Re: Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 > (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing > changes by live555. > > I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tutorials > or hints I f

Re: amd rx550

Russell L. Harris wrote: > Should I purchase a used computer with AMD RX550 video? I have a Debian desktop with one; it drives 2 4K monitors just fine. I don't play games; that may factor into your decision. -dsr-

Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need > the directories > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc > /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi > alongside the already installed > /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi > in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together. > G

Re: Alpha testing Debian Trixie

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a forum or email group for testing Trixie. I > did a upgrade from Debian 12 to 13 using apt-get dist-upgrade. The upgrade > went through but after I rebooted I did not have any entries in KDE's > application launcher. I created a new acco

Re: mounting backup filesystem on-demand (was Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script)

On May 21, 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM BST, Dan Purgert wrote: > > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the > > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The > > backup script did the m

Re: Repair or Replace

On May 20, 2025, Steve Matzura wrote: > After a year in storage, I'm trying to get a version 11 system back online. > I connected it to power and network, then booted it. Interestingly, it > appeared on my network not at the address it had when it went into storage, > but one given it by my local D

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > now as trixie is is in frozen state I am asking myself, when best time to > upgrade to trixie. > > My systems are no important product systems, so small failures do not harm > much. > > First question: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > o

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script

On May 20, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM BST, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > why not > > > if ! mountpoint /mnt/usb-drive-b ; then ... > > > ? > > > > I'd not heard of either `mountpoint` or `findmnt` before. I see they'

Re: No link with BCM57412 (Broadcom Extreme NetXtreme-E 10Gb)

Mihaly Zachar wrote: > I have never used fibre connection yet. Now I got a server where the HW > (Dell R440) and the network connections are provided by others, my task > is to install a Linux on it. > > I installed a fresh Debian 12, the built-in NIC (BCM5720) is working, it > also can see the

Re: Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

On May 19, 2025, Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:04 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:47:25PM -0400, Default User wrote: > >

Re: Grub struct the OS reboot

Kean Hai2 Ren | 任 海 wrote: > When I installed Debian 12.10 on my device : > CPU: 13th GenIntel Core i5-13500x20 > Graphic:Mesa intel UHD Graphics 770(ADL-S GT1) > Memery: 16G > During the installation, it works well, but after finishing the installation, > it will reboot, and then it is stuck wit

Re: kotlin package and dependencies

Federico Kircheis wrote: > I'm using the kotlin package since I wanted to use the kotlinc compiler, and > noticed that it lists following packages as dependencies > > * ant > * libmaven-compiler-plugin-java > * libmaven-plugin-tools-java > * libmaven3-core-java > > > I'm not using ant or ma

Re: ssh, where do the host come from

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 Assuming that your shell is bash, it comes from the bash tab completion function, which has an optional package: bash-completion/stable,now 1:2.11-6 all programmabl

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

Jonathan Dowland wrote: > FYI, some of us have recently re-started an effort to improve the Debian > Wiki. One of the things we need to establish (IMHO) is to determine what > audience the wiki is *for*. For example, it serves a useful function for > Developers, with clusters of pages for Debconfs

Re: "Tips"?

Joe wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager > > Arch Linux, by the way, is based on Debian and has some excellent > documentation, most of which applies to Debian itself. I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project would say that Arch is based on Debian. It

Re: "Tips"?

Gregory Forster wrote: > Hi, >     On Wednesdays, I volunteer at a Senior Center to teach computers.  Well, > few, if any, showed up. I'm  now known as, "Greg, the gadget guy." helping > people with their cell phones, computers and tablets.  Well, last Wednesday, > nobody showed up for anything. 

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

Stefan Monnier wrote: > > * If a new machine is genuinely more efficient (and we keep being > >told that they are!), > > The capacity of laptop batteries has been stable around 50-100Wh for > decades, so the detailed and concrete data about potential improvement > in efficiency is readily av

Re: System Crash in LibreOffice When Using Large Fonts with Black Text (Debian, Mint, Kali --Suspected i915 Issue on Debian)

On May 09, 2025, Rohin S Nair wrote: > Dear Debian Team, > > I am experiencing a severe issue on Debian and Debian-based distributions > when using LibreOffice with large fonts. > When attempting to display content particularly with large fonts and black > text the system becomes completely unresp

Re: Issue with ffmpeg hevc_qsv Encoder on Debian Trixie – Unclear Package Responsibility

amir alavi wrote: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:7.1.1-1+b1 > Package: intel-media-va-driver-non-free > Version: 25.1.4+ds1-1 > Dear Maintainers, > I am encountering an issue when attempting to convert files using ffmpeg with > the hevc_qsv encoder (Intel QuickSync) on Debian Trixie. > Previously

Re: Internet connection in rescue mode

Nicolas George wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02): > > What lesson is that? > > Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it > does. That includes the privilege of being you, a user whose data is close at hand and readable, if not even deletable. Creating a n

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > I don't want to use set proxy in firefox and other application, but > I want to send any packets to 127.0.0.1: and my program itself > send to eth0. > > OK, there is an underlying assumption that you are not telling > us. > > Why do you want to do

Re: route all traffic to a internal socket

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: >On 4/30/25 4:29 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Wed Apr 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM BST, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > I want to send any packet to 127.0.0.1: and it sends my packets > to internet. my outgoing interface is eth0. > > You can

Re: sending short emails

Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work > reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). Wh

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

Andy Wood wrote: > Is anybody else being hit by a problem with openssh-server after the > 1:10.0p1-2 migration into testing the other day? > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > openssh-server : Depends: openssh-client (= 1:9.9p2-2) but 1:10.0p1-2 is to > be installed > E: Unabl

Re: Xpra

Mario Marietto wrote: > ->Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the > great thing about Xpra: like the good old remote X11, but fast and > detachable. > > Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The > distro that I have had in mind sin

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione > A.09.04151432R. > Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( > https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server > chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). > This RAID is

Re: R: R: Grub problem

Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf (see page 59). This document is too generic; it does not tell us the most important part: which chipset family is in use. LSI's 2

Re: Gnome to XFCE

Eben King wrote: > I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I only > log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't work, and > even then I almost always use a text console. So I very rarely need X, but > still want it there to use if I need it. Howev

Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21): > > $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if > > ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘ > > I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the > symmetrical ASCII one; then I noticed the single quotes, and I kn

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

Alain D D Williams wrote: > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I > ssh > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like > that). For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my terminals to indicate where I was SSHd

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to follow up on some problems I had running an x64 emulator on a > Raspberry Pi. I've tried paying for computer help, but no one I spoke to > worked with Linux. You can ask specific questions here, or on the Box mailing list (or on the KVM or QEMU lis

Re: Realtek Wireless USB Network Card and DKMS

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 especially Debian-friendly and even have >

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

On Apr 14, 2025, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > I wrote: > > > If you > >sudo systemctl disable cups # and maybe others > > Actually, if you follow the discussion, the CUPS Bonjour auto-discovery > >- it presumably handled by the cups-browsed package > (you can uninstall it, or systemctl di

Re: case fan speed

Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM BST, Eben King wrote: > > sudo modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 > > > > then running "sensors" shows > > it8728-isa-0a40 > > Adapter: ISA adapter > > <9 voltages> > > <5 fans, one of which is 0 RPM> > > <3 temps> > > intrusion0: ALARM > > >

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 11, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > (That doesn't mean you have to use > > > > mdns, it just means that if you instead decide to do something like > > > > copy hosts files around

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > To avoid this, there seem to be two approaches: > >- remove those dependancies (see below) > >- confine the impact of those dependancies, as proposed > by some developpers, in having those dependancies confined > (not examined here) > > To solve this,

Re: atftpd permission denied

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I am having problems writing to atftpd. I keep getting a permission > > denied > > > error. > &g

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 10, 2025, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Or you use mdns, which is the standard way of dealing with dynamic > > resources on an unmanaged network. > > The resources stay fixed during their lifetime, and any changes that > occur are

Re: atftpd permission denied

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I am having problems writing to atftpd. I keep getting a permission denied > error. > > Switch#$.SED.bin tftp://169.254.180.65/c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-25.SED.bin > > > Address or name of remote host [169.254.180.65]? > Destination filename [c3550-ipser

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

Anssi Saari wrote: > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > > > Serious disk enclosures have lights that can be turned on to indicate > > which disk has failed. > > Yes. I take it the actual question is, is there a DIY version of that? > This sort of thing is why I mostly do just mirroring. If ea

Re: next Trixie install images expected to arrive when?

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 tested > a lot already. > Would anybody know about when a next vers

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

On Apr 09, 2025, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > i want to map the sata hardware connections to fixed device names. This be > done even the hdd on the cable is changed. > > So - when i connect a hdd to sata port 4 i want to get (for example) > /dev/sdd created even /dev/sda to /dev/sdc (respecti

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

Matt Timpson wrote: You seem to have forgotten to copy the debian-user list, so I have helpfully corrected that for you. (Questions on the list are not an invitation to a personalized support experience. Everyone is a volunteer here, including you.) > Hello, > > I bought a book scanner from a

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

Matt Timpson wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to run a .deb file written for x64 processors on my Raspberry Pi 5, > which I run Linux on. Unfortunately I don't know a damn thing about computers > and need step-by-step instructions. I have tried and failed to pay computer > technicians online to

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 04, 2025, poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > > > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2025 at 6:10 AM > > From: "Dan Purgert" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: > > Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 04, 2025, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I'm just going to assume that it worked similarly to traditional X > > sessions (e.g. the ones on HP-UX), where it looked up the system's > > hostname, and used whatever IP address that returned for connections > > be

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 03, 2025, Greg wrote: > On 2025-04-03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> That's what you want: as the address is in the 127.0.0.0 network, > >> pinging it will ping itself, and it gets a reply. It doesn't > >> require your LAN to be set up, and AIUI it&#

Re: DHCP and static addresses, nothing to do with Re: Who:Bookwormv.Trixie

On Apr 02, 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > Experimenting I find the duplication does not seem to generate an > > error, other than I now had to ping itself by address, since the name > > is now found at 127.0.1.1 by pings lookup?

Re: Different HTTP download speeds over Wi-Fi (but not cable)

On Mar 31, 2025, Paul Menzel wrote: > [Please Cc me on replies.] > > Dear Debian folks, > > > In the Eduroam Wi-Fi network of the TU Chemnitz (X-WiN, Cisco CW9164i, > CW9166i, C9124AXE-E) I noticed too low download speeds from Debian archive > mirrors. Using a cable full adapter speed is achieve

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

George at Clug wrote: > I do not fully understand "email threading", even after reading up on it. I > don't use email threading, and I do not think my email client does either. > Thanks for pointing the matter of "email threading" out to me. This will be > some homework for me. email threadin

Re: confusing printer definitions

On Mar 20, 2025, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > The software setup for my Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless laser printer is > confusing the hell out of me. I'm running bookworm. > > The printer is connected via USB only (not wireless). When I first connected > it, CUPS (apparently) set up a pr

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ > > /bin/su --login > > Password: > > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05 > > host 09:57:59 ~# cd /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3 > > host 09:58:08 /somew

Re: array suggestions

Anssi Saari wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > (Cheap: $45 for a 4 x M.2 PCIe to PCIe x16 slot card. $10 for > > single adapters.) > > The last part I can agree with but I recently paid something like $80 > for a TXB122 card which is just a 2x NVMe m.2 to PCIe x4 adap

Re: array suggestions

Will Mengarini wrote: > Hmm, what consumer-level motherboard supports > more than 2 NVMe drives? Or are you using SATA? Pretty much all of them, assuming you have a PCIe slot available and a cheap adapter card. 1, 2, and 4 M.2 slots on a card are all easy to find. (Cheap: $45 for a 4 x M.2 PCIe

Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

it might be > interesting. If not, sorry for the noise. > > Best > > Hans > > Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2025, 10:31:26 CET schrieb Dan Purgert: > > On Mar 19, 2025, Hans wrote: > > > Hi Geert, > > > > > > the desired goal is, that my origi

Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

On Mar 19, 2025, Hans wrote: > Hi Geert, > > the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after > boot. As dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it > does not. Is this PC physically leaving your LAN? If not, changing the MAC isn't going to do all that much. > >

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus > accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems > to have become stuck at 12.7. > > I have a second machine on which I installed a fresh Bookworm a few > weeks ago. T

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

Richmond wrote: > Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability > which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited > arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the > testing version but I think it would cause problems. > https:/

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Richmond wrote: > >> Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability > >> which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited > >> arbitrary code execution? I lo

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

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 with a 'PC' as that implies they us

Re: evolution recovery

On Mar 09, 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > [...] > > Meanwhile, I discovered that HostGator has the Roundcube web > > interface, and that works for now. > > Isn't roundcube an IMAP client under the hood? Ideally. I think it can also do POP3 though.

Re: filesystem damage

Eben King wrote: > > > > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > > > Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5 (SMR) > > > Device Model: ST2000DM008-2UB102 > > > > > > AIUI SMR does not work well for OS (e.g. /tmp, swap) and general-purpose > > (e.g. /home) disks that see frequent small

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote: > > Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single > > file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? > > Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be > smaller than size exposed to v

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

Miriami wrote: > > Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as > backing storage, and could self-growing in size? > > It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried > the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ext4 filesyste

Re: evolution recovery

Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution > > for it? > > Good idea. Thanks. > > > > > It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication > > method.

Re: filesystem damage

On Mar 07, 2025, David wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 10:03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: > > > > [...] > > > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > > > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > > > 1

Re: evolution recovery

On Mar 05, 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:38:41AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > er, "second" address, just from a MUA? > > I should have said that an extra email address is handly to have. > Sorry for the confusion. > > > > Sev

Re: evolution recovery

On Mar 05, 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On my Debian 12 desktop, I installed Evolution, primarily for easy > access to HTML messages. Also, it gives me a second mail address. er, "second" address, just from a MUA? > > Several days ago, Evolution began causing a "Mail Authentication > Req

Re: LSIUtil

Greg wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to use the following: > https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/LSI/sw/lsiutil-1.72.x86-64.el7 > The source: > https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/LSI/sw/lsiutil-1.72.tar.gz > > Unfortunately I get: > > # ./lsiutil-1.72.x86-64.el7 > LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility

Re: filesystem damage

Eben King wrote: > > > On 3/3/25 05:03, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Well, at least those read errors were all corrected ;) > > > > None of the first three bits are absolute proof that the drive is going, > > but they're certainly cause for suspicion. >

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

Steven Speek wrote: > I would like this feature in apt-get. Until then, you can use wget to retrieve the URL and apt install to install from the filename. In general, this is rather dangerous, and should probably be avoided. There may be better solutions, depending on the context of where these

Re: filesystem damage

On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: > [...] > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED  > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   082   064   006    Pre-fail > Always   -   146369262 146 million read-errors. >   7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/26/25 12:20 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > > > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

On Feb 26, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing list" built around > webmail as a complement/alternative to their sponsored social media groups. > I find the web based system unusable.

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

On Feb 22, 2025, gene heskett wrote: > On 2/21/25 11:42, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > That was 2+ years ago, and 2T's were brand new. > > With a lot of emphasis on the "+" I guess, since I bought my first 2½" > > 2TB HDD in 2012. > > > > > > Stefan > I was shopping in the 3.5" drives at

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

On Feb 21, 2025, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/21/25 07:11, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2025, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:07:10 -0500 > > > gene heskett wrote: > > > > my home net, is behind dd-wrt, in plain text. on an addr

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

On Feb 21, 2025, Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:07:10 -0500 > gene heskett wrote: > > > > my home net, is behind dd-wrt, in plain text. on an address block > > that does not get thru a router. And in 30 years I have not been > > touched. > > LUKS addresses a completely different

Re: Which web server is installed during Setup/Software Installation?

Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I need to test a Spring app on Debain 12. I'm installing Debian 12.9. > I'm at the Select Software portion of the installation. The selections > include Web Server. Spring typically uses Tomcat. > > Here is the screen capture: . >

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

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 firewall rules. fail2ban

Re: The impact of removing rsyslog from Trixie

Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a couple of bash/awk scripts that read from text log files > to display summary information about what's going with my services, > mainly postifx, dovecot, apache and nginx. > I just read that trixie is removing rsyslog, "removing"? Or not installi

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > You "may" need to wait for the drive to finish reading the disc metadata > > (i.e. drive light stops flashing) before mount(1) will not complain > > about the lack of media. Not 10

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 17, 2025, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-02-17 01:09, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > > > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: tr

Re: MariaDB not installing looks like previous error (unresolved bug?)

Michael Bonert wrote: > invoke-rc.d: initscript mariadb, action "stop" failed. > Failed to stop mysql.service: Unit mysql.service not loaded. > invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "stop" failed. > Attempt to stop MariaDB/MySQL server returned exitcode 5 > There is a MariaDB/MySQL server running,

Re: eject: using default device `/dev/sr0'

On Feb 16, 2025, William Torrez Corea wrote: > *eject: device name is `/dev/sr0'eject: /dev/sr0: not mountedeject: > /dev/sr0: is whole-disk deviceeject: /dev/sr0: trying to eject using CD-ROM > eject commandeject: CD-ROM eject command succeeded* > > I can't eject the optical drive, i try mount th

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Friday, February 14, 2025 5:08 PM, I 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: That's t

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. Unless you are extremely low on disk space, the

Re: Shorewall.

pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > # cat /etc/deb*n > 12.9 > > # dpkg -l | grep shorewall > ii shorewall5.2.8-2 > all Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configurator > ii shorewall-core 5.2.8-2 > all Shorewall core

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

Chris Green wrote: > Anssi Saari wrote: > > Chris Green writes: > > > > > Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the > > > configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything. > > > > Have you considered you may get better information if you actually > > define

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install?

On Feb 12, 2025, Chris Green wrote: > When I run CUPS 'add printer' with a new (to the network) Laserjet > M15W I see four possible printers to add:- > > HP LaserJet M15w (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (

Re: Debian download

Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you > to give me step by step instru

Re: Synaptic and updated apt sources?

George at Clug 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. Here's one I haven't tested: https://github.com/ErikMichelson/apt-deb822-tool -dsr-

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

On Feb 06, 2025, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On 2/6/25 8:20 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > 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 other

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

Charles Curley wrote: > 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 > >

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

K0LNY ?? wrote: > Using other distros, like Ubuntu and Raspbian, I would get tired of typing > sudo in front of everything, so I would just do sudo su and become root for > everything, so I wouldn't have to constantly be reminded that as a regular > user, I can't do something, and I had been to

Re: hardware ebook readers (was Re: SMTP servers)

Eric S Fraga wrote: > Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote: > > (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10) > > > > Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my > > Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it? > > +1 > > Sounds great. I would love to ha

Re: ISO 9660 (version Joliet Extension)

William Torrez Corea wrote: > Trying start the operating from boot Acer Aspire ONE > > I made a bootable operating system from USB with gnome-disk-utility 43.0 > UDisks 2.9.4 (built against 2.9.4). > > I change the options in the BIOS but I don't get anything. If you are using a debian installa

Re: add user to a group and logout/login to apply

On Feb 02, 2025, Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote: > Debian reference > (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_permissions_for_groups_of_users_group) > says one of the option to apply change of group user configuration is > > > Logout via GUI menu and login. > > It is not marked

Re: Zoom

D MacDougall wrote: > From only the Wikipedia report and no further reading it's not clear to me > whether using a web browser to attend a zoom meeting would be any safer than > using the native application and I'm not doing international diplomatic > negotiations anyway.  All I can say is that it

Re: Zoom

Gregory Forster wrote: > Hi, I've been using Debian for about 3 months, still a newbie. I'm trying to > get totally off of Windows.One program I'm not sure about is Zoom.If you go > to their web site, they detect you're using Linux and ask which distro > you're using.  I'm a little apprehensive ab

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

Rafał Lichwała wrote: > > On 29.01.2025 2:12 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > The notes say: > > > > [bookworm] - zlib (contrib/minizip not built and src:zlib not > > producing binary packages) > > > > In other words, there's no point in fixing it

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