Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Floris
some 3.12 packages only available in experimental. Is there a policy when these packages are transfered to unstable? Also what package(s) holds the Gnome 3.12 transition? You can track the transitions that are happening in Debian at https://release.debian.org/transitions/ , there are a planned

Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Javier Barroso
mental. Is there a > policy when these packages are transfered to unstable? > > Also what package(s) holds the Gnome 3.12 transition? You can track the transitions that are happening in Debian at https://release.debian.org/transitions/ , there are a planned libgnome-desktop-3-10 transiti

experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Floris
Hey, The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But there are some 3.12 packages only available in experimental. Is there a policy when these packages are transfered to unstable

Re: KDE 4.12 Packages on Unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
load packages to receive more testing from the daring few. On the other hand Maintainers should not upload packages to unstable that are not "release quality", even when it's quite obvious that a specific version will not actually reach stable because, for example, it will be supersed

Re: KDE 4.12 Packages on Unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi David, Am Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014, 12:31:09 schrieb David Baron: > These have higher version numbers than those on experimental > > Correct. > Safe to install? I am using the KDE from experimental since, well, Qt/KDE Debian devs uploaded it there. And I upgraded to the unst

KDE 4.12 Packages on Unstable

2014-05-01 Thread David Baron
These have higher version numbers than those on experimental Correct. Safe to install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4270733.KyiQVvz7Wm@dovidhalevi

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Darac Marjal
ad the libc6:amd64 deb * dpkg-deb --extract * dpkg-deb -e * Edit /DEBIAN/preinst and insert "exit 0" near the top * dpkg-deb -b * dpkg -i This skipped some checks, but it did get things back in sync and I was able to complete the upgrade. The joys of running unstable(!)

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-24 Thread Robin
On 22 February 2014 01:52, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults. > Looks like a

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-22 Thread Robin
On 22 February 2014 07:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 feb 14, 01:52:27, Robin wrote: >> **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: >> >> Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst >> updating libc6. Applications that were open are still func

Re: [WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 feb 14, 01:52:27, Robin wrote: > **This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: > > Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst > updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but > everything else segfaults. > Looks like a

[WARNING] libc6 upgrade from 2.17.97 to 2.18.1 (unstable) fails -now segfaults on apt-get etc.

2014-02-21 Thread Robin
**This of course may apply only to my PC but just in case it is not**: Just done dist-upgrade 01:30 22/02/2014 and upgrade fails whilst updating libc6. Applications that were open are still functioning but everything else segfaults. Looks like a reinstall -- rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: unstable and vbox additions

2014-02-10 Thread Klaus
On 10/02/14 14:31, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: For those of us using debian on virtual box, and using unstable, the problem is fixed in the 4.3.7 guest additions iso The necessary iso is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.7-92075.iso and even though most

Re: unstable and vbox additions

2014-02-10 Thread briand
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:33:38 +1300 Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Migrate to virt-manager,spice and KVM. > > vbox is broken and unsupported. > For those of us using debian on virtual box, and using unstable, the problem is fixed in the 4.3.7 guest additions iso The necessary

Re: unstable and vbox additions

2014-02-09 Thread briand
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:33:38 +1300 Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Migrate to virt-manager,spice and KVM. > > vbox is broken and unsupported. > these packages look like they are for linux as host and windows as guest. i'm using windows as the host and linux as the guest. ? Brian -- To UNSUB

Re: unstable and vbox additions

2014-02-09 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Migrate to virt-manager,spice and KVM. vbox is broken and unsupported. -Joel On 10 February 2014 12:49, wrote: > Howdy, > > Trying to install virtual box guest additions but getting > > "Unknown version of the X window system". > > I've found various fixes that involve hacking the install scri

unstable and vbox additions

2014-02-09 Thread briand
Howdy, Trying to install virtual box guest additions but getting "Unknown version of the X window system". I've found various fixes that involve hacking the install script to allow it to proceed but all my attempts to do so have failed. What's particularly confusing is that the script has de

Re: Wireless Network Connection Unstable

2013-12-17 Thread Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha
Hello, I think that could be the issue. I will look into this and figure out a way to turn OFF 802.11N standard. Thanks! Rakitha On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:52 AM, André Nunes Batista < andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha wrote: > >

Re: Wireless Network Connection Unstable

2013-12-17 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha wrote: > Hello, > I have an ASUS laptop with Intel Wireless-N module (iwlwifi driver). I'm > using Gnome network manager for networking. I'm experiencing following > issue with wireless internet connection and would like to know if an

Re: Wireless Network Connection Unstable

2013-12-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 dec 13, 11:30:33, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha wrote: > > I appreciate if anyone can give me information to debug this issue or to > fix the problem. I can provide more information on request. I would first try the most recent kernel and firmware. If you are using Debian stable (you d

Wireless Network Connection Unstable

2013-12-16 Thread Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha
Hello, I have an ASUS laptop with Intel Wireless-N module (iwlwifi driver). I'm using Gnome network manager for networking. I'm experiencing following issue with wireless internet connection and would like to know if any one had faced same issues. The internet connection loses sometime several tim

Re: Mouse cursor stays black in Xfce (unstable)

2013-10-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 16 Oct 14:51 -0500, Slavko wrote: > update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme Hi Slavko. I actually stumbled onto this a few hours ago and I do have my desired cursor theme working. I have found that Xfce likewise cannot resize the cursor everywhere. I have it set for 32 px and it

Re: Mouse cursor stays black in Xfce (unstable)

2013-10-16 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:15:51 -0500 Nate Bargmann napísal: > As there are several layers at work here, which way should I look, > toward Xfce, LightDM, or Xorg? I set this a long time ago, but when i proper remember, no one workaround from web was working, only system-wide settings is worki

Mouse cursor stays black in Xfce (unstable)

2013-10-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
As I've not seen mention of this I thought I'd ask. I am using the latest Xfce packages in Unstable with Lightdm as the login manager. Sometime back I noticed the mouse cursor was black instead of white from the dmz-cursor-theme package. No matter how much fiddling I've not been

Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
gle-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable', but it was already installed. Finally, on both systems, I did 'sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable' and now have a working Chrome again. I guess that's what I get for being willing to

Re: google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-08 Thread Stephen Allen
I tried 'sudo apt-get install > google-chrome-unstable', but it was already installed. Finally, on > both systems, I did 'sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable' and > now have a working Chrome again. > > I guess that's what I get for being willing to

google-chrome-unstable apparently removes its executable

2013-10-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Updating two testing systems this morning, I found that my Chrome suddenly became unable to find any web pages. Attempting to relaunch, it wasn't there! 'which google-chrome' returned nothing. I tried 'sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable', but it was already in

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread nick marshall
://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en | | Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en_US | | Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg | | Ign http

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
led to fetch > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find > > expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file > > (malformed Release file?) > > > > > > Here is my sources.list: > > > > > > deb http://ftp.us.de

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/unstable Translation-en_US Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main Translation-en Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze

Re: Unstable release is expired

2013-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Charles Kroeger wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Means that mirror is stale. > > The Argonne National Laboratory goes stale..Is this austerity in action. US Sequestration in action? (chuckle) I doubt that is the reason. At least not yet. Maybe soon though. Mirrors are managed by people voluntee

Re: Unstable release is expired

2013-04-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:02 +0200 Bob Proulx wrote: > Means that mirror is stale. The Argonne National Laboratory goes stale..Is this austerity in action. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Unstable release is expired

2013-04-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Charles Kroeger wrote: > E: Release file for http://mirror.anl.gov/debian/dists/unstable/Release is > expired > (invalid since 23h 14min 9s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. > > Is this only for the anl.gov/debian/dist/unstable/ or does it mean > (all) /u

Unstable release is expired

2013-04-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
root@mundo:/home/charles# apt-get update Get:1 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing Release.gpg [836 B] Get:2 http://mirror.anl.gov unstable Release.gpg [836B] Get:3 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu unstable Release.gpg [836B] Hit http://mirror.anl.gov unstable Release Get:4 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Kevin, Excerpt from Kevin Chadwick: -- -- >> libreoffice | 1:4.0.2~rc2-2 | experimental | source, amd64, >> armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 >> >> And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that. >&

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
| experimental | source, amd64, > armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 > > And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that. > Using it from "unstable" is bad, because it'll also give you a loads > of libs not in wheezy which might e

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
l | source, amd64, armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that. Using it from "unstable" is bad, because it'll also give you a loads of libs not in wheezy which might easily end up pullling a new libc6 e

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Personally I like the about two-year stable release schedule. It is > long enough I appreciate knowing that our setup will not break due to this but also compile and download various packages like libreoffice and xfce-4.10. Now I would not expect libreoffice to be packaged but xfce-4.10 had a

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
stream better than say mplayer > upstream? Who decides? Doesn't sound very workable, or even fair. Agreed to all. When people think they want something that is rolling newer then they probably should use Unstable. Since that gives them the upstream versions packaged as quickly as practica

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Incidentally. I do wonder if debian stable should accelerate some > packages which follow a more stable dev cycle like xfce-4.10 where it > has already been well tested. Won't happen. That is what Debian Backports is for. IMHO it is

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Then again, if you build from source, you'll lose the automatic upgrade > feature provided by apt/aptitude. > > Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong. I believe so. There are some debian source building tools and mepis archives are usable perhaps best with pinning. I plan to experiment with th

Re: Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I do not mean building from source using configure & make, but creating > a debian package using source debian package from unstable with tools > like dpkg-buildpackage or uupdate. There's a handy guide to that (apart from the uupdate bit) at http://www.debian.org/doc/manual

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
> Then again, if you build from source, you'll lose the automatic upgrade > feature provided by apt/aptitude. > > Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Thanks. > And if you take a package from unstable than you install the dependencies from unstable as wel

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 12, 2013 3:29 PM, "Alex Mestiashvili" wrote: > > On 04/12/2013 02:16 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Alex Mestiashvili > > wrote: > >> On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> Is it possible to fi

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Lars Noodén
>>> I suggest to get the source packages instead and rebuild them for your >>> environment. Check first to see if it is in backports. If it is there that will save having to build it from source. Not everything is there, but if it is, it will save time. Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/12/2013 02:16 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Alex Mestiashvili > wrote: >> On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >>> Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable >>> only for certain packages? > .

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable >> only for certain packages? ... > You can try it, but in most cases it is not a good idea. > &

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable > only for certain packages? > > Best regards, > > -Tom > > You can try it, but in most cases it is not a good idea. Most of the packages have de

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:38 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Ven 12 avril 2013 13:33, Tom Browder a écrit : >> Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable >> only for certain packages? ... > The technique is named apt-pinning, you can

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Lars Noodén
On 4/12/13 2:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable > only for certain packages? > > Best regards, > > -Tom If the package you want is not in backports, then you could try apt-pinning: http://wiki.debian.

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 12 avril 2013 13:33, Tom Browder a écrit : > Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable > only for certain packages? > > Best regards, Sure. The technique is named apt-pinning, you can find some documentation here: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferen

Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable only for certain packages? Best regards, -Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Debian Unstable now has FVWM 2.6.5

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16819.html -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable

2013-01-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Is "os-prober" still installed? Does "/etc/grub.d/30_os-prober" exist? Yes it does -- CK -- 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/amg37lfl5k...@mid.indiv

Re: Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable

2013-01-17 Thread Tom H
and a NTFS partition on the second HD that is /dev/sdb > > The only options currently available is the i386 version of Linux unstable I > had on /dev/sda and the one I'm using to write this letter. > > On running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc I get no errors when selecting the >

Re: Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable[SOLVED]

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
I don't know what the hell happened there but I used Rescautux Disk again and selected the 'Super Grub2 Disk' option that then offers the powerful menu item of finding any bootable operating system on your computer..I was then able to boot into my AMD64 unstable partition and run d

Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable

2013-01-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
i386 version of Linux unstable I had on /dev/sda and the one I'm using to write this letter. On running dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc I get no errors when selecting the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives but nothing shows up on the generated /grub.cfg file that would indicate this. I tried to restore grub

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-25 Thread john gennard
On 25/06/12 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 08:50:41, john gennard wrote: On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition on the drive and inst

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-25 Thread john gennard
On 25/06/12 16:09, Lisi wrote: On Monday 25 June 2012 11:36:06 Andrei POPESCU wrote: For single packages it is very easy, just apt-get install -t squeeze-backports Andrei - John will need to add backports to his sources.list, surely. Or has he already done so, and I have been

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-25 Thread Lisi
On Monday 25 June 2012 11:36:06 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > For single packages it is very easy, just > >     apt-get install -t squeeze-backports Andrei - John will need to add backports to his sources.list, surely. Or has he already done so, and I have been asleep? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 iun 12, 08:50:41, john gennard wrote: > On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: > >>I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition > >>on the drive and installed Win XP and this works perfectly thus eliminat

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-25 Thread john gennard
On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition on the drive and installed Win XP and this works perfectly thus eliminating problems with the graphic card. Would it be

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: > > I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition > on the drive and installed Win XP and this works perfectly thus eliminating > problems with the graphic card. Would it be feasible for you to try the kernel and Xorg

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-24 Thread john gennard
On 12/06/12 16:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 12 iun 12, 11:57:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If you still can't get it to work send the file to me directly and I'll quote the relevant parts (or upload it all to the paste). John sent it to me directly, but I can't spot anything wrong so

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:01:23AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > It is still not fixed for me. I am getting the udev errors during > startup and then get to the logon point with no mouse or keyboard. > To get them, I have to unplug and plug them in again and they come > back. I can then login. >

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and usi

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 22:27 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I presume I have a pulseaudio problem I never heard about issues with PA. It's the best sound server ever. All DEs should make it a dependency and people should stop whining about PA and stop spreading FUD. There's nothing as fantastic as P

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If

Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If I run as me - a user, alsamixer shows a "

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 12 iun 12, 11:57:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you still can't get it to work send the file to me directly and I'll > quote the relevant parts (or upload it all to the paste). John sent it to me directly, but I can't spot anything wrong so I uploaded it to the paste: http://paste.debi

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 09:21 +0100, john gennard wrote: > On 11/06/12 18:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > http://paste.debian.net/ > I'm having trouble using the above link. > > The attempts all finish with the following error in Icedove:- > > 'problem occurred while loading the URL' >

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 12 iun 12, 09:21:04, john gennard wrote: > > > I'm having trouble using the above link. You shouldn't try to use Ralf's links, but generate your own: 1. go to http://paste.debian.net 2. copy-paste the output in the big box (or browse for the file containing the text[1]) 3. click on Send

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-12 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 18:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:05 +0100, john gennard wrote: On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hmm, I would have expected at least a mention of loading the firmware. Could you please upload your dmesg to paste.debian.net? Not sure wha

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:05 +0100, john gennard wrote: > On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Hmm, I would have expected at least a mention of loading the firmware. > > Could you please upload your dmesg to paste.debian.net? > > > > > Not sure what you want me to do, I'm attaching

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [5.

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: > > root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' > [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. > [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) > -> IRQ 16 > [5.415669] radeon :01:00.0: setting

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 12:35, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 iun 12, 09:17:25, john gennard wrote: 'firmware-linux-nonfree' was not installed. I have now done so, but it does not seem to make any difference. Forgot to mention, but did you restart your computer after doing so? Yes, I did.

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 09:17:25, john gennard wrote: > 'firmware-linux-nonfree' was not installed. I have now done so, > but it does not seem to make any difference. Forgot to mention, but did you restart your computer after doing so? > >- attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > Attached - but it i

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 10/06/12 18:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 10 iun 12, 17:13:10, john gennard wrote: Any suggestions, but remember I'm getting towards the gaga stage, so in simple English please. Please (in this order): - make sure you have firmware-linux-nonfree installed 'firmware-linux-no

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 10 iun 12, 17:13:10, john gennard wrote: > > Any suggestions, but remember I'm getting towards the gaga stage, so > in simple English please. Please (in this order): - make sure you have firmware-linux-nonfree installed - attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtop

unstable web browsers

2012-06-10 Thread john gennard
I think my Xorg configuration requires some adjustment. Whenever I go into a web browser, the picture jumps about when I use the mouse before settling down again. I'm using Debian 6.05 with a basic graphic card - a ATI Radeon HD 5480. I've read up on the Xorg set up, but there's no config file t

Re: Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Roger Leigh dixit: >However, if you have any lingering scripts without any LSB headers, >you'll need to fix them up or remove them to allow dynamic boot >ordering to be enabled. This is obviously not too desirable, since sudo apt-get --purge install file-rc insserv- bye //mirabilos -- 16:47⎜«m

Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi, If you're using unstable and you're using static boot ordering with sysv-rc, you might have run into #676463/#676520. We've been using dynamic dependency-based boot ordering by default for quite some time now. However, if you had a lenny (or earlier) system, prior to sys

Re: Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
Sean Whalen wrote: > Hello All, > > I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable. > Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module > "the Debian way". Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed > that the system would

Re: Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-15 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hi Sean, For the past few days, I've been trying to install Squueze on my PC and have experienced very similar troubles. My card is a GeForce 8400 GS. The screen and the whole system freeze as soon as gdm3 starts. I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian Way", and also (after some reluctance)

Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-15 Thread Sean Whalen
Hello All, I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable. Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian way". Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed that the system would become very sluggish during simple tasks The most

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Jon Dowland writes: > I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn't have to. Dependencies on > DBUS and gconf2 are the least of its problems (if you consider those > problems at all). "MyPaint", which has been packaged, looks like a > possibly replacement. Hmm, if having almost no functionality at al

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
> I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( Again, seems unnecessarily rude > Luckily I am using unstable can warn everyone who cares about this > shitstorm. Actually I do not see anywhere where gimp even depends on gconf. And I haven't seen any shitstorms

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:58:17 +, Dirk wrote: (...) > I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( All of the above sounded a bit rude >:-/ > Luckily I am using unstable can warn everyone who cares about this > shitstorm. Can you point to that hard requi

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On 10/04/12 10:58, Dirk wrote: > dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. Last I heard dbus was going strong - even looking at offloading work to the kernel (harnessing existing kernel messaging systems e.g. netlink) to improve performance. I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn'

Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Dirk
Hello, can we please stay clear of all cancers Havoc Pennington has done? HAL was shit and got replaced. dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. ...if necessary with gentoo. I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( Luckily I am using unstable can

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
ess with > >> Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual > >> Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel > >> 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom0. > >> > >> Please do watch my Youtube video on successful Xen VGA Passthr

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012 schrieb Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming): > Dear Xen Users and David Techer, Hi Teo, > It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen > VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with > Xen 4.2-unstable Changes

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-24 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
rlsen wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:29:46 +0800, Teo wrote in message <4f6b456a.8040...@gmail.com>: Dear Xen Users and David Techer, It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstabl

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:29:46 +0800, Teo wrote in message <4f6b456a.8040...@gmail.com>: > Dear Xen Users and David Techer, > > It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with > Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine >

[MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom

2012-03-22 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Xen Users and David Techer, It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom0. Please do watch my Youtube video

[MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom

2012-03-22 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Xen Users and David Techer, It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 dom0. Please do watch my Youtube video

[SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM domU and Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 Dom0

2012-03-21 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Subject: Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM domU and Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 Dom0 Dear All, For more information, please read the following threads: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2012-03

[YOUTUBE] Installing Windows 8 in Ubuntu 11.10 dom0 with Xen 4.2-unstable and Linux Kernel 3.3.0-rc7

2012-03-18 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Re: [andreimpope...@gmail.com: Re: General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository)]

2012-03-07 Thread Abou Al Montacir
General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository) > > On Lu, 05 mar 12, 10:36:45, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > > I'm speaking about "testing" not "unstable". It used to be quite stable > > and works well for the last 5 years. > > Now, it

[andreimpope...@gmail.com: Re: General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository)]

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
I think he wanted to CC'd so ... - Forwarded message from Andrei POPESCU - Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 01:28:15 +0200 From: Andrei POPESCU To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository) On Lu, 05 mar 12, 10:36:45, Abou Al Montacir

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