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

2011-04-13 Thread Christian Jakob
>Before trying to replace apt... how about trying a manual install of >scons and posting the output? root@debian # dpkg -i scons_1.0.0-1_all.deb Wähle vormals abgewähltes Paket scons. (Lese Datenbank ... 175901 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.) Entpacke scons (aus scons_1.0.0-1_

How to install unixodbc-dev

2011-04-13 Thread CDR
When I type "apt-get install unixodbc-dev" I get back: "Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package unixodbc-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only av

Re: New user questions

2011-04-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:22 Wed 13 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:45:10PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@g

Re: rlocate [was find on another list]

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:28:47PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Why is "find" such a disgustingly inefficient program? Something like 'rlocate' might be suitable for finding files with certain names. I haven't tried it: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114069

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

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

Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-13 Thread Don J
For a week or more, I've been having problems with iceape and a few other programs.  As far as I can see, they get a segmentation fault and just disappear.  From the debugging and back traces that I've done, it appears that I may be missing or have corrupted files relating to Gtk and GLib.  Unfortu

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

2011-04-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/04/11 10:35, Michael Checca wrote: > On 04/13/2011 07:30 PM, Apptown.con wrote: >> > > Who subscribed to this? No one. > I unsubscribed from it, but aren't these lists > moderated for spam? There are spam filters - but they don't always work (better a few slip through than false positiv

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

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Checca
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Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/04/11 02:59, Christian Jakob wrote: >> scott@work:~$ python -V >> Python 2.5.2 > > this is the same as mine... > > root@debian # python -V > Python 2.5.2 You appear to have all the listed dependancies > >> Have you manually installed scons? >> Did it throw up any errors? > > No I d

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > hi list, > > as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by > incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, > linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. > Wondering how

Re: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 13 April 2011 23:43, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > I installed a Fedora 14 first, then an Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using > dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so i used encrypted VolumeGroups. ok. [snip] > p.s.: i posted to Debian list too, because i don't think it's a > Distro-specific question.. :\ I

How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-13 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I installed a Fedora 14 first, then an Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so i used encrypted VolumeGroups. ok. At the end of the ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB...ok So i had to use SuperGRUBdisk to start Fedora&give out the command: "grub-install /dev/sda

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Beck
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:36 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > The author (or the copyright owner, depending of the country) may > change the licence at any moment. > However, he cannot remove rights to people who obtained the software > under GPL. a recent example is NoMachine NX4...they changed to clo

File a Bug Against GlobalMenu or Guayadeque?

2011-04-13 Thread Freeman
In Guayadeque 0.2.9, the file menu is not present when gnome globalmenu 0.7.9 packages are installed. How can I decide or diagnose which package has the bug? -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Re: "Debian Changelog" on packages.debian.org is down

2011-04-13 Thread Regid Ichira
On 13/04/11 11:57, kuLa wrote:> On 13/04/11 11:30, Regid Ichira wrote: > > In the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs > > online. An example from today: > > > > Not Found > > The requested URL > > /changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/chan

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:28:02 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: > I have another problem too: my system only start after a lots of > trying. The system crash after grub start and before udev populate the > /dev > Same problem here. After upgrading udev to version 167-1, every time there is a "kernel pan

Squeeze Gateway After Several Hours LAN Packets Drop

2011-04-13 Thread Alishams Hassam
Hi, I have squeeze running as a gateway doing masquerading between eth0 and eth1 using shorewall and dnsmasq. For some reason, after around 13-17 hours, eth1 just starts dropping packets and machines behind the gateway take 5-10 seconds to ping other machines (both on the internet and on the LAN) a

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Marcelo Laia
I have similar problem here! I use testing with evdev, nvidia proprietary drivers, and multseat. My system start, gdm are started too, but I couldn't log in because my mouse and my kbd isn't work. I need to login by ssh and halt the system. I have another problem too: my system only start after

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-13 Thread Bob Weber
On 04/12/2011 08:30 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did the latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. Here are the details: 1. I called "apt-get upgrade", which listed 50 packages it was holding back. Most wer

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread S Scharf
2011/4/13 Nuno Magalhães > Hi > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens > with > > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") > > First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or something, if > it's a

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread ss11223
On Apr 13, 1:50 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens with > > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") > > First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or somethin

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2011-04-13 16:40:38 GMT, S Scharf wrote: > Since installing the large upgrade earlier this week (which included the > new OS and xserver packages) my x server crashes ... I am running Testing ... > Any one know what to look for to diagnose this issue? Unfortunately I do not, but you are not al

Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): package xserver-xorg-video-intel leads to blank screen on reboot

2011-04-13 Thread bahuroopi
Hello Jerome, Am putting this back on the list. > Hello List, > > you may want to specify further your Mac: > what is the output of the following command ? > > /usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-product-name MacBook4,1 Thanks, arvind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens with > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or something, if it's an X error it should be there. HTH -- Mar

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-13 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:30:09 + (UTC), I wrote: > Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did > the latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. ... On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:00:08 -0400, Eike Lantzsch replied: > So what module are you running? Is i

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

2011-04-13 Thread Christian Jakob
>Had you temporarily used other repositories around that time? No, /etc/apt/sources.list~ is empty. >The dependencies for scons are python... could it be that you have some >non-standard python on your system?? >Occasionally I've had install problems because I'd forgotten that I'd >temporarily ma

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Problems with video rendering after this upgrade here too. On Tuesday 12 April 2011 20:30:09 Steve Kleene wrote: > Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did > the latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. Here are > the details: > > 1. I called

X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread S Scharf
Since installing the large upgrade earlier this week (which included the new OS and xserver packages) my x server crashes (and makes me log in again) after some undetermined operation occurrs. (I can cause this by starting VLC or emacs) I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and t

Re: firefox & gimp buttons missing - gtk issue?

2011-04-13 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Sven Joachim wrote: SJ> On 2011-04-11 20:06 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:12:40 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >>> hi guys. i'm having some trouble with what appears to be a gtk issue >>> with firefox & gimp. in short, buttons are missing. the firefox one is >> Missi

Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software

2011-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 13:31 +0300, George wrote: > I'm looking for suggestions on good bayesian network software that > runs on debian. A search on the standard repos was fruitless. I would > prefer free software, but I'm also willing to try any good solution, > even if it is through Wine. It wo

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Slicky Johnson: > > I simply mark threads ignored and I don't seen anymore mails regarding > that topic. I currently use claws-mail, and I see you're using mutt. > If I remember correctly you should easily be able to mark a thread as > ignored. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. You can mark (su

Re: Missing unixodbc-dev

2011-04-13 Thread Lisi
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:23:10 -0400, CDR wrote: > > I am new to Debian. > > When > I type "apt-get install unixodbc-dev" > > I get back: [snip] > > E: Package 'unixodbc-dev' has no installation candidate" > > Question, maybe I need to add some repositories? Possibly. If after updating, you still

Re: Missing unixodbc-dev

2011-04-13 Thread Atıf CEYLAN
What is your debian version? if it is squeeze or lenny, you can try run the "apt-get update" command. After this try again. On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:23:10 -0400, CDR wrote: > I am new to Debian. > > When I type "apt-get install unixodbc-dev" > > I get back: > > "Reading package lists...

Missing unixodbc-dev

2011-04-13 Thread CDR
I am new to Debian. When I type "apt-get install unixodbc-dev" I get back: "Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package unixodbc-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has b

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Chen, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by > incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, > linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. > Wondering how to

Re: Very slow network performance with KVM using virtio and tap.

2011-04-13 Thread Robert Goley
Thanks for the links.  I followed the first one when I set these up initially.  I never got virt-install to work right.  I create the xml file and the disk image manually.  I then just use virsh for define, start and stop.  My problem is the network performance is the sa

Re: iceowl-extension 1.0b2 not compatible with icedove 3.0.11

2011-04-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 04/13/2011 09:34 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2011-04-13 13:48, Gilbert Sullivan skrev: This morning these upgrades (excerpted from the aptitude log) [UPGRADE] iceowl-extension 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 -> 1.0~b2-4 I can has my calendar back??? AIUI, iceowl 1.0b1 works with icedove 3.0 and iceowl 1.0b

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:05:43 +0800 Chen Wei wrote: > hi list, > > as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by > incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, > linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. > Wondering how to ma

Re: iceowl-extension 1.0b2 not compatible with icedove 3.0.11

2011-04-13 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2011-04-13 13:48, Gilbert Sullivan skrev: This morning these upgrades (excerpted from the aptitude log) [UPGRADE] iceowl-extension 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 -> 1.0~b2-4 I can has my calendar back??? AIUI, iceowl 1.0b1 works with icedove 3.0 and iceowl 1.0b2 works with icedove 3.1. I solved the same pro

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 April 2011 14:05:43 Chen Wei wrote: > out of curiosity, I did a > statistics on choice of mail client and email service, based on 1494 > messages received since subscribed to this list. Here is what I found. > > TOP20 > MUA | email provider >

mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Chen Wei
hi list, as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. Wondering how to manage so many emails, out of curiosity, I did a statistics on cho

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-13 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:32:23PM CEST, Chen Wei said: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > GPL doesn't promise future freedom when someone else legally buy's the > > rights to the source and changes it. That being said, Final versions of a > > program released und

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-13 Thread Chen Wei
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > GPL doesn't promise future freedom when someone else legally buy's the > rights to the source and changes it. That being said, Final versions of a > program released under GPL or another F/OSS licence allows that snapshot in > time of

Newfangled Dialtone Problems

2011-04-13 Thread David Baron
Finally got my modem (an old analog ISA modem--no PCI modem seems to work at all) going again by disabling both on-board serial ports. So I am back to where I was ... no dial tone. The phone line is VOIP through an ADSL modem --> Audiocodes media server box. The Audiocodes gives an ethernet to

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Kane
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 21:19:43 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Upon reflection I'd be willing to bet it's down to the difference > between versions of coreutils - there's a couple of minor changes up > until 8.9 (according to NEWS). While most of the changes I've read > about improve speed and re

iceowl-extension 1.0b2 not compatible with icedove 3.0.11

2011-04-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
I have pure testing systems (no contrib or non-free, no closed source software / firmware). This morning these upgrades (excerpted from the aptitude log) [UPGRADE] calendar-google-provider 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 -> 1.0~b2-4 [UPGRADE] calendar-timezones 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 -> 1.0~b2-4 [UPGRADE] iceowl-extens

Debugging suspend/resume?

2011-04-13 Thread Eric Persson
I upgraded to latest stable when it came out, and after that my suspend/resume functionality just started working(very nice), but now it stopped working again. And I cant find anything that I've changed that I think could have affected it. I've seen onscreen errors some times that it cant freeze k

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/04/11 19:47, Mark Kane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 14:33:34 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I could be wrong, but from looking at the script a bit it looks like dd > is used to create the image like this: > > dd of=tmp/disk.img if=/dev/zero count=30720 bs=1k After a quick squiz I agre

Re: changelog of debs not available online: Was there a substantial change?

2011-04-13 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/11 11:30, Regid Ichira wrote: > In the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs > online. An example from today: > > Not Found > The requested URL > /changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/chang

changelog of debs not available online: Was there a substantial change?

2011-04-13 Thread Regid Ichira
In the last 2 weeks, or so, I am not able to read the changelogs of debs online. An example from today: Not Found The requested URL /changelogs/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.15.1-1/changelog was not found on this server. Apache Server

Re: Suggestions for bayesian network software

2011-04-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
To search through the Debian packages descriptions with aptitude, command something like aptitude search '~dbayes!~dspam' (the description should contain "bayes" but not "spam"). An overview of Debian Science Statistics packages can be found here: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Kane
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 14:33:34 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > It's possible the script uses ddrescue instead of dd to create the > image > - though I still don't understand why that would make a difference. I could be wrong, but from looking at the script a bit it looks like dd is used to creat

Re: Upgrading from Squeeze testing to Squeeze stable

2011-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
The security repository differs from the main repository that debian normally uses. Do you find testing on any active repo line in /etc/apt/sources.list? If so replace that with stable and you'll probably have better results. You might do all of this very easily by saving the old machine's s

kreatywny marketing?

2011-04-13 Thread kreatywny
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Re: New to Linux

2011-04-13 Thread Steven
On 2011-04-12 18:41, rishabh animesh wrote: > Hello People, > > I am new to Linux and Debian. Whats the best way to start on things? > Currently I'm a Computer Science student and have experience only with > algorithms! Comfortable with C/C++ > but willing to learn more to help me get started with