Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/04/11 01:07, Christian Jakob wrote: > fsck did something, but it doesn't fix the problem ... Um, fsck did what? Did it simply optimise directories - or did the file system need repairing? Did it test the ability of the drive to retain data - find some sections where failing and add them to t

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/04/11 15:46, Christian Jakob wrote: >> Before trying to replace apt... how about trying a manual install of >> scons and posting the output? > > root@debian # dpkg -i scons_1.0.0-1_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package scons. (Reading database ... 175 901 files and directories cur

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 04/12/11 09:15, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> --- On Tue, 4/12/11, rishabh animesh  wrote: >> >>> I am new to Linux and Debian. Whats the best way to start on things? >>> Currently I'm a Computer Science student and have experience only with

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(TOFU corrected. In general, this list prefers well-trimmed posts with replies interleaved or underneath the quoted context. Some prefer top- posting, but I think everyone with an opinion desires posts to be well- trimmed.) In <998647986.2435386.1302844626401.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb033>, Christia

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Christian Jakob
root@debian # apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny Release.gpg Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny Release Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex I

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 04/12/11 09:15, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Tue, 4/12/11, rishabh animesh wrote: I am new to Linux and Debian. Whats the best way to start on things? Currently I'm a Computer Science student and have experience only with algorithms! Comfortable with C/C++ but willing to learn more to help

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Hans Jespersen wrote: > While upgrading from lenny to squeeze, i followed the installation > notes to the point where I install the new kernel image: > > apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 > > then I get the following error: > .. > Running depmod

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , James Allsopp wrote: >Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so >and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version: >190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31). >Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. > >Any suggestions? Make sure the version of nvidia-glx, libgl1-nvidia-glx,

Smartphone - Embedded Conf Slides, Android conf ; gre

2011-04-14 Thread giovanni_re
Embedded conf, past few days, was "only" $75 for hackers. Run by Linux Foundation. San Francisco. Slides link below. One talk looked interesting, cause it's a beginning step for Smartphone debian - to get a multi boot loader. - But, no slides listed yet. Hot Multi-OS Switch: How to run Ubuntu,

Nvidia drivers

2011-04-14 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm having trouble with my Nvidia drivers, glxinfo gives me the following error. I'm not sure how this happened, during an update I presume. The problem is that I don't seem to be able to update the nvidia-glx package. Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so and libGLcore.so shar

Re: Radeon fglrx performance gone in Testing AMD64

2011-04-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/04/2011 09:26, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > Somewhere this week the video card performance dropped spectacularly. > All drag and drop operations and (web) page scrolling are suddenly > excruciating slow. Glxgears went from > 5000 to 60 frames per second (I > know, glxgears is no benchmark

Re: [SOLVED] Multseat don't work after xorg (and related) upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:41:47 -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > I do that in this way: Thanks, Marcelo. I'll try this in a couple of days. I don't have much to lose at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Re: [SOLVED] Multseat don't work after xorg (and related) upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi Steve, I do that in this way: $ cat /var/log/dpkg.log Here you will see all that changes you have been made and you could see the previous version of that packages. Select only that packages that are related to your problem Go to http://snapshot.debian.org and find the old versions and down

Re: another favourite FLOSS poll

2011-04-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:32, green wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote at 2011-04-04 05:39 -0500: >> I've asked for removal, due to inactivity. >> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 00:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> wrote: >> > Depending on response, I may come back here and report how the vote >> > goes b

mplayer and ffmpeg biting each other's tail ...

2011-04-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ I am having some nasty dependency problems which branching seem get more and more complicated ~ Basically, I need to install ffmpeg on configuration that had mplayer previously installed ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ # dpkg -i libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-18+lenny3_i3

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Thats got it. root@andrew-debian-pc:/home/andrew# dmesg | grep firmware [ 15.017339] rt61pci :02:05.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin [ 20.434307] platform r600_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV730_pfp.bin [ 20.442403] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV730_pfp.bin" [ 20.

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2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
This message isn't SPAM, so you can reply to it. Please don't reply to SPAM messages, and when you absolutely must do not quote SPAM message. Either of these actions make it much harder for the administrators and automated systems to identify and remove SPAM from the mailing lists. If you wan

Re: Flash performance suffers when using 3D style desktop

2011-04-14 Thread foldingstock
> I just wanted to see if its my imagination, or whether other people have > noticed it, but ... > > > When I run KDE 4.6 or Compiz Fusion desktops, attempts to play browser > videos seems to give a very jerky response. (I assume these are using > flash). > > When I switch back to a simple GNOME de

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110413_202225, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Don J wrote: >> > For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few >> > other programs.  As far as I can see, they get a segmentation fault >> >

Re: [SOLVED] Multseat don't work after xorg (and related) upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Kleene
> Could you see this thread? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg01008.html Thanks. I might like to try this but don't quite know enough. How did you decide which packages to downgrade? All of those that were upgraded on April 12th, or just those relating to xorg? It appears yo

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1038309152.3627061.1302793651098.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb038>, Christian Jakob wrote: >fsck did something, but it doesn't fix the problem ... > >root@debian # dpkg -l | grep aptitude >root@debian # apt-get install aptitude >Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig >Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut >L

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Christian Jakob
fsck did something, but it doesn't fix the problem ... root@debian # dpkg -l | grep aptitude root@debian # apt-get install aptitude Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut Lese Status-Informationen ein... Fertig Paket aptitude ist nicht verfügbar, wird aber von einem

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Re: want to restore older version of Wheezy

2011-04-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
Dear Steve, I have similar problem, but with a multseat system, and I solve by downgrade some packages. Could you see this thread? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg01008.html I am running 2.6.38 kernel version and its is very stable. So, the problem isn't there, i guess. -- Marc

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

2011-04-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:50 AM, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:34:14 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>> I.e., there is no processes associated with the mount point any more, >>> but I still can't umount the device. Moreover: >>> >>>    $ ps -eaf | grep knfs[d] || echo no found no found >>

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Kleene
> Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did the > latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. I just submitted a bug report on this (bug #622761). I was a little annoyed that this was classified as severity level "normal". As defined here: http:

snapshots

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Kleene
As noted in another thread ("Wheezy upgrade trashes display"), upgrades on Monday left me with no X-windows. I suspect this happened when the kernel was upgraded from 2.6.32-5-686 to 2.6.38-2-686. I can imagine uninstalling all the new packages, including the new kernel, but I'm not optimistic th

Flash performance suffers when using 3D style desktop

2011-04-14 Thread Alan Chandler
I just wanted to see if its my imagination, or whether other people have noticed it, but ... When I run KDE 4.6 or Compiz Fusion desktops, attempts to play browser videos seems to give a very jerky response. (I assume these are using flash). When I switch back to a simple GNOME desktop, it

want to restore older version of Wheezy

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Kleene
As noted in another thread ("Wheezy upgrade trashes display"), upgrades on Monday left me with no X-windows. I suspect this happened when the kernel was upgraded from 2.6.32-5-686 to 2.6.38-2-686. I still have the netinst CD that I originally used. It predates the kernel upgrade, and the CD has

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

2011-04-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 14/04/11 15:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't umount a device even I've killed all related processes: % umount /mnt/mpoint umount: /mnt/mpoint: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)

Re: Cannot umount: device is busy

2011-04-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
T o n g: > > Is there any way that I can kill all those kernel processes associated > with the mount? For NFS run: /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop J. -- All participation is a myth. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110413_202225, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Don J wrote: > > For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few > > other programs.  As far as I can see, they get a segmentation fault > > and just disappear.  From the debugging and back traces that

Re: Re: Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":1.0".

2011-04-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
Dear Hans, OK, I purged all nvidia packages and install it again. inael:/home/janaina# dpkg -l '*nvidia*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Nome

[SOLVED] Multseat don't work after xorg (and related) upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
To solve my problem (multseat not work), I need: Downgrade this versions of xorg and xserver: 2011-04-12 14:15:22 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-04-12 14:15:26 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.4.0-2 1:1.6.0-1 2011-04-12 14:1

Smartphone - Embedded Conf Slides, Android conf ; gre

2011-04-14 Thread giovanni_re
Embedded conf, past few days, was "only" $75 for hackers. Run by Linux Foundation. San Francisco. Slides link below. One talk looked interesting, cause it's a beginning step for Smartphone debian - to get a multi boot loader. - But, no slides listed yet. ELC 2011 Presentations http://elinux.org

error installing kernel-image

2011-04-14 Thread Hans Jespersen
While upgrading from lenny to squeeze, i followed the installation notes to the point where I install the new kernel image: apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 then I get the following error: .. Running depmod. Running /usr/sbin/yaird. yaird error: Unknown option: k (fatal) /usr/sbin/

Re: Developers, there's a new App Store in town.

2011-04-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:35:09 -0400 Michael Checca wrote: Hello Michael, > Who subscribed to this? I unsubscribed from it, but aren't these lists > moderated for spam? You sent the whole bloody thing again. That's ten times worse in my book, since you *know* it shouldn't be here... -- Regar

Re: How to install unixodbc-dev

2011-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-04-14, CDR wrote: > When I type "apt-get install unixodbc-dev" > I get back: > "Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package unixodbc-dev is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is

Radeon fglrx performance gone in Testing AMD64

2011-04-14 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Somewhere this week the video card performance dropped spectacularly. All drag and drop operations and (web) page scrolling are suddenly excruciating slow. Glxgears went from > 5000 to 60 frames per second (I know, glxgears is no benchmark). Also my screen is not painted correctly: it seems th

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-14 Thread rishabh animesh
Thanks Larry! I'll get hold of the book asap! On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM, wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From: *rishabh animesh > *To: *debian-user@lists.debian.org > *Sent: *4/12/2011 11:41:13 AM > *Subject: *New to Linux > > Hello People, > > I am new to Linux and Debian.