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I have a dual boot computer(win10 & jessie). jessie has to use RTC in local TZ(timedatectl set-local-rtc 1, and BIOS uses localtime) to make sure the time in debian and windows is the same. But timedatectl gives a Warning: Code: Select all$ timedatectl Local time: Tue 2016-07-12 15:30:18 HKT Universal time: Tue 2016-07... | I would think not - maybe some wierdness around cron jobs and log entries around DST change, but if you're dual booting and not running it all the time (i.e. standard "desktop" use) you shouldn't see any effect. May be more of an issue on 24/7 servers that rely on having correct time for service logs / crons / schedule... |
Hello everyone, I am using Debian Jessie with Gnome installed on MacBook Air laptop. This laptop has ctrl, alt and cmd function keys on the left side of spacebar and cmd and alt on the right. In default settings, cmd is used as a "super" key the same way as windows key on normal keyboard. The problem is that this mappi... | You can try: Code: Select allsetxkbmap -option <option> See all the possible options with: Code: Select allcat /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst |
Hello, I've written this init.d script in the hope to make some node.js software started and stoppped by init scripts. It's easier to monitor this way. The node.js software listens on port 8000 by default, but that port is taken on my server so I need to change that to, say, 8060. I start the nodejs software via the st... | For some unknown reason, it works best with --port=8060 instead of just --port 8060, when invoked from init.d. |
Hi, this is Tiago. Sorry for my bad english, i'm Brazillian So, lets go direct to the point I'm using Debian Testing, and before install the Wine using # apt install wine I saw that is upgrade the Pulse Audio and another other packages(I Don't remember all exactly) So, after reboot the system, the same not list to me a... | Do you have pulseaudio-module-udev installed? |
Hi everyone, I am having an issue and I need help at this point. My problem is simple, we are in an office, a xbox is showing a movie, I want the people in the office to be able to listen to what's showing without bothering anyone. So I would like to have a simple server with a line-in from the xbox and I want it to st... | When you say that people are to 'listen to the film' do you mean that you want the xbox to stream only the audio of the film you are showing? |
Hey, So I have this fresh install of Debian 8.5 with XFCE installed on my system, I have noticed I have no volume adjust icon in the system tray. Could someone please tell me how do I get that back? I like how it's done in Ubuntu but I would like something like that for Debian Thank you | Right click on the panel, select Panel and then Add New Items, and add the Mixer. Click on it and then on Select Controls. Tick Master or PCM- whichever works best for you. |
So, on a machine running unstable, with a fairly new core-m3 (6y30) processor, the latest intel microcode package (3.20160607.1) from the repo causes the boot to fail at "loading initramfs". I don't really understand how microcode works, where it is located on the disk and if I really need it and so on. But I thought t... | Microcode updates are critical and should always be applied, if at all possible. |
My setup is the following: - Two wireless routers connected to the outside world via Ethernet. The routers both have their own unique WIFI network. - One server, only connected to the internal network(s) over WIFI. The server is connected to either one of the WIFI networks via fixed IP. I am having some strange (to me)... | Need tons more info. Here's the first handful of questions that occur to me (in no particular order): 1) ssh via password? or ssh keys? using hostname or IP address? 2) Using the router that can't find repos (I'm going to call that router 1), can you ping a remote host via hostname (e.g., google.com)? If not, can you p... |
EDIT SOLUTION: to: /etc/network/interfaces append: Code: Select alliface eth0 inet dhcp ethernet-wol g to be safe i did a reboot at this point because i was unsure how gnome handles a network change while running on another host run: etherwake -i wlan0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx xx being your target mac address and -i wlan0 a w... | now i did the change that is suggested here: https://wiki.debian.org/WakeOnLan at least i hope thats the right one, no direct talk about jessie there. anyway i changed: /etc/network/interfaces to look like: Code: Select all# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them.... |
I know I can use the line Code: Select allsetxkbmap -option keypad:pointerkeys to enable Mouse Keys in a session, but I'm not sure how to make this change permanent, or how to force this setting every time X starts. | Put the instruction in a startup file. |
So, I tried out a btrfs partition for data. Nice, but maybe could be considered overkill for such a purpose (unless maybe in raid). So, I began thinking about how one would install a system partition on btrfs, and it seems that there are many different ways to do it, and this partially depends on to what level the boot... | pylkko wrote:udate-grub didn't find the kernel, so I manually entered a menuentry for it. Care to share? I'll show you mine: https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/conf ... rub.cfg#L6 (The BunsenLabs entry is basically a Debian system so you can refer to that stanza) Also, IIRC /initrd.img is an absolute symlink (ie, the s... |
edit: original title of this thread was: ssmtp - Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587 it is solved for both gmail and openmailbox now, please see below. _________________________________________________________________ I have a debian stable home server running. apache & the website & cherrymusic are working just fine, but i... | Have you activated 'allow less secure apps' from your gmail profile? Becauae I seem to recall that otherwise google will not allow many applications to access rhw account for security reasons. I have used ssmtp with gmail on Debian succwsfully, so that in itself should not be a problem |
I have an Intel NUC PC and originally installed a 500 GB HDD, to which I installed Lubuntu 15.10 (could not get Stretch to install). I recently figured out how to install Stretch by using the unofficial "firmware" version and so bought a Samsung 950 PRO PCIe SSD on which I installed Stretch. During installation I did N... | Be careful. Do not corrupt current boot configuration necessary for booting the installed stretch. Understand the boot configuration, i.e., what are necessary for booting the installed stretch. Backup the necessary things for booting it before you remove Lubuntu partitions and/or before you format the HDD. You may be a... |
I use an up to date Debian Jessie. I cannot update initramfs after the last distribution update. I run Code: Select allupdate-initramfs -u to seeCode: Select allupdate-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 cp: error reading ‘/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/plymouth//label.so’: Input/output error cp: failed to... | Try: Code: Select all# apt-get install --reinstall "plymouth-*" https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=219977 |
Hi All, I'm runnning a Debian stable 8.4 and using wpa_supplicant with systemd, my wifi is working properly but the journal is always reporting this error: Systemd Cannot add dependency wpa_supplicant@%I.service to multi-service.target, ignoring: Invalid argument You can find my config file here http://pastebin.com/0z2... | Please post the output of: Code: Select allsystemctl list-unit-files|grep enabled ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user-wants.target # journalctl -u wpa_supplicant@wlan0.service |
I have Stretch installed on my Intel NUC and today was going to do an update. I did Code: Select allroot@debian:/home/john# apt-get clean root@debian:/home/john# apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease Reading pack... | wizard10000 wrote:Interesting. I get that URL all the time (and it is a legal URL) but that's because I use httpredir.debian.org to find best mirror - I have no idea why it would do that if you have us.debian.org hardcoded into sources.list. Interesting. Maybe I should just wait for update notifications on the desktop.... |
Hello, I'm having a strange problem with data transfers between systems. I have a file server + my desktop. Both are running Debian 8.3. I have a samba share running on the file server and I mount the shares on my desktop on boot via /etc/fstab When I copy a file using the nautilus from my home folder (on my HDD) on my... | Thoughts: Better benchmarking - use the same (simple) test case (e.g mounts & cp or dd) for both SMB and SSH, not 'nautilus' or whatever file manager you use - GUI file managers are notorious for introducing unnecessary I/O. Drop the filesystem caches before each run (/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches). Make certain that your s... |
Hello, I upgraded my jessie yesterday and I have a strange issue since then. When I boot my laptop, I have access to the Internet for a few seconds. I can browse the web and so on. Then, after a few second it does not work anymore. I only have access to my LAN (ping and web access). I am not having the same problem if ... | soon after you start eth0, check the ip address while the internet is working with ifconfig are you using networkmanager? |
I currently have kernel 3.16.0-amd64 installed. Just added jessie-backports repo. Code: Select allsudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install linux-headers-4.5.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 linux-image-4.5.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 Screen shows initrd updated, as well as other OS's. However after reboot, Debian 8.4 only shows kernel 3.16.0. I wo... | Have you looked in the "Advanced Options" sub-menu? You can't be using Debian to control GRUB because it would have updated it automatically -- update the GRUB configuration from whichever distribution "controls" it; if you don't know which one it is then this will probably be the last distribution you installed on the... |
Hi, I'm lost trying to figure out how to use an IPv6 address with my system. The Website test-ipv6.com says I don't have an IPv6 address. So my Centurylink router is set up with 6rd, and all I'm using is a plain /etc/network/interfaces file, and a wpa-supplicant config file. What I want to do is figure out how to use m... | I want to apologize on behalf to anyone who thinks this is a stupid question, sorry for wasting your time, or is searching for answers outside of the forums on a search engine. But I have found a solution that works for me, and I'm not sure why it works but it does. Here's what I did: /etc/network/interfaces Code: Sele... |
Hi all, I've recently upgraded to Jessie and I just realized that I get no more sound as apposed to before when I got radio and music files and anything with sound working nicely in Squeeze. I've looked through several Debian wiki pages and forum posts which sometimes seem to give contradictory advice (contradictory to... | Jessie has support to this card, in source tree in sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c there is 8086:3b56. I prefer install Linux on an empty partition. You can keep installed packets list and install Jessie on the empty disk and the install an absent packages. It will not too long. Peter. |
Hi everyone. I'm running 3.16.0-4-amd64 on a VM (Windows 10 host). About 1-2 days ago I noticed I couldn't connect to Internet from the VM (running Oracle VirtualBox 5). I'm able to connect to the box using Putty from the Windows host or from another computer on the network. Ping works, it resolves the hostname. For in... | turn off firewall on host |
hi, i build my own dsl-router with debian 8.4 as OS. the hardware has 2 ethernet ports and i am using a simple dsl modem to set up the internet connection. i installed 'pppoeconf' to create the connection to my provider, and also installed 'dnsmasq' to use it as dns proxy. also added ... Code: Select allnet.ipv4.ip_for... | Unlikely perhaps, but can it be that the offending traffic gets routed through eth1 rather than ppp0 ? But this would require the FORWARD policy to be ACCEPT (rendering the rules useless), and for example that eth1 is on the same network as the offending traffic, or that there's an accommodating routing rule. |
I have been using Lubuntu 15.10 on my Intel NUC5i5RYH desktop for about 2 months, and while it works I am not totally happy with Ubuntu. Nothing that I can specifically point to, it's just in general I just don't like the way they do things. The NUC has the Skylake 6000 chip set so I need the newer Linux kernel for it ... | Well, I did a lot more searching and it looks like it should not be a problem to install Stretch to a USB drive, as long as I pay attention; especially to where grub is installed. If I mess THAT up then I would be doing a re-install of Lubuntu. Yikes! |
I have an NFS server serving one client. Both are running Debian Stretch. NFS works but I can't get idmapd to start at boot on either the client or the server. This means that the ownership/permissions are messed up on the NFS share. I have set the following option in /etc/default/nfs-common on both client and server: ... | /etc/sysfs.conf |
Hi Today I faced need for installed Virtual Box, but there is a problem because I cannot install required kernel modules for my system. When I try to install virtual box package I can see such error: Code: Select allStopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done. Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. Try... | I'm guessing that since backports has moved onto 4.5, that the 4.4 files have been removed. |
I want a cronjob for this every 10 min Code: Select all curl -u <email>:<password> "https://now-ip.com/update?hostname=<hostname>" and have no clue to set it up so it works...please help me | There are some "clues" here: Code: Select allman crontab Code: Select allman cron And a whole bunch more here: a cronjob for this every 10 min on a Debian system ----------------- http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/crontab-every-10-min/ ---------------------- http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-a ... unix-oses/ Is pretty s... |
Hi, My laptop fan sensor shows fine in psensor in sid. But today I downgrade to jessie and sensor for fan gone. I check if fancontrol is running but I can not manage to make it work sensors Code: Select allacpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +55.0°C (crit = +108.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter P... | virgosun wrote:My laptop fan sensor shows fine in psensor in sid. But today I downgrade to jessie and sensor for fan gone. So you managed to run sid and downgrading to jessie and come here asking for help? Tell us what you tried to fix the problem yourself. If you can't solve it, reinstall stable. Hint: Read some wikis... |
Hi, I'm trying to configure auditd to monitor "strange" events with apache2 weberver on Wheezy (though same problem occurs on Jessie), tried both with "vanilla" 3.2 and backports 3.16 kernel I am actually using. Here's auditd rules I have problem with: Code: Select all-a exit,never -F arch=b64 -S stat -F path=/var/www/... | Looks like it's not possible to do what I wanted to do: If it really doesn't exist, then there is no inode to match against. from https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-a ... 00139.html |
I've been using various distros of Linux for over 20 years - but I'm stumped. Was running Mint. But after taking an update a few weeks ago the network stopped working. After a lot of time and effort decided to give up on Mint and switch distros to Debian 8 Jessie. After a simple scratch install from the larger distribu... | If the Mint stopped working and the Debian install isn't working are you sure the problem isn't elsewhere? |
Hi guys, I made a topic before but that started with a mounting issue and I changed it later to the graphics problem. So I thought its better to start clean. I reported the issue was solved, but it appeared not to be. I have this laptop where I try to get the two graphical cards working. I think I spend around 50 hours... | As far as I can remember reading various threads in this forum, the combination of Intel/Nvidia GPUs can be a real headache under Linux. If your aim of using Linux is to play MS Windows games, why don't you install Playonlinux? |
Hello, I am running this tutorial: http://askubuntu.com/questions/549915/h ... untu-14-04 when entering this step: apt-get install linux-source && sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) it asks me for: Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.4.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 201... | That link does not have anything to do with installing Debian, it is for ubuntu and installing "bumblebee" ??? To install Debian you would be better of following the guides from here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual and https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ ... 06.html.en |
DELL Inspiron 5559 laptop Processor: Intel Core i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2592 Mhz, 1 Core, 2 Logical Processors Integrated Graphics Processor: Intel HD Graphics 520 Discrete Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R5 M335 I have installed Debian Stretch (testing) on my new laptop and now I need to install driver for wi-fi this i... | I know the sources.list is very importa ... one line. You are wise to be cautious. I would turn this: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main into this: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib #non-free Note the hash # in front of non-free. Remove the hash to ... |
Hi all, I am a noob that has jumped in way over my head. I have never used SSH or putty or no-ip. Now I am trying to figure out how to use all three. Since I have no experience, I do not even know what is "normal". Here is what I have done so far: Set up account with no-ip (because my server is on a home system that us... | I have never used SSH Here is some things to help you get started: https://wiki.debian.org/SSH As far as : putty or no-ip That is going to complicate things some what, I do not use windows, so I know nothing about "putty", maybe someone else will. On the "no-ip" , that make a 3rd point where things might be failing,com... |
I'm getting some strange error messages whenever I run "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade": Code: Select allProcessing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-5) ... find: ‘/etc/ssl/private’: Permission denied find: ‘/etc/chatscripts’: Permission denied find: ‘/etc/polkit-1/localauthority’: Permission denied find: ‘/etc/cu... | warthog wrote:Then, I did "mv /var/* /mnt/new_var" and "mv /tmp /mnt/new_tmp". Maybe this? If you didn't preserve ownership and permissions that could be a source of all sorts of wierdness. |
[Should this be in 'Installation' section or the 'System configuration' section or something else?] System is no longer booting into Debian, instead I'm getting: error: file `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi ormal.mod' not found. Entering rescue mode ... grub rescue>_ The `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod' is there, and I can see... | Code: Select allBoot Info Script e7fc706 + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info 9Feb2015] ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 311128064 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and... |
i haw just install my printer white adding reposition to the sours list Code: Select allPRNTER - Repositories) to add: deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra # bash -c 'echo "deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra" >> /etc/apt/sources.list' a other way is Code: Select all go to /etc/apt/sources.list (... | peter_irich wrote:Why do not take a driver from developer? Agree. Samsung update drivers reasonably regularly and the issues that they were reported to have had no longer seem to exist. Installation is a breeze - extract the package and run the install script. Easy. |
i haw lost my password for my root and for my user account. Code: Select alluser@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure user@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure user@debian:~$ su i haw just installed a gust debian 8 on debian 8 host in virtualbox, and when i wonted too login as su/root on the h... | habu wrote:is there a way to regain the root password for the host? Recover, no; reset, yes. Not surprisingly, you are not the first person on Planet Earth to have run across this problem. There are several dozen existing threads in this forum (and several hundred thousand on the larger Web) that address this issue. Co... |
Hey, I have had to revert my VM to a previous image (did something to screw it up) anyway I have to reinstall icedove into my VM and I noticed after doing: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install icedove that icedove can't seem to be found in the libraries anymore and simply wont install. Thanks | You need to post the full output of those commands and your sources. I've just installed Icedove in my jessie system so it is there. Do you have the security repositories? I think Icedove is provided by those. |
I have noticed that some games on Debian work very slow ~5fps but some work even better than on windows. I have Intel HD Graphics 5500 Games like Minecraft, or some open source games like Terminull or tux cart works great But games like This war of mine are very laggy and impossible to play. I have noticed the followin... | Why do you need chroot for games? Steam games run just fine under 64 bit provided you have the mesa i386 libraries installed. Probably your chroot messes up your graphic drivers (chroot is not a complete environment and it might trigger software rendering fallback). Adding an architecture does not mess up your system (... |
Hi, I'm sorry if there's an easy answer to this in the documentation. When I try to install smplayer or vlc since several days ago, I get this: Code: Select allroot@debian:/home/user# apt-get install smplayer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could no... | Please post the output (as regular user) of Code: Select allcat /etc/apt/sources.list |
Hay there.. I'm new in this forum. Nice to meet you guys. I have problem with mylaptop keyboard when using kernel 4.4. Mykeyboard sometimes hang, so I have to press repeatly to get 'E','Q', 'TAB' and 'CAPS LOCK' keys to get work.This was happening to when I'm using Tumbleweed and Manjaro. I'm using Debian Testing. Than... | i don’t have a solution to your problem but have you tried to reinstall your keyboard from synaptic |
Hi all, from a couple of weeks my cron daemon report this: Code: Select all/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: 74: /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: --gpghomedir: not found sa-update failed for unknown reasons /var/lib/spamassassin permissions are: Code: Select alldrwxr-xr-x 3 debian-spamd debian-sp... | Did you change the permissions? What did you change, just before it stopped working? |
Can anyone tell me how to run a fsck on a mounted drive? I attempted unmount and it said no. I suddenly got an error 4 and trying to run a check, and it aborts with can't cause mounted. | No, you don't want to fsck a mounted drive. Do it from a live medium if all else fails. |
Hi, I have got a debian (v3.16.7-ckt25-2) for server (without X). There is a br0 bridge connected to eth0 network device. It works fine when I start it manually by Code: Select all# ifup br0 but I cannot start automatically at startup. I've googled a lot for solutions, but not found a correct one. Can somebody help? Th... | codolom wrote:I've googled a lot for solutions, but not found a correct one. And how are we supposed to know what you have tried? Edit: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=765000 |
Hello, I am having some troubles using iptable rules on two Servers that act as Gateways pointed to one backend server with only one interface. To be more exact, i have 3 Servers, 2 of those have a public and a private interface, with different public ips but common private interface ( they connect to the same switch )... | Perhaps this: https://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/ ... -in-linux/ might be useful to you. |
I'm trying to boot Live Debian (on a usb stick) on a Dell XPS ('Developers Edition' aka 9343). From what I've read about the status of on this hardware (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebia ... 013%209343) and about Debian Live (https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) it sounds like this may be possible, but I haven't figu... | Don't use /dev/sdd1, instead use /dev/sdd. You want to write the .iso to the disk, not to a partition on the disk. |
Ok, I'm using Debian 8.3, and a few weeks ago I stuffed it into my system here since Debian doesn't come with the mail client like Ubuntu does. A few days ago, Thunderbird tried to update itself but couldn't because it didn't have admin privileges. How do you update the software without having to uninstall it and re-in... | The mail client for Debian is icedove. It's like iceweasel, a Debian rebrand of the Mozilla product. It's identical to thunderbird in every way except the name and icon. Install icedove, and it will automatically update every time you do a system update. You can copy the .thunderbird directory from your home to .icedov... |
Solution for this problem was found by v&n here I just installed the lastest stable Debian (gnome) today and what I was most afraid just happened: my laptop's wifi isn't working properly, it isn't turning on. This had already hapened on livecd. In the laptop's chassis leds, the wifi led apears as green. When I click to... | Your lsmod shows ath9k is loaded and the green light and lspci suggest it's detected and working. From your second screenshot I suspect DHCP is not able to get an address. |
This is a redirect of the output of command apt-get update to a text file in /home/user Code: Select allIgn:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable Release Ign:4 http://linux.dropbox.com/d... | Those list files are in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. There is currently a problem with Google's repositories, as well as others, because their keys are insufficiently secure. That doesn't prevent you from updating, though. It's just a warning. You can still do a dist-upgrade. |
Hey everybody! I'm tryign to set up a few VPN tunnels to remote locations, but I got some problems getting the clients talk to each other through the VPN. The OpenVPN server is running on a KVM vServer, the clients are mixed hardware (mikrotik routers, another debian machine, some notebooks). The devices behind the rou... | For the sake of completion, you should also include the notebook's routing table and firewall rules. |
Hi, I'm a new Debian user but I've been around Linux for awhile. I wanted to try Debian because I wanted something stable and that I could set up myself from a minimal install. However, I'm having issues with my WiFi connection. I'm running KDE and connected to the network, but I can't access any webpages or ping, for ... | For some reason you seem to have both cable (eth0) and wireless (wlan0) on the same network (192.168.1.0/24). If you don't have the cable connect, you should also de-configure the interface, as the routing table prefers it. Generally it's not a good idea to have multiple interfaces on the same network. |
Hello everyone, I am trying to install a Samsung network printer (scx-3405w) on Debian 8 (Cinnamon), with the driver suld-driver2-1.00.06. In fact, it works, but it is very slow due to a systematic error message: Code: Select allcups-ipp-conformance-failure-report cups-ipp-missing-send-document I tried to install the p... | My Samsung is set to use the raw output. The port is the IP address followed by the 9100 port, as in 192.168.15:9100. The exact IP depends on your system. I've modified my router settings to give a static IP to my printers, so they're always the same and don't move around with reboots. My CUPS page looks like this: Cod... |
Hello, I installed gcc via apt-get install gcc. The suggested packages didn't get installed, I suppose because I didn't give the --install-suggested option. Then I retried to install gcc with the --install-suggested option but then it said that gcc is already at its newest version. Is there still a way to install them ... | This may help. |
Solution was foreign matter in exports. Can anyone give me a quick overview on what has happened on Jessie about NFS. In past, you edited /etc/exports 2. ran exportfs(?), 3. /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart, and 4. /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart and all was well. Of course, that was with two wheezy systems. I've h... | Please paste your /etc/exports The message said there is some error in it. If you eliminate that mistake, it should do. I use Jessie on my file server. LK |
Hello all ! I have a Debian Jessie 32 bits machine with standard partitions : one EFI, one for the root system and a swap. I did a dd image backup of it hard drive thinking i would be easy to restore it or clone to another device... but it seems it is not that simple ! My PC won't boot : no bootable drive found ! I did... | A dd image won't boot because it is only an image of the partition; it doesn't include the bootloader. You'll need to find a way to reinstall Grub. |
Hi, I run JessieLinux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux with AlsaMixer v1.0.28. The alsamixer display shows PCM and S/PDIF only. If I uninstall pulseaudio 5.0 there no improvement. Thanks for your kind advice. Bye. N.B.:Code: Select all~$ amixer Simple mixer control... | Hi, I do this command: Code: Select all~$ aplay -l **** Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK **** carte 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], périphérique 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sous-périphériques: 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0 carte 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], périphérique 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]... |
Hi, I built a kernel-module for a new usb wifi-card. This worked well and resulted in a 8821au.ko-file. But now I'm trying to load this kernel module since half an hour and it doesn't work. I copied the ko-file into /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/edimax. If I just type Code: Select allsudo modprobe 8821au I... | You are having the same problem I had a couple of weeks ago when I tried to get my Edimax wireless working. It turns out that the driver package from the cd is broken. You need an updated package which you can get from gitgub (instructions and download link here: http://blog.danielscrivano.com/installi ... -adapters/).... |
I used to connect network through TP-LINK TL-WN821N using 8192cu dkms module, so far without problems (the kernel module rtl8192cu is buggy and is blacklisted). After an full-upgrade (2016-03-11) the dongle dont work anymore, no blink leds, NetworkManager dont show any conection, no nets available. This is the upgrade ... | Today, upgrade network-manager and libnm0 from sid repositories. Everything is working again |
When, if ever, should one upgrade to a newer linux-image? I am currently running Wheezy 7.9 with linux image 3.2.0-4-686-pae . Everything works great. I see that the latest image, in Wheezy backports, is linux-image-4.4-1.dmz.2-liquori. Is that not intended for use on my installation? Is there any reason to upgrade? Wh... | It sure won't break the system. You boot the new kernel, if something goes wrong, you boot into the old kernel and remove the new one. might be a bit of fiddling, but you really shouldn't break the system by installing a new kernel (well: never say never ...). |
I purchased a NUC5i5RYH yesterday and expect it to be delivered tomorrow. However, I now have a bit of trepidation. Today I have read a number of reports of people have significant issues related to the Intel HD 6000 graphics. Some have suggested that a kernel that is 3.19, or newer, should have the correct driver. Oth... | You may have luck using the backported kernel, xserver-xorg-video-intel & mesa packages but there may still be problems. Apparently, Skylake support is greatly improved for kernel 4.5 but only the rc version is available from Debian (in experimental). Arch [testing] has just upgraded today: Code: Select allempty@Arch ~... |
Hi there ! I want /usr/bin/mailx to be an available command that will point to /usr/bin/heilroom-mailx. I could simply put a symbolic link and move on, but apparently to make things nice I should use debian's alternatives system ? Here's what I've tried (to no avail) : Code: Select allroot@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.1... | I also tried with --set instead of --config Code: Select allroot@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.19] ~ # update-alternatives --set mailx /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/mailx has been changed (manually or by a script). Switching to manual updates only. update-alternatives: using /usr... |
DE: lxde version: Jessie using xorg file: no After changing my video cards from gigabyte HD5450 and saphire X550 to two saphire r7 240s one of my debian installs no longer supports rotating the monitors either with 'Monitor Settings' or xrandr. The only difference between these 2 Jessie installs is that one was upgrade... | Also I did remember to reboot after reinstalling firmware-linux-nonfree again. |
Hey So I have this problem, I have just made this fresh install of Debian 8.3 in a virtual machine and everything is almost completely configured just the way I want it to be. How ever I am running into the situation where I can't get the "Browse Network" link listed under "Network" to work in the File Manager. All the... | FenrisUltra wrote:Hey I can't get the "Browse Network" link listed under "Network" to work in the File Manager. What file manager would this be then? I would like to at least mount permanent file sharing access with this computer man mount man mount.cifs man fstab man autofs (if installed), example. |
I am running Wheezy 7.9 and have gdm3 as my display manager. I noticed that when shutting down there is a message that the system is Stopping lightdm . I thought that there could not be two display managers running. And why would lightdm have started in the first place? I had previously installed LXDE, but removed it. ... | I have been doing a lot of investigating. Even though during INIT I see that lightdm is being started I don't find any evidence that it is actualluy running. I did Code: Select allps aux > file and searched the file. lightdm is nowhere to be found. So it apparently is not running. Is there maybe some artifact left over... |
I am running VirtualBox under Jessie, AMD64. Everything worked fine until a VirtualBox upgrade. Now I am getting an error message that the extension package is missing. According to Syanaptic Package Manager, I have VirtualBox version 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1 . The installed extension pack is Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension... | download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.36/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.36-105129.vbox-extpack |
Hello Guys i cloned my disk that have dual boot in it clone the disk remove the old one put the new one so far okey. but when i put with the new disk to linux it goes to the emergency mode: run fstab and this is my fstab results: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sda1 during i... | Noldoran wrote:i cloned my disk How? Check that the UUIDs still match with: Code: Select allblkid |
I am curious how would I go about making sure my machine is not compromised in any way. I am ok with monitoring Apache logs since I have web server running on port 8080 but what about OS itself? Is there something I should be looking for? | how would I go about making sure my Debian system is not compromised in any way. Click the above link for results that answer the question If you want to be 100% sure a computer does not get compromised. Do not go online with it. Keep it in a room that can be locked, and no one can access when you are not there. Perhap... |
Basically how do you do it? After fossicking around I can not find anything around that I can invoke in a terminal to configure settings in network-manager. The applet(?) on the task bar doesn't ask for a login, so options are grey/grayed out. The "program" in the applications menu is similarly grey/grayed out. If it w... | Please post the output of: Code: Select alllspci -knn|grep -iA2 net ip l *Do not* run `startx` as root... |
Hello all This year I'm improving energy efficiency and one of the major targets is reducing my server's power consumption. Yesterday I saw a Banana Pi computer with SATA ports which would be the key to hard disk based booting I was waiting for so long. Checked out the Debian repo for an ARM kernel but didn't find it. ... | Are you planning to move an existing installation or a new install? For a new install consider Armbian or Bananian, both has mainline kernel and legacy sunxi-3.4 kernel support. |
Solved | Can you post a log of the upgrade? also your sources.list. |
Does anyone know what's wrong? I have an old FAT16 partition with some stuff in it, and I's still like to get it mounted. If I put /dev/sda6 /mnt/siirto vfat,defaults 0 0 in the fstab, the Debian 8.2 doesn't boot, and the reason is that mounting tha FAT16 partition fails. From 'journalctl -xb': Feb 26 17:06:44 jaa-debi... | I tried 'msdos' earlier, but it does the same thing. in fstab it doesn't work but later manually it works fine. Maybe I could try 'auto'... And lsmod shows: Code: Select allvfat 17135 1 fat 61986 1 vfat Could it be that there is no mount.vfat in /sbin? Code: Select alljaa@jaa-debian:~$ ls /sbin/mount.* /sbin/mount.fuse... |
Hello, I've been working on building an LTSP server for diskless booting. I have a tftp server that's booting the system. I followed the steps on https://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto to build the LTSP server. I had to make one change from the guide. I have a cisco router that's acting as the DHCP, I'm not very familiar w... | Actually, I think I've figured it out. I did some more reading and the system is using PAM to authenticate. After joining the domain with the LTSP server, my /etc/pam.d/common-auth file had this line added Code: Select allauth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_sss.so use_first_pass It's using the System Security Services ... |
Hello everyone, I am new here but I am pretty sure its not a trivial problem. Thank you in advance for any help! The Problem: When I start up my program (it uses freeGLUT3) I get this error: karl@HPC-Deb:~/active/GO_AI_11$ ./programName X Error of failed request: GLXBadFBConfig Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX)... | Intel doesn't yet support OpenGL 4 on Linux, I believe. They're working on it, but you'll have to be patient. Any particular reason you need OpenGL 4? |
In my review of what needs to be done when upgrading to Jessie, which I am going to postpone for awhile, I see that it is recommended to purge old packages. So I decided to look at my current Wheezy package status and saw this: Code: Select allroot@JohnBoy:/home/john# dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ { print $2 }' ghex libgtkhex-3... | The easiest way to do this is with a program called deborphan. To run it do orphaner as root. After removing orphan packages run aptitude purge ~c to get rid of configurations. There may still be other remnants, particularly in the ~/.user area. Do an updatedb and search. You are wise to think and plan before doing a m... |
I am beginning to understand Linus Torvalds remarks about Nvidia more and more each day.. I cannot get my Nvidia GeForce 960M card to work on my laptop. I am running Debian 8.3. I followed this guide to get things running, and all of the programs installed fine. Then, upon running "optirun glxgears" I got an error, whi... | the 960M is not supported by the driver available in jessie ATM; you would need, at least, v. 346.xx Code: Select allnvidia-graphics-drivers (346.59-1) experimental; urgency=medium * New upstream release 346.59 (2015-04-07). (Closes: #775742) - Fixed a bug that caused corruption when switching display modes in some app... |
Hi All, I have Jessie, netinstall. I did what I had found here https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling I added cpufrequtils, it seems work, a command cpufreq-info shows: Code: Select allcpufreq-info cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.or... | floreado wrote:Code: Select all driver: intel_pstate You have a modern processor using the pstate driver. As such, the scaling should be left well alone -- you *do not* know better than Intel. |
I am trying to configure wpa_supplicant for 3 networks (2 known and 1 for open networks), but there appears to be some issue when I have all three uncommented out from my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file. I think it has something to do with how my /e/n/i is set up, but from what I can recall, this same conf... | May I suggest a quick cheat? Install wpa-gui. Use same to connect to each of your locations in turn, Wpa-gui will write all the necessary scripts. Save them. If I am right, you could remove wpa-gui when finished. No guarantees. |
I am using Wheezy 7.9, Gnome Classic, gdm3 . I have two menu instances of Master PDF Editor, one instance in the Graphics menu and the other in the Office category. I have tried using Alacarte to remove one of the instances. Alacarte shows that the item has been removed but in fact it still shows up in the menu. The pr... | Whoops! Found the solution. While Alacarte did not do what I wanted I found the solution. Went to System Tools > Preferences > Main Menu and deleted the item I did not want. Guess I should have spent more time searching the web before posting a question. I was just being lazy and asking here. DOH ! Guess I should add a... |
I have read the wiki and several online tutorials and still cannot get my machines to talk to each other over NFS. Both are amd64 with Debian testing. Tutorials invoke programs that do not exist in testing, instructions are inadequate or too old. Can somebody help with clear, easy-to-follow instructions, please? | Thanks for quick answer, will experiment with that guide and if problems will be back to you. |
Hi, I was compiled a new kernel version 4.4 of debain 8.2 amd64, i've issue > tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed, and i'm stay on busybox. fortunately, i've backup and i can to boot on 4.3 version, it's a choise on startup OS ! I thinking that i compile a new kernel with 4.3 version, i do it, and now have got a same issu... | It might be related to some mistake you made in configuring, compiling, or installing your kernel, but nobody can say with the lack of information you give. |
I am trying to access logs Apache logs (I just installed Apache) and it is giving me permission denied errors. What permissions did you give to yourself in order to access these logs or should I just add this user(myself) to adm group? I can access other log files with no problems for example ssh logs. | stribor40 wrote:should I just add this user(myself) to adm group?Indeed, that's what it's for. |
I am using Jessie with XFCE and I tried to write a service which executes a script to change my wallpaper. When I try to start the service with systemctl start wallpaper.service it fails and I get the outout below from systemctl status wallpaper.service I don't think it to be a permissions issue, they are -rw- r-- r-- ... | Try changing the [Install] section to: Code: Select all[Install] WantedBy=graphical.target You can use journalctl(1) to investigate the errors further. See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... stemd-logs for more on this. Does your script run if you start it from a terminal? Just to note: Type=oneshot allows mul... |
I currently running Wheezy 7.9 (32bit PAE) and am once again considering the upgrade to Jessie. I have backed up /home, /etc/and /var/local . Probably need to re-read the update notes to be sure I have everything I may need backed up. If I understand correctly, the upgrade should NOT have a big impact on the /home dire... | ticojohn wrote:Can I restore /etc (not including the sources.list) without problems? No. The system configuration files are there and most of these will change from wheezy to jessie. If you just restore the wheezy /etc files then your system will probably stop working completely (apart from anything else, there will be... |
Hi, Well, I´m using Raspberry Pi 2 along with Sixaxis game-pad. As far as I have found in my research, sixaxis should work out of the box when connected as USB and that Force Feedback (or vibration or rumble) is supported by Linux kernel since 3.16. In my setup, everything works beside Vibration. Tried Wheezy and Jessi... | Have you asked the Raspberry Pi Forums? >>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/ |
I upgraded my server yesterday via apt-get and my Perl scripts are not able to make HTTPS connections due to certificate verification problems. This seems to be a problem for EVERY HTTPS site. CURL gives the following error: Code: Select allSSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate I know that thi... | Are you absolutely sure that the upgrade went through? I did the point upgrade to 8.3 this morning and I had to quit out of the licensing screen after the ca-certifcates package was unpacked. Did you do that? Disclaimer: I am also ignorant of root certificate updates |
I am running Wheezy 7.9 and gdm3 . I frequently have an issue with the system not reading the monitor EDID and am able to set the desired resolution using xrandr . However, it would be nice to have the desired resolution, and all others supported by my monitor, at startup. I know that xorg.conf is no longer used as all... | Any files in xorg.conf.d will be used as well. |
Hi, My plex media server does not work with systemd apparently but running the command below makes plex startup properly Code: Select all/usr/sbin/start_pms & Is there anyway to make this command run on my computer at startup. I am running debian 8 jessie. Thanks | Use a custom unit file for systemd; something like this: Code: Select all# /etc/systemd/system/plex.service [Unit] Description=Start Plex server [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start_pms [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target That may not be 100% correct (I've never used plex, or indeed any server); official d... |
I try to use Debian Jessie with my Radeon HD 6320. I had read that fglrx dont works with Gnome3 and i had read that radeon free driver doesnt supports Radeon HD 6320 card. So I dont know if there is a way to run Jessie and Gnome3 with my card. Any help. Thank you. | Where you read these? I dont know about gnome 3 (i suspect you read it may have some bugs related to fglrx), but the radeon driver supports 6xxx series cards really well. Just make sure you install the nonfree firmware package. |
Because the system does not always read the monitor EDID I have created the following file. It will be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and will be named 90-monitor.conf Code: Select allSection "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "VSC" ModelName "VA912b" DisplaySize 376 301 HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 85.0 M... | Personally, I'd just add it to a basic xorg.conf generated by 'Xorg -configure'. /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/* should work too, but it's not a standard place for local configuration and may be overwritten by package updates. Probably better to use /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* if you really want it in a config fragment. It onl... |
I have this one comp with an Radeon (MSI-R7850) card in it and its been working fine untill I tried to open Blender (3D creation Studio) today. Blender pops open and crashes. I opened it in command line to get the output but I dont know where to go from there. Blender used to work just fine on this comp. does on my oth... | Solution & process; TL;dR - complete removal of the beignet debian package solved it. Something must have included that and broke my GLX because of it. beignet-opencl-icd OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, ... |
Hi, on my system nearly all subfolders of my home-directory are on another hard drive. I included them via /etc/fstab as shown in the example below: UUID=12c12565-ece4-4a22-b5c5-275aba1a3fd4 /media/data ext4 defaults 0 2 /media/data/archive /home/XXX/archive none bind 0 0 etc. Some time ago i recognized that I could pu... | I found a solution. But I don't know how to fix it, that nautilus can clean the trash-folders from the fstab partitions. But if I change the owner of such a trash-folder to root, so that I even can't open it any more with user rights, nautilus recognizes that there already is a trash but it can't access it. So it doesn... |
Hello everyone, yesterday I installed some updates on my Jessie system (I don't remember if the kernel was also updated). After rebooting the system nothing happens after the "Loading intial ramdisk"-message. If I boot in recovery mode the boot stops at the message: Code: Select allfb: switching to nouveaufb from simpl... | Recent Nvidia Maxwell cards work better with recent nvidia-driver but this is only available in experimental repo atm. You can install by adding the repo to sources then do Code: Select allapt-get update apt-get install -t experimental nvidia-driver Note you should close your display manager and do the install from con... |
Hey guys, I've never understood the difference between these terms in http://www.kernel.org: - snapshot - mainline - stable - longterm It's not in Kernel's FAQ and I can't find about it on google. Could someone please explain the difference or suggest some link? | renatov wrote:Hey guys, I've never understood the difference between these terms in http://www.kernel.org: - snapshot - mainline - stable - longterm It's not in Kernel's FAQ and I can't find about it on google. Could someone please explain the difference or suggest some link? * snapshot is the most current image of the... |
I'm using Debian 8 with Gnome 3.14. The laptop came with the PCI BCM43142. Right after the OS installation I was not able to see any WiFi devices. I followed these instructions and got it where now I can see the device in the top-right menu. Now, when I click on the "Select Network" I get an empty list (instead of a li... | It seems odd that it's on wlan1. You must have had some other device in there that claimed wlan0--do you know what it was? |
Hi everyone, Recently I've upgraded my system to Jessie and I'm having some issues with the wireless interface. I'm using Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24) NIC. The card worked perfectly under Wheezy but now it's different. Here are some details: Code: Select allroot@debian:~#uname -a Linux debian 3.1... | Is the iwlwifi module blacklisted? Code: Select allgrep -R iwl /etc/modprobe.d cat /proc/cmdline Anything in dmesg(1)? Code: Select alldmesg|egrep 'wl|firmw|dhc' When you upgraded, did you follow all of the advice in the release notes? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ... ng.en.html |
Hi dear all, I try to connect my Debian Jessie to my Windows share I read some topic on the internet and this is what I have done: -> 1 - create an .smbcredentials file located in my /home directory (with account / password and domain) -> 2 - implement /etc/fstab with information like that : //192.168.x.x/Animes /media... | HI again. After read lot of post / forum, I found another syntax: //192.168.x.x/Animes /media/Animes cifs noauto,users,soft,credentials=/home/toto/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 0 0 So I replace //192.168.x.x/Animes /media/Animes cifs uid=toto,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf... |
I have an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Black edition, and I recently installed after working so hard Debian 8.2 My problem is that I can't see any WiFi connection... I believe that the firmware for my card is the ath10k, but I can't install it... lspci -nn | grep Network 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros Dev... | Sure, the driver in the kernel is "ath10k_pci", but the stock 3.16 Jessie kernel is too old to include it. One solution is to install the 4.2 kernel from jessie-backports, plus the firmware-atheros package from that same backports repo, and boot to it. The 4.2 kernel does contain that driver: /lib/modules/4.2.0-0.bpo.1... |
Hi everyone, made the mistake of running some updates and now my email is not working anymore. I run postfix/zarafa Let's start with receiving (I consider this more important since I can reply from other adresses) When postfix is trying to receive a email I get this in my /var/log/mail.log Code: Select allNov 30 15:10:... | Ok, luckily found the solution. zarafa-dagent is moved to /usr/sbin/ problem solved |
First, Hi all Debian communauty! I begin since few days with Debian, I would like to get out from Microsoft... But I need Microsoft during transition, I have some stuff there I can't find for the moment on Debian, not because it doesn't exist but because I am a beginner... I installed Debian after Windows 10, I have Wi... | I think you have probably installed Debian in non-UEFI (or "Legacy") mode. Did you install using a live ISO image? The live ISO images are *not* currently UEFI capable, a non-live netinstall ISO image should be used instead. Please post the output of: Code: Select all# parted -l [[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]] && echo UEFI ... |
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