I've seen a few cases where Video DownloadHelper in firefox shows me the video file in several formats, but only one of the files will play both video and audio.

@andyprough:

How do you run linux on a computer with only 64k RAM???

There's no security repo for the Testing branch. As long as Chimaera is in testing, any security updates will filter down from Ceres, our unstable branch. Unstable means the versions can change quickly.

It takes a week for a version to move from Unstable to Testing. If you want to selectively get updates sooner than that, you can add a line for ceres to your sources.list and pin ceres to a lower priority, so that you can pick and choose what to take.

I'm not sure what will happen when Debian Bullseye goes stable. We might start tracking the security updates at that time.

What do "fixed" and "not affected" mean? I expect "not affected" to mean "doesn't need to be fixed" rather than "we fixed it".

i don't know what others do, but 'aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade' will work properly in debian/devuan. You do need to have a line for the security repo in sources.list, but that's usually there by default.

I'm pretty sure that works in ubuntu, too. I'm not sure about mint. They break up their releases differently from the others.

Yeah, we made it official at yesterday's meeting. Nice to see that you showed up, but you left too soon. IRC is asynchronous. You gotta hang around, even if you don't sit there watching the irc screen.

sda1 should be the efi partition, which appears to be correctly mounted at /boot/efi. Run blkid to prove to yourself that it holds a fat32 (vfat) filesystem.

I'm having trouble keeping up with the changes in grub's behavior over the last year or so, but I think you probably just need to remove grub-efi-amd64-signed. The unsigned package will remain. Run grub-install and update-grub afterward. This solution assumes you don't use secure boot.

If that doesn't work, ask again or poke around the forum for other solutions. (Hint: search for "set prefix")

I'm another one who saw this on the chimaera isos. I don't know if it's in any of the beowulf isos. My solution was to change the wireless password to one that contained only lower-case characters, and it worked. Disabling the password worked, too.

It only seems to be a problem with the installer. The installed system works fine with the original password that contains other characters.

All the installer isos have non-free firmware that gets installed if your hardware needs it unless to choose expert install and tell it you don't want non-free. In the live-isos, most of the wireless firmware packages are already installed.

arno-iptables-firewall is nice and simple. You can configure it with debconf, and it will ask a few questions about which interface(s) to use and which ports to open, etc. There's a way to do fancier stuff by editing configs, but I've never done anything with that.

After making the edit:
Use su -if you want to cd to /root.
Use su if you want to stay in the current directory or if you want to run a graphical app as root on the user's desktop. (e.g. I frequently start gparted from terminal because I'm already in a terminal and it's easier than going up to the menu.)

@Dutch_Master: check to see if your cpu or motherboard is known to freeze with linux. I have one box that needs an extra boot option to prevent lockups.

I hate using 'su -'. Most of the time when I become root, I'm already in the directory where I want to do stuff, and I want to stay there. I don't want to change to /root. And sometimes I want to run a graphical app as root from the user's desktop. That got lost in the change, too. Fortunately, there's a way to restore the old behavior.

ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes

in /etc/default/su