Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,15.Mar.10, 20:08:02, Snood wrote: > >You can then reboot into the new kernel and remove the obsolete > >linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 package. > > Thank you. I did this, rebooted into the new kernel, used aptitude > to remove the old one, and removed the obsolete kernel. Everything > is ti

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-15 Thread Chance Platt
Marc Shapiro wrote: If there is a better place to ask this question, please let me know. I am running Lenny on my desktop and would prefer to run Debian on the eee, as well. So I found EeePC/HowTo/Install on the wiki and used the custom installer to install Lenny, as was suggested. The wiki

Re: Oracle on (current) Debian Sid

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
I did write up[1] what I did to install 10g on Lenny a couple of months ago. Everything had to be done by hand, but it was simple enough. There's a togaware page linked from the wiki page which was invaluable for external setup (kernel params, etc). Footnotes: [1] http://trac.klp.org.in/wiki/Ora

New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
If there is a better place to ask this question, please let me know. I am running Lenny on my desktop and would prefer to run Debian on the eee, as well. So I found EeePC/HowTo/Install on the wiki and used the custom installer to install Lenny, as was suggested. The wiki seemed to suggest that

Oracle on (current) Debian Sid

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Anyone do this? Google led me to this[0], but it's 20 months old, refers to gcc-3.3 and Sid is constantly changing. So, I'm trolling (in the good way) for current ideas and thoughts. ( I don't really look forward to migrating to CentOS 5.4: The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availa

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:21:34 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:32 -0400 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:04 -0400 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA

xsd for human

2010-03-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I plan to implement a parser with respect to a given XSD file: is there any tools, Debian tools if possible, allowing to convert XSD files into human readable documents ? Thanks inadvance, Jerome BENOIT -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 22:15, Michael Yang wrote: [snip] From the error_log, I found this info: E [15/Mar/2010:18:01:39 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"! It looks like it was loading the wrong driver. However, there is another .drv file under "/usr/shar

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:16:32 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:04 -0400 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT) > > Stephen Powell wrote: >

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: [snip] (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0848 (C77 [GeForce 8300]) at 0...@00:00:0 ... The above is the most important entry in the log file. You have an unsupported chipset. Th

Re: Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-15 Thread Michael Yang
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-15 17:29, Michael Yang wrote: > >> I was trying to setup the HP officejet J4580 on my debian laptop, lenny >> 5.0.3 (2.6.26). >> Although the driver was installed and the printer was detected without >> problem, it does not print an

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> If you will provide the following information, I'll be glad to take >> a look at it for you. > > Thanks, Stephen. That's very kind of you. I've changed the subject >

Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

2010-03-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 10:49 Mon 15 Mar , Camaleón wrote: > It seems you are using the "hp" backend and failed what left the printer > in a "paused" status. Thank you. Can you explain what you mean by 'backend' vs 'driver'? I don't know what I am using. I have loaded many many cups packages, including hplip and

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 18:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 5:07 PM: On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. Y

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: >> >> >> --- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III >> wrote: >> >> From: John A. Sullivan III >> Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? >> To: "Hugo Wau" >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:09 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 20

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2010

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-15 Thread Tech Geek
Did you take a look at this? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debirf I have used it couple of times and I have been able to boot from RAM. The package is not in current stable version though but you can easily backport it.

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:43:25PM +0300, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone > can shed some light. ;-) > > > I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications > (think VoIP and RS232 seria

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 20

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Wolodja Wentland wrote: Ok - You really have only one linux-image-* package installed and you've installed it directly, i.e. it was not installed as a dependency of a meta-package. Yes, I think I understand. I used a netinst disc to install the operating system. In Lenny installed via netinst

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 5:07 PM: > On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: >> >>> Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to >>> install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. >> >> You wanna take another stab

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 19:21 -0400, Snood wrote: > Output of > # aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image > is > i linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686- Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs Ok - You really have only one linux-image-* package installed and you've installed it directly, i.e. it was not installed as

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:51 -0400, Snood wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Sam wrote: First of all, you replied to me personally instead of to the list. I'm putting this back on the list where it belongs. Same happened here. If you have already done the upgrade, you

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:04 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT) > Stephen Powell wrote: ... > > to be booted. Then you can purge the old one. aptitude will > > not let you purge or remove a running kern

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,15.Mar.10, 17:51:01, Snood wrote: I know about rebooting and purging. I've done it lots before. It's not working that way in this case. Honestly. There's just no evidence that I can find that there's more than one kernel to select from. In fact, there's not even an

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Wayne wrote: Snood wrote: dpkg -l linux-image |grep ^i will show you that the version, -3, changed. The name did not. Wayne That command results in nothing at all on my system. Is that significant? No, because, stupid me, forgot to type it correctly. Try this dpkg -l linux-image* |g

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:39:01 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > Sam wrote: > > Maybe I don't understand how aptitude works for this case. From > > everything I can see, if I remove the kernel that aptitude lists > > as obsolete, I won't have any ker

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III > wrote: > > From: John A. Sullivan III > Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? > To: "Hugo Wau" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >

Re: Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 17:29, Michael Yang wrote: I was trying to setup the HP officejet J4580 on my debian laptop, lenny 5.0.3 (2.6.26). Although the driver was installed and the printer was detected without problem, it does not print any pages. When I print the page, it tells me the job has been sub

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-15 Thread Hugo Wau
--- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: From: John A. Sullivan III Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? To: "Hugo Wau" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:35 AM On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 00:46 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: > Hello, > > Running Lenny

Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-15 Thread Michael Yang
I was trying to setup the HP officejet J4580 on my debian laptop, lenny 5.0.3 (2.6.26). Although the driver was installed and the printer was detected without problem, it does not print any pages. When I print the page, it tells me the job has been submitted to the printer, and after a short while

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:51 -0400, Snood wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > >Sam wrote: > >First of all, you replied to me personally instead of to the list. > >I'm putting this back on the list where it belongs. Same happened here. > >If you have already done the upgrade, you should have two ke

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > Hello, all.

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 16:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron? Nope. $ uname -m x86_64 $ file /b

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 08:22 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:34 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,15.Mar.10, 17:51:01, Snood wrote: > I know about rebooting and purging. I've done it lots before. It's > not working that way in this case. Honestly. There's just no > evidence that I can find that there's more than one kernel to select > from. In fact, there's not even any evidence at all

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wayne
Snood wrote: dpkg -l linux-image |grep ^i will show you that the version, -3, changed. The name did not. Wayne That command results in nothing at all on my system. Is that significant? No, because, stupid me, forgot to type it correctly. Try this dpkg -l linux-image* |grep ^i The wi

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Stephen Powell wrote: Sam wrote: Maybe I don't understand how aptitude works for this case. From everything I can see, if I remove the kernel that aptitude lists as obsolete, I won't have any kernel at all. First of all, you replied to me personally instead of to the list. I'm putting this bac

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:12 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > I too, am having problems with X. Even after Stephen Powell's excellent > explanation of things in the Xorg.conf thread, I can't get a properly > working monitor setup. I get a display, but not at the monitor's > preferred resolution.

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/15/2010 4:11 PM: > Because of the way that AMD designed the specification, it's possible to > install a 64-bit kernel onto a 32-bit system. You wanna take another stab at that statement Ron? Methinks you were suffering momentary thought dyslexia. ;) -- Stan -- To

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
Sam wrote: > Maybe I don't understand how aptitude works for this case. From > everything I can see, if I remove the kernel that aptitude lists as > obsolete, I won't have any kernel at all. First of all, you replied to me personally instead of to the list. I'm putting this back on the list where

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:34:29 + Angus Hedger wrote: Hello Angus, > I did notice that myself (Also a AMD64 machine), this kernel update > also caused me more problems with X than before (had to roll back to I too, am having problems with X. Even after Stephen Powell's excellent explanation o

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:38:52 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: > pch0317 wrote: >> No, I can't do that. Can you give me link to non-initrd kernel tutorial? > > 1) Launch your favorite kernel configuration tool. > 2) Disable the initrd hook. > 3) Use kernel-package to build the kernel, and omit the --i

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 11:57, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my Lenny system, I installed the following packages: cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsimage2 cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint gs-esp escputil. Everything seems to go fine with printing, and also ink level is correctly detected w

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:13:35 -0400 (EDT), Wayne wrote: > dpkg -l linux-image |grep ^i > > will show you that the version, -3, changed. The name did not. Not exactly. The -3 is an upstream version number, and is part of the Debian package name. linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 and linux-image-2.

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. Counted? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us a

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-15 09:44, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in which case you want ia64. Look through the literature to see if your processor has EM64T support. If it does, you want amd64. See http://w

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:09:28 -0400 (EDT), pch0317 wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> pch0317 wrote: >>> When I enable wlan and bluetooth at start I can see: >>> grub 1.98 with linux-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 >>> loading linux >>> loading initial ramdisk >>> loading, please wait >>> and black screen apear, nothing

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread pch0317
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:09:28 +0100 pch0317 wrote: Celejar wrote: ... That does look pretty bad. Have you tried booting a non-initrd kernel? Celejar No, I can't do that. Can you give me link to non-initrd kernel tutorial? 1) Launch your favorit

Re: `Open terminal here' functionality in GNOME? Exists in KDE, but where in GNOME?

2010-03-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-15, Merciadri Luca wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig7ABE17C1F2B9FCEEDF986D51 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > In KDE, there exists a functionality named `Open t

Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings all- I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone can shed some light. ;-) I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications (think VoIP and RS232 serial). This installation is very 'pared down', only the essentials. I currentl

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become > indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w > bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu > appears which lets you perform a multi

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:09:28 +0100 pch0317 wrote: > Celejar wrote: ... > > That does look pretty bad. Have you tried booting a non-initrd kernel? > > > > Celejar > > > No, I can't do that. Can you give me link to non-initrd kernel tutorial? 1) Launch your favorite kernel configuration too

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:37 + > Angus Hedger wrote: > > Hello Angus, > >> When you get a new kernel via apt the old one is not removed, > > In the past, the new kernel has been made the default kernel, and placed > at the top of the selec

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:48:37 + Angus Hedger wrote: Hello Angus, > When you get a new kernel via apt the old one is not removed, In the past, the new kernel has been made the default kernel, and placed at the top of the selection list. For some reason, that wasn't the case this time. Not a

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wayne
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I noti

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread pch0317
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 pch0317 wrote: Celejar wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 pch0317 wrote: Hi I have problem with my wireless embedded device. I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g. Only if I enable

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:33:17 -0400 (EDT), Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: >>> Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I >>> noticed that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Angus Hedger
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100 > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: >> > Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I >> > noticed that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) is listed by >> > aptitude as being obsolete. >> >> Che

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 pch0317 wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 > > pch0317 wrote: > > > > > >> Hi > >> I have problem with my wireless embedded device. > >> > >> I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g. > >> > >> Only if

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: > > Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I > > noticed that linux-im

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:07 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: > > Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I > > noticed that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) is listed by > >

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:34 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open > an account. Since t

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-15 Thread pch0317
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 pch0317 wrote: Hi I have problem with my wireless embedded device. I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g. Only if I enable in BIOS "embedded WLAN" and "embedded bluetooth" my Debian can't boot up. "C

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:42:04 -0400 (EDT), John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I had read some of the various bug reports that intimate the > problem is libglib2. Downgrading to an earlier version is not an option > as it breaks both OpenOffice and IceWeasel. I inferred from the bugs > that newer versio

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > > Debian L

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:11 +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > John A. Sullivan III skrev: > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try

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Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 14:06 -0400, Snood wrote: > Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I noticed > that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) is listed by aptitude > as being obsolete. Check your /var/log/aptitude, i'm sure that a new kernel version got installed and the

Sendmail local error code

2010-03-15 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I'm getting an error code on an outgoing mail server I have not seen before. The system is using a sendmail ver 8.3. It's telling me: MDeferred: 451 Requested action aborted: local error in processing (code: 11) Anyone seen this one before? I've done some looking on the web but could

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Johan Grönqvist
John A. Sullivan III skrev: Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open an account. This sounds similar to the description ---

aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Snood
Following a slew of updates in Debian testing this morning I noticed that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) is listed by aptitude as being obsolete. I suppose the update that resulted in this was probably firmware-linux-free 2.6.32-5 -> 2.6.32-9 I've never seen anything like this before

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > > Since donig so

Re: Unable to install Lenny on VirtualBox, QEMU

2010-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:06:56 -0700, vikram wrote: > iam trying to install Debian Lenny on VirtualBox(3.0.6), the installer > gets to partitioner and then asks me to select the driver for the > harddisk. The same thing happens with QEMU. > > how can this be fixed? For VirtualBox, have you tried t

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:34 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open > an account. Since t

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open > an account.

Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open an account. Since these are our production financials, you can imagine this is quite a pro

escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-03-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On my Lenny system, I installed the following packages: cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsimage2 cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint gs-esp escputil. Everything seems to go fine with printing, and also ink level is correctly detected with: `escputil -i -r /dev/usb/lp0'. Only, wh

Re: `Open terminal here' functionality in GNOME? Exists in KDE, but where in GNOME?

2010-03-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:35 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> In KDE, there exists a functionality named `Open terminal here' which >> allows you to open a terminal whose wd is the folder you are currently >> browsing with your favourite directory browser. Is there such a >>

Re: `Open terminal here' functionality in GNOME? Exists in KDE, but where in GNOME?

2010-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:35 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > In KDE, there exists a functionality named `Open terminal here' which > allows you to open a terminal whose wd is the folder you are currently > browsing with your favourite directory browser. Is there such a > functionality in GNOME? Ye

Re: Log Summariser

2010-03-15 Thread Alok G. Singh
logwatch is fine for some, but you might also want to take a gander at logcheck. It has user defined rules to ignore known issues so that familiarity does not breed contempt. -- Alok A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are

Re: install debian usbdisk through ide cable

2010-03-15 Thread juanmf
Hi, I'm having the same problem, mine has usb but does't have boot from usb support. Did you get to solve this? thanks! paragasu wrote: > > > I have seen IDE to USB adapters but not the reverse so I'm not sure how > debian would > > handle it. I imagine a USB to IDE adapter would not be chea

Unable to install Lenny on VirtualBox, QEMU

2010-03-15 Thread vikram
hi, iam trying to install Debian Lenny on VirtualBox(3.0.6), the installer gets to partitioner and then asks me to select the driver for the harddisk. The same thing happens with QEMU. how can this be fixed? thanks

`Open terminal here' functionality in GNOME? Exists in KDE, but where in GNOME?

2010-03-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, In KDE, there exists a functionality named `Open terminal here' which allows you to open a terminal whose wd is the folder you are currently browsing with your favourite directory browser. Is there such a functionality in GNOME? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ul

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-15 Thread debian
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:53:48 -0400 Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > Hi. I'm running Debian unstable on a Lenovo T60. I'd like to > run this dual-head with an external monitor, but have been > having some problems that I tried to solve but eventually gave > up on because I'm so lousy with X configurat

Re: apt-get for deb and rpm

2010-03-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:22:00AM -0500, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > hi, > I installed PLlinuxOS which use apt-get with rpm Hi, this is Debian User mailing list. > I got an error "deb" format is not recognized > In debian the rpm is not recognized, here "deb" is not apt is ported to r

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jesse Sheidlower [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]: > The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at > 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external > monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do > not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generat

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-15 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Jesse Sheidlower skrev: The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the configuration. When I plug in t

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:44:54 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I am currently running i386 with 8gb of RAM using the -bigmem kernel. As > I understand, each process becomes limited by 3GB or so of RAM. With a PAE enabled kernel, you (applications) can bypass that limit by using memory mapping (m

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:53:48 -0400 (EDT), Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > Hi. I'm running Debian unstable on a Lenovo T60. I'd like to > run this dual-head with an external monitor, but have been > having some problems that I tried to solve but eventually gave > up on because I'm so lousy with X confi

Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

2010-03-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> Have you tried to "reload" the folder and move the cursor on the screen >>> or just umounting/mounting the external drive to see if that helps? >>> >>> >> Yes, and it d

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Odd
Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:52:24 -0400 (EDT), Germana Oliveira wrote: If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unle

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably > want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in which case you want ia64.  Look > through the literature to see if your processor has EM64T support.  If it > does, you want amd64.  See http://www.debian.org/ports/ for more informati

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote: > I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do > that? The following works pretty well: dpkg -l | awk '/^.i/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-cache policy | awk '/^[a-z0-9.\-]+:/ {pkg=$1}; /\*\*\*/ {OFS="\t"; ver=$2

Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

2010-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Have you tried to "reload" the folder and move the cursor on the screen >> or just umounting/mounting the external drive to see if that helps? >> > Yes, and it does exactly the same. Wow :-O Let's follow the "bug

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:52:24 -0400 (EDT), Germana Oliveira wrote: > If i have an HP with an Intel Centrino, 64bit, should i dowload the iso for > amd64 or 32?? or amd64 is just for AMD ¿? I am not an expert on this; but if it's a 64-bit processor, you probably want amd64 unless it's an Itanium, in

Re: Log Summariser

2010-03-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-15, James Allsopp wrote: > --0016e6dab0ec2b31090481d7a86d > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > In Fedora I used to have it set so that a program would look through all the > logs and e-mail me a summary everyday of things like packages installed, ssh > login attempts

Log Summariser

2010-03-15 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, In Fedora I used to have it set so that a program would look through all the logs and e-mail me a summary everyday of things like packages installed, ssh login attempts and hard-drive partition usage stats. Could someone point me in a similar direction for my Debian install? Much appreciated!

Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

2010-03-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:44:16 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> - Does this also happen on local (non-usb) and empty folders? >>> >>> >> No. >> > > Ugh. > > Then maybe GNOME is caching something (the content of the folder) and

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