Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Amar Cosic
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.ukwrote: On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:41 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/06/10 07:41, Amar Cosic wrote: Well it ended up broken last night.. Everything boots OK but gdm wont start properly and doing aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade acctualy shows some errors about udev. Funny thing is I did aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 before everything, but this

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 5:49 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Mark: I would retain the Lenny security update line in sources.list (for luck) until Squeeze is released as Stable, and start with safe-upgrade. That's of little to no value since security will do nothing for packages you already have a higher

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-25 Thread Tomasz Maluszycki
I had similar problem when upgrading from lenny to testing. First pull newer kernel image, 2.6.30, if I recall correctly (but don't pull 2.6.32-x yet, cause depends on new udev). Reboot. Then pull new udev, and reboot again. Now you can pull newest kernel. Hopefully if want to upgrade from

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 23/06/10 23:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2,

changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [...] However, I still do not see a way to change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who does not use the command line (and thus passwd) and does not have the root password change their password in KDE

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: Well . . . I suppose this is not hijacking as it is about stability and usability.  I eagerly ran my apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, rebooted and, voila, X refused to start.  I finally installed the

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated version from SID, all the installation CDs

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Hiya I think its very stable, and sure enjoying it. Give

Re: changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [...] However, I still do not see a way to change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who does not use the command line (and thus passwd)

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.comwrote: On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? Thats what I

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? I would retain the Lenny security update line in

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Brent Clark schreef: On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.comwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? tnx. Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. -BEGIN PGP

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. Does it matter what order

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 22:06 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:06:17 Mark Allums wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay

How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Amar Cosic
Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Regards -- Amar Ćosić amar.co...@gmail.com a...@amar.ba +38761240095 http://www.amar.ba

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 24/06/2010, Amar Cosic disait Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask genarally nothing critical, but sometime a glitch may

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Amar: On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:26:28 Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask The very people that works day

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask On my newer hardware, Squeeze is preferable

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 24.06.10 00:26, schrieb Amar Cosic: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Chris
'stable' is squeeze? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 24.06.10 00:26, schrieb Amar Cosic: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:39 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 20:58 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:39 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 02:21:39 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:26 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about