Re: hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread godo
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Re: hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
godo wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: ... So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I purged. Now for a couple of modules which I need, I need also to install the headers but it doesn't seem to work. It says: linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.30 which

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread bruno
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wu wrote: I wouldn't dismiss what Marc was onto. If you do the math, 44G in /documents + 11G in the rest of / == 55G, seems to be a bit more than coincidence. I know you already tried ls -l /documents/ after you umoun

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:42:13PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I get nothing. Why can I write to a value in sysfs that can't be > accessed with sysctl? And more importantly, how am I supposed to do this > at boot without sysctl.conf? Two quick answers, but a remaining question. The default gov

Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc/sysctl.conf, rather than by echoing a value to: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor However, I'm not finding a key for it via the sysctl utility. When I run: sysctl -a | fgrep -i cpu I get nothing. Why can I write to a value

Advanced fsck?

2010-01-27 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All My Debian server got file system inconsistency , asking for "type Ctrl-D for normal boot or give root password for maintenance to run fsck manually". I tried for manually run fsck , as the followings : #fsck -s /dev/hda3 But after rebooting the server it will come back again at the similar

My Sid box is lost Module p80211

2010-01-27 Thread godo
Hi all, I have to manage WiFi on my up to date Sin [lenovo s10e (Broadcom-of course)] with http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Sid instructions. Everything was just fine until rebooting before two days ago. WiFi is stop working, actually he see other networks with 20% quality. In the same time IBM R51 (

Re: hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread godo
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: I'm experiencing strange system hangs after squeeze was upgraded from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32. That happens on two systems, where one is 686 and the other is amd64. Anybody else with overall strange behaviour with the new kernel? So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which pre

garbages in man page output

2010-01-27 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have garbage outputs in the man page of my newly installed Debian, like: There are a few global options. Other options modify the last output that is specified in earâ <80><90> lier parameters in the command line. Multiple outputs may be modified at the

rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-27 Thread Sebastian
Hello all I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian squeeze/sid (apt prefers testing). After the xorg update from l

Re: apt-pinning: how to avoid installing of all-new packages?

2010-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b60d057.9020...@ente.limmat.ch>, Adrian Zaugg wrote: >How do I prevent apt in a mixed stable/testing environment from >installing packages that first time appear in testing using apt-pinning? http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences My setup is mostly stable on my server and (by now) mostly tes

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apt-pinning: how to avoid installing of all-new packages?

2010-01-27 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Dear list How do I prevent apt in a mixed stable/testing environment from installing packages that first time appear in testing using apt-pinning? Right now gcc-4.4-base would get installed on a mixed system by apt-get upgrade, since it does arrange well with all required libraries found in

Re: selected debian questions: raid & performance tips

2010-01-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dino Vliet wrote: > Questions > > 1) Can you show me the definitive debian lenny guide to create a > software RAID-1 array from within the debian installer (I searched > with google but wasn't that sucessfull and the manual is brief) The > OS and data

Re: Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 14:41:00 Michael Goetze wrote: > I've struggled with this issue for hours and gotten no help from > Manpages, nor IRC. So if someone could help me and CC me on their reply > (as I am not subscribed), I would be very grateful. Try here: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPrefere

Re: two local networks

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy: > I am trying to install a Belkin wireless print server and it's got a web > interface factory setting on 192.168.2.253 which I currently can't browse > with my setup as it is (request timed out). Jochen Schulz on 25/01/10 14:46, wrote: > # route add -host 192.168.2.253 eth0 Adam H

Re: popping laptop speakers

2010-01-27 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 27/01/10 09:29, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Hi there, I've got an annoying problem with my laptop which is a Pavilion dv5. I have the latest kernel 2.6.32. The problem is that at reboot the speakers make a loud noise which I fear may damage hardware. This problem existed with somewhat old

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-01-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
James Zuelow put forth on 1/27/2010 11:55 AM: >> -Original Message- >> From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010 20:22 >> To: debian-user >> Cc: James Zuelow >> Subject: Re: Rsyslog template >> You might try just commenting out the original you

Re: Sound through HDMI with ATI Radeon HD 4550

2010-01-27 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 27/01/10 13:41, David BERCOT wrote: Hello, I'm not sure I'm at the right place (please, if not, tell me where I can find a solution...) but I have a problem with multimedia hardware. So, I've changed my graphic card and I've bought an ATI Radeon HD 4550. In the ALSA supported card list i

Please help me understand APT pinning...

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, I've struggled with this issue for hours and gotten no help from Manpages, nor IRC. So if someone could help me and CC me on their reply (as I am not subscribed), I would be very grateful. I am running a Debian Squeeze system. I want to install selected packages from debian-multimedia an

Re: Mounting partition from one drive to another driver (bind?)

2010-01-27 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 27/01/10 15:05, Tech Geek wrote: So my Debian Lenny is installed on /dev/sda1 (ext3 formatted). My VMware Virtual Machines are stored at the following locations on /dev/sda1 # ls -l /var/lib/vmware/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-22 16:35 hostd drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2010-

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wu wrote: > I wouldn't dismiss what Marc was onto. If you do the math, 44G in > /documents + 11G in the rest of / == 55G, seems to be a bit more than > coincidence. I know you already tried ls -l /documents/ after you > umounted but just for cur

Re: Problem with Bind in Plesk

2010-01-27 Thread Michael Goetze
Dear Mr. Zahiri, Last week i had installed plesk control panel on my debian lenny server. I don't believe that any of the lists you chose to address are an appropriate venue for this question, please contact Parallels support for questions about their products. Regards, M. Goetze -- To U

Re: console resolution

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > > I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that > > > moving the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a > > > framebuffer console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the > > > vesa dr

Re: cloning a hard drive issue/problem

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:16:07PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > > (...) > > > So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any > > of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these > > circumstances? can

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:21 -0500, Celejar wrote: > So IIUC, the first link indicates that non-free is indeed still part of > Debian, at least in some sense. I am not an official spokesman for Debian, but it would appear so, yes. This was an official vote, it passed by a large margin, and as far

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:19:19 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:53:18 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > What I meant was that I see no definitive answer to the general > > semantic question of whether stuff in the non-free section is 'in > > Debian' or not. > > Excuse me for butt

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46:05AM -0800, evenso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: > >Normally, I install the packages with the following command : > >aptitude install "package". > > Have you trie going into ncurses with the command "aptitude" ? It wi

Mounting partition from one drive to another driver (bind?)

2010-01-27 Thread Tech Geek
So my Debian Lenny is installed on /dev/sda1 (ext3 formatted). My VMware Virtual Machines are stored at the following locations on /dev/sda1 # ls -l /var/lib/vmware/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-22 16:35 hostd drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2010-01-25 12:21 Virtual Machines # I am r

Re: cloning a hard drive issue/problem

2010-01-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote: (...) > So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any > of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these > circumstances? After cloning the drive, in order to boot properly, besides adjusting "/ etc

Re: Re: Re: console resolution

2010-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,24.Jan.10, 14:22:22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I was able to achieve the desired resolution of 1280x800 (equivalent > to, I think, 0x361) by manually editing grub.cfg but the grub menu > does not show correctly. It only fills the left top quarter of the > screen and parts of it cannot be se

Re: Problem with Bind in Plesk

2010-01-27 Thread Ravshan
Hi Could you share BIND's logs, where we can the the reason, why exactly it was failing to restart? 2010/1/27 S.Ali zahiri : > Hi dear all , > > Last week i had installed plesk control panel on my debian lenny > server. All services work fine except bind. > I don't know why but when i create a dom

cloning a hard drive issue/problem

2010-01-27 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, I've got a question (possible problem)... I've got Debian Lenny installed on an 80GB EIDE hard drive that's about to ware out. I have a second hard drive that is a SATA drive that is rather new and no signs of any problems. I'm planning on using clonezilla 1.2.3-27 to clone the 80GB dri

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: >Normally, I install the packages with the following command : >aptitude install "package". Have you trie going into ncurses with the command "aptitude" ? It will give you some easier ability to resolve dependency issues and s

Re: popping laptop speakers

2010-01-27 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got an annoying problem with my laptop which is a Pavilion dv5. I > have the latest kernel 2.6.32. > > The problem is that at reboot the speakers make a loud noise which I fear > may damage hardware. This problem exist

Problem with Bind in Plesk

2010-01-27 Thread S.Ali zahiri
Hi dear all , Last week i had installed plesk control panel on my debian lenny server. All services work fine except bind. I don't know why but when i create a domain,automatically plesk creates necessary records for dns (in /etc/named.conf that is symbolic link to /var/named/.../etc/named.conf )

Sound through HDMI with ATI Radeon HD 4550

2010-01-27 Thread David BERCOT
Hello, I'm not sure I'm at the right place (please, if not, tell me where I can find a solution...) but I have a problem with multimedia hardware. So, I've changed my graphic card and I've bought an ATI Radeon HD 4550. My goal is to use only an HDMI cable between my computer and my AV amplifier. I

RE: Rsyslog template

2010-01-27 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 January, 2010 20:22 > To: debian-user > Cc: James Zuelow > Subject: Re: Rsyslog template > You might try just commenting out the original you have, and > entering something > like: > $ActionFile

Re: apt-get upgrade -> Configuring grub-pc never ends

2010-01-27 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Recently I've got a problem on a server... after editing menu.lst the machine boots, but running an apt-get upgrade that got a new kernel image, i lost all my edition... '/' was at /dev/sda2, but the upgrade changed it to /dev/sda1, which is the swap partition. Upgrading to grub2 correct this issue

RE: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread James Wu
I wouldn't dismiss what Marc was onto. If you do the math, 44G in /documents + 11G in the rest of / == 55G, seems to be a bit more than coincidence. I know you already tried ls -l /documents/ after you umounted but just for curiosity's sake, I wonder what happens when you do: umount /documents

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread vishnu vardhan
After installing Openoffice, I commented out lines of backports. When I have installed transmission, I did not commented out lines of backports. Normally, I install the packages with the following command : aptitude install "package". Freeman | there is no apt.conf file at /etc/apt/. However the f

Re: apt-get upgrade -> Configuring grub-pc never ends

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:27:12 -0500, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I've tried a lot of grub-pc, grub-install, grub-probe and finally upgraded > to 2.0.36... After all it worked Thanks I'm glad you finally got it working! I have nothing personal against any grub2 developers who may listening, but I'm

Re: apt-get upgrade -> Configuring grub-pc never ends

2010-01-27 Thread Mark
>On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Leonardo Ruoso >wrote: > >I've tried a lot of grub-pc, grub-install, grub-probe and finally upgraded > to 2.0.36... After all it worked Thanks > It's a lot more work and headache than editing menu.lst, ain't it? :(

Re: apt-get upgrade -> Configuring grub-pc never ends

2010-01-27 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I've tried a lot of grub-pc, grub-install, grub-probe and finally upgraded to 2.0.36... After all it worked Thanks Atenciosamente, Leonardo Ruoso (CE1921JP) leona...@oktiva.com.br - (85) 8787-0312 Marketing, Comunicação Social e Tecnologia Sent from Fortaleza, CE, Brasil 2010/1/26 Gerald

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100127131300.ge6...@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> Do I need to create a prefernce file ?... > >These are tricks to fool APT. Not "fool". Apt, by default, treats all remote repositories in one of two manners "get every package from there" (priority 500) or "get only the packages

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:20:49 +0530 Kousik Maiti wrote: > You need cross connected cable to connect 2 pc via lan card . > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable IIUC, many (most?) ethernet cards today support auto-crossover, which means that you can use a crossover or a patch cable

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jeffrey Cao wrote: >On 2010-01-26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Tuesday 26 January 2010 06:39:24 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >>> Now, I get why the elinks package is scheduled to be removed. The >>> dependency must be wrong for elinks-data package as follows. >>> >>> Conflicts: elinks (< 0.11.

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:53:18 -0500, Celejar wrote: > What I meant was that I see no definitive answer to the general > semantic question of whether stuff in the non-free section is 'in > Debian' or not. Excuse me for butting in here, gentlemen, but perhaps these links will help clarify things: ht

popping laptop speakers

2010-01-27 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi there, I've got an annoying problem with my laptop which is a Pavilion dv5. I have the latest kernel 2.6.32. The problem is that at reboot the speakers make a loud noise which I fear may damage hardware. This problem existed with somewhat older kernels and it was worse. There used to b

Re: Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jeffrey Cao wrote: When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:02 +0900 Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:39:09PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:18:31 -0500 > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:29:04AM EST, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:56:11 -0500 > > > > C

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:42AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: > OS : Lenny 5.0.3 > > I have installed openoffice from backports Good move. > and transmission-gtk from > unstable. ??? I think this is questionable move which is risky for package with library dependence. > Do I need to cre

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:39:09PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:18:31 -0500 > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:29:04AM EST, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:56:11 -0500 > > > Chris Jones wrote: > > [..] > bash info still isn't in Debian, even as

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the result of umount /documents umount /maxtor du -x --max-depth=1 / | sort -n ? (Don't forget to remount /dev/hdb1 and /dev/sda1 ;-) -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

selected debian questions: raid & performance tips

2010-01-27 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear debian people,   I need to configure a application/database server to proof the potential of open source business intelligence. I want to use a ETL tool like the java based Talend or Pentaho Kettle or maybe the unix tools awk, sed, perl to transform 25 million records into 10 million recor

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Marc Olive
El Wednesday 27 January 2010 12:20:28 Tim Beauregard va escriure: > Marc Olive wrote: > > Maybe you copied /document files to /documents without being hdb1 > > monuted? Try to umount /documents and see if there are still all files. > > t...@server:~$ umount /documents > t...@server:~$ ls -l /docume

Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Cao
When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5 rather than just sta

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > --nextPart7215540.ksqcIOTIpo > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > charset="iso-8859-15" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 06:39:24 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> Now, I get why the elinks package is scheduled to be removed

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Olive wrote: > Maybe you copied /document files to /documents without being hdb1 monuted? > Try to umount /documents and see if there are still all files. t...@server:~$ umount /documents t...@server:~$ ls -l /documents/ total 0 As expected? -

hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
I'm experiencing strange system hangs after squeeze was upgraded from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32. That happens on two systems, where one is 686 and the other is amd64. Anybody else with overall strange behaviour with the new kernel? So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I pur

Re: dvi2ps in squeeze

2010-01-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The dvips utility of squeeze is now (texlive 2009) contained in package texlive-binaries. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Marc Olive
El Wednesday 27 January 2010 09:45:55 Tim Beauregard va escriure: > Apologies if the first message wasn't clear enough: > > df -h > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 56G 55G 0 100% / > tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /lib/init/rw >

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apologies if the first message wasn't clear enough: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 56G 55G 0 100% / tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 696K

Re: how to set permanent ulimit

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:15:19AM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > sorry:D > > i wanted to write: it's not working. :\ what happens when you type ulimit -a plus you need # Sets up user limits according to /etc/security/limits.conf # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login) sessionreq

Problems connecting to chrooted server with scponly shell

2010-01-27 Thread Marc Olive
Hello, I've setup a Debian Lenny server with a chroot environment and some users have a "scponlyc" shell. There's a Cisco Linksys router to access to internet forwarding port 22. The problem is that users have to do several attemps to connect to the server, after 6 or more attemps to connect s

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:59:26PM -0800, evenso wrote: I should clarify: > > I made sure to set it not to make changes automatically. But it never asked > to uninstall a backports package. (In the ncurses TUI under preferences.) > Meaning the ncurses Text User Interface of aptitude. > > If

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:12 AM, vishnu vardhan < vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > OS : Lenny 5.0.3 > > I have installed openoffice from backports and transmission-gtk from > unstable. > > I have read a couple of articles about installing packages from stable, > unstable, etc.. and pinning