Re: dpkg -i first.dep second.dep: installs but does not configure one?

2014-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-03 14:09 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 03.04.2014 11:46, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : Hi, I have two packages, first and second. Package second depend on package first. I have to use dpkg (I don't use apt, because there is no package server / no online link etc).

Re: clean upgrade 32 - 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-29 18:35 +0100, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Thanks! Finally got the new machine set up to try the crossgrading, and everything worked just fine. There's just one issue remaining: a huge number of i386 packages on the machine show dependencies on either apt or dpkg, so any attempt to

Re: openssl without ssl2 switch

2014-03-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-25 17:23 +0100, Veljko wrote: I wanted to test if ssl2 is turned off on server, so I tried with this command line on my desktop: openssl s_client -connect server_ip:443 -ssl2 but I'm getting unknown option -ssl2 usage: s_client args although displayed list of supported

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-24 22:03 +0100, Joe wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:29:02 -0300 André Nunes Batista andrenbati...@gmail.com wrote: Also, which bug number was assigned to you bug report? Mine is 741652, but I had previously found 741464 which refers to a boot problem with grub 2.02~beta2.7.

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52: In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command startx, something like the following snippet could be inserted

Re: Delay between architectures for new package version?

2014-03-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-21 14:56 +0100, The Wanderer wrote: A new package version that reportedly contains a fix I need has just hit unstable - as in, literally less than four hours ago. (I ordinarily track testing, but I occasionally cherry-pick something from unstable for specific purposes.) However,

Re: Automatic partition creation, root partition too small

2014-03-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-19 13:22 +0100, André wrote: When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root partition of about 320Mb. It maybe enough to start, but this is too small after a while, for many reasons: Indeed, this has been reported before and is worked upon[1]. Cheers,

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-26 18:11 +0100, Kirt Odle wrote: Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single operation ?? aptitude install tshark, or if you really want to only download and not install tshark,

Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-22 00:20 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: I have downloaded some proprietary software that I want to install onto a 64-bit Debian machine. The software is written for 64-bit linux, but the kernel version reported, for example, by uname (and perhaps by some system call that the compiled

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 Can someone explain what's this about ? It's glibtop complaining about

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-14 13:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 06:59 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I still cringe when I think of the first time I replaced ethernet card in a server and udev changed the name During setting up Arch Linux with systemd the device name switched from eth0

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-12 17:25 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: In order to uninstall all libreoffice packages I ran the following apt-get command with a simple regular expression: $ sudo apt-get remove 'libreoffice.*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: I tried systemd - booted really fast, but it didn't honor any console font settings I had. I groaned and reverted back realising, after seeing quite a bit of discussion, that there was another setup to learn! In this case the learning would be

Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

2014-02-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-11 07:20 +0100, Pablo Zuñiga wrote: We have completed the preparation of the 3.14-rc2 kernel, is cooked and stored in https://github.com/ed00m/kernel2Debian/tree/master/3.14/3.14-rc2-amd64 You might want to read the license of the Linux kernel, it states that if you distribute

Re: assertion fail in dia

2014-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-25 20:01 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have a crash on dia ( 0.97.2-8 ) because of some assertion which fail: ** (dia-normal:3702): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion `irenderer != NULL' failed I think that's bug #704646¹, allegedly fixed in 0.97.2-9.

Re: lots of udevd failed to execute at boot time

2014-01-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-16 19:20 +0100, rudu wrote: $ dmesg | grep -i failed | tail [ 16.255858] udevd[1999]: failed to execute /lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory That's

Re: user activity tracking

2014-01-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-16 18:20 +0100, Mike McClain wrote: dpkg -s can't tell me what ap creates/uses this file. /home/mike/.local/share/recently-used.xbel Of course it cannot, what happens in your home directory is not dpkg's business. It tracks my activity in X like a history file but doesn't seem

Re: sudo 1.8.9p3-1 in Debian sid - infinite loop?

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-14 19:47 +0100, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: Le 14/01/2014 19:24, Florent Peterschmitt a écrit : I think there is something like an infinite loop in the latest sudo in Debian sid. Issuing a sudo -s make sudo consuming 100% CPU. That has been noticed by several people, see

Re: Modified conffile not detected on package upgrade

2014-01-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-11 13:20 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: Am 11.01.2014 11:53, schrieb Dominique Dumont: Did you change the content of the conffile in the package ? (i.e. the content of the *delivered* configuration file between package version n and version n-1) No. The configuration file did not

Re: Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find asm/socket.h

2014-01-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-02 19:22 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to build a project that was building a few weeks ago. ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM BUILD LOG--- libtool: compile: g++ ... -m32 -fmessage-length=0 -O0 -fPIC -ggdb3

Re: Packages removed from testing

2013-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-30 10:58 +0100, Slavko wrote: Hi, please, it is some time ago, when some packages was removed from testing. I wait some time, because this sometime happens due dependencies, but now it take long time and i am not able to find the reason (qa pages, hint, etc...). Usually you will

Re: Borked upgrade

2013-12-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-29 10:18 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 28 dec 13, 16:34:30, Frank McCormick wrote: ... Unpacking mate-polkit-common (1.6.0-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: How to load non-free firmware driver

2013-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-21 16:44 +0100, Robert Parker wrote: I have a USB wifi dongle which does not work. dmesg gives me 'agent aborted loading htc_9271.fw(not found?)' I do have that driver because I downloaded the non-free firmware tarball on anothe machine. It is also contained in the

Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-21 20:53 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another application, such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine between gnome-terminal and other applications. How exactly did you copy the text?

Re: libdrm-nouveau2/libdrm-radeon1 installed as requirement to libgl1-mesa-dri

2013-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-07 17:06 +0100, Ivan Kovnatsky wrote: I have blindly (I guess/installed and forgot about it) installed on my laptop these packages as requirements to libgl1-mesa-dri: libdrm-intel1, libdrm-nouveau2, libdrm-radeon1. OK, first one libdrm-intel1 is what I really need: [...] When

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 17:38 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Florian Lindner wrote: root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. but apt-get root@xxx:~# apt-get dist-upgrade The following packages will be REMOVED: upstart The following NEW packages will be

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 18:33 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Here the difference is that apt-get dist-upgrade insists on pulling in any removed essential packages, while aptitude full-upgrade leaves those alone. Both approaches have their disadvantages, although I consider aptitude's

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-01 19:39 +0100, Tom H wrote: So the bad variables are still documented in the aptitude docs and the good variables are undocumented except in the changelog. :( There seems to be a misunderstanding, the aptitude documentation clearly states that Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant is

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 13:42 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : Set 'Aptitude::Keep-Suggests false;' in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and check whether the behavior changes. Just did the change: I added a file name /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/keep_suggests which

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 18:21 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: [...] Harry wrote: It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d. I press C-d and it finishes booting up normally

Re: jessie: enigmail breaks (?) icedove

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 20:44 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: I have recently noticed that it is no longer possible to install enigmail from Debian (Jessie) repositories without uninstalling icedove. Aptitude reports: enigmail breaks icedove This is puzzling because enigmail without icedove is not

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-28 11:38 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: First, you did mean to put `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line right? Yes. I forgot one aspect of having `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line. It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into maintenance mode.

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-23 14:26 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: setup: Running Debian testing Video card (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International ... I'm

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-24 19:09 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Before getting into some of the suggestions let me first make sure I'm even running the nouveau driver. Looking a little closer at aptitude output, it could be indicating that I'm

Re: Missing build logs

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-24 22:18 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Why is it that build logs of currently available Sid-packages are sometimes unavailable at the package status page on buildd.debian.org? Because they have been built by the uploader. Changing so that all packages are built on the

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-25 03:23 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should give you the vesa driver under X. Alternatively, boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 to disable acceleration. Where would I put such things? When I

Re: packages for amd64 and i386 at a different version

2013-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-18 17:54 +0200, Jari Fredrisson wrote: I can't install or update ANYTHING in my wheezy right now. Whatever I try, there is always this: dpkg: error processing libcurl3:amd64 (--configure): package libcurl3:amd64 7.26.0-1+wheezy4 cannot be configured because libcurl3:i386 is at

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-16 11:46 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: I plan to use Debian on a virtual server where I can't control the kernel version, that is 2.6.32. What is the minimum kernel version for the upcoming Jessie? Currently 2.6.32, the version in Squeeze (oldstable). Can I rely on that this

Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-08 19:06 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is not a need but a question of

Re: fglrx-driver missing on jessie

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-05 18:49 +0200, Enrico Polesel wrote: I've just install debian jessie on a notebook and I'm not able to install fglrx-driver (there are only the legacy version) According to packages.debian.org[1] that packages is not longer available on jessie and I don't want to download it from

Re: using less in a bash script, screen blanking, alternate screen

2013-09-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-08 09:53 +0200, Zenaan Harkness wrote: OK, I have the following script (reduced, just enough to demonstrate the problem): --- test.sh --- #!/bin/bash cmd=apt-cache search debian-installer | sort | egrep --color=always -i debian-installer #tput nrrmc # line 3 #less -REf ($cmd)

Re: how to remove libaudit0 and install libaudit1?

2013-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-06 22:30 +0200, shirish शिरीष wrote: I'm on debian-testing and recently libaudit1 entered testing and I'm able to upgrade to it due to some issues. See :- $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Personally I find full-upgrade unnecessary and only use safe-upgrade. The following NEW

Re: Reg: Error in apt-get install in libstdc++ package

2013-09-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-03 18:15 +0200, Balamurugan wrote: After installing, I was about to install g++. Before installing g++, I tried installing libstdc++ and I got the below error. Can anyone help? root@debian:/home/user# apt-get install libstdc++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: Strange libs

2013-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-31 21:15 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me. These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package libc6-x32, but I cannot see the necessary of this libs. Can someone enlighten me, when

Re: file system analogue of blkid.

2013-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-21 16:49 +0200, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: blkid gives the salient parameters of a partition. Is there an analogous command yielding parameters of a filesystem? Hypothetically, fsid /dev/sda1 yielding type of filesystem, whether it is bootable, number of inodes, size of blocks

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-17 18:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to this subject, but had no success. With dpkg you can --force-depends, but then apt will not be happy about the

Re: Problem with xserver-xorg-video-nouveau after upgrade to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-04 09:45 +0200, Mozilla Firefox wrote: Hi, recentely I upgrade to wheezy. After the upgrade I have problem with nouveau driver. As I move my mouse, artifacts of the pointer are left all over the screen. See this image to understand http://i.imgbox.com/accFOaW4.png I have made a

Re: Short script which worked in Lenny but does not in Squeeze.

2013-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-24 19:44 +0200, Ken Heard wrote: My amateur's attempt at scripting has come to grief. The script in question reads as follows: #!/bin/sh # Shell script to create a tgz file for the contents of the # /usr/local/bin directory. # Start by creating a variable with the current

Re: Strange Problem with Executable File

2013-07-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-22 21:47 +0200, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have installed Debian v 7.1.0 and Debian Testing in 2 different implementations of VMWare Player on my 64 bit laptop to use as test beds before deploying software to my 7.1.0 production machine. I have run into a rather strange problem

Re: Has Wine been removed from Debian?

2013-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-18 17:38 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: David Guntner: Running 6.0.7. This morning, I did an aptitude update, followed by: # aptitude safe-upgrade Resolving dependencies... The following packages will be REMOVED: libwine{u} libwine-alsa{u} libwine-cms{u} libwine-gl{u}

Re: squeeze - wheezy problem

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 13:47 +0200, Philippe Monroux wrote: Today I've upgraded my squeeze to wheezy. But I can only startx on root user. On normal user I get the following message : xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 19:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, my system is Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid). In the file /etc/default/keyboard the followings setup is present: XKBMODEL=pc105 XKBLAYOUT=hu,hr,rs XKBVARIANT=nodeadkeys XKBOPTIONS=grp:rwin_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 19:52 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2013-07-14 19:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, my system is Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid). In the file /etc/default/keyboard the followings setup is present: XKBMODEL=pc105 XKBLAYOUT=hu,hr,rs

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 20:49 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2013-07-14 19:52 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: What does setupcon -v print? It prints the followings: Configuring /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty5 /dev/tty6 The charmap is UTF-8 BackSpace

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 22:08 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: The postinst does rewrite /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz however, which might explain the problem. Does it help to move that file out of the way and recreate it with setupcon --save? It doesn't

Re: Haswell Core i5 4670 Asus H87-PRO

2013-06-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-30 10:23 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: I'm going to replace my 6 years old desktop computer with new one, but I wonder if Haswell Core i5 4670 Asus H87-PRO combination is compatible with Debian Wheezy (7.1) so I have some question : - is integrated GPU in Haswell Core i5

Re: termcap-compat is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: Noticed that termcap-compat is referenced in one of the FAQ questions on the website (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.txt, 4.7). The package does not exist on Wheezy, nor apparently (according to the package history)

Re: termcap-compat is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-28 21:24 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: On 06/28/2013 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: Noticed that termcap-compat is referenced in one of the FAQ questions on the website (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.txt

Re: wheezy, systemd and preload

2013-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-27 12:58 +0200, Gernot Super wrote: preload doesn't seem to get started with systemd on boot, any hints are very appreciated! more info: root@debian:/# systemctl start preload.service So you can start the service manually, it seems. root@debian:/# systemctl enable

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 18:55 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 22 iun 13, 19:02:20, CHK Webmaster wrote: Hi, I write here cause I'm not sure where report this issue. It happens when upgrading my system via apt-get. The upgrade includes linux-image-3.9.1-amd64 but does not include

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver I'm afraid you are a bit confused, there is no such thing. At least not a free driver *from* nVidia. (xvideo-xorg-video-nvidia) And this package does not exist, there is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 19:47 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:28:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver I'm afraid you are a bit confused, there is no such thing. At least not a free

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 20:59 +0200, Doug wrote: Not sure what you mean..free as in you don't pay for it, or free as in open source? Always the latter, this is what Debian is about after all. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Wy no clang in jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-19 13:27 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: Squeeze, wheezy and sid seem to have clang packages but no jessie. It seems clang was removed from jessie at 2013-06-04 but I could not find a reason. Why doesn't jessie have a clang package?

Re: dpkg error, `aptitude safe-upgrade` leaves zsh unconfigured

2013-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-09 10:10 +0200, John Magolske wrote: After an `aptitude safe-upgrade` I'm getting the following, which leaves zsh unconfigured. Any suggestions about how to untangle this? * % sudo aptitude install zsh The following NEW packages will be installed: zsh-common{a} The following

Re: Unusual behavior

2013-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-08 21:25 +0200, Verde Denim wrote: I've been running Wheezy for a few months now and lately (seemingly at random times) I get a dialog popping up telling me that Authentication is required to update packages. When I view the details in the dialog, it shows the Action as -

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 20:13 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It didn't work (X didn't come up). Using the Nvidia installer is not recommended, better use the packages in non-free. I managed to revert to using the nouveau driver, by removing

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 21:49 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: Reinstall the xserver-xorg-core and libgl1-mesa-glx packages, those contain files which are overwritten by the Nvidia installer. I tried that, didn't help. Well, I tried dpkg-reconfigure; that didn't help

Re: X.Org X Server 1.12.4 segfault in jessie: howto report?

2013-05-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-29 19:01 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: In Jessie running the Nvidia driver and Virtualbox 4.2.12 I occasionally get an X segfault, like this: http://pastebin.com/Jp6KQytw Is this reportable as a bug? Not in Debian, unless you can also reproduce it with Nouveau. For Nvidia

Re: Crossgrade to Amd64

2013-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-26 20:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 26 mai 13, 11:38:36, David Baron wrote: I followed the instructions on http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Are_cross-grades_possible Needed one more :amd64 package which I installed, then installed the dpkg- amd64 successfully.

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-25 19:19 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Is there some dependencies regarding kernel and wheezy GNU system? In other words, must I have on this hardware ( Bubba Two is a headless server box

[OT] root (was: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?)

2013-05-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-23 19:26 +0200, root wrote: Argh. That should teach me not to start an Emacs session as root under X. I completely forgot that this Emacs was a bit special, started Gnus and even replied here… Sorry, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian Squeeze operating system so far. I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11t=2518 Now since Wheezy is out as

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-21 04:03 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: MIPS and ARM machines don't have a traditional BIOS either, Yes, that was my point. You'll probably never see UEFI on these platforms. So LILO could be used basically forever. Hardly, because LILO

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote: The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their support behind GRUB2 which allows for (please correct me, if I'm wrong) features like UEFI support and better support for

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 10:44 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/20/2013 1:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote: The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their support behind GRUB2 which allows

Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?

2013-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 10:45 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 mai 13, 22:35:03, Celejar wrote: The release notes are actually somewhat unclear, and I was considering filing a bug report against them. The implication is that there's no recommendation against upgrading from an X session started

Re: Wheezy missing IDE modules

2013-05-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-13 04:08 +0200, rlwbonsai wrote: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy resulted in stuttering video when trying to watch a DVD movie with gxine. (The upgrade left totem totally unusable so don't know if the stutter occurs or not) The drive is an ATA/ATAPI-4 compliant drive capable of

Re: lsb_release showing Wheezy after rolling on to Jessie via 'testing'

2013-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-10 22:21 +0200, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Have been using 'testing' in sources.list​ ​before Wheezy Release, and updated lately via apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then apt-get dist-upgrade continued with a reboot. But lsb_release -a or /etc/issue or /proc/version are sill

Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)

2013-05-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-09 11:41 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command apt-show-versions | egrep -v wheezy and I was suprised to see the following result: gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-6 installed: No available version in archive libbind9-40

Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)

2013-05-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-09 13:21 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: Am Donnerstag 09 Mai 2013, 12:59:20 schrieb Sven Joachim: On 2013-05-09 11:41 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command apt-show-versions | egrep -v wheezy and I was suprised to see

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 10:55 +0200, J B wrote: I like to have multiarch support in my debian wheezy to install latest skype (4.1). What are the steps to do so ? Two of them: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update Please read the Multiarch HOWTO[1] for detailed information. Do I need to

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 11:09 +0200, Valaki Valahol wrote: I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new distro contains more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on the DVD image download page I can download only 3 DVD ISO images... How can that be ? Probably because of the

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 12:14 +0200, J B wrote: When trying to install the skype 4.1 I get #dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 227156 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace skype 4.0.0.8-1 (using skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:20 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days and if no one finds any reason to stop it

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:38 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 20:59 +0200, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 May 2013 at 20:05:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? Hey, guess what 'upgrade 32 bit debian to 64 bit' brings up in a search engine?

Re: Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-02 15:34 +0200, francis picabia wrote: I often download packages to servers using wget and the Direct Link feature on the sourceforge projects. For example, today, I downloaded scamp: $ wget

Re: gtk-config

2013-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-01 10:46 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: before this time i was using for compilling my gtk applications next command: #gcc myprogram.c `pkg-config gtk+-3.0.pc --libs --cflags` but now it doesnt work: I don't think that this ever worked, really. You need to strip the

Re: gtk-config

2013-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-01 15:05 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: , | The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to | be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. ` pardon! of course it should be without extension pc. I had removed pc and now

Re: Equivalent of --append-to-version for deb-pkg ?

2013-04-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-17 18:04 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: What is deb-pkg or where did you get it from? I couldn't find any such binary name in any package in Debian via a search at packages.debian.org. It's a target in the Linux Makefile that produces a linux-image (and linux-headers,

Re: Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-12 16:59 +0200, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: David Goodenough wrote: I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. Unpacking replacement traceroute ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-10 16:46 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Since you are willing and able to reinstall from scratch, it may be worth trying the next release of Debian, currently considered 'testing', known as 'wheezy'. You can get wheezy Release Candidate 1 release installation media from here:

Re: problem with apt repository

2013-03-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-18 21:54 +0100, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: I have a problem with one of my private apt repositories. I created the repo using reprepro on my public www directory. I can access the repository with my browser (you can find it below http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian ). After

Re: apt - missing trustedkeys.gpg to verify source package

2013-03-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-15 20:23 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello, when downloading source packages, I see error regarding trustedkeys.gpg: $ apt-get source mousepad [...] Fetched 454 kB in 0s (1,050 kB/s) gpgv: keyblock resource `/home/me/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': file open error

Re: Firefox is too eager

2013-03-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-14 19:43 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: There are some recent behaviors that I find invasive: When I open a link in a new tab, I often get a new window as well, frequently to the same site, that I have to close. Some are windows from news sites, asking me to subscribe. When I roll

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 12:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 18:59 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote: Further, it's still not a big thing. Gnash, while certainly not up to par with Flash itself, is fine for most usage. Depends on your usage, but my impression is that Gnash

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 23:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you do that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace it with something harmless, say a symlink

Re: rootkit/virus/trojan on squeeze 32 bit

2013-03-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-12 10:36 +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: On 03/12/2013 01:23 AM, sp113438 wrote: No solution, but how did you find out about the changed size? This is all happening on the remote machine of my friend. I do not have direct access to hardware. First skype refused to start

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