Re: Bug#579384: Acknowledgement (How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed)

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
So, it turns out this is surprisingly tricky. The problem is that the aptitude initialization process runs a mark-and-sweep before the whole package system is ready. That seems very dicey to me, but the comments seem to indicate that it's necessary to force apt to behave properly with auto flag

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > >> heard to say: > >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > You could find

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:37:24AM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > > Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote: > > $ aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)' > > debian01:~# aptitude search '?narrow('?archive(unstable), ?installed)' > > -bash: syntax error near unexpected

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was >> heard to say: >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system >> > > by >> > > apt-show

Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-30 Thread Justin The Cynical
rudu wrote: Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Bingo !! That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers. The workaround that worked for me : Append the line : options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0 to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf A big thank you to Justin

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau > was heard to say: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > > > heard to say: > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > > heard to say: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:58:19PM -0700, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: > > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of > > all > > packages from the $something repository

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable > > > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable"

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:14:51PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > I find that the more packages are automatically installed, the easier > upgrades > are, since aptitude seems more willing to preform a library transition on a > "automatically installed" package. It is.

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > My instinct is that '-t $something' effectively increases the priority of all > packages from the $something repository, which may make the dependency > resolver pull more from that repository than is absolut

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was heard to say: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > > apt-show-versions |  grep unstable > > Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" or "aptitude

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 00:08, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >>> >>> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >>> > On Friday 30 April 2010

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/30/2010 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. I thought cdparanoia was DVDpa

DVD Paranoia?

2010-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2010 07:10 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Someone pointed out what I have come to regard as the best solution, and that is to make /boot and / (root) and the usual suspects ext3 for safety, and use ext4 or XFS or even btrfs for the data directories. That's what I do. / & /home are ext

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-30 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 01 May 2010 10:08:13 +1000 Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? > [snip] > > I am not

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but "two drives" is still the effect) are used by s

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? [snip] > I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. > i know there was a recent change to sysctl (something), t

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but "two drives" is still the effect) are used by striping, RAID 6 with 4 drives doesn't se

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 16:20:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs > > accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they > > don't. .. > I was sufficiently intrigued by the (apparent) absence of a simple MTA > that doe

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 4/30/2010 3:20 PM: > It is still small, though - under 70 lines of actual Perl code, > although it does, of course, require the basic Perl installation and > about a half-dozen other modules. > > If anyone has any feedback, or suggestions for improvement, I'd love > to hear t

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 19:14:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > > so if all packages depending on it are unins

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-30 Thread Celejar
[Replying to my own message.] On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:12:24 -0400 Celejar wrote: ... > Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs > accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they > don't. > > One option would be to build your own version of one of

[update] Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked > > so well for so long but there are times recently when I need to use > > iceweasel. I think it

RE: sh command issue

2010-04-30 Thread Gary
system("g++ $files $incl $libs 2>build.log&"); The above works... thanks! -Original Message- From: I Rattan [mailto:ratt...@cps.cmich.edu] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:03 PM To: Gary Subject: Re: sh command issue On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gary wrote: > I'm helping a fella in the UK wit

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >> >> b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> > > The unstable/si

Re: sh command issue

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:00 Gary wrote: > I have a php file used to make the build, and the file contains these > lines.. > > system("g++ $files $incl $libs >& build.log"); > # system("g++ $files $incl $libs"); > > The first line fails with an error "sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:39:36 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > > automatically be removed as well. > > Thanks! I ha

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
deloptes wrote: James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 11:30:56 Preston Boyington wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- > > backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with > > debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they?

sh command issue

2010-04-30 Thread Gary
I'm helping a fella in the UK with a debian build (tiny web) on a small VM machine in a data center. I am trying to compile some c++ code, I have the libs and binaries installed and the compile "works", except for this line... I have a php file used to make the build, and the file contains these

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:48:41AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010 22:11:00 Rob Owens wrote: > > My understanding is that live-helper must build the kernel so that > > certain modules necessary to the live system get included. I confess > > that I don't completely

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 12:10:45 James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > > release w

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 16:44:52 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > The "A" means that it was installed automatically due to a dependency, > so if all packages depending on it are uninstalled, it will > automatically be removed as well. Thanks! I had realised that "i" meant installed, but as large numbers

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by > apt-show-versions |  grep unstable Or "aptitude search ~Aunstable" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: >> The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default >>  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mostly. > > If there is a version

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. > > Er, mos

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) I thought this was normal... :D -- Arrant Drivel - really, i

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 09:44:16 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all > > available memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in > > the k

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote: > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default > release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing. Er, mostly. If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not testing, you will

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On Fri, Apr 30 at 16:06, Lisi penned: > > One, however, continues to elude me. What does the A mean in > at the beginning of a line in the results from an aptitude > search? > > Thanks! Lisi installed automatically. The "i" means installed. The "A" means that it was installed automatically

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 April 2010 20:03:20 Joe Brenner wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Joe Brenner wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > B. Alexander wrote: > > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >> XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've > > > > >> also seen simple

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 April 2010 15:30:23 Daniel Burrows wrote: >   The command-line output of aptitude is somewhat underdocumented. > Please feel free to submit bugs regarding bits of output that you think > need documentation.  I know there are lots of bug reports, but trust me, > I do read them, and it's

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all available > memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in the kernel. You > can 'Ctrl+C' to kill aptitude earlier if you wish

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Monday 19 April 2010 08:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > > This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken > >

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 06:14:42PM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search > ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both the > search patterns specified. That's because "aptitude search" impl

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/29/2010 7:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: In the U.S., given the numbers of cheap APC, Triplite, and Belkin UPS on the shelves at $big_box_store I'd say most U.S. desktop users have a UPS. I know I do. Naw. It ain't so. Most US users don't even know what a UPS is. APC quit calling thei

Re: aptitude and held packages

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Andrei Popescu was heard to say: > On Mon,26.Apr.10, 10:29:06, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I just upgraded apt and aptitude to the latest testing version. Although > > 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' tells me that '172 not upgraded' it no longer > > lists them. Is

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:12:17AM +, Rémi Moyen was heard to say: > 2010/2/11 Sven Joachim : > > On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > > > >> What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? > >> Current status: 0 updates [-107] > > > > It means that there are 107

Re: using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client

2010-04-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On 30/04/2010 13:54, Benedict Verheyen wrote: On 29/04/2010 11:16, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Thanks, it's worth a try. I'm not sure the java environments are the same. On both machines they were installed with aptitude install default-jre I'll try the backport of java & using Firefox instead

Re: aptitude stuck

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an > hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was: > > open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167 > > There's

Re: invisible console (solved)

2010-04-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:09:06 -0400 (EDT), Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Sorry. Missed a previous thread. Cured it by setting > > options radeon modeset=0 > > in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf > > This works (original value was 1). Our posts crossed in the mail. I didn't see this until I se

Re: invisible console

2010-04-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:13 -0400 (EDT), Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in > /etc/default/console-setup I have > > FONTFACE="VGA" > FONTSIZE="16" > > This used to work. > > But after a dist-upgrade around April 10th, the behaviour changed. >

aptitude stuck

2010-04-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was: open: 107756; closed: 119093; defer: 107181; conflict: 167 There's evidently some situation it can't resolve. How can I figure out what package(s) cause

invisible console (solved)

2010-04-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Sorry. Missed a previous thread. Cured it by setting options radeon modeset=0 in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf This works (original value was 1). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: invisible console

2010-04-30 Thread Juha Tuuna
On 30.4.2010 13:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in > /etc/default/console-setup I have > > FONTFACE="VGA" > FONTSIZE="16" > > This used to work. > ... I'm running Debian Stable (kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64) with a framebuffer console working ok wit

Re: using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client

2010-04-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On 29/04/2010 11:16, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Thanks, it's worth a try. I'm not sure the java environments are the same. On both machines they were installed with aptitude install default-jre I'll try the backport of java & using Firefox instead of Iceweasel. Regards, Benedict Firefox cr

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread deloptes
James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg >> >> > >> >> > Does that look right to you? >> >> >> >

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base > (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So > when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it > is trying to revert the gcc

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
That looks like a problem. You have unstable version of gcc-4.4-base (4.4.3-9) installed, but now your unstable/sid is commented out. So when you try to install g++ which has dependency on gcc-4.4-base, it is trying to revert the gcc-4.4-base to that of squeeze (4.4.2-9). Install the package "apt

invisible console

2010-04-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I like an old-fashioned VGA text look on the console; in /etc/default/console-setup I have FONTFACE="VGA" FONTSIZE="16" This used to work. But after a dist-upgrade around April 10th, the behaviour changed. 1 -- cold startup works normally (and looks normal). 2 -- startx works OK 3 -- pressing c

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Try > > apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential > > If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >> I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". >> This means that the versions it had

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-30 Thread Raven
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Raven wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:12 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > >> > What the heck happened this afternoon?? > >> > >> I don't know,

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Kousik Maiti
Try apt-get install fakeroot devscripts build-essential If it gives error then post your /etc/apt/sources.list On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > > Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to >> install these packages? >> >> > Yes, I did "aptit

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
> Have you tried "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" before trying to > install these packages? > > Yes, I did "aptitude safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" and then "aptitude full-upgrade". I selected "n" and it prompted me to "downgrade the packages to testing". This means that the versions

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 15:58, James Stuckey wrote: > Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? > > r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts > build-essential > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extende

Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
Why am I getting this and how can I fix it? r...@debian:/home/stuckey# aptitude install fakeroot devscripts build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Readin

Re: [Solved] Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

2010-04-30 Thread rudu
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudupere wrote: Le 29/04/2010 05:55, Justin The Cynical a écrit : rudu wrote: Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm doesn't change anything except that I don't even have any flashing prompt on my black screen anymore. Th

Re: To switch usb-modem to modem-mode.

2010-04-30 Thread deloptes
Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I have such a problem: I need to switch an usb-modem Huawei E1550 deom > cd-rom mode to modem modem. AFAIK usb-modeswitch utility can help me w/ > this BUT! - it is not installable IMHO in stable repo. Even though I will > install it from testing - it will dest

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > >> > > >> > Does that look right to you? > >> > >> Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:27:26 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg >> > >> > Does that look right to you? >> >> Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... >> >> Do you find the font of the toolbar

Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore

2010-04-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
You seem to have configuration files of older texlive packages on your system (marked with "rc" in your dpkg output). So try to get rid of them and, may be, update your texlive-installation'. With aptitude the commands are aptitude purge ~c# this removes all old configuration files a

Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:53:58 -0400, KS wrote: (..) > The question is: would it be possible to use two graphics cards from > different manufacturers? Yes, but as Victor suggested, many motherboard manufacturers automatically disable onboard chipset as soon as the PCI-e slot is occupied with an

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:42 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > > >> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? > >> > >> > > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > > > > Does that look right to you? > > Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:42 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? >> >> > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg > > Does that look right to you? Mmmm, yes, nothing strange :-?. I bit "big" for my taste... Do you find the font of the toolbar is

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-30 Thread James Stuckey
> Can you please upload a snapshot so we can see what you get? > > http://www.jhstuckey.com/1080.jpeg Does that look right to you?