Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Feb 2021 at 08:02:02 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +, pioruns2019 wrote: > > Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid > > and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what > > you're doing. > > I sug

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread pioruns2019
On 12/02/2021 13:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +, pioruns2019 wrote: Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what you're doing. I suggest to install sid from the scra

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12021-02-12): > If one wants to run unstable, one > installs the current stable release, and then upgrades to sid. That's never how I do it. And I have no problem with my method. > The probem here is that the OP attempted to mix stable and unstab

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:56:00PM +, pioruns2019 wrote: > Why You want to upgrade from buster to sid? You have enabled both sid > and buster-updates repositories. This won't work, unless you know what > you're doing. > I suggest to install sid from the scratch, if you want to have sid. If > yo

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-02-12 at 06:02, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello, > I have installed 10.7 and then > apt upgrade > without any problems. > However the following > apt dist-upgrade > failed badly and cannot be repaired with > apt --fix-broken install > > Correcting dependencies... failed. > The followi

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:02:51PM +0100, thah...@t-online.de wrote: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) > Depends: libavformat58 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) but 7:4.3.1-8 is installed > Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) but 7:

Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

2021-02-12 Thread Dan Ritter
thah...@t-online.de wrote: > Hello, > I have installed 10.7 and then > apt upgrade > without any problems. > However the following > apt dist-upgrade > failed badly and cannot be repaired with > apt --fix-broken install > > Correcting dependencies... failed. > The following packages have unmet d

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 10:33:39 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:01:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It's difficult to understand your OP, and your difficulty with > > pasting. However, to take one example, > > Indeed without OP's terminal output we can only guess as

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:01:49AM -0500, David Wright wrote: It's difficult to understand your OP, and your difficulty with pasting. However, to take one example, Indeed without OP's terminal output we can only guess as to why the packages are being removed from their system, [wicd] news

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 sep 20, 17:14:30, Hans wrote: > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, but > the > deinstallation of packages which are still usefull for people without a > substitute or a substitude with the same ease as the uninstalled package. Please note bullsey

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On 9/17/2020 10:29 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200 Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, No offence. :) And none taken. Yes, I've lost one or two applications over the years which I was actively using. But it is rare for this t

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On 9/17/2020 10:14 AM, Hans wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is close to unstable. The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, but the deinstallation

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 11:14:30 -04 Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > Hi Joe, > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, > which is close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 17:14:30 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is > close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, bu

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200 Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: > Hi Joe, > > yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, > which is close to unstable. > > The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at >

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe: Hi Joe, yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing, which is close to unstable. The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at all, but the deinstallation of packages which are still useful

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:47:24 +0200 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > of course, apt-get full-upgrade sometimes wants to deinstall some > packages, but this here is strange. Take a look: > > --- > > apt-get full-upgrade > > > > Really? You want deinstall packages like wicd*, zenmap, d-rats? This

Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

2020-09-17 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 12:47:24 CEST schrieb Hans: Hmm, answer myself. Looks like the output is could not be pasted into the mail (root rights). However, think, you understood my worries. To verify: I do not want to blame someone, my intention is more looking in the way, unexperien

Re: dist-upgrade: Current status: 0 broken [~42], 0 updates [~880], 24238 new [~79]

2016-05-10 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > That's the last last line printed to screen as a result of a dist-upgrade > from Wheezy to Jessie. What do the numbers actually refer to, particularly > those within [ ]? > > Space consumed on 19G / before starting was ~39%, after, ~71%. I actually > did two dist-upgrades, do

Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

2014-04-26 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/26/2014 06:00 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 25 apr 14, 13:22:03, The Wanderer wrote: > >> This is obviously a bug somewhere (albeit probably not a severe one >> in practice), but I'm not even sure what package the bug would be >> in. >>

Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

2014-04-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 03:29:49PM +0200, Carlo wrote: > I would tell you a my tip: > > - if you want go from stable to testing/unstable before you must > change your channel in repository's file located in > /etc/apt/sources.list. > > - after this edit, these are the right sequence of comma

Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

2014-04-26 Thread Carlo
I would tell you a my tip: - if you want go from stable to testing/unstable before you must change your channel in repository's file located in /etc/apt/sources.list. - after this edit, these are the right sequence of command by terminal: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get install apt

Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

2014-04-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 apr 14, 13:22:03, The Wanderer wrote: > > This is obviously a bug somewhere (albeit probably not a severe one in > practice), but I'm not even sure what package the bug would be in. > > Any hints, or ideas what might be going on here? I suggest you post this to http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-14 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:38 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this b

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > > > kernel image

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread John Foster
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:48 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > kernel image done first then

Re: Dist-upgrade on remote server fails;

2014-02-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:42:25PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have a question regarding upgrading a remotely hosted VPN server. was > running Debian 6; I did a few upgrades to clear the way for a > dist-upgrade. I normally do this by getting the libc6 stuff and the > kernel image done first then

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:52:38 +0300,Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > > direction Fedora was going.  So, I

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > direction Fedora was going.  So, I opted against upgrading, but 12 was > having problems.  Time for a

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 03:27 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 17:38 +0200, Luca Cappelletti wrote: > http://trojita.flaska.net/ Thank you, I'll take a look, assumed they are available by the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch repositories. --

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Anthony Campbell >  > On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > [snip] > >> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes >  >> [snip]   >> >> Hope the problem is solvable from your end. > > Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some line

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Ralf Mardorf >  > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them.  I have no dying > loyalty to Yahoo. > > Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. Can't use an MUA with the free version of Yahoo Mail.  Browser only.  At leas

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that > > does work with the provider settings I need. > > There is geary. > http://www.yorba.org/proj

alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that > does work with the provider settings I need. There is geary. http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ I've never used it, myself, but it is an alternative to c

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 22:59 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Info: > > > > You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address > > I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the > > pain Evolution and Xfce4, IOW the GNO

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Info: > > You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address > I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the > pain Evolution and Xfce4, IOW the GNOME crap does cause. What are the pain points/ problems, with evolutio

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell > >  > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > > Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end:   > It's Yahoo Mail t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them. I have no dying loyalty to > Yahoo. Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not > sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing > lists. Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using rig

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Chris Bannister >  > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>  >> > From: Anthony Campbell >> >  >> > [snip] >> >> >> > >> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes > which >> > make them annoying to read on a text-

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell > >  > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 15:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) > Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Snip >> >> Hope the problem is solvable from your end. >> >> > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. > > -- cmg > > Seems like overkill. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> Snip > > Hope the problem is solvable from your end. > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I can

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:37 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone > and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. No, the experiment "HTML email" miserably failed, that's why more and more people switch to plain t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Anthony Campbell >  > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. >> > >> >>> [snip] >> >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > Strange. I also use Mutt (with various patches) and I don't see any > problem with Patrick's mail. > Inte

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 07:57:11 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I cannot have my

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > >>> [snip] > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply > header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to have > one at all.  At

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - >  > > Patrick Bartek: >> - Original Message - >>> From: Jochen Spieker >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Cc: >>> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM >>> Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread ha
On 04/21/2013 09:30 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two sh

Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Gary Dale > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:03 AM > Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? > > [snip] > > As for staying with Wheezy, w

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > - Original Message - >> From: Jochen Spieker >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM >> Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. >&

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Jochen Spieker > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM > Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? > > Patrick Bartek: >> >> I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for severa

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-21 22:52:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Using dist-upgrade can > > remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! > > I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the > "aptitude full-upgrade" command does not

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: > Using dist-upgrade can > remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the "aptitude full-upgrade" command does nothing without asking first, so there is no question of it r

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > > > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > > > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > > > the same thing. Ho

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > > the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using > > dist-upgrade (or full-

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 08:03:20AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > the same thing. However, I prefer to st

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade for apti

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > > I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now, and as > recommended[1] having been using "dist-upgrade" for upgrading it.  My > sources-list[2] is set to "Wheezy" and not "testing" as per those same > instructions.  When Wheezy is promoted to "Stable" should I switch to >

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove gdm

2011-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jochen Spieker wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom: I run Sid. I installed gdm instead of gdm3. But now dist-upgrade wants to remove gdm and gdm-themes. … How do I find out why? aptitude why-not gdm aptitude why gdm3 Probably Gnome3 is trickling in and some package you have installed depends on gdm3 (wh

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove gdm

2011-10-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > I run Sid. I installed gdm instead of gdm3. But now dist-upgrade > wants to remove gdm and gdm-themes. … > How do I find out why? aptitude why-not gdm aptitude why gdm3 Probably Gnome3 is trickling in and some package you have installed depends on gdm3 (which conflicts with

Re: dist-upgrade not reading dvds properly

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
>> When I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade for the multimedia packages >> on my system, it told me to insert Debian DVD disc #1, and from that >> attempted to install the following programs: librtmp0 >> libdirac-decoder0 libggiwmh0 libggiwmh0-target-x libvdpau1 twolame. >> But, it then told me:

Re: dist-upgrade not reading dvds properly

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 08:10 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I use Squeeze. I just recently upgraded from Lenny. My sources.list is a combination of Debian DVDs and some http repos (for multimedia, non-free, and security updates). I rely largely on DVDs because I use dial-up. When I tried to run apt-

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it > turned into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire > package update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install > can't fix anything and dpkg --configure -a can't fix anything Did you up

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:32:42 -0500 (EST) Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned > into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package > update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix > anything and dpkg --

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned > into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package > update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix > anything and dpkg

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM EST, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned > into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package > update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix > anything and dpkg --co

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it > turned into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire > package update and repair systems are broken. We know apt-get dist-upgrade usually works bu

Re: dist upgrade nightmare!

2010-12-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned into a > disaster.  As a consequence of the attempt his entire package update and > repair systems are broken.  apt-get -f install can't fix anything and dpkg > --configure

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 20:20 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Please run dosfslabel on your DOS partition. >> > Never knew we had such a command. Checked the man page an ran it for > /dev/hda1, the dos partition. The response was NO NAME.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> > >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... > >> > Lo

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... >> > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector >>

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix > >> the problem. > > > > Upgrade fa

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:05:06PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix >> the problem. > > Upgrade failed. linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on > linux-base-2.6.32-15 and instal

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > F9. > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update > and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: > > > > > > X.Org X Server 1.7.7 > > Release Date: 2010-05-04 > > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: > > > X.Org X Server 1.7.7 > Release Date: 2010-05-04 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian > Current Operating System: Linux dragon 2.6.32-3-amd64

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > fixing the quoting... > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > > > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > > > The display resol

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debia

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread James Allsopp
Check your HorizSync and VertRefresh values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's probably just set values that are woefully low to be on the safe side. Jim On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X wi

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-07 Thread Kent West
On 06/04/2010 05:56 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: On 20:17 Fri 04 Jun , Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-04 20:09 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system which should restore some sanity. Except that kent got a black d

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 20:17 Fri 04 Jun , Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-04 20:09 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system > > which should restore some sanity. > > Except that kent got a black display without it. > > > it will get rid of the fr

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-04 20:09 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system > which should restore some sanity. Except that kent got a black display without it. > it will get rid of the framebuffer use/ > > here is one thing to try. > > add the foll

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system which should restore some sanity. it will get rid of the framebuffer use/ here is one thing to try. add the following line to the file /etc/modpobe.d/blacklist.conf blacklist nouveau then reboot. that is what i did. Mi

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:36 +0200, Kent West wrote: > In the grub screen where you select which kernel to boot, I pressed > "e" to edit the kernel line of my choice, then went to the "linux" > line that had things like /quiet and ro and root=UUIDblahblahblah and > added "video=1024x768", then pressed Ctrl

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 03:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or whatever your monitor's resolution is. Where would I put this line?

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or >> whatever your monitor's resolution is. >> > > Where would I put this line? Append it to the kernel command line. I don't use grub2,

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: So I figured I'd push on to Sid/unstable, to see if maybe I'd get newer drivers that might solve this issue. How interesting.! Now when I reboot (into the newly installed 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP kernel,

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: >> I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I >> couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to >> dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my >> printe

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my printer. But when I dist-upgraded, my dual-monitor setup fre

Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

2010-05-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 20:00:24 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Another apt question. > > I have my own kernel installed: > > h...@debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image > ii linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw 1 > Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33.3-hvw > ii

Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

2010-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.May.10, 14:55:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > >Depending on the scope of patch level changes on this project > >(x.y.z -> x = Major, y = Minor, z = Patch level), I don't think > >missing a few is a big deal. > > -- Rogério Brito Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:45:

Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

2010-05-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 13:35:13 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-19 20:00 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have my own kernel installed: h...@debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw 1 Linux k

Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

2010-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 13:35:13 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2010-05-19 20:00 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> I have my own kernel installed: > >> > >> h...@debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image > >> ii linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw 1 Linux kernel bina

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