Chromium + x.com = :-(

2025-04-10 Thread Richmond
I am finding that chromium gets sluggish after being on x.com for some time, whereas google-chrome and firefox do not. I am wondering if this is something to do with the way chromium is built on debian. Does anyone else notice this? I switched off graphics acceleration on both chromium and google-

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread Richmond
"halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com" writes: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an > ordinary AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM). > After the upgrade it no longer boots into the GUI. I have to login > and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make it boot > into

Re: libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability >> which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited >> arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the >> testing v

libfreetype6 mitigations?

2025-03-13 Thread Richmond
Is there anything that can be done to mitigate against the vulnerability which is apparently according to Bleeping Computer being exploited arbitrary code execution? I looked into upgrading that package to the testing version but I think it would cause problems.

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-08 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Greg writes: > >> On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess wrote: >>> >>> >>> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds >>>> (and whether it's on by default in the s

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-08 Thread Richmond
Greg writes: > On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess wrote: >> >> >> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds >>> (and whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I >>> hope not. But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are >>>

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-06 Thread Richmond
songbird writes: > i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it. > > would like to try something else. > > currently running testing. > > any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few > other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker. > > > songbird If you wer

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-04 Thread Richmond
"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > On Sat Mar 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM GMT, Frank Guthausen wrote: >> If this questions affects the DFSG, Debian must take a position. The >> obvious elephant in the room is the question whether Firefox can be >> part of the official distribution. The compatibility question b

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-01 Thread Richmond
gene heskett writes: > 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, does not > change it to where it onl

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-01 Thread Richmond
It's worth reading this too. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Richmond
On 13/02/2025 10:32, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. > I want to convert this email to a PDF file. > > You can print the file into a pdf from a web browser. Put file:/// into the location bar and navigate to the text file, select it and

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-18 Thread Richmond
I don't think anyone mentioned the command line option --new-instance firefox --new-instance Probably you should use it with --ProfileManager firefox --new-instance --ProfileManager Alternatively you can enter about:profiles in the location bar and start a new one from there. If firefox is slo

Re: Trying to configure hibernate / resume

2024-11-30 Thread Richmond
It's because secure boot prevents it. :(

Trying to configure hibernate / resume

2024-11-30 Thread Richmond
Hibernate does not seem to be available on my system. My desktop is Mate. When the system was installed I accepted the default swap space size but this was way to small, only 1G for a system with 8G of RAM. So I made a new swap space and set it up in /etc/fstab and set it up as resume. " systemct

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2024-08-23 Thread Richmond
I tried something similar, but it didn't work, although... Hans writes: > > > > > 1. Install module-assistant I didn't do this. > > 2. Enter the line for sid into your /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/[1] sid main contrib non-free > non-free- firmware > > > 3. apt upd

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2024-08-23 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Hans writes: > >> Am Samstag, 20. Mai 2023, 19:15:18 CEST schrieb Richmond: >> >>> Hans writes: >> >> >>> >> >>> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels >> >>> above 4

Re: switch users and still use display

2024-08-02 Thread Richmond
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i log in to x session as user1 on host1 > from within a xterm i want to change to user2 on host1 and run x programs > the current way i do this is ssh user2@host1 > does using ssh on the same host use encryption > is there another way to do this > i feel like this h

Re: switch users and still use display

2024-07-27 Thread Richmond
fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes: > i log in to x session as user1 on host1 > from within a xterm i want to change to user2 on host1 and run x programs > the current way i do this is ssh user2@host1 > does using ssh on the same host use encryption > is there another way to do this > i feel like this

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

2024-07-21 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Jeffrey Walton writes: >> >> Yes the updates should be tested at every stage. Maybe people think that >> they cannot stop updates, but they can use Group Policy to stop Windows >> Update. Or maybe they are afraid if th

Re: CrowdStrike and drivers (was Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?)

2024-07-21 Thread Richmond
Jeffrey Walton writes: > This is alarming (to me) from the YC post: > > "we push software to your machines any time we want, > whether or not it's urgent, without testing it" seems to be > core to the model... > > Updates need to be tested inside an organization's lab, and then > test

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-02 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > python3 -m venv venv > source venv/bin/activate > pip install musicpy OK thanks. And apparently to get idle working I do: python -m idlelib.idle

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-02 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > That's how its done. Also, complaining here about something that > doesn't even work on other distros and thus can't be a Debian > problem doesn't make that much sense. I am not complaining, I am trying to find out how to get it working. And as pip (and pipx) are debian packag

Re: Help! secure boot is preventing boot of debian

2024-06-02 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> OK I got it booted and re-installed grub from debian. But I don't >> know why it happened, I haven't changed any keys or done anything >> except an opensuse update. I will ask the opensuse l

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-02 Thread Richmond
OK Back on Debian, I removed the one package installed with pipx, which was musicpy, then tried to install it with pip, but got this message which actually tells me to use pipx. (There is no package python-musicpy). pip install musicpy error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is e

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-02 Thread Richmond
Richard wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 23:50 Richmond <mailto:dnomh...@gmx.com>> wrote: > > Richard mailto:rrosn...@gmail.com>> writes: > > > A packages documentation is always your best > friend: https://pypi.org > > /project

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > A packages documentation is always your best friend: https://pypi.org > /project/idle/ > Yes it makes it look easy there, but: import idle Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File ".local/pipx/shared/lib/python3.11/site-packages/idle.py", line 4, in

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > Pretty much just what pipx does. > Well I don't know how. Now I need to run idle in my new environment. I have installed it .local/pipx/shared/bin/pip install idle and it is here: .local/pipx/shared/lib/python3.11/site-packages/idle.py but I don't know how to run it. I jus

Re: Help! secure boot is preventing boot of debian

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Marco Moock writes: > Am 01.06.2024 um 20:01:43 Uhr schrieb Richmond: > >> Should I disable secure boot temporarily? will that allow booting? > > That should allow booting it. > > Have you changed anything at the keys in the EFI (maybe UEFI > firmware update)?

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > That's the point of venv's. pipx runpip should do the trick. Or the > classic way: source path/to/venv/bin/activate. That way you activate > the position virtual environment (venv) created in that directory > with all packages installed in that venv. > I got it working by doing

Help! secure boot is preventing boot of debian

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
I have a PC with two operating systems installed, Debian, and Opensuse. Both are installed with Secure Boot. Each has its own grub installation. Normally I boot debian, and if I want to boot opensuse I select UEFI settings from the main menu and select opensuse from there which launches the opensus

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > Looking at the package, no wonder it fails. musicpy doesn't contain > anything that can be executed. So pipx run can't work for obvious > reasons. You'll have to install it with pipx install and use it in a > python script. > > https://pypi.org/project/musicpy/ > OK so I have f

Re: Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
Richard writes: > If you haven't closed the terminal window/logged out, you need to run > source .bashrc. Running pipx ensurepath should have said something > like that. Yes, I did this: > > (logged out and in to get updated PATH)

Installing a python package with pipx

2024-06-01 Thread Richmond
I have been trying to install this: https://pypi.org/project/musicpy/#description with not much success. I have done these: sudo aptitude install pip sudo aptitude install pipx pipx ensurepath pipx install --include-deps musicpy (logged out and in to get updated PATH) pipx run musicpy 'music

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-31 Thread Richmond
"Juan R.D. Silva" writes: > Hi folks, > > I use Skype installed from Debian official repo. A couple of days ago > it refused to update reporting "server timed out". After looking into > it, I found that MS removed Skype.deb package from their server and > basically forces everyone to use Snap pa

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Richmond
Andy Smith writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 11:31:29AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or did I >> misunderstand it. > > It works extremely poorly, if at all. If wifi works you would prefer > wifi. > Do you mean homeplugs? I

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
Mario Marietto writes: > There is still a problem. If I login automatically as user and inside > the script I do this : > > sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -s 192.168.1.5 -j MASQUERADE > > it asks me for the password (don't know why it didn't before) but I > can't issue a password,because the

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
Erwan David writes: > Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit : >> I was experimenting, and found this works: >> >> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" >> >> It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it >> without being ro

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
writes: > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> I was experimenting, and found this works: >> >> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" > > That's like slicing your morning baguette with the chainsaw. I do that too. > > But i

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
I was experimenting, and found this works: sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it without being root even though group and world permissions were read only.

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-02 Thread Richmond
Sirius writes: > Good old urxvt is quite lightweight compared to kitty. It understands the font names from xfontsel which is a major improvement on zutty. urxvt -bg black -fn -*-courier-*-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 8)

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Dan Ritter writes: >> >> > Parametric EQs are not the same as graphic EQs, but they are >> > reasonably easy to understand and offer much more control. >> > >> > Suppose you want to boost all the bass

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Sirius writes: > I can get it working with "zutty -font 12x24" and other numerically > named fonts. Wow that one actually worked. That's the first time I've seen a different font in zutty! > Trying with something like 'lucidasans-24' will make it dump core > however. I got this error: zutty

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Franco Martelli writes: > On 01/05/24 at 14:33, Richmond wrote: >> Is it possible to have a graphic equalizer for sound output? I am using >> the Mate desktop. I installed EasyEffects from a flatpak and it appears >> on the menu but does nothing. I don't know the comma

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Curt writes: > Why install from flatpak when there is a native Debian package? > To cut a long story short: user error. :( So I have it working now...

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Parametric EQs are not the same as graphic EQs, but they are > reasonably easy to understand and offer much more control. > > Suppose you want to boost all the bass below 50Hz. The > parametric type you want is a "shelf", the frequency is 50Hz, > the Q doesn't matter (because

Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Is it possible to have a graphic equalizer for sound output? I am using the Mate desktop. I installed EasyEffects from a flatpak and it appears on the menu but does nothing. I don't know the command line. Probably there is an error. Debian 12.

Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
I am puzzled by the zutty terminal emulator. I have tried: 1186 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -fontsize 20 1187 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -font adobe 1190 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -fontsize 20 1191 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -fontsize 2

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 > From: David Christensen > To: Gareth Evans > > On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-08 Thread Richmond
Thanks, I tried it but it turns out to be a wifi/usb problem I think. Jan Krapivin writes: > Have you tried a LIVE-version of another Linux distribution? It will > be interesting to compare. > > вс, 7 апр. 2024 г. в 22:30, Richmond : > > Richmond writes: > >

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-08 Thread Richmond
Lee writes: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:30 PM Richmond wrote: >> >> Richmond writes: >> >> > Richmond writes: >> > >> >> When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a >> >> bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get pla

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-07 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Richmond writes: > >> When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a >> bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, >> sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can >> clear u

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-03-30 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a > bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, > sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can > clear up after a minute or two, or be reduced. >

Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-03-30 Thread Richmond
When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can clear up after a minute or two, or be reduced. When playing from nvlc however I get no such pr

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Richmond
Lee writes: > > oof. Are there instructions somewhere on how to make Debian secure by > default? > > Thanks, Lee I always thought it strange that debian has no firewall on by default. Why not offer to enable one during installation? Opensuse offers to enable one and offers to allow ssh.

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Richmond
Default User writes: > :( > > 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? > > You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols of which irc is just on

Re: Unidentified flying subject!

2024-02-09 Thread Richmond
Charles Curley writes: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:30:14 + > Richmond wrote: > >> So you need to store a lot of data and then verify that it has written >> with 'diff'. > > Yeah. > > I've been thinking about this. Yeah, I know: dangerous. >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Richmond
Charles Curley writes: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:02:36 -0500 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > Test it with Validrive. >> > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm >> >> Looks like proprietary software for Windows. > > badblocks, available in a Debian repo near you, might be a suitable > replacement.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Richmond
gene heskett writes: > Well the 2T memory everybody was curious about 3 weeks ago got here early. > > From dmesg after plugging one in: > [629240.916163] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 39 using xhci_hcd > [629241.066221] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, > idProduct=1234, b

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Richmond
hw writes: > 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 >> adapter so I gave up on them. > > They might work with a so-called active a

man page for cut

2024-01-17 Thread Richmond
In the man page for cut it says: -b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes But there is no equals sign in the actual syntax: echo hello|cut -b 2-5 ello echo hello|cut -b=2-5 cut: invalid byte/character position ‘=2-5’ Try 'cut --help' for more information. Why is this? (An examp

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Richmond
It's not ideal, but what I did when I had two disks and two operating systems was I installed two grubs, one for each OS, one on each MBR. I then used the BIOS menu to choose which disk to boot. This means each OS updates its own grub instance.

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

2023-12-14 Thread Richmond
fuf writes: > Good day! Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year > and didn't knew which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as > thought that old comp. didn't take amd64. i386-netinst Debian 12 was > being installed perfectly,  and later I could to read a disk owned t

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

2023-12-09 Thread Richmond
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 07:18:20PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> If you upgraded this morning, then I would expect that you are okay >> for now. > > That doesn't appear to be true. > >> Per #5 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 >> the bug is p

Re: it: perhaps? gmail issues.

2023-11-22 Thread Richmond
In this article Google seems to think using standard webmail works with a screen reader. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/90559 It advises to turn on keyboard shortcuts. I suppose another option would be to use another webmail service to pick up email from gmail. Karen Lewellen wrote: > H

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

2023-11-19 Thread Richmond
marathon writes: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:25:10 -0500 >> marathon wrote: >> >> > Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold >> > startup or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off >> > and

Re: Panic again any idea

2023-10-20 Thread Richmond
Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good morning > I did ask one year ago > but no answer here or in the www. > Debian has panic(=no booting) after update to 11. > Thank You for help > > Regards > Sophie > Boot from a rescue disk and look at the logs, or take a photograph of the screen when the error occu

Segmentation fault in Chromium

2023-10-02 Thread Richmond
I received a segmentation fault from chromium. Would it be logged anywhere? I searched journalctl but no mention of it. Chromium 117.0.5938.132 built on Debian 11.7, running on Debian 11.7 5.10.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.191-1 (2023-08-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux I expect such things cannot be logge

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

2023-08-21 Thread Richmond
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> My own mind went to the place of thinking sans serif was about those >> very lines. I just didn't make it to thinking that would make it hard >> to find any alternate in that family. My long time preference is >> developer-weary-eye-f

Strange visual effects with Gnome

2023-08-18 Thread Richmond
I installed Debian 12 on a laptop. I found that when the mouse was moved up to the top menu bar it disappeared. If I managed to click on the menu the mouse was invisible over the menu too. Also I noticed the letter A from activities was missing. You will forgive me I hope for installing OpenSUSE 1

Re: Fan speed and control

2023-06-25 Thread Richmond
Emanuel Berg writes: > Richmond wrote: > >> Smart fan control is enabled in the CMOS > > Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, AKA sea-moss? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS > > The CMOS BIOS: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvolatile_BIOS_mem

Fan speed and control

2023-06-24 Thread Richmond
I've noticed that the fan speed with Debian is much faster than the fan speed with Windows 10. I doubt very much that this is because Windows 10 is doing less processing. The fan speed with Windows 10 seems to vary quite a lot, where as Debian is consistently high when the room temperature is up ar

Re: root password of debian live cd?

2023-05-30 Thread Richmond
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 2:03 AM hlyg wrote: > > > On 5/30/23 12:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > This seems to have been discussed like eight years ago: > > > >    https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/05/msg00081.html > > >

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-21 Thread Richmond
Hans writes: > Am Samstag, 20. Mai 2023, 19:15:18 CEST schrieb Richmond: > >> Hans writes: > > >> > >> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels > >> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I > did &

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-20 Thread Richmond
"Marlin S. Petre" writes: > On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote: >> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels >> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did >> wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4. >> &

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-20 Thread Richmond
Hans writes: > Dear debian team, > > I just discovered the "nividia-legacy-340xx"-packages in debian sid. > > However, as they were in buster, but NOT in bullseye, NOR in bookworm, > I wonder, if there is a chance, they will transfer from testing to > bookworm some day. > > I tested them on bookw

Gnome: The Videos application quits when clicking on Activities

2023-04-25 Thread Richmond
I've noticed several times, when I am listening to an mp3 using the application 'Videos' that if I click on Activities to put the system into the view showing each task as a miniture window, that the Videos application abruptly quits. How can I find an error message for that? I've switched to usein

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Richmond
It's a long shot, but does either computer have wifi? Is it secured with wpa2?

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
Richmond wrote: > Cindy Sue Causey writes: > >> On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: >>> I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and >>> swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I >>> went back to check

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
Cindy Sue Causey writes: > On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: >> I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and >> swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I >> went back to check the setting which was in "multitaskin

Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I went back to check the setting which was in "multitasking" before, that tab has gone. Where is the hot corner setting now?

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread Richmond
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: >> I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is apparently >> part of the xterm package -- never heard of it before!). > > It's lxterminal, not lxterm, and it's part of LXDE so I'm surprised if > it's bundled with xterm. > lxterm and lxterminal a

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote: >> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site: >> >> http://ip6.me/ >> >> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the: >> >> http://ip6only.me/ >&

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
Jeremy Ardley writes: > On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote: >> >> So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the >> DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v? > > When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A record and/or

Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site: http://ip6.me/ The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the: http://ip6only.me/ shows the ipv6 address. However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP and then run the "normal" test it shows the ipv6. The note

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-24 Thread Richmond
cor...@free.fr writes: > Hello, > > Should CLI (command line interface) have a nice UI library? > today web dev has so many libraries that make web pages with > rich/colorful interactive views. > But CLI is still in dull mode. That should be improved in these days. > for example, run "df -h" we go

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
didier gaumet writes: > Le 07/03/2023 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit : >> I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a >> version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in >> /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it i

Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft: 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the vers

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-08 Thread Richmond
Amine Derk writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to > install Gnucobol. > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-05 Thread Richmond
Max Nikulin writes: > On 05/02/2023 03:12, Richmond wrote: >> The errors about sr0 come before the stuff about resume. > > Does the following command generate similar errors (taken from initrd > scripts, UUID is intentionally not from the set of existing > partitions)?

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
Richmond wrote: > David Wright writes: > >> On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 17:38:25 (+0000), Richmond wrote: >>> David Wright writes: >>>> On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >>>>> Max Nikulin writes: >>>>>> On 03

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 17:38:25 (+), Richmond wrote: >> David Wright writes: >> > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >> >> Max Nikulin writes: >> >> > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> &g

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >> Max Nikulin writes: >> > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> >> It might be a good way for someone to reproduce the error on some >> >> other >> >> machi

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
Max Nikulin writes: > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> It might be a good way for someone to reproduce the error on some >> other >> machine. I have no problems with the CD/DVD writer and have used it a >> few times recently. > > Do you see the same errors

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> /tmp/initrd21/scripts/local:[ "${quiet?}" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg >> "Running /scripts/local-block" >> [...] >> local_block() >> { >>

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> No local block. :-? > > Maybe you can find our from where the message comes: > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:54 (+), Richmond wrote: >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: >> > >> > (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd ?) >> >> I don't know how I would look in that. Is

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
Michel Verdier writes: > Le 2 février 2023 Richmond a écrit : > >> There is no such file. Earlier I ran this: >> >> find / -print|grep "scripts/local-block" >> >> and it found nothing, which led me to believe it is some temporary file... >>&

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Indeed. But why should only the kernel be brain damaged ? > > (I expect some generic UUID searcher for block devices. Probably the sr > devices are near the end of its iteration. So one would not see any > protest in the log if the UUID is found on the device which is t

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
piorunz writes: > On 02/02/2023 14:05, Richmond wrote: >> After I did this, the errors went away. >> I don't know why the errors reference sr0, it's a mystery. > > They will most likely come back, this error is related to optical > drive, nothing to do with s

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > It may be a coincidence but yesterday I installed some > libguestfs-tools. Now I see errors when booting, which also appear in > /var/log/messages: > > kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE c

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