Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:53:38PM +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > > I had the same issue when squeeze was testing and I reported it to this > > ML. > Mmmm, so there is an already known issue. Not quite. Last time I changed the fs-type from ext3 to ext4 and restore

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:27:12PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > oooh. success. just used the =version format to downgrade. > > only had to beat up on three packages to make it work. > > fixed that security thing too :-) Excellent! Do you remember the command? Good for reference, in case

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:53:38PM +0100, Geronimo wrote: > I had the same issue when squeeze was testing and I reported it to this ML. Mmmm, so there is an already known issue. > But most comments leaded to my own problem. No one was willing to accept, > that > there's a big issue with grub.

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Geronimo: > >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! > >> > >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you > >> need to let off steam. > > > > Thank you very much! - usually I'm not th

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 15:16, Steven Sciame wrote: > > I understand what you are saying, but nothing responds. The mouse > moves, but nothing is able to be clicked on. No menu's, windows, > nothing. I waited for 10 minutes and still nothing. Depending on your system nice settings 10 minutes isn't very

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 mar 11, 20:28:51, Geronimo wrote: > > Ok, the latter is attached (well - just half of the disks), the former > > does not exists any more, cause I purged grub2 > > Too bad, now we can't investigate what was wrong. Just for the archives, > here's an excerpt

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread briand
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:21 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Let us know how you get on. > p.s. thanks ! Brian -- 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/2

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread briand
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:21 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Let us know how you get on. > p.s. thanks ! Bria -- 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/20

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread briand
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:21 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:05:32AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:09:28 +1300 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > libxaw7: > > Installed: 2:1.0.8-2 > > Candidate: 2:1.0.8-2 > > Version table: > > *** 2:1.0

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
That is possible.  I just assumed that my sources.list was correct.  Does this look right? steven@debtop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ sque

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I understand what you are saying, but nothing responds.  The mouse moves, but nothing is able to be clicked on.  No menu's, windows, nothing.  I waited for 10 minutes and still nothing.   Running from the Terminal did not reveal anything.  I couldn't ^C, right click, nothing. I am reluctant to

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 14:12, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I could try that, but I am a little nervous wandering away from a > "stable" system. Would I have to wait for the next point release for > this to get fixed and how would I maximize my chances of this being > fixed in 6.0.2? or sooner maybe? You ar

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:16 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". > > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? > > 1) Talk about how to do it on this email list. > 2) Put something on www.debian.org web page abou

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:05:32AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:09:28 +1300 > Chris Bannister wrote: > libxaw7: > Installed: 2:1.0.8-2 > Candidate: 2:1.0.8-2 > Version table: > *** 2:1.0.8-2 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 2:1.0.7-1 0 > 500 h

Re: Ecryptfs vs encfs

2011-03-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Dan wrote: > I would like to encrypt some folders in the home directory of the > users in a server. I have seen that there are 2 choices ecryptfs and > encfs. They seem to be very similar. Which one do you think that it is > better? One isn't better than the other

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 14:07, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I was not able to play it in Totem. I got the same result as trying to > play it through iceweasel (mouse moves but everything is unresponsive, > with the only way out being a hard power cycle) > > This was fine before 6.0.1 > If the mouse moves

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I could try that, but I am a little nervous wandering away from a "stable" system.  Would I have to wait for the next point release for this to get fixed and how would I maximize my chances of this being fixed in 6.0.2? or sooner maybe? --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott

Ecryptfs vs encfs

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
Hi, I would like to encrypt some folders in the home directory of the users in a server. I have seen that there are 2 choices ecryptfs and encfs. They seem to be very similar. Which one do you think that it is better? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I was not able to play it in Totem.  I got the same result as trying to play it through iceweasel (mouse moves but everything is unresponsive, with the only way out being a hard power cycle)  This was fine before 6.0.1  --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Sub

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/21/2011 08:19 PM, aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote: When I net installed this Debian testing system on my laptop the wireless network that I connected to was an open wireless network. Without a password. Since then it has had a password required and I don't know how to place the password into

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 12:30, Chen Wei wrote: > hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2 cannot built its module on 2.6.38 > source, follow the instruction in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook", I > rebuild the 2.6.34.7 kernel. It is quite strait forward and works, the > result kernel is also smaller than default kern

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 12:04, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I apologize, but I do not know the example movie that you referenced. It's the example you gave. I can confirm that it is playable. Try:- wget -t 0 http://media.grc.com/files/testvideo.wmv then try playing it with Totem. Sorry I don't run Gnome so

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Chen Wei
hi Steven, since the VirtualBox 3.2 cannot built its module on 2.6.38 source, follow the instruction in "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook", I rebuild the 2.6.34.7 kernel. It is quite strait forward and works, the result kernel is also smaller than default kernel. maybe u can try it before Debian issue

Re: Apt-get, Exclude

2011-03-21 Thread Aéris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 22/03/2011 00:20, Matt a écrit : > Have worked mostly with CentOS. In CentOS we frequently use 'yum > update' to keep the server up to date. For packages that we do not > want updated we add them to exclude in yum.conf. Is there anything > like e

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-21 Thread shawn wilson
I knew it! 10 years later, zipslack on my phone. Sweet! On Mar 21, 2011 5:46 PM, "Mirco Piccin" wrote: > hi, > >> Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". >> >> What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? > > it seems there's already something l

Re: utilizing the Scroll key

2011-03-21 Thread lee
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:58:33PM +0100, lee wrote: > > I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del > > key on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either > > produces a comma (",") or a co

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I apologize, but I do not know the example movie that you referenced. --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 7:49 PM On 22/03/11 06:21, St

Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:27:25AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:41:06 -0700 > freeman wrote: > > > Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed > > squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? > > > > An upgrade to

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I am using Totem 2.30.2 plugin in iceweasel  libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -Steven - On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 7:49 PM On 22/03/11 06

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 06:21, Steven Sciame wrote: > Since upgrading to 6.0.1 playing wmv from iceweasel locks entire > system. The only way to unlock is to hold power button until machine > shuts off and then reboots (not necessarily a good idea) > > Here is one example of a page that did it to me: > > ht

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 22:48 Mon 21 Mar, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I downloaded the netinst CD image for the installation of debian. I >> > have an Ubuntu computer where I check

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:52:37 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: > > The only off list message I sent was to inform the OP about the > Debian COC regarding sending me a copy. I guess I was confused by the multiple consecutive posts by the OP with no intervening replies. I was assuming that someone was

Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:41:06 -0700 freeman wrote: > Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed > squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? > An upgrade to Squeeze (6.0) called 6.0.1 was recently released, containing all security updates

Re: Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread Kevin Ross
On 3/21/2011 4:41 PM, freeman wrote: Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? Running squeeze/mixed; started 100% uptodate; installed some upgrades; most of these upgradeables showed up within t

Wireless............

2011-03-21 Thread ariestao
When I net installed this Debian testing system on my laptop the wireless network that I connected to was an open wireless network. Without a password. Since then it has had a password required and I don't know how to place the password into /etc/network/interfaces Below are some methods I h

Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Sid (up-to-date) xfce nvidia driver 260.19.44-1 After switching an old 7300 card for a GeForce 210 (both are fanless), I see that the WM has changed behavior in various odd but tolerable manners. These WM items are now white instead of following the theme: 1. Drop-down menu bg color 2. Button

Re: trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 06:54, Joey L wrote: >(28 No space left on device) df -h to check that Maybe:- #apt-get clean first to make a little space, then:- df -h to see how much you've got free, then:- #apt-get -f install !do not agree to proceed! check the amount of space required - if it is less tha

Lots of Stable Upgrades

2011-03-21 Thread freeman
Not counting security updates, I expected some ketchup when I followed squeeze into stable. But now I am wondering how long will it continue? Running squeeze/mixed; started 100% uptodate; installed some upgrades; most of these upgradeables showed up within the past three days: freeman@Europa

Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK (Partial-Success)

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/21/2011 07:29 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/21/2011 05:34 PM, Mark Copper wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/21/2011 04:04 PM, Mark Copper wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/21/2011 01:56 PM, Mark Copper wrote: On Mon, Mar 21,

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 08:16, giovanni_re wrote: > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". > Please excuse my ignorance but, doesn't Debian already install to mobile phones? > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? 1. Read the documentation for th

Re: utilizing the Scroll key

2011-03-21 Thread lee
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:58:33PM +0100, lee wrote: > > I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del > > key on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either > > produces a comma (",") or a co

Apt-get, Exclude

2011-03-21 Thread Matt
Have worked mostly with CentOS. In CentOS we frequently use 'yum update' to keep the server up to date. For packages that we do not want updated we add them to exclude in yum.conf. Is there anything like exclude for apt-get in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 22:48 Mon 21 Mar, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded the netinst CD image for the installation of debian. I > > have an Ubuntu computer where I checked the md5sum and the sha1sum. I > > also tried to check the s

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 04:53, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! >> >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you >> need to let off steam. > > Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse.

Re: Squeeze

2011-03-21 Thread Fibber McGee
--- On Mon, 3/21/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-21 13:06:44 Fibber McGee > wrote: > >Released before its time.. A most miserable upgrade. > > Odd.  IIRC, the RC bug count was 0, so I'd say it was released right on > time.  I'll say it was odd.. Imagine the look on my face whe

How to use stateful keys to switch keyboard layouts? (was: utilizing the Scroll key)

2011-03-21 Thread lee
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 03:38:58PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:58:33 +0100, lee wrote: > > > I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del key > > on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either produces > > a comma (",") or a colon ("."),

Re: trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 02:54 PM, Joey L wrote: ate information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libxml2-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 774kB of archives. After this operation, 2724kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http:

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-21 Thread giovanni_re
Thanks for your pointers, Mirco :) On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:45 +0100, "Mirco Piccin" wrote: > hi, > > > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". > > > > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? > > it seems there's already something like tha

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-21 Thread Mirco Piccin
hi, > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". > > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? it seems there's already something like that: http://www.androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=view&catid=9&id=251 Here are instructions abo

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >>> >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! >> >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you >> need to let off steam. > > Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse. That's ok. I am glad my mail d

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the netinst CD image for the installation of debian. I > have an Ubuntu computer where I checked the md5sum and the sha1sum. I > also tried to check the signature doing the following: > gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys 629

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 mar 11, 20:28:51, Geronimo wrote: > > > > Look at "/boot/grub/device.map". It sets up a correspondence between > > grub's hdX and devices in "/dev/disk/by-id/..." so it doesn't depend > > on the kernel's device names. > > I tried to change that file, but I suspect, that nobody cares abo

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 mar 11, 18:21:09, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > ... and the installer? Crashes on installing, when /usr and /var are > > different > > partitions which should not be formatted. Huh??? > > This looks like a separate issue which you might want to report against > debian-installer. BTW, usi

Bug#619177: Please mention that as of squeeze/6.0.1 XF86Config is not used anymore

2011-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Lu, 21 mar 11, 14:27:11, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > > >  xorg-server (2:1.7.7-12) unstable; urgency=low > >  [...] > >    * Add 22-stop-searching-for-xf86config-files, cherry-picking the > >      upstream commi

trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Joey L
ate information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libxml2-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 774kB of archives. After this operation, 2724kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main libxml2-de

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Geronimo wrote: > > And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) > > > > If you read my writing carefully, you'll notice that I wrote, that grub > > has problems with changing drive order. > > > > The point is, in grub.cfg

Re: Can't boot live DVD Debian 6, KDE, 1GB

2011-03-21 Thread dave boland
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:26 -0700, "Csaba Kormendy" wrote: > Dave, > > As a side note, I have no idea what your root problem might be. The > "without hard drive" suggestion came to mind as I have recently been > experimenting with Debian by booting from a USB thumb drive on a bare > motherboard

wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
Since upgrading to 6.0.1 playing wmv from iceweasel locks entire system.  The only way to unlock is to hold power button until machine shuts off and then reboots (not necessarily a good idea) Here is one example of a page that did it to me: http://media.grc.com/files/testvideo.wmv I am not su

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:27:40 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 20. 03. 2011 05:23:34 je Celejar napisal(a): > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:01:27 -0400 > > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > > > Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as > > SSH/sftp/scp. > > > > IIUC, sshfs+fusefs must be on th

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:12:11 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20110319235133.aa4a79ae.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: > >On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:50:36 -0400 > >shawn wilson wrote: > >> about the same time as samba 4 and perl 6). As it is, I'd use nfs (add > >> ddrd > > > >I can't fi

Re: Squeeze

2011-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-21 13:06:44 Fibber McGee wrote: >Released before its time.. A most miserable upgrade. Odd. IIRC, the RC bug count was 0, so I'd say it was released right on time. Perhaps more people should have gotten involved in running (frozen) testing and filed more RC bugs. I ran squeeze basic

Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/21/2011 01:56 PM, Mark Copper wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 03/21/2011 10:49 AM, Mark Copper wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wayne Topawrote: Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64 Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlo

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 01:08 PM, Geronimo wrote: Hello, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/2011 11:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) So you're not using UUID in grub. Ok - that's a challenge Of cause, I use UUID in grub. But if you look at grub.cfg, the

Squeeze

2011-03-21 Thread Fibber McGee
Released before its time.. A most miserable upgrade. KDE forgets settings and won't turn off without pulling the plug. Linux changed all the drives and the Wifi. Software has degraded. KDE acts/looks like MS-Windows 7 without the birds, flowers and ribbons; I get spaceships instead. Run Windows

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Geronimo wrote: > > And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) > > If you read my writing carefully, you'll notice that I wrote, that grub has > problems with changing drive order. > > The point is, in grub.cfg each partition is mentioned by (hd

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/21/2011 11:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > > > And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) > > > So you're not using UUID in grub. Ok - that's a challenge Of cause, I use UUID in grub. But if you look at grub.cfg, theres one place, where UUID is

Erratic WPA wireless connection (ipw2200, wpa_supplicant)

2011-03-21 Thread Pablo Ramella
Hello I'm using Debian squeeze. Over what seems like the past year, I've had trouble getting my Thinkpad T42 to maintain a stable connection to my home access point. It sometimes takes forever to associate, or loses the connection apparently randomly. I only use a single access point with WPA, conf

Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

2011-03-21 Thread Mark Copper
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 03/21/2011 10:49 AM, Mark Copper wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wayne Topa  wrote: >>> >>>  Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64 >>>  Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 >>>  Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM >>>

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! > > I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you > need to let off steam. Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse. > Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowh

No sound in headphone through jack in squeeze

2011-03-21 Thread L V Gandhi
I have the following in lspci -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81ef Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 Memory at d01c (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 11:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: Hello, Christ Almighty... where have you been? busy inventing PEBCAK issues :) The kernel went to indeterminate drive ordering *years* ago. That's why fstab now uses UUID or LABEL to associate partitions with mount points. Hey, may be u missed some

Signature debian CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
Hi, I downloaded the netinst CD image for the installation of debian. I have an Ubuntu computer where I checked the md5sum and the sha1sum. I also tried to check the signature doing the following: gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys 6294BE9B gpg --verify MD5SUMS.sign MD5SUMS Is this th

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you need to let off steam. Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere unless you are more specific about the hardware in use and what kind of upgrade you actua

Re: xlsfonts & xfontsel don't list dejavu fonts

2011-03-21 Thread mwnn
On Monday 21 March 2011 22:36:23 mwnn wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian 6.0. xlsfonts & xfontsel don't list the truetype > fonts. Hence I am unable to use them in apps like gitk, git-gui etc. How > can I enable truetype fonts on these apps. > > Regards, > mwnn Found a bug logged for the

X-windows copy/paste mess

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm running testing (Wheezy) and am failing to get copy/paste working cleanly among my most common windows, namely: several xterms virtualbox running a virtual XP client iceweasel The window manager is fvwm. As far as I can tell, the problem comes down to this: virtualbox only reads from

xlsfonts & xfontsel don't list dejavu fonts

2011-03-21 Thread mwnn
Hi, I am running Debian 6.0. xlsfonts & xfontsel don't list the truetype fonts. Hence I am unable to use them in apps like gitk, git-gui etc. How can I enable truetype fonts on these apps. Regards, mwnn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/21/2011 10:49 AM, Mark Copper wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64 Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM 3999.52 Bogomips Total I installed, back in February, Squeeze on 3 par

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
@Wayne   I apologize for sending the extra mail directly to you.  At the time, my mouse pointer was not showing up and I was having great difficulty maneuvering through my mail. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Wayne Topa wrote: From: Wayne Topa Subject: Re

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I think you are correct Chen.  On the following thread they found it to be the kernel too: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61447 --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Chen Wei wrote: From: Chen Wei Subject: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME To: debian-user@lists.deb

Serial Connections

2011-03-21 Thread MAROUNI Abbass
Hello all, I have two servers with Debian Lenny installed. The two servers have a serial cable connected form Stty0 on Server0 to Stty1 on Server1. I can use minicom to log into Server0, but when I try to login to Server1 from Server0 using minicom I get some garbage and I can't type anything

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, > Christ Almighty... where have you been? busy inventing PEBCAK issues :) > The kernel went to indeterminate drive ordering *years* ago. That's > why fstab now uses UUID or LABEL to associate partitions with mount > points. Hey, may be u missed some of my writings. I wrote, that I came

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/20/2011 09:29 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:28:11 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: That seems to be your problem, gpm is not installed. As I do not use gnome this may not be required but the only way I can get a mouse to work is by installing the gpm package and configur

Serial Connection

2011-03-21 Thread MAROUNI Abbass
Hello all, I have two servers with Debian Lenny installed. The two servers have a serial cable connected form Stty0 on Server0 to Stty1 on Server1. I can use minicom to log into Server0, but when I try to login to Server1 from Server0 using minicom I get some garbage and I can't type anything

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:15:37PM +0100, Reinhard Mantey wrote: > Hello, > > > I admit, my main problem is mostly ideologic, but isn't it a rule of debian > stable, that no update will break a running system? > The last update did break my system. I don't think that's what stable means in the

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Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-21 10:15:37 Reinhard Mantey wrote: >I admit, my main problem is mostly ideologic, but isn't it a rule of debian >stable, that no update will break a running system? >The last update did break my system. While that is a good target, it is not possible to achieve. Before upgrading from o

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 21/03/11 16:15, Reinhard Mantey wrote: Hello, Perhaps proprietary firmware is the cause of your software problem - strangely you failed to provide any information about the most likely cause. Well, thought about that, but that hardware is working fine for over one year with daily d

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 10:15 AM, Reinhard Mantey wrote: Hello, Perhaps proprietary firmware is the cause of your software problem - strangely you failed to provide any information about the most likely cause. Well, thought about that, but that hardware is working fine for over one year with daily dist

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Reinhard Mantey
Hello, > Perhaps proprietary firmware is the cause of your software problem - > strangely you failed to provide any information about the most likely > cause. Well, thought about that, but that hardware is working fine for over one year with daily dist-upgrades and even if I boot with debian ins

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-21 Thread briand
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:09:28 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > apt-cache policy libaxaw7 > apt-cache policy libaxaw7-dev > apt-cache policy libxpm-dev > cat /etc/apt/sources.lst libxaw7: Installed: 2:1.0.8-2 Candidate: 2:1.0.8-2 Version table: *** 2:1.0.8-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

2011-03-21 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: >  Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64 >  Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 >  Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM >  3999.52 Bogomips Total > > > I installed, back in February, Squeeze on 3 partitions. For 2 days > Squeeze worked f

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-21 Thread Gabor Kum
2011. március 20. 09:54:46 dátummal Andrei Popescu az alábbiakat írta: > On Du, 20 mar 11, 09:32:04, Gabor Kum wrote: > > For multi-arch you need bigger size of CD, I think. > > There are multi-arch netinstall CDs (i386 + amd64) > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-

Re: Can't boot live DVD Debian 6, KDE, 1GB

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/21/2011 10:18 AM, dave boland wrote: > When I use a Debian based live cd (Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc.) the cd > starts and displays the options for the cd. Thus, I would conclude that > initrd worked as designed. Am I correct on this? No. The boot loader works. The scripts contained within

Re: starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed

2011-03-21 Thread waterloo
Just a line : Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed! Thanks 2011/3/21 Liam O'Toole > On 2011-03-21, waterloo wrote: > > when I boot , I find a error line : starting deferred execution > scheduler: > > atd failed . > > How to do with it ? > > > > I use Debian 6 amd64 . > > Than

Re: Can't boot live DVD Debian 6, KDE, 1GB

2011-03-21 Thread dave boland
Daniel, When I use a Debian based live cd (Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc.) the cd starts and displays the options for the cd. Thus, I would conclude that initrd worked as designed. Am I correct on this? Beyond that point is one about good programming. I do work for data acquisition systems, and w

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110319235133.aa4a79ae.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:50:36 -0400 >shawn wilson wrote: >> about the same time as samba 4 and perl 6). As it is, I'd use nfs (add >> ddrd > >I can't figure out what ddrd is. I think they meant "drbd", which is a way to keep two block

Re: starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 06:11 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-03-21, waterloo wrote: when I boot , I find a error line : starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed . How to do with it ? I use Debian 6 amd64 . Thanks Try starting it manually as root: /etc/init.d/atd start Any clues in

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/03/11 22:59, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! After dist-upgrade I > got > the advice, that I should reboot the system. Nothing special, so I rebooted > the system. That was the start of the misery. Grub was not able to find its > boot p

What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Geronimo
Hello, the last update of debian broke my system completely! After dist-upgrade I got the advice, that I should reboot the system. Nothing special, so I rebooted the system. That was the start of the misery. Grub was not able to find its boot partition and for such - it hung before showing up

Re: squeeze on asus 1001px

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/03/11 21:19, Frank wrote: > Hello, > � > I try to install squeeze on my little eeepc.�I tried the mini.iso > net-boot on a usb Key but the installation failed with the installation > of the Grub. > Do you have any information about it ? > � > I tried to boot and install it manually but no /ta

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