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

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

2025-01-31 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Hello , When I‌ run publican version 4.3.2-4 on debian unstable, I get the following error message: # mohsen@debian:~$ publican Attempt to call undefined import method with arguments ("abs2rel") via p

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-30 Thread George at Clug
t turns off. > > > > > > You might try to disable hardware acceleration in the browser to see > > > if it a Firefox problem: > > > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration#w_turning-off-hardware-acceleration>. &g

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
; > updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point > > > that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds > > > before it turns off. > > > > You might try to disable hardware acceleration in the browser to see >

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-30 Thread George at Clug
gt; updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point > > > that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds > > > before it turns off. > > > > You might try to disable hardware acceleration in the browser to see > &

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-30 Thread Lee
> > that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds > > before it turns off. > > You might try to disable hardware acceleration in the browser to see > if it a Firefox problem: > <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drive

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-29 Thread David Christensen
s a known good result, but requires that I backup regularly (or know how to recover the needed files from the problem disk). In the past, I did this more times than I can count. 2b. Backup the data and configuration settings, restore the last known good image, update, and restore the data

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
ds before it > turns off. You might try to disable hardware acceleration in the browser to see if it a Firefox problem: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration#w_turning-off-hardware-acceleration>. > I am using Chrominum and I hate it.

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-28 Thread Geert Stappers
en 5 5600G Radeon Graphics, Realtec > Audio  6.0.9400.1, 237 GB Drive, 8GB Ram .  That harddrive holds Debian > installed only. I have a 2 TB hard drive for my back up.  So all of my files > are backed up daily. I do not have an image of the HD contained in the HP. As I see it, are

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-28 Thread Maureen Thomas
guys but I refuse to use Winblows.  Can someone please help me out. On 1/27/25 13:07, Maureen Thomas wrote: I use Thuderbird for my email and have no problem with it.  Yes, the Firefox I use is the ESR version that comes with debian.  It happens when I open Firefox and it just freezes before

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-28 Thread David Christensen
help me out. On 1/27/25 13:07, Maureen Thomas wrote: I use Thuderbird for my email and have no problem with it. Yes, the Firefox I use is the ESR version that comes with debian. It happens when I open Firefox and it just freezes before I can even use it. I do have to pages pinned to it so wh

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:57:44 +1100 George at Clug wrote: > If not then I recommend wiping all user settings for Firefox and then > reloading Firefox. I had to do this one time a year or so ago. It was > sad to loose my many bookmarks but it did clean out my Firefox. > Below is how I wiped my use

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread Max Nikulin
minated as well. On Tuesday, 28-01-2025 at 08:07 Maureen Thomas wrote: I do have to pages pinned to it so when it opens those pages are opened. I don't even have time to unpin those to see if they are the problem. Starting Firefox in safe mode might help to change startup settings (h

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread George at Clug
George. On Tuesday, 28-01-2025 at 08:07 Maureen Thomas wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I use Thuderbird for my email and have no problem with it.  Yes, the > Firefox I use is the ESR version that comes with debian.  It happens > when I open Firefox and it just freezes before I can even

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread Maureen Thomas
Hi Andy, I use Thuderbird for my email and have no problem with it.  Yes, the Firefox I use is the ESR version that comes with debian.  It happens when I open Firefox and it just freezes before I can even use it.  I do have to pages pinned to it so when it opens those pages are opened. I

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
r) at the same time, do you see any pattern to what processes are running? Also - this is the Debian version - the Firefox ESR - and not a newer version from Mozilla themselves? Rather than moving to yet another browser, lets see if we can narrow down causes. Someone else a while ago was ment

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-26 Thread Bret Busby
On 27/1/25 09:11, Maureen Thomas wrote: I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds before it turns off.  I am using Chromi

Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-26 Thread Maureen Thomas
I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds before it turns off.  I am using Chrominum and I hate it.  I have a VPN but I s

Re: problem with latest initramfs-tools_0.142+rpt2+deb12u1_all.deb

2024-12-18 Thread gene heskett
On 12/18/24 02:47, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Eyal, On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 05:18:56PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: I should have mentioned that the packages are from https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/ and this is on an old laptop running the 32 bits OS. Y

Re: problem with latest initramfs-tools_0.142+rpt2+deb12u1_all.deb

2024-12-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Eyal, On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 05:18:56PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > I should have mentioned that the packages are from > https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/ > and this is on an old laptop running the 32 bits OS. You say below that you are running Debi

Re: problem with latest initramfs-tools_0.142+rpt2+deb12u1_all.deb

2024-12-17 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
all [upgradable from: 0.142+rpt1+deb12u1] initramfs-tools/stable,stable 0.142+rpt2+deb12u1 all [upgradable from: 0.142+rpt1+deb12u1] ## Then just to confirm this was the problem, allow the upgrade: $ sudo apt upgrade     upgrades +rpt1 to +rpt2 and reinstates the failure... FYI -- Eyal

problem with latest initramfs-tools_0.142+rpt2+deb12u1_all.deb

2024-12-17 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
/stable,stable 0.142+rpt2+deb12u1 all [upgradable from: 0.142+rpt1+deb12u1] initramfs-tools/stable,stable 0.142+rpt2+deb12u1 all [upgradable from: 0.142+rpt1+deb12u1] ## Then just to confirm this was the problem, allow the upgrade: $ sudo apt upgrade upgrades +rpt1 to +rpt2 and reinstates

Re: k3b problem?

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/24 12:19, Joe wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:06:18 -0500 gene heskett wrote: I rebooted, and found that k3b still suffers from the lag. Which apparently  messes with its mind. In 2 different dvd writers in this machine, I was not able to burn the unzipped .iso into a bootable dvd+rw

k3b problem?

2024-12-16 Thread gene heskett
I rebooted, and found that k3b still suffers from the lag. Which apparently  messes with its mind. In 2 different dvd writers in this machine, I was not able to burn the unzipped .iso into a bootable dvd+rw disk. I finally used dd to put it on a 32G usb key which worked, 32 gigs of ram is all g

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/1/24 6:12 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 04:43:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [SNIP] What should I do next ( /etc/debian_version reports 12.7)? apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure you're up to date then reboot. At that point, /etc/debian-version sh

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-12-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 04:43:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/30/24 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > "apt upgrade" does not take a package name as an argument. It tries > > to upgrade *all* of the packages you have. > > > > To upgrade a single package, use "install" instead. > >

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-12-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/30/24 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 14:45:01 +, Joe wrote: I don't know if it helps, but the current ghostscript on my Deb 12 is version 12u6, not 12u5. What happens when you try: apt upgrade ghostscript "apt upgrade" does not take a package name as an arg

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 14:45:01 +, Joe wrote: > I don't know if it helps, but the current ghostscript on my Deb 12 is > version 12u6, not 12u5. > > What happens when you try: > > apt upgrade ghostscript "apt upgrade" does not take a package name as an argument. It tries to upgrade *all*

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 05:18:35 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/29/24 12:30 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Running Debian 12.7 with MATE > >> When launching Synaptic I get a message saying > >>[ You have 1 broken package on yo

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/29/24 12:30 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: Running Debian 12.7 with MATE When launching Synaptic I get a message saying [ You have 1 broken package on your system!" Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ] Synaptic's Help

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-29 Thread Joe
On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:30:44 -0600 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > > Running Debian 12.7 with MATE > > When launching Synaptic I get a message saying > > [ You have 1 broken package on your system!" > > Use the "Broken" filter to locate

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > Running Debian 12.7 with MATE > When launching Synaptic I get a message saying > [ You have 1 broken package on your system!" > Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ] > Synaptic's Help isn't helpful :{ > It also reports pa

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 07:55:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Running Debian 12.7 with MATE > When launching Synaptic I get a message saying > [ You have 1 broken package on your system!" > Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ] > Synaptic's Help isn't helpful :{ > It also reports

Synaptic problem(s)

2024-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Running Debian 12.7 with MATE When launching Synaptic I get a message saying [ You have 1 broken package on your system!" Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ] Synaptic's Help isn't helpful :{ It also reports packages to be updated. Also started to install gnumeric and it wanted to

Re: Email Problem [Solved]

2024-11-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:03:39 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Solved the problem! I accepted the Certificate and the popup went away >and didn't reappear. Good news. Thx for letting us know. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separ

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-28 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Solved the problem! I accepted the Certificate and the popup went away and didn't reappear. Many thanks. On 11/27/2024 11:23 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:50:33 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, Where else might the errant string of DNA or R

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-28 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-11-27, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Bookworm and have been using the Epyrus email client for some time now without > any problems. > > Suddenly I am getting a popup that is quite insistent. The popup seems to say that you server has a wrong certificate. Do you look at the certificate epyrus

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread George at Clug
ypeDomain Name Canonical Name TTL CNAME mail.insilicochemistry.net mail.stackmail.com 60 min Blacklist Check SMTP Test TestResult Status Problem DMARC Record Published No DMARC Record found Information More Info Status Warning DMARC Polic

Re: Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:50:33 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Where else might the errant string of DNA or RNA be hiding on my >computer? https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=31786 -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "

Email Problem

2024-11-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I think I might have contracted a virus, but I'm not sure. I am running Bookworm and have been using the Epyrus email client for some time now without any problems. Suddenly I am getting a popup that is quite insistent. I have run ClamTk on /home/comp and /opt/epyrus, both are clean. The so

Re: [SOLVED] Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-21 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Thursday, 21 November 2024 07:24:49 -03 Jean-François Bachelet wrote: Hello Jeff > Hello Michel ^^) > > Le 21/11/2024 à 08:33, Michel Verdier a écrit : > > On 2024-11-20, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: [snip] > > in this script I found : > > CONFIG=/etc/default/fwlogwatch > > oups, the only pl

[SOLVED] Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-21 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Michel ^^) Le 21/11/2024 à 08:33, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2024-11-20, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: I might be reading this wrong, but the "ExecStart" command is a shell script which basically says "if the $START_DAEMON variable does not equal 'true', then echo 'aborted' and stop". G

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-21 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-11-20, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: >> I might be reading this wrong, but the "ExecStart" command is a shell script >> which basically says "if the $START_DAEMON variable does not equal 'true', >> then echo 'aborted' and stop". Given you get sh printing the word 'aborted', >> I think you'

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, it seems possible to increase the verbosity of systemctl for a particular service with the service-log-level command (cf systemctl manpage), perhaps (or not) it could provide useful infos.

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Marial :) Le 20/11/2024 à 20:16, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: [cut] 'systemctl status fwlogwatch.service' : fwlogwatch.service - Firewall log analyzer Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwlogwatch.service; enabled

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: [cut] 'systemctl status fwlogwatch.service' : fwlogwatch.service - Firewall log analyzer Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwlogwatch.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) sinc

problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
ons... looking at the logs it appears it has never started fine since debian 12 install on this machine... logs doesn't show more infos than the 'exit code' why it doesn't work at all ? is someone had this problem also ? and, how to correct this ? note that there is uf

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > Hello Tomas :) > > Le 20/11/2024 à 13:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > > Hello folks :) > > > > > > I got a machine to look at, so I've issued a

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello Tomas :) Le 20/11/2024 à 13:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: Hello folks :) I got a machine to look at, so I've issued a 'systemctl status' and see a 'degraded' state. so I've done a 'systemctl status --failed' and se

Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

2024-11-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > Hello folks :) > > I got a machine to look at, so I've issued a 'systemctl status' and see a > 'degraded' state. > > so I've done a 'systemctl status --failed' and see that 'fwlogwatch.service' > was never started and shows

Re: Synaptic Problem

2024-10-31 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:25:40AM +0100, daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: [...] > brscan si useless for printing but mandatory¹ for scanning. But indeed, > driveless printing works just fine on Brother printers > > I wish scanning didn't require proprietary blobs… > > 1. At least on (**only** som

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