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Hello,
just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running Debian
6.0 (Squeeze). Lacking access to any kind of console, I was quite
clueless why it wouldn´t come up after what should have been a routine
reboot. I have
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Am 05.12.2012 17:01, schrieb Tom H:
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marcus Blumhagen
marcus.blumha...@web.de wrote:
just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running
Debian 6.0
with maintaining packages, so if I am
underestimating I stand corrected.
Thanks for your time and effort!
[1]
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-latest-2.6/linux-latest-2.6_6etch1/changelog
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Any intelligent fool can make things
(almost) need to remember any command for
decompressing archive files. Just type:
unp archive
and it automagically extracts it, no matter what kind of archive,
provided you have the appropriate archiver program installed.
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Any intelligent fool can make things
to the
security-announce list will miss those security fixes.
Any comments and clarifications will be much appreciated.
[1] http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch
be free extents
in the VG.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction.
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.
Anyone know how I can fix this?
[...]
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote:
On 2/24/07, Marcus Blumhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
When did you try to run resize2fs? Was it before or after lvreduce? Or
could you provide more detail on how you managed to grow / and shrink
/var?
Well let me detail
transitional package and can safely be removed.
Tag: devel::lang:sql, interface::daemon, network::server, protocol::db:mysql,
role::program, special::obsolete, works-with::db
So there is the answer, why you got 5.0 instead of 4.1.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
[...] ^
There is an error, it should read:
VirtualHost *:80
^
[...]
ServerName 84-245-34-233.dsl.cambrium.nl
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent
a .deb too.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein
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to the final ext3 /home took 12 minutes.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction
to be a suboptimal solution for more complex packages as Roberto
wrote there.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction
about play length in some
players). And it does not need to stop here, one can also use sox to
do some additional processing between arecord and oggenc/lame.
Just some ideas of mine. Hopefully this is of help for you.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more
to pull in
the other packages anyway, since I haven't been using apt-get for a
while. But as Kevin already wrote, there is a reason why those
packages shall be upgraded.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch
is reinstallation
from scratch the way to go with Windows?)
Just my 2¢
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction
-file update too.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein
Just realized that dlocate also is not installed by default. Got a
little confused since I was looking for another package in parallel.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage
is right with a little help from the editor.
Just my 2¢
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction
has not worked with Windows Vista yet, then this might be
the way to go for you:
http://www.degredo.net/
I found it in a forum and think it is a really funny aproach. But take
care that Ubuntu won't reveal its real name before your wife is
convinced ;)
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Any intelligent
There is no (not yet?) such thing as
incremental upgrades or binary patches. Anytime a package needs an
upgrade it is done by downloading its complete new version.
So it is a problem (not indeed, it's a feature ;) that all Debian
users experience.
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Any intelligent fool can make
) on the console,
or you can give Synaptic a try as it was already suggested.
Some useful documentation can be found here:
man 1 dpkg
man 8 aptitude
/usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/index.html (found in the package
aptitude-doc-en)
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more
:
$ locate locale | g purge
.. and no joy either.
Then I did a man locale and looked for a purge option (/purge) and
couldn't find anything either.
Is this new with etch/sid .. ?
[...]
It is not new. It is an optional package. Do:
# apt-get install localepurge
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Windows won't do that on its own. But if one
already has a linux installation and uses a bootloader windows will
erase the bootloader record during its installation, but that can be
fixed easily.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
asked for, but as this seems to really be bug of
OpenOffice you should report that bug and include in your report as
much information as possible, so it can be fixed. Maybe others also
suffer from this.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex
it is a windows manager in the words' sense, because it
maximizes the usage of the screen by arranging (managing) your
windows.
For me it was definitely worth the 1 hour learning time. Never want
to miss it anymore.
Just my 2¢
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
compliant, is to install
the package 'acpid'. It contains a script /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and a
symbolic link to that (/etc/acpi/events/powerbutton). With that you can
just hit the power button of your machine and your system will
gracefully do a shutdown to halt and then power off.
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:30:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[...]
i386 + netinst
[...]
I just downloaded the daily build of i386 netinstall using wget and it
worked for me, the MD5 check was OK. But I also have a faster
connection (DSL). So this is not exactly comparable I think.
[...]
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-- Albert Einstein
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news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested
package but only _removes_ the dependencies.
Guess I will then use plain apt again.
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(The one and only Optionator)
I'll be back!
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always wanted.
Actually man aptitude 2/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused did show
nothing. I had to set LANG=C to get what you see.
Sadly yet another outdated internationalized man page. :(
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FYI, the undesirable behaviour of debfoster2aptitude is caused by
a bug I just filed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409783
debfoster2aptitude calls debfoster but regardless of the exit
decision of the user it syncs /var/lib/debfoster/keepers to
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. In
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
[...]
Back to the 2.6.18 kernel that I set to download, and install last night.
This
morning synaptic was complaining with a post install script error 9. Don't
know what that is.
[...]
I am also not familiar with the exit
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[...]
Downloading RC1 and the dailybuild from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
[...]
Which architecture did you choose? What kind of image (netinst,
business card, floppy)?
I could then download and check here the
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Atis wrote:
[...]
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
[...]
Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again
everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no
symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were KNN[gkwx]dm links
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[...] or am
I really *that* slow on typing? ;)
gtypist? :-)
[...]
Thanks a lot for the hint about gtypist. :-)
Up to now I used ktouch but hated, that it pulls in that many
dependencies since I don't use KDE. So now I caould trim
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again
everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no
symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were KNN[gkwx]dm links in
the appropriate /etc/rc*.d invoke
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
[...]
By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB,
progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it will just remove
progA. I would like to remove progC and depenF as well, without removing
unused
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:27:04PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
[...]
$ locale
[...]
LANG=en_CA.ISO-8859-1
[...]
# locale
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
[...]
Why the difference, and what do I change to fix it?
Hi Stephen,
maybe it is set in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. You
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:37AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
[...]
It works just dandy now. Any idea why 'LC_ALL=' is blank after running
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' or is that anything to worry about ?
[...]
LC_ALL is unset because it has higher priority than LANG and all other
LC_*. If it were
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff
that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally
I did not remove a single library myself.
I ran deborphan -z but at a glance it looks like
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:54:43AM +0100, wrote:
Also debfoster2aptitude (provided by debfoster) might be of interest
for you. debfoster2aptitude because debfoster is deprecated by
aptitude, but this way you have can migrate your debfoster decision to
aptitude. It can be run in interactive
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:51:28PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I have a question though. I have a 2.6.17 kernel in /var/cache/apt/archives.
This was from the archives I copied from my other Etch install. Synaptic now
only shows a 2.6.18 kernel available, and I saw someone had a problem with
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments
that won't mess up apt..?
If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as
gpdf, gimp, and mozilla.
You should be able to achieve that goal by
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual
software selection without backing up /etc.
Oops, of course it has to be ... without backing up /usr.
Anyway, mostly the other posters already wrote similar
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA
hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message:
No partitionable media found
Hello Ogya,
I guess your problem is
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
I'm currently using Debian Etch (Testing) on my notebook, and it is
fairly stable in a good sense of the word (Those 100+ release critical
bugs really aren't bugs that affect me, so my system is perfectly stable
to my
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set
everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing.
What now?
By default the channels which have a mute switch are muted. Did you
check in
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:02:47AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mutt for a while and just
go myself into more trouble. IIRC, the thing to do is set all your
headers and envelope headers in mutt and then allow
local_sender_retain and put
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:39:07PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
It works fine now :-)
but apt-get update complains about security: public key not available ?
You can get all the information you need here:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html
Question is if you trust the key ;) But you
Hi Justin,
You might want to send an installation report:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
So the developers get to know about your experience. Also your
suggestions should be included.
Until eventual changes happen you can check the integrity of the iso
respectivly
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
Or was at least. base-config seems to have been made obsolete.
Is there somewhere a hint stating it's obsolete? In etch it still
exists, but since it is not essential you might have removed it and
hence don't find the executable.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:43:03PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
I was wanting to use it to add a mirror site to the apt sources.lst
file.
As already stated you might be better off just using your favourite
text editor and add the mirror by hand. You can look at the already
existing
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:37:38PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
Yes, I think you're headed in the wrong direction. I never had to do any of
the
things in your checklist. As the previous responder suggested, make sure that
mutt is sending out correctly to any e-mail address. I think once mutt sends
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:10:44PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
What spam filter? You can subscribe to the pseudo-list whitelist to
get passed Debian's filters.
Thanks for the hint about the whitelist.
A test mail to yourself is getting through? Did you tell mutt what
address to use?
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:47:45PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Then there are the new names and logos themselves. What is an
Iceape? How should this beast be pronounced?
As I read the name it is a combination of ice and ape. Both can
be looked up in a dictionary. So now instead of a
Now all works fine I hope :)
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
So I decided in the past to get a package and so on... and so on...
and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a smart app. that says:
this you decided to get then but do you still need it?
Hi,
there already is such an app.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:05:58AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote:
My understanding is that IceApe (pardon the studly caps) is an
unbranded version of SeaMonkey. Thus we get:
Firefox - Iceweasel
Thunderbird - Icedove
Mozilla suite - Iceape
Oops, of
I am really sorry for abusing the list in this way, but somehow I seem
to be unable to send a normal reply to a topic.
Wanted to see whether I can get through anyway.
Hello,
I have got some trouble posting to this list using my prefered MUA mutt
(1.5.13-1.1) and MTA exim4-daemon-light (4.63-12).
But when I use IceDove it works just fine.
Here is what I think is happening:
Some of the headers are not correctly added respectively removed, when sending
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