On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:36:21 +
Cliff Kilby wrote:
> I am unsure how to report this, as it is not against a package, but
> rather the installer.
…
> The netinstall installer does not support socks5 proxies, even though
> apt does.
Report against "debian installer". Check for similar bugs fi
On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:16:00 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> I just installed trixie on my firewall. I have port forwarding set up,
> running and tested from the outside. I can access services on the
> server from the internal network, such as DNS. So far so good.
>
> What I
I just installed trixie on my firewall. I have port forwarding set up,
running and tested from the outside. I can access services on the
server from the internal network, such as DNS. So far so good.
What I do not have is outbound traffic getting through to the outside
world. Neither tcp nor icmp
I rebooted, and tried to log in. I got a very brief message, then was
thrown back to lightdm.
I can go to a console and log in to my user account. I can then run
startx, and I am back in my usual session.
I had made some changes to lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, but have backed
those out entirely. Sim
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:38:31 +
David wrote:
> Here's a few stabs in the dark ...
> (I'm on Bookworm, not sure if they are relevant to Trixie).
Thanks for the reply and work that went into it. I have solved the
problem (probably operator error); see the email I just sent.
> Also your sentenc
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:43:43 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> I rebooted, and tried to log in. I got a very brief message, then was
> thrown back to lightdm.
>
> I can go to a console and log in to my user account. I can then run
> startx, and I am back in my usual session.
>
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:33:26 -0400
COMCAST wrote:
> What would be the password? I dearly need to know.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> This key is not known by any other names.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?
> yes Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.213' (ED25519
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:42:58 +0300
Tran Duc Minh wrote:
> I would like to ask if people in Vietnam can use Debian OS without any
> restrictions. I am very interested in using Debian and want to make
> sure it is fully available and supported in my country.
As far as Debian is concerned, there ar
On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:46:56 +0200
Eugen Dedu wrote:
> I tested it too, disabled it from the UEFI, without success.
I'd try unplugging the Ethernet cable. Buggy firmware is not unknown.
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2025 14:18:11 -0500
CHRIS M wrote:
> I am just curious if this message made it through to the list or not?
Please don't do this. It wastes a lot of peoples' time.
Instead, check the list's archives. You can find that by examining the
header "List-URL:" in any email from the list.
On Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:48:43 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> I still think it would be useful if gdm3 and sddm put their "choose a
> window manager" widget at bottom center, not bottom right.
Perhaps you can configure that, possibly by editing a file under /etc?
lightdm has a utility that lets one do
On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 15:15:08 -0700
Paul Scott wrote:
> Here is my /etc/ddclient.conf (with the password removed)/
>
> Has the location for the conf file changed?
No. That is where mine is on bookworm.
>
> Is there anything wrong with this file?
I see two differences between yours and mine. Mi
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:24:59 +
John Scott wrote:
> • can it be used during the installation with the Debian Installer
> such as for fetching packages over the network[.]
>
> To the second question, I don't think it's tested very often, but in
> principle it ought to and I'll try to do a test
On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:18:46 +0200 (CEST)
lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote:
> Would HP let youaccess their BIOS setup, memory card, ... within
> Linux?
There are plenty of other vendors besides HP and Dell. I had been
eyeing a new computer for a while now. It had to be Linux friendly. In
December I took
On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:27:17 +0800
jeremy ardley wrote:
> I have a new ASUS motherboard with a Ryzen 7 processor and downloaded
> the Trixie netinst iso
>
> I assumed simple dd of the iso to a USB drive would work. I was wrong.
How about showing us exactly what you typed and what results you go
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:55:04 -0500
Tom Browder wrote:
> SDX=sda
> sudo parted /dev/${SDX} mklabel gpt
> sudo parted -a opt /dev/${SDX} mkpart primary ext4=0% 100%
> sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/${SDX}
Two style notes:
* I would put quotes around any variable, in this case $(SDX}.
* I would use lower ca
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:44:47 -0700
Paul Scott wrote:
> > waterhorse.dyndns.org
On the off chance it might be useful:
charles@peregrine:~$ host waterhorse.dyndns.org
waterhorse.dyndns.org has address 68.2.200.21
charles@peregrine:~$ host 68.2.200.21
21.200.2.68.in-addr.arpa domain name p
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:23:42 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> I have a monitor that confuses the graphics drivers. When Debian (12
> or 13) starts, the display is shifted about three inches to the right
> — both in text mode while things are starting, and later when either
> sddm or gdm3 runs.
I suspec
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:24:59 +
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> On Saturday, August 30th, 2025 at 9:40 PM, Lee
> wrote:
> > Also required is something that tells you there are software updates
> > you should install. Maybe there's already a package that does that -
> > I don't know.
an page.) If nothing
jumps out at you, feel free to share the results with us (after
suitable redacting).
If you have telnet on the laptop, try telnetting in to the desktop using
the appropriate port. The standard port for SSH is 22. You should see
something like this:
charles@hawk:~$
I have several machines with similar configurations which I preseed
when installing Debian. I put all the common variables in a.cfg, then
include a.cfg in the files with variables that, well, vary. The latter
are named by hostname. These are all on a USB thumb drive, which is not
the boot device.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:15:48 -0300
Ignacio Dominguez wrote:
> I MIGHT have made an upgrade to
> Bookworm's latest version that MIGHT have included a libinput or
> kernel upgrade (speculating).
You can verify this by appropriate grepping (or zgrepping) through the
logs at /var/log/apt.
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:57:25 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Is the firmware up-to-date? <
> https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/50745/~/firmware-download-and-updates-for-western-digital-internal-and-external-drives
Good thought. According to that page,
WD and WD_BLACK brand
On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:16:36 -0600
Charles Curley wrote:
> I think my next step is to get the other new hard drive into service
> ASAP.
The second drive is now installed, and showing the same error. Even
after a short test. I've added it to the RAID array, and the kernel is
busy rec
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:46:14 +
David wrote:
> I found them reassuring, because Christian Franke is the primary
> developer of smartmontools [1], and in the first bug above he wrote,
> 11 years ago: "This is a harmless drive firmware bug which could be
> safely ignored."
>
> and in the second
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:10:32 +
David wrote:
> > Is there any way to tell the drive to recalculate the checksum? I
> > don't see anything in the smartctl man page.
>
> Hi, internet search on the error message does find discussion of this,
> including:
> https://www.smartmontools.org/ticke
I just took delivery of two WDC WD4005FFBX-68CAUN0 hard drives, to
replace two failing hard drives. I have put one of the new ones into
service. Everything looks nominal, except that smartctl reports:
Warning! SMART Attribute Thresholds Structure error: invalid SMART
checksum.
Is there any way to
On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:44:55 -0700
Xiyue Deng wrote:
> So I have a laptop that recently upgraded from Bookworm to Trixie
> without issues. Only that, unlike my other box (which also upgraded
> from Bookworm to Trixie and has a working unattended-upgrade), I found
> that all recent security updat
fce4-terminal-emulator.desktop has
this line:
Exec=exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator
When I run that command from an open terminal window, I get:
charles@jhegaala:~$ exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator
charles@jhegaala:~$ E [charvdev.cc: 47] Error: Compiling fragment
shader: 0:12(10): error: GLSL E
On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:56:59 +0200
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Or even 'apt autopurge', saves at least 8 characters! :-)
>
> According to the apt(8) man page, this doesn't exist.
Then the man page is incorrect.
root@jhegaala:~# apt autopurge
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, I
On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:20:46 +0200
Hans wrote:
> [S]houldn`t we not abandon 6.3 packages of plasma and add 6.4
> versions instead, even when it means, the official release of trixie
> will be later?
This would be an inconvenience for those of us who don't use plasma.
I don't know what problems
On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 11:47:51 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, August 02, 2025 11:19:23 PM Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:56:34 -0400
> > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 12:43:06 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> pfSense switched to KEA and it was kind of a disaster for folks who
> let the firewall handle DNS and DHCP. It seems KEA on pfSense does
> not update DNS records with DHCP registrations, so name resolution
> slowly breaks as records expire
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:56:34 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, July 31, 2025 08:42:27 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> > * Set up high availability between the two kea servers.
>
> What do you mean by that?
https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/stable/arm/hooks.html#lib
On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 00:02:31 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
> Charles Curley (HE12025-08-01):
> > Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
>
> Separating the things that move a lot and the things that are stable
> is still a good idea.
Right. With /root r-o, you ne
On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount
> /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem
> read-only.
Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
For what the OP is up to, mounting the
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:18:07 -0400
Eben King wrote:
> I recently got some SSDs, and decided to use one of them (a 256G
> model) to boot from. I want the change to be undetectable, in that
> from a user perspective, nothing seems different, just faster.
>
> I currently have a 2T HD, partitioned
On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS-Vivobook-M3407HA - and I'm
> wondering if anyone has experience with Debian and this product? It
> is supplied with Windows 11 pre-installed and I look forward to
> eliminat
I'm experimenting with kea, the ISC's replacement for their dhcpd
server. So far I am cautiously optimistic.
I have kea up and running in a limited trixie environment. It handles
one client computer on a direct IPv4 only Ethernet link. I have imported
my dhcpd list of reserved hosts, and kea recog
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:27:36 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> Is there Debian software that can work with, and especially convert,
> WordPerfect files?
charles@peregrine:~$ apt-cache search wordperfect
abiword - efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
ebook-speaker - eBook reade
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:04:12 - (UTC)
Greg wrote:
> I don't need support, and in the rare case I do, don't ask questions
> here.
>
> I use a search engine and usually find an answer to my query on stack
> exchange, or reddit, or somewhere else, but *never* in the debian-list
> archives, which
On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:53:34 +0300
Osama Albahrani wrote:
> Dear Debian Users,
>
> Long story short, in the Debian 12 installer iso, beyond the initial
> boot screen, the trackpad/keyboard do not work on a 2017 MacBook Pro
> (Intel-based). However, they work with the GNOME live iso and I was
> t
On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:29:59 +0200
Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 03:14:54PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > Well, I seem to have kea up and running, or so journalctl indicates.
> >
> > I set up a minimal network, and there are link lights. kea did get a
Well, I seem to have kea up and running, or so journalctl indicates.
I set up a minimal network, and there are link lights. kea did get a
query from a test device, but as far as I can tell never responded. Any
ideas?
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:48:14 +0200
john doe wrote:
> Just thinking out loud, why don't you use Dnsmasq for everything?
An interesting thought. If this gets too frustrating, I'll look into it.
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:49:56 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> If it has the ability to use MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and LDAP then I
> don't see how in Debian it can avoid depending upon their libraries.
kea can indeed use either MySQL or PostresSQL, but you don't have to.
The documentation says you ca
On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:07:01 +
Andy Smith wrote:
> How are you finding use of kea, in general? I too will have to make
> the move at some point.
Frustrating.
I was able to run keama to convert from isc-dhcp to kea. But I haven't
found any general advice on "if you hit this problem, do this"
On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:25:03 -0400
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I know very little about Kea, but I guessed that was a
> reference to an issue or a merge request. The kea project
> is on gitlab, so pulling up their issues and viewing 245
> looks like it's what they refer to:
>
> https://gitlab.i
I am looking at migrating from the ISC DHCP server to its replacement,
kea. I have installed keama, and can generate a kea configuration file.
My kea file had a number of problems, most of which I have been able to
solve. So far so good.
I have one problem I have not been able to solve:
/// Th
On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:19:39 +0300
mike.michael.1...@gmail.com wrote:
> calculator doesn't work
>
Which calculator, and which version thereof?
If you mean gnome-calculator 1:43.0.1-2 on bookworm, there is a known
bug that prevents it from operating at all. It works on trixie
(1:48.1-2+b1). It a
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:35:48 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> I have a desktop system with HDMI graphics on the motherboard and a
> graphics card. Here's the output from inxi -G:
>
> Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v:
> kernel
> Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GL [Quadro K2200]
On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:15:08 -0400
Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> Does anyone know what package provides the mysql_secure_installation
> script on Debian 13 Trixie?
Yes.
Oh, you actually wanted to know which package in trixie provides
mysql_secure_installation. Well:
root@tiassa:~# apt-file se
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
fault.
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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
attention to it.
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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
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