Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:38:59AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade to sarge OK? Or is it too late? you should

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:44:58PM +, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB . Using the aptitude command `find broken', it reports, amongst others, vim as being broken, giving as further details: * vim

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Owen Townend [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DC The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to DC

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:24:45AM +0300, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by

Re: debian sid gnome

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:59:08PM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:21 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: What do you get if you run aptitude -s full-upgrade? (this won't modify your system at all) If it suggests removing packages to solve

Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:13:38AM +0200, Manon Metten [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi Aaron, What's this for kind of 'aptitude why' command you used? frenesi: ~ % aptitude why poppler-utils i cupsys Depends poppler-utils | xpdf-utils When I tried 'aptitude why

Re: Help: Errors from aptitude install

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:33:01PM -0500, Dennis Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Specifically I am trying to install samba and its parts, samba-common samba smbclient smbfs, on Lenny and I keep getting errors like the following. Setting up samba-common (2:3.0.30-2) ...

Re: debian sid gnome

2008-06-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31:16AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi, Since weeks I can't update debian sid as apt-get always wants to remove gnome: apt-get dist-upgrade [...] The following packages will be REMOVED: epiphany-extensions

Re: problem: GNU Screen within gnome-terminal

2008-06-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:21:21PM +0800, Canhua Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Today I find that my problem is probably related to the LC_CTYPE that I set as zh_CN.UTF-8. When I set it as C, the aptitude and mutt doesn't show messed or corupted display any more. Now I am still

Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Aaron Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: My sid box has cupsys and xpdf-utils installed (among a bunch of other things). When I run aptitude safe-upgrade, aptitude runs through its normal prep, followed by many lines of Resolving dependencies...,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:20:54AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I use mutt, and it invokes gpg which tries to grab keys it doesn't already have with the same symptom... up to about 60 seconds of waiting. What I don't know is what's happening during that

Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: available memory. #free -t You may then observe that free memory left is more than slightly different from previous poll, let say something has been lost

Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks for your answer. I was you know hunting for free memory since my system is only having 128MB which tend to be not enough those days (even with Linux). Yes, that's sadly not much RAM

Re: Keychain use no longer avoids password requirement

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:55:40AM -0700, Frank Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Any clues - including references to man pages possibly overlooked - would be appreciated. TIA! In any order you choose, but ASAP, you need to: (a) Subscribe to debian-security-announce:

Re: Keychain use no longer avoids password requirement

2008-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:10:11PM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: In any order you choose, but ASAP, you need to: (a) Subscribe to debian-security-announce: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ (b) Read this security bulletin

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi, Claudia, This is an English-speaking list; if you need help in German, you should contact debian-user-de. Dies ist eine Englishsprechende Liste; wenn Sie Deutsche Hilf brauchen, emailen Sie bitte die Liste debian-user-de. (I apologize to everyone in .de for my German) On Tue, Jun

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, I think, Potato (IOW, I think I was using Grub on Sarge). You could go

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: How to uninstall programs installed in wine? Just a useful tip I've picked up... If the programs don't need to see each other, I suggest using the WINEPREFIX environment variable. $

Re: What packages has aptitude installed on my server?

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:09:53PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: I often do aptitude install package to install a package. Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've

Re: Python problems with a lot of applications.

2008-05-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Dark Nebula [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have a lot of applications broken, and seems the problem is all the same, i suppose. for example when i try launch the applet gmail-notify i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gmail-notify Traceback (most

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:47:20PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Please run the ldconfig command again with the correct syntax. I would furthermore like to see the result of: ldd `which gimp` |

Re: apt/dselect anomaly

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:33:35PM -0400, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I usually keep current with the Debian archive using apt-get. Sometimes, however, I install programs using dselect. After upgrading to the latest Debian archive using apt-get update/upgrade, I got the

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 04:00:30PM +0200, Uwe Bugla [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to adjust a workstation to another monitor. Traditionallly that works by the following command: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. If I

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

2008-05-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:32:58PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 2008-05-16 15:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: E: Couldn't find a changelog for vim/sid

Re: difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:31:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: actually you can do: apt-get install or dist-upgrade --dry-run and it will show you exactly what will happen. since i have started using aptitude for my package manager i now try to use:

Re: packages.org/changelogs is down ?

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-16 13:26, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: (Still) Works here: That was on lenny. If I do / 13:31:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:13:32AM +1000, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point is that my pure

Re: Where does apt store its arch?

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've recently installed a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit system with the --arch=i386 flag to debootstrap, but I can't quite figure out how apt knows that I want to continue downloading i386 debs instead of

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:14:28PM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:23 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: You can delete all the downloaded .deb files by running aptitude clean. I didn't know aptitude had that option. Is there any difference

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:00:03PM -0700, mond [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: received event ac_adapter ACAD 0001 Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: notifying client 2612[106:111] Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: notifying client 2720[0:0] Apr 26

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 07:31:04PM -0700, mond [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 1. I think it is all about X( form the log you can tell). The system is not down. I don,t have another computer home. So I can not ssh when it crashes. But I will test it in office if it crashes. 2. The is no

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:34:59PM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I can get some space back by doing apt-get autoclean. I can get more back by apt-get clean. This deletes lots and lots of files from my system. Judging from du's output, /var/cache/apt/ takes a

Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

2008-04-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0100, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I followed your suggestions. This is the output for running aptitude install xfce4-goodies: $ sudo aptitude install xfce4-goodies Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:43:47AM +0200, Mark Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I'm guessing he has put up some sort of filter and auto response to everyone... That's probably the case. I haven't written on this thread at all, but look what I just found in my spam mailbox: Content

Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

2008-04-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +0100, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following situation of unmet dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:15AM -0500, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that

Re: Question on setting up NFS

2008-04-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06:38PM +1000, Owen Townend [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Do you have the nfs-common package installed? I thought it was nfs-client you needed to connect to an NFS server? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: urgently need help with Debian can't started

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:49:18AM +0800, Pete Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring up Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and password, but then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: n Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I only use Nvidia. Best cards best support although proprietary driver. Unfortunately I think that probably rules out nVidia for me if I

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:20:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:55:58PM +0200, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows: What I'd really like to do is a full-text search with approximate matches on the whole package index that returns packages which might be relevant to blah, with an option to sort

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:58:27AM -0500, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 04/15/2008 09:13 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: I like the current default behavior for bare strings. While I hope this goes without saying, there will probably be a configuration option to disable

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:45:22AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: Did aptitude work on this system in past Debian releases? I use aptitude rarely and only for command-line tests (downloads

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:02:21AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: ... You need to tell in NEWS

Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hello list, I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search. # Background # One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant overhaul of the UI to the search engine; that is, how searches are

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: Hello list, I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search. # Background # One of the things I'd like

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:34:47PM +0200, Kim N. Lesmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:13:30 -0700 Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel. How many readers of this list are using aptitude search as a subcommand in a script? Will you be impacted

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:19:34PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Eclipse is used in graphical user environment only. I wished to find a shell program. :-) In that case, shouldn't you be using ed? (just kidding!!) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:40:33AM +0200, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi and thanks for your reply. I'm not an expert, but I think that packages in testing are just that - under test. Not just the individual packages, but also how they fit in with other packages. I

Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:41:05PM -0700, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked thru man apt.conf, man apt_preferences and man apt-get, but don't see any way to disable this. I use aptitude

Re: Fwd: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:54:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: That's the difference between libraries and apps. An app will be removed if the dependent libraries are removed (by user or Debian), and libraries will be flagged for removal if the *user* removes the

Re: Fwd: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:01:55PM -0700, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if an app is removed from a repository, apt won't tell you. deborphan might, though. Understood so far. But this isn't

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:00:42PM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: this started out as a grep quetion

Re: Help with upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:21:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have recently carried out a dist-upgrade on a long time running i386 debian machine. Somehow the new distro changed its device naming from hda1 to sda1 and now my ide attached harddisk fails to boot! Booting it

Re: regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: this started out as a grep quetion trying to look at a file with out the comments in it i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. but this left me with lots of blank lines. Have you

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:34:12AM +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I wrote: Two further inferences are : (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I assume it uses wget). (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and by the time I

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:48:37AM -0400, Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where did you get that copy of gmfsk from? A couple years ago I had to compile it from source, but I now see that it is a deb package. The package is what I

Re: How do I get aptitude to unhold???

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:43:05PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it! I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to upgrade and I can't get them unheld.

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:35:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:53:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 03/29/08 21:44, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:13:46AM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:13:46AM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: are searching for completely unrelated terms (say, Barack Obama or gravid platypus [0]) more than they used to. Daniel

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:21:25AM -0400, Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: OK. Try that search again. This time add , windows xp (the comma will give you 2 graphs on the same axes), or try , windows vista. I don't think that this is a valid tool for predicting user

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:46:43PM -0600, Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Was 10.1 bad? I wouldn't know. I went straight from 10.0, which was a fairly decent system, to 10.3. Although, the day I read the announcement of SuSE's buy out I got the feeling they wouldn't

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:10:05PM -0400, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: First things first. I typed in many popular search terms into that page, and found that the instance of all were declining. I would also note that this is only *one* search engine. It could simply

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:43:37PM +0800, Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: You can try to put APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM true; into a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. This gets rid of the warning message for CDrom sources, but I am not sure if it will work for your

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:12:58PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:26:19PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. I

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's -- vs DVDs

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:25:08AM -0400, Alan McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Now comes the sick part: I immediately got a prompt: Please insert Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20080217-11:31 into the drive '/cdrom/' and then press enter ! ! ! I

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0500, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my

Re: kinit/resume - what's it mean? how to boot from failed sys??

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 08:30:08PM +, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks for the ideas (eg using liveCD etc)... in the end from initramfs I created /tmp/boot, told dmraid to not activate, and then mounted the (known) /dev/hdaN partition as /tmp/boot and renamed the errant

Re: dhcp3-client automatically removed by aptitude

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:45:40AM -0500, Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: When I did an aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday, aptitude decided to automatically uninstall dhcp3-client, because it was marked as automatically installed, and unused. This left me without a dhcp client.

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:26:19PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: I have these 5 bytes of machine code to disassemble. b8 12 00 cd 10 I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they need a complete

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. Which

Re: [OT] Mail address (was: disassembling machine code)

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:37:23PM +0100, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 2008-03-21 19:29 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say

Re: apt.conf or preferences can work in that case?

2008-03-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:49:57PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have a question, if I uncomment these lines in my sources.list: # shame (Uunstable lenny) #deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-lenny/desktopfx/unstable/ ./ # avant-window-navigator #deb

Re: apt.conf doesn't have effect anymore

2008-03-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40:14PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: #deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Did you mean for that to be commented out? deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free [snip]

Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro

2008-03-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Interesting. This reminds me of some

Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system (was Re: RAID1 Boot Partition)

2008-03-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Browsing the source, /usr/bin/tasksel, shows that selecting standard system ends up running aptitude with a set of search selectors, something like: aptitude --without-recommends -y install

Re: Iceweasel

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:45:36PM +0200, Sebastian Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Tinkering with Scheme and CGI... Iceweasel _insists_ on asking me what I want to do with 'foo.scm' (save it to disk or whatever). Neither IE6 nor Firefox (in Windoze) ask me this question, they

Re: gdb Q.: where do we stand regarding STL debugging?

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:35:46AM -0400, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Just wanted to see if somebody could share some information about where we are regarding debugging programs which use STL. For example, I am not sure how I can print out the values of a two dimensional

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:07:07AM -0400, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:01:50PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Every time I see that kind of message, I just pick the real base package that I want. So does this mean that those metapackages don't

[OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Doug The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover). Larry Did anyone else notice that spamassassin

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:40:57PM -0400, Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. The

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Doug

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:11:39PM +1100, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 3/3/08, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a number of different dhcp clients in Debian; dhclient3, dhclient, and pump are three that come to mind immediately. Theoretically, all of them

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:27:15PM +1100, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try to connect via dhcp by running 'dhclient' as root. That might give some clues. If it works just revert your config. Sometimes the

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Hi all, I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. Writing extended state information... Error! E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:17:50PM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I occasionally even get emails from people who say they use aptitude over other package managers because of this feature, despite the fact that the version of Debian they're running includes my

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:05:29PM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under Options/Dependency Handling by disabling Remove unused packages automatically, or add

Re: C Compiler cannot create executables

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:00:13PM +1100, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I think i did something stupid accidentally apt-get dist-upgrade'd for the first time in 6 months with a compile going in the background, and now when i go to build E the autogen script tells me that gcc

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +, Michael D. Norwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2/21/08, *Zach* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have: (Reading database ... 137921 files and

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:22:21AM +0100, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all. I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:23:31PM -0700, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Makes me wonder if i should check to see if my Overly Fond of Goats list has also been made a Google Group with out me knowing. Sure wouldn't want anyone keeping tabs on those posts. BTW, this bit about

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:54:02PM +, Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:34:14 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: They failed to address my misunderstanding and the fault was mine. My concern arose not from the absence of vuescan (which - as pointed out -

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 20:34:14 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:54:08 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: Check for non-Debian packages on your system by running: aptitude search

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