Re: Mount Problem when WinXp is hibernating

Oscar Blanco wrote: Hello, today I came across with something. I left WinXP hibernating and checking in console WinXP partition is not mounted. I tried to mount it manually *#mount /media/windows/C* but here is the result *Failed to mount '/dev/hda1': Operation not permitted *Why could not th

Re: "Could not stat resume device file"

Ken Heard skrev: When I boot up any box with encryption activated for a partition in it, the following message is received at the beginning of the boot process, or soon thereafter: Begin: Running /scripts//local-premount ... resume: libgcrypt Version 1.2.3 resume: Co

Re: Icons on Gnome desktop

andy skrev: My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is called), I can double click the device icon and then it will appear on the desktop

Re: Back up routines

Hi, AG skrev: Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can just leave to run according to a cron job once (or twice) a week? It would be backing up to my former IDE HDD (now in an enclosure) via an USB.

Re: GCC

simon h skrev: I wonder why Debian needs three versions of the GCC compiler: 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3? Shouldn't one be enough? Is it because the compiler has no down-compatibility? I think that is the reason, yes. I also think that lack of manpower is the reason there are not even more (older) versi

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

Bret Busby skrev: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: The source of information that led me to believe that Debian requires java, is, on the web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html , where it states "2.7. Java now in Debian The OpenJDK

installation (python/libc6) broken, but how?

Hi, The three-line python program import numpy m = numpy.random.random((16, 16)) (x, v) = numpy.linalg.eig(m) runs fine in my chrooted sid, but in my (main) squeeze installation it produces *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x01407890 *** In squeeze, I

Re: Xorg is very slow.

Magicloud Magiclouds skrev: It seemed that, xorg now is using CPU to draw the screen. So, anything with a complex UI will take all CPU usage. Any configuration that I should modify? The configuration is stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf I believe the command "dpkg-reconfigure -p high xserver-x

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? If I were you, I would temporarily enable testing, unstable and experimental repos, grab iceweasel and dependencies from experimental and then disabling the repos. Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian dist

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

Liviu Andronic skrev: I tried to switch Debian to use the fglrx driver following the steps suggested on the wiki [1], I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a basic system. / johan --

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

Γιώργος Πάλλας skrev: Michael Ekstrand wrote: The current ia32-libs package in unstable [...] fixes the problem. [...] So either update to the Sid version or wait until it trickles to testing. By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did not expect that from debi

Re: Installed list of Apps

S. Fishpaste skrev: Howdy. I know there is a Debian app that's useful for duplicating installed applications from one box to another. For the life of me; I can't remember it's name. Anyone help ? Do you mean these? dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread

Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

hadi motamedi skrev: Excuse me , the link you provided me is for zcat *.gz but my case relates to "how to *.iso" . Can you please let me how to copy *.iso files onto USB memory sticks as bootable ones ? It seems to me that he link provided covers the iso-case. Read the last 2 lines of section

Re: debian and ubuntu

prad skrev: we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? I prefer debian whenever I want to use

interpreting smartmontools output

Hi, I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. On a two-year old machine, that would worry me, but my instincts are now instead to mistrust sm

Re: lifelines packages for Etch or Lenny ?

Bernard skrev: I have just installed 'Lifelines' (a genealogy software) on both desktop and laptop, one under Sarge, the other under Etch. In both cases, v 3.0.50 that was proposed. However, this version has a bug and, in the genealogical mailing list, I have been advised to install v 3.0.61 i

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

lee skrev: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:46:29PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: Hm, that is not a fix, it's a poor workaround. And when I start nautilus and look at the preferences dialog, there is no mentioning of caching thumbnails whatsoever. When I start nautilus and look at the preferences dia

Re: automatic gdm log in

Daniel Dalton skrev: Is it possible to get gdm to log me in automatically to a certain account with out me having to enter a username or password? I use gnome, and I find it under the menu in what might be called "system -> login-window -> security -> atomatic-login" in english / johan --

Re: Errors after AMD64 install but not with the 32bit install

Stackpole, Chris skrev: Problem #1 Nov 27 23:28:31 SK kernel: [0.004000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Nov 27 23:28:31 SK kernel: [0.004000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup I think I had some messages like that once as well ... (on amd64 lenny) I us

Re: Can't get fglrx driver to work after recent xserver update (squeeze)

Matteo Riva skrev: After yesterdays upgrade which contained new xserver packages, I can't run the fglrx non-free driver anymore. I installed the latest version with the sgfxi[1] script [...] Are you aware that the fglrx driver was removed from squeeze on the 25th to allow for the xorg transiti

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

Matteo Riva skrev: Yes I am using the free driver now but the performance is poor. Actually I get a strange behavior: Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the

Re: APT (linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686)

DS skrev: Pls, let me know if you have any available server to download them using apt. Searching for the package in oldstable/etch on packages.debian.org leads me to , that claims to know that it is available on t

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

nico skrev: i constantly get the error no space left on device when the user try to write on tmp directory, and there is space on the directory also root can still write on it. Maybe there is some configuration issue that don't know about squeeze Any help will be apreciate. I believe the insta

Re: problems with gstreamer

Marcelo Chiapparini skrev: Recently I upgraded OO and something happens with the gstreamer library. Now, aptitude tries to uninstall a bunch of packages. Hi, Here are my attempts at comments. The ordering is arbitrary. 1) All packages that are marked {u} have been auto-installed to satis

Re: Open the same PDF in two different acroread processes

Merciadri Luca skrev: For TeX reasons, I would like to open the same PDF in two different acroread processes. How can I do this? From "man acroread" it seems to me that the following option should work: -openInNewInstance It launches a new instance of acroread process. The application

Re: aptitude package filtering

Yavuz Yetim skrev: I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing) gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's not what I want. I was going to suggest the command aptit

Re: aptitude package filtering

Florian Kulzer skrev: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote: If I understand you correctly then I think the "narrowing" search pattern/operator is what you want: aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting' I thought so too, but when I tested, aptitude lists acpi as installed fro

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

Jesse Sheidlower skrev: The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the configuration. When I plug in t

Re: Gnucash segfaults

John A. Sullivan III skrev: Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open an account. This sounds similar to the description ---

Re: IOMMU option in bios

Charles Kroeger skrev: I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. Can anyone eleborate on this message in dmesg? A post that tries to elaborate is at

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 sa

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

Liam O'Toole skrev: On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The rea

Re: Mailing list policy change?

Stephen Powell skrev: > Does this mean that it is OK to CC people now, without a CC being requested? Or do many people read the list via the web interface to the mailing list archives without being subscribed and will still get annoyed if they are CCed? As a humble user, I do not know, but

Re: shouldn't apt-get upgrade, you know, upgrade ?

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

Re: Bug Report : Running Pymol for terminal produce ImportError: No module named copy

Sushil Mishra skrev: When i try to open pymol by terminal thsi is producing fallowing error-- sus...@sushilnb:~$ pymol 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol//__init__.py", line 32, in from copy import

Re: Hash for netinst.iso file

2012-10-05 21:58, Wally Lepore skrev: I've downloaded debian-6.0.6-i386-netinst.iso and would like to verify the download. Can anyone please point the way to the "hash" code to verify? I do not find them there either, so I can not help you with that CD. When I looked at the links for the stan

Re: Debian Wheezy Hangs

2012-10-13 05:55, Tim D skrev: I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. If you have a recent CPU/GPU from intel, you might want to

Re: Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: I've used this tutorial -> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=60019 - yesterday, and after reboot the playmouth animation worked but before it arrived login screen it showed me a black blank screen with a flashing cursor - not mouse - and after

Re: Error after booting default kernel version

2012-10-21 18:34, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: 2012/10/20 Johan Grönqvist: 2012-10-20 10:44, Gábor Hársfalvi skrev: Good! Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo. "Now you know exactly what edits to what config files that you need to undo." -> Yes,

Re: gnome3 broken on wheezy

2012-11-27 17:20, ChadDavis skrev: After recent upgrades, my gnome3 no longer works. The system boots and I can log in to an X system, but it looks more like gnome2, than gnome3; the whole activities thing and the favorites menu is gone. Instead, I have the mutliple window changer thing in the

Re: acroread episode

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

2012-12-13 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: Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now, don't u think?

2012-12-16 08:14, Suttiwit Sukpinit skrev: Hi, This is my first post on the mailing list. The question is: Debian 7 wheezy should be released by now because i've tried for several months since it released. it all seems stable. You can have a look at

Re: google-earth + multiarch

2012-12-18 04:49, Hugo Vanwoerkom skrev: As an exercise in multiarch I tried installing google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb in according to http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Multiarch. Has anybody actually accomplished that? What I ended up with is: dpkg: dependency problems prevent c

Re: No suitable module for running kernel found : virtualbox-ose

2013-01-01 08:39, Contact. Vardhan skrev: i am using debian 6.0.6. please look into the data& provide me a possible solution : [1] installation of virtualbox-ose : # aptitude install virtualbox-ose > [...] Setting up virtualbox-ose (3.2.10-dfsg-1) ... Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules. Sta

Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?

2013-01-08 16:42, David Guntner skrev: Regardless of an etc-update like tool, is that how it works in Debian? Does it avoid overwriting config files which have been changed by you since they were installed, and if so, does it put the new content with an easy-to-search-for .something at the end?

Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?

2013-01-12 11:26, maderios skrev: On 01/11/2013 09:18 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 ian 13, 10:56:22, maderios wrote: Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 600 ^ I don't think this is a good idea. Maybe 100, but definitely nothing bigger. Why ? With priority up to

Re: possible bug for powertop 2.0-0.2

2013-01-17 16:32, Laurent Debian skrev: On battery if I launch powertop I get a crash with >terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::ios_base::failure' > what(): basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file

Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-04 01:10, Marc Shapiro skrev: Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I get a list of dependencies, all i386 libraries. Is there any way to install such a package and get the dependant libraries installed other than manually install

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 05:52, lina skrev: Is skype stable under the Debian? Works well enough and is stable enough for me. You can always uninstall it if you find problems. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: How can I know which deb-multimedia packages I have installed?

2013-02-25 21:03, Slavko skrev: Dňa 25.02.2013 20:33:04 Tixy napísal(a): On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 21:51 +0100, Slavko wrote: Dňa 24.02.2013 21:20:35 Csanyi Pal napísal(a): So how can I know now which debian packages are installed from these deb-multimedia repositories abowe? aptitude search

Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM

2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev: So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my c

Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.

2013-03-04 03:08, Michael skrev: I installed and during installation it found both the Win XP and the Linux Mint installations. After booting, the Mint shows up but not the XP. How do get the XP option do show up upon boot? As root, run "update-grub", then reboot and see if XP is there. -- T

Re: Debian 6.0.6

2013-03-13 01:59, Guru Prasad skrev: Can you please send me the link to download debian 6.0.6. I checked in the http://www.debian.org but couldn't find the link for 6.0.6 version. , perhaps? / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev: [...] sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. [...] I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...] I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable enough for day-to-day use.

Re: Inability to launch Cinnamon

2013-03-23 09:39, Sharon Kimble skrev: I've just installed cinnamon to try it out again on a new monitor. but when i try to access it i don't get any desktop just the gdm3 greeter background. i've just thought, this is a new computer, new this year and its not got a 'open-gl' capable graphics

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: Hi, The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can connect from

Re: Please help

Hi, Welcome to debian. 2011-03-04 05:06, Ryan Collins skrev: > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have > to show for it is a shell. [...] I think I may have > installed a server version [...] What > can I do to get a desktop environment installed through my command

Re: Installing LaTeX (or any other software) without documentation

2011-04-07 09:42, bars0 bars0 skrev: I need to install LaTeX in my machine, but without documentation. How can I achieve this via aptitude or apt-get? I prefer the gui-like interface to aptitude (started with "aptitude"), where I can review and alter the proposed package selection. In your c

Re: Upgrading from Squeeze testing to Squeeze stable

2011-04-11 16:30, Andrew Wood skrev: Ive got a PC (this one) running Squeeze which was installed when sqeeeze was still 'testing' For example [...] Shotwell is present on the 'new' system but not on this one. Any ideas why? Perhaps the desktop-task as defined by tasksel has changed between

Re: 2.6.38 kernel offered this morning, but not this afternoon?

2011-04-12 20:24, David Baron skrev: I have noticed that while sources and common of 2.6.38 up to -3 are upgraded normally in apt, the linux-image is not. The -2 and -3 packages are there but the linux-image is not upgraded. I would have to manually install -3 and optionally remove -1 (if it be s

Re: iceowl-extension 1.0b2 not compatible with icedove 3.0.11

2011-04-13 13:48, Gilbert Sullivan skrev: This morning these upgrades (excerpted from the aptitude log) [UPGRADE] iceowl-extension 1.0~b1+dfsg2-2 -> 1.0~b2-4 I can has my calendar back??? AIUI, iceowl 1.0b1 works with icedove 3.0 and iceowl 1.0b2 works with icedove 3.1. I solved the same pro

Re: INSTALL DEBIAN 6.0 WITH KERNEL SMP

2011-04-19 15:29, alex.padoly skrev: I would like to know if I can choose a smp kernel when I going to install DEBIAN 6.0 I believe there is no choice. All kernels are smp-kernels. A related bug report was closed in 2007 with the comment: "As recent Linux kernels in Debian all have SMP suppo

Re: Reverting to an old version of libstdc++6

2011-04-19 17:29, Joe Riel skrev: This weekend I upgraded, and libstdc++6 went from 4.5.2-4 -> 4.6.0-2. (1) how do I determine what version of libstdc++6 that the previous debian version of that package was using? That, is, the current package provides the file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.15 an

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-22 02:02, yudi v skrev: If you are unsure about the hardware support for the i5 chipset in Squeeze, try first with Debian's LiveCD and see how it goes, what it detects, what fails... Greetings, -- Camaleón how easy is it to update to kernel 3+ in squeeze?

Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing

2012-01-11 20:26, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: The title is self-explanatory. This is a new installation of Wheezy. Has anyone else observed this? Yes, i see it too in a wheezy installation I installed this year. The only related message I can find in the logs, is a complaint about gnome-po

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-11 20:22, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: Hi, I installed Debian on my new Asus Eee PC and even though it works almost flawlessly, I am having trouble finding the correct keyboard layout. The obvious ones (Generic and Asus laptop) have some characters wrong. I remember from some installati

Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing

2012-01-12 09:40, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: On 01/11/2012 10:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-01-11 20:26, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: I am neither certain, nor do I have a solution, but if I had considered this a major problem, I would have updated gnome-shell to 3.2 from unstable (and

Re: Gnome Shell battery indicator missing

2012-01-12 09:40, Panayiotis Karabassis skrev: On 01/11/2012 10:41 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Thanks, I'll wait for 3.2. Meanwhile I read the battery status with the "acpi" command. Linux as opposed to GNU Hurd, you mean? I upgraded the packages gnome-shell and gnome-shel

Re: Please assist.

2012-01-29 13:29, BETA BOOKSHOP & STATIONERS BETA BOOKSHOP skrev: I have a problem with my printer(Gestetner Dsm 718) installation.I have tried severally without and success.I have gone to Administration>Printing>Locahost and tried to add a new printer from USB serial but it has refused.I have fe

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-26 02:14, Celejar skrev: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:29:48 -0500 I, too, shared the OP's frustration with the dearth of good, fast GUI RSS readers; I use liferea, but its performance is disappointing. Have you been disappointed by the 1.8 version as well? I have not tried it, but from wha

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-27 05:56, Celejar skrev: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:39:14 +0100 Johan Grönqvist wrote: Have you been disappointed by the 1.8 version as well? Not sure - my current installation is Squeeze, and I have 1.6.4. My previous install was Sid, and I probably had 1.8 on it before I stopped using

Re: wheezy without gui

2012-02-28 20:06, abdelkader belahcene skrev: hi, I tryed the testing cd (20 feb). The installation is done but no graphical interface no gnome, no gdm etc... When I look at , I see only netinstall CDs, and if you used one of those, it would not c

Re: Debian wheezy: unattended upgrades

2012-03-11 17:13, Aaron Marks skrev: Unfortunately new packages are not installed. That's what my unattended-upgrades.log looks like: 2012-03-11 07:03:24,239 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2012-03-11 07:04:15,883 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2012-03-11 07:04:21,575 INFO Allowed o

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-27 07:04, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) skrev: I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x. As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel 2.6. Why do I want Linux Kernel 3.x? Because I want to play around with Xen virtualization (dom0 required). Deb

Re: /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Squeeze

peasth...@shaw.ca skrev: Still there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There are many similar questions about this (google knows), and many answers from people knowing more than me. xorg.conf seems to me not to be deprecated, but not necessary to have (for many typical setups), and it is therefore

ls needs several minutes calling getdents (ext4 squeeze)

Hi List, I have a performance problem with my ext4 filesystem. In one directory, the first time I run ls after a reboot, it takes more than two minutes. Subsequent runs of the same command are very quick. (The directory contains 54 files and one subdirectory, and it was first created by git v

Re: broadcom-sta was removed

Jerome BENOIT skrev: Does any one know why broadcom-sta was remove from Testing and Unstable ? From the bug report: "This driver has been orphaned and does not build against kernel version 2.6.31. The hardware it supports should now be handled by the in-tree b43 driver." It seems that b43 is

Re: unable to configure ati fglrx driver

Umarzuki Mochlis skrev: I had been doing (installing & reinstalling) this more than 5 times, before I reinstall my whole Debian Lenny, I would like to know if anyone ever get pass this problem # aticonfig --initial Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver. Uninitialised fil

Re: Installing Postfix instead Exim4

Camaleón skrev: El Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:42:40 +0100, Camaleón escribió: Mihira Fernando wrote: I think I missed the "manual package selection" option :-? Ok, I performed another Lenny installation and there was no option to manually select the packages to be installed. Just only some "templat

Re: Seamonkey, Enlightenment

Allen skrev: I'm running Debian 5.01, and I did a Netinstall. I'm wondering if there are any Debian packages for Seamonkey. I don't like Firefox, and I do like Seamonkey. In case you do not know, the corresponding package is called iceape in debian, and was excluded from the release due to la

Re: Inquiry:What is the equivalent for the screen command?

hadi motamedi skrev: Dear All Please be informed that I couldn't find the screen command package for my Debian 3.1 server . I really need it to manage multiple screens just from one login session . I tried to update my Debian repository list , as the followings : #apt-get update As Debian 3

Re: Nautilus messed up in testing

Frank Lin PIAT skrev: Personally, I set this in /root/.aptitude/config : aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%S %p %Z %v %V %t"; so the distribution name appears next to the package version. Thanks a lot! I have been interested in having this for some time, and that line does exact

Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

Michele Lucca skrev: Since yesterday I have this problem: sometimes, after some use, the sytem (Debian Squeeze) becomes a little unresponsive to mouse and keyboard (some clicks and keystrockes are lost). It is as if a "mute" key is always pressed. If I switch to console (ctrl-alt-F1), I see a

Re: Suggestions for desktop search application

Camaleón skrev: I'm looking of a desktop search utility that can to search mainly within (inside) documents, mostly "pdf" and "odt" files, but not limited to these ones (if it also could index Icedove e-mails would be great). I was using Beagle (not so long time ago) under openSUSE and was pre

Re: GRUB2 Squeeze

Mark skrev: >On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Tixy > wrote: > >The unofficial Debian motto is that they'll "release when it's ready", >so don't plan on any rigid dates. -- Wasn't t

Re: Debian AMD64 Sid - "packages have unmet dependencies"

Rick Thomas skrev: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900) but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed. and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same problem. See news.debian.net at

Re: Testing update: can't resolve dependencies with epiphany packages

Matteo Riva skrev: aptitude dist-upgrade gives me this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: epiphany-browser: Conflicts: epiphany-gecko but 2.26.3-2 is installed and it is kept back. epiphany-gecko: Depends: epiphany-browser-data (< 2.27) but 2.29.3-1 is to be installed. The fo

apt-listbugs false positives?

Hi all, texlive-base migrated to testing today, but when I attempt an upgrade, I am warned by apt-listbugs (I guess) that there is a grave bug (#534427) that is unfixed in the version I am about to install. The bug report says that the bug was fixed in versions uploaded for stable and oldsta

Finding upgradable packages by priority

Hi, I run testing and after 5 days without upgrading, I have around 100 upgradable packages. Normally, I upgrade when reaching the (arbitrarily chosen) number 100, but I would like to have a better way of deciding when I want to upgrade something. What I would like to have is a way of findin

Re: Finding upgradable packages by priority

2012-04-14 10:52, Johan Grönqvist skrev: I assume this kind of search would require downloading the changelog for each upgradable package, and looking at all entries that are more recent than the installed version, then returning a match to the search if any of those versions are marked

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 06:36, Dan Hitt skrev: I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze). I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity to wmaker (WindowMaker). I attempted the change by sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager and then choosing the wmaker alternative. I t

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-30 05:36, Dan Hitt skrev: This is a sort of subquery to the question of how to change window managers. So the question is: supposing you compile a window manager yourself, so that it does not come from the packaging system. What is the standard best way of setting this new window manager

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 06:58, Han Soo Chang skrev: $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer Works for me. If you r

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 07:46, Han Soo Chang skrev: If you try fetching it with wget: "wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc"; does it produce an error message? This is the message I get. I am inside a corporate LAN with a proxy server whose address is ns14:8080.

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 13:12, Sian Mountbatten skrev: Your swap partition is, very likely, too large. As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. Do you have 40GB RAM? Linux can handle well above 40 GB of swap. I would be surprised if "swap partition too large" was the reason. My

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 00:10, Richard Owlett skrev: Why a "learning experience"? 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and Debian in recovery mode. b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows? I think I have seen

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 14:26, Richard Owlett skrev: Version 6.0.4 Without double checking I believe that's "Squeeze". That caused me to notice that there was no intuitively obvious way to determine what version is running. I had to look at the file name of the iso file. I would look at the file /etc/debia

Re: Disable sound of 1 application

2011-01-24 09:34, Sander Joris skrev: I'm looking for a way to disable the sound of one application without it interfering with any other applications. Is there a way to do this in Debian? I do not know if the solution is good in your case, as it is rather invasive, but per-application volume

Re: debian - ubuntu

2011-01-26 12:45, artorius skrev: hi, it's my first post and i'm newbie on debian an ubuntu too. the prbolem is that i have tried to install ubuntu rigt after the setup of debian and the laptop (hp nc6000) gives me this message: (process:285) : Glib - warning xx : getpw id : failed due to unknow

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