Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

* On 2025 13 Apr 10:38 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> My laptop has one to two handful of these, depending on what I'm > >> currently playing with. > > I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups > > ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf > >

Re: web browser recommendation

* On 2025 07 Mar 08:09 -0600, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > My answer is to block as much as possible at my router. As I run > > OpenWrt for my router, I have the Adblock package installed and running. > > This way I

Re: web browser recommendation

* On 2025 06 Mar 21:57 -0600, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well. > > Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring > > experience! > > I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone? O

Re: web browser recommendation

My answer is to block as much as possible at my router. As I run OpenWrt for my router, I have the Adblock package installed and running. This way I get blocking applied for other devices such as our phones and Chromium when it disables uBlock origin. There are other options I'm aware of but have

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

* On 2025 01 Mar 08:33 -0600, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-01, gene heskett wrote: > > On 3/1/25 07:20, Richmond wrote: > >> It's worth reading this too. > >> > >> https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/ > > > > Which, while rewriting it to use more palatable language, doe

Re: Best terminology to distiguish groups such as "debian-user" from webmail whatevers

* On 2025 26 Feb 10:03 -0600, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 09:59:01AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm communicating with a state level peer-to-peer support group. > > The national organization has a peer-to-peer "mailing list" built around > > webmail as a complement/alt

Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

* On 2025 21 Feb 14:18 -0600, Jochen Spieker wrote: > w f: > > > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. > > What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information. Most likely the libgnutls security updates. > > Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it fre

Re: Shorewall.

* On 2025 13 Feb 10:10 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > # cat /etc/deb*n > 12.9 > > # dpkg -l | grep shorewall > ii shorewall5.2.8-2 > all Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configurator > ii shorewall-core 5.2.8-2 >

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

Thanks to Rafal I did find the Tapo line (from TP-Link) that uses WiFi and can be scheduled through the Tapo app which will do for now. I bought some of the P125M and P400M models. The P125M is an indoor unit and the P400M is for outdoor use and features two NEMA 5-15R outlets. Both models suppor

Re: Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

* On 2025 13 Jan 04:07 -0600, Rafał Lichwała wrote: > If I understood you correctly, the key problem here is "being exposed to > outdoor". > > I think you may search for "outdoor wifi plug": > > https://www.amazon.com/outdoor-smart-plug/s?k=outdoor+smart+plug Thank you. Coming up with the right

Slightly off topic--Wifi capable convenience outlet

Hi All. 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 (common US NEMA 5-15 receptacle/plug) and allow me to activat

Re: laptop for debian 12

* On 2025 02 Jan 00:29 -0600, john doe wrote: > On 1/2/25 00:36, hen...@privatembox.com wrote: > > I am considering to buy a new laptop for debian 12 installed. > > Can you suggest one for that purpose? > > > > No can do, why are you asking this question? > > Lenovo laptops are not that bad and

Re: Firefox alternatives?

* On 2024 11 Dec 18:32 -0600, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:07:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I don't like to be that guy that says, "Works for me", but I don't > > notice problems with Firefox here. > > […] > >

Re: Firefox alternatives?

* On 2024 11 Dec 15:02 -0600, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote: > > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > > > > > You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many > >

Re: Firefox alternatives?

I don't like to be that guy that says, "Works for me", but I don't notice problems with Firefox here. In fact, it's rock solid and I'm on 12.8 with all updates running GNOME. I have seen Chromium become quite sluggish when certain Web pages are loaded but this hasn't affected Firefox. I probably

Re: Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker

Look at message #47 to bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089181 which has a link to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2024/12/msg0.html which advises to use "apt full-upgrade". As I was seeing the failure when trying to upgrade through the aptitude TUI,

Re: Chromium and more being broken, stop the breaker

* On 2024 07 Dec 17:24 -0600, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > > Some is offering de-installs of chromium in the normal debian update > process, they need to be stopped. > > This morning someone was trying to get away with de-installing > chromium-common and c++ software using the debian upda

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

* On 2024 03 Dec 02:33 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 3 Dec 2024 00:11 +, from p...@hbsys.plus.com (Peter Hillier-Brook): > > Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running > > under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, > > but ess

Re: Support forum for pdfminer.six [especially pdf2txt]

* On 2024 31 Oct 09:07 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/31/24 7:46 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 31 Oct 06:02 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Currently, my Debian 12 installations have Firefox 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1. > > Aptitude also shows that this version is fro

Re: Support forum for pdfminer.six [especially pdf2txt]

* On 2024 31 Oct 06:02 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/30/24 10:12 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm attempting to read a USDA document "Thrifty Food Plan,2021" that > > > seems to be only available as a PDF document [ > > > https://fns-prod.azureedge.u

Re: dialog colors

* On 2024 18 Aug 13:08 -0500, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:58:09 + > > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > >> is use dialog to create simple menus > >> it's always white background and blue text > >> how can i change

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

* On 2024 28 Jul 20:11 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I mostly lurk here but I like this forum/format and hope Debian sticks with > it. IMO Discord pretty much sucks. There's a r/debian subreddit which looks > quite active and I've found other subreddits helpful. Discourse and Discord are two dif

Re: info is not dead

* On 2024 25 Jul 07:48 -0500, Oliver Schode wrote: > To be honest I'm not happy with the info format still being around, > precisely because sometimes man pages don't cut it, and we should have > something better by now. On the other hand, and I'll make no bones > about it, so called chatbots turne

Re: info is not dead

* On 2024 23 Jul 11:53 -0500, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-23 13:03, songbird wrote: > > i run debian testing most of the time with bits of > > unstable (firefox). > > > > once in a while i want more detail than man pages > > supply and so i reach for info pages instead. > > > > if you've n

Re: info is not dead

* On 2024 23 Jul 07:18 -0500, songbird wrote: > i run debian testing most of the time with bits of > unstable (firefox). > > once in a while i want more detail than man pages > supply and so i reach for info pages instead. > > if you've never explored info pages in general > you can just st

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

* On 2024 22 Apr 09:39 -0500, Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-21, Reid wrote: > > You seem to be suggesting that Debian users now need to read XX pages of > > release notes and guides in order to learn that what they're installing is > > not what the Debian.org homepage "Why Debian", "Our Philosophy",

Re: What use can i give to linux?

* On 2024 05 Apr 12:37 -0500, William Torrez Corea wrote: > My colleague uses Windows, another uses Mac OS while I use Debian Gnu/Linux > 12. Choice is good. > The majority of users use Windows while developers and designers use mac os > but a little of people use Debian Gnu/Linux 12. So, what is

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

* On 2024 05 Apr 11:28 -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, All.. > > This just hit my emails seconds ago. It's the most info that I've > personally read about the XZ backdoor exploit. I've been following > NextGov as a friendly, plain language resource about government: > > Linux backdoor was a

Re: making Debian secure by default

* On 2024 01 Apr 23:41 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > > [...] > > > Until now, who anticipated this? I'm sure there are security > > resear

Re: making Debian secure by default

* On 2024 01 Apr 16:55 -0500, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:00:29 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > > In my view a great example of the "people other than me just need to > > get good" fallacy merged with the group of people predisposed to > > hate systemd. > > > > It could have been

Re: making Debian secure by default

* On 2024 01 Apr 14:01 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:33:37AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > From what I have read, lzma is not a direct dependency of openssh. It > > turns out that it lzma is a dependency of libsystemd and that > > re

Re: making Debian secure by default

* On 2024 31 Mar 20:46 -0500, Andy Smith wrote: > In the xz case the further you go looking for a root cause the wider > the implications are: > > Q: Why was there a back door in sshd? > A: Because some malicious code was linked to it. > > Q: How did malicious code get linked to it? > A: Its lzma

Re: shellcheck, bashism's and one liners.

Hi Tim. What errors do you get if you use sh instead of bash? On Debian systems sh should be a symbolic link to dash. On Debian dash is preferred for system shell scripts (perhaps even required now) and I use it for my personal scripts unless there is some need to use bash instead. I still use

Re: rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies …

* On 2024 21 Feb 12:42 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 13:26:17 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > After seeing this twice this morning I recalled that I have a cron entry > > to kill the 'rec' program. This was to break up audio file

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

Well, it appears like most things in life this one was self inflicted. 🤬 Yesterday I was working on another project and to verify something was occurring the 'strace' utility was recommended. It dawned on me that this could help me get a clue as to what was happening to the gnome-keyring-daemon.

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

* On 2024 10 Feb 22:31 -0600, Dan Ritter wrote: > Default User wrote: > > Well, it seems that hexchat is being discontinued. > > IMHO, it is/was the only IRC client that was actually usable.  > > > > Any recommendations for a GOOD alternative? > > I like weechat. Some people like quassel. > >

Re: what keyboard do you use?

* On 2024 04 Feb 11:57 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 4 Feb 2024 11:36 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): > >> Unicomp[1] still makes these keyboards, and you can get them for USB. > > > > I don't like their swapping of the right Alt and Menu keys u

Re: what keyboard do you use?

* On 2024 04 Feb 04:23 -0600, hw wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > [...] > > I have several of the now classic IBM Model M keyboards I procured in > > the '90s. Modern BIOSes don't like them even with a PS/2 to USB > > ad

Re: what keyboard do you use?

* On 2024 02 Feb 19:26 -0600, Lee wrote: > I bought a Dell desktop in 2019 and the keyboard just died :( > > ssh in from another machine & do a 'sudo reboot now' and get an alert > about 'Keyboard not found.' on power up. The keyboard also doesn't > work in another machine so it's really & truly

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdandtimezone]

* On 2024 06 Jan 22:27 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/6/24 17:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2024 06 Jan 14:34 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/6/24 14:33, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Try manpages.org . > > > > > > That is downright tasty

Re: SOLVED FOR GENE:Re: was: Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemdand timezone]

* On 2024 06 Jan 14:34 -0600, gene heskett wrote: > On 1/6/24 14:33, John Hasler wrote: > > Try manpages.org . > > That is downright tasty stuff, bookmarked, thank you John. For us Debian users a better choice would seem to be: https://manpages.debian.org/ The only thing is that I don't see a c

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

* On 2024 06 Jan 01:00 -0600, Max Nikulin wrote: > US/Eastern & Co has been moved to tzdata-legacy as well. Currently used > identifiers are based on cities: America/New_York. Ugghhh! I guess I'll be going to the legacy package then until $WHOEVER_IS_IN_CHARGE issues a decree that it too shall be

Re: systemd and timezone

* On 2023 22 Dec 15:34 -0600, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144 > > 2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342 > > Wow, OK. Fascinating historical context in there. > > I've updated

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

Thanks for the tip. I updated this morning well before any announcements and having seen this I rebooted into the 6.1.0-12 (6.1.52) package. Good thing old kernels are kept around. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is t

Re: used vs. unused packages installed

For this sort of thing I prefer the aptitude TUI. Highlight the package in question and hit 'r' and the list of reverse dependencies appears. Installed packages will be in bold (also bright white with my terminal settings). One can continue up the chain by highlighting one of the installed revers

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

If you don't want to scrape a Web page, or want this information when a network is not available, the hdate package will do (referenced from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/527031). Here is an example for Topeka, KS: $ hdate -l N39.034722 -L W95.695556 -s -z -5 Saturday, 23 September 2023, eve

Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

* On 2023 14 Aug 21:29 -0500, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/08/2023 07:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Now, while typing this email all keyring PIDs have vanished! > > It may be a way to minimize RAM usage. I don't think so. It has been persistent in the past in Buster and Bullse

Re: Safing.io

* On 2023 26 Aug 14:27 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I was watching a Linux distro video on YouTube this morning, and one of the > sponsors was Safin.io which hosts a multi-capability firewall and network > management device available for download. It looks interesting to me, a > firewall-challenged

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

* On 2023 26 Aug 07:57 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:40:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > > > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > > > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing i

Re: Using the bash shell: determine if the root user used 'sudo -i'

* On 2023 26 Aug 11:10 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:57 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > > I would like to know whether 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' was used. > > ... > > > In fact, I suspect "I need to know if the cw

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

* On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote: > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing is not open to just everyone > > but may only be done through an account (apparently I have one and now > > have to figure out how to reset my passwor

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

* On 2023 25 Aug 23:57 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 3:50 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 01:26:29PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Two of the wiki articles that will help with a migration to Debian are > > > and

Re: Favicon Firefox

* On 2023 21 Aug 06:53 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 01:24:27PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > Am Montag, 21. August 2023, 13:04:00 CEST schrieb Michael Kjörling: > > > On 21 Aug 2023 12:31 +0200, from hans.ullr...@loop.de (Hans): > > > > does someone know, where firefox-esr in debi

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

For a proportional font, Verdana, Regular seems to come close with, it seems to me, good differentiation between l, I, and 1. O and 0 are a bit problematic as 0 is not dotted or slashed but is more of an ellipse. On this GNOME desktop the interface is set to Cantarell, Regular, and while it has a

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

* On 2023 17 Aug 05:15 -0500, hlyg wrote: > Thank  Andrew, Michael and Joe! > > it seems that x.1 are really stable while x are beta release And .2, .3, etc. are even more stable by that metric. Best to wait for 12.7 or later then. In the mean time the rest of us have work to do with the update

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

Happy anniversary indeed. 30 years for anything is a significant milestone particularly an all, or nearly all, volunteer project that doesn't have a single person who is the benevolent dictator for life but instead has had a number of elected project leaders over that time. This is very much an a

Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies--no access to stored SSH key passwords

I now have two desktop systems running Bookworm with GNOME. The laptop was upgraded last month and I upgraded the desktop this afternoon. I have been using the GNOME keyring applet to manage the SSH public key passwords I use as it prompts to save passwords and then lets me SSH to other hosts wit

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

* On 2023 14 Jul 02:37 -0500, Bruno Kleinert wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a wireless way to measure temperature and humidity > indoor with hardware off the shelf and software included in Debian 12 > bookworm. Off the shelf the Davis Vantage Pro 2 is probably one of the most popular. I hav

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

* On 2023 07 Jul 12:59 -0500, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > There is lots of cross-pollination, though. Before the advent of Clang > there weren't many credible alternatives to the GCC toolchain; I don't > think any BSD sysadmin worth their salt would renounce using rsync just > because it's GPL. Conve

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

* On 2023 07 Jul 09:12 -0500, BRN wrote: > I could be accused of nitpicking here, however; I'd suggest that GNU was > inspired by the original UNIX rather than being a clone. A clone in > the original biological context refers to an exact genetic copy - "byte > for byte" if you like. That is prob

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

* On 2023 07 Jul 08:13 -0500, jeremy ardley wrote: > > My error: > > I should have said > > "Linux is a clone of Unix so a derivative. MS is also a derivative but not > much like Unix. " If you mean MS Windows NT and later, it apparently owes much to VMS and OS/2. Certainly, some POSIX support

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

* On 2023 07 Jul 06:54 -0500, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > Microsoft for good or bad has made major advances in > > software and is responsible for a fair fraction of what we experience in > > our Linux world. > > true > if microsoft had ever produced a decent product > linux may not have ev

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

* On 2023 14 Jun 03:24 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 13:41:23 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have always chickened out on that option. Looking at the ucf man page > > and the description of the three-way merge it looks like the user would > > have a yes or

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

* On 2023 13 Jun 10:01 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-13 06:41:41 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I've been experimenting with Arch Linux for some time and one thing I > > like about its pacman package management system is that it has a tool > > available nam

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

* On 2023 12 Jun 07:51 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:31:31 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Everything's working. In the end, I didn't make any config > > changes (left everything as "keep current config"). > > This is the part that always stresses me out; I often have changes in >

Re: Which Diff tool could I use for visually comparing two text files where Word Wrap is possible?

I prefer vimdiff. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

* On 2023 22 Mar 14:06 -0500, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:11:17AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Why have you ruled out a system with an integrated Intel GPU? > > Well, I was trying to see if one could get reasonable hardware that > doesn't have

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

Why have you ruled out a system with an integrated Intel GPU? I've been quite satisfied with the integrated Intel GPUs for quite some time. They work well with the compositors in Xfce and GNOME. They don't seem to have any issues with XScreensaver's 3D modules. This is the extent of my 3D experi

Re: PDF on debian

* On 2023 09 Mar 04:41 -0600, Corey Hickman wrote: > Hello, > > What's the suggested PDF generator in Debian (without desktop)? > And is there a VIM plugin for that? If you really want to be "old school" there is roff handled by Groff in Debian (most man pages are written in roff using the "man"

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

* On 2023 11 Feb 21:30 -0600, David Wright wrote: > I've read that machines give themselves a 169.254.… address when they > boot up and can't find a DHCP server. But I never see those addresses > when I boot up a machine, disconnected or connected. All I see is > localhost on 127.0.0.1, the machine

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

Well, I didn't fix the errors, but I was able to use 'btrfs replace' to move the file system to an external HDD. The SDD I ordered apparently is ping-ponging its way from Kansas City to various area post offices and back again before they get it on the right truck. Sigh... - Nate -- "The optim

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

* On 2023 15 Jan 10:07 -0600, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 04:57:07PM -0600, Intense Red wrote: > > > Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > > > dangerous, but what else am I to do? > > > >You sum up my experience with BTRFS. I too was "scar

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

* On 2023 12 Jan 16:58 -0600, Intense Red wrote: > > Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > > dangerous, but what else am I to do? > >You sum up my experience with BTRFS. I too was "scared" off from it and > reformatted my BTRFS partitions and went back to ext4 -- it

Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

* On 2023 12 Jan 08:15 -0600, Dan Ritter wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the ro

Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the root partition as BTRFS. The thing has been crashing for months and now it started giving GPG signature errors

Re: Python curses

* On 2023 10 Jan 13:38 -0600, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > It may be argued that I shouldn't do the import this way. However, I > prefer to have "curses." in front of things imported. It makes the link > explicit, and serves to remind me of what's actually going on, when I > revisit the code in

Re: Python curses

* On 2023 09 Jan 22:05 -0600, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: I'm not python curses expert, but is what I found. > I'm trying to write some code in Python's curses module. I've run into > common curses items like A_NORMAL which don't exist. When I do a > print(curses.version), it shows "b

Re: Q. re "Software" on new 11.6 Install

* On 2022 28 Dec 09:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: > I found "Synaptic", which seems to be what I thought "Software" was going > to be. Perhaps "Synaptic" is Debian-specific, whereas "Software" is > Cinnamon-specific. Maybe? Actually, I think "Software" comes from the Gnome Project. Make of that what

Re: colorscheme in vi

* On 2022 23 Dec 13:03 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's > >> vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors > > > > The problem as I see it

Re: colorscheme in vi

* On 2022 23 Dec 06:54 -0600, David wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 23:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > > > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > >

Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?

* On 2022 14 Nov 09:16 -0600, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I have an old Thinkpad on its last legs which I cannot shutdown (long > story). Then I have a slightly better Thinkpad with similar hard > drive. Debian is split into three partitions (root. home and swap)/ > > I'll recreate a similar partition

Re: gspeaker installation

* On 2022 04 Oct 11:55 -0500, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone familiar with gspeaker installation. This program has to be > compiled from source code. I keep getting the following error when running > make: > > ***/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:29:2:error: #error "Only can > be

Re: fetchmail

* On 2022 10 Sep 16:28 -0500, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > in Bullseye (stable) fetchmail works fine, but in Bookworm (testing) I > get: > > fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is running. > argc = 5, arg list: > arg 1 = "-k" > arg 2 = "--ssl" > arg 3 = "--mda" > arg 4 =

Re: netperf / MIT License is not open source?

* On 2022 14 Aug 09:09 -0500, Lee wrote: > On 8/14/22, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 19:23:46 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > >> On 13/08/2022 18:30, Lee wrote: > >> > I just noticed that the netperf package is in the [non-free] repository > >> >https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/ne

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

* On 2022 31 Mar 12:29 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm not sure exactly why it's even being uploaded to unstable. But I > guess if some Debian developer wants to spend their time doing that, > they're permitted. Maybe they keep hoping that upstream will change > their policy some day? Or that

Re: Can't use mc's editor

* On 2022 21 Mar 23:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 23:07 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances > >> of MC are > >> closed, and its ini file is then removed, every setting (except fo

Re: Can't use mc's editor

* On 2022 21 Mar 20:56 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 19:34:46 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > > > Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't > > > forget that geany

Re: Can't use mc's editor

* On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't > forget that geany is a GUI IDE, whereas mc is a ncurses application. Actually, mc and mcedit are linked to libslang, not ncurses. Visually it's not much difference but otherwise a wor

Re: Can't use mc's editor

In the configuration dialog there is the option to use the internal editor. Make sure that option is not selected. On Debian systems you should get prompted for which editor to use by the select-editor script. In my case I chose vim.basic. This avoids tinkering with mc's config files directly w

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 16 Mar 01:53 -0500, Emanuel Berg wrote: > 황병희 wrote: > > >> I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when > >> they first trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick > >> with it. > > > > Well i don't know my login desktop what it is. > > WAYLAND_DISPLAY_LOW_DENSITY=waylan

Re: Package cvs2cl no more in Debian?

* On 2022 12 Mar 15:57 -0600, Steve Keller wrote: > On Debian stretch I have installed the cvs2cl package. In buster > and bullseye it seems to be missing. Very sad :( It shouldn't be a problem to install locally so long as it works with newer Perl versions: https://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ -

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 12 Mar 06:38 -0600, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 07:22:11AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > The other defines multiple separate "desktops", which are logically > > arranged into a grid for purposes of indexing and access, but which are > > individually independent

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 11 Mar 15:10 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > That was exactly what I asked here a few days ago. And I was told that I > was incorrect, that Wayland was simply a better implementation of X. That > the old implementation X.org was still under active development. Showing > that I was mista

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 11 Mar 14:06 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Interesting as no one uses Wayland or X11 directly but > > through a window manager or quite likely one of the desktop > > environments. > > I don't know, I think it is fair to s

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 11 Mar 14:10 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >> No, I understood, but that sounds like too much emulator ... > > > > My understanding is that xwayland is an X server that runs > > under Wayland and the idea is that it handles X prot

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 11 Mar 07:16 -0600, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > > the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and &g

Re: Wayland vs X

* On 2022 10 Mar 17:04 -0600, Emanuel Berg wrote: > didier gaumet wrote: > > >> OK, thanks, I won't switch then I think ... I like feh and > >> use it a lot. > > > > Just to be clear in case there would be a misunderstanding > > because my sentence was not accurate enough: what I meant is > > feh

Re: One user system.

* On 2022 01 Feb 14:09 -0600, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On 2022-02-01 14:47, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Thanks. Still a multi-user system. > > > > Whereas puppy linux has one user, root. > > > > To make debian one-user I think of > ... > > > > Then proceed as root rather than me. > > Oh! Is y

Re: Security

I am subscribed to that list and get them too. I just see that three more messages popped in since this morning from the security list. The complaints seem to be only about browsers. The inference seems to be that the latest release always fixes security bugs. While this is true to an extent, w

Re: odd question re man pages

* On 2022 07 Jan 10:26 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-07, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > Did you try Shift + Right-click and select "Open Link" or some such in > > your terminal? That is what works for me in Gnome Terminal. > > > > This is what works fo

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