Greetings,
Some is offering de-installs of chromium in the normal debian update
process, they need to be stopped.
This morning someone was trying to get away with de-installing
chromium-common and c++ software using the debian update process.
They need to be stopped forthwith.
Good luck.
Greetings,
When ones does a switch user from the application launch button then the
screen goes blank and it stays that way until re-booted.
This seems to have been introduced in Debian 12.
Looking around there is no fix to this, only work arounds of varying
effectiveness.
One work around i
Greetings,
There are drivers for more Brother laser printers in the package
printer-driver-brlaser .
One doesn't have to put up with Brother's atrocious install script to
set up the DCP-1610W.
The driver package from the Debian repository doesn't produce the
extraneous squiggles and blobs ei
To restore a readable and accessible syslog in Debian 12.0 enter
apt-get install rsyslog
One doesn't need to do anything with the journal suite.
I installed rsyslog-doc as well. It is in:
/usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html
The logs appear to be set up to rotate etc already in:
/
etter.
Thanks.
C.T.F. Jansen, ZL2TTS
Greetings,
Where is there a list of linux kernel messages ?
So far not found on :
- google
- Debian linux or kernel documentation, specifically linux-doc etc.
- not seem in /usr/share/doc
- www.kernel.org
If they are there then it's time for the discovery process to
Greetings,
Installed the Debian 11 Live DVD on a USB stick then a DVD.
Both hardly respond to the keyboard or mouse after some minutes.
Seen the full desktop once. The desktop usually stops when the pointer
appears on the grey screen.
A ctrl-alt-f2 and ctrl-alt-f3 sometimes shows a prompt at fi
Greetings,
Where is documentation that describes the messages from gufw or ufw please.
Of particular interest are lines in syslog and journalctl output with
UFW AUDIT
in them. What does this mean ?
There are queries on the Ubuntu forums but no usable answer. Nothin
Greetings,
Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under
the line of hex ?
Having the ASCII off to the right is of limited use.
Looking at a formatted dump one sees the ASCII, EBCDIC etc *under* the
hex and not far away on the other side of the page.
shed is the c
Greetings,
The Brother DCP-1510 printer drivers etc installer wiped /opt except
for it self .
The same as over four years ago. One shudders to think that one actually
pays them to produce that.
The instructions to do before running the installer use two commands
which are not to be found o
Greetings,
Do the Brother DCP-1510 printer drivers install ok ? The last time the
install script wiped /opt except for it self .
So far on having a look one sees that they say to run lppasswd except
this command is not on the system and has been deprecated from cups.
On a previous release o
Greetings,
Buying the said Asus X541U notebook, Microsoft Windows does not show
errors but other people complain of spotty performance from the Realtek
Wifi/Bluetooth unit in it.
Install Debian 9 then the console shows a stream of "correctable
errors" from the said Realtek Wifi/Bluetooth u
Greetings,
On Friday 29 June slashdot.org had an article on Zerodium offering tens
of thousands of dollars to buy Debian, other linux and BSD zero day
security vulnerabilities.
A heads up.
frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
Greetings,
Set up a Brother DCP-1510 laser printer and went to the Brother website
for the drivers and install script for Debian systems. Downloaded the
drivers and install script then ran the install script.
It seemed to work without significant errors and completed with no error
messages
Greetings,
Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 on the internal hard disk during the
install of Debian 7.1 to an external hard disk. It failed to detect
another operating system in the mbr and was primed to over write it. A
trap waiting to be sprung.
This was on a Toshiba C50D-A with the UEFI
Greetings,
Did a security audit on Debian 7 using tiger and found some less than
secure settings for network variables in the kernel.
One of the variables flagged was
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter .
This and the rest in this group can be set in /etc/sysctl.conf . T
Greetings,
Tried to setup a 3TB disk using cfdisk and it failed silently. Suggest
that cfdisk is updated to work with current disks; 3 and 4 TB. At least
update the man page. partman is not on the production system and can't
be installed, don't know if it actually works with disks over 2TB.
Greetings,
What security holes have been found in Debian 7 after installing it ?
In the releases 5 and 6 tiger was run after the install and the
significant events noticed
were a world writable directory that shouldn't have been world writable.
Just in case tiger or myself miss something ...
Greetings,
Installed Debian 7.1.0 , amd64, seemed to go without any problems, but
after the boot it only shows a watch symbol, this can be moved by the
mouse but the keyboard and mouse clicks do nothing. Ctrl-Alt-F1 does
nothing.
Powered done and used rescue OS to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.l
Greetings,
Is there a preferred way to install Debian 7 from DVD to an external
(USB) hard disk ?
The whole external hard disk is to be used instead of the internal hard
disk. This is to experiment with the new release (and discover fish
hooks like graphics that don't work) while leaving th
>> A Debian wheezy server sometimes shows root shells on the logon window.
>You say Debian Wheezy. Good. You say services thin clients. How?
>By what methods are the thin clients serviced? Are they NFS diskless?
>Are they X terminals using XDMCP? Other?
Its an xfce4 based system. The root
Greetings,
Got an error about shared library libstdc++.so.6 missing after
inadvertently downloading the 32 bit firefox on to an amd64 system. The
firefox website gives makes no mention of 32/64 bit suitability.
Did ldd on the firefox executable and it pointed to some libraries in
the 32
Greetings,
installed firefox but when it is run it falls over with error message :
firefox: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
This file is at /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.13
Tried putting a symlink
Greetings,
The 100 Mb recommended size for /tmp is far too small and out of date.
Some of the others including / are also too small.
I ran out of space for krita, had a look, and decided 5Gb would be a
safe over estimate. krita now works.
Prior to the /tmp partition increase I put a symlink
Greetings,
Is Debian 6.0.2.1, or something more recent, for the amd64
architecture OK ? It will be used to upgrade Debian 5.0.6 on an Asus
PRO50G notebook. Thanks.
frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS
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Greetings,
The flushing of buffers for devices plugged into a USB port
is problematic. When writing data to a USB stick it usually took two
attempts to write a directory to a USB stick. The first attempt didn't
show the directory was there when it was removed then plugged back in.
I
Greetings,
what does back ground process ata/0 do ? Where is it documented ?
Also, what does back ground process ksuspend_usbd do ?
Thanks in advance.
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Greetings,
What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ? I'm making a list of the
back ground processes and what they do then will post it here. Save others
hunting around for what what little there is.
Haven't found any lists on-line anywhere yet. Apparently there's an
O'Reilly book that lists
Greetings,
I'm trying to add a debian 4.0 CD set to a debian 5.0 apt
archive using apt-cdrom but the system doesn't recognise the debian 4
CD's.
In the release notes for Debian 5.0 there's a section on problems with
reading etch cdroms on a lenny system. The suggestions were done but
t
Greetings,
What is a method for disabling bluetooth and wireless on a
laptop with Debian 5.0 ? The radio link switch on the side can be moved
accidentally so the system needs to be modified to stop use of bluetooth
and wireless.
I disabled a number of daemons to do with bluetooth and wir
Greetings,
Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1,
relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not
enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ?
Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing
with javascript turne
Greetings,
Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1,
relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not
enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ?
Is it possible for remote programs, say a website that one is browsing
with javascript tur
Greetings,
Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses,
correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box
that has a LCD display ?
I ask because Debian 3.1 failed to detect the characteristics of said
LCD displays causing some extra running around to find o
Greetings,
On the matter of updating the 2.4.27 kernel on the intel 386
architecture, to apply the fixes for DSA10181-1 (CVE-2005-0449). Which
of the current files in
security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
should one download to apply the fix ? Is this th
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