where are the old packages (supersceded?)

2014-05-20 Thread Phi Debian
Hi All, I am looking for the kernel debug info package for uname like this (from a crash, don't have the system at hand) 3.2.0-4-686-pae (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1\012 Where can I find a package (.deb) named like this

Re: where are the old packages (supersceded?)

2014-05-20 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Wanderer, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:54 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you got it from the official Debian package repositories at some point in the past, then that version of the package should be available through snapshot.debian.org. You may have to dig a bit, but it

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Zeenan, I can not contribute in this area for two reasons, I am not knowledgeable in the X11, DM area, and my duties leave me little cycles to ramp this knowledge up. An additional 'may be' reason is the total lack of starting point, even the kernel when it panics gives some clues where to

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Phi Debian
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: If you have any cycles, I, and I am sure others, will be pleased to assist with a little debugging, like using strace tool for example. You see, in your case, the bug seems very reproducible - every time you can

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Zeenan, I have streamlined the problems as follow, anybody with little HW resource and time can reporduce it. 1) Have a workable host running vbox 2) do a regular wheezy .iso netinstall in a guest (I used amd64 wheezy) 3) Log in and check all works well (generally it did) (you may log classic

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Phi Debian
Just to clarify your procedure - vbox is installed, but you are running vncserver just from host box, not inside vbox right? Once the vbox guest wheezy is installed and has a vcnserver runing on it, you may use any vncviewer you may have on your intranet to connect to it. my exact setup is

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Phi Debian
to know the process of reporting this Cheers, Phi On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Phi Debian phi.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify your procedure - vbox is installed, but you are running vncserver just from host box, not inside vbox right? Once the vbox guest wheezy is installed

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Gary, Thanx you for getting back to the original post :) while I admit I did learn a bit of history about distro, display manager, etc... :) Why I am using GUI on servers? Well because I am a big lazy man, having done all my career on unix so far, and I don't have time to learn all the CUI

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Phi Debian
gconf editor and I am about done on ubuntu... So I wait a bit see if I can stay on debian (my prefered choice for historical reasons) Thanx for your help. Cheers, Phi On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 8/27/13, Phi Debian phi.deb...@gmail.com wrote

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Phi Debian
I am not religious about distros, I said I got many guest running on the server, this is precisly to have a whole sort of distro running. Yet the server got to have one, and for historical reasons it happen it is debian. Now this gnome3 comes to the dance, and break the tiny bits of basic thing

oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-26 Thread Phi Debian
Hi All, I use debian and gnome since well the begining... I have it on many nodes, but specially on some server, where many guests run. I was on squeeze sine the begining of squeeze, and decided to try wheezy. All the upgrade went smooth, and all worked like a charm, so thank you for all the

Re: ksh i386 ##

2013-08-22 Thread Phi Debian
Thanx Bob for pre-filling the debian bug. I try to do the same on ubuntu and see how it goes. Cheers, Phi On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Phi Debian wrote: Hi Bob, Well I dunno how to fill a report on ksh, is that at David Korn site? Or is it a debian

Re: ksh i386 ##

2013-08-21 Thread Phi Debian
Hi Bob, Well I dunno how to fill a report on ksh, is that at David Korn site? Or is it a debian specific. It happen on ubuntu as well. I admit I am not a linux guru, working on it occasionally. Cheers, Phi On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Phi Debian wrote

ksh i386 ##

2013-08-15 Thread Phi Debian
Hi All, On a fresh debian install (well 3.2.0-4-686-pae) I installed the ksh package. Typing ## at promt exit the shell immediatly. On x86_64 it doesn't do that. Any idea or suggestion? Cheers, Phi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-17 Thread phi debian
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Marc Shapiro [Desktop Entry] Name=MyApp Type=application Comment=My App comment Exec=/usr/bin/cat Terminal=true Category=Utility Hi March, Thanx for the explanations, from there I understood my mistake. In my above .destop I tried to infere from

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-16 Thread phi debian
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: One of the applets that you can add to the panel is an application launcher. Once you have the application launcher on the panel you can modify its settings to add any application from the menu to the launcher. If you

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.

Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread phi debian
Hi All, The all thing that make me stay away from suse, ubuntu, mint, name it... is gnome3. I am an happy camper since linge with debian way of gnome2. My needs are very basic, i.e remove everything, keep only 1 panel that I want vertical on and the right, and have the gnome click tools

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread phi debian
Thanx all for your pointers, I will start to investigate, but that move is painfull,I worked for so long withtout any trouble. I'd liked to be able to install guests debian real quik and still have a practicable few click setup. May be I can adapt to g3, be what I got so far on