Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Rösch
Hi Seb For the last several days, nvidia-glx fails to upgrade with apt-get install nvidia-glx (or apt-get update): You must build the new nvidia-kernel-169.07 version of this package. Due a bug, already reported, you must have a link to fix a renaming problem: ln -s

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-14 Thread Koen Tavernier
Hi Dean, Dean Hamstead wrote: after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. The package lm-sensors uses the eeprom module to get temperature readings from motherboard sensors. I have seen Dell servers

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-14 Thread Seb
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:12:23 +0100, Thomas Rösch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ln -s /usr/src/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2 /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-source.tar.bz2 Now you can build the package. :-) Thanks everybody, this indeed allowed 'm-a a-i nvidia' to finish the job and work around the bug.

Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all I screwed up my Gnome Terminal setup some how... on my workstation desktop. My system: Debian Lenny Kernel: 2.6.22-3-amd64 Video: Nvidia 8600 GT Video Drv. NVIDIA 169.07 My Problems: Gnome terminal has unreadable fonts..TOO small. The terminal will not close, when clicking on X, and

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:13:24AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: you need to make the kernel module. its easy, if module-assistant (m-a) isnt installed, just go apt-get install module-assistant (may not be with a -) then do this... m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia Unfortunately it

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:38:59AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: Here is what I found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /etc/apt total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-25 14:28 apt.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
Here is what I found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /etc/apt total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-25 14:28 apt.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2524 2006-11-14 08:43 apt-file.conf -rw--- 1 root root0

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:58:25AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. Power loss should never reset the BIOS. A power surge perhaps, or a defective motherboard could.

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:02:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: Wow, a lot of output, but I suspect the first few lines tell the tale: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# env|grep 4001 http_proxy=http://localhost:4001 HTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:4001 [EMAIL

weired message

2008-01-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, after the last update I get some strange messages in stdout during boot: no file /var/lib/misc/service.db or no file /var/lib/misc/protocol.db I guess, this belongs to libnss-db (please correct me, if I am wrong!) and I suppose, these are databases. Can I generate these databases

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
Wow, a lot of output, but I suspect the first few lines tell the tale: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# env|grep 4001 http_proxy=http://localhost:4001 HTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:4001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# grep 4001 -r /etc/ grep: /etc/alternatives/javac: No such file

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-14 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 14 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:58:25AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. Power loss should never reset the BIOS. A

Mute key not working anymore on T61

2008-01-14 Thread Cyril Jaquier
Hi all, Since a few days (weeks?), my mute key does not work anymore. Volume up and down work as expected. xev just says nothing while pressing this key. I reported this here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460564 However, I can't remember if the mute key used to generate

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
For discontinuing the proxy, I guess I can go into /etc/rc*.d/* and comment out all the lines mentioning port 4001; would reboot be necessary after that? Otherwise, how would one go about fixing the proxy so that it does work? Thanks, Don On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: For discontinuing the proxy, I guess I can go into /etc/rc*.d/* and comment out all the lines mentioning port 4001; would reboot be necessary after that? Otherwise, how would one go about fixing the proxy so that it does

Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread thunder7
From: Jack Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:02:28AM -0600 Hi, all I screwed up my Gnome Terminal setup some how... on my workstation desktop. My system: Debian Lenny Kernel: 2.6.22-3-amd64 Video: Nvidia 8600 GT Video Drv. NVIDIA 169.07 My Problems: Gnome

Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:02 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: --snip-- My Problems: Gnome terminal has unreadable fonts..TOO small. The terminal will not close, when clicking on X, and cntrl++ will not work. Xterm seems to work. OK /var/log/Xorg.0.log has one failure: (EE) Failed to load

Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:41 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:02 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: --snip-- My Problems: Gnome terminal has unreadable fonts..TOO small. The terminal will not close, when clicking on X, and cntrl++ will not work. Xterm seems to work. OK

Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:41 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 08:02 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: --snip-- My Problems: Gnome terminal has unreadable fonts..TOO small. The terminal will not close, when clicking on X, and cntrl++ will not work. Xterm seems to work. OK

Re: Corrupted Gnome terminal

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:01 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: --snip-- Below is the output of the metacity command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ metacity [1] 5844 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Window manager warning: AltButton3 found in configuration d atabase is not a valid value for keybinding

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:47:51 -0500 From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get problem Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:58:30 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org On Mon, Jan

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:47:51 -0500 From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get problem Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:58:30

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: For discontinuing the proxy, I guess I can go into /etc/rc*.d/* and

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 1/14/08, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: For

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Don Montgomery([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: --snip-- Debian doesn't proxy by default so you must have a proxy package installed. If you don't want it, remove it. that sounds like a good idea; perhaps I could google up proxy

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 1/14/08, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Montgomery([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: --snip-- Debian doesn't proxy by default so you must have a proxy package installed. If you don't want it, remove it. that

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:49:26PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: For

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:02:45PM -0600, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: On 1/14/08, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon,

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 1/14/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:02:45PM -0600, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: On 1/14/08, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:

Re: apt-get problem

2008-01-14 Thread Don Montgomery
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: On 1/14/08, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM