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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. > > Is there a way of seeing how many spare bloc

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

Rafał Lichwała wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared some docker image based on Debian 12 (bookworm, fully updated) > and after upload it to local registry it has been automatically scanned for > possible vulnerabilities. > Then I was really surprised when discovered that according to this scan > there

Re: Supplemental report

Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET) > Roger Price wrote: > > > "X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying bucket.cia.gov.." That one's me, for the last twenty years or so. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by ref

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 > > > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTI

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? > > I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual > operation > still works correctly: > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 >

Re: ISP's router being helpful

mick.crane wrote: > > Things seem to be working normally. This started as I wondered why I got a > captcha page with cloudflare in the browser address bar the first time after > changing the ISP router. > I think I see what this Doh is about and will fiddle about with the options. > https://docs.

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

Chris Green wrote: > Does this help any? RestructuredText is more like MarkDown than > Dokuwiki markup is, I think. > > It was a very simple plugin to write, you might find it easy to copy > and change to work with MarkDown. Is there a simple single executable > program to convert MarkDown to

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses > Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in > Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. Would the dokuwiki plugin to accept Markdown work for you? -dsr-

Re: ISP's router being helpful

mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-01-21 08:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Not quite sure what is meant by that. The link is > http://rapunzel.home/roundcubemail > Are you supposed to be able to ping a service? > > mick@courgette:~$ ping http://rapunzel.home/roundcubemail > ping: http://rapunzel.home/

Re: What is going on with firefox

Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock > > origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and > > javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

Bret Busby wrote: > > 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.. ... > If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject field, > reads the messages in the thread, th

Re: What is going on with firefox

Daniel Harris wrote: > Hello > > I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on > earth is going on with firefox lately. It is terrible. So slow and why is > it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. > > I have to say that reluctantly I have started using

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

Paul M. Foster wrote: > I would suggest moc (Music On Console). It's a terminal app, but it's very > easy to operate. Simple single character commands, but no real menus. It's > not a GUI per se, but uses ncurses. If you can deal with the terminal > visually, moc should work for you. I use moc re

Re: Monitoring a single process

Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process? > > Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly > refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the > filesystem, MB/s written to the filesystem, maybe even with mo

Re: job is killed

hen...@privatembox.com wrote: > my job consumes a lot of memory (almost consumes all of the system allowed > ram). > when the job is running, it will have the chance to be killed. > I just got the reminder in terminal: Killed. and job exits. > who is killing my job? linux kernel, or VPS management

Re: Recovery help needed for remote server: file system mounted read-only

Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:37 Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 05:29:05AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > I suspect a failing disk, > > > > My main home PC is 10 years old and still going strong (I over specced it > > when > > I bought it). A few y

Re: Firefox alternatives?

Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In Firefox, amongst the other add-ons, I have Bluhell Firewall, uBlock > > Origin (I recommend those two , together, as a minimum) , AdBlocker > > Ultimate, AdGuard AdBlocker, AdBlock Plus, and, I think that is all f > > the ab blocking and anti-tracking and gene

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus package but the extr

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > DISPLAY=:0 > > (of course, this will only work if there /is/ an X server running > in the first place :) (of course, if there is no X server running, only the console setting has any meaning.

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

Tom Browder wrote: > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? There are three things that could be called screen saver settings: - the console blanker is controlled via setterm -blank 0 (t

Re: From SSD to NVME

Anssi Saari wrote: > > Yes. Also not many drives can sustain a multi-gigabyte write rate > > anyway... > > I have to say I was quite disappointed when I cloned a 1TB SSD to a 2TB > one, average speed wasn't much higher than writing to an HD. I don't > remember what the target drive was though. Si

Re: directories I can't get rid of

Mike McClain wrote: > I've a couple od directories in ~/.cache I can't read or get rid of. > find: '/home/mike/.cache/gvfs': Permission denied > find: '/home/mike/.cache/doc': Permission denied > ls, rmdir and unlink also get 'Permission denied' when executed by root. > Suggestions? You may have

Re: From SSD to NVME

Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> That is a SATA SSD, not an NVMe. > > Interesting, thanks. Apparently either it was misrepresented to me, or I > > misremembered. That explains some stuff. > > The switch from SATA to the NVMe interface/protocol happened basically > at the same time as the switch from

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

Bitfox wrote: > > after downloading, is it possible to convert all html files into a single > pdf? any tool in linux to do that? Thanks. Yes, pandoc is packaged and can do that easily. -dsr-

Re: where is mail.log

Bitfox wrote: > My OS is debian 12 without GUI. > > After I installed postifx by apt, I can't find the path to mail.log. > > the log file in /var/log doesn't exist. > > do you know where is my mail.log now? by default, it's in /var/log. If it is not there: - does /etc/postfix/*.cf specify so

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

Hans wrote: > I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 > processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. > > 2 questions: > > 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluently work? > These processors are also b

Re: Lost password need help!

e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are > > moving to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to > > recover this without losing data? Thank you. > > Boot off rescue media, mount the vic

Re: auto interactive jobs

e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/21/24 19:24, Bitfox wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a interactive command like the following, > > > > $ ./filen > > / > upload upt-snappy / > > Uploading upt-snappy [] 100% | ETA: > > 0s | 1.4 KiB / 1.32 KiB > > / > > > > > > > the co

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when > > the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm > > pretty sure you can set that. Go look? > > >

Re: Looking for X cursor theme with bigger or darker I-Beam

Chris Green wrote: Most terminals offer the ability to change the cursor color when the cursor is in them. In the settings for xfterminal, I'm pretty sure you can set that. Go look? -dsr-

Re: why this new stick fail to boot

hlyg wrote: > > easiest way to identify usb3 is look at color, both connector and connectee > shall be blue As it turns out, that's not a requirement. USB A ports can be white, black, blue, red, yellow, green, teal or purple... or pretty much any other color in the future. It's normal for a ma

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

Bret Busby wrote: > With the "5 monsters", each having a separate keyboard and mouse, I wonder > whether the "monsters" means users... > > UNIX, to serve up to 32 users), and that, if this is the case, the > workstation would need to have 5 video sockets and 10 USB sockets to serve > the keyboard

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

Mindaugas wrote: > Yes, yes. After all, you yankee imperialists with world savior syndrome are > very fond of going to psychotherapists and taking the drugs they prescribe > for you. > > On 11/7/24 08:09, Andy Smith wrote: > > such as your therapist's > > office. I'm pretty sure: a) Andy lives

Re: No kernel

Van Snyder wrote: > I tried to use the netinst to install Debian 12.5 onto a Dell Inspiron > 15. Eventually, after the usual things, it said there was no kernel. So > I tried the 12.1.0 netinst and it also said there was no kernel. What > happened? How can I install? "no kernel" is not an error t

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > Typical! I'm sure I tried that yesterday, but anyway it mounts > manually perfectly OK now. So all I'm missing is the automatic > mounting. > > ... and that's just in settings. While I'm here what's the diff

Re: USB device failing to automount (Kobo reader)

Chris Green wrote: > I have a Kobo Forma reader (like a Kindle), on xubuntu versions up to > 24.04 it automounted without problems. Now I'm running Debian 12 it's > failing to automount, I can't mount it manually either. > > I get the usual messages at the Kobo end and fdisk shows me /dev/sdc >

Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

B.M. wrote: > Thanks a lot for your inputs. In the meantime I disabled zram and added a 2 > GiB swapfile. > > What I don't understand: how can the system have not enough memory problems, > while it's showing ~ 2 GiB cached/buffer? I'd expect it to free some of that > and be fine again... 2 GiB is

Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

B.M. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small server (Raspberry Pi 4 in fact) and since a couple of weeks it > repeatedly hangs after some days until I reboot it (after months of uptime > without any problem - but I changed a few things in the meantime, so maybe > load is now higher than before). > > At

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