for the past 15 minutes. > [...] no gui interaction [...] (especiall

Re: utelnetd

2024-12-07 Thread David Wright
On Sat 07 Dec 2024 at 08:39:54 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Unencrypted login sessions, with passwords being > > sent in the clear over a network, are inherently insecure. > > You give a password every time a xterm or similar is opened? To my > understanding, most users just open the ter

Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

2024-12-07 Thread Felix Natter
Dear Debian users, I am looking for an automatic suspend-to-ram (I know "sudo systemctl suspend" ;-)) solution for workstations: I would like the system to suspend if and only if: - there is no gui interaction from any user (especially with VNC sessions) AND - there is no significant load du

Re: [SOLVED] Re: utelnetd

2024-12-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 08:39:54AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Unencrypted login sessions, with passwords being > sent in the clear > > over a network, are inherently insecure. > > You give a password every time a xterm or similar is opened? As has been noted multiple times in this t

[SOLVED] Re: utelnetd

2024-12-07 Thread peter
Thanks for looking at the problem. You hit on the solution. From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:07:16 -0500 > Anyway, the program compiles just fine on Debian 12. Bingo. For an independent difficulty, was in Debian 11 here. A wild guess: some procedure names changed from 11

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-07 Thread nsrxnst
holy smokes. I deleted the part, created ext4 on it, then mkswap'ed it, and I'm booting! On December 6, 2024 11:31:51 AM EST, Felix Miata wrote: >tomas composed on 2024-12-06 10:47 (UTC+0100): > >> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: >>> aha. > >>> booted a live USB. on

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 06:19:20 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:44:04 -0500 > > Store the exclusions in an ARRAY, not in a string. Then create a > > second array which contains the spelled-out --exclude=... options. > > Unfamiliar to me &

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-07 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:44:04 -0500 > Store the exclusions in an ARRAY, not in a string. Then create a > second array which contains the spelled-out --exclude=... options. Unfamiliar to me & interesting. What benefits outweigh the additional complexity? Thanks,

Re: Debian Trixie Dolphin Issue

2024-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 01:33:05PM +1000, Adrian wrote: > >Now Dolphin supports the konsole terminal panel. > >Is there a reason dolphin_24.08.0-5 is being held back in Trixie, when >konsole 24.08.0 is available ? > Yes, it seems to be part of a transition: https://tracker.debian.org

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-07 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 18:30:27 (-0500), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hypothetical shell usages (1) & (2). > > (1) > Restore() { \ > source=somewhere/Backup/ ; > destination=elsewhere/workingDirectory ; > rsync \ > --exclude '*.mp3' \ > --exclude '*.mp4' \ > -anuv $source $destination ; }

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

2024-12-07 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 10:57 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:20:02PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth < > > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > > > According to squid upstream version 5.7 i