Re: Debian 12: /etc/updatedb.conf and it's man page are missing

2025-04-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM GMT, Roger Price wrote: I removed my /etc/updatedb.conf, uninstalled package locate, installed package plocate, and ran updatedb as root. The command locate is now defined as /usr/bin/locate -> /etc/alternatives/locate* -> /usr/bin/plocate* I didn´t need to mo

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-30 Thread Loris Bennett
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:03:48AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus >> accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems >> to have become stuck at 12.7. >> >> I h

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-20 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/19/25 à 15:50, Richard Owlett a écrit : A quick DuckDuckGo search of https://www.emacswiki.org didn't find it. I changed the search parameters a bit: javascript org-mode folding First google hit: https://orgmode.org/manual/JavaScript-support.html First link in that page: https://orgmode.or

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/19/25 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn't take

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn't take any notes about it... Best, -- yassine -- s

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/03/2025 14:11, Loris Bennett wrote: Max Nikulin writes: apt policy [...] My sources.list was correct, but 'apt update/upgrade' failed to install anything, so I assume Andrew is correct in pointing the finger at some sort of caching issue which removing /var/lib/apt/lists/* resolved.

Re: Debian 12: /etc/updatedb.conf and it's man page are missing

2025-03-18 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Charles Curley wrote: > charles@hawk:~$ apt show plocate > Package: plocate ... > Replaces: mlocate (<< 1.1.7) ... > Description: much faster locate I removed my /etc/updatedb.conf, uninstalled package locate, installed package plocate, and ran updatedb as root. The command

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-18 Thread Loris Bennett
Xiyue Deng writes: > "Loris Bennett" writes: > >> Dan Ritter writes: >> >>> Loris Bennett wrote: Hi, I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems to have become stuck at

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-18 Thread Loris Bennett
Max Nikulin writes: > On 18/03/2025 02:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> As ever with apt problems, it's really useful if you can copy you >> *actual* /etc/apt/sources.list file to the mailing list. > > Output of > > apt policy > > while being more "noisy", is a more reliable source for > troub

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/03/2025 02:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As ever with apt problems, it's really useful if you can copy you *actual* /etc/apt/sources.list file to the mailing list. Output of apt policy while being more "noisy", is a more reliable source for troubleshooting. The first step is to chec

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-17 Thread Xiyue Deng
"Loris Bennett" writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> Loris Bennett wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus >>> accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems >>> to have become stuck at 12.7. >>> >>> I have a second

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:03:48AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus > accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems > to have become stuck at 12.7. > > I have a second machine on which I install

Re: Debian 12: /etc/updatedb.conf and it's man page are missing

2025-03-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:51:33 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > Debian 12 doesn´t include the /etc/updatedb.conf file. charles@hawk:~$ apt-file search updatedb.conf plocate: /etc/updatedb.conf plocate: /usr/share/man/man5/updatedb.conf.5.gz charles@hawk:~$ cat /etc/debian_version

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-17 Thread Loris Bennett
Dan Ritter writes: > Loris Bennett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus >> accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems >> to have become stuck at 12.7. >> >> I have a second machine on which I installed a fresh

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

2025-03-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which I have updated since Wheezy in 2013 and has thus > accumulated a bit of cruft. It is currently running Bookworm but seems > to have become stuck at 12.7. > > I have a second machine on which I installed a fresh Bookworm a few > weeks ago. T

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

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-05 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2025, 18:53:07 CET schrieb Matthias Böttcher: > Hi Hans, > > maybe this caused your problem: > Nov 06, 2024 > Commit 30d39f81 "lb config: --distribution defaults to testing" > https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/commit/30d39f812e41eb81928a0 > fe1f3a4f686eb30dfa

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-05 Thread Matthias Böttcher
Hi Hans, maybe this caused your problem: Nov 06, 2024 Commit 30d39f81 "lb config: --distribution defaults to testing" https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/commit/30d39f812e41eb81928a0fe1f3a4f686eb30dfa9 Bye Matthias

[SOLVED] Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-05 Thread Hans
I believe, the problem is been caused by wrong informations in /var/lib/dpkg/info from the native installed debian/stable, where I qant to build it. ALL *.postinst files are pointing to trixie and not to bookworm (although, the installed packages are all from bookworm). So, with the view on t

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-04 Thread Matthias Böttcher
Hi Hans, which version of lb are you using? I am using the version from the Debian package live-build from "bookworm": $ lb --version 20230502 The first thing I learned with that version from "bookworm" was that I had to set all config directives regarding the distribution to "bookworm" bec

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 22:24:57 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So, I rechecked. > > After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what > did I find? > > A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly > "*.postinst" files. > > Where are they comin

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Hans
So, I rechecked. After purging everything and building again, I checked the chroot. And what did I find? A lot of entries with "trixie" in */chroot/var/lib/dpkg/info which are mostly "*.postinst" files. Where are they coming from? These are all from installed packages, but all packages shoul

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 3. März 2025, 19:05:19 CET schrieben Sie: Hi Matthias, > Am Mo., 3. März 2025 um 13:32 Uhr schrieb Hans : > > At first my advice: please try debian-l...@lists.debian.org > done! > My way to build debian live is not with git but according to > > https://live-team.pages.debian.net/li

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 09:40:35 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM Hans wrote: > > > > I believe, that one of the following packages needs the missing > > package. Please see the last output (sorry, it is bit longer): > > Something looks a bit off: > > $ apt-cache r

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Matthias Böttcher
Am Mo., 3. März 2025 um 13:32 Uhr schrieb Hans : At first my advice: please try debian-l...@lists.debian.org My way to build debian live is not with git but according to https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/index.en.html Usually I start with "sudo lb clean" and then

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM Hans wrote: > > I believe, that one of the following packages needs the missing package. > Please see the last output (sorry, it is bit longer): Something looks a bit off: $ apt-cache rdepends grub-efi-amd64-unsigned E: No packages found > __

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Hans
So, tried agian without the */packages-lists/mylist.list.chroot and without any added packages at */packages.chroot = same issue again. This excludes the cause by any changes from me or by any added packages. It is proven, the issue is in the live-build environment itself. Hans

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Hans
Good idea, Matthias, so I rechecked. There are only two packages in packages.chroot in the last build I sent the output from. These were "kali-undercover_2023" and "rustdesk-1.3.7". In both I checked the "control" file, but none of them pointed to or named "grub-efi-amd64-*". But to clear thi

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Matthias Böttcher
On 2025-03-03 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > > The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary > > package > > could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named > > "grub-efi-amd64- > > unsigned". > > That suggests t

Re: Debian-live can not be build missing package

2025-03-03 Thread Hans
Hello again, I believe, that one of the following packages needs the missing package. Please see the last output (sorry, it is bit longer): Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: dmsetu

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 20:32:24 (+0100), Hans wrote: > The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary > package > could not be downloaded. And the necessary package was named "grub-efi-amd64- > unsigned". That suggests to me (with no experience of this) that its a script

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread Hans
Hi David, yes, that is, what I meant. But now, I am a litle bit lsot. How shall I get, which package depends grub- efi-amd64-unsigned? I thought, you might know. The only thing I got, was the message from "lb build", that a ncessary package could not be downloaded. And the necessary package wa

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread David Wright
On Sun 02 Mar 2025 at 17:44:37 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So my idea was just to write to the live-file-maintainers, to ask them, to > remove the dependency of the missing package in theire configurations or > point > it to another package, i.E. grub-efi-amd64-signed. Presumably you meant "remove

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 2. März 2025, 13:37:20 CET schrieb Matthias Böttcher: > PS. > > Hans, maybe you put another package from trixie/testing into > packages.chroot, which depends directly or indirectly on > grub-efi-amd64-unsigned? > Hi Mathias, I already had this idea, too, but putting it from testing w

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread Matthias Böttcher
Sorry for my bad grammar: Maybe you *had* put another package from trixie/testing into packages.chroot? PS. > > Hans, maybe you put another package from trixie/testing into > packages.chroot, which depends directly or indirectly on > grub-efi-amd64-unsigned? > > Possible packages in testing/trixie

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread Matthias Böttcher
PS. Hans, maybe you put another package from trixie/testing into packages.chroot, which depends directly or indirectly on grub-efi-amd64-unsigned? Possible packages in testing/trixie main are: - grub-efi-amd64-bin depends on grub-efi-amd64-unsigned - grub-efi-amd64 depends on grub-efi-amd64-bin -

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-03-02 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-28 21:28 (UTC+0100): > So, modesetting is the real thing? Since about a decade or so ago. It originally was provided as a separate packge, but was moved into the Xorg server .deb as a default for all GPUs for which an appropriate kernel module exists, mainly radeon

Re: Debian-Live can not be build - missing package

2025-03-02 Thread Matthias Böttcher
> Dear maintainers, > > it is no more possible to build debian-live/stable (bookworm). The reason is a > missing package in bookworm: grub-efi-amd64-unsigned. > > I rechecked and yes, it is no more in bookworm. Hi Hans, I'm sorry, but here are debian users, not maintainers. And grub-efi-amd64-un

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-28 Thread Chris Jölly
On 2/24/25 22:25, Felix Miata wrote: Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-24 21:52 (UTC+0100): modestting is the X display driver required by either the in use Intel 530 GPU or the inactive NVidia GPU. Ok, so modesetting is the X display driver, not how I expected the intel or nouveau driver, righ

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM GMT, Greg wrote: On 2025-02-27, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or did I dream that? The le

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-27, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: >> Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver >> resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or >> did I dream that? > > The lead of the Asahi project (providing sup

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM GMT, Greg wrote: Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or did I dream that? The lead of the Asahi project (providing support for Apple-silicon Macs) recently resigned. Perh

Re: Debian Trixie update, possible bug:

2025-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 20:41 +1300, Lee Hinkleman wrote: > Hi debian-user: > Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Lee > > > " > DDependency resolution failed: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: > Breaks: lib

Re: Debian latest AMI publish in AWS Malaysia region ap-southeast-5

2025-02-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 04:28:22AM +, Han, Yuguang wrote: > Hi: > > Hope this email find you well. > > This is an AWS user. Here my customer wants to use Debian12 latest AMI in AWS > Malaysia region ap-southeast-5. But didn’t see it in the marketplace support > list. > > https://aws.amazon

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> Shouldnt one of intel or nouveau drivers get loaded? > > No, because it's using modeset (for the Intel device at least). > Did I read somewhere that the maintainer of the nouveau driver resigned due to the toxic atmosphere among the kernel developers, or d

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Jölly composed on 2025-02-24 21:52 (UTC+0100): > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P50, which has the following setup: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 i915 is the kernel module (hardware driver) required by your Intel 530

Re: Debian Trixie: xorg with fb instead of intel or nouveau driver

2025-02-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:52:43 +0100, Chris Jölly wrote: > chris@laptop:~$ inxi -Gaz --za > Graphics: >   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel >     arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1 >     empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-21, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM GMT, Greg wrote: >> If you had to pick a man page to be inscrutable, this wouldn't be the >> one. > > I mean, for me, it is: don't tell me worse ones. I don't think I want to > see them… > It is? How odd. I've never used it

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread jeremy ardley
On 22/2/25 06:49, Tom Dial wrote: On 2/20/25 22:17, jeremy ardley wrote: On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an in

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/20/25 22:17, jeremy ardley wrote: On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive root shell and avoid prepe

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM GMT, Greg wrote: If you had to pick a man page to be inscrutable, this wouldn't be the one. I mean, for me, it is: don't tell me worse ones. I don't think I want to see them… -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.o

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM Greg wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, wrote: > > > >> > The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages > >> > for sudo and sudoers > > >> In principle I agree with this advice but the sudoers manpage is > >> notoriously, famously inscrutable. > >

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-21, wrote: > >> > The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages >> > for sudo and sudoers >> In principle I agree with this advice but the sudoers manpage is >> notoriously, famously inscrutable. > > Start with the EXAMPLES section. Work from there. It'll com

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:12:49AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM GMT, Tom Dial wrote: > > The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages > > for sudo and sudoers > > In principle I agree with this advice but the sudoers manpage is > notori

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM GMT, Tom Dial wrote: The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages for sudo and sudoers In principle I agree with this advice but the sudoers manpage is notoriously, famously inscrutable. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread jeremy ardley
On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive root shell and avoid prepending every command with "sudo." L

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread jeremy ardley
On 21/2/25 09:40, Tom Dial wrote: The TL;DR here is that for maintaining personal workstations and servers it makes more sense to log in as root, do the work as required, then log out. Or there is "sudo -i" to get an interactive root shell and avoid prepending every command with "sudo." A

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-02-20): > >and members of sudo can run any command. > > Is it because of this last line: > > > rootALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > > sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > # User privilege specification rootALL=

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Lee
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I have a fresh Debian 12.9 install. My user account is part of sudo > group, and members of sudo can run any command. No... the "sudo" user can run any command: > sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL I have %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL)

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Tom Dial
The straight, but blunt, answer here, I think, is to read the man pages for sudo and sudoers (i.e., the /etc/suduoers file that does access control for the sudo command. The command is very flexible and can be tuned to allow specified sudoers to use elevated privilege only to execute specific c

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Xiyue Deng
Jeffrey Walton writes: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a fresh Debian 12.9 install. My user account is part of sudo > group, and members of sudo can run any command. However, I get an > error when trying to use sudo: > > $ sudo ls > [sudo] password for jwalton: > jwalton is not in the sudoe

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-02-20): > >and members of sudo can run any command. > > Is it because of this last line: > > > rootALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > > sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > ? But does it mean the previous one gives

Re: Debian 12.9 and use of sudo for regular accounts

2025-02-20 Thread Nicolas George
Jeffrey Walton (HE12025-02-20): >and members of sudo can run any command. Is it because of this last line: > rootALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > sudoALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL ? But does it mean the previous one gives sudo privileges to all members of the root group? Or is it that the last

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: Debian download

2025-02-11 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 11-02-2025 at 13:20 Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it I usually take "newbie" to mean "I am new to Debian", so I would ask did you know the current production of Debian was Bookworm.? I was curious why yo

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM Peter Barnes wrote: > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you to > give me

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:20:13 +1100 Peter Barnes wrote: > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and > when I go to install nothing happens. Do you want to do a brand new installation, wiping your

Re: Debian download

2025-02-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Peter Barnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Newbie here. I have a DVD Debian 11.6 Bullseye 64bit and installed it > successfully on my PC. I have downloaded later versions of Debian and when I > go to install nothing happens. Am I missing a step? Is it possible for you > to give me step by step instru

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > > > Description: > > > >

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > Description: > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > f

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:55:56 (+0900), Mailing List wrote: > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > Description: > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > fai

Re: Debian 12 and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with X870-E chipset kernel support

2025-01-31 Thread Šarūnas Burdulis
On 1/21/25 23:23, Johannes Krottmayer wrote: Hi! I have planned to upgrade my (very old) system. The new system will be a mainboard with X870-E chipset and a AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (the CPU isn't currently available), so have written AMD Ryzen 9 9950X in the mail subject. Has somebody such a combi

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-30 Thread 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 have in /usr/share/binfmts ?

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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 have in /usr/share/binfmts ? -- Please do not CC me for listmail

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread songbird
Cindy Sue Causey wrote: ... > In my case these days, I have two things I would do to take a poke at > this in hopes something obvious presents itself: > > $ apt-cache policy openjdk-9 > > I might even try the much busier "apt-cache policy openjdk-*" to see if > anything else is lingering. My setup

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/01/2025 17:52, songbird wrote: update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already installed by openjdk-9 Likely it is related to running of .jar files without explicit java command. In a similar way wine may install a handler for .exe files in addition to

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
ra...@siliconet.pl wrote: > >On 29.01.2025 4:16 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> Yes, it still means that. The minizip binary package you are seeing >> comes from a different source package, also called minizip: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/minizip > >Aha! Got it :-) > >And th

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-01-29 at 12:10 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:52:34 -0500 > songbird wrote: > > Hello songbird, > > > warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already > > installed by openjdk-9 > > I've seen similar messages.  Certainly about openjdk, maybe oth

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 4:16 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Yes, it still means that. The minizip binary package you are seeing comes from a different source package, also called minizip: https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/minizip Aha! Got it :-) And there are no binary components in Debian b

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 04:15:16PM +0100, Rafał Lichwała wrote: > >But still don;t understand "Debian itself does *not* build the affected >component" as I can find "minizip" (and maybe other) package based on that >vulnerable library - see my previous post above as Re- to Hanno. > Yo

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 04:04:26PM +0100, Rafał Lichwała wrote: > > On 29.01.2025 3:35 PM, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: > > > The notes say: > > > [bookworm] - zlib (contrib/minizip not built and src:zlib not > > > producing binary packages) > > > In other words, there's no point in fixing it bec

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 3:30 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 03:22:02PM +0100, Rafał Lichwała wrote: On 29.01.2025 2:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: CVSS are often bogus. Hmmm... I'm not sure what you mean. All security announcements in DSAs are referring to CVSS, so... what's

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 3:35 PM, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: The notes say: [bookworm] - zlib (contrib/minizip not built and src:zlib not producing binary packages) In other words, there's no point in fixing it because Debian doesn't build the vulnerable binary component. Very low priority. so, this

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 03:22:02PM +0100, Rafał Lichwała wrote: >On 29.01.2025 2:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > CVSS are often bogus. > > Hmmm... I'm not sure what you mean. All security announcements in DSAs are > referring to CVSS, so... what's the source of such opinion? > > > Most rec

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Most recently: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/ I was going to post a link to this very article when I saw that you already had :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 2:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: CVSS are often bogus. Hmmm... I'm not sure what you mean. All security announcements in DSAs are referring to CVSS, so... what's the source of such opinion? Most recently:https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/ Yeah, another blog and

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 2:39 PM, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: How does your "automatically scanned for possible vulnerabilites" actually work? I don't know, but it does not matter in that context. It does matter because you have to interpret the output of your scanner and understand it. Well, not really

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Rafał Lichwała wrote: > > On 29.01.2025 2:12 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > The notes say: > > > > [bookworm] - zlib (contrib/minizip not built and src:zlib not > > producing binary packages) > > > > In other words, there's no point in fixing it because Debian > > doesn't build the vulnerable bina

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

2025-01-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:52:34 -0500 songbird wrote: Hello songbird, >warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already >installed by openjdk-9 I've seen similar messages. Certainly about openjdk, maybe others, I can't recall. As everything seems to be working as expected, I don

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 1:57 PM, David wrote: How does your "automatically scanned for possible vulnerabilites" actually work? I don't know, but it does not matter in that context. The fact is, that the result of this "magic scan" properly found and points out the real critical security vulnerabilitie

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On 29.01.2025 2:12 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: The notes say: [bookworm] - zlib (contrib/minizip not built and src:zlib not producing binary packages) In other words, there's no point in fixing it because Debian doesn't build the vulnerable binary component. Very low priority. Could you please

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Rafał Lichwała wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared some docker image based on Debian 12 (bookworm, fully updated) > and after upload it to local registry it has been automatically scanned for > possible vulnerabilities. > Then I was really surprised when discovered that according to this scan > there

Re: Debian 12 security issue - please help to understand

2025-01-29 Thread David
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 12:40, Rafał Lichwała wrote: > I've prepared some docker image based on Debian 12 (bookworm, fully > updated) and after upload it to local registry it has been automatically > scanned for possible vulnerabilities. > Then I was really surprised when discovered that according

[SOLVED] Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-26 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> OK. My crontab has this: > >> > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > >> At the minute, no sound. I tried > >> id=$(id -u) > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> and > >> id=1000 > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> > >> and no dice. I tried

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-26 Thread George at Clug
On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 21:29 Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:50:23 +1100 > George at Clug wrote: > > On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 18:29 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > That is why I would check what is recommended for > > > RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu. RedHat and Canonical certainly hav

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-26 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:50:23 +1100 George at Clug wrote: > On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 18:29 Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > That is why I would check what is recommended for > > RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu. RedHat and Canonical certainly have customers > > who need access to VM desktops. > > I would expec

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-26 Thread George at Clug
On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 18:29 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/01/2025 12:31, George at Clug wrote: > > > > Today I changed my KDE host and guest VM to both use X11 and not Wayland. > [...] > > Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest did not work, in either > > direction. Very disappointing. >

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/01/2025 12:31, George at Clug wrote: Today I changed my KDE host and guest VM to both use X11 and not Wayland. [...] Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest did not work, in either direction. Very disappointing. We are going to hijack Rafał's Wayland topic for the *X11* case. Debian

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-25 Thread George at Clug
Max, Today I changed my KDE host and guest VM to both use X11 and not Wayland. (spice-vdagent is installed in VM) Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest did not work, in either direction. Very disappointing. XFCE supports Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest. I should give Cinnam

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