Re: tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 July 2014 01:46:07 Ric Moore wrote: > What > is worse, I'm running in my Ubuntu partition to have a working desktop. > That cuts a fella. :( Ric :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:36:30PM CEST, Jonathan Dowland said: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 03:09:40PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > Problem is where do we get the knowledge to repair mannually ? I do noit > > see it in /usr/share/doc/systemd nor in the crossreference man pages, > > nor anywhere el

End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
systemd-shim is no more an option in testing. the whole systemd with all its bugs (very low shutdown, no suport for policy-rc.d, etc..) is forced to users. It was said that we would have a choice. Were is the choice ? Were is the transition doc ? No where, just "go ahead and test". For

Re: tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/20/2014 11:53 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:39:16AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: // tweak Aptitude to not

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:22:14AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/20/2014 07:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 18 iul 14, 13:32:19, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > >> > >> deb http://http.debian.net/debian stable main contrib non-free(http > >> twice? doesn't look right) > > I think he was

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:36:30 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > You can install systemd to try it out before committing to it as your > default init system. Just install 'systemd' but not 'systemd-sysv' and > pass init=/bin/systemd to Linux via your boot manager. > > This and more excellent docume

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Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
Zenaan Harkness: > On 7/21/14, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Stephen Powell: >>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l' >>> >>> That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the >>> "screen"

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/21/14, Erwan David wrote: > 2) You have a specific syntax, and a specific semantics (what does > ExecStart, WantedBy, etc mean), that one must learn in order to simply > read this. The namles of the sections are also meaningfull. All this > defines a full fledge langaue, and I did not find an

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 03:09:40PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Problem is where do we get the knowledge to repair mannually ? I do noit > see it in /usr/share/doc/systemd nor in the crossreference man pages, > nor anywhere else. You can install systemd to try it out before committing to it as your

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ron Leach a écrit : > > cannot fetch over the network Can't you just configure and activate eth0 manually ? If by DHCP : # dhclient eth0 If statically : # ifconfig eth0 netmask # route add default gw # echo nameserver >> /etc/resolv.conf # if needed > Method 1: But Plugging in a USB CD-ROM i

Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/21/14, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Stephen Powell: >> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >>> termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l' >> >> That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the >> "screen" package. If I need multipl

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Ron Leach
On 20/07/2014 19:08, Sven Joachim wrote: It looks like the ifupdown package was removed during the upgrade. Reinstall it and the network should come back after "ifup eth0". Sven, thanks, cannot fetch over the network, but found ifupdown deb file on a Squeeze CD. I think it's on an XFCE insta

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.07.2014 16:47, schrieb Erwan David: > Le 20/07/2014 16:11, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> >> You're aware of course that Debian is one of the last big distros to >> switch to systemd, with the notable exception of Ubuntu (who was using >> upstart anyway). > RHEL 7 does not use systemd as far

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:38:27 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > Maybe. But nothing like that has ever been necessary before and > that is thru several vb upgrades over a few months. I wouldn't be so straight: some months ago, after I duno remember (change of monitor, I guess), I was obliged to use it

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Den Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:15:41 + (UTC) skrev Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14: > On 2014-07-20, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > > I don't know about that GA abbreviation, sorry. > > > > Guest Additions maybe, or half of the Lady Ga duo. > Of course! Thanks! /Andr

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > I don't know about that GA abbreviation, sorry. > Guest Additions maybe, or half of the Lady Ga duo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-20 19:53 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: > During an upgrade attempt of a Lenny server to Wheezy (the Debian docs > say do this via Squeeze) I can't restart the Squeeze system after > executing > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > The machine is awkward to see, or get at, so I'm fairl

Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stephen Powell: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> termcapinfo xterm* 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l' > > That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the > "screen" package. If I need multiple terminal sessions, I just launch > mul

Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Ron Leach
List, good afternoon, During an upgrade attempt of a Lenny server to Wheezy (the Debian docs say do this via Squeeze) I can't restart the Squeeze system after executing # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade The machine is awkward to see, or get at, so I'm fairly keen to have an SSH link to

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:35:25 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >Andreas Rönnquist writes: > >> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400, >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>>Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do >>>here. >>> >>>I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Harry Putnam
B writes: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400 > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I >> can get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . >> Not sure of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I >> logged in before

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Andreas Rönnquist writes: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400, > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do >>here. >> >>I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can >>get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 16:49:14 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Now that systemd is presented as being compulsory it is natural that >From a little earlier in this subthread: https://lists.debian.org/87mwc9gfsw@xoog.err.no Nothing about "compulsory" there. > developers use it. The biggest mi

Re: Copy machine?

2014-07-20 Thread Chris
Hi Martin, On 07/18/2014 07:43 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2014, 18:45:13 schrieb Chris: > Depends on how the initrd is built. That's interesting. I thought initrd was essentially for hard disk drivers only. All drivers needed later in the boot sequence could be loaded fr

tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:39:16AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my > > aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: > > > > // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first opti

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do >here. > >I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can >get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . Not sure >of exact setting bu

Re: Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:38:02 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I > can get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . > Not sure of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I > logged in before this upgrade. May be you

Lost high res desktop settings on vbox upgrade to 4.3.14

2014-07-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Any folks running jessie in a vbox vm... maybe will know what to do here. I upgraded vbox from 4.3.10 to 4.3 14. Now the best screen res I can get in 1024 x 768. When it was something like 1500 x . Not sure of exact setting but desktop was much larger when I logged in before this upgrade.

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread David Dušanić
20.07.2014, 14:23, "Brian" : > On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 11:00:15 +0300, David Baron wrote: >>  How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? > > In principle nothing that you do with unstable is safe. But you have > chosen to test it. So go ahead and be prepared to analyse and report

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/07/2014 16:09, Joe a écrit : > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:39:13 +0200 > Slavko wrote: > >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:09:33 -0400 The Wanderer >> napísal: >> >>> It's partly systemd's - or, rather, the systemd developers' - fault >>> for having chosen to implement the functionality whi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/07/2014 16:11, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Du, 20 iul 14, 14:40:27, Erwan David wrote: >> Add to this the fact it throws away years of habits with yet another >> language (yes the systemd unit files are nit shellscripts but they use a >> specific language mre complicated to understand thant

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my > aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: > > // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; Whether it helps

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 14:40:27, Erwan David wrote: > > Add to this the fact it throws away years of habits with yet another > language (yes the systemd unit files are nit shellscripts but they use a > specific language mre complicated to understand thant shell scripts, You must be confusing systemd u

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:39:13 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:09:33 -0400 The Wanderer > napísal: > > > It's partly systemd's - or, rather, the systemd developers' - fault > > for having chosen to implement the functionality which the outside > > programs (in this case,

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-20 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:09PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-20, Brian wrote: > >> > >> Yeah, it does. > >> But that doesn't tell me anything about why mutt is faiilng. > >> It shows me that mail works for local users. > > > > Does 'mail' also work with remote users? Does mutt work with loc

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-20 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:55:55PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 02:06:31 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Assuming a valid username is "tony", mainlog should show a record of > > > > > >mail -s TEST tony@localh

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:17:05 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 07/20/2014 05:17 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2014, 11:00:15 schrieb David Baron: > > > >> How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)

Re: Synaptic messed up

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 iun 14, 20:18:41, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I had an orange triangle show up where the upstate square usually shows. I > clicked on it and got the following messages. > > Error message: > > Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch > ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/updat

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 07:59:21, John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > > There are reasons sid is also called unstable. > > It's called Unstable because it changes frequently. The biggest problem > with Sid is dependency problems. Because a new version of any package > can be uploaded to Sid at

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/07/2014 14:17, The Wanderer a écrit : > On 07/20/2014 05:17 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2014, 11:00:15 schrieb David Baron: > > >> How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? > > > Which do you mean by "these"? > > I'd imagine he means "upgrades

Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Jason C. Taylor
- Original Message - > From: "Stephen Powell" > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:31:42 AM > That's interesting. I've never encountered this, as I don't use the > "screen" package. If I need multiple terminal sessions, I just launch > multiple > PuTTY sessions. I guess I don't see the nee

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread John Hasler
The Wanderer writes: > There are reasons sid is also called unstable. It's called Unstable because it changes frequently. The biggest problem with Sid is dependency problems. Because a new version of any package can be uploaded to Sid at any time without regard to dependencies one can get stuck

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > > What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a single > pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver versions, > without need for manual intervention. Right. I just thought of an entirely different approach: use

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 08:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 iul 14, 20:09:33, The Wanderer wrote: > >> It's partly systemd's - or, rather, the systemd developers' - fault >> for having chosen to implement the functionality which the outside >> progra

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Are you aware of snapshot.debian.org? Save yourself time and anxiety. :) > I believe he wants to keep things local due to a slow and/or problematic internet connection. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Circular dependency.

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 iul 14, 11:03:48, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > I found that the problem appeared to be a circular dependency. When I > removed all the packages in the dependency loop in a single operation > things went much more smoothly. > > dpkg -B -r libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java openj

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/07/2014 13:56, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Sb, 19 iul 14, 20:16:11, The Wanderer wrote: >> Unless I'm much mistaken, none of the tools provided by coreutils are >> daemons, and none of them are init systems. Both of those things are >> qualitative differences. >> >> I didn't mention any of

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Brian wrote: >> >> Yeah, it does. >> But that doesn't tell me anything about why mutt is faiilng. >> It shows me that mail works for local users. > > Does 'mail' also work with remote users? Does mutt work with local and > remote users? Can we rule out a problem with exim? I under

Re: How to get Skype sound working on Wheezy (7.5, 64bit)?

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:20:53PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:01:17 +0100 > Klaus wrote: > > > On 18/07/14 15:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog > > > [ALC887-VD Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 > > > > > > Have you sear

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 20:09:33, The Wanderer wrote: > > It's partly systemd's - or, rather, the systemd developers' - fault for > having chosen to implement the functionality which the outside programs > (in this case, components of GNOME) want to depend on as part of > something not independent from

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:23:15AM -0400, songbird wrote: > >songbird wrote: > > >> the other night i accidentally deleted the debs i > >> normally keep in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory > >> and while i do keep a backup of them in another > >> directory it is along with all the previous

Several systemd annoyances [was: Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd]

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 04:33:34, sp113438 wrote: > My main problems on Sid with systemd: > > 1 poweroff takes ages (several minutes), and sometimes fails completely, > this is very annoying I used to have this due to NFS mounts and Network Manager (#746358), fixed in initscripts 2.88dsf-55.2. Could

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 11:00:15 +0300, David Baron wrote: > How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? In principle nothing that you do with unstable is safe. But you have chosen to test it. So go ahead and be prepared to analyse and report bugs or fix issues. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:11:47PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > LOL, how do you do it Andrei? You've tried and failed to rebut me three > times... Wow! and here's me thinking he clearly explained the issue(s) to you! I remember a rant by Billy Connelly where the gist goes like this: He picked up a

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 05:17 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2014, 11:00:15 schrieb David Baron: > >> How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? > > Which do you mean by "these"? I'd imagine he means "upgrades to s

Re: putty login - running gnu screen causes putty console to shrink

2014-07-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> When I log in to my debian box using putty, I set in putty config a >> width of 100 (rather than 80). This works. >> >> When I run GNU Screen, the putty console shrinks back to 80 width. >> >> Any ide

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 07:20 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 18 iul 14, 13:32:19, Bob Holtzman wrote: >> To recap and make *damned* sure I understand, >> >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.or

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 05:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 iul 14, 21:58:13, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution >> so as to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that >> package

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 20:16:11, The Wanderer wrote: > > Unless I'm much mistaken, none of the tools provided by coreutils are > daemons, and none of them are init systems. Both of those things are > qualitative differences. > > I didn't mention any of the non-daemon tools provided by the systemd > pa

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 01:37 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:58:13 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: > >> when an X not compatible with the newest available fglrx-driver is >> available, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' still tries to remove >> fglrx

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:09:33 -0400 The Wanderer napísal: > It's partly systemd's - or, rather, the systemd developers' - fault > for having chosen to implement the functionality which the outside > programs (in this case, components of GNOME) want to depend on as > part of something not i

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 02:06:31 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:45:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Assuming a valid username is "tony", mainlog should show a record of > > > >mail -s TEST tony@localhost > > > > being sent. > > Yeah, it does. > But that doesn't tell

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:46:17 +0200 Sven Joachim napísal: > On 2014-07-19 19:14 +0200, Slavko wrote: > > > Then it seems, that there is way to have policykit without systemd. > > The alternative (on which policykit-1 depends on kfreebsd-*) is > consolekit which is unmaintained. > > > Tr

Re: about update notices

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 17:14:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running jessie in vbox guest on win7 > > I seem to recall quite some time back getting some kind of > notifications on my desktop when I had pkgs needing updates. > > It might have a year or two ago when I was running KDE and may have > been rel

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 17 iul 14, 23:41:20, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > Hi, > I am unable to send mail with mutt from my home desktop, either through > one of my own domains (this one, myownsite.me), or through gmx.com's SMTP > server. Please attach your .muttrc, just take care to replace passwords with XXX or so.

Re: How to add package sources?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 iul 14, 13:32:19, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > > is already in sources, a simple switch from debian.org to debian.net is > all that's required. True? The security archive is handled specially and even http.debian.net r

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 18:06:57, Tom H wrote: > > If he didn't improve sysvinit to deal with the early boot problem that > he identifies here, he must've either thought that it wasn't possible > to fix the sysvinit code or that he didn't have the time to dedicate > to doing so. Just to provide concret

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > BTW, where are those DiffIndex files stored? > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:

USB 3 Problem after upgrading to wheezy from 7.5 to 7.6

2014-07-20 Thread JN
Hi, since I can't find any current information on my problem via google or on the errata-list I would like to report it here. I can't say to which package it is related, but it appeared after upgrading from wheezy 7.5 to 7.6. I'm running a small homeserver based on an ATOM-board (Asrock AD25

Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 18:34:28, Tom H wrote: > > This was discussed on debian-devel@. I'm sure that if you asked those > who want this supported they'd tell you that this isn't what was > decided and if you asked those who didn't want this supported they'd > tell you that this is what was decided (unl

Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6

2014-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 19 July 2014 23:34:28 Tom H wrote: > To the OP: can't you install a supported and more recent chrome from > google.com? Not on Squeeze. You have to update to at least Wheezy. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
BTW, my entire sources.list file is th single line: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free Now trying with http instead of ftp... $ sudo apt-get update Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid InRelease Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex H

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 21:58:13, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution so as > to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that package to > a particular version? This is an interesting problem. I'd try pinning the installed version to the

Re: is this sensible?

2014-07-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-07-08 02:07:25 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 30 iun 14, 14:47:23, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > A program cannot guess what the user has in mind, but there are > > choices that are obviously more sensible than others, such as > > upgrading a package instead of removing it. Sometimes ap

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/20/14, Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> I keep getting (tried 3 times now) this sort of error from my chosen >> mirror: >> --- >> 100% [15 Packages 9,119 kB/9,119 kB 100%] >> Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main amd64 Packages >> Get:17 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2014, 11:00:15 schrieb David Baron: > How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? Which do you mean by "these"? -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I keep getting (tried 3 times now) this sort of error from my chosen mirror: > --- > 100% [15 Packages 9,119 kB/9,119 kB 100%] > Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main amd64 Packages > Get:17 ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main amd64 Packages [6,829 kB] > E

Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-20 Thread David Baron
How safe are these on new 64bit system (dist-upgraded to Sid)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1448925.rEsNO80blQ@dovidhalevi

Re: manual Packages file download?

2014-07-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:52:53 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I keep getting (tried 3 times now) this sort of error from my chosen mirror: > --- > 100% [15 Packages 9,119 kB/9,119 kB 100%] > Err ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main amd64 Packages For me this mirror is working: Hit ftp://mirror.aar