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

2025-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 11 Apr 2025 at 05:45:47 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > 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 a

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

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 13:07:34 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put > > >

Re: hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/25 08:35, David Christensen wrote: On 4/10/25 00:14, Michel Verdier wrote: A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ I assume you mean Microsoft Windows (?).  Which version (4.0, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.5, 10, 11, etc.) and which edition (Home, Pro, Workstation, etc.)? Here is a better

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
hould be no secrets in the files, unless you also have some wireless configurations involved; but do obfuscate any sensitive items.) AIUI making User connections is the way Windows and some desktop environments are designed to work by default. Cheers, David.

Re: hardware check

2025-04-10 Thread David Christensen
should facilitate obtaining trouble-shooting advice via this mailing list. David

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

2025-04-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 22:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 127.0.1.1 coyote.coyote.den coyote > > [...] > > I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send > > something to coyote.coy

Booting IBM Personal Computers and descendants

2025-04-06 Thread David Christensen
apters/firmware, optical/disk/flash drives, etc.. It "mostly" works on "most common" computers. David

Re: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

2025-04-05 Thread Erwan David
, ssh is usually a lot easier to tunnel to > > sneak through than a VPN. > > My bet was that 443 is always open because otherwise mid- and hi- > level mgmt would be on top of the poor admins because they couldn't > go to their share trading casinos: I won :) Admins would also have problems to get security updates (and not accessing *overflow) -- Erwan David

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
t; how to solve it? Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? Cheers, David.

Re: Does secure old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.124-1 | stable-updates | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.1.129-1 | stable | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 | stable-backports| amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | testing | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.12.19-1 | unstable| amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | buildd-experimental | amd64 linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.8-1~exp1 | experimental| amd64 ~# Works ok. Cheers, David.

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
utdown if it were happening here. I suppose my suspicions would first fall on any network connections. (As you probably know, with FAT disks, it's completely different. You typically have to chkdsk them yourself (or not bother). It can be tricky to get scanners, cameras and phones to unmount their sticks and cards cleanly, so here they often live with their dirty bit set.) Cheers, David.

Re: Memory RAM SO_DIMM

2025-04-05 Thread David Christensen
during installation and enable the System Load Monitor applet in the Xfce to watch swap usage during operation. If the programs use up memory and start to swap, I can do something about it. David

Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-04 Thread David Christensen
5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. Comments or suggestions? David

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

2025-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Apr 2025 at 09:12:24 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 4/2/25 01:28, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett

Re: Perl module Digest::SHA256 and Debian package libdigest-sha-perl

2025-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/25 16:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 16:07:36 -0700, David Christensen wrote: But installing libdigest-sha-perl does not provide Digest::SHA256: They are different modules. https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA256 https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest::SHA Digest::SHA256

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

2025-04-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:58:27 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 23:02, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > > > I don't know why you have problems with usin

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > Thank Wright! i have solved it on m

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

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Mar 2025 at 16:35:58 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 13:55, David Wright wrote: > > I don't know why you have problems with using /etc/hosts for lookups > > on your LAN. I use it here without any problems, and it has to work > > because there's

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread David Christensen
ification IconNo icon -> Appearance Conditions File Pattern* Appears if selection contains check Other Files -> OK -> x (Close dialog window) Thunar -> navigate to directory containing executable file Right-click on file -> Run David

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

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
guring myself, plus the fact that it's always powered on. [ … ] > Sorry to disappoint you but that seems to be working Just Fine, but > once again, you make no attempt to either explain why its wrong, or to > tell us what the right way is other than demanding we waste a week > making dhcpd actually work. Then why the complaint? Cheers, David.

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
ly guessing that hostB might be the drone.) So you configure hostB to find and connect to a fixed AP, just as most hosts do in a home network: in this case, it's hostA rather than a router. And hostA just waits for hostB to connect to it. > I intend to build a full preconfigurated livefile system based on debian, so > that people with Windows-computers can boot it in the fields and can use it. > > But - this will be a long way. Cheers, David.

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread David
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote: > 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk > drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer > as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see why it > could no longer boot.

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider > > > spurious email

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
that's fine by me. The benefit of the method above is that you only have to reconfigure one host, A, and leave B untouched: B knows how to connect to an AP, so you can focus all your attention on getting hostA to work, and test it with any normal wifi device that happens to be on hand. Cheers, David.

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
ect that AP to the rest of the network, so that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just ignore that. Example at: http://souktha.github.io/misc/create-ap-linuxpc/ Cheers, David.

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-28 Thread David Wright
ve, https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/MM/msg00NNN.html If the header is short, showing perhaps two or three "Received:" lines, with no mention of bendel, then it's unlikely to have anything to do with the "Debian hierarchy", whatever that is. Cheers, David.

Re: Installation Process

2025-03-28 Thread David Christensen
isor, and add a virtual machine for each additional operating system. David

Re: How do I do...

2025-03-28 Thread David Christensen
u could run commands in a terminal that demonstrate what you are talking about, and then cut and paste your console session into a reply. David

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 22:14:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or > > lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login, > > a

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 17:05:56 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, David Wright wrote: > > > > As posted earlier today, a file in sudoers.d/ makes trivial admin > > tasks like monitoring and logging easier, particularly where the > > programs concerned can cause dama

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 13:58:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:48:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It could be argued that it would be simple enough to communicate > > the user's cwd to root, as a workaround, so that it didn't have to > >

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Mar 2025 at 12:23:26 (+0200), 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

Re: openMW missing on Trixie

2025-03-26 Thread David
On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 01:43, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Does anyone know if/when openMW will become available in Trixie? OpenMW is > available in both Bookworm and Sid. I actually added the Sid repos to Trixie > and installed openMW. It is running fine for me. > > I checked https://package

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
g disks, sticks and cards, udevadm control -R for reloading the udev rules, systemctl restart minidlna.service after adding/removing files, and not forgetting the introspective cat /etc/sudoers and cat /etc/sudoers.d/my-own-drop-in. (Obviously I don't make myself a member of the sudo group.) Cheers, David.

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
vely the same as power down and then logging > in as root on power-up. Why don't you Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or whichever), and login there, with no DE. Cheers, David.

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
omewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3# where that's a simple cut and paste. I have a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ with tailored commands for all the routine stuff that I need root for, so I switch to root for things that are out of the ordinary. Similarly, I've always locked down my mc configuration, so changes I make don't stick. More idiosyncratically, I also load a fixed bash_history file with each xterm, so history added during the day is thrown away when I close down. (Which goes to explain my use of the rather prolix /bin/su --login above.) So I think you can see that /I/ wouldn't want to run an environment that's a mixture of an ordinary user's and root's. Cheers, David.

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
in the source. It also preserves all the white space at the joins. AFAICT, Brad hasn't told us the applications in which disjoint selections are "ubiquitous" in his experience. Cheers, David.

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
ot; foo bar ", not " foo bar ". However, copying from a real text file like /etc/hosts, again in FF, the behaviour is quite different: disjoint selections are separated by a blank line when pasted into xterm. (If you don't use bracketed-paste, I suggest you set it before trying this.) Cheers, David.

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
which is just one reason why I don't use them for handling /text/. Cheers, David.

Re: dumat Q

2025-03-24 Thread David
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 20:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:51:49PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/24/25 15:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 02:51:14PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] (= aggressive deletion to save readers' time) > I think

Re: Linux image package install failure

2025-03-24 Thread Erwan David
had to use dpkg to purge old kernels and old initramfs files. Beware that some firmware packages include huge data and are by default included in initramfs (since firmwares may be necessary to boot. -- Erwan David

Re: Unidentified subject!

2025-03-23 Thread David Christensen
work? We need a way to merge all the BDs and put them on an external pendrive/hdd. Thanks guys for your support/advice. Perhaps Ventoy? https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html?ref=itsfoss.com David

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread David Christensen
uld be enough for 2.5 GbE. Be warned that ZFS has a non-trivial learning curve. ZFS is extremely flexible, so TIMTOWTDI, strategies for success can be inobvious, and mistakes can be costly. Start by buying and reading Lucas "FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS": https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmzfs David

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 3/15/25 13:36, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:18:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am curious -- if I make my /etc directory tree into a version control system working directory (Git or otherwise), please explain how this would be catastrophic. /etc has things in it

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread David Christensen
control system working directory (Git or otherwise), please explain how this would be catastrophic. David

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-15 Thread Erwan David
that, > for servers I didn't install, > I need to know their RAID setup in advance, > or at least the total number of disks, > then compare with the output of smartctl or cciss_vol_status. You can get the layout with lsblk, IIRC -- Erwan David

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
n the BIOS/CMOS, Eg for a Dell: POST Behaviour Adapter Warningsenabled Numlock LED disabled Keyboard Errors disabled POST HotKeysF12 Boot Option Menu enabled Fastboot Thorough Cheers, David.

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
riate image, so causing the latter to want to be installed as an upgrade. Cheers, David.

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread David Christensen
ed, where the backups are stored, strategies for rotating backup media, if, how, and where the backups are duplicated, the scale and procedure for restoring computers, directories, and files, etc.. Such details would facilitate better replies. David

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

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
endoscopes, usually in the context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". Cheers, David.

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-12 Thread David Wright
7;m not subscribed to social media sites.) Occasionally I pick things off youtube's list down the righthand side of a video's webpage, but usually I download the video without even bothering to visit the webpage (unless it's the easiest way to grab those eleven characters). I know nothing about channels. (I don't recall whether the OP is happy googling for things.) Cheers, David.

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-11 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Mar 2025 at 06:48:33 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 08:04:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be > > illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the L

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-11 Thread David Christensen
-di I do not know if this d-i kernel can be inserted into a Bulleye installation (?). David

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/11/25 8:48 AM, gene heskett wrote: A problem that does not exist in gpt partition tables. Unforch, changing it now will require a 100% backup/restore OR a reinstall to fix. fdisk can do this table change by entering a g at the main screen, creating an empty gpt table, and then an n will al

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread David Wright
g mail. > > And so that machine in the LAN is something of a mail server for the > LAN. I think there is no clear line of demarcation for a "server". I > am not familiar with the term "mail provider". In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the LAN" receives emails by asking for them from another machine, then it's not an IMS. If you can switch off the machine for a week or two and yet not lose any emails, then it's not an IMS. Cheers, David.

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 14:50, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 12:04:10PM -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 (?). It's highly configurable. It also logs to syslog, and mails can be dis

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 14:28, Charles Curley wrote: 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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/9/25 9:26 AM, Eben King wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". Yeah, that's what I thought too. "readonly" means "don't allow the contents of the filesystem to be changed," e.g. attempts t

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 06:48, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/9/25 9:26 AM, Eben King wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". Yeah, that's what I thought too. "r

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 06:26, Eben King wrote: On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote: AIUI SMR does not work well for OS (e.g. /tmp, swap) and general-purpose (e.g. /home) disks that see frequent small random write workloads.  I prefer small high-quality 2.5" SSD's (Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB)

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/8/25 21:40, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/2/25 2:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk".  I must remember that land mine if and w

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I ended up installing Brave. Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock Origin (even though it's supported right now). But it has its own built-in ad blocking*by default*, so you don't actua

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/7/25 11:49 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I believe all the major browsers are using Manifest v3 nowadays. Most support Mv3 now, but AFAIK only Chrome has actually disabled Mv2 support. All of my Mv2 extensions continue to work on Firefox. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/2/25 2:23 PM, Anssi Saari wrote: So you actually back up the hibernated / partition? Is that really a sound backup strategy? It is effectively like yanking the power cord and then taking a backup. (Effects of the voltage dropping on the storage controller/disk are another matter, but in

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/2/25 2:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk".  I must remember that land mine if and when I want to do forensic work. To be fair, the

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-07 Thread David
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 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 064 006Pre-fail > > Always - 146369262

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-06 Thread David
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 15:46, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often frees up significant disk space > (relatively, in machines with tiny storage capacity) by removing all > cached package files from /var/cache/apt/archives. Hi, another pro-tip: While 'apt-get' does keep

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:08:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed? > > > > I'm not sure h

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread David Christensen
ile server go down. If you have a single computer, you could use a NAS, RAID, or HDD in place of a file server. David

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread David Christensen
/man David

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-06 Thread David
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 00:41, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mar 07, 2025, David wrote: > > The wikipedia page [1] regarding "1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate" says: > > The raw value has different structure for different vendors and is often > > not meaningful as a decimal numbe

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 17:55:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > I have always wondered if the decimal numbers in the smartctl(8) > "RAW_VALUE" column are actual event counts, or a decimal > representation of some binary bit field whose correct interpretation > only

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
contain many of the packages that make the system worth operating at all (unless you're getting all your functionality from flatpaks and suchlike, rather than Debian). Cheers, David.

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
m from the server with your regular MUA, mutt, rather than worrying about losing them? Cheers, David.

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
https://superuser.com/questions/59168/moving-domain-and-keeping-imap-email-linux-evolution-mac-mail on the problem of moving a hosting account, https://forums.opensuse.org/t/evolution-insists-on-password-every-time/148709 similar to #2 above. Perhaps worth a look. ¹ Running an MUA as root is about as bad as a browser. Cheers, David.

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

2025-03-04 Thread David
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 at 13:26, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-03-04 at 03:24, Anssi Saari wrote: > > David writes: > >> It would assist everyone to follow changes to this "Monthly FAQ" > >> document if it can be hosted somewhere that provides dif

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-03 Thread David Christensen
drive. I did a little testing on a Debian machine the next day. The drive was marginally readable at a very slow transfer rate (timeouts?). I did not want to damage my computer, so I smashed the USB flash drive and recycled the husk. David

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread David Wright
ou see? If that is /the/ explanation for your build problem, then you're implying here that your native system is now a frankendebian, aren't you? > Maybe one of the live-build-maintainers knows more. Probably they do, but I wouldn't think they'd want to get involved in your problem, when you've already accused them of being the cause of it at the start of the thread. Cheers, David.

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

2025-03-03 Thread David
On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 16:57, Will Mengarini wrote: > This kind of information > > popos/pts/4 bash ~ 08:54 0$diff -b debfaq--2025-0{2,3}-01 > 88c88,90 > < world. Off-topic arguments also have a habit of derailing useful > discussion. > --- > > world. > > > >

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
nd all occurrences of "unsigned" are "shim-unsigned". OTOH, plenty of "grub-efi-amd64-signed". So (again, with no experience of this) I can only guess that you've intentionally or unintentionally selected an option for your build that wants to download grub-efi-amd64-unsigned. Cheers, David.

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread David Christensen
- 6320h+12m+26.797s > 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x 100 253 000Old_age > Offline - 18657342320 > 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x 100 253 000Old_age > Offline - 92379620242 Those statistics look acceptable for a used desktop HDD. All of the most worrisome statistics are 100%: Reallocated_Sector_Ct Reported_Uncorrect Current_Pending_Sector Offline_Uncorrectable > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged Good. > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Are you running tests periodically? David

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
eant "remove the dependency /on/ the missing package". Can you help us by /naming/ the package that depends on grub-efi-amd64-unsigned. Cheers, David.

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 09:47:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/23/25 00:00, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 22 Feb 2025 at 07:29:15 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > [ … ] > > > read all that in the drive label. There was a time when seagate made > > > good hard

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Feb 2025 at 22:13:55 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: > > > > With mupdf, I don't even > > know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around. > > I have not tried it, but... > https://manpages.debian.org/b

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
deb 2011-06-19 16:19567K [ ] smartmontools_5.41+svn3365.orig.tar.gz 2011-06-19 15:48 631K Take your pick. Cheers, David.

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
's the province of another report: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. I think the Thrifty report is aimed mainly at setting the SNAP benefits, which could soon be moot in view of tomas's remark. Cheers, David.

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 21:20:45 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 14:30:08 (-), Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > > > > > >> > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 > > >>

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Feb 2025 at 12:14:08 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:31:02PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > I'm not sure this is a bug per se: if what you want is a fully offline

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/02/2025 08:00, David Wright wrote: > > I dragged the mouse > > across the Males table and dumped it in a file. > > David, I recall you mentioned xpdf in your messages. It allows to > select rectangular

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread David Wright
rstand you to have used two different browsers for the two versions? If so, that might explain the different select experience. As I said, I download PDFs, and dragging across them always gives me a rectangular shaded area that is copied. (I might ha

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-19 Thread David Wright
ecoming barely usable when it's very nearly unusable. IOW, it's getting progressively worse. > so my advice for you to avoid any Bluetooth ver4.0 > and lower devices, both adapters and clients. Cheers, David.

Re: What's best way to handle HTML emails in Mutt

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
(sometimes by email!) from some banks etc, complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electronically. You may also get unsubscribed from email circulars that you subscribed to. Cheers, David.

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 00:56:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/16/25 20:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > [ … ] > > > > > The boot menu still > > > starts the debian version which quickly beco

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log in. Perhaps now moot, I think that's an unusual X start-up. For example, I can't find any reference to .xinitrc in /etc/X11/, as opposed to .xsession. Cheers, David.

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-16 Thread David Wright
ut is so > verbose, any problem is lost in the noise of its verbosity. Gigabytes > of it. If you're waiting on trixie, why waste time trying to debug the bookworm version? And why do you want to strace it if you don't want to look at its output? Sorry, I'm confused. Cheers, David.

Re: libvirt / KVM in Intel i5-4590

2025-02-16 Thread David
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 at 07:12, wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 06:10:35PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Sorry for any inconvenience. Calling an LVM volume group kvm is > > > a really stupid idea. > > > > > > This creates a > > > /dev/kvm so kvm cannot work. > > Oh, that was clever! > > > >

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-15 Thread David Wright
wo-sided portrait, I use: lp -d brother -o media=letter -o print-quality=5 -o sides=two-sided-long-edge "$@" where brother is the device name. (It's wrapped in a function of course, called print-2s-portrait, hence the $@.) Cheers, David.

Cookies in Links Web Browser

2025-02-13 Thread David Hoff Jr
I have a fresh install on Debian 12 with all updates. I am trying to use Links web browser to access the dailycaller.com web site but am being blocked. A message says to enable cookies which I have tried using "links -enable-cookies dailycaller.com", but to no avail. Is there a solution to this? I

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
0DW@BRW90324B00.local is idle. enabled since Sun Oct 22 10:00:10 2023 printer PDF is idle. enabled since Fri Sep 8 14:19:07 2023 $ (I've cut the HP, and zeroed six bytes of the MAC.) > Yes, I know, printing is always somewhat difficult to get going. MUCH easier than it used to be. Cheers, David.

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