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Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?

man synaptic says « It allows you to perform all actions of the command line tool apt-get in a graphical environemnt. » In the help manual I read « Reload the package information to be aware of the latest versions available: » Does this mean that synaptic does _not_ call apt update, and that

Re: Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 20:13:55 +0200, Roger Price wrote: Does this mean that synaptic does _not_ call apt update, and that I should always run apt update manually before clicking on synaptic? Some experiments suggest that this is the case. You would have to

Re: Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:13:55 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: always run apt update manually before clicking on synaptic? No, just hit Synaptic's reload button. Thanks to all those who replied. It should have seen and understood "reload". Roger

Debian 11, nouveau, Nvidia GF100GL Quadro 4000 - monitors freeze after a few minutes

A Dell Precision 7500 with an Nvidia NVC0 (Fermi) GF100GL Quadro 4000 video card and two iiyama B2783QSU monitors, Xfce and nouveau: very nice indeed when it comes up, but after 3-30 minutes the monitors freeze and lock up. No reaction to any keyboard or mouse activity. I have to ssh to the box

Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400 card, 2xiiyama 2560x1440 monitors, and the nvidia driver. I am trying to get 2 iiyama monitors rotated to portrait mode to show a single 2880x2560 screen, but so far only the left monitor lights up with a 1440x2560 screen. The Quadro P400 has 3 mini-DisplayPort

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

On Mon, 6 Sep 2021, Felix Miata wrote: FOSS drivers and xrandr work for me: # inxi -Gay Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau I too would prefer a FOSS driver. I tried nouveau, but it is not currently ready for the Quadro P400. Roger

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

On Mon, 6 Sep 2021, Anssi Saari wrote: Roger Price writes: Before I plunge into the details, does anyone have a working xorg.conf for such a setup? I would prefer to start with something that works rather than describe in detail something that doesn't work. Maybe just dump the xorg

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

On Mon, 6 Sep 2021, Felix Miata wrote: FOSS drivers and xrandr work for me: # xrandr --output DP-1 --mode 2560x1440 --primary --rotate left --output DP-2 --mode 2560x1080 --rotate left --right-of DP-1 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau I've

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

On Mon, 6 Sep 2021, Felix Miata wrote: Roger Price composed on 2021-09-06 22:39 (UTC+0200): Felix Miata wrote: The in-use X/display driver: Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting Available, but not in-use, X/display drivers: unloaded: fbdev,vesa Unloaded X

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 sep 21, 15:26:12, Roger Price wrote: nouveau froze after 11 minutes. dmesg reports; [ 145.357954] nouveau :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 (-2) Where can I get the required nouveau/nvd9_fuc084 ? A quick DDG

Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

In Debian 11, evince has an appamor profile which floods the kernel log with hundreds of messages of the style: [24216.325764] audit: type=1400 audit(1631892398.580:255): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home" pid

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Roger Price wrote: In Debian 11, evince has an appamor profile which floods the kernel log with hundreds of messages of the style: Not only at Debian 11, even Debian 10 has it. [...] (evince:2869): GVFS-WARNING **: 22:18:18.510: can't

Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

My Nvidia NVS 310 card with the nvidia 390.144 driver starts off perfectly, but after two days freezes: no reaction to keyboard or mouse action. After reboot, command journalctl -b -1 --no-pager | grep -i -E "(nvidia|NVRM)" reports Sep 17 10:43:25 titan kernel: nvidia: loading out-of-tree mo

Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

On Sun, 19 Sep 2021, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:22:30PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: My Nvidia NVS 310 card with the nvidia 390.144 driver starts off perfectly, but after two days freezes: no reaction to keyboard or mouse action. This comes down, perhaps, to having both

Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days

On Tue, 21 Sep 2021, Roger Price wrote: Nvidia drivers -- Card Quadro 4000, GF100GL. 390.144. Freezes with blank monitors after 15 minutes. Card temperature 85C. Card NVS 310. 390.144. Freezes with monitors lit after 15 mins - 3 hours. Card Quadro P400, GP107GL. 460.91

Re: What happened to cal?

On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: $  ls -l /usr/bin/cal 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 mar 23  2021 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal Not for all of us. rprice@titan ~ inxi -S System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) rp

Re: What happened to cal?

On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Dedeco Balaco wrote: Em 26/09/2021 09:35, Roger Price escreveu: Perhaps the *cal one gets depends on the desktop. I use Mate Desktop. And i used it with Debian 9 (stretch) before upgrading (sequentially) to 11, a few weeks ago. But Greg Wooledge just, in a message in

UPS, was RTL problem

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am on an ups box so I don't understand how this happened. Hello Maureen, The UPS will protect your stuff from external power supply problems, but not from internal deterioration. Have you checked that your UPS is doing it's job correctly? If y

IANA port ups/401

Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? I'm looking for protocol documentation or reports of usage. The port was assigned in 2008 to Mr. Charles Bennett as both assignee and contact. Mr. Bennett himself died in

Re: IANA port ups/401

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Trojan)? I'm looking for protocol documentation or report

Re: IANA port ups/401

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Roger Price wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:51:55PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: Has any reader of this list ever used IANA port ups/401 "Uninterruptible Power Supply" (other than the One Windows Tr

Re: Only One Side Speaker is giving sound

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, Rishi wrote: Waiting for some guidance to resolve this. :) While you are waiting, check alsamixer - are both channels at the same level? Roger

Debian 11 Xfce - Applications -> Settings -> Network Connections missing

I'm trying to set up a Wi-Fi connection in Debian 11 with Xfce. In previous Debian Xfce installations I found Applications -> Settings -> Network Connections which offered a useful GUI. I can't find the Netwok Connections GUI in Debian 11. Is there some additional package I need to install?

Re: Debian 11 Xfce - Applications -> Settings -> Network Connections missing

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, Roger Price wrote: I'm trying to set up a Wi-Fi connection in Debian 11 with Xfce. In previous Debian Xfce installations I found Applications -> Settings -> Network Connections which offered a useful GUI. I can't find the Netwok Connections GUI in Debian

Re: percent char '%' in sudoers file

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Bob Bernstein wrote: Full disclosure: In a typical Bob fit of impulsivity I, yes, edited this file using 'sudo nsno /etc/sudoers'. My impulse would be to use VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs visudo -f /etc/sudoers Roger

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Editing a file (was: percent char '%' in sudoers file)

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote: Roger Price [2021-08-10 11:11:24] wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Bob Bernstein wrote: Full disclosure: In a typical Bob fit of impulsivity I, yes, edited this file using 'sudo nsno /etc/sudoers'. My impulse would be to use VISUAL=/usr/bin/em

Re: Permanent email address?

On Sun, 15 May 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to have an email address that will be permanent, ... (And that gets my email out of google's control / reach.) Spend the money, get your own domain, it's worth it. Roger

Debian 11: synaptic fails to fetch fetchmail

I would like to install fetchmail on Debian 11, but synaptic gives me the following error message: W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.16-4_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.178.132 80] Is this temporary or do I need to look elsewhere for f

Re: Debian 11: synaptic fails to fetch fetchmail

On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My hunch is that your synaptic is looking at a stale package database. Do an "apt-get update" or whatever you have to do to synaptic to achieve the same effect, perhaps the problem goes away. Yes, I did "apt-get update" and the synaptic problem went

Re: nft newbie

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Will Mengarini wrote: * gene heskett [22-07/06=We 18:50 -0400]: The man page while quite voluminus is as usual mostly bereft of useful examples. has various examples. May I continue this thread by ask

Re: nft newbie

On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Gareth Evans wrote: Also for any good nft/netfilter overview articles etc. Have you seen "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening", 2nd Edition, Donald A. Tevault, chapter 4. Suitable for those of us who read this newbie thread. Roger

Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

In a Debian 11 system, I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade fetchmail to talk to exim4. The advice generally given is to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 and run sysctl -p as root. With Debian 11 this generates the error message sysct

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade fetchmail to talk to exim4. Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather than disabling IPv6 to work around it

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: And every single piece of this discussion is irrelevant to the OP's issue, which is that their MTA is apparently not listening on 127.0.0.1;25. IPv6 is a red herring. Yes, this is my fault for choosing an inappropriate Subject line. I will try again

Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

I have successfully used fetchmail and the MTA exim4 to receive mail on a Debian 9 machine for several years. I am now trying to migrate this to Debian 11, but fetchmail no longer talks to exim4. systemctl status fetchmail reports ● fetchmail.service - LSB: init-Script for system wide fetch

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 17:12:18 +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 15:38, Roger Price wrote: [...] I removed the ipv6.disable=1 and rebooted, but this made no difference. I'm not sure if there may be other issues here too, but did you update-grub before rebooting?

Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

People occasionally have a cron job emit some sound each hour. On my Debian 9 machine I hear Biff [1] barking. In /etc/crontab I have an entry to call a script bark.sh which does the barking. Typically 0,1 0,12 * * * rprice full-path-to/bark.sh 12 2>>&1 where bark.sh is a Bash script which c

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: I don't have play, so I tried aplay .. and it works, even if I'm logged out, even if someone else is logged in. ## run the script every minute $ crontab -l | tail -3 # m h dom mon dow command * * * * */home/lee/bin/neener.sh ## which plays a .wav

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: On 7/17/22, The Wanderer wrote: I don't use cron to play sounds, so I can't speak to this directly, but... While this may turn out in the end to be pure FUD, when I hear about things which work properly when run by hand but not when run automatically on a modern

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound [Solved]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, 16 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: Nope. Audio has always just worked; I never had to do anything special or extra to get it working Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples , I installed file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa .include /etc/pulse/default.pa set-

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU? Command inxi reports: System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Desktop S

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: Roger Price writes: Command cat /sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name reports: westmere I should have said also that command inxi -Fix reports MCP arch: Nehalem, which is specified in more detail by the reference E5645 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out of interest and then in the weeks afterwards I was bombarded with marketing emails. My apologies for an off-topic comment, bu

Re: wrong from field with alpine

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, davidson wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: when I send a mail with alpine, the from field becomes "frenk...@laposte.net" instead of "p.frenk...@laposte.net" One thing you could try is go to config settings in alpine Main menu >> Setup >> Config search fo

Re: wrong from field with alpine

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, David Wright wrote: On Wed 21 Oct 2020 at 20:25:06 (+0200), Roger Price wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, davidson wrote: One thing you could try is go to config settings in alpine Main menu >> Setup >> Config search for the setting "Customized Header

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Richard Hobson wrote: ...I use a USB dongle (StarTech) for practical reasons. I've previously used this in an installation of OpenSuse on the same machine and although it wasn't detected at install time it was on first boot and I was able to use the graphical configuration

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Richard Hobson wrote: usb 1-2: firmware failed to load rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin (-2) Does this suggest the appropriate firmware isn't available locally? Could well be. Perhaps you need package firmware-realtek. I take the easy route and use synaptic to search for and load pac

Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Richard Hobson wrote: The router is on the other side of a corridor which is used by my wife in a power wheelchair. I use a cable cover for this. Google for "floor cable cover". Roger

Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: MEDIADIR=`pwd` Don't use all caps variable names. Without getting into syntax-religious wars, what is the reasoning behind this recommendation? Roger

stretch: pamscale missing in Netpbm

It looks as if pamscale is missing from Netpbm in stretch. Is there a reason for this ? Roger

Re: stretch: pamscale missing in Netpbm

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Brian wrote: On Tue 09 Oct 2018 at 14:29:59 +0200, Roger Price wrote: It looks as if pamscale is missing from Netpbm in stretch. Please read http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/getting_netpbm.php Thanks for the link. A strange situation. In case any other Debian user ever

Re: Any directional antennas recommendations?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Hubert Hauser wrote: I need to connect to a distant Wi-Fi network. I consider buying a parabolic antenna. I want to have 10 km range and long amplification. Will TP-Link TL-ANT2424B be a good aerial? Given your 10km range, it might be interesting to calculate the Fresnel Z

Re: Set timing to go into hibernation {Debian Stretch}

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Richard Owlett wrote: It's been so long since I set up Debian I've forgotten how to set timing for going into hibernation. It's currently set for a much to large a delay. Where do I look for instructions and descriptions? I use Right Click on screen, and then Application

GenesysLogic USB microscope + uvcvideo interferes with all input

I'm trying to use a USB microscope with Debian 11. When I plug it in dmesg reports: usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: GenesysLogic Technology Co., Ltd. uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC PC Camera (a16f:0304) but when I run vlc v412:///dev/video0 , I see a black window flash every 10 second

Re: GenesysLogic USB microscope + uvcvideo interferes with all input

On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, Roger Price wrote: I'm trying to use a USB microscope with Debian 11. When I plug it in dmesg reports: usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: GenesysLogic Technology Co., Ltd. uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC PC Camera (a16f:0304) but when I run vlc v412:///dev/video

Re: sucessor for denyhosts?

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, mj wrote: We are using fail2ban to do this. It offers many more options, and works by creating iptables rules. This gives you much more control over what ports exactly are blocked. Plus I think (correct me if Im wrong) that using /etc/hosts.deny to block access only work

Re: Package conflict apcupsd and nut-client

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Sebastian Hofmann wrote: ... Therefore I want to use both packages at the same time, but trying to install both results in a conflict between 'apcupsd' and 'nut-client'. Both provide and conflict 'ups-monitor': This looks like a packaging problem, and an excessive use of t

Re: Package conflict apcupsd and nut-client

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Sebastian Hofmann wrote: I'm not sure if I get your idea completly right, but first I got only one UPS Sorry, my mistake - I assumed wrongly that you had a mixed APC non-APC setup. and second isn't the driver from nut I posted in my first mail already made to use both on

Re: OT: Belkin F1DS104J KVM and PCs on a UPS

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody have experience with the Belkin F1DS10[2 4]J KVMs? My question: Does that mean I need to put the KVM on the UPS as well? Speaking from experience, another reason to put the KVM switch on the UPS is protection from power surges. I live in

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: If you find yourself needing to add lots more rules, you might want to generate a "set" instead of individual rules: http://ipset.netfilter.org/ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/advanced-firewall-configurations-ipset might be useful. I find ipsets t

Re: new, not nice web bots disposal

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: This just showed up this morning, but no clue what it might be. Blocked it anyway. 46th rule. coyote.coyote.den:80 91.160.218.196 - - [25/Feb/2020:19:06:58 -0500] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" No clue, butt dial? PROXAD.net someplace in France. That's my ISP.

Re: The TP-Link TL-WN722N USB WiFi adapter ...

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Curt wrote: Looking briefly I saw this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842422 ... or kernel parameter net.ifnames=0 I had the same problem with the same WiFi adapter. Setting kernel parameter net.ifnames=0 solved the problem for me. Thanks, Roger

journal swamped with gdm3-x-session messages

I rebooted stretch and now my journald is being swamped with the following message: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2684]: Promise rejected after context unloaded: Message manager disconnected A new message appears every few seconds. What is causing this? What have I done wrong? Any hint would

Re: journal swamped with gdm3-x-session messages

Roger Price wrote Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:13:05 +0100 (CET): I rebooted stretch and now my journald is being swamped with the following message: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2684]: Promise rejected after context unloaded: Message manager disconnected I managed to get rid of this flood of

Re: journal swamped with gdm3-x-session messages

Roger Price wrote Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:13:05 +0100 (CET): I rebooted stretch and now my journald is being swamped with the following message: /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2684]: Promise rejected after context unloaded: Message manager disconnected It's the Ghostery addon to Firefox 5

Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

I am trying to net install stretch i386 on an EeePC using a wired connection. I chose my ISP as the mirror, but the installation hangs on "Configure the packet management tool (APT)" [french text reads "Configurer l'outil de gestion des paquets (APT)"]. I checked on my regular box that stretch

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Curt wrote: On 2018-02-17, Reco wrote: First, please don't get me wrong, but can you provide the output of (regular box, of course): wget -S --spider https://wiki.debian.org There have been some reports from people using your ISP that this page does not work for them some

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Brian wrote: ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf search rogerprice.org nameserver 10.218.0.1 I am using the same router and the same name server to post this message. I would try pinging www.debian.org and anywhere else you can think of. Or edit resolv.conf to have 8.8.8.8 (a Goo

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf search rogerprice.org nameserver 8.8.8.8 Does the resolv.conf still contain that data? Yes On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: debian.proxad.net is 212.27.32.6. If you ping that? Yes, works great even from a rock

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

un, 18 Feb 2018, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Feb 2018 at 23:19:48 +0100, Roger Price wrote: 3. Load installer components from CD [X] choose-mirror Why? I've never used it. I don't know what it does. It's optional. Don't select it. Try a different mirror. With and wi

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: Later the installation hangs with the message: in-target: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-en Cannot initiate the connection to

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: On the EeePC Ctl-Alt-F3 /dev/tty3: ~ # ip address 3: enp0s4: ... ... inet 10.218.0.100 scope global enp0s4 inet6 fe80::22cf:30ff:fe10:43fd/64 scope link The "fe" at the beginning of the IPv6 address says that this is not capable of working with the p

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: On the EeePC Ctl-Alt-F3 /dev/tty3: ~ # ip address 3: enp0s4: ... rprice@kananga:~$ ip -6 ro l fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium But, looking at all this once more, I see a discrepancy - "ip a" shows Unpredictable Network Name, yet "i

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: rprice@kananga:~$ ip -6 ro l fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium Now *that* actually means it should be impossible for this host to connect to 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7. So either we have a little wonder here, or … do you have DHCP6 cli

Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 03:14:26PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: rprice@kananga:~$ systemctl status NetworkManager ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active

Re: Beeping after power irregularities?

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:50:52AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: Our AC power just blinked several times. one-second beeps, approximately every two seconds That really sounds like a UPS. Do you have diagnostics access for it? Sounds to me like a UPS

openvpn client DNS security

Hi, I had a problem setting up DNS on an openvpn client. I'll describe it here before submitting a bug report - I would appreciate comment on the security aspects. In the stretch openvpn server (2.4.0-6+deb9u2) the configuration file server.conf contains the declarations: push "dhcp-option

Sound cron job delayed while VLC running

For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) barks the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 ... 0 11,23 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 In the bark.sh script, the sound is produced

Stretch/Xfce: five xclock's running on startup

Hi, command "inxi -S" reports Host: maria Kernel: 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 The user has defined $HOME/.config/autostart/xclock.desktop as [Desktop Entry] Name=Clock Comment=Clock with seconds hand Icon=xclock Exec=xclock -update 1 -geometry 200x200+150+400 Terminal=fal

Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce. Gnome is also installed. The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes and puts the two monitors into a sleep mode (iiyama E1700S orange light). I cannot find any key combinati

Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Thomas Amm wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:49:33 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce. Gnome is also installed. The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" screen too long, then something

Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, David Christensen wrote: On 12/20/17 02:49, Roger Price wrote: Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce.  Gnome is also installed.  The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes a

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023, Marco Moock wrote: I don't think book are a good way to teach stuff that changes. A wiki (maybe with paid access, like RedHat does) is much more better than a book that can't be updated and will be mostly useless with the next release because beginner don't know which parts

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Andy Smith wrote: Out of interest what brand of UPS do you recommend for home use that has easily-replaceable batteries every 3–5 years? For a load of about 300W. I currently have two Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. I change the batteries every 4-5 years, but this is not as ea

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 19:03:33 (+0100), Roger Price wrote: I currently have two Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. ... The four screws are deeply recessed and difficult to see. They have different heads: some are Torx 10, others are a star. 20/20 hind

Re: what keyboard do you use?

On Sat, 3 Feb 2024, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:25:09PM -0500, Lee wrote: >which keyboard do you like and why? ... Cherry makes/uses a good keyswitch. Buy Cherry. RLH I bought a Cherry MX 3000 USB. In use permanently in a very dusty environment next to a wood st

Re: Isn't KDE Live ISO accompanied by an ultra-light Windows Manager, like OpenBox is with LXDE?

On Mon, 29 May 2023, Susmita/Rajib wrote: My dear illustrious Leaders... Certainly not me. Finally, is there a lightweight Windows Manager... Xfce4 ? Roger

Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?

I use the import program provided by Debian 11 (bullseye) to grab parts of the screen. This worked well but I was having difficulty remembering that "import" means "screen-grab". So as root I set up the soft link ln -s /usr/bin/import /usr/bin/screen-grab Now, whenever I try to run screen-g

Re: Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: Roger, what is the full command that you used? When I tested with "import foo.png" it worked as expected. I used to type "import foo.jpg" but got into the habit of typing "import /tmp/foo" which produces the error message. So this afternoon I went b

Re: Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: Roger, what is the full command that you used? When I tested with "import foo.png" it worked as expected. Previously I used to type "import foo.jpg" but got into the habit of typing "import /tmp/foo" which I now understand produces the error message.

Re: RAM

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Mick Ab wrote: I have seen the dmidecode command being used, but the reliability of the information returned is not reliable. Is there any command that will reliably give the required RAM information ? According to man inxi the command "inxi -mxx" tries to improve on dmid

Why does Debian have code names for releases?

I have difficulty remembering the Debian code names for releases Buzz Rex Bo Hamm Slink Potato Woody Sarge Etch Lenny Squeeze Wheezy Jessie Stretch Buster Bullseye Bookworm Trixie and Forky. It's much easier to remember that release numbers are in a sequence 1.1 ... 14. Quoting from Google's r

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Darac Marjal wrote: As you can see, the intention of code names is so that developers (of Debian) have a way to refer to an as-yet-unreleased collection of packages. Once those set of packages are released (literally, put out there in the wild), then they become a numbered

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, David Wright wrote: Unlike numbers, names are memorable and unambiguous (when well-chosen). This claim is far from evident and needs justification. The only example I can think of is project number 401 which later became the product "Titanic". However the name is not mem

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

On Sun, 2 Jul 2023, David Wright wrote: Perhaps more people remember the A5 is the Holyhead Road, rather than Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many examples are best known by numbers. Numbers so well known that songs are written about the number: historic US 66 [1]

Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

I have three Debian machines on a 192.168.1/24 WiFi network. One is debian 11 and the two others are debian 9. The network is connected, I can ping from any machine to any other. The problem is that I can ssh from the debian 9's to the debian 11, but not to any debian 9, although all the machi

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023, Roger Price wrote: Sorry, a formatting problem. Let's hope this is clearer _ The debian 9 machines are listening on ports 22 and 3493: root@maria ~ netstat -pnlt Active Internet connec

RE: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023, Ming Kuang wrote: Are you using any firewall rules? The phenomenon you describe is very much like a firewall blocking connections to these ports (you can connect out, can't connect in). Thanks for the suggestion. The two Debian 9 machines have customising firewall rules

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: To sort out the possible things: - log in to maria - try "ssh rprice@localhost": what happens? The two debian 9 machines can ssh to themselves. - if it works, there's an ssh daemon running on maria; next to check would be - is it listening o

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