Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.05.2025 00:11, Joe wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2025 22:14:03 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: On 24.05.2025 22:40, Joe wrote: Looks like you need to shrink lvm a bit. EFI needs a partition formatted to one of the FAT family filesystems, with no additional software needed to acc

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.05.2025 22:40, Joe wrote: Looks like you need to shrink lvm a bit. EFI needs a partition formatted to one of the FAT family filesystems, with no additional software needed to access it, so no encryption or LVM. The size recommendation for Linux is 1GB minimum. It's generally advised to k

Re: dual boot or windows vm?

2025-05-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 26.05.2025 23:23, Lee wrote: For those of you that still use Windows, do you have a dual boot system where you select linux or windows at boot time or do you boot into linux and run windows as a vm? Both. Each of my laptops and a PC I use for work have dual-boot Windows 7 or 10 and Debian. I

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 17.04.2025 19:06, Roger Price wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote: ... when he tries to tell you how to do it Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem solved. Roger I'd use software called GIMP. &shrug; -- With kindest regards, Alexan

Re: hardware check

2025-04-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.04.2025 12:22, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2025-04-10, David Christensen wrote: Answering the above questions should facilitate obtaining trouble-shooting advice via this mailing list. I am not asking help to solve his problem - and obviously I would be on the wrong mailing list :). I am se

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.03.2025 04:12, Alex King wrote: Yes, I can tell you more.  The hardware as you guessed is not actually new, it is recycled equipment that is new to me and newly installed with Debian. ...    *-scsi     description: SCSI storage controller     product: S

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.03.2025 13:49, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/11/25 à 09:17, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : Can you tell us more information about hardware setup? Could RAID setup play a role? I don't think so, because of the way RAID controllers work, they basically hide the real hardware HDDs b

Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.03.2025 12:13, Alex King wrote: Hi, I've installed a large disk in a new machine and loaded Debian (bookworm) on it, but it's showing as limited to 2TB when the disk should be larger. How can I get Debian to use the full 8TB on this disk? Can you tell us more information about hardwa

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 21.02.2025 03:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: ... sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL I've rebooted the machine twice. I know the failure is not due to stale login information. Does anyone know why I cannot use sudo in this case? Jeff Your line misses % for some reason. sudo in your case is the nam

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.02.2025 09:17, Gregory Forster wrote: I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8?  Everything I find specify s for Windows. I suggest you to check out this link: https://wiki.batocera.org/har

Re: How upstream kernel version correlates to version from Debian?

2025-01-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.01.2025 05:28, Felix Miata wrote: It seems to me you probably need to go backport. I tried the "experimental" equivalent with i5-11400's Rocket Lake S GT1 (Gen12.1) in openSUSE Tumbleweed, resulting in loss of about 2/3 in graphics performance testing with glmark2. Thanks for reminding me

Re: How upstream kernel version correlates to version from Debian?

2025-01-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.01.2025 01:53, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:52:31 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: Things I've tried so far: 1. Updated Intel graphics firmware to latest version available on git.kernel.org I suggest you try the most recent backported kernel and

How upstream kernel version correlates to version from Debian?

2025-01-18 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
/Linux My GPU is CPU integrated: $ lspci -nn -v | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] [8086:46a3] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) A few relevant lines from syslog after freeze and reboot: ... Jan 18 02:08:26 hostname kernel

Re: Nvidia fans not activating

2025-01-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.01.2025 23:21, Eben King wrote: Hi, I have an Nvidia GTX 970 with driver 535.216 on Debian 12.9. The fans don't generally come on on the video card, and if I let it get to the mid 90s it crashes. Sometimes the driver behaves and holds the card in the mid 60s, but not always. As a workaro

Re: ext4 FS Crash

2024-12-04 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.12.2024 17:29, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I have been using the stable branch but recently it has not been so stable.  I have experienced some unexpected behavior Not sure if its related to this ubuntu bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1805816 ) Seeing the sim

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-25 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.11.2024 22:05, Hans wrote: Long answer: As a rule of thumb, never trust AliExpress product descriptions. You have to always look up _specifications_ on Intel official website or websites of other vendors.Seller claims this device has N100 CPU [1], but in Characteristics section it is actual

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.11.2024 14:21, Hans wrote: Following the discussion here, iI would like to ask something. I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. 2 questions: 1. Does one have any experience, if

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

2024-10-31 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 31.10.2024 08:50, William Torrez Corea wrote: My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following date: *11/14/2013 * The last BIOS in this system (Dell Inspiron 14R 5437) was: 1. Version: A12,

Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

2024-10-28 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.10.2024 15:41, B.M. wrote: Hi, I have a small server (Raspberry Pi 4 in fact) and since a couple of weeks it repeatedly hangs after some days until I reboot it (after months of uptime without any problem - but I changed a few things in the meantime, so maybe load is now higher than before)

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.10.2024 08:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 22/10/2024 03:21, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I manually throttle these connections they disconnect after some time and soon after a new connection from another IP from the same subnet or different network establishes. May it happen that their

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.10.2024 05:25, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 6:28 PM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:  they actually speaking the BitTorrent protocol? Could this be caused by simply connecting to the host (in some kind of

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-21 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 21.10.2024 16:59, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 20/10/2024 15:44, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Hello. I host some Debian ISO images via BitTorrent, among other things and recently I have noticed very high interest in one torrent in particular: "debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Re: 回复:[OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 21.10.2024 00:19, loulet...@sina.com wrote: Because of Great Fire Wall?China's network is more complex than other western countries.I am from China. ... Well this doesn't explain botnet-like behavior. What is the ultimate goal for doing this? Is this to somehow mask the traffic? Deep Packet

[OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

2024-10-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Hello. I host some Debian ISO images via BitTorrent, among other things and recently I have noticed very high interest in one torrent in particular: "debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso". My torrent client shows multiple connections from various networks (more IPs than /24), and according to "whoi

Re: Debian and open source scroungers

2024-10-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.10.2024 21:46, Andre Rodier wrote: ... Please, tell me what are your thoughts on this. Am I too pessimistic ? Are you, like me, thinking these companies as open source "scroungers" ? Thanks for your feedback. Andrew I think those are all valid examples and opinions, but there is always

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-03 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 03.10.2024 13:27, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: ... hvm My machines in Trixie are: machine="pc-q35-9.0">hvm When dealing with legacy OS like WinXP I prefer to be on a safe side and choose older module, w

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 03.10.2024 05:14, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. I have a number of kvm/qemu virtual machines running on it, including Home Assistant and a Samba DC, along with multiple Windows VMs. Most of them are working fine. However I found a need to fire up an old Win

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 26.09.2024 19:38, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2024, 9:23 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 26.09.2024 14:51, YOYO wrote: Hello everyone, Recently, I need to cut off power supply with all my running tasks saved. But it seems that the hibernate mode

Re: Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 26.09.2024 19:36, YOYO wrote: Hi Alexander, Eben, and everyone in list, Thank you for your replies. The Debian 12 is running in VirtulBox 7.0.20. And I only assigned 2048 MB RAM to it. I'm pretty sure that I have setup a big enough SWAP of around 8 GB when installing Debian 12. When I click

Re: Is there any way to STD in Debian?

2024-09-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 26.09.2024 14:51, YOYO wrote: 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 in ACP

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

2024-09-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.09.2024 02:25, Charles Curley wrote: I have an HP LaserJet MFP M234sdw printer. I am getting error messages from CUPS that say something like "cups-pki expired". The certificate on the printer expired recently. How do I generate a signed certificate to use in the printer? There is no mech

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

2024-09-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.09.2024 04:12, Will Mengarini wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst. The mobo is a Gi

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.09.2024 10:53, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 9/11/24 01:04, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: In mean time, I enjoy fast performance of SSD drives and keep an eye on them using "smartd". Does smartd warn you about impending death? In a way, yes. SSDs and especially NVMe drives are vul

Re: hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote: It probably would.  I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive with all those short writes.  Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they just vanish and take your data with them? Yes, usually they do just vanish and take your data with them,

Re: UEFI secure boot issue

2024-06-20 Thread Bhasker C V
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > > > > I generated a pr/pk pair and the kernel is signed. Placed them in the > > kernel tree and compiled the kernel. > > I don't think you are

UEFI secure boot issue

2024-06-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I generated a pr/pk pair and the kernel is signed. Placed them in the kernel tree and compiled the kernel. Could someone tell me what am I doing wrong please ? Below is the status (I am using loader.efi from linuxfoundation) When i boot debian stock kernel signed, i see that the secure boot

Re: Install Debian 12.5 on QNAP TS-210

2024-04-24 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.04.2024 19:49, David Hörnlund wrote: Hi debian-user, I have an old QNAP TS-210 that would continue to be useful for me. If it is still possible to use it with the latest Debian Stable. There is a webpage at https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ That have instruktions on h

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-22 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 22.03.2024 14:57, Jan Krapivin wrote: чт, 21 мар. 2024 г. в 22:34, Alexander V. Makartsev : This conclusion seems less than optimal to me. By condemning yourself to type 12+ character password every time you 'sudo' would really hurt accessibility and usability of you

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-21 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 20.03.2024 20:28, Jan Krapivin wrote: I must mention that "32 characters" is only my guess. In the Handbook it is said: "The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and impossible to guess." Also, i must again say that in my case we speak just about a humble home deskt

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 10.02.2024 03:34, gene heskett wrote: On 2/8/24 07:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: This is how I would test it. First create a new GPT partition table and a new 2TB partition: $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdX check /!\  Make double sure you've selected the right device by using "

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 09.02.2024 00:23, gene heskett wrote: Looks neat. Any chance this will crash my machine? I have other design work going on, and I'd hate to have to start from scratch. Well, it will consume CPU cycles for sure, at least to calculate md5 hashes and perform I/O on the target drive and RAM. I do

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2024 12:14, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo smartctl --all -dscsi /dev/sdm smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor:

Re: Mariadb error

2024-01-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.01.2024 13:46, Gift Rain wrote: Good day, I'm running Debian 11 and getting error "Failed to start MariaDB 10.5.12 database server. Your MySQL database server doesn't start for some reason. Is there anything helpful in the output? $ sudo journalctl --no-pager -x --unit mariadb.ser

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.01.2024 13:15, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 08:01:52AM +, Andy Smith wrote: If necessary and if there is a way, I *can* nuke off the target machine's "foo" volume group and recreate the RAID array if I have to make it 512e format. But obviously I'd like some way to move th

OT: Pitfalls of online purchases (Was Re: Mouse single click handling?)

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 23:48, Felix Miata wrote: Can you suggest any particular online source in North America that sells those switches? I had no success trying to refurb one in my invaluable Logitech Trackman Marble FX PS/2 trackball. It took 2 hours to get that tiny switch back together after disasse

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 21:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 09:37:20PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 19.12.2023 20:04, local10 wrote: Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.12.2023 20:04, local10 wrote: Hi, I have several mice that went bad with the same defect: they sometimes generate two single clicks very quickly (say, within 10-20ms) instead of a single click. This is a very common problem with micro-switches inside computer mice, mechanical keyboards,

Re: Problem with Xfce4 Applications Menu

2023-12-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.12.2023 00:40, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just bumbled my way thorough reinstalling v 12.4.0 on my main Linux platform and have managed to mangle the Xfce4Applications Menu by somehow misusing MenuLibre. Some how the contents of some of the subdirectories have been shifted to an

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 05.12.2023 23:33, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue  mode as root and entered startx at the prompt. This generated the error: Unable to contact settings server failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory) I vaguely re

Re: Running 32 bit apps on 64 bit debian

2023-11-19 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 19.11.2023 12:58, Van Snyder wrote: I'm trying run 32 bit LinuxSusser on 64 bit Debian 12 bookworm. When I try to run it, I get ./LinuxSusser: Command not found. "ls -l ./LinuxSusser" respnds -rwxr-xr-x 1 vsnyder vsnyder 12698092 Feb 8 2013 LinuxSusser* "dpkg --print-architecture" respon

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-16 Thread Bhasker C V
ieb Bhasker C V: > > I forgot to answer the question on why I am doing this > > I am experimenting on a no-log system where there is no writes > > what-so-ever to /var/log (except for mails) or systemd journal > > (currently kept volatile) > > /tmp/ is tmpfs mounted > &g

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.11.2023 03:46, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:58:05 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: 16 years is a good amount of value. :) Is it Pentium 4 on ITX motherboard? Nope. FIT-PC, first iteration. Processor is an AMD Geode SBC. https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.11.2023 18:47, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:31:52 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: On 15.11.2023 07:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] [...] I wrote that email as a word of caution, because Roberto had mentioned he is looking for the device with the same

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
design than its clones. If I needed a fan-less PC of this form factor I'd look for 10-15W low power CPUs and refused to buy anything if there is no video review of it, with complete disassembly and temperatures under load, or at least a complete service manual with accurate pictures of

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.11.2023 04:08, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386 Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a router/gateway computer. It should run Debian. I

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-13 Thread Bhasker C V
, Nov 12, 2023 at 1:46 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 12.11.23 um 08:18 schrieb Bhasker C V: > > Hi, > > I have tried removing PrivateTmp=no in the rsyslog service file and it > > still doesnt work > > I assume you mean PrivateTmp=yes? > > > I have removed the

Re: Amazing how far things have come. a 32x100G switch running Debian.

2023-11-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.11.2023 23:34, Andy Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 05:48:27PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Well done Mellanox, and Debian. I hope to see more of it! …although I did forget that Nvidia acquired Mellanox in 2019 and since then has scrapped the Mellanox brand name, so the good times are pr

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-11 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I have tried removing PrivateTmp=no in the rsyslog service file and it still doesnt work I have removed the service file which I had created too. I found that when I run the daemon manually, it works well. Hence I have disabled rsyslog and I have put the daemon startup in my rc-local But yes,

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-10 Thread Bhasker C V
000, Bhasker C V wrote: > > > I moved my syslog to a different location '/tmp/server.log' > > A rather strange decision, since /tmp is usually pruned on reboot. > > > This was working all fine until I moved to selinux in enforcing mode. > > > > I have t

Help ! No syslog anymore

2023-11-08 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I moved my syslog to a different location '/tmp/server.log' This was working all fine until I moved to selinux in enforcing mode. I have the file context as system_u:object_r:syslogd_runtime_t:s0 now, the file is empty Strangely ... lsof shows rsyslog is using this file rsyslogd 25561 root

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory

2023-11-03 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 03.11.2023 08:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: Calling these things "folders" discards all of this history and knowledge. But the real problem with calling them "folders" is that it doesn't match the Unix user interface. Personally, I don't see the problem, because I was talking to people not Unix u

Re: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?

2023-11-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.11.2023 12:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Rsync wasn't helpful in my case. It refused to recognize file names properly, complaining about charset encoding, not even with --iconv parameters. Probably because of locale differences between my system and mounted filesystems and who knows what else

Re: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?

2023-11-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
even dutifully copy those files from source-dir which can't be found either in dest-dir-1 or in dest-dir-2. If you only want to /see/ what would be copied (always a good idea when trying untested advice from random folks on the internets :) there's the option --dry-run. Perhaps add the o

Re: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?

2023-11-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.11.2023 20:07, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-01): I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and files. The word is “directory”, not “folder”. Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't meant to invoke wrath of the ancients

How to compare contents of two folders against third one?

2023-11-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Hello everyone. I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and files. I've manually copied a set of folders and files from it to a "/destination-folder-one/" and copied another set of folders and files to a "/destination-folder-two/". Now, is there an effective way t

Re: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-26 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 26.10.2023 18:39, Hans wrote: Hi folks, is there a very easy way, if I want to install packages from trixie oder sid into my bookworm installation? I read about apt pinning, but as far as I understood, I have to name explicitily each package I want to install from sid. This can be much work,

Re: Hidden UUID?

2023-10-18 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 18.10.2023 12:01, Hans wrote: Hi folks, maybe you can help. I am running into a strange problem. It is the following: My swap partition is a logical partition on an extended partition. This swap was formerly luks encrypted and got an UUID beginning with UUID=30e885. Then I deciced, to

Re: No wifi on debian 12 fresh install (HP laptop 440 14" G10)

2023-10-04 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.10.2023 17:08, Itay wrote: Hi I recently purchased an HP ProBook 440 14" G10 laptop. This configuration is certified by Ubuntu[1]. The specs, as advertised by HP, can be found here[2]. The installation (debian 12 'bookworm') went as expected (using DVD and wired connection). However, aft

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
libvirt and for the life of mine I could not find why the other xml file doesnt work and why this does. Happy libvirt-ing On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:58 PM Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > I have tried that too and that did not help either (i.e adding the format > type=gpt) > The outpu

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
t/WINDOWS/WIN11-BASE protocol type: file file length: 60 GiB (64424509440 bytes) disk size: 26.5 GiB ``` On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:52 PM Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:50:07 +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Attaching win11.xml > > Please note that this u

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Attaching win11.xml Please note that this used to work fine. It is failing now on libvirt- 9.7.0-1 On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 9:13 AM Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:05:43 +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Adding libvirt mailing list > > apologies for cross-posting >

Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Adding libvirt mailing list apologies for cross-posting libvirt version: 9.7.0-1 On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 8:39 AM john doe wrote: > On 9/21/23 09:32, Bhasker C V wrote: > > I am getting an error with libivrt when I create a VM > > > > ``` > > $ sudo virsh create ./

Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Bhasker C V
I am getting an error with libivrt when I create a VM ``` $ sudo virsh create ./win11.xml error: Failed to create domain from ./win11.xml error: internal error: mishandled storage format 'none' ``` This is after I have done a dist-upgrade (was working fine before) debian trixie. error message

Re: memtest86

2023-09-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.09.2023 01:54, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:48 PM Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:32 PM Tom Browder wrote: On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote: Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I I see that it's a Debian package, and I i

Re: memtest86

2023-09-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.09.2023 00:42, gene heskett wrote: On 9/13/23 12:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote: Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I burned it on a CDROM disk. I see that it's a Debian package, and  I installed it. Now

Re: memtest86

2023-09-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote: Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I burned it on a CDROM disk. I see that it's a Debian package, and  I installed it. Now I see memtest86 on my boot choice screen, but selecting memtest86 does nothing. That's weird. It

Security question about daemon-init

2023-08-29 Thread Bhasker C V
under my homedir . Has anyone faced this problem? What is this daemon-init program and why does it want access to my home thunderbird directory ? Regards Bhasker C V

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-21 Thread Bhasker C V
For future reference There is another package mailutils which also provides /usr/bin/mail. This is working fine with selinux in enforcing mode. This is a good alternative On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > Thanks Nicholas > However, it doesnt to my knowledge looks l

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:58 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 9:20 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > >> Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system >> Pretty much everything is working except >> >> ``` >> $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@y

mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system Pretty much everything is working except ``` $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found in headers Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 ``` howe

Re: Nvidia 390 driver no longer available for Bookworm; nouveau constantly freezes. Solutions?

2023-08-17 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 17.08.2023 20:48, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: Hello, all, (Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) I have (according do lspci) a NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1) graphics card. The correct proprietary driver for this card seems to be the

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

2023-08-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.08.2023 04:06, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: Hi folks. Fresh Bookworm install on Dell M4800 Precision with i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz and NVIDIA Quadro K2100M graphic card. No problems install, the system works with the default nouveau driver well enough. My video card is supported according to

Re: Oddity when accessing Courier IMAP from Android

2023-08-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 11.08.2023 19:09, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I am running a Courier IMAP server on Bookworm. When accessing from mutt, Thunderbird, and Android (GMail app), everything works fine. This is over SSL, with a server certificate I have issued from my own CA and with the CA root cert distributed to

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 07.07.2023 01:23, hlyg wrote: it seems natural to me to use deb12 for debian 12 deb for debian as in file name extension of package it follows Windows naming style: win7, win8 ... but others don't think so, i google with deb12, few means debian in past 20 years few call it debN (N=1,2,3...

Re: cannot install odcb mariadb in bookworm

2023-07-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 06.07.2023 03:09, John Covici wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:47:39 -0400, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: ... It's also a mystery why OP is trying to install "everything odbc", I doubt they need a driver for MSSQL along side with drivers for MariaDB and Postgres. So I'm on

Re: cannot install odcb mariadb in bookworm

2023-07-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 06.07.2023 00:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 12:07:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: I'm asking because package names you trying to install have prefixes like "0-...", "1-...", etc. Are you following some tutorial, or you've manuall

Re: cannot install odcb mariadb in bookworm

2023-07-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 05.07.2023 23:23, John Covici wrote: On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:16:33 -0400, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [1 ] On 30.06.2023 03:11, John Covici wrote: Hi. I am trying to install odcb-mariadb in bookworm. It was fine in bullseye, but in bookworm I get the following error: Unpacking odbc

Re: Raid Array and Changing Motherboard

2023-07-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.07.2023 22:23, Mick Ab wrote: I have a software RAID 1 array of two hard drives. Each of the two disks contains the Debian operating system and user data. I am thinking of changing the motherboard because of problems that might be connected to the current motherboard. The new motherboa

Re: cannot install odcb mariadb in bookworm

2023-07-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.07.2023 18:44, John Covici wrote: OK, thanks much --what do I add to my sources list for the proposed updates? Do I need all the lines ending with main free etc. or just one line? It is up to you. If you need to solve the "odbc mariadb" problem, I think selecting just "main" will be enou

Re: cannot install odcb mariadb in bookworm

2023-07-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 30.06.2023 03:11, John Covici wrote: Hi. I am trying to install odcb-mariadb in bookworm. It was fine in bullseye, but in bookworm I get the following error: Unpacking odbc-mariadb (3.1.15-3) over (3.1.15-3) ... Setting up odbc-mariadb (3.1.15-3) ... odbcinst: SQLInstallDriverEx failed with

debchange still wants to build for bullseye-backports after upgrade to Bookworm

2023-06-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Hello. I've successfully upgraded to Bookworm recently and trying to build a backport package. But the usual "$ debchange --bpo" still wants to build for "bullseye-backports" and modifies "debian/changelog" by adding "~bpo11+1" and "bullseye-backports;" instead of expected "~bpo12+1" and "boo

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

2023-06-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.06.2023 23:19, Van Snyder wrote: unzip v 6.0 (the version delivered with Debian 10) doesn't work with files bigger than 2^32 bytes. Is there an alternative program to do it? "7zip" is the best. It supports multiple formats and cross-platform. -- With kindest reg

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.05.2023 22:43, Charles Curley wrote: I recently upgraded from an iPhone 8 to a 14. All of my various WiFi capable computers worked great with the iPhone 8's Personal Hotspot. However, the new iPhone does not appear to like Bullseye. Two computers show the same symptoms: the iPhone does not

Re: How to download source package using only console?

2023-05-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.05.2023 15:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-05-15 10:25:45 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: I see. That explains why I can request source package "golang-github-xenolf-lego/testing" directly and get the right one. So, in my case, I won't be able to reliably get a so

Re: How to download source package using only console?

2023-05-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.05.2023 05:43, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-05-14 14:17:05 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [...] I think you haven't noticed that I requested for "4.9.1-1" version from "testing" specifically, You can't. You can either request some given version, e.

Re: How to download source package using only console?

2023-05-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.05.2023 10:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-05-14 00:15:39 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Hello, fellow Debian users. When I need to build a backport of a package, I sometimes find it difficult to obtain actual source package(-s) from Debian repos using console. Following advice

How to download source package using only console?

2023-05-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
Hello, fellow Debian users. When I need to build a backport of a package, I sometimes find it difficult to obtain actual source package(-s) from Debian repos using console. Following advice from a wiki page [1], after "apt update", doesn't do it: $ apt source lego/testing Reading packag

Re: What do all those "* * *" mean on a traceroute log?

2023-04-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.04.2023 00:00, Albretch Mueller wrote: Yes, but should it happen on every hop? In my case it happens while I am trying to reach every site and from wherever I have the chance to get some relatively decent Internet access? There is a chance your trace packets were filtered (rate-limited),

Re: Pinning not working?!

2023-04-03 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.04.2023 00:12, Thomas Schweikle wrote: does not seen to work at all, since the 4.1-2 package has priority 500 but if pinning would work it should have 1000. What is wrong here? It works for me.     Without pinning: $ apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-driver:   Installed: 470.161.03-1

Re: bendel.debian.org untrusted certificate

2023-03-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.03.2023 09:55, jeremy ardley wrote: Back on topic I have solved getting letsencrypt certificates accepted by postfix , but not certificates generated by Debian SMTP CA Received: from edge.bronzemail.com (2403-5800-c000-1b7-f3d4-d970-ca28-bf4f.ip6.aussiebb.net [IPv6:2403:5800:c000:1b7:

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