On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:35:33 +0200
Flo wrote:
> I have tried to install trixie, however, I ran into two problems at
> the very beginning:
>
> .) When I want to boot the computer, the system is not found
> automatically. I have to go into BIOS for selecting the disk to have
> it booted.
That is
On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:51:54 +
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> what would be the easiest way to do an install from my local mirror
> would getting a copy of netinst.iso and modify it be practical
I'm not sure you mean by "local mirror". If you mean the one closest to
you, absent any pressing
On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:29:33 +0200
Hans wrote:
> is anyone using kmail?
>
> I have added a rule, when a string is in the subject, let us say for
> example "advice", then a wav file is played.
>
> But this is also played, when I am sendin a mail with the word
> "advice" in the headline.
>
>
On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:27:46 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
> Is it a underhanded plan to have the experienced users quietly by
> themselves?
No, it is a sneaky underhanded plot to leave the email lists entirely
to the old hands and rid us of pesky boring newbie questions like
"Where's the power sw
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:58:03 +0200
hw wrote:
> When running it on Debian, filezilla shows a password request for
> anonymous logins, and the login fails. This is not what the man page
> says. The ftp user doesn't have a password anyway. Apparently,
> Debians pure-ftpd version doesn't understan
On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200
Hans wrote:
> As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do?
> What might cause this behaviour?
>
> This computer was well running for many years.
That smacks of imminent hard drive failure.
I hope he's got backups! If not, I'd shut the mac
On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:43:00 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
> Do people our age need explaining that words can have multiple
> meanings, especially technical words used in different fields?
Hear, hear. Especially after this thread has shown exactly that to a
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 12:10:25 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> I'm setting up a new machine running trixie to run virtual machines,
> using virt-manager. virt-manager sets up a natted network for the
> virtual machines.
>
> Is it possible to set things up so that the virtual m
On Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:04:43 +0200
Dietrich Meyer wrote:
> However, when booting the installed system, I see the following:
> Grub menu on both screens, but internal screen rotated by 90°
> After "Loading initial RAM disk", the internal monitor goes blank
> (backlight still on). The HDMI monitor
On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 20:22:16 +0200
Marco Moock wrote:
> This is called bridge. IIRC you have to set up a bridge on the system
> and then attach it.
So it appears. And I get contradictory advice on how to do it when
searching. Some of it, fairly recent, just flat out fails.
> I've never managed t
I'm setting up a new machine running trixie to run virtual machines,
using virt-manager. virt-manager sets up a natted network for the
virtual machines.
Is it possible to set things up so that the virtual machines are on the
same network as the host machine? The host is on 192.168.100.0/24. Can
I
On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:29:53 +0200
"Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" wrote:
> I would like to know, if is it possible to use Debian Mate on
> mini PC with 8 GB of RAM if I will not use external monitor connected
> to provided HDMI output connector.
You did not say which mini-PC you are considering, so on
On Mon, 26 May 2025 20:46:37 -0700
accipiter wrote:
> > If you are using Network Manager, you should not have anything else
> > setting up interfaces that NM manages for you. What did you use for
> > the purpose in the past?
> >
> In the past it was the old standard /etc/network/interfaces set
On Mon, 26 May 2025 12:20:22 -0700
accipiter wrote:
> it showed not 1 but 2 entries for eth0 - though with different UUIDs.
If you are using Network Manager, you should not have anything else
setting up interfaces that NM manages for you. What did you use for the
purpose in the past?
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 14:23:04 -0400
Lee wrote:
> … but I don't know if dual boot or running windows in a vm would be
> better, or what the tradeoffs would be.
>
> Anyone care to say which is the better option, tradeoffs, pitfalls,
> etc?
One tradeoff is that with one machine virtual, you can run
On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:04:16 -0400
COMCAST wrote:
> That's a lot of drivel... or are you just wishing to see what you can
> publish?
It's rather good advice, even if it is a bit much and unsolicited. I'll
add to it: insulting people does not endear you to them.
We're all volunteers here, and w
On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:56:11 -0400
Default User wrote:
> Fun fact: I use rsync to do backups to and external usb hard drive. If
> the external drive is not connected, rsync will, without any notice,
> proceed to create a backup directory under /media, with the name of
> the unconnected backup dri
On Fri, 16 May 2025 14:56:41 +
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
> when i type ssh and two tabs i get a list of host
> numeric and names
> where do they come from
>
If I type 'ssh' I get proposed tab completions of various
programs, all starting with ssh.
If I type 'ssh' I get proposed IP addr
On Wed, 14 May 2025 12:02:40 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> (2) Could the maintainers of GDM and SDDM (and any other login
> managers of which I'm unaware) please move the little icon to be
> centered below the password box?
Possibly. I use LightDM, which has an accompanying package,
lightdm-gtk-gree
On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:02:38 -0700
Paul Scott wrote:
> I have tried booting with the last several kernels that I have
> installed doesn't seem to work. I also can't find iwconfig.
iwconfig comes in the package wireless-tools. You may need to
(re)install that.
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On Sat, 10 May 2025 10:44:09 -0700
Thomas Dineen wrote:
> This thread is a waist of time!
Not when it produces delightful misspellings like this one.
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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
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 did it. It might have been
something else that was upgraded at the same ti
On Wed, 7 May 2025 15:30:57 +0200
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> e.g. syncthing (without
> history apparently)
syncthing does what it calls file versioning.
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html
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On Wed, 7 May 2025 08:39:32 +0700
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 06/05/2025 16:25, Stanislav Vlasov wrote:
> > I put keepassxc database in ~/Sync folder and use it on every comp +
> > phone (keepass2android), sometimes simultaneously.
> > Even if i does not have link to any other device (sometimes inter
On Tue, 06 May 2025 07:57:53 +0200
"Loris Bennett" wrote:
> I run a Nextcloud instance on a RaspberryPi and then use the Nextcloud
> client on my laptop and on my Android phone to sync my important
> files, including my KeepassXC database. Additionally the Nextcloud
> instance creates periodic s
On Thu, 1 May 2025 19:26:34 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> Macbook Pro keyboard replacements seem to have two keys, F5 and F6;
> with different brightnesses? You need to find out which of the many
> modifiers to press at the same time: shift, fn, control, option,
> command (some modifiers have left
On Thu, 01 May 2025 22:27:11 +1000
rob stone wrote:
> I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to access
> 123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.
hplip 3.22.10+dfsg0-2 is available from the Debian repos. If you must
have hplip, I suggest you use that after you
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400
Haines Brown wrote:
> I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect
> locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week.
If things are working correctly, and you installed plocate rather than
locate, you should see som
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400
Haines Brown wrote:
> I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage.
> But when I use it, nothing is retured:
Did you install locate, or plocate? The latter is much faster, so
preferable.
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400
Haines Brown wrote:
> I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect
> locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week.
I don't know how often it rebuilds the database. I suspect daily.
However, you can run it manuall
No, no. Please show us *exactly* what you see, by copying from the
terminal into your email. Please include the shell prompt, and the
following shell prompt so that we know where the output ended.
Something like:
charles@hawk:~$ ping snark.local
ping: snark.local: Name or service not known
charles@
On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:48:01 +0200
Bernard wrote:
> On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote:
> > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before
> > taking further actions.
>
> Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated
> it, even though I thought I had
On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:30:01 -0400
Arbol One wrote:
> In my Debian 12, the keyboard stopped working all of the sudden, i
> tried using the 'Screen Keyboard', but it didn't work either. Coming
> from the world of Windows 10, I intended to reinstall the Debian.
On-screen keyboards usually require
On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:38:45 -0400
Haines Brown wrote:
> I enter chroot, and create /etc/festab on the target. I use the UUIDs
> repored by # blkid for the target disk,
>
> Then I attemt to mount these partitions
>
> /:# mount -a
>
> Mount cann't find the UIIDs. For eample:
>
> mount
On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:58:51 +0200
Stefan Schumacher wrote:
> Hello
> I recently bought a BrosTrend 650Mbps Linux Compatible Wiki Adapter
> (https://www.brostrend.com/products/ac5l) lsusb shows it to be a:
> 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC
> They seemed rather linux- and especi
On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:48:28 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Marco Möller wrote:
> > I am about to make an installation of Trixie to a Laptop.
> > If it is expected that new install media are to become published
> > soon, hen I wait for testing them, after the current ones are
> > likely to have been t
On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 10:54:48 -0700
Will Mengarini wrote:
> >> * If you are replying to a post, please … cut out extra text that
> >> is not relevant to your point.
> >>
While you are commenting on Mr. Cater's FAQ, it would be nice to pay
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:15:25 +0200
Hans wrote:
>
> But the build failed, as some packages need "libfuse3-3".
It appears bookworm has both libfuse2 and libfuse3-3. Trixie has
libfuse3-4. And that could change before trixie is released.
> A quick search showed: libfuse3-3 is in bookworm and in
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 18:13:40 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> > Not necessarily. I routinely ssh into all my computers, to their
> > root and user accounts,
>
> So you ssh-login as root, or do you login as a user then su to root?
I log in as root. "ssh r...@dragon.example.com".
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> > to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
> > not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
> > VNC.
>
> So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not all X clients that
> don't work, so w
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 00:56:05 +0200 (CEST)
coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me wrote:
> Is it normal for 'systemd-networkd' not to be running by default on a
> fresh installation of Debian 12, as a general rule? I disabled it
> again after troubleshooting this problem.
Yes, it is.
Installation does
Network Manager, as 1.36.6-0 .
charles@peregrine:~$ pre network-manager
network-manager 1.42.4-1amd64
network-manager-gnome 1.30.0-2 amd64
charles@peregrine:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.10
charles@peregrine:~$
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 19:30:43 -0400
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up.
> > It is necessary to touch it after a reboot. So a nice workaround.
>
> It should be possible to create this file as part of the boot
> sequence, before user logins a
On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:19:55 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> I disabled firewalld because I have no idea how to configure it, but
> my Linksys router is running a firewall that's really easy to
> configure.
firewall-config for GUI operation. firewalld comes with a command line
(and scriptable) tool ca
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 18:14:46 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> >To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It
> >is necessary to touch it after a reboot. So a nice workaround.
>
> Yeah. I'm working on it; I'd like for both mechanisms to work for
> trixie because IMO the trans
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:19:48 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again.
Thank you.
To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It
is necessary to touch it after a reboot. So a nice workaround.
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:09:24 +0300
Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> Mike Castle writes:
>
> > The whole utmp stuff is flaky, a best effort system that might give
> > some resemblance to reality.
>
> I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to
> 256.5-2.
I don't see it on eit
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:53:39 -0400
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> > On trixie who (GNU coreutils 9.5) gives me a long list of logins,
> > most of which predate the most recent reboot. "who -u", similarly.
> >
>
> On my Trixie system `who --users` only provides a carriage return and
> prints no
On bookworm who (GNU coreutils 9.1) operates more or less as I have
expected it to operate for several decades: it prints current logins.
E.g.:
charles@hawk:~$ who
charles tty7 2025-03-30 11:31 (:0)
charles pts/35 2025-03-27 20:13 (192.168.100.47)
root pts/36 2025-03-27
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:32:55 +1100
George Kirkham wrote:
> PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are
> the any other good email clients that support email threading and are
> packaged in Debian?
If, as in this email, you have two separate queries, you might do
better (
On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:11:08 -0400
Ife Wright wrote:
> I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase
> everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without
> erasing my hard disk
You do not have to erase everything already on your disk. I use the
netinst insta
On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:18:17 +
Geoff Kaniuk wrote:
> I wish to report a bug in the Mate desktop:
This is not the place to report bugs. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
However, since you have brought it up here, you may get some
discussion, which might prove useful before you file a bug report.
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400
Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already
> hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know
> what the misfire is, but selecting text insists on copying huge,
> unwanted chunks of a page, if
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:23:00 +0100
Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> It is strange having this machine
> boot Debian with the Windows Logo hardcoded in UEFI on boot ;)
Well, there, at least, the ThinkPenguin laptop clearly out-performs. It
has the ThinkPenguin logo on the outside of the lid and in the bo
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:37:58 +0100
lina wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Which laptop option is friendly with Debian,
> The purpose is related to work, not game.
>
> Mainly for computation, R and some bioinformatic analysis,
>
> Ideally at least > 16 cores, decent memory.
>
> Thanks,
I took delivery o
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:51:33 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> Debian 12 doesn´t include the /etc/updatedb.conf file.
charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search updatedb.conf
plocate: /etc/updatedb.conf
plocate: /usr/share/man/man5/updatedb.conf.5.gz
charles@hawk:~$ cat /etc/debian_vers
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:07:53 +0800
tim wade wrote:
> I plan to make increment backup for my home dir.
> It's currently in the size of 1xx GB.
>
> besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment
> backup?
I use and recommend amanda and rsnapshot, both already mentioned. If y
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead
> disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond.
Not quite. The electronics may respond even if the head-disk assembly
(HDA) is broken. It probably won't give a co
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 +
Chris Green wrote:
> I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so
> I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal
> boat.
>
> A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they
> claim to work
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 15:36:42 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
> Do you know the URL of a "howto" document that describes how to set
> that up?
No, sorry. I put that together ad hoc over several years.
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:04:10 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
> I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems
> to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). I have yet to figure out
> how fetch root mail messages from my daily driver mail client
> (Thunderbird). My WAG is that I
ge kernel-firmware-free
> E: No packages found
This will give you some packages to check on.
charles@hawk:~/Mail/mairix$ apt-cache search firmware | grep kernel
firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
nvidia-kernel-dkms - NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS sourc
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:51:03 -0500
Eben King wrote:
> > I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard
> > drive is failing. I would first boot to a live CD and run smartctl
> > tests on it.
>
> At the end of this message.
Nothing there jumps out at me, but maybe someone else w
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500
Eben King wrote:
> So what can I do to fix this, while still
> keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is
failing. I would first boot to a live CD and run smartctl tests on it.
How did you do
On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:47:03 -0500
Felix Miata wrote:
> It may be all that's required is using xrandr, or a GUI tool that
> employs it (e.g. arandr), to appropriately locate and orient the
> errant display, e.g.:
>
> xrandr --output HDMI-1 --right-of DP-1 --rotate normal
The nice thing ab
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:52:27 + (UTC)
w f wrote:
> Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly,
> gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a
> few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force
> Quit" or "Wait."
>
> When I la
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:48:21 -0500
gene heskett wrote:
> Generally speaking, all file systems know exactly whats in use,
> they have to, otherwise they would randomly overwrite another file,
> The encryption is only for the data in that allocated space. The file
> system knows nothing about that
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:27:31 +0100
Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> >> in order to close as many security holes as possible,
> >
> > Oh, that's a very charitable way to look at it. 🙂
>
> That was my honest opinion but now I feel gullible :)
> I don't see how the manufacturer could profit from thi
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:40:07 +0800
tim wade wrote:
> I have logged in a router system which is linux.
> The provider said it's based on debian OS.
>
> But there is not any package tool in it.
>
> root@myd-lt527:/# apt
> -bash: apt: command not found
> root@myd-lt527:/#
I take it you didn't fin
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:01:43 +0100
Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> Logcheck could also potentially be impacted,
> it reads from syslog an auth.log by default,
> but if the user changes configuration it can read from any other
> split log files.
Logcheck works just fine with journalctl only.
Instead o
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:52:13 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > Do you have any kind of automation that reads log files? Like, that
> > thing whose name I cannot remember right now, that reads ssh's
> > auth.log file looking for repeated failed logins, and updates your
> >
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 +
"Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote:
> I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two
> error messages:
> Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
> Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
Interesting. I run evi
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:05:45 +
Janet C wrote:
> Now the microphone works when I boot, but at some point, it stops
> working until I reboot.
Try hibernating and then restarting the system.
I am having problems with a bluetooth device. I conjecture that doing
this requires that upon rebooting
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:44:58 +0800
hlyg wrote:
> Thank Curley, but i have solved on my own
Excellent.
>
> isn't installer syslog supposed to record my choice during
> installation?
Yes, and a couple other files in /var/log/installation.
>
> i let bios boot 2nd disk, which also has deb12, ru
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:17:37 -0600
Gregory Forster wrote:
> I've been looking on Amazon. Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug
> into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux
> 12.8? Everything I find specify s for Windows.
>
I've found these work well with Bluetooth mice:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:18:45 +0800
hlyg wrote:
> i follow usual wisdom, and install freebsd in 1st partition, then
> install deb12 in 2nd partition, hoping grub can handle both
>
> but grub fails to show, freebsd's bootloader remains unchanged
>
> i didn't see any error or warning msg during
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:20:13 +1100
Peter Barnes wrote:
> Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it
> successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and
> when I go to install nothing happens.
Do you want to do a brand new installation, wiping your
On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 14:25:51 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> On 2025-02-06, Charles Curley wrote:
> >
> > I suspect we'll be living with mixed .list and .sources files as
> > suppliers upgrade what they ship.
>
> I haven't been following the long thread abo
On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 09:26:13 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> > 4) Do you know of any method to "undo" this modernization?
>
> You can do it by hand, or write a small script to produce the
> one-line format from the deb822 format.
Even simpler and less error prone is to copy the backup files created
With the previous discussion on modernizing one's apt sources files, I
went ahead and did it on two of my trixie installations.
The two original sources files were preserved, which might be useful
for some oddball installations.
Note that sources.list, which resides in /etc/apt, is replaced by
de
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 08:53:49 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> However, it is not in the man page for apt or apt-get.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1094784
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:30:02 +
Joe wrote:
> Why in the world bother making your own scripts when you can just do
>
> # apt modernize-sources
> The following files need modernizing:
> - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-beta.list
> - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list
> -
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:42:27 -0500
Michael Stone wrote:
> >...except that, per the rest of the discussion in that bug, it almost
> >certainly won't be able to predict which signer to apply for each
> >sources.list entry. That you'll probably have to add on your own.
>
> It even tells you that!
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:51:17 +
Joe wrote:
> The long-term fix is a file standard.sources root:root 644 in
> /etc/sources.list.d containing:
Is there anything that tells one how to make this conversion? Better
yet, a script or two to do it for us? There will be a lot of people
scrambling to co
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 07:53:07 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> Having said that, I am not sure how the complaint could be addressed
> since from what I understand you are basically asking for otherwise
> valid but commented-out sources.list lines to be converted into
> inactive deb822 files, which seems l
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:32:32 +
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> Indeed so, and in particular the bit in journalctl's man page where it
> says "The output is paged through less by default ..." !
>
> Piping journalctl's output through less is pointless, I think.
Unless you have --nopager set
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:46:23 +0100
Franziska Menti wrote:
> Hi Charles
>
> Thanks for the tipps where I could start looking to solve my problem.
> > You can check for what packages were upgraded about that time by
> > inspecting (as root) the term.log* files in /var/log/
On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 16:55:39 -0600
William Torrez Corea wrote:
> I am using the following image:
>
> *MS DOS 6.22 Bootable iso*
>
> https://archive.org/details/ms-dos-6.22_dvd
Did you notice the following on that web page:
If you need to burn it to a portable storage device, like USBs or
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:52:18 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib
> non-free
>
> Note the http and not https. Is this critical ?
Normally, not. It may if you use an apt cache such as apt-cacher-ng.
Those cannot inspect an HTTPS str
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:41:29 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> Should I add allow-insecure=yes or allow-downgrade-to-insecure=yes to
> sources.list, or is there some better way?
Neither. Your line was incorrect. Also, best practice is to create a
new file:
root@hawk:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Sorry, I hit the wrong button.
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:02:37 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> You did not mention what sort of hardware you are running. Running
> lspci as root should give us what we need. Something like:
root@peregrine:~# lspci -vs 1f.3
:00:1f.3 Audio device:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:12:55 +0100
Franziska Menti wrote:
> My debian problem: My inbuilt microphone of my laptop stopped working
> since about one month. It worked smoothly for months before then. I
> believe the issue
> appeared after an update.
You can check for what packages were upgraded ab
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:44:28 -0800
D MacDougall wrote:
> The Wikipedia article on Jitsi
> says that due to it's hosting on AWS Jitsi is not GDPR compliant. Do
> you or anyone have alternative that can be said with confidence to be
> better?
Jami is package in Debian and does not use a centra
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:35:18 +
Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:27:20 - (UTC)
> Greg wrote:
>
> > On 2025-01-28, wrote:
> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > Microsoft /is/ the malware.
> >
> > >> OT frequently.
> > >
> > > Definitely. Very much On Topic, this being debian-user:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:57:44 +1100
George at Clug wrote:
> If not then I recommend wiping all user settings for Firefox and then
> reloading Firefox. I had to do this one time a year or so ago. It was
> sad to loose my many bookmarks but it did clean out my Firefox.
> Below is how I wiped my use
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:49:06 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> > Are you also responsible for this?
> >
> > "X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying
> > bucket.cia.gov.." Or:
> > "X-Message-Flag: WARNING: Danger from LLM misuse - find shelter!"
>
> Not at all. This is the first
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote:
> > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0"
>
> This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke
> by a friend many years ago. I am a long time p
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:06:34 +0100
Hans wrote:
> > "It shows" ??? What shows? How?
>
> See:
>
> root@protheus3:~# ls -la /boot/efi/
> insgesamt 7
> drwx-- 4 root root 1024 1. Jan 1970 .
> drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 19. Jan 20:28 ..
> drwx-- 5 root root 1024 18. Jan 12:10 EFI
> d
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:20:22 +0100
Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am using UEFI now for the first time. Everything is worḱing fine,
> but I do not understand everything.
That's alright, nobody else does either.
> Please allow me to ask:
>
> 1. In /etc/fstab there is my entry
> UUID=5ABD-D634
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