Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:51:49AM -0500, songbird wrote: > when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing > a test run to see what changes are made or not making the > changes at that time. > > when going through this process the comments in > sources.list were discarded. I thin

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Chris Green
K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular > user, I can't do something, and

testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-05 Thread songbird
when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing a test run to see what changes are made or not making the changes at that time. when going through this process the comments in sources.list were discarded. i don't know about other people or what they put in sources.list, but i normall

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Max Nikulin
(debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org is dropped from Cc:) On 06/02/2025 06:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: With respect to other operating systems, like Solaris, root is a role, not a user. Jeffrey, it is interesting topic to discuss, but I am afraid, this stuff and SELinux may confuse K0LNY even

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/02/2025 18:57, Hans wrote: In console and in Plasma the Brightness can not be adjusted, but in XFCE it can. However, I could not get, which keyboard setting XFCE is using, does pne know? Save output of the following command executed in XFCE and KDE setxkbmap -print and compare it to

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-05 Thread john doe
On 2/3/25 23:39, Automætic wrote: Hi, I'm configuring a new Debian installation on my workstation, with both the /boot partition and the root filesystem encrypted: - /dev/nvme0n1p1 -> /EFI - /dev/nvme0n1p2 -> LUKS2 (pbkdf2) -> /boot - /dev/nvme0n1p3 -> LUKS2 -> LVM containing root and other vol

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > > installing things

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 01:38:17PM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a re

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
K0LNY ?? wrote: > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular > user, I can't do something, and I had been to

Re: finding package for reportbug

2025-02-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:32:32 + debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Indeed so, and in particular the bit in journalctl's man page where it > says "The output is paged through less by default ..." ! > > Piping journalctl's output through less is pointless, I think. Unless you have --nopager set

Re: finding package for reportbug

2025-02-05 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:46:23 +0100 > Franziska Menti wrote: > > > Hi Charles [snip] > What I had in mind here is something like: > > dmesg | less -X > > then use the search function (the / key) to search for snd_hda_intel > and (separately) snd_sof_pci_intel_mtl. Check

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread K0LNY ??
Hi Andrew, Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular user, I can't do something, and I had been told that instal

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Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > Hi Andrew, > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > installing things as root? > I know that there are issues if some packag

Re: finding package for reportbug

2025-02-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:46:23 +0100 Franziska Menti wrote: > Hi Charles > > Thanks for the tipps where I could start looking to solve my problem. > > You can check for what packages were upgraded about that time by > > inspecting (as root) the term.log* files in /var/log/apt. That > > should he

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-05 Thread eben
On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote: > At first I didn't bother to even look for a solution, since this > happened only once in a few days. However, now it happens several times > a day, and most often when I reach high download speeds. Anything around > 2 MiB/s for more than a handful of seconds seems t

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

2025-02-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Eric S Fraga wrote: > Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote: > > (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10) > > > > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my > > Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? > > +1 > > Sounds great. I would love to ha

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-05 Thread Ceppo
On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 04:27:20PM +0100, Lucas Rufkahr wrote: > Is there anything you have changed to the system lately? I can't recall any update of related stuff. But I am on sid and update almost every day, and at first I didn't pay much attention to the issue, so I could have missed somethi

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
Hi Cindy, I am aware of the settings in BIOS. That is not the problem. As I already mentioned, the change of primary and secondary function is working. (I called this "level" change, maybe it was not teh correct expresion). No, thwe problem is, the windowmanager or the system itself does not re

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

2025-02-05 Thread Eric S Fraga
Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote: > (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10) > > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my > Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? +1 Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with Koreader

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-05 Thread Lucas Rufkahr
Is there anything you have changed to the system lately? Is there another adapter you can use and try and recreate the issue?- - - Lucas Rufkahr Feb 5, 2025 at 09:24 by ce...@oziosi.org: > Hello everyone. > I've been using my D-Link DWA-160 network adapter for around two years > without any

Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-05 Thread Ceppo
Hello everyone. I've been using my D-Link DWA-160 network adapter for around two years without any issue for a couple of years. Some weeks ago however, it started misbehaving. After I use it as usual for a seemingly random amount of time (but see below), spanning from a few minutes to several ho

Re: Re: finding package for reportbug

2025-02-05 Thread Franziska Menti
Hi Charles Thanks for the tipps where I could start looking to solve my problem. > You can check for what packages were upgraded about that time by > inspecting (as root) the term.log* files in /var/log/apt. That should > help you narrow down the suspect packages. That is lots of lines and packa

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 12:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? > > I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. > The > problem is, the Function-keys are not working. > > Not working means: The second level

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
Some checks showed, that obviously the events are read correct, if I see this corect. Please see: $ acpi_listen button/mute MUTE 0080 K button/volumedown VOLDN 0080 K button/volumeup VOLUP 0080 K 9DBB5994-A997- 00d0

Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
Dear list, is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. The problem is, the Function-keys are not working. Not working means: The second level do not work like "volume higher/lower" "brightness" and so on.

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
It's documented in the man page of apt-patterns. Regards, Jörg.