yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, There is a possibility I am missing something due to using a screen reader. However, the process might not be possible at all, that seems odd though given what I did find. We have yt-dlp here at shellworld, meaning for a command Line Linux setup. I did discover a command ytsearch: Bu

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
UPDATE: Steam now working in Debian 12 (Bookworm) I have tested both Debian 12 (Bookworm) XFCE and KDE. As Steam started, it updated and it is now working once again on both these computers. If you use Steam and have experienced this issue, please confirm if Steam is now working for you too.

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 06:48:33 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 08:04:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be > > illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the LAN" > > receives emails by ask

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-11 Thread David Christensen
On 3/11/25 19:07, Felix Miata wrote: I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining available versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. I look up packages on this page: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages If I scroll down to the "Search package directo

Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining available versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it's pretty simple from shell prompt to get a list of packages available in currently configured repos, one line each, including package name with vers

web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread songbird
i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it. would like to try something else. currently running testing. any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker. songbird

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 3/11/25 18:12, Alex King wrote: Yes, I can tell you more.  The hardware as you guessed is not actually new, it is recycled equipment that is new to me and newly installed with Debian. The machine is a Cisco MCS server, possibly a Cisco MCS7800 series. (I'm not where the server is physi

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alex King
Yes, I can tell you more.  The hardware as you guessed is not actually new, it is recycled equipment that is new to me and newly installed with Debian. The machine is a Cisco MCS server, possibly a Cisco MCS7800 series. (I'm not where the server is physically now to check.)  (Cisco MCS7800 se

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

2025-03-11 Thread Nils
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 10:21:07 PM GMT+1 George at Clug wrote: > The Debian-specific /etc/timezone will no longer be supported by > systemd-timedated, as it is no longer useful and its functionality has been > subsumed into /etc/localtime, and tzdata will no longer create it. That looks like i

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
Update: Launching 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 steam -no-cef-sandbox' from the command did not work for me, Steam tried to launch a bit further but still broke. I will sit back and wait for Valve to fix this Steam issue (which I hope they do soon) I have not posted on the below thread as the issue

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 12-03-2025 at 05:01 Nils wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 6:52:41 PM GMT+1 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > It might be coming from one of the user's dot files. You can try > > these: > > Thanks! That seems to be it: > > $ sudo su -- root -c env | grep LC_TIME > LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 >

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Simple answer: these (awful) terms apply to *binaries* supplied by Mozilla, > not source. So, Debian is unaffected. Is this Debian's official position? (Asking because it's being cited as such on social media.) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 15:22:29 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > It appears that the update Valve pushed out this morning was a Ubuntu > > update that was mistakenly installed on Debian Stable. > > > > [2025-03-11 14:48:26] Download s

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 15:22:29 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > It appears that the update Valve pushed out this morning was a Ubuntu > update that was mistakenly installed on Debian Stable. > > [2025-03-11 14:48:26] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version > 1741636428, installed v

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM George at Clug wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 23:34 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote: > > > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember > that on the Steam website, the website says t

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-11 Thread 🦓
2025-03-06[Thu]15:23 🦓 read that 2025-03-06[Thu]08:38 Geoff wrote You can use dpigs from debian-goodies package: debian-goodies' dpigs does a great job: debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ dpigs -H 142.3M libgl1-mesa-dri 79.3M libpython3.7-dev 65.2M emacs-common 57.7M libllvm7 43.1M guile-2.

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/11/25 8:48 AM, gene heskett wrote: A problem that does not exist in gpt partition tables. Unforch, changing it now will require a 100% backup/restore OR a reinstall to fix. fdisk can do this table change by entering a g at the main screen, creating an empty gpt table, and then an n will al

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

2025-03-11 Thread Nils
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 6:52:41 PM GMT+1 Greg Wooledge wrote: > It might be coming from one of the user's dot files. You can try > these: Thanks! That seems to be it: $ sudo su -- root -c env | grep LC_TIME LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 I wonder if KDE has messed something up here as it has internal l

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Nils
Hi, I have seen the same issue, and found this comment; https://github.com/ ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11807#issuecomment-2714995696 Starting Steam like this works for me as a temporary workaround. Greetings Nils

Re: LC_TIME set incorrectly

2025-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 17:40:35 +, Nils wrote: > riccy@riccy:~$ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 > > (after a reboot) > riccy@riccy:~$ echo $LC_TIME > en_DE.UTF-8 > > Searching /etc for the config string reveals nothing: >

LC_TIME set incorrectly

2025-03-11 Thread Nils
Hi everyone, I am helping a friend fix this system, and he is having a weird issue causing his LC_TIME to be en_DE.UTF-8. I have already added a line to the config file attempting to override this: riccy@riccy:~$ cat /etc/default/locale # File generated by update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIM

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/3/25 01:57, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/3/25 01:32, songbird wrote:    i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.    would like to try something else.    currently running testing.    any that have any filtering capabilities?  yt and a few other sites are intolerable without a d

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-11 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Greg Wooledge writes: > Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing > packages? > > For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's > because *data* files are piling up, and may be in need of some trimming. Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often fre

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread Eben King
On 3/6/25 12:32, songbird wrote: any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker. If you're talking about ads, Noscript and Ghostery on FF take care of them for me.

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-11 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-06, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Obviously, my preference is to get Evolution working right, without > the necessity of spending two or three days reinstalling Debian. And > if reinstallation is necessary, I am not sure I would choose Evolution > as my client for HTML mail. Verify you

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-11 Thread Miriami
Hi Stefan: I agree. There is a Windows VM set up in the Debian environment of that device to execute 'normal' Windows applications - just that that commercial software requires too much resources for that device to run in VM, so it gets a real system. If that device would be upgraded to be pow

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/11/25 à 09:17, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : Can you tell us more information about hardware setup? Could RAID setup play a role? Best, -- yassine -- sysadm http://about.me/ychaouche Looking for side gigs.

Re: Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-11 Thread Eben King
On 3/11/25 10:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro 3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive. The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got

Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro 3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive. The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got to formatting the drive. I was presented wit

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-11, George at Clug wrote: > > Hi, > > > Any use Steam? > > > We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was > working well. Then a member of the family reported that they were > unable to load Steam. We tested on another (third) computer, and as > Steam started,

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread fxkl47BF
is anyone using opera

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 23:34 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote: > > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that > > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam > > app is 'a xxx version *

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread gene heskett
On 3/11/25 06:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:13:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote: Hi, hi I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. How can I get Debian to use the fu

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Pierre Tomon
Le Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:13:16 +1300, Alex King a écrit : > Partition table scan: >   MBR: protective >   BSD: not present >   APM: not present >   GPT: present > > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Try to remove protective MBR.

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:03:48 +, Miriami wrote: > I plan to deploy Steam on my Debian but I haven't begun to. I remember that > on the Steam website, the website says that the requirement of the Steam app > is 'a xxx version *Ubuntu' system'. They might have hardcoded this in the > binary

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Miriami
On March 11, 2025 10:44:34 AM UTC, George at Clug wrote: > > >I noticed in the below messages "/ubuntu12_32", which has me a bit >concerned, I do not like seeing "ubuntu" when using Debian. > > > >-- > > >$ /usr/games/

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 22:47:16 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still > failing on Debian Bookworm. Now I'm scared. I've got a running instance of Steam which has already downloaded an update. [2025-03-11 07:26:21] uninstalle

Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still failing on Debian Bookworm. On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 21:44 George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > Any use Steam? > > > We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was > working well. Then a member

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread D MacDougall
On 3/9/25 08:35, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: D MacDougall wrote: > On 3/8/25 12: 34, debian-user@ howorth. org. uk wrote: > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything D MacDougall wrote: > On 3/8/2

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I have a 16TB drive that is working properly. I reformatted the drive to the > ext4 file system with default settings and it works great. Try to reformat > the drive especially if the current format is FAT. Several of the shown inquiry methods did not refer to f

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:13:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote: > > Hi, > > hi > > > I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian > (bookworm) on > > it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. > I have a 16TB drive

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Nicolas George
Timothy M Butterworth (HE12025-03-11): > I have a 16TB drive that is working properly. I reformatted the drive to > the ext4 file system with default settings and it works great. Try to Good for you. > reformat the drive especially if the current format is FAT. We have both the kernel and gdisk

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alex King wrote: > I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on > it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. > root@fj2:/home/installer# smartctl -i /dev/sdb > [...] > User Capacity:    8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB] > Sector Size

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:40:29AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-11): > > It seems that the combination of MBR partition table and 512 byte blocks > > limits you to partition sizes (and offsets) of roughly 2T, so it might > > be this what's biting you: > > Highly doub

Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load

2025-03-11 Thread George at Clug
Hi, Any use Steam? We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was working well. Then a member of the family reported that they were unable to load Steam. We tested on another (third) computer, and as Steam started, it checks for updates and then never loaded. I then ex

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-03-11): > It seems that the combination of MBR partition table and 512 byte blocks > limits you to partition sizes (and offsets) of roughly 2T, so it might > be this what's biting you: Highly doubtful considering these informations: >>   8   16 2147483647 sdb >> Fou

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 08:13:16PM +1300, Alex King wrote: > Hi, hi > I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on > it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. > > How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk? It seems that th

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, correction of the usual copy+paste error: I wrote: > 8001563222016 / 512 / 4294967296 = 7.277379356324673 The result stems from a different calculation with 2 exp 31. With 2 exp 32 it is 3.638689678162337 . Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: is there a bug in cp command ?

2025-03-11 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:56:47 +0100 "uw...@online.de" wrote: > > #root@Server001:~# cp -ax / /mnt > #cp: das Verzeichnis '/mnt/' kann nicht angelegt werden: Datei oder > Verzeichnis nicht gefunden # LANG=C.UTF-8 cp -ax / /mnt provides English error messages. Are you sure you mounted something t

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.03.2025 13:49, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/11/25 à 09:17, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : Can you tell us more information about hardware setup? Could RAID setup play a role? I don't think so, because of the way RAID controllers work, they basically hide the real hardware HDDs behind

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.03.2025 12:13, Alex King wrote: Hi, I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk? Can you tell us more information about hardwa

Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alex King
Hi, I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk? Thanks, Alex The disk is an 8TB model: root@fj2:/home/installer# smartctl -i /dev/