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

2025-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 07 Apr 2025 at 21:34:42 (+0200), coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me wrote: > > > I am curious what nmcli subcommand reports when the cable is plugged in, > > but the connection has not activated manually. > > > Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available to >

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

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub > > "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed." > "This is a fatal error." > > how to solve it? Presumably that error message was f

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

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 01:12:29 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> I'm not sure the subject is asking the right question, but determining > >> available > >> versions of any Debian package has always vexed me. In opensuse, it'

Re: Failed unmounting disk mes. on every restart

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 17:35:18 (+0300), J wrote: > Every time i restart the PC i have an error message while rebooting > process: "[FAILED] failed unmounting *disk-mount-point*..." > > It didn't bother me really, because this message usually just immediately > disappeared. But last time the *compu

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: 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

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 11:19:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > The dns problem is separate I guess, but does bring up my other pet > peeve. That is that no one at debian considers the effect on dns to > those of us who have been using hosts files for local dns since back > in the late 90's  I have n

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

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 15:40:07 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > What new hop? You said you had the setup: > > > > hostA≡E--cat5/6--cable--∃≡hostB > > no, I have no cable setup, I just said, I know, how to setup when using a > cable. Maybe I did not use the correct English idiom... Yes

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
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect 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: > > >

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

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed

Re: Spurious emails from somewhere in "Debian hierarchy"

2025-03-28 Thread David Wright
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 emails. > The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to > the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" mailing list. On Fri 28 Mar 2025 at 08

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: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:37:41 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I assumed it was effectively the same as power down and then logging in > > as root on power-up. > > It is. But it's unnecessary and dangerous to run your entire DE as root. > Or maybe you log in t

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 10:03:59 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/26/25 9:55 AM, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-03-26, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > If he hasn't noticed yet, I doubt it. > > > > > > I agree. > > > If I understand what people want to accomplish by using command-line > > > options

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:24:21 (+0300), J wrote: > ср, 26 мар. 2025 г. в 16:10, Greg Wooledge : > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:48:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 3/26/25 6:55 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > I normally use "sudo -s", which is the closest sudo approximation to > > > > the t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 11:38:25 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:55:44AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:49:37 +0100 wrote: > > > > >since there is no "standard" way to express a "multiple" or > > >"discontinuous" selection in the underlying window

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 23:19:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > > phrase. I was able to t

Re: selecting text with mouse

2025-03-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:14:47 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400 > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already > > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know > > what the misfire is, b

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: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots > into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the >

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed. On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 10:44:40 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: > After today's upgrades, I note that RM1 showed these autoremove > messages "Removing linux-headers-6.1

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

2025-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 13 Mar 2025 at 15:46:17 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-13, Joe wrote: > > > > It's only a webcam, and random webcams usually work. Most of the webcams I see are too bulky, probably because of their mountings and microphone spacing. > The term "endoscope" seems excessive (if not scary).

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Mar 2025 at 11:11:21 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 14:33:11 -, Greg wrote: > > My robot says: > > > > One result: > > > > yt-dlp "ytsearch:QUERY" > > > > But for the life of me, after searching for twenty minutes, I can't > > determine whether this is co

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: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > 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

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: 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 the manufacturer knows (?).

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

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote: > On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote: > > my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install > > python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use > > to ergonomically present installed candid

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > With Synaptic, I tried reinstallation of Evolution, but that did not > change the response. > > Evolution has a dozen or so dependencies, so a complete removal may > wreck my computer. > > My past messages (few of which have vaulu

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 21:12:32 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > The "Mail Authentication Request" has only a blank (already filled in) > > > for a password which (very stupidly) is shown as a line of dots, > > > rather than in pl

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So, I rechecked. > > After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what > did I find? > > A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly > "*.postinst" files. > > Where are they comin

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

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote: > The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary > package > could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named "grub-efi-amd64- > unsigned". That suggests to me (with no experience of this) that its a script

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

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 17:44:37 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So my idea was just to write to the live-file-maintainers, to ask them, to > remove the dependency of the missing package in theire configurations or > point > it to another package, i.E. grub-efi-amd64-signed. Presumably you meant "remove

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
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 drives. One of my cnc'd machines has a 250G in it, shut off > only for new installs, still running wheezy. No reallocated sectors, > the last time I l

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

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 17:13:17 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as > > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 2006 and 2021 pages. I can't be > > bothered trying

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
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 13:52:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/20/25 11:20 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > > > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. > > > I need only

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 00:22:14 (+0500), Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > I suggest you to check out this link: > https://wiki.batocera.org/hardware:compatible_dongle_list#tested_on_pc_x86_64 > Personally, I have Asus BT500 USB adapter, which is based on a > controller chip from Realtek and it works

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

2025-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Mon 17 Feb 2025 at 09:02:11 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM GMT, hobie of RMN wrote: > > What's the best way to handle this? Switch to Thunderbird or > > claws-mail? > > I switched away from (neo)mutt as my primary mailer a little while > ago, but before I did

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
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > > > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > > a different userid t

Re: tbird=crashomatic

2025-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 15:31:41 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: [ … ] > The boot menu still > starts the debian version which quickly becomes non-responsive, > quickly being about 30 seconds. What's the boot menu? > So I killall it, and run the beta by > opening an xfce4 shell and typing ./thunderbi

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 06:47:23 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > 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 fvw

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 16:40:24 (+), Chris Green wrote: > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM 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 (

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 13:59:11 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i can't find "ran successfully" in entire syslog with editor's search > function That's because Grub wasn't installed in the MBR, hence explaining why the FreeBSD loader wasn't touched. > 2nd disk has 4 partitions, 2 for stretch and deb12, ins

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

2025-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 22:54:15 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 12/02/2025 22:09, Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-12, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > Certainly, but before delving into source code I would try the standard > > > (XDG) way to configure media types and applications associations. > > > > > Unfort

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Feb 2025 at 23:04:42 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 11/02/2025 08:08, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: > > > On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > I am against suggestions to *kill* appl

Re: anyone experienced in dual boot freebsd?

2025-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 08:33:57 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > Thank Curley again! manually editing grub.cfg is amateur as it is > auto-generated. but my stanza is simple, it's easy to add it if > removed. > > if it were Windows, it would be much easier > > i examine syslog, among many lines probing each

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-), Greg wrote: > On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is > > the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in > > browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.)

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 21:18:31 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > I have 8GB memory DDR3L 1600MHz > > Memory: 93% 7.2GiB > Swap: 31% 2.7GiB Kill it and restart it occasionally. If you keep a lot of tabs open, then either avoid visiting

Re: Cancel email address debianl...@mailfence.com

2025-02-09 Thread David Wright
On Sun 09 Feb 2025 at 17:48:53 (-0500), Thomas George wrote: > I can no longer receive emails at debianl...@mailfence.com. I tried to > cancel this online but had no way to receive and complete the > conformation. > > If possible please change my subscription to > debian-u...@debian.list.org to po

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

2025-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Thu 06 Feb 2025 at 21:20:18 (+), Russell Stinnett wrote: > I didn't realize that the posts would be so delayed, or that they > were going through at all. I hoped that they would just outright fail > until one finally went through and that would be it. > > So, again, I apologize for the spam

Re: How to find installed packages not in APT?

2025-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Tue 04 Feb 2025 at 12:15:32 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > - apt-patterns(7) > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from apt(8) or apt-get(8) or aptitude(8)? > I just checked all three, and it's not on any of them. > > That's slight

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

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > &

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:06:57 (+0200), Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > The same (now that I am using backports): > > $ yt-dlp --version > > 2025.01.15 > > Due to the nature of this program (Google plays the cat and mouse > game), new versions a

Re: google-chrome printer/copier error

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 19:39:55 (-0800), John Conover wrote: > > [2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \ > Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \ > object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \ > Did not receiv

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > > > Description: > > > >

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:55:56 (+0900), Mailing List wrote: > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > Description: > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > fai

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 22:11:16 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > As I have previously said, the issue of zoom was previously discussed > on this list, and, people interested in considering zoom, should have > searched the list archive, and, found previous discussions relating to > zoom. > > One report

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 07:05:32 (+1100), George at Clug wrote: > Is there a way to search for "zoom" in some debian-user archive? > > I found https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ ? But I am way to lazy to > search through all those pages looking to see if at any time some had made a > comment

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote: > > > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :- > > >

Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 05:52:02 (-0800), Will Mengarini wrote: > * Roger Price [25-01/30=Th 13:59 +0100]: > > $wrongCodeForCheckingWhetherAliasExists && unalias w3m > > When I want to unalias something that might already be unaliased (as > when it's in .bashrc), I just code > unalias foo 2>/dev/

Re: Installing a debian file

2025-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+), Michael wrote: > I ran, as root :- > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb Running apt install path-to/ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb will check for dependencies etc. (You must include the path.) It will also log a record of what was installed or removed

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Jan 2025 at 20:42:49 (+0100), didier gaumet wrote: > Le 28/01/2025 à 19:39, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > [...] > > hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 > > dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> > > /lib/syst

Re: HFS+

2025-01-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Jan 2025 at 06:26:17 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: didier gaumet > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:25:10 +0100 > > I would look at theses packages: > > ... > > hfsplus/stable 1.0.4-17 amd64 > > ... > > hfsprogs/stable 540.1.linux3-5+b1 amd64 > > ... > > hfsutils/stable 3.2.

Breaking threads, was Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 03:22:59 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:28:55PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > This is not a forum. Please do not change the title. It creates a new > > > thread with no context dis

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:53:43 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: > > headers. > > A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what > >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 07:47:04 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/1/25 07:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:55:05 + Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway I have it back now. :-) > > > > > > Glad to hear it. > > >

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > I generally work on being able to open and keep open, a Firefox > window, for each GB of RAM, which seems to work most of the time, with > one or more Windows, having multiple youtube tabs open. > > at present, on a system with 128GB RAM

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jan 2025 at 06:58:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: [ … ] > However I'm making practical use of mp3 files for the first time > (currently a dozen lectures). I looked for an mp3 player whose GUI > took up a very minimal amount of screen real estate. I was referred to > several overpowered

Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jan 2025 at 02:29:37 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM Stefan Monnier > wrote: > > > > > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > > > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > > > space. > > >

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Jan 2025 at 10:54:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > Heh. I remember a 300 baud modem where you had to dial the number on a phone > and then flip the switch on the modem when the other end answered. Whether > you selected the answer or originate mode was a crap shoot, there we

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Jan 2025 at 21:00:39 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Kushal Kumaran (12025-01-07): > > I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I > > was first enlightened. > > Mostly something anybody should learn in junior high school physics, > freshman high-school at wors

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Jan 2025 at 02:46:13 (+0100), Urs Thuermann wrote: > Michael Stone writes: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > >Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers > > >of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk o

Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jan 2025 at 17:17:32 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Anil F Duggirala (12025-01-05): > > sudo mv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61- > > gdm.rules.bak > > Unrelated to the actual issue: IIRC you can achieve the same result of > disabling a system udev rule by cr

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Jan 2025 at 05:19:23 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > I also have a couple radio clocks that self set in the wee hours when > skip from WWWV in Boulder CO is best, they indicate good signals, but > are off an hour, like the timezone files are duff. However, when I > went to check them at 04

Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 01 Jan 2025 at 16:46:37 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote: > "Gene is a special case in that he uses non-standard hardware to do > things that the rest of us don't do, working in ways that we don't > work. We do our best, but that's often not good enough". > > The ha

Re: XFCE and Fuse

2025-01-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 16:20:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Monday 30 December 2024 03:34:20 pm George at Clug wrote: > > With the popularity of XFCE, I would have expected that "network > > browsing in the thunar file manager" would be fully supported by > > default by now. I underst

Re: XFCE and Fuse

2024-12-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 14:10:16 (+1100), George at Clug wrote: > On Tuesday, 31-12-2024 at 12:12 David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 07:34:20 (+1100), George at Clug wrote: > > > I think I found the "fuse" package was not installed. Should I install > &g

Re: XFCE and Fuse

2024-12-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Dec 2024 at 07:34:20 (+1100), George at Clug wrote: > In Debian Bookworm installations, why is gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse > not installed by default when installing Debian with XFCE? Because gvfs will function without those backends, so it would be against policy to depend on those pa

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 13:17:57 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Top big must-have *for me* was a dedicated partition for EFI. That's true if you're booting in EFI mode. It's not clear whether the OP is. > Somewhere > I read that HAS to be an extremely early partition on the hard drive. > Today

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 20:24:46 (+), Joe wrote: > The answer is to modify /etc/default/grub and run update-grub again: > > To restore the old behavior, open a terminal and issue sudo echo > GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false >> /etc/default/grub && sudo update-grub > > Note that you will need to d

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 11:26:38 (-0500), Eben King wrote: > I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by > EFI. I have: > > Storage boot option control UEFI only > Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only > (other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabl

Re: double-boot laptop with Debian Trixie

2024-12-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 29 Dec 2024 at 01:20:17 (+0100), Rafał Lichwała wrote: > > I plan to switch completely from Windows 11 to Debian on my laptop, > but as a first step I'd like to configure double-boot setup to give it > a try, look around and check if all hardware works fine under Debian. > > Current state:

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Dec 2024 at 01:07:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 12/27/24 23:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 20:26:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff > > > blind is a pita. I want to

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 20:26:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff > blind is a pita. I want to SEE whats available. I know you won't use aptitude, so why don't you try running synaptic on wayland, decide what changes you want, and then

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 11:27:18 (-0500), eben wrote: > On 12/27/24 11:18, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 01:16:31 (-0500), Alex Wahl wrote: > >> Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled > >> if I don't have a specific

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