Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-06-05 Thread Kenneth Parker
> > Wow! I said "bad things" about Ubuntu regarding this topic but, just > > today, experienced the same kind of thing, with Debian Stretch, regarding > > the vlc "uber Package". Seems it's replacing libvlccore8 with > libvlccore9, > > along with several other replacements! So Debian also uses t

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-06-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Jun 2018 at 20:05:39 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > > > >> > >> >dist-upgrade > >> >dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of > >> upgrade, also intelligently > >> >handles

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-06-03 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > >> >> >dist-upgrade >> >dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of >> upgrade, also intelligently >> >handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; >> apt-get has a "smart" >

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, May 26, 2018 02:08:59 PM Pétùr wrote: > I don't use aptitude. I use only apt and apt-get but I believe apt is > just a shortcut for apt-get. `apt update` is equivalent for me to > `apt-get update` and `apt dist-upgrade` to `apt-get dist-upgrade` > (correct me if I am wrong). * [[ht

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread Dan Norton
On Wed, 30 May 2018 18:53:54 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 May 2018 at 00:31:25 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:39:28 +0100 Brian said: > > > > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new > > > packages to be installed if they are required to

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-30, Brian wrote: > > I'm at a loss to understand the argument here. 'apt update/upgrade' > also provides information that the user can act on. If a package on > your system acquires a new dependency X, 'apt-get upgrade' will not > upgrade it (is that really an upgrade? :) ) but apt upgr

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 10:37:32 -0400, John Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:37 PM Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 15:52:12 -0400, John Cunningham wrote: > > > > > Not necessarily. Sometimes the dependencies get out of hand, like when a > > > big project adopts a small utili

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 00:31:25 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:39:28 +0100 Brian said: > > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new packages > > to be installed if they are required to satisfy dependencies. apt's > > designed behaviour looks more se

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 08:59:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:39:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new packages > > to be installed if they are required to satisfy dependencies. apt's > > designed behaviou

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread John Cunningham
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 5:37 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 15:52:12 -0400, John Cunningham wrote: > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Brian wrote: > > > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 21:57:31 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 David Wright

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:39:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new packages > to be installed if they are required to satisfy dependencies. apt's > designed behaviour looks more sensible than apt

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 00:31:25 (+0300), Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:39:28 +0100 Brian said: > > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new packages > > to be installed if they are required to satisfy dependencies. apt's > > designed behaviour looks more s

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 22:37:08 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 15:52:12 -0400, John Cunningham wrote: > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Brian wrote: > > > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 21:57:31 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 Davi

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 15:52:12 -0400, John Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 21:57:31 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 David Wright said: > > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 18:38:40 (+0300), Abdu

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread John Cunningham
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:39 PM Brian wrote: > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 21:57:31 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 David Wright said: > > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 18:38:40 (+0300), Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:14:12 -0400 Greg Wo

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 21:57:31 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 David Wright said: > > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 18:38:40 (+0300), Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:14:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge said: > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:31:14PM

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:16 -0500 David Wright said: > On Tue 29 May 2018 at 18:38:40 (+0300), Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:14:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge said: > > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:31:14PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > --✁ > > > > I never use apt

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 29 May 2018 at 18:38:40 (+0300), Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:14:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge said: > > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:31:14PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > apt or apt-get upgrade does upgrade in passive mode: It never install new > > > packages, n

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:14:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge said: > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:31:14PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > apt or apt-get upgrade does upgrade in passive mode: It never install new > > packages, never removes existing ones. Just upgrades existing ones as far as > > possible

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 09:31:14PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > apt or apt-get upgrade does upgrade in passive mode: It never install new > packages, never removes existing ones. Just upgrades existing ones as far as > possible. That's incorrect. One of the differences between apt and apt

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 May 2018 at 15:45:02 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/26/18, Pétùr wrote: > > Le 25/05/2018 à 21:33, Joe a écrit : > >>> Le 19/05/2018 à 21:03, Hans a écrit : > Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? > >>> Thanks, I didn't know this new "full-upgrade" command. >

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 5/26/18, Pétùr wrote: > Le 25/05/2018 à 21:33, Joe a écrit : >>> Le 19/05/2018 à 21:03, Hans a écrit : Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? >>> Thanks, I didn't know this new "full-upgrade" command. >>> >>> Is "apt full-upgrade" equivalent to "apt-get dist-upgrade" (or apt >

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-26 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Sat, 26 May 2018 20:08:59 +0200 Pétùr said: > I don't use aptitude. I use only apt and apt-get but I believe apt is > just a shortcut for apt-get. `apt update` is equivalent for me to > `apt-get update` and `apt dist-upgrade` to `apt-get dist-upgrade` > (correct me if I am wrong). > > My ques

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-26 Thread Pétùr
Le 25/05/2018 à 21:33, Joe a écrit : >> Le 19/05/2018 à 21:03, Hans a écrit : >>> Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? >> Thanks, I didn't know this new "full-upgrade" command. >> >> Is "apt full-upgrade" equivalent to "apt-get dist-upgrade" (or apt >> dist-upgrade)? > More or les

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-25 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Pétùr wrote: > > > >dist-upgrade > >dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of > upgrade, also intelligently > >handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; > apt-get has a "smart" > >conf

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-25 Thread Joe
On Fri, 25 May 2018 20:17:52 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 19/05/2018 à 21:03, Hans a écrit : > > Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? > > Thanks, I didn't know this new "full-upgrade" command. > > Is "apt full-upgrade" equivalent to "apt-get dist-upgrade" (or apt > dist-upgrade)? >

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-25 Thread Pétùr
Le 19/05/2018 à 21:03, Hans a écrit : > Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? Thanks, I didn't know this new "full-upgrade" command. Is "apt full-upgrade" equivalent to "apt-get dist-upgrade" (or apt dist-upgrade)? According to the man pages (man apt and man apt-get), dist-upgrade

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Sat, 19 May 2018 21:27:42 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu said: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:37:08 -0400 Matthew Dyer said: >> root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade >> Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease >> Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debi

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread songbird
Matthew Dyer wrote: ... these things come to mind: - perhaps you have automatic upgrades set up on Gnome? there should be some record in /var/log/apt or /var/log/dpkg.log of what is being updated. - if you have a fast enough connection it doesn't hurt to make sure /var/lib/apt/lists files

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2018, 20:26:25 CEST schrieb songbird: Isn't it today "apt update" and "apt full-upgrade"? It is also possible, to use "aptitude" (aptitude update && aptittude dist- upgrade) but be warned: aptitude for upgrading from one release to another is no good choice. However, aptitude

Re: Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread songbird
Matthew Dyer wrote: > Mornning all, > > > A few days ago I reported a  problem whare the gnome testing system > which I am now using to write this message.  Here is the resault. > > > I did a clean install of the system using the alfa testing image.  I > then edited the sources list and changed t

Update on my update problem with gnome system.

2018-05-19 Thread Matthew Dyer
Mornning all, A few days ago I reported a  problem whare the gnome testing system which I am now using to write this message.  Here is the resault. I did a clean install of the system using the alfa testing image.  I then edited the sources list and changed the lines from buster to testing

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-26 Thread Larry Johnson
Hmmm this problem recurred after the reinstall, but it's only happened once in five boots. I'm going to gather as much info as I can, keep the bug report open, and add whatever useful info I can to the report. The road I'm going to go down for now is that this may be the result of an interac

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstal

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 07:00:58, Larry Johnson wrote: > > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the > report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would > be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even really sure whether I > should identify

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian wrote: > > A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is > repeatable. > I'll do a reinstall then. I'd really like to track this down. > You'll be using the nouveau driver, then. The controller belongs to the > NV40 family. > >

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 07:14:00 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I'll try a reinstall if no specific problem is identified. I did reinstall > gnome itself with no effect on the problem. A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is repeatable. > The following is my lspci output

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian wrote: > > > Considering it is a new install (done by selecting a DE via d-i, we > assume) you have nothing to lose by reinstalling. Also, the video system > may be the culprit. 'lspci' will give you information on it which you > could post here. > > I'll tr

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > And the number of your report is? > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 May 2013 at 21:19:48 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 mai 13, 21:19:48, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with a very old

problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-24 Thread Larry Johnson
I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what additional info I might need to pull together). I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my install seems to be afflicted with a very old bug which was closed with no resolution. It was bug 636874

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 12:10:24 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Brian: > > > > At this stage you might ask youself whether the time and frustration > > involved in upgrading from something which is pre-Lenny is really worth > > it. Is there any practical reason why you should not do a new Squeeze >

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Brian: > > At this stage you might ask youself whether the time and frustration > involved in upgrading from something which is pre-Lenny is really worth > it. Is there any practical reason why you should not do a new Squeeze > install? ACK. It looks like the OP (inadvertantly?) tried to do somet

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Brian
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 14:36:42 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > The outpur is given bellow:- > > client:/home/student# apt-get install dpkg > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The following packages

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
The outpur is given bellow:- client:/home/student# apt-get install dpkg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: dpkg: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.6) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/12 08:51, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 11:34:06 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing downloaded updates. dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+2010

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-22 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I have done both upgrade and dist-upgrade and got the same type of error.For dist-upgrade, the error is :-" Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.11.3-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" The output of "dpkg -l | grep dpkg":-

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 11:34:06 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing > downloaded updates. > > dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb containing > ncurses-base: > package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I think it is working now.But still getting some error while installing downloaded updates. dpkg: regarding .../ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_all.deb containing ncurses-base: package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.7+20100313-5_al

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 16:06:53 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > Now I am getting the following error after executing "apt-get update": > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
Now I am getting the following error after executing "apt-get update": Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA W: You may want to run apt-g

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 08:00:40 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > After changing the sourcelist by the following: > ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) > ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) > ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-21 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
After changing the sourcelist by the following: ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_P

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-19 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Brian wrote: > > You could also post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list. >From reading the errors, his sources.list points to sarge, etch, *and* lenny, none of which are provided on the main servers these days. >From parsing the output he's pointing to the

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 12:14:06 +, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > I have done everything you have suggested.now the resolv.conf file showing > the nameserver.I have add the signature.asc as a key file in software > source.But I am getting same error error.Please suggest some thing. [Lots of snip

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-19 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I have done everything you have suggested.now the resolv.conf file showing the nameserver.I have add the signature.asc as a key file in software source.But I am getting same error error.Please suggest some thing. Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Jochen Spieker w

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Joy Sankar Sengupta: > > After applying any command like "apt-get install/update/upgrade" I am > getting following error: -- snip > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Just do as suggested and run 'apt-get update

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-15 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/14/2012 09:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Alberto Fuentes wrote: Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: After executing the command I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem is that you

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > >After executing the command I got the following output:- > ># generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! > > I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, > but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in yo

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
After executing the command ( cat /etc/resolv.conf ) I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Please, answer to the list. You only emailed me :) > > I dont know if you suf

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Alberto Fuentes
Please, answer to the list. You only emailed me :) I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in your computer as seen in your empty /etc/resolv.conf and your previous error >Err http://http.us.debian.org etc

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:26:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:56 +, Camaleón wrote: >> You want to upgrade your current Debian system or your GNOME version? > > I suspect Debian, not GNOME 2 to the last GNOME 2. Then he'll do the best by installing Squeeze because Lenny

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:17:47 +0100 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431410 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:55:09 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: (please, no html messages, thanks...) > I want to upgrade my machine which has gnome 2.14 version to latest > version. You want to upgrade your current Debian system or your GNOME version? The former can be possible (with some "buts

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread rjc
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:00:54PM BST, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred while processing libzeroc-ice34-dbg (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_ > main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The packa

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 17:30 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > client:/home/student# apt-get update > Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' Since Firefox is able to reach http://http.us.debian.org/ here and ping http.us.debian.org returned "PIN

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
cat /etc/resolv.conf ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd8904d.6050...@qindel.com

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
>From Desktop->Administrator->Update manager I have launched the update manager window.After few seconds the window is disappeared. >From console I am getting following errors: student@client:~$ su Password: client:/home/student# apt-get update Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg Coul

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:55 +0530, Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > Its getting some error while upgrading What information might be missing to get useful replies ;)? If the error messages should be to large for an email please use http://paste.debian.net/ , http://pastebin.com/ or similar. Hth :p,

Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-13 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
I want to upgrade my machine which has gnome 2.14 version to latest version.Its getting some error while upgrading the system using system update. Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-19 Thread Philip
x27;m using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but >> yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of >> problem with gnome panels. >> >> I usually had two panels (top and bottom), but when I started my gnome >> session, I can't s

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-19 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I'm using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but > yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of > problem with gnome panels. > > I usually had two panels (top and

Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-18 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hello! I'm using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of problem with gnome panels. I usually had two panels (top and bottom), but when I started my gnome session, I can't see any of them. When I

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:38:07 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a > normal session on my computer, woo hoo! Don't forget the "sticky bit" as Jochen suggested. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Peter Tenenbaum: > > Never mind. JFGI. True. :) > Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. /tmp usually has the sticky bit set. That makes sure that nobody can delete other peoples' files. J. -- Scientists know what they are talking about. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Peter Tenenbaum: > > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ... > mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied Can your user write to /tmp? Google suggests to 'chmod 1777 /tmp'. J. -- I have been manipulated and permanently distorted. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a normal session on my computer, woo hoo! -PT On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze > desktop computer.

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
...adding: is it possible that some permission was not set correctly when I restored backups (the backups were made via dump command). On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeez

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:28:11 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze > desktop computer. After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I > think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup, > get grub insta

Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze desktop computer. After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup, get grub installed, and get all the grub configurations set properly so that Debia

Problem with gnome-sudoku, python, cairo?????

2006-12-03 Thread Don Hayward
When I try to run gnome-sudoku I get the following messages: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-sudoku Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/gnome-sudoku", line 10, in ? from gnome_sudoku.gnome_sudoku import start_game File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gnome_sudoku/gnome_s

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
With regards to the suggestion that some means be provided for admins to easily install a subset of GNOME that suits the needs of government and/or US government ... On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:50 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ > n

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul E Condon] > I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all > governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) I suppose you were joking, but in all seriousness, why does _Debian_ need to add them? Let the site administrator do it, using 'equivs'. If y

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I suggest Debian add two metapackages: 'gnome-govt' for use by all governments and 'gnome-USgovt' for US government in particular. ;-) On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I > gave to an off-lin

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I want to thank all of you for responding. I'm quoting here a response I gave to an off-line communication because I thought it might be germane to the discussion. I have expanded my response a little. I have removed gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-games with no apparent side effects

Re: major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread cmetzler
> I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the

major problem with gnome-games dependency

2005-10-11 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the dependenc

Re: Re: Beep instead of written letter - keyboard-problem with gnome(SID)

2005-05-24 Thread Ari Trachtenberg
Thanks for the fix! It's been bugging me for a long time now. Best, -Ari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with gnome-setting-daemon

2004-06-25 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:00:17 +0200, Manu escreveu: > This probably reflects a bug in the program. Try reporting it. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.674-000 SÃo Paulo, SP

problem with gnome-setting-daemon

2004-06-25 Thread Manu
Hi I have a problem. I have looked at many thread and still cannot find my solution. I have : x-window-system 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 kernel 2.4.23 gnome 2.6.1 and when running the gnome-settings-daemon I have the following -- ** (gnome-settings-daemon:2162): WARNING **: Coul

Beep instead of written letter - keyboard-problem with gnome(SID)

2003-09-19 Thread Waldemar Gorus
Hello I am using Gnome(SID) most time. Description of my problem: When I press a key, I got a beep and no letter is written. When I hold this key down, I got one beep, but the repeatfunction works (So I got letters on my screen). - This Problem occurs suddenly - This Problem effects only one

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(

2003-01-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:38:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies > of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) > > another prob: > > After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes

Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(

2003-01-04 Thread desiderata
I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) another prob: After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes a bit and throws me back to gdm. Kde works though. I figure the bogus outside

FW: RE: Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread dman
rwarded message from Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'dman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Problem with Gnome Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:41:22 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-Exim-sender_

Re: Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: | Hi, | | I am having problems loading Gnome 1.4. I was using KDE prior to my | attemps to install gnome. After I execute the normal "startx" a | Gnome1.4 panel appears with a window that has a picture with GNOME 1.4 | and the messa

Problem with Gnome

2002-01-13 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Hi,   I am having problems loading Gnome 1.4.  I was using KDE prior to my attemps to install gnome.  After I execute the normal "startx" a Gnome1.4 panel appears with a window that has a picture with GNOME 1.4 and the message Starting Gnome.  Behind it is just a screen full o

Problem with gnome (mouse is locked in the bottom narrow area)

2001-11-10 Thread wqhmath
Every time I start my woody,it fisrt enters a graphic interface,I can see  it is gnome1.4,but there is not typical menu of gnome,and I can hardly to move the mouse,I move and click my mouse randomly,and can see a menu of which in the top of the menu is debian,at the bottom is the menu

problem with gnome (mouse can not move)

2001-11-10 Thread wqh
I install wooody,at the beginning, I install the base system and then I use base-config to let it install others aumatically, but after download 330M files, it said something was wrong,and can not finished it aumatically.Then I use dpkg -i * to install all the package whick are possible to insta

Problem with Gnome Filetypes & Programs on Woody+

2001-10-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have tried a few Debian, Progeny, Storm and Libranet installs. On each I can successfully set up file associations for GMC using the Filetypes and Programs option in Control Center. As soon as I upgrade to Woody or Unstable, I can't. I can go through the motions of assigning an application and ic

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