Re: Bug#579384: Acknowledgement (How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed)
So, it turns out this is surprisingly tricky. The problem is that the aptitude initialization process runs a mark-and-sweep before the whole package system is ready. That seems very dicey to me, but the comments seem to indicate that it's necessary to force apt to behave properly with auto flags when aptitude loads its sticky settings. But until the sticky settings are loaded, I don't know what's held on the system. This whole bit of the code needs to be examined, I think. Which means this is a deeper change than it should be. :( Daniel -- 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/20100501053251.ga27...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude Error
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > >> heard to say: > >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system > >> > > by > >> > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable [snip] > "aptitude search ~Aunstable~i" That'll show packages that are available from sid and that are installed on your computer. That could include packages you installed from testing, but that are also available from sid. If you want to check that the installed version is also available from sid, you'll need to wrap it in '?narrow': $ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)' Daniel -- 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/20100501052534.gi26...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude Error
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:37:24AM -0400, Mike Viau was
heard to say:
> > Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote:
> > $ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
>
> debian01:~# aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
>
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Sorry, there's a stray apostrophe in there.
$ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
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Re: Aptitude Error
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was >> heard to say: >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system >> > > by >> > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable >> > >> > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" >> > > "aptitude search ~Aunstable" seems to show all packages from sid (wheather > installed or not) > > try " aptitude search ~Aunstable | grep '^i' " Oops! "aptitude search ~Aunstable~i" -- 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/j2r6d4219cc1004302146t8aeac35ax923069b854441...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles
rudu wrote: Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Bingo !! That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers. The workaround that worked for me : Append the line : options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0 to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf A big thank you to Justin and everyone who helped. Good that you got it solved. Except I don't understand when the problem started. You must have run at one time w/o black screens. And then they started. Hugo Well, I've lived with it for quite a long time before calling for help here, but IIRC it started after a kernel upgrade, then I couldn't install the nvidia driver so I switched to nv, and so on. I hadn't enough time at the moment to investigate ... Glad one of those solutions worked for you. That one in particular I think is a new one (to me anyway). It's been a while since I've had a need to flip between the consoles, much less turn on the laptop, so I'll have to try that one and see if it works. I'm sure that in the grand scheme of things, this is a very minor issue, but it's annoying and surprising, IMO, that it still exists considering the age of the bug. -- 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/4bdbb17a.20...@penguinness.org
RE: Aptitude Error
> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau
> was heard to say:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was
> > > heard to say:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your
> > > > > system by
> > > > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable
> > > >
> > > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable"
> > >
> >
> > "aptitude search ~Aunstable" seems to show all packages from sid (wheather
> > installed or not)
> >
> > try " aptitude search ~Aunstable | grep '^i' "
>
> Ah, I missed that requirement.
>
> How about this:
>
> $ aptitude versions --group-by=none --show-package-name=always \
> -F '%p %d' '?archive(unstable)?installed'
>
> Or for earlier systems:
>
> $ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
>
debian01:~# aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
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Re: Aptitude Error
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau was
heard to say:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was
> > heard to say:
> > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system
> > > > by
> > > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable
> > >
> > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable"
> >
>
> "aptitude search ~Aunstable" seems to show all packages from sid (wheather
> installed or not)
>
> try " aptitude search ~Aunstable | grep '^i' "
Ah, I missed that requirement.
How about this:
$ aptitude versions --group-by=none --show-package-name=always \
-F '%p %d' '?archive(unstable)?installed'
Or for earlier systems:
$ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
Daniel
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Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:58:19PM -0700, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: > > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of > > all > > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. > > If you pass "-t ARCHIVE", that means that versions from ARCHIVE are > treated as the default package version. It also increases the pin > priority to 990. aptitude's resolver tries particularly hard to install > the default package version, and it will tie-break using the priority > (you can configure both those behaviors extensively, but those are the > defaults). The story is more extreme with the apt resolver: it won't > even consider anything but the default version of a package. That's not quite right. The default version is the highest-priority available version. It just happens that setting the pin priority to 990 *normally* has the effect of changing the default version, but you could theoretically manually pin another version to be higher. The second effect of Default-Release is to change how certain aptitude / apt-get commands choose the target version. This includes "apt-get source", "apt-get build-dep", "aptitude build-dep", "aptitude changelog", "aptitude download", and "aptitude show". In aptitude, it causes arguments with no archive or version specifier to be treated as if "/default-release" had been included. Unfortunately, it's dreadfully underdocumented and underspecified. Daniel -- 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/20100501040733.gf26...@emurlahn.burrows.local
RE: Aptitude Error
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable > > > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" > "aptitude search ~Aunstable" seems to show all packages from sid (wheather installed or not) try " aptitude search ~Aunstable | grep '^i' " -M _ Hotmail & Messenger are available on your phone. Try now. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9724461
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:14:51PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier > upgrades > are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library transition on a > "automatically installed" package. It is. aptitude is quite liberal about upgrading, downgrading and removing packages flagged as automatically installed. Manually installed packages are much more "rigid". Daniel -- 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/20100501035934.ge26...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. If you pass "-t ARCHIVE", that means that versions from ARCHIVE are treated as the default package version. It also increases the pin priority to 990. aptitude's resolver tries particularly hard to install the default package version, and it will tie-break using the priority (you can configure both those behaviors extensively, but those are the defaults). The story is more extreme with the apt resolver: it won't even consider anything but the default version of a package. See also apt_preferences(5), section "APT's default priority assignments"; "-t" is the same as setting Default-Release. Daniel -- 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/20100501035819.gd26...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" or "aptitude versions ~Aunstable" (sid only) Daniel -- 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/20100501034943.gc26...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude Error
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >>> >>> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >>> > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >>> > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >>> > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. >>> > >>> > Er, mostly. >>> > >>> > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not >>> > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given >>> > the >>> > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from >>> > sid. >>> >>> I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing. >> >> It may have pulling in some dependencies from Sid, then. >> >> I know the official line is to use '-t $something' as arguments to apt- >> get/aptitude for pulling in packages from Sid/experimental/backports, but I >> think it is better to use the '$package=$version' format. (After getting the >> version from something like (apt-cache policy $package).) >> >> My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all >> packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency >> resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. > > If you are running stable > aptitude install /testing > will install from testing and try to satisfy dependencies > from stable whereas > aptittude install -t testing > will install from testing and try to satisfy dependencies > from testing. > > I assume that > aptitude install =testing_version > behaves like > aptitude install /testing > and that in both these methods the dependencies might not be satisfied > (I had that problem in December with Firefox 3.6). > > > -- > 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/s2g6d4219cc1004301138i6947c1e1n6c12c267d8e83...@mail.gmail.com > > Thanks for this nice information, Tom -- 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/j2nd0bf7b0b1004301943o2dd0f30fwb811b71e1ef86...@mail.gmail.com
Re: DVD Paranoia?
On 4/30/2010 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. I thought cdparanoia was DVDparanoia. I mean, for DVDs as well. Shows you what I know... Audio CDs cannot be guaranteed 100% faithfully copied, for annoying reasons. Which is why ripping them used to be fraught with danger. And why some CDs would ruin your speakers.[0] DVDs are just (encrypted) video files. So, yeah, that's the reason. Not that it's not possible, but that it's not necessary. MAA 0. The Avatar DVDs are DRMed-up, too. I don't know how this works for DVDs, but they won't play in Blu-Ray players, and not even in all DVD players. Worse than pointless. Actually evil... -- 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/4bdb9514.2080...@allums.com
DVD Paranoia?
Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- 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/4bdb8feb.5060...@cox.net
Re: Questions about RAID 6
On 04/30/2010 07:10 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Someone pointed out what I have come to regard as the best solution, and that is to make /boot and / (root) and the usual suspects ext3 for safety, and use ext4 or XFS or even btrfs for the data directories. That's what I do. / & /home are ext3 and /data is ext4. (Unless OP were talking strictly about the data drives to begin with, a possibility I admit I may have overlooked.) Have I summarized adequately? :) -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- 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/4bdb8e16.8030...@cox.net
Re: iptables..WTF???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 01 May 2010 10:08:13 +1000 Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? > [snip] > > I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. > > > i know there was a recent change to sysctl (something), that forced > all new listens to be ipv6 only so no ipv4 connections. > > do a google for net.ipv6.bindv6only The advice was to make /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf=0 It was breaking Java apps. - -- Frank -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL23r1AAoJEMEDyLTvrVhjqGsH/0o4JxD0lF37pEUgLImjpltt MjYSaqKN/GpJBQiN5I3RHGI3hWdUmQzdHcNJuofvfISqTpAwDogTPyPyYKlD89x+ VIpFh5JcAcwxJge6uuT6OliNZMnGXZTdke/BnBe0O+OuTYGs3GYNG1UD3VgQFBa1 uSXcVVy2DveSWGj6eljRuHPbvS5jQTGSOtNfJg53QeyjAlxVPvhy54iu+SP6nKPQ rohyglhnkgc3IUInEDpkRCwo5Ydz3xLIQCmwcaMU07m+U45OAgVueRddT6qj0XUB p+Vom0lNxXjMQ7Zc/BuEdPJ07zcnxdyV8Rcbs1khcGySUXdFWODPC6ufKva4a4M= =RCeU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/20100430205101.2628d29e.debianl...@videotron.ca
Re: Questions about RAID 6
On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but "two drives" is still the effect) are used by striping, RAID 6 with 4 drives doesn't seem rational. We've taken OP to task already for this, but I guess it bears repeating. Use multiple HW controllers, and at least 7-8 drives, I believe was the consensus, given that SW RAID 6 is a performance loser and losing a controller during a rebuild is a real ruin-your-week kind of moment. But while some of us were skeptical about just how bad the performance of RAID 5 or 6 really is and wanted citation of references, more of us just questioned the perceived frugality. With four drives, wouldn't a RAID 10 be better use of resources, since you can migrate to bigger setups later? And there we were content to let it lie, until... but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block Why ext3? My kids would graduate college before the fsck completed. ext4 or xfs are the way to go. I have ceased to have an opinion on this, having been taken to task, myself, about it. I believe the discussion degenerated into a nit-picky banter over the general suitability of XFS, but I may be wrong about this... _ Seriously, ext4 is not suitable if you anticipate possible boot problems, unless you are experienced at these things. The same is true of XFS. If you *are* experienced, then more power to you. Although, I would have assumed a very experienced person would have no need to ask the question. Someone pointed out what I have come to regard as the best solution, and that is to make /boot and / (root) and the usual suspects ext3 for safety, and use ext4 or XFS or even btrfs for the data directories. (Unless OP were talking strictly about the data drives to begin with, a possibility I admit I may have overlooked.) Have I summarized adequately? MAA -- 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/4bdb718c.3060...@allums.com
Re: iptables..WTF???
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? [snip] > I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. > i know there was a recent change to sysctl (something), that forced all new listens to be ipv6 only so no ipv4 connections. do a google for net.ipv6.bindv6only > -RV > -- 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/1272672493.26053.1.ca...@alex-mini.samad.com.au
Re: Questions about RAID 6
On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but "two drives" is still the effect) are used by striping, RAID 6 with 4 drives doesn't seem rational. but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block Why ext3? My kids would graduate college before the fsck completed. ext4 or xfs are the way to go. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- 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/4bdb6a29.8010...@cox.net
Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon
On Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 16:20:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs > > accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they > > don't. .. > I was sufficiently intrigued by the (apparent) absence of a simple MTA > that does the above, so I decided to write my own: Tmta. It actually > works, and is documented, although it's still pretty much in the > proof-of-concept stage: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/tmta/ qpsmtpd? It is small, plugin-based, and also written in Perl. There are inetd versions, prefork versions, and simple fork-on-demand too. Chances are you can configure it to recognise a single domain, or act as a smart-host with only one of the available plugins which makes it a trivially portable solution. Insanely customizable and very very useful to me, but also I think something that could be used even as a very simple MTA. Steve -- -- 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/20100430221011.ga1...@steve.org.uk
Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon
Celejar put forth on 4/30/2010 3:20 PM: > It is still small, though - under 70 lines of actual Perl code, > although it does, of course, require the basic Perl installation and > about a half-dozen other modules. > > If anyone has any feedback, or suggestions for improvement, I'd love > to hear them. If you're writing an smtpd from scratch in Perl, why reinvent the wheel? http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/ -- Stan -- 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/4bdb4b76.1070...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Friday 30 April 2010 19:14:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > > > automatically be removed as well. > > > > Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers of > > dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I > > hadn't managed to work out that some of them got marked! Very few things > > seem actually to acquire the "A". > > On my little VM I have 294 packages installed, 277 marked as automatically > installed. > > I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier > upgrades are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library > transition on a "automatically installed" package. > > I try to only keep packages I know I am using un-marked. Boyd - If I live to be a hundred, I just _might_ achieve your level of knowledge and competence. Meanwhile, I don't even attempt to emulate you. I just read and hope to understand you! Lisi -- 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/201004302208.34320.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon
[Replying to my own message.] On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:12:24 -0400 Celejar wrote: ... > Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs > accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they > don't. > > One option would be to build your own version of one of the big ones, > with all unnecessary functionality excluded. I don't know what the > resulting binary size would be. I was sufficiently intrigued by the (apparent) absence of a simple MTA that does the above, so I decided to write my own: Tmta. It actually works, and is documented, although it's still pretty much in the proof-of-concept stage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tmta/ One important thing that it does *not* (yet?) do is fork; it's currently implemented as a basic, single-threaded daemon, so it can only accept one connection at a time. It shouldn't be too difficult (famous last words ...) to convert into a multi-threaded model, although I have no experience with that sort of thing. It is still small, though - under 70 lines of actual Perl code, although it does, of course, require the basic Perl installation and about a half-dozen other modules. If anyone has any feedback, or suggestions for improvement, I'd love to hear them. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- 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/20100430162040.f26361ba.cele...@gmail.com
[update] Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked > > so well for so long but there are times recently when I need to use > > iceweasel. I think it's the switch from the gecko backend to webkit that > > broke a lot of things that used to work well. > > > > I keep hoping that these problems can be resolved but time will tell. I > > use unstable and downloading works fine but java apps that use the > > plugin still don't work. > > That's not good news. Which plugin? The Sun non-free one? There is one > site that I used to use a lot that requires that to work. (It's a stock > analysis site.) I haven't been in the market lately, but I expect to be > active again at some point. And when I do want to use it, I want it to > work! > > Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway? It was working so well. > I still use it in Lenny. But not in Squeeze. Not anymore. After some updates pogo.com is working again with sun-java6-jre. I'm going to try openjdk again and see how it goes. -- 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/1272654535.7158.2.ca...@debian.ok.shawcable.net
RE: sh command issue
system("g++ $files $incl $libs 2>build.log&");
The above works... thanks!
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From: I Rattan [mailto:ratt...@cps.cmich.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:03 PM
To: Gary
Subject: Re: sh command issue
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gary wrote:
> I'm helping a fella in the UK with a debian build (tiny web) on a small VM
> machine in a data center. I am trying to compile some c++ code, I have
the
> libs and binaries installed and the compile "works", except for this
line...
>
> I have a php file used to make the build, and the file contains these
> lines..
>
>
> system("g++ $files $incl $libs >& build.log");
2>1&
Might work.
ishwar
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Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >> >> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >> > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. >> > >> > Er, mostly. >> > >> > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not >> > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given >> > the >> > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from >> > sid. >> >> I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing. > > It may have pulling in some dependencies from Sid, then. > > I know the official line is to use '-t $something' as arguments to apt- > get/aptitude for pulling in packages from Sid/experimental/backports, but I > think it is better to use the '$package=$version' format. (After getting the > version from something like (apt-cache policy $package).) > > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. If you are running stable aptitude install /testing will install from testing and try to satisfy dependencies from stable whereas aptittude install -t testing will install from testing and try to satisfy dependencies from testing. I assume that aptitude install =testing_version behaves like aptitude install /testing and that in both these methods the dependencies might not be satisfied (I had that problem in December with Firefox 3.6). -- 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/s2g6d4219cc1004301138i6947c1e1n6c12c267d8e83...@mail.gmail.com
Re: sh command issue
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:00 Gary wrote:
> I have a php file used to make the build, and the file contains these
> lines..
>
> system("g++ $files $incl $libs >& build.log");
> # system("g++ $files $incl $libs");
>
> The first line fails with an error "sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number".
That's because ">& build.log" is a bash-ism. If dash is installed as /bin/sh
(which is useful, since it executes the start-up scripts faster), you might
get this error.
You probably want "> build.log 2>&1" which (one of?) the standard, POSIX/SUS-
compatible way of re-directing both stdout and stderr to a single file named
"build.log". The ">&" shortcut that bash has is nice, but it is not portable.
The Single UNIX Specification, version 3 (and older versions) are available
for free from the owner of the UNIX trademark. Those documents can tell you
what to expect from the shell on any certified UNIX system. AFAIK, no Linux
has been certified yet, but they still remain an excellent guideline for Linux
systems.
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Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > > automatically be removed as well. > > Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers of > dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I hadn't > managed to work out that some of them got marked! Very few things seem > actually to acquire the "A". On my little VM I have 294 packages installed, 277 marked as automatically installed. I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier upgrades are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library transition on a "automatically installed" package. I try to only keep packages I know I am using un-marked. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
deloptes wrote: James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead 96dpi set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". Doing "xrandr --dpi 120", logging out of wmii and logging back in doesn't change anything. Yes, as you already said yesterday, that option was not working for you. I dunno how to set DPI under wmii DE, unless you try to edit the xorg.conf file and put there. Maybe the problem I perceived in the text on screen is just how the monitor displays. I fail to see anything wrong in the image you sent. It is readable, is not distorted, is not small... :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón Okay, I'll figure out how to set DPI and assume that whatever problem I see with the onscreen fonts here is due to the monitor. Thanks! no, monitor doesn't have to do anything with it you have to distinguish things - that's it I'm suffering the same issue here, but did configure most of the things. For you however with this funny windows manager it would be really to set DPI globally. If you change DPI in the firefox properties it is applied only to the text, but not to the window itself. That's why it looks like much bigger then the menu area. I leave the firefox DPI setting to system and set the DPI in the window manager/server. Right, I set DPI in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: ... command=/usr/bin/X1 :0 -layout X1 -dpi 110 -isolateDevice PCI:1:0:0 vt7 ... command=/usr/bin/X0 :1 -layout X0 -dpi 110 -isolateDevice PCI:0:8:0 vt51 ... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hrf69j$u5...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Increasing number of conflicts
On Friday 30 April 2010 11:30:56 Preston Boyington wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- > > backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with > > debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) > > I thought this was normal... It's not well-tested by the developers, but it normally works. If I encounter as issue though, I need to be prepared to have all relevant packages be either pre-testing or unstable and later. Since downgrades aren't supported, this may mean upgrading a number of package to unstable, but it hasn't bitten me, yet. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
sh command issue
I'm helping a fella in the UK with a debian build (tiny web) on a small VM
machine in a data center. I am trying to compile some c++ code, I have the
libs and binaries installed and the compile "works", except for this line...
I have a php file used to make the build, and the file contains these
lines..
system("g++ $files $incl $libs >& build.log");
# system("g++ $files $incl $libs");
The first line fails with an error "sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number".
If I comment out the first line, and uncomment the second line, I do get my
"a.out" file but the errors/warnings go to the screen... how can I make
them go to the 'build.log' file?
I have done full package updates on the system using Webmin, and everything
as of this morning is current.
Thanks kindly for any assistance you can provide. :)
Gary
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Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:48:41AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010 22:11:00 Rob Owens wrote: > > My understanding is that live-helper must build the kernel so that > > certain modules necessary to the live system get included. I confess > > that I don't completely understand that answer, but it's what I was told > > by the developer. > > You should look into the live-helper configuration and adjust where it gets > the kernel source and any (extra?) patches it applies. It should be able to > work with kernel sources provided from lenny-backports with the proper > configuration, since it already works with both Lenny and Squeeze kernel > sources. The bpo kernels are not packaged significantly differently. > > If live-helper doesn't have any relevant configuration, looking into how it > receives, patches, compiles, and packages the kernel should give you some > insight into a work-around. (e.g. repackaging the bpo kernel package to have > the same package name but a higher version than the Lenny kernel package.) Thanks. I think this is the approach I'm going to take. I just tried install barebones Squeeze in Virtualbox, and I'm running into packaging problems when I try to install certain software from Lenny (LXDE and apt-show-versions, for example). -Rob -- 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/20100430175523.ga4...@aurora.owens.net
Re: Aptitude Error
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > > > Er, mostly. > > > > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not > > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given > > the > > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from > > sid. > > I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing. It may have pulling in some dependencies from Sid, then. I know the official line is to use '-t $something' as arguments to apt- get/aptitude for pulling in packages from Sid/experimental/backports, but I think it is better to use the '$package=$version' format. (After getting the version from something like (apt-cache policy $package).) My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency resolver pull more from that repository than is absolutely necessary. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > automatically be removed as well. Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers of dependencies get installed automatically as far as I am concerned, I hadn't managed to work out that some of them got marked! Very few things seem actually to acquire the "A". Lisi -- 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/201004301839.37084.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > apt-show-versions | grep unstable Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" -- 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/o2u6d4219cc1004301026ma6bc698ft418cb39f162f...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >> release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mostly. > > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given the > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from sid. > >> How did the packages from sid get installed in the first place? If you're >> tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t >> sid " command, right? > > With the official testing and sid repositories that should be true. It would > only happen if someone manually fixed up testing and did it wrong. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by apt-show-versions | grep unstable -- 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/g2kd0bf7b0b1004301018p3fb45806we1fd29cf33c21...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mostly. > > If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not > testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given > the > way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from sid. > > > How did the packages from sid get installed in the first place? If > you're > > tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t > > sid " command, right? > > With the official testing and sid repositories that should be true. It > would > only happen if someone manually fixed up testing and did it wrong. > -- > I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing.
Re: Increasing number of conflicts
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) I thought this was normal... :D -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ Where the road takes me - a highwayman's perspective http://www.prestonboyington.com/ -- 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/4bdb05c0.6030...@gmail.com
Re: Increasing number of conflicts
On Friday 30 April 2010 09:44:16 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all > > available memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in > > the kernel. You can 'Ctrl+C' to kill aptitude earlier if you wish, and > > try again rejecting fewer (or different) options. > > I should add that I would appreciate hearing about it when this > happens. In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) What's the best way to send you a report of this, if I encounter it on a supported system? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Aptitude Error
On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not testing, you will get the package from sid. This shouldn't happen given the way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from sid. > How did the packages from sid get installed in the first place? If you're > tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t > sid " command, right? With the official testing and sid repositories that should be true. It would only happen if someone manually fixed up testing and did it wrong. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Fri, Apr 30 at 16:06, Lisi penned: > > One, however, continues to elude me. What does the A mean in > at the beginning of a line in the results from an aptitude > search? > > Thanks! Lisi installed automatically. The "i" means installed. The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will automatically be removed as well. -- monique -- 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/20100430154451.gi25...@mail.bounceswoosh.org
Re: Filesystem recommendations
On Thursday 29 April 2010 20:03:20 Joe Brenner wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Joe Brenner wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > B. Alexander wrote: > > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >> XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've > > > > >> also seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's faster > > > > >> than ext3/ext4. > > > > > > > > > > Thats cool. What about Lots of Little Files? That was another of > > > > > the draws of reiser3. > > > > > > > > That same unofficial benchmark showed surprising small-file speed by > > > > xfs. > > > > > > Would you happen to have any links to such benchmarks, unofficial or > > > otherwise? > > > > > > My experience has been that whenever I look at filesystem benchmarks, > > > they skip the many-small-files case. I've always had the feeling that > > > most of the big filesystems cared a lot about scaling up in file-size, > > > but not too much about anything else. > > > > NB: This is my best recollection; I'm not looking this up right now. > > Please check my facts, I'd love to know if I'm wrong. > > Like I said, I *have* looked at filesystem comparisons a number of times. So have I. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I looked at them for deciding on reiserfs, then I replicated the results on my own hardware using bonnie++ before restoring my backups. I also look around for results about once a year, to see if much has changed, or if there are new file systems I should look at. Less often, I'll try and run my own bonnie++ tests, but not rigorously; they occur on my system under whatever load I happen to be running. > It's my problem to check your assertions? Trust, but verify. The note was only indicative that I wasn't didn't have data or analysis in front of me, so I was running off of memory. Usually, that's fine, but I was talking about specific file system implementation features in multiple file systems. Since I don't implement or debug file systems every day, I thought an idle warning was in order. > Why isn't it your problem to > check my assertions? It is. > > > I'm a Reiser3 user myself, and I've never had any problems with it. > > > > > > (The trouble with it being "long in the tooth" is mostly hypothetical, > > > isn't it?) > > > > Not really. > > Outside of one mention of "bugs on reiserfs that will not be fixed", > you're pretty much just describing the theory. I do understand that > using relatively unsupported software, even if it's pretty mature > software, can have it's problems. That's not a theory; or that least it is not hypothetical. It's proven true over and over, and software ranging from OSes to libraries to RDBMSes to desktop applications. > Just doing a few quick websearches, I'm reading about ReiserFS bugs > fixed as recently as 2006, 2007... It's not like it's not getting any > attention from developers. Took me a little while, but I see bug-fix patches from this year. It's not be abandoned quite as quickly as I was lead to believe. I still don't recommend it for new installs, but there's a-priori reason to migrate away from it right now. > > In addition, as file system technology advances, reiserfs will become > > less attractive for new installs and it will become more attractive to > > migrate way from it. > > I think you're better off if you rely on really well-tested migration > tools (e.g. "tar"). These have significant overhead over file system-specific methods. They are the both universal and fairly conservative, so your advocacy is well- justified. It's also pretty easy to do them wrong, or get a poorly performing file system out of them. It's easy to forget extended attributes and ACLs when using cp/tar/rsync; there may be other file system data that needs to be preserved, too (HPFS+ forks?). Taking a kernel tarball from a ext3 file system and extracting it on a reiserfs file system takes much longer than taking a kernel tarball from a reiserfs file system and extracting to on a reiserfs file system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Friday 30 April 2010 15:30:23 Daniel Burrows wrote: > The command-line output of aptitude is somewhat underdocumented. > Please feel free to submit bugs regarding bits of output that you think > need documentation. I know there are lots of bug reports, but trust me, > I do read them, and it's better to have those notes than to have an > email lingering on some mailing list. Daniel - (or anyone else who knows!) I have noted this. But for me it is a long-term solution. a) I have to be sure that what I am looking for is not there. It might just be I who am being blind. And b) I have to get my head round how to submit a bug. Meanwhile, I manage to get the answers to many of my questions by just waiting. One, however, continues to elude me. What does the A mean in at the beginning of a line in the results from an aptitude search? Thanks! Lisi -- 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/201004301606.28225.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Increasing number of conflicts
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all available > memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in the kernel. You > can 'Ctrl+C' to kill aptitude earlier if you wish, and try again rejecting > fewer (or different) options. I should add that I would appreciate hearing about it when this happens. Daniel -- 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/20100430144416.gh22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Increasing number of conflicts
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Monday 19 April 2010 08:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > > This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken > > packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade > > for months now, hoping that it would work itself out over time. However, > > this hasn't happened. So what can I do to fix the problems without losing > > functionality? Below is the result of aptitude full-upgrade (forgive the > > cut-and-paste): > > I would use (aptitude full-upgrade), then when/if the first suggestion > doesn't > meet with my approval, use the option to go into the ncurses interface at the > [Y/n] prompt. (Answer '?' to get the full list of valid responses.) > > (NB: The keystrokes below are from memory, they may be incorrect, but should > be in the aptitude documentation.) > > The ncurses interface will load and the current suggestion will be presented. > Use the arrow keys to highlight the most onerous part of the suggestion then > hit 'r' ([R]eject that action). Then, hit '.' to have aptitude comes up with > a different list of suggestions. You can do this from the command-line too. It used to be awkward to reject choices at the command-line, but in recent sid, the interface is a bit more stream-lined than it used to be: Remove the following packages: 1) ghc6-doc Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 2) libghc6-mtl-doc recommends ghc6-doc You can type "r 1" or "r 2" to reject option 1 or 2. Hit "?" at the prompt to get a list of the commands you can enter -- basically everything you could do at the interactive prompt. (you can also install or remove packages, but beware that this will restart your resolver session...hm, I really should add that warning to the online help) Daniel -- 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/20100430144346.gg22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 06:14:42PM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search > ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both the > search patterns specified. That's because "aptitude search" implicitly puts an ?or between its parameters. Around them. Whatever. If you quote the arguments so they end up in a single command-line parameter, this should work. On the surface, this behavior is dumb. On the other hand, if an implicit ?and was used, "aptitude search gnome kde" would return only packages matching *both* gnome and kde, which probably isn't what the user wanted. Trade-offs in both directions; the one aptitude picked means that if you want to use complex patterns, you need to be aware of where your command-line arguments are. Daniel -- 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/20100430143733.gf22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Filesystem recommendations
On 4/29/2010 7:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: In the U.S., given the numbers of cheap APC, Triplite, and Belkin UPS on the shelves at $big_box_store I'd say most U.S. desktop users have a UPS. I know I do. Naw. It ain't so. Most US users don't even know what a UPS is. APC quit calling their equipment a "UPS", and now just call it a "backup battery" because of alphabet soup fatigue. And Jane Church-Secretary still doesn't know what it is or what it's for. Or or Jack Retired-Contractor. Joe Average. MAA -- 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/4bdaeb14.7000...@allums.com
Re: aptitude and held packages
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Andrei Popescu was heard to say: > On Mon,26.Apr.10, 10:29:06, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I just upgraded apt and aptitude to the latest testing version. Although > > 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' tells me that '172 not upgraded' it no longer > > lists them. Is this a bug or an intentional change? > > It probably depends on whether you consider the full list of 172 > packages useful or not ;) For this reason, I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. It clearly wasn't intentional, though. Maybe I should add a command to print the un-upgraded packages at the prompt... Daniel -- 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/20100430143241.ge22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: Aptitude status output meaning
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:12:17AM +, Rémi Moyen was heard to say: > 2010/2/11 Sven Joachim : > > On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > > > >> What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? > >> Current status: 0 updates [-107] > > > > It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just > > upgraded 107 packages. > > I take the opportunity of this question (and apparently, someone who > knows a bit about aptitude), since I was also wondering about this... > > Is there someplace a full manual of the output of aptitude ? The command-line output of aptitude is somewhat underdocumented. Please feel free to submit bugs regarding bits of output that you think need documentation. I know there are lots of bug reports, but trust me, I do read them, and it's better to have those notes than to have an email lingering on some mailing list. > I haven't found a description of what this number means anywhere, and > I'm also puzzled on a lot of other outputs. For example, when > proposing an upgrade solution, aptitude says things like "indi > [4:3.5.5-1 (stable, stable, now) -> 4:3.5.8-1 (testing, unstable, > testing, unstable)]" I just tweaked this to uniquify and sort the strings, so you should just get "now, stable" and "testing, unstable" in future versions of aptitude (the multiple copies probably mean you have more than one source for each version, which isn't interesting to know in this output). Daniel -- 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/20100430143023.gd22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client
On 30/04/2010 13:54, Benedict Verheyen wrote: On 29/04/2010 11:16, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Thanks, it's worth a try. I'm not sure the java environments are the same. On both machines they were installed with aptitude install default-jre I'll try the backport of java & using Firefox instead of Iceweasel. Regards, Benedict Firefox crashed unfortunately and i spent already to much time on this. So we'll have to go with Ubuntu in this case :( Thanks for the help & ideas. Regards, Benedict I installed Ubuntu and noted exactly which packages i installed. It seemed as if Java was the clue because i got it to work Debian too :) I installed a lightweight LDE system. Then installed sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. I now did: update-alternatives --config java. Something i hadn't done before. Then i installed the citrix client deb and libmotif 3 as its a prequisite. I think i can skip those but i installed them anyway as i want to test further. When i connect to Citrix using the java client, all is well and ë is shown correctly instead of Ë. Victory at last ! Regards, Benedict -- 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/hreorl$95...@dough.gmane.org
Re: aptitude stuck
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an > hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was: > > open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167 > > There's evidently some situation it can't resolve. How can I figure out > what package(s) cause the problem? Which version of aptitude do you have? You could add "--log-resolver --file-file=aptitude.log" and send me the first few megabytes of output. Also, can you add "-o aptitude::cmdline::resolver-dump=aptitude-resolver.dump" to the command-line and then send me the file 'aptitude-resolver.dump'? Thanks, Daniel -- 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/20100430140721.gc22...@emurlahn.burrows.local
Re: invisible console (solved)
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:09:06 -0400 (EDT), Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Sorry. Missed a previous thread. Cured it by setting > > options radeon modeset=0 > > in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf > > This works (original value was 1). Our posts crossed in the mail. I didn't see this until I sent my last post. Sorry. I'm glad you got it solved. And it looks like my hunch about this being related to kernel mode setting was right. Still, you might want to try using the alternate fonts, if you do any significant work in the console. I think they look better. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/2043694059.112896.1272634921555.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
Re: invisible console
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:13 -0400 (EDT), Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in > /etc/default/console-setup I have > > FONTFACE="VGA" > FONTSIZE="16" > > This used to work. > > But after a dist-upgrade around April 10th, the behaviour changed. > > 1 -- cold startup works normally (and looks normal). > 2 -- startx works OK > 3 -- pressing control-alt-f2 (to go to the console temporarily) > now gives a (framebuffer?) screen with very small letters; at the > top of the screen there is a message from "drm" stating that the > resolution is set to 1250 x 1024 (instead of 640 x 480 which is > what I want). > 4 -- presing alt-f7 gets me back into X. > 5 -- pressing control-alt-f2 AGAIN gives a completely black > screen. Nothing visible. Going back to X with alt-f7 is still > possible. > > uname -a gives: > Linux vega 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 06:14:20 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux > > This kernel was installed recently; booting an earlier kernel, > e.g. 2.6.29-2, gets the old (proper) behaviour back. > > Configuration error? Or bug? If the latter, which package? I think that this is a bug, but I don't know where. I'm guessing that it has something to do with KMS in newer kernels. But that's just a guess. I do a lot of work in the text consoles. I often use an 80x50 video mode (via the VGA option of lilo), which generally works everywhere. Anyway, I was not happy with the fonts provided by console-setup; and I wanted to go back to the legacy fonts that are used by Lenny. I opened a thread on this forum about the problem (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg01438.html) and got a satisfactory resolution. Here's what I would recommend that you try. First, make sure that the console-data package is installed. Then, in /etc/default/console-setup, set FONTFACE="" FONTSIZE="" Then add FONT=lat1u-16.psf.gz In my case, I use lat1u-08.psf.gz as the font, since the 80x50 video mode requires an eight-pixel-high font; but in your case, since you apparently use the traditional VGA boot-up hardware text mode (no framebuffer, I presume), you will need the sixteen-pixel-high font. Give that a whirl and see how it goes. This method gives a larger selection of fonts to choose from. (lat1u-16 is a suggestion, but there are other sixteen-pixel-high fonts you can choose from. See the /usr/share/consolefonts directory for a complete list.) And in my opinion, these fonts look better too. But most importantly, this method may circumvent the bug you are experiencing. If it does circumvent the bug, console-setup is the most suspect package. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 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/436712575.112714.1272634609803.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
aptitude stuck
Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was: open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167 There's evidently some situation it can't resolve. How can I figure out what package(s) cause the problem? -- If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- 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/20100430133128.ga30...@niof.net
invisible console (solved)
Sorry. Missed a previous thread. Cured it by setting options radeon modeset=0 in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf This works (original value was 1). Regards, Jan -- 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/4bdac862.5070...@my.home
Re: invisible console
On 30.4.2010 13:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in > /etc/default/console-setup I have > > FONTFACE="VGA" > FONTSIZE="16" > > This used to work. > ... I'm running Debian Stable (kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64) with a framebuffer console working ok with the following settings: /etc/default/console-setup does not exist in /etc/console-tools/config I have: BLANK_TIME=30 BLANK_DPMS=off POWERDOWN_TIME=30 SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc2=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc3=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc4=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc5=lat0-sun16 SCREEN_FONT_vc6=lat0-sun16 and in /boot/grub/menu.lst I have: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=XXX initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 where XXX is something from: (0x0312 would give me 640x480 with 24 bits per pixel) % sudo hwinfo --framebuffer 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown This configuration has been working for me for years with practically any 2.6.x kernel in Debian and Ubuntu. For more fonts see /usr/share/consolefonts -- Juha Tuuna -- 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/4bdac10a.1010...@iki.fi
Re: using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client
On 29/04/2010 11:16, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Thanks, it's worth a try. I'm not sure the java environments are the same. On both machines they were installed with aptitude install default-jre I'll try the backport of java & using Firefox instead of Iceweasel. Regards, Benedict Firefox crashed unfortunately and i spent already to much time on this. So we'll have to go with Ubuntu in this case :( Thanks for the help & ideas. Regards, Benedict -- 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/hregeb$7k...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg >> >> > >> >> > Does that look right to you? >> >> >> >> Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... >> >> >> >> Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead >> >> 96dpi set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". >> >> >> > Doing "xrandr --dpi 120", logging out of wmii and logging back in >> > doesn't change anything. >> >> Yes, as you already said yesterday, that option was not working for you. >> I dunno how to set DPI under wmii DE, unless you try to edit the >> xorg.conf file and put there. >> >> > Maybe the problem I perceived in the text on screen is just how the >> > monitor displays. >> >> I fail to see anything wrong in the image you sent. It is readable, is >> not distorted, is not small... :-) >> >> Greetings, >> >> -- >> Camaleón >> >> >> > Okay, I'll figure out how to set DPI and assume that whatever problem I > see with the onscreen fonts here is due to the monitor. > > Thanks! no, monitor doesn't have to do anything with it you have to distinguish things - that's it I'm suffering the same issue here, but did configure most of the things. For you however with this funny windows manager it would be really to set DPI globally. If you change DPI in the firefox properties it is applied only to the text, but not to the window itself. That's why it looks like much bigger then the menu area. I leave the firefox DPI setting to system and set the DPI in the window manager/server. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hreer3$ud...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base > (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So > when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it > is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). > Install the package "apt-show-versions", that could show your what is > installed and from which version. > So either revert gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze or uncomment the sid > line, do an update and install "aptitude -t unstable install g++" to > get sid version. > > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. How did the packages from sid get installed in the first place? If you're tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t sid " command, right?
Re: Aptitude Error
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package "apt-show-versions", that could show your what is installed and from which version. So either revert gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze or uncomment the sid line, do an update and install "aptitude -t unstable install g++" to get sid version. -- 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/t2pd0bf7b0b1004300410wd5816763m7a1cfa7d1a82c...@mail.gmail.com
invisible console
I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in /etc/default/console-setup I have FONTFACE="VGA" FONTSIZE="16" This used to work. But after a dist-upgrade around April 10th, the behaviour changed. 1 -- cold startup works normally (and looks normal). 2 -- startx works OK 3 -- pressing control-alt-f2 (to go to the console temporarily) now gives a (framebuffer?) screen with very small letters; at the top of the screen there is a message from "drm" stating that the resolution is set to 1250 x 1024 (instead of 640 x 480 which is what I want). 4 -- presing alt-f7 gets me back into X. 5 -- pressing control-alt-f2 AGAIN gives a completely black screen. Nothing visible. Going back to X with alt-f7 is still possible. uname -a gives: Linux vega 2.6.32-3-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 06:14:20 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux This kernel was installed recently; booting an earlier kernel, e.g. 2.6.29-2, gets the old (proper) behaviour back. Configuration error? Or bug? If the latter, which package? Regards, Jan -- 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/4bdab531.4060...@my.home
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Try > > apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential > > If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >> I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". >> This means that the versions it had were newer than testing, i.e., from sid. >> How could this be if I followed 2.7.3 of DR? According to that, my candidate >> version is appropriately set: >> >> >> I selected "n" and then "y" and it downgraded the packages to testing. Why would they have been upgraded in the first place? Here is my sources file: stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free #deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
Re: iptables..WTF???
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Raven wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:12 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > >> > What the heck happened this afternoon?? > >> > >> I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP > >> addresses haven't changed for some reason. > >> > >> > > > > Everything seems pretty kosher here: > > > > r...@dl580:~# ifconfig > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:42:5c:17 > > inet addr:10.0.1.2 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > inet6 addr: fe80::203:47ff:fe42:5c17/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:269554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:377509 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:94728650 (90.3 MiB) TX bytes:529355083 (504.8 MiB) > > > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:42:5c:18 > > inet addr:PUBIP Bcast:PUBBC Mask:255.255.255.248 > > inet6 addr: fe80::203:47ff:fe42:5c18/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:60601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:222867 (217.6 KiB) TX bytes:10472879 (9.9 MiB) > > > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:14139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:14139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:1690483 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:1690483 (1.6 MiB) > > > > > > I checked all the logs but nothing suggests there was any interface or > > IP modification (both IPs are static). > > > > -RV > > > > I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. -RV -- 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/1272624258.24573.20.ca...@osmosis.gnet.eu
Re: Aptitude Error
Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > > Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to >> install these packages? >> >> > Yes, I did "aptitude safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" and then > "aptitude full-upgrade". > > I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". > This means that the versions it had were newer than testing, i.e., from sid. > How could this be if I followed 2.7.3 of DR? According to that, my candidate > version is appropriately set: > > stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654
Re: Aptitude Error
> Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to > install these packages? > > Yes, I did "aptitude safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" and then "aptitude full-upgrade". I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". This means that the versions it had were newer than testing, i.e., from sid. How could this be if I followed 2.7.3 of DR? According to that, my candidate version is appropriately set: stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing";
Re: Aptitude Error
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey wrote:
> Why am I getting this and how can I fix it?
>
> r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts
> build-essential
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information... Done
> Initializing package states... Done
>
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> build-essential g++{a} g++-4.4{ab} gcc{a} gcc-4.4{ab}
>
> libstdc++6-4.4-dev{ab}
> 0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7,126B/9,723kB of archives. After unpacking 27.3MB will be used.
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> g++-4.4: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
> gcc-4.4: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
>
>Depends: cpp-4.4 (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
> libstdc++6-4.4-dev: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is
> installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
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>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> 1) build-essential [Not Installed]
> 2) g++ [Not Installed]
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> 3) g++-4.4 [Not Installed]
> 4) gcc [Not Installed]
> 5) gcc-4.4 [Not Installed]
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> 6) libstdc++6-4.4-dev [Not Installed]
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Aptitude Error
Why am I getting this and how can I fix it?
r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential g++{a} g++-4.4{ab} gcc{a} gcc-4.4{ab}
libstdc++6-4.4-dev{ab}
0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,126B/9,723kB of archives. After unpacking 27.3MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
g++-4.4: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
gcc-4.4: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
Depends: cpp-4.4 (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is installed.
libstdc++6-4.4-dev: Depends: gcc-4.4-base (= 4.4.2-9) but 4.4.3-9 is
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) build-essential [Not Installed]
2) g++ [Not Installed]
3) g++-4.4 [Not Installed]
4) gcc [Not Installed]
5) gcc-4.4 [Not Installed]
6) libstdc++6-4.4-dev [Not Installed]
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Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit : rudu wrote: Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm doesn't change anything except that I don't even have any flashing prompt on my black screen anymore. This is an old, old bug (IMO) in the binary nvidia module. I've had this problem since getting Linux running on my old pentium m laptop with a 6000 go series chip. For example: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=131639 and possible fix (seems to be hit or miss): http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=120492 Bingo !! That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers. The workaround that worked for me : Append the line : options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0 to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf A big thank you to Justin and everyone who helped. Good that you got it solved. Except I don't understand when the problem started. You must have run at one time w/o black screens. And then they started. Hugo Well, I've lived with it for quite a long time before calling for help here, but IIRC it started after a kernel upgrade, then I couldn't install the nvidia driver so I switched to nv, and so on. I hadn't enough time at the moment to investigate ... JM -- 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/4bdaadfa.90...@cegetel.net
Re: To switch usb-modem to modem-mode.
Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I have such a problem: I need to switch an usb-modem Huawei E1550 deom > cd-rom mode to modem modem. AFAIK usb-modeswitch utility can help me w/ > this BUT! - it is not installable IMHO in stable repo. Even though I will > install it from testing - it will destroy my lovely KDE-3.5 and a huge > other packages. So, is there way for me for now - not when next release > will be released and not destroying so many packages - to switch the > modem? > > May, here are the (usb-)modem experts that can help me how I can switch it > with the tools we have in the stable version? > > > Big thanks for advance and Your time. > > PS Please, reply to the list. in worst case compile the code, but it will also probably need to upgrade the kernel. regards -- 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/hrea4p$g7...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > >> > > >> > Does that look right to you? > >> > >> Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... > >> > >> Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead > >> 96dpi set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". > >> > > Doing "xrandr --dpi 120", logging out of wmii and logging back in > > doesn't change anything. > > Yes, as you already said yesterday, that option was not working for you. > I dunno how to set DPI under wmii DE, unless you try to edit the > xorg.conf file and put there. > > > Maybe the problem I perceived in the text on screen is just how the > > monitor displays. > > I fail to see anything wrong in the image you sent. It is readable, is > not distorted, is not small... :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > Okay, I'll figure out how to set DPI and assume that whatever problem I see with the onscreen fonts here is due to the monitor. Thanks!
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg >> > >> > Does that look right to you? >> >> Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... >> >> Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead >> 96dpi set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". >> > Doing "xrandr --dpi 120", logging out of wmii and logging back in > doesn't change anything. Yes, as you already said yesterday, that option was not working for you. I dunno how to set DPI under wmii DE, unless you try to edit the xorg.conf file and put there. > Maybe the problem I perceived in the text on screen is just how the > monitor displays. I fail to see anything wrong in the image you sent. It is readable, is not distorted, is not small... :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.04.30.09.10...@gmail.com
Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore
You seem to have configuration files of older texlive packages on your system (marked with "rc" in your dpkg output). So try to get rid of them and, may be, update your texlive-installation'. With aptitude the commands are aptitude purge ~c# this removes all old configuration files aptitude update aptitude install ~Utexlive # update of all texlive packages -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- 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/hre6lt$49...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:53:58 -0400, KS wrote: (..) > The question is: would it be possible to use two graphics cards from > different manufacturers? Yes, but as Victor suggested, many motherboard manufacturers automatically disable onboard chipset as soon as the PCI-e slot is occupied with an external VGA card. So you could put a second PCI card (or PCI-e, whether a second slot is available) and both VGA cards should be detected fine (if they are from different makers, no crossfire or SLI, they will be treated as individual cards). Ask Gigabyte to confirm. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.04.30.08.39...@gmail.com
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:42 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > > >> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? > >> > >> > > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > > > > Does that look right to you? > > Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... > > Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead 96dpi > set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > 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/pan.2010.04.30.08.15...@gmail.com > > Doing "xrandr --dpi 120", logging out of wmii and logging back in doesn't change anything. Maybe the problem I perceived in the text on screen is just how the monitor displays.
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:42 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? >> >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > > Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... Do you find the font of the toolbar is still "small"? Then instead 96dpi set to 120dpi, that will make things "bigger". Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.04.30.08.15...@gmail.com
Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]
> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? > > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you?
