fwupdmgr refresh → "Host unreachable" - polkkitd issue? (Debian 13)

desktop environment installed, so it is possible that some part of polkitd wasn't installed, though I would expect anything that's truly needed to have been brought in by package dependencies. Thanks, Andy ¹ The firmware of the server added a network filesystem as a fake USB optical disc for installation purposes. -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: problem installing trixie - no EFI

to see boot options" and presses that, rather than allow the firmware to boot the order of things it is set to boot from, which apparently fails. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian default mailer choice

enough to know what an MTA is and have an opinion about which one they want, can make that choice themselves. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: problem installing trixie - no EFI

go looking through the BIOS settings to ensure there's no way it is set to legacy booting or fallback to legacy booting. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: would like to do install from local mirror

ld (and do) do that. Really I should use preseed to automate that part but I have been too lazy so far. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 04:31:08PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-07-12, Andy Smith wrote: > > But for brand new devices I don't care what was on it before. > > > > You can construct a hypothetical situation where: > > > > 1. I buy a new storage device

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

ome, and I don't think that anyone else does either. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: netinst amd64 or i386 for Dell Vostro 200?

or installer. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

gard that a possibility worth worrying about, but okay for anyone that does, yes they would want to secure erase their storage. For NVMe they would want to be sure to select Secure Erase Setting 1 or 2. https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/nvme-cli/nvme-format.1.en.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

#x27;t enjoy that, though, and it sounds like that is your view of what Discourse currently offers. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Mount permissions weired

probably forgotten to set them in one case (or did set them in one case, but not in the other two). > All 3 are ext4 formatted. > All 3 are seperate hardware. It doesn't matter. What you are seeing is completely normal if we assume you did not set the permissions how you w

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Hi, On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 11:58:04AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are > > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email > > intimidating. > > Do you

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

x27;t think those would be good choices though, so while Andrew is discussing welcoming environments for user support I thought I would make that case. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

onvenience and it is possible to have it without all of the negatives. You're making an argument here that Debian is not actually for people who don't like email and I question whether that is good for the prospective users or even good for Debian itself. It doesn't massively matter though as FOSS will continue even if Debian allows itself to stagnate out of existence. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Hello, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 11:50:41PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 10/7/25 23:10, Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm telling you how things are > > Those are the words that are problematic - "I am the absolute authority and > the absolute expert regarding what is happenin

sudo-rs (Was Re: Bugs?)

as, pleaser and even systemd's run0 are available, but they do of course work differently. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:25:56PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:19:40PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > The likes of facebook are steering people away from email as they

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

re vast numbers of messages that are read only by other bits of software not directly by any human. Long term I don't think LKML will stick with this, I don't think LKML will inspire others to reverse the trend, and Debian absolutely 100% will not manage that either. Thanks, Andy -

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

iscord? (Do not confuse "Discord" with "Discourse". I really like Discourse, and that one is open source. Ubuntu user may be familiar with it.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

n any way user serviceable. It isn't clear if personal vehicle ownership will remain a thing, either, and already isn't a thing in the lifetimes of many people right now. I am not going to participate in an off-topic debate about those facts of modern life. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

ove as the focus is on getting higher densities of storage, e.g. right now you can buy 122TB NVMe drives (for about $12,500 USD each). Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

e a week Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (waiting) since Fri 2025-06-13 00:38:26 BST; 3 weeks 6 days ago Trigger: Mon 2025-07-14 00:22:50 BST; 3 days left Triggers: ● fstrim.service Docs: man:fstrim Thanks, Andy ¹ It is

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

t it should try to remove email workflows from all aspects of its use. I say this as someone who has had an email address since 1992 and has been using this particular email address since 1998. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

art of its operation. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Linux machine hit by ransomware

to be writable. This kind of encryption ransomware is really common on Windows. It just goes through every mounted drive looking for what it can encrypt, so it doesn't care that the drive is local or over SMB (or what OS the Samba server is), just that it can write. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Using MUAs to bounce mail (was: Please, don't reply to spam ...)

is spam" button on each message, which I think was mentioned earlier in the thread. That's worth using just to hopefully get the message removed from the archives. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Resolved: SystemD ProtectSystem=full still can write File in /etc outside of WorkingDir or WritePath

rs, "ProtectSystem=true" only makes /usr, /boot and /efi read-only. "ProtectSystem=full" adds /etc to that list. "Protectsystem=strict" makes everything EXCEPT /dev, /proc and /sys read-only. This is documented in "man systemd.exec". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: SystemD ProtectSystem=full still can write File in /etc outside of WorkingDir or WritePath

running inside some other container. ReadWritePaths= can be used to add paths that can be written to, so check there isn't one of those. Otherwise there is some other issue, or a bug. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: old entries in sources.list?

rading. Anyone asking about this needs to read the release notes. Anyone providing answers in this thread that differ from what the release notes say needs to read the release notes. Everyone needs to read the release notes before upgrading, every time. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

all used to putting config fragments in the {conf,mods,sites}-available directories and then using the tools to enable or disable those config fragments. I haven't looked if Debian's package documentation says this is how it SHOULD be done but in this package's case it has so many a

Re: disk cache

er-cache Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Question about letsencrypt certs

e the HTTP-01 challenges come back to them, etc. and you already have some form of config management or continuous delivery system. See https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/ for more info, but remember that there are many clients other than Let's Encrypt';s own certbot. Thank

Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

me later. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=119544568#MailingLists-Users Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 08:03:58AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 01:18:37AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is the spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable? > > I think so. I think the general expectation of spamassassin is that you > use a

Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

d by the similarly named timer unit. I don't recall whether that timer is enabled by default. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

It's bad enough that this small group of selfish people feel that the rest of us and the archives needs tens of messages of them debating relativity with each other, but… On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 10:55:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Considering that shot has killed well over a million to date …

Re: tbird problem

T_DESKTOP=KDE I'm glad we've managed to establish that you're using KDE on X11 (not Wayland), so perhaps the thread can now move on. Myself, I don't use KDE and I don't use Thunderbird, so I have nothing further to contribute I'm afraid. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: tbird problem

ographically near to him. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: tbird problem

hen. Please show us the output of: $ env | grep XDG_ Particularly of interest will be the values of: XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Installation of Debian 12 on ThinkPadX1 Carbon Generation 12

y go straight for trixie anyway as it's very close to release as stable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: nmcli connection edit introduces duplicate connection

to think the normal eth0 was a new interface next time. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771077 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: EFI system partition

rating system is reinstalled next time. Some storsage devices such as NVMe drives are not bootable in legacy BIOS mode, but it looks like you have a working operating system already so maybe that's not why you are wanting to do this. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What file does Linux use to...

ves it more than a rapid glance. I am in agreement with David on this one. OP's subject line was particularly bad. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Repair or Replace

rompt until a key is pressed. This behaviour can be disabled by overriding the getty@.service with: [Service] TTYVTDisallocate=no That will cause the agetty process per tty to stay around. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Repair or Replace

y inspect it with a running Debian system > booted from the installation medium? It doesn't sound so broken that booting to the rescue shell wouldn't allow you to fix it. If not then yeah, rescue mode from some Debian install media. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Checking for a mount in a shell script (Was: Re: Preparing for Debian 13)

echo "Mount USB drive B before running this!" >&2 exit 1 fi near the top of your script, assuming that /mnt/usb-drive-b is where you expect that to be mounted. You can do fancier checks to make sure that the thing mounted there is really the correct thing, but that will do f

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

ck devices which you put ext4 filesystems on as before. Moving to an advanced filesystem would bring more benefits that some people say they can no longer live without, but there is maybe a steeper learning curve and changes that touch many things like how you do backups for example. Thanks, Andy

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

second the advice to read the release notes now, read them again once it's released and then read them again especially the part about upgrading from Debian 12. The release notes for upgrade do cover how to work out if you have enough dusk space for it, if the partition sizing issue is a con

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

the pant leg less travelled. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

ry early releases of Debian may be viable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

e left wondering if they, too, made the same unknown error. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How to change ownership of subdirectories under /media

ription of your exact set of steps including full command output, "ls -la" of the mount point directory before and after your mount, contents of your /etc/fstab, and no censored details. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: openssh-server uninstallable

On Wednesday, 30 April 2025 12:08 Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Wood wrote: > > Is anybody else being hit by a problem with openssh-server after the > > 1:10.0p1-2 migration into testing the other day? > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > >

openssh-server uninstallable

:9.9p2-2) but none of the choices are installable: [no choices] Andy.

Re: Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 08:59:13PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The library option (-lxenstat) has to appear *after* any objects that > use it. > > cc -Wall -o foo foo.c -lxenstat Ah, okay. My addition of -c was just coincidence then, and it was the reordering that fixed it.

Re: Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 12:44:59AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? It's been a couple of years and perhaps this > part of my brain has dissolved. Yes, it was just a missing "-c" from the arguments. This works: $ cc -Wall -c foo.c -o foo -lxenstat Th

Missing shared library symbols… that don't seem to be missing

usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxenstat.so | grep xenstat_init 3980 T xenstat_init@@VERS_4.20.0 I have checkjed with strace and the ld that cc spawns is opening that shared library, and that shared library does have that symbol, so… what's going on? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfol

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

ny further help debugging, just wanted to steer this away from /etc/hosts and an actual DNS server. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

you shown to us or described to us what actually happens when you try to ping one of your other machines. We can't begin to help without you doing that. Once you've done that there will likely be further questions, but that's where we start. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstabe

ookworm into a chroot it's probably not that hard to find and I would recommend following something like that (assuming you really want to do a chroot install) because it seems like you are struggling with some of the fundamentals here. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: In cross install, cannot mount fstab

/ from inside chroot. So far we have only have drip drip drip of little information and some of that not relevant. Also Debian Daedalus is not a Debian release code name so you are probably running something else like Devuan, and should really seek support at their support venues. Thanks, Andy -

Re: Starting Apache Webserver in bookworm

's own error.log. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

at the amount of code that can be reached by strange packets from the Internet side is going to be a lot smaller with WireGuard. It's going to be quite difficult to prove either way though, so let's just agree to disagree. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

could recompile the OpenSSH package on Debian with options > disabled. […] > What do you think about this approach? I think you're wasting your time and should not have sshd listen on the public Internet at all, instead VPN in to your network and only have sshd available on the ins

Re: Debian

you do may break it further, and as it has no support whatsoever you'll just get to keep the pieces. This is a form of tech debt and now it's time to pay the interest. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 05:42:43AM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2025, 00:13:10 CEST schrieb Andy Smith: > > You have yet to explain why block device serial numbers > > (/dev/disk/by-id/) and filesystem UUIDs (/dev/disk/by-uuid/) are not > > su

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

be > created to get device entries driven by the cable ids. > > Due i am not firm with udev rules - any hint on these ? You have yet to explain why block device serial numbers (/dev/disk/by-id/) and filesystem UUIDs (/dev/disk/by-uuid/) are not sufficient for your use case. Thanks, A

Re: "solved" in message subject

away seemingly in another thread. This "SOLVED" thing comes from web forums, which work completely differently. So then the argument changes to not be in aid of current subscribers but for hypothetical future readers of the web archives of the list. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Beware of Pocket's off-list goading (Was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

hem. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: IPv6 and loopback addresses (was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

Hi, On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:21:45AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/3/25 13:39, Andy Smith wrote: > > Historically we do not get very far here when talking about IPv6 with > > Gene. > True Andy, but there's no ipv6 within 100 miles of me. The Linux kernel comes with

Re: "solved" in message subject

e a subject line unless the topic of the mail itself changes (and I remember). I just wish people arguing for one thing or the other would admit the trade-offs. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

IPv6 and loopback addresses (was Re: DHCP and static addresses)

far here when talking about IPv6 with Gene. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

Hello, On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:19:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 05:10, Andy Smith wrote: > > Here is the bug report you quoted but did not read: > > > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080330 > > > > I've read

Re: Who: Bookworm v. Trixie

systems w/o a dhcpd. This is not how processes on Linux do DNS lookups. Virtually nothing is "capable of reading the /etc/hosts file" because that's not how any of this works. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#systemd_hangs_on_startup_or_shutdown Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Email threading (was Re: Frequent freezing around login screens)

e then using email would be more pleasant for them, but there is an undercurrent of "you are failing at email" here when the reality is more like "you are not excelling at email, unlike this tiny priesthood whose numbers dwindle every year". Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

/etc/resolv.conf file is just a static file so there's limited things that would be editing it. The guesses of "you" or "the installer" would be the most likely for me as nothing else should be touching it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

gt; writing to it from writing to it. You are coming perilously close to summoning the beast, and then we don't get to close the portal until 30+ installs of something that is only almost Debian have been performed in undocumented unreproducible ways. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers#

Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 09:11:23AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 13:06:54 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Without "resolvconf" the /etc/resolv.conf file is just a static file so > > there's limited things that would be editing it. Th

Re: ipv6 dns-nameservers

dns-nameservers settings in order to update the file, so have a look what they do. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: array suggestions

l/36xhap5tafvm4boiy3acu5kxlhkvnp32wp3oknbfbkxbdkeq7r@galecvidi3bn/ https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/ Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [SOLVED] Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

g "=yes" in a variable that expected "=true", but that when done with dpkg-reconfigure it correctly puts in "=true" so it is unclear to me how "=yes" got in there. Anyway, as was the case in 2022 but even more so in 2025, it is probably time to rely on other

Re: increment backup of home dir

e aren't stored in git or in many other version control systems. It will be fine until you actually restore anything, at which point the files will get ownership/group of your user and mode 0644 or 0755 depending upon whether they were executable or not when committed. Thanks, Andy -- h

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

aven't explicitly agreed to though. There are a few things in the Debian archive that require agreement to terms upon use. Perhaps the best known would be certbot and other ACME clients. They go to quite some lengths to present the question at first run time. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

cannot easily guess which user-facing frontend made the change to your MIME type associations, but you have been given instructions on how to change it to what you want. > Suggestions please. I suggest to stop assuming you know better than everyone else when you ask for help. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Trixie i686

supports an amd64 kernel then I think you are much better off switching to that kernel in-place while using bookworm and then letting it dist-upgrade to trixie. Though a full reinstall to amd64 would be even better, of course. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Problem with /var

w. There doesn't really look like that much you could delete. You could configure journald to keep less logs but it's kind of a minimal saving. If you don't use snaps then you could uninstall all of that and get some space back, but probably you had a reason fro installing that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Problem with /var

ul but if you don't have it then a combination of "du" and "sort" will be useful, e.g: $ sudo du -xh /var | sort -rh | head -25 (top 25 largest directories in /var with human-readable units.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: web browser recommendation

ably be along now to say they manage perfectly well hiring an intern to sketch the contents of webpages onto the side of a potato then mail it to their dead drop once a month and any other requirements are pure hedonism. All answers are subjective. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Mailing list in nomail

Debian's lists. Just unsubscribe when you don't want emails. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

untu but with a shorter release cycle. All it needs is a vast amount of effort. Good luck! Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "It is I, Simon Quinlank. The chief conductor on the bus that is called hobby." — Simon Quinlank

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12uptodateamd64system?

l change with the next release except by chance. It may be worth trying out a pre-release install of it to find out for sure, before pinning a lot of hope on that. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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

bug tracker. However as purely my lowly user opinion, it is a terrible idea and will be instantly rejected. All that will happen in this thread though is a back and forth about whether it's a good idea or not. It will not actually happen. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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

rve subject line changes only for when the content of the email has drifted far enough away from the original subject line so as to be about a totally different thing. It cannot be used to draw attention to some nuance of the original topic. Thanks, Google. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- N

Re: Hardware question

than the 6.1.x provided by Debian stable packages, as these tend to be a long term stable kernel with only bug fix backported, not new features or device support. So you may have to see what is in backports or experimental. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Hardware question

to 6.1.0-31? You can try a kernel from bookworm-backports or even download the source of the latest Linux kernel and build a deb package for it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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

icipate in this group by email alone?" Their most likely answer: "no, what we have is what we have" I would certainly not try to come up with examples of other mailing lists, especially not ones like debian-user, because they most liekly won't know what you are referring to. They

Re: Why do I never see /var/run/reboot-required ?

user/2024/02/msg00515.html Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Spamassassin generating DNSBL blocks

gt; The alternative instruction provided in the logs, "set all affected > rules score to 0," is rather opaque; I'm not sure how that is to be done. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block says: score __RCVD_IN_DNSWL 0 in local.cf. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

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