Re: Subject: Inquiry About Debian 14 Release

u very much for your time If you do value our time, maybe you could look back at the replies you got last time you asked this exact same question, two days ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/09/msg00357.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Maximum RAM supported for Debian 13

-scale PCIe over fibre. That much works today, though I have never personally seen it. https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/cxl/ At last we finally can, "just download more RAM" (after spending vast sums on infrastructure). Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

uration ${MDADM_CHECK_DURATION} where MDADM_CHECK_DURATION is by default only 6 hours, meaning that after 6 hours it will pause. The other timer and service pair, mdcheck_continue, resumes these. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. — John Levine

Re: Subject: Inquiry About Debian 14 Release

umber of days between previous releases and draw some conclusions: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Release_statisticso from which they guess, "about two years after the last one". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: XLibre official support?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:08:38PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > That is what Robert was talking about. That is the basis of my reply > to Robert. Apologies, that should of course be Roberto! Thanks, Andy

Re: XLibre official support?

Hi, On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:24:48PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > I'd hope th

Re: XLibre official support?

Hi, On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the > > XLibre community. > > > > > > https:/

Re: XLibre official support?

e community. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XLibreIsExplicitlyPolitical But maybe one will pop up. Maybe Wayback and Xwayland is a better way to go for those unable to stop using X11. https://ariadne.space/2025/07/07/two-weeks-of-wayback.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

Hi, On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 03:54:49PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > On 11/09/25 at 21:53, Andy Smith wrote: > > # systemctl --list-timers mdcheck_start.timer > > > > where you will see that its next trigger is still the Sunday. > > Here "--list-timers"

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

Hi, On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:00:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-09-10 at 15:55, Andy Smith wrote: > > It's done by systemd timers now. > > Which does leave those of us who don't use systemd out in the cold. > Sadly, this is (IIRC from when I saw something

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

wise as long as you know where the filesystem starts and ends you can do the maths and use a debugfs-like tool to answer the question. I needed to do something like it once on a redundant system to work out what was causing some strange behaviour: https://strugglers.net/~andy/mothballed-b

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:54:45PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you have no redundancy (RAID, LVM mirror, btrfs, zfs, …) you may > > have lost data. > > I thought we said earlier that redundancy wasn't a backup, and > vice-versa,

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

e them. If you do start doing it by cron again then you'll probably want to disable the relevant system timers. It won't cause harm as the kernel part of md will just refuse to start a check if one's already running, but you may end up running checks twice. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

you replace the correct drive! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

llocated sectors properly. > which seems to indicate no problems. The long self-test shows that the whole drive is currently readable. The fact that the drive reported uncorrectable sectors is worrying. If you don't have redundancy you may need to restore some files from backup. If any more

Re: Upgrade errors

Hi, On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 11:13:29PM +0100, alain williams wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 09:50:04PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Setting up gitweb (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1) ... > > > dpkg: error processing package gitweb (--configure): > > > installed gitweb

Re: Upgrade errors

installation script subprocess returned error > exit status 1 You'd have to look in to why the post-install script failed. You should check if there is a bug for it already and if not, report one. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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

Hello, On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 12:35:26PM -, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On 07/09/2025 03:10, David wrote: > > CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network > > Is systemd-networkd the default on Debian? No. For the rest of your ill-informed rant, it was a nice day

Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

Hi, On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 11:16:09AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > On Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 2:00 AM, Andy Smith > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 04:24:59PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > > wrote: > > > You mean Debian doesn&#x

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 +0000, 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

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: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 04 September 2025 07:40:16 am Andy Smith wrote: > > Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not > > being able to reliably hold data if left powered off for years. > &

Re: Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

to you. What I would caution though is that if you don't understand why what you have doesn't work for you or why you actually need something else, then effort spent on changing may be wasted, aside from learnoing and curiosity being a motivation by themselves. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

your working practices are now decades out of date. Thanks, Andy ¹ Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not being able to reliably hold data if left powered off for years. -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

e time to research when libcupsfilters2 v2.0.0-3+b2 was released it seems unlikely it will be in January 2023. There are other distributions that can address your apparent need for rolling releases, but before exploring something like that it would be good to understand if your concerns are well-founded.

Re: HP hw et sw more Linux friendly? ...

Hi, On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 12:18:46AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: >  How do you dealwith such "secure BIOS" nonsense? By avoiding abusive vendors [works also in other aspects of life]. Fortunately most free markets (with just a few sad exceptions) have a range of vendors. Thanks, Andy

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

snapshotting continues to allow only diffs within the backups for each source to be stored, then it's less than double the capacity needed. And again, as I said, capacity isn't so difficult. So yeah in summary, probably don't even consider zfs dedup but do consider zfs. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

Hi, On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 12:20:05PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial > > amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other > > rsync-based backup syste

Re: Encrypt replies by default

l habit and quick thoughtless replies. It's a hard problem. What do governments and corporations do? Unless dealing with extremely motivated nerds, whatever you do probably has to be web based. Thanks, Andy ¹ A practice which I understand was not recommended, for exactly this reason. -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. — John Levine

Re: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments

package "apticron" for email notifications has also existed in Debian for a decade or more though people still seem to enjoy reinventing it on their own. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: possible ssh problem

red your router to forward incoming port 22, but to the >wrong internal IP address. > > I haven't knowingly changed anything on my router. It is a good idea to check even so. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: lazy old guy asks question

mmend rsnapshot or any other rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is still a pretty large amount though and rsnapshot does have the extremely desirable feature of being very very simple, so could still be a solid choice. borg and restic are actively developed and are IMHO good choices for most people in 2025. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: lazy old guy asks question

ted disk/partition copying tool, or just swallowing the whole dd. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: lazy old guy asks question

nks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: lazy old guy asks question

nstead of your ideas of how some unstated thing could be achieved by way of "ISOs". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: possible ssh problem

raised there? It would have helped to reply to that actual email or link to it in the archive as above, as otherwise we're likely to go over the same ground again. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anubis for Debian Server?

ster.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/ Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anubis for Debian Server?

nubis.techaro.lol/ > [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/anubis/ You are correct that they're not the same software since the Techaro Anubis didn't exist yet at the time of Debian wheezy. Given that they aren't the same software, do you still care why the other Anubis was removed fr

Re: linux user groups?

S. based LUGs which are still > operating. It seems I was thinking of North Virginia LUG: https://novalug.org/ Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: linux user groups?

as no employer was interested. I remember a presentation by Wietse Venema (author of Postfix) at one, and he signed my PGP key afterwards. I only got around to cancelling my membership this year. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: linux user groups?

the pub. I had to travel 90 minutes to get to that one so I probably won't do so again any time soon. What is your locality? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Subject: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian releases

? I note you haven't signed your email so the people who don't read headers have no idea who you are until I reply to you and quote your name at the top. 😀 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Subject: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian releases

u can also see there the duplication of subject line that you introduced. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Subject: Question: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian versions

ce, which got me out of a pinch. I believe this is a generic USB network support in Linux so it's more about if you phone allows you to do it at all rather than anything about the phone hardware. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Reply to list only (was: Too many open files)

l humans how to reply. But I prepare to be disappointed in software. Either way, expecting the vast bulk of email users to be able to follow such instructions seems like just a way to set oneself up for having a thing to complain about these days. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to setup spamasassin blacklist?

md. > In case spamassassin needs restarting I restarted spamd. > A queston: is it necessary to do so? Yes it's necessary to restart spamd after changing its config. Assuming you actually are using spamd. Also you would normally want to

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-08-21

o assistance from the toolchain that Debian is built on, you are welcome to contribute. Have a read of this thread to see any actual Debian Developers that have a stake say the same thing: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00124.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Understanding why http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/ exists

's historical. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 13, tmpfs and /tmp, /var/tmp

That forum post is old enough to consume alcohol in the UK, and its suggestions make about as much sense as someone who has done so all night. Its advice is totally inappropriate for a modern Linux system unless in very unusual circumstances. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 13, tmpfs and /tmp, /var/tmp

p is to not mention either of these in fstab. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

of resources online which given a Thinkpad model number will tell you all about how well it works with Linux (or not). Very easy to research. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

ot;old" or "new" or "cheap" or "expensive". Problems crop up across all dimensions. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: OT: VPN questionww

any individual VPN provider. Thanks, Andy ¹ With knowledge of the layout of a web site it is possible to statistically partially recreate a user's journey through the site based on what their DNS queries are. Similarly by analysing other traffic flow metadata like file size it can be guess

Re: ssh to [username].dyndns.org

so hangs. Did you really mean to say that ssh by hostname works but ssh by IP address hangs, or was this a mistake and you meant that both forms of ssh hang? Either way, a dump of the output of "ssh -v" to whichever one fails may help spot a problem. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

always reinstall if you scre wit up anyway, I mean you already do have backups right 😀). I think my way is fairly simple and I wouldn't hesitate to do it. As mentioned I also think you can stand to put off this work for quite some time. My freshly installed trixie laptop from a week or so before official release is using 97 MiB in /boot. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: telegram-desktop missing in Trixie

s package > be backported to trixie-backports. Please feel free to submit a > wishlist bug as such. Alternatively it can be installed from the upstream here, also by snap or flatpak: https://desktop.telegram.org/ Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

have any noticeable impact beyond how your system normally works. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

). > > Or just leave it as it is now? > > Or do something else? What actual problem are you experiencing? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

between the Debian 13 installer and the Debian 13 installed kernel on first boot they re-ordered themselves completely. Which was fine because Debian these days is installed to cope with that sort of thing. The various directories under /dev/disk/by-* will give you various kinds of stabl

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

tforward. Disadvantage of leaving you with a 500M /boot but I think you'll push the problem quite far down the road even if the recommendation is now 768M. Don't forget to grub-install /dev/sda afterwards! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: grub-install problem after trixie upgrade

ommended to start partitions 1 MiB into the disk. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian/Trixie now "stable"

there's a problem with a package you will need to identify the package and report a bug to its maintainer(s). https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

ink that is generally good advice for everyone. If done from inside such an environment then you could have started from your GUI terminal and then when it crashed you could have gone to a virtual console (e.g. ctrl-alt-f3 or whatever) and re-attached to continue the upgrade process. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

ke installing bookworm, setting an explicit /tmp mount and then doing a dist-upgrade to check it? Someone here probably does have the time and desire to settle the matter. 😀 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

difference. Personally I wouldn't do any of this though because it's unlikely that you will store enough in /tmp to start going into swap. That does then leave the space unused which is a bit of a shame. Tricky to avoid when the partitions are how they are. Volume management, it's really handy! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

OpenSSH RSA keys are not deprecated (Was Re: ssh-add no longer accepts passphrase)

s as used for authentication. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Btrfs deduplication and multiple users

ters to duplicate extents, reducing streaming file read performance as a sequential read has to move the read about across the disk. Obviously not much of a factor for non-rotational media. That's all that comes to mind. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Installing a packages whos depedencies is already setifies through other means of installtion.

ther way. And also that way does of course leave it up to you to actually satisfy the real requirements some other way. The wiki has an example: https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/HackingDependencies Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > The optimum programmin

Re: transferring boot

ives and then doing a complete reinstall. I guess we could all go to OP's home, rip everything out and rebuild it in our own desired way. Surely if they are wanting to reinstall Debian they wouldn't need to ask any of this and could just do it, UEFI boot and all, without needing to be told to back up and restore? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

For those not familiar with the dpkg scripts, you can see it at: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sudo.prerm If you strongly disagree that this is reasonable then you're actually asking for a change in the sudo packaging to remove that check… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: transferring boot

the disk? If separate mount points are truly necessary then I recommend using some form of volume management so that resizing later is easy. > No idea what sdd is: "lsblk -o +model,vendor" may give more idea, as may "smartctl -i /dev/sdd". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

it seems we have rambled about a feature suggestion that is already implemented. :) I should remember that it's too easy to pointlessly speculate while checking it out for myself is harder but more valuable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: serial console

to a virtual serial console. It's been about 15 years since I have bought a full rackmount server with a physical 9 pin serial port. These things have virtual serial ports exposed over Ethernet these days. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

password set that you don't record somewhere also being questionable practice!) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

ls, but the price is having to learn about the whole world of configuration management! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 05:56:23PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > The general solution to this is > > 1. express your dependencies > > 2. use dangerous commands carefully and the general advice to me is to proof read emails better Thanks, Andy

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

pendencies 2. use dangerous commands There is only so far the distribution can go to protect you / guess your desires, rest is your job as admin. > who remembers the root password ? A rapidly assembling mob of sudo refuseniks now heading in the direction of this thread. They got su and know how to use it. Thanks, Andy PS I like sudo-rs. New in trixie! 😀 -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Suggestion for Improving Debian Workstation Builds

Hi, On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Joe wrote: > I was going to add that the default sshd installation does leave it > open to brute-force password attacks. sshd is not installed by default though. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

Hi, On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 05:29:38PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-28 15:13 (UTC): > > > I have a Debian 12 laptop with quite a small screen which is quite high > > DPI — 13" diagonal with resolution 2880x1920. > ... > > The only

Re: Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

Hi, On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 01:33:12PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-29 13:34 (UTC): > > I found a bit of time to tinker yesterday but unfortunately no matter > > what I put with video= always led to no difference and a log line > > saying: >

Re: Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:58:55AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-28 15:35 (UTC): > > > The video= kernel command line looks promising and I will try this when > > I've finished using my laptop for work today :) > > > It would he

Re: Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

in its native (2880x1920) resolution is the problem, and I want it in something much smaller. What are the possible values of GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

ht is held by the FSF. You'd really need to know specific details about that specific project. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: (Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 04:04:12PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-28, Andy Smith wrote: > > It really depends on what you're looking for. > > I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions here. > > I use a search engine and u

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:56:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/28/25 10:52 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > I have never had an issue with LibreCalc's xls support. If an xls file > > is so complicated that LibreOffice can't read/write it properly, I > > suspe

Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software

e it properly, I suspect you will find it unusable in anything but Microsoft software since that is their proprietary format. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

hough if anyoen were able to confirm that I'm on the right track with that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

(Not) Changing the mailing list culture (Was: Re: How to ask a question?)

love it. There's even some FOSS projects that use it as their main support venue. Baffling to me. Is there something between all of those that you are looking for? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Console screen resolution / font during initramfs

; cat $p; done DP-1: disconnected DP-2: disconnected DP-3: disconnected DP-4: connected eDP-1: connected I've currently got an exteranl display attached by USB-C so I think that might be DP-4 and my internal display would be eDP-1. So maybe I should try: video=eDP-1:1600x1200@119.82e Anyone played with this sort of thing? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: isc-dhcpd to kea migration issue

ted user then the maintainers might be open to such a split. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: isc-dhcpd to kea migration issue

Hi, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:28:36PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (HE12025-07-27): > > How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make the > > move at some point. > > Speaking for myself (but agreeing with a few friends), I say I do n

Re: isc-dhcpd to kea migration issue

Hi, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 09:39:03AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues/245 > > Bingo. Thank you. How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make the move at some point. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfol

Re: How to ask a question?

asic programming skills going — and mine really are basic. Thanks, Andy ¹ https://docs.rs/spreadsheet-ods/latest/spreadsheet_ods/ -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please help me get out for my holiday break

Hi, On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 05:41:38PM +0200, rudu wrote: > Le 26/07/2025 à 14:37, Andy Smith a écrit : > > It looks okay. So guesses I have left are: > > > > a) r...@cegetel.net is not the actual address you are subscribed as. I > > already advised to check the

Re: Please help me get out for my holiday break

best to contact listmas...@debian.org and explain your difficulties. That should put you in contact with a human volunteer who is able to manually unsubscribe you. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please help me get out for my holiday break

he first header is "Delivered-To:" and > there > is no header labeled "Envelope". OK, sorry, that one was probably aded by my mail server. The actual address delivered to shoud be in the headers somewhere near the top though, at least in a Received: one. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Please help me get out for my holiday break

pe-To" header near the top. For example, mine says: Envelope-to: a...@strugglers.net That's the address I am subscribed as, so you can find out yours that way. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

to come. I think David is suggesting that Poppler in Debian 12 is now three major versions *of Poppler* behind. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to delete my bug report

s deleted. If there isn't a vitally important reason for deletion it will be easier for everyone concerned to just leave it there. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

. Although it is udisks2 and udev that are facilitating this, I thought it only happened inside a desktop environment. Though your example of /media/root/UUID suggests not. Anyway, some ideas for desktop environments: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ubuntu-disable-automated-mounting Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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