Re: OT: Need Printer Reset Command

2009-01-29 Thread microwaverich
Thomas H. George wrote: Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) into a printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of pages each containing one line of jibberish. It does no good to clear the print queue, to turn the printer on and off or even to re-boot

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: snip Hmmm. That's the most recent update to the source tree. Which would mean aptitude doesn't freeze for you. Yay! We solved your problem and we didn't even change any code! :-D Did you get any freezes during your test, or did everything work for

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:16:06AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ /usr/bin/aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.11 compiled at Mar 16 2008 17:32:32 Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2) NCurses version: 5.6

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-21 Thread microwaverich
I guess we're done, Daniel. I don't know why, but it ain't broke anymore, so we can't fix it :-) I'll try something else if you want. I've learned quite a bit during this exercise and enjoyed it all. Thanks. Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-20 Thread microwaverich
Daniel: I ran the autogen/configure/make sequence two more times (I didn't restart from the beginning, just continued where I had left off) and then got this: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good The first bad revision is: changeset: 1652:c6e9af2ee01d tag: tip

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 112547 files

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: snip Install the packages automake and autoconf and you should be set. Thanks for your help, Daniel Daniel: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I don't know if I'm up to it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I

aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread microwaverich
I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine. If I just enter 'aptitude' to start the full-screen (ncurses?) version, when it completes an install it stops

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-17 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:51:13PM -0500, microwaverich richg...@one.net was heard to say: I upgraded from Etch to Lenny yesterday. Now aptitude isn't behaving properly. When I enter a single command at the command line, like: aptitude install xawtv it works fine