Re: single machine, different IP addresses

Am 08.02.11 06:53, schrieb T o n g: Hi, Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? You can use a virtual interface: ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Xorg removed after update

> I just ran update through synaptic and unistalled X.Org X server and a > whole bunch of other X server related stuff (ati drivers, etc.) and it won't > let me install it again. It says: > xserver-xorg-core: > Depends: xserver-xorg but it is not going to be installed > > I am running Squeeze unst

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > packages. Wait a bit? That's why I always preach not to run dist-upgrades (or full-upgrades, as aptitude calls them) but simple upgrades. That way you won't have to fear removing half of your system. J. -

Re: Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

On 2011-02-08 06:24 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Qijiang > Fan > wrote: >>Please help:debian unstable >>run `aptitude dist-upgrade' > > Xorg is broken right now. Please wait for all the new video drivers that use > the new ABI to enter unstable. Also, the "nv" driver is depreca

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Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:28:19PM EST, Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > > very little problems. > You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and > u

Re: weired problem around grub2

Hello, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:53:56 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> Maybe you can look into Rescatux (SuperGrubDisk) and try to install > >> GRUB2 from there. At least with GRUB Legacy, SGD always worked fine for > >> me. > > > > Thank you for that hint. > > > >

Re: Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

In , Qijiang Fan wrote: >Please help:debian unstable >run `aptitude dist-upgrade' Xorg is broken right now. Please wait for all the new video drivers that use the new ABI to enter unstable. Also, the "nv" driver is deprecated, so I'm not sure you'll be able to get a new one; try switching ove

Re: KPackage

Slicky Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:45:31 -0600 > lrhorer wrote: > >> >> For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the >> Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I >> upgraded one of my systems to "Squeeze", I issued the `apt-get >> autor

Re: Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:03:06AM +0800, Qijiang Fan wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > xserver-xorg-video-nv{u} I think nv was replaced by nouveau. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > very little problems. You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and unstable go into flux. Here are some free tips for everyone: Do not trac

Re: printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:49:22AM +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > >   Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in > >     # printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade > > will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ? I thought it logged its actions to /var/log/aptitud

Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

Please help:debian unstable run `aptitude dist-upgrade' output: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... The following NEW packages will be installed: libnice

printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log

  Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in     # printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ?   I think this is a bug.  Do you agree? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: > Rene Engelhard writes: > > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's > > what we ship)? > > Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to > open docx-files without any addon? Pro

Re: hardware acceleration, radeon driver 6.13 (experimental)

Jim McCloskey writes: > Hello and congratulations to all developers on the release of 6.0. > > I have a 5000-series Radeon card in my laptop: HW acceleration for 5000 series is appearing in more recent kernel and mesa (and perhaps x driver, but I'm not sure). phoronix.com has good coverage of th

Re: status of LILO in upcoming Stable release

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:56:30 -0500 (EST), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, 21:43:02, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I don't know for sure, but I've never seen a release upgrade >> replace a boot loader. And I have no reason to suspect it will >> this time. Install a newer version, yes.

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

Rene Engelhard writes: > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's > what we ship)? Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to open docx-files without any addon? Problem is, in my case this doesn't happen. Or is there some additional tool

Lenny and Squeeze issues with Home and End keys in Vim

debian-user: The Home and End keys do not function correctly in Vim on updated Lenny or Squeeze, or when I ssh into other machines where Vim works correctly from the console: * Pressing Home in command or insert mode puts Vim into insert mode and inserts 'H' and newline into the document *

Re: KPackage

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:45:31 -0600 lrhorer wrote: > > For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the > Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I > upgraded one of my systems to "Squeeze", I issued the `apt-get > autoremove` command before I realize

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

On Monday 07 February 2011 04:44:54 am Michael Fothergill wrote: > I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work > files run this script, install a new a kernel and play around with > some of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude > dist-upgrade and see

KPackage

For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I upgraded one of my systems to "Squeeze", I issued the `apt-get autoremove` command before I realized it would remove KPackage. I also have another system that

Re: KDE4 Configuration

tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On the 07/02/2011 08:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In , lrhorer wrote: >>> 1. How can I move the launch bar from the bottom of the screen to >>> the top of the screen and get it to automatically hide? >> >> To move: >> 1. Right click panel -> "Unlock Wid

Re: new first for Sid

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:12:05 -0500 Slicky Johnson wrote: > > I'm guessing you were blind sided because you have 'testing' in your > source.list rather than a code name ie squeeze|wheezy. If that is > indeed the case you should change your habits. It's no different than > if you're running Sid at

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

Hi, On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Any suggestion how to solve this problem? Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's what we ship)? Though the question is what is different between the OOo 3.2.1 in backports and the OOo 3.2.1 in sq

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a > standard Debian install?? > > http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx > > Asking the ##gnome crew it appears the default is

Re: new first for Sid

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Slicky Johnson wrote: > aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... > > > > patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have > now been removed. > > -- Christoph Berg Sun, 06 Feb

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

"Andreas Goesele" writes: > so far, under lenny, I could open all docx-documents I got with the > combination of openoffice from backports with odf-converter-integrator > (odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb). > > Unfortunately this doesn't work any more with squeeze and its vers

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially > released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable > packages. So fine, I d

Re: Firware drivers?

Mark a écrit : > > I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about > non-free firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now... > > 2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section > > Some drivers included in the Linux kernel used to contain non-free > fi

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

RR put forth on 2/7/2011 12:57 PM: > Hello All, > > So I have a QLA4010c on my V240 running Debian. Debian seems to have picked > the existance of the adapter in the machine and pre-loaded some kernel > modules already: > > # lsmod | grep -i qla > qla4xxx58248 0 > scsi_transport_

docx, openoffice, squeeze

Hi, so far, under lenny, I could open all docx-documents I got with the combination of openoffice from backports with odf-converter-integrator (odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb). Unfortunately this doesn't work any more with squeeze and its version of openoffice: I always get

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

ailo wrote: Apparently I had made a mistake partitioning. / was only 50MB, instead of 50GB. (aarrggh!!) The iso's are now working fantastically well. It can be frustrating at times, but the answer is always something simple, I'm glad you're up and running. -- Jimmy Johnson Custom OS - AMD64

Re: Firware drivers?

On 02/07/2011 03:03 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes > > should expect when upgrading to the new stable release. > > I initially thought so as well, but I went an

Re: Firware drivers?

> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Pascal Hambourg < > pascal.m...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Mark a écrit : >> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow > > > wrote: >> > >> > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years wi

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes > should expect when upgrading to the new stable release. I initially thought so as well, but I went and checked. The release notes _fail_ to warn users to install _BOTH_ firmware

Re: Firware drivers?

Hello, Mark a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow > wrote: > > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially > released. I also noticed that

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:03:43 -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with very > little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially released. > I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable packages. So > fine, I do the up

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially > released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable > packages. So fine, I do the upgrad

Firware drivers?

Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with very little problems. I noticed that "Squeeze" was just officially released. I also noticed that suddenly had about 200 upgradeable packages. So fine, I do the upgrade. Reboot, and find I can't get on the network. After some h

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

Apparently I had made a mistake partitioning. / was only 50MB, instead of 50GB. (aarrggh!!) The iso's are now working fantastically well. On 02/07/2011 01:27 AM, ailo wrote: > For the two variants of Netinstall I tried three different mirrors, two > in Sweden and one in US (the top of the list). >

Re: Thinkpad Edge NVLDFGE and Debian

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:33:09 +0100, joerg.reynolds wrote: (please, avoid using html when sending messages to the mailing list, your message is almost unredeable for text based clients ;-( ) > Now I am missing the flexibility of a debian system and i know it s a > dumbass question but do you thin

Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

On 01/31/2011 12:36 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [110131 04:12]: In<20110130220014.ga2...@rlharris.org>, Russell L. Harris wrote: Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a crawl and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays at

Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

On 2011-02-07 20:24 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I had apt-listchanges, but it's quiet overwhelming, I still have > apt-listbugs though, :-) Perhaps I should try installing it again... > I recon my bad for not having listchanges, but I'm wondering why not > having the package dependent upon ker

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:00:17 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > On 07/02/11 20:52, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800, kellyremo wrote: >> >>> How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a >>> standard Debian install?? >> >> I guess that would depend on the DE yo

Re: Booting from Squeeze iso possible?

On Mon 07 Feb 2011 at 11:20:43 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > I am currently downoading the Squeeze iso (specifically, the > debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso) and was wondering: is there a simple way > of booting directly from the iso image file without having to actually > burn it to a blank DVD? Lik

Browser instances not closed (was: Page opened when Iceweasel starts.)

El 2011-02-07 a las 13:59 -0500, Paul Cartwright escribió: (resending to the list) > On 02/07/2011 01:42 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> > Sometimes I logout from LXDE while Iceweasel has a page displayed. At >>> > next startup, Iceweasel displays the "Well this is embarrassing." >>> > dialogue. Is t

Re (2): Page opened when Iceweasel starts.

From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:42:54 + (UTC) > I would not deactivate it, though, it could save you at any time... > Some tweaks here: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore Thanks, I'll read, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.o

Re: Trying to use the Droid fonts in xterm

Bob Proulx wrote: > Siard wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > > > But if I set the font face and font size from "~/.Xresources" it > > > seems to be omitted (no warning nor error, but the font does not > > > change) :-? > > > > As far as I remember, ~/.Xdefaults should be used instead since a > > few yea

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

On 07/02/11 20:52, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > >> How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a >> standard Debian install?? > > I guess that would depend on the DE you are using. In GNOME under lenny > it seems disabled by defau

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 17:40 -0800, Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:47:52AM +0100, Steven wrote: > . . . > > > > @ elbbit: The file system is ext3, however I wouldn't turn of the > > automatic routine checks entirely. > > I think I'll just leave it as it is and see if Ctrl+C does the

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800, kellyremo wrote: > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a > standard Debian install?? I guess that would depend on the DE you are using. In GNOME under lenny it seems disabled by default. Open g-conf editor and browse to: /desktop

Re: new first for Sid

In <20110207141308.15de62d9@t61.debian-linux>, Slicky Johnson wrote: >aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... > >patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now >been removed. > > -- Christoph Berg Sun, 06 Feb 201

Re: xulrunner-stub stucks my machine

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:40:26 +0100, tadziu wrote: > any one else has the same problem with xlrunner-stub after iceweasel > upgrade in > squeeze? it consumes more than a half of my ram and makes whole system > choppy. any ideas? workarounds? Have you tried by creating an empty profile for Icewasel

xemacs21-nomule under squeeze

Hi, when I upgraded to squeeze unfortunately xemacs21-mule was installed (I only had xemacs21-nomule installed). I removed xemacs21-mule with apt-get without any error messages. But when I tried to restart xemacs I got an error message from the first load command in the init.el file. It seems /usr

Re: Booting from Squeeze iso possible?

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:20:43 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > I am currently downoading the Squeeze iso (specifically, the > debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso) and was wondering: is there a simple way > of booting directly from the iso image file without having to actually > burn it to a blank DVD? Like chainl

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:53:56 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Maybe you can look into Rescatux (SuperGrubDisk) and try to install >> GRUB2 from there. At least with GRUB Legacy, SGD always worked fine for >> me. > > Thank you for that hint. > > I tried that CD, but the result did not

Re: new first for Sid

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Slicky Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 > Slicky Johnson wrote: > >> aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... >> >> >> >> patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low >> >>   The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file

Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> ... >> Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign >> nouveau driver as prior to the update.  However using >> fbdev instead worked out. >> ... > > You need to upgrade your ke

Re: new first for Sid

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Slicky Johnson wrote: > aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... > > > > patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have > now been removed. > > -- Christoph Berg Sun, 06 Feb

Squeeze update Xen on a Dell r210 fails

Hello, I have a strange issue with the Xen 4.0 hypervisor after an update to Squeeze. I followed the instruction on the xen debian wiki. After the update I cannot boot into the Xen system. After grub loads the hypervisor everything still seems running but the moment the kernel loads the machine

Re: Squeeze and Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000

Quoting Slobodan Aleksić on 2011-01-15 14:25:23: > I own a Logitech QuickCamPro and it doesn't work with Squeeze, any > other people who have the same problem or no problem with it ?! > > Only thing I found relevant was a closed bug : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2010/06/msg00310.html

new first for Sid

aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now been removed. -- Christoph Berg Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100 /tmp/tmpwB77U9 (END) I've not seen anything like

Re: [OT] Magic numbers

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:27:16 +, Lisi wrote: > I need to find out: > a)What the magic number should be for certain types of file "man magic" says you have to look under "/usr/share/file/magic" > and b)Whether a specific file of that type has the correct magic number. "file" command, as alre

Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

Hello All, So I have a QLA4010c on my V240 running Debian. Debian seems to have picked the existance of the adapter in the machine and pre-loaded some kernel modules already: # lsmod | grep -i qla qla4xxx58248 0 scsi_transport_iscsi34328 1 qla4xxx scsi_mod 16743

RE: Autorun is VERY bad

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:50:32 -0500 wrote: > > On 02/07/2011 01:36 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > > In the gnome desktop manager open up the file manager, or run nautilus > > > > Then, Edit > Preferences > Media > Never Prompt or start programs on > > media insertion > > > > Hope that helps! > > um,

Re: problem playing DVD video using xine

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:23:34 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/06/2011 05:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> More than codecs, I think you need some "decryption" capabilities ;-) >> Check if you have "libdvdcss2" installed. > > Which is not included in Debian, but can be found at > http://debian-

[OT] Expert install.. was: help

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:13:37PM EST, Joey Hess wrote: [..] > There is no need to use any expert install option with squeeze. Simply > follow the instructions it presents: Maybe the next incarnation of the installer should do away once and for all with this ‘expert’ misnomer. Although it may

Re: Autorun is VERY bad

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:36:49 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 wrote: > > > > > > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a > > standard Debian install?? > > > > http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-v

Re: Page opened when Iceweasel starts.

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:36:12 -0700, peasthope wrote: > Sometimes I logout from LXDE while Iceweasel has a page displayed. At > next startup, Iceweasel displays the "Well this is embarrassing." > dialogue. Is there a way to make Iceweasel always "Start new session" > without asking? I've checked

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install > libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core upgrade. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

RE: Autorun is VERY bad

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 wrote: > > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard > Debian install?? > > http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx > In the gnome desktop manager open up the file manager, o

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On 02/07/2011 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away

Autorun is VERY bad

How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Debian install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx

Re: Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core > to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet > there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices > found when usign nouveau driver as prio

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Brad Alexander wrote: Amen to that. I run apticron to see what installed packages have updates available, but always, _always_ upgrade by hand. Anything else is begging for trouble at/near release time or during ABI changes... and do a backup before this next upgrade... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRI

Is nouveau deprecated in favor of fbdev on new xorg (unstable + experimental)?

Hi, With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices found when usign nouveau driver as prior to the update. However using fbdev instead worked

Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:12:37 +, Tixy wrote: > I also had another thought, Is kvm1 a virtual machine? If so, does it > even get to talk directly to the dnsmasq server or is the host doing NAT > and it's own configuration for the guest? See my blog, http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/provi

[Conclusion] Providing DHCP and DNS services with DNSMasq

Many thanks to Tixy, who answered all my questions, I now compile it into a big blog, Providing DHCP and DNS services with DNSMasq http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/providing-dhcp-and-dns-services- with-dnsmasq/ Synopsis To use DNSmasq to provide DNS, DHCP, tftpd and ad blocking to my hom

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Amen to that. I run apticron to see what installed packages have updates available, but always, _always_ upgrade by hand. Anything else is begging for trouble at/near release time or during ABI changes... --b On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > This has happened many times in

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 February 2011, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > The problem is that the drivers got uploaded but were automatically > rejected, see > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/02/msg00360.html for more > information. > > I'm afraid this won'

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver >>> packages. Wait a bit? >> >> It's a dependency thing, no

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver >> packages. Wait a bit? > > It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's > due to a change in

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On Monday 07 February 2011, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > > packages. Wait a bit? > > > > Hugo > > It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, o

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver > packages. Wait a bit? > > Hugo It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's due to a change in xorg package... xserver-xorg-core now is

sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iip6vm$87e$1..

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Yes, it's a tiny HTTP proxy with some sugar, getting extra knowledge > from package databases or predefined configuration and making more > optimal decissions than ordinary HTTP proxies. > > If you decide to use it, you could reuse

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:27:21PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> # script -t 2>~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script > > > > But how do you turn it off? I mean after the upgrade is over and you > don't need it any more do you type something in like script -stop > ~/upgrade-sq

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

>> # script -t 2>~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script > > This is not specific to the upgrade, it can be used at any time (almost). > It records the screen and any text printed to it or entered from the > keyboard.  What's more, you can replay it at different speeds if you like -- >

Re: the new apt-get recommendation

On Sb, 05 feb 11, 12:35:47, PMA wrote: > > I have often read advice to the effect that it is best to choose *ONE* > package-handling strategy (dpkg OR apt-get OR aptitude OR synaptic) > and stick to it -- if only to ensure a consistent system representation > of my package installations history.

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

Hi Michael, Michael Fothergill wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes # script -t 2>~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script This is not specific to the upgrade, it can be used at any time (almost). A very dumb question I have about this is do you do aptitude d

Re: status of LILO in upcoming Stable release

On Jo, 03 feb 11, 21:43:02, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I don't know for sure, but I've never seen a release upgrade > replace a boot loader. And I have no reason to suspect it will > this time. Install a newer version, yes. But, say, change > lilo to grub2? I doubt it. This release will replac

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

> > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes OK, I went and read it. I also installed gdm on the current machine and it fixed the window manager problem. Now I want upgrade another machine from Lenny to Squeeze so I am going to try and do it more carefully this time. I notice that y

Re: tool for internet connection test

Lubos Rendek wrote, on 02/07/11 00:31: > Hi Jörg, > > Thanks for the input. However, i'm not able to find S/N ratio on > online page. Is SNR Margin what you're referring to? Here is a > snapshot of my online page: > > > ADSL Status ModeState Up SpeedDown Speed SNR Margin

Re: Skype

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 07 Fev 2011, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and which app are you using. I would prefer not to install ia32-* stuffs as suggested by http://wiki.debian.org/skype Since nei

xulrunner-stub stucks my machine

hi, any one else has the same problem with xlrunner-stub after iceweasel upgrade in squeeze? it consumes more than a half of my ram and makes whole system choppy. any ideas? workarounds? cheers t.

Re: if the file changes send email about diff

On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:25 pm, kellyremo wrote: > The file only contains plain MAC addresses, separated with a new line: > > Like: > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F1 > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 > > Or: > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:32 -0800 frank thyes > wrote > >

Upgrading mysql from lenny to squeeze

Hi all, When upgrading from lenny to squeeze, mysql won't upgrade automatically (if /etc/mysql/my.cnf isn't overwritten) Googling a bit found this post that solves the problem: http://www.robtucker.co.uk/2009/05/16/upgrading-mysql-50-to-51-on-debian-50 Hope it helps, Luís Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRI

Upgrading mysql from lenny to squeeze

Hi all, When upgrading from lenny to squeeze, mysql won't upgrade automatically (if /etc/mysql/my.cnf isn't overwritten) Googling a bit found this post that solves the problem: http://www.robtucker.co.uk/2009/05/16/upgrading-mysql-50-to-51-on-debian-50 Hope it helps, Luís Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRI

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