Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:14:24 +0200 white-wolf wrote: > > I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a thin > client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized desktop > environment. My Dell no longer has enough power to run Debian/Linux > with GNOME effectively, and in

Re: aptitude configuration

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:56:05 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Jun 2025 at 10:33:57 (+0200), Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > From some old legacy configuration [...] > > ``Aptitude::Recommends-Important'' [...] > > > > The manpage [...] claims the

aptitude configuration

Hello. I use ``aptitude'' with configuration below ``/etc/apt/''. From some old legacy configuration and an online manpage[1] recommended packages are included or excluded by ``Aptitude::Recommends-Important'' option when using ``aptitude''. The manpage of an installed system `´man aptitude'' cl

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

On Fri, 16 May 2025 11:50:41 +0100 Richmond wrote: > > Recently I created a virtual machine with qemu and virt-manager, and > unknown to me by default it creates the virtual disk in /var. As this > was not on its own partion but in the same as / it happily filled the > root partition and I got in

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

On Sat, 3 May 2025 06:22:45 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > I want to enable a user to copy files to a USB key mounted on a > directory under /media. > > I can change the ownership of that directory to that of the user, but > when I mount the the key on it the ownsrhip reverts to root. As the > r

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:53:34 +0100 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? > [...] > E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional > context: Unable to satisfy dependencie

Re: Xpra

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:05:41 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > > That include Xpra, a X11 server proxy where you do: > > xpra --start-child=firefox --exit-with-children start ssh:ssecem:15 > > a[...] > > Do anybody know another tool with the same features, still packages > for Trixie? Maybe it is

Re: R: R: R: R: Grub problem

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:41:41 + Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0 (made /dev/md0) > sudo vgcreate myvg /dev/md0 (made Volume Group VG) > sudo lvcreate -L 50G -n lv_root myvg (made a logical volume lv_root, > 50 GB) > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/myvg/lv_root (made filesystem on l

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:04:27 +0100 "Jeremy Nicoll" wrote: > > Is there a linux utility that shows scan codes? showkey -- kind regards Frank pgp4zkrfOGg1B.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:24:14 + Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > This RAID is a RAID > “firmware” (aka “fakeraid”). It seems better mdadm (array: /dev/mdX) > instead of dmraid (with the activation by dmraid -ay; array: > /dev/mapper) but does legacy BIOS "impose" the use of dmraid? If you don

Re: is there a bug in cp command ?

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:56:47 +0100 "uw...@online.de" wrote: > > #root@Server001:~# cp -ax / /mnt > #cp: das Verzeichnis '/mnt/' kann nicht angelegt werden: Datei oder > Verzeichnis nicht gefunden # LANG=C.UTF-8 cp -ax / /mnt provides English error messages. Are you sure you mounted something t

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 09:40:35 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM Hans wrote: > > > > I believe, that one of the following packages needs the missing > > package. Please see the last output (sorry, it is bit longer): > > Something looks a bit off: > > $ apt-cache r

Re: Hardware question

On Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:27:25 -0800 Van Snyder wrote: > > If I get the metapackages linux-image-amd64 and limux-headers-amd64, > will I need to rebuild the NVidia driver every time it loads a new > kernel? Probably yes. If you install a fixed kernel version, you'll probably need only the headers

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 00:27:44 -0500 "Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > [...] I'm hoping > for a fork (Zen?), but Brave is looking more promising. Could GNU IceCat[1] be an option to have as .deb package? > As for Debian, I hope they take no position on this. It really isn't > something for Debian to c

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

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:51:17 + Joe wrote: > > > On 2/6/25 8:20 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > And for those who are wondering, this is going on in trixie. [...] > The quick fix in sources.list for debian is to add signed-by into > existing lines after deb or deb-src: > > deb \ > [

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

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

ssh root login (was: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts)

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:21 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > > Logging in as root on a server is highly dangerous, especially if it > has an internet facing ssh port. There is an approach which might be helpful here and there: spawn a second ssh daemon with root login and bind network to localhost

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

On Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:01:27 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I am trying to bringup the wifi network with an ipv4 address on a > Cubox-i automatically after boot. > > Manually, it works: > [...] > root@outdoor:~# ifdown wlan0 > [...] > ifroot@outdoor:~# ifup wlan0 > [...] > Any hint or advice is

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:50:23 +1100 George at Clug wrote: > On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 18:29 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > That is why I would check what is recommended for > > RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu. RedHat and Canonical certainly have customers > > who need access to VM desktops. > > I would expec

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:15:30 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 04:43 Frank Guthausen > wrote: ... > > > [x2go] > > I would still need some kind of mini-PC to be the client, correct? Yes. You can use any mini-PC or server or whatsoever to run headless with

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:59:16 -0800 Will Mengarini wrote: > * Tom Browder [25-01/23=Th 16:00 -0600]: > > > > Any recommendations? > > [...] > > Perhaps other posters could comment on any alternatives to RDP. > Googling "X-forwarding" finds what looks like reasonable how-tos. > I don't know how

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:03:09 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > > You do not need to recompile Firefox. You can even set IP of your DoH > provider to avoid querying local DNS to resolve provider's hostname: > JFTR: it looks like Chromium offers some

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:42:20 +0100 wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > [...] DoH can circumvent manipulation by the ISP [...] > > It just replaces one bully by another bully. I won't bet on Google not > manipulating its

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:46:16 + Chris Green wrote: > > How can it do that in reality? It's connecting to the outside world > via the router. It would have to 'tunnel' through the router somehow > wouldn't it as otherwise the router will 'see' any attempts to do DNS > type things. You can ask

Re: Bridge without bridge-utils does not work

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:35:53 -0300 Luís Felipe wrote: > > If I create a > bridge directly using "ip link add name br0 type bridge" it works > normally, but I want to leave it in etc/network/interface so that it > is a persistent and automatic configuration. Please, I need some help > with this be

Re: kvm/qemu

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:15:14 -0500 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > [...] These searches each returned a nonntrivial list of > packages, but none of them was named kvm or qemu, so I must be > missing something here. Can any of you guys help me out? The package names switched some years ago II

Re: Monitoring a single process

On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:08:52 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process? > > [...] > > `strace` gives enough data to compute at least part of the above info, > so it seems doable, but I haven't seen any reference to such a tool > pass by my des

Re: new computer arriving soon

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:58:25 +0100 poc...@homemail.com wrote: > > debians wiki is woefully incomplete and > contains old out dated information which in most cases it just flat > out incorrect. This happens when no individual person takes responsibility for updating things. You could be this person

Re: new computer arriving soon

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:01:41 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > > What about LVM?  Is it usable (or even useful) with UEFI? UEFI has an effect on installing and finding the bootloader. The bootloader will boot the kernel as it does on legacy BIOS systems. Then the kernel is in charge and assembles devi

Re: elpa-auto-complete and elpa-markdown-toc missing from trixie

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:22:50 + (UTC) Tim Woodall wrote: > > You should be able to build the package locally. You might try another option: add the old repository to sources.list and install that version. Other software should not be affected by this trick since the version numbers are higher

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > On 21/12/24 11:12, Charles Curley wrote: > > I have > > two trixie machines, one virtual, the other non-virtual (literal?). > > physical ? I guess ``bare metal'' describes it precicely. HTH -- kind regards Frank pgpO2k4Zzj_ye.pgp Descr

Re: repository setup and apt-file usage

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:57:42 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > I don't know any tool to generate them, and I don't know the > > workflow. > > apt-ftparchive > generates them. It's not the easi

Re: repository setup and apt-file usage

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:13:20 +0100 Frank Guthausen wrote: > > The repository itself works fine. But I cannot use apt-file to show or > find content of packages. And all the Contents-*.gz files are missing. Peter Pentchev posted the solution in debian-devel[1]. It's a configurati

Re: repository setup and apt-file usage

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:51:58 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > > > The files of my packages are not included in the database of > > apt-file, the mandatory ``apt-file update'' does not help to find > > files or

repository setup and apt-file usage

Hello. I try to setup a repository with a similar structure as Debian's original, just smaller. In the Debian repository, e.g. bookworm main[1] there are a lot Contents-*.gz files. My repository is created with reprepro following the wiki[2]. But I cannot find information about the missing Content

Re: Structure needs cleaning / Directory block does not have space for checksum

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:01:30 +0100 Gregor Zattler wrote: > > Any ideas, pointers? Please check free space and available inodes: df -h df -hi Check mount state: mount You might try to mount the file system read-only and copy or rsync the data from this state. The target file system should pro

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:56:25 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > When re-booting, I went into the BIOS screen, and saw that the SSD was > first in the boot order. However, this probably doesn't mean much if > I didn't get it set up properly. The machine boots, but apparently > falls back to the hard

Re: Lost password need help!

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:56:23 + 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. You can boot the machine with a live system, mount t