Re: problem with debian 12.11 and session control...

2025-05-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > Hello folks ^^) > > > I've a little problem that's bugging me : each time I reboot my machine > I have all sort of stuff that open open (multiple Dolphin, firefox, etc...) > > but all this was close

problem with debian 12.11 and session control...

2025-05-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks ^^) I've a little problem that's bugging me : each time I reboot my machine I have all sort of stuff that open open (multiple Dolphin, firefox, etc...) but all this was closed thoroughly before reboot, and the '.config/session/' folder completely emptied.

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

2025-05-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 09:38:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Bernard wrote: > > Hi to Everyone, > > > > This being done, I first thought that I could possibly succeed in just > > upgrading my Buster system to its last update, which I did, successfull

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

2025-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > This being done, I first thought that I could possibly succeed in just > upgrading my Buster system to its last update, which I did, successfully… > unfortunately this did not change the faulty behaviour of vlc. > > No

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

2025-05-13 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, Thanks to your help, especially that of David and Anssi, I have solved my problem. VLC now plays mp4 files as it did before, with only minor changes. To that end, I removed the files in /usr/local/lib, I removed libva-custom.conf. Then I ran ldconfig… and, right after this

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-11 Thread David Wright
gt; > /var/log/agentdvr_setup.log > > dated april 10. 'agentdvr' checked my system and found that my libva > version was too old : 2.10 when 2.21+ was required. It proposed to > upgrade to 2.22 and I replied 'Y'. Agentdvr installed it with a long > list of require

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-08 Thread Bernard
It proposed to upgrade to 2.22 and I replied 'Y'. Agentdvr installed it with a long list of required dependencies listed in the log file. I tried to attach the file, but then the sending failed. Do you think that a apt-get update could solve the problem ? If not, I may try an apt-get di

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Bernard writes: > which reminds me that, in the installation process of ‘ISPY/AgentDVR’ > packages, Video Acceleration was mentioned as a compulsory step, with > a warning that it could eventually affect some other applications ; I > had replied ‘Y’, because I thought it was easily reversible. >

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > possible that the Debian versions of the libraries are in pla

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-01 Thread Bernard
On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly possible that the Debian versions of the libraries are in place already: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6 2020 /usr/

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult > > to see whether anything had changed. > > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it > > makes sure that any data you col

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-30 Thread Bernard
On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: Bernard wrote: And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult to see whether anything had changed. Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it makes sure that any data you collect is as ambiguous as possible. So, I just test

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-29 Thread David Wright
ome unusual symlinks, or some use of configuration data that I'm not familiar with. > As I found soon after, the changes shown in ls -ult are solely due to > the re-install of the VLC package… any more call to > > vlc myfile.mp4 > > no longermodify the results of > > usr

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-29 Thread Bernard
On 22/04/2025 21:33, David Wright wrote: On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote: On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before taking further actions. Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated

Re: EeePC 1001P boot problem

2025-04-26 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM Russ Puskarcik wrote: > Hi, > I have an ASUS 1001P with Rev 1202 BIOS. It does not recognize the hard > drives boot sector. Apparently ASUS was aware of this and created a > Boot-Tool for Linux that runs on Windows. I can't get that thing to work on > XP or Windows

Re: EeePC 1001P boot problem

2025-04-26 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM Russ Puskarcik > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have an ASUS 1001P with Rev 1202 BIOS. It does not recognize the hard >> drives boot sector. Apparently ASUS was aware of thi

Re: EeePC 1001P boot problem

2025-04-26 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 26. April 2025, 05:02:02 CEST schrieb Russ Puskarcik: > Hi, > I have an ASUS 1001P with Rev 1202 BIOS. It does not recognize the hard > drives boot sector. Apparently ASUS was aware of this and created a > Boot-Tool for Linux that runs on Windows. I can't get that thing to work on > XP

EeePC 1001P boot problem

2025-04-25 Thread Russ Puskarcik
Hi, I have an ASUS 1001P with Rev 1202 BIOS. It does not recognize the hard drives boot sector. Apparently ASUS was aware of this and created a Boot-Tool for Linux that runs on Windows. I can't get that thing to work on XP or Windows 7. It asks for a bootable CD ROM, but when I provide one, nothing

Re: R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-25 Thread Frank Guthausen
which is supposed to be on the softraid harddisk later. You need at least a minimal system via debootstrap to chroot into and use this command within the chroot environment, after mdadm installation inside the chroot. > sudo update-initramfs -u (problem: "I: > update-initramfs is disa

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Thanks! Debian 12 only. So... mdadm! CPA Da: Dan Ritter Inviato: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 16:29 A: Pier Antonio Corradini Cc: Debian Users Oggetto: Re: R: R: R: Grub problem Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configu

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
lv_root, 50 GB) sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/myvg/lv_root (made filesystem on lv_root) sudo mkdir /mnt/root sudo mount /dev/myvg/lv_root /mnt/root (so lv_root is mounted) sudo mdadm --detail --scan | sudo tee -a /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf (mdadm configuration) sudo update-initramfs -u (problem: "I: update-initram

R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
wswanger Inviato: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 01:35 A: debian-user@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: R: Grub problem On 4/23/25 18:07, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > I tried everything: the BIOS does not see any hard disk (single or in > pair with its own twin) if you do not first configure, in

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:24:14 + Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > This RAID is a RAID > “firmware” (aka “fakeraid”). It seems better mdadm (array: /dev/mdX) > instead of dmraid (with the activation by dmraid -ay; array: > /dev/mapper) but does legacy BIOS "impose" the use of dmraid? If you don

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione > A.09.04151432R. > Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( > https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server > chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). > This RAID is

R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
to: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 14:14 A: Pier Antonio Corradini Cc: Titus Newswanger; debian-user@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: R: R: Grub problem Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7

Re: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf (see page 59). This document is too generic; it does not tell us the most important part: which chipset family is in use. LSI's 2

Re: R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 4/23/25 18:07, Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: I tried everything: the BIOS does not see any hard disk (single or in pair with its own twin) if you do not first configure, in the LSI environment, either a RAID 0 So it is some kind of LSI RAID card. What Brand? model? Some of that info shou

R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Antonio Corradini Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: Grub problem So, is this md raid1, or true hardware RAID-1? If it's md raid1: MBR system - boot block should be installed to both drives, remainder is installed to the /boot filesystem (or / if there's no /boot filesy

Re: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Michael Paoli
n 12 does not install GRUB on a RAID 1 array of my computer: I don't > know if this problem is caused by a hardware failure or by my inexperience so > I ask if there is a reference guide for this case. Thanks. > > > C.P.A.

R: Grub problem

2025-04-23 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
BIOS, legacy (it's a Phoenix Bios of 2011 that takes info form an LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility: Embedded MegaRAID SATA User's Guide<https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf> ). Initially Debian 12 was installed without any problem and without RAID

Grub problem

2025-04-22 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Hello everyone, Debian 12 does not install GRUB on a RAID 1 array of my computer: I don't know if this problem is caused by a hardware failure or by my inexperience so I ask if there is a reference guide for this case. Thanks. C.P.A.

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:48:01 +0200 Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated > it, even though I thought I had

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated > it, even though I thought I had

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-22 Thread Bernard
On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before taking further actions. Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated it, even though I thought I had # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.6.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
es), and "dist-upgrade" or "full-upgrade" (can upgrade or remove packages, and change suite: Debian 11→12). > I just posted a new message saying that I saw messages from a number > of people having lost the use of H264 right after an update of their > Debian 11... and that

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread Bernard
as nothing... I just posted a new message saying that I saw messages from a number of people having lost the use of H264 right after an update of their Debian 11... and that I found that my late install of ISPY/AgentDVR had carried an update... Still, I haven't solved my problem. On 1

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:44:30 +0200 Bernard wrote: Hello Bernard, >One of these complainers got a reply, advising to install/re-install >libavcodec58… which seems to have solved his problem. I tested the same I had a similar problem with Pale Moon no longer playing videos. Re-inst

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread Bernard
, right after an update of their system ! One of these complainers got a reply, advising to install/re-install libavcodec58… which seems to have solved his problem. I tested the same thing here, to no avail. There may be some other codecs that I should install/re-install… but I don’t know which

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-21 Thread Bernard
On 19/04/2025 10:39, David wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: You could run a command like: $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. If that command produces any output, th

Re: Tribel problem?

2025-04-20 Thread songbird
Maureen Thomas wrote: > Sorry for this but I have not been able to get to Tribel. > > I am using Debian 12, fully updated, on Firefox updated, It just keeps > running like it would to start to app but it just keeps doing it.  I am > at a loss.  I checked my internet speed and conection, I closed

Tribel problem?

2025-04-20 Thread Maureen Thomas
Sorry for this but I have not been able to get to Tribel. I am using Debian 12, fully updated, on Firefox updated, It just keeps running like it would to start to app but it just keeps doing it.  I am at a loss.  I checked my internet speed and conection, I closed and restarted Firefox but I c

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/04/2025 15:39, David wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: You could run a command like: $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. Doesn't this pattern match "oldstable'? M

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-19 Thread David
On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: > You could run a command like: > > $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" > > to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. If that command produces any output, then adding a custom format argume

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread David Wright
U for" "video encoding/decoding, which can significantly improve" "performance and reduce CPU usage." "Warning: this may cause issues with other software running on your system." > « Your system (or such or such component…) is too slow. Would you > accept to i

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The ispy software is something well known, which is available for >> Windows, Mac and Linux. It drives several well known "spy cameras", >> that is, cameras that spy anything unusual in your garden when there >> is no-one at home. If you google search "ispy", you get several pages >> of answers

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread debian-user
>> in case this "ISPY" has broken something in your codec > >> installation. > >may also need to purge it. > As previously said, I already did de-install and purge vlc, then > re-install... in the end, the problem remained : same as before. I >

Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Bernard
, as far as I can remember : « Your system (or such or such component…) is too slow. Would you accept to increase this or that… ? It won’t pose problem to your system, but it might affect some components... (Y/N) » I then replied « Y », in the reasoning that I could, in case of problem

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Bernard
" has broken something in your codec installation. may also need to purge it. As previously said, I already did de-install and purge vlc, then re-install... in the end, the problem remained : same as before. I also de-install and purge the ispy software... but I am not sure that I d

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread songbird
wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: >> Hi to Everyone ! >> >> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 >> >> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their >> audio part : >> >> « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > > ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only plays their > audio part : > > « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format « h264 » (H264 > - MPEG-

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-12 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Christoph Pleger wrote: > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > only gives a meaningless message “The print file cannot be opened: > Permission denied") and then found out the following:

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-12 Thread songbird
Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with CUPS and hope that someone can help me > with the solution. ... > Does anyone have an idea why the strangely named process runs with root > rights on one machine, but not on the other? this is my guess...

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:16:17 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > > only gives a

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Christoph Pleger
> So, to add to the list of things that you can check: > > * Broken permissions (added or missing setuid or setgid) on any of >the CUPS binaries. > > * Invalid UID or GID of a named system account under which any of these >programs is executed, or a missing system account entry. A comp

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:41:04 +0200, Hans wrote: > Without any checks, my first thing would be, to check in both computers if > any > of the executables related to cups might have different rights settings. > > Especially the executable, which creates the file in /tmp. A file which is > crea

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Hans
Without any checks, my first thing would be, to check in both computers if any of the executables related to cups might have different rights settings. Especially the executable, which creates the file in /tmp. A file which is created mostly gets the ownership and posessions of the creatorbinary

Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have a strange problem with CUPS and hope that someone can help me with the solution. "Strange", in this case, means that I have two machines, both running Debian 12 and the corresponding versions of cups and cups-browsed. On one of these machines, I can print as any user, wh

Re: Printing Problem with CUPS

2025-04-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 14:16:17 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > I have edited the source code of cups a little to get a some more > more detailed information about the problem (the actual code > only gives a meaningless message “The print file cannot be opened: > Permission denie

Re: Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thanks for the reply. I checked the permissions - they were read. Just for the heck of it I tried Restore and it worked! All is now well. On 3/16/2025 11:19 AM, Marco Moock wrote: On 16.03.2025 16:00 Uhr Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest

Re: Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Marco Moock
On 16.03.2025 16:00 Uhr Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest idea > as to what is wrong or how to fix it. There were no problems with > restoring files on the computer that I retired. > > I would really appreciate some guidance as to solutions.

Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have just installed Bookworm on my new computer and have encountered a perplexing problem. Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest idea as  to what is wrong or how to fix it. There were no problems with restoring files on the computer that I retired. I would r

Re: Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Sorry to not having replied earlier. As a result of much tearing of hair and many instances of unmitigated terror that I had just destroyed my Windows partition, I have successfully installed Debian on a 2tB SSD. Windows 11is still there and doing what it does so poorly. On 3/11/2025 11:11

Re: Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-11 Thread Eben King
On 3/11/25 10:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro 3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive. The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got

Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro 3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive. The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got to formatting the drive. I was presented wit

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Darac Marjal
, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I also have a 2TB Seagate HD plugged in for backups. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Moe [cut] Long term solution: That sounds like the traditional problem of how to partition your disks -- no matter how you do it, one partition always fills up first. [cut

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Default User
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Chris Green wrote: --- "THe systemd journal file defaults for length of time they are kept and maximum size etc. are OK[ish] for systems with lots of disk space but are far too large for smaller systems. On systems I have with limited space I modify /etc/syste

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Seagate HD plugged in for backups. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Moe Fully updated is probably the clue. If you run `sudo apt-get clean` it will empty the apt cache and you will probably find a much reduced /var usage. I did this recently for the same problem and regained several

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 23:36:34 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > David Christensen [2025-03-06 18:58:12] wrote: > > I prefer: > [...] > > # du -d 2 -m /var | sort -rn | head > > Agreed. I personally use just `du | sort -n` (I can't see the benefit > of the `-d2` and I rely on the terminal's scroll

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2025-03-06 at 21:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +, Andy Smith wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: >> >>> root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var >>> >>> root@debian:/var# du -sh* >>> >>> du: invalid option -- '*' >> >> Mis

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-07 Thread Chris Green
Eben King wrote: > > > On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote: > > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying > > that my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room > > for it. > > First, find out where the space is being used. Something like ba

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Felix Miata
Maureen Thomas composed on 2025-03-06 21:24 (UTC-0500): > There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it > safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file.  It takes up  57% of > the drive. The cache directory in /var/ normally grows with every update and upgrade, hol

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/03/2025 09:33, Maureen Thomas wrote: 141523 517216 -rw--- 2 root root 529625088 Nov 7 21:42 ./lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-42-2204_176.snap du -ms /var/lib/snapd Likely you need to move this directory to another partition.

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
Maureen Thomas [2025-03-06 20:24:36] wrote: > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that > my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room for it. Depends on all kinds of things. Questions that come to mind: - Why do you have a separate /var

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > This is what I got > > root@debian:/home/maureen# apt-get clean You didn't show us the "df" output before you did this so we don't know how much, if anything, it freed up. > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var > > root@debian

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Maureen Thomas writes: > There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is > it safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% > of the drive. Run the command sudo apt-get clean That will remove the contents of that file. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbi

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread David Christensen
HD plugged in for backups. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Moe Short term solution: # apt-get autoremove # apt-get autoclean Long term solution: That sounds like the traditional problem of how to partition your disks -- no matter how you do it, one partition always fills up first

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread David Christensen
On 3/6/25 18:33, Maureen Thomas wrote: root@debian:/var# find -size +10M -ls ... I prefer: 2025-03-06 18:55:31 root@laalaa ~/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.11 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux 2025-03-

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var > > > > root@debian:/var# du -sh* > > > > du: invalid option -- '*' > > Missing space between 'h' and '*' so the '*' was treated as a

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Maureen Thomas
This is what I got root@debian:/home/maureen# apt-get clean root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var root@debian:/var# du -sh* du: invalid option -- '*' Try 'du --help' for more information. root@debian:/var# du sh du: cannot access 'sh': No such file or directory root@debian:/var# du -sh 3.7G

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:24:20PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it safe > to get rid of the contents of the whole file.  It takes up  57% of the > drive. Do not go deleting files in /var; you don't know enough about their p

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Maureen Thomas
There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file.  It takes up  57% of the drive. On 3/6/25 9:00 PM, Eben King wrote: On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote: I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a messa

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 20:24:36 -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that > my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it.  > It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I >

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Eben King
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote: I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it. First, find out where the space is being used. Something like baobab might be useful. It might the

Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Maureen Thomas
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that my /var is almost full.  What can I safely delete to make more room for it.  It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.  I also have a 2TB Seagate HD plugged in for backups. Any help will

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
is your local mirror having the whole of Debian, > say, and the general security updates available to the world from a central > place. > > "Don't use a network mirror" == I don't want/don't have a mirror available > to pull the rest of the software f

Problem with KATE editor installed from Debian repository

2025-02-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 Synaptic reports following items installed: kate 4:22.12.3-1 kate5-data 4:22.12.3-1 ktexteditor-katepart 5:103.0-1.1 libkate1 0.4.1-11 KATE's "About Kate" identifies itself as "Version 22.12.3" All software has

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
twork disconnected. > > This succeeds and runs to completion. > > > > In each case, the install was done without selecting a network mirror. > > > > I can reproduce the problem when the network is connected. > > > > The expert install shows a little

Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-01 Thread David Wright
ge.debian.org/cdimage/archive/11.11.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-11.11.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > I made three attempts to install, as follows: > > 1. One text mode install, network connected > > 2. One text mode expert install, network connected > > 3. One text mode install, ne

Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

2025-02-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
tall, network disconnected. All of these were done in kvm/qemu with virt-manager. (That shouldn't make a difference: it's how we test point releases and it is a known quantity for me.) In each case, the install was done without selecting a network mirror. I can reproduce the problem wh

Re: /usr/share/perl5/Publican/TreeView.pm has problem in runtime

2025-01-31 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
On 1/31/25 5:57 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: Please do not post html formatted mails to the mailing list. On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 01:43:52PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Hello , When I‌ run publican version 4.3.2-4 on debian unstable, I get the following error message: ###

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 14:05:02 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >I am running Trixie. Should have made that clear before. > What I can't understand is MC would open and browse ZIP files and DEB files > but would not open PDF files. > At any rate the offending macro was in the mc.ext.ini files in

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 1:28 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found It would help if someone were to show us the offending file, though I don't quite understand why there's something that appears to be either a shell script or a perl script in /tmp. Hh

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
> > > /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found It would help if someone were to show us the offending file, though I don't quite understand why there's something that appears to be either a shell script or a perl script in /tmp. > > Hhmm, looks like it is looking for doc.s

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 11:21 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable.     Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer. I

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Hans
Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. >Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF > files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer. > > /tmp/mc-frank/mce

Re: /usr/share/perl5/Publican/TreeView.pm has problem in runtime

2025-01-31 Thread Henning Follmann
Please do not post html formatted mails to the mailing list. On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 01:43:52PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Hello , > > > When I‌ run publican version 4.3.2-4 on debian unstable, I get the following > error message: > > # > > > mohs

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
rther investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found The doc.sh file IS in /usr/lib/mc/ext.d.

mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed this morning that Midnight Commander doesn't open zip or pdf files aaymore. It appears that a variable @EXTDIRHELPER@ is not being set for some reason. The variable is used in the mc.ext.ini files. Can anyone help ? Thanks -- Frank McCormick

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