Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/12/12 02:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The name conflict of the much too generic "node" became one of those irreconcilable differences. After a very long discussion it was referred to the technical committee

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/09/2012 07:01 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Exactly the opposite is true: Once Google puts out a multi arch aware Google Earth package like Skype did and you have nothing else requiring ia32-libs you can git rid of it and possibly some of the 32-bit packages that have not been used by Ci

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-12-13 07:30, lina skrev: On Thursday 13,December,2012 02:24 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev: Acroread is now a multiarch-package, as it says on the deb-multimedia website, and the amd64 package for acroread is gone. The point of multiarch is to allow installation of

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread lina
Thanks, I have installed the acroread as well as other 75 packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c97ab4.4070...@gmail.com

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread lina
On Thursday 13,December,2012 02:24 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev: >> Hi, >> >> 1. I kept the acroread related from updating for half a year, I guess. >> >> 2. Today, I tried full-upgrade, >> [...] >> 3. From http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ >> >> I try: >> >> To install ne

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The > buster.js video shows a guy on a mac do it in a few seconds. > > What I so far have discovered with Debian is > > 1) Node.js is not run as "node" (which the buster.js

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev: Hi, 1. I kept the acroread related from updating for half a year, I guess. 2. Today, I tried full-upgrade, [...] 3. From http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ I try: To install new acroread packages : dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update apt-get install acroread

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread lina
> The following NEW packages will be installed: > acroread:i386 acroread-debian-files:i386 cups-bsd gcc-4.7-base:i386 > libatk1.0-0:i386 libavahi-client3:i386 libavahi-common-data:i386 > libavahi-common3:i386 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 libcairo2:i386 > libcomerr2:i386 libcups2:i386 libdatri

Re: acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread lina
Simplified speaking, how to install the acroread? partial of my source.list is: deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy main non-free Thanks, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Neil T . Dantam
At Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:54:41 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > > This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered > when the package is initially installed. Agree that "turning

acroread episode

2012-12-12 Thread lina
Hi, 1. I kept the acroread related from updating for half a year, I guess. 2. Today, I tried full-upgrade, The following packages will be REMOVED: acroread{a} acroread-debian-files{a} acroread-escript{a} blcr-dkms{a} fglrx-glx-ia32{a} ia32-libs{a} ia32-libs-dev{a} ia32-libs-gtk{a} ia32-libs-xulr

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
nv wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > At this moment Squeeze is still Stable and so there is no difference > > between the two steps that you did above. No difference. > > There is actually a real difference, in how updates are handled, in > that 'squeeze' would keep me on the Squeeze release even whe

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The name conflict of the much too generic "node" became one of those irreconcilable differences. After a very long discussion it was referred to the technical committee and here is their resolution. http:

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Panen
"The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards" really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as well? I started late in the IT business with a totally different previous vocation, and can do all except put a CPU & mobo and cooler together, anyway lets not carry on

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the > > > transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind > > > of thing use to work in the previous in

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > You just answered my next question. I'm going to give your > suggestions a lot of thought as soon as I get the last of the bugs > out. I did try removal and re installation and it didn't help. I'm > not sure that I did a good job of stripping out all of the old data > though. I

node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The buster.js video shows a guy on a mac do it in a few seconds. What I so far have discovered with Debian is 1) Node.js is not run as "node" (which the buster.js package assumes). Instead it runs as nodejs 2) npm install -g

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:31:04 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > nv wrote: > > After so much time wasted researching and feeling out different > > options, I decided that it was finally time for me to switch to > > Wheezy (actually, testing). > > Fine. > Thank you, your response has helped tremendously!

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
nv wrote: > After so much time wasted researching and feeling out different options, I > decided that it was finally time for me to switch to Wheezy (actually, > testing). Fine. > I did aptitude update, aptitude upgrade, then converted my > /etc/apt/sources.list > to use 'stable' instead of 'sq

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 17:25 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mark writes: > > Any ideas guys? > > You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board > works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the > MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/12/2012 04:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.13

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-12 Thread nv
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:43:38 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following > errors when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: > > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all > 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 > 404 No

404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80] Err http://security.debian.org/ sq

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Panen
Thanks guys, non of my suppliers can get hold of LGA1156 mobo's anymore in this part of the world. So looks like i am in for a new mobo, CPU and aftercooler :-) On 11 December 2012 22:02, Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/11/2012 09:10 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Gary

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 dec 12, 12:05:41, nv wrote: > > > > The nvidia driver would not compile against it (stupidly whining > > that it required at least a 2.6 kernel!). > > Just as a side note, nvidia-glx from backports works fine with the > kerne

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/12/2012 01:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. Things have changed since I started this thr

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-12 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-12-03, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as > described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog > I find authenication has failed. I h

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 12:05:41, nv wrote: > > The nvidia driver would not compile against it (stupidly whining that it > required at least a 2.6 kernel!). Just as a side note, nvidia-glx from backports works fine with the kernel in backports ;) > I suspect that I might be able to simply clear some

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: > At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, > Chris Davies wrote: > > > > Reboot the box after installing LVM. > > Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. This is good to know. However, this should all be triggered when th

How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-12 Thread nv
Hello, and a giant thank you to everyone working on the Debian system! Seriously, Wikipedia shows Debian estimated to be worth about US$ 8 billion! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian -++- -++ My conversation level. I am fairly competent, with many things Linux-relat

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Wolfgang Karall wrote: > On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before >>> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will >>> avoid assigning that address to another client. >> >> I

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Peter Viskup wrote: > Consider LXC [2] in case you have some concerns of CPU/memory overhead > and you plan to run only Linux virtual servers. LXC looks really nice but you need very up-to-date packages, and possibly may even need to consider compiling from source. Issues I've hit so far (none

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
P. J. McDermott wrote: > I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server So now you have recommendations both ways :-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Re: Corrupted desktop

2012-12-12 Thread Steve Handley
When installing from the iso, the installer asks if you want to install virtualbox-ose-guest additions from wheezy's repositories; I said yes to this. That way, you get the full gnome 3 shell desktop. The effect of desktop corrupting only occurs when "gnome" (full gnome 3 shell) is selected as des

Re: Corrupted desktop

2012-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 09:19:10, Steve Handley wrote: > > 1. Created a VM, using debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-CD-1.iso on Win7 host > running Virtualbox. Did you install guest-additions in the virtual machine? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.

Re: Several questions regarding compiled web server (/usr/local)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
- - wrote: > Thank you for your very good explanation! I could not find anything > nearly as good as this in the internet! But that message is now on the internet. :-) > Another question came up while reading your message: > Wouldn't it then be better to give ownership of '/usr/local/var/lib/cher

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

2012-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've > got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. > Things have changed since I started this thread. I found a really > good missive at: > > http