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I'm trying to set up this script from https://gist.github.com/shawnbon206/3a4 ... 084d9392cd to workaround the background/rendering weirdness between Nvidia and Gnome in Jessie when coming out of suspend and I'm running into a problem getting it to actually run. The script is meant to be run from the /usr/lib/systemd/s... | It figures, but right after I put this up I found my mistake. It looks like these scripts are supposed to be executed from "/lib/systemd/system-sleep" instead, even though the script itself and the man pages say otherwise. Feel free to delete this if necessary, but I'm gonna leave it up in case anyone else has a simila... |
Hi, after an uprade from debian squeeze to jessie I have perfect connection via wifi to my router and my server inside of my local network, but no connection to the internet - not from my internetbrowser, nor from the mail-client and also "aptitude update" from the console does not work. I guess it's about routing, nam... | Your eth0 reports being DOWN but has an "auto-assigned" 169.254... address (avahi is retarded). Your route lists it as the default device, so local traffic goes over wlan0, anything else will fail as eth0 is not connected. Maybe try commenting it out of /etc/network/interfaces and letting your network manager manage it... |
I have a Mbp 9,2 and I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. I thought that everything I did in the terminal was as the Jessie amd64 release notes say but I think that I may have accidentally hit Code: Select allapt-get upgrade instead of Code: Select allapt-get dist-upgrade right after the repositories had been switched to ... | Have you tried: Code: Select all# apt-get dist-upgrade You haven't read the release notes carefully enough: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ... al-upgrade |
Hello all. Just installed Debian 8.0 with the MATE GUI on my laptop; a Samsung RC512-S02US. I'm having some difficulty with the wifi however. I attempted to make Network Manager work for me before scrapping it and installing wicd instead. Unfortunately this did not solve my problems, but at least it is telling me there... | It might have helped if you had given us a copy of your sources list to look at. One thing, you refer to "unfree" when the term is "non-free". If you have just installed I assume that you have given the correct driver. |
Hello all I'm running Owncloud for some time. The problem is that file upload is limited to 2 GB due to 32 bit OS (that's what OC tells me). Can I install a 64 bit kernel over the existing system? The CPU supports 64 bit computing. Thanks! | No. As a matter of fact 64-bit kernel might work - assuming it is not pure 64-bit and has 32-bit enabled, but your 32-bit system will still restrict you to 32-bit. |
I hope you can help. I have moved from Squeeze to Wheezy (which was stable then) and I can no longer send mail. I use mutt and started trying to get exim4 to work as it did before. I was getting error messages about minimum Diffie-Hellman bits so I tried again with msmtp, which is much easier to set up. The config file... | See the reply to the thread "exim4 and Diffie-Hellman authentication" |
I hope you can help. I have recently moved from Debian Squeeze to Debian Wheezy (stable) and I can no longer send mail. . Exim4 is version 4.80. My ISP is The Phone Coop. The outgoing serever is smtp.myphone.coop. I get a mail delivery failure reply that says host smtp.myphone.coop [62.128.216.54]: 530 5.7.0 Authentica... | http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/exim/users/98345 |
I copyed all 13 jessie dvd's. Copyed all debs to a ntfs partition Code: Select all/media/john/opslagNTFS/jessiedebs/contrib and in /media/john/opslagNTFS/jessiedebs/main they both have sub-dirs like 1-2-a-b-libg and so on mij sources.list Code: Select all# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD... | Look at the paths reported:Code: Select allE: Failed to fetch file:/media/john/opslagNTFS/jessiedebs//media/john/opslagNTFS/jessiedebs/main/a/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng_1.2-0~beta3-4_amd64.deb File not found That's /media/john/opslagNTFS/jessiedebs/ twice. The filenames in the Packages file must be relative to the correct... |
Hi, I just moved from Ubuntu to Debian (Because I got bored of ubuntu )... Anyway, during installation of Debian I encountered a network error and bypassed it by temporarily using a ethernet connection. Now that Debian finished installing, I am having trouble connecting to Wifi. The only option I have is to use Etherne... | https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi |
Hi everybody, It's me, again, from my little mountain of problems ^^ today I would like to set this one: Past the 180 first seconds, every 30 seconds, my computer suddenly and quite instantly goes to sleep. I can wake it up (the power led is blinking as it's hibernating but not completely turned off). After several tim... | I was not able to write more characters on the previous message but : The computer is not doing this everytime (if I'm lucky it will work without going to sleep every 30 seconds) The motherboard is quite simple : a VIA KM266 chip at the middle with an Athlon XP at side of it. No problem with Memtest Completely clean an... |
Hello everyone, sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong area but here goes... I have recently begun self teaching myself how to configure and run a Debian server. During this process I noticed that Linux/Debian see my server's NICs incorrectly. For whatever reason it insists NIC 0 is 1 and NIC 1 is 0, when I look in my ... | /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Set it as you like. |
Hi all, I just installed Jessie and now would like to install Spotify client. I followed the steps described in the official website but aptitude does not update the packages contained in the new repository: Code: Select all# cat /etc/apt/sources.list ... deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free Code: Select a... | Post the output of these commands Code: Select allapt-cache policy aptitude search "spotify" |
I have installed the LAMP server on wheezy as described here https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/la ... n-7-wheezy Browsers open html files OK. But when I open php files in a browser, it asks me what I want to do with it. The same problem with both iceweasel and midori. I have checked this Code: Select all$ cat /etc/a... | Can you check the output of /var/log/apache2/error.log and paste it here. Also, what is the PHP file that you are trying to run? Lastly, are you positive that you installed php5 (sudo apt-get install php5). |
Previously I uses xubuntu, recently I installed Debian "jessie". On xubuntuall Fn keys worked after installation. On debian sound control keys are not working (only mute works). All other Fn keys work correctly. How to fix it? Edit: It's lenovo Ideapad Z510 | After starting Sound Mixer from programs menu it works. But why it doesn't work without starting it? //Update: It's fixed. After next restart it worked correctly. I have no idea why. |
OS: Debian testing, now stretch. Computer was working, installed system from scratch with a netinst CD. The wired setup in my small network is as follows: Computer 1 works OK, it is in eth1 because I installed an SSD in it and cloned to it the previous setup I had on a mechanical disk, it would not connect on eth0, so ... | Please post back the outputs of - Code: Select allsudo lshw -C network cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ifconfig ..from both computers. Please indicate which output is from which computer. |
Hello all, my first time here. Today I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. I cannot stop lightdm from loading at system boot. My Wheezy setup was boot to a console login prompt, login, startx to go to Openbox plus tint2. Under Wheezy I had disabled lightdm and chosen Openbox as my x-session-manager instead of LXDE. After u... | MartinK wrote:Head_on_a_stick, you have saved my sanity. Yes, I could have removed the lightdm package but I considered that a workaround, not a solution. The commands you offered revealed; Code: Select alllrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 14 20:41 /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> /dev/null as expected, but Co... |
Hi. I'm using Jessie on my Thinkpad T430, with XFCE, Network Manager, and firmware-realtek from non-free. lspci reports the wifi device as a Realtek RTL8188CE. The problem is that my wifi connection hangs unpredictably, a few times a day, at intervals between a few minutes and several hours. I can always get it back ag... | tongro wrote:lspci reports the wifi device as a Realtek RTL8188CE Can we see the actual output please? Code: Select all# update-pciids lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net You could try leaving a terminal window open running either (or both) of these commands: Code: Select alldmesg -w journalctl -xf And see if anything is written ... |
Hello I am using gummiboot as the bootloader on my Arch system. I like it because of its simplicity. Now I would like to add Debian to gummiboot for dualbooting. This raises some questions, for which I have not found an answers yet. do I have to manually copy the Debian Kernel to my $esp (which is @ /boot) how are the ... | I boot my Debian systems using gummiboot in Arch The important point to remember is that gummiboot can only boot a kernel image (and initial ram disk) that is located on the EFI system partition -- this is why it is recommended to mount /boot to the ESP in Arch (all other distributions mount /boot/efi to the ESP & use ... |
Today I installed Debian, because I wanted to have STABLE OS without problems with anything and after I installed it, there was two problems: 1) When i close my notebook and open it again, screen went blank and i must hard restart my notebook to use it again. I have no idea what is going on. 2) Wifi not working the way... | Re-install using these ISO images instead: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff ... -firmware/ Read these links: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware https://www.debian.org/social_contract For your blank screen problem read try this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=577915#p577915 |
Hello, I just installed Debian 8.0 for the first time on an ASUS X200MA laptop. I'm rather new to Debian and linux in general. A major problem I ran into was that my WLAN card is not showing up under the network settings. This is the lspci output: Code: Select allNetwork controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Lt... | Did you install firmware-realtek from the non-free repository? Do a little searching on this forum. The subject comes up frequently and has been answered many, many times. |
Dear all, I just discovered, that the profile-sync-daemon is not running properly anymore. I noticed it, when I could not access my firefox profiles. psd.conf lists google-chrome, google-chrome-unstable and firefox profiles to be sync. psd seems to think, only google-chrome is to be sync'ed (and chrome is working prope... | OK, I guess there was only a problem of broken links or missing profile directories, which caused psd to crash. I found that by using -l with systemctl status. Code: Select all> sudo systemctl -l status psd ● psd.service - Profile-sync-daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/psd.service; enabled) Active: failed ... |
I need non free formware for my radeon GPU it is currently using Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) with no hardware acceleration. I changed my sources list a little bit: Code: Select all# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20150110-14:43]/ trusty contrib main non-free # deb cd... | trusty? Not Debian... |
I'm regularly loosing the wifi connection on a recent Jessie installation. Reconnecting via nm-applet re-esstablishes the connection but it's getting precarious again after 5-10minutes. Same issues are reported on this thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.d ... ser/493069 here're wlan0 related message from /va... | What is your hardware? Code: Select alllspci -knn|grep -iA2 net |
Hey guys, hopefully you can shed some light on an issue I have. I set up a test installation of debian wheezy(192.168.0.125), installed libvirt and one guest(192.168.122.100), also debian wheezy. network type is set to NAT with a static IP. So far so good, everything works as expected, I can ping the guest and login vi... | Nobody with a suggestion what could cause the error? Thanks guys! |
Hi, This is probably trivial but I've spent way too many hours trying to find a solution but just don't get it. On a local network, I have a computer A 192.168.0.101 (win 7) running the Apache web server and a computer B (debian) from which I'm connection to it. The default document root for serving web contents on A i... | https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhost ... based.html |
Hi, Everyone I have just installed Debian Jessie for my parents computer since it is supposed to be released on the 25th of april. I am having a horrible time with Ethernet connectivity though. In wheezy my ethernet card worked no issues. Jessie, on the other hand does not recognize this ethernet card cable being plugg... | Why have you posted 'iwconfig' when you need help with Ethernet, not wifi? It may confuse helpers. Please post outputs of - Code: Select allsudo lshw -C network sudo ethtool eth0 dmesg | grep e1000e The package 'ethtool' may not be available by default, so you may have to install it beforehand - Code: Select allsudo ap... |
Dear All, I run debian testing (amd64+xfce) on my box and I use the standard repositories. Recently, it has become impossible to shut down normally my system: whether I use the command line or the gui to shutdown, the screen becomes black but the power does not really switch off and I have to shut down my system manual... | Which command(s) are you using to attampt to shutdown the system? Will your system shutdown successfully if you use SysVinit rather than systemd? You can either select "SysVinit" from the "Advanced Options" in the GRUB menu or simply add "init=/lib/sysvinit/init" to the kernel command line parameters (you must have the... |
Hi, I followed this guide https://wiki.debian.org/iptables to the letter, except I left out the rules allowing inbound on 80, 443 and 22 This is my first time ever trying to configure iptables, but I am getting confused because the guides I follow don't produce the expected results. The hack at the end of this guide to... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=117514 You may want to flush your existing ruleset first with (as root): Code: Select alliptables -F Also: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/06/ipt ... -examples/ |
Hi! I just upgraded my notebook from wheezie to jessie, and now when I'm closing the lid it goes to sleep, it didn't do this on wheezy, just turned the screen off. How can I set this back? I don't have any GUI, and I never had one on this notebook, and I don't want to install one, so I need a CLI-only solution. Thank y... | wizard10000 wrote:I have a netbook acting as a DLNA server that runs 24/7 with the lid closed. I set Code: Select allHandleLidSwitch=ignore in /etc/systemd/logind.conf and that works just fine. Hope this helps - That did the trick, thanks! Mine is also a netbook, I use it as a torrentserver / NAS. These old netbooks ar... |
hi, got some problems running maildrop, it just hangs when run: Code: Select allmaildrop -V9 -d vmail /home/vmail/julius\@myvirtualdomain/cur/1430574121.Vfe05I20118M791585.yellowstone\:2\,S maildrop: authlib: groupid=1002 maildrop: authlib: userid=1001 maildrop: authlib: logname=vmail, home=/home/vmail, mail=(default) ... | the uid & gid look funny for vmail (5000 is more normal) - is julius a system user? is that his uid? Have you read this? http://www.postfix.org/MAILDROP_README.html The maildrop man page seems to be aimed at delivery to system users |
hi, ive two soundcards in the system, the motherboard one and a soundblaster x-fi. after fresh installation (and unmuting with alsamixer) i can hear sound from the x-fi as expected. but the gnome volume controller in upper right corner does nothing, watching flash videos the only way to control volume is with the flash... | had to reinstall because of some partition moving around, now it just worked. |
Hi all, Firstly, sorry for my bad english. I've got a problem to connect to my wifi network through debian (command line only, I don't have any gui actually). So, before explaining in details, here are some informations: My debian version: 7.8 My hardware: usb adapter belkin n300 The connection works well with this ada... | rageice wrote:Based on an answer on this issue issue, I have tried the following: Code: Select allifconfig wlan0 up #to be sure the interface is up iwlist wlan0 scan #to scan for networks iwconfig wlan0 essid mynetwork #to set the network you want dhclient -v wlan0 #to request network information You haven't set the pa... |
Hello in everyone, I have problem with the Skype programme. I followed the installation instructions from site of wiki Debian. However, I tried many instructions on the internet but I could not solve my problem. I installed the Debian wheezy (amd64) seven days ago. I am newcomer in Debian distribution. Thanks in advanc... | More information? What is the problem? What do you see? What happens? What are the basic specs of your computer? |
Greetings, good fellows of the Debian forums. My name is Alex, and I am new to Debian and these forums. To start of, I'd like to emphasise that I am indeed a beginner when it comes to the linux systems, though I've been working, albeit briefly, with both Ubuntu and Fedora. Now, sadly, my first post on these forums will... | Not familiar with your hardware but a black screen boot is probably the most popular thread title on this forum. Most likely a graphic driver issue. Take a look through these potential helps and report back if still unresolved or require additional help. https://www.google.ca/search?q=black+sc ... yASUnIGwDA |
Hello all, I've recently installed a fresh Debian 8 RC1 on my computer, and I'm unable to make a clean poweroff/reboot of my computer. I've tried to close my system properly using those commands : Code: Select allpoweroff poweroff -f poweroff -i But each time, my computer get stuck after displaying Code: Select all[Ok]... | Have you tried: Code: Select allsystemctl poweroff --force Do you have any attached devices? |
I had to make one of the machines at work dual boot. Before doing anything there was one partition for /, one for home / (the largest one) and one for swap (only 1 Gb). Now the only way I found to install Windows 7 is if the partition for it is at the very end of the list. Since the available space is in the home parti... | aarelovich wrote:I'm gessing this has something to do with the new swap partition having a different uid than before. A very apt guess. You are almost certainly correct. aarelovich wrote:Can anyone give an idea on how I can fix this? I can do better. I can point you to tens of thousands of people who not only can answe... |
hi, disclaimer: i am sort of inexperienced with linux. i spent two days beating my head against the wall trying to get the wifi to work on my new hp pavilion laptop, but to no avail. this is basically a redux of this thread from over a year ago - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=107377 i seem to be in the same ... | ray_midge wrote:i've updated the card firmware using "aptitude install firmware-athero" Is this a typo? It should be firmware-atheros Try the newer firmware and the most recent kernel image (3.16) from wheezy-backports: Code: Select all# apt-get update # apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-amd64 firmware-at... |
- | cuaderno wrote:I am currently trying to install the drivers to get my ethernet to work. (killer e2200) Should work with a newer kernel, see: https://wiki.debian.org/alx --> installing debian jessie would solve your problem at once. cuaderno wrote:Now when I run 'sudo apt-get install make' for example, it is asking me t... |
I applied few tweaks to Chromium described here http://wiki.mikejung.biz/Chrome and when I attempted to restart the browser, I only got this error: Failed to execute command "/usr/bin/chromium %U" plus a notion about failing to allocate memory. The fact however is that it allocates almost 6G and does nothing Because I ... | Try removing the chromium folder in your home drive. |
Hello, I am new to Debian. I just installed Debian on my Thinkpad T60. Only 4 levels of display brightness are allowed with the Fn+Home/End keys. While, there should be 7 possible levels. How can I get that 7-level brightness adjustments possible? Thanks in advance. | Have you tried the proprietary driver for your Radeon card? https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary Old guide here, may not be relevant for wheezy or later: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebia ... d/T60/etch |
Hello guys, Updating debian on my PC kind of destroy my os (learned to safe-upgrade next time). It killed my xserver, video drivers and now i can't use apt-get / aptitude - which is my main problem right now. I CAN use dpkg. bzip2 is installed. uname -a: Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 G... | What is the output of: Code: Select alluname -a |
Hello, I have read here and there that it is possible to configure ssh to disable login for a user but still allow him to execute a command. I would like to configure my server to refuse root ssh access but still allow rsync to be executed as root. How can I do that ? The command inside the authorized_keys on the remot... | ychaouche wrote: The command inside the authorized_keys on the remote server isn't an option because rsync is not executed on the remote server but on the local server (pull mode). Just an idea: do your pull-mode rsync via ssh normally (i.e. without restricting anything on sshd_config) and pause it while it's sync'ing ... |
sid install. up to date. pace = vdsl modem/router linksys = linksys wrt54gl internet connection on computer with question: internet --> pace --> linksys --> computer eth0: computer --> linksys (linksys - 192.168.1.1) eth1: computer --> pace (pace - 10.0.0.2) so i want to access 10.0.0.2 this was working till a few upda... | how do i set the eth1 has gateway of 10.0.0.2 when in /etc/network/interfaces file it states that as the gateway? |
Hello, Code: Select allroot@backup[10.10.10.21] ~ # cat /etc/logrotate.d/infomaniak /var/log/infomaniak/* { rotate 31 # Garder les logs du mois daily # Rotation quotidienne dateext # Extension en date plutôt qu'en chiffre dateyesterday # La date est celle des événements non de la création du log delaycompress # Ne ... | You might try making the permissions on /etc/logrotate.d/infomaniak the same as all the other files in that directory. Also, man logrotate warns about using the * wildcard as you have done there, you might want to check that out. |
Hello, I am trying to configure openssh to refuse ssh logins for root but stil allow one command to be executed. Here's what I tried : 1) Forcing a command to be executed when root wants to login, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config : Code: Select allPermitRootLogin forced-commands-only 2) Adding the desired command in /root/.ssh/... | The bug was that I was using single quotes instead of double quotes. So the correct line was : command="echo hehehehe" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC[...] |
Hi, I'm relatively new to Debian and I need some help. I've just installed Debian testing KDE amd64 and it seems like it doesn't detect my wireless card (Conceptronic C300RU). During the installation, the installer told me that I needed to provide my wireless card firmware in a external media, so I manually downloaded ... | nevermind |
So my actual sound card is loads as device 1 and some other device detected as HDMI is at 0 (Strange because my laptop has no HDMI output). I've looked at solutions elsewhere (https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA, http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards) with no luck. The one site says that since the two devices use the same mod... | Usually this problem can be solved this by creating a hidden file in your home directory called .asoundrc with this content:Code: Select all pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 }Log out and back in to get it to take effect. HTH. |
i have installed teamspeak3 server on my linux box, and would like to set it up so that it will run when as a service. now i have seen a video of someone getting it set as a service in CentOS, and i have the script he used to set it up, however it obviously won't work for Debian. here is a copy of the script: Code: Sel... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=83026 |
Question: In grub, is there some equivalent to "init=/bin/systemd" for sysvinit, like "init=/bin/sysvinit" ? Rather than rely on the absence of an "init=" parameter to default to sysvinit, I'd like to force it to sysvinit, so some update can't change the blank default to systemd. I couldn't find a "*sysv*" type executa... | See my signature |
I know this is bad hardware, but it would be nice if I could make it work with gaming. (This is my son's laptop, and he uses it mainly for playing Minecraft.) lspci shows: 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series] So far I have tried installing the hea... | Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Remove all traces of the Catalyst driver from your system. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian ... ll_scripts Have you tried the non-proprietary AMD drivers? https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo#AMD.2F ... _mach64.29 The open source driver does not work in 3D either: Code: Select allvegard@vegard-... |
Hi, I have the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-u... | Yes, just change "testing" to "jessie" and that should do it. Code: Select all# sed -i 's/testing/jessie/g' /etc/apt/sources.list |
Hi, I'm having a problem with restoring from hibernate on Debian Jessie. About 50% of the time, restoring instantly results in a trace and the other 50% of the time, a trace occurs after doing some work (or during shutdown). This problem does not exist when doing a suspend to ram instead. I've had this problem for seve... | Does anyone have any clue as to how I can fix this, or at least give me a hint in the right direction? |
Hi guys, I got a strange behaviour of WCID. I'm having issue with my wifi (RT3290) to use Network Manager, so I've installed Wicd. However everytime I launch Steam, WCID drop the connection.... Do you have any idea where the problem is? PS: Based on the wiki it seems we need to uninstall Network manager after the insta... | When you installed Wicd did you purge Network Manager? They fight each other. Is your router/modem dropping your Wifi or just your Internet? If it's the latter check the neighbourhood for another modem using the same frequency and choose another. If the former do some router feng shui. |
I saw this problem after installing Debian (7.8.0) from an ISO installer booted through easy2boot, which makes a memory stick full of ISO's individually bootable. I since have realised that it does this by creating a partition on the memory stick that maps to the actual blocks of the ISO where it resides, somewhere in ... | I do not know anything about easy2boot. Thus, I may be wrong. If you remove /dev/sdc4, many bootable isos will not be booted anymore maybe. To remove /dev/sdc4, execute the following with root privilege: Code: Select allfdisk /dev/sdc d 4 w sync |
I have no problem with the frequency scaling on my other computersm, but this one is stuck on 1,6 ghz. Here is the processor: Code: Select allroot@netbook:/home/hallvor# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz root@netbook:/home/hallvor# Output of cpufreq-info: Code: Sele... | No, changing the governor does not work. It is still stuck at 1,6 GHZ no matter what governor I try. |
Just installed Debian 7.7.0 with Xfce. This is a nonportable with eth0 as the only network interface. After trying to set a static IP as I did on Debian 6 and seeing it get overruled and disregarded, I did some reading on the web and found that there's now a package network-manager which takes control and rewrites conf... | /etc/network/interfaces works as it always has it will be read and configured at boot Yes it is safe to remove network-manager. |
Hi there, I have problem with kernel panic. After "aptitude safe-upgrade" and reboot I 've got this kernel panic: Code: Select allkernel panic - not syncing:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0) I really don't know how to solve and recovery my debian... | If recovery mode doesnt work either you might need to repair the system with a chroot. I might want to know more about your upgrade, did you try to upgrade to wheezy/sid or just squeeze? Info please. |
Hello all Does anybody know a step-by-step procedure to separate /boot from the root directory on a system that contains lots of data? As I understood, this is the first step to prepare things for RAID mirroring the system partition and other partitions. What I did til now was resizing and moving partitions. The first ... | Why don't you keep the boot disk and just install antother disk and move the data directory to it. Eg only the home Read this as example http://www.maketecheasier.com/move-home-folder-ubuntu/ Or is isn't it what you want? |
Basic wheezy install, trying to get kernel headers installed and hitting this: Code: Select allroot@gchq:~# aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/623 k... | I think you want this one: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-kbuild-3.2 Code: Select all# aptitude install linux-kbuild |
I have always done without a display manager, I prefer booting to the console and using startx. I am using Gnome Classic and if I disable the GDM3 service I can boot to console and use startx, but Shutdown no longer appears at the bottom of the Main Menu in the panel. (I use the Main Menu applet rather than the Menu Ba... | I found a solution that works. I did extensive research into this problem and narrowed down the reasons why Shutdown is not displayed in the Main Menu applet or the User Menu applet. After logging in the console as root and using startx, Shutdown appeared in both menu applets. Thus, the problem must be one of permissio... |
Code: Select allcomputer$sudo apt-get upgrade iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: iceweasel 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 32.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 70.6 M... | Fixed with Code: Select allapt-get update |
Whenever I do an update (using the synaptic gui), if the update includes a lib6 update e.g. libc6 (2.18-5) to 2.19-4 then the update always fails early, due to some conflict with lib6. So most of the other packages do not get updated. At that point I can't do much except reboot and use a console to recover, by doing "a... | Without further information the only advice would be to use stable instead of testing (it's called "testing" for a reason). You could also do apt-get upgrade and post the exact output. This we we can know what the problem is. |
I am attempting to install the latest Nvidia drivers using the Nvidia .run package, on 7.7 64-bit. I get the CC version check error, saying that the version used to compile the kernel (4.6) doesn't match the current version (4.7), and warns that the loader will reject modules with different versions (or something like ... | Just run this in the terminal before running the Nvidia installer: Code: Select allexport CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.6 However, if you use Debian's package of the Nvidia drivers (in the nonfree section), that issue won't appear. |
Hi, I'm just in the process of installing debian onto my current PC to use as my main OS, I seem to have a problem with the wireless card on the z77e-itx motherboard, the chip set is realtek, it comes up with a message about the rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin driver being missing at installation. I have been able to update th... | $ lspci | grep Ethernet $ lspci | grep Network |
I've setup a few things that use mailx by default - such as unattended updates and fail2ban. I tried sending an email message and there is no error in terminal which I think means that all went well?! but I never received any emails on the addresses I gave (gmail and local ISP). I was wondering am I being blocked from ... | 'man mailx' is quite comprehensive. There is also this howto by the famous MrFrood http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=103322 If you're only using it to send you just need the SMTP setup and can ignore the IMAP etc. Also check the mail.log (or maybe syslog or messages) for any clues as to what is currently happeni... |
Hi, I am using a computer in an installation, and I must ensure it uses a specific network configuration. It boots into GNOME 3 and then starts some applications. The problem I'm having is that the network preferences doesn't remember the profile I selected. So I have the default "eth0" or "ifupdown eth0" that uses DHC... | https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration Add. Oh, I see you've found the link yourself. Yes, that's the right way (for now) to configure networking in debian, if you don't want or need any graphical program or user-clickable profiles. |
Hey there, I try to run PCSX2 on my 64 bits Debian 7 computer. I went to their website, downloaded the archive and extracted it and when i try to run the "launch_pcsx2_linux.sh" script, i get the following output: Code: Select allbenkkei@evy:~/pcsx2/pcsx2-1.2.2$ sudo ./launch_pcsx2_linux.sh ERROR the plugin (plugins/li... | Many non Debian builds are 32-bit binaries only, so for 64-bit, you need to enable the multiarchosity for i386 and install the "package:i386" version of the missing library. You could find the actual game binaries and run "file" on them to confirm what architecture they are. Wheezy has a shortcut metapackage to install... |
There has recently been reported to be a bug in ssl3 that has led to the recommendation to disable ssl3 in browsers. I have followed instructions to do so (using about:config and searching for tls and changing the item security.tls.min from a value of "0" to "1" or using an addon from Mozilla "SSL Version Control". I a... | stevesr0 wrote:There has recently been reported to be a bug in ssl3 that has led to the recommendation to disable ssl3 in browsers. I have followed instructions to do so (using about:config and searching for tls and changing the item security.tls.min from a value of "0" to "1" or using an addon from Mozilla "SSL Versio... |
I've been having this item for a while in my network connections, and it didn't really bother me, since I was using a dedicated DSL/PPPoE connection, but ever since I switched to a router, needing to connect directly (through eth0), I've been having problems during startup. First of all, I cannot delete nor edit "ifupd... | andoru wrote:debianxfce wrote:set your router to be a gateway and a dhcp server. Remove networkmanager and reinstall it. The router is already set up as a dhcp server (how could this work at all if it wasn't?) I purged Network Manager and reinstalled it, but still the same happens, except this time an additional "eth0"... |
I'm trying to revive this old laptop so my daughter can use it (not going to buy another one). When I try to boot I get as far as shown below. It seems a problem with sis900 rtl8201. Code: Select allusb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.2.0-4-486 ehci_hcd usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:03.2 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-... | Thanks but I think I'll try blacklisting the module on my existing installation of wheezy. I'd rather use wheezy than jessie. |
hi, after a recent package update on Debian Jessie, that involved some GRUB things, my rEFIt screen has gone. This is a MacBook laptop, and normally when I switch on the machine, there is a selector for Mac versus Linux via rEFIt. After I choose Linux, I get the GRUB screen to select the kernel etc. The problem is that... | Booting once with Option key pressed gave me the drive selection; rEFIt showed up there, and selecting it made the selection screen come up. After another reboot, the rEFIt screen comes up just as normal. |
Been searching the net for specifics and while i found some commands i am not really planning on using them (yet) since there was no explanation on what they do. I am using Putty to connect to server with Debian. And while the root account works as expected, I've now locked down the ssh access for root and instead crea... | Check the "terminal emulation" settings in Putty. Can't recall what it should be (it's been some years) but there are a few options to try. |
Hi all ! I got a new Ultrabook, Toshiba Z30, but can't get it to WiFi. lspci shows: 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 6b) NOTE: This is the -ac standard wireless. I have installed network-manager plasma-nm firmware-iwlwifi Then followed this instructions: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowT... | Well, it required a Linux laptop restart to get firmware working. |
Hi, I am running Debian Wheezy on a MacBook Pro with a Broadcom BCM 4331 chip. I read that I need a different kernel (3.2-rc3+) but whenever I install a package I can't get it to run. I know that this chip isn't compatible with getting wireless and I apt-get installed b43-fwcutter and nothing changed. I know that I nee... | Have you added "contrib" & "nonfree" parts to your sources.list? Wheezy /etc/apt/sources.list with non-free stuff enabled should be: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ whe... |
Code: Select all# apt-get install firmware-ralink # ls /lib/firmware | grep rt ... rt3070.bin ... # modprobe rt3070 FATAL: Module rt3070 not found. What to do? | rt2800usb, this driver not work. Code: Select all#modprobe rt2800usb #lsmod | grep rt ... rt2800usb 17753 0 ... #iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on Tx-Power=0 dBm! |
They do call it Testing, after all, but I have not seen anything like this previously. I have been running Testing (64-bit, MATE desktop) for some time now with no more than small, easily repaired glitches. This morning I did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade as I normally do. I did see references to a "broken pip... | debianxfce wrote:Debian are planning to release jessie in 2015 so there is no sense to do full system upgrade while the distro development is going on. If it works, do not break it. On the contrary, using dist-upgrade (or more properly now, full-upgrade) is recommended on testing and sid as quite frequently package dep... |
I just ran the automatic software update. It offered me, among other things such as a Libre Office update, a Linux 3.13. I just ran the whole bundle. After rebooting, the computer freezes now, some weird random graphics glitches are overlayed on the terminal at some point, after that nothing happens any more. Luckily 3... | hhrutz wrote:Is this a normal update experience for Debian Jessie? Is there no safety switch that prevents me from performing updates which screw up my installation? Yes,no. It's not called "testing" for nothing. You can install apt-listbugs and check it before each update. What should I do now? Uninstall 3.13; keep mo... |
I'm not sure what went wrong. I updated my server a few days ago with a normal apt-get update/upgrade. Server hung today so I rebooted it. SSH Is not starting at reboot and I can't run it manually. Now if I try to start the SSH service I get: Code: Select allsed: cannot rename /etc/init.d/sedErNcTc: Operation not permi... | Post output of the following:-):Code: Select allcat /etc/debian_version uname -r cat /etc/apt/sources.list ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ apt-cache policy ssh-server |
I just switched the security protocol on my router so that it is an open network with access control. I have added the mac addresses of my two laptops in the access control list for my router as well as double checked that they are correct. My machine running Arch connects just fine, but the Debian one will not connect... | Just to be clear, the router worked before you messed with it? |
Code: Select all# lspci 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1) 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) diver installed Code: Select all# dpkg -l | grep b43 ii b43-fwcutter 1:019-1 amd64 utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx ... | You may take a look at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1596061 though it's about the same device with the alternative broadcom-sta-dkms "wl" driver, the power control getting set to "off" may still help. |
I know that you can get newer versions of Linux with apt. I've searched packages.debian.org and all that I can find in the repos are 2.6. However, I got some hardware that has specific needs. I want as new of a kernel as possible, and compiling and installing is not an option because I always screw up and resort to doi... | A bit more info is needed - -Which version of Debian? Wheezy? -How are you searching packages.debian.org? The kernel package is called linux-image-xxx (where xxx is the version) so a search for 'kernel" may not show what you expect. To install a later kernel in Wheezy you need to add the backports repo to sources, upda... |
system= jessie hitherto i was having proper hibernation, using pm-utils. Now after a system update last week hibernating is not happening. Before the update everything was working perfectly fine. Though upon the hibernate command, the same happens, yet the system state is not saved and when the system is started, it co... | Install the package "hibernate" and "tuxonice-userui"; try "sudo hibernate-ram" and "sudo hibernate-disk". If any of them fails, check /var/log/hibernate.log |
system-jessie upto today i was able to autologin to X . But after today i updated my system and the same is now not possible. it brings me on the blackscreen tty1 where the user login and password has to be typed manually and then it goes straight to X. there is no need to type startx. Till today evening it was straigh... | ok i got this solved. based on the advice posted on this link http://storma.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/ ... ay-manager i edited this file Code: Select all /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service which is a link to /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service in that file, as it is now in the current, i edited thi... |
I am running Wheezy 7.x and have an older Canon printer (iP1900). I tried to set up the printer using cups but the printer is not listed. So I found, and downloaded, the driver from the Canon-Europe site. When I tried to dpkg and install the driver I get a message that there is a missing dependency: missing libcupsys2.... | Well, editing the "control" file does not work. After saving the file, the original info returns. POOH ! And the PPD file does not seem to work either. So I am at a loss. Guess I will just send whatever needs printing over to my Windows machine. BAH! HUMBUG! |
/boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi got accidentally modified. The original file was accidentally deleted, how can I recover the original file? Thank you. | You should have copied the original file into a SAFE place. Code: Select allfind /boot/efi -iname bootx64.efi |
Hi, this is my first time on the Forum, and I'm a brand new Debian user (7.0, Xfce on an old Aspire 1692WLMI laptop). I'm an old Ubuntu and Mint user, but I don't understand much about linux and computers. I've noticed that my wireless dosn't work, probably because of a driver missing. It's a 802.11b/g. I've tried to f... | Hardware? Code: Select alllspci |
Hello. I recently compiled kernel 3.16.1, but I forgot to add support for my Realtek RTL8723BE WLAN card. How can I add support for that WLAN card now? If I try the WLAN source code manual compilation (from https://github.com/kozak127/rtl8723be) I get multiple errors - as do many other users according to some foruns. S... | It is possible to find the various parts of the module source code in the kernel and write a makefile to compile that code into a .ko file, which then can be copied into the correct location in /lib/modules/kernelversion--but in the time needed to work through and learn all this, you could just recompile the kernel wit... |
ip a only gives me a eth0 no wifi do i need to compile my kernel to get the wifi to work? i think this is my nic Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 root@vita:/home/cwc# uname -aa Linux vita 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@vita:/home/cwc# ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdis... | Temporarily connect to your Router by cable. Become Root:Code: Select allsu Connect to the Internet and install iwlwifi Code: Select allapt-get install iwlwifi Disconnect from the cable. Reboot. |
system=jessie after a update 2 days back my boot process has become very slow. it takes 1m 40s to reach my window manager desktop, which previously took 15s . I find systemd got installed in that update. For i am seeing the same for the first time after that update. I am not knowing what is the reason for this sudden c... | Look for errors in the systemd journal with Code: Select alljournalctl -b -p 3 "-b" means last boot, "-p 3" means priority 3 for "errors" increase the number to show less critical errors up to 7 for "debug". See also man journalctl. I had a similar problem which journalctl showed me was caused by swap partition not mou... |
Edit: Kind of solved by switching to kernel 3.10.47. Further info below. ---- Hi all, I really crawled the topics that could be related but they all seem to cover different problems. I updated my kernel from 3.2.14-rt to 3.14.10-rt . I applied the RT patch and compiled both kernels myself and I'm sure I didn't remove a... | Just a start, but I would look at a diff of the kernel configs just in case. |
I got my wifi working now I'm trying to connect using command line. I do have wicd working but I can not figure out how to add my wifi nic. Please throw me a bone. root@vita:~# ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8... | wizard10000 wrote:1885 wrote:I got my wifi working now I'm trying to connect using command line. I do have wicd working but I can not figure out how to add my wifi nic. In wicd under "Preferences", set the wireless interface to wlan0. That should do it - epic! I can see the networks but can't connect . do I need to add... |
Hi! I have been trying to set up my raspberry pi as a nas for the last three days and it just refuses to work... I have tried atleast 15 differnt howtos and nothing works... I tried to change the usualy registy entries and things in windows 7 aswell... basically I have tried everything I can find on google. So when I t... | Unicode wrote:I can finally sleep... That might effect your marriage too ... |
Hi All, I have an HP 1020 usb printer which has been working just fine with my ancient laptop (IBM T23) for years. It was also working with my new laptop (HP Probook 455 G1) until recently. But, all of sudden, it stopped working here, but still working with the old one. There is no error messages or anything like that.... | Yes the problem was solved and my printer works now, but I bet you cannot beleive how! This is how I fixed the problem: 1- plug the printer into my good old laptop. Obviousely, it just worked as before. 2- print a page. 3- cconnect it back to the new laptop. 4- send a print and VOALA! it works! I swear I did not change... |
Hello everyone, I have a trouble with network card driver on my wheezy. I can't configure network and eth0 correctly. I read many topics over many forums and tutorials, but none of them help me to solve it. Also I never met with some similar problem times ago, so maybe anyone here have some experience and successfully ... | Hi! It looks like someone else had a very similar issue. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=107377 Sounds like you may need to get an updated kernel in order to get this chip to work. |
From the Debian Manual : A cache is a temporary storage system used to speed up frequent data access when the usual access method is expensive (performance-wise). This concept can be applied in numerous situations and at different scales, from the core of microprocessors up to high-end storage systems. In the case of A... | What are you hoping to achieve? |
New kernel 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 can't resume from disk or memory. How to get 3.2.60-1+deb7u1 back? | Debian Snapshots would be the easy way. http://snapshot.debian.org/ You might find using debsnap in the devscripts package helps. |
Hi everyone! I am relatively new to Debian, and I encountered a problem I can't solve. The fact is that my laptop, on which I've installed Debian Wheezy, doesn't detect my personal wifi network, while for example my desktop computer does. The wifi on my laptop works perfect (after the installation of the OS I installed... | Which 801.11 modes does your laptop wifi chip support, and which one is your router using? |
Hello all I'm lost in documentation. The server has Postfix and Dovecot installed and using virtual domains. My problem is I can't understand whether SSL/TLS has to be configured in /etc/postfix/main.cf, /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf or both. One source talks about configuring Dovecot. Other talks about Postfix. I also don... | Both (assuming you want to do SSL with both). You could use the same cert if you use the same hostname for the different services. |
Hello all, [Long story short for background I used Debian Etch for about a year, then switched to ubuntu, disgusted with the path ubuntu has taken, going back to Debian, having good luck so far.] This is a fresh install of Debian Wheezy 64Bit, on a desktop (no UEFI involved). Booting up and starting GRUB, the line at t... | 1. Am I really running GRUB2? Yes it's grub2...not sure why they didn't call it grub2 on the boot screen as it would save a lot of confusion. Sorry can't help with the rest...i prefer to modify grub manually. |
Hi, I have installed wheezy on my laptop and I am trying to connect to the inter via cable direct to the router however network manager states connected but I am unable to connect to any websites or connect through other application. How can I fix this issue? Thank you in advance for any help. | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=550848 |
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