Re: sid upgrade: could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl

2009-09-29 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 07:45 Tue 29 Sep , Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/9/29 Mitchell Laks : > > hi, > > > > I am doing a sid upgrade and I got this message > > > > E: Internal error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl. > > > > Any ideas on how to procede... :) > > > > I just got this too. Not su

Re: How do you install flash player?

2009-09-29 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 29. 09. 2009 04:25:59 je Stefan Monnier napisal(a): > > I was wondering if someone could explain how to install flash > player > > on debian? Thank you. > > I did "aptitude install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash" way back then. > > > Stefan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Downgrade libxi6 -- HowTo? (Bug 515734)

2009-09-29 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 09. 2009 13:12:01 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Greetings, fellow Debianites! > > I've recently installed Debian 5.0.3 on my other machine and am > experiencing bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515734 > (keymaps messed up in X). > > Now, the suggestion is to downgrad

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,29.Sep.09, 11:17:29, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > on my Lenny box, the message > > dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 > > is printed continuously on the syslog file. > > Using tcpdump, it appears that dhclient sends something, > but apparently gets no feed back. >

Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

2009-09-29 Thread Dominik Smatana
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:56, Dominik Smatana wrote: >> Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> I don't really know what to do, but have you tried the vesa driver? >> I'm not sure what do you mean. What's vesa driver? > > A generic driver that is unaccelerated, and limited in resolution,

xserver will not start after dist-upgrade

2009-09-29 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Hi, yesterday evening I did a dist-upgrade. Now the xserver is not starting anymore. I have lenny, testing and unstable deb packages in my sources.list and dist-upgrade pulled in 7.4 of xserver-xorg. I tried to downgrade to xserver-xorg to 7.3, but the server ends with the same message. There is

Re: xserver will not start after dist-upgrade

2009-09-29 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
2009/9/29 Svenn Are Bjerkem : > Anybody experienced this or have a solution. I found my own answer after some more googling: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548724 wasn't enough to google for xserver-xorg, there should also have been some intel words in there. Since the fix is i

Re: remove package by hand ?

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Bonnet
Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-09-28 16:16 (+0200), Frank Bonnet wrote: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Starting Starting 2 Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ldap-account-manager 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0

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2009-09-29 Thread Jason McDonald
Hi, I came across your company in my research on potential firms and marketers (ad agencies, PR firms) that may be active in "Internet Marketing," including S.E.O. or Search Engine Optimization for ranking higher on Google. I'd like to invite you to my upcoming free webinar on the "Top Ten Free

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for the reply. Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,29.Sep.09, 11:17:29, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, on my Lenny box, the message dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 is printed continuously on the syslog file. Using tcpdump, it appears that dhclient sends something,

apt-mirror doesn't create appropriate Release ??

2009-09-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, Sorry for disturbing again, I can't create a local mirror, I tryed many and many times . Help please Here is what I have done: I create a local mirror for lenny ( just to test so I mirrored contrib i386 about 200 MB), here is the tree (remove some letter directories): I used the command apt

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Again, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, thanks for the reply. Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,29.Sep.09, 11:17:29, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, on my Lenny box, the message dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 is printed continuously on the syslog file. and suddenly the req

how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi fi

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > Debian lenny, alsa > > dpkg -l | grep alsa > > ii  alsa-base    1.0.17.dfsg-4      ALSA driver configuration files > ii  alsa-utils   1.0.16-2           ALSA utilities > ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa   0.10.19-2  GStreamer plugin for ALSA > ii  libs

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after

Re: Setting CPU fan seed

2009-09-29 Thread Hashimoto
Ok, I installed them, and what should I do now? debian-lap:~# dpkg -l | grep cpufreq ii cpufreqd 2.3.3-4 fully configurable daemon for dynamic frequency and vol ii cpufrequtils 004-2 utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature ii

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread gn643202
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after

Re: Downgrade libxi6 -- HowTo? (Bug 515734)

2009-09-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1254136321.1582...@debian>, Klistvud wrote: >Greetings, fellow Debianites! > >I've recently installed Debian 5.0.3 on my other machine and am >experiencing bug >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515734 >(keymaps messed up in X). > >Now, the suggestion is to downgrade the libxi6 l

EJABBERD + ACTIVE DIRECTORY

2009-09-29 Thread cosme
Hola He probado montones de configuraciones y nada, descargué varios manueles, evidentemente estoy haciendo algo mal En una de las páginas encontré alguin que te preguntaba sobre un tema parecido y le diste el siguiente enlace http://ftp.scu.rimed.cu/documentacion/Sobre_Linux/samba/Samba%

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

2009-09-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:09:38PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:17:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > One other way would be to use screen with -x > > Thanks Andre, I've used openvt since my first introduction to Linux > which was DosLinux on a 386 and never saw

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

2009-09-29 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Mike McClain wrote: > Is there a way to get gpm to use the same copy buffer at the > command line that it dowes in X? Or in other words how can I This is on the gpm TODO list for years :) See /usr/share/doc/gpm/TODO.gz: 2002-03-10 Nico Schottelius * make buffer accessable from

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search line either. menuentry "Debian GNU

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want t

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2: che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub ii grub-common 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) ii grub-pc 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, vers

how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use the older version. how exactly does one downgrade a package to a particular version, then make su

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use the older version. how exactly does one downgrade a package to a particular

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Tim Tebbit
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the > current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the > earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use > the older version. how exactly does one downgrade a package to a >

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Robert P. J. Day wrote: as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use the older version. how exactly does one downgrade a package to a particu

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the > > current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the > > earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to > > use the older version. how

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Neal Hogan writes: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: >> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost >> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. > After you lose > sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'? > > Perhaps there is somethi

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro writes: > My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a > runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something > went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra > process, separate from any currently active firefox process) an

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Neal Hogan writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > >>> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost >>> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. > >> After you lose >> sound, what do you s

Re: xserver will not start after dist-upgrade

2009-09-29 Thread joe
Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: 2009/9/29 Svenn Are Bjerkem : Anybody experienced this or have a solution. I found my own answer after some more googling: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548724 wasn't enough to google for xserver-xorg, there should also have been some intel words in

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:40:53 -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Marc Shapiro writes: > > > My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a > > runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something > > went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an ext

Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and > > suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** > > Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much appre

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
Hi question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic kernel - but a partial one ? Alex On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2: > > che:/home/aper

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for grub2 to show a blank screen when booting a kernel? Justin. On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2: che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub ii grub-common

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: Hi question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic kernel - but a partial one ? Alex On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm using g

Re: [OT] Debian + Virtualization > Sharing Experiences

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:48:48AM -0300, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe this isn't OffTopic, but I added [OT] tag just in case. > > I am in charge of installing 5 VMs - Linux[2] + FreeBSD + Windows + PFSense. > I figured it would be better to have ESXi installed, but the ser

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:34:57PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for > grub2 to show a blank screen when booting a kernel? I think grub2 add quiet to the kernel options and thus blank screen, edit the grub line on reboot and

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > > >Hi > > > >question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? > > > >doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic > >kernel - but a partial o

Re: Downgrade libxi6 -- HowTo? (Bug 515734)

2009-09-29 Thread Johan Kullstam
Klistvud writes: > Greetings, fellow Debianites! > > I've recently installed Debian 5.0.3 on my other machine and am > experiencing bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515734 > (keymaps messed up in X). > > Now, the suggestion is to downgrade the libxi6 library. I have sever

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: Hi question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic kern

RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM > > On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot > process, and > > > suggestions

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > [snip] > >>> > >> > >>Alex, > >> > >>How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not > >>having one? > >> > >>IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration: > >> > >>1. /boot/kernel > >>2. /boo

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Kevin Ross wrote: > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to > autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put > whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc

Re: Setting CPU fan seed

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Wagner
* Hashimoto 29.09.2009 > Ok, I installed them, and what should I do now? > > debian-lap:~# dpkg -l | grep cpufreq > ii cpufreqd 2.3.3-4 > fully configurable daemon for dynamic frequency and vol > ii cpufrequtils 00

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: > Kevin Ross wrote: > > > > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it > > to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile.

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Kevin Ross wrote: > > > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to > > autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profil

per-user permissions on forwarded port

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
I'm using ssh port forwarding to manage some remote machines. Problem is, I'm doing it from a multi-user machine and I don't want all users on the machine to have access to the forwarded ports. How can I prevent this? For instance, if I log into the remote machine with: ssh -L 8080:localhost:80

Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or DVDs. Any suggestions for a decent capture card? I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement. Grateful for any help! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread David Parker
- Original Message - From: David Parker Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > I have had great luck with my Hauppauge PVR-350 and PVR-150 cards, but they > are getting harder to find these days.  They u

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: Robert P. J. Day 写道: as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to use the olde

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Niu Kun
Alex Samad 写道: Hi question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic kernel - but a partial one ? Alex On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread David Parker
I have had great luck with my Hauppauge PVR-350 and PVR-150 cards, but they are getting harder to find these days.  They use the ivtv drivers under Linux, and the manufacturer's drivers under Windows work quite well.     - Dave - Original Message - From: Dennis Wicks Date: Tuesday, Sep

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:39:07AM +0800, Niu Kun wrote: > Alex Samad 写道: > >Hi > > > >question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? > > > >doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic > >kernel - but a partial one ? > > > >Alex > > > >On Tue, Sep 29,

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Parker wrote the following on 09/29/2009 07:10 PM: - Original Message - From: David Parker Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > I have had great luck with my Hauppauge PVR-350 and PVR-150 cards

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [snip] Alex, How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not having one? IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration: 1. /boot/kernel 2. /boot/S

RE: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:57 PM > > Greetings; > > I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or > DVDs. > > Any suggestions for a decent capture card? > > I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on > Deb

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: >> Kevin Ross wrote: >> >> >> > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then >> > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it >> >

X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. Im running Sid on a Thinkpad T60, and recently rebooted my machine after having done several updates recently. I now find that X is crashing hard on boot, rendering the system unusabler. My Xorg log shows the same backtrace thats reported in this thread: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-

Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-29 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:11:29 -0700 (PDT) "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" shared this with us all: >Hi. Im running Sid on a Thinkpad T60, and recently rebooted my machine >after having done several updates recently. I now find that X is >crashing hard on boot, rendering the system unusabler. My Xorg log >

Re: xorg still locking up for me on testing

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Frank wrote: > I had high hopes this morning when xorg-xserver-video-intel got updated > but no such luck. Since then my machine has locked up tight (alt-sysreq tight) > about 5 times. > [...] > What kernel are you running? I remember reading that on Intel video cards there are a lot of pr

Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-29 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Im running Sid on a Thinkpad T60, and recently rebooted my machine after > having done several updates recently. I now find that X is crashing hard on > boot, rendering the system unusabler. As already mentioned here, you are b

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > on my Lenny box, the message > > dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 > > is printed continuously on the syslog file. > > [...] > > Thanks in advance, > Jerome > I get this problem on some networks; it seems to me that some routers just do

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Michael Pobega wrote: On 0, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, on my Lenny box, the message dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 is printed continuously on the syslog file. [...] Thanks in advance, Jerome I get this problem on some networks; it seems to me that s

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active firef

Re: how to downgrade and pin package (durep)?

2009-09-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > > > > > > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the > > > > current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the > > > > earlier

Re: X crashing after upgrade: urgent!

2009-09-29 Thread mihkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum kirjutas: > I am willing to downgrade X but dont know how to do this. Or if it will help. I had the same problem yesterday. In order to downgrade X, I booted to single user mode, purged all X related packages, changed sid to test