Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
;> >>>>>> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- >>>>>> upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right F

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 10:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RT

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> lostson wrote: >>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 >>> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>>> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- >>>> up

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Rick Thomas wrote: > Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist-upgrade > from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? > > I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Near-official recommended procedure follows: 1. change dis

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Thanks! Rick Simp

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- >> upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? >> >> I'll be

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread lostson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: > > Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- > upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? > > I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... &g

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- > upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? > > I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Googling etch

Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

SOCKS on debian etch: should i use dante?

2008-12-14 Thread Dvorzhetsky
Hello, I'd like to run a SOCKS proxy on my etch box so I can easily configure firefox or others services to have an unlimited access to the internet while I'm behind restricted firewall. I want to restrict use with username and password not from a specific IP, so I can really co

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only the foregoing but also comment on the Installation Guide. I have spent a significant part of my career writing technical manuals. The Guide violates just about

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only the foregoing but also > comment on the Installation Guide. I have spent a significant part of > my career writing technical manuals. The Guide violates just about > every good practice

Re: Is there a default firewall on Debian Etch

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Allison
fault firewall on Etch and how to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How can I do this? Thanks for any ideas. http://packages.debian.org/etch/net/arno-iptables-firewall Very easy to configure with debconf. The firewall.conf itself is heavily documented and makes

Re: Is there a default firewall on Debian Etch

2008-12-12 Thread chris
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:25:46 -0600, Brendan West wrote: > I am needing to find out if there is a default firewall on Etch and how > to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How can I > do this? Thanks for any ideas. > http://packages.debian.org/etch/net/a

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > Have you submitted an installation report as per the installation manual > > and subscribed to debian-boot? The debian-boot people wrote the > > installer and should know what's up. > > No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > I have encrypted three of the LVs: home, swap and tmp. Home has a LUKS > passphrase. The other two have random keys. You may want to consider encrypting /var/tmp, depending on what applications you use and where they may put stuff.

Re: Etch: iceweasel crashing with EAGAIN error

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 18:10 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running the lastest version of iceweasel on Etch, and am finding > that the browser crashes regularly with a segmentation fault. When I run > strace, I get "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" as part of the >

Etch: iceweasel crashing with EAGAIN error

2008-12-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running the lastest version of iceweasel on Etch, and am finding that the browser crashes regularly with a segmentation fault. When I run strace, I get "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" as part of the trace just before it dies altogether. I googled around and didn&#x

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-11 Thread Ken Heard
failed (in red) Dm-1 is the /var partition. Likewise, on shutdown, the following message appears: Stopping MD array md-1 failed - busy (last two words in red) These messages do not seem to have any effect on performance. This Etch installation has been running for three weeks now. There have been --

Re: Is there a default firewall on Debian Etch

2008-12-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:25:46PM -0600, Brendan West wrote: > I am needing to find out if there is a default firewall on Etch and > how to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How > can I do this? Thanks for any ideas. The kernel does the firewalling

Is there a default firewall on Debian Etch

2008-12-08 Thread Brendan West
I am needing to find out if there is a default firewall on Etch and how to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How can I do this? Thanks for any ideas. NinjaNife -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
ough from the card to the USB port. (I used > arecord and finally got error messages that helped me to track this > down.) > > Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this > in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and > found a f

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
nally got error messages that helped me to track this down.) Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed like they just pl

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
nally got error messages that helped me to track this down.) Since I could find nothing to show me that I could work around this in any way, I finally started searching for other USB sound cards and found a few references to people using an iMic with Debian Etch. It seemed like they just pl

Re: Can't build 2.6.5 kernel after Upgrade to Etch-and-a-Half

2008-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Ron Johnson writes: > 2.6.5 is (relatively) ancient. Did you mean 2.6.25? I did, in fact, mean 2.6.5. It's been 3 or 4 years now that you mention it. I'll try a newer kernel.:-) Thanks. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Can't build 2.6.5 kernel after Upgrade to Etch-and-a-Half

2008-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/05/08 13:14, Martin McCormick wrote: I upgraded this system about a week ago and this is the first thing that doesn't work at all. I had needed to compile the USB serial driver in to the kernel so I originally did make menuconfig 2.6.5 is (relatively) ancient. Did you mean 2.6.25

Can't build 2.6.5 kernel after Upgrade to Etch-and-a-Half

2008-12-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I upgraded this system about a week ago and this is the first thing that doesn't work at all. I had needed to compile the USB serial driver in to the kernel so I originally did make menuconfig which gave me the errors you will see below. I then did make mrproper to start clean and then mak

ssh kvm Etch install

2008-12-04 Thread plegal
Hello, My goal is to install a Etch virtual machine on a Lenny host. I've a ssh connexion to Lenny (no X) and when I start with the following command : kvm -curses -serial file:serial.log -hda vdisk.img -cdrom iso/debian-40r5-i386-netinst.iso -m 512 -boot d I've a nice black screen a

Re: Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-04 Thread steef
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2008 20:38, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 05:35, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> I think I'll leave the etchnhalf kernels alone for a while, on the premise that, If it works, don't mess with it, and the sound

Re: Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-03 Thread Nigel Henry
the build-essential, > >> kernel-package, and the kernel headers for the running kernel, then a > >> simple ./configure, make, and as root, make install, and the alsa driver > >> is upgraded. > >> > >> I have installed the same packages on my Etch inst

Re: Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
rs for the running kernel, then a simple ./configure, make, >> and as root, make install, and the alsa driver is upgraded. >> >> I have installed the same packages on my Etch install for the etchnhalf >> kernel. Both the AMD64, and the x86 versions of the kernel are installed.

Re: Xorg broken while upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 06:42, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi (cross-posting from Debian-testing list) > Yesterday I upgraded from Etch to Lenny. > 1. changed etch to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list > 2. # apt-get update > 3. # apt-install install dpkg aptitude apt

Re: Xorg broken while upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:27:56PM +0545, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi (cross-posting from Debian-testing list) > Yesterday I upgraded from Etch to Lenny. > 1. changed etch to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list > 2. # apt-get update > 3. # apt-install

Xorg broken while upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Bibek Paudel
Hi (cross-posting from Debian-testing list) Yesterday I upgraded from Etch to Lenny. 1. changed etch to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list 2. # apt-get update 3. # apt-install install dpkg aptitude apt 4. # aptitude full-upgrade I rebooted the machine after upgrading and X failed to start. It showed

Re: Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-03 Thread steef
upgraded. I have installed the same packages on my Etch install for the etchnhalf kernel. Both the AMD64, and the x86 versions of the kernel are installed. On my Kubuntu Dapper install, which has alsa driver 1.0.10, the sound doesn't work, but upgrading to alsa driver 1.0.15 from the Alsa

Problem in installing alsa driver on Etch

2008-12-02 Thread Nigel Henry
installed the same packages on my Etch install for the etchnhalf kernel. Both the AMD64, and the x86 versions of the kernel are installed. On my Kubuntu Dapper install, which has alsa driver 1.0.10, the sound doesn't work, but upgrading to alsa driver 1.0.15 from the Alsa site, gets the

Re: HELP - Installing Firefox 3 on Debian Etch

2008-11-30 Thread Doug Mitton
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:10:05 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, i would like to install Firefox 3 on my Debian Etch. Then, i need >gtk 2.12 or newer. > >But when i try to compile gtk 2.14 i need: >pango, glib, pkg-config, cairo, atk... > >Well, i have compiled all succesfully exce

Re: HELP - Installing Firefox 3 on Debian Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: Hi, i would like to install Firefox 3 on my Debian Etch. Then, i need gtk 2.12 or newer. But when i try to compile gtk 2.14 i need: pango, glib, pkg-config, cairo, atk... Well, i have compiled all succesfully except atk 1.2.4, it says: checking for GLIB

HELP - Installing Firefox 3 on Debian Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
Hi, i would like to install Firefox 3 on my Debian Etch. Then, i need gtk 2.12 or newer. But when i try to compile gtk 2.14 i need: pango, glib, pkg-config, cairo, atk... Well, i have compiled all succesfully except atk 1.2.4, it says: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pk

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Martin McCormick wrote: > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I have installed > over time but, of course, do this as automatically as practical >

Re: Etch and a half in commercial package

2008-11-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-27 07:27 +0100, jeffry killen wrote: > Hello: > Is it possible to get a commercially packaged dc/dvd > with Etch and a half? If you mean: find someone who sells CDs/DVDs, yes. Just visit http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ and choose a seller near to you. Beware that the list

Etch and a half in commercial package

2008-11-26 Thread jeffry killen
Hello: Is it possible to get a commercially packaged dc/dvd with Etch and a half? I have a set that is Etch 4.0 r1 but have a newer laptop that this set will not install on. I subscribed to the laptop list and was advised to download Etch and a half. I did that as business card cd. I had to

Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch Sound Advice

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
Just to let all of you know what to expect: I upgraded the system I use at work to etch and everything seemed to work except for the sound card which is a SB Live. The batch file I had been using to set levels no longer worked and I could hear absolutely nothing from the speakers

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Martin McCormick wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >> IIRC, According to the documentation, the packages are to be in main >> repository now. > > Very good. It looks like everything else is working as > it should. Many thanks. Since you'd be upgrading to lenny soon (once it is released

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Martin McCormick wrote: > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: >> Non-us repository went away since sarge or etch, IIRC. Remove it from your >> sources.list. > > I can certainly do that. Did any packages go away with > that or are they somewhere else? IIRC, A

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > IIRC, According to the documentation, the packages are to be in main > repository now. Very good. It looks like everything else is working as it should. Many thanks. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > Non-us repository went away since sarge or etch, IIRC. Remove it from your > sources.list. Thank you. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
portant and it has almost gone okay except for the > following: > > Failed to fetch > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/etch/non-US/Release > .gpg Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' > Failed to fetch > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/e

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-25 Thread Martin McCormick
following: Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/etch/non-US/Release .gpg Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org' Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/etch/non-US/main/bi nary-i386/Packages.gz Could not resolve 'non-us.debian.org'

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
-- A. > -- My thanks to both respondents and for the clarification. Yes. I am upgrading to etch and heard that the upgrade broke lots of things, otherwise, I'd just upgrade. Maybe as a compromise, I should list all packages as discussed, backup the system as I do ha

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Reid writes: > I have done this using > > dpkg --get-selections >file > > ... on the original machine, to record the package state, and > then using the sequence: > > > dpkg --clear-selections > > dpkg --set-selections < file > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > This particular sequence

Re: Fwd: Problem with debian etch

2008-11-24 Thread Carlos Bergero
Michael JOLY escribió: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Michael JOLY* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Date: 2008/11/24 Subject: Problem with debian etch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <ma

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 November 2008 21:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2008 15:05, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > > packages such as alsa, calc

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Carlos Bergero
Martin: First you dont have to reinstall, you can change the soureces.list file, replacing the sarge with etch, and then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, that's will take some time and bandwith, but few things get brocken. Well actually several, didn't wor

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 November 2008 15:05, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I have installed > over time but, of course

Fwd: Problem with debian etch

2008-11-24 Thread Michael JOLY
-- Forwarded message -- From: Michael JOLY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/24 Subject: Problem with debian etch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello, i have e problem with a debian etch. After installing cyrus, p

Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra packages such as alsa, calc and many more that I have installed over time but, of course, do this as automatically as practical as well as get the etch versions of

Re: How to install to Sata Drive with Promise Tx4 installer? etch or lenny

2008-11-23 Thread lee
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:45:30PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Is there a way to load kernel modules for the Tx4 (ie ata_generic > and sata_promise) into the running kernel of the installer, so it > will recognize this hard drive? The installers used to have an option to load more modules from

Re: Web development on Debian - Etch or Lenny?

2008-11-23 Thread 中和刘
se, JDK and >>> Tomcat on Debian. >>> >>> I tried on Debian Etch with >>> >>> eclipse 3.2.1-4, >>> sun-java6-jdk and >>> tomcat5, > >> i use debian sid for web development, i use the latest eclipse >> downloaded from ecl

Re: Web development on Debian - Etch or Lenny?

2008-11-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
"中和刘" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to setup a web developing environment with Eclipse, JDK and >> Tomcat on Debian. >> >> I tried on Debian Etch with >> >&g

How to install to Sata Drive with Promise Tx4 installer? etch or lenny

2008-11-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have been trying the last 2 days to install etch or lenny onto a sata drive that resides on a Promise Sata Tx4 4 channel controller. However the etch or even the latest lenny nightly build network-installer do not recognize the sata drive. In the past I have installed debian on

Re: Web development on Debian - Etch or Lenny?

2008-11-23 Thread 中和刘
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to setup a web developing environment with Eclipse, JDK and > Tomcat on Debian. > > I tried on Debian Etch with > > eclipse 3.2.1-4, > sun-java6-jdk and > tomcat5, i use d

Re: Debian Etch and a half

2008-11-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:40 -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > >> O.K., I downloaded the netisntall cd image and burned it to >> a disc as data file iso 9660. >> I put it in the cd/dvd tray and entered bios setup to tell >> the system to boot from cd. >> I started with the dhcp connection attempt

Web development on Debian - Etch or Lenny?

2008-11-22 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I want to setup a web developing environment with Eclipse, JDK and Tomcat on Debian. I tried on Debian Etch with eclipse 3.2.1-4, sun-java6-jdk and tomcat5, but can't to use them together. Has anybody setup these tools to get a working environment for web development on Debian Etc

Re: Debian Etch and a half

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
erstand what's your problem here. > > > > > >> The web page in > >> the Debian site has this under the heading for the business > >> card installer: > >> > >> businesscard CD image (generally 20-50 MB) > >> > >> * Availab

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-21 Thread John Hasler
Kent writes: > Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". "sudo tasksel" might be a better choice. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-21 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,20.Nov.08, 19:35:30, Kent West wrote: > > >> Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". >> > > Am I missing something here? AFAIR sudo is *not* configured unless you > choose so in the /expert/ install. Why recommend it to a newcomer? > > Habitual use.

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Nov.08, 19:35:30, Kent West wrote: > Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". Am I missing something here? AFAIR sudo is *not* configured unless you choose so in the /expert/ install. Why recommend it to a newcomer? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't und

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). I am wondering if I can possibly download and install the desktop environment manually onto the debian machine. I am not

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 17:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). How so? What error messages? Symptoms? I am wondering if I can possibly download

Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). I am wondering if I can possibly download and install the desktop environment manually onto the debian machine. I am not able to use the normal

Re: SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-20 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, KEBRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 11/19/08 20:19, Kebra Negest wrote: >> >>> >>> 2008/11/19 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >> >> [snip] >> >>> Hmmm. $ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 >

Re: SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-19 Thread KEBRA
2008/11/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/19/08 20:19, Kebra Negest wrote: 2008/11/19 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] Hmmm. $ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 Ok, here's what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 grep: /boot/config-2.6.18: No existe el fi

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Mark Copper wrote: Economics aside, I am still amazed after all these years at the power free software has provided to the ordinary person. No university or corporation needed; just read and ask questions. Cool. And in what way does a GOOD closed-source software vendor break that? I've work

Re: SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 17:23, KEBRA wrote: Hi everybody, after trying for a couple of weeks, I decided to ask you about this. The installer recognizes perfectly (I guess) all drives and the installation works fine, no errors, everything ok. I can read perfectly any CD or DVD, but when I try to record, kap

SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-18 Thread KEBRA
Hi everybody, after trying for a couple of weeks, I decided to ask you about this. The installer recognizes perfectly (I guess) all drives and the installation works fine, no errors, everything ok. I can read perfectly any CD or DVD, but when I try to record, kaput. The records process starts ok

Re: lifelines packages for Etch or Lenny ?

2008-11-16 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Bernard skrev: I have just installed 'Lifelines' (a genealogy software) on both desktop and laptop, one under Sarge, the other under Etch. In both cases, v 3.0.50 that was proposed. However, this version has a bug and, in the genealogical mailing list, I have been advised to instal

lifelines packages for Etch or Lenny ?

2008-11-15 Thread Bernard
I have just installed 'Lifelines' (a genealogy software) on both desktop and laptop, one under Sarge, the other under Etch. In both cases, v 3.0.50 that was proposed. However, this version has a bug and, in the genealogical mailing list, I have been advised to install v 3.0.61 ins

Re: TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-14 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > I use snd_ens1371 module. > DVD has sound when I play it. > But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. > Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? > Which command I should enter? try loading pcm and mixer oss modules or use aoss this should help I hope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

postgresql or mysql for request-tracker on etch?

2008-11-13 Thread Philip
be to move to a clustered database. I could have two instances of RT running and accessing the same database on two database servers, but it doesn't seem that easy with RT. Problems (my understanding of them) 1. etch has mysql 5.0.32. this seems to support clustering but the database has

Re: Etch pthread_mutex_lock - bad backtrace

2008-11-13 Thread Tudor Golubenco
lee wrote: > > Also, I would appreciate if you could run the > > above program on your Etch system and let me know if you can get a > > meaningful bt. > > This is on testing: > [...] > (gdb) backtrace > #0 0xb7fd7424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xb7fa

Re: Etch pthread_mutex_lock - bad backtrace

2008-11-13 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:48:54 +0100 Tudor Golubenco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I would appreciate if you could run the > above program on your Etch system and let me know if you can get a > meaningful bt. This is on testing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc test.c -o testprog /tmp

Etch pthread_mutex_lock - bad backtrace

2008-11-13 Thread Tudor Golubenco
); pause(); return 0; } If I run this on an Etch amd64 machine (libc 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7), and attach with gdb to get a backtrace, for the locked thread I get: Thread 3 (Thread 1090525536 (LWP 14962)): #0 0x2afcad512eeb in __lll_mutex_lock_wait () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x000

Developing web applications on Debian Etch with Tomcat5 & Eclipse

2008-11-13 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have installed on Debian GNU/Linux Etch Tomcat5 & Eclipse. I followed the advices at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-tomcat/ have setup Eclipse and can to create a new Web project. I can to deploy this project to Tomcat5 server but when I want to ope

Re: TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:02:05 -0800 (PST) Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use snd_ens1371 module. > DVD has sound when I play it. > But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. > Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? > Which command I should enter? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-

TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
I use snd_ens1371 module. DVD has sound when I play it. But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? Which command I should enter? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch and ATI Xpress 200G video support?

2008-11-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
ebian, what are people's > experiences with video support for this card? This is a home PC, so I > don't plan to invest any money for better/different video. The card works > fine. > > Thanks for your insights. It depends on which version of X you are using. Etch has xorg

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:17:31 -0800 "David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was helping to update a friends (old) p3 box that ran an old version > of etch, needed a bunch of security updates and kde and some other > stuff installed last night. I got all the updates i

problem connecting to pppoe server in etch

2008-11-09 Thread M. Horbatsch
Hi, I connect to my ISP using pppoe. This works fine in Fedora core 4, which has pppd version 2.4.2, and rp-pppoe version 3.5. I recently installed Debian 4.0r5, which has pppd version 2.4.4 and rp-pppoe version 3.8. I tried to setup the connection using pppoeconf, but it could not find any a

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/10 David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a >> long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and >> it could be months at times.

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a > long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and > it could be months at times. I did have some issues with the nvidia driver,

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:56:51 + Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stable is rock solid. It does not break. > > Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it > takes a long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could > be days and it could be months at times. >

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:35 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you run testing (and keep it updated), you don't need to worry > about making the leap from one stable release to the next. That was I ran etch when it was still testing, then kept it at testing for sometime

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:56:31 -0600, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:56:06 +1300 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My understanding is that "stable" means unchanging. > > See http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1. That would > indicat

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:56:06 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding is that "stable" means unchanging. See http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1. That would indicate that "stable" doesn't mean "unchanging" but "likely to not have as many bugs" as test

Etch and ATI Xpress 200G video support?

2008-11-09 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Compaq desktop whose motherboard has an intergrated ATI Tech RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G series] video card. I have pretty decent video support now under Ubuntu. If I were to switch to Debian, what are people's experiences with video support for this card? This is a home PC, so I do

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:15:53AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:53:59PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I have exactly the same opinion as Alan. As I wrote in another thread > about debian versions, Lenny (or testing in general) is so stable that > personally, having never run 'Stable', I can't imagine how much more > stable could a di

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