> I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was
> paying a little more attention) that a certain
> ubuntu release might be better
> installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying
> to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that
> (or thinking I heard that),
> I simply extrapolated
ing to do this without anyone else's input (go from etch
> to testing), here's the way I'd attempt it on my own
> machine:
>
> aptitude update; aptitude upgrade // to make sure etch is current
> change /etc/apt/sources.list by applying s/etch/testing/
> ap
charlie derr wrote:
SNIP
He actually has a second machine (laptop) with ubuntu on it (an
attempt to switch distros in the past). Since I'm not nearly as
proficient with untangling ubuntu problems as I am with understanding
debian, I don't think that it really makes sense (in the past there
w
steve wrote:
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|> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a
|> routine update and everything breaks.
? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem
with anything breaking
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|> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a
|> routine update and everything breaks.
? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem
with anything breaking. you use som
Rick Dooling wrote:
On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer.
You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer
version of?
Most of them :-[ It looked to me like icedove 2.0.0.9-3 is available i
On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer.
You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer
version of?
I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a
routine update and every
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| An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been
| at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he
| uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove,
| iceweasel,
charlie derr wrote:
An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been
at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's running etch that he
uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove,
iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch more often-used apps)
n
machine:
aptitude update; aptitude upgrade // to make sure etch is current
change /etc/apt/sources.list by applying s/etch/testing/
aptitude update
aptitude install aptitude
aptitude install apt-listbugs
aptitude safe-upgrade (if that's available in the aptitude in testing right
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:32:57PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:21:31PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > > On 9/11/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:
On 9/12/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:21:31PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > On 9/11/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> >
> > > > log. Quick check verif
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:21:31PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
>
> > > log. Quick check verifies that there is just the builtin 82845G
> > > chipset video - no ext
Have answered my own questions about bug reporting and joining, and
have chimed in on open bugs 424952 and 438650. They both appear to be
still open, with no evidence of upstream changes yet.
(Perhaps addressed in unstable?? Not that I would dare run that on this box.)
On 9/11/07, Gordon Peder
On 9/11/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > log. Quick check verifies that there is just the builtin 82845G
> > chipset video - no extra video card - and certainly no second
> > monitor(!!).
>
> happy to help,
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> Andrew: Just a quick feedback to say thanks a bunch for poring over
> that lengthy post - really appreciate the details about what you tried
> that worked and your insights into the verbose-yet-cryptic X error
> log. Quick check v
Andrew: Just a quick feedback to say thanks a bunch for poring over
that lengthy post - really appreciate the details about what you tried
that worked and your insights into the verbose-yet-cryptic X error
log. Quick check verifies that there is just the builtin 82845G
chipset video - no extra vi
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:41:34PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> >
> > one note from the logs, it is selecting an initial resolution of
> > 1920x1200. Does your monitor really support that? it looks like a
> > hitachi from 1996, a
On 9/9/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > New etch installation on box with builtin video Intel 845.
> >
>
> i810 is being replaced by intel, so fix up your xorg.conf to reflect
> intel instead, bu
On 9/9/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the detailed suggestions - too late tonight to experiment,
so will do so Monday and report back.
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > New etch installation on box with builtin vide
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New etch installation on box with builtin video Intel 845.
>
> This is a fresh etch install, i386, 2004 hardware. See DETAILED
> NOTES below for hardware notes, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
>
> Does anyone have X working on
Hi,
New etch installation on box with builtin video Intel 845.
This is a fresh etch install, i386, 2004 hardware. See DETAILED
NOTES below for hardware notes, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
Does anyone have X working on one of these builtin Intel 845 chipsets?
I have tried the following changes to
broken system once
> > etch goes stable.
>
> This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
> Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
> points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
> latest packages after E
On (12/02/07 07:02), Hodgins Family wrote:
> > This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
> > Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
> > points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
> > latest pa
On (12/02/07 13:31), Tyler Smith wrote:
> This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
> Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
> points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
> latest packages after Etch
> This puzzles me. I've been running etch/testing since shortly after
> Sarge went stable. I made sure to edit sources.lst to make sure it
> points to testing, and not etch, so I can continue to receive the
> latest packages after Etch goes stable. What happens to testing when
&
On 2007-02-12, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>==
> Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to
> etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
> etch goes stable.
>
>
This puzzles me. I'
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Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:31:01PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:59:53 + (GMT)
> > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
Shrinivasan T wrote:
Friends.
I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs.
Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs.
and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff.
so added the debian-multimedia.org repository.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this
Friends.
I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs.
Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs.
and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff.
so added the debian-multimedia.org repository.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:41, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> If your package manager lists these packages as upgradable then you
> either have not run "update" in a while or the progeny mirror is
> seriously broken or you have found a bug in the package manager.
>
I had the same problem in Etch a few
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:08:28 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >
> >>So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> >>upgradeable?
> >
> >
> > Because the packages file lists it, but t
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
upgradeable?
Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pulse to
On Mon October 16 2006 06:47 am, David Baron wrote:
> Yes, they are "closed" but the drivers are apparently the same. The glx
> maybe not. I get much better results with those on Nvidia's site than those
> on Sid. I keep the Sid nvidia-kernel-source package around because when
> this is upgrades,
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:05:39PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> > > upgradeable?
> >
> > Becaus
On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> > upgradeable?
>
> Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
> updated. Use anot
On Monday 16 October 2006 02:08, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Robert Baldwin wrote:
> > i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org
> > <http://us.debian.org>. when i try to install nvidia-glx and
> > nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist h
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
upgradeable?
Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pu
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
upgradeable?
Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pu
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
upgradeable?
Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pu
On Monday 16 October 2006 01:39, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> > upgradeable?
>
> Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
> updated. Use anot
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> upgradeable?
Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pulse to finish. You
won't
Robert Baldwin wrote:
i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org
<http://us.debian.org>. when i try to install nvidia-glx and
nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the
mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source
p
Chris Lale wrote:
I updated Etch (Testing) today and sound (alsa-base 1.0.11-2) stopped
working. I installed the version from Unstable (alsa-base 1.0.11-3)
which has the same dependencies and reloaded /etc/init.d/alsa, but no
luck.
There seems to be a conflict with Gnome software sound mixing
I updated Etch (Testing) today and sound (alsa-base 1.0.11-2) stopped
working. I installed the version from Unstable (alsa-base 1.0.11-3)
which has the same dependencies and reloaded /etc/init.d/alsa, but no
luck. Has anyone else lost sound in Testing or Unstable?
Chris.
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i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org. when i try to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source packages are there. when i viewed this mirror with firefox,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341055
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4590
Anyone have a work around? the "--round-robin" from the above link has
lessened the issue however it is still creating a load ave of over 12.0 !
I tried downgrading to sarge/stable f
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 00:59 +0800, Bal K Paudyal wrote:
> All DVD video disk don't mount automatically. Can't be mounted manually.
> Detected as Blank DVD-RW disk (which is not true).
>
> My system is upgraded. Running i386 Etch in AMD 64 CPU.
please post the exact command you used to mount it ma
All DVD video disk don't mount automatically. Can't be mounted manually.
Detected as Blank DVD-RW disk (which is not true).
My system is upgraded. Running i386 Etch in AMD 64 CPU.
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I tried the netinst CD on my laptop last weekend and it worked
beautifully. Great job, guys...
That said, I have been trying to install on the following hardware:
Penguin Relion 120
Dual PIII/966
2GB RAM
MegaRAID card
Dual 36GB Hitachi SCSI drives (RAID 1)
When I run the installer, it wo
Installed Etch testing beta 2 yesterday, very pleased so far.
Install might have been faster than sarge. Some improvements to the
installer too.
Once installed the reboot time seem must faster than sarge.
XF86 support much improved found every resolution for the monitor and
started at the max
: Daniel Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:15 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian ISO images of etch (testing)
Hello,
I saw in the debian pages that each week a testing ISO image is done, but
when I look for download it I can not find it. What I find is
Hello Ron,
The computer where I want to install the system is not
conected to internet so I can not do a network
install. That is why I need the CDs with the whole
system.
Daniel
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
> Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTEC
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I saw in the debian pages that each week a testing ISO
> image is done, but when I look for download it I can
> not find it. What I find is:
>
> debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo07-Jun-2005 14:19
>
Hello,
I saw in the debian pages that each week a testing ISO
image is done, but when I look for download it I can
not find it. What I find is:
debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo07-Jun-2005 14:19
35K
I find that at the page:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/
Joseph Haig wrote:
> Chris Metzler wrote:
>> (and that's without even getting into the subject that testing does
>> not get direct security updates. Stable does. Unstable effectively
>> gets them through uploads. Testing doesn't get them until the
>> packages
>> trickle down from unstable, whic
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > If this is its
> > intended pupose, wouldn't it be a good idea to try to assure that
> large
> > scale problems are kept to a minimum?
>
> No, because that isn't its intended purpose.
This being the case, is it possible (and relatively easy) for me to set
up my
Hi. Please do not cc me. I read the list. Thanks.
Art Edwards wrote:
> Chris Metzler wrote:
>>
>> Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really
>> see it as a problem with testing, or that testing is broken; but rather,
>> it seems more like a problem with the idea t
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?
Date: 27/09/05 23:55
> Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really
> see it as a problem
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> I have to say that during the time between Woody and Sarge (a long time)
> people
> were encouraged to use testing as a nearly stable platform. Without it,
> Debian
> may have been abandoned by a significant part of its user base. I
Chris Metzler wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:38:14 -0500
Jason Clinton wrote:
In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta
package which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in
turn, has caused aptitude to suggest removing KDE when
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:38:14 -0500
Jason Clinton wrote:
>
> In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta
> package which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in
> turn, has caused aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a
> system-
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:08:55AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
> > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
> > twenty-four hours
On Monday 26 September 2005 01:40 pm, Marc Wilson wrote:
> When did disagreeing with the clueless majority automatically make someone
> a troll?
>
> From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
>
> troll 1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a
> posting on {Usenet}
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to skip?
>
> The ones for which you have no backup...
but ... update/upgrade is updating the system .. not user data
and there's gazillion ways to update/restore/recreate the system
to be able to recover
Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
twenty-four hours.
Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to sk
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:08:55AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
> > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
> > twenty-four hours
On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
> people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
> twenty-four hours.
I am reporting the issue.
Why are you always such a troll?
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On Monday 26 September 2005 10:37, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
> > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
> > twenty-four hours.
>
> M
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right...
> people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every
> twenty-four hours.
Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to skip?
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
> In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta package
> which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in turn, has caused
> aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a system-wid
Hi everyone;
In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta package
which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in turn, has caused
aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a system-wide upgrade. I
have been able to hold it back by following the
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