purge the problem installation of cups and reinstall.
i suspect you may have done some kind of update or removal
of a suggested component or something like that.
songbird
things.
this was a long time ago though and now perhaps it isn't
so bad. doesn't matter now as i have no old bup anyplace.
ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
deduplicate and must be 100% bulletproof and stable.
songbird
i don't use sudo, i just start a root shell in a particular
terminal when i start up each day and then i only do root
stuff there.
songbird
y to use Debian stable. But as this
> backported kernel will soon run stable Trixie, I think it wouldn't harm
> to anyway provide a bug report.
FYI - testing aka trixie is currently at:
6.12.19-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.19-1 (2025-03-16) x86_64
GNU/Linux
songbird
Felix Miata wrote:
> songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400):
...
>> i'm not able to dig into this further (way behind on this list)
>> but rmadison works ok for something like that:
...
> Looks perfect, but for 43 things:
> # rmadison linux-image
> Comm
ays leave my machine on, but that too is also ok
as there's a good chance i'll just create a script that i
can run manually on my own as i shutdown at night.
songbird
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>>ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
>> deduplicate
>
> I do not see what you mean.
my old backups are not incremental so they will contain a
lot of files that would be identical copies to other backups.
r, ownership may not be a problem but permissions might be.
> IIRC, for example, ssh (and sshd) will not work properly if the
> permissions on ~/.ssh are wrong.
>
> git will also not backup (or even see) extended attributes.
not without patching somehow. :(
songbird
i
would consider normal archive data kept as a core feature i can't
use git how i'd like.
songbird
amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.7-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64
songbird
i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
would like to try something else.
currently running testing.
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
songbird
is
a project for another winter and this one is almost over.
songbird
so far all of the replies have been helpful and useful.
please keep 'em coming if something hasn't been mentioned yet
i'd like to hear about it.
songbird
27;ve noticed, but i'm also not doing very complicated
things with it.
songbird
Chris Green wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Chris Green wrote:
>> ...
>> > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another
>> > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather
>> > than having to try and unset all th
t; Janet
i wonder if some power management is putting it to sleep
or some timer is timing out. maybe check bios settings for
power management, screen savers, etc.
they can all not play very well together. :( (you know
the old saying about too many chefs in the kitchen...)
songbird
ther user.
songbird
t I haven't poked too deeply, so corrections are
> welcome :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://www.eternal-september.org/groups.php?hierarchy=linux
gmane is the hierarchy i see this group for reading and
replying.
songbird
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:51:49AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>> when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing
>> a test run to see what changes are made or not making the
>> changes at that time.
>>
>> when goi
sted.gpg.d directory.
=
songbird
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM GMT, songbird wrote:
>> Setting up openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (17.0.14+7-1) ...
>> update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format
>> already installed by openjdk-9
>
> What do you
o
have links to the current and previous version that get
updated when the new kernel is installed. it all just
works as it should as long as someone doesn't break it...
songbird
during this morning's update run:
Setting up openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (17.0.14+7-1) ...
update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format
already installed by openjdk-9
? what does this mean to you?
songbird
ed by
the installer or the older kernels may not have the best
drivers.
i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
management system so that also indicates someone who's
more into command line things.
songbird
f having to set everything up all
over again for no real gain.
songbird
r C language questions?
comp.lang.c which is not a mailing list but instead a
usenet group (which is much better than a mailing list
for such types of conversations).
songbird
Marcelo Laia wrote:
...
> If any additional information or logs are needed, please let me know. Thank
> you for your assistance!
do you have the microcode packages installed for your
architecture?
songbird
gt; Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!
if you mean that you are removing all other drives from
the machine where the SSD is going to be plugged in then
you may still have some issues, but i'd say it would be
worth a try.
you may need to change your bios or efi settings.
songbird
hon2 and Python3"
>
> That makes me think it should be possible to achieve what you need.
>
> See
>
> https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer
>
> Grx HdV
thank you, yes that was where i was going with my questions,
but you got there first. :)
songbird
lised'.
>
> Also, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2029 so I have a few years when
> it should continue to 'just work'. :-)
ah, ok! :)
songbird
re might also be something about this written in
the installation guide or release notes.
songbird
Chris Green wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Chris Green wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
>> them.
>>
>>
>> > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye
>&
thing else so far
but then i'm also not doing many complicated things.
songbird
art and the
> date/hour is disconfigured.
>
> My system admit the following Coin-Cell battery:
>
>1. CR-2032
>
> I install the following Coin-Cell battery in my machine:
>
> Panasonic CR2032 3V
did you put it in correctly? check that first.
songbird
tantly turns off beeps
in any desktop i normally use, i've sometimes had to go
in and remove speakers or put switches on wires if i
could not get the speaker out.
working very often through the night and having
roommates already PO'd because the keyboard could not
be silent. the best i could do was type with my hands
under blankets.
songbird
Anssi Saari wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
>> and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
>> backup but i do test it out from time to time.
>
> Um, so how do you choose which boot manage
x27;s bootloader to depend on.
> Install
> no others.
hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
backup but i do test it out from time to time.
songbird
;t have aliases or
other things in there i'm not using any longer.
songbird
of the motherboard may have the bios set to do certain things
upon the first power on.
to help in the future it would have gotten a few more
eyeballs and braincells engaged had you specified which live
image and details about the motherboard.
i hope things remain stable. :)
songbird
d when pipewire and wireplumber are working.
>
> Hmm... let's see.
> Hmm... no, didn't make a difference: after installing `apulse` the same
> `firefox -P` still behaves identically (with the same error messages),
> and so does `apulse firefox -P`.
hmmm...
songbird
mation in history files of any kind so those get
cleaned up upon normal shutdowns or start ups.
songbird
hat wiki page you would expect to find
> suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and journalctl output?
is there a general problem solving and debugging page?
> However I anyway do not have a link better that
> https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html for journalctl
> introduction.
...
songbird
st a tidbit for those who wander once in
a while into strange realms... :)
songbird
n the keys unless i turn on the LED lights which shine
through the keys to light them up. it helps that there are
the bumps on the home row keys and the number 5 on the
number pad.
> In an office environment, the guy using Dvorak with a keyboard labeled
> QWERTY has no worries about others messing with his computer.
:)
songbird
time since i've run that so i can't give details (those brain
cells have been recycled :) )...
songbird
does not have some packages like Arch, why? They
> have rolling releases? I mean packages, for example, hyprland.
i don't know anything about Arch linux, sorry.
songbird
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 19/07/2024 04:11, songbird wrote:
>>so far, agreed, i poked at it a bit the other day to see
>> if MATE would work with the roughly (user-@1000,etc) systemd
>> unit approach but that didn't accomplish anything i could tell.
>
> It would
raints i have. sometimes i can
be interrupted at any moment caring for a parent so that is
a first priority no matter what.
songbird
could tell.
no more time this week for such journeys and
exploritations... but i'll continue reading along as i get
time as the topic is interesting and convoluted which are
the best sort of puzzles. :)
songbird
d still not looked into it
but i hope now that at least i've gotten that one nixed.
songbird
at suits me. it also helps eliminate
some problems because i can also set my various PATH
environment variables to just what is needed and not
any thing more.
...
songbird
forget and
i don't write all my stuff down. next time i do a clean
install i'll have to keep a better log of my local changes.
i have a lot of things masked out from systemd that i don't
use.
songbird
self is bring up the network connection. sometimes i don't need
it so prefer to leave the connection off...
also, just out of a good idea i usually keep a stable booting
partition. this saves me at times.
songbird
due
> to "stty" default configuration:
that is a strange choice of termination and i would
actually consider it a bug in rtorrent, ESC or Ctrl-C
should work for that purpose.
...
songbird
ny obscure packages that are out of the
ordinary.
the only question i have is will they update the wiki page
any time soon to reflect the progress or completion? it's
months out of date...
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
songbird
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 19:29:31 (-0400), songbird wrote:
>
>> "df -x tmpfs" does the magic and gives me the better view that is
>> more useful.
>
> FWIW I define dfree as:
>
> df --output=source,ipcent,fstype,size,used,avail,pcent,targ
tials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
tmpfs 781M 64K 781M 1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
=
"df -x tmpfs" does the magic and gives me the better view that is
more useful.
songbird
songbird wrote:
>
> as an FYI, last night this wasn't a good idea:
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3)
>libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3)
>libmate-panel-applet-dev (1.
e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 6/4/24 10:59, songbird wrote:
>> t...@tommiller.us wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
>> ...
>>
>>i've been using the "more" com
Ash Joubert wrote:
> On 2024-06-05 02:59, songbird wrote:
>> t...@tommiller.us wrote:
>>> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
>>i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux
>> package.
>
>
t...@tommiller.us wrote:
> Hello!
>
> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
...
i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux
package.
songbird
been needing more extreme things for a handicap
other than having fonts pretty large (which is a problem in
some websites or programs as some don't make it easy to
scroll a whole dialog until you find the key combination to
grab it and move it up or down).
songbird
quiet enough that i'm not
at risk of removing a package i might need to
downgrade.
> Have a nice day :)
:)
> Thomas
songbird
ransfer them a
> file.
if i'm taking that long to do something, i'll just find
an easier method.
for me sending an e-mail with the file attached
might also do it.
songbird
b2 => 1.27.1-3)
mate-panel-common (1.27.1-2 => 1.27.1-3)
this morning downgraded to previous version and all is
back to working.
held this update for now...
songbird
is looking as it should.
my normal morning routing is to update and upgrade if
there is anything waiting, and today is the first time i'm
back to "normal" routine in some weeks so it is nice to
have a clear update list again. :)
songbird
songbird wrote:
...
> thanks to all in the Debian community who have gotten this
> done.
all looks ok. :)
songbird
songbird wrote:
...
> the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
> to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.
>
> i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
> many Mate packages that would be removed.
i decided to
ooking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've
> encountered lately.
the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.
i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
many Mate packages that would be removed.
songbird
how).
i guess if you wanted to be really sure you could mount it
read-only.
songbird
ew weeks before
things settle down.
that's what happens with unstable at times.
there are the release mailing lists and the debian-devel
mailing list which will give you some idea of how things
are going.
songbird
uched it.
songbird
The Wanderer wrote:
> TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be all
> my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack!
...
i'm glad you got it back up and running and i hope all your
data is intact. :)
which SSDs did you use?
songbird
exting on a phone is freaking hideous, i don't know how
people get things done with those. thank goodness most
phones have e-mail to text ways of sending and getting
messages.
songbird
hw wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 08:46 -0500, songbird wrote:
>> hw wrote:
>> ...
>> > It's a badly missing feature from gnome settings that we can't change
>> > the key bindings. The layout must be defined somewhere, though.
>> > Maybe s
hw wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 09:43 -0500, songbird wrote:
...
>> if they made them with a metal base mine would probably
>> still be working, but the plastic base is too flexible for
>> me. i have two dead ones. :( the pressure fitted ribbon
>> cable connection
ommon keys being swapped. i don't use
them now, but did in the past. likely GNOME has something
similar but i haven't touched that desktop in quite a long
time.
songbird
tic base is too flexible for
me. i have two dead ones. :( the pressure fitted ribbon
cable connection is a really bad design and those plastic
tabs break off.
otherwise the feel is good. very loud when i'm writing...
songbird
o distracting for normal operation.
songbird
7;ll see how this one works out longer term.
songbird
John Hasler wrote:
> songbird writes:
>> every thing running on a computer should be able to say:
>
>> "I am [x version ...], these are my parents [y, z, 1, ...], i was
>> compiled by program [...] from source code [...], here are my
>> credentials [blah, blah
the right response ready when (s)he calls. any
process which does not respond should be thus cast into the
outer darkness of the bits and never to return (aka a virus
or unauthorized program).
yes, i'm amused by conversations in debian devel at times...
songbird (recursively or not
ched from the
other through their menus.
i see you've solved your issue, but i just wanted to
point out that it works and is ok for people who want to
try it out.
songbird
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, at 13:36, songbird wrote:
>
>> i've
>> already worn some of letters off the keys. :( but, well, i got
>> it on sale for about $30 so i really can't complain.
>
> For years I've used Dymo labels to replace k
as it does to buy a new one. i haven't
figured out how to fix them myself, but it would be nice to
see any vids where someone takes one apart and puts one back
together again and it actually works (note: i haven't looked
recently).
songbird
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 01:28:20PM -0500, songbird wrote:
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> there is rarely a need to e-mail me directly.
>>
>> >> ...
>> >> >
wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 01:28:20PM -0500, songbird wrote:
>> wrote:
there is rarely a need to e-mail me directly.
>> ...
>> > That's why I cringe when people name executables "foo.sh". What do you
>> > do when you decide to rewrite the
ther days i
will hold certain packages because i don't want to deal
with it that day. i run a few packages from sid/unstable
but they usually are self-contained enough that i don't
worry about it.
songbird
ansition or a change
in versions. :)
i was always glad when people wrote descriptive names
for their programs instead of "f" or "f(x)".
since my first major programs were written in Assembler
Pascal and C whatever extensions needed for those were
used, i didn't see it as any fault.
songbird
are going through usr-merge changes for some time and it will
continue and things may be in an in-between-state in places
between not working and working.
i would also follow debian-devel, installer and tool-chain
lists if you are going to get into sid and testing to see
what has been being talked about.
songbird
> Thanks.
did you make changes at some point?
as root what does ufw status say?
if needed run ufw enable.
also perhaps somehow during an upgrade or install it somehow
was corrupted so try apt reinstall ufw.
this is what i would look at first.
songbird
yone would even be interested in buying a copy of it?
# apt-get install debian-handbook
songbird
don't know how their service is like.
songbird
gene heskett wrote:
> On 9/16/23 06:07, songbird wrote:
>> gene heskett wrote:
>> ...
>>> This setup worked instantly under buster and bullseye, but takes from 30
>>> secs to 5 minutes to open a write requestor window asking where to put
>>>
g so long.
songbird
Karl Vogel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 07:55:14AM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Karl Vogel wrote:
>> ...
>> > If nothing else, it's faster to run "locate" and look for file extensions;
>> > running "file" on that much crap took nearly
wrote:
...
> Yours just sailed through the directory structures.
yes, i know that, which is why i asked. ;)
songbird
conds for the 2.4 million files found.
what script did you use?
songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:32:25PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > The problem is, most Debian systems are set up to mount the core file
>> > systems with "relatime". This means you don't have a record of the
>
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 09:21:11PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
>> ...
>> > That triggered yet another thought: What about some kind of a file
>> > search that narrows down "Last Accessed" data for all the v
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