Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-17 Thread The Wanderer
started seeing from GameFAQs a few days ago is somehow related.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signat

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
t springs to my mind is that I would expect it to skip dotfiles (and dot-directories) if any are present, but I also wouldn't expect there to be any in /var/. I use du's '--max=' option fairly frequently, compared to how often I use du at all. I find it useful, but your

Re: Mailing list in nomail

2025-03-04 Thread The Wanderer
ing lists which condition some capability (posting, or access to read the archives, or some other such thing) on being subscribed. AFAIK, debian-user does not do this, so I don't see a reason for such a feature to be useful here. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the wo

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

2025-03-04 Thread The Wanderer
h doing this at all - which is *another* part of the reason why I haven't followed up to suggest the up-front "What's New" summary list, since that would have the same problem to a different degree.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; th

Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

2025-02-06 Thread The Wanderer
o be an 'apt modernize-sources' sub-command, which looks like it might be intended to make this type of conversion. ...except that, per the rest of the discussion in that bug, it almost certainly won't be able to predict which signer to apply for each sources.list entry. That yo

Google searches requiring JavaScript (was Re: Can a Bash function be named "w3m" ?)

2025-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
rowser extension) to spoof the UA for google.com and nowhere else. On another, I've switched search-engine defaults from Google to (the HTML-only version of) DuckDuckGo. So far neither is giving me such an obviously superior experience for me to decide to switch the other machine over so they both m

Re: help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. > [help and man] >> Ther

help, man, etc. (was Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases)

2024-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
I have never managed to find out what 'learn' is supposed to have been. No Linux or other *nix-derived system I've ever used has had a command by that name. I've never managed to find a document which mentions it in a way that would give a hint as to in what context the term w

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-11-20 at 12:08, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/20/24 11:37, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-11-20 at 11:24, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>> Does anyone using Thunderbird _not_ get trailing spaces stripped, >>> or is it just me? >> >> I don't (see sign

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-20 Thread The Wanderer
UI/UX changes in the meanwhile which I'm not willing to tolerate. It's far from impossible that changes in more recent Thunderbird versions might have broken this. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the worl

Re: Open links in existing browser window, not in current workspace

2024-11-04 Thread The Wanderer
y richer feature set. If I were in your position, the first two places I'd look would be at the default-browser setting (in particular, the exact method and arguments with which that browser is launched, since there may be command-line arguments which could affect this) and the terminal-emula

Re: How add key of 3rd party repo?

2024-09-22 Thread The Wanderer
name, not the one you used in your "no error messages" command. Does that file exist? If so, what contents does it have? Are they the same as the one in the other filename? > Should be all ok, but it isn't. If the file named in the sources.list entry doesn't exis

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

2024-09-02 Thread The Wanderer
a period before USB flash drives existed, when optical drives were the only removable media (other than floppy disks, which I think were already largely obsolete by the time this interface came along). I have always treated the *nix equivalent to "eject", for the purpose of a USB flash drive

Re: Where was my app installed?

2024-08-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-08-23 at 17:03, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 04:52:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-08-23 at 16:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> There is *no* command named postgres in the Postgresql >>> installation. Not in the c

Re: Where was my app installed?

2024-08-23 Thread The Wanderer
amining the init.d script and the file it sources, to be the server binary itself. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Where was my app installed?

2024-08-23 Thread The Wanderer
to tell each version's binaries where to find the libraries for that version, et cetera. > Is there a way I can locate the installation directory? I hope this was helpful. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upgrading systemd may silently break your Unstable/Sid system!

2024-07-28 Thread The Wanderer
ite package which included the symlink in question, but I do remember having the systemd-suite changelog entry in question appear - via apt-list-changes - in upgrades that I've already installed (although I'm not finding it now when I look in my local changelogs). Some parts of this, at lea

Re: bash history

2024-07-28 Thread The Wanderer
nds repeatedly over multiple shell sessions, why wouldn't you want them there in the history for ready access? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the u

Re: bash history

2024-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
configured. It's not really "separate", however; it's just that history is only written out when bash exits (sufficiently cleanly), and that's just as true when you have multiple instances of bash as when you have only one. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man

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

2024-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-20 at 22:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 9:46 PM The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 2024-07-20 at 09:19, jeremy ardley wrote: >>> The problem is the Windows Systems Administrators who contracted >>> for / allowed unattended remote upda

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
practice of waiting a few days before deploying that type of update. Even if there is such a mechanism and such a practice, the frequent releases and the potentially high impact of a delay would seem to make it unreasonable for sysadmins to be expected to make use of them. (I've snipped the res

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

2024-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
of the software in question and understanding *why* it's designed that way. In either case, it's not obvious to me why decapitating a few scapegoats would *improve* the situation going forward, unless it can be determined that specific people were actually negligent. -- The Wanderer

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-19 Thread The Wanderer
he people not observing the problem are using? One obvious candidate would probably be the graphics stack (driver, firmware, etc.), but that's not necessarily the only possibility. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: the usage of env

2024-07-19 Thread The Wanderer
be intuitive for many people. 'echo $_' produces the full path to 'echo'. 'sh /tmp/testme' (where that file is a '#!/bin/sh' script which runs 'echo $_') produces the full path to 'sh'. 'bash /tmp/testme' (with the script shebang

Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
ect. I haven't followed far enough to see whether that was actually done, but it seems(?) to have gotten far enough for a patch doing it to have been proposed. I imagine that the solution for the Debian side may wind up being analogous, albeit probably for mkinitramfs (or some tool it relies o

Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
s with what I expected and what I myself would have recommended.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: w4sp-lab & wireshark

2024-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
e differences involved in Kali Linux. The Kali Linux support forum can be found via: https://www.kali.org/community/ I hope that may help point you in a more useful direction. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to a

Re: Help installing gdb package using apt

2024-07-15 Thread The Wanderer
, then installing the desired package(s) again. I don't think a full-upgrade will be necessary in your circumstances, although it would *probably* not hurt. If the install attempt still fails, you can try 'apt full-upgrade' and see whether it produces something reasonable. &

Re: Results of Testmail_1-3

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
we know, doing that might bring the problem back. > Weired thing at all. I would really recommend pursuing the cause with your mail provider, and if they don't/won't fix it, considering switching mail providers. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the worl

Re: Testmail_3: Reply to one of the mails from The Wanderer

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-04 at 16:10, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-07-04 at 16:07, Hans wrote: > >> Surprisingly Testmail_2 appeared WITHOUT the SPAM tag. >> >> This one is a reply of a mail from The Wanderer. >> >> I expect it WITH the SPAM tag from the debian lis

Re: Testmail_3: Reply to one of the mails from The Wanderer

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-04 at 16:07, Hans wrote: > Surprisingly Testmail_2 appeared WITHOUT the SPAM tag. > > This one is a reply of a mail from The Wanderer. > > I expect it WITH the SPAM tag from the debian list. This one showed up on my end with dkim=fail in the usual header. -- Th

Re: Testmail_2: Re: Testmail_1: This is a new created mail!

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
t;> named Testmail_2. >> >> Hans > > This is a reply to my own Testmail_1. > > I expect this one getting WITH the SPAM tag from the debian list. Both of these mails arrived on my end with dkim=pass in the ARC-Authentication-Results header. -- The Wanderer The reas

Re: This is a testmail!

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-07-04 at 15:25, Hans wrote: > Hi The Wanderer, > >> Hans, are you certain you composed those three messages the same >> way, using the same interface of the same program, and sent them >> the same way? > > No, the first mail was created natively (= a new

Re: This is a testmail!

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
ltipart MIME with DKIM fail. Hans, are you certain you composed those three messages the same way, using the same interface of the same program, and sent them the same way? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the w

Re: This is a testmail!

2024-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
tring in the *body* of the message count. > and if the subject is removed or not. It was not. I have not, that I'm aware of, seen that happen. Also, looking at the message headers, I see what appear to be multiple indications that DKIM validation passed. -- The Wanderer The reasonab

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-06-24 at 18:12, John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and 12:00:01 AM, >> where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". That does expose one >> unfortunate weakness of this system:

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
e, M. (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and 12:00:01 AM, where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". That does expose one unfortunate weakness of this system: unless you introduce an additional layer of complexity, e.g. using "00:00 M", the notatio

Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

2024-06-20 Thread The Wanderer
C to indicate that this date/time > string is in UTC, or a time zone offset indicator that begins with + or -. > Not both. It may be notable that he didn't put a +- offset indicator; he put a format specifier which *expands to* whichever such indicator would correspond to the activ

Re: Package libllvm12:i386 does not exists on Debian ?

2024-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
ould see that it shows you available-version and installed-version information for both architectures for that package. > aptitude search libllvm | grep i386 > What did I miss? A difference in the default information displayed by the tools. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himsel

Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

2024-05-28 Thread The Wanderer
't remember using that dpkg command very often, but I do remember seeing that string often enough in the past, so there are probably other commands which will also report it if applicable. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in

Re: Security hole in kernel fixed?

2024-05-15 Thread The Wanderer
ould therefore suspect that any 6.5.x kernel probably was not affected by this vulnerability to begin with. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable

Re: large complaint / very urgent

2024-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
Debian testing, by comparison, appears to still have 115.8; possibly Kali may be based on testing?) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Marking as spam

2024-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
lunteering for this.) On the other hand, if my understanding is *not* correct, then none of that applies. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sorry

2024-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
though that mail too is a reply to an E-mail you received through the list, and is addressed to the list. It would therefore seem as if editing out the "*SPAM*" marker from your replies before you send them would result in the replies showing up on the mailing list without that ma

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window >>> makes the other one also close. >>> >>> I a

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread The Wanderer
apparently doesn't open a new window with just that tab, but rather opens an entire new main Thunderbird window with the contents of that tab active). That in turn can (I would expect) be done accidentally by trying to drag a tab to a new position in the tab bar, but unintentionally dropping it

Re: Testing amd64 netinst LUKS+LVM install broken

2024-04-10 Thread The Wanderer
possibly needing to revert to as far back as a 5.2.x version in order to be completely sure of not having any commits that come from that bad actor. (If there's a detail I've missed catching which would mean that any of that is inaccurate, I would be pleased if someone would point it ou

Re: Dependency meaning

2024-03-21 Thread The Wanderer
he commands against the non-'t64' version of the package, because the one with that suffix isn't available in my configured repositories yet. That one doesn't include the '0' dependencies. Based on the fact that those dependencies are listed for the 't64' ver

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-17 Thread The Wanderer
and have to use codenames instead, that hasn't been helpful to me. The numbers also don't have any intuitive correlation with the names, so mapping from one to another requires looking them up in some appropriate document, which is inconvenient enough that in practice it mostly won't be

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-27 at 14:09, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2024-02-27 10:26, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-02-27 at 10:15, Gary Dale wrote: >> >>> Anyway, that got me down the rabbit hole to try to find where the >>> crontab file is. >>> >>>ls -l /r

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
ally, I would suggest looking in that directory - but not necessarily editing the files there, except via 'crontab -e' as you have already done. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. T

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-24 Thread The Wanderer
uch > words. The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin of the *meaning* of the word(s). -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-23 Thread The Wanderer
t, so you can just use internal reader functions (paired with, and updated alongside, the internal writer functions) and be done with it. * No need to worry about handling log entries that *contain* commas, or whatever other element was chosen as the separator. -- The Wanderer The reasonab

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
things clear in your mind, and use this as a *starting point* to figure out what the correct thing to do in your circumstance actually is. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progre

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
poster has not provided. To start with, I'd want to know: what steps is it which cause the window which displays this improperly-titled tab to open? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 01:18, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be >> all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! > > i'm glad you got it back up and running and i hope all you

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
ower it back on, that *it was already powered on and the system was still booted*. Surprisingly, none of the hardware showed any sign of damage, and the system recognized the RAM just fine after a reboot. But it was a bit of a jolt at the time to realize that I'd just done parts surgery,

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 03:09, David Christensen wrote: > On 2/14/24 18:54, The Wanderer wrote: > >> TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be >> all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! > > That is good to hear. :-) >

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 07:14, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> It turns out that there is a hard limit of 65000 hardlinks per >> on-disk file; > > That's a filesystem dependent value. That's the value for ext4. I think I recall reading t

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-14 Thread The Wanderer
TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! On 2024-01-09 at 14:22, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-01-09 at 14:01, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> On 9 Jan 2024 13:25 -0500, from wande...

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
t from 'stat' on another directory), or does it hang, or give errors, or...? My thought is that this will give information about the filesystem object that is the root directory, without trying to also access information about the *contents* of that directory. If the one succeeds where th

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
llow it up by repeating the full-upgrade step just to make sure, and then after that - if I really wanted gnome-themes-more - try to reinstall it (preferably using an updated package, if you can get your hands on one). I suspect that files have been moved between packages since that version was rel

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

2024-01-17 Thread The Wanderer
DANGLING. THEY ARE NOT MEANT >> TO BE catTED. > > If that is so, what is the purpose of useless directory entries? My guess is: so that they can get the data directly in a variable by a call to stat() or similar, rather than having to read and parse (and validate against possible maliciou

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 14:01, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 9 Jan 2024 13:25 -0500, from wande...@fastmail.fm (The Wanderer): > >>>> Within the past few weeks, I got root-mail notifications from >>>> smartd that the ATA error count on two of the drives had >>>&

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 11:21, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 9 Jan 2024 08:11 -0500, from wande...@fastmail.fm (The Wanderer): > >> Within the past few weeks, I got root-mail notifications from >> smartd that the ATA error count on two of the drives had increased >> - one from 0

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 11:12, Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-09, The Wanderer wrote: > >> My default plan is to identify an appropriate model and buy a pair >> of replacement drives, but not install them yet; buy another two >> drives every six months, until I have a full repla

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 09:38, Dan Ritter wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> So... as the Subject asks, should I be worried? How do I interpret >> these results, and at what point do they start to reflect something >> to take action over? If there is not reason to be worried, w

SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
s, then I'm going to want to go up-market and buy long-endurance drives intended for high uptime - i.e., data-center storage drives, which are likely to be more expensive. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to

VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-07 Thread The Wanderer
man who used to use LSI-11's :-D $ apt-cache show simh Package: simh [...] Description-en: Emulators for 33 different computers This is the SIMH set of emulators for 33 different computers: [...] DEC VAX (but cannot include the microcode due to copyright) No idea whether it'd be enough, but

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

2024-01-05 Thread The Wanderer
other hand, if you want to do this as a means to accomplish some other end - if the "what" of this goal is also the "how" of some other goal - then in order to give useful answers, we will need to also know at least the "what" of that other goal, and possibly also its

Heinlein and requirements (was Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?)

2023-12-26 Thread The Wanderer
problem, pitch manure, program a >>> computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. >>> Specialization is for insects. I can probably do... somewhere in the range from four to ten of those, depending on one's definitions. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man

Re: wireless broadband providers exist

2023-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
ble that even if wireless "high-speed" Internet access could in a technical sense work in that area it might be prohibited in a contractual sense. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. T

Re: how to firefox settings

2023-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
that could potentially do it AFAIK, short of (as you say) modifying the source and recompiling. I don't have the link for the policy-templates site handy, but it should be easily findable by searching for those terms. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; t

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-13 Thread The Wanderer
except for "advanced" > users that use good MUA. > > And those are getting rare, I can't find a nice MUA for Android with > proper threading. If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on An

Re: PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread The Wanderer
like something that warrants a wishlist-level bug report". Then I went looking, and I found a *normal*-level bug report that seems to cover the matter: https://bugs.debian.org/874763 And that bug report is from 2017, and has no replies. Unless someone is interested enough to write up a pa

Re: locate question

2023-11-07 Thread The Wanderer
'*.scad' > What am I doing wrong? For locate, you're not quoting the arguments properly. For find, you're also putting the arguments in the wrong order. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt t

Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-06 Thread The Wanderer
he effect of "the license upstream releases its code under does not permit taking changes out separately like that". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain nametouse on home networks

2023-10-31 Thread The Wanderer
n't recover that account, because it's trying to recover via an E-mail address I no longer have access to.". The question of in what sense the account has the "same name" is undetermined, but the existence of such an additional constraint is the only way I can see to par

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-28 at 00:25, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/10/2023 02:02, The Wanderer wrote: > >> for the case of hierarchical snapshots > > qemu-img(1) allows to create snapshots of disk images that are stored > in the same file. In addition the "create" command has

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
'initscripts' package. My guess is that a machine running systemd will not include that package, and therefore will not have this script. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Ther

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
ptop currently, but I can take and share some > screenshots later today. Regardless of the above, that might be useful. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
ink, VirtualBox)-like workflow - with support for hierarchical nested snapshots, and graphical management thereof, among other things - and have things more-or-less Just Work, I would *love* to learn about it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonab

Re: Date time problem bookworm, fvwm....

2023-10-22 Thread The Wanderer
this sounds like something I might like to try when that changes; any chance of sharing the specific details? > But I'm weird. I literally used to go by "Weird" as a nickname, though (sadly?) it never became as commonly used as with Al. Weird doesn't bother me at all. --

Re: Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
ng the same "fuzzy"/"blurry" thing I was trying to describe. > In more than 99 of 100 tries it just wakes up ok, though. Same. > It seems not to be related to the computers to which it has been > attached since i got it. I only use the monitor with one single compu

Re: Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
t monitor or with a previous one, so I can't provide the exact model for my own case either, although I can state that both candidates are Dell units.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himsel

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

2023-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-02 at 09:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:43:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-10-02 at 09:28, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> >>> Yeah, the one for which I had to manually use "dpkg -i". >> >> That informati

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

2023-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
there is no way to identify the set of packages you're interested in, short of a combination of manual archaeology in local log files (and the local apt package cache) and relying on your own memory. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one pe

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 17:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > >> Hi the Wanderer, >>> (If you're unlucky, there may not *be* any such driver for that >>> model, or at least not one you can get your hands on. In which >>> ca

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > Hi the Wanderer, >>> Second: The setting of AHCI has disappeared, so I can not change >>> the settings in BIOS. And: the BIOS can not be reflashed! >> >> Please describe exactly what you have done to try to downgrade the

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
to advise someone on at a distance. (If you're unlucky, there may not *be* any such driver for that model, or at least not one you can get your hands on. In which case, barring the downgrade-the-firmware angle, you'd probably be out of luck.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adap

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread The Wanderer
rting in bookworm and above. For older releases still >> needs the fixes in src:firefox-esr and src:thunderbird. [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5217 -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-09-28 at 05:16, Valerio Vanni wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:14:57 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: >>> But this way I would have to disable secure boot to load old Clonezilla. >>> Disable secure boot, launch clonezilla, restore image, reenable secure >>>

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-27 Thread The Wanderer
me along very often, especially not in system-imaging solutions. The latter would be understandable, but you'd have the choice between doing that discard-all-the-old thing, or living with the downsides of disabling Secure Boot. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
ainly would not do it; among possibly other things, you'd need to specify the accessing program, etc., in a way that is doable but not necessarily obvious.) That said, you'd be taking a gamble that your ability to obfuscate such things is better than Google's ability to detect it.

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
cution # bits. if test -d /etc/boot.d ; then run-parts /etc/boot.d fi This is in an environment that's running sysvinit, not systemd; 'sysvinit-core' currently depends on the 'initscripts' package. I'm not in a position to tell whether there would be is

Re: Sleep: out of control

2023-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
ing that the component which handles those settings is going to run at all, that is. As has been suggested, masking / etc. the appropriate service would probably prevent that.) Tom, does your version of that file not include a comment with that same information? -- The Wanderer The reasonable

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-03 Thread The Wanderer
to select which boot entry to use). If you then make that disk-image file pivot into the equivalent of an initrd, so that it's free to repartition the hard drive even if that means wiping it, then it should be entirely possible to get into the same installer environment as you could get to wit

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
The "Blue checkmark" release. And this is fairly typical; the least typical of those is the last, which is actually in recognizable English, and references something that I actually recognize. I have no information about the background to this, at all. -- The Wanderer The reasona

Re: Bluetooth driver error on boot after upgrade to bookworm

2023-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
cases by removing and reinserting modules. If (as suggested above) you've rebooted, then presumably this approach has already been tried. (In my case, I'm fairly sure I haven't rebooted since the release, but I was also tracking testing right up to the release so I'm already ru

Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
rovide the same interfaces without providing those filenames; my guess would be that it is, but I don't know how to go about identifying any such package that may be available.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

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