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I am building a new mini server for my home office using a D410 Intel motherboard (1.6 GHz x64 compatible Atom processor). I am having problems getting suspend / wakeup to work. Here's an overview of the current status: Installed software ist Debian Wheezy (stable) with all updates. I want to suspend to S3 state, using... | I did some testing using the procedures described using /sys/power/pm_test - to my surprise, the system passed ALL tests without any problems. I also tried out hibernation, which works too. Just to be on the safe side, I upgraded the motherboard bios to the latest version. Yet I still have the same problem - if the sys... |
I have been using Skype (in Wheezy 7.6) for a long time and never had any problems. Today I tried to launch Skype and on opening it closed immediately. So, I thought that maybe it needed to be re-installed (old Windows habit I'm afraid). I uninstalled Skype then tried to re-install. Well, when I select Skype for instal... | Okay. I got it fixed by downloading the Skype package from the Skype website. Then installed the package. Seems to be working okay now. However, if someone could tell me what might have gone wrong and/or how I can find out what went wrong, I would appreciate the help. I am sure that there is a log I could look at but I... |
Hello all. I am trying to install the fglrx driver from Debian Backports on my Debian 7. My graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 6670. /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/13.12/build/make.log spits this error out. Code: Select allDKMS make.log for fglrx-13.12 for kernel 3.14-0.bpo.1-686-pae (i686) Fri Jul 25 09:28:27 CDT 2014 make: Enter... | Try edit firegl_public.c itself and repeat compilation. Or wait when fglrx will be returned in Debian testing. Peter. |
Hi, I have logstash http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.2/ installed from Elasticsearch's repository http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.2/repositories. I want logstash to parse /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. I have configured logstash to read those files but I get some errors in logstash's log: Code: Select all"failed to op... | This post put me on the right track: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searc ... yIkZaDZTcJ I don't want to use setfacl for every file on every server that I need to monitor with logstash, that is silly. I looked at /etc/init.d/logstash and it uses chroot to start the daemon. Although the user 'logstash' is a member of... |
I have searched and searched and can not find a way to increase the double click timeout when using the LXDE desktop. I gnome it is pretty easy, but there seems to be no option in LXDE. Yes, there is an option but it only effects the title bar for an open window. I would like to adjust the double click speed for launch... | Run obconf via terminal or by selecting it from your right-click menu. Go to the mouse section and change the 'double click time' to something like 400ms. I believe the default is a known bug/issue with openbox...not sure why the developers never changed the default as most users can't even double-click fast enough to ... |
Hi everyone I have googled but it seems like the reason varies so I decide to ask for help here. I am trying to compile a module called 'acpi_call' to disable my discrete graphic card, but make gives me this error : Code: Select allmake -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build M=/<some-dir>/acpi_call_debian modules make[1]: ... | ok solved. so it turns out that previously make complained that there was no build under /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/, so I created a folder 'build'. Make stopped complaining about missing 'build' but that was actually why it didn't work. I created a symlink to /lib/src/linux-headers and now make compiled the module. Tha... |
My research shows that laptops pre-installed with a Linux distro or no system are more expensive than those with Windoze. So I need to configure a dual boot, the only problem is if the BIOS will let me in. How can I circumvent secure boot and create a boot sequence that will start with CD? | ckosloff wrote:[...] So I need to configure a dual boot, the only problem is if the BIOS will let me in. I'm not sure what this means. ckosloff wrote: How can I circumvent secure boot and create a boot sequence that will start with CD? You should be able to enter the bios at boot, then disable secure boot and enable th... |
I recently set up a server with openvpn and dnsmasq. Dnsmasq 's main function is blacklisting ads and trackers; openvpn, I had hoped, would allow me to utilize this blacklist on, for instance, an android phone, which has a shoddy implementation of dnsmasq. My phone connects to the internet through the VPN, but it doesn... | I don't know if it will help, but here's some info about my server: Code: Select all# grep ^[^#] /etc/dnsmasq.conf domain-needed bogus-priv listen-address=127.0.0.1 conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.d/blocklist1 Code: Select all# cat /etc/dnsmasq.d/blocklist1 | head -n 7 address=/00002l8.previewcoxhosting.com/127.0.0.1 address=/0... |
Plain old end user who runs testing because I like the up to date packages. I try to avoid breakage. (I know, I know. All wrong. Bear with me.) A few days ago, apper started giving me the error message: "A previous package management transaction was interrupted." None was, as far as I know. And the Details says: "The f... | quixote wrote:Wait to do any updates until jessie becomes stable? This would be my suggestion. Testing is only going to get more broken, more often over the next few weeks and months, as devs rush to get packages included in anticipation of the freeze. But you should know that. You've been through this twice before. |
I followed the instructions on the arch linux wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au ... al_console to enable auto-login but it is not working. Newbie to systemd so any help is appreciated. | I just followed those same instructions. In the autologin.conf file, make sure you change "username" to your user's login name, and change /usr/bin/agetty to /sbin/agetty. Save the changes and then run Code: Select allsystemctl stop getty@tty1.service systemctl start getty@tty1.service I think that'll do it. You might ... |
Hi all, After sometimes searching for an answer on the net, I decide to ask you ! I Have a FreeRadius server and I want to block (for a temporary time, for ex. 10 minutes) a login if the user is entering the password badly 3 times in a row. My server is under Debian 6 My DB is MySQL. I thank you all in advance for your... | fail2ban? https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... ection=all |
On a dedicated, remote server, after installation of Debian stable via a control panel I got the default dhcp configuration in /etc/network/interfaces: Code: Select all # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Having checked and double-checked the correct values for the netmask and gateway using i... | I'm marking this as "solved." What I did was - rather than using /etc/rc.local - was to add: Code: Select allpost-up route add -net 85.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.xxx.xxx.xxx gw 85.xxx.xxx.x to /etc/network/interfaces file followed by the ifup eth0 command. Now netstat -r shows: Code: Select allKernel IP routing table Dest... |
Hello everyone, I tried frequency scaling but got the following message when running cpufreq-info: Code: Select allcpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU maximum transit... | Works now, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology was disabled in the bios. |
I am running Wheezy 7. I installed Gnome as the default desktop and later installed LXDE. When using the Gnome dektop I have access to the Pulseaudio mixer, but when I use the LXDE desktop I can not find a Mixer selection. I have looked at the Sound & Video menu items and Mixer is not available. How can I access the mi... | I like using pavucontrol. You can install it by running apt-get install pavucontrol |
Hello. I think my video driver is in trouble and does not perform to the fullest. A few diagnostics: dmesg | grep -E 'drm|radeon' | grep -iE 'firmware|microcode' outputs: Code: Select all[ 2.327697] radeon 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/RV710_uvd.bin (-2) [ 2.405061] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon_uvd: Can'... | Update: Since I had two kernels installed I have purged the one I am not using (3.2.0-4) after running this command 'apt-get purge 3.2.0-* linux-headers'. This has greatly mediated the problem (I have immediately experiened a performance boost after a reboot). Seems like there was some sort of conflict, perhaps while t... |
I purchased this system with Win 8.1 although I never had any intention of using Windows. My final configuration is Debian, two-fold. I have Debian running in a virtual machine. The problem with this is you lose full screen mode. I tried and failed several times to get Debian on the hard drive because of some twisted p... | .... I just had a thought, I wonder what Debian would do to me if I left things as they are - and installed Intel from testing, which would be nothing more that a "roundabout" system down/upgrade. Maybe I will try, in a week or two. Linux is not for the faint of heart, but true believers in independance. Again, Thanks ... |
Hi there! I'm new to the whole Debian configuration thing so I apologize in advance if the answer is obvious! I followed a tutorial to deploy my Node.js application using systemd and nginx. I installed systemd and everything works like a charm (website is running, all good on this side). However, I'm having and issue u... | /bin/journalctl is found in the package systemd. Try using an absolute path to it? |
I have two servers behind a monowall firewall connected to comcast business class with one static ip address. The first server "red" I have had for years. It has debian 3.1. I am able to send mail with this server no problem. The second server "blue" on the same lan I have set up recently. It is running debian 7.5. I h... | Update: I tried to uninstall then reinstall exim4 via apt-get. When I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config I got the following error message: DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the suggested conffile changes... |
Running Wheezy 7.5 Every time I boot the notebook the Governor mode switches back to Performance. I have tried many different ways to make "ondemand" or "conservative" a permanent cpu mode, but neither have worked for me. This is of crucial importance because performance mode stresses out the fan to the maximum and rai... | Try adding a cpufreq-set -g ondemand -c cpumask command directy into /etc/rc.local so it changes it on boot. Test this manually before you add it to be sure it works. Also it might be different for newer cpus with turbo boost, but my cpu set to its max frequency 2200mhz is quiet and cool when idle because it goes into ... |
So I think quite a while back I trying to Code: Select allapt-get install emacs23-nox or something like that, but anyway I installed a package that had a dependency on dbus, and ever since apt-get always spit out dpkg's error at the end of every apt-get action. I decided to live with it since I could still install pack... | Solved it. Apparently I didn't have /usr/sbin in my path. Adding that to my path fixed the problem. (Due to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=115305 I'm always using root, so that wasn't a problem.) |
Hello everyone, I'm trying to install my own Linux mailserver, but when I wanted to test if it worked I found out that I had a problem with roundcube. I follow this howto http://workaround.org/ispmail/squeeze/dns which also explained how I should install roundcube. The problem is that when I go to my roundcube, it give... | I missed a dependency strange enough. apt-get install php-mdb2-driver-mysql That worked for me. SOLVED |
I have a HP mini 110 installed with Debian 7.5, xdm, dwm, stalonetray and network-manager-gnome. First problems, nm-applet does not show up when i run stalonetray. So I had to run nm-applet. Second, my first (only) user can not control, enable or add new network connections. To have these controls, i have to log in as ... | I would personally advise you to ditch network manager and switch to wicd. It has multiple frontends, including gtk, qt and curses (text), it's less attached to GNOME, and I've had fewer problems with it generally. |
I am having issues with the fglrx module, which can be seen in another post. The radeon module is working, but the performance is EXTREMELY poor. Everything is lagging, even moving simple windows. Am I the only with this issue? I am running dual-screen (1920x2400). | I am only experienced with Intel graphics, though I would ask you post some opengl info. Run: Code: Select allglxinfo | grep -i opengl Also make sure you have firmware installed. Most ATI cards need it to work. Code: Select allapt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-linux-free firmware-linux And also check here... |
apt-get autoremove wants to remove a lot of packages, this is the full list: Code: Select all aisleriot argyll cheese cli-common file-roller finger gdebi gedit gedit-common gedit-plugins gir1.2-gdata-0.0 gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-goa-1.0 gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-gucharmap-2.90 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-rb-... | A cleaner solution would be to undo what you just did (i.e. mark all of them as automatically installed), then only 'install' the user-visible packages you actually want to use. Generally you don't want libraries marked as manually installed. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=104157 |
I use Debian Wheezy 7.5 x64 with the default Gnome 3 interface. In the activities menu is a sidebar on the left, where you can place your favorite applications. Iv'e put Google Chrome, Evolution mail client and Rhythmbox in that menu. However, when i restart my computer, the icons in the sidebar are gone. When i put th... | Does it happen if you try with a new user? |
I need a large Ram Disk for some weather satellite software to run. somewhere in the 300Mb to 400Mb size It would seem that Debian 7 does not have the rd module in the kernel by default, so there is no /dev/ram0 on bootup. This means that adding ramdisk_size=419430 is pointless. The weather software loads the rd module... | It is not difficult, see Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt. For example, you can place in /etc/fstab next records: Code: Select alltmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=N% 0 0 /dev/ram0 /media/ramdisk ext2 noauto,users 0 0 N what you want, instead ext2 it is better ext3 or ext4. /media/ramdiks must be exist, you can make... |
Hello, I recently installed Debian stable and am having problems accessing the internet using my ethernet card (an RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+). Internet access worked correctly during the install but stopped working after booting the system. Everything works fine over the local network but I cannot ping remote servers. It d... | More information/clarification needed... Your post seems to imply that certain kinds of traffic is passing from LAN to WAN via your router but not others. If I'm hearing right, my first thought would be to suspect some sort of firewall setting, someplace between your machine and the router (inclusive), blocking ping bu... |
After upgrading to wheezy, I am no longer able to connect to either of my two wireless routers using the D-Link DWA-131 802.11n Wireless N Nano Adapter(rev.A1). One router is visible and one is not. To keep things simple, I'd like to start out trying to connect to the visible router. Code: Select all# uname -a Linux de... | Do you still have the firmware-realtek package installed? I would assume it was and survived the upgrade, but funny things sometimes happen. Also see the note regarding manual firmware installation under #2 here. |
Hi. I'm afraid there's been a Xorg regression, recently, in Jessie. Before, when switching on my desktop, I had those log lines displayed on the screen, then at some point they would change appearance once, slightly, then the screen would blank quickly before the same log lines would appear in a smaller font size (I gu... | Try as root enter command Code: Select all/etc/init.d/gdm3 start or that DM what you want. If graphics mode will be settled successfully, set default level to 2 in /etc/inittab, if this file is exist. Peter. |
Hi there, I am trying to configure postfix on Debian 7 to manage virtual domains. I tried to send an email from a test user, using squirrelmail. The system send the email as user.virtualdomain.com@hostname.fqdn.com. How should I configure to send emails as user@virtualdomain.com? This is my main.cf Code: Select all# Se... | Check the squirrelmail settings and documentation - that is what is setting the FROM address. |
I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.5.0 with KDE and because of a hardware problem I'd like to try a newer backported kernel to see if I can get rid of that problem. After adding the backports repository and issuing an "apt-get update", I tried the following: if I use Apper and choose to install the package linux-image-3.12-0.bp... | Step one: please post the results of the following command, run as root:Code: Select allcat /etc/apt/sources.list |
This is the only error notation in the syslog (or any other log) file. I am at a loss as to why the connection is being refused when the tftpd server is otherwise working fine. "in.tftpd[13563]: tftpd: read(ack): Connection refused" I have a diskless debian booted by pxe that has worked for about 9 months now. It has w... | What updates happened when it stopped working? Can you set up a 7.4 (or earlier) to test if it works prior to the latest? Searched for any bug reports? |
Hello all! Just installed Debian 7 about a week ago and I thought everything was fine until today... It seems that my box is not handling loopback/localhost requests... I am able to SSH into the box and I can access the internet from the box, but I am unable to ping localhost. I have been searching for an answer on Goo... | Problem solved. I forgot to allow loopback traffic in my iptables... Wow, I feel silly... |
Hello all! If I activate 802.1x in network manager, Debian wheezy 7.5.0 does not perform wired connection before a login process, so NIS users cannot login. The checkbox "Available to all users" (in Network Manager) seems to have no effect in this case at all. Just for testing, if I disable 802.1x and force authorizati... | Hello again! I've found out a solution to my problem. Edit the file: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Wired\ connection\ 1 and change the line referring to the password to this: password=put_machine_password_here Certify that this file is readable only by root. Now the Debian system performs authentication to the... |
Ever since I upgraded my AMD64 PhenomII X3 a week ago, my computer will hang in the boot process when I press a key on the keyboard to bring it back from a hibernation stage. If I first reboot my computer and then set it to hibernate, it will come back normally for the 1st time. After coming back from a hibernation, I ... | There was a new kernel update this morning. So, I went ahead to update my system with this new kernel and now the problem seems to have been fixed. I can hibernate my system and bring it back several times without a problem. Also, from the dmesg dump right after waking up from last sleep, it no longer dumps the WARNING... |
I think there is something wrong with this last line in etc/fstab: /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <... | How about commenting out the last line? Can you search on the web? |
After my AMD64 system got fixed as shown in this AMD64 system hangs while waking up from hibernation, I decided to upgrade my old Intel Celeron computer running on a very old Debian v5 (Lenny?). Now, this Intel Celeron computer seems to have encountered the same problem, i.e. hangs during the 1st wake up from last hibe... | As it turned out, the problem was caused by the missing firmware R300_cp.bin as shown here. I followed this ATI HowTO wiki to install firmware-linux-nonfree package to resolve the issue and the hang syndrome is gone. I did not have to re-install these two (libgl1-mesa-dri and xserver-xorg-video-ati) packages. |
Hi there, I've installed new Nvidia drivers on my Debian 7 (I have an old 8400GS) after I installed Steam, because some website said that I should do that. When the installation was finished, I restarted my computer and tried to boot Debian, it's entering all init-runlevels (as far as I could see), but before the graph... | StrgAltEsc wrote:I've installed new Nvidia drivers on my Debian 7 (I have an old 8400GS) (snip by kiyop) When the installation was finished, I restarted my computer and tried to boot Debian, it's entering all init-runlevels (as far as I could see), but before the graphical shell is loading, a white underscore in the up... |
Since last tuesday evening i can not connect to https://owncube.email and https://buddycube.com. I can connect using the TOR browser bundle or hidemyass.com It is impossible to change DNS servers in my modem / router (KPN Experiabox) Not wireless, not wired with Debian7 Xfce, Windows 7 and my Android phone. KPN sends m... | If you expect that it is a DNS issue you can check using nslookup. Code: Select all~$ nslookup > buddy.com Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: buddy.com Address: 168.62.20.37 > Note the address. Then change DNS servers and do it again (still in nslookup): Code: Select all> server 8.8.4.4... |
Hello, I seem to have the exact problem listed here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi ... nit-cuda-/, which can be traced to the nvidia-uvm module missing. I'm on Debian wheezy, but I have the newest nvidia 331.67 module. From searching around it seems like there's some sort of "uvm" flag that's supposed to be c... | Had this too, If you installed via the nvidia-kernel-dkms package there should be a '/usr/src/nvidia-current-331.67' directory containing the sources used to build the module. I haven't bothered investigating why dkms doesn't build the nvidia-uvm module yet, but it's trivial to do it yourself. Do 'make' in this dir, th... |
G'day, I use a Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 laptop and I have installed Debian Wheezy 64-bit with the KDE interface. UEFI isn't supported. I couldn't get Debian Wheezy to boot with UEFI, the dvd wasn't detected, despite disabling secure boot, I had to disable UEFI by switching to legacy in BIOS settings in order to boot Debi... | Many thanks for the post on the fix for audio! This fixed audio during video playback (especially bad) and regular music on my Dell Precision 390. I just had to change the below in the above link, not sure what this change does though, but it works! For my own knowledge does anyone know what the 'tsched=0' does? The be... |
Hi, I have an HP laptop with Win7 and Debian Wheezy (7.3) in dual boot. For the last week I've worked in GNOME and neglected KDE Desktop and its updates but a few hours ago I logged in, and installed some updates via Apper. There were many packages in the list of updates among which some NVidia package, some "kernel he... | Hi, Moby, Don't panic ... I think this can be fixed easily. You just need to boot into Debian, and issue the update-grub command from a Terminal / Console: Code: Select all$ su -c update-grub If everything goes well, when GRUB2 runs the os-prober script, you should see Windows 7 appear in the list of detected operating... |
Hi all. I have installed debian stable on my old Joybook, and configured wireles to start automatically via wpa supplicant. For a week I put the computer aside, and now I dont remember my last manipulations with it. I might run an update before powering it off but I don't remember. The problem is, that now it does not ... | Check here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=73778 |
Hi community Quick question: is it safe if I enable the xubuntu xfce ppa to get the latest versions of xfce applications? Despite the rolling nature of Sid I can't get past to the 4.10 version and there are some interesting features in 4.11 and 4.12 Thanks in advance and sorry I this topic may result misplaced in the f... | No. |
Hope this is the right place to post this. Apologies if not, first time posting although I've learned a fair share from lurking these forums I'm trying to stop the following from being loaded at boot: Code: Select allsnd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_os... | I think the question is only of "academic interest". It doesn't matter that all the modules are loaded and blacklisting them in the way you describe evidently doesn't work. However, if you really want the system to only load the modules required by your hardware, then I think you should look at compiling ALSA from sour... |
i am trying to connect two computers via crossover ethernet cable. the ultimate goal is to access the internet through the debian's wireless connection and share it with the pc via the ethernet connection. right now i am just trying to prove to myself that i can connect them without any internet connection. so i connec... | It has been a long time but I think you need to set it up in /etc/network/interfaces. Something like this: Code: Select allauto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.2 Remember, your machine is functioning as a gateway for the Windows machine. |
Hello, I have trouble updating from iceweasel-28.0.1 to iceweasel-29.0. When I run an update, I get a BADSIG error from GPG. Code: Select allW: GPG error: http://mozilla.debian.net wheezy-backports Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 85A3D26506C4AE2A Debian Mozilla team APT archive <pkg-mozilla-maint... | I have the same problem |
I have a very strange problem with my raid and reached a point where I have no idea what I could try next. My setup is basically: raid 1 with 2 x 3TB disks. This worked fine for some months until recently it failed to recognize one disk during boot, warning that the raid is degraded. I could add the second disk again, ... | are you getting ghost data on the disks? repartitioning alone doesn't always make the disks ready for new data. |
A theoretical question about apt (meaning, on relfection, I might not really do this, but I still want to know how): I have the following 3rd party repository: [code]## Tor repository deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jessie main[/code] I want to preferentially install packages from that repository, irrespec... | I would try 1. Install the version you want. Code: Select allapt-get install tor=0.2.4.21-1blahblahblah (or get the .deb package and used dpkg -i if necessary) 2. Code: Select allapt-mark hold tor That should pin it to the version you installed, regardless of other versions in other repos. |
I've just installed Debian 7.4. The wireless card is an Intel AC-3160. I ran modprobe iwlwifi with no problems. Result of lsmod: Code: Select alllsmod | grep iwlwifi iwlwifi 166761 0 mac80211 192806 1 iwlwifi cfg 80211 137243 2 mac80211, iwlwifi But I can't get wlan0 to actually start: Code: Select allifup wlan0 Ignori... | Take a look at dmesg output to see if the device is being recognized by the system. Code: Select alldmesg | most |
After a recent software update I ran this week from my GNOME 3 desktop (Debian Jessie), a new bug was introduced: whenever the laptop goes to sleep and wakes up again, my network services are dead, both Ethernet and Wifi. This is extremely annoying because it basically means that whenever I need move the laptop somewhe... | This seems to work: Code: Select allsudo service network-manager restart Perhaps the problem is that I have another problem. I can't find a way to tell GNOME to suspend the laptop when I close the lid. So I have to execute Code: Select allsudo pm-suspend everytime I need to move with the laptop. If I could fix GNOME to... |
Hi all, Debian 7.3 Cable connection - (FTTH) Fibre Optic Network ISP -> PC /etc/network/interfacesCode: Select allauto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx broadcas... | Try use Code: Select alldns-nameserveres IP1 IP2 instead of namesrever. Also you can use dns-search and dns-domain, but I never used them. Peter. |
Hi. I finally made it to install Debian on my lenovo. Now it's time to install the graphics card. I have intel HD 4000 i965 with i7 3632QM. Witch driver I should install? Also I want a minimal xorg without all this various dependencies. Generally I am a minimalistic person. I don't like huge list of dependencies. For e... | I think this should do it (at your own risk): Code: Select allxorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-intel libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx |
Hi, i have a problem with cdemu-daemon and KDE. When i mount ISO file with command Code: Select allcdemu load any linuxmint-13-kde-dvd-32bit.iso Daemon load device /dev/sr1 with resources of iso file but KDE doesn't recognize that new device is available to mount. When i try mount it manally everything works fine. Code... | Seams like Code: Select allecho 2000 > /sys/module/block/parameters/events_dfl_poll_msecs helps but is it safe? I mean does it slow my computer, can damage hardware or someting? |
Upgraded to the new Network Manager and now the /etc/init.d/network-manager fails when running. /etc/init.d/network-manager status [FAIL] NetworkManager is not running ... failed! Anyone having this problem? Anyone know how to fix it? Thanks. | If you have a network connection I would run wicd. I run that and now I am glad I do. I saw that upgrade last nite and thought, "Well at least he/she should have tested it." Guess not. |
Hi. When I had a desktop environment installed everything went to the edge of the screen. Now on my IBM-T20-2647 with a newly installed Debian-netinst (I want to use CLI only) the screen acts as if margined i.e: blank inch or so at top and bottom, quarter on both sides and text crunched in the middle? I'm having troubl... | Check out xrandr. I think that's what is setting video size. |
Hello, I have tried installing mysql server with apt-get, this is the error I have: start: Job failed to start invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.5 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems... | Presumably you are running squeeze? Without any foreign packages already? Where did you get those debs from? |
Hello all, I've noticed the following message started to appear in my cron.daily log. /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: mkdir /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003002: Permission denied at /usr/bin/sa-update line 834 sa-update failed for unknown reasons Log seems okay up until 2 weeks ago Just running standard Wheezy with updates. s... | Hello pappin! pappin wrote: mkdir /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003002: Permission denied at /usr/bin/sa-update line 834 sa-update failed for unknown reasons Unfortunately, I am not familiar with SpamAssassin, but from the log above your problem is caused by wrong permissions. Please post the content from "/etc/cron.daily/sp... |
I am trying to install the intel i210 ethernet NIC I have done this in the past, with the same version driver, debian wheezy, motherboard, etc Although I am not sure what I am doing wrong: Readme file says to: 1. Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice. For example, use '/home/username/igb' or '/u... | Apparently a driver was included in the kernel from 3.5 which is newer than wheezy default kernel. https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/ ... 00381.html Try a kernel from backports, it just might work automatically. If you must compile, you are probably missing kernel headers - Code: Select allaptitude install linux-h... |
Hello! I try to install the latest Diva4Linux driver (V. 9.6-113-149) for a Diva UM-BRI-2 PCIe on a Debian 7 (Wheezy) linux box with kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64. I basically followed the instructions from the two howtos: * http://www.dialogic.com/webhelp/Diva/9. ... 52-07.html * http://www.dialogic.com/support/helpweb ... div... | The README.TXT in the download also says you need: - For Debian systems, the following package must be installed: - xinetd and you need libncurses5-dev, too. However, it looks like what it really wants, instead of just the kernel headers, is the full Debian kernel source package extracted and installed in /usr/src. Tha... |
I was looking in to setting up a VPN connection and saw that the option to do so was locked because I did not have the necessary programs available ( ie OpenVPN). So, I went to the Add programs and selected OpenVPN. Of course there were a number of other files/packages that also needed to be installed so I said OK ! We... | Okay...you're not being a good boy and backing up the system For backups, I use rsync and cron. I have heard good reports about Lucky Backup which is in the repos, if you want a GUI program. |
I am able to see and view the samba shares that I create, but not able to write to them. Currently my smb.conf looks like: Code: Select all... security = user [test] comment = test path = /mnt/test browsable = yes writeable = yes create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0771 I have tried different things such as 'write user... | Hi, this is the way I configured my Samba: Code: Select all[test] comment = Test Share path=/srv/samba/test browsable = yes writable = yes valid users = @smb_test admin users = root force group = smb_test acl check permissinos = yes acl map full control = yes security mask = 0770 force create mode = 0770 directory secu... |
Hi! I have downloaded QT following this tutorial: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/compilation cause I need to use the program wkhtmltopdf with some patches that I can only have if I install the QT library from the source code, not with apt-get. Well, I am trying to install it, the problem is when I do the ste... | Did you do the configure step before the make? It should warn you about obvious things like missing software. It will of course not produce valid makefiles if there are such errors. Do you have the make package installed? |
I had a problem the other day, after installing OpenVPN, in which the system display selections for my monitor were no longer working correctly. After struggling a bit I added some lines of code in /etc/gdm3/Init/Default, using xrandr, to get the resolution I wanted. Interstingly, after a couple of shutdowns and boots,... | Well,I am once again perplexed. After trying several things I shut down the computer a turned off power. Waited about 20 seconds then powered back up. On logging in to Debian I was found that the monitor is correctly identified and all screen resolutions are back to normal. The only thing I can guess at is that when I ... |
Hi all, following problem: I've got a NEC Pinwriter P7 Plus B/W Dot-Matrix Printer, which I'm trying to get to work under CUPS 1.7rc1, on 3.11.0-17-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP (mint 16) I'm using a EX-44171 PCIe<->Parallel/Serial Card, on a Asus F1A75-V Pro Motherboard. The card says it has a 'Oxford Chipset' built on, doug... | My first instinct would be to buy an adapter, provided you have a usb port. When I was working with really old systems, adapters saved my behind on many occassions. http://www.cyberguys.com/product-search ... rt+adapter |
Hi, Suddenly I've noticed (I don't know how long this has been going on, but I do know that when I set the swappiness about 6 months ago it was fine) that my swappiness defaults to 60 regardless of the vm.swappiness = 1 setting in sysctl.conf. I'm still a bit of a linux newbie so I don't know what the dealio is. Runnin... | I think it is vm/swappiness=1. |
Hello, I just installed debian "wheezy" 7.0 (kernel 3.2.41) yesterday on my Lenovo Think pad T410s. During the installation undecided to try auto configuring the network settings with DHCP. This did not work but I assumed I could just fix it later so I continued with the minimal installation. When the installation fini... | kylec488 wrote:It simply appeared as "wired" and across from that it says "unmanaged."Network Manager says that (and doesn't manage the connection) if it is defined in /etc/network/interfaces There is no wireless option.Presumably you have hardware from a bastard capitalist enterprise that enjoys making life difficult ... |
Hey guys, How can I install the latest mpd on oldstable? There are no ready backports. I would compile it, but the its dependecies are all greater versions that the ones on the repos. | The latest mpd is written with C++ 11 features. You can't compile it with your version of Gnu, and it is unlikely that anyone will produce an entirely static build of such a complicated process. Wheezy might let you compile. It does at least have gcc 4.7. |
I am encountering an interesting issue. I have Debian Wheezy (7.?) on one hard drive and Win XP on another drive, and use Grub to select which system to run at start up. When in Linux, I can log out and then select either shut down or restart. If I select restart and then select Win XP to boot, then when XP is running ... | Hey Wizard10000, thanks for the comeback. My Ethernet adapter is the Atheros L2 chip set, and Atheros driver, on a Biostar MB. Fairly old board but otherwise works great. The Ethernet problem seems to be ONE WAY. In other words I can warm boot to Linux, either a restart from Linux or from Windows, but not from Linux to... |
Hi I'm using a laptop with Debian Wheezy (+backports) with Optimus (GC: GT540M). I recently upgraded to the latest kernel available in backports, that is 3.12. The thing is that since then my computer is overheating, just like it used to when I hadn't installed bumblebee. Yet my graphic card seems to be OFF, as it's su... | Run kernel 3.10.x and you shouldn't have this problem. |
Hey guys! So I just installed Debian 7 and it has the 3.2.x kernel on it, which doesn't have good support for SSDs so I hear. I want to update to the most recent stable kernel. I see on the kernel website that 3.10.29 is the LTS kernel, but I don't know if it would be stable with Debian? I'm rather new to this stuff. A... | http://backports.debian.org/ should have newer kernels for wheezy |
I have laptop thinkpad w530 with nvidia optimus card. In bois, I choose optimus (non-discrete/ non-intel) and left hand side vga connector is connected to the external monitor. Also bumblebee, etc. is installed without error. However, when checking with `xrandr -q` it shows Code: Select allVGA1 disconnected (normal lef... | Hi shogun1234, not sure what optimus mode means in BIOS but I remember that automatic switching between integrated and discrete graphics does not work for w530 systems in Linux and the only opportunity to use the external graphics connection is to set nVidia card only option in BIOS (not Intel, and not both nVidia/Inte... |
Hi, I've been looking for this for the last 8 hours, nobody seems to have an answer anywhere, and I'm starting to lose my sanity. note: Network manager is not installed Sorry if this has already been answered, I didn't find it. Short story : What is the syntax to use in /etc/network/interfaces to bind several virtual I... | Ok, I understand why the route command doesn't work ... It's used to add the gateway to reach a network, not to go out of that network. Still, I have no clue how to do this, while it's quite basic and nearly mandatory on production servers. Once we solve this, we should add an example to the wiki : http://wiki.debian.o... |
I upgraded my main PC's Xfce 4.6 to Xfce 4.8 this morning. Now, every time I start Thunar for the first time after a new boot, it takes about 30 seconds to appear, and then about 10 seconds later, a second instance of it appears. After that, Thunar appears instantly every time I start it during that same session. But i... | That is.. interesting. I will check this out on Sid and see if it happens here. |
I have the 2.6.25-2-686 kernel installed on my Compaq N600c laptop and have read many How To's, the ALSA Project website data but to no avail. Alas, still no sound. Below is the result of several terminal queries: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ... | no support in lenny kernel for ESS Allegro/Maestro3 .. install alsa-firmware http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464191 succes, Freek |
Greetings, *First, thank you to everyone that is involved in the Debian community, in any way. Devs, forums, everyone, thank you for making a great OS and making a great community to become involved in. Quick background... I have been using GNU/Linux for several months as a secondary OS to learn more so I can make a fu... | Got no clue about ATI/AMD graphics and their 'gotchas' as I have never owned one. It seems (from what threads I have read here) that identifying the correct driver/method for the particular card is important. http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary should be your first port of call. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:forums.... |
Hi, I would like to configure my new Wheezy server with two network cards. 10.0.12.1 through eth0 should be the default gateway and 192.168.1.1 through eth1 should be the gateway for 192.168.0.0/16 Here is my /etc/network.interfaces: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 i... | I found a solution: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.12.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.12.1 auto eth1 allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 post-up ip route add 192.168.0.0/16 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 src... |
Hi everyone, I've started using Linux for the first time a few days ago, as I tried to install a Home server. I've followed a tutorial for the most part, but I'm stuck at a weird issue. A few google searches didn't help solving it :/ The issue: If I type Code: Select allservice apache2 start I get Code: Select allStart... | What tutorial did you follow? What does 'service apache2 status' say? You are running these as root? |
Hi I'm trying to enable NFSv4 between a filer based on Debian 6 (OpenMediaVault) and a virtual desktop server based on Debian 7 shortly : I have the infamous nobody/nogroup issue. I have to explain the currently working setup : A domain controller running Windows 2008 R2 The filer and the virtual desktop server are bot... | Hi, First try setting the verbosity level to 3 or 4 in/etc/idmapd.conf. Restart nfs-common to make sure at least the domain is correct, and if not, explicity set it in that file. Also see 'man rpcdebug' for enabling more messages in NFS activities. Unfortunately, that is all I can offer. |
I am trying to join a new wifi network but I can not seem to get it to work. applications -> system tools -> preferences -> system settings -> network -> wireless the network I want to join shows up in the list but when I select the wifi network from the list it just closes the drop down box. I think I remembered I con... | Does the icon re-appear when you run: nm-applet |
Hi, I have Debian Wheezy KDE desktop 32-bit and Windows 7 on the same dual-booting laptop. When I'm on Windows 7, I have a static IP and I wanted to use the same static IP in Debian. However Wicd wireless manager can't connect to my home wireless ("dlink" point of access + Pirelli router). It already had problems conne... | I've decided to keep things simple and return to network-manager so I uninstalled wicd. Now I don't get problems connecting to the wifi as I log into Debian. Maybe I'll take a better look at network-manager and set it to a static IP. Anyways, I'm marking this thread as SOLVED. |
KDE Systems Settings supposedly should have Actions Policy section: http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Actions_Policy However I can't find it on my Debian testing. I have a package called polkit-kde-1 installed. But that add anything to the System Settings. Any ideas? | Any ideas? |
The problem is that ssh to the server takes 9 seconds for the login prompt to return. Going from the server to the pc is fast, instant. Using ip address or hostname makes no difference. I've searched high and low for this. The problem comes up often but seems to almost always be with DNS or rDNS. I've checked my config... | Have you read the following thread? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66705 |
Hallo dear, I'm using debian testing and yesterday I updated grub2 from version 1.98(?) to 2.00. So the problem now is that at start there is no os availeble, but a puppy linux which I use for recovery. Windows and debian are vanished: so I have to boot using super grub disk. I have tried the update-grub2 command, it f... | I guess that grub2 installed by debian testing is not referred at boot time, but grub installed by puppy linux is referred. Easy method is to install grub2 (by "grub-install" command) of debian testing onto the part (possibly MBR of first internal HDD), which is loaded at boot time. But it may mess up your boot process... |
I recently bought a new HDD and am trying to install Debian (kernel 3.1.0-1-486). I previously used the install CD to install to an external USB drive and had no problems. This time, however, when it gets to the point where it is installing additional software I get the progress box labeled "Select and Install Software... | It might well just be a disc gone bad... I'd try burning a new one (or putting it on a USB stick) if you have one around. Perhaps try looking at different virtual consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 through to ctrl-alt-f7 or what have you - can't actually remember how many there are in the installer). Sometimes one of them (might be... |
I am trying to install Glibc-2.13 on my computer. I get past the configure and make ok. But 'env LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C make install' give me the following error: /usr/build/ld - cannot find - lnss_test1. Can anybody tell me how to corretc this? Thanks | First, please tell us why you need it, when it's already the version in Wheezy (libc6). No use reinventing the wheel... |
Hey, I'm stack with my new Debian, I'm newbie. in the linux world.I installed Debian 7.3 and a problem of sound show's up, there no sound !. I tried few solution proposed on some forums and they suggested to install the driver, I downloaded High Definition Audio Codecs (Software) for Linux driver (3.0) (from http://www... | See http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... nd#p520622 Also post the output of Code: Select allcat /proc/asound/cards |
Hello, i had Debian 6 on my home server, since i've got Intel Pentium 4 HT 2.80GHz, in phpsysinfo showed 2 cores of this processor. Installed Debian 7, haven't seen any differences between 6 or 7, just noticed that only 1 core is showed in phpsysinfo page. Code: Select allcat /proc/cpuinfo shows: Code: Select allproces... | The 486 kernel will not have support for ht. As far as I know using any form of smp/smt is disabled in it's config. The 686-pae kernel should. I would grep your logs for information. Try something like: Code: Select alldmesg | grep -i smt or Code: Select alldmesg | grep -i ht (Or other variants looking for hyperthreadi... |
When I open Settings/Repositories/Updates tab (Software Sources) it says:"Notify me of a new Ubuntu version:", why and how do I get rid of this, I purposely came back to Debian to get away from the *buntus, I really don't want to see/read "Ubuntu", except for flashplayer-mozilla, my system is GNU, I don't even have the... | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666869 |
Hello, I installed a fresh debian stable on a compaq nx9030 laptop. During the installation I was prompted that I need the ipw2200-bss.fw which is proprietary and thus not installed. Very nice service so far. I after installation, I changed my sources.list to Code: Select all# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ -... | If wlan0 shows up in ifconfig's output, then the interface is ready to use. https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse |
Code: Select alldeb http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main This is what backports.debian.org recommends adding to sources.list for backports. Questions: 1. Should I also add contrib and non-free there? Like so: Code: Select alldeb http://YOURMIRROR.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-... | You can add contrib and nonfree if you need them. Backports don't do automated upgrades over previous versions from the stable repo, but once a backported package is installed, it will upgrade to a newer backports release when one becomes available. By design backports is not designed to be a full system - so you shoul... |
Hi I am a very happy debian user, I've built a light openbox desktop from a minimal debian stable setup. What i like about openbox is its speed and easy of use, especially due to keybinds. Since my machine is an asus k55v equiped with a great multi-touch capable touchpad I’d like to bind some of the actions called by k... | Hi, I'd also be interested in that. What I found is http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=30487 Instead of calling the x-terminal-emulator you could install "xdotool" and then use something like xdotool getactivewindow windowkill That would close the window. Since I haven't found a windowmaximize option a worka... |
For a few weeks/months everything related to repository downloads has been really slow. apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, add/remove software and software update. I can download through Google Chrome and transmission at 1-3MB/s (8-24Mb/s) but any download through the repos is agonizingly slow around 4kB. A Google search has... | As an experiment, try just these: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main You don't need deb-src unless you are building from source. I don't think you need deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates. For routine maintenance you ... |
Hardware: FITPC3-2x2Gb-T40E-WB-FM4U with Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) as network controller. OS: Debian / GNU Linux Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64. Problem: wlan0 gets deauthenticated after about one hour idle: Code: Select allDec 18 09:21:52 fitpc3 kernel: [ 5397.880993] ADDRCONF(N... | One more piece of information: On the FITPC3 the openssh server and the mpd (Music Player deamon) are running. If I run (ssh or mpd) clients on another computer and these keep on requesting services from the FITPC3 servers, no wlan0 deauthentication takes place. Best, nbpf |
Hardware: FITPC3-2x2Gb-T40E-WB-FM4U with Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) as network controller. OS: Debian / GNU Linux Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64. Problem: The machine has 4 front and 4 rear USB ports. I'm booting with a USB DAC inserted in a USB port. If the DAC is inserted in one... | Replacing Code: Select alloptions snd-usb-audio index=-2 with Code: Select alloptions snd-usb-audio index=2 in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf appears to have fixed the problem. |
I'm trying to connect to a WPA secured wifi network via the network interfaces file and ifup/down. The relevant part of my interfaces file: iface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-ssid myessid add wpa-psk mypass When I run ifup I get the error: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument. And then it tries to connect but fails. I haven... | Tylertwo wrote: iface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-ssid myessid add wpa-psk mypass Should be Code: Select alliface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-ssid myessid wpa-psk mypass That will work for wpa and wpa2 Are you sure that eth1 is your wireless? Normaly it's wlan0. |
Over the weekend I ran apt-get dist-upgrade which resulted in the need for adding multi-arch support in order to install Teamviewer and a couple other packages. A package that I'm having trouble installing is libavutil52:i386. Box info: uname -a Linux debian64 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GN... | ramack wrote:...dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavutil52_10%3a2.1.1-dmo2_i386.deb (--unpack) Any help would be appreciated. Get rid of the deb-multimedia repo(s) that you have enabled. |
Hi, I just want to share the problem I had upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy, which is finally solved The Kerberized NFSv4 is working on this server since Etch, and I still had in /etc/exports the old format: /export gss/krb5(...) Since kernel 2.6.23 that way is deprecated and with 3.2 (wheezy) it doesn't work. You need... | Hi, Many thanks! I encountered this exact same problem and could not find any solutions (and the ticket on Debian BTS was kind of unhelpful). How did you figured this out? Thanks again for sharing your solution! |
I have a custom keymap in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty, and can load it no problems with loadkeys. However, there doesn't seem to be any proper way to configure the system to do this automatically. Manual edits to /etc/default/keyboard are ignored, and install-keyboard makes no difference either. dpkg-reconfigure doe... | Is it possible for you to upload your custom keymap somewhere so others can do testing with it? As for /etc/default/keyboard, I manually set mine to dvorak/gb with no problems. |
Hi, I'm aiming to build a Debian firewall, largely as a learning exercise. I realise there are tools and distros created to automate the process but I'd like to get a handle on it from first principals before I look at them. I have two network cards installed but cannot establish any communication through them. I can u... | First off, your eth1 must be in a different subnet to your eth0 (e.g. 10.1.2.1 or such). This covers the basics. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/23 |
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