Re: aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 11:03:47, Merciadri Luca wrote: Wolodja Wentland wrote: You might want to use aptitude as it is the default package manager for lenny (and subsequent releases) for reasons like better dependency resolution, interactive dependency resolution, ... You're right. I had

SOLVED Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 03 July 2010 10:28:38 Merciadri Luca wrote: Lisi wrote: You have established that the problem is with X not the whole system. Had you considered that your hardware drivers (video card and/or monitor) might have been removed from the kernel? This is possible. But the computer

aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: why. I did an `apt-get install gnome' and restarted the computer, and You might want to use aptitude as it is the default package manager for lenny (and subsequent releases) for reasons like better dependency resolution, interactive

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:09:41 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Console gives you the ability to gather data from logs and it also says (or points that) the problem could be on the GUI environment or X server. I know. But what do you think that I could try to -maybe-

Re: aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
You're right. I had taken the (bad) habit to use apt-get on other computers, and, once you have begun using apt-get, it's better not to use aptitude, isn't it? Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: why. I did an `apt-get install gnome' and

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:29:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: RAM is okay but CPU is a bit slow, bus limited, non-multithread, single core... But it did it some months ago with the same Debian, but with an older kernel! How could it be unable to do it now? We still don't

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I solved the problem. Actually, there was no GNOME environment at all on the machine! The installer had not installed it. I don't understand why. I did an `apt-get install gnome' and restarted the computer, and everything loaded smoothly. Weird!

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Lisi wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010 21:29:36 Merciadri Luca wrote: Ok, ok, calm down :-) A problem of Internet messaging is that, sometimes, messages are totally misinterpreted. Here, I was not angry at all (actually, I'm not often angry). Calm down does not, to me,

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: aptitude install sysv-rc-conf. Run this and you can turn off gdm. This way you'll boot to a console even when not using single user mode. For lightweight desktops / window managers, I recommend you try

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:29:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: RAM is okay but CPU is a bit slow, bus limited, non-multithread, single core... But it did it some months ago with the same Debian, but with an older kernel! How could it be

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) The PC then rebooted, and, after the login screen, nothing happens. There's still a background (the default one), but no icon, no menu, no shortcut working. The mouse can be moved, but nothing more. The only working shortcut is

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) The PC then rebooted, and, after the login screen, nothing happens. There's still a background (the default one), but no icon, no menu, no shortcut working. The mouse can be moved, but nothing more. The only

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't be that your machine is very busy? :-? - What are your PII specs (RAM and

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are memory hungry, so couldn't be that your machine is very busy? :-? -

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Have you considered the computer may lack for system resources (such as RAM or CPU)? Todays DE (GNOME and KDE) are

After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Some days ago, I told you about the fact that my Debian's installation always stalled at 5%. I then re-downloaded another image, burnt it, and the installation process went fine. (I installed from the CD1 of `http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.5/i386/iso-cd/'.) The PC then rebooted,