Re: openssl 101-g not in packages.gz

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-08 20:25 +0200, Hans wrote: > Maybe I am wrong, but it looks like the fixed openssl 101-g is in the repo, > but > not in the packages.gz of debian/jessie. > > So (if I see this correct), debian/jessie will not see and update the newest > version. It should happen with the next mirro

Re: dpkg -i first.dep second.dep: installs but does not configure one?

2014-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-03 14:09 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 03.04.2014 11:46, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I have two packages, first and second. Package second depend on >> package first. I have to use dpkg (I don't use apt, because there is >> no package server / no online lin

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-02 15:54 +0200, Klaus wrote: > On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote: >> Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP >> hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). >> During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the >> effect t

Re: clean upgrade 32 -> 64?

2014-03-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-29 18:35 +0100, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Thanks! Finally got the new machine set up to try the crossgrading, and > everything worked just fine. There's just one issue remaining: a huge > number of i386 packages on the machine show dependencies on either apt > or dpkg, so any attempt to

Re: openssl without ssl2 switch

2014-03-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-25 17:23 +0100, Veljko wrote: > I wanted to test if ssl2 is turned off on server, so I tried with this > command line on my desktop: > > openssl s_client -connect server_ip:443 -ssl2 > > but I'm getting > > "unknown option -ssl2 > usage: s_client args" > > although displayed list of su

Re: Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-24 22:03 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:29:02 -0300 > André Nunes Batista wrote: > >>Also, >> which bug number was assigned to you bug report? > > Mine is 741652, but I had previously found 741464 which refers to a boot > problem with grub 2.02~beta2.7. #741464 appears to

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-22 20:14 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 22 Mar 2014 at 17:50:11 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 03/22/2014 16:52: >> > In order to keep the output of the X-session when starting with the command >> > startx, something like the following snippet could be in

Re: Delay between architectures for new package version?

2014-03-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-21 14:56 +0100, The Wanderer wrote: > A new package version that reportedly contains a fix I need has just hit > unstable - as in, literally less than four hours ago. (I ordinarily > track testing, but I occasionally cherry-pick something from unstable > for specific purposes.) > > Howe

Re: Automatic partition creation, root partition too small

2014-03-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-03-19 13:22 +0100, André wrote: > When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root > partition of about 320Mb. > > It maybe enough to start, but this is too small after a while, for > many reasons: Indeed, this has been reported before and is worked upon[1]. Cheers,

Re: day two question on installing packages on wheezy

2014-02-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-26 18:11 +0100, Kirt Odle wrote: > Can I get someone to clearly explain to me ( a Debian newbie ) how to > make aptitude download tshark and ALL of its dependencies, in a single > operation ?? "aptitude install tshark", or if you really want to only download and not install tshark, "ap

Re: Third-Party Software Needs Non-Debian Format for Kernel Version

2014-02-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-22 00:20 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > I have downloaded some proprietary software that I want to install onto a > 64-bit Debian machine. The software is written for 64-bit linux, but the > kernel version reported, for example, by uname (and perhaps by some system > call that the compi

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: > > > glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: > release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 > > Can someone explain what's this about ? It's glibtop complaining a

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-14 13:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 06:59 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> I still cringe when I think of the first time I replaced ethernet card >> in a server and udev changed the name > > During setting up Arch Linux with systemd the device name switched from

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

2014-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > I tried systemd - booted really fast, but it didn't honor any console > font settings I had. I groaned and reverted back realising, after seeing > quite a bit of discussion, that there was another setup to learn! In > this case the learning would

Re: apt-get remove/purge with regex gives unexpected result

2014-02-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-12 17:25 +0100, rpr nospam wrote: > In order to uninstall all libreoffice packages I ran the following > apt-get command with a simple regular expression: > > $ sudo apt-get remove 'libreoffice.*' > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information...

Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

2014-02-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-11 07:20 +0100, Pablo Zuñiga wrote: > We have completed the preparation of the 3.14-rc2 kernel, is cooked and > stored in > https://github.com/ed00m/kernel2Debian/tree/master/3.14/3.14-rc2-amd64 You might want to read the license of the Linux kernel, it states that if you distribute b

Re: assertion fail in dia

2014-01-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-25 20:01 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have a crash on dia ( 0.97.2-8 ) because of some assertion which > fail: > > ** (dia-normal:3702): CRITICAL **: dia_renderer_set_size: assertion > `irenderer != NULL' failed I think that's bug #704646¹, allegedly fixed in 0.97.2-

Re: user activity tracking

2014-01-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-16 18:20 +0100, Mike McClain wrote: > dpkg -s can't tell me what ap creates/uses this file. > /home/mike/.local/share/recently-used.xbel Of course it cannot, what happens in your home directory is not dpkg's business. > It tracks my activity in X like a history file but doesn't se

Re: lots of udevd "failed to execute" at boot time

2014-01-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-16 19:20 +0100, rudu wrote: > $ dmesg | grep -i failed | tail > [ 16.255858] udevd[1999]: failed to execute > /lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' > socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory That's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b

Re: sudo 1.8.9p3-1 in Debian sid - infinite loop?

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-14 19:47 +0100, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Le 14/01/2014 19:24, Florent Peterschmitt a écrit : >> >> I think there is something like an infinite loop in the latest sudo in >> Debian sid. >> >> Issuing a sudo -s make sudo consuming 100% CPU. That has been noticed by several people,

Re: Modified conffile not detected on package upgrade

2014-01-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-11 13:20 +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 11.01.2014 11:53, schrieb Dominique Dumont: >> Did you change the content of the conffile in the package ? >> (i.e. the content of the *delivered* configuration file between package >> version n and version n-1) >> > No. The configuration file

Re: Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find

2014-01-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-01-02 19:22 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to > build a project that was building a few weeks ago. > > ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM BUILD LOG--- > libtool: compile: g++ ... -m32 -fmessage-length=0 -O0 -fPIC -ggdb3 > -fvar-tracki

Re: Packages removed from testing

2013-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-30 10:58 +0100, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > please, it is some time ago, when some packages was removed from > testing. I wait some time, because this sometime happens due > dependencies, but now it take long time and i am not able to find the > reason (qa pages, hint, etc...). Usually you

Re: Borked upgrade

2013-12-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-29 10:18 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 28 dec 13, 16:34:30, Frank McCormick wrote: > ... >> >Unpacking mate-polkit-common (1.6.0-1) ... >> >dpkg: error processing archive >> >/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): >> > trying to overwrite >> >'/

Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

2013-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-21 20:53 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, > such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using GNOME, this worked fine > between gnome-terminal and other applications. How exactly did you copy the text?

Re: How to load non-free firmware driver

2013-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-21 16:44 +0100, Robert Parker wrote: > I have a USB wifi dongle which does not work. > dmesg gives me 'agent aborted loading htc_9271.fw(not found?)' > I do have that driver because I downloaded the non-free firmware tarball on > anothe machine. It is also contained in the firmware-ath

Re: libdrm-nouveau2/libdrm-radeon1 installed as requirement to libgl1-mesa-dri

2013-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-12-07 17:06 +0100, Ivan Kovnatsky wrote: > I have blindly (I guess/installed and forgot about it) installed on > my laptop these packages as requirements to libgl1-mesa-dri: libdrm-intel1, > libdrm-nouveau2, libdrm-radeon1. OK, first one libdrm-intel1 is what I really > need: > [...] > Wh

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 18:33 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Here the difference is that "apt-get dist-upgrade" insists on pulling in >> any removed essential packages, while "aptitude full-upgrade" leaves >> those alone. Both

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 17:38 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Florian Lindner wrote: >> root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade >> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. >> but apt-get >> root@xxx:~# apt-get dist-upgrade >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> upstart >> The following NEW package

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-01 19:39 +0100, Tom H wrote: > So the "bad" variables are still documented in the aptitude docs and > the "good" variables are undocumented except in the changelog. :( There seems to be a misunderstanding, the aptitude documentation clearly states that Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportan

Re: jessie: enigmail breaks (?) icedove

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 20:44 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > I have recently noticed that it is no longer possible to install > enigmail from Debian (Jessie) repositories without uninstalling > icedove. > Aptitude reports: > >"enigmail breaks icedove" > > This is puzzling because enigmail without icedove i

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 18:21 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > [...] > > Harry wrote: >>> It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into >>> maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d. >>> >>&

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-31 13:42 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 31.10.2013 13:12, Tom H a écrit : > >> Set 'Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "false";' in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" and >> check whether the behavior changes. > > Just did the change: > I added a file name "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/keep_suggests"

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-28 11:38 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > First, you did mean to put `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line > right? Yes. > I forgot one aspect of having `nouveau.noaccel=1' on the kernel line. > > It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into > maintenance mode. T

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-25 03:23 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> You could boot with the nomodeset kernel parameter, which should give >> you the vesa driver under X. Alternatively, boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 >> to disable acceleration. > > Where would

Re: Missing build logs

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-24 22:18 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Why is it that build logs of currently available Sid-packages are > sometimes unavailable at the package status page on buildd.debian.org? Because they have been built by the uploader. Changing so that all packages are built on the b

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-24 19:09 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:50:37PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Before getting into some of the suggestions let me first make sure I'm >> even running the nouveau driver. Looking a little closer at aptitude >> output, it could be indicating th

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-23 14:26 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > setup: > Running Debian testing > Video card (from lspci): > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce > FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: > Micro-Star International ... >

Re: packages for amd64 and i386 at a different version

2013-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-18 17:54 +0200, Jari Fredrisson wrote: > I can't install or update ANYTHING in my wheezy right now. > > Whatever I try, there is always this: > > dpkg: error processing libcurl3:amd64 (--configure): > package libcurl3:amd64 7.26.0-1+wheezy4 cannot be configured because > libcurl3:i386

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-16 11:46 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > I plan to use Debian on a virtual server where I can't control the > kernel version, that is 2.6.32. > > What is the minimum kernel version for the upcoming Jessie? Currently 2.6.32, the version in Squeeze (oldstable). > Can I rely > on that th

Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

2013-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-08 19:06 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay > with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less > outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is not > a need but a question

Re: fglrx-driver missing on jessie

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-05 18:49 +0200, Enrico Polesel wrote: > I've just install debian jessie on a notebook and I'm not able to > install fglrx-driver (there are only the legacy version) > > According to packages.debian.org[1] that packages is not longer > available on jessie and I don't want to download it

Re: using less in a bash script, screen blanking, alternate screen

2013-09-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-08 09:53 +0200, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > OK, I have the following script (reduced, just enough to demonstrate > the problem): > > --- test.sh --- > #!/bin/bash > cmd="apt-cache search debian-installer | sort | egrep --color=always > -i debian-installer" > #tput nrrmc # line 3 > #less -R

Re: how to remove libaudit0 and install libaudit1?

2013-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-06 22:30 +0200, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I'm on debian-testing and recently libaudit1 entered testing and I'm > able to upgrade to it due to some issues. > > See :- > > $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Personally I find full-upgrade unnecessary and only use safe-upgrade. > The following NEW

Re: Reg: Error in apt-get install in libstdc++ package

2013-09-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-09-03 18:15 +0200, Balamurugan wrote: > After installing, I was about to install g++. Before installing g++, I > tried installing libstdc++ and I got the below error. Can anyone help? > > root@debian:/home/user# apt-get install libstdc++ > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependenc

Re: Strange libs

2013-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-31 21:15 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi folks, > > since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me. > These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package > "libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs. > > Can someone enlighten m

Re: file system analogue of blkid.

2013-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-21 16:49 +0200, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > blkid gives the salient parameters of a partition. > Is there an analogous command yielding parameters > of a filesystem? Hypothetically, > fsid /dev/sda1 > yielding type of filesystem, whether it is bootable, > number of inodes, size of bl

Re: Fake fulfilled dependency without dummy package

2013-08-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-17 18:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > IIRC there's a command that can fake, that an unmet dependency is > fulfilled. I already searched for apt, dpkg, aptitude regarding to this > subject, but had no success. With dpkg you can --force-depends, but then apt will not be happy about the s

Re: Problem with xserver-xorg-video-nouveau after upgrade to Wheezy

2013-08-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-08-04 09:45 +0200, Mozilla Firefox wrote: > Hi, recentely I upgrade to wheezy. After the upgrade I have problem with > nouveau driver. > As I move my mouse, artifacts of the pointer are left all over the screen. > See this image to understand http://i.imgbox.com/accFOaW4.png > > I have ma

Re: Short script which worked in Lenny but does not in Squeeze.

2013-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-24 19:44 +0200, Ken Heard wrote: > My amateur's attempt at scripting has come to grief. The script in > question reads as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > # Shell script to create a tgz file for the contents of the > # /usr/local/bin directory. > # Start by creating a variable with the current

Re: Strange Problem with Executable File

2013-07-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-22 21:47 +0200, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have installed Debian v 7.1.0 and Debian Testing in 2 different > implementations of VMWare Player on my 64 bit laptop to use as test > beds before deploying software to my 7.1.0 production machine. > > I have run into a rather strange proble

Re: Has Wine been removed from Debian?

2013-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-18 17:38 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > David Guntner: >> >> Running 6.0.7. This morning, I did an aptitude update, followed by: >> >>> # aptitude safe-upgrade >>> Resolving dependencies... >>> The following packages will be REMOVED: >>> libwine{u} libwine-alsa{u} libwine-cms{u} lib

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 22:08 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> The postinst does rewrite /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz >> however, which might explain the problem. Does it help to move that >> file out of the way and recreate it with "set

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 20:49 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2013-07-14 19:52 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> What does "setupcon -v" print? > > It prints the followings: > Configuring /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty5 /dev

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 19:52 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2013-07-14 19:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> my system is Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid). >>> >>> In the file /etc/default/keyboard the foll

Re: keyboard configuration doesn't works after SID upgrade

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 19:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > my system is Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid). > > In the file /etc/default/keyboard the followings setup is present: > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="hu,hr,rs" > XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" > XKBOPTIONS="grp:rwin_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_

Re: squeeze -> wheezy problem

2013-07-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-07-14 13:47 +0200, Philippe Monroux wrote: > Today I've upgraded my squeeze to wheezy. > > But I can only startx on root user. > > On normal user I get the following message : > > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file

Re: Haswell Core i5 4670 & Asus H87-PRO

2013-06-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-30 10:23 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > I'm going to replace my 6 years old desktop computer with new one, but > I wonder if Haswell Core i5 4670 & Asus H87-PRO combination is > compatible with Debian Wheezy (7.1) so I have some question : > > - is integrated GPU in Haswell Core i5 c

Re: "termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-28 21:24 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: > On 06/28/2013 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: >> >>> Noticed that "termcap-compat" is referenced in one of the FAQ >>> questions on the website >>>

Re: "termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ

2013-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote: > Noticed that "termcap-compat" is referenced in one of the FAQ > questions on the website > (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.txt, > 4.7). The package does not exist on Wheezy, nor apparently (according > to the package hist

Re: wheezy, systemd and preload

2013-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-27 12:58 +0200, Gernot Super wrote: > preload doesn't seem to get started with systemd on boot, any hints > are very appreciated! > > more info: > > root@debian:/# systemctl start preload.service So you can start the service manually, it seems. > root@debian:/# systemctl enable preloa

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 20:59 +0200, Doug wrote: > Not sure what you mean.."free" as in you don't pay for it, or "free" as > in open source? Always the latter, this is what Debian is about after all. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 19:47 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:28:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: >> >> > For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver >> >> I'm afraid you are a bit c

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 19:03 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > For what it's worth, I tried the Free nVidia driver I'm afraid you are a bit confused, there is no such thing. At least not a free driver *from* nVidia. > (xvideo-xorg-video-nvidia) And this package does not exist, there is xserver-xorg-video-nvidi

Re: upgrade to linux-image-3.9.1 breaks nvidia proprietary driver

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-23 18:55 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 22 iun 13, 19:02:20, CHK Webmaster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I write here cause I'm not sure where report this issue. It happens when >> upgrading my system via apt-get. The upgrade includes >> linux-image-3.9.1-amd64 but does not include nvidia

Re: Wy no clang in jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-19 13:27 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Squeeze, wheezy and sid seem to have clang packages but no jessie. It > seems clang was removed from jessie at 2013-06-04 but I could not find > a reason. Why doesn't jessie have a clang package? http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clang/news/201306

Re: dpkg error, `aptitude safe-upgrade` leaves zsh unconfigured

2013-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-09 10:10 +0200, John Magolske wrote: > After an `aptitude safe-upgrade` I'm getting the following, which > leaves zsh unconfigured. Any suggestions about how to untangle this? > > * > > % sudo aptitude install zsh > The following NEW packages will be installed: > zsh-common{a} > The f

Re: Unusual behavior

2013-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-08 21:25 +0200, Verde Denim wrote: > I've been running Wheezy for a few months now and lately (seemingly at > random times) I get a dialog popping up telling me that "Authentication > is required to update packages". When I view the details in the dialog, > it shows the Action as - > or

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 21:49 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Reinstall the xserver-xorg-core and libgl1-mesa-glx packages, those >> contain files which are overwritten by the Nvidia installer. > > I tried that, didn't help. Well, I tried dpkg-reconfi

Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-31 20:13 +0200, Joe Riel wrote: > After upgrading to Wheezy, I attempted to install an nvidia driver. It > didn't work (X didn't come up). Using the Nvidia installer is not recommended, better use the packages in non-free. > I managed to revert to using the > nouveau driver, by remov

Re: X.Org X Server 1.12.4 segfault in jessie: howto report?

2013-05-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-29 19:01 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > In Jessie running the Nvidia driver and Virtualbox 4.2.12 I > occasionally get an X segfault, like this: > > http://pastebin.com/Jp6KQytw > > Is this reportable as a bug? Not in Debian, unless you can also reproduce it with Nouveau. For Nvidia s

Re: Crossgrade to Amd64

2013-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-26 20:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 26 mai 13, 11:38:36, David Baron wrote: >> I followed the instructions on >> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Are_cross-grades_possible >> >> Needed one more :amd64 package which I installed, then installed the dpkg- >> amd64 suc

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-25 19:19 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> Is there some dependencies regarding kernel and wheezy GNU system? >>> In other words, must I have on this hardware ( Bubba

[OT] root (was: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?)

2013-05-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-23 19:26 +0200, root wrote: Argh. That should teach me not to start an Emacs session as root under X. I completely forgot that this Emacs was a bit special, started Gnus and even replied here… Sorry, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian > Squeeze operating system so far. > I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: > http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2518 > > Now since Wheezy is out

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-21 04:03 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> MIPS and ARM machines don't have a traditional BIOS either, > > Yes, that was my point. You'll probably never see UEFI on these > platforms. So LILO could be used basical

Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?

2013-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 10:45 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 mai 13, 22:35:03, Celejar wrote: >> >> The release notes are actually somewhat unclear, and I was considering >> filing a bug report against them. The implication is that there's no >> recommendation against upgrading from an X session

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 10:44 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2013 1:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote: >>> >>>> The Debian developers (and many other distros)

Re: vga=ask doesn't work anymore

2013-05-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote: > >> The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their >> support behind GRUB2 which allows for (please correct me, if I'm wrong) >> features like UEFI support and better support for au

Re: Wheezy missing IDE modules

2013-05-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-13 04:08 +0200, rlwbonsai wrote: > Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy resulted in stuttering video when > trying to watch a DVD movie with gxine. (The upgrade left totem > totally unusable so don't know if the stutter occurs or not) The > drive is an ATA/ATAPI-4 compliant drive capable of

Re: lsb_release showing Wheezy after rolling on to Jessie via 'testing'

2013-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-10 22:21 +0200, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > Have been using 'testing' in sources.list​ > > ​before Wheezy Release, and updated lately via "apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade" and then "apt-get dist-upgrade" continued with a reboot. > > But lsb_release -a or /etc/issue or /proc/version ar

Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)

2013-05-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-09 13:21 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: > Am Donnerstag 09 Mai 2013, 12:59:20 schrieb Sven Joachim: >> On 2013-05-09 11:41 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: >> >> > after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command >> > "apt-show-versions |

Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)

2013-05-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-09 11:41 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote: > after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command > "apt-show-versions | egrep -v wheezy" and I was suprised to see the > following result: > > gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-6 installed: No available version in archive > libbind9-40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 20:59 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 May 2013 at 20:05:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: > >> Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? > > Hey, guess what 'upgrade 32 bit debian to 64 bit' brings up in a search > engine? > >http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:38 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from >> > Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. >> > But also all of the

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:20 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from > Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. > But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days > and if no one finds any reason to stop

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 12:14 +0200, J B wrote: > When trying to install the skype 4.1 I get > > #dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb > > (Reading database ... 227156 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace skype 4.0.0.8-1 (using skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb) > ... > Un

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 11:09 +0200, Valaki Valahol wrote: > I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new distro > contains > more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on the DVD image download page > I can download only 3 DVD ISO images... How can that be ? Probably because of t

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 10:55 +0200, J B wrote: > I like to have multiarch support in my debian wheezy to install > latest skype (4.1). > > What are the steps to do so ? Two of them: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update Please read the Multiarch HOWTO[1] for detailed information. > Do I need

Re: Wget difference

2013-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-02 15:34 +0200, francis picabia wrote: > I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direct Link" > feature on the sourceforge projects. > > For example, today, I downloaded scamp: > > $ wget > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scamp/scamp/scamp-5.6/scamp-5.6.tar.gz?

Re: gtk-config

2013-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-01 15:05 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: >> , >> | The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is defined to >> | be the name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. >> ` >> > pardon! > of course it should be without extension "pc". I had removed "

Re: gtk-config

2013-05-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-01 10:46 +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > before this time i was using for compilling my gtk applications next command: > #gcc myprogram.c `pkg-config gtk+-3.0.pc --libs --cflags` > but now it doesnt work: I don't think that this ever worked, really. You need to strip the t

Re: Equivalent of --append-to-version for deb-pkg ?

2013-04-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-17 18:04 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > What is deb-pkg or where did you get it from? I couldn't find any such binary > name in any package in Debian via a search at packages.debian.org. It's a target in the Linux Makefile that produces a linux-image (and linux-headers, linux-libc-de

Re: Problem with xz on very small system

2013-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-12 16:59 +0200, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> David Goodenough wrote: >> > I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. >> > >> > Unpacking replacement traceroute ... >> > dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

2013-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-04-10 16:46 +0200, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Since you are willing and able to reinstall from scratch, it may be worth > trying the next release of Debian, currently considered 'testing', known > as 'wheezy'. You can get wheezy Release Candidate 1 release installation > media from here: >

Re: problem with apt repository

2013-03-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-18 21:54 +0100, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > I have a problem with one of my private apt repositories. I created > the repo using reprepro on my public www directory. > I can access the repository with my browser (you can find it below > http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian ). Aft

Re: apt - missing trustedkeys.gpg to verify source package

2013-03-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-15 20:23 +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > when downloading source packages, I see error regarding > trustedkeys.gpg: > > $ apt-get source mousepad > [...] > Fetched 454 kB in 0s (1,050 kB/s) > gpgv: keyblock resource `/home/me/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': > file o

Re: Firefox is too eager

2013-03-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-14 19:43 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > There are some recent behaviors that I find invasive: > > When I open a link in a new tab, I often get a new > window as well, frequently to the same site, that > I have to close. > > Some are windows from news sites, asking me to subscribe. > > When I

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 23:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you >> do >> that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace >> i

Re: has your squeeze ever crashed?

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 18:59 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: >> >> Further, it's still not a big thing. Gnash, while certainly not up to par >> with Flash itself, is fine for most usage. Depends on your usage, but my impression is that Gnash does not wor

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