After a safe-upgrade I started getting 

Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_i18n_Translation-en: Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_i18n_Translation-en: Hash Sum mismatch

and upgrades stalled.   

It is on a bug list  Debian Bug report logs - #669328
Old apt hung up 

Tried aptitude install -s apt=0.9.3  and it complained.   

Not the python-gtk hangup mentioned on buglist but I had libept1 (version 1.05) and libept1.4.12 (version 1.06) both installed.  I removed libept1 and did a safe-upgrade got some gpg keys processed and upgraded again,  28 upgrades.  Back on track. 

My first thing I did was change - update apt-pin origin in /eetc/ept/preferences from the debian-multimedia mirror to deb-multimedia, probably did not hurt. 

But what seems to work is deleting libept1 and keeping libept1.4.12 and just proceeding along. 

peace Mark

aptitude safe-upgrade tonight (May 08, 2012) gave Catalyst 12.4-1 to Testing.  No problems on eeebox with Radeon HD 6250 chip on board sharing the memory.  32 bit

Several days ago Catalyst 12-4 from source was quite problematic.   peace,  mark

It's all good.  Thanks.  I learned and others might use.  Solved.

First try I goofed I believe. 

I have /root/bash.rc  /etc/bash.bashrc and of course ~/.bashrc

I appended via nano to /root/bash.rc  the package hold section.  Continued on and when I would type apt-hold or sudo apt-hold it would reply there is no such program.

HOWEVER   I discovered and looked at aptitude-curses.  Yes. I really like curses.  I put a hold on via typing '=' on the 8 packages My aptitude safe-upgrade upgraded what I wanted, and not my sox. 

I tried the lesser option of keep (type ':')  That was not enough.

That is enough to make me append solved very soon.

BUT I was still curious.  I appended the ### Package hold section to
/etc/bash.bashrc  and followed the rest of the steps

I then went to /usr/local/src  where my dpkg -build sox are.

apt-hold *.deb          ## yielded the following for the 11 different .deb in /usr/local/src

dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: sox_14.3.2-3_i386.deb
"sox_14.3.2-3_i386.deb" set to hold

My guess is that  had I appended to /etc/bash.bash.rc it would have worked.  But I am happy to have discovered aptitude curses. 

Thanks

I went to testing and found that soundconverter is missing (temporarily) it's .mp3 option (lib change) and so I tried compiling sox one more time (4th in 5 years) to get lame support.  It was the easiest time ever.

Is there an easy way to pin the seven 14.3.2-3 libs and 14.3.2-3 sox to not be replaced by the 14.3.2-3 versions from testing?

Testing is more than good enough for me.  Sox is not under heavy development.  I am not looking to do a whole lot more compiling of other programs for the newest and latest. 

I used
sudo apt-get build-dep sox  and later
sudo dpkg-source -x sox and then
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

This was the first time I  did not have to edit /debian/rules to comment out the lame restriction. 

I keep looking but I cannot find an easy answer. 

I tried adding my multimedia mirror where the source came from to etc/apt/preferences via

Package: *

Pin: origin http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/debian-multimedia/
Pin-Priority: 600

Rest of /etc/apt/preferences is generic waldorf

no luck

peace mark

Started with
Asus eeebox EB1020 Amd-C50 1 gb ram Video is ATI6250 onboard had ati-catalyst 11 or 12 on.  Debian stable 3.2 bpo

Statler i-386  sources.list had appended Opera, Debian Multimedia and backports.  I commented out Statler multimedia.

A couple of days ago I just decided to go to Debian testing via commenting out Statler in etc/apt/sources.list and changing squeeze to testing elsewhere.  I made a mistake somewhere mixing up aptitude and apt-get and it  took a bit to get it fixed.    /home was left as is. 

Going to testing, the problems I had were

slim and tint2 would not update and slim was flakey.  tint2 seemed to lose this problem via going to lightdm.

ATI Catalyst 12.4 and 12.3 would not install as I had done prior via http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian  I was sucessful doing it via sudo aptitude install flgrx etc. etc. as on cchtml site and got 12.3 version. 

I might have had 2 nm-applets going at the same time also. 

NEW DAY and there is WALDORF.  (I have the t-shirt, my dad was the equipment manager for the Waldorf College football team.)  Had to go for it.  In retrospect maybe I should have just edited my apt/source.list to point to waldorf   I did a clean install to / via cdrom of Waldorf11 for i686

1.  Ymmv,  I used smxi for the first time,  Via smxi the installation of ATI Catalyst did not work - 12.4 or 12.3  I purged thoroughly in between.  Ctl_Alt-F1 was not working via smxi either

2     2 nm applets still.  Upon a restart or shutdown acess to the internet would lock down.

3  still did not like slim - solved  via going to gdm3

4.  I did not see the cb-welcome script and did not do it.  Things not good all over.

NEW DAY  A clean install via usbstick of Waldorf11  i686  What worked     now it is 3.2.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP

1.  I avoided smxi.  2.  I ran the cb-welcome script.  3.  I went to gdm3 No error messages over tint2  4.  As prior installed the firmware-realtek (which was not necessary in statler for me. but it complains).   5.  sudo aptitude fglrx ...   gave me a working ATI Catalyst 12.3       6.  Thanks for the solution on duplicate nm-applets.  I removed the nm-applet.desktop file from /etc/xdg and kept the nm-applet portion in ~/.config/openbox/autostart where it gets to sleep for 4 seconds. 

thanks

Changed to solved.  I know I did a forum search(es?) on this, but maybe it was just on our blue shaded parent. 

Yea, I took nm-applet.destop  out of /etc/ xdg/autostart/  - figgered that the 4 seconds sleep sounded good for a slower paced system like mine. 

Thanks and I will try to search better next time.

Asus eeebox EB1020 Amd-C50 1 gb ram ati6250   had ati-catalyst 11 or 12 on.   Debian stable

Statler i-386  sources.list had appended Opera, Debian Multimedia and backports with Statler multimedia commented out.

Side issue that caused my experiment (was not going to go  to testing for a couple of months yet) was a slow to crawl of mplayer,  vlc and tardiness in moving windows, redrawing windows.  In retrospect this might have come from going to kernel 3.1 to 3.2 messing with catalyst.  Should have run fgl_glxgears to see it's output.        Presently in Waldorf I get 1379 frames in 5.0 seconds = 275.800 FPS

Unknown to me that a testing Waldorf  was to be unveiled, I commented out the CB part of sources .list

I changed squeeze to testing and proceeded.  One big error I did was put dist-upgrade after aptitude instead of full-upgrade.  Super cow didn't catch it.  Or something.  Tangled mess, but I was able to salvage it I believe.  Went at getting Ati Catalyst installed via the cchtml.com website.  It worked well for me in the past.  12-4 no luck.  12-3 no luck.  HOWEVER sudo aptitude of the method shown on cchtml.com WORKED and I had Catalyst 12-3.  Happy.  And mplayer would play .mp4's at normal speed.     BTW  I ADDED THE firmware-realtek    To best of my knowledge I never used it in Statler but it would mention it's absence  whenever dkms use changed or kernel upgraded.   

Testing did not like slim and tint2  and could not update them. 

Sleep.  Turned off

TWO nm-applet icons on screen, not sure if that was after or before I unplugged eth0.

Saw the news about waldorf.  I downloaded i-686 (on another machine).  I did a clean install on /    via cd-rom    I kept /home as is.     2 nm-applet   appear after the shutdown.     Had other problems.  I used smxi on the install for the first time ever.  Catalyst 12-3 would not install via smxi.  Ctl-Alt-F1 dnw either.  I did not do cb-welcome.

TWO nm-applet icons on screen, not sure if that was after or before I unplugged eth0.

Sleep Clean install of i-686 again, smxi not used, cb-welcome performed and gdm3 installed (after going to testing, this machine does not like slim). 

One fine running machine until shutdown  even with two nm-applets shown (side note - finally put in the passworkd for the wireless at this point prior to shutting down) and then again

TWO nm-applet icons on screen  With ethernet removed, they will both say that the wireless is enabled, but browsers and aptitude safe-update dnw. 

wicd  might be the easiest option and then to purge nm.  Or would just purging nm-applet be enough.  Or I could just give this machine a static dns?   (or 2  - 1 for eth0 and one for wlan0??)  I have a static for my dlink nas.  Interesting to see if others get this via non-free realtek firmware or via  the low end early stage AMD chippery that I have.

peace, mark

Interesting timing. 

I really was going to wait a bit for testing, maybe September. However on the AMD C50 after maybe the bpo 3.2 kernel my video dragged.  I believe I had the ATI Catalsyst 10 series up.  And I had sound problems. 

I tried every way to get Catalyst back up via the CChtml page, which worked like a charm previous.  NO LUCK.

So I went to testing last night.  It should have gone really bad, as I mixed up dist-upgrade vs full-upgrade between aptitude and apt-get, threw in a safe-upgrade, but it worked.   dpkg --confugure -a happened a few times. 

  sudo aptitude install for the fglrx was smooth and I have series 13 for the ATI catalyst.  My .mp4's will play again in real time and I have sound. 

The upgrade in Debian testing for Slim dnw, not even with a -f on the install.  Broken pipes.  I tried lightdm for the first time ever and it went in smooth as silk. Nice. Tint2 was also not installing, but the original is still there.   

10 or 14 upgrades in waiting most associated with ffmpeg. 

So,   ********

Would it be enough to just add in a new section for Waldorf in my /etc/apt/sources.list?  Or would y'all recommend a clean install with the 32 bit version in case my aptitude ?

peace, Mark

EDIT :  you can move this to the Waldorf thread.

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When I first looked at Debian years ago, I could not get over how hot people could get on their forums between the two.  Debian was not as easy as the Warthog for me in those days.  So I used Ubuntu for awhile.  And then years later, wow, jihad still between a few but very vocal individuals.  for one versus the other.  But if I need to go over to the sister forum these days, the ruckus seems to have died down. 

I use one of the two.  If I ever go to Sid (doubt it) I might change to the other.

I had similar, (actually same error message problems in stable) for awhile.  Solved last night on 3.2 kernel backport on asus mobo intel dualcore via commenting out CB! multimedia, adding debian multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list purging ffmpeg and mplayer and aptitude update,     safe-upgrade and install mplayer2 and ffmpeg and mplayer went back to working.

On another computer asus EEEbox with amd-c-50 chip the safe-upgrade tonight gave and update to plain old mplayer and now it works again.  YMMV  Hopefully it will fix itself for you also.

Both computers have

deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free


mplayer ceased working for me awhile back.   Statler bpoe  3.2 kernel amd64 4gb mem asus mobo AND also on asus eeebox 3.2 kernel and bpoe  (C-50 chip, 1gb memory).  I clumped along and used VLC and waited for aptitude safe-upgrade to hopefully fix things. 

Finally got around to investigating /etc/apt/sourceslist   Surprised that on both I only had the CBang multimedia source - never added the Debian multimedia source and sudo aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring 

So on amd64 computer I put # before     deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/statler-mm squeeze main non-free  and added in the debian multimedia.

aptitude purge ffmpeg and smplayer and mplayer Then  sudo aptitude update. aptitude safe-upgrade and reinstall ffmpeg and mplayer      - and  mplayer gives the same error code  about a libav53 or something not being in the right place. 

So I purged mplayer and tried the new fork of mplayer2 and typed mplayer -xy 2 file     just works.  It was about the 4th option offered with accepting a bpoe lib.  That was last night.

Tonight on the Asus eeebox after an aptitude safe-upgrade I have a newer mplayer and typing mplayer -xy 2 file     works.  That is with /etc/apt/sources.list that only has the CB! multimedia      I figured it would all sort out eventually - I tracked testing after the freeze in CB! until squeeze went stable. 

Long way around to questions of

What is the difference between the CB! multimedia source (deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/statler-mm squeeze main non-free)  versus Marillat's  Debian-multimediia.org

Does one want both in sources.list or just one?

Side question  Is mplayer2 really the wave of the future or are mplayer and mplayer2 pretty similar and just a question of preference?

peace

xfburn is flaky at times and sometimes just hangs up. Maybe it is my 64 bit system. 

wodim is my friend 
I have several tiny scripts in ~/bin to use for quick or complete blanking of a cd-rw and just some tiny templates to cut and paste the name of an iso for burning a cd or dvd. 



peace

-ao alsa

At times over the years smplayer or mplayer would not have sound or maybe vlc.  At least one would always work, and vlc has always just worked on my little eee901 netbook. 

After having been good  for quite awhile with sound on mplayer and smplayer, I did a total resinstall with the Nov2011.iso with the eventual result that  vlc had sound but I had problems with mlplayer and smplayer.  I have mplayer back up via -ao alsa in the ~/.mplayer/config    No sound right now in smplayer .  System is AMD64 on an Asus P5 mobo with old  embedded sound card and some sound also via the 512 mb EN210 nvidia card.  Sound was totally hosed on 2 different computers via new install until I added pulse audio. New install onto the larger hard drive on same board only installed libpulse0 but had sound off the bat for cli cmus player, youtube, etc.     

I had the proprietary nvidia drivers previously, I will probably go back to eventually

wheezy
mplayer  2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn33713-2~bpo60+1
smplayer 0.6.9-1

and I fiddled abit before posting

So I added pulseaudio and pavucontrol.  No sound for all three.  I did an aptitude purge of pavucontrol and pulseaudio.  libpulse0 still present.  And now smplayer works along with mplayer and vlc.

Pulseaudo, answer was no in Nov 25_2011 Statler 64bit.  Been working on 2  computers sounds  for a week.  I did install Pulse earlier today

Other computer Asus EEE pcbox EB1020 (AMD C-50 or Brazos) had no sound also.  No one posting any success. 

But via looking at my old /etc/modprobe/ als...conf on /dev/sda1 versus   Nov25_2011 Statler, and aptitude search pulse, I realized my old statler had pulse. 

Voila for the EB1020 netbook.  I now have sound after using http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/12077  HAPPY.  I will be posting solved several forums. 

All digital sound working on EB1020 with a Realtek sound chip on the ATI.  Happy

All analog sound still works on my old Statler  ad1986a

No analog or digital on my new Statler with the ad1986a         BUT I will work some more with Pulse on it. 


I need to reboot into the new Statler, old one has no ~/.asoundrc  will check on .asoundrc there 

Thanks for the input.



Day later.  Maybe audio portion of nvidia from the installed video card  and ad1986 were feuding.  I disabled the digital portion under pavucontrol and then went into alsamixer and hit "m" to unmute and voila, I have sound on all four crunch bangs on three machines  EEE901, two on boxen and EEE box EB1020. 

I do not have a .asoundrc in ~   I will check out the values of that on the web. 

Thanks

IThanks.  I am wondering if some of the updates changed the settings. 

I now have a ~/.local/share/Trash and my old bash script now works. 

#!/bin/bash
#  yada yada
cd ~/.local/share/Trash/files
ls -a
wipe -qrc *
cd ~/.local/share/Trash/info
ls -a
wipe -qrc *
# badabing

Sometimes things just heal themselves.

Short answer - install pulse audio, disable the digital portion in pavucontrol and unmuted  ("m") the master source in alsamixer. 

Hi 

I have sound in my older Statler AMD64  on /dev/sda

I had a shop  pull my fried Asus P5K-VLM and put in another similar P5

Bios appears correct for new old board. 

So I  removed the old Statler 32bit installation  where I was tracking testing-wheezy over 9 months on another /dev/sdb  and did a clean install of the NOv 25 2011 Statler 64 bit.  Very Sweet.

onboard intel ad1986a   and for video card (onboard disabled) I have an Asus (nvidia) EN210 with HDMI cable to LCD monitor. 

Alsamixer on old Cbang shows a S/PDIF, new one does not.  Other wise the same

1125_2011 Statler output

k@r$ lspci |grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
04:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

k@r$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xdbef8000 irq 43
1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xddffc000 irq 16

Woud my onboard old Intel AD1986A be feuding with the sound system from my Asus (Nvidia) EN210 silent card?


k@r:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The older version has some wierd things happen to it - it becomes unstable for scp speeds, variuous programs freeze up (Iceweasel, Opera, even Thunar, pcmanfm and Terminator, so I would very stribgky like to migrate. 

The new Statler on the old hard drive is rock solid except for being totally silent.

I tried one modification to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf but no luck.
 

Sound has been a major focus for me lately as a toy I bought, an Asus EEE pc box 1020 netbook will not have sound with i386 Debian testing, Ubuntu, xubuntu (cbang install always conked out midway) and even Puppy.  Only way I got sound to work on that one is via WindozeXP (beautiful digital sound there). 
TIA  thanks in advance.


edit   yes I do have firmware-linux-nonfree installed and also have the Debian multimedia repo set up

Hi, I had a tiny bash script to wipe -qrc* .local/share/Trash/files and /info

But after upgrading to the NOv 27 2011 64 bit (oh so sweet) (new old mobo, old one died Asus PK5)

SOMEBODY took out the Trash

Tried catfish, tried again after remembering to tick hidden files  Died both times - nonresponsive.

Any ideas where Trash is now.

EDITED  Yes, I can see Trash in the side panel of Thunar and pcmanfm  It has trash:///  But I cannot fiugre out how to wipe-qrc* the Trash

adding or changing the label on usb sticks via gparted sometimes helps with sticks or simple mp3players being fickle. 

For seeing or working with external drives via ssh on a NAS I will start up gigolo where I will have them bookmarked and it will automatically ask me the password for the root@192.168.1.xyz and it mounts them via .gvfs     

and for syncing folders on hard drive with a usbstick with unison don't forget to put in your
~/ .unison/nameof.prf                    the fat32 stuff of

nano LEXLUTHER

root = /home/goober/Briefcase/
root = /media/Lexar/Briefcase/
owner=false
perms=0

since fat32 has no owners and no permissions

Alt-F2 is the designated key on my EEE905A  At some point it did not toggle on / off well for me.   

I just put two little oneliner scripts (wlan0n + wlanoff) in ~/bin   and just use command line to input script wlan0n or wlan0ff. 

Not elegant and it does not stop wifi automatically starting up during  boot, but was as much effort as I wanted to put into the niggling problem.   Hope someone comes up with something elegant.  peace

I have #! wheezy on my old hdd.  aptitude safe-update yields a message that conky and conky-all is obsolete.  I will purge the other obsoletes of  firmware-b43-installer and firmware-b431legacyinstaller and ttf-mscorefonts-installer, but any word about why conky is said to be obsolete?

As mentioned previous, borrow a external cd-rw (or dvd-rw) and burn a cd-rw of the most recent or last Decembers iso.  Use the text install. 

And if no luck, try archbang.  Archbang and grub 2 and my tiny 4gb ssd on eee901 and /home on a 16 gb sdhc was very problematic with sda and sdb on Archbang beta and crunchbang Statler alpha.   I had problems with the cd-rom  install with archbang beta.  I had no problems with crunchbang alpha with the cd-rom.  Maybe if every way fails with crunchbang than you should go with the very nice arch architechture.  And if that all fails try Centos or Fedora.  Just keep trying.  cd-rw's are nice for keep trying. 

oh btw  probably mentioned somewhere - but are you using 64 bit or 32 bit boot image?  Atom cores - if that is what the dell mini9 is have two threads - but are 32 bit. 


peace, Mark

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background info
http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy

Hi, did the apt-get purge of old wine.  I then went with the  www.lamaresh site for key and adding to sources.list.   Smooth    Result for a squeeze #! amd 64 was

Cautionary note appears

It appears that libnss-mdns is installed on your system, but lib32nss-mdns is not .  Please note that wine will not be able to access the internet unless you either install lib32nss-mdns (or ia32-libnss-mdns) or uninstall libnss-mdns           after typing wine to command line.

Password-gorilla for windows works however.

unison   
ncdu

Someday in another life I might learn how to make .ipk   's for my dns-323