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Re: ffmpeg (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Hours 39 Minutes ago by: fafar2019 i remove savoury1/ffmpeg ppa, and all is right ! Thanks for your help
Re: ffmpeg (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Hours 36 Minutes ago by: fafar2019 I haven't change anything in sources.list (it's empty).
Re: ffmpeg (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Hours 20 Minutes ago by: Andrei Z. Questions : Rob Savoury https://answers.launchpad.net/~savoury1 05946 sav0_PPA: Some program not started after xubuntu 22.04 partial upgrade
Re: ffmpeg (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Hours 51 Minutes ago by: Marco Moock Dependency problem. Please show your sources.list
ffmpeg alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Hours 25 Minutes ago by: fafar2019 Hi, when apt fullupgrade wants to upgrade ffmpeg 7:4.4.3-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav2 to 7:4.4.3-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav3, it uninstall a lot of other packages (about 30 like libreoffice..) i use. What is the problem ? Emmanuel
Deja dup alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Jeff Layman Just upgraded from 20.3 to 21.0 (will stay with this for a while before going to 21.1). I see that the Deja Dup ("Backups") interface has changed in 42.9. When using "Restore" and looking at individual files/folders it seems there is no
Re: Packages not upgraded. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Day 10 Hours ago by: Big Al Cute. I don't see that often but I'll have to keep an eye on that. !bookmarked!
Re: Packages not upgraded. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Day 14 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. Phasing Ubuntu Stable Release Updates https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/phased-updates.html
Packages not upgraded. alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Day 23 Hours ago by: Big Al I did an apt autoremove to clear extra kernels and saw a not that packages could be upgraded. sudo apt list --upgradable Listing... Done gnome-remote-desktop/jammy-updates 42.7-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 42.4-0ubuntu1] grub-efi-amd64
Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 2 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite I had Mageia 8 installed as a VM on my 20.3 system. The TBS driver compiled without problems. I am not going to waste further time on 21.1.
Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 2 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite Mint 21.1 is on one drive 20.3 on another. The latter runs for most of the day, sometimes continually. The former only when I try to prepare it to take over. This is the only procedure that has failed. The machine would have only be
Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 2 Days 21 Hours ago by: Paul 1) See if your GRUB menu has a "memtest" option. This puts a nominal amount of load on the CPU, and should visit most of the memory locations. If a machine has a weak power supply, or the CPU is not cooled properly and ha
Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 3 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic Have you ruled out a faulty PS or aging MB?
Crashed Mint 21.1 alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 3 Days 2 Hours ago by: pinnerite Every time I run up a new o/s on my main workhorse I have to compile drivers for my TBS Technologies DVB-T2 card. This had become routine until Mint 21.1. During today's exercise, it crashed the whole machine. Not once but four times.
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 3 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite I made an effort this morning on 20.3 and fixed Firefox so nthat I could watch "Grace".
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 3 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite Let us not get carried away. Kaffeine has been successfully running under Mint on the same hardware for the last five years. Moreover it runs on a virtual Mageia 8 over Mint 20.3. It is only under Mint 21.1 that I have the problem. If
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic Throw that LMDE5 into the mix, and see if it plays nice in a non UB environment.
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 2 Hours ago by: Mike Easter I would try to figure out if kaffeine will run on that/your hardware by using a KDE system instead of a 'non-KDE' gtk-based system like Mint. I booted a live KDE Neon (22.04 5.27). Kaffeine 2.0.18 was in the repo/s. It had a LOT of de
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: pinnerite It puzzles me that vlc doesn't suffer from the problem! Alan
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul Video cards have hardware decoders. Some of those, use hardly any CPU at all. It is practically a matter of shoving MPEG2 packets towards it, and it returns frame buffers of movie in return. The CPU usage could drop to 1% while this is h
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite You are definitely helping but still some way to go. Firstly, my hardware is indeed fairly old although faiing bits have been replaced from time to time and the memory quadrupled. The graphic drivers are Radeon HD-4350/4550. I have ha
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 19 Hours ago by: Paul You know your graphics card is crusty ("old"). libplacebo seems to have gathered some hardware acceleration features for video, in one place. That's probably why it is calling libva in the usual way. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 4 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite No, none of the options worked. I completely uninstalled and then reinstalled from the command line. I then ran from the command line. This is the result: alan@albury:~$ /usr/bin/kaffeine 22-03-23 22:54:05.772 [Warning ] QCommandLinePa
Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Bill wrote: Sounds about right - it eats however much space you need to make a complete backup of the root filesystem (approx 10-12 GiB on a fresh LM install). Use the term
Re: Timeshift and bigger issues...[QUIT] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al wanted to see. What I have works, and I have a simple install script that make a reload simple if needed. Thanks to all.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-20, Big Al wrote: Is your system's root partition (i.e. the internal HDD) btrfs? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcweBnbWVw5UznKGAFAmQZtDcACgkQbWVw5U
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Killadebug You cannot use time shift to save a btrfs snapshot onto another device. Timeshift expects teo subvol @ and @home BTRFS snapshots can only be stored on the BTRFS partition in which they were taken. If you want to use timeshift to store
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al I finally found a good page that seems to explain making these subvols. I'll play tomorrow and post later. Wish me luck.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al The BTRFS is on one external HD, one partition. How do I make this @ sub group? What I read while searching was it was a sub volume and threw me.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al The easy was just formatting the hard drive. Beyond that, nothing worked. Thanks.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 6 Days 21 Hours ago by: Gordon The BTRFS partition needs a sub group for time shift to work. Its the @. You also need BTRFS on the parition you wish to timeshift/backup.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 7 Days ago by: Nic I did not understand your leading comment. You came across as easy peasy, if you ask me software backups are a joke, that will send you into backup hell.
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 7 Days ago by: Big Al No, that's the point of "What did I do wrong?" I get the error something about '@root' or 'not @btrfs drive'
Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic So what are you saying? Did it work out?
Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al Okay, using the 'disks' program in linux Mint it seems easy to take this 500G external drive and format the ntfs partition on a MBR drive to BTRFS for timeshift. Easy/peasy. Now timeshift won't use it with some error about @root? What d
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: Big Al If I had a brain, I'd look at your signature. Duh!
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite At the moment Mint 20.3 but the problem posted was on Mint 21.1. As for staying away from KDFE programs, Kaffeine has always been my backstop for TV viewing until I could get Mythtv to work. Alan
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Paul Kaffeine is a media player, according to the arch page. That means, a "disable hardware acceleration" might be needed. https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kaffeine/-/tree/v2.0.18 "Settings --> Configure Kaffeine --> libVLC, changin
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Sjouke Burry Add milk and sugar, then mix gently.
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days ago by: Big Al What version of Linux are you running? I try to stay away from KDE programs with Cinnamon but I do have some and most of the background KDE is here.
Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days ago by: Big Al You're upgrading and some things don't work huh?
Kaffeine 2.0.18 alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days ago by: pinnerite When I try to run kaffeine 2.0.18 on Mint 21.1, it crashes. These are the errors reported when I run it from a terminal: [00007f532c004e90] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed [00007f533000e8a0] main video output
Re: samba solution - maybe (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite I got it to work. I am pretty sure now that the problem wasn't to do with the smb.conf settings but with my smbpasswd having been incorrectly set. Regards, Alan
Re: rsync stalemate (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite OK someone on the Ubuntu or Mageia group spotted my mistake, include-from should have been --include-from. Now, the "." files. If I were to copy all of the "." files from an old to a new distro, I would probably screw up some newer setti
Re: rsync stalemate (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 2 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge ^ \| Sorry, that should be /mnt/sda5/alan/
Re: rsync stalemate (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge Make sure you have rwx access /mnt/sdb5/alan and have rx access to /mnt/sda5/alan Where exactly is myincludes.txt? Assume it's in /mnt/sda5/alan? rsync -avr --include-from="/mnt/sda5/alan/includes.txt" --include="/mnt/sda5/alan/" --exc
Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al I do make a list and I have quite a lot of settings etc in a backup script. I guess as you say, the most secure way is to just fresh load. I hate like hell to do it. I know I'll drop so many settings but I'll have a stable system when
Re: rsync stalemate (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge Try -anrvvv to see what's happening. rsync include/exclude _is_ confusing until you understand it. I found <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/rsync-include-only-certain-files-types-excluding-some-directories> helpful.
Re: rsync stalemate (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al Minor item, -a implies -r per man page. And it seems contrary to exclude dot files but include dot files. What would happen if you dropped the --exclude?
rsync stalemate alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive. rsync reports: sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN) rs
Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 9 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite I have had 20 years of (mis)using Linux. The first time of not doing a clean install was the last! The time taken trying to overcome unforseen issues was greater than reconstituting settings to a clean installation. Answer? Always dia
Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days ago by: Gordon In general, doing a clean install is just that. You will get a clean install and no surprises. You do lose some configuration files and/or programmes which you have installed, if you are not careful. Doing an upgrade may leave some junk
Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al Update manager was just updated and now you get the reminder (once) to upgrade to v21 of Linux Mint. I've missed / skipped reading a lot of the talk about 'either upgrade or reload?' threads. Interested in hearing from people that jumped
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 13 Hours ago by: pinnerite Brilliant. Thank you. Alan
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 18 Hours ago by: Paul The 0.9.16 is from the year 2015. This would be newer. https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/lmdb.html https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/archive/LMDB_0.9.29.tar.gz Paul
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite Whoops. I made a mistake. I need to compile version 4.2.13.17. The version in the subject line is the current Mint 21.1 version. Alan
Re: samba solution - maybe (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul You will notice in my picture, WinXP connected to LM211. It can only do that with NT1. It has no other working option. Windows 11 also connected to LM211 in that picture. It definitely won't be using NT1 to do that. It managed to conne
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul I got mine working. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif That avoids the bugged authentication path. Paul
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 1 Hour ago by: Jonathan N. Little You shouldn't use if if you don't have to but as long as there are active legacy devices and software it is still an option. <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html#SERVERMINPROTOCOL> Still a valid option...
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: pinnerite As has been explained ad nauseum. NT1 has been deprecated. That is why old gits like me need to compile an earlier version. I am taking care, thank you and I hope you continue to do the same. Alan
Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Jonathan N. Little Why? Earlier versions also supported it. If this is a server that you have some old client like WinXP needs to access, just set the servers min protocol: server min protocol = NT1
I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite This so I can compile samba 4.15.13 because it supported protocol NM1 (SMB1). I cannot find it in the Mint 21.1 repository. TIA
Re: samba solution - maybe (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: pinnerite I must confess that I didn't. That was because the NB1 (SMB1) potocal had been removed from samba and nothing would bring it back.
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 14 Hours ago by: Edmund Before we completely float to another universe... I run proxmox local and want to run both proxmox and the VM's on one computer.
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic You introduced a new word idea Proxmox, are you working for the metaverse team, do you believe the future of mankind will reside in some digital bubble, thoughtfully provided by your local friendly representative, but but who will repair
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Edmund Well I agree with what you are saying, personally I am mostly tempted to go for that latest version. Indeed a couple 20something versions brought some annoying problems like disappearing panels. I am looking at a Virtual Machine -Proxm
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic What version are you suggesting? I have enough problems, with the upgrade, lost some programs, no longer supported, older libraries, and so on, Linux is a Godsend, but Linux is not immune to the politics of left and right, even coders ha
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days ago by: Edmund I had several issues with the 20.xx versions but no sound problems. Why don't you update the whole system to the latest version?
Re: samba solution - maybe (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul Did you try my suggestion to make your share "public" ? [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif That avoids the bugged authentication path. Paul
samba solution - maybe alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite So far nothing I have tried has enabled me to run windows XP under Vbox under Mint 21.1. I had the same problem when Mint 20.3 was updated with NT1 (SMB1) security protocol was removed. In that case I restored an earlier version of samba
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 4 Hours ago by: Nic BINGO! That did it, I un-installed Timidity and sound works at boot up. Now I have to see if LMMS works for my midi files. Thank You.
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 5 Hours ago by: Nic I will give that a try and see what happens the next time I re-boot.
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: Kirk_Rockstein Probably need to disable timidity. sudo systemctl disable timidity
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Big Al Same here and my sound works.
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Nic I get nothing from this CL entry, back to the $ prompt
Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Marco Moock What does sudo grep -i alsa /var/log/syslog say?
No audio after upgrading to 20.3 alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Nic I found a workaround, using the CL sudo alsa force-reload, the problem is that it does not persist, the next time I re boot system I have no audio and must re enter the CL sudo alsa force-reload. Has anybody had a similar problem and how d
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite Thank you all. I couldn't think straight last night. Regards, Alan
Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/
Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. <ahref="https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/"How To Stress Test GPU?</a>
Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. <a href="https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/"><strong>How To Stress Test GPU?</strong></a>
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 18 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. How to use Rsync Command on Linux https://www.linuxcapable.com/linux-rsync-command/ "Use Dry Run to Test Rsync Command"
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 13 Days 20 Hours ago by: stepore I wouldn't recommend it. /dev/sda/xxx are devices. To access the data you have to mount the device. then rsync the data.
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 14 Days ago by: Killadebug Try FreeFileSync or Grsync.
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 14 Days 2 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge rsync [options] /mnt/sda?/home/DIR /mnt/sdb?/home will transfer all of DIR from /mnt/sda?/home to /mnt/sdb?/home if /dev/sda? is mounted on /mnt/sda? and /dev/sdb? is mounted on /mnt/sdb? where ? is the relevant partition number. option
Re: rsync question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s probably on /mnt.
rsync question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple. I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb). I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this: # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sd
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days ago by: Paul There are sources of discount licenses. People would not be interested in them, unless they were $30 or less. Versus $100 or $150 or whatever, at retail. It's pretty hard to tell just where these licenses have come from, because Microsof
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul OK, the 4.15 SAMBA is a rat bastard. But I did get around it. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif The evidence suggests there is an authentication problem when logging into LM211 with its 4.15 Samba
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite So on Mint 21.1, that seems to work for Windows 10 but not for XP. I tried using VBox's shared directories. They show up all right. Some programs could be made to run but the two important programs that make me still need XP just woul
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Rod Speed $5 or so, Rumm listed it recently.
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic What does a license cost?
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Rod Speed A W10 license doesn't cost anything like that.
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 6 Hours ago by: Nic Given that you are using a m$ product to drive a machine, it might be more cost effective to look at some of those dell laptop latitudes selling for around $100. The cost of the machine includes a license for w7 or w10, the cost of the m
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite I just ran up a clean 21.1 installation. Virtual XP still cannot access the Linux folders. Alan
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 15 Days 10 Hours ago by: Rob H You are a bit late anyways now because I did what I wanted 2 days ago now
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 15 Hours ago by: The Natural Philosop I remember having too do similar back in the day when I still used samba. But I don't use it any more, not even for my windows VM. You don't need it to access a local hard drive under virtual box. And my NFS mounted server partitions ap
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 15 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul it took me quite a while to tip my Linux drive upright again. (A restore from backup didn't quite do what it was supposed to do.) I did a do-partial-upgrade on a 20.04.3 to 20.04.5 and the 4.15 SAMBA came in. Initially, nothing worked.
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 15 Days 16 Hours ago by: stepore Immaterial? WT hell. You literally ask: "the same method used to move it before"! How the hell should we know what you did to move it before. We need this information in order to know what is the best way. As you're asking "what is be
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 16 Days 9 Hours ago by: pinnerite It looks like an update 2023-03-08 caused the problem. The earliest timeshift entry is for the same date. Presumably I can uninstall the installed version (2:4.15.12) from synaptic. But how do I install version 2:4.13.17? Oh! The Wind
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 16 Days 13 Hours ago by: SH This sounds like SMB v1.0 and SMB v2.0 has been disabled on the Windows VMs so that SMB v3.0 is then the only "option" by default. You need to turn SMB 1.0 and SMB 2.0 back on and you will get the usual security warnings on the window
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 16 Days 14 Hours ago by: Rob H Why do you want to know something I did about 3 years ago and is immaterial to me now
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 16 Days 14 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. Bug #2009863 Upgrade from Samba 4.13 to 4.15 results in "dlopen(pam_winbind.so): /lib/security/pam_winbind.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/2009863
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 16 Days 15 Hours ago by: stepore And once more, how should we know what guide that was or what you did before? I mean. omg.
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 16 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul There is SMB1, SMB2, SMB3. WinXP has only SMB1. Win10 supports all three. The three of them aren't that much different, it's just that the later versions of SAMBA support operation across the Internet better, by using better crypto. In
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days ago by: Jack Strangio FWIW, I always have several root partitions on my boot disk. There is the root partition of my 'everyday system', and a root partition of a 'rescue' partition which does the same job as having a Live disk but also can immediately take over
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 17 Days ago by: John Rumm Check the windows update has not disabled the "insecure" SMB1 client... there is a program (that you can turn off) that does that periodically! Got setings -> apps and features - Optional Features -> More windows features (down the bot
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) alt.os.linux.mageia Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: David W. Hodgins Samba has made several fixes to tighten security. See for example https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.16.8.html You can choose to use an older version of samba, but be careful to ensure that it can not be accessed by untrusted s
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic Can you look at your history of updates in the update manager to see what update has caused this problem?
Re: samba problem - I think (thread) uk.d-i-y Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: jim.gm4dhj bloody computers who would have them...
samba problem - I think uk.d-i-y Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite For many years I have had to retain two Windows virtual machines, running on a Linux host and VirtualBox. I need Windows XP for a large home-grown 16 bit programe and for a programme that drives a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder-scanner. Windows
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 7 Hours ago by: Rob H Thanks Paul. I booted a liveUSB with Mint 21.1, then copied /home from the spinning disc to the ssd. I shut my system down and thought that if I disconnected the spinning disc, /home would be picked up on the ssd when booting up. But no
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul So you do have something to fix then. The two identifiers are not currently the same value. /dev/sda1: UUID="f41a8ea3-79d3-473d-bee1-45fc22caf353" UUIDw774aea-0430-4429-b301-a220157601a5 /home ext4 defaults 0
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul For Windows, removing the boot flag should stop it from booting (legacy MSDOS partitioning). For Linux, fiddling the MBR code block will stop the first stage of GRUB (on legacy, not UEFI). This site usually has diagrams of what to expect.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite The system uses the BIOS.
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Rob H these are the UUID's of the disks now. the new ssd is sda1: rob@rob-Z97:~$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb: LABEL="WDBlue" UUID="77774aea-0430-4429-b301-a220157601a5" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdc5: UUID="f24b367a-1f06-47f5-9ec9-b33c4c33
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Rob H Because I followed a guide on a Ubuntu site.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock Please specify if you have UEFI boot or BIOS/CSM boot. This is very important because the entire boot process is different.
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock Don't use it that way. Run it without sudo - you will be granted permission via PolKit.
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 16 Hours ago by: stepore How should we know what "the same method used to move it before" was? Crystal ball or?
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 17 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul So your home entry has a UUID. You would want to review the results of the cloning and see if the UUID of the new item is correct. And stop using the old spindle (disconnect), so there won't be two items with the same UUID. Alternately,
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul Well, I tried messing with it, and the results were weird. You're right, that the NVRAM caches it. But the NVRAM also has triggers for when it is supposed to re-evaluate the structure on the disk. And while I was working on the drive,
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 3 Hours ago by: Rob H
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 4 Hours ago by: Nic Just unplug the drive before booting and after booting plug the drive back in, this is a sure way.
Semi-disabling a boot drive alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite The comments in this thread make me I feel this has become over-complicated. Is there a single file that i can rename that will inhibit booting?
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite For cloning they are unmounted.
Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: Paul How about boot a LiveDVD, run gparted and "copy" the partition in question to the SSD ? You don't want the normal OS running that uses /home, to have it open at the time, which is why a separate boot OS (LiveDVD) might be better. su
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul That capability started around the year 2005. Popup boot was first offered with legacy BIOS, but also exists with UEFI machines. The feature was "standardized enough" among legacy BIOS companies, that the color of the blue border is a st
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul In my example, it failed to do that. And jumped to the second disk drive. This was while using the F8 Popup Boot menu, where the two Windows Boot Manager menu items (plus their disk drive identifier) are sitting. Paul
Cloning /home another disk question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 7 Hours ago by: Rob H I have had my /home folder on a separate spinning disk for some time now, but I now want to move it onto an ssd disk. What is the best way to do this, clone it or just move it by the same method used to move it before. Thanks
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 11 Hours ago by: Marco Moock Yes. That is the case on my older BIOS-based Motherboards.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 11 Hours ago by: David Catterall Does that mean that you are able to Press a Key (such as F11) during boot-up and your BIOS will offer you a choice of drives to select? D.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock This isn't all. There is an entry in the NVRAM on the motherboard. This needs to be removed too. This can be done in the UEFI firmware setup or under Linux via efibootmgr.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock I cannot agree with it. SecureBoot is handled by MS - but you can disable it and you can place your own keys inside. The only thing is that there exist bad UEFI implementations that don't allow this. EFI boot management is much easier w
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Marco Moock You select one disk (like HDD1 WD2500JS) and it will look in the 1st sector. Then it loads the software from there.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Marco Moock It depends how the partition is being mounted. If it is being mounted via the name /dev/sdXY, it works. If it is being mounted by the label or UUID, it will be ambiguous.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul It scans them all. And, it gets pissed when it finds two Windows Boot Managers :-) I would have hoped, that disks would be analyzed independently, such that two Windows Boot Managers could live in harmony, but that isn't entire the case
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 18 Days 23 Hours ago by: David Catterall Marco, I'm wondering how the BIOS knows which drive has the bootloader on it. Cheers, David in Co Longford
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite I have been cloning booting from a live CD/DVD, either Knoppix or Parted Magic for about 15 years without a problem using dd. What I want to do now is intended to update one from the other so as to ensure they remain in sync until I ne
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 2 Hours ago by: Marco Moock Boot flags aren't needed for classic boot anyway. I had a GPT partition table and BIOS boot (no UEFI). No boot flag set. I also had Linux machines with MBR partition table and no boot flag. Is it maybe just Windows that sets it? I read
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul Two hot disks, is not redundancy. If the power supply fails, both hard drives could be destroyed. The second disk (your emergency disk) should remain unplugged while the working disk is in usage. Making a backup of the working disk, the
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: yossarian My computers use UEFI so I don't know about BIOS implementations.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: yossarian On my wife Mint 19 comp, there is a flag for boot https://i.postimg.cc/8Ck9jF4k/Screenshot-from-2023-03-08-16-43-51.png I have dual boot so my flag is on windows efi partition.
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul There is actually a case where a Linux uses the boot flag. https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html "The SYSLINUX boot loader is another Linux boot loader that includes GPT support. This support resides in the MBR and redir
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/ZRvVX031/boot-flag-windows-only.gif That flag is used by the Windows MBR code, to select a Windows partition to be the boot partition. It's only used on legacy partitioned disks (three primary, e
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Bit Twister
Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul When I use the Thunderbird spell checker, things work as expected. When I use the LibreOffice one, it's all sorts of crazy. Sure, it highlights things, but it does not have the correct entries in the dictionary for anything. I couldn't r
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Marco Moock My disks don't have that flag and can still boot via BIOS. It seems that this flag is unrelated to most BIOS implementations.
Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. Mint 21.1 Installed by default: $ apt search hunspell \| grep ^i i hunspell-de-at-frami - German (Austria) dictionary for hunspell ("frami" version) i hunspell-de-ch-frami - German (Switzerland) dictionary for hunspell ("frami" ver
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: yossarian Gparted, select drive, Partition, manage flags, Remove check mark from boot Try might help
Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: Marco Moock Make sure the partitions there get a new UUID - it will confuse operating systems if 2 partitions have the same UUID. If you want redundancy, use RAID. How do you boot? UEFI or BIOS boot?
Semi-disabling a boot drive alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite My computers have two drive caddies. Only one is normally enabled because they are bootable drives. However, I would have cloned the first drive to the second using a live CD/DVD/flash drive. But thereafter they get out of sync. If i cou
Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 13 Hours ago by: Edmund LO is pretty chaotic, I never understood that spell check enigma but installing "hunspell" dictionaries ( or something ) works for me.
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 14 Hours ago by: Gordon In Mint they are baked in for updates, as per apt. It happens with the updates automagically. In preferences, Automation tab, other updates.
OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 19 Days 19 Hours ago by: greybeard Problem: cannot get LOffice to use a dictionary for spellcheck etc. Tried HELP; Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. tick all the boxes, close window, selected dictionary disappears never to be used. Online help is terr
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. "Based on yt-dlp" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter LM 21.1 also has by default youtube-dl a commandline for vid dl/s in its universe repo. http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ There are also a lot of forks at github if you search on ytdl-org there.
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter And, that VDl gets updated pretty frequently: https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader/releases v 0.11.0 was just released 2 d ago, and significantly more frequently than mo'ly.
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Also; unlike Snaps, flatpaks don't 'try' to update, you have to initiate some kind of action by such as using the command line flatpak update which will show you the flatpaks for which an update is available, or by using the Software c
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 7 Hours ago by: Edmund LOL How could I have missed that one. Thank you for embarrassing me :-) Never mind I prefer Brave, besides that I tried both Video-downloader AND the Firefox with the addon. They might be the same but they aren't, sometimes I could use
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 7 Hours ago by: Big Al I simply wrote a bash script that copies all the settings I could find, and some are realty hidden. And then I have a script the loads a fresh install putting back all the settings, loading all the apps and where I couldn't find the setti
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Mike Easter v = version, VDl = the free standing video downloader, VDHelper = the Firefox add-on I booted a live Mint which has flatpak by default and installed the VDl from the flatpak which v is 0.11.0 In the case of VDl, the window has a *convent
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Nic You offer some good advice. A 'good' backup strategy is a must, appropriate updates/upgrades, also according to Dan P suggests coping the Home directory and pasting it into the new clean install across versions.
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Edmund Hm love abbreviations : NOT I take a guess here : VDL = VideoDownloader Ffx = Firefox no idea what v# is. Of course it would be silly if the coders tell us where to find configurations files and how to edit them. I found it : it is in
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Nic That is good to know. This morning I spent an hour or so installing LMDE5, I am very impressed. It come with an earlier version of TB 96 (not sure) which I got up and running, installed to a spare 1TB SSD. I installed some of my must have
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Mike Easter That flatpak VDl looks like a 'freestanding' app and not the same as VDHelper add-on for Ffx which has a completely different v #. I would have to install it in something to explore how to configure its options. Maybe later. My under
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-06, Nic wrote: Not really -- if you bring your preferences forward (i.e. your $HOME/.config or just the entire $HOME); you can usually get 2 or 3 versions of Linux Mint to "feel
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 10 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-06, Nic wrote: Yep, got this one too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcweBnbWVw5UznKGAFAmQHLksACgkQbWVw5Uzn KGAjpg/+IKMe7mrhJxoFNXMiuSwsW+QwHjIXAsm5NB
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 12 Hours ago by: Edmund OK I uninstalled this version, installed a new one https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader This one seems to work but noone knows where it hide the downloads. Funny info: Changes in version 0.11.0 Add option to
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 15 Hours ago by: Bill I watched a YouTube video on how to do this install. I thought, not much new here. Then when I tried again, I recalled that the person in the video clicked on the "Install Linux Mint" icon on the virtual desktop... Color me, :::embar
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter That is why I asked about the v. Apparently it is a 'common occurrence' that YT doesn't work (again) and so VDH has to do another v. Earlier: ... and earlier: .... and so forth thru' many v/s.
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days ago by: Nic Video DownloadHelper does not work for youtube
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days ago by: Edmund Maybe I am but I don't know what you talking about :-) I use the GUI and there are options visible. For a while I used a command-line version because the "normal" ( GUI versions are normal IMO ) was broken. I want to download some youtub
Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days ago by: Mike Easter I assume you are talking about the Ffx extension Video DownloadHelper What is your Ffx v? What is your VDH v?
Video Downloader sabotaged again? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days ago by: Edmund Video Downloader sabotaged again? It doesn't work here anymore. What is going on? Edmund
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days ago by: Mike Easter From my observations, more so of the reports of others than my own experience, LM is 'very good' about how it handles the update and upgrade process. I don't have personal experience w/ Timeshift but I think the solution which would
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic I answered you but TB has failed me again. This is what I have in my Sent/Folder "As you can guess I am not one of those people who updates for the sake of updates. I wonder if the Debian Mint has a longer survival rate than the way Mint
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic I understand and thanks for the link, it just really bothers me that once you get your computing device working like you want it, and you have put all that work towards fine tuning it, then you either update or are forced to upgrade and n
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al Would this help? https://linuxmint.com/download_all.php As with and EOL software like Windows 7, it hit EOL a long time ago, but the software still works, you just don't get updates anymore. So your security starts going downhill.
Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 2 Hours ago by: Mike Easter All of the LM/s these days are LTS in that they are based on a LTS Ubuntu's repo/s. Ubuntu releases LTS v/s and non-LTS. Mint doesn't base its releases on the Ub non-LTS now. In the case of Ub & Mint, 'conventional' LTS means 5 y.
regarding EOL Mint alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/linux-mint What does it mean when an EOL is followed LTS? I see Mint 19.3 has an LTS (long term support)
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Tb configures any account (mail or news) to compose in html or plaintext only and the default configuration is when posting in html to include the plaintext part. If a person has configured a Tb account to post in html (or plaintext),
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Nic
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-06, Nic wrote: Unlike the post from tbird that started this thread, this one arrived through e-s. Guess e-s doesn't care for the HTML messages as others theorized. -----BEGIN
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 9 Hours ago by: Nic I checked the composition and it was set as 'automatic', I selected 'text only' , will see if this helps.
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 12 Hours ago by: Paul I don't think Windows would interfere with VirtualBox internal operations. Here, you can see the GRUB points to GPT2, which agrees with gnome-disks. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/8zb2Cgzy/EFI-LM211-in-Virtualbox.gif Booting (
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 16 Hours ago by: Paul Airwolfe is going to blast this one on sight. This looks like an HTML posting. Some receiving servers filter off UTF8 Subject lines (emojis) or filter off full-fledged HTML postings. This post may be recorded in your Sent box, as proof yo
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 17 Hours ago by: Bill Yes, I was able to do the install through the (virtual) optical drive. Vut after trying to boot again I can't get passed that "boot manager"--unless I direct it to reboot from the optical drive (iso). I tried the process again today us
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 17 Hours ago by: Paul Does it look like this, when you hammer <esc> key ? [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/kgbgJTrD/Boot-Manager-via-ESC-key.gif It's one of those tab and arrow key things, <cr> when you land on the desired entry. Paul
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 22 Hours ago by: Mike Easter The status bar is at the very bottom of the Tb window, it shows the 'activity' such as when you access a news server account it shows Tb looking up the IP from the DNS, contacting the news server, downloading the headers. I don't reca
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 22 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Tb has a Status bar which is helpful to tell what is going on. I use Tb's menus where the status bar configuration shows up in View/ Toolbars/ Status menu. If you don't have the menus enabled, it is in Hamburger icon/ Preferences/ St
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic It seems that in usenet when I reply to a message, sometime it is recorded in my Local/Sent/Folder but never shows up at the news-server, other times the reply does not even get recorded in the sent folder or show up at the news server.
Re: OT Question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter More about Enigmail. I heard (somewhere) that Texstar aka Bill Reynolds dev of PCLOS had compiled an Interlink mail/news client for pclos, so I grabbed a 2023 v. of his KDE Darkstar. Interlink is a linux mail/news that enigmail support
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter The .ppa one will show up in your synaptic. The software manager shows both conventional .deb packages and flatpaks. An important consideration about Tb is that just installing a different version does NOT solve many problems which a
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days ago by: Nic The last one I did the .ppa method, the one before last was in my software update manager. My thinking is to totally remove every vestige of TB and find an earlier version that did not give be problems.
Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM? alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days ago by: Mike Easter Tut tut. New topic/question guide time again. http://al.howardknight.net/?ID7805370800 From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Question Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:46:07 -0800 Message-ID: <k6etjgF5ksuU1@mid.individual
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: pinnerite I didn't expect so many brilliant replies. Thank you, Alan
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bill It brings me into "UEFI mode", and while I tried alot of things, I couldn't proceed through it (with "continue") to do the install. I presume I was to try to boot the virtual "optical" driver so that it would see my iso file. Is there
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al I've also got the nemo add on action called 'print tree'. It prints to html and displays a web page. You can copy all in the web page and have no special characters showing. I just did my downloads folder /home/alan/Downloads └──
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al I get things like └── [01;33mstores[00m which are color commands You don't see it here by on the screen it's ESC[01;33m which is a color command for orange. Geany would let you search and replace these codes.
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 12 Hours ago by: Bill Yes, I'm going to try that. It didn't help using it (only) post install. Thanks!
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul The EFI popup boot key is <esc>, and depending on the hosting software, you have to hammer the living shit out of that key, to meet the tiny timing window. If successful, you can select a storage device in the Guest as the boot device.
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 14 Hours ago by: Bill Didn't work. Next time I'll try "installing" in EFI mode.
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 22 Days 17 Hours ago by: Bill Thank you for this! It makes me feel like I'm in good company--instead of being the only one encountering this problem. I think I'll "start fresh". I did such a thorough job of customizing my installation I was hesitating about doing t
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days ago by: Paul If you look with a hex editor, there is more than that to clean up. Paul
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Monsieur In Libreoffice Writer, just select the unwanted characters in the text and press ctrl-H to open the Find & Replace window. The characters that you selected are already in the Find field, so all you have to do is type a space in the Rep
Re: Non-Printing characters (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul I converted to HTML instead of "text with embedded graphics commands". ******* sudo tree -H . -d --prune -o mytree.htm Then, pull that into LibreOffice Writer, and use that as a converter. Optionally, use an HTM to PDF converter. The
Non-Printing characters alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite $ sudo tree -d --prune -o mytree.txt It produced a report but every row contained two non-printing characters. I would like to replace them with spaces, preferrably using something like libreoffice. Can it be done? TIA
Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andrei Z. Troubleshooting "No Bootable Medium Found" Error in VirtualBox https://itsfoss.com/virtualbox-no-bootable-medium-found/
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 9 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: If it were early/mid 2021? Eh, maybe. But 2 years after the LM-18 release has been EOL'd? Chances are there's at least one game-breaking dependency now. "CVE" i
Can't access boot drive (vdi) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 10 Hours ago by: Bill I did a clean install of VirtualBox 7.06 (on Windows 10 Pro), and installed LM 21.1. All went well. On subsequent restart I get the error (copied from the Log) 00:00:08.027292 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed 00:00:0
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 15 Hours ago by: Monsieur Well, this is interesting. I still have about 35 old Mint isos, including 1.0-beta, 2.0, 3, 4, 5... up to the most recent ones, so I decided to experiment a bit. Created a usb-stick with Mint 7 and one with Mint 11, but they wouldn't
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Oh, yeah; I forgot about that. The repo/s are gone/dead.
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic Very Nice! Thanks
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: greybeard Here ya go... take your pick; http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/mint/isos/stable/
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic Might it be possible to update to the latest FF and TB in such an old version? What are CVEs? This only shows my lack of knowledge or ignorance of the topic at hand, but curiosity abounds in all living creatures. Nic <Nic@none.net>
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: You mean the general risks of (if for example) using a LM 18 installer, and trying to run firefox from 2016 without the current list of rootCA trust? Or perhaps no
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Mike Easter wrote: That list probably wouldn't be all that big, since the repos are somewhat "gone" these days. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcw
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic The trick would be to use it right out of the box and see if it even works. Could you browse? Too many broken sites? It is my opinion that the vector for malware always focuses on the latest versions and tend to overlook old and restired
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days ago by: Mike Easter Well, since my fave playground is a live distro, that is how I would approach the issue. I would boot a live LM 18.3 (if you can find one) and use its update mgr to get a big list of all the updates offered. I can't recall exactly ho
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days ago by: Nic I was curious if there were any such users and if and how they overcame that illusive 'security risk' that every one runs in terror in the other direction. It would be interesting if there was some one wiser than you or I that could elab
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 1 Hour ago by: Mike Easter In the past, I have used v/s of LM past the EOL. I used LM 17.3 LTS based on Ub 14.04 past its EOL 2019 Apr. Back then, there was both 64&32bit as well as KDE. There was also a KDE for LM 18 (LTS on Ub 16.04 EOL 2021 Apr) which also
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: I would certainly hope they wouldn't be using EOL versions of Linux (same goes for the windows types...) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6f
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic That was the point of my question, to see if there were any users of pre-19.0 Linux Mint. From other groups I read that there are people who still use windows xp and w7, whose support ended long ago, there may be people who are still u
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: For the most part, they're more like "guidelines for getting a response you want" (or, in some cases; a response at all). There must've been an error at e-s; as
Re: OT Question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Mike Easter wrote: Quite so. Shame that it misbehaves in that manner. :( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcweBnbWVw5UznKGAFAmQCUu8ACgkQbWVw5Uzn KGB
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic Let us hope there more more people who can answer a question without having to evangelize.
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Of course not; usenet is organized anarchy :-) Nono. Your thread is 'public fodder' for conversation. My msg, which was 'off-topic' for your specific request, was what would be considered a 'meta-' topical response. That is, it was
Re: OT Question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter Enigmail was a great enabler for Tb. The enigmail dev doesn't support Tb anymore since v 78.xx, just interlink, epyrus, and postbox. I tested the newer Tb v/s some time back and found them 'unsatisfactory' for pgp related purposes. To
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic Are these the absolute in stone rules? You got the idea of my question, so if you do not have an answer you should not inject yourself into the thread.
Re: Question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter How to create a new Subject thread/question. - do not give the new subject thread a generic title like 'question' nor ask a question in the subject - I recommend creating the BODY of a new subject thread /first/ to enable the best
Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bill Your link above reflects my experience exactly! I blame "timeshift". I did install a second version of Linux, and the 2nd version was accessing the first file system. But when I tried to use Timeshift through the command line I got a "
Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 11 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Bill wrote: You should be able to log in via a tty (CTRL+ALT+F1), and manage to clean up enough that you can log back into the GUI. I wouldn't mess with the /timeshift dir
Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul There's various mumbling in here about the timeshift structure, and the tendency to fill a partition. Notice how some interface does not show all the structure in there, making GUI management a bit difficult. https://forums.linuxmint
Timeshift and bigger issues... alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: Bill Timeshift seemed to be hogging resources (even though I only had one backup saved, and none scheduled). So I used Timeshift to delete the one I had saved (it was a year old), and then I tried to create a new one. That process failed and
Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al But I didn't put the drive on a USB port. It was on the sata port for the DVD drive. But there could easily be a difference of the power supplied to the internal sata drive port and the DVD sata port. But power requirement doesn't seem
Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 19 Hours ago by: Paul One thing to be careful of, if sticking an SSD drive in a USB based adapter, is the amount of power the SSD draws. It does not need "spinup current", like a 2.5" hard drive (5V @ 1A). But when reading and writing, the power draw can be
Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 20 Hours ago by: Big Al I have two sata ports. One is on the motherboard. The laptop is built for 1 M2 drive and one 2.5" sata. I took the dvd out and put in a sata 2.5" drive caddy making the 2nd sata port. To fix the issue, all I did was swap the two drives.
Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul So what exactly, did you do to your new drive, since the original report ? Paul
Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 24 Days 23 Hours ago by: Big Al I have two 1TB drives (now) in the laptop. The new one went into a CD/DVD drive caddy I bought years ago to add another drive. The laptop came with an Nvme and 1TB on board. I just took what seems like 2 hours to swap the two 1TB drive
Re: Error on new SSD installed. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 25 Days ago by: Johnny If it is bad try one of these. I have three in three different computers. https://www.walmart.com/ip/SAMSUNG-1TB-870-EVO-Series-SATA-2-5-Internal-SSD-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/472556765?athbdg=L1600
Re: Error on new SSD installed. (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb # smartmontools then see what's up. On Windows, there might some "crystal" program for reading SMART. The old (free) HDTune won't handle an SSD SMART table quite right, so something else is needed. I
Error on new SSD installed. alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 25 Days 3 Hours ago by: Big Al I got a new 1TB SSD 2.5" for my laptop. It was not formatted. I started windows and it said it had to initialize the drive or something like that, and I did. Then I went into disk manager and formatted the unallocated space to ntfs bas
Re: question alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 25 Days 4 Hours ago by: Mike Easter If you want to use the flatpak v. it is currently available https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.Thunderbird If you want to enable Snaps, it is also available there: https://snapcraft.io/thunderbird If you want to add the Moz t
apparmor and libre office alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 26 Days 14 Hours ago by: nomail Can anyone explain to me what opening office document in Libre Office has by checking my thunderbird profile? Why apparmor allow that? There are six similar messages where LO checks TB and mozilla seamonkey different files. I don't use TB o
Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 27 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/m2thli/youtubedl_supports_spotify_how_to_use_it/ "Only episodes and shows are supported" <=== if these are vids, maybe youtubedl is enough. But I also see this. https://github.com/Sathy
Re: Download all domain for offline reading? Application or browser (thread) alt.os.linux Posted: 27 Days 14 Hours ago by: Edmund That is a very friendly way to put it. :-)
Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 27 Days 19 Hours ago by: Bill In case you don't know and in case it may come in handy to know, "BLOB" is a data type, in Oracle database software, for "Binary Large OBject"--basically a file (stored in a database). I've written software to download them in C++, and
Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul I don't know if your site requires any special treatment, but there is a general description here. https://www.sysgeeker.com/blog/how-to-download-blob-video.html Paul
Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Nic search for FF addon Video DownloadHelper
Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 27 Days 22 Hours ago by: Dr. Noah Bodie I want to save some Spotify videos. Is there a Fox extension that downloads BLOB videos? If not, is there another way to save them?
Re: OT Question (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Month ago by: Dan Purgert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-02-25, jeorge wrote: Aw, that's unfortunate. I haven't used tbird since you needed enigmail to do gpg signing, must've been an enigmail "feature" then. Or at least know that so
Re: Annoying Google popup - One account All of Google - in (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Edmund Thanks, no idea what happened but after a while it works again. Was stuck in a loop. Edmund
Re: Annoying Google popup - One account All of Google - in (thread) alt.os.linux.mint Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Paul Is that like an OAUTH2 for a gmail account ? https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1340259 "The popup is the OAuth2 authentication window for gmail accounts. Your address should be entered automatically, but if not, check

Re: ffmpeg (thread)

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Posted: 10 Hours 39 Minutes ago by: fafar2019

i remove savoury1/ffmpeg ppa, and all is right ! Thanks for your help

Re: ffmpeg (thread)

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Posted: 11 Hours 36 Minutes ago by: fafar2019

I haven't change anything in sources.list (it's empty).

Re: ffmpeg (thread)

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Posted: 12 Hours 20 Minutes ago by: Andrei Z.

Questions : Rob Savoury https://answers.launchpad.net/~savoury1 05946 sav0_PPA: Some program not started after xubuntu 22.04 partial upgrade

Re: ffmpeg (thread)

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Posted: 12 Hours 51 Minutes ago by: Marco Moock

Dependency problem. Please show your sources.list

ffmpeg

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Posted: 13 Hours 25 Minutes ago by: fafar2019

Hi, when apt fullupgrade wants to upgrade ffmpeg 7:4.4.3-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav2 to 7:4.4.3-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav3, it uninstall a lot of other packages (about 30 like libreoffice..) i use. What is the problem ? Emmanuel

Deja dup

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Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Jeff Layman

Just upgraded from 20.3 to 21.0 (will stay with this for a while before going to 21.1). I see that the Deja Dup ("Backups") interface has changed in 42.9. When using "Restore" and looking at individual files/folders it seems there is no

Re: Packages not upgraded. (thread)

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Posted: 1 Day 10 Hours ago by: Big Al

Cute. I don't see that often but I'll have to keep an eye on that. !bookmarked!

Re: Packages not upgraded. (thread)

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Posted: 1 Day 14 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

Phasing Ubuntu Stable Release Updates https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/phased-updates.html

Packages not upgraded.

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Posted: 1 Day 23 Hours ago by: Big Al

I did an apt autoremove to clear extra kernels and saw a not that packages could be upgraded. sudo apt list --upgradable Listing... Done gnome-remote-desktop/jammy-updates 42.7-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 42.4-0ubuntu1] grub-efi-amd64

Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread)

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Posted: 2 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I had Mageia 8 installed as a VM on my 20.3 system. The TBS driver compiled without problems. I am not going to waste further time on 21.1.

Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread)

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Posted: 2 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Mint 21.1 is on one drive 20.3 on another. The latter runs for most of the day, sometimes continually. The former only when I try to prepare it to take over. This is the only procedure that has failed. The machine would have only be

Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread)

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Posted: 2 Days 21 Hours ago by: Paul

1) See if your GRUB menu has a "memtest" option. This puts a nominal amount of load on the CPU, and should visit most of the memory locations. If a machine has a weak power supply, or the CPU is not cooled properly and ha

Re: Crashed Mint 21.1 (thread)

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Posted: 3 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic

Have you ruled out a faulty PS or aging MB?

Crashed Mint 21.1

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Posted: 3 Days 2 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Every time I run up a new o/s on my main workhorse I have to compile drivers for my TBS Technologies DVB-T2 card. This had become routine until Mint 21.1. During today's exercise, it crashed the whole machine. Not once but four times.

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 3 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I made an effort this morning on 20.3 and fixed Firefox so nthat I could watch "Grace".

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 3 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Let us not get carried away. Kaffeine has been successfully running under Mint on the same hardware for the last five years. Moreover it runs on a virtual Mageia 8 over Mint 20.3. It is only under Mint 21.1 that I have the problem. If

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic

Throw that LMDE5 into the mix, and see if it plays nice in a non UB environment.

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 2 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

I would try to figure out if kaffeine will run on that/your hardware by using a KDE system instead of a 'non-KDE' gtk-based system like Mint. I booted a live KDE Neon (22.04 5.27). Kaffeine 2.0.18 was in the repo/s. It had a LOT of de

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: pinnerite

It puzzles me that vlc doesn't suffer from the problem! Alan

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

Video cards have hardware decoders. Some of those, use hardly any CPU at all. It is practically a matter of shoving MPEG2 packets towards it, and it returns frame buffers of movie in return. The CPU usage could drop to 1% while this is h

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite

You are definitely helping but still some way to go. Firstly, my hardware is indeed fairly old although faiing bits have been replaced from time to time and the memory quadrupled. The graphic drivers are Radeon HD-4350/4550. I have ha

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 19 Hours ago by: Paul

You know your graphics card is crusty ("old"). libplacebo seems to have gathered some hardware acceleration features for video, in one place. That's probably why it is calling libva in the usual way. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 4 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite

No, none of the options worked. I completely uninstalled and then reinstalled from the command line. I then ran from the command line. This is the result: alan@albury:~$ /usr/bin/kaffeine 22-03-23 22:54:05.772 [Warning ] QCommandLinePa

Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Bill wrote: Sounds about right - it eats however much space you need to make a complete backup of the root filesystem (approx 10-12 GiB on a fresh LM install). Use the term

Re: Timeshift and bigger issues...[QUIT] (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al

wanted to see. What I have works, and I have a simple install script that make a reload simple if needed. Thanks to all.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-20, Big Al wrote: Is your system's root partition (i.e. the internal HDD) btrfs? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcweBnbWVw5UznKGAFAmQZtDcACgkQbWVw5U

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Killadebug

You cannot use time shift to save a btrfs snapshot onto another device. Timeshift expects teo subvol @ and @home BTRFS snapshots can only be stored on the BTRFS partition in which they were taken. If you want to use timeshift to store

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al

I finally found a good page that seems to explain making these subvols. I'll play tomorrow and post later. Wish me luck.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al

The BTRFS is on one external HD, one partition. How do I make this @ sub group? What I read while searching was it was a sub volume and threw me.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al

The easy was just formatting the hard drive. Beyond that, nothing worked. Thanks.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 6 Days 21 Hours ago by: Gordon

The BTRFS partition needs a sub group for time shift to work. Its the @. You also need BTRFS on the parition you wish to timeshift/backup.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 7 Days ago by: Nic

I did not understand your leading comment. You came across as easy peasy, if you ask me software backups are a joke, that will send you into backup hell.

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 7 Days ago by: Big Al

No, that's the point of "What did I do wrong?" I get the error something about '@root' or 'not @btrfs drive'

Re: Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive. (thread)

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Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic

So what are you saying? Did it work out?

Timeshift setup w/ BTRFS external drive.

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Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al

Okay, using the 'disks' program in linux Mint it seems easy to take this 500G external drive and format the ntfs partition on a MBR drive to BTRFS for timeshift. Easy/peasy. Now timeshift won't use it with some error about @root? What d

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: Big Al

If I had a brain, I'd look at your signature. Duh!

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite

At the moment Mint 20.3 but the problem posted was on Mint 21.1. As for staying away from KDFE programs, Kaffeine has always been my backstop for TV viewing until I could get Mythtv to work. Alan

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Paul

Kaffeine is a media player, according to the arch page. That means, a "disable hardware acceleration" might be needed. https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kaffeine/-/tree/v2.0.18 "Settings --> Configure Kaffeine --> libVLC, changin

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Sjouke Burry

Add milk and sugar, then mix gently.

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days ago by: Big Al

What version of Linux are you running? I try to stay away from KDE programs with Cinnamon but I do have some and most of the background KDE is here.

Re: Kaffeine 2.0.18 (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days ago by: Big Al

You're upgrading and some things don't work huh?

Kaffeine 2.0.18

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Posted: 9 Days ago by: pinnerite

When I try to run kaffeine 2.0.18 on Mint 21.1, it crashes. These are the errors reported when I run it from a terminal: [00007f532c004e90] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed [00007f533000e8a0] main video output

Re: samba solution - maybe (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite

I got it to work. I am pretty sure now that the problem wasn't to do with the smb.conf settings but with my smbpasswd having been incorrectly set. Regards, Alan

Re: rsync stalemate (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite

OK someone on the Ubuntu or Mageia group spotted my mistake, include-from should have been --include-from. Now, the "." files. If I were to copy all of the "." files from an old to a new distro, I would probably screw up some newer setti

Re: rsync stalemate (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 2 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge

^ | Sorry, that should be /mnt/sda5/alan/

Re: rsync stalemate (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 4 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge

Make sure you have rwx access /mnt/sdb5/alan and have rx access to /mnt/sda5/alan Where exactly is myincludes.txt? Assume it's in /mnt/sda5/alan? rsync -avr --include-from="/mnt/sda5/alan/includes.txt" --include="/mnt/sda5/alan/" --exc

Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al

I do make a list and I have quite a lot of settings etc in a backup script. I guess as you say, the most secure way is to just fresh load. I hate like hell to do it. I know I'll drop so many settings but I'll have a stable system when

Re: rsync stalemate (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge

Try -anrvvv to see what's happening. rsync include/exclude _is_ confusing until you understand it. I found <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/rsync-include-only-certain-files-types-excluding-some-directories> helpful.

Re: rsync stalemate (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al

Minor item, -a implies -r per man page. And it seems contrary to exclude dot files but include dot files. What would happen if you dropped the --exclude?

rsync stalemate

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Posted: 9 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I am trying to sync data from my /home folder on a 20.3 system to /home on a 21.1 system. I booted on a live flash drive. rsync reports: sent 325 bytes received 181 bytes 1,012.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN) rs

Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread)

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Posted: 9 Days 12 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I have had 20 years of (mis)using Linux. The first time of not doing a clean install was the last! The time taken trying to overcome unforseen issues was greater than reconstituting settings to a clean installation. Answer? Always dia

Re: Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load? (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days ago by: Gordon

In general, doing a clean install is just that. You will get a clean install and no surprises. You do lose some configuration files and/or programmes which you have installed, if you are not careful. Doing an upgrade may leave some junk

Upgrade 20.3->21.1 or Fresh load?

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Posted: 10 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al

Update manager was just updated and now you get the reminder (once) to upgrade to v21 of Linux Mint. I've missed / skipped reading a lot of the talk about 'either upgrade or reload?' threads. Interested in hearing from people that jumped

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 13 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Brilliant. Thank you. Alan

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 18 Hours ago by: Paul

The 0.9.16 is from the year 2015. This would be newer. https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/lmdb.html https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/archive/LMDB_0.9.29.tar.gz Paul

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Whoops. I made a mistake. I need to compile version 4.2.13.17. The version in the subject line is the current Mint 21.1 version. Alan

Re: samba solution - maybe (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul

You will notice in my picture, WinXP connected to LM211. It can *only* do that with NT1. It has no other working option. Windows 11 also connected to LM211 in that picture. It definitely won't be using NT1 to do that. It managed to conne

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul

I got mine working. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif That avoids the bugged authentication path. Paul

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 1 Hour ago by: Jonathan N. Little

You shouldn't use if if you don't have to but as long as there are active legacy devices and software it is still an option. <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html#SERVERMINPROTOCOL> Still a valid option...

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: pinnerite

As has been explained ad nauseum. NT1 has been deprecated. That is why old gits like me need to compile an earlier version. I am taking care, thank you and I hope you continue to do the same. Alan

Re: I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Jonathan N. Little

Why? Earlier versions also supported it. If this is a server that you have some old client like WinXP needs to access, just set the servers min protocol: server min protocol = NT1

I need lmdb 0.9.16 or later

alt.os.linux.mint

Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite

This so I can compile samba 4.15.13 because it supported protocol NM1 (SMB1). I cannot find it in the Mint 21.1 repository. TIA

Re: samba solution - maybe (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I must confess that I didn't. That was because the NB1 (SMB1) potocal had been removed from samba and nothing would bring it back.

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 14 Hours ago by: Edmund

Before we completely float to another universe... I run proxmox local and want to run both proxmox and the VM's on one computer.

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

You introduced a new word idea Proxmox, are you working for the metaverse team, do you believe the future of mankind will reside in some digital bubble, thoughtfully provided by your local friendly representative, but but who will repair

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Edmund

Well I agree with what you are saying, personally I am mostly tempted to go for that latest version. Indeed a couple 20something versions brought some annoying problems like disappearing panels. I am looking at a Virtual Machine -Proxm

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

What version are you suggesting? I have enough problems, with the upgrade, lost some programs, no longer supported, older libraries, and so on, Linux is a Godsend, but Linux is not immune to the politics of left and right, even coders ha

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days ago by: Edmund

I had several issues with the 20.xx versions but no sound problems. Why don't you update the whole system to the latest version?

Re: samba solution - maybe (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Did you try my suggestion to make your share "public" ? [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif That avoids the bugged authentication path. Paul

samba solution - maybe

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Posted: 12 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite

So far nothing I have tried has enabled me to run windows XP under Vbox under Mint 21.1. I had the same problem when Mint 20.3 was updated with NT1 (SMB1) security protocol was removed. In that case I restored an earlier version of samba

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 4 Hours ago by: Nic

BINGO! That did it, I un-installed Timidity and sound works at boot up. Now I have to see if LMMS works for my midi files. Thank You.

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 5 Hours ago by: Nic

I will give that a try and see what happens the next time I re-boot.

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: Kirk_Rockstein

Probably need to disable timidity. sudo systemctl disable timidity

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Big Al

Same here and my sound works.

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

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Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Nic

I get nothing from this CL entry, back to the $ prompt

Re: No audio after upgrading to 20.3 (thread)

alt.os.linux.mint

Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

What does sudo grep -i alsa /var/log/syslog say?

No audio after upgrading to 20.3

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Posted: 12 Days 10 Hours ago by: Nic

I found a workaround, using the CL sudo alsa force-reload, the problem is that it does not persist, the next time I re boot system I have no audio and must re enter the CL sudo alsa force-reload. Has anybody had a similar problem and how d

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 10 Hours ago by: pinnerite

Thank you all. I couldn't think straight last night. Regards, Alan

Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix

You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/

Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix

You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. <ahref="https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/"How To Stress Test GPU?</a>

Re: Can you test your GPU with this? (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 17 Hours ago by: nyrosix

You can test your GPU with this method to see if it has issues. <a href="https://www.gpumaniac.com/knowledge-base/how-to-stress-test-gpu/"><strong>How To Stress Test GPU?</strong></a>

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 18 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

How to use Rsync Command on Linux https://www.linuxcapable.com/linux-rsync-command/ "Use Dry Run to Test Rsync Command"

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 13 Days 20 Hours ago by: stepore

I wouldn't recommend it. /dev/sda/xxx are devices. To access the data you have to mount the device. then rsync the data.

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 14 Days ago by: Killadebug

Try FreeFileSync or Grsync.

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 14 Days 2 Hours ago by: Chris Elvidge

rsync [options] /mnt/sda?/home/DIR /mnt/sdb?/home will transfer all of DIR from /mnt/sda?/home to /mnt/sdb?/home if /dev/sda? is mounted on /mnt/sda? and /dev/sdb? is mounted on /mnt/sdb? where ? is the relevant partition number. option

Re: rsync question (thread)

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Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s probably on /mnt.

rsync question

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Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple. I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb). I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this: # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sd

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days ago by: Paul

There are sources of discount licenses. People would not be interested in them, unless they were $30 or less. Versus $100 or $150 or whatever, at retail. It's pretty hard to tell just where these licenses have come from, because Microsof

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

OK, the 4.15 SAMBA is a rat bastard. But I did get around it. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/W1f4W1Mj/drop-that-security.gif The evidence suggests there is an authentication problem when logging into LM211 with its 4.15 Samba

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite

So on Mint 21.1, that seems to work for Windows 10 but not for XP. I tried using VBox's shared directories. They show up all right. Some programs could be made to run but the two important programs that make me still need XP just woul

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Rod Speed

$5 or so, Rumm listed it recently.

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic

What does a license cost?

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Rod Speed

A W10 license doesn't cost anything like that.

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 15 Days 6 Hours ago by: Nic

Given that you are using a m$ product to drive a machine, it might be more cost effective to look at some of those dell laptop latitudes selling for around $100. The cost of the machine includes a license for w7 or w10, the cost of the m

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 6 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I just ran up a clean 21.1 installation. Virtual XP still cannot access the Linux folders. Alan

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

alt.os.linux.mint

Posted: 15 Days 10 Hours ago by: Rob H

You are a bit late anyways now because I did what I wanted 2 days ago now

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 15 Days 15 Hours ago by: The Natural Philosop

I remember having too do similar back in the day when I still used samba. But I don't use it any more, not even for my windows VM. You don't need it to access a local hard drive under virtual box. And my NFS mounted server partitions ap

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

it took me quite a while to tip my Linux drive upright again. (A restore from backup didn't quite do what it was supposed to do.) I did a do-partial-upgrade on a 20.04.3 to 20.04.5 and the 4.15 SAMBA came in. Initially, nothing worked.

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 15 Days 16 Hours ago by: stepore

Immaterial? WT hell. You literally ask: "the same method used to move it before"! How the hell should we know what you did to move it before. We need this information in order to know what is the best way. As you're asking "what is be

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 9 Hours ago by: pinnerite

It looks like an update 2023-03-08 caused the problem. The earliest timeshift entry is for the same date. Presumably I can uninstall the installed version (2:4.15.12) from synaptic. But how do I install version 2:4.13.17? Oh! The Wind

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 13 Hours ago by: SH

This sounds like SMB v1.0 and SMB v2.0 has been disabled on the Windows VMs so that SMB v3.0 is then the only "option" by default. You need to turn SMB 1.0 and SMB 2.0 back on and you will get the usual security warnings on the window

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 14 Hours ago by: Rob H

Why do you want to know something I did about 3 years ago and is immaterial to me now

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 14 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

Bug #2009863 Upgrade from Samba 4.13 to 4.15 results in "dlopen(pam_winbind.so): /lib/security/pam_winbind.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/2009863

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 16 Days 15 Hours ago by: stepore

And once more, how should we know what guide that was or what you did before? I mean. omg.

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 16 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul

There is SMB1, SMB2, SMB3. WinXP has only SMB1. Win10 supports all three. The three of them aren't that much different, it's just that the later versions of SAMBA support operation across the Internet better, by using better crypto. In

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days ago by: Jack Strangio

FWIW, I always have several root partitions on my boot disk. There is the root partition of my 'everyday system', and a root partition of a 'rescue' partition which does the same job as having a Live disk but also can immediately take over

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days ago by: John Rumm

Check the windows update has not disabled the "insecure" SMB1 client... there is a program (that you can turn off) that does that periodically! Got setings -> apps and features - Optional Features -> More windows features (down the bot

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: David W. Hodgins

Samba has made several fixes to tighten security. See for example https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.16.8.html You can choose to use an older version of samba, but be careful to ensure that it can not be accessed by untrusted s

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic

Can you look at your history of updates in the update manager to see what update has caused this problem?

Re: samba problem - I think (thread)

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: jim.gm4dhj

bloody computers who would have them...

samba problem - I think

uk.d-i-y

Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite

For many years I have had to retain two Windows virtual machines, running on a Linux host and VirtualBox. I need Windows XP for a large home-grown 16 bit programe and for a programme that drives a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder-scanner. Windows

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 7 Hours ago by: Rob H

Thanks Paul. I booted a liveUSB with Mint 21.1, then copied /home from the spinning disc to the ssd. I shut my system down and thought that if I disconnected the spinning disc, /home would be picked up on the ssd when booting up. But no

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul

So you do have something to fix then. The two identifiers are not currently the same value. /dev/sda1: UUID="f41a8ea3-79d3-473d-bee1-45fc22caf353" UUIDw774aea-0430-4429-b301-a220157601a5 /home ext4 defaults 0

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul

For Windows, removing the boot flag should stop it from booting (legacy MSDOS partitioning). For Linux, fiddling the MBR code block will stop the first stage of GRUB (on legacy, not UEFI). This site usually has diagrams of what to expect.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite

The system uses the BIOS.

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Rob H

these are the UUID's of the disks now. the new ssd is sda1: rob@rob-Z97:~$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb: LABEL="WDBlue" UUID="77774aea-0430-4429-b301-a220157601a5" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdc5: UUID="f24b367a-1f06-47f5-9ec9-b33c4c33

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 13 Hours ago by: Rob H

Because I followed a guide on a Ubuntu site.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

Please specify if you have UEFI boot or BIOS/CSM boot. This is very important because the entire boot process is different.

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

Don't use it that way. Run it without sudo - you will be granted permission via PolKit.

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

alt.os.linux.mint

Posted: 17 Days 16 Hours ago by: stepore

How should we know what "the same method used to move it before" was? Crystal ball or?

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 17 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul

So your home entry has a UUID. You would want to review the results of the cloning and see if the UUID of the new item is correct. And stop using the old spindle (disconnect), so there won't be two items with the same UUID. Alternately,

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Well, I tried messing with it, and the results were weird. You're right, that the NVRAM caches it. But the NVRAM also has triggers for when it is supposed to re-evaluate the structure on the disk. And while I was working on the drive,

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 3 Hours ago by: Rob H

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 4 Hours ago by: Nic

Just unplug the drive before booting and after booting plug the drive back in, this is a sure way.

Semi-disabling a boot drive

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Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite

The comments in this thread make me I feel this has become over-complicated. Is there a single file that i can rename that will inhibit booting?

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: pinnerite

For cloning they are unmounted.

Re: Cloning /home another disk question (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 5 Hours ago by: Paul

How about boot a LiveDVD, run gparted and "copy" the partition in question to the SSD ? You don't want the normal OS running that uses /home, to have it open at the time, which is why a separate boot OS (LiveDVD) might be better. su

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

That capability started around the year 2005. Popup boot was first offered with legacy BIOS, but also exists with UEFI machines. The feature was "standardized enough" among legacy BIOS companies, that the color of the blue border is a st

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

In my example, it failed to do that. And jumped to the second disk drive. This was while using the F8 Popup Boot menu, where the two Windows Boot Manager menu items (plus their disk drive identifier) are sitting. Paul

Cloning /home another disk question

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Posted: 18 Days 7 Hours ago by: Rob H

I have had my /home folder on a separate spinning disk for some time now, but I now want to move it onto an ssd disk. What is the best way to do this, clone it or just move it by the same method used to move it before. Thanks

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 11 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

Yes. That is the case on my older BIOS-based Motherboards.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 11 Hours ago by: David Catterall

Does that mean that you are able to Press a Key (such as F11) during boot-up and your BIOS will offer you a choice of drives to select? D.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

This isn't all. There is an entry in the NVRAM on the motherboard. This needs to be removed too. This can be done in the UEFI firmware setup or under Linux via efibootmgr.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 14 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

I cannot agree with it. SecureBoot is handled by MS - but you can disable it and you can place your own keys inside. The only thing is that there exist bad UEFI implementations that don't allow this. EFI boot management is much easier w

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

You select one disk (like HDD1 WD2500JS) and it will look in the 1st sector. Then it loads the software from there.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

It depends how the partition is being mounted. If it is being mounted via the name /dev/sdXY, it works. If it is being mounted by the label or UUID, it will be ambiguous.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

It scans them all. And, it gets pissed when it finds two Windows Boot Managers :-) I would have hoped, that disks would be analyzed independently, such that two Windows Boot Managers could live in harmony, but that isn't entire the case

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 18 Days 23 Hours ago by: David Catterall

Marco, I'm wondering how the BIOS knows which drive has the bootloader on it. Cheers, David in Co Longford

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 1 Hour ago by: pinnerite

I have been cloning booting from a live CD/DVD, either Knoppix or Parted Magic for about 15 years without a problem using dd. What I want to do now is intended to update one from the other so as to ensure they remain in sync until I ne

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 2 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

Boot flags aren't needed for classic boot anyway. I had a GPT partition table and BIOS boot (no UEFI). No boot flag set. I also had Linux machines with MBR partition table and no boot flag. Is it maybe just Windows that sets it? I read

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

Two hot disks, is not redundancy. If the power supply fails, both hard drives could be destroyed. The second disk (your emergency disk) should remain unplugged while the working disk is in usage. Making a backup of the working disk, the

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: yossarian

My computers use UEFI so I don't know about BIOS implementations.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: yossarian

On my wife Mint 19 comp, there is a flag for boot https://i.postimg.cc/8Ck9jF4k/Screenshot-from-2023-03-08-16-43-51.png I have dual boot so my flag is on windows efi partition.

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

There is actually a case where a Linux uses the boot flag. https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html "The SYSLINUX boot loader is another Linux boot loader that includes GPT support. This support resides in the MBR and redir

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

[Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/ZRvVX031/boot-flag-windows-only.gif That flag is used by the Windows MBR code, to select a Windows partition to be the boot partition. It's only used on legacy partitioned disks (three primary, e

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Bit Twister

Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

When I use the Thunderbird spell checker, things work as expected. When I use the LibreOffice one, it's all sorts of crazy. Sure, it highlights things, but it does not have the correct entries in the dictionary for anything. I couldn't r

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

My disks don't have that flag and can still boot via BIOS. It seems that this flag is unrelated to most BIOS implementations.

Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

Mint 21.1 Installed by default: $ apt search hunspell | grep ^i i hunspell-de-at-frami - German (Austria) dictionary for hunspell ("frami" version) i hunspell-de-ch-frami - German (Switzerland) dictionary for hunspell ("frami" ver

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: yossarian

Gparted, select drive, Partition, manage flags, Remove check mark from boot Try might help

Re: Semi-disabling a boot drive (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

Make sure the partitions there get a new UUID - it will confuse operating systems if 2 partitions have the same UUID. If you want redundancy, use RAID. How do you boot? UEFI or BIOS boot?

Semi-disabling a boot drive

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Posted: 19 Days 11 Hours ago by: pinnerite

My computers have two drive caddies. Only one is normally enabled because they are bootable drives. However, I would have cloned the first drive to the second using a live CD/DVD/flash drive. But thereafter they get out of sync. If i cou

Re: OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 13 Hours ago by: Edmund

LO is pretty chaotic, I never understood that spell check enigma but installing "hunspell" dictionaries ( or something ) works for me.

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 19 Days 14 Hours ago by: Gordon

In Mint they are baked in for updates, as per apt. It happens with the updates automagically. In preferences, Automation tab, other updates.

OT Libre Office 7.3.7.2 LM21.1 Vera

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Posted: 19 Days 19 Hours ago by: greybeard

Problem: cannot get LOffice to use a dictionary for spellcheck etc. Tried HELP; Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. tick all the boxes, close window, selected dictionary disappears never to be used. Online help is terr

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

"Based on yt-dlp" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

LM 21.1 also has by default youtube-dl a commandline for vid dl/s in its universe repo. http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ There are also a lot of forks at github if you search on ytdl-org there.

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

And, that VDl gets updated pretty frequently: https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader/releases v 0.11.0 was just released 2 d ago, and significantly more frequently than mo'ly.

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Also; unlike Snaps, flatpaks don't 'try' to update, you have to initiate some kind of action by such as using the command line flatpak update which will show you the flatpaks for which an update is available, or by using the Software c

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 7 Hours ago by: Edmund

LOL How could I have missed that one. Thank you for embarrassing me :-) Never mind I prefer Brave, besides that I tried both Video-downloader AND the Firefox with the addon. They might be the same but they aren't, sometimes I could use

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 7 Hours ago by: Big Al

I simply wrote a bash script that copies all the settings I could find, and some are realty hidden. And then I have a script the loads a fresh install putting back all the settings, loading all the apps and where I couldn't find the setti

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

v = version, VDl = the free standing video downloader, VDHelper = the Firefox add-on I booted a live Mint which has flatpak by default and installed the VDl from the flatpak which v is 0.11.0 In the case of VDl, the window has a *convent

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Nic

You offer some good advice. A 'good' backup strategy is a must, appropriate updates/upgrades, also according to Dan P suggests coping the Home directory and pasting it into the new clean install across versions.

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Edmund

Hm love abbreviations : NOT I take a guess here : VDL = VideoDownloader Ffx = Firefox no idea what v# is. Of course it would be silly if the coders tell us where to find configurations files and how to edit them. I found it : it is in

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Nic

That is good to know. This morning I spent an hour or so installing LMDE5, I am very impressed. It come with an earlier version of TB 96 (not sure) which I got up and running, installed to a spare 1TB SSD. I installed some of my must have

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

That flatpak VDl looks like a 'freestanding' app and not the same as VDHelper add-on for Ffx which has a completely different v #. I would have to install it in something to explore how to configure its options. Maybe later. My under

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-06, Nic wrote: Not really -- if you bring your preferences forward (i.e. your $HOME/.config or just the entire $HOME); you can usually get 2 or 3 versions of Linux Mint to "feel

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 20 Days 10 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 12 Hours ago by: Edmund

OK I uninstalled this version, installed a new one https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader This one seems to work but noone knows where it hide the downloads. Funny info: Changes in version 0.11.0 Add option to

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 15 Hours ago by: Bill

I watched a YouTube video on how to do this install. I thought, not much new here. Then when I tried again, I recalled that the person in the video clicked on the "Install Linux Mint" icon on the virtual desktop... Color me, :::embar

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 20 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

That is why I asked about the v. Apparently it is a 'common occurrence' that YT doesn't work (again) and so VDH has to do another v. Earlier: ... and earlier: .... and so forth thru' many v/s.

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days ago by: Nic

Video DownloadHelper does not work for youtube

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days ago by: Edmund

Maybe I am but I don't know what you talking about :-) I use the GUI and there are options visible. For a while I used a command-line version because the "normal" ( GUI versions are normal IMO ) was broken. I want to download some youtub

Re: Video Downloader sabotaged again? (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days ago by: Mike Easter

I assume you are talking about the Ffx extension Video DownloadHelper What is your Ffx v? What is your VDH v?

Video Downloader sabotaged again?

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Posted: 21 Days ago by: Edmund

Video Downloader sabotaged again? It doesn't work here anymore. What is going on? Edmund

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days ago by: Mike Easter

From my observations, more so of the reports of others than my own experience, LM is 'very good' about how it handles the update and upgrade process. I don't have personal experience w/ Timeshift but I think the solution which would

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic

I answered you but TB has failed me again. This is what I have in my Sent/Folder "As you can guess I am not one of those people who updates for the sake of updates. I wonder if the Debian Mint has a longer survival rate than the way Mint

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Nic

I understand and thanks for the link, it just really bothers me that once you get your computing device working like you want it, and you have put all that work towards fine tuning it, then you either update or are forced to upgrade and n

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 1 Hour ago by: Big Al

Would this help? https://linuxmint.com/download_all.php As with and EOL software like Windows 7, it hit EOL a long time ago, but the software still works, you just don't get updates anymore. So your security starts going downhill.

Re: regarding EOL Mint (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 2 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

All of the LM/s these days are LTS in that they are based on a LTS Ubuntu's repo/s. Ubuntu releases LTS v/s and non-LTS. Mint doesn't base its releases on the Ub non-LTS now. In the case of Ub & Mint, 'conventional' LTS means 5 y.

regarding EOL Mint

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Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic

https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/linux-mint What does it mean when an EOL is followed LTS? I see Mint 19.3 has an LTS (long term support)

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Tb configures any account (mail or news) to compose in html or plaintext only and the default configuration is when posting in html to include the plaintext part. If a person has configured a Tb account to post in html (or plaintext),

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Nic

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-06, Nic wrote: Unlike the post from tbird that started this thread, this one arrived through e-s. Guess e-s doesn't care for the HTML messages as others theorized. -----BEGIN

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 9 Hours ago by: Nic

I checked the composition and it was set as 'automatic', I selected 'text only' , will see if this helps.

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 12 Hours ago by: Paul

I don't think Windows would interfere with VirtualBox internal operations. Here, you can see the GRUB points to GPT2, which agrees with gnome-disks. [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/8zb2Cgzy/EFI-LM211-in-Virtualbox.gif Booting (

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 16 Hours ago by: Paul

Airwolfe is going to blast this one on sight. This looks like an HTML posting. Some receiving servers filter off UTF8 Subject lines (emojis) or filter off full-fledged HTML postings. This post may be recorded in your Sent box, as proof yo

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 17 Hours ago by: Bill

Yes, I was able to do the install through the (virtual) optical drive. Vut after trying to boot again I can't get passed that "boot manager"--unless I direct it to reboot from the optical drive (iso). I tried the process again today us

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 17 Hours ago by: Paul

Does it look like this, when you hammer <esc> key ? [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/kgbgJTrD/Boot-Manager-via-ESC-key.gif It's one of those tab and arrow key things, <cr> when you land on the desired entry. Paul

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 22 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

The status bar is at the very bottom of the Tb window, it shows the 'activity' such as when you access a news server account it shows Tb looking up the IP from the DNS, contacting the news server, downloading the headers. I don't reca

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 22 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Tb has a Status bar which is helpful to tell what is going on. I use Tb's menus where the status bar configuration shows up in View/ Toolbars/ Status menu. If you don't have the menus enabled, it is in Hamburger icon/ Preferences/ St

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

It seems that in usenet when I reply to a message, sometime it is recorded in my Local/Sent/Folder but never shows up at the news-server, other times the reply does not even get recorded in the sent folder or show up at the news server.

Re: OT Question (thread)

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Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

More about Enigmail. I heard (somewhere) that Texstar aka Bill Reynolds dev of PCLOS had compiled an Interlink mail/news client for pclos, so I grabbed a 2023 v. of his KDE Darkstar. Interlink is a linux mail/news that enigmail support

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

The .ppa one will show up in your synaptic. The software manager shows both conventional .deb packages and flatpaks. An important consideration about Tb is that just installing a different version does NOT solve many problems which a

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 22 Days ago by: Nic

The last one I did the .ppa method, the one before last was in my software update manager. My thinking is to totally remove every vestige of TB and find an earlier version that did not give be problems.

Re: Is it possible to roll back Thunderbird in LM?

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Posted: 22 Days ago by: Mike Easter

Tut tut. New topic/question guide time again. http://al.howardknight.net/?ID7805370800 From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Question Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:46:07 -0800 Message-ID: <k6etjgF5ksuU1@mid.individual

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: pinnerite

I didn't expect so many brilliant replies. Thank you, Alan

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bill

It brings me into "UEFI mode", and while I tried alot of things, I couldn't proceed through it (with "continue") to do the install. I presume I was to try to boot the virtual "optical" driver so that it would see my iso file. Is there

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al

I've also got the nemo add on action called 'print tree'. It prints to html and displays a web page. You can copy all in the web page and have no special characters showing. I just did my downloads folder /home/alan/Downloads └──

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Big Al

I get things like └── [01;33mstores[00m which are color commands You don't see it here by on the screen it's ESC[01;33m which is a color command for orange. Geany would let you search and replace these codes.

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 12 Hours ago by: Bill

Yes, I'm going to try that. It didn't help using it (only) post install. Thanks!

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul

The EFI popup boot key is <esc>, and depending on the hosting software, you have to hammer the living shit out of that key, to meet the tiny timing window. If successful, you can select a storage device in the Guest as the boot device.

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 14 Hours ago by: Bill

Didn't work. Next time I'll try "installing" in EFI mode.

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 22 Days 17 Hours ago by: Bill

Thank you for this! It makes me feel like I'm in good company--instead of being the only one encountering this problem. I think I'll "start fresh". I did such a thorough job of customizing my installation I was hesitating about doing t

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 23 Days ago by: Paul

If you look with a hex editor, there is more than that to clean up. Paul

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Monsieur

In Libreoffice Writer, just select the unwanted characters in the text and press ctrl-H to open the Find & Replace window. The characters that you selected are already in the Find field, so all you have to do is type a space in the Rep

Re: Non-Printing characters (thread)

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Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

I converted to HTML instead of "text with embedded graphics commands". ******* sudo tree -H . -d --prune -o mytree.htm Then, pull that into LibreOffice Writer, and use that as a converter. Optionally, use an HTM to PDF converter. The

Non-Printing characters

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Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: pinnerite

$ sudo tree -d --prune -o mytree.txt It produced a report but every row contained two non-printing characters. I would like to replace them with spaces, preferrably using something like libreoffice. Can it be done? TIA

Re: Can't access boot drive (vdi) (thread)

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Posted: 23 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andrei Z.

Troubleshooting "No Bootable Medium Found" Error in VirtualBox https://itsfoss.com/virtualbox-no-bootable-medium-found/

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 9 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: If it were early/mid 2021? Eh, maybe. But 2 years after the LM-18 release has been EOL'd? Chances are there's at least one game-breaking dependency now. "CVE" i

Can't access boot drive (vdi)

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Posted: 23 Days 10 Hours ago by: Bill

I did a clean install of VirtualBox 7.06 (on Windows 10 Pro), and installed LM 21.1. All went well. On subsequent restart I get the error (copied from the Log) 00:00:08.027292 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed 00:00:0

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 15 Hours ago by: Monsieur

Well, this is interesting. I still have about 35 old Mint isos, including 1.0-beta, 2.0, 3, 4, 5... up to the most recent ones, so I decided to experiment a bit. Created a usb-stick with Mint 7 and one with Mint 11, but they wouldn't

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Oh, yeah; I forgot about that. The repo/s are gone/dead.

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

Very Nice! Thanks

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: greybeard

Here ya go... take your pick; http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/mint/isos/stable/

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

Might it be possible to update to the latest FF and TB in such an old version? What are CVEs? This only shows my lack of knowledge or ignorance of the topic at hand, but curiosity abounds in all living creatures. Nic <Nic@none.net>

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: You mean the general risks of (if for example) using a LM 18 installer, and trying to run firefox from 2016 without the current list of rootCA trust? Or perhaps no

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

Re: Question

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Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Nic

The trick would be to use it right out of the box and see if it even works. Could you browse? Too many broken sites? It is my opinion that the vector for malware always focuses on the latest versions and tend to overlook old and restired

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days ago by: Mike Easter

Well, since my fave playground is a live distro, that is how I would approach the issue. I would boot a live LM 18.3 (if you can find one) and use its update mgr to get a big list of all the updates offered. I can't recall exactly ho

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days ago by: Nic

I was curious if there were any such users and if and how they overcame that illusive 'security risk' that every one runs in terror in the other direction. It would be interesting if there was some one wiser than you or I that could elab

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 1 Hour ago by: Mike Easter

In the past, I have used v/s of LM past the EOL. I used LM 17.3 LTS based on Ub 14.04 past its EOL 2019 Apr. Back then, there was both 64&32bit as well as KDE. There was also a KDE for LM 18 (LTS on Ub 16.04 EOL 2021 Apr) which also

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: I would certainly hope they wouldn't be using EOL versions of Linux (same goes for the windows types...) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6f

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Nic

That was the point of my question, to see if there were any users of pre-19.0 Linux Mint. From other groups I read that there are people who still use windows xp and w7, whose support ended long ago, there may be people who are still u

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Nic wrote: For the most part, they're more like "guidelines for getting a response you want" (or, in some cases; a response at all). There must've been an error at e-s; as

Re: OT Question (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 2 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Mike Easter wrote: Quite so. Shame that it misbehaves in that manner. :( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3asj+xn6fYUcweBnbWVw5UznKGAFAmQCUu8ACgkQbWVw5Uzn KGB

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic

Let us hope there more more people who can answer a question without having to evangelize.

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Of course not; usenet is organized anarchy :-) Nono. Your thread is 'public fodder' for conversation. My msg, which was 'off-topic' for your specific request, was what would be considered a 'meta-' topical response. That is, it was

Re: OT Question (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

Enigmail was a great enabler for Tb. The enigmail dev doesn't support Tb anymore since v 78.xx, just interlink, epyrus, and postbox. I tested the newer Tb v/s some time back and found them 'unsatisfactory' for pgp related purposes. To

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Nic

Are these the absolute in stone rules? You got the idea of my question, so if you do not have an answer you should not inject yourself into the thread.

Re: Question

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Posted: 24 Days 3 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

How to create a new Subject thread/question. - do not give the new subject thread a generic title like 'question' nor ask a question in the subject - I recommend creating the BODY of a new subject thread /first/ to enable the best

Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bill

Your link above reflects my experience exactly! I blame "timeshift". I did install a second version of Linux, and the 2nd version was accessing the first file system. But when I tried to use Timeshift through the command line I got a "

Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 11 Hours ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-03-03, Bill wrote: You *should* be able to log in via a tty (CTRL+ALT+F1), and manage to clean up enough that you can log back into the GUI. I wouldn't mess with the /timeshift dir

Re: Timeshift and bigger issues... (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul

There's various mumbling in here about the timeshift structure, and the tendency to fill a partition. Notice how some interface does not show all the structure in there, making GUI management a bit difficult. https://forums.linuxmint

Timeshift and bigger issues...

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Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: Bill

Timeshift seemed to be hogging resources (even though I only had one backup saved, and none scheduled). So I used Timeshift to delete the one I had saved (it was a year old), and then I tried to create a new one. That process failed and

Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 19 Hours ago by: Big Al

But I didn't put the drive on a USB port. It was on the sata port for the DVD drive. But there could easily be a difference of the power supplied to the internal sata drive port and the DVD sata port. But power requirement doesn't seem

Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 19 Hours ago by: Paul

One thing to be careful of, if sticking an SSD drive in a USB based adapter, is the amount of power the SSD draws. It does not need "spinup current", like a 2.5" hard drive (5V @ 1A). But when reading and writing, the power draw can be

Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 20 Hours ago by: Big Al

I have two sata ports. One is on the motherboard. The laptop is built for 1 M2 drive and one 2.5" sata. I took the dvd out and put in a sata 2.5" drive caddy making the 2nd sata port. To fix the issue, all I did was swap the two drives.

Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul

So what exactly, did you do to your new drive, since the original report ? Paul

Re: Error on new SSD installed. [SOLVED] (thread)

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Posted: 24 Days 23 Hours ago by: Big Al

I have two 1TB drives (now) in the laptop. The new one went into a CD/DVD drive caddy I bought years ago to add another drive. The laptop came with an Nvme and 1TB on board. I just took what seems like 2 hours to swap the two 1TB drive

Re: Error on new SSD installed. (thread)

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Posted: 25 Days ago by: Johnny

If it is bad try one of these. I have three in three different computers. https://www.walmart.com/ip/SAMSUNG-1TB-870-EVO-Series-SATA-2-5-Internal-SSD-MZ-77E1T0B-AM/472556765?athbdg=L1600

Re: Error on new SSD installed. (thread)

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Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb # smartmontools then see what's up. On Windows, there might some "crystal" program for reading SMART. The old (free) HDTune won't handle an SSD SMART table quite right, so something else is needed. I

Error on new SSD installed.

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Posted: 25 Days 3 Hours ago by: Big Al

I got a new 1TB SSD 2.5" for my laptop. It was not formatted. I started windows and it said it had to initialize the drive or something like that, and I did. Then I went into disk manager and formatted the unallocated space to ntfs bas

Re: question

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Posted: 25 Days 4 Hours ago by: Mike Easter

If you want to use the flatpak v. it is currently available https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.Thunderbird If you want to enable Snaps, it is also available there: https://snapcraft.io/thunderbird If you want to add the Moz t

apparmor and libre office

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Posted: 26 Days 14 Hours ago by: nomail

Can anyone explain to me what opening office document in Libre Office has by checking my thunderbird profile? Why apparmor allow that? There are six similar messages where LO checks TB and mozilla seamonkey different files. I don't use TB o

Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/m2thli/youtubedl_supports_spotify_how_to_use_it/ "Only episodes and shows are supported" <=== if these are vids, maybe youtubedl is enough. But I also see this. https://github.com/Sathy

Re: Download all domain for offline reading? Application or browser (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 14 Hours ago by: Edmund

That is a very friendly way to put it. :-)

Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 19 Hours ago by: Bill

In case you don't know and in case it may come in handy to know, "BLOB" is a data type, in Oracle database software, for "Binary Large OBject"--basically a file (stored in a database). I've written software to download them in C++, and

Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul

I don't know if your site requires any special treatment, but there is a general description here. https://www.sysgeeker.com/blog/how-to-download-blob-video.html Paul

Re: Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop (thread)

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Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: Nic

search for FF addon Video DownloadHelper

Still Having Trouble Saving BLOB Videos To My Desktop

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Posted: 27 Days 22 Hours ago by: Dr. Noah Bodie

I want to save some Spotify videos. Is there a Fox extension that downloads BLOB videos? If not, is there another way to save them?

Re: OT Question (thread)

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Posted: 1 Month ago by: Dan Purgert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2023-02-25, jeorge wrote: Aw, that's unfortunate. I haven't used tbird since you needed enigmail to do gpg signing, must've been an enigmail "feature" then. Or at least know that so

Re: Annoying Google popup - One account All of Google - in (thread)

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Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Edmund

Thanks, no idea what happened but after a while it works again. Was stuck in a loop. Edmund

Re: Annoying Google popup - One account All of Google - in (thread)

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Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Paul

Is that like an OAUTH2 for a gmail account ? https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1340259 "The popup is the OAuth2 authentication window for gmail accounts. Your address should be entered automatically, but if not, check

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