Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread xuser
Good idea! On Thu, 8 May 2025, David Christensen wrote: Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 11:10:06 -0700 From: David Christensen To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade Resent-Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 18:10:28 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org O

Re: silent mail drops

2025-05-08 Thread Antonio Russo
On 2025-05-08 08:37, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know what email program you are using, but SeaMonkey has an option to request "Delivery Status Notification". Try your application's equivalent. I've sent this reply to both you and the list so I'll have an example tracking message available f

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:38:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > I'm interested in this topic, so I've done a little research > online. Many folks look at energy consumption in terms of CO2 > emissions, as a useful proxy for direct energy use. Thanks for the links! I'm interested in this

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread Van Snyder
I've worked out the cause of the problem, and the weirdness of the apparent solution. I broke both shoulder blades in a recent fall. In particular, I still can't raise my right hand onto the mouse pad on the right side of my keyboard, and there's no space for one on the left. So I put my wireless

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 08 May 2025 12:42:38 pm gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/8/25 09:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first > >> suspect > >> would be the

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread songbird
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than >> something small and more recent might use. > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying > a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy > in a lapto

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Thomas Dineen wrote: This whole thread is INSANE!!! Old computers of this generation are so slow that they would be USELESS! On 5/8/25 11:16 AM, Charles Curley wrote: Well, yes. But the original question was whether one could install Debian on it, not whether it would be useful to do so.

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:53:26AM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > This whole thread is INSANE!!! What is this with some people wanting to prescribe others what to do? Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 8 May 2025 10:53:26 -0700 Thomas Dineen wrote: > This whole thread is INSANE!!! > > Old computers of this generation are so slow that they would be > USELESS! Well, yes. But the original question was whether one could install Debian on it, not whether it would be useful to do so. People

Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread David Christensen
On 5/7/25 20:38, xuser wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2025, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2025 02:51:20 + (UTC) xuser wrote: After an libreoffice upgrade on may 7, My debian system does not boot, and just shows the word "GRUB" on a black screen. I doubt it was the libreoffice upgrade that d

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 5/8/25 7:05 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy in a laptop (i.e. the energy that was necessary to produce the laptop) is typically higher than all the electricity

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than >> something small and more recent might use. > >While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying >a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy >in

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Thomas Dineen
This whole thread is INSANE!!! Old computers of this generation are so slow that they would be USELESS! Too slow to run modern applications! Memory is too small, Hard Drive is way t small. On 5/5/2025 1:01 PM, Rafał Lichwała wrote: Hi, Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OL

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:05:03AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than something small and more recent might use. While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAI

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-08 Thread Bernard
On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote: On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly possible that the Debian ver

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread gene heskett
On 5/8/25 09:33, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect would be the mouse hardware. If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Thomas Dineen
So how much energy has this thread wasted? On 5/8/2025 9:33 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100,debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Greg wrote: older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than something small and more rece

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Greg wrote: > > > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > > > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:41:07PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: > > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread debian-user
Greg wrote: > >> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity > >> than something small and more recent might use. > > > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying > > a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded > > energy in a

Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
xuser composed on 2025-05-08 14:59 (UTC): > I guess the old re-install will always work :) You should be able to boot your installed Bookworm using Bookworm installation media, then diagnose and repair whatever went wrong. Is yours a UEFI installation? Is it your exclusive OS installation on the

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Greg
>> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than >> something small and more recent might use. > > While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying > a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy > in a laptop (i.e. the energy t

Re: silent mail drops

2025-05-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu May 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM BST, Antonio Russo wrote: I can see my message on the debian-user list (and did so almost immediately), so it's got to be something specific to debian-devel. It's possible that -devel is currently being moderated; it didn't used to be, but some lists are/were, and

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread rhkramer
Good points! On Thursday, May 08, 2025 09:32:40 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > [...] > > > So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first > > suspect would be the mouse hardware. > > > > If the problem

Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade

2025-05-08 Thread xuser
I guess the old re-install will always work :) On Thu, 8 May 2025, Geert Stappers wrote: Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 06:36:26 +0200 From: Geert Stappers To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 12 not booting after upgrade Resent-Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 04:36:42 + (UTC) Resent-From:

Re: silent mail drops

2025-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
I don't know what email program you are using, but SeaMonkey has an option to request "Delivery Status Notification". Try your application's equivalent. I've sent this reply to both you and the list so I'll have an example tracking message available for working connection message for both. H

silent mail drops

2025-05-08 Thread Antonio Russo
Hello everyone! I'm having trouble posting to debian-devel. Mail submits fine (possibly after a 450 greylist, but that doesn't seem to matter). I receive no email bounces. But, my email neither shows up on the debian-devel mailing list archive, nor do I receive a copy of it sent back to me (

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than > something small and more recent might use. While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy in a laptop (i.e. the energy that was nec

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect > would be the mouse hardware. > > If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the > wireless mouse. Or the b

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread rhkramer
> On Thu 8 may, 2025, at 04:01, Van Snyder wrote: > > I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech. > > > > Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they > > meant. For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab > > closed the tab instead of "to

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread songbird
Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 03:12:51PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >>NetBSD is a possibility: > > Yeah, I'd go with NetBSD as the most useful option. They're the project > most likely to keep i386 going. FreeBSD is dropping it as are most of > the linux distros. But honestl

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread Loïc Grenié
On Thu 8 may, 2025, at 04:01, Van Snyder wrote: > I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech. > > Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they meant. > For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab closed the tab > instead of "topping" it. T