SOLVED (I think): Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

D. R. Evans wrote on 11/19/24 09:38: I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my Debian stable system, everything seemed to be fine. But now, a few days later, I can no longer persuade it to

Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

D. R. Evans wrote on 11/21/24 15:59: My wife's Mac seems to be able to print to it just fine, so it doesn't appear to be a problem with the printer. I just tried with a Macbook Air laptop, and that prints fine as well (perhaps not surprisingly, given that a Mac desktop works). S

Re: new Xerox printer doesn't print

Tom Browder wrote on 11/19/24 15:35: On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 16:12 D. R. Evans wrote: I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. Based on my recent experience with a new HP MFP, are you using the Debian package 'printer-driver-fujixerox'.? It&#

new Xerox printer doesn't print

I have recently added a Xerox C325 multifunction printer to my home LAN. When I originally plugged it in and ran some quick print tests from my Debian stable system, everything seemed to be fine. But now, a few days later, I can no longer persuade it to print :-( The printer appears OK in CUP

(SOLVED) Re: USB device not mounting

D. R. Evans wrote on 11/3/24 15:13: I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) I am an idiot (although somewhat in my defence, there is no mention

USB device not mounting

I have a USB device that has always worked fine in the past, but now I can no longer access it when it is plugged in to my bookworm systems. (I last used the device a couple of weeks ago.) Once plugged in, lsusb shows it: [ZB:~] lsusb ... Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0483:a1de STMicroelectroni

Re: Thunderbird inbox malfunction

Paul D Schmitt wrote on 2/14/24 10:49: After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by a

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run&quo

running a snap package on bookworm?

1. I've never used a snap package before. 2. I want to run the acrordrdc program, which is available as a snap package. 3. Following instructions found following a search for help with snap, I ran: sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install core sudo snap install acrordrdc There were no obvi

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

Felix Miata wrote on 9/12/23 11:51: You really should eliminate that xorg.conf file, and if the problem continues, don't assume it's the kernel driver at fault. Just report a bug if so inclined. Where would depend on behavior after removing xorg.conf. If it fixes the problem, there is almost a

Re: X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

pectation that they won't make any practical difference, but might make the system a bit cleaner to administer. And, from what you say here: > D. R. Evans composed on 2023-09-11 11:47 (UTC-0600): > >> Graphics: >> Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] vendor: Gigabyte

X: how to *really* switch from nouveau to modesetting?

This is a follow-on to the thread that started with: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00657.html Following the upgrade to bookworm that I recently performed, I was hoping that the problem described in the first post in that thread would magically go away. It didn't :-( Felix

Re: bookworm and network connections

Brian wrote on 9/2/23 04:51: Installation over ethernet, no DE - ifupdown provided. Installation over ethernet or wireless with a DE - network-manager provided. Yep, that one's exactly what I experienced. Although the machine is used more like a server than a desktop, it has DE (KDE) to make

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

Brian wrote on 9/2/23 13:01: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail body put ressign 1051086 installation-report thanks Sorry. That's "reassign". Done. Thank you. I pondered where to assign in, and couldn't see anywhere that the report really fit. (I interpreted "i

Re: bookworm and network connections

Michael Kjörling wrote on 9/2/23 03:23: You might want to poke around a little among the files in /etc/NetworkManager, particularly /e/NM/system-connections. That's what NetworkManager _should_ be using to set up the interfaces. See if there's something there to explain the two seemingly being

WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in the original thread. The original thread was started at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html That post contains a description of the problem. I now have a workaround (although not an explanation) fo

Re: bookworm and network connections

David Wright wrote on 9/1/23 19:40: I don't see that the OP is doing anything complicated that requires rc.local to run at all. They just need to distinguish between the two Correct. I was simply trying to workaround the problem by putting commands into rc.local that are known to work when I

Re: bookworm and network connections

Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. network manager is good for changing networks. For a server the network must not change normally. So you could p

Re: bookworm and network connections

Andy Smith wrote on 9/1/23 16:32: Your situation appears to have been triggered by the renaming of your network interfaces (which was warned about in the release These weird names like "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" were names that the debian installer came up with several OS versions ago (

Re: bookworm and network connections

Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, at least not by default. Certainly there

Re: bookworm and network connections

Thank you for your thoughts... As people are addressing the rc.local issue (I now realise that I shouldn't have mentioned it :-) )... I just checked, and: 1. rc.local is being executed; 2. it is executing the nmcli commands; 3. the commands are successful. But it remains true that when the bo

bookworm and network connections

I just upgraded my main server to bookworm, having successfully, over the course of the past couple of months, methodically upgraded my other machines with only minor issues. Unfortunately, the upgrade of the server, the most important of my machines, has not been smooth at all, even though no

Re: Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:52 +0300, Махно wrote: > Hello. Just stick with open source video driver nouveau. This is what I'm doing right now. However it performes, as I already said, "good enough". Meaning there are some problems. It freezes the system from time to time. Well, for now I do not h

problem with sway package

i have tried installing sway package in debian bookworm but it was not displaying any thing and also the terminal was getting stuck in the login page it self when i tried to run sway in the default terminal. i have tried this in virtual machine several time still the issues remians same , pleas

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

Greg Wooledge wrote on 7/5/23 08:59: I'm still waiting for setup details to be provided. Is "sh" the user's I was merely trying to inform the OP that he wasn't alone in seeing this "Transport endpoint is not connected" message coming from bookworm when prior versions of debian stable were s

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 7/4/23 22:23: FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. This seems to be coming from getcwd() (aka get current working directory, see man page). Asking the intertubes, it

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

hlyg wrote on 6/28/23 21:32: notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected FWIW, since upgrading to bookworm, I see: sh: 0: getcwd() failed: Transport endpoint is not connected when I ssh into the upgraded box. I have no idea why. (And, just to be clear, this has never happened

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

; I have no notes that say that I created it): [ZB:X11] cat xorg.conf | pastebinit https://paste.debian.net/1281598/ [ZB:X11] And /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ just contains the file you suggested (currently set to nouveau): [ZB:xorg.conf.d] ls -al total 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 May 22

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

Felix Miata wrote on 5/19/23 11:23: How much time did you allow the login screen to show up? I've lately seen on Somewhere between three and five minutes, I'd say. Certainly long after the disk light stopped flickering and the system seemed to have reached a stable state. system

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot to see if it makes a difference. I did this, and when I rebooted I was in the Linux console instead of Light DM (which

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK that that will also be removed? Doc --

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: Y

video issue following latest bullseye update

Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an irritating video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be a white background, to the right of the text a clear, short tail of even

Thunderbird and font size used to display plain text e-mails?

I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find an answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-( I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling, have more-or-less got

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

available from older Debian 10 (Buster) and/or newer Debian 12 (Bookworm). -- Best Professional Regards. -- Jose R R http://metztli.it - Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Buster w/ Linux 5.1

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

hw wrote on 11/9/22 04:41: configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with Linux isn't so great because it keeps fuse in between. That isn't true. I've been using ZFS with Debian for years without FUSE, through the ZFSonLinux project. The only slightly discomfortin

Linux problem

Hi. Do i have to send my linux freezing problem to you?

Re: Debian 11 Cinnamon Lock Screen Issue

> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/231 This helps. Thank you.

Debian 11 Cinnamon Lock Screen Issue

Greetings, all. I am using the Cinnamon desktop environment on Debian 11. All but one thing has been great so far. When I wake my laptop from suspension by opening the lid, before the lock screen shows up, I see a brief flash of the desktop behind. This is quite concerning. Is this the right pl

Re: issue with purging an old kernel

DdB wrote on 6/20/22 10:07: Since i am running dozens of VM's, i can say: Me2 am running into this regularly, when i am trying to purge old kernels. I am seeing this so frequently, that i even wrote a script (meant to be run inside the VM's) to clean up the mess, some apt-scripts happen to leave

issue with purging an old kernel

Normally to remove an old kernel from my debian stable systems, I issue the following command: apt purge linux-headers--amd64 linux-headers--common linux-image--amd64 Following this recipe, which has always worked in the past, I issued: apt purge linux-headers-5.10.0-11-amd

[SOLVED] Re: postfix + gmail

And, of course, half an hour after giving up and asking for help, I discovered what I needed to change. I did a "journalctl | grep smtp" and noticed that, when my machine was connecting to gmail, it seemed to be doing so on port 25. Aha! So I changed my transport file explicitly to use port 5

postfix + gmail

I am trying to configure postfix correctly to send e-mail to a gmail.com account, using my gmail credentials. 1. It all works fine if I use Thunderbird, with the following configuration: server name: smtp.googlemail.com port:587 Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication method

Debian 11 bullseye - will it work on 12th gen core i3-12100?

Hi,   My age old intel NUC with pentium N3700 is sick and needs replacement. I am interested in building one based on core i3-12100 cpu. It has intel UHD 730 per my quick check. Is this CPU/GPU combo fully supported in debian 11/bullseye? I am looking to run the current setup as is on new har

Re: Start ZFS partition on boot.

James Allsopp wrote on 3/18/22 15:20: I'm having lots of trouble starting my zfs /var partition as part of boot, I urge you to post the question on the zfs-discuss reflector. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

Which nvidia driver? xset +dpms issues. Is my video card dead/broken?

Hi,   A few weeks ago after my usual monthly update/upgrade, xset +dpms stopped working. Using dpms works as expected initially, but Xorg hangs after about 15min in to power save state. Everything else except the monitor works. I can ssh and reboot. Since then I have been disabling dpms. 1.

Followup to my last...

n-free binaries, but at least throw me a bone on the unofficial ISO files. -- *R. Toby Richards*

Please take this as constructive

catch-22's are endless. In my case, I need Broadcom drivers. I can't get b43 over the network. I can't use sneakernet for b43 debs because dpkg doesn't work (let alone finding all the dependencies and dependencies of dependencies and so forth). Now what? -- *R. Toby Richards*

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

Reco wrote on 12/31/21 1:47 PM: That was certainly a help (although I wonder why it was necessary for me to do that manually), It's official Debian policy now, believe it or not. python 2.x is /usr/bin/python2. python 3.x is /usr/bin/python3. If the user really wants /usr/bin/python the use

Re: jupyter-notebook and bullseye

Reco wrote on 12/17/21 6:10 AM: Hi. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:43:51PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/python' ... Can someone suggest how I might get back to the fully-working set of kernels that I had in bus

jupyter-notebook and bullseye

I don't use jupyter-notebook often, so I only just discovered that I am encountering a problem with it following my upgrade from buster to bullseye a couple of months ago. It worked fine on buster, and I have changed nothing related to jupyter since the upgrade. When jupyter-notebook starts th

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian . The advice given above is fairly blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have seen this sort of thing lots of

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On 10/16/21 2:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of situation like

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On 10/16/21 12:43 AM, piorunz wrote: On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: I was suspecting this, but did not know how to go about finding versions available vs. what is installed. As you point out my version of libpostproc55 is from debian whereas I need the newer version in deb-multimedia. I

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On 16/10/2021 04:52, R. Ramesh wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libpostproc55 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed  libswscale5 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed E

Cannot install vlc on bullseye

Hi,   I am trying to install vlc and I get this error n-lata [rramesh] 284 > apt -s install vlc NOTE: This is only a simulation!   apt needs root privileges for real execution.   Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,   so don't depend on the relevance to the real current sit

Re: bullseye and running graphics over ssh

Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/7/21 2:21 PM: On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 02:15:45PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows

bullseye and running graphics over ssh

For years (decades, actually) I have routinely executed graphical programs over ssh (i.e., I sit at computer A, ssh into computer B, then run a graphical program on computer B whose windows, mouse events, etc., all occur on computer A). In bullseye, at least out-of-the-box bullseye, this sudden

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:36 PM: D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help on the

Re: failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

D. R. Evans wrote on 10/4/21 4:12 PM: I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. I am suspicious that the problem is related to having root on ZFS on this machine. So I have posted a request for help on the zfsonlinux reflector, and probably it

failed upgrade buster -> bullseye

I just tried to upgrade my main desktop machine (this machine) from buster to bullseye. The upgrade halted with: ... Setting up libgnustep-base1.27 (1.27.0-3) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (2.0-1) ... Setting up gnustep-base-runtime (1.27.0-3) ... Setting up unar (1.10.1-2+

programas

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Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest >> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( > > Why do you think this would

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 >> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and &

Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from

Re: Debian stable - updates

Christian wrote on 6/25/21 6:19 AM: Is Debian stable safe to use - I mean in the sense that it gets security updates for the installed packages? Yes, it does get security updates. It also gets non-security updates for some of the most popular packages. For years I have run debian stable o

Re: Weird WiFi problem

On Sun, 23 May 2021 21:53:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/23/21 4:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than >> mine. >> >> Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation >

Weird WiFi problem

Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved for my printer

Re: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) vs KDE

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote on 4/22/21 2:57 PM: On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:23:02PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: I saw TDE discussed in another, recent Thread, and had to look it up, as I am not familiar with it. How does it compare with the current KDE? Other than a qemu VM with KDE (so that I can

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot. [Solved]

a question. are you installing using graphics mode or not? it not then the next bit might make a difference. all i can think of is that the hardware may be so new that buster may not work for some hardware reason. i suggest trying a netinst iso from the debian installer for the upcomi

Re: My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0 [Solved]

On 3/26/21 4:50 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see these

My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0

Hi,   I installed debian buster on minisforum X35G with Core i3-1005G1. Install went through fine, but lightdm does not start up. Upon inspecting logs, I found out that X server does not startup for lightdm to use. Looking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see these error messages yoda-mini [rramesh

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

On 3/25/21 11:02 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I am trying to install debian buster (debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) on minisforum X35G. This comes installed with windows 10. It has  Core i3-1005G1 cpu 16GB memory and 512 PCIe nvme SSD as far as I can tell. Everything during the install goes

Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

Hi,   I am trying to install debian buster (debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso) on minisforum X35G. This comes installed with windows 10. It has  Core i3-1005G1 cpu 16GB memory and 512 PCIe nvme SSD as far as I can tell. Everything during the install goes fine (warnings about some realtec NIC fi

Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

Andy Smith wrote on 2/2/21 6:33 PM: Perhaps you do not have the virtual package "linux-image-amd64" for some reason. That package depends upon the latest actual kernel package, so causes you to see upgrades. That's it. Somehow both linux-image-amd64 and the linux-headers-amd64 were no longe

debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

I went to update one of my machines running debian stable today, using (as usual) synaptic [which I think is basically a wrapper for various apt functions]. The machine is running: [Z:~] uname -a Linux zserver 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux [Z:~]

Firefox ESR is not properly rendering Google pages

> Firefox ESR is not properly rendering Google pages, > > I've started observing this issue after switching to Debian Testing, > recently. > > Please refer to the screenshot below. > > [image: image.png] > > Tried installing *firefox-esr-l10n-all* and clear the > cache/history/cookies. But, still n

Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

I am running Buster after fairly deafult installation. One of my scripts executes '/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff' command. And I am having trouble executing this script from cron. 1. If run from user's CLI, the script succeeds. 2. If run from root crontab the script succeeds. 3. If run from user's

Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

Celejar wrote on 11/22/20 7:46 AM: On a list like this, changing the subject line while leaving the other headers in place will result in many users' MUAs still associating the new message with the old thread, annoying those users. Just compose a And also meaning that users such as myself who

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

> Normalize the volume of the mp3 files beforehand rather than adjusting > the volume of the player in real time for each individual file (e.g. > with an app like python-rgain)? > > Or does this not speak to the reason for the volume changes? Unfortunately, it does not in this particular case.

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:46:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Nov 2020 at 02:35:39 -, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each >> time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio >> volu

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 02:35:39 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Thanks to all replied and a lot of helpful suggestion. I'm working on it. :-)

How to manage audio volume unattended.

I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but to do it I need

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

So, if you don't pin down the priority of deb-multimedia, virtually every audio- and video-related package on your system will be replaced with the deb-multimedia version, which for the sake of stability is very likely a bad idea. So it is safer to lower the priority of deb-multimedia and that of

Re: Raid 1 borked

Hi folks, So we're setting up a small server with a pair of 1 TB hard diskssectioned into 5x100GB Raid 1 partition pairs for data, with 400GB+reserved for future uses on each disk.I'm not sure what happened, we had the five pairs of disk partitions setup properly through the installer without

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia . Here the content of that file looks like: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster Pin-Priority: 332 Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster-back

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get upgrade.

To begin with, which distribution is it? In general, with Stable, it pretty much doesn't matter which tool is used. The kind of problems you have indicate Unstable or Testing. First, apt is pretty much apt-get, with different syntax and a few extra features. Aptitude can generally do a better job

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

Greg Marks wrote on 10/21/20 5:23 PM: I had no problems transitioning from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78.3.1, which has removed Enigmail. With an existing GPG installation, it was necessary to run the command "gpg --export-secret-keys --armor > private_key.asc" for importation into Thunderbird. Th

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

Greg Marks wrote on 10/13/20 9:37 AM: I had no problems transitioning from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78.3.1, which has removed Enigmail. With an existing GPG installation, it was necessary to run the command "gpg --export-secret-keys --armor > private_key.asc" for importation into Thunderbird.

Re: rsync --delete

Mike McClain wrote on 10/16/20 4:09 PM: > I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not > performing exactly as I expected. > > The man page says: > --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs > A section of the backup script is so: > Params=(-a --inplace --d

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

Greg Marks wrote on 10/13/20 9:37 AM: >> So I'd like to know if anyone who uses encrypted e-mail has taken >> the plunge and installed the newer version of Thunderbird that the >> official buster repository is offering (and also, therefore, removed >> enigmail); and, if so, have there been any issu

Re: Thunderbird / enigmail

to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 10/13/20 8:25 AM: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:26:28AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> repository. But I seem to recall reading somewhere a while back that the >> enigmail functionality was going to be incorporated into Thunderbird >> upstream. >

Thunderbird / enigmail

I see that the latest official updates to debian stable want to remove enigmail and install a new version of Thunderbird. I recall a couple of years ago the same thing happened, and encrypted e-mail was effectively broken for a couple of months until a version of enigmail compatible with the updat

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:59:11 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >> >

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:10:00 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 10/5/2020 7:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >>

No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? Thanks

Re: arc_meta_used > arc_meta_limit, need tuning hints

Victor Sudakov wrote on 9/30/20 7:12 AM: > No ZFS gurus here? Where could I ask? > zfs-disc...@list.zfsonlinux.org Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

David Wright wrote on 9/7/20 12:53 PM: > > That may be an unfair comparison as the OP has a 64-bit machine > running the 32-bit software, rather than two machines of different > generations. > Sorry; I missed that. (I find it too easy to skim instead of actually /read/ on a computer screen.)

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

Richard Owlett wrote on 9/7/20 9:12 AM: >> > > Answers I'm seem focused on too low levels. I'm interested in the > end-user experience. > > E.G. what end user observable difference would there be between 32 bit > based browser and a 64 bit based browser? > The short version: what Reco said

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