Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/04/2025 à 13:57, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, Yes! On the (dynamic) dependancy side it seems ideal. So it means it's a reimplementation of the SSH server, not using libssh? (or it's statically compiled, which could be worse?) libssh does not appear in the build-dependencies of the sou

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-13 Thread didier gaumet
Le 13/04/2025 à 17:13, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, would you be open to using another implementation of an ssh server? If so, it would be a third approach: Yes, it would be. It might help with the attack surface issue of current sshd. However, I would guess that most of the alternative t

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/04/2025 à 20:12, Marc SCHAEFER a écrit : Hello, systemd dependancies that are activated on a Debian system imply a lot of library injections into sshd, much more than the stock OpenBSD ssh. To avoid this, there seem to be two approaches: - remove those dependancies (see below) -

Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/04/2025 à 10:05, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] When you have access to his PC, you can inquire about software and hardware issues [...] ...investigate... Lousy Speaking Didier

Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 10/04/2025 à 09:14, Michel Verdier a écrit : A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ and his computer has problems. I have no access to his system. Do you know a way to check his hardware, programs such as clamav, smartmontools or memtest, either running on w$ or from a live system? But it has

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le 12/03/2025 à 13:54, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] But however, your current kernel 6.1 from Bullseye Backports does seem affected by a bug? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=linux- image-6.1.0-0.deb11.21-amd64;dist=unstable => But however, your current kernel 6.1 f

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Hello again Felix, Fist thing first: sorry for having not read your first post carefully enough :-) From what I gather, the LTS team has provided the linux-image-6.1.0-0.deb11.31-amd64-unsigned package through Bullseye Security, without modifying the linux-image-amd64 package nor providing

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support?

2025-03-12 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, - in order to list all installable versions of a package, I find apt policy useful. Here for an amd64 kernel: didier@hp-notebook14:~$ LANG=en-us.UTF8; apt policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: 6.1.129-1 Candidate: 6.1.129-1 Version table: 6.12.12-1~bpo12+1 1

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, from what I understand, the point is not if a web browser implements Manifest V3, but how it does so. Chrome disables certain features (blocking WebRequest) used by adblockers. Chromium still allows to install Ublock Origin (normal version, not Lite version) but warns that perhaps in

Re: where does the this file belong on a debian 12 uptodate amd64system?

2025-03-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/03/2025 à 08:11, gene heskett a écrit : On 3/2/25 01:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 04:42:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: flathub.flatpakrepo Nowhere. And this is to indicate that flatpaks will not be accepted by debian? Installing that is one of the steps listed

Re: Encrypted /boot partition gets decrypted twice during boot

2025-02-04 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, From what I understand, a year ago, grub2 upstream LUKS2 support was still only initial and thus not complete: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55093 So it still probably better to stick with LUKS1 for /boot for now

Re: LightDM and .dmrc

2025-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le 30/01/2025 à 10:39, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] user-session is not set in Debian LightDM setup: if you want the default session to be the last, perhaps you can try assigning "last" value to it (I don't know, I have tried it) I should read my posts before posting: &q

Re: LightDM and .dmrc

2025-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Nicolas, (Warning: I've never really tried to modify the LightDM setup and I presently use gdm3) Perhaps you will find answers on the GIT page of LightDM (section "Configuration"): https://github.com/canonical/lightdm?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration and on this page which details all

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 23:28, David Wright a écrit : [...] But would that not be /etc/systemd/system/…/systemd-timesyncd.service? The dangling symlink is for ….timesync1.service, whatever that is. Analogously, my systemd-networkd service has two symlinks: /e/s/s/dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 20:42, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] the installation of the package (seemly the default policy in Debian), [...] sorry for my poor english: please replace "seemly" by "apparently"

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/01/2025 à 19:39, Greg Wooledge a écrit : [...] hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service [...] I'm unclear on exactly how this sym

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

2025-01-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le 27/01/2025 à 17:39, Patrice Duroux a écrit : Hi, I do not know if this is something already addressed (elsewhere or in Trixie), a package issue or something more general. On a bookworm system, removing systemd-timesyncd is leaving a broken symlink (/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.ti

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:23, didier gaumet a écrit : [...) DAW usage and I don not think he was not using backports) [...) I did not take time to read myself before posting, sorry: "I do not think he was using backports" is more correct ;-)

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 21:48, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 01:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's not yet clear to me whether you're trying to use a backported kernel because you *need* it, or because it has a higher number and you think higher numbers are better. I would like to optimize my laptop f

Re: HFS+

2025-01-21 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, (I have never used HFS/HFS+) I would look at theses packages: didier@hp-notebook14:~$ LANG=en-US.UTF-8; apt search hfs [...] hfsplus/stable 1.0.4-17 amd64 Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes hfsprogs/stable 540.1.linux3-5+b1 amd64 mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems [...]

Re: How to send a message to a user logged in over ssh

2024-12-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/12/2024 à 06:52, Ben Wong a écrit : Howdy! On most (all?) current Unix systems I can use `write` to communicate with users logged in over `ssh`. However, now that Debian is removing `mesg` and `writed` from util-linux [1], I'm wondering what the officially recommended replacement is. I

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, it seems possible to increase the verbosity of systemctl for a particular service with the service-log-level command (cf systemctl manpage), perhaps (or not) it could provide useful infos.

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/10/2024 à 04:50, William Torrez Corea a écrit : Dell Inspiron 14R 5437 Hello, Dell website offers instructions to flash the BIOS without Windows: one has to make a bootable DOS USBkey: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/inspiron-14r-5437/drivers FreeDOS US

Re: confused about available 32bit kernels in Trixie

2024-10-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/10/2024 à 00:55, Felix Miata a écrit : # apt-mark showhold # grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free non-free-firmware contrib deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org trixie main non-free deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb trixie dep

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread didier gaumet
Le 26/09/2024 à 11:51, YOYO a écrit : Hello everyone, Recently, I need to cut off power supply with all my running tasks saved. But it seems that the hibernate mode provided in Debian only allows me to Suspend to Ram(STR, or S3 mode in ACPI). Is there any way to Suspend to Disk (STD, or S4 Mode i

Re: emacs service and session start

2024-08-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/08/2024 à 10:08, Erwan David a écrit : I enabled the emacs user service (starts emacs as daemon). The ssh-agent is the one started by plasma. However, emacs (more exactly tram in emacs) does not see the ssh-agent. If I restart the emacs service once the session is on, it uses the ke

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 18:30, Hans a écrit : [...] Well, now as I know, that qemu is working, I will check if I can use also the commandline with qemu. Should be possible! [...] That, too, is explained in the link I indicated previously, ("3. Boot From the Command Line"): https://www.baeldung.com/linu

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 15:44, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] it is nontheless 64 bits hardware. Hey, reread your prose before posting, man! ;-) => nonetheless

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 15:15, James Freer a écrit : My apologies No need to apologize :-) I should have remembered that traditional installation medias are rarer amongst user-friendly distros like Ubuntu that provide primarily live-medias i thought this image was a live image and that was what i

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 14:28, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] - You can use a Debian installation image as a repair image to start a shell that permits you to verify some basic points (no GUI...) [...] ...without installing anything on the disk(s)...

Re: Newbie install - Live DVD for 32 bit system

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 14:15, James Freer a écrit : I was hoping i was doing the right thing with this live DVD. I realise 32 bit is going but i just wanted to test the hardware. I can't risk a hard disk install until i have leave from work and can spend the necessary time on an installation. Seems odd

Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 13:27, Hans a écrit : [...] does one know, if it is possible to boot from an USB-stick within a virtual machine? [...] Short answer like "yes, it wqill wor with" or "no, this is not possible..." will be fine for me. [...] yes https://www.baeldung.com/linux/qemu-boot-physi

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2024 à 19:17, e...@gmx.us a écrit : [...] > Aug 15 12:57:24 cerberus lightdm[1085]: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files [...] didier@hp-

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/08/2024 à 22:16, Mick Ab a écrit : I realise that Authy is still available on smartphones and tablets, but I do not want to use a smartphone or a tablet. I simply need to run a simple 2FA TOTP authenticator on my Debian desktop PC. Hello, I do not use such applications but a search

Re: KVM/QEMU/libvirt, and automatically release mouse pointer in Debian guest

2024-07-29 Thread didier gaumet
Le 29/07/2024 à 06:13, Jeffrey Walton a écrit : Hi Everyone, I have KVM/QEMU/libvirt installed to manage my VMs. I have a Debian 12 guest, x86_64, fully patched. The Debian guest has qemu-guest-agent installed. The qemu-guest-agent service is running on the Debian guest. The problem is, the Deb

Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 05:12, songbird a écrit : The Wanderer wrote: ... By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the archive can stop the package

Re: Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 09:25, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one i free to use which Debian distro one wants to... [...] typo error, sorry: You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one is free to use which Debian distro one wants to...

Re: Debian Sid/Unstable is not a rolling user distro [WAS:Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size]

2024-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2024 à 09:43, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 09:25:22AM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: Le 19/07/2024 à 05:12, songbird a écrit : [...] You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one i free to use which Debian distro one wants to... Actually, there /is/ a

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/07/2024 à 11:31, Nicolas George a écrit : [...] There is another property of Nix I need: Nix never replaces a file, it only creates new files under different directories. This is important for me as I intend to use the same snapshot of the /nix volume connected read-only on multiple virtual

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-04 Thread didier gaumet
(sorry Nicolas, I first sent you a private mail instead of posting on this list, my bad) Le 04/07/2024 à 15:07, Nicolas George a écrit : > Unfortunately, no luck. > > error: selector '.*libossp_uuid.*' matches no derivations [...] Guix, the GNU version of Nix, seems (at least basically) fun

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/07/2024 à 15:07, Nicolas George a écrit : Unfortunately, no luck. [...] What I need is something that explains how to use Nix on Debian when all you have are documentations about Nix not on Debian. I tried the Debian way (installing nix-setup-systemd, which install nix-bin) without su

Re: Cannot execute any container using podman run

2024-07-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/07/2024 à 16:38, Jörg Kastning a écrit : [...] :~$ podman run --rm hello-world conmon: option parsing failed: Unknown option --full-attach Error: write child: broken pipe [...] Hello, please be aware that I never used podman nor conmon so what I say may be totally irrelevant the above

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-07-01 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Absolutely no idea if it will help you solve your problem but the Archwiki has an potentially interesting tip for reverting the Debian default behavior: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_installing_Mono/Gecko so, perhaps setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment variable to

Re: How to use Wine, How to get Gecko to install and work

2024-06-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/07/2024 à 01:24, George at Clug a écrit : [...] I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not find Wine Gecko", "Failed to init Gecko" error messages. [...] Hello, disclaimer: I have not used Wine in ages, so I cannot be of real help Note, you could tell wh

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. [...] Hello Richard, According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions the Perl way: https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mat

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-06-28 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I have never used Nix from the Nix to Debian phrasebook ( https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_to_Debian_phrasebook ) I would try: $ nix-env -qaP '.*libossp_uuid.*' As an answer to your other question (is there another package system managing dependencies available on Debian?), I h

Re: GPIO

2024-05-16 Thread didier gaumet
by private mail manjunathreddy boreddy wrote: I am unable to access under /dev/gpio*. Please post to the debian user mailing list rather than to me :-) I do not myself use GPIO devices so I am not able to offer a truely sensible advice but I would begin with what the gpiodetect command (gpi

Re: GPIO

2024-05-16 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/05/2024 à 06:16, manjunathreddy boreddy a écrit : Hello     I am using debian 12 bookworm i am unable to export gpio pins by using echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/export i am getting bash: echo : write error earlier it was working fine when i re installed debian package i am unable to

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

2023-11-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/11/2023 à 23:01, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : [...] Then why does reportbug mention the bullseye-backports kernel? [...] Hello, I don't know why particularly a Bullseye-backports kernel is promoted here in a mixed stable/unstable context but perhaps (I have not tested it) you could set ch

Re: Debian 12: Failure to build ALPS kernel module

2023-08-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/08/2023 à 11:44, Loris Bennett a écrit : Hi, I have a 10 year-old Dell E6230 laptop which I have updated regularly, starting from Squeeze and have now updated to Bookworm. Everything seems to work except for the fact that a module fails to build for the new kernel: Error! Bad return s

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/08/2023 à 07:18, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] If wpasupplicant is up to date and you still are not able to connect, consult le Archlinux wiki, there are instructions to manage WPA3 mixed (with WPA2) manually (wpa_cli): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/08/2023 à 06:30, Charles Curley a écrit : According to Apple web sites, iOS devices (including iPhones) have used WPA3 for several years. But there is no way to select the WPA version on the iPhone. I have no Apple hardware and have experimented this but you could *probably* use a MDM s

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, and Bookworm

2023-07-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Charles, it seems the connection times out because authentication does not succeed. Perhaps you can try to ensure that the WPA version is the same on both (on the Iphone I don't know, in NetworkManager, that is in the security tab of the connection)

Re: Overzealous polkit

2023-07-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 24/07/2023 à 23:55, Charles Curley a écrit : A fresh install of Debian 12.1 on a Lenovo Yoga 13. I have firewalld installed, and firewall-config 1.3.0-1 to manage it. Polkit insists on authentication, which is fine. It then has extremely short timeouts (or something), so I have to keep re-auth

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 13:48, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/configuration/alsa.html#startup-tweaks [...] Sorry, the correct link for the Alsa section of the Wireplumber configuration files is here: https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 11:51, Stefan Schumacher a écrit : For the record: I am using Gnome. The system in question is not an update from Bullseye but a clean new install on new hardware. dpkg -l | grep pulse shows these (below), but trying to install pulseaudio itself would remove critical components f

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/07/2023 à 09:30, Michel Nakache a écrit : Bonjour, pourquoi sur une nouvelle installation de bookworm c'est toujours pulse audio qui et de base installé? Hello Michel, this is a mailing list in english. (translation of the question): Hello, why on a new installation of bookworm is it st

Re: I reinstalled debian bullsee and still have the same messages and this one too

2023-07-16 Thread didier gaumet
Hello This error message could probably disappear if you install xdg-desktop-portal.service package. There is also a backported version for Bullseye and that could suggest also that for whatever reason the ordinary Bullseye package does not function anymore at least in certain conditions

Re: Firefox on wrong desktop

2023-07-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 12/07/2023 à 04:53, Manphiz a écrit : writes: Folks: This is Bookworm, XFCE4. Using claws-mail, when I click on a web link, it opens a tab for that URL on Firefox. As expected. I run Firefox on desktop 1 and claws-mail on desktop 2. However, when claws-mail launches a tab in firefox, it mo

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/06/2023 à 19:53, gene heskett a écrit : welp, I just did a net install of at least half of bookworm, [...] Oh, and synaptic asks for a pw, I give it mine, and it runs just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett. Glad to hear it, Gene :-)

Re: ibus-wayland question

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 13:05, Byung-Hee HWANG a écrit : Let me say my plan: There is lovely Korean Input Method for Korean Linux users. That name is Nabi. However Nabi is run only X11 environment. I want to take the Nabi to the next generation "Wayland world". This is my lifelong wish. Really i love th

Re: ibus-wayland question

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 05:07, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) a écrit : Hellow Debian hackers,s I'm CJK user with Debian Gnome from South Korea. Nowdays i am interested in Wayland and Input Method. So i did install ibus-wayland: [...] Please please show me the example config for testing inputing with ibus-way

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 09:13, gene heskett a écrit : That needs a better explanation, Felix. As I see it, wayland can't run as root, so no app that needs root works with wayland. Since package managers with a gui need wayland, all the package managers that do have a gui, are now dead except gnome pac

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 04:41, pa...@quillandmouse.com a écrit : On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: [snip] I've been watching this thread from afar for a while and it still puzzles me why people keep bringing up wayland. I've been running wayland for years, and synaptic works

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/06/2023 à 14:09, gene heskett a écrit : On 6/17/23 04:44, didier gaumet wrote: [...] - if you want an even more user-friendly and guided approach, use an app store instead of a package manager: Gnome-software or Apper I do use several AppImages because of debians glacial speed of

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 16/06/2023 à 20:32, gene heskett a écrit : greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall. Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is compatible with wayland? Something I can

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

2023-06-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/06/2023 à 15:38, S M a écrit : Good day. I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is apparently intentional as per the following: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/dash/0.5.11+git

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/05/2023 à 17:47, Charles Curley a écrit : On Sun, 28 May 2023 03:31:21 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: Probably, an updated "wpasupplicant" package is what you need. The version in "bullseye-backports" is slightly older, so you might need to build a backport from sources in "bookwo

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 14/05/2023 à 23:02, hl a écrit : Thank didier gaumet! os-prober seems to be installed by default. it thinks my freebsd is unknown linux distro. if it's windows, i bet it can detect it correctly. freebsd is close cousin of linux they say, it is treated shabbily - As far as I know,

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
Correction: there is no Debian i686 architecture: this is still called i386, even if CPUs before i686 are not supported anymore

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
You seem to be using i686 Debian architecture: - if it is an educated choice and you do want want 32 bits only, that is perfectly fine - if you have chosen i686 Debian architecture because you have an Intel CPU, please be aware that in Debian, i686 architecture is for 32 bits Intel or AMD CPUs,

Re: how to boot freebsd from bullseye?

2023-05-14 Thread didier gaumet
There is a utility called os-prober that scans for other OSes than the one os-prober is running in. This utility is called by update-grub. but I think this has been modified from Debian 12 Bookworm on. please verify if os-prober is installed: $ dpkg -l os-prober if it is not installed, inst

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, some info here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/regulatory.html

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/05/2023 à 20:21, Jim Popovitch a écrit : [...] Excellent job Debian team! +1 Great. Hats down to Debian folks :-)

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le 04/05/2023 à 09:54, Christoph Pleger a écrit : Hello, suddenly, I have the problem in Evolution Email, that email bodies are not shown anymore, but only the headers. This affects my private email account as well as my email account for work. Maybe I have changed some setting, but I cannot r

Re: Looking to a KDE or desktop agnostic software to batch resize pictures

2023-04-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I do not use image editing/modifying tools, so I cannot say if these solutions are good in your usecase, but there are at least three tools packaged in Debian: - Converseen (GUI batch tool: conversion, resizing, etc...) https://www.makeuseof.com/batch-convert-resize-images-linux-using-c

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/03/2023 à 16:11, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf file.txt produces a PDF of better quality (fewer spacing issues). [...] Hello, I do not use it myself so I don't know it well but unoconv seems to be a headless Libreoffice converter with the ability

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
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 is Microsoft: 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft So I gu

Re: Unable to associate to mobile hotspot

2023-03-03 Thread didier gaumet
Le 03/03/2023 à 00:53, Charles Curley a écrit : [...] I see some lines in there that are suspicious, but I don't know enough about wpa_supplicant to go further. Anyone else? Hello, I would look at the WPA type used by the android hotspot: in the past I have had problems with pure WPA3 or even

Re: Evolution doesn't receive messages in Debian 11.

2023-02-22 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Le mardi 21 février 2023 à 12:09 -0800, Van Snyder a écrit : > I just upgraded to Debian 11. I had been using Debian 10. I've used > Evolution for many years. The version in Debian 11 is 3.48. Evolution in Debian Stable (11, Bullseye) is 3.38 [...] > But the messages don't appear in Ev

Re: Installing Debian11 on Lenovo P1 Gen5

2023-02-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/02/2023 à 00:31, Todor Petkov a écrit : [...] dpkg -l | grep -- firmware [...] Hello, I would suggest you to install firmware-linux, it would install (as dependencies) firmware-linux-nonfree and AMD/Intel microcodes

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/01/2023 à 21:36, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : Hi from Germany. Sorry, I found no other way/group to ask. I want to use macOS to maintain some iPads for my school. [...] That is not exactly what you want but there is the irecovery CLI utility that is packaged in Debian. I you don't have al

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-06 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/02/2023 à 17:00, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : [...] - in your guest (MacOSX) VM Virtmanager window menu, click on "Virtual Machine", then "redirect a USB peripheral", This is greyed, I can not click it. - if this happens while the VM is open but not started, it's normal: the VM has to st

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/02/2023 à 00:15, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : Thanks, I know it, but nothing of these works for me. I also tred virt-manager without success. I think there ist another problem which I don't see. I do not use Qemu (directly) nor MacOS X nor Ipads so I cannot assure you what you want is

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-01-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, You will probably find the dedicated Qemu doc helpful: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/usb.html I don't use Qemu directly, I use virtmanager, so I am not familiar with Qemu syntax and howto. But I would launch qemu with the "-device qemu-xhci" parameter (you only need xh

Re: Initramfs/ Initrd Resolution

2023-01-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le lundi 30 janvier 2023 à 12:48 +0100, basti a écrit : > Hello, > > I have setup a Laptop with 3K display (2880 x 1800 pixels). > In Grub I can set the Resolution with gfxmode. > > Is there an option to setup the resolution in the Initramfs (initrd)? > > Best regards Hello, (I 've never tried

Re: switch from IDE to AHCI causes not finding root FS

2023-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le samedi 28 janvier 2023 à 03:15 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : > I thought only Windows was like that, but apparently not always. I > keep my > initramfs configuration set to =dep. I have an old multiboot Core2Duo > on ICH8 that > I found had been set to IDE instead of AHCI. I changed it to AHCI, >

Re: PowerBook G4 OS

2023-01-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 16:32 -0800, Bob Crochelt a écrit : > > > Thanks to all who replied.  I appreciate the help and advice.  Think > I > will just sit tight with the system, as it works fine for what I > need: > email, a little (slow surfing) and some note writing. > > I imagine you have s

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

2022-12-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 28 décembre 2022 à 09:05 -0600, Kent West a écrit : [...] > I found "Synaptic", which seems to be what I thought "Software" was > going to be. Perhaps "Synaptic" is Debian-specific, whereas > "Software" is Cinnamon-specific. Maybe? [...] I would say that Synaptic or Gnome-packagekit a

Re: Weekly Live Builds

2022-12-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/12/2022 à 12:46, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit : Does anyone know what is going on with weekly live builds? There are no ISO images. Is there a different Live Builds for testing that I am not aware of? [...] Hello, from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/: [...]"We used to have weekly l

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 14:25, hw a écrit : I don't think it was, see https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/ I does mention performance, but I remember other statements saying that was designed for arrays with 40+ disks and, besides data integrity, with ease of use in mind. Performance doesn'

Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : [...] In any case, I'm currently tending to think that putting FreeBSD with ZFS on my server might be the best option. But then, apparently I won't be able to configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 13:12, hw a écrit : On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 11:37 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: [...] in my opinion you are confusing deduplicating during backup and incremental/differential backups. [...] I don't know why you think that.[...] Because earlier in a previous message you s

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
I am no expert (in Linux, backporting or anything else) and cannot emit a viable advice about what your backup plan should be. You are in better position to evaluate your needs, your means and design a satisfying backup plan accordingly. What I was underlyning is that in my opinion you are

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2022 à 10:27, hw a écrit : [...] Yes, I've seen those. I can only wonder how much performance impact VDO would have for backups. And I wonder why it doesn't require as much memory as ZFS seems to need for deduplication. It's *only* an hypothesis, but I would suppose that ZFS was desi

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/11/2022 à 04:49, hw a écrit : [...] When I want to have 2 (or more) generations of backups, do I actually want deduplication? It leaves me with only one actual copy of the data which seems to defeat the idea of having multiple generations of backups at least to some extent. [...] I would

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/11/2022 à 05:13, hw a écrit : On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 13:57 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't (and don't) know much about deduplication (beyond what you might deduce from the name), so I google and found this article which was helpful to me:    * [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/

Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?

2022-11-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/11/2022 à 10:30, hw a écrit : Hello, Disclaimer: I am really almqst ignorant about deduplication On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 09:14 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:04 AM hw wrote: [...] You could always buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux license, sign up for a support cont

Re: t-bird screwing up

2022-10-31 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Gene, Bullseye and Thunderbird (102.4) up to date here. I do not use filters but I just created (Tools/Filters/New Menu (guessed translation as my Debian is installed in french)) a filter that I saved. I then closed Thunderbird. I reopened it. Then went to the Tools/Filters/Modify Menu

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