Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:16:17 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > > only gives a meaningless message “The

Re: Admin Root user [not set to default]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM James Freer wrote: > > I've just done my install of Debian 12 Live XFCE version. Been a user > of Xubuntu for 15 years and thought i would change. Tried some of the > derivatives and chose Debian to go with. > > I would be grateful if someone could explain why admin

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

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM 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.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN addres

Re: how to remove debian in bios menu

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM hlyg wrote: > > i press F12 during Dell boot, a list of options show > > under section "UEFI BOOT:" there are 2 items: FreeBSD and debian > > but all 3 disks installed use mbr, no wonder they don't work > > most probably they are resulted from previous installation o

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM Eben King wrote: > > On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote: > > > > [...] > > If you need to reboot to complete the installation > > # systemctl reboot > > shutdown doesn't. I mean it acts like it does, goes through the > motions, and ends up with a computer that's

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250404)

Still missing a topic or discussion of "SOLVED" in the subject. On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > Codes of Conduct > > > * The lis

Re: "solved" in message subject

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM Fred wrote: > > One reason to use the "solved" tag is to let everyone know that the OP > has solved the problem and moved on so that others don't continue to > waste their time and effort trying to find a solution when the OP has > moved on and won't need to respond

Re: "solved" in message subject

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > [...] > Let's avoid discussions if gmail should be used. De-facto it is widely > used, it has features and limitations. My point is that gmail users > should be aware that some suggestions perfectly valid for other MUA > should be avoided in the

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

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 4/4/25 09:38, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > It sounds like the client is connected directly to the server via > > ethernet, presumably without a cross-over ethernet cable. So both > > ethernet ports would need to auto

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

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:59:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >I think the idea is, software can always use 127.0.1.1 to find the > >host's fully qualified domain name, without the need to know real IP > >

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

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM wrote: > > Background Information > === > > Debian 12 Bookworm has been freshly installed on a laptop. The laptop is > functioning as a simple home server and has three Ethernet devices, two USB > Ethernet adapters and a built-in Ethernet adapte

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 12:03:32 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 11:25 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site usin

Re: Web server access

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM wrote: > > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04:17AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > wrote: > > > > > > > GET index.html > > > > should be: > > > > GET index.html HTTP/1.0 > > > > (Strictly speaking you should close off with twice , but > > most web server

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

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 06:17:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I see the changing of title or subject to add things like "SOLVED" is > > not included in the FAQ. > > > > Can we infer it is fr

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

I see the changing of title or subject to add things like "SOLVED" is not included in the FAQ. Can we infer it is frowned upon or unwanted? On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > and to facilitate discuss

Re: Has anyone noticed Bluetooth stop functioning on recent kernels?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I have a Beelink EQR6 running bookworm, and which has a Bluetooth > chipset. Yesterday I tried to turn on Bluetooth (as I don't normally > leave it enabled) and it wouldn't turn on. The only thing that appears > in the log is this: > >

Re: Help: debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso autenticity test

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > > I think I got it: the final step is to compare the fingerprint of the primary > key, at the end of the command output > > PS C:\Users\CP\Documents\Linux\Debian12.10.0\HTTPVersion> gpg --verify > SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS.txt > gp

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

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 01:58:27PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [...] > > > It is not that SSH is less secure, it is that crackers attempt to brute > > force SSH servers [...] > > You still use passwords? ++. $ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/10-p

Re: Linux image package install failure

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM Xiyue Deng wrote: > > Nicolas George writes: > > > Barry Newberger (HE12025-03-24): > >> package: dpkg > >> version: 1.21.22 (amd64) > >> > >> Using Discover update following error occurred: > >> > >> Package failed to install:Error while installing package: > >>

site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?

Hi Everyone, My $dayjob issues Windows laptops for remote work. The laptops are installed with Cisco AnyConnect. I am fairly certain AnyConnect is using a SSTP configuration (but I have not conformed with Wireshark). When I connect to the VPN using AnyConnect, I have to enter a {username,password}

Re: increment backup of home dir

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM tim wade wrote: > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? I use Duplicity to backup a webserver and MySQL database. The directories

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM Christopher David Howie wrote: > > 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 n

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM John Hasler wrote: > > Greg writes: > > looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line. Seriously, > > who does that? > > "Website builders" and "content management systems". Modern Web > designers never deal with HTML. There are also server-side compo

Re: Apache2 permissions?

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > I have two computers, both running Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.1.0-31-amd64 > > Both are running Apache/2.4.62 (Debian), Server built: 2024-10-04T15:21:08 > > Both machines show one "/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start" process owned by root and > three o

Re: Apache2 permissions? Solved?

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 14:29 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 20:44 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somewhere there should be a DocumentRoot which you might want to > adjust accordingly. > > > There is no DocumentRoot setting

Re: web browser recommendation

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 21:50:27 +0100, KISER JD wrote: > > The Chromium-based browsers will soon lose many adblock capabilities due to > > Manifest V3. > > > > When I updated google-chrome-stable the other day, it informed me > that it was

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > On 3/3/25 12:49, Steven Speek wrote: > > I would like this feature in apt-get. > > This is a disaster feature from my point of view. Debian packages are > installed with root privileges, however, many systems are configured to > allow use

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

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 rdepends grub-efi-amd64-unsigned E: No packages found > __

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

You might want to add a bullet point addressing folks adding "SOLVED" and similar to titles. Either allow it or forbid it. But write it down so everyone knows what the policy is. I recommend the list forbid it. A mailing list is not a forum, like BB. Jeff On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM Andrew M.

Re: Hardware question

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM Van Snyder wrote: > > While running at level 3 in Debian 12.5, I got the following messages: > > mce: {Hardware Error]: CPU: 8 Machine Check: 0 Bank 0: 80440005 > mce: {Hardware Error]: TSC 1838aa435b6d > mce: {Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0: b0671 TIME 140710

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM w f wrote: > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, > gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few > seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force Quit" or > "Wait." > > When I launch i

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, wrote: > > > >> > The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages > >> > for sudo and sudoers > > >> In principle I agree with this advice but the sudoers manpage is > >> notoriously, famously inscrutable. > >

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-02-20): > >and members of sudo can run any command. > > Is it because of this last line: > > > rootALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > > sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

Hi Everyone, I have a fresh Debian 12.9 install. My user account is part of sudo group, and members of sudo can run any command. However, I get an error when trying to use sudo: $ sudo ls [sudo] password for jwalton: jwalton is not in the sudoers file. $ groups jwalton cdrom

Re: Which web server is installed during Setup/Software Installation?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > 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 >

Which web server is installed during Setup/Software Installation?

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: . My question is, which web server is i

Re: WebAuthn and non-JavaScript implementation

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > For the folks who like to use the web without JavaScript, you might > want to comment on this beg report from the WebAuthn working group: > <https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255>. > > According to comment &

Re: internal microphone stops working

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM Janet C wrote: > > I'm running bookworm on a Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD and am having an issue with > the internal microphone. Using the kernel from bookworm, the microphone > doesn't work at all, so I installed kernel 6.12 from backports. Now the > microphone works

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM Ceppo wrote: > > I've been using my D-Link DWA-160 network adapter for around two years > without any issue for a couple of years. Some weeks ago however, it > started misbehaving. > After I use it as usual for a seemingly random amount of time (but see > below), sp

Re: How to choose which 'printer' to install?

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 (FD27B6) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M17 (driverless) (HP LaserJet M14-M17) > HP LaserJet M14-M

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Anybody else seeing this in the current testing kernel? I am not experiencing the problem; but I used wired ethernet, and not wifi. Is the machine's BIOS/UEFI up to date? That is the very first place I would start. dmidecode is usually a goo

Re: Debian download

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM Peter Barnes wrote: > > 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

Re: Firefox

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM 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 > > Firefox > > Software Requirements > > Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for y

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 01:39:33AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > That doesn't make sense. Usenet and NNTP is a different protocol than > > mailing lists and various email protocols. Why would you expect

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM Russell S. wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > 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 > >> un

Re: Root, sudo and installing packages [WAS Re: user is not in the suder's file]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [Follow-up suggested to the mailing list at debian-user@lists.debian.org] > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:50:44AM -0600, K0LNY ?? wrote: > > How is Debian different with regard to apparently there not being a problem > > installing things

Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports (was: Re: Firefox and Video DRM)

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 01/02/2025 02:34, Eddie wrote: > > In Synaptic go to "Settings" - 'Preferences" - "Distributions" > > then select "Prefer Versions From" - backports > > Do not do it. It is not a supposed way to use backports. >

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM Roger Price wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Eddie wrote: > > On 1/31/25 12:40, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > > Packages from backports are pinned with low priority (100) and never > > > installed by default. So in order to install a backported package, you > > > need to

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM Lee wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM Maureen Thomas wrote: > > > > > > I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the > >

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

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM Will Mengarini wrote: > [...] > Speaking of w3m, was anybody part of its dev team long enough > ago to know what happened to it? When I tried to join its > mailing list linked from I got > no response, even though I tried twice, a fe

Re: Zoom

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM 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 u

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

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM Patrice Duroux wrote: > > Of course, maybe I misspoke but my point wasn't about the configuration files > remaining as expected just removing the package and not purging it. It is > about > the broken symlink to its service file which is for sure no more present >

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM Maureen Thomas wrote: > > I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the > updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that > I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds before it > tur

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

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 28/01/2025 à 20:42, didier gaumet a écrit : > [...] > > the installation of the package (seemly the default policy in Debian), > [...] > > sorry for my poor english: please replace "seemly" by "apparently" Don't apologize. Your English i

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: > [...] > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing > list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird

WebAuthn and non-JavaScript implementation

For the folks who like to use the web without JavaScript, you might want to comment on this beg report from the WebAuthn working group: . According to comment : the biggest challe

Re: EFI partition - some questions

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM Hans wrote: > > > I am using UEFI now for the first time. Everything is worḱing fine, but I do > not understand everything. Please allow me to ask: > > 1. In /etc/fstab there is my entry > > UUID=5ABD-D634 /boot/efi vfatumask=0077 0 1 > > and

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM Frank Guthausen wrote: > > 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

Re: sunscribe

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM Róbert László wrote: > > help subscribe

Re: About booting... and installing debian from your iso's

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM John Hasler wrote: > > Do you understand what Sid is? If you want to run it install Stable and > upgrade. That's the way to "Get it fucking running by all means and > then when you can customize it further". > > CJE writes: > > so i wonder what the hell you're tes

Re: Subject: Re: HFS+

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM wrote: > > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:58:51 -0500 > > I looked at the package file lists for those two packages, and one of > > the things that looked interesting was "hpfsck". > > Thanks for the reply. > > # hpfsck -v /dev/sdc2 > *** C

Re: HFS+

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM 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 3.2.6-15 amd64 > > ... > >

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: > > Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium > > (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 > > Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Using compression to minimize writes is part of a write leveling > > strategy to extend drive life. > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+disk+write+leveling>. >

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > > > > > Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to > > > > > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle. > > > >

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives, > > <https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa11/tech/slides/wei.pdf>, > > The word compression does not appear in

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (12025-01-15): > > Probably better since disk controllers often use compression to > > minimize writes and blocks written during a write cycle. > > I find that statement highly dubious. Do you

Re: no space left on device

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/14/25 10:13, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > On 14/01/2025 17:02, Michael Stone wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > >>> I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later. > >> ... (Storage frau

Re: no space left on device

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > I've recently purchased Samsung 990 PRO Heatsink NVMe M.2 SSD 4TB. > > I installed it on board of a modern beefy Ubuntu 22.04 system and > formatted with GPT/NTFS. > > I started copying (with rsync) a large chunk of data to that drive (26+

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

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 disjoint from thread where the problem was >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

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. > > For the benefit of future readers, please mark the thread as solved. This is not a forum. Please do not change the title

Re: British English has disappeared

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong. Try

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > As the knowledge base on this list is wide and deep, I am asking to cut > through the commercial clutter. Ideally, what I would like to find is a > WiFi (802.11a/b/g) capable device that would plug into the end of an > extension cord (commo

Re: ApacheBench broken for (most) SSL sites on Bookworm?

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM cen wrote: > > It seems that ab encounters some kind of an SSL issue with most https sites I > tried (google, cloudflare proxied sites etc). > > Not all, seems to work fine with a personal blog site I host on > Debian/apache2 server or with https://www.debian.org

Re: Mass storage sizes

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM mick.crane wrote: > > On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote: > > Tomas writes: > >> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch > >> the US still on their Imperial measures, > > > > Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperia

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

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units > >are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory > >modules: alignment requirements,

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

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. > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > into

Re: kvm/qemu

On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating

Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > hello everyone, > > I am looking to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in my Debian 12 > machine. This is a clean install on a Dell XPS 9550 laptop. > > I have Secure boot enabled. The instructions say that I need to enroll an mok > k

Re: debian kernel compiler

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM wrote: > > > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2025 at 11:54 AM > > From: "Lee" > > To: "Franco Martelli" > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: debian kernel compiler > > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > > > > > On 02/01/25 at

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computer arrivingsoon]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 05:01:19PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/2/25 10:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > sudo apt install sgdisk > > unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. > > Can you remind us why you do not ask the

Re: "lists.debian.org - where can you help?" (Video)

On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Perhaps not quite on topic but over the holiday period I watched this > presentation about lists.debian.org and found it very interesting. > > > https://berlin2024.mini.debconf.org/talks/12-listsdebianorg-where-can-you-help/ > > Or if y

Re: laptop for debian 12

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM wrote: > > I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed. > Can you suggest one for that purpose? Can you state the problem you are having selecting a laptop among the near endless choices? > Happy new year all debian members. Jeff

Re: booting by UEFI?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 30/12/2024 16:17, Nicolas George wrote: > > Max Nikulin (12024-12-30): > >> Create EFI System Partition: it should have proper partition type UUID and > >> it is not recommended to make it too small (<500 MB). > > > > Only if one wants to

Re: double-boot laptop with Debian Trixie

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM 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. See

Re: Firefox lockups with kernel 6.12.6

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I am running Trixie full updated. > I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest > kernel. > The lockups are complete, even REISUB doesn't work - the computer is > completely unresponsive. > I have gone back t

Re: Where is my Brave executable

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM George at Clug wrote: > [...] > > eben@cerberus:~$ type command > > command is a shell builtin > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Builtin-Commands.html > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html > > command >

Re: Where is my Brave executable

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 4:12 AM Arbol One wrote: > > In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser in > Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. > Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? `command -v brave`. Jeff

Re: Writing passwords down

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:36 PM wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 10:22:29AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote: > > > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently > > > (lots of > > > different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorab

Re: Writing passwords down

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:10 PM Chris Green wrote: > > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 17 Dec 2024 21:41 -0600, from deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk (David Wright): > > > As you have to select the subset from some listboxes with a mouse, > > > I would guess that the step is designed to defeat key-loggin

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 17/12/24 at 22:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > There may be one logic error in the code -- if you insert one item, > > then you may double free the node because you free 'p' and then yo

Re: Writing passwords down

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > On 17/12/2024 17:44, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > [...] > > Under the heading "Should I use a password manager?" the opening is: > > "Yes. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge > > advantages in a world where there's fa

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 16/12/24 at 20:49, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Here's the problem: > > > > void dealloc() > > { > > for ( const DIGIT *p = first; p->next != NULL; p = p->next ) > >

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:59:40AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Do you have a reference? > > > > > > I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice, > > >

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >Do you have a reference? > > > >I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice, > >too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very int

Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:22:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > songbird writes: > > > perhaps because the accounts are jointly owned and it is much easier > > > to just continue using the credentials as they exist instead of having > > > to set everyth

Re: Debian Repositories "deb.debian.org" Listed as a Threat or Malicious IP.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM Poon Weng Chee wrote: > > Dear Debian, > > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious IP > address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php. > > Despite

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM Franco Martelli wrote: > > I'm doing the exercises of a C language handbook. I'm using Valgrind to > check for memory leak since I use the malloc calls. In the past I was > used to using "valkyrie" but sadly isn't available anymore for Bookworm > (does anybody know

Re: a passwordless operating system

yourself as an authority-authorized credit card owner? Whatever... *Plonk* > Op ma 16 dec 2024 om 08:49 schreef Jeffrey Walton : >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:42 AM 🦓 wrote: >> > >> > YubiKeys is a password manager in a dongle, thus the exact opposite of

Re: a passwordless operating system

zo 15 dec 2024 om 15:35 schreef Jeffrey Walton : >> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 6:47 AM 🦓 wrote: >> > >> > my mother is currently struggling to memorize all of my dead stepfather's >> > identities and passwords and that makes me wonder how would you l

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