On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-04-05 00:19 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
>> With some Google help I figured out how to fix the missing
>> /var/lib/dpkg/available problem and got lshw removed. Hopefully there's no
>> remaining hidden damage on my server.
>
> The less
Hi all,
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 01:36:13PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-01 13:11, Sthu Deus wrote:
> >Good day.
> >
> >
> >apt-get on installing of linux-image from testing repo complains on
> >inability of packages verification.
> >
> >So, is there an special for the repo keyring packag
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:31:10AM +1000, فـريـــد الغـــامــدي
wrote:
> I am working on a project. it is building an ISO image. this ISO should
> have some configurations. Simply, the ISO will boot and directly the
> Iceweasel appear and the user just surf the web pages.
I wond
After some time with a newer version of network manager my experience is
the same as Klistvud's. Although the automatically reconnecting
behaviour seems to be enabled, it doesn't always work. Perhaps bugs in
the wireless card driver, or in network manager, or perhaps it's just
cause as Mirko says n
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86
> processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox,
> opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a
> crawl and
On 2010-04-04 23:28, Tech Geek wrote:
[snip]
Based on my specs (800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM) and [1], I still should be
able to operate GNOME and some of the apps. However even opening gedit
brings the system to crawl which is so surprising. I will add some swap and
see if that makes a difference
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like
> this would be helpful.
Whilst not an direct answer to your question, try xfce. It's meant to be
lightweight and, on my EEE it works great. You can install gnome
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:00:58 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> I have a document on my web page which addresses the subject of
>> creating a custom kernel for Debian.
>> ...
>> I welcome all comments.
>
> What about this:
> http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOf
>
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> > Anybody's input who has expereince running GNOME on a low end system like
> > this would be helpful.
>
FWIW, here are my experiences running Lenny w/Gnome on a few old machines
(all using IDE hdd that are really old):
Machine #1:A
thanks Tzafrir
i have seen that but i am working on something different. i am going to build
ISO image just to access the Banks web page. In my project i am going to solve
some security weakness such as DNS, ARP spoofing, SSL and certification
etc. I will built a firewall for this ISO
hello list, after a recent system drive migration ive noticed that the
right click unmont in lenny 5.0.2 no longer cleanly unmounts.
i get a dialog box saying cannot unmont blah blah... the drives are
not being accessed at the time.
since umount is not a package that i can reinstall [as far as i
Hi,
So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
decently. I know there is always the debate between how much Swap is
suff
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:11:53 -0400 (EDT), jeremy jozwik wrote:
>
> hello list, after a recent system drive migration ive noticed that the
> right click unmont in lenny 5.0.2 no longer cleanly unmounts.
>
> i get a dialog box saying cannot unmont blah blah... the drives are
> not being accessed at
I recently noticed that ipmasq has been removed from the archive,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538384
I've been using the package for years now, and I'm happy to migrate to a
modern replacement, but I don't know which package I should choose (the
removal request didn't find a s
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:12:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
It still happens with static nameservers of Google and OpenDNS.
It's the ISP
This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease.
You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier.
ISPs reall
On 2010-04-05 11:36, Tech Geek wrote:
Hi,
So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
You'd save a good amount of RAM
Michael R. Head wrote:
> I recently noticed that ipmasq has been removed from the archive,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538384
>
> I've been using the package for years now, and I'm happy to migrate to a
> modern replacement, but I don't know which package I should choose (th
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:41:32 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
But if the ISP hung up on me I would get a 'debian pppd[1192]: Hangup
(SIGHUP)' and I don't get that.
If my IP expired I would not be able to ping it, but I can. I just can't
dig anything.
A better test wo
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I am familiar with the
> mount and umount commands issued at a shell prompt, but this "right click"
> business I don't understand. Are you talking about some icon on the desktop,
> such as GNO
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael R. Head
wrote:
> I recently noticed that ipmasq has been removed from the archive,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538384
>
> I've been using the package for years now, and I'm happy to migrate to a
> modern replacement, but I don't know w
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease.
>> You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier.
>>
>> ISPs really don't want dial-up users to be connected very long.
>> They wan
On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:11:53 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote:
> hello list, after a recent system drive migration ive noticed that the
> right click unmont in lenny 5.0.2 no longer cleanly unmounts.
>
> i get a dialog box saying cannot unmont blah blah... the drives are not
> being accessed at the ti
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> Try to login with another user and see what happens.
will try later today.
> Some tips:
>
> - There are some USB devices out there (mainly iPod, mp4 players and
> mobile phones) that indeed do not work with just the "umounting" action.
> They nee
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
This is sounding more and more like an expired DHCP lease.
You really need to investigate this, as I suggested earlier.
ISPs really don't want dial-up users to be connected very long.
Th
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Look through /var/log/syslog and see if you can find something which
>> identifies the lease length. For example, on my ethernet link, I
>> see a message in the log which says
>>
>>dhclient: bound t
Hi,
I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
No kidding!
How do I get back to what I had?
Anybody?
Hugo
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Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
Look through /var/log/syslog and see if you can find something which
identifies the lease length. For example, on my ethernet link, I
see a message in the log which says
dhclient: bo
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote the following on 05.04.2010 21:29
> Hi,
>
> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>
> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
> No kidding!
>
> How do I get back to what I had?
> Anybody?
On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
No kidding!
How do I get back to what I had?
Anybody?
Real Geeks do not use file
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
No kidding!
How do I get back to what I had?
Anybody?
Hugo
Hi,
I don't have mc, but doesn't he have ~
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, godo wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
>> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>>
>> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
>> No kidding!
>>
>> How do I get back to wh
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:33:20 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> You might want to try a Linux sniffer and see what you can come up
>> with. I've heard about a product called wireshark, but I've never
>> used it. You can also ask your ISP how long the lease is for the
>>
On 4/4/2010 10:33 PM, Tech Geek wrote:
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based
x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch
firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system
comes to a crawl and becomes slow and sluggish
Hello,
I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given
package.
In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like:
[snip]
Priority: extra
Section: misc
[/snip]
How might one determine all packages (installed or not) that fall under a
particular "P
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 05.04.2010 22:26
> On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
>> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>>
>> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
>> No kidding!
>>
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
> I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given
> package.
>
> In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like:
>
> [snip]
>
> Priority: extra
> Section: misc
>
> [/snip]
>
> How might one determine all
Brad Rogers wrote, on 2010-04-04 01:38:
Hello All,
For those that haven't seen the announcement(1) ftp.master is back up
and running.
Obviously, it's going to take time before packages start emerging.
(1) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg5.html
I'm still having p
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:47:36 -0400 wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
> > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given
> > package.
> >
> > In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Priority: extra
> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig through there a bit.
Memory shouldn't cost
On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote:
> Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search
> ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both
> the search patterns specified.
For short form, you can generally just smash things together
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:25:53 -0500 wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote:
> > Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search
> > ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both
> > the search patterns specified.
>
> For sh
On 2010-04-05 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig t
On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 05.04.2010 22:26
On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindn
On 2010-04-05 19:25, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote:
Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search
~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both
the search patterns specified.
For short fo
Ron Johnson writes:
> How does one do this in The One True Package Manager?
thumper/~ apt-cache search "One True Package Manager"
thumper/~
Nope. Can't find it.
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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> - On standard hard drives this should not happen. Try to debug "umount -
> v /mnt/device" using the console. Also, check "dmesg" for additional
> information.
$ umount -v /dev/sdb1
could not umount /media/video - trying /dev/sdb1 instead
umount:
On 2010-04-05 21:28, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
How does one do this in The One True Package Manager?
thumper/~ apt-cache search "One True Package Manager"
thumper/~
Nope. Can't find it.
You must not have the correct repos:
$ apt-cache policy apt
apt:
Installed: 0.7.25.3
On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
> > but still
> > it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
>
> You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.
Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if z
On 2010-04-05 22:22, Matthew Moore wrote:
On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
but still
it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.
Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool
Quoting Mike Viau on 2010-04-05 17:14:42:
> Thanks for the tip. I noticed ~p works with all but the essential
> priority for some reason.
'Essential' isn't a priority, per Policy 2.5 [1] Rather, Essential is a
control file field; Policy 3.8 [2] and 5.6.9 [3]. To select Essential
packages, use the
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I've recently noticed that Firefox redraw is *really* slow on
> my Debian testing machines.
> I'm not sure if it's only Firefox or if it also affects some
> other applications. It doesn't seem specific to a particular X driver
> (I
Quoting Matthew Moore on 2010-04-05 22:22:55:
> Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if zsh is
> not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.
Welcome to my random-sigblock file, Matthew, even though it's over 69
charaters.
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Hi all,
I was having some problems with ooffice so I did "apt-get update" and
then ran "apt-get upgrade" to see if ooffice was among the packages to
be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried "apt-get install ooffice"
anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice.
So I looked at the man-page:
upgr
bri...@aracnet.com skrev:
I was having some problems with ooffice so I did "apt-get update" and
then ran "apt-get upgrade" to see if ooffice was among the packages to
be upgraded. It wasn't, but I tried "apt-get install ooffice"
anyway, and presto it started upgrading ooffice.
So I looked at th
Quoting Johan Grönqvist on 2010-04-05 23:50:37:
>
> I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead.
Now called full-upgrade (though dist-upgrade remains for backcompat).
upgrade is now safe-upgrade.
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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
> Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:47:36 -0400 wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
> > > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given
> > > package.
> > >
> > > In the output of the vlan package for example on
On 2010-04-06 07:12 +0200, Brian Ryans wrote:
> Quoting Johan Grönqvist on 2010-04-05 23:50:37:
>>
>> I think you may be interested in the dist-upgrade command instead.
>
> Now called full-upgrade (though dist-upgrade remains for backcompat).
> upgrade is now safe-upgrade.
This is true for aptitu
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