Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: > On 6/27/06, Chase James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the > >release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following > >error: > > > ># apt-get install

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:11:23PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:33 -0700 > >"Martin Paraskevov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. > >>is this possible to do with apt-get or some othe

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

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Re: How to use sudo not root

"Felix C. Stegerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Historically in UNIX the group wheel has GID 0, in Debian that's the >> root group. > > Do you know where the name `wheel' comes from? Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_war The reason GNU doesn't support wheel group:

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

On 6/27/06, Chase James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following error: # apt-get install aptitude Wierdness... Try apt-get upgrade aptitude aptitude provides a

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:07:02 +1200, Simon wrote > Hi There, > > Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of > what is going on here? > > This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i > can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY >

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:29:27PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/spool/swapfile bs=1024 count=262144 > > > > > > swapon /var/spool/swapfile > > > > Realistically, this isn't likely to help... He's already used up 5GB > > of virtual memory -- 2GB of RAM and 3 GB of swa

Re: Debian server support

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:10:45PM +, ZeroUno wrote: > Hello, I work in a small company where we have an internal > file/web/some-other-small-things server running Debian Sarge. It's a > "standard" PC used for server purposes, not a real server. > Now we're investigating the possibility to upgr

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to > install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although > it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would > you reco

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:02:39PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > You're out of memory, just like the messages say. Presumably some process > > on that server has used it all, including all your swap. Eventually the > > process should b

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

Let's stop some of the misinformation within your post shall we? I am part of the Xen packaging team. David Baron wrote: 1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together, or are there some other really interesting uses? Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You

Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

LeVA wrote: 2006. június 26. 08:00, "Santanu Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: Hi Everybody, I am using Debian Sarge (2.6 kernel). I installed a KWorld TV878 TV Tuner card recently, and after some googling, I was able to get the card detected using the follow

strange kde behaviour... bad use of backports?

Hi, This is debian sarge. I added backports to my sources, then i apt-updated, and then i installed backported koffice. After that, kde changed its overall look and feel and control center reports version 3.5.0, instead of the previous 3.2.x (i guess it was 3.2.2). The strange thing is that eve

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:24:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > You're out of memory, just like the messages say. Presumably some process > on that server has used it all, including all your swap. Eventually the > process should be killed automatically or the program might segfault. If > you can ge

Re: ctrl-alt-backspace under X11

Ivan Avramovic wrote: Following up to my own mail, I've found out that running the gnome-control-center and selecting the "fonts" option causes the ctrl-alt-bs key combination to revert to its normal behavior. I'm not sure what the cause is, maybe something to do with having gconf running or s

Re: lexmark E230

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am running sarge and I need to install a Lexmark E230 printer. I've downloaded the file 'print-drivers-linux-glibc2-x86.deb' from the Lexmark site. After installed I ran the script /usr/local/lexmark/setup.lexprint, but still I am unable t

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Paul E Condon wrote: > Is base-files revised as part of the move to a new r-number? No. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

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Re: ctrl-alt-backspace under X11

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Re: Debian package of the day

* Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060623 16:49]: > Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :) I could stand to learn about 24 new > Debian packages a day. That should get me through all of them in, oh, 750 to > 1000 years. :) I second the request for an RSS feed. That's pretty much the only

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Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:07:02AM +1200, Simon wrote: > Hi There, > > Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of > what is going on here? > > This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i > can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is R

cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following error: # apt-get install aptitude Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean tha

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

Simon wrote: Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY slow... http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/mx.JPG Than

Re: Debian package of the day

On Monday 26 June 2006 02:25 am, Jon Dowland wrote: > Nice: There have been a few attempts at this in the past > which have died off, is > one of them. seems to still be > going. I didn't know about those, thanks. Actually, is http:

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On 6/28/06, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +1200, Simon wrote: > OK, i had to restart the server as there was critical services running > on it... After rebooting and running the commands above: Unfortunately it's too late... To see what is causing th

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +1200, Simon wrote: > OK, i had to restart the server as there was critical services running > on it... After rebooting and running the commands above: Unfortunately it's too late... To see what is causing the problem, you need to look at it while the problem is

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On 6/28/06, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:37:07AM +1200, Simon wrote: > On 6/28/06, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >You've run out of RAM. > > > > Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would > anyone be able to offer any pa

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:37:07AM +1200, Simon wrote: > On 6/28/06, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >You've run out of RAM. > > > > Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would > anyone be able to offer any path of checking or solving this issue? Run top, hit

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

On 6/28/06, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You've run out of RAM. Hmm... Could this be some sort of memory leak or something? Would anyone be able to offer any path of checking or solving this issue? Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon wrote: > Hi There, > > Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of > what is going on here? > > This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i > can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing

Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

On 6/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I disab;e *all* the default rules in my Makefiles? GNU 'make' has a '-r' flag that does this. It seems to work, in my limited testing. -- David 'dpk' Kirchner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Server REALLY slow after console messages

Hi There, Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of what is going on here? This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY slow... http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/mx.JPG Thanks for any inp

Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

Nelson Castillo wrote: How can I get rid of all these implicit rules, so I only get the ones I speify explicitly? Learn autoconf and automake. This is a non-answer. Make never should have been burdened by these default rules, and having them prsent is a defect or flaw. So, how about answeri

Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

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eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

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Re: Gimp: No Printer in File Menu

2006. június 27. 20:30, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Gimp 2.2 has forgotten that I have a printer. Actually I have two both > defined in Cups and working from a console, from Xsane and from Openoffice. > > Tom George Hi Tom! Have you got the 'gimp-pri

Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

2006. június 26. 08:00, "Santanu Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Hi Everybody, > > I am using Debian Sarge (2.6 kernel). I installed a KWorld TV878 TV > Tuner card > recently, and after some googling, I was able to get the card detected > using the following : >

Gimp: No Printer in File Menu

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Re: Problem with Cups/Xsane printer - Fixed

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups: > > The following Cups commands > >lp -d br printtest.txt > > and > >lpr -P br printtest.txt > > work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 la

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

David Baron wrote: > Are they "better" or equivalent? Probably updated with Xorg changes, etc. > which is better. However, the manufacturer must also know what they are > doing? Files inside are exactly the same, except maybe cases where certain modifications are needed to make them work in De

Re: Debian server support

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:10 +, ZeroUno wrote: > Hello, I work in a small company where we have an internal > file/web/some-other-small-things server running Debian Sarge. It's a > "standard" PC used for server purposes, not a real server. > Now we're investigating the possibility to upgrade it,

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

> > First, it now incorrectly removes the driver from the 2.6.16 modules and > > then nicely installs the driver onto the 2.6.17 modules. If I want to > > keep more than one kernel around, the installer.run does not cooperate > > :-) > > First of all, I highly recommend using the Debian packages an

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:06:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > need both update and upgrade. Do not rely on /etc/debian_version to tell you > > what version of debian you are running. It is a user controlled file. Once > > it is installed in the initial install, it is not cha

Re: Debian server support

ZeroUno wrote: Hello, I work in a small company where we have an internal file/web/some-other-small-things server running Debian Sarge. It's a "standard" PC used for server purposes, not a real server. Now we're investigating the possibility to upgrade it, and we also want to consider REAL server

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Joey Hess wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: Yes it is, it's upgraded whenever base-files is upgraded. true, but that doesn't tell that you're whole system is testing or stable; you can use apt-show-versions to see all the individual package versions HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Paul E Condon wrote: > need both update and upgrade. Do not rely on /etc/debian_version to tell you > what version of debian you are running. It is a user controlled file. Once > it is installed in the initial install, it is not changed by the apt-get > system. Yes it is, it's upgraded whenever b

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

> 1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together, > or are there some other really interesting uses? Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run one version of linux or such inside your installed version. Useful for testing the new version out, running things in a

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

David Baron wrote: > First, it now incorrectly removes the driver from the 2.6.16 modules and then > nicely installs the driver onto the 2.6.17 modules. If I want to keep more > than one kernel around, the installer.run does not cooperate :-) First of all, I highly recommend using the Debian pa

Re: Debian server support

ZeroUno wrote: The problem is that, when searching for info about a server machine offered by the reseller, I'm a bit scared to find out that only binary downloads for a restricted range of operating systems are available... this happened with an IBM machine, and now I'm looking for an Intel s

Re: NPTL gone missing?

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 12:30:03AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > Hey all, >I have an application that requires NPTL support, but for some > reason it seems to have gone missing. I am running a 2.6.16-2-k7-smp > kernel from backports.org, and I was under the impression that running a > 2.6 k

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > Hi all; > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs... > > Right now, I'm using Debian Sarge 3.1r1 (Kernel 2.6.8-2-386) -- after much > searching through the archives and also visiting the ftp://ftp.us.d

Re: Debian server support

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Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

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Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

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Re: Debian server support

Goran wrote: Hello, my personal view is that all this stuff ("someOS-compatible") is crap. Just look for good & qualitative parts for the server and that's it. My actual recommendation for server with several responsibilities in small companies is an Vanerpool enabled Intel-machine for using with

Disallow loading of module de4x5. Module is listed in loadmodules of initrd

Hi, i have a Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 networking card. It works with the module tulip but the system (sarge, debian kernel 2.6.8-3) loads the module de4x5 instead. The de4x5 is listed in /etc/hotplug/blacklist and /etc/discover-autoskip.conf. I was surprised to find it insid

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:38:46AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > --- Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > > you can just say apt-get update > > > and then apt-get install hdparm and it will install hdparm and upgrade > > > all the packages that hdparm de

Re: Debian server support

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Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Þann 2006-06-27, 02:38:46 (-0700) skrifaði Willie Wonka: > ~$ sudo apt-get upgrade > > I do this > > ~$ sudo apt-get install hdparm > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > hdparm is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly ins

Debian server support

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[Fwd: Re: Horizontal Artifacts on Screen - Testing]

Re-routing to the list for the archives. On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:48 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Tom Stockton - 2Ergo Technical Support wrote: > > I have upgraded my machine to testing, however since doing so my desktop > > has started intermittently displaying horizontal artifacts on the screen > >

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Re: "FATAL: [...] modules.dep not found" messages at boot time

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Sebastian Tennant wrote: Quoth "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sebastian Tennant wrote: I've recently built linux kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 using make-kpkg, and in both instances, although everything works fine, I am greeted with a stream of error messages at boot time s

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: * If so, how can I make upgrade mine from 3.1r1 to 3.1r2 -- would it be as simple as 'sudo apt-get update' ? apt-get update only updates the repository for your computer. That is it only fetches a file from the server you specifie in /etc/apt/sources.list that s

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:33 -0700 "Martin Paraskevov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? - martin dpkg -l | grep Better: dpkg -l Johannes -- To UNS

Re: how to mount usbpen on thin client?

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Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

--- Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > you can just say apt-get update > > and then apt-get install hdparm and it will install hdparm and upgrade > > all the packages that hdparm depends on and none else. > Ok...Great -- will do Ok...So after I performe

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Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

Arnau wrote: Hi all, I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would you recommend me? thanks I like fluxbox+idesk in low mem

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-26, 16:22:08 (-0700) skrifaði Willie Wonka: > Hi. Hi and Thanks for your reply... > If you want to updgrade only one or two apps then all you have to do > is say apt-get install nameofpackage, and apt-get will download and > install the package and a

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 10:42 +0200, Arnau a écrit : > Hi all, > >I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to > install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although > it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would > you recom

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to install > a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although it's usable, > now I'd like to use som

Re: Problems with PPP on boot

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Re: "FATAL: [...] modules.dep not found" messages at boot time

Quoth "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> I've recently built linux kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 using make-kpkg, >> and in both instances, although everything works fine, I am greeted >> with a stream of error messages at boot time stating that the >> modules.dep file is not

Re: xine will not produce sound after i've run kmail

Le lundi 26 juin 2006 à 10:31 -0700, tom arnall a écrit : > On Monday 26 June 2006 10:16 am, Steve Kemp wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:14:58AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > i find that xine will not produce sound after i've run kmail. Quitting > > > kmail does not change this. In order to g

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

Þann 2006-06-26, 16:22:08 (-0700) skrifaði Willie Wonka: > Hi all; > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs... Hi. If you want to updgrade only one or two apps then all you have to do is say apt-get install nameofpackage, and apt-get will download and install the

Re: Googleearth on a Thinkpad - slow

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