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#1 Re: Devuan » Why has no one enhanced sysvinit? » 2024-10-05 02:04:32

Ron
GNUser wrote:

A new chapter in SysVinit's history began when Jesse Smith (DistroWatch administrator) took over its maintenance in 2022. There have been several new releases of SysVinit since then, including two releases this year. With each release there are additional enhancements (e.g., minor bug fixes).

I never knew this. I was under the assumption that there had been no new development on sysvinit in years.

#3 Re: Off-topic » Question about Debian issuing patches » 2024-09-28 15:44:26

Ron

Thanks for that. I guess it shouldn't be too much longer. (?)

#4 Off-topic » Question about Debian issuing patches » 2024-09-28 13:11:37

Ron
Replies: 6

So a vulnerability in cups has been known for a couple of days now (link). Some distros already made a patch for it. Does Debian usually lag behind the others in vulnerability issues like this one?

#6 Re: Installation » Trouble in paradise » 2024-09-21 18:44:00

Ron

I didn't get any updates this morning. How long has it been since you've updated? Can you go to history in synaptic and post what updates you installed today?

#7 Re: Off-topic » How are you guys quoting posts? » 2024-09-01 15:59:59

Ron

golinux wrote:
If users here are unable to quote specifically and intelligently that says more about our users than the software guiding them. And a software nanny is an inadequate tool to solve the problem.

It's not just a problem here, I see it on all other forums I frequent. Chalk it up to the average person isn't very bright.

golinux wrote:
Perhaps this forum would improve if the "Off Topic" option was mothballed

I'd hate to see it go, but I get it.

#8 Re: Other Issues » What is best way to install latest version of Firefox? » 2024-08-22 00:02:42

Ron

VH wrote:
Mozilla tells you how to do that in their website:

You do realize this is a 7 year old thread?

#9 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Possible Malware » 2024-08-21 09:33:58

Ron

I would suggest reading the link below. Although it is written from a Mint/Ubuntu point of view, over 95% of it is applicable to any distro.

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c … urity.html

#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Update » 2024-08-16 08:17:18

Ron

I got the same thing yesterday (Thursday). Just tried it again now (Fri early morning) and it updated. So yeah, sometimes this happens and you have to wait a couple of hours.

#11 Re: Off-topic » Gratitude » 2024-08-13 20:42:07

Ron

Well that was good for the daddy long legs, but the yellow garden spider went hungry that day. smile

#12 Re: Other Issues » Question on today's update » 2024-08-03 12:21:42

Ron

stultumanto wrote:
I've noticed that Excalibur updates sometime remove packages, then install newer versions of the same package. I'm not sure why it does that, rather than just updating the package, but I'm sure there's a good reason.

This would explain everything.

stultumanto wrote:
Did you install clang at some point?

No. Stuff like that is above my pay grade.

#13 Re: Other Issues » Question on today's update » 2024-08-01 21:14:06

Ron

soren wrote:
it seems those 3 packages have hard dependencies on libc6? Im not sure why they wouldnt be installed, seems a bit odd.

Well, I do have libc6 installed.

alexkemp wrote:
As a little extra, here is a way to dig out all the setup for APT

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-23-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
  Desktop: MATE v: 1.26.0 Distro: Crowz GNU/Linux 5.0.0
    base: Devuan daedalus
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H81M-C v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3602 date: 03/26/2018
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium G3220 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell
    rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 899 high: 900 min/max: 800/3000 cores: 1: 898 2: 900
    bogomips: 11972
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 8
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-23-amd64 status: kernel-api
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK H81M-C driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 387.53 GiB used: 108.9 GiB (28.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT256MX100SSD1 size: 238.47 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3160815AS size: 149.05 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.66 GiB used: 9.45 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.63 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (19.5%)
  Processes: 142 Uptime: 16m Init: SysVinit runlevel: 2
  Packages: 1350 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.34

#14 Re: Other Issues » Question on today's update » 2024-07-31 23:56:51

Ron

Well if I knew that something else was needed to answer the question I would have put it in. Now I'm not psychic either. What should I add?

#15 Other Issues » Question on today's update » 2024-07-31 21:01:22

Ron
Replies: 9

There was an update today so I installed it as usual. Going into the history, I see three new things listed as installed, not upgraded. They are libc++1-16, libc++abi1-16, libunwind-16. Does anyone know why these were installed when they (apparently) weren't before? And nothing else was installed/upgraded, so that rules out dependencies.

#16 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] mate desktop pdf opens in terminal with vim » 2024-07-16 20:17:57

Ron

Go to Menu and under "All" find "Preferred Applications." In the Office tab, make sure Atril is selected under Document Viewer.

#17 Re: Other Issues » Chromium wonky for anybody else? » 2024-07-16 20:10:03

Ron

alexkemp wrote:
Why did you not apt-get purge chromium?

I will try that next time I need to completely remove something. Using Synaptic's "Complete Removal" option leaves a lot of leftover folders. So much for "Complete." hmm

#18 Re: Other Issues » Chromium wonky for anybody else? » 2024-07-15 22:49:10

Ron

quickfur wrote:
So did you try it?  Did it work?

Did it 3 days ago. So far all is well.

#19 Re: Other Issues » Chromium wonky for anybody else? » 2024-07-13 01:20:24

Ron

quickfur wrote:
By uninstalling completely, you mean reinstalling the entire OS??!

That is an emphatic "no." I mean uninstall Chromium, and then manually going through and deleting all the leftover chromium folders left on the system.

#20 Re: Other Issues » Chromium wonky for anybody else? » 2024-07-12 21:59:05

Ron

Well it just happened again. Chromium lost one of my profiles. I'll try uninstalling completely and reinstalling. Hopefully that will fix it.

#21 Other Issues » Chromium wonky for anybody else? » 2024-07-02 21:06:31

Ron
Replies: 19

Has Chromium been running wonky for anybody else the last month or so? It started giving me an error message every time I opened it saying that it didn't shut down properly, do I want to restore the tabs? But it always had been shut down properly. One of the last updates seemed to have fixed this issue for me, but now when I create a new profile it keeps "forgetting" it. Happened at least twice. Anybody else getting weird issues with it? It's seriously making me consider going back to Vivaldi. I suppose the first thing I should try is to completely remove it and then reinstall it.

#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox broken? » 2024-07-01 09:28:18

Ron

Andre4freedom wrote:
Good luck to file complaints to those corporate WEB-sites.... I can imagine the outcome.

I can say from being on the Pale Moon forum, which suffers from this problem even worse than Firefox, that the usual outcome is to be told "Use Chrome."

And it's not only the sites that are the problem, but also Gooble which has the power to change internet/browsing/web standards, and who also happens to have the most used browser. It's a case of the fox guarding the hen house.

#23 Re: Off-topic » Thoughts on Pipewire » 2024-06-30 20:20:16

Ron

I wouldn't call this voting. Just a way of keeping track of the "yeas" and "nays." And like I said in the first post, it is only something I was wondering about. I have no plans to switch. Alsa works just fine for me.

#24 Re: Off-topic » Thoughts on Pipewire » 2024-06-30 17:47:33

Ron

Thanks for the link. Didn't see this thread. So I guess it's now 1 👍 and 1 👎.

#25 Re: Off-topic » Thoughts on Pipewire » 2024-06-30 17:26:00

Ron

Yeah, I noticed the company the creator works/worked for. Okay, so that's 0 👍 and 1 👎.

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