isc-dhcp-client sends DHCPDISCOVER *before* wpa_supplicant authenticates/associates/connects.

Hi all. I'm running a freshly-installed minimal stretch box. It connects wirelessly to my lan and it's a dhcp client, so /etc/network/interfaces contains: iface myInterface inet dhcp wpa-ssid mySsid wpa-psk myPsk It works (almost) perfectly! For ages I've been baffled by why my dhcp server ne

Bug #862397 (thunar freezing) is closed, but I'm still hit. What to do?

HI all. I run a stretch (stable) xfce desktop, and I'm regularly hit by thunar (v1.6.11-1) freezing. I've found: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862397 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868704 but these have been closed since (apparently) the bug is fixed in lat

Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

On 24 November 2017 at 17:33, John Cunningham wrote: > FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is > fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried > it yet. > --John Well I didn't manage to wake the screen (in the end, I just did a "sy

hp laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"

Hi all. I'm running stable (stretch)/xfce on an hp/compaq nx6110 laptop, and when the screen blanks, I can't get it to wake up again (nothing appears on the screen when I press the keys on the keyboard and move the mouse). The closest debian bug report that I've seen is: https://bugs.debian.org/c

Wrong sizes for single disk in different usb enclosures.

Hi. I'm trying out my 1TB Toshiba MQ01ABD100 SATA hard disk in three different sata-usb enclosures. I'm testing the size of the drive by viewing both /sys/block/sdb/size and by using "hdparm -I", and I see different figures for the size. Here are the results: 1st enclosure (USB ID 14cd:6116): /sy