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
On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:34:35 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> The version of the applet in my taskbar, shows as 1.24.0 (copyrighted
> to Red Hat,and I believe that I have not used Red hat, since v6.0),
> from the About item in the menu, running on Mate
>
> Synaptic shows my version of Network Manager, a
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 2
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_version
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
On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 10:54:05 -0600
Titus Newswanger wrote:
> For some reason I'm not finding any kernel-firmware-free. I see I
> have firmware-linux-free...?
>
> apt show kernel-firmware-free
> N: Unable to locate package kernel-firmware-free
> N: Unable to locate package kernel-firmware-free
> E
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/apt. That
> > should he
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
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:01:14 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> I suggest that instead of using rsync directly you use rsnapshot. You
> can set it up so that it only copies if DRIVE2 is there. The cron
> entries let it happen automatically.
Another advantage to rsnapshot is that you don&
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:36:42 -0500
Default User wrote:
> So, back to the original question: what in the world am I supposed to
> do to have rsync copy so that the size change in the two drives is
> equal, and DRIVE2 has (theoretically) the same data, taking up the
> same space, as DRIVE1?
I sugg
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:52:31 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote:
> Things I've tried so far:
> 1. Updated Intel graphics firmware to latest version available on
> git.kernel.org
I suggest you try the most recent backported kernel and firmware.
https://backports.debian.org
That is my usual fi
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:21:48 +0100
poc...@homemail.com wrote:
> > Stefan
> >
>
> All your post end up in the spam directory of my account on mail.com.
> I need to leave them there.
Oh, come on, Pocket. He was trolling you, apparently successfully.
Turnabout is fair play.
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:17:29 +0100
Hans wrote:
> Another question, not really important: The device names, like
> "/dev/hdX", "/ dev/sdX" and now "/dev/nvmeX" - who is creating these?
> The kernel? Must /etc/ fstab be manually changed, when changing the
> kind of harddrive?
Those are created at
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:17:29 +0100
Hans wrote:
> I am asking, because if NOT, than it would spare me a lot of work, to
> create an UEFI partituion, rewrite the bootloaders, fstab,
> configurations and so on.
The Debian installer (the installer on the netinst CD, not the live CD)
will cheerfully
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:22 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for 192.168.122.1: Address
> already in use
I've identified the problem. I have bind9 running on the problematic
host but not the host where things worked. Apparently as soon as
li
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:22:57 -0500
deb...@kcburns.com wrote:
> Whenever I restart dnsmasq (including a system restart), I have to
> start with a new (empty) DHCP leases file. Your DHCP leases file is
> specified in your dnsmasq configuration file (*.conf).
>
> Your config file appears to be /var
I have a virtual network controlled with Virtual Machine Manager. I
just gracefully rebooted the host machine. Bringing up the virtual
network produces the following:
Error starting network 'default': internal error: Child process
(VIR_BRIDGE_NAME=virbr0 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq
--conf-file=/var/lib/li
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:28:55 -0500
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as
> > solved.
>
> This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new
> thread with no context disjoint from thread where the problem was
> solved..
Th
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:47:04 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
> Also, the use of prepending, involving the "square brackets",
> generally indicates the name of a mailing list, for example, [GNC]
> for GNUcash.
OK, then how would you do it?
"Re: British English has disappeared: SOLVED"?
> If a person in
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 +
Chris Green wrote:
> Anyway I have it back now. :-)
Glad to hear it.
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:43:04 -0600
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> As part of the scripting I plan is to monitor the local temperature
> from my weather station and adjust accordingly in ways such as the
> time to power the heater or even whether to turn it off should a
> temperature rise occur through th
On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:28:51 +
Chris Green wrote:
> The British English dictionary is missing from
> /usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english.
I'm no expert here, but that suggests that you should have at least one
of several /usr/share/dict/british-english* files. Are
On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:09:06 -0800
Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I
> was first enlightened.
Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk out ther
On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:35:53 +0100
hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
> >
> > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-laptop
>
> That looks interesting.
> do you think the standard configure are right for now days?
>
> Memory: 8GB
I may have gone hog wild, but I blew it ou
On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:36:15 +0100
hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
> I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed.
> Can you suggest one for that purpose?
> Happy new year all debian members.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-laptop
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:01:52 -0500
Haines Brown wrote:
> It says to start of by doing:
>
> # touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio
>
> The problem is that I have no /etc/pipewire/ although it is installed:
>
> $ pipewire --version
> pipewire
> Compiled with
On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 10:37:38 -0500
Michael Stone wrote:
> You've been trolling with messages that add exactly zero value,…
Please don't feed the trolls.
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:52:52 + (GMT)
Tim Woodall wrote:
> This looks like the culprit:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077096
>
> But the maintainer hasn't dealt with it in 6 months.
>
> This package needs a no-change upload to rebuild it against dh-elpa
> >=2.1.5. Thi
The packages elpa-auto-complete and elpa-markdown-toc are missing from
trixie. They are in bookworm and sid. Any chance we'll see them back in
trixie?
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:20:17 +0100
Rafał Lichwała wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to switch completely from Windows 11 to Debian on my laptop,
> but as a first step I'd like to configure double-boot setup to give
> it a try, look around and check if all hardware works fine under
> Debian.
>
> Current s
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:28:47 +
Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I occasionally see Unicode characters that do not do not display
> properly. Eg: 메리 크리스마스 (for the curious: this says Happy
> Christmas in Korean).
Well, I don't have that font installed, so I see little boxes with the
Unicode values
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:21:08 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> but fetchmail goes on fetching mail. What is the correct way of
> stopping fetchmail?
Perhaps there is a fetchmail.timer unit that is starting up
fetchmail.service from time to time?
systemctl status fetchmail.timer
You might also
On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:45:31 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> File /proc/mdstat indicates a dying RAID device with an output
> section such as
>
> md3 : active raid1 sdg6[0]
> 871885632 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
> bitmap: 4/7 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> Note the [U-]. Th
On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:42:40 +0700
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 21/12/2024 10:12, Charles Curley wrote:
> > Because of the NATting for the VMs I have defined an alias for the
> > cache in bind per the auto-apt-proxy man page. This works as
> > expected, even on the non-v
auto-apt-proxy does not appear to be working fully on trixie. I have
two trixie machines, one virtual, the other non-virtual (literal?). On
the virtual machine auto-apt-proxy works just fine. It is NATted. The
non-virtual machine has problems: it does not find my apt proxy, an
instance of apt-cache
On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:41:52 -0500
Tom Browder wrote:
> Has anyone had experience using a KVM setup (at least one HDMI and
> two USB ports) and using cat 5/6/7 between user and the computer? I
> don’t need to handle multiple computers or high-def video movies,
> just programming and office work.
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:45:59 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price wrote:
> But I did create a
> small FAT32 partition to be mounted on /boot/efi if one day I needed
> it.
Which option in the installer's partitioner did you use, one of the FAT
options, or the EFI one? The latter will create a partition with
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:50:02 +
Joe wrote:
> So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found.
> I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory
> did not contain a Microsoft directory containing bootmgfw.efi.
> Previously, it had been happy to boot f
On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:05:26 +0100
Franco Martelli wrote:
> I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook.
By all means do the exercises in your handbook as a learning
experience. After that, I have found very useful Roger Sessions,
Reusable Data Structures For C, Prentice Hall (1989).
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:00:21 +0100
poc...@homemail.com wrote:
> I'll say it the installer is broke!
> I've had it install orca and company also.
> The last install I did using the installer I had a great number of
> packages that had to be removed as I wanted a somewhat minimum
> install.
The
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:15:54 -0500
gene heskett wrote:
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Well, that's interesting. I have one of those; I'm using it right now.
I vaguely recall buying it about ten years ago. It works fine for me.
However, it is possible that Ge
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:31:38 -0500
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate
> > user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I
> > conjecture he is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and
> > probably should be.
>
> The redirec
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100
wrote:
> Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user
> name as part of the command:
>
> rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of
> the time this will be a "no s
On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:01:37 -0500
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > Squid has a service account: "proxy" and group "proxy".
>
> That may be an issue. Years ago I had MySQL failures because MySQL
> startup scripts checked UID and GID were mysql. Trying to start the
> server as root led to failures.
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