Re: debugging package breakage

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 16:00, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 08/18/11 21:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 19/08/11 13:20, Tom Roche wrote: >>> > > Actually, I just checked the Linux Mint pages. Apparently Linux Mint > Debian Edition is based directly on Testing, with a rolling release. LMDE = Gnome and XFCE > T

Re: debugging package breakage

2011-08-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 08/18/11 21:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 19/08/11 13:20, Tom Roche wrote: summary: I'm a new debian user Not yet you're not - confused? You are still using Ubuntu. Debian makes potatoes. Ubuntu mashes the Debian potatoes, dries them, adds stuff, and repackages - to make a variety of potat

Hardware failure: power-off

2011-08-18 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is almost certainly a hardware problem, but I think readers of this list are knowledgeable enough to help me. My laptop shuts down at unexpected times. There are no messages in the logs at the time of shutdown, but there are some ACPI failures at

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 14:29, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 08/18/2011 07:38:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the >> reading >> even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced >> the >> title of any cd placed in the drive based on in

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 08/18/2011 07:38:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the > reading > even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced > the > title of any cd placed in the drive based on information burned to > the > CD See http://

Re: debugging package breakage

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 13:20, Tom Roche wrote: > > summary: I'm a new debian user Not yet you're not - confused? You are still using Ubuntu. Debian makes potatoes. Ubuntu mashes the Debian potatoes, dries them, adds stuff, and repackages - to make a variety of potato based products. Mint uses Ubuntu instan

debugging package breakage

2011-08-18 Thread Tom Roche
summary: I'm a new debian user with some package breakage. I'd appreciate * assistance with my specific problem (i.e., give me a fish) * general heuristics for debug package breakage (i.e., teach me to fish) details: I'm a longtime ubuntu user who switched last week to $ lsb_release -ds Linux M

Re: debian and sms import

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 07:36, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have an IPhone with many sms messages on it. /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db is where they live. > If possible I'd like to > export all of them to another device so that when I start doing things to > them on my IPhone I'll have some assuranc

Re: OT questions about noscript and notscript

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 04:01, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript. > I ask here because this is the list on which I discovered the > existence of (and the need for) these add-ons to web browsers. NotScripts uses a unique and novel method to provide this “N

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/08/11 06:39, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2011 03:55:30 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As Martin isn't going to >> use a Live CD approach - it's a moot point. (though Knoppix Adriane will >> probably do the job, and includes parted) > > I understood (possibly erroneously) that Martin's prob

wifi disconnection / deauthenticating from ... by local choice (reason=3)

2011-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Anyone knows where the following problem comes from? In the last hours, I've had a wifi disconnection twice, while I had never had such a problem before. Concerning the second connection and disconnection (at 01:48), the kernel and dhclient logs contain: Aug 19 00:54:42 xvii kernel: [80625.021101

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Tech Geek
Sorry, I just realized that you are on a 64-bit machine. Try this: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-2.6-amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Tech Geek
> FATAL: Error inserting coretemp > (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko): No such > device Try installing a more recent kernel like 2.6.39 from Squeeze backports [1]. 1: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-2.6-686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread shawn wilson
first, there's a #re channel on freenode that might be able to help you better. though, i'd first brush up on my assembly and gdb before looking there :) basically, you can link a program against a library (or find a program that calls a library - ldd or strace come to mind), open it up with gdb,

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
M Stefan, 18.08.2011: > Hello, > > I own a Dell Inspiron N5010 with a Core i5 M450 (2.4GHz) CPU > and my cooler does not appear to work properly on Debian 6.0.1 > (2.6.32-5-amd64). > I have built the latest version of lm-sensors (as opposed to getting the old > packaged one > via apt-get, which di

debian and sms import

2011-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have an IPhone with many sms messages on it. If possible I'd like to export all of them to another device so that when I start doing things to them on my IPhone I'll have some assurance against loosing messages and can maybe if debian can do this pull the messages onto my hard drive and if n

Re: Wheezy: Mouse cursor in FF/Iceweasel

2011-08-18 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
T Elcor, 17.08.2011: > Hi, > > I remember there was a time when FF/Iceweasel would change a regular > arrow-shaped mouse cursor to "arrow with hourglass" when Iceweasel was busy > doing something like, for example, retrieving a page. Now the cursor just > stays arrow while Iceweasel is retrievi

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-18 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 18 August 2011 03:55:30 Scott Ferguson wrote: > As Martin isn't going to > use a Live CD approach - it's a moot point. (though Knoppix Adriane will > probably do the job, and includes parted) I understood (possibly erroneously) that Martin's problem wasn't that he doesn't know about a

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-08-18 Thread Joao Roscoe
It seems that running genkdmconf did the trick. Weird! Thanks, Scott Best regards, João On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Joao Roscoe wrote: > I had to let this issue alone for a few days, to deal with radeon > hardware based DRI - I switched back from proprietary to free driver, > and it was

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
On Aug 19, 2011, at 0:57, Wayne Topa wrote: Putting this back on the list. It is against DU Code of Conduct to reply to list messages off list unless asked to. Others may have the same question and it is unfair to them to take it off list. On 08/18/2011 12:37 PM, lina wrote: Hi, I

Re: bugs with debian small install

2011-08-18 Thread Gabor Kum
2011. augusztus 17. 13:28:44 dátummal Scott Reagan az alábbiakat írta: > I tried to install the small verion of debian, the 32 bit version and it > wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install. please help. I > really want this os system and have heard great things about it. The Debia

OT questions about noscript and notscript

2011-08-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm curious about the differences between noscript and notscript. I ask here because this is the list on which I discovered the existence of (and the need for) these add-ons to web browsers. 1. There seems not to be a direct, feature for feature add-on to Chrome that corresponds to noscript for Ic

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: > I don't know how to read the .so file under /usr/lib/ > the Binary file. That depends on the purpose. In particular, ldd(1) shows .so's dependencies, nm(1) shows the names' to addresses correspondence (for functions, global variables, etc

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 18:37 +0200, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to read the .so file under /usr/lib/ > > the Binary file. > > Thanks, > > lina > > You may also try hexdump command $ hd | less # or $ hd -s -n -- Tomas Kral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/18/2011 12:37 PM, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to read the .so file under /usr/lib/ the Binary file. Then it probably will not help you but you can read a binary file by using 'more', instead of 'less' but you wont be able to understand it. WT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-18 Thread Pete Orrall
> No, no, those wer the *IBM* Deathstar drives. There was a particular > run of IBM Deskstar drives that all failed after a certain amount of > usage due to some non-obvious manufacturing flaw Oh yes that's right. > I was almost immediately fired because *I* had done backups on spare > tapes and

How to read .so lib file

2011-08-18 Thread lina
Hi, I don't know how to read the .so file under /usr/lib/ the Binary file. Thanks, lina -- 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/CAG9cJmmEq4+yi7jvzoOMgR-w3

Re: Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:17:39PM +, M Stefan wrote: >Hello, > >I own a Dell Inspiron N5010 with a Core i5 M450 (2.4GHz) CPU >and my cooler does not appear to work properly on Debian 6.0.1 >(2.6.32-5-amd64). >I have built the latest version of lm-sensors (as opposed to get

Fan not working properly on Dell Inspiron N5010

2011-08-18 Thread M Stefan
Hello, I own a Dell Inspiron N5010 with a Core i5 M450 (2.4GHz) CPU and my cooler does not appear to work properly on Debian 6.0.1 (2.6.32-5-amd64). I have built the latest version of lm-sensors (as opposed to getting the old packaged one via apt-get, which didn't find any sensors), and `sensors-d

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-08-18 Thread Joao Roscoe
I had to let this issue alone for a few days, to deal with radeon hardware based DRI - I switched back from proprietary to free driver, and it was not working properly due to lack of ATI non-free firmware package. Now that this is solved, I got back to the ksplash issue, and I discovered that, now,

Re: update problem

2011-08-18 Thread lina
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:23:16 +0800 > lina wrote: > > Hello lina, > >> My laptop just forzen, >> >> can't react, is it possible due to lack of package? and this certain >> package, libgnutlsxx27 > > That package does TLS/SSL negotiation stuff o

Re: update problem

2011-08-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:23:16 +0800 lina wrote: Hello lina, > My laptop just forzen, > > can't react, is it possible due to lack of package? and this certain > package, libgnutlsxx27 That package does TLS/SSL negotiation stuff over a network It's unlikely, I would have thought, to freeze a mac

Re: update problem

2011-08-18 Thread lina
My laptop just forzen, can't react, is it possible due to lack of package? and this certain package, libgnutlsxx27 lina P.S I can't ssh from outside either. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, lina wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Darac Marjal > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:08:

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Arno Schuring writes: > There might be. Try umount -f > > The information about current mounts is recorded in /etc/mtab > (basically an old relic, but sadly still not put down). The real > (kernel) information about mounts is in /proc/mounts. When copying root > filesystems or working on a read-on

Re: update problem

2011-08-18 Thread lina
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:08:08PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I tried to update, it showed me something like: >> >> libgnutlsxx26 removed (configs remain) ;  install (was: install).  Extra >> >> # apt-get install libgnutlsxx2 >      

Re: update problem

2011-08-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:08:08PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > when I tried to update, it showed me something like: > > libgnutlsxx26 removed (configs remain) ; install (was: install). Extra > > # apt-get install libgnutlsxx2 ^ you missed a 6 here. > Reading pa

Problem upgrade Kernel on DNS323

2011-08-18 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I got the following output when I try to update my DNS323. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance ~# apt-get -uVf dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remov