Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now, don't u think?

2012-12-15 Thread Suttiwit Sukpinit
Hi, This is my first post on the mailing list. The question is: Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now because i've tried for several months since it released. it all seems stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-15 Thread nv
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:31:52 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:12:25PM -0600, nv wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Andrei > > > > tl;dr: Is it recommended that I use apt-pinning to upgrade some >

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-15 Thread Bill Harris
Bob Proulx writes: > It is quite safe. You can always try it now and if it doesn't have > any success for you then you can remove it without lingering issues of > having had it installed. Example: Thanks, Bob, for the detailed instructions. Bill -- Bill Harris Facilitated S

Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 15/12/12 21:52, Steven Ayre wrote: I use apticron (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apticron). I see one of its dependencies is apt-listchanges. Its web page (http://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-listchanges) mentions "When configured as an APT plugin" but I web-surfing doesn't tell me if th

Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:28:17PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > My current work-flow of running synaptic, reloading, marking > upgrades, viewing history, cherry-picking updates I'm interested in > and viewing the changelogs for each, (or if they fail to download, > "gunzip -c xyz/changelog.Debian

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/15/2012 05:03 AM, phi debian wrote: Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my panel on the right, some usual goodies like synaptic, update-manager-gnome,

Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Steven Ayre
I use apticron (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apticron). It runs a daily cronjob that does a apt-get update and then emails you if there are any upgrades available. The email includes the recent changeling entries. -Steve On 15 Dec 2012, at 21:28, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > >

Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. My current work-flow of running synaptic, reloading, marking upgrades, viewing history, cherry-picking updates I'm interested in and viewing the changelogs for each, (or if they fail to download, "gunzip -c xyz/changelog.Debian.gz | less) sucks. Is there an updates list I can subsc

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Dec 2012 at 21:43:13 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > >Richard Owlett wrote: > > >>d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us > > >>d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us > > > > > >In Wheezy they changed these to different strings. It cau

Re: not a valid LUKS device

2012-12-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, J. You wrote: > I want to luks encrypt and new external usb based hard-disk. > So I tried with the command, and it failed with the error as > following. > > cryptsetup -y --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 > luksFormat /dev/sdc > > WARNING! > > This will overw

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.12.2012 00:09, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Ross Boylan wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind

Re: centralized monitoring

2012-12-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:54:41 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan napísal: > is there any centralized utility which can help me to monitor all > Debian base systems via web console and GUI graphs. which can provide > me a quick glance of Processor utilization. free space on hard drive. > RAM util

Re: Problem with the Debian package system...

2012-12-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-12-15 17:44 +0100, Jack Wilborn wrote: > Hello, Not sure where this should go or if it's already there! I > have an iPhone that I'm trying to use with Debian 6.0.6 on a Mac G5. > I've learned that the ipleth-dkms package associated with the > ipheth-utils packages. I found both in the p

Re: Problem with the Debian package system...

2012-12-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I can't help, but I want to inform that you might get more, or faster help, if you join a Debian PowerMac list or something similar. "To join the list, send e-mail to with the word "subscribe" in the Subject line. List archives are available. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/"; - http://www

Re: Ubuntu and Ham Radio Echolink

2012-12-15 Thread zicopereira
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Problem with the Debian package system...

2012-12-15 Thread Jack Wilborn
Hello, Not sure where this should go or if it's already there! I have an iPhone that I'm trying to use with Debian 6.0.6 on a Mac G5. I've learned that the ipleth-dkms package associated with the ipheth-utils packages. I found both in the packages list, but this one entry "ipheth-dkms — USB teth

Re: centralized monitoring

2012-12-15 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan To: debian Sent: 12/15/2012 9:54:41 AM Subject: centralized monitoring is there any centralized utility which can help me to monitor all Debian base systems via web console and GUI graphs. which can provide me a quick glance of Proc

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 14:03 +0100, phi debian wrote: > Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! > > I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install > lxde. > > In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my panel on > the right, some usual goodies like synaptic, u

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/14/2012 05:30 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: > >>>So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted w

Re: centralized monitoring

2012-12-15 Thread Thore
Hello muhammad, I think it works with munin, at the moment I'm trying it by myself (it isn't really working) but in munin-node you can allow other systems to ask for the data. I use an vps for it there I'm running munin. Here I had configuered the hosts as systems to ask for the data. In theror

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread phi debian
Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my panel on the right, some usual goodies like synaptic, update-manager-gnome, So I know I will be able to move to this. Ju

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:25:28 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hello Andrei, >As far as I understand ia32-libs as is now in wheezy is only meant to >help the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, so it will definitely be in >wheezy. Most probably it will be removed from sid and jenny ASAP after >the rele

Re: Idle TCP connections freeze

2012-12-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > > I'm having trouble with an internet connection that seems to randomly > "freeze" arbitrary tcp connections when they have not been used for a > while. The connections stay established, but no data is coming through. How long is "a while", at a minimum ? > When

Re: centralized monitoring

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 dec 12, 14:54:41, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > is there any centralized utility which can help me to monitor all > Debian base systems via web console and GUI graphs. which can provide > me a quick glance of Processor utilization. free space on hard drive. > RAM utilization. services s

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 22:32:20, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have been > running lxde on my laptop and I installed it on the desktop when I > replaced my old box. I haven't had any complaints from my daughter, > so it is staying that way. +1 for LXDE Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among De

centralized monitoring

2012-12-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
is there any centralized utility which can help me to monitor all Debian base systems via web console and GUI graphs. which can provide me a quick glance of Processor utilization. free space on hard drive. RAM utilization. services status. on per machine bases etc. thnks MYK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 07:50:29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >If by "raising the issue" you mean do the proof-reading yourself and > >then report problems, by all means, just go ahead. Or, even better, you > >could submit patches. > > I see a bug report as treating an individual symptom rather than > s

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 11:56:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Sorry, I failed to see the space. > > With the space, it throws errors. Without the space it functions correctly. > I shall therefore use the version without the space until it too starts to > throw errors. This is very strange. On wheezy I g

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 22:23:21, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Some things which need addressing: > > - use of tmpfses for non-writable locations like /media: we should > > be doing this by default; introducing /run/media on the /run > > tmpfs was one thing looked at for wheezy; but it didn't get done >

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 16:55:31, Brad Rogers wrote: > > Eventually there will be no other option, I suspect. As soon as it's > possible, I think that the ia32* packages will get pulled from Sid. > Whether that will be in time for Wheezy to go stable, I have no idea as > I don't follow the relevant lis