Re: Gnome Evolution in etch and sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 17:01 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I have two machines with debian installed. One has sarge and the other > has a fresh install of etch. I use gnome evolution in both machines for > emailing. I would like to copy all the emails from the machi

Gnome Evolution in etch and sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I have two machines with debian installed. One has sarge and the other has a fresh install of etch. I use gnome evolution in both machines for emailing. I would like to copy all the emails from the machine with sarge to the machine with etch. How can do that? can I use rsync over the

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Matthew K Poer
my > > > network card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). > > > I've searched the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything > > > that solves my problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out > > > what

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched > > the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything that solves my > > problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out what's wrong, I > > just need my machine to work. Downgrading back to Sarge seems like t

Problem with kdvi font rendering after sarge-->etch upgrade

2007-05-02 Thread Land Haj
Hi! Back at work I just upgraded my sarge installation to etch. I changed the sources for apt, did apt-get update, apt-get install aptitude and aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade. All has gone fine, but when I start to work, I discover a problem with my main tool: kdvi. It can't se

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread kevin bailey
bigoperm wrote: > > Kevin, > Thanks for the advice - this is what I was thinking, actually. I have full > backups of /etc, /var, and /home. Is it enough to re-install Sarge > (formatting all of the disks), and copying my backups back over? Should > that just work? Thanks >

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
ing that solves my > problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out what's wrong, I > just need my machine to work. Downgrading back to Sarge seems like the best > option. I ran into a similar problem when I upgraded my 486 from Sarge to Etch and the upgrade hosed l

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
#x27;t find anything that solves my > problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out what's wrong, I > just need my machine to work. Downgrading back to Sarge seems like the best > option. It is certainly an approach that befits a boorish debianhelp.org user who does no

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
Kevin, Thanks for the advice - this is what I was thinking, actually. I have full backups of /etc, /var, and /home. Is it enough to re-install Sarge (formatting all of the disks), and copying my backups back over? Should that just work? Thanks jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
time to figure out what's wrong, I just need my machine to work. Downgrading back to Sarge seems like the best option. jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread kevin bailey
bigoperm wrote: > > I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is > the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge > (over Etch) without using any data? > > My intuition tells me all I need to do is skip the partition phas

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/1, bigoperm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge (over Etch) without using any data? I did something very close to this using a local repository f

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:41:48AM +0200, bigoperm wrote: > > I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is > the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge > (over Etch) without using any data? > > My intuition tells me a

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 16:41, bigoperm wrote: > I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is > the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge > (over Etch) without using any data? There is no (official) downgrade path, only upgra

Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread bigoperm
I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge (over Etch) without using any data? My intuition tells me all I need to do is skip the partition phase of the install, and things should be okay

Sarge Update Problem

2007-04-29 Thread Brandon B
Hello, Hopefully someone can help here... I'm on an R50e Thinkpad with Sarge installed. I ran an upgrade (note: upgrade not dist-upgrade). Something strange happened. The file /etc/debian-release states 4.0 now. In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I had the following entry: APT::Default-Release &

Re: Sarge Update Problem

2007-04-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brandon B (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hopefully someone can help here... > > I'm on an R50e Thinkpad with Sarge installed. > > I ran an upgrade (note: upgrade not dist-upgrade). Something strange > happened. > The file /etc/debian-release states 4.0 now

Re: Upgrade Sarge > Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:03:37PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > That libc6 requires recent 2.6.* kernels. Fully up-to-date sarge 2.6 kernel. > > Even if your running kernel were such a kernel, there are other factors. I > doubt whether you had anything like this, but read my p

RE: Upgrade Sarge > Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-28 Thread David Baron
That libc6 requires recent 2.6.* kernels. Even if your running kernel were such a kernel, there are other factors. I doubt whether you had anything like this, but read my posting about LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=#.#.# in the environment. If for whatever reason, i.e. certain software running on a 32meg me

Upgrade Sarge > Etch: segfault upgrading libc6: system hosed

2007-04-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hi all, The subject says it all. I've submitted an upgrade report with all the requisite attachements but wanted to summarize here. System: IBM PS/ValuePoint 6492X5C 486DX4-100, 32 MB ram, 1200 MB and 840 MB drives. Was running up-to-date Sarge but used Woody's xserver-s3 driver.

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-26 Thread Patrick Cummings
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:50:34 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge to etch > upgrade> > > > hi patrick,> > you have a problem with the sgi xfs filesystem. > i got currently the> info

Re: Aborting Sarge->Etch upgrade

2007-04-24 Thread swampstomper
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As noted, I made similar mistakes. Please file a bug report to Package: > release-notes and/or Package: upgrade-reports as you feel appropriate. > Others can be forewarned of the traps with more readable upgrade > instructions, as I've suggested in

Re: Aborting Sarge->Etch upgrade

2007-04-24 Thread Ralph Katz
>> The good news is, you stopped and asked! I didn't, and had more >> trouble. (As reported to the list on 12 April, Subject: Sarge -> >> Etch: A Painful Upgrade) >> >> Good luck, I think you caught it in time! >> >> Ralph > > Ralph, &g

Re: Aborting Sarge->Etch upgrade

2007-04-24 Thread swampstomper
If you do have a full desktop system installed, run: > > # aptitude install libfam0 xlibmesa-glu > >See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes . > >The good news is, you stopped and asked! I didn't, and had more >trouble. (As reported to the list on 1

Re: Aborting Sarge->Etch upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/22/2007 01:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided to abort a dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch when some strange stuff > started to happen durning the run up. I followed the upgrade steps in the > release notes. Here's a synopsis: > 1. updated sarge packages. >

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:24:18PM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: > > So I finally had some time and tested the memory with memtest. I got 5 > > passes without errors, so I guess it was not that. It's also ECC memory. On 20.04.07 20:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > memtest won't catch a lot of

Aborting Sarge->Etch upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread swampstomper
I decided to abort a dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch when some strange stuff started to happen durning the run up. I followed the upgrade steps in the release notes. Here's a synopsis: 1. updated sarge packages. 2. upgraded, nothing upgraded. 3. did an audit, nothing broken 4. ch

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-21 Thread thomas666
hi patrick, you have a problem with the sgi xfs filesystem. i got currently the information there is a bug in linux--2.6 i am searching for it here: bugs.debian.org/linux-2.6 for xfs i had the same error on two completly differently machine's (hardware was different). both had debian

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > Another trouble shooting method would be to run a live cd of some kind > on the box for a few hours or days and see if the problem still exists. indeed, but better put this on the list. A signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
the temps? do you have a stuck fan? > Is there any way to get out of this without a clean install? I think that's > what I will do. That will be very complex since there is so much on this > computer. I guess I should have continued with sarge. > yes: find out what your

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-20 Thread Patrick Cummings
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: >debian-user@lists.debian.org>Subject: RE: Problems with sarge to etch >upgrade>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:37:37 -0400> >> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> CC: >

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
Michelle Konzack wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:46: > Am 2007-04-09 23:35:38, schrieb Thilo Six: >> afaik >>> Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free > ^ > This SLASH should not be there. > >> ^^^

Re: Sources list for upgrade from sarge to etch?

2007-04-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-09 23:35:38, schrieb Thilo Six: > afaik > > Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free ^ This SLASH should not be there. > ^^^ ^^ > | | |

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 09:07 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Nigel Henry escribió: > > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: > >> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are get

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-18 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nigel Henry escribió: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: >> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's >>> when trying to

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Nigel Henry wrote: > > I appreciate that Christian. Stable is now asigned to Etch. But do we > > have access to the Sarge repo, before Etch became stable? I think this > > equates as old-stable now. it would be a shame to think that all these > > packages for Sarge we

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Hart
;> >> >> [...] >> >> >>>>> What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any >>>>> warning that the Sarge packages from his repo were about to be >>>>> trashed when Etch went stable. >>

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread steef
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 23:41:34 +0200, steef wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:13 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any warning that the Sarge packages from his

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
Christian didn't give us any > >>> warning that the Sarge packages from his repo were about to be trashed > >>> when Etch went stable. > >>> > >> > >> Well, you know the how the French are... sometimes full of _ _ _ _ and > >&g

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 23:41:34 +0200, steef wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:13 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] >>> What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any >>> warning that the Sarge packages from his re

Re: problem migrating from sarge to etch

2007-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:57:11 + "enediel gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I just installed etch, and tried to install ntop from the source > code, but I receive the following error > > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 23:13:44 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] > What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any warning > that the Sarge packages from his repo were about to be trashed when Etch went > stable. Maybe he simply did not anticipate that

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread steef
09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any warning that

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Liam O'Toole wrote: > Beware of upgrades, though. When lenny goes through a major transition > (as it surely will), those packages are likely to break when used in > etch. IIUC from Index of /debian/debian-multimedia/pool/main/a/acroread Icon Name Last modified Size [DIR]

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
e, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > >>>> Dear all, > > >>>> > > >>>> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was > > >>>> officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? >

Re: Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing - RESOLVED

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
ups to reload the conf. > > > > in a few minutes the other machine will notice the proper url fo the > > printer and it will be able to work. > > > > Notice, something changed between Sarge and Etch as far as URLs for the > > printers. The Auto config stuff works be

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:33, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > >>>> Dear all, >

Re: Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing - RESOLVED

2007-04-17 Thread Ralph Katz
nter and it will be able to work. > > Notice, something changed between Sarge and Etch as far as URLs for the > printers. The Auto config stuff works better than forcing it. > > The only thing is you need to have your machine that has the real > printer... make sure you define eve

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed

Re: Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
ote administration Allow users to cancel any job (not just their own) Then wait for cups to reload the conf. in a few minutes the other machine will notice the proper url fo the printer and it will be able to work. Notice, something changed between Sarge and Etch as far as URLs for the printers.

Re: Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
lame attempt to help below... On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:45:13PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > No replies? Clear as mud? Let me rephrase my question! :) > > My 2 computer network running sarge on both boxes printed fine until I > upgraded one box to etch. Now only local printing wor

problem migrating from sarge to etch

2007-04-17 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello I just installed etch, and tried to install ntop from the source code, but I receive the following error checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check checking into the debian's site, I noticed that this file existe

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:39:56 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch >

Re: Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

2007-04-17 Thread Ralph Katz
No replies? Clear as mud? Let me rephrase my question! :) My 2 computer network running sarge on both boxes printed fine until I upgraded one box to etch. Now only local printing works. Box A runs sarge. Box B with an HP5L printer runs etch. Box A config files are unchanged. Box B has new

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was > >> officia

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was >> officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? > > Good luck, Christian (the s

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was > officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? Good luck, Christian (the site owner) already removed it. No backups. --

where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-16 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? Best regards, Dai Yuwen

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:37:37PM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: > > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge > > to et

Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread zfh
--- Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200 > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the > available > > multimedia packages for Sarge since Etch has gone > stable. Christ

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Cummings
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge to etch > upgrade> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED > MESSAGE-> Hash: SHA1> > Patrick

Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the available > multimedia packages for Sarge since Etch has gone stable. In > effect. if we want multimedia packages we are being forced to > upgrade to

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 15:53 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > If sarge is now old-stable (and I think it is), how would we access > Woody packages? Here, http://archive.debian.org/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared Date: Sunday 15 April 2007 21:50 From: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: >> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's >>> when trying to acc

Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

2007-04-15 Thread Ralph Katz
With sarge on two computers, this worked smoothly to print from either box: Sarge box -> Sarge box with printer Now: Sarge box -> Etch box with printer With Etch now running on the box with the HP5L printer, only local jobs print. Print jobs from the sarge box are not ac

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: > nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's > > when trying to access it? > > Sarge the stable distribution is now called etch. > > Christ

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Cummings escribió: > The computer was working perfectly since almost 1 year before the > upgrade and as far as I know there is no hardware problem with it. > Thanks for your time Well, there's a problem with your RAM memory, try with another m

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Chris Lale
Patrick Cummings wrote: >> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:37:55 -0400> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: >> Problems with sarge to etch upgrade> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Apr >> 10, 2007 at 02:00:09AM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote:> > Hello list,

Re: Automating Upgrades (was Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade)

2007-04-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/13/2007 03:00 PM, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 04/13/2007 10:50 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: >> See the bug (latest messages), >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418911 turns >> out I missed one key step that has trapped others, too. > > Has it been considered that we could automate t

Automating Upgrades (was Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade)

2007-04-13 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 04/13/2007 10:50 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: > See the bug (latest messages), > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418911 turns > out I missed one key step that has trapped others, too. Has it been considered that we could automate the recommended steps to upgrade? That would certainly

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/13/2007, Dave Ewart wrote: > What I was getting at, really, was that something hugely fundamental > must have caused your error at that first stage. There's not enough See the bug (latest messages), http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418911 turns out I missed one key step th

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-13 Thread Dave Ewart
upgrade at that point, it would probably have > > been better if you'd stopped there - and reported the > > errors/warnings you saw. > > In retrospect, absolutely! > > > Given that you had trouble after what is a very simple operation, > > something fundamental

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Cummings
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:37:55 -0400> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > Problems with sarge to etch upgrade> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Apr > 10, 2007 at 02:00:09AM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote:> > Hello list, I just > upgraded from sarge to etch

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Ralph Katz
at is a very simple operation, > something fundamental must be wrong. Perhaps your previous downgrade > from Sid to Sarge wasn't quite right, even though your system appeared > to be operating fine. Not a chance. This machine had a fresh install of sarge last May (long after

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Patrick Cummings
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:58:56 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge to etch > upgrade> > Patrick Cummings wrote:> > I made a complete capture of the > console output,> > I

Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:02 -0500, Robert J Rae wrote: > when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I now > get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have failed to > install, web and mail packages that have worked fine in the past, so a > l

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
n upgrade at that point, it would probably have been better if you'd stopped there - and reported the errors/warnings you saw. Given that you had trouble after what is a very simple operation, something fundamental must be wrong. Perhaps your previous downgrade from Sid to Sarge wasn&#x

Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 21:31 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 13:02 -0500, Robert J Rae wrote: > > > when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I > > now get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have > > fa

Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 13:02 -0500, Robert J Rae wrote: > when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I > now get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have > failed to install, web and mail packages that have worked fine in the > past, so

Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Robert J Rae
when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I now get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have failed to install, web and mail packages that have worked fine in the past, so a little bit of reading points to etch upgrades having similar problems

Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Ralph Katz
t from the bug report: Background: I'm a simple desktop user. Installed debian in late 2003 from Woody CD image, then upgraded immediately to sid. (I had help with this introduction to Linux.) As sarge was being finalized, I downgraded from sid to testing (painlessly!) and stayed with sarg

Re: Sarge -> Etch mailserver upgrade...

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Clarke
Read http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-minimal_upgrade and use 4.5.4.1 or 4.5.4.2, whichever applies to your situation. Does this work ok? Doh! I read those notes too - that's how I managed to upgrade 6 o so boxes without a problem...just skipp

Re: Sarge -> Etch mailserver upgrade...

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Pete Clarke wrote: > > cholet:~# aptitude dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or i

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael S. Peek([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Patrick Cummings wrote: > >I made a complete capture of the console output, > > I would love to know how you did that! Maybe I'm just a Debian n00b... /usr/bin/script which is in the bdsutils package. WT -- Man is the best compute

Sarge -> Etch mailserver upgrade...

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I am running a bunch of Sarge servers and slowly upgrading them to etch. Most have been fine, but I am having a few problems with the mailserver. It is running : courier-authdaemon courier-base courier-doc courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-ldap courier-pop courier-pop-ssl

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Michael S. Peek
Patrick Cummings wrote: I made a complete capture of the console output, I would love to know how you did that! Maybe I'm just a Debian n00b... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge -> etch: usbnet

2007-04-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 03:15 +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > I have a zaurus which under sarge I could connect to using usbnet and > hotplug. This isn't something I have any experience with, but I did find some instructions for Etch[0], if you want to double check your configuration,

sarge -> etch: usbnet

2007-04-11 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! Here another problem I had (still have :-() moving to etch. I have a zaurus which under sarge I could connect to using usbnet and hotplug. But now this doesn't work anymore. In /etc/network/interfaces I have: allow-hotplug usb0 mapping hotplug script grep map usb0

Re: sarge -> etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:01:53AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi, > > doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I > so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to > aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: > So my question:

sarge -> etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed: Before the upgrade I did still with sarge sources an "aptitude dist-upgrade"

Re: Upgrading kernal from sarge to etch

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:13:10AM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > I got the sources right for apt thanks to an earlier post and now am trying > to get the kernel upgrade according to the release notes for going from > sarge to etch. > > I have a desktop system and I am trying to

Upgrading kernal from sarge to etch

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Kerwin
I got the sources right for apt thanks to an earlier post and now am trying to get the kernel upgrade according to the release notes for going from sarge to etch. I have a desktop system and I am trying to do the command aptitude install linuux-image-2.6-flavor. Now I read some where that etch

Same problem after Sarge->Etch dist-upgrade

2007-04-11 Thread MikaelOgren
I get the same problem, font 'fxed' missing for both vncserver and vnc4server. Worked perfectly with Sarge. Have tried to fiddle with the font paths in /etc/vnc.conf but to no avail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-10 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/10/07, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with the force option before with bad results. Why are the libs that mysql depends on not upg

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:00:09AM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: > Hello list, I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get > dist-upgrade. I have a few problems. The OS won't completely start. I > made a complete capture of the console output, if anybody is kind > enough to

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Hello list, > I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get dist-upgrade. I have > a few problems. The OS won't completely start. Well, just a couple of guesses below: I had problems getting x to run after upgrading. Issues with the xfree86 to xorg transition. Try dpkg-recon

Re: sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-10 Thread Johnmon2
try running apt-get -f install for it to suggest a solution. Sometimes it is smarter than you are (and sometimes not) The force option simply allows apt-get to function if your package cache is broken. At least try it before reinstalling etch clean (although that might be fun) On 4/9/07, Tom B

Re: Debian sarge installer kernel panic

2007-04-10 Thread Tomislav
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Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Lale
Patrick Cummings wrote: > Hello list, I just upgraded from sarge to etch using apt-get dist-upgrade. I > have a few problems. The OS won't completely start. What is incomplete about the start? Can you login? Can you run applications? > > [...] > > I can get the compute

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