Re: apt won't remove/ purge installed package...

2022-07-10 Thread Morgan Read
On 10/07/2022 11:16 pm, Tom Browder wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 15:48 Morgan Read <mailto:mst...@read.org.nz>> wrote: I attempted to install firewalld and firewall-config with ufw installed - perhaps not the wisest of moves - but, `apt install firewalld firewall-co

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-19 Thread Morgan Read
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described he

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-18 Thread Morgan Read
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00:38PM +0000, Morgan Read wrote: >>> Starting that from / is horrifying. I would have started from >>> /home, >> >> But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to >> achieve the end sought? >

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-16 Thread Morgan Read
On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as >> described here: >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321060 >> And, (unneces

Re: Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
here's a moral in there somewhere... ;-) But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to achieve the end sought? Thx M -- Morgan Read P 07563 650923 E mst...@read.org.nz (FE)

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
Thanks Il and Zoltan, In a nutshell - yes, yes, and yes... However, I only realised the error when I logged into my headless server terminal where I use an 'admin' user account rather than root for admin as I did on my laptop - thus, on my laptop I was never confronted with a failed terminal login

Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
of the install process). I guess, there's something not referenced in the initramfs? Any pointers to a way back from Armageddon would be great :) Thanks. -- Morgan Read E mst...@read.org.nz (GM)

can't login via gdm

2021-08-10 Thread Morgan Read
x27; \; # find / -group 1002 -execdir chgrp 1003 '{}' \; # find / -user 1001 -execdir chown 1002 '{}' \; # find / -group 1001 -execdir chgrp 1002 '{}' \; # find / -user 1000 -execdir chown 1001 '{}' \; # find / -group 1000 -execdir chgrp 1001 '{}' \; Thanks, Morgan -- Morgan Read E mst...@read.org.nz (GM)

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Morgan Read
On 23/04/2021 6:20 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I suggest you look inside those .deb files: they seem to both name the > package they install `master-pdf-editor` but dpkg does not allow > installing different versions of a given package at the same time. > So you'll need to edit those `.deb` to chan

installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Morgan Read
Hello Folks, Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian. When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a headache - Master PDF Editor by Code Industry: https://code-industry.net/fr

installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Morgan Read
Hello Folks, Some little time ago I made a jump from another distro into Debian. When I made that jump I took with me a few proprietary applications that I make a lot of use of. One in particular is causing me a bit of a headache - Master PDF Editor by Code Industry: https://code-industry.net/fr

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread Morgan Read
On 21/03/2021 6:13 pm, Morgan Read wrote: > Thanks Didier, Greg & Deloptes > > Right! So, TWO problems - I might have guessed I was getting poked from > two sides at once... > 1) PureOS doesn't do UEFI - yup, that would have lost me completely - > thank you very much Di

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread Morgan Read
On 21/03/2021 5:30 pm, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 21/03/2021 à 11:17, Morgan Read a écrit : > [...] >> I was trying to boot from standard PureOS usb boot image.  > [...] >> 'The selected boot device failed.  Press to Continue.' > [...] > > Hint: the follo

efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread Morgan Read
Hello Folks, (Apologies for the long post, but there's a lot of circularity to follow...) I'm finding it difficult to understand the relationship between efibootmgr, what's showing up in my F10 boot 'BIOS setup options > System Configuration > Boot Options' and what exists under /boot/efi/EFI I