Re: Why aptitude is sometimes slow inside xen domU ?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Olivier B. wrote: > > > Javier Barroso-3 wrote: > > > > My aptitude is very slow when it is running inside domU: > > aptitude take 3 minutes on: > > Writing extended state information... 67% > > Hi, > > I have same problem on a fresh Lenny Dom0/DomU setup. > > Do

Re: [OT] Name of new testing?

On 16 February 2009 08:17:09 Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Does any one know the name after Lenny? > > Squeeze > ns> > > - Chris B Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: [OT] Name of new testing?

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Re: [OT] Name of new testing?

Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Does any one know the name after Lenny? Squeeze - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: upgrade to lenny report

On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. > All went ok but with 3 small issues. > > 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero size on the paniclog file. > The file was reporting a configuration error on specific line, but not on th

[OT] Name of new testing?

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Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use > and do NOT want to r

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

T o n g wrote: > You implication seems to be "Debian is not secure enough", but my conclusion > from above incident is quite the opposite from yours -- Debian is *amazingly* > secure. > > If a Windoze PC is taken over by someone or some new malware that no > existing anti-virus software can detec

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 03:24:47PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > root@/deb40a:~> grep -R rc.local /etc/* > only shows the call in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh that I put there to > call my /root/bin/rc.local and the contents of the above mentioned > /etc/rc.local that I just generated which doesn't get

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

Sorry Virgo for not replying to your OP, as I've already deleted it. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Virgo Pärna wrote: > > Does anyone else also receives "On battery power, so skipping file > > system check" > > warning, when starting up a laptop with

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:48:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Anyway, twice in the past few years, Debian servers have been > compromised. One time it was thru a weak DD user password, You implication seems to be "Debian is not secure enough", but my conclusion from above incident is quite the opposi

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:33:05 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ snip: You checked all the usual suspects already; I did not notice > anything that gave me a clue what is going on. ] Thank you Florian for your reply. >> But I can't go any further via googling. E.g., among many other >> tryings, f

Re: radeonhd on R5xx based card + dri very slow

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:14:36 +0100 Thomas Preud'homme wrote: [snip] > > glxgears > 1008 frames in 5.0 seconds = 201.471 FPS > 1226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.142 FPS > 1237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.393 FPS > 1236 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.034 FPS > > If I play a game or a 3D screensaver i

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

Celejar wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:15 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:16:49PM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jack Schneider wrote: We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

Tim Day wrote: I have an old dual-P3 Intel STL2 motherboard has been running Etch no problem (2.6.18 kernel) for ages. It has an IDE drive (root filesystem and swap, and it boots off it) (/dev/hda on Etch) and a CD-ROM on the single IDE connector on the motherboard, and a couple of big SATA drive

tools to get a mirror of modem/router configuration

Hello, I vaguely recall that we can somehow "copy" or mirror the configuration interface (accessible via a browser) of a modem or a router to a local hard disk. This can be then browsed from that saved copy. Anybody know if we have tools or packages in Debian to do so? The objective is to 'mirror

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On Sun February 15 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The first three lines of the "dpkg -l" output tell you what the > abbreviations mean. The ASCII art lines of pipes and slashes indicate > which information is at each position (first "desired", then "status", > then "error") and the capitalized lette

Re: Happy lenny, everyone!

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this "desktop use", but my family members use stable for all their needs, so the lenny release has me very happy that I can now give them an upgrade to their experience. Happy lenny release, everyone!

Re: Detecting a compromised system

On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:06:55 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > But why do I need to make an explicit > snapshot of the system if all debian packages already contain the > necessary information? This information is tool-specific. It doesn't belong in the package. One Debian tool, debsums, does occas

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

Ron Johnson wrote: > > *Maybe* not on Debian, since Debian users *tend* to be more Yup, I agree. > sophisticated, but what's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > > $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb This is more likely since some of the present day popular packages are commonly downloaded

Re: backports keyring

On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:46:42 Robert Holtzman wrote: > Tried "apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" and got the message > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! >debian-backports-keyring > Install these packages without verification [y/N]? > E: Some packages could

Re: Detecting a compromised system

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:06:29 Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I expected that it would be pretty easy to spot these modifications. >> So I did exactly the above and then tried to "detect" my changes. >> >> I first looked for any additional packages that might help

Re: Lenny?

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Guillermo Garron engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Aptitude is the preferred package manager since >--} > at least Etch. Thank you both for the advice. I used synaptic and it only removed one package and upgraded and installed a couple of packages that were

backports keyring

Tried "apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" and got the message WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! debian-backports-keyring Install these packages without verification [y/N]? E: Some packages could not be authenticated I terminated at that point. Can anyone tell me

Re: Lenny?

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Guillermo Garron engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >--} wrote: >--} > On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:35:42 Charlie wrote: >--} >> After doing # apt-get update >--} >> Then get this: # apt-get upgrade >--}

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On 02/15/2009 05:26 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie Neither i

Re: rc.local is not executed

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 06:14:06PM -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > So my questions to you who have an installed /etc/rc.local are which > > package did it come from and how does it get executed? > > /etc/init.d/rc.local is included with the initscripts package, and it execu

Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

I have an old dual-P3 Intel STL2 motherboard has been running Etch no problem (2.6.18 kernel) for ages. It has an IDE drive (root filesystem and swap, and it boots off it) (/dev/hda on Etch) and a CD-ROM on the single IDE connector on the motherboard, and a couple of big SATA drives hanging of some

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:35:42 Charlie wrote: >> After doing # apt-get update >> Then get this: # apt-get upgrade >> Then do this: # apt-get dselect-upgrade >> What am I missing? > > Try 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. Aptitude is the

Re: lenny-backports public key is not available - SOLVED

On Sunday 15 February 2009 16:24:36 Rick Thomas wrote: > On "http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions"; it > says to do this: > wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - > > I did, and all is well... (1) There was a debian-backports-keyring for Etch.

Re: Detecting a compromised system

On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:06:29 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I expected that it would be pretty easy to spot these modifications. > So I did exactly the above and then tried to "detect" my changes. > > I first looked for any additional packages that might help me with > this and installed (and config

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: > [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > > $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie Neither is an actual security issue. > and the > other thru a

Re: Lenny?

On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:35:42 Charlie wrote: > After doing # apt-get update > Then get this: # apt-get upgrade > Then do this: # apt-get dselect-upgrade > What am I missing? Try 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. Aptitude is the preferred package manager since at least Etch. However, you should see

Re: upgrade to lenny report

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hi all, > > This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. > All went ok but with 3 small issues. > > 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero size on the paniclog file. > The file was reporting a configuration error on specific l

Re: From x86 to x86-64

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:08:39AM -0500, S Scharf wrote: > All, > I was thnking of doing a 32 bit to 64 bit upgrade myself using the "dpkg > --get-selections" > and "dpkg --set-selections"route. This raises another question: > > Can I install the 64 bit linux image, change my sources.list fil

upgrade to lenny report

Hi all, This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. All went ok but with 3 small issues. 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero size on the paniclog file. The file was reporting a configuration error on specific line, but not on the config file that I use. Removing the lines from

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed > on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing > list t

Re: lenny-backports public key is not available - SOLVED

Hmmm... "When all else fails, read the instructions." On "http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions"; it says to do this: wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - I did, and all is well... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Cannot netinst from Blu-ray drive

Hi, looking for help. I have got the Sony BC-5100S Blu-ray combo drive (firmware 1.10) connected to SATA1. http://www.sony-optiarc.eu/products/bluraydrivesdesktoppcs/bc5100s.html I can boot into the installer, but when the installer tries to mount the disc the installer cannot find it. The disc i

Re: Detecting a compromised system

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:06:29 -0500 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I recently though about the least sophisticated way to introduce a > backdoor into a system if a already had a root shell. My naive > approach would be to > > a) create a setuid root shell somewhere in the fs, > > or > > b

application like iPhoto on Debian GNU/Linux Etch?

Hi, is there an application on the Debian GNU/Linux Etch like iPhoto on the Mac OS X operating system? With it one can to import some rendered images and make a movie with the File / Export command. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Lenny?

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, H.S. engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} >--} The release news is already on Slashdot. >--} http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/14/195 >--} Just wondering; if Lenny has been released, I just wonder why I'm still getting this? After doing # apt

Re: From x86 to x86-64

On 02/15/2009 10:08 AM, S Scharf wrote: [snip] All, I was thnking of doing a 32 bit to 64 bit upgrade myself using the "dpkg --get-selections" and "dpkg --set-selections"route. This raises another question: Can I install the 64 bit linux image, change my sources.list file to amd64 and do a

Fwd: webpages: web page for "volatile" needs to be updated for Lenny

I submitted this as a bug report, but as I didn't know what package to submit it against, I doubt it will be seen. So I'm forwarding it to "debian-users" in hopes that it will reach the right people there... Thanks! Rick Begin forwarded message: From: Rick Thomas Date: February 15, 2009

Fwd: lenny-backports public key is not available

I submitted this as a bug report, but as I didn't know what package to submit it against, I doubt it will be seen. So I'm forwarding it to "debian-users" in hopes that it will reach the right people there... Thanks! Rick Begin forwarded message: From: Rick Thomas Date: February 15, 2009

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On 02/15/2009 01:11 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:25:35 -0500, H.S. wrote: In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to

Re: Lenny?

On Sunday 15 February 2009 13:39:16 Kent West wrote: > So I am correct in believing that someone who is upgrading from an etch > stable system to Lenny will be presented with this quandary that he > can't trust the Lenny repository until he first trusts the Lenny > repository? No, they will get th

Detecting a compromised system

Hello, I recently though about the least sophisticated way to introduce a backdoor into a system if a already had a root shell. My naive approach would be to a) create a setuid root shell somewhere in the fs, or b) modify an existing setuid binary to grant me root access (e.g. when invoce

Happy lenny, everyone!

I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this "desktop use", but my family members use stable for all their needs, so the lenny release has me very happy that I can now give them an upgrade to their experience. Happy lenny release, everyone! Almost 22 months since last rele

Advertisement request

Hello, I am wondering whether its possible to rent a advertisement text link slot? If yes kindly get back to me asap. Best Regards. Mike.

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:33:53PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > A Debian user should not be expected to install just any .deb file. > > > > Ideally speaking, I'd say this holds for any OS: Users should not just > install (or click, or run) everything they see. >

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 16:25:19 +, T o n g wrote: > [warning, long post] > > Hi, > > My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back > at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that > alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4. >

Re: Lenny?

Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 13:02:04 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > > >>> The package is there in stable, testing and unstable as far as I can >>> see. Perhaps the mirror you are using has been slow to update. >>> >>> b...@trantor:~$ apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyr

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > A Debian user should not be expected to install just any .deb file. > Ideally speaking, I'd say this holds for any OS: Users should not just install (or click, or run) everything they see. In practice things happen differently, especially in the Windows world. -- A la

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > T o n g wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:25:35 -0500, H.S. wrote: > > > > > >> In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that > >> it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad inten

Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:11:43AM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Allan Dreyer Andersen wrote: > > > copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 PC > > Do you have some ideas how to solve this? > > I've been using CVS [1] for many years with good results: > > 1. I dedicate an

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:25:35 -0500, H.S. wrote: > > >> In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that >> it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned >> debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to become >>

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 13:02:04 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > > The package is there in stable, testing and unstable as far as I can > > see. Perhaps the mirror you are using has been slow to update. > > > > b...@trantor:~$ apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring > > debian-archive-

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:25:35 -0500, H.S. wrote: > In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that > it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned > debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to become > sufficiently popular, the c

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:24:52 -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I am aware that this is not usually considered a good practice. However > debian as vast as it is does not provide software that meets all my > needs. I therefore sometimes either " " or use pre-compiled > binaries that are designed to be

Re: Lenny?

Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > > >> On my etch box, this package was not installed. So I installed it (and >> most all, if not all, of Gnome was removed as part of the process >> (?!!)). Now I have this version: >> >> Sun Feb 15 1

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:47:06 -0600, Kent West wrote: [...] > >> wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo apt-get update > >> Password: > >> > > > > [...] > > > > > >> W: There is no public key available for

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > On my etch box, this package was not installed. So I installed it (and > most all, if not all, of Gnome was removed as part of the process > (?!!)). Now I have this version: > > Sun Feb 15 11:35:06 > - > w

security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

Hello, In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to become sufficiently popular, the claim is that it would be just as easy and popular

RE: Some documents on 3 PCs

Allan Dreyer Andersen wrote: > copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 PC > Do you have some ideas how to solve this? I've been using CVS [1] for many years with good results: 1. I dedicate an older machine as a CVS server (currently Pentium 3 800 MHz in DMZ behind an IPCop f

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:25:19 +, T o n g wrote: > My "amixer: Mixer attach default error" problem was solved by > > % aptitude install libesd-alsa0 > > (Ref: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/no-sound-debian-lenny-amd64-gigabyte-ga- > ma78gm-s2h-amd-780g-677646/) Hmm, not

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

There is nothing wrong with installing non-Debian packages as long as they install in /usr/local or /opt and so stay out of the way of the package-management system. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:17:00 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Have you tried running alsaconf as root? Usually when there are upgrades > to alsa you have to do it, things tend to change pretty often in the > ALSA setup. Yes. 1st thing that I did. thanks all the same. -- Tong (remove underscore(s

Re: Lenny?

The release news is already on Slashdot. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/14/195 -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodicall

Re: Using automake

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joris Dobbelsteen a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm trying to build a application and was trying to use automake with > it. Now I've stumbled upon an issue, see below, I cannot resolve for a > few days. I think it is somewhere(tm) in the manual though. > >

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

Hi, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 01:57 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > > > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > > > gtkorphan and deborphan for this

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:43:53AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > John W. Foster writes: > > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > > remove .deb installed libs? > > They will only remove files in

Re: Lenny?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:47:06 -0600, Kent West wrote: > >>> 2009/2/15 Kent West: >>> >>> Should this be happening? >>> > > [...] > > >> wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo apt-get update >> Password: >> > > [...] > > >> W: There is no public key availa

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:00:49AM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I just went to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ and it appears the > 5.0 CD/DVD images are now up on the site. I would imagine the website > should be updated soon and an official release e-mail will also be > going out pretty so

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

John W Foster wrote: > They install somes libs each time they are upgraded or installed. > My question is more specifically about the capabilities of GTKOrphan and > deborphan: Do these apps ONLY find orphaned libs from debian packages or > do they somehow locate libs that are NOT a dependency of

Re: Lenny?

Kumar Appaiah wrote: >On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:49:47AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: >> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and >> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to >> "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade? > >You can do that, and safely assu

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 01:57 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > > remove .deb installed libs. I h

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:25:19PM +, T o n g wrote: > [warning, long post] > > Hi, > > My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back > at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that > alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4.

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use > and do NOT want to r

Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

Jochen Schulz skrev: During my studies, I had the same problem. First I tried unison, but I found it too cumbersome. Then I switched to SVN and didn't regret it. In the end I kept almost 1GB of data in my repository but common operations were still fast. Today, I would probably try one of those d

Re: Orphaned packages & libs removal question

John W. Foster writes: > I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the > gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY > remove .deb installed libs? They will only remove files installed by the package management system. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUB

Re: No-Script, was: Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

H.S. on 09/02/09 17:21, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/09/2009 02:19 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 05/02/09 12:43, wrote: On 02/05/2009 03:40 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] On my old machine I couldn't run FF tolerably without No-script. Please expound. In terms of speed - with No-s

ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

[warning, long post] Hi, My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4. The rest are still the same: alsa-oss_1.0.15-1 alsa-utils_1.0.16-

Orphaned packages & libs removal question

I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use and do NOT want to remove libs that they require. Any suggestions?? Thanks! -- John W. Fos

Re: Lenny?

On Sunday 15 February 2009 01:19:47 am Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hello, > > Any news of Lenny yet? The Debian home page continues to say "The > latest stable release of Debian is 4.0." and everyone seems quiet on > the lists. > > The only places that gave an indication that Lenny is indeed the new

Re: From x86 to x86-64

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 30 Jan 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > tinkywinky wrote: > > > I've installed x86 version of Lenny, but I have 64-bit processor. I'd > like > > > to change to use 64-bit ver

Lib errors

Dear all, Today I installed Cisco Anyconnect on my Lenny-AMD64 box. When trying to start the agent, the following error occurs: Lenny-Home:/opt/cisco/vpn/bin# ./vpnagentd ./vpnagentd: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Wh

Re: Lenny?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:47:06 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > 2009/2/15 Kent West: > > > > Should this be happening? [...] > wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo apt-get update > Password: [...] > W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: > 4D270D06F42584E6 > W: You may want t

Why it tried connection, since I just install CD1

Hi, I am happy that the lenny is released, but Why it tried connection, since I just install CD1, I have no connection to internet, it took a long time to install because it tried to download I don't know what. I switched to terminal 2 (ctrl+alt+f2) I noticed http process is running ?? I hope t

Re: problems with update/remove/install 'NO SPACE ON DEVICE"

raman narasimhan wrote: > sir, > whenever i try to install/remove/update a package, i get the message > 'no space left on device' > what am i supposed to do?? > for example: > > debian:~# update-initramfs -u -t -k `uname -r` > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 > cp: writin

Re: Lenny?

Leniy Tsan wrote: > 2009/2/15 Kent West mailto:we...@acu.edu>> > > > Should this be happening? > > Sun Feb 15 07:05:59 > - > wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude update > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [386B] > Get:2 http://security.deb

problems with update/remove/install 'NO SPACE ON DEVICE"

sir, whenever i try to install/remove/update a package, i get the message 'no space left on device' what am i supposed to do?? for example: debian:~# update-initramfs -u -t -k `uname -r` update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686 cp: writing `/tmp/mkinitramfs_LnkiaB//usr/share/spl

Re: Lenny?

2009/2/15 Kent West > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09:03PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > >> Girish Kulkarni wrote: > >> > >> > >>> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and > >>> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to > >>>

Re: avi to swf format conversion in Etch?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:09:54AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: > Hi guys, > My ultimate goal is to convert an .avi to a .swf video file. ffmpeg > does't support the swf format ... Yes, it does. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.c

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:00:33 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat February 14 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you mean. what does the "rc" mean, and what should I > > > do? > > > > $ dpkg -l | head -n7 > > $ dpkg -l | head -n7 > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > |

Re: Lenny?

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09:03PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> Girish Kulkarni wrote: >> >> >>> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and >>> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to >>> "lenny" in my sources.list to up

avi to swf format conversion in Etch?

Hi guys, My ultimate goal is to convert an .avi to a .swf video file. ffmpeg does't support the swf format and the standard version of swftools, in etch, doesn't include avi2swf. So I tried to compile the swftools source, after installing zlib1g-dev, but I get make making all in m4... cd m4;mak

Re: digital camera recomendations

On Sat February 14 2009, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. > Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations > or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. > Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that uses a

Re: Wich e-mail server to choose?

On Sat February 14 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. what does the "rc" mean, and what should I > > do? > > $ dpkg -l | head -n7 $ dpkg -l | head -n7 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ E

Re: Lenny?

>On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09:03PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Girish Kulkarni wrote: >> >>> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and >>> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to >>> "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade? > >Yes. Lenny is already in

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