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I have installed debian 7@64 bit with stable repos. However I needed some tools from unstable repository so I had it enabled (some android tools, kio-mtp etc). Now, I want to install skype which depends on some i386 libs. Good. I went to install ia32 libs (after adding 32 support) but it says that I have unmet dependen... | My preferred method of installing things from unstable is to download the sources (using apt-src, e.g.) then compile them against my stable install. Do you have multiarch enabled on your system? |
Just installed Xen on a brand new install of Wheezy. When trying to boot with the Xen kernel, X does not come up, but rather the screen goes black except for a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I installed Wheezy using defaults for everything except I'm using LXDE instead of Gnome (chosen at installation time). | My Xorg.0.log file: Code: Select all[ 20.939] X.Org X Server 1.12.4 Release Date: 2012-08-27 [ 20.939] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 20.939] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian [ 20.939] Current Operating System: Linux server 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 x86_64 [ 20.939] Kerne... |
On a Jessie i open a shell.... ipconfig -i eth0 bash: ipconfig: Kommando nicht gefunden. I take a look at Synaptic, yes the Net3 Toolkit was installed what must i do to have ipconfig present on my system? | or give the full path: Code: Select all/sbin/ifconfig /sbin/ is not in a regular users PATH |
hi @all, the following may have been posted here before, at least according to some notice i made in a config file on my box (http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtop ... f=9&t=1491) the problem isn't altogether new. however, i'm not allowed to access my scanner (a Brother DCP-585CW) wearing another hat than the root on... | is your user part of the lp group? for my hp printer/scanner i think i had to add my user to that group. Code: Select all$ groups milomak lp cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev davfs2 vboxusers |
I have installed Debian Squeeze on my Acer travelmate 2424 WXCi When I started to surf th web I found the web browser is slow than my Ubuntu 10.10 .It will delay 3 or 5 seconds to open the website. It seems like the browser is finding the web sites. The status bar of Iceweasel shows "searching http://www.yahoo.com" (th... | If you haven't already done so, try disabling ipv6: 1. In Iceweasel, go to the URL about:config 2. Toggle network.dns.disableIPv6 so that it is set to true raycherng wrote:I have installed Debian Squeeze on my Acer travelmate 2424 WXCi When I started to surf th web I found the web browser is slow than my Ubuntu 10.10 .... |
My network device is configured dynamically at boot with dhcp (as are most home boxes, I'd guess...) DHCP returns the address of the DSL modem as name server (192.168.1.1) which takes a long time. My DSL modem does not have the option of configuring it to serve a different name server. Hence I would like to configure D... | There are several existing threads on this forum that address this issue. At least one of them is less than a month old. As a courtesy to folks on the forum, you really should search before you post. |
I'm looking for something similar to the "users and groups" tool on Ubuntu or Kuser on KDE. A graphical frontend to accountsservices, or something like that? I'd like to be able to manage user permissions graphically, but I have no interest in the aforementioned applications because they're loaded with Gnome and KDE de... | Glad you got what you wanted. To each their own, but in my opinion, it is better to learn how to manage permissions with the terminal. It gives a better understanding of how such things work and is quite quick once one gets used to doing it. |
Running Debian Sid, Intel socket 2011 quad core CPU 3.6ghz, 16GB ram, Z79 chipset, AMD 6870 graphics card. According to good forum ettiquette: Yes, I have tried to rectify the problem myself, and tried debugging tools to find the cause. Yes, I have googled for the problem, in fact Ive been googling it for several month... | Try check RAM voltage in BIOS SETUP, perhaps, it is less than needed. If voltage is normal, run memtest from Grub menu. Peter. |
Saturday morning logged into a terminal as root I got the following error from 'aptitude update': Code: Select allroot@elgar:/home/james# aptitude update E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Releas... | Finally spotted I using apt from sid (unstable) not from jessie (testing) which is my normal setup. Don't know how this happened since the only sid packages I use is Iceweasel & Libraoffice. Downloaded the jessie version of apt & installed using dpkg -i (pleasantly surprised that there were no dependency problems). The... |
I have Debian 7.1/Wheezy running AMD64 kernel I have already carried out the multi-architecture steps to add 32bit libraries and I've manually added evey other 32bit libGL that can be safely added. The remaining two want to replace 64bit stuff. Totally lost on what to do and no basically have nothing working. Upgrading... | Since you don't provide a list of what specific libraries you actually installed or what graphics card you are using: did you install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 or the corresponding package for you graphics card (mesa/fglrx)? http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05 ... ender.html http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=154... |
I am coming off a fresh installation of Debian Wheezy 64-bit, and I upgraded the kernel from backports to 3.10 to better suit my hardware (laptop). Seeing as it's a laptop, I installed laptop-mode-tools as well. But upon installation, I got a handful of errors. The first of which was a warning (below), no big deal. But... | i have noticed in the past some irregular problems like that using sudo to echo/redirect to certain files. in fact, i have followed what i think is good advice and given up sudo altogether. maybe try as root? Code: Select all$ su Password: # service laptop-mode restart an alternate workaround that seems to usually work... |
Hi I've installed debian wheezy on a desktop pc with an Nvidia Quadro FX graphic card. I've installed successfully the nvidia drivers through the Nvidia installer first and later also from the debian repository, but I'm not able to run the native 1920x1080 resolution with my 2nd monitor. The first monitor is a Samsung ... | solved with this configuration: Code: Select all# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 304.48 (pbuilder@cake) Wed Sep 12 10:54:51 UTC 2012 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Key... |
I'm trying to connect to wifi on my laptop. I installed firmware for my wireless card via "apt-get install firmware-ipw2x00". I then ran the command "modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200", which a guide told me to do. After that I ran "iwconfig", which showed my wired ethernet connection but didn't show any wireless ... | Unplug your ethernet cable and try again. |
I use a pub that has free wifi, which has the SSID of Bakewell_WiFi. It is open so there is no passkey. What do I put in wpa_supplicant (or /etc/network/interfaces) to make this work? I did try a pair of quotes for the passkey unsuccessfully. My wireless is wlan0. I use the DWM window manager which if you didn't know d... | shouldn't be a problem, check /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant there are some good setups in there |
hi, i would like my dhclient to send the systems hostname as DNS name to the router. ive looked at my ubuntu 12.04 installations which does this and it looks like the config parameter is: Code: Select allsend host-name "<hostname>"; ive changed my debian 6.0.7 config accordingly, but still no DNS name is registered. co... | This question is confusing, I don't think you 'send' a DNS name to the router, you send the hostname and that goes in the dhcp server log, and I suppose the router can use that for assigning addresses and other things.. There is a commented entry here in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf that reads Code: Select all#send host-nam... |
Please any one know how to stop firewall ( i use Debian etch, with default installation cd) from blocking GE to connect to the login server | Well.. If you use some program (like firestarter) you can just stop from there But if you really want to stop your firewall (is it iptables right?) you can use # iptables -F # iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT # iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT It will erase all rules and set the policy to accept all packg... |
I've been playing with swap, for whatever reason. I have been thinking about trying to use hibernation on desktops, and I wanted to increase the single swap partition to around 2GB from 1GB and ran across some thing I don't understand... I have a 1GB swap partition, and I use Code: Select all# swapoff -a to turn off sw... | This might be a dumb question, but did you do this in "rescue mode"? |
Hi to all, I am interested in Zram on Thinkpad x100e, Stable, except a few backports installs (office/browsers). However, I have LVM-Encryption (Swap, Home, etc) so the block/device/... configuration should be different then noted at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... am#p426619 What would be the proper implem... | Which kernel version do you have? zram is a technology to allow any block device to be transparently compressed into a portion of RAM, but in the most recent kernels its use for swap has been largely superceded. Of course you are still free to use zram for a swap device or for any other block device.What is it you had ... |
Hi I setup samba client (on Jessie64) to connect to my win box. I think I got it all fine, mostly because I use almost the same setup on 2 other desktops (Squeeze and Jessie). I am really not sure why the samba mounts on this desktop fails terribly This is the error I get after firing "mount /mnt/mymount" Code: Select ... | Relevant part of the smb.conf Code: Select all workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server dns proxy = yes interfaces = eth0 eth0:0 wlan0 lo ; bind interfaces only = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 |
It will be a while before I'm at someone's home where I can use ethernet. I have installed 7.2 on a pc using the live 'standard' iso with the intention of a lean system using DWM. I have painstakingly moved .deb files from a netbook's /var/cache/apt/archives and chased a few dependencies, to the point now where my mobi... | Don't you have several consoles? F7, F6, F5, etc? Can't you use one to make your connection and another to apt-get? |
Hi, I am trying to set-up autofs on Debian 7 as I have always done on Debian 6 but the things go wrong somehow - it doesn't work. If I try to mount the remote location manually, I get this error: Code: Select allmount -t nfs box:/path /mnt mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. mount.nf... | Doesn't the message say it all? rpc.statd is required for handling locking of remote files through NFS. You are setting up an NFS mount, yes? If you don't have this daemon running, you can either install it (nfs-common package) or activate it or add options (probably in /etc/auto.nfs but possible a different name in yo... |
I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 6.03 This is in a single-disk computer (x86) with encrypted partition for root filesystem (boots well): Code: Select all$ cryptsetup --version cryptsetup 1.1.3 $ apt-cache show initramfs-tools | grep -ie "version" Version: 0.98.8 $ mkdir /tmp/test1 $ cd /tmp/test1 $ cp /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32... | I see this is a bug in the installation process. To solve it in my case, I had to boot in a Live-USB, assemble the RAID with the same path as expected in the installed system (/dev/md/0), unlock the encrypted volume with the same name as expected in the installed system (md0_crypt), chroot into the installed root files... |
I was following (as best I understood) the debian.org directions for upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy. I got through the minimum system upgrade (debian.org phrase) using apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. When I went to the full system upgrade using apt-get dist-upgrade, i ran into a loop dependency issue with nvidia... | You're only going to make it uglier. Kill gdm (which should take down the gnome-terminal session and consequently the apt-get upgrade process). Shut down any other services that you think might give trouble. DO NOT REBOOT. Restart the upgrade again from the tty. |
Hi, I'm new to Debian (used Ubuntu before), just installed the system and tried to use the Nvidia Driver for my GT220m following this guide: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD ... figuration After Rebooting I just got a blinking cursor instead of the GUI. It seems as if x.org still tries to use noveau despite nvid... | Perhaps your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is not set up to load the nvidia driver. Install the nvidia-xconfig package and then run as root: nvidia-xconfig. |
Hi, i have searched in the forum but i couldn't find anything. I have an Acer Aspire 5734z, Debian Wheezy with Xfce. I realized that i can't change the backlight value with Fn+[more/less light buttons]. In " /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0# " i have some files named "actual_brightness" or "max_brightness " but i can't... | Hi, I think you'll have better luck with the kernel backported for stable from jessie. If you're not sure, post what your current kernel is: Code: Select all$ uname -r please. |
I recently upgraded to jessie and now running into problems configuring virtual hosts, which I never had before, or maybe I am missing something because I have been away from this for a long time. I created a very simple site for testing, called dumbsite because all it has is an index.html which I modified from the def... | Code: Select allls -la /etc/apache2/sites-available |
hi community, i am trying to install the latest debian wheezy on my laptop and i have a strange sound problem as for example when starting up the desktop (kde) the session opening sound is doing scratches and dirty noises. here is the output of the lspci command : Code: Select all00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Dev... | phonon-backend-gstreamer works well for me. Worth a try as I vaguely recall vlc backend to be less than perfect for me. It may help to reduce volumes slightly from maximum. IIRC, the xine backend is deprecated. |
I have two roughly identical debian installs on two different computers; both track the testing distribution. Both are using apt_0.9.9.4 and apt-utils_0.9.9.4 On one of them, I consistently get an error when I use apt to install packages during the template install, which I've traced back to apt-extracttemplates, part ... | I forgot to mention that running dpkg-reconfigure locale did not make any difference. Code: Select all=> validlocale en_US.UTF-8 locale 'en_US.UTF-8' valid and available => locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US... |
I just ran an apt-get dist-upgrade, in the course of which grub2 was upgraded to version 2.00-19. Since then everytime I boot the computer, grub sets the video mode in a manner that my monitor reports as being "out of range", with the effect that instead of seeing the grub menu I have to patiently wait until grub hands... | try adding refresh rate in /etc/default/grub, GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768@60 |
[ETA - partly solved, you can ignore this post really, supplementary question in the second post] I've pieced together the following process for making a Sparkleshare server - which isn't to say it's necessarily the sensible way to do it. On the server: Code: Select all# aptitude install openssh-server git # adduser sp... | OK, I've been reading more about SSH keys and it does look like the public key can be read safely by other users. But I'm still seeing disagreements over what permissions ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys should have. Does anyone have a good explanation? |
I want to update the kernel from the 3.2 to some of the later kernels,, but this has me puzzled as to why it is happening. I had no such crap the last time(prior incantation of this hardware) I attempted it Code: Select all<user@host>:/# aptitude install linux-image-3.9-0.bpo.1-486 The following NEW packages will be in... | Aptitude's resolver is very capable (though it does tie itself in knots sometimes). If you just cycle through the solutions by typing 'n' at the prompt, or even reject specific actions by typing 'r 1' in your first example, it'll probably get there eventually (does depend on the priorities assigned to the different sou... |
Hi there ,) I'm newbie having wheezy for about 2 weeks now. i just can't get the hdd(s) spinning down by hdparm.conf. it's working absolutely fine when i go to console and set the spindown there, but (as former windows user ,p) i'd like to have the comfort to have the spindown set automatically upon (re)boot. is there ... | I haven't used it yet because it does look a little tricky, and it plainly spells out a very narrow case in which it will start, and the potential for damage. The only thing in my /etc/hdparm.conf that isn't commented is this Code: Select all# -q be quiet quiet have you tried commenting out quiet and then rebooting, or... |
Hi all, I've been using Debian for the last 3 months and up to about 3 days ago no problems. My Wifi connection suddenly seems to be VERY slow (< 1 kB/s). Firstly let me explain how I tested. My home setup consists of a wireless ADSL router which has an ethernet connection to my home server. My home server is running a... | The usual problem is that the connection between the modem and the ISP has deteriorated. Reboot the modem. |
hi,everyone. i got some wrong with my debian wheezy7.1 xfce (i upgrade it from debian6.0.7 squeeze gnome2) today's morning, i usually type #apt-get update it reminds me the google-chrome needs to upgrade. so i input the follows as usual. #apt-get upgrade i got some wrong Code: Select allFetched 44.5 MB in 2min 51s (260... | i fixed it... there is something wrong with tzdata configure. i had modified the timezone or UTC or rcS utc by manual in debian6 . it's made the system date wrong format.like this: Code: Select all#date Thu Sep 12 16:06:35 CST 2013 my $LANG is en_US.UTF-8 but, when i first install debian5, i chose it zh_CN.UTF-8. maybe... |
Hello, I recently changed back from arch linux to debian. My home partition is encrypted and in arch I used the following script togthere with pam_exec and the expose_authtok option to decrypt it: Code: Select allroot@rebooc:/home/marenz# cat /home/mountHome #!/bin/bash # if [ "$PAM_USER" == "root" ]; then exit $PAM_SU... | Solution was: Don't add the pam configuration line with "session" because that doesn't support expose_authtok as the log (/var/log/auth.log) clearly says: Code: Select allSep 13 01:01:51 rebooc login[6549]: pam_exec(login:session): expose_authtok not supported for type open_session So the actual configuration line has ... |
I have two hard drives installed on this old desktop. I have it setup for dual booting. Debian Wheezy on a 40gb and Windows XP on a 160gb. I can't figure out why my drive doesn't automount. Maybe I am doing something wrong in Fstab? I am able to manually mount the drive though. These are the steps I have already taken,... | capitalization problem? try /home/confucius/Disk2 in fstab |
Hi all I have a problem with my SATA controller. The effect is that when I use a lot of disk IO, the controller fails/has timeouts/whatever and remounts everything on the harddisk as read-only. Mounting as readonly is annoying, but a good solution to a bad problem. Since it is the only HDD, all the important filesystem... | an update (still not solution) In the line 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 4-port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 04) I noticed the "IDE" part, and looking in the BIOS, I change the SATA controller from "compatability mode" to AHCI. I got faster speed on my disk, but it still fails. Som... |
hi, when i use these commands to redirect the output from tun0 to ifb0: Code: Select all dev=tun0; indev=ifb0; tc qdisc add dev $dev handle ffff: ingress tc filter add dev $dev parent ffff: protocol ip prio 1 u32 match u32 0 0 action \ mirred egress redirect dev $indev i get this tcpdump output: Code: Select alltcpdump... | should have checkd what ping packets look like on the receiving side, i was expecting a tc filter that matches small packets to hit it and be redirected in a qdisc. since that qdisc never got any packets i assumed that they never reached the machine...i was wrong |
Hey dear forum I'm installing Debian. My problem is: I can't get wireless to work. So far, I've tested the following two iso images: + debian-7.1.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso + debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso With KDE, I can't click on the tab at System settings > Network settings > Network connections > Wireless With default G... | You will need a newer kernel for that chip to work. The kernel in backports will support it. |
jeff@optiplex:/media$ ls -l total 124 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 7 14:46 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 14:46 cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 7 14:46 floppy -> floppy0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 11 15:06 floppy0 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 14:50 mp3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 19 15... | Run: Code: Select allsu -c "usermod jeff -aG users" |
Is there a way to configure dnsmasq-base in Debian beyond the defaults provided by NetworkManager? In Ubuntu there is the dnsmasq.d directory under /etc/NetworkManager/ for that, but in Debian this directory doesn't exist and it doesn't honor the configuration in /etc/dnsmasq.conf Note: I have installed just the dnsmas... | Perhaps your problem is that you don't have the dnsmasq package installed? The base package contains the executable, but not much else. All the configuration and the scripts to start it and red the configs are in the package called dnsmasq. |
I have been away from local apache server for a long time. I am back to activity in it and found in /etc/apache2/sites-available, site letodms which was also enabled. I don't recall having created it so I quickly disabled it but I have doubts: Is it created automatically by some process? Have I been hacked? Thanks for ... | the heck is a DMS? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=106723 http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far- ... as-fallen/ |
I had printer problems after an update to cups 1.5.1 so I thought to install 1.4.8 from source (but didn't remove cups first with apt) then cups didn't open in browser so used apt to remove cups, then to install from repo again got errors so I did make uninstall from the 1.4.8 used apt again to install and still erros ... | OK, I forgot to google the error I had... a Brazilian mentioned that he put a section (the init info) at the start of the /etc/init.d/cups file to get things working... and my file didn't have this, don't know where it went if had it before Code: Select allSolve after was included in the /etc/init.d/cups this : ### BEG... |
Hello, I recently installed Debian Jessie on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. Everithing works fine, the only proleblem is that I see horizontal lines while watching videos. It is like an horizontal shift between the two regions of the video delimited by the line. Actually is this shift that creates the illusion of a l... | on my machine i get this after 'using VT number 7' line in Xorg.0.log, maybe it's a clue? Code: Select all[ 27.028] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled. [ 1118.512] Current Operating System: Linux anuro 3.10-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.5-1 (2013-08-07) x86_64 farm out, stable has a more recent kernel than testing! Cod... |
I want to go from stable to testing. I am getting this error in synaptic when I attempt to reload sources: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/jessie/updat ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 149.20.20.6 80] This is what my sources.list looks like: # Liquorix sources added by smxi # deb http://http.us.debian.org/d... | I fixed it, this is the right way: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian /jessie main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian /jessie main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free Sorry f... |
Hi, Yesterday I had my first introduction to "dependency hell" when I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my debian unstable and I ended up with only a shell remaining. So today after several hours I've managed to downgrade my system back to wheezy stable and get all my applications running again - a sobering experience. Th... | after all I decided to take a drastic approach and reinstall all the python packages and libraries.... that did the trick. But I'm still clueless as to which package provides anydbm.... |
I did "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" today and after that (and reboot) I couldn't compile my old qt5 programs anymore. The compiler error is "cannot find -lGL" which refers to missing libGL.so file. I can only find one libGL.so file on my system: /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so. I'm... | Upgrading xorg core files may point the openGL library file symbolic links to the xorg/mesa versions rather than that provided by fgrlx. There's no real libGL.so, it's just a symlink that points to the actual library files. The first thing I'd try is to reinstall the fglrx drivers and see if that recreates the symlinks... |
Hello, I got debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso on a USB flash drive and really like it. It has everything I need as a beginner, like loading deb files with Code: Select alldpkg -i file.deb and I am using it completely offline! And I can access to the ISO contents after having them written to the USB drive with rufus ... | I have solved the first problem by using isolinux.cfg Code: Select alldefault menu.c32 prompt 0 MENU TITLE Debian [debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso] timeout 100 TOTALTIMEOUT 900 label live-486 menu label ^Live (486) menu default linux /live/vmlinuz1 initrd /live/initrd1.img append boot=live config quiet splash and d... |
I have been trying to get kdump working on a debian squeeze system running a 3.2 kernel from squeeze-backports for quite some time. Despite many hours of searching and reading, I have not been able to reach a solution that works. Here's the scenario: When I configure kdump /etc/default/kexec as I would like (I've varie... | Hi, I wrote a documentation (in french) about how to use Kdump on Debian. Link : http://wiki.incloudus.com/display/DOC/Debian+-+Kdump I hope it'll help you. |
Running Wheezy, 7.1 Apt-get seems broken. Any installation attempt, for any package, results in the following: Code: Select allSetting up initscripts (2.88dsf-41+deb7u1) ... Can't exec "insserv": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 406. update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: er... | Strangely enough, installing and running smxi seems to have solved the problem. It installed nothing, but after running through it and restarting the desktop, running an upgrade with apt-get seems to have finished without any errors. I run smxi regularly on my Sid system, but not usually on Stable. |
I installed Debian on my note Acer Extensa 7630G and I have problems with going to Internet (it seems my Debian was not able to get IP from ADSL Router via Ethernet): File interfaces: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5... | Try add Code: Select allauto eth0 under "# The primary network interface" line in your /etc/network/interfaces file... |
While fiddling with tune2fs I noticed that none of the filesystems were fsck'd since install. It seems that, by default, maximum mount count is set to -1, which basically disables fsck on boot. Why is this? Would anyone happen to know the reason to such a decision? In Squeeze filesystems were fsck'd regularly. While se... | My two recently created fs's both have -1, two older ones have 34 & 27 ... fsck on ext4 is *lots* faster than ext3. |
I've shared a folder on my network with samba: /home/holmen/.xbmc/ Code: Select allholmen@filserver:~$ ls -Al | grep .xbmc drwxrwx--- 3 xbmcusr shared 4096 Jul 24 13:03 .xbmc And I'm trying to access it from my HTPC with user "xbmcusr". Code: Select all xbmcusr@HTPC:~$ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.2/.xbmc /mnt/.xbmc/ -o... | From terminal ls -al / | grep mnt ls -al /mnt | grep xbmc ls -al /mnt/.xbmc Check all directories and files permission |
I have installed Wheezy using the debian-wheezy-7.1.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso (no errors during install) and now when I try to install packages using apt-get it always complains about dependencies: Code: Select allReading package lists... Done root@pc:/home/liviu# apt-get install opera Reading package lists... Done Building... | did you try to use the ftp.lug.ro mirror for 'wheezy' and not just for 'wheezy-updates' http://www.debian.org/mirror/list |
Hi, Well, last night I upgraded from Debian 6 to 7. Everything went fine, but now I just noticed that my 5 other static IPs do not work.. Before the upgrade, all of my IPs worked fine, but now the ones on eth0:0 do not work anymore. I looked into it some more and it appears it cannot bring up the interface: Code: Selec... | Have you checked the logs? |
Hi all: I just bought a new 64gb micro SDXC card with adapter. I put it in my laptop's card slot, but I can't get it to mount. Fdisk lists it there as /dev/sdb1 but it doesn't auto-mount, and when I try to mount it manually, I get: Code: Select allmount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Do I have to form... | Sd cards larger than 32gb usually use exfat as filesystem. afaik exfat is only available as userspace filesystem (fuse) in GNU/Linux, so you'll need the package exfat-fuse. I don' know though if automounting works. Or you could format the card with fat32 and probably still use it with a lot oft devices. |
Hello, I installed a debian squeeze system with kde desktop on a new asus netbook and it loses the network connection after a while; once lost, the only way to get it back is to reboot; logging out/in does not help; also, dhclient eth0 hangs, while dhclient with no parameters runs but does not help; /etc/init.d/network... | after losing the connection run "dhclient -v eth0" and post it's output here. Also try /etc/init.d/networking restart Both is very vague and common. More of that? Ok: ping localhost ping google.com ping 8.8.8.8 If google.com fails and 8.8.8.8 succeeds, then you got a DNS problem (which you already seem to know anyway).... |
My hardware is HP ProLiant MicroServer G7 N54L and I have Debian 7 on a usb stick running the installer. I have 4 HD, 250 GB each. I want to dedicate 2 of them for RAID1 (and also have the OS on them). I am following this guide and got stuck in the middle - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot they c... | I will not attempt to tell you what you should do, but I will tell you what I would do. 1) Use something like Parted Magic to create identical partitions on the two drives that you want in RAID-1 2) Create a btrfs filesystem on one of them 3) Install to that partition 4) Once things are up and running, use the btrfs co... |
Hi all, I'm running Debian Wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 and I can't get my Ethernet connection working (not even my WiFi one, but I'd prefer to first get the wired one working, so that I can install the firmware necessary for the WiFi via apt). I'm using Wicd. Everything was set up fine for ... | well this was very trivial...sorry :p i just didn't want to uninstall wicd at first but yeah as soon as I uninstalled wicd, getting the connection working was just a matter of "ifup -a" |
Hopefully now i have it right This behaviour is new to me. /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten by the dhcp settings on the router. While i've attempted to fix this by having network-manager rewrite the dns entries ( system-settings - network - dhcp only - dns = n.n.n.n ) This did not work as did not limiting /etc/dhcp/dh... | jlambrecht wrote:/etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten by the dhcp settings on the router. That's exactly what's supposed to happen. jlambrecht wrote:I could not find much on this but the behaviour strikes me as undesirable. Quite the contrary. This behavior is what allows the DHCP server to specify DNS hosts dynamically. ... |
I have set up a standalone system (there will be no network) on Debian 7.1.0 running XDM. I have created a utility for local museums where I volunteer that prompts a user with questions and gets answers on subjest related to the theme of the museum. They can not break out of the program and get to the system (and won't... | In /etc/passwd, edit the user's line by removing the characters between the first and second colons (if you use the shadow suite, this will be a single 'x'): saul1000,,,:/home/saul:/bin/bash guest:<delete whatever is here>100:,,,:/home/guest:/bin/bash |
After my last safe-upgrade my laptop developed a loud, annoying beep at shutdown. Yes, I have searched for answers including at this forum. Yes, I have tried shutting off all sound. Yes, I have tried entering blacklist pcspkr and blacklist snd_pcsp into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. So far, I still have the annoying ... | If I remember correctly, blacklisting pcspkr and snd_pcsp didn't help me. What I did was disable the "Beep" in Alsamixer. Check if your main Sound Card has a "Beep" option, and set it to 0 and mute it (press M). Similar Thread here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 95#p397706 |
Hi there and thanks for your help. Before my last kernel update to 3.9 I had the WiFi drivers installed and all was working well. Now I just cann't get my Broadcom working any more. Have tried all kind of "how to's" and am slowly giving up: System: debian testing, xfce iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wirele... | For me, in Jessie Broadcomm, works like charm. To make it work, you need the firmware-linux-nonfree if you don't have it installed already. As root, you need to run this command: Code: Select allapt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree |
I am experiencing a very odd problem. I am running KDE on a Lenovo T530 laptop with debian wheezy. Wenn I connect it to my network (fritzbox router) via cable, everything is OK. But when I connect via WLAN from start, I get access to the internet. But I have no access to my router. A ping breaks with "no available host... | After fiddling a bit with my router setting some things have changed. I put on the DHCP server again and allowed communication of all units in the network. Now the situation has declined but is somewhat more consistent. On startup with WLAN, the networkmanager reports a successful connection, but nothing works. No ping... |
Hi all How to add non-free drivers to the kernel before compiling? Thanks Regards | What drivers do you need to add? |
Hi, I use btrfs for my /home filesystem, but recently it has gotten extremely slow - programs intermittently hang and don't start. (I know it is definitely the filesystem because using a tmpfs instead fixes the issue.) The odd thing is that my root file system also uses btrfs but hasn't given any trouble at all. The /h... | I cannot find any information on checking the node and leaf size after the btrfs system is made. However, I am skeptical that, having originally performed satisfactorily, those parameters are suddenly not appropriate. If this was an established issue with btrfs, there would be guidance, and there's not. You didn't ment... |
I noticed in my system monitor (on Squeeze) that my "Swap" is listed as 0 of 0, ie that no swap is available. I'd like to fix that, so I've gone through the wiki page at wiki.debian.org/Swap. If I look in fstab, my swap partition is /dev/sda5. This was set up on install, and not (deliberately) changed since. If I do "s... | UUID is more reliable than /dev/sdX designation, as the devicename can change as disks or partitions are added/removed. You can also use volume LABEL's if you want (my preference as it is more readable). |
I don't know how to install the binary Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver. (tg3.bin) I Googled and used the search engine on this forum, but I haven't found anything. (I also did more general searches for general binary drivers, but didn't find anything...most of it seemed pretty specific.) I found the driver here, which ... | The driver is already install (it's included in the kernel) but requires proprietary microcode (firmware). If you install the firmware-linux-nonfree package it should work. Download this and get it onto your system http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-f ... .1_all.deb Once downloaded, cd to the directory where it is l... |
If I point my browser to 192.168.1.2:8200 it shows that minidlna found, say, 4200 music files. However, when I try to connect using a client application, it shows the folders for the music files, but no music in the folders. I gave the files ownership to minidlna, and I started the service, reloaded, etc., as root, but... | Ok, I feel stupid, I was pointing my client to type VIDEO when I was looking for type MUSIC, hence, whala, all my music showed up. Duh! |
The kernel installs and boots OK but one error message holds up the process somewhat. Says intel-ucode firmware microcode not found I installed intel-ucode tools from Synaptic but can't find any firmware related to microcode to install. Any ideas ? thx Patrick | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=94248 |
Hello all, for some reason I'm unable to find the BT848 driver while doing a make menuconfig with kernels newers than 3.4. I used to go to 'Device Drivers > Multimedia support > Video capture adapters > V4L PCI(e) devices > BT848 Video For Linux' to active the 'CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848' module I just updated to 3.9.8 and und... | Look for it under CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT. Some additional info: http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2013/01/gentoo-ke ... hange/3798 |
Hi all, does anybody know if new features in the mainline kernel are backported to the 3.2 branch used in debian stable? jan | They are not. Security updates only. |
aptitude full-upgrade fails complaining about libc6 : Code: Select allreparing to replace libc6:i386 2.13-38 (using .../archives/libc6_2.17-3_i386.deb) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted... Checking init scripts... A copy of the C library was found in an unexpected directory: '/lib/i386-linux-gnu/l... | Have you tried this upgrade before? The library it is complaining about looks like the one you're trying to upgrade to, already present. |
After some recent updates (Debian testing x86_64), I noticed that man stopped highlighting found patterns during search. Did anyone encounter it, and how can it be configured to highlight them? UPDATE: I figured out what the problem was. For some reason "less" tool was gone completely. After I installed less package, m... | There was a conflict between less and man-db which caused gnome to be removed if you used apt and didn't watch out. See e.g. http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05 ... orary.html |
Hi guys... I just upgraded my Debian OS to Wheezy. Love this free software a lot, but I need a little help from an expert. There's something that has gone wrong in my upgrade. All the video settings seem to be off. First of all, I noticed that the framebuffer in the console is acting differently. It's slow sort of. Lik... | Just an update, should I post any of my config files?? amber |
Hi all, I have just installed Debian stable on my machine. I put the correct proxy given by the university and firefox perfectly works. But when I execute Code: Select allsudo apt-get update I have Code: Select allErr http://ftp.fr.debian.org stable Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to ftp.fr.debian.org:80 (2a... | Where did you state which proxy to use? Post the contents of /etc/network/interfaces. |
what are the default update sources for debian weezy? | http://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Exam ... 2Wheezy.22 |
Hello, Is there a way to set the BIOS clock to local time or is it stuck in UTC ? I'm asking that because earlier I changed the BIOS time when I realised it's clock was two hours late (I'm in UTC+2 - CEST). At that time, I didn't know BIOS time was set to UTC by default, found out after doing some research - my bad. Th... | It's really simple. Three step process: 1. sudo apt-get install ntpdate 2. sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org 3. sudo hwclock -w Done. If you want to automatically synchronize your computer's time over the internet on startup, you could install ntp as well, which is a time-fetching service. This is not required however. Ntpdate... |
After a recent update I found GRUB had been replaced with LILO. And LILO is installed to the MBR, so I can't access Windows now. Also, I prefer to have the Windows boot loader in the MBR, for various reasons. I want to install LILO to the Debian boot partition, and I know how to do it. Except I'm stumped by one little ... | geoffreymathews wrote:After a recent update I found GRUB had been replaced with LILO.This looks strange to me. blkid will give you better visibility. |
During the boot I see lines Code: Select allmodprobe: bad line 1: 1 tokens found, 2 needed How can I fix modrobe problems ? | modprobe inserts kernel modules... at a guess I'd say that's coming from a blacklist file... Post the contents of any *blacklist.conf files you have in /etc/modprobe.d/ |
Hi folks, I have a weird problem on Wheezy where a handful of binaries are not able to be run. One is a perl script, one is the binary for Thunderbird and one is Skype. In each instance, trying to run the binary gives "no such file or directory" even though I am explicitly typing the path to the file. The following add... | For your .pl, check the first line and be sure the path to perl is correct. For the binaries, run $ file /path/to/thunderbird/executable $ file /path/to/skype/executable Is file able to see them? If so, does it report them as binary executables? |
Hello community, after three installation attempts I finally got the system I wanted on my laptop. I also managed to install freefilesync and btnx two programs I really need and are not in the repositories (OT: is there a way to vote for programs being included in debian?), a more recent version of iceweasel and a more... | for finding out which device you have, it's the same as opensuse Code: Select alllspci -v as for letting network manager manage your connections, edit /etc/network/interfaces & comment out any devices |
i use dsl connection. i have set up a dsl connection in the network manager, but i'm unable to dial in to network. i mean the dsl connection does not show up on the notification area. is there a way to add it there and alternative gui based software to dial to networks. | How are you connected to your modem? Ethernet cable or Wifi? Does your modem display that it is connected to your DSL? Have you done a search of this site for this problem? We regularly see varieties of your problem here and there are good solutions. |
Hi folks, not new to Linux but new to Debian on my new PC and there's a few things that are like learning to drive on the other side of the road. Car works the same, just have to remember some things aren't as you expect. I have a dive computer, like a very large watch that measures depth and amount of air in scuba tan... | Run Code: Select alldmesg before and after plugging it in. Also, do Code: Select alllsusb Make sure the usbserial module is loaded Code: Select alllsmod|grep usbserial And report back. Also mention what debian version you are using and whether you are using the stock kernel. |
Hello; Sorry if this has been answered before .. I have wheezy xfce 64-bit installed on a box with quadro fx 3800 card .. Looked around for the usual aptitude steps for installing the driver but found it confusing .. So I Dled NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run file from the nvidia site .. according to the nvidia site, all... | The easiest way to install and set up the nvidia driver is probably using smxi, which will help you set up dkms as well. From http://smxi.org/site/install.htm Code: Select all# as root, run the following command cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && unzip smxi.zip && smxi The first time you run it it will ... |
Hi all, trying to limit writing to my ssd I inspected everything in /var/log and came across pm-powersave.log and pm-suspend.log. How do I disable logging for pm-utils? I found nothing in the relevant rsyslog configs... Thank you for the info! | For reference... I changed PM_LOGFILE in /usr/lib/pm-utils/pm-functions to PM_LOGFILE="/tmp/${STASHNAME}.log". Since /tmp resides in RAM only it doesn't matter how much it logs anyway... |
Hi I am trying to get my 2.6.32.33 system into a clean state. dpkg --audit reports: --- The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured. They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect for them to work: module-init-tools transitional dummy package (module-init-too... | And what says Code: Select allaptitude install -f |
Hello Debian World, Hopefully my title makes sense. Long story short I came a crossed the *Debian wiki* that helps enhance the longevity of my Solid State Drive. Well I installed this package ' sysfsutils ' then I added this line ' block/sdX/queue/scheduler = deadline' in my /etc/sysfs.conf file. Now my problem is some... | So if it gets sdc, what gets sda? Could you add it for both? This is usually an issue with the BIOS detection routines & drive "availability" timing so is not really something you can work around in the OS. That's why grub & fstab have moved to using UUID (or my preference LABEL's ) over /dev/ designation. Not sure if ... |
I'm starting to go in circles with this problem so it's time to ask for help ! New 7.0 AMD-64 system on Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H i5 8 Gb mem. Devices are detected on USB 2 ports but not the USB 3 ports. I have tried as many combinations in the BIOS as I can think of but no luck. I have been using Debian for many years and ... | Check BIOS SETUP, is USB 3.0 enabled or not, that must be enough. I have AMD64 system too and usb 3.0 works. Peter. |
Hi all, This is my first post and I'm really new in linux world so please be tolerant I try to configure my wireless card to connect a router (only line command) on a livebox. I have downloaded wpasupplicant and configured /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as follow: Code: Select allctrl_inter=/var/run/wpa_suppli... | I'm really new in linux world You seem to be doing really well, you can use wpa_supplicant to connect and watch what happens and maybe find out where the problem is, use ctrl-c to stop it: Code: Select allwpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf you don't have to pre-up in interfaces to call w... |
Hello; Default wheezy xfce install, if you choose default config, places the main panel bar at the top .. Is there a way to move it to the bottom or clone it ?? Tried right click ==> Move but that does not seem to work .. Thank you | Right click Panel, open Panel Preferences and uncheck "Lock Panel" Then you can grab it and move it. Be sure to recheck it if you don't want it moved by mistake. |
I have btrfs running root on a debian testing system. It boots fine with the experimental "3.8-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.8.3-1~experimental.1 x86_64" kernel but when I 'upgrade' to 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.8-1-amd64' (actually 3.8.12) which is now sitting in sid it fails to boot into the kernel. In fact the proble... | I cannot say exactly what is wrong with your combination of kernel + btrfs. But, running sid (siduction), I can say that there is no general problem with the 3.8 or early 3.9 kernels, with btrfs. My btrfs filesystem is not the root filesystem, it is a large dual-disk data filesystem. That may or may not be a relevant d... |
OK, I'm well aware that this is a well worn subject much discussed elsewhere, & indeed I've solved it myself many times before - but today I've spent hours on it - I need some help!! I'm running CrunchBang Waldorf. (Debian Wheezy) I've installed: firmware-realtek debhelper build-essentials ethtool dkms I have blacklist... | plenty wrote:I'm running CrunchBang Waldorf. Do you think that might be a good place to start? If you were running pure Debian from Debian repositories I have lots of suggestions but I don't think they will be helpful with Crunchbang. |
Hi, Debian 7 is out, woohoo! I've tried pre-release versions over the last few months but also had this problem: my system won't reboot/restart. It exits KDE & looks like it is going to reboot, but instead it stops sending a signal to the screen so it goes to sleep, the main box stops doing anything & it doesn't reboot... | you should check KDEs logs, and acpi logs. I doubt this is an acpi problem. try using sudo reboot and see what happens. |
hi I have Wheezy with Gnome Classic installed. To get white mouse cursor I've done the following:Code: Select all# apt-get install dmz-cursor-theme # update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme and I've entered selection number for DMZ-White. The mouse cursor is now white, but if I'm working with Iceweasel then it chan... | A quick Web search for linux cursor firefox reveals that this is a known bug affecting V9 and V10. You have several options: - Update your browser (http://mozilla.debian.net/ has details) - Experiment with one of several solutions identified in existing posts on various forums (See "Web search" above) - Live with it |
I've been trying to install the drivers for the MP560 on Wheezy with no luck. I've tried work arounds using the 64 bit and now on the 32 bit with no luck. I didn't have a problem with Squeeze. I've loaded in the drivers and then tried the add printer but it flashes and then back to no printer. Printer is attached with ... | Lucky you! I ended up on this depressing forum with an errant click. Since I have had a Canon MP560 working via USB and wireless for years, pay attention. Cups... add printer... Canon MP560 driver from list... all done for USB! That's it! Enjoy! |
Hello I'm currently running debian 6.0.7 and I'm having problems getting the wi-fi to work. I'm using a usb wireless adapter DLink DWA-125. I tried installing firmware-ralink, and it can connect to a network (not listed, which is strange because the network is not hidden) but only through WEP (which is also strange bec... | Did you install wpasupplicant? It is needed for wpa/wpa2 connections. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/wpasupplicant |
Hi to all, please, I need some help with this problem: I recently switched to Debian (from Ubuntu), since I wanted to set up a computer to share files (mostly music) across a network with Windows machines (XP and 7). WIth Ubuntu I was able to set it up quite quickly (creating a samba share via system-config-samba). How... | More information is needed e.g. how have you set up your /etc/samba/smb.conf? Have you made sure that you're using the same workgroup? What have you installed (e.g. smbclient, samba, samba-common)? The following posts may -- or may not -- be of help: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103216 http://verahill.b... |
I've installed newest Debian (Squeeze) and then on fresh system made instalation of VirtualBox OSE as it is written on http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox. I've also created virtual machine, however when I try to run it I got error message: Code: Select allRTR3Init failed with rc=-1912(rc=-1912) Please install the virtua... | Open a root terminal and run: Code: Select alldpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-ose-dkms && modprobe vboxdrv If that does not work, install the linux-headers for your kernel and try again. |
Ok, I knows there's a thread for this already but it's not exactly the same problem and it's five years old so I thought a new one would be ok. I've been messing with kernel configs for a couple of weeks now, trying to get it as small as possible, with everything built in. Can't figure out why I keep getting this issue... | Code: Select all# # Watchdog Device Drivers # # CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_ACQUIRE_WDT is not set # CONFIG_ADVANTECH_WDT is not set # CONFIG_ALIM1535_WDT is not set # CONFIG_ALIM7101_WDT is not set # CONFIG_SP5100_TCO is not set # CONFIG_SC520_WDT is not set # CONFIG_SBC_FITPC2_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFI... |
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