Re: Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

2024-12-08 Thread Will Mengarini
* Jean-Claude Arbaut [24-12/08=Su 16:54 +0100]: > I just noticed some of my browser favorites pointing to Debian News ( > http://www.debian.org/News/...) are now dead. I seems all news before maybe > 2022 have disappeared, while there were not so long ago (a few months > maybe?) archives going ba

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer > that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ... On December 8, 2024 12:56 PM, Bret Busby asked: > What country? Good question. Answer: U.S. Thanks to everyone for the many h

Structure needs cleaning / Directory block does not have space for checksum

2024-12-08 Thread Gregor Zattler
Dear debian enthusiasts, I use rdiff-backup, which now is not able to work with my most precious backup, instead throws a python backtrace which contains: OSError: [Errno 117] Structure needs cleaning: b'/mnt/mic-backup/rdiff-backup/durable/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/grfz/.procmail/backup-

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-08 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 09-12-2024 at 01:39 Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:47:24 CET George at Clug wrote: > > What GPU does the computer running the virtual machine use? That is, what > > brand and model is the video card on the computer running Virtual Box? > > AFAIK, there's n

Re: Windows 11 KVM guest IO Performance

2024-12-08 Thread Linux-Fan
basti writes: Am 28.11.24 um 13:01 schrieb basti: I have move a Win10 KVM guest to new hardware and than upgrade this guest to Windows 11. [..] 4x qemu64 CPU (1 Socket/ 4 Core/ 1 Threads) 8GB RAM No graphic tablet No Ballon driver When I copy a big file (~8GB) from Network to local I get

Re: weird tzdata version numbers

2024-12-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 19:44:49 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > version number for tzdata in bullseye is 2024b-0+deb11u1, but > for bookworm it is still 2024a-0+deb12u1. This seems weird. > Shouldn't the bookworm version number be "newer" than the bullseye > version? hobbit:~$ apt policy tzdata tzd

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 07 December 2024 04:21:40 pm Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer > that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and > sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problem

weird tzdata version numbers

2024-12-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, version number for tzdata in bullseye is 2024b-0+deb11u1, but for bookworm it is still 2024a-0+deb12u1. This seems weird. Shouldn't the bookworm version number be "newer" than the bullseye version? Regards Harri

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-08 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 11:08:54 -0500 > "${exclusions[@]//#/--exclude=}" In a shell script; correct? I'm making a shell function declared in .bashrc. Numerous syntactical variations were unsuccessful. Maybe a simple escape syntax is needed. Stretched a test out

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Ash Joubert
On 2024-12-08 10:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 8/12/24 05:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers for a

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:26:51PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: I switched this NVME drive to 4k mode. However I considered your message as statement that internally drives still use higher erase block size The erase block is going to be many megabytes, it has nothing to do with the logical bloc

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-08 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/12/2024 23:31, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is "idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that the device should not be in some deep power saving state

Debian News before 2022 have disappeared

2024-12-08 Thread Jean-Claude Arbaut
Hi, I just noticed some of my browser favorites pointing to Debian News ( http://www.debian.org/News/...) are now dead. I seems all news before maybe 2022 have disappeared, while there were not so long ago (a few months maybe?) archives going back to 1997. URLs like https://www.debian.org/News/yyy

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 03:39:08PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:47:24 CET George at Clug wrote: > > > What version of VirtualBox are you using? > > 7.1 > > > I found a comment on the internet that suggests VirtualBox 7.1 under > > debian12 does not support 3D

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

2024-12-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday, 7 December 2024 07:47:24 CET George at Clug wrote: > What GPU does the computer running the virtual machine use? That is, what > brand and model is the video card on the computer running Virtual Box? AFAIK, there's no specific brand and model. Virtual box emulates VGA and SVGA [1].

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread eben
On 12/7/24 16:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm > finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had > problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:19:52 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation. I > have done this before successfully. After the change I ran > > systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron > > But now the change doesn't take effect. >

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Eddie
On 12/7/24 16:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Felix Miata
Timothy M Butterworth composed on 2024-12-08 08:13 (UTC-0500): > Steven (kleenesj) wrote: >> If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser >> printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm >> finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 7:32 AM Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) < kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm > finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At wor

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 8 Dec 2024, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Roger Price wrote: With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? emacs /etc/crontab What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread debian-user
Roger Price wrote: > With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 > workstation. I have done this before successfully. When you say you made a change with emacs, what command did you run? What you are supposed to do is use the command crontab to start the editor of your choice. You

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 07/12/2024 18:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Dec 2024 11:19 +0100, from deb...@rogerprice.org (Roger Price): > What is the correct way to get cron to read the new crontab ? Saving the crontab file. It should be re-read automatically, with no need to restart a system-level service. Either you also did something else which you do not me

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread jeremy ardley
On 8/12/24 05:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers fo

Restarting cron after crontab update

2024-12-08 Thread Roger Price
With emacs I made a change to /etc/crontab on a Debian 11 workstation. I have done this before successfully. After the change I ran systemctl restart cron && systemctl status cron But now the change doesn't take effect. I tried systemctl reload cron, but got the reply "Failed to reload cron

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread gene heskett
On 12/8/24 03:54, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers for a

seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had problems with Linux drivers for a Xerox laser, and I'm trying to avoid that. Some Red