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Hi all, I'm just setting up a new Debian machine, on an IPv4-only network. When I go to run "apt-get update", I get these errors: Code: Select allReading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to security.debian.org:80 (2001:3... | Well, strangely enough the problem seems to have fixed itself. Maybe it was a configuration issue on the server? |
I want to do some training in ~/public_html I did Code: Select alla2enmod userdir and added: Code: Select all<Directory /home/*/public_html> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </Directory> in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and Code: Select allIfModule mod_userdir.c> UserDir public_html UserDir disabled r... | You have to comment out some lines in /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf so it looks like: Code: Select all<IfModule mod_php5.c> <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$"> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch "\.phps$"> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source </FilesMatch> # To re-enable php in user dir... |
Updating experts, When I do with my stable distro Code: Select all# apt-get update I get this one: Code: Select allErr http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Sources 404 Not Found Code: Select allErr http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found Code: Select allW: Failed to fetch http:... | try using Google or going to the website. The deb-multimedia.org repo changed months ago. Note it is now deb-multimedia.org not debian-multimedia.org |
Hello forum, after successfully switching from ubuntu to debian on my acer aspire one 722 I do have an annoying problem with kde and suspend. I use kde as my main desktop environment and it pretty much works. Only thing is that suspend from time to time fails. About every second day when trying to put the machine into ... | Seems I am getting a bit closer. The problem seems to be related not only to the video driver but also to the ath9k, which powers the AR99485 wlan chip. Right before todays hangup I noticed that the wlan got unstable. It lost the connection and would not reconnect. It would not even find the networks available. So I de... |
Hi all, I am eventually planning to make a 10 4TB (or 3TB - depends on budget) disk RAID array, of which will be split like: /dev/md0: 2 x 4TB - RAID 1 /dev/md1: 8 x 4TB - RAID 6 What will be stored on this RAID 6 configuration are TV Series, Music and Movies of which would be accessed by myself and family anywhere in ... | Any particular reason to setup 2 arrays? If you are planning on putting / on /dev/md0, that is a serious waste; / on a server doing what you want will be small, certainly less than 10 GB and probably less than 5. If you want that on a RAID, try finding 2 smaller drivers and creating the array. Even if / is not on a RAI... |
Relative linux newb here. I'm having some trouble installing the catalyst drivers. When I type this command: sudo sh /home/dan/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/testing I get the error: Can't open /home/dan/Downloads/amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86_64.run What am I doing wrong? Or am I do... | Well maybe you need to chmod the installer first? Code: Select allchmod +x amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/testing |
I'm trying to limit a user to only be able to use sftp, I ended up with pretty much following this guide: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/590 and added this into my sshd_config Code: Select all#Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match user back # ChrootDirectory /mnt/... | I'd suggest checking sshd logs and trying to chroot to your location with any other process. It is also possible that a process which is run before /mnt/storage is mounted still 'sees' the old directory structure. Have you tried to restart sshd after mounting /mnt/storage ? |
Greetings, I've configured Debian Sid x64 with systemd to automatically login my regular user, and have edited .profile in my home directory to launch xfce (4.. What is very strange though, is that if - at any point - after I log in I then launch a terminal (xfce4-terminal) I see the following message: X: user not auth... | Unfortunately I can't say what the solution is, as it seems to have resolved itself over the past 24 hours. There have been a few updates and a few new installs, so I can't say for sure what may have been the answer. At a guess, possibly one of the libpam- extensions I installed, perhaps the autostart or cgroups ones. ... |
Hello, I have just installed wheezy on my laptop (hp 2730p) and it has horrible screen flickering problems. Googling reveals it's a kernel bug introduced around 3.0 and fixed around 3.4. Could someone please suggest the simplest way to move either to <3.0 or >=3.4? (Apart from installing squeeze or sid. Squeeze is too ... | aptitude search linux image 3.2 amd64 (if its 64bit) then pick an image (most likley something like linux-image-3.2.0.3-amd64) and install aptitude install [your kernal here] then reboot. unless you want to go into sid 3.2 is the latest you can get in wheezy |
Debian 6.0.4 64bit KDE Is it possible to block any updates to the kernel currently in use? Thanks. | The stable release only gets security updates, not new versions - so you won't actually get any new kernels anyway - just patches to the existing kernel. |
Hi, I'm not a linux expert, I wish to... I'm trying to fix virtualbox, and when running: Code: Select allsudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic I get Code: Select allPackage linux-headers-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing,... | . |
After long in opened phpmyadmin via localhost/phpmyadmin and all i see are two databases: information_schema phpmyadmin I log in as user phpmyadmin, yes? Anything else i need to do? Thanks. | Do you have other db's you are expecting to see? I usually (not very often) log in as root (mysql root user). |
Hi all I am developing static websites for some time. Never needed and never wanted to us .htaccess (see Apache documentation). Now I am in a need to use php inside html files (there are too many to simply rename and search for each and every link to modify + security). I don't know if Debian runs php as module or as c... | . |
Hello, this is my first post here, so hello all This is my problem (on Debian Squeezy stable): The automatic NFS mount at boot doesn't work. This is my fstab row: Code: Select allnas:/backups /mnt/nas_backups nfs rw,_netdev,auto 0 0 Using mount -a it works, but at boot it doesn't work. After some investigations, I thin... | mareizio wrote:Hello, this is my first post here, so hello all This is my problem (on Debian Squeezy stable): Hello, are you using /etc/network/interfaces to bring up the network at bootup, or networkmanager in X, and is there anything at all in /etc/network/run/ifstate ? Also, is this a new problem? |
Hi, When my system boots instead of the 2 normal items (as in picture here) I have it doubled, 2 of each. This is a fresh installation of Testing AMD 64. Any help please | 3.2.0-3 and 3.2.0-2 are two different kernels. You do not have duplicates. |
[UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED. Now, how do I speed up SFTP between the connected computers? And how do I get the gui tools for network-manager and cwid to do what the command-line solution achieved?] I am trying to share files between two laptops using ad hoc wireless. Both are running the updated version of Debian, with all... | Since your post makes absolutely no mention of it, you leave folks to wonder if you even bothered to consult the appropriate Wiki page. |
Hello, I've been reordering my boot sequence, but I think I broke something. After X11 gets started, neither my mouse nor my keyboard work, however, the mouse begins responding in a minute or so. The keyboard works just fine when I'm in the console interface. I've managed to find a workaround - if I run Code: Select al... | Oh dear, it sounds like udev is crashing. Is your install completely up to date? # dmesg |grep udev # cat /var/log/messages |grep udev # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade |
I have a hard drive that was in another computer, it was dual-boot with Debian Linux and Windows XP. I want to install this drive in another system as it is a faster drive than what is currently installed inside this other system. Once gparted is installed, is it safe to use it to delete/reformat the Windows side while... | epp wrote:...is it safe to use it to delete/reformat the Windows side while Linux is up and running? It depends. Mostly yes, but it's not 100% guaranteed risk free. (Nothing ever is when you're mucking about with partitions. Post the output of blkid, run as root. |
Hello, i try to upgrade my squeeze to wheezy When i do: Code: Select allapt-get dist-upgrade I have this message Code: Select all E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'default-jre'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) So i try this: Code: Select allapt-get -o APT::Immedi... | If you want Wheezy (Testing), you must change all the "squeeze" pointers that you have in your sources.list file to wheezy. Then, you have to issue an: Code: Select all# apt-get update After that, you issue the actual dist-upgrade command. Also, be aware that some packages may need to be upgraded first before all the o... |
Hi, I keep getting this error message on boot: Sat Jul 28 21:41:58 2012: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m When I try to start it manually I get this error: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed! Any help is appreciated. | . |
I've recently acquired an ATI Radeon HD4890 gpu, and I'd like to get it running on my Debian Wheezy AMD-64 system, if possible. I have presently installed a NVIDIA 9800GT and proprietary driver (oops!). I've checked both the ATIHowTo and ATIProprietary wikis, and it seems that the driver installation may not be as simp... | jackdaws wrote:I've checked both the ATIHowTo and ATIProprietary wikis, and it seems that the driver installation may not be as simple as I'd have liked, due either to the specific card not being supported or particular packages not being available in wheezy.The wiki's supported hardware section seems to be a bit dated... |
I am trying to compile a module for a hardware monitoring chip (f71882fg) on a 32-bit Squeeze server and my machine is running out of memory. Both my Makefile and c file are from http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/misc/f71882fg/ and I am simply putting them together in /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build/ and running make. I ... | Wow, I have 331MB of memory free (free), and it compiled in three seconds for me. Something's haywire with all those make processes you have; this is not a multithreaded compile. |
I'm finally familiar enough with vim to start coding with it. I have an excellent (standard American) Model M keyboard, but the problem is that the Escape key is a little out of reach, which interrupts me constantly. There is the obvious Ctrl-[ but it seems my head doesn't work that way. I could remap the keys in .vimr... | See if this helps. |
Hello together, I've some trouble with the IPsec configuration on my debian server (6 squeeze). This server should connect via IPsec VPN to an windows server, which is protected by an firewall. I've used racoon and ipsec-tools and this tutorial http://wiki.debian.org/IPsec. However, I am not quite sure, if this tutoria... | michi_20inch wrote:- my Host and my gateway are the same server. So I don't have two different ip addresses. I guess, that's not a problem Well your Host is not the end of The Internets is it? There must be some machine your Host connects to to reach The Internets, whether it's a cablemodem or whatever. So that is your... |
Can someone please refresh my memory? I haven't used a logon box (GDM, etc) for a long time. There is a way to use CLI to choose which WM or DT to load but I can't remember how. There is also a way to prioritize this; again I can't remember. I have searched on this forum (we discussed this a few years ago) and on Googl... | There is more than one way you can skin the cat. This is what i usually do: ~/.xinitrc and inside of that the lines start with exec, followed by the command to be found in /usr/bin. eg: Code: Select all#exec mutter #exec startfluxbox #exec i3 #exec enlightenment_start #exec compiz #exec gnome-session exec xfce4-session... |
Posted the same post here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 50&t=10779 Also asked some friends in IRC. The race is on I just copied my installation from one SD-card to a new/bigger one, with rsync. I described it a bit more elaborate here: viewtopic.php?p=117665#p117665 I don't know if it is the source of th... | You logged out & in? Purge & reinstall fuse? |
Code: Select allinsserv: Starting smfpd depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and bootlogd if started insserv: exiting now without changing boot order! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error proc... | B0rked: wheezy upgrades (apt: #639290, libtext-wrapi18n-perl: #638950) |
Here we go - first post. I've been working/playing around with a Debian Squeeze install (both with a standard desktop install and an install with no GUI). I've noticed when enabling SELinux, it's not quite... right. On a fresh console install (after following http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Setup ), when running the com... | I would say that 95% do not use selinux. I would like to, if I had the time to learn it. But as with so many other things in Linux, you have to learn everything about everything before you can do anything. |
I suddenly have no working internet connection. I tried to find a solution in Google, but it didn't help(see my commands down). Here are 3e commands(and output) I used to try get this working: Code: Select alltal@tal-debian:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04 inet6 addr: fe80::a800:4ff:fe... | You have no IPv4 address -- if you're using DHCP, then it's not working. There could be a problem in your router, if there's no problem in your /etc/network/interfaces configuration. What does Code: Select allifup eth0 output? Your networking configuration should be consistent with this guidance. |
Hi guys, i wanted to install Debian on my new bought Desktop PC. I am using Debian on my laptop without any problem. So i installed it and i saw it was 800x600 on resolution. I tried everything to change it but i could not. So here are the steps i followed. 1. First i run xrandr command, prompt is as follows. ******** ... | Has nothing to do with DVI ouput. "What driver" depends entirely on your hardware. Identify it it with 'lspci' and follow the directions for it at wiki.debian.org |
Unfortunately my PC died and the result was a new PC and a fresh install of Debian testing. I have mounted the old hard disk from the PC that died and I am in the process of copying stuff of the old disk to the new disk. But there are some programs that I installed that I can't remember the name of, I have looked in /u... | Best way I can think of is chroot into the old disk and:Code: Select all$ dpkg -l # That's a lowercase 'ell'This lists all packages installed via package manager as well as version number and one line description, giving you a good bit of text to grep through to find the package(s) you're looking for. There's also prob... |
Having got my new sandybridge hardware working with backports, I seem to be having problems. This is now the second time I have had a kernel failure. This is the output hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Code: Select allKernel failure message 1: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /build/b... | why don't you try wheezy instead of squeeze+backports? |
Hi, I just installed Debian for the first time in order to make a home git server. I downloaded the Squeeze net install image today and used that. The only thing I selected from tasksel at installation was SSH server. I have several Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 computers and I can SSH between them using their hostnames, but tr... | 192.168.1.42 tweed.lan in /etc/hosts should help (assuming x.x.x.42 is the IP), but i got no idea if that is the proper (or best) solution. |
I don't be able to find a good configuration to allow dhcp to update bind zones. but first, I would know why bind9 look about a new file 'bind.keys'.... In the past, only 'rndc.key' was used and I have set my config files for using it . My syslog says : Code: Select allJun 10 16:25:27 sheeva named[2346]: starting BIND ... | After reading 1.254.988.458 pages on the web, I see that in the 'options' section of 'named.conf', I have to add this : Code: Select all allow-update { 127.0.0.1; }; Because the new bind 9.7.x set 'allow-update' to 'false' by default.... So my dhcp (on the same host) can update zones.... NB: the file /etc/bind/bind.key... |
hi Howto configure wheezy with Gnome3 to change the mouse cursor (pointer) from black to white? I've installed dmz-cursor-theme and changed in:Code: Select all# update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme There are 2 choices for the alternative x-cursor-theme (providing /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme). Selection ... | It's a user defined setting. You can try Code: Select allgsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme DMZ-White or use dconf-editor. |
hi I have squeeze with Gnome and 2.6.32-5-686 kernel. Due to problems with graphics card (kernel bugs), I'd like to update the kernel. The problem is, 2.6.32-5-686 seems to be at the moment last kernel for squeeze. Howto upgrade the kernel from backports? | You can get 2.6.38 from the backports repo |
A few days ago, around the time I had a recent security update on 1/7/12, the kernel for ethernet stopped working properly. I think a security update could have caused a problem, but I am not entirely sure. The Ethernet had been working perfectly since the system install. What basically happens is that the internet wil... | I don't know how or why, but there haven't been kernel failures for weeks now. It seems the system fixed itself. The miracle of Debian stability |
Hi all, I've a problem on enabling kerberos authentication on debian squeeze. Ive a kerberos server running and can login using kerberos on a suse 12.1 and a scientific linux 6.2 box. However when I've tried to hook up a debian squeeze boox to the kerberos server its not working. I'm as far as follows. User accounts an... | i'm a step further. If I make a kerberos principal for a local existing account, then I can login with the password stored in shadow AND the password from kerberos. If Im logging in to an account that ONLY exists in ldap I'm getting the authentication error. Su to the ldap user from root is possible su from any other u... |
Esteemed Debian gurus, I have a simple question, at least to me, but maybe it cannot be done. The question is as follows: I have my own unmanaged VPS and I set it up correctly so far that it is running a BIND daemon and so it can handle my domain name. It is also running dovecot and postfix, so I can receive and send m... | Basically, no. What you CAN do is submit the mail to postfix from the local (on the server) interface via an ssh tunnel from your "private" machine thusly:Code: Select allssh you@yourserver.org -L 2025:yourserver.org:25 Then point your mail client at localhost:2025 (or whatever port you chose) |
Installed Squeeze then realized I need new kernel to use usb wifi I upgrade to Wheezy and install 3.x kernel. I reboot and select new kernel. Boot failed and froze saying something like [drm] blah blah nouveau blah blah Rebooted, used old kernel, installed and ran nvidia-xconfig (nice how it installed & setup everythin... | http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+nouveau+debian |
hi all. i've just installed debian next to a previous ubuntu installation, dual boot. i soon got the need to recompile the kernel (the beauty of debian! ) but it seems i didn't solve my problem... i'm not able to mount a secondary controller hard disk. these are some output from ubuntu, the working one: Code: Select al... | hi all. i got some extra infos for you, for anyone who'd like to help me. just to start, when i try to mount the volume, it says the classic:Code: Select allmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdg, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try... |
The updates on one of my netbooks has stopped working. The EeePC installed with LXDE is still working. My HP Mini-note was installed with XFCE and LXDE was then added in. It is the HP which has now started failing for a few days. I usually update with Code: Select allsudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo a... | It looks like you, or a third party script has been deleting files. Try doing: Code: Select allapt-get install --reinstall libstdc++6 Code: Select allapt-get install gcc-4.7-base And try again or post outputs if those fail. |
I'm trying to use the nv driver for my Nvidia video card in Testing AMD64. Right now the non-free Nvidia driver is working, but I want to get nv working as nouveau doesn't work well and I want a back up driver if I have problems with the non-free driver. My card is lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corpo... | ramack wrote:... If I check /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ nv_drv.so does not exist. It provided by xserver-xorg-video-nv which is not in the Sid or Testing repos, only in Stable and Old Stable. Is nv no longer used in Testing or Sid? The xserver-xorg-video-nv package was removed from unstable and testing (Wheezy) more... |
So i'm working on my girlfriends webpage. Although the permissions look like this: Code: Select alltotal 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody mirk 4096 jan 1 05:48 . drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody mirk 4096 jan 1 06:47 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody mirk 4096 jan 1 06:46 html drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody mirk 4096 jan 1 05:48 img drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody mirk 4096 ... | Oops, maybe nobody shoudn't be the owner of all the files... Changing that now... But the question remains, what is the difference in permissions between the three folders? |
I'm taking a step back from previous questions to ensure my assumption about grub being the wrong version is correct. I followed the lenny to squeeze upgrade steps on the wiki(?) and it all ran smoothly, but on reboot the lines <REV>Welcome to GRUB!</rev> error: the symbol 'grub_machine_fini' not found comes up and I'm... | See /dev/disk/by-uuid, but it is better use disk label. Label can be set by tune2fs, in swap partition - by mkswap. Peter. |
SOLUTION? - The solution for me was to make sure that the check box "Available to all users" on the Edit connection box for my wifi network was filled. This is a sort of an unusual problem. I'm kind of hoping that somebody will see this and know the answer. But anyway. Version: Debian squeeze Linux PHILBORG-debian 2.6.... | Does your router have an enabled setting to isolate wireless clients? |
Hi, My system has been giving a strange error related to the kernel; when it fails the internet stops working and a message pops up saying error in your kernel bla bla, I tried to take a screenshot but it closes. I checked the kernel log, but nothing is there Code: Select allMay 6 12:18:13 kdeb kernel: [33381.072943] u... | Code: Select allMay 6 18:39:02 kdeb kernel: [56195.587803] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (atl1c): transmit queue 0 timed out i guess that's the point for you to start from. |
Here's my problem. I bought a laptop to travel with. That means my wireless connection has to work everywhere I go. Right now, as I type this, I'm nursing a cup of coffee in an Internet cafe and using Windows because Wicd can't make the connection. I tried network-manager-gnome and had the same problem. Setting it up t... | Did this hardware work on Squeeze or an older kernel? Perhaps the firmware is not compatible with Linux 3.1? Also could you give us the output of dmesg | tail after the wifi fails to connect? Also try checking out the device compatibility here: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ |
Since there are two major upgrading methods for Debian (upgrade, and dist-upgrade) is there a way to tell apper which method to choose? There doesn't seem to be any option for that in the configuration UI. Another related question - how does apper handle packages which ask questions during installation? So far I didn't... | shmerl wrote:Since there are two major upgrading methods for Debian (upgrade, and dist-upgrade) is there a way to tell apper which method to choose? There doesn't seem to be any option for that in the configuration UI. They are both part of apt-get. 'upgrade' tells apt to never remove packages. 'dist-upgrade' allows to... |
I saw a couple of weeks back on h-online about a vulnerbility that had been patched for the Nvidia linux driver. It says that Version 295.40 of the driver fixes the vulnerbility and that there is patches available for older driver versions like 195, 256 to 285. I was wanting to know if I need to apply the patches to my... | The last time I could tell that a patch or any thing had been done was 2010 NOV 17. Before patching you have several choices check bugreports and if you don't find one file a bugreport. And you could alway upgrade to 295.40 or install the 195 driver from Nvidia. Just checked the nvidia site and the newest driver is now... |
Hi there, I'm running a debian stable setup but have introduced debian backports into my repository in order to upgrade libsane for scanner support. Installing using: apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libsane libsane-extras works just fine and also updates the neccesary dependancies of libsane. However since I frequ... | You can check a pin level with: Code: Select allapt-cache policy nameofpackage |
My problem is that, after messing with my system a bit, the trackpad edge scrolling requires me to move my finger very quickly in order to get any scrolling action. All other trackpad functionality seems to be untouched. Again, this is only a problem after messing with my system -- it was fine before. I upgraded the ke... | This is a bug in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics version 1.5.99.902-1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665004 |
Greetings, I am attempting to get my laptop wireless to connect to my router. Wicd sees my router, I enter the known good password, and it reports bad password. Configuring router without wireless security and attempting to connect with wicd without security fails also. Laptop wireless has worked with other another lin... | Did you install wpasupplicant? |
My printer will work beautifully for months. Then, without warning, it will change its IP address and my system can't find it. Yesterday it changed four times. How does that happen? What is responsible for choosing the printer IP? Printer: Canon Pixma MX340. | The router does that. Some routers allow you to set static IP addresses for devices. You need to go into the router settings and find that. The manual should help, and most are available online. |
Hello. I updated a Debian 6.0 with k2.6.32 to k3.2.0-2-686-pae. The main reason for this, was to allow me to support new hardware. For that I temporarily added "testing" repositories to my sources list. Now I would like to ask: 1-What risks do you see in this action (kernel upgrade in a system originally meant to funct... | Binary-Synapse wrote:Hello. Hi! I updated a Debian 6.0 with k2.6.32 to k3.2.0-2-686-pae. The main reason for this, was to allow me to support new hardware. Quite understandable. For that I temporarily added "testing" repositories to my sources list. Please do not do that. 1-What risks do you see in this action (kernel ... |
Hi, The reason behind this question is that I'm thinking of switching from DHCP to a Static IP. I believe I set up my new install of Debian 6 to use DHCP. But, now I'm confused. I read that changing from DHCP to Static would require changing my "/etc/network/interfaces" file. So I looked at my file and was surprised to... | Judging by that comment in there, you are using a network manager. If you use a network manager (ie: Gnome's network manager) then this is normal and you should configure the static IP in your network manager. |
For one of my applications I need libc6 version 2.15 or above, but debians current version in unstable is 2.13, so to get this I need to backport them from ubuntu and im not sure how to do it. Any pointers? | ouch... not a hope at the moment, i would love to do the same thing to run compiz 0.97 , but libc6 is linked to the compile toolchain and all sorts of other stuff, tried to pull in ubuntus version but dpkg rebelled big time. There is no new version in experimental have not looked at the developers repos but even if fou... |
Hi, I have nine desktop PCs and one server running in my office, all running Linux. The server has been running Debian for some time, and since January, I've migrated all the desktop clients from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian Squeeze + KDE. I'm very happy with the setup, everything works just perfectly. Or almost. The last PC... | Try installing firmware-atheros. |
Hello everyone, I finally figured out how to make Unison work on Linux and on Windows, but I can't seem to get the Windows version automated. I'm trying to make a sort of dropbox connection. If Unison would automatically check every 10 sec. for updated files then I'm happy, but I can't seem to find a way to realize thi... | what if you made an instance of Unison that was called every 10 seconds by Windows Scheduler? It sounds massively inefficient, but should work... I hate to admit doing this in public, but I used to use the old NT command AT, or the windows scheduler to call a "cleanup script" that would xcopy files scattered all over a... |
I have a dual-boot Windows 7 and Wheezy laptop. Realtek RTL8187 USB wireless still works fine under Win 7 but no longer works under Wheezy after aptitude full-upgrade. I'm booting to command line (not starting X) and using wicd to connect, so Gnome network-manager is not even in the equation. The connection to the acce... | Why does everybody do things the hard way? http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi |
Friends, After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze, I can't access the internet for some reason. Could anyone help me try to solve this, please? Some information that I consider might be useful: Output of ifconfig (which I unfortunately can't interpret) Code: Select alllo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:... | Found the solution. Changed /etc/network/interfaces to Code: Select all# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 #NetworkManager# iface eth0 inet dhcp Then ran the following commands: # ifconfig eth0 up # /etc/init.d/networking restart and BOOM! internet i... |
Hi, i would like to setup my own Ice-Weasel SynServer because i am not too happy syncing my password database too a public webserver. For that I am using the discription on the Moziila Website. Run your own Sync Server: http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos ... requisites 1. installed the required packages with: Code... | It says that protocol https is unsupported. |
Code: Select allSystem: Host: dinosaur Kernel: 3.2.0-2-486 i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: KDE 4.7.4 (Qt 4.7.4) Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid Machine: System: MICRO-STAR product: KM266-8237 Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-7061 Bios: Phoenix version: 6.00 PG date: 07/28/2004 CPU: Single core AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (-UP... | the Kernel you installed was the correct one. on a newer cpu you would probably want the pae kernel. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical ... _Extension Sent from my MOTWX435KT using Tapatalk |
Hello everyone. First post here and also fist time Debian user. (yeay!) I'm very happy with my experience so far. No major problems. The only thing I want to change right now is the Restart behavior. Since I dual boot I want squeeze to reboot back to Grub menu. Instead it just reboots to Debian without going through Gr... | That's a first. I duel booted before and saw no such thing - grub always displays. Questions about your problem: 1. You fiddled with /etc/default/grub ? 2. What happens if you hold down the 'shift' key during the reboot? |
I just put Mint Debian on my new eeepc and have everything nicely set up for Openbox sessions except that I can't tap the touchpad. This setting doesn't work in gpointing-device-settings, and nor does horizontal two-finger scrolling. Are gnome settings intervening in the background? I had it working in gnome. There mus... | Mine is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/synaptics.conf , and seems to work in standalone WMs (assuming you have an Elantech or Synaptics pad - they seem to be much of a muchness these days). I'd wager it depends on which version of Debian your systems based on though - you didn't say. |
Hi, I can manually mount my various external devices (CD-ROM drive, hard drive, USB memory drives) fine, but I am baffled how to get udev to automatically mount them. E.g. plugging in the CD-ROM drive, /var/log/syslog shows: Code: Select allFeb 21 15:20:27 komputronik udevd[4966]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe... | udev does not mount devices, it merely creates what logical devices are appropriate. if you want devices that are connected via usb be mounted automagically, try usbmount: Code: Select allapt-get install usbmount |
hi I've created LIVE wheezy hdd using live-build:Code: Select all# lb config --mode debian -d wheezy -b hdd -p xfce During the startup I get a quite loud "BEEP" signal. Howto switch it off? | On all of the machines I've ever used, the single beep that occurs upon powerup is produced by the BIOS to indicate that the CPU is running and that there is memory present (additional beeps would indicate a hardware configuration problem). It is possible that there is a BIOS configuration setting that permits disablin... |
Hello everyone, I followed this tutorial for change the url of my phpyadmin webpage: http://www.thetechrepo.com/main-articles/488 I have found the file apache.conf and edit it and restart apache2 but that's not working. So i decided to create an htacess file but it's not working, so it's seems that my phpmyadmin is not... | Hello, can you post your /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf file? Also: If you want it to be more secure, you can do it another way: If you have local access to the machine (you sit at it), you can change it to allow access only from your local ip (127.0.0.1). If you access it remote but also have access via ssh, you can set ... |
Hi, My question is about configuring Transmission client and in case enabling and adding blocklists. Thanx | Use the Bluetack nipfilter list. Transmission used to come with the URL enabled, but with latest versions, you have to enter it manually (legal reasons?) They ask for a donation, but it's possible to find the download page without paying if you are not able. http://www.bluetack.co.uk/ |
Hi, I did a clean install of Debian Squeeze on my new laptop using the net install CD image. I'm having an ADSL broadband connection and during the installation I used the ppp-udeb module to configure the internet and I was able to download the required packages from the Debian mirror. But after the completion of the i... | r.babu wrote:Code: Select allFeb 26 01:54:32 debian pppd[2761]: not replacing existing default route via 192.168.1.1 I'm not really familiar with ppp connections, all the ASDL I use has a modem doing the ppp conection, but the quoted line looks significant. A missing or incorrect default route woud explain your symptom... |
Here is a quick overview of my system as inxi reports it: CPU~Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T6400 (-MCP-) clocked at 1200.000 Mhz Kernel~3.1.0-1-amd64 x86_64 Up~40 min Mem~303.0/3018.3MB HDD~250.1GB(36.8% used) Procs~135 Client~Shell inxi~1.7.27 Here is my sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main ... | Do you have a bunch of languages enabled when you run dpkg-reconfigure locales |
Dear All, I am running debian testing on my box. I suppose that everything is OK (I am quite happy with it), but look at the output of the following command ~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 28G 8.9G 18G 34% / udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 377M 764K 376M 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/9b43e624-5b6a... | Is that supposed to be normal? Any hint? I can offer a (tiny) hint: Here is my output Code: Select all$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 19G 5.7G 12G 33% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 329M 368K 329M 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/ea285dba-0bce-455f-b0a5-e51ac4265bbe 19G 5.7G 12G 33% / ... which seems... |
hi I have Squeeze with 2.6.32 kernel, fresh installation and Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device. I have done all updates, but Gnome Desktop freezes every day completely, I can move the mouse, but nothing happens. Keyboard works, but I can press only Ctrl-Atl-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot... | Can you install the latest kernel from the backports repo, boot from that and use it for a while to see if the problem goes away? |
Hi, As of just before 6.04 was released my update-manager in the taskbar continually shows orange and says I have 4 updates. If I launch it it will say my system is up to date. Close it, the alert is still there with 4 updates showing. If real updates do come in it'll go red and do the updates but will always say there... | Update manager is a bit dim witted. I would turn it off. Open a root terminal and doCode: Select all# aptitude update # aptitude full-upgrade You are now up to date. |
hi I have created wheezy hdd LIVE with XFCE using live-build 2.0.12-2 and this config file:Code: Select all# cat /home/live/config/binary # config/binary - options for live-build(7), binary livege # $LB_BINARY_FILESYSTEM: set image filesystem # (Default: fat32) LB_BINARY_FILESYSTEM="fat32" # $LB_BINARY_IMAGES: set imag... | Open your file manager in root terminal, (In my case it would be Thunar) go to File System>usr>bin and find the installer (Don't know full name of your installer) then delete it. On your desktop delete the Icon and hit F5 to reset the desktop. Check your startup applications for the installer and uncheck or remove it. ... |
I have an old laptop configured as a print server, and the client is another laptop. Both are running Debian Squeeze. Whenever I want to print from the client, I have to restart the CUPS daemon like this: sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart Then I can print for a while, but after maybe 3 or 5 minutes, I can't print any more.... | 1. Can you still print on the server? 2. Where are you doing the diagnostis, client or server? 3. Can you still communicate with the server, e.g., can you ping it from the client? |
Hi, I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze and now when I enter startx I get a solid black screen and the computer does not respond to any keyboard input. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Esc, Alt-F2, Alt-F4, etc. all do nothing. No beeps or anything. I have an NVidia graphics card and have been using the proprietar... | I can suggest two changes mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.lenny restart X post any changes try fbdev as the driver make sure you have xserver-xorg-video-fbdev installed reboot and add nomodeset to the linux line in grub post back what happens |
Hi, I'm trying to add the latest packages from ftp.gnome.org into my Debian box. Is there an easy way to do that? | It looks like they are hosting a mirror of the Debian repository. Are those the packages that you want? If you mean add the latest packages from the gnome source code there, no, there's no quick and easy way, except be rich and pay somebody to compile and package them up for you quickly. |
I am not sure if this should be here or in Programming, but I chose Configuration. This is a very minor problem, but a little annoying. Every time I log in a message appears on the screen that remains until I close the box. It reads; Code: Select allOne or more XML syntax errors were found while parsing the Openbox con... | Randicus wrote: Now the real problem. x.session-errors says Premature end of data in tag openbox_menu line 3. These are lines 3-6 in the menu.xlm; Code: Select all<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://openbox.org/ file:///usr/share/ope... |
Hi Im setting up a Debian Squeeze box for a friend across town and need advise on the best way to access it remotley. The box has a Gnome GUI installed (as Im not familiar enough with Linux yet to be able to operate soley from the CLI) and will be used primarily to run Eiskalt, Xchat and run network monitoring software... | X forwarding over ssh will be faster than VNC. You would do well to get up to speed on the CLI, it is so much easier. |
Is there some way to from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.2.5? The latest version on Debian's repositories is 2.6. Can I upgrade without building from source? | Follow instructions: http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ Run: Code: Select allsudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-arch Replace arch with whatever arch you have (probably 686-pae or amd64) |
Hi guys! I'm quite new to this forum, please excuse if i'm posting in a wrong place. I'm using Debian for a while now, since Sarge, but I've never had a problem with network. I'm experiencing a problem with internet connection at work. Our sysadmin is more like an "anykey" guy, so he can't help me. The problem is in hi... | turned out a bad UTP cable. it's working fine now. |
System has somewhat clean install - netinstall of Wheezy on xfce 4.8, lightdm and Compiz as window manager. Few panel plug-ins. Yet the CPU idling (~10) and peaks are way worse than they're on my Ubuntu 10.10 installation, which is more bloated (as in many processes running by default). Running Iceweasel makes CPU usag... | I have heard of issues in the ATI drivers for Wheezy. I assume this is what you have? You might want to use the open source drivers for now. Nvidia, dunno, normally the drivers are great. Since this happens with scrolling this seems to me to be a GPU issue. What is the processes using up most cpu time. Use the command ... |
Hi I've just puchased a toshiba L770. I installed debian 6, with a few backports (mainly nvidia driver and libreoffice). Almost everything is ok, except suspend/hibernate, which is really frustrating to investigate because it implies a lot of hard reset .. Symptoms: pm-suspend, screen goes black, and the disk halts. Th... | Hi again, I decided to migrate to testing, just in case. But the backports (kernel 3.2 for example) got me into trouble so I did a fresh re-install of wheezy. Now the boot process fails, even in maintenance mode. I eventually managed to boot (after blindly killing two processes ..) but neither pm-suspend nor poweroff w... |
Hello, I'm using debian 6.0.3 AMD64 on a server. The package installed are : libnss-mysql libpam-mysql All the virtual users use the apache uid and gid (33:33) since we have special needs. I set up nss using these tutorials : http://www.idimmu.net/2010/08/27/Keepin ... -On-Ubuntu http://www.spencerstirling.com/computer... | You should never have conflicting UIDs nor GIDs - it's asking for trouble. If a system that you're using requires that, you need to fix the broken system. What are you actually trying to do by this twisted means? |
Well this is weird, today I upgraded my system and there was the new Liquorix update, but it gave me an error, this is the output after I tried to upgrade (second time, the first time was a similar output, this time it only differs on the first line) Code: Select allThe following partially installed packages will be co... | The liquorix forum is at http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-34.html (not saying that you shouldn't post here) |
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, so I'll start here on the forums, then report it as a bug, if need be. I've just moved my home server from Ubuntu server to Debian. During the setup, I used an old motherboard (just the MB, PS and 'root' hard drive sitting on the table) so I could take my time and still have access... | dasein wrote:(Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that your assumptions are wrong, merely that they are both numerous and as yet untested.) |
Hi Folks, This is going to be a newbie question, but it seems that things have changed in the configuration, namely in my.cnf it says... # Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on # localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure. # bind-address = 127.0.0.1 ...so the advice I'm digging ... | Um ... apparently, it just needed ... just that one more reboot. Sorry folks. |
Is anyone here using text-based browsers and mail software? For around a week a month when my mobile broadband has run out I'll be using bluetooth and a mobile phone for internet and would like to know how to set up Mutt or Cone to send and receive using my Yahoo! email or a freshly set up one if another provider would... | There are limited graphical web browsers like links2 (which is an easy to use text browser too) or dillo. elinks is an easy text browser too but I don't know if you would have any advantage by running, for instance, links in the terminal or using its graphical version. As for mutt, or other terminal based mail client, ... |
Hello helpful and curious Debian users! I have a bit of a problem. I'm brand new to Debian, and I can't get my laptop to find wireless networks. Laptop: Dell Inspiron 600m Computer Modifications: None besides uninstalling Windows XP and replacing it with Ubuntu, and now replacing that with Debian. Wireless Network Card... | http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx |
I am using Debian 6.04 and since my reinstall, none of my 32-bit applications seem to be working right. (well the few I tried). I have ia32-libs and dev installed and Katawa Shoujo refuses to launch with nothing doing (error message says broken pipe, however it works with the same package on 32-bit). Also trying to com... | Hi, vbrummond. Trying to understand your issue, are you running the AMD64 version of squeeze and using 32bit applications on that system? |
I just did a fresh netinstall of Debian Testing after upgrading to an SSD, and after aligning, partitioning, and installing, the power applet was missing. I've tried starting it in terminal, but it refuses to acknowledge its existence. I've --reinstall 'ed the package, but to no avail. If I had an error or a log to pos... | I thought I'd post my own answer here in case anyone else has the same issue, since no one could help me. Apparently as of Gnome Shell 3.2 gnome-power-manager no longer controls power management, only related statistics. The requisite packages for battery support within the shell are now gnome-settings-daemon and gnome... |
Acer Aspire 5520 laptop, wireless works, I am writing from it. Driver was installed upon installation of OS. Using wheezy, on amd64 architecture. Very annoying problems since installing widget. It installs kwallet too, and, since the wireless connection uses WPA/WPA2 Personal security it does need a password to connect... | stevepusser wrote:Try wicd-kde or Ceni from aptosid. Both will not drop a connection out of X, and Ceni can even be configured without a GUI at all, since it uses an ncurses terminal interface. You will need to uninstall network-manager or disable its handling of wireless to have Wicd work. Wicd has ncurses client inte... |
I am trying to cross compile a kernel for a plug computer, however, I am having the following issue: #I am trying to access the source kernel directory, but it says that it is missing root@debian:/usr/src# cd /usr/src/linux bash: cd: /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory #I checked the sym-link root@debian:/usr/src... | Have you installed the kernel source? It's not there by default. |
Package management is one of the best features of Debian so it is very distressing when I break it and can't fix it on my own! I am accustomed to using kpackage under Lenny, and after some initial troubles years ago it worked fine for me, and I know how to add repositories if I am given a deb line. I am adjusting to us... | Ahtiga Saraz wrote:Code: Select allW: Failed to fetch... Something wicked happened resolving 'ftp.de.debian.org:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) repeated for everything in sources.list. From iftop &c it appears that apt isn't even trying to find the repos. (But iceweasel can surf so the problem is not s... |
Hi everybody! First off all, I've read http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey I've lenny on my PC with no X-server running up and I need to swap Caps_Lock for ctrl . None of the Debian-specific ways from the link I provided are working for me. I'm using console-tools package. I will be thankful for help! | One need to update /etc/default/console-setup with Code: Select allXKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" and then run Code: Select all$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh console-setup |
Running debian stable. After playing around with a live Fedora cd today, updating my sytem as normal no longer completes. Although I did not save any of the alterations to the partition table when using Anaconda, I suspect they were saved immediately. I'm now getting these messages. root@debian:~# aptitude update && ap... | Anaconda does not write partition table changes unless it's told to. Post the output of the command Code: Select alldf (And do not ever again, no matter what, under any circumstances, muck around with anything that might screw with your partition table unless you have a recent backup. Seriously.) |
I am a new user (of Debian native) attempting to report a bug in catfish. This program does not launch from GUI and crashes system. I checked in the IRC channel #debian-next and was advised to report bug. When attempting to launch from desktop, program attempts to launch but then crashes. This is what I get from termin... | You can send the bug report from your normal email as long as you put in the proper header. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting |
Hi everyone, Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought that the keyring would be unlocked when I logged into my system. I am running Squeeze. Should it be unlocked upon login and if not, is there a way to set it up so that I don't have to enter the keyring password. I would like to have VNC access to my machine and I can't be... | Gnome keyring? http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/gnome- ... login.html |
I did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze and decided to change the hostname. I edited /etc/hostname file and run "/etc/init.d/hostname.sh start" script This is how my /etc/hosts file after the change. # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 NewName localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 OldName # The following lines are desirable... | drifter wrote:I did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze and decided to change the hostname. I edited /etc/hostname file... This is how my /etc/hosts file after the change. (emphasis added) See the problem now? |
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