Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Francis Gerund wrote: > FWIW, here is the new /etc/apt/sources.list: > > # > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture > amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$ > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture > amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$

wget fails in Debian Jessie

2015-06-06 Thread Leslie Rhorer
I had a script running just fine under Debian Squeeze, but that server is now offline for repair and upgrade to Jessie, so I am now running the script under Jessie, and the script is failing when attempting to scrape data off a website using wget. Under Jessie, wget produces an SSL error when i

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-06 Thread Francis Gerund
Hey guys, thanks for the replies. I did change from Debian 8 stable to testing, seems to be okay for now. FWIW, here is the new /etc/apt/sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20150$ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _

Re: purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

2015-06-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > Untested, but should work: > > apt-get --purge install vlc > > See the man-page: > >--purge >Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. > Thanks. It works. I always thought --purge should be used along with remove but never thought of using it along wi

Re: purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

2015-06-06 Thread Sven Hartge
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Say in order to install package A, apt-get wants to remove package B. > Is there any way to tell apt-get to purge package B instead of just > removing it? > Consider the following situation where I am trying to install the vlc > package on a machine running a combina

purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

2015-06-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Say in order to install package A, apt-get wants to remove package B. Is there any way to tell apt-get to purge package B instead of just removing it? Consider the following situation where I am trying to install the vlc package on a machine running a combination of Wheezy and Jessie. % sudo apt-

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : >> > The problem is that the grub boot loader doesn't appear to be executing. > The grub menu looks fine on the HD, but grub itself doesn't even get to > the point of failing. How could "the grub menu look fine" if "the grub boot loader doesn't appear to be executing" ? --

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 01:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 16:21:38 Gary Dale wrote: On 06/06/15 05:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 04:51:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 05/06/15 03:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 From: garyd...@torfr

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : > I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition > table and wanted to convert it to GPT. May I ask why ? > Since the first partition started > at 2048, I figured this wouldn't be a problem. Just use gdisk to write a > new partition table after stealing

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jun 2015 at 22:09:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 06 June 2015 19:52:36 Brian wrote: > > > > One could imagine all sorts of things. Your signature is an example of > > what can happen when unthinking imagination grips. > > > > This list sees many issues which are not particular

Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/06/2015 06:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani wrote: - SNIP - >>> A search on privoxy.org's mailing list resolved this: >>> http://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/30642470/ >>> >>> $sudo netstat -tunlp >>> >>> tcp6

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 06 June 2015 19:52:36 Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Jun 2015 at 05:55:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 10:39:38AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:10:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > First: This isn't Ub

Re: Iceweasel slow to freeze

2015-06-06 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/05/2015 03:20 AM, notoneofmy wrote: > I removed gnome and use xfce and it's snappier. > > But I lost wireless. And this I need to fix. > > I install wicd, plus wifi driver and supplicant; the latter two were not > installed as I was informed

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:27:01AM +0200, Tomas Nordin wrote: > Hi > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 i686 > GNU/Linux > > I have forced installed latest version of gettext: Note: Installing something from backports is not considered to be "forced". Packa

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jun 2015 at 12:56:38 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Francis Gerund wrote: > > Yes. That would be okay. > > I suggest using the named release candidate "stretch" rather than > "testing". That way when stretch releases and becomes the new Stable > release at that time your system would not

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Linux4Bene wrote: > I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS. > The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX & DNS > amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so > I can't just copy the vm file/container. > > As a start, I would do

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/06/2015 21:49, Kevin O'Gorman a écrit : > I've gotten some help on the Ubuntu list, and can start the system by > putting "term" at the end of the grub menu "linux" line. My daemons > all start normally, and I can log in via SSH on the LAN. > > Unfortunately, while "start lightdm" causes X t

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've gotten some help on the Ubuntu list, and can start the system by putting "term" at the end of the grub menu "linux" line. My daemons all start normally, and I can log in via SSH on the LAN. Unfortunately, while "start lightdm" causes X to display a login screen, everything is frozen at that

Re: convert Jessie stable to pure testing

2015-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Francis Gerund wrote: > It should be so simple . . . It is simple. :-) > 1) I have a new installation of Debian 8 stable (Jessie). > > 2) I want to convert it to a pure Debian testing setup, to track testing > indefinitely. Beware that Testing is entering the most volatile time in its lifecycl

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Jun 2015 at 05:55:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 10:39:38AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:10:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > First: This isn't Ubuntu. If you love Ubuntu, then use Ubuntu. If you > > >

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 10:39:38AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:10:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [...] > > > First: This isn't Ubuntu. If you love Ubuntu, then use Ubuntu. If you > > have > > decided to make the switch, then switch properly. Learn the Debi

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: > The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: ... > May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour The installer is fixed now and you can install Debian on the SheevaPlug (and other plug variants) again.

Re: HELP- very slow download speeds

2015-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 05 June 2015 23:18:53 Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/05/2015 05:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 05 June 2015 22:41:55 Gary Roach wrote: > > >> Most of my large downloads are from ftp.us.debian.org. Before I go any > > >> f

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/06/2015 01:32 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/06/2015 01:07 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/05/2015 11:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: If you're wondering: yes, I'm asking on an Ubuntu list, but there's more people and expertise here, and Ubuntu is still Debian-based. I don't think there's anything Ubu

Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/06/2015 06:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: O

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-06 Thread Tomas Nordin
On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 04:34:07PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-06-06, Tomas Nordin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > >> On 05/06/15 00:27, Tomas Nordin wrote: > >> >I have forced installed latest version of gettext: > >> > > >> >$ dpkg --list gettex

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Tomas Nordin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Martin Read wrote: >> On 05/06/15 00:27, Tomas Nordin wrote: >> >I have forced installed latest version of gettext: >> > >> >$ dpkg --list gettext >> >... >> >ii gettext 0.19.3-2~bpo70 i386 GNU ..

Re: Latest version of gettext not run

2015-06-06 Thread Tomas Nordin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 05/06/15 00:27, Tomas Nordin wrote: > >I have forced installed latest version of gettext: > > > >$ dpkg --list gettext > >... > >ii gettext 0.19.3-2~bpo70 i386 GNU ... > > > >but the previous version is run by

Re: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/06/15 05:28 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2015 04:51:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 05/06/15 03:22 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: Hi, Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 From: garyd...@torfree.net > I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition > ta

Re: make oldconfig bzImage with GCC 4.9.2 on debian 8

2015-06-06 Thread deloptes
Dhiraj Bhor wrote: > Is there any clue to proceed with this query? I compiled many kernels from the 2.6.26 - 2.6.37 in chrooted i386 environment with gcc-4.7 it works pretty well for me. To me it looks like the patches you apply mess up something. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: >> >> >> On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-06-05, Kailash

Re: Regarding issues

2015-06-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:10:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: [...] > First: This isn't Ubuntu. If you love Ubuntu, then use Ubuntu. If you have > decided to make the switch, then switch properly. Learn the Debian way - [...] Let me (politely)

[SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

2015-06-06 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani wrote: On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani wrote: Hi All, Came across privoxy and wanted to tes