SOLVED - Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Lisi
On Friday 15 April 2011 23:49:24 Christian Jakob wrote: > Can anyone change status of this post to SOLVED ?! You can - just add SOLVED to the subject line!! It is usually put at the beginning. I have done it for you. It is no more complicated than it is to start the thread in the first place,

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 4/15/11, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: > > FWIW: O'Reilly published a > Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN > > GNU/LINUX (c. 1999).  It was a very good > introduction and step-by-step > > guide to installing and using Debian.  I got it > for free from the Debian > > booth at Las Vegas C

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-15 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:54:11PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem described here: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00264.html > > > > Stephen Powell gave the same advice as above. :-)

Re: error installing kernel-image, solved

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:26:13 -0400 (EDT), Hans Jespersen wrote: > > /etc/kernel-img.conf contained the line ramdisk = /usr/sbin/yaird > I changed it to ramdisk = /usr/sbin/update-initramfs, and the installation > continued without errors. > > I now have squeeze up and running. Tanks for helping

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > I had a similar problem described here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00264.html > > Stephen Powell gave the same advice as above. :-) Following that, > I tried this: > > # grep -r yaird /etc/*

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Christian Jakob
>>There is only one question left: >>Why did this happen? What could I have done, that these values changed to >>-1? > >I don't know any tool that edits that file. I always edit it with (sudo -e >/etc/apt/preferences). So, my assumption is that you made the change >yourself, perhaps without knowing

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 4/15/11, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, > Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > --- On Thu, 4/14/11, Marc Shapiro > wrote: > > > >> On 04/12/11 09:15, Patrick Bartek > >> wrote: > >> > --- On Tue, 4/12/11, rishabh animesh > >> wrote: > >> > > > FWIW: O'Reilly publishe

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/04/11 02:32, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2011 17:11:14 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> To the OP: Your message looked really a lot like SPAM. I almost reported >> it as such. > > +1 Especially as it closely resembled some recent Spam. > > Lisi > > Yes. I'm always suspicious of any

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-04-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools? Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to access them using mtools in the past. On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others, > > I am replying to the l

Re: Building kernel module: rtl8192se

2011-04-15 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Friday 15 April 2011 14:44:27 Mathieu Malaterre, vous avez écrit : > Dear all, > > I am trying to build the rtl8192se module for my running debian > kernel. I have the patch that apply cleanly on linux 2.6.38 (*). > However I failed to find any documentation for building this wireless > drive

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> FWIW: O'Reilly published a Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN > GNU/LINUX (c. 1999). It was a very good introduction and step-by-step > guide to installing and using Debian. I got it for free from the Debian > booth at Las Vegas COMDEX 1999. This was the first year Linux had a > major presen

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-04-15 Thread peasthope
Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others, I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately. * From: Stephen Powell * Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST) > No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image fil

Re: Problems with autofs

2011-04-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 12. 04. 2011 20:52:08 je Aniruddha napisal(a): > >>> I  tried with and without quotes, with the label and formatting the >>> drive as ext3.  I restarted autofs. None of these worked. Whe

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-15 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Thu, 4/14/11, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> On 04/12/11 09:15, Patrick Bartek >> wrote: >> > --- On Tue, 4/12/11, rishabh animesh >> wrote: >> > > FWIW: O'Reilly published a Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN GNU/LINUX (c. > 1999).  It

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 04/12/11 09:15, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > --- On Tue, 4/12/11, rishabh animesh  > wrote: > > > >> I am new to Linux and Debian. Whats the best way > to start on things? > >> Currently I'm a Computer Science student and have > experience only with >

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1393449085.44289.1302886728608.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb037>, Christian Jakob wrote: >>You've pinned all your available repositories to a negative value. APT >>refuses to install any package with a negative priority, which is why none >>of your packages have installation candidates. >> >>Check /

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Erwan David
On 15/04/11 17:02, dave boland wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:03 +1000, "Heddle Weaver" > wrote: >> Greetings all. >> IBM have just come up with something that I think we could probably use. >> I'll just supply the link here and then sit back and see who's going >> to take a punt on clicking

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Christian Jakob
>You've pinned all your available repositories to a negative value. APT  >refuses to install any package with a negative priority, which is why none of  >your packages have installation candidates. > >Check /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/preferences.d/*; you've got at least  >on stanza wrong in

Re: Problems with autofs

2011-04-15 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 12. 04. 2011 20:52:08 je Aniruddha napisal(a): >> I  tried with and without quotes, with the label and formatting the >> drive as ext3.  I restarted autofs. None of these worked. When I cd to >>  /var/autofs/removable it's empty. > > It's s

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Lisi
On Friday 15 April 2011 17:11:14 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > To the OP: Your message looked really a lot like SPAM.  I almost reported > it as such. +1 Especially as it closely resembled some recent Spam. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <406058322.9701.1302882000282.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb034>, Christian Jakob wrote: >root@debian # apt-cache policy >Package files: > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > release a=now > -1 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages > release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=oldstable,l=Debian-Security,c=c

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Heddle Weaver wrote: >IBM have just come up with something that I think we could probably use. >I'll just supply the link here and then sit back and see who's going to take >a punt on clicking on it. > >*http://tinyurl.com/3dau4ly From those that don't like these hidden links: http://www.ewee

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Christian Jakob
TO: scot.. >Um, fsck did what? First there came a WARNING: sd2 is mounted ... blabla Then something like this: /dev/sda2: recovering journal /dev/sda2: clean, ... files, ... blocks For me this looked like fsck didn't do anything... But, I think there is no hardwa

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread dave boland
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:03 +1000, "Heddle Weaver" wrote: Greetings all. IBM have just come up with something that I think we could probably use. I'll just supply the link here and then sit back and see who's going to take a punt on clicking on it. [1]http://tinyurl.com/3dau4ly Regar

Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): package xserver-xorg-video-intel leads to blank screen on reboot

2011-04-15 Thread Davide Baldini
Wikipedia reads: "Support for Intel GMA graphic cards has been accepted in version 2.6.29 which was released on March 23, 2009." May it be easier to try a prior 2.6.29 kernel instead of disabling kms? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: sata hotplug

2011-04-15 Thread tux
Thanks On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > tux: > > > > I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device. > > Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux. > > That's true to some extent, yes. Device naming is (and always was) the > same, for example. > >

Re: sata hotplug

2011-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
tux: > > I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device. > Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux. That's true to some extent, yes. Device naming is (and always was) the same, for example. > I searched the web, the way of hot plug for scsi is echo an string to > /pr

iSCSI + LUKS

2011-04-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi to all! I searched the web for finding an answer but with no luck. Anyone got an idea about how to first make iSCSI see a remote disk, then LUKS open the LUKS device and finally the filesystem on LUKS gets mounted. The problem now is that first LUKS noearly tries to create the /dev/mapper devi

Re: error installing kernel-image, solved

2011-04-15 Thread Hans Jespersen
/etc/kernel-img.conf contained the line ramdisk = /usr/sbin/yaird I changed it to ramdisk = /usr/sbin/update-initramfs, and the installation continued without errors. I now have squeeze up and running. Tanks for helping me out on this. Best regards, Hans "Joel Roth" skrev i meddelelsen news

sata hotplug

2011-04-15 Thread tux
hi, I'm using squeeze, and I want to hutplug an sata device. Someone said to me that sata and scsi is the same in linux. I searched the web, the way of hot plug for scsi is echo an string to /proc/scsi/scsi. But there does not exist that file in my filesystem. So, now I wander who can I do hotpl

New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Heddle Weaver
Greetings all. IBM have just come up with something that I think we could probably use. I'll just supply the link here and then sit back and see who's going to take a punt on clicking on it. *http://tinyurl.com/3dau4ly *Regards Weaver.* * -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, b

Building kernel module: rtl8192se

2011-04-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear all, I am trying to build the rtl8192se module for my running debian kernel. I have the patch that apply cleanly on linux 2.6.38 (*). However I failed to find any documentation for building this wireless driver. I tried the brutal approach of building the entire kernel, see below. All

X and console problems

2011-04-15 Thread maderios
Hi After changing my hardware I got problem that seems coming from X server (Squeeze Debian / stable). When I stop X session, consoles are useless. The cursor is blinking. When I type a command, it does not appear but if I hit 'enter ', it is launched. So, I can restart X or MC for example. If

Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): package xserver-xorg-video-intel leads to blank screen on reboot

2011-04-15 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Arvind, 11.04.2011: > > Over the weekend, i had time to investigate some more. I purged Xorg > and all its dependencies. Since my graphics card is intel, X only > requires xserver-xorg-video-intel, xserver-xorg-video-vesa, > xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and xinit (for startx). I installed each of > t

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Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-15 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:22:18PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Hans Jespersen wrote: > > While upgrading from lenny to squeeze, i followed the installation > > notes to the point where I install the new kernel image: > > > > apt-get install linux-image-

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-15 Thread David Baron
On Friday 15 April 2011 09:41:19 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so > >and libGLcore.so shared libraries (libGL.so version: > >190.53; libGLcore.so version: 195.36.31). > >Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. > > > >Any