On 2011-02-17 12:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:39:53AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-2.6-amd64 : Depends: linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 but it is
not installable
E: Broken packages
I would like to try
On 2011-02-17 20:02 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote:
# apt-get install build-essentials
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essentials
I think I am having some repository issue??
The above error is no
On 2011-02-16 23:07 +0100, Joey Hess wrote:
Peter Smith wrote:
Last four lines of debootstrap.log:
-
Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:823: tarobject: Assertion `r ==
On 2011-02-15 11:09 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
how come hyperlatex depends on emacs22 ?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571122
Not an easy to solve bug, it seems.
Sven
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On 2011-02-14 19:59 +0100, Erin Brinkley wrote:
I don't appreciate getting hate mail from people simply because I was
politely TALKING ABOUT DEBIAN on the debian-user list.
That was hardly a hate mail, though rather uninformed (for incremental
upgrades you don't have to move to other distros,
On 2011-02-13 05:08 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 8roudpfga...@mid.individual.net, Charles Kroeger wrote:
apt (0.8.11) unstable; urgency=low
* apt-get install pkg/experimental will now not only switch the
candidate of package pkg to the version from the release
experimental
On 2011-02-13 11:44 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 13. 02. 2011 10:39:20 je Travis napisal(a):
any ways, do an install with b43 wireless card and don't feed it
firmware.
this breaks the network and then the updates and then the voltial
line in
apt sources.
The move towards a
On 2011-02-13 21:57 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of
TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200
outputting to a standard-definition television.
The Nouveau wiki says Done since December 2009¹ for this
On 2011-02-10 09:18 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
If you just want a .deb to install, I've heard there's a makefile target in
the kernel tarball that works fine.
That target is called deb-pkg, i.e. you type make deb-pkg and get a
nice Debian package.
I believe but can't confirm that
On 2011-02-09 22:18 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:35:14 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote:
Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of
vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0
On 2011-02-10 00:00 +0100, Peter Beck wrote:
I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere).
Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with
lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ?
Yes.
On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is
On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote:
Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of
vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet
card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working. Poking
around, I discovered that the card is no
On 2011-02-07 11:27 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
There is no wired internet available in our apartment. Is it possible
to make the Squeeze installer use a USB wireless interface during
installation (for setting up the mirrors, downloading from the internet
etc.)?
Only if you don't use
On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote:
Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver
packages. Wait a bit?
It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's
due to
On 2011-02-07 19:11 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
With recent upgrade on debian unstable (x86_64) of xserver-xorg-core
to 2:1.9.4-1, which required using experimental drivers, not quiet
there in unstable yet, Xorg failed to start indicating no devices
found when usign nouveau driver as prior
On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:
The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install
libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx.
No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core upgrade.
Sven
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On 2011-02-07 20:24 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote:
I had apt-listchanges, but it's quiet overwhelming, I still have
apt-listbugs though, :-) Perhaps I should try installing it again...
I recon my bad for not having listchanges, but I'm wondering why not
having the package dependent upon kernel
On 2011-02-08 06:24 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In aanlktimzszvrtzjftygcxoh1g0vhawb8o1ozkkvmo...@mail.gmail.com, Qijiang
Fan
wrote:
Please help:debian unstable
run `aptitude dist-upgrade'
Xorg is broken right now. Please wait for all the new video drivers that use
the new ABI
On 2011-02-03 16:41 +0100, T o n g wrote:
From
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel
- KMS is required in order to run X (Gnome, KDE, etc).
- Since xf86-video-intel 2.10, using KMS is mandatory.
Hope that's only for intel chipset, 'cause I'm using ATI Radeon:
$ lspci | grep Radeon
On 2011-02-02 03:01 +0100, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:11:31 Joe Riel wrote:
Why are there no alternatives, configurable with update-alternatives,
for gcc? Seems like I should be able to configure whether /usr/bin/gcc
is linked to gcc-4.3, gcc-4.4, etc. Of course I can
On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote:
I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and
upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm) and I
wanted to get it to testing. Its running trinity as well.
So I updated the apt-conf to
On 2011-02-02 19:21 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote:
I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and
upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable
On 2011-02-01 22:26 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
There is a Source Package: etoile (0+20080616+dfsg-2) in the repository
regarding the web page here:
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/etoile
How can I install this source package using aptitude?
You can't. Only binary packages can be
On 2011-02-01 21:16 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 20110201181038.GJ32679@desktop, Brian wrote:
On Tue 01 Feb 2011 at 08:22:36 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
I want to install onto my laptop which has no network connectivity
yet
at home. Wanted to install basic system and then download
On 2011-01-31 08:42 +0100, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
suite, say experimental in this case? The naïve approach
$ aptitude search ~i ~Aexperimental
does not work
On 2011-01-31 21:06 +0100, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote:
I completely dropped Gmail for mailing lists and use nntp for sending
and reading in all of them. My use of Gmail is only for personal/direct
posts, but not more for mailing lists (as much as I can avoid it) :-/
My email address has
How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
suite, say experimental in this case? The naïve approach
$ aptitude search ~i ~Aexperimental
does not work, because it lists all installed packages which have a
version in experimental, even if another version is installed.
On 2011-01-28 16:26 +0100, Joe Riel wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:32:02 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2011-01-28 07:12 +0100, Joe Riel wrote:
Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace
it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed
On 2011-01-28 21:07 +0100, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Attempting my usual aptitude update and package download today:
aptitude update aptitude -dy full-upgrade
... I noticed that the full-upgrade didn't run.
Checking aptitude's exit status, I found it was '255', though no errors
were
On 2011-01-28 07:12 +0100, Joe Riel wrote:
Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace
it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed
with Debian squeeze)?
If you have used the Debian packages in non-free, definitely. If you
have run NVidia's installer, I'm not
On 2011-01-25 21:03 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:49:57 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
...
tmpfs doesn't reserve much
On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote:
You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is
a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose
that the cache(s) are thrown away to use the RAM for hibernation (and
to avoid pointlessly saving cached disk
On 2011-01-25 22:44 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:02:50 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
Yes, that's it (compare the output of free before and after
hibernating to convince yourself). If you don't want to get your cache
blown away, use suspend (to RAM) rather than
On 2011-01-24 19:30 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote:
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
==apt-get install gnome-network-admin
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-network-admin : Depends: gnome-system-tools but it is not going to
be installed
E: Broken packages
...
ii
On 2011-01-24 20:02 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
I suspect Pierre has both Lenny and Squeeze in sources.list, and that
apt-get somehow stumbles over the fact that gnome-network-admin is a
real package in Lenny but a virtual
On 2011-01-25 02:50 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:41:07 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
...
tmpfs doesn't reserve much (if any) memory. So, unless it is being actively
used by files in the tmpfs, it can be used by other applications.
I'm
On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote:
After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would
like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default.
As we all know a lot of security breaches occur because of overflow
errors. Difference protective measurements has been
On 2011-01-22 11:44 +0100, S Mathias wrote:
$ ls -Sl
total 461252
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16
On 2011-01-21 03:37 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote:
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote:
Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about
X-related stuff.
The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS
On 2011-01-21 17:29 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote:
So I tried booting with acpi=off, as I have seen a number of sources
that say this helps X-related problems on the Macbook go away. The
result was: no change in mouse; no change in the graphics resolution;
but really slow keyboard
On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote:
Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about
X-related stuff.
The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X
uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever
reason. What are
On 2011-01-17 19:09 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora -
Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates
kept breaking the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the
developers openly said that they didn't really
On 2011-01-16 20:58 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 20110116160216.GA6914@think.homelan, Andrei Popescu wrote:
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amp/Download/gitest/.git/
$ touch dir/file3
$ echo '*' .gitignore
$ git status -s
$ echo '!file1' .gitignore
$ echo
On 2011-01-16 21:45 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 87aaj0vceg@turtle.gmx.de, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-16 20:58 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 20110116160216.GA6914@think.homelan, Andrei Popescu wrote:
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amp/Download
On 2011-01-15 12:58 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:03:19 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
Maybe it's time for you attach/upload the whole /var/log/Xorg.0.log
file :-)
Hey.. why not..
On 2011-01-14 13:56 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Drew Engelbrecht wrote:
I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying
around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative)
effect on my upgraded
On 2011-01-14 09:24 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer
laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian
lenny.
On my previous system with an old ATI Mach64, I specified the XVideo
output driver and was
On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
Subj.
Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My
video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native laptop's resolution for
console.
Try uvesafb (you need to install v86d for that to work), e.g. like this:
# modprobe
On 2011-01-09 14:02 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
Subj.
Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My
video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native
On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the
vga= kernel option (to be added to your kernel line in grub.cfg or
menu.lst).
I'm not looking for anything, Mark is. More importantly, the standard
vesafb driver which
On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote:
I note that this version of LibreOffice is now available as a debian
package in several languages from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/.
I think I am correct in assuming that it is not an official debian
package.
Is it however now sufficiently
On 2011-01-09 19:25 +0100, Ken Heard wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote:
Is it however now sufficiently stable to use instead of OpenOffice.org,
or should I wait until it becomes an official debian package?
There are already official Debian packages
On 2011-01-08 16:02 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a
fault and the proposed fix is to add
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a
fault and the proposed fix is to add 'Nvreg_Mobile=3' as module
option.
What is the right way to do that?
On 2011-01-01 12:26 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:
I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so
that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not
use them.
But it seems that both Evolution and Epiphany has been moved from
gnome-desktop-environment
On 2010-12-26 22:03 +0100, Slicky Johnson wrote:
Is it safe to remove these from Squeeze?
$ deborphan
mktemp
diff
Yes, those are empty transitional packages in squeeze, so you can safely
remove them.
# aptitude purge diff mktemp
The following packages will be REMOVED:
diff{p}
On 2010-12-21 14:59 +0100, Celejar wrote:
Okay, I've just booted into my new kernel with
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y, and everything seems to be working fine!
If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be
built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug?
I would think
On 2010-12-20 04:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from
kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X.
You
On 2010-12-20 16:45 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
Users with an Intel VGA card should always have the vesa driver
available and ready to be used, just in case, because such cards do not
have another alternative to use (while ati or nvidia chipsets can play
with 3/4 different set of drivers, Intel
On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory
for current Intel driver versions), the fbdev driver is a better
fallback for KMS-enabled systems. Of course it does
On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-)
Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel
chipsets
On 2010-12-20 18:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
I have a sqeeze system running as (amongst lots of other things) a
mythtv backend/frontend combination.
Yesterday, after a long overdue aptitude update, I noticed the video
playing rather slow.
I had previously configured the nvidia kernel
On 2010-12-20 19:51 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 20/12/10 18:37, Sven Joachim wrote:
This is pretty normal, although you should specify the nvidia driver in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, preventing all the probing of other drivers in the
first place. Do you even have an xorg.conf?
No xorg.conf, so
On 2010-12-20 21:55 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
- Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to
me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs,
so this should become less
On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set in the kernel configuration. For
the former, try to disable the framebuffer
On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set?
No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure, select n', so I figured
it was best left off, since I'm certainly not sure ;)
Yes
On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from
kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X.
You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel configuration. See
the recent bug reports on the xserver-xorg-video-intel
On 2010-12-16 08:44 +0100, Russell Gadd wrote:
I would like to compile a GTK+ application from source (hitori-0.2.5)
so that I can play with the source code. I followed the instructions
up to ./configure which reports missing packages:
No package 'glib-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote:
I was paring down my installation and the command for gcc-4.2-base more or
less threatened to wipe out everything on the server.
apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base
Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database?
My hunch is that the
On 2010-12-13 10:47 +0100, Frank Church wrote:
==
r...@heron01:/usr/src# apt-cache policy libgcc1
libgcc1:
Installed: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4
Candidate: 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 0
500
On 2010-12-13 11:50 +0100, Frank Church wrote:
Aren't ubuntu questions welcome here?
Depends on the type of question. In any case, please mention that you
are using Ubuntu, and which distribution.
I thought that at this kind of low level Ubuntu and Debian are the same.
Except that you would
On 2010-12-08 01:21 +0100, Arthur Machlas wrote:
Problem is, or at least, what I think the problem with that is, is
that insserv is installed by default, and concurrent is now the
default as well. So whenever a system service is added removed,
changed or when insserv is called by some other
On 2010-12-09 09:15 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead. See
update-rc.d(8).
I
On 2010-12-09 09:59 +0100, Tom H wrote:
Even though someone posted earlier in this thread that updates respect
editing /etc/init.d files, I'm not convinced that all packages
behave that way.
Every package that does not is RC-buggy; I don't think there are many
such bugs.
It's safer to use
On 2010-12-09 18:55 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
I basically see two issues here:
1/ We lack? for a recommended way/Debian way for disabling scripts
(this thread is plenty of alternatives and tips for doing it but
documentation is not very clear on the matter). I think it is important
for an
On 2010-12-08 17:25 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:
I updated my Sid machine this morning and one of the files
was an updated xorg.video.intel package.
My system was running fine - but since the update, X refuses
to load the Intel driver and instead runs Vesa in 1280x960 on my
1920x1650 LCD
On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so
it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case)
but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method.
So I issued update-rc.d network-manager
On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead. See
update-rc.d(8).
I think update-rc.d manpage should then change example which Camaleon
referenced in her
On 2010-11-28 12:14 +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
I run my own (non-commercial) web site which includes a forum. There are
smileys which can be used in the posts which are supposed to animate
except that they don't animate on my desktop machine.
Do other GIFs animate there?
My desktop runs
On 2010-11-28 20:51 +0100, Ken Heard wrote:
I expect to buy next Tuesday a Canon 60D body which can use SD, SDHC and
SDXC recording media. SDXC cards are considerably more expensive than
the other two, in part I suppose because they use the Microsoft exFAT
file system; so royalties must be
On 2010-11-25 18:18 +0100, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 11/25/2010 11:40 AM, green wrote:
I suppose we all know about this already: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org
It is probably noteworthy that btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool.
Really? That's not what the package description says..
On 2010-11-24 21:31 +0100, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
I cannot get radvd to work out of the box because ipv6 forward is disabled
-quote---
linbobo:/var/log# /etc/init.d/radvd start
Starting radvd:
* IPv6 forwarding seems to be disabled.
* See /usr/share/doc/radvd/README.Debian
*
On 2010-11-20 19:37 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote:
I've spent about two hours in the man pages and on Google trying to
figure this one out with no success.
Admittedly, the answer is hidden in the Debian changelog:
,
| xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.12.0+shadow-1) unstable; urgency=low
| [...]
On 2010-11-20 21:28 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote:
Once again, Sven, I owe you my sanity. I've read that Debian was still
looking into framebuffer issues with Intel, whether to keep UMS or
migrate to KMS. Is that debate related to the DRI/shadow issue?
Well, yes. The attempt to reenable UMS
On 2010-11-15 19:45 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote:
Hullo all,
I've freshly reinstalled Debian Squeeze with GNOME this time and,
amongst other things, I've noticed a problems with my Intel 855 graphics
(aside from the obvious lack of 3D acceleration). When I rotate the
screen, the display dims
On 2010-11-12 14:30 +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
Hi,
I was reading this page about making tmp non-executable
(http://pario.no/2007/10/04/making-tmp-non-executable/) but it seems a
little out of date as I'm using Squeeze.
I changed fstab, and edited by 70debconf to
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs
On 2010-11-06 12:42 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
Is there a procedure in place for dropping a package from stable?
Yes, this actually happens from time to time.
Do the rules allow it?
Yes, but currently only at point releases.
Sven
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On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:10:44 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Friday 05 November 2010 08:13:41 Camaleón wrote:
Thirdly, the policy of no new upstream versions after release isn't
changed for volatile. (It is changed for volatile-sloppy.)
On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
That is true, but the Debian iceweasel/xulrunner maintainer and the
security team backport security fixes.
How is that possible? :-?
As soon as Mozilla stopped offering security patches
On 2010-11-04 05:27 +0100, Nick wrote:
A pretty simple question: Does the order packages to install are
listed on the aptitude command line matter?
Yes it does: http://bugs.debian.org/401835. The same is true for
apt-get, BTW: http://bugs.debian.org/122304 and siblings.
Sven
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On 2010-11-04 20:29 +0100, Rob Gom wrote:
Hi all,
do you think it's a bug in either libc or coreutils (sort)?
$ cat test.csv
aph3,APP,
aph3_devel,TXT,
aph3,MiB,
$ LC_ALL=C sort test.csv # expected
aph3,APP,
aph3,MiB,
aph3_devel,TXT,
$ LC_ALL=pl_PL sort test.csv # why is that?
On 2010-11-02 07:19 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
I am trying to download some source from alioth via svn,
but after a few second the downloading seems to be blocked.
I cannot reproduce this. Could you give the URL?
What is the best way to download source from alioth when we have
no account
On 2010-11-02 21:43 +0100, patrick wrote:
if a system is using the bigmem kernel:
uname -a
Linux buddy2 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:52:29 UTC 2009
i686 GNU/Linux
why would aptitude safe-upgrade try to
install a non bigmem kernel?
It doesn't, at least not on your system,
On 2010-11-01 06:10 +0100, Siju George wrote:
I have a new amd64 Phenome II X6 server which gives this when I run
sensors-detect
===
Driver `k10temp':
* Chip `AMD Family 10h thermal sensors' (confidence: 9)
Warning: the required module k10temp is not currently installed
on
On 2010-10-28 00:05 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:47:44 -0500, Joseph Lenox wrote:
The version of Nouveau (FOSS nvidia driver) that ships with 6.0
(Squeeze) on last week's (2010-10-17) testing disc does not play nice
with the Quadro NVS240 graphics card. No output on screen
On 2010-10-28 18:56 +0200, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
I wanted to test something with a newer kernel so I grabbed a newer one from
lenny-backports, but it includes a new linux-base that insisted on
re-addressing all my devices by uuid. Now that I'm done, when linux-base is
removed that
On 2010-10-28 19:43 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kernel org has 2.6.36 as stable.
Anybody tried that?
Has been working fine for me so far, but YMMV.
Sven
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On 2010-10-26 05:05 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote:
As I explained in that bug report, it's an incompatibility between the
Squeeze kernel and Lenny userland. Unfortunately, there is no way to
express this in package conflicts to ensure that it does not occur on
partial upgrades.
Okay, so I'm
On 2010-10-24 21:17 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote:
I entered a bug that upgrading udev from lenny to unstable breaks X. (It
also
breaks with the squeeze version of udev )
( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600551 )
The bug was closed without any changes to the package, or any
On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote:
I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with
48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where
the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32,
meaning it will only use the first 32 cores that it sees.
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