Package Pinning Question: Pin Dovecot 1.2 during upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2016-03-02 Thread Sophie Loewenthal
Hi, Debian Wheeze onwards comes with a default installation of Dovecot 2. An upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy would upgrade Dovecot 1.2 -> 2.2. When I upgrade a Squeeze server to Wheezy, how could I keep Dovecot 1.2? Could I by Pinning the package? Many thanks, Soph. P.S I have pos

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-15 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Javier Barroso writes: There is a page on the wiki [1] where give you details about cs4236 devices on Debian (and why they were excluded from Distribution. I'm not sure if cs4236B is included. I hope it work too, I looked there and didn't see any documentation stating that the 423X

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: Javier Barroso writes: There is a page on the wiki [1] where give you details about cs4236 devices on Debian (and why they were excluded from Distribution. I'm not sure if cs4236B is included. I hope it

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:49:25AM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: This old Dell is not ready for the recycling center as it has a gigabyte of RAM and can still do lots of useful work so I hope there is a way to get audio working again. A cheap USB audio device is probably a good bet.

Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-14 Thread Martin G. McCormick
The system in question is a Dell Dimension 600-MHZ Pentium from way back in 2000. The BIOS date is October 10 of 1999. The sound chip set is a CS4236 on the mother board and it's always been touchy about working. You can count on the sound dying after any significant upgrade but once you

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-14 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, keeping you on cc, sorry if you don't want, On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: The system in question is a Dell Dimension 600-MHZ Pentium from way back in 2000. The BIOS date is October 10 of 1999. The sound chip set is a

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy Killed Sound on Dell Board.

2015-07-14 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: A cheap USB audio device is probably a good bet. For example, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035cm_re=usb_audio-_-12-186-035-_-Product is an $8 USB device that I can verify works with Debian and Mac OS X. That is a very good suggestion. I

Problems with init scripts at boot after upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2014-12-10 Thread Bernhard Frühmesser
Hi, After upgrading from Sqeeze to Wheezy i have two problems with starting up services while booting. First the service xdm is now started long before other services (like dhcp, clamd, dansguardian...) are started. Before the upgrade xdm was the last service that was started which was ok.

Re: Problems with init scripts at boot after upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2014-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 16:19:12, Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: Hi, After upgrading from Sqeeze to Wheezy i have two problems with starting up services while booting. First the service xdm is now started long before other services (like dhcp, clamd, dansguardian...) are started. And why is this

Re: Problems with init scripts at boot after upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2014-12-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernhard Frühmesser wrote: First the service xdm is now started long before other services (like dhcp, clamd, dansguardian...) are started. Before the upgrade xdm was the last service that was started which was ok. Sounds like you are now using the parallel boot whereas before it was the

Re: Solved - cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Friday 19 July 2013 14:17:05, Thierry Chatelet wrote : Hi list, I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 minutes.If I run it with a squeeze live CD everything is OK. I look with google

Re: Solved - cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20130725_133320, Thierry Chatelet wrote: The Friday 19 July 2013 14:17:05, Thierry Chatelet wrote : Hi list, I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 minutes.If I run it with a

cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi list, I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 minutes.If I run it with a squeeze live CD everything is OK. I look with google and I found overheat problems with wheezy, but only after

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Friday 19 July 2013 14:17:05, Thierry Chatelet wrote : Hi list, I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 minutes.If I run it with a squeeze live CD everything is OK. I look with google

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:17:05 +0200, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 Is cpufrequtils installed? What does /proc/cpuinfo show? --

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Friday 19 July 2013 14:47:08, Virgo Pärna wrote : On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:17:05 +0200, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under squeeze. Now it's overheating, and it shuts down after about 5 Is

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 02:44:12PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: The Friday 19 July 2013 14:47:08, Virgo Pärna wrote : On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:17:05 +0200, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: I upgraded my daughter laptop from squeeze to wheezy. It was working fine under

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 15:44 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Now what will cpufrequtils do? CPU frequency scaling. If your computer rests and the CPU governor is set to performance, than the CPU anyway will be used at maximal clock. If it's set to another governor e.g. ondemand, than the CPU will

Re: cpu overheating after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-07-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Jul 2013 at 15:44:12 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Was not installed, I installed it. /proc/cpuinfo show gives permission denied, even when I am root Now what will cpufrequtils do? Advocates and prospective users of cpufrequtils may benefit from reading the threads starting at

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-09 Thread fireball
Your suggestion WORKED! I was able to remove enough of the NVIDIA cruft so that apt-get would install gdm3. My desktop environment is now working, thanks to your suggestion. THANK YOU! -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze

gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
I upgraded my Debian system from squeeze to wheezy. Now gdm is broken. I am attaching the Xorg.0.log file. Any suggestions? Xorg.0.log http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/file/n2970296/Xorg.0.log -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
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Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
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Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread Kailash
an error code (1) -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze-to-wheezy-tp2970296p2970450.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi, I found a similar bug-report here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2013-05-20 Thread Intah
Hi, try apt-get remove libmyodbc apt-get dist-upgrade It worked for me. It's the old thread, but maybe someone will have the same problem. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-19 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
rlwbonsai, 6.05.2013: I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has successfully run Sarge,

Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has successfully run Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze and was

Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:14:39AM -0400, rlwbonsai wrote: I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This

RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
-Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this machine. Make sure Gnome's Classic mode (AKA, fallback mode) is installed. There is a package for that. Consider installing MATE instead (Google for it.) They recently released a new version which runs very smoothly. MATE is a

Re: Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
This is my sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 ( 20060314)]/ etch main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main #deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze main contrib

Re: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the login menu. My comments relate to that. Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: # enable color support of ls and also add

RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the login menu. My comments relate to that. Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: # enable color support of ls and also

Re: RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Thanks. The Gnome terminal is now usable in XFCE. Can't check rxvt because trying to start rxvt crashes X. Trying to start it a second time, after logging in from the first crash, crashed the system. I like rxvt from past experience but it seems not to be an option in Wheezy. I really, really

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:40:02 +0100 Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: I can't see the relevance of any of these for the problem at hand. OK, suggest something of relevance for the problem specifically, like a better less 'default' set of values for the /etc/apt/apt.conf file, explaining why.

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I downloaded yesterday debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso, but it seems better to use the recommended beta4 release. debian-wheezy-DI-b4-i386-DVD-1.iso I just remark that the file name is now

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 08:35:51PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: hummm...I don't know but I care nothing for these code words squeeze wheezy sid etc. I prefer good 'ol stable testing unstable experimental. They both serve their own purposes. The code names continue to point at the same

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: hummm...I don't know but I care nothing for these code words squeeze wheezy sid etc. I prefer good 'ol stable testing unstable experimental. I don't understand. Presently, squeeze and stable are synonyms, but squeeze will mean squeeze forever,

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-03 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:10:02 +0100 Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: As I already said, I'll spend less time installing Wheezy from the iso image This just in: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ your troubles are over. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: Try this: #dpkg --configure -a -- CK p.s. this is an old one: #apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade hi Charles, thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
thanks Bob for your detailed reply On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Also check /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* for any additional files that are contributing to the list. Ensure that there are none. I had actually removed them What was the reason for the reboot? Did you lose power? You

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 09:42:15AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi Charles, thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. What is output of: apt-cache policy udev uname -a apt-get -f install -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What is output of: apt-cache policy udev udev: Installed: 164-3 Candidate: 175-7 Version table: 175-7 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages *** 164-3 0 100

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[OOps, looks like I've jumped in when Bob's already helping. Feel free to wait and see what Bob suggests, although I can't see any problem with trying the following] On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:47:46AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What is output of:

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What is output of: apt-cache policy udev udev: Installed: 164-3 Candidate: 175-7 Version table: 175-7 0 500

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg I'd start with just the kernel and udev, possibly separately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What I'd do is: (as root) apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg that failed with the same dependencies problem, but what worked was: # apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae # apt-get install grub

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 16:30:10, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 apt-listbugs is making problems you could uninstall or disable it. This time, I'm

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: apt-listbugs is making problems you could uninstall or disable it. I was so sure that it was a required package that I didn't try that. Removing it actually worked, but there are still so many dependencies problems that I'll abandon, and install

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:20:01 +0100 Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: When I run # apt-get install I get 1763 ackages not upgraded hummm...I don't know but I care nothing for these code words squeeze wheezy sid etc. I prefer good 'ol stable testing unstable

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Tom H wrote: What's the output of apt-cache policy? == apt-cache policy The problem is that your report, although I am sure is accurate, is of conflicting information. It doesn't make sense. I am sure it is what you are seeing. Don't get me wrong. But the

upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: - in source.list, I only left: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free - then, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade up to now, no problem, a lot of packages were upgraded - but after reboot,running apt-get

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: - in source.list, I only left: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free - then, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade up to now, no

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Tom H wrote: The versions that apt's trying to install are squeeze ones. not exactly: 5.1.6-1 is to be installed, curiously actually means: 5.1.6-1 is installed What's the output of apt-cache policy? == apt-cache policy Package files: 100

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:00:02 +0100 Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to fix this dependency problem? I found nothing useful (at least for me) via Google, or debian forums. Try this: #dpkg --configure -a -- CK p.s. this is an old one: #apt-get -o

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: Okay. - in source.list, I only left: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free Okay. Don't completely forget about security upgrades. But okay to upgrade without to keep thing simple. But