On 2010-03-16 19:39 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
Hello Sven,
Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which
_are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from
the problems that you
On 2010-03-16 21:59 +0100, Wayne wrote:
Just tried to install the source package. listbugs reports that it
has 2 bugs.
1. It won't compile
and
2. bad attempt to nest fakeroot sessions.
Testing on a 686.
Just one more package, of many, that got to testing too fast.
You got it
On 2010-03-15 01:06 +0100, Omar Campagne wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
Martin wrote:
I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude
then with synaptic without worry that something will break?
They both use same database of installed
On 2010-03-15 01:59 +0100, Vadim Matveev wrote:
I have an issue with `make menuconfig`. As you can see on screenshot -
http://s60.radikal.ru/i169/1003/28/c0fc6a1a4c5c.png keys doesn't works
correct and generate escape sequences, interface is broken -
On 2010-03-11 04:58 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
How would aptitude know about angband if OP didn't put non-free in
sources.list?
Because it is referenced (i.e. suggested) by angband-doc, and the latter
is in main.
Sven
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On 2010-03-05 20:49 +0100, Jason Filippou wrote:
I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought
I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website
(195.36.08, URL:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_195.36.08.html), which
I understand
On 2010-03-02 12:20 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
Users and groups that are not created on package installation are
documented in the base-passwd package. For example, for the ssh group
you mention it contains the following information:
ssh: ssh-agent is setgid to ssh in order to prevent
On 2010-03-02 12:34 +0100, Alexey Salmin wrote:
Just wondering: why there are so many users and groups which are not
created on package installation?
Historical reasons, often. Most of these users and groups are expected
to exist on a Unix system. Besides, the list of static system users and
On 2010-03-02 14:17 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote:
Yes I understand now but as I stated before that installing Postfix,
Sendmail, or any other alternative MTA has no impact on the real
problem at hand. What ever MTA you choose to install, APT auto removes
Exim but leaves tons of files and
On 2010-03-02 15:54 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote:
If you remove Exim manually using apt-get --purge exim4 or if you
install an alternative MTA and the package manager uninstalls Exim,
either way you're left with this much mess that doesn't include the
user accounts and groups:
r...@mail:~#
On 2010-02-24 13:39 +0100, Zachary Uram wrote:
I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd
4550 card), but I just saw this bug saying packages removed from
testing:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=56
So the packages referred to here:
On 2010-02-25 01:49 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:39 -0300
Cassiano Leal cassianol...@gmail.com wrote:
...
See that there is garbage after the acual button texts? This happens
on all debconf buttons. What could be causing this?
This is an up-to-date sid box.
I'm
On 2010-02-22 23:18 +0100, Miguel Da Silva - URI wrote:
Is it possible to do that?
Technically, no.
Right now I have to work with a server I
did not installed and I don't have much information about the kernel
configuration.
Ask the people who set up the server and installed the kernel.
On 2010-02-20 12:43 +0100, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,19.Feb.10, 08:28:05, Mark Neidorff wrote:
Just for your information on an open source driver for NVIDIA video cards.
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7708/1.html
enjoy (but, please...don't blame me. I'm just posting interesting
On 2010-02-19 16:42 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Harry Putnam schreef:
After moving from lenny to squeeze with a full-upgrade, I see this
final line of output from `aptitude full-upgrade
Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].
What does that line mean. Do I need to
On 2010-02-17 18:18 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
If i telnet (or use a browser!) to my sshd, i get this string:
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
even before i login.
My /etc/motd is empty and i've also tried adding a Banner
/etc/ssh/banner line to /etc/ssh/sshd_config (nd creating the
On 2010-02-17 21:59 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I've found that deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules takes care of
the network devices.
Yes, but you should expect this file to re-appear at the next package
upgrade, which is why I opted for an rm in /etc/rc.local.
Another option is to
On 2010-02-18 02:21 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote:
Why does the current major update (kernel even!) not show up on
http://www.debian.org/security/ ? Nor does it show up in the list
Security Advisories from 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/ . I
had to go to
On 2010-02-14 17:04 +0100, John Salmon wrote:
Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command
(Debian Lenny)?
Yes, see the IFS variable (look it up in the bash manpage).
I could use gawk to do what I need but, since gawk isn't
installed in the Lenny distribution, I'de
On 2010-02-14 19:23 +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:11:25 Stephen Powell wrote:
awk is a virtual package provided by both the real package mawk and the
real package gawk. On my Lenny system, mawk is installed, but gawk is not.
Most awk scripts will work fine with mawk. But
On 2010-02-14 20:03 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote:
aptitude install mawk_ gawk
would probably not work without some kind of override switches. It
wouldn't like the request to purge a required package.
It would not complain, I have just tested it successfully in a chroot.
The safer way,
On 2010-02-15 04:23 +0100, James Brown wrote:
I tried several times to compile the testing vanilia Linux kernel
2.6.33-rc8 under Debian, but every time I had an error (see attached file).
But it was possible for me to do that with the stable kernel 2.6.32.
What was the mistake I did?
None,
On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote:
What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ?
Current status: 0 updates [-107]
It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just
upgraded 107 packages.
Sven
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On 2010-02-09 20:33 +0100, Jeppe Øland wrote:
The release notes for the latest version reads:
tofrodos (1.7.8.debian.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Change maintainer name
* Drop dos2unix and unix2dos symlinks, to allow introduction of original
dos2unix package. (remove dh_link call and
On 2010-02-07 13:57 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:
Now the umlaut-keys generate the right characters. But for all users
'ls -6' tells:
ls: Ungültige Option -- 6
.ls --help. gibt weitere Informationen.
with the 1st + the 2nd dot being a square. Copying, pasting with gpm
+ piping this square
On 2010-02-06 11:17 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:
I upgraded a Lenny from Kernel 2.6.18-6-486 to 2.6.26-2-486.
Booting with 2.6.26 I dont get any characters displayed by
pressing German umlaut-keys on the console. X works fine.
So I did a
# dpkg-reconfigure console-data
and set it to 'pc
On 2010-02-06 13:51 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:
On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:
I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing Ã? instead of ä.
I sent the characters from the specific system to me via email. While
on the specific system they look different, here they look like these:
ae À
oe ö
On 2010-02-07 00:46 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:
On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:
What does the 'locale' command print?
Now...
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
You should also change the system locale. Please check /etc/enviroment
and /etc/default/locale and run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' if necessary.
On 2010-02-02 15:30 +0100, recvf...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using a mixed system so that I could support
libapache-mod-security. This was all working fine for some time, but
now an 'apt-get upgrade' results in:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_7.4-2_i386.deb
On 2010-02-01 17:20 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I'm trying to build `starttls' cvs, but the `./bootstrap' command gets the
following error:
./bootstrap: line 3: gnulib-tool: command not found
aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with
On 2010-02-01 19:54 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
Yes, installing gnulib should help.
It seems that the installation of starttls wants to create me some problems.
I
installed gnulib, but `make' gets the following error:
asnprintf.c:18:20: error
On 2010-01-31 10:59 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Something dpkg-related hogs my system's resources. It is disturbing
since it starts by itself, takes many minutes (+/- 1h) and ends by
itself. I could also not identify one obvious process responsible for
it. WHen this happens, CPU indicator
On 2010-01-31 16:04 +0100, Jan Hlodan wrote:
Hi,
does anybody know, why Iceweasel doesn't show search suggestions in
the google search-box?
I don't know but I suspect some change on Goggle's side. In Wikipedia's
search engine suggestions still work.
If anybody has more information, please
On 2010-01-31 16:33 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On Sunday 31 January 2010 16:04:27 Jan Hlodan wrote:
Hi,
does anybody know, why Iceweasel doesn't show search suggestions in
the google search-box?
Debian Squeeze i386
Iceweasel 3.5.6.
I have found just this tread:
On 2010-01-30 19:33 +0100, T o n g wrote:
I'm trying to build uswsusp from source. It builds fine with
debuild -us -uc
provided that I don't change anything. But having made my modification, I
got the following error:
--
[...]
On 2010-01-31 04:43 +0100, T o n g wrote:
How would I submit patch? Would my hacked debian/patches/Acer_Aspire_5536
alone be fine?
I think so, the maintainer can apply that easily enough. Or rather he
could, if the package were actually maintained. :-(
Sven
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On 2010-01-29 05:45 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:10:28 + (UTC)
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:53:28 -0500, Celejar wrote:
YMMV, but in my experience, s2disk just works
I'm afraid that's old solution --
You have searched for files
On 2010-01-26 08:43 +0100, Joe Neal wrote:
I just rebooted my sid box for the first time in about a week to find
that my monitor goes into sleep mode following X startup.
Ctl-Alt-F1-F6 wakes it up and lets me log into a console. Ctl-Alt-F7
puts it back to sleep.
Looks like bug #564115¹.
On 2010-01-27 02:36 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:21:55PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
Not really, actually security support for Iceweasel could end rather
soon.
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#mozilla-security
I'm
On 2010-01-23 18:08 +0100, George wrote:
I installed the lenny Octave package and this is what I get:
octave:1 octave_config_info (CXXFLAGS)
ans = -O2 -g
Does this mean that Octave was built with debug symbols?
Yes.
If so, why?
Because it makes debugging octave bugs possible? Note that
On 2010-01-22 16:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2010-01-19 17:57:00 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html
which says:
This package has been orphaned, but someone intends to
On 2010-01-22 19:24 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Still needing your help:
following the suggestion come from the list, I edited /etc/network/interfaces
on the first pc as follows:
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
On 2010-01-22 21:17 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
From what I understand, the debian-security guys will still backport fixes to
iceweasel in Lenny as needed until security support is terminated for Lenny.
Not really, actually security support for Iceweasel could end rather
soon.
On 2010-01-22 21:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox
releases 3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is
shipped with 3.0.6 (this situation was properly advised on Releases
Notes), I wonder what could be the
On 2010-01-22 21:25 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Here's the output of `ifconfig -a':
# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-03-0D-53-25-5C-86-16-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING
On 2010-01-22 22:02 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
It may be that eth1 is the right device. Can you please show the
contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?
There is /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules, and here is its content
On 2010-01-22 22:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
But, know what? I thought that eth1 might be the right one and replaced eth0
with eth1, and now... it works!! But only from the other pc onto this one,
not viceversa. Can you please suggest...?
I spoke to early! Now it does not work any
On 2010-01-23 04:07 +0100, Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote:
i had enabled lenny-backports but aptitude -t lenny-backports install
iceweasel installs Iceweasel 3.0.6
Since the backport is brand new, it simply might not be available for
your architecture yet. What does apt-cache policy
On 2010-01-18 07:11 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote:
Does anybody know what's causing this?
Is there anything I can do?
Maybe. Hopefully.
dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state
On 2010-01-18 11:34 +0100, Xianwen Chen wrote:
My newly installed Lenny doesn't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wirelss
adapater, even after running modprobe rtl8187. Am I missing some
settings in the /etc?
Maybe the chipset is not supported by the Lenny kernel and you have to
install a newer
On 2010-01-07 16:37 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote:
I am trying to get the source code for a Debian package with
apt-get source xxx
where xxx is the name of the package. The retrieval of the source package
appears to have been successful, but I get error messages along the way:
gpg: new
On 2010-01-07 17:42 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote:
On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote:
Install the debian-keyring package.
Thank you! That solves the problem. But it requires 26M of disk space!
Wow! It's just a collection of keys, right? Why is it so big
On 2010-01-06 07:45 +0100, Freeman wrote:
Can anyone speculate on when 32-Bit Land will stop evolving and we will all
have to part the waters and migrate to 64-Bit Land?
I guess that there is little to worry for the next ten years. However,
you should better complete the transition to 64 bit
On 2010-01-06 18:13 +0100, Freeman wrote:
But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's?
Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture, for instance.
It will be fun when all those embedded devices break.
Sven
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On 2010-01-05 17:48 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote:
When upgrading a package, the user can specify how a configuration file
should be handled that has been modified on the local systems.
Depending on the user's choice, a file with the extension dpkg-old,
dpkg-new or dpkg-dist might be created
On 2010-01-04 17:48 +0100, Guillaume Ayoub wrote:
I have the same problem. It appeared just after upgrading libc6 from 2.10.2-2
to 2.10.2-3. Looking at the eglibc Changelog may help (but I didn't find
anything).
Please file a bug against libc6.
I tried to find the reason, and it seems to
On 2010-01-04 18:39 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-01-04 17:48 +0100, Guillaume Ayoub wrote:
I have the same problem. It appeared just after upgrading libc6 from 2.10.2-2
to 2.10.2-3. Looking at the eglibc Changelog may help (but I didn't find
anything).
Please file a bug against libc6
On 2009-12-30 09:37 +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without
modifying the package source?
Not really. While rebuilding from source is not strictly necessary, at
least you'll have to modify the binary package(s).
Reason for asking: I do
On 2009-12-30 21:46 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
safe-upgrade == aptitude won't install any new package, only will
upgrade your packages to newer versions when it won't require
installing new dependencies, which are less buggy generally than
older.
Sorry, this is completely wrong. Actually
On 2009-12-25 07:55 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
Sorry to send this message twice, but I thought that for some reason it
had not arrived at the list. Although it seems that both messages
arrived with a delay of six hours. This can be due to some moderation of
the list?
This list is not
On 2009-12-24 11:19 +0100, Julien Vehent wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade a Xen Hosted system from lenny to squeeze, but the
upgrade broke on the following :
[...]
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
You should fix this first, possibly by upgrading the
On 2009-12-23 11:07 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
Reading [1] and [2], I already found the cause of this problem. The
configuration in Executable file formats / Emulations must be the
following one in order to use a kernel x86_64 in userland 32.
[*] Kernel support for ELF binaries
[ ] Write
On 2009-12-23 19:41 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote:
Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and
openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid.
I understand normal Sid churn but these have been broken for a
couple of weeks.
Are they not really broken, just (e.g.) being replaced by
On 2009-12-20 10:11 +0100, Kevin Ross wrote:
Etch isn't obsolete, it's oldstable. It still has security updates.
Which will stop in two months. Why bother installing it when you have
to upgrade to Lenny soon anyway?
It won't be obsolete until Squeeze is released.
Wrong, the support for
On 2009-12-18 01:32 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
I am trying to compile Linux 2.6.32 with the source code of kernel.org.
Kernel that I'm using at the moment is 2.6.26-2-686 of the Debian
GNU/Linux repositories.
In order to generate the configuration, I've copied the file
corresponding to
On 2009-12-18 16:56 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
I was trying installing and booting 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel and then
compiling 2.6.32 kernel of the traditional way:
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.32
# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
# make menuconfig
# make
In this case I didn't use the
On 2009-12-17 08:35 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I couldn't find the documentation that said relatime was the default, but I
thought I read it somewhere.
It is the default since Linux 2.6.30:
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30#head-2724ab2d1934ef9ce2ebed2fef81dc51772cd790.
Sven
On 2009-12-17 03:36 +0100, Celejar wrote:
I've discovered that kernel modesetting seems to consistently crash my
945GM within a few minutes of starting X:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25681
Which kernel version is that? I have a rather similar machine (Acer
Travelmate 2490)
On 2009-12-13 22:37 +0100, Rogério Brito wrote:
I would like to purchase a new system to replace my current Desktop.
Unfortunately, it seems that getting some new hardware is not as easy, due to
a
multitude of unavailable drivers for Free Operating systems or differences
regarding the role
On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:17:59 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then.
Why?
There is nv driver (2D) and soon it will be nouveau (2D+3D) driver
available. Both are open source.
The nv driver is heavily obfuscated
On 2009-12-14 16:48 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I got this:
/home/hugoMon Dec 14-09:43:31HDC5# apt-get install iceweasel
Don't use apt-get if you intend to obtain helpful error messages.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some
On 2009-12-11 06:45 +0100, Peter Michaux wrote:
I have a new Debian Lenny system. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib
On 2009-12-11 21:10 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
(I think) I hit the same bug in 2.6.31 when trying to copy an iso image
from my notebook to nfs mounted partition from the server.
Have you even read the bug report? This is a totally different issue.
Sven
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On 2009-12-09 14:59 +0100, David Baron wrote:
Get warning not supported in current kernel.
I did nothing in making 2.6.32 to disable (or enable) this.
Deprecated?
Needed?
Bug?
Bug¹ in nfs-kernel-server, the kernel itself is almost certainly fine.
The solution is to remove the bogus check
On 2009-12-06 06:22 +0100, Brian Ryans wrote:
I am attempting to adjust brightness via '/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness',
but I get permission denied if I do it via sudo -- I have to su to root
in order to do the adjustments. Log at [1].
[1]
bry...@esterhazy:~$ sudo echo up
On 2009-12-06 11:16 +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:18:23PM +0530, ravindra vejandla wrote:
2now I am trying to download libncurses5-dev
It's now libncurses6-dev .
Nonsense, there is no libncurses6 in Debian.
Sven
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On 2009-12-02 11:54 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
It's probably that a previous NetBeans-Platform version had a non-free
Dependency and the maintainer is still uploading it to the wrong queue. Or,
the might be some special process needed to transition a package from contrib
to main
On 2009-12-02 21:35 +0100, Mike Castle wrote:
I guess this boils down to: is this a bug in gcc or a bug in my set up?
Probably there is something wrong on your system, because gcc works as
expected in your example here:
,
| % LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gcc -Wall -Werror t.c
| cc1: warnings being
On 2009-11-30 16:25 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
My computer is setup so that default locale is en_US.utf8. In order
to do some testing with LC_NUMERIC. I decided to install more locale
(dpkg-reconfigure locales). Now I have:
$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX
However I am
On 2009-11-23 18:18 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:08, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote:
Using Sid here, I suddenly cannot resolve DNS names normally. My web
browsers, ping and dig do not work with names (ping works with an ip
address), but sudo ping and
On 2009-11-22 16:30 +0100, Martin Kraus wrote:
Hi. I'm using debian testing with vanilla kernel 2.6.32-rc8. I've staticaly
compiled i915 with kms enabled and it acctually works.
Why not build it as a module and load it from initramfs? That is what I do.
The only thing that
annoyes me is
On 2009-11-20 11:17 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
I would like to guess why aptitude removed my zenity and
xserver-xephyr when I only want to remove hplip-gui. In its output
appear {u} , I think it means because of a upgrade
No, it means unused, i.e. these packages were automatically
On 2009-11-20 17:33 +0100, drz wrote:
Im facing a problem with aptitude (running testing).
If I run:
# aptitude update
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct
the problem.
Couldnt lock Cache-File ... (translation by me)
Then download info and:
On 2009-11-14 06:21 +0100, Ionreflex wrote:
I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz
info in attachement) and I'm kinda bedazzled - in the wrong sense! - at how
much an idle system seems to hog RAM : out of 256, half of it is always
used...
It is used as a
On 2009-11-01 09:16 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Hay, um, I was sitting here watching the clocks, and my Lenny install
didn't jump back an hour at 2am. It's still counting up in the 2
o'clock hour. 2:12am at present. Shouldn't it have fallen back to
1:00am when the clock hit 2:00am?
I'm
On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my
hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference?
Below shows only one hour...
greer:/# date
Sun Nov 1 03:32:06 CST 2009
greer:/# hwclock
Sun Nov 1
On 2009-11-01 10:54 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my
hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case would be 6 hours difference?
Below shows only one hour...
greer:/# date
Sun Nov 1 03
On 2009-10-23 20:27 +0200, Clément PLANTIER wrote:
I recently switched from an i686 kernel to amd64 (on testing). This
worked great, except a few things. I can't find the package ia32-libs
using apt-get/aptitude. Am I missing something?
Changing the kernel does not change the architecture
On 2009-10-21 07:07 +0200, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I run Lenny, and I'm trying to create, and then install, a
debian package of iceweasel from sid sources. However, I've run into a
problem. It depends on xulrunner, and xulrunner depends on sqlite.
But, in trying to build the sqlite
On 2009-10-16 09:32 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
What is exactly the purpose of the auto statement in
/etc/network/interfaces file ?
Read interfaces(5) to find out.
Sven
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On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU
It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB)
Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit
with bigmem kernel. The questions are:
Does
On 2009-10-14 12:37 +0200, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
Greetings,
After yesterday's dist-upgrade i can't run firefox, it'll complain
with The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is
too old and the application cannot run. which, thankfully, is a very
clean error message. The
On 2009-10-14 14:15 +0200, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
More interesting would be the status of libsqlite3-0, since that is what
xulrunner-1.9.1 links against.
I have packages xulrunner-1.9 (1.9.0.14-1) and xulrunner-1.9.1
(1.9.1.3-3) installed. Would it be safe to remove 1.9 alone? Apt wants
to
On 2009-09-30 09:51 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
A lot of people seem to have been bitten by this one. It hit me
yesterday on my Thinkpad Z61M (quite similar to the T60). I then
remembered that I'd just upgraded xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core.
Fortunately both earlier versions were
On 2009-09-29 08:33 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote:
I am doing a sid upgrade and I got this message
E: Internal error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl.
This has just been reported as bug #548848¹.
Any ideas on how to procede... :)
In my amd64 sid chroot, I installed cupt
On 2009-09-23 08:49 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
I wanted to test cupt [1], and then I tried a full-upgrade.
aptitude is not capable to resolve dependencies, but cupt yes. Like
cupt is very new, I would like to ask about why do you think this diff
is here:
# LANG=C aptitude full-upgrade
On 2009-09-22 04:17 +0200, Celejar wrote:
I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system. I don't know if
they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same email, in
case they are.
1) tail -f stops working - I see the tail of the file, but it fails to
refresh when content
On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root?
ls -al /dev/null
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null
This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init script, writes to
/dev/null before the device node for it is created. In
On 2009-09-21 15:27 +0200, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:39:28AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 2009-09-18 09:21 /etc/passwd
These permissions are wrong.
No, they are not. It's /etc/passwd, not /usr/bin/passwd.
Sven
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On 2009-09-21 22:27 +0200, shampavman wrote:
Im new to .deb packaging.. and learning it as a test I wanted to
modify the alien pkg such that it automatically creates a symlink from
/usr/bin/alien to /usr/sfw/bin/alien.. and thus i changed the rules
file appropriately... but when I do a build
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