conflicts in stretch

I am running sid/stretch and noticed that for some time now, around 200 packages have been "kept back" when doing "apt-get upgrade". Also installing some other packages (e.g. sqlitebrowser) does not work unless I uninstall some 64 other packages. Is this due to some library conflict? Will it be

mod-security update

After the latest update of mod-security for debian squeeze, I am receiving the error message: Syntax error on line 52 of /etc/apache2/mod-security/modsecurity.conf: Invalid command 'SecRequestBodyLimitAction', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Which partition is which

I have a computer with windows xp and two ntfs partitions. One of them (D:) is empty and I would like to use it for debian. My problem is to figure out which partition corresponds to the empty partition when installing debian, i.e. which partition I can modify. The partitions appear as follows in

Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

Hi! I am trying to install debian on a lenovo x61 with an intel 4965AGN built in wifi card from a usb stick. The installation fails when trying to find wireless access points. It then asks me to enter ESSID and password which I do. It then does something with DHCP but still fails to find a

NFS takes up local disk space

Hello, I have a weird problem with NFS on Debian amd64. It appears to take up the same amount of space on the local disk as on the remote nfs-mounted one. Only noticed this when my root partition was filling up (the nfs mountpoint is on /mnt/nfs which is on the root partition). There is probably

Re: NFS takes up local disk space

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:33:21AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 31.08.06 15:27, Jens Tobiska wrote: I have a weird problem with NFS on Debian amd64. It appears to take up the same amount of space on the local disk as on the remote nfs-mounted one. Only noticed this when my

split large files

When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've found an inconsistency. The original file consists of number - one per line - total 5*10^8. After `split -l 1000 foo' I have 50 files. In some of them, however a dot has been replaced by `'. Is this a known problem? `foo'

Re: split large files

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've found an inconsistency. The original file consists of number - one per line - total 5*10^8. After `split -l