Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

On Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 2:00 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 04:24:59PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > > You mean Debian doesn't inform you if your OS needs an update? > > > It is dependent on the desktop chosen. GNOME by default downloads

Re: Inquiry about armel support for Debian upgrades post-Trixie

On Friday 05 September 2025 10:21:42 am Greg wrote: > On 2025-09-05, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > > Andrea Pappacoda wrote... > > > >> On Fri Sep 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM CEST, Christoph Biedl wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > So, as of today, Debian 14 ("trixie") will be the last release to > >> > support arm

Inquiry about armel support for Debian upgrades post-Trixie

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Re: is there such a thing as "bytecode" for bash scripts? à la java "bytecode"? ...

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 19:27:06 +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > > The way I see thingsbash or any other OS script type must have a compilation > and decodingphase before it talks to the OS. How do you get that stream of > datathat the OS digests? No, bash does not use an internal bytecode

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 20:37, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 9/6/25 8:36 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] > > This problem only started about a week ago. > Solved this today by using a rather big hammer. I purged all GVFS > packages and that has solved this particular problem. GVFS is basically > a

CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network

CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network Hi, Something to be aware of, in last few hours the first point release 13.1 of Debian Trixie has occurred. I notice there is an open bug [1] [2] with multiple reports of systemd-networkd segfaulting and leaving the system

Debian 13.0.0 Graphical Installer Glitches

Hi, I just installed Debian 13.0.0 Yesterday, and I used the graphical installer I just wanted to report the buggyness of the installer: For instance: I told the graphical installer to create a 880 GiB BTRFS partition after I clicked DONE WITH THIS PARTITION That 880 was changed to over 900

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

OK. Thanks Nate for the steer. I didn't really understand why it's not been fixed, but it's fixable: Based on the bug report, some race condition, when solar flares excite the ionisphere or something like that. The reporter did some magic with [echo ""] to his grub files. I riffed off of tha

Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

On 9/4/25 01:41, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, I have been reading something around and thought the Debian community was a good place to have some recommendations on this subject. Seems to me that SSDs are more prone to deteriorate than classic HDD, so, less the use more the duration, let's say. I

Re: black screen on installer grub menu

Hi Will. Seems to be a UEFI issue on some devices with the later version of GRUB. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051832 - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Project

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

On 9/6/25 8:36 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: //snip//> On 9/5/25 11:15 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: sudo journalctl -b --priority=warning I am no expert, but I don't see  any errors in there that would seem to relate to the problem According to APT  all gvfs packages are installed >Next

Re: Mate-desktop and screen blanking

On 9/6/25 12:25 PM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 9/6/25 11:17 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: I've recently moved over to mate-desktop and I'm having a problem with it, specifically its blanking the screen, and if I don't react speedily I then have to input my password to reuse it again! How can I stop

black screen on installer grub menu

Hi, Long time debian user, infrequent caller. Anyhow, I have been experiencing black screens with the installer since trixie rc2. By installer, I mean any of iso's written to usb stick and booted uefi. I have tried this with: debian-trixie-DI-rc2-amd64-DVD-1.iso debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-stan

Re: Mate-desktop and screen blanking

On 9/6/25 11:17 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: I've recently moved over to mate-desktop and I'm having a problem with it, specifically its blanking the screen, and if I don't react speedily I then have to input my password to reuse it again! How can I stop the blanking please? go to the menu: syst

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

Andy Smith composed on 2025-09-06 18:47 (UTC): > It's a pity that there's no way to do it without consulting some remote > device — I assume inxi is also doing it this way. I can think of some > ways to do it but they all depend too much on how your network is > working Inxi is a heavily commente

Re: [deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk: Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 13:59:07 -0400 Lee wrote: Hello Lee, >which looks interesting but how do I get it installed? It looks like >my only option is to enable snaps??? look for plasma-discover in your preferred installer. You can also (optionally) install back-ends that handle flatpak and snap p

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

Hello, On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 09:58:57AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 12:36:15 +, Andy Smith wrote: > > "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP > > address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any of its > > machine-readable output

Mate-desktop and screen blanking

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I've recently moved over to mate-desktop and I'm having a problem with it, specifically its blanking the screen, and if I don't react speedily I then have to input my password to reuse it again! How can I stop the blanking please? I've used the c

is there such a thing as "bytecode" for bash scripts? à la java "bytecode"? ...

in java you canalways disassemble its bytecode as it is digested by the JVM dealingthen directly with the OS. The way I see thingsbash or any other OS script type must have a compilation and decodingphase before it talks to the OS. How do you get that stream of datathat the OS digests? I do

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

On Sat, 6 Sep 2025, Andy Smith wrote: > "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP > address. Agreed, dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com is simpler and much faster. There are many others, e.g. curl ifconfig.me . I should have done a search before using i

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

On 9/5/25 11:15 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: sudo journalctl -b --priority=warning Sep 06 06:35:38 franklin kernel: core: CPUID marked event: 'bus cycles' unavailable Sep 06 06:35:38 franklin kernel: MDS CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See https://www.kernel.org> Sep 06 06:35:38

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

Hi, "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any of its machine-readable output formats. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: X not coming up with NVidia FX 1300

On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 6. September 2025, 00:07:31 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit > schrieb Van Snyder: > > > On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 22:40 +0200, Hans wrote: > > > > However, I had some strange issues some times ago, where my card > > > > said, I had > > > > to use

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

On Sat, 6 Sep 2025, David wrote: > Hi, I can't explain why, but 'man inxi' has discussion about > its 'filter' and how to disable it. In the opening paragraphs. Thanks, I discovered the --no-filter option which solved the problem. Roger

Re: X not coming up with NVidia FX 1300

Am Samstag, 6. September 2025, 00:07:31 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Van Snyder: > On Fri, 2025-09-05 at 22:40 +0200, Hans wrote: > > However, I had some strange issues some times ago, where my card > > said, I had > > to use the 340xx-legacy driver, but in reality it worked with 390xx- >

Re: Debian XTERM

On 06.09.2025 06:20 Uhr John Conover wrote: > Is Debian XTERN still available? Debian ships xterm in its repository. I do not know about a plan to remove it. -- kind regards Marco Send spam to 1757132401mu...@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 08:21, Roger Price wrote: > If I call inxi -i from the command line, it works correctly: [...] > Where does the come from ? How can I persuade the inxi cron job to > tell me the WAN IP ? Hi, I can't explain why, but 'man inxi' has discussion about its 'filter' and how to

Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

If I call inxi -i from the command line, it works correctly: rprice@maria ~ A=( $(inxi -i -c 0 | grep "WAN IP") ); declare -p A declare -a A=([0]="WAN" [1]="IP:" [2]="217.65.141.51") but the same code called as a cron job with script #! /bin/bash -u A=( $( inxi -i -c 0 | grep "WAN IP" )

Re: X not coming up with NVidia FX 1300

Van Snyder composed on 2025-09-05 12:40 (UTC-0700) > I have an antique ASUS P5WD2 motherboard with a NVidia FX 1300 graphics> card. The only similar NVidia I have has bad RAM, making local I/O completely unusable. According to Xorg.0.log, all looks good, no relevant (EE) lines: $ inxi -GSaz --fo

Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

On Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:33:47 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: > On 2025-09-05 12:20, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > On Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 2:54 AM, Dan Ritter > > wrote: > > > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > >> > >> > If I want XFCE desktop environment, I need to

Re: Choosing the window manager

On Sat, 2025-09-06 at 11:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > You may read docs how to configure default session type. You may read > LightDM Gtk greater docs how to configure login screen, Thanks for the clear explicit advice about exactly where and what to read. > but after login, > picture will be