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I have this package dependency question for a while. I have brand new Squeeze system. I selected desktop during installation. Gnome is default system but I turned off gdm3 and uses fluxbox as window manager. I understand if two packages are tied together funtionally so that removal of either package terminates one feat... | There is the concept of the 'metapackage'. A metapackage is a package that exists simply to depend on other packages so you can install them in a collection. The packages "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment" are examples of these. Just removing "gnome" will not remove any packages. Carefull inspect specific package ... |
AMD 64 Upgrade to testing last night killed my internet connection. The lan works, I can ping the dns server from my IP, however no mail, browser possible. Is something in testing broken again? | how do you connect to the net? |
I would like to use debian's popularity contest utility as I think it's an important tool for the developers and packagers, but it seems to be broken. I received the following notification after a recent full-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze: From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Nov 18 19:14:25 2010 Envelope-to: root@mediacenter.local ... | From /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ.gz: Code: Select allQ) My system is unable to send email out to the Internet. How can I participate ? A) Since version 1.30 of popularity-contest, it is possible to use HTTP as the transport protocol. This is the default for new installations, but needs to be manually enabled ... |
I've got Debian Sid x64 on my machine. Problem is that in my KDE setup several programs don't work, namely System Load Viewer plasmoid, plasmoid with temperature info and update-notifier-kde. System Load Viewer always shows 0% RAM and swap usage, as well as no processors, temperature sensors plasmoid shows no sensors a... | You might not go for this but... Code: Select allaptitude remove kde aptitude install xfce4 best choice I ever made |
Good evening, since upgrading the squeeze kernel from 2.6.26-2-686 to 2.6.32-5-686 I´ve been unable to boot my HP D510S/845G without attached monitor. As this computer serves as router and print/faxserver, there is/was neither a monitor nor a keyboard/mouse attached. With monitor everything works fine, without monitor ... | Try insert in "Monitor" Section in xorg.conf Code: Select allOption "IgnoreEDID" "true" Peter. |
I have previously installed freeradius on squeeze for testing purposes. Then I would remove it, and all it configuration files by aptitude purge freeradius. But it did not remove the /etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf file, so I removed the /etc/freeradius directory manually. Then I tried to install freeradius again, but it ... | Nope linux assumes you knew what you were doing when you removed the conf file. From the dpkg bot in #debian the reason you have to use dpkg --force-confmiss is because whenever your config files are gone, dpkg assumes you deleted them on purpose, and that you want them to stay deleted. You can also reinstall them usin... |
Hi. I've got a fresh Wheezy/Xfce install. I'm trying to access a remote samba share the gigolo way. It is an external USB hard drive connected to my router. I can access it read only using the following URL with Icedove : smb://bbox/ Gigolo I've been following this easy tutorial : http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.... | I'm realizing that since I'm using Xfce 4.8, gigolo should not be needed. Xfce 4.8 tour indicates that Thunar now has optional support for GVFS which will allow you to browse remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers... I don't see any help about how to use this. Is it because it is suppos... |
Hi all! I use Lenny amd64 archtecture and I have been trying to install a couple of different developing packages. They all end up with dependencies errors, that packages requires a specific version of another package but another version will be installed. I tired to install the development packages for gtkmm from Syna... | Usually that means that you have some libraries installed that are from upstream of Lenny (Lenny's is 2.12, and you have a 2.14 from someplace else), and since the -dev packages have to match the installed libraries, a matching version cannot be discovered in the Lenny repositories. Aptitude was really good in Lenny in... |
Hi, My laptop has /dev/sda5 mounted on /. It has 10GiB and almost full. I formated Windows XP partition and it is now /dev/sda1 ext4 45GiB free space. When I mounted /dev/sda1 to root (/) directory, df commands showed still the original partition size. (81% used). I assumed Should I use different mount point? Or It is ... | Let me paraphrase to see if I understand. * /dev/sda1 used to be windows, but you scrapped that and now it's empty. * /dev/sda5 is / and is too full * You want to make /dev/sda5 bigger What do you mean you mounted /dev/sda1 to the root partition? You mean over top of it or in a subdirectory of it? Neither will increase... |
I downloaded and installed the netinst image of squeeze. After booting into squeeze, udev wouldn't create /dev/ttyUSB0-3 after I plugged in my Novatel wireless 760 modem. Does anybody know what exactly what is missing and has to be installed to use ppp with this modem on squeeze or even wheezy? btw- I downloaded and in... | You might need to switch it from mass storage mode (containing windows drivers) to modem mode. I believe this can be done with the usb-modeswitch package. |
when starting vmwareplayer I get this error: Unable to start services See log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-22433.log for details. Here is the output of the log: Jul 16 20:42:32.418: app| Copying Module.symvers from the vmci build failed. Jul 16 20:42:32.418: app| Jul 16 20:42:32.423: app| Extracting the sources of the v... | Please remove this post. I was using an older version. |
I want to add a boot up splash screen to my Debian installation but I cannot find a splash screen manager in the repos. I understand why Debian likes to have no splash screen initially, but have they opted to not have splash screens at all in the repos? ----- EDIT ----- Oh, I see splashy is available in the unstable re... | Plymouth is available. It is not hard to set up but you need a kernel modesetting enabled driver for it to be easy. (Open source intel, ati, nouveau). It is possible with proprietary drivers but I do not know how off the top of my head. 1. Install plymouth 2. Edit /etc/default/grub - add the word splash right after whe... |
Hello We have setup Squeeze a Test machine , just for some tests, without network, Internet etc. and we need to allow root login in Gnome. We've changed /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf:Code: Select all[security] AllowRoot=truebut still doesn't work. | cc wrote:Hello We have setup Squeeze Test machine, just for some tests, without Internet etc. and we need to allow root login in Gnome. We've changed /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf:Code: Select all[security] AllowRoot=truebut still doesn't work. This is a test computer, then just remove gdm and be rid of the issue. |
I have got a really strange problem with a static IP. I can connect to it in ssh and even ping google but when i try to download things with wget it hangs on HTTP request sent, awaiting response... It also has similar problems with apt-get. This how i curently got my interfaces file setup: Code: Select all# The primary... | Hi, Here's mine and it works: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 I have 192.168.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf not the other dns servers, I set those on the modem/router setup page |
Hello all, I am running on debian squeeze 6.0.2. I have been using it for the last id say 3 weeks and really am enjoying it. I generally use transmission-gtk to share files over the internet. Normally I seed torrents at 110-160kb/s for hours at a time. However after messing around with firestarter my upload speed for s... | it might be a bad torrent file, are all torrents slow or just this one. |
Hello, After following instructions on DebianWiki on enabling wireless internet, I installed the firmware package appropriate for my broadcom BCM43224 controller, which was "firmware-brcm80211". Upon installing this package and loading the kernel module, either with the modprobe command or with reboot, my system become... | The solution is to blacklist the brcm80211(FOSS driver) as detailed in this post in order to use the wl driver. Edit: You only need to follow the instructions in the wiki; the post is where I first read about the problem with the FOSS driver. |
Hi there, Monitor preferences doesn't list my monitor's resolution, which is 1440x900. Hardware info Main Board: Asus P5KPL-AM VGA: Intel G31 Code: Select all$lspci |grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10) OS info OS: Debian Squeeze (6.0.1)... | And another thing. I can remember that when I install Ubuntu 9.10 on this machine (about a year ago) I had the same problem. All I was done that time was to change the driver from `intel' to `vesa'. But this time it didn't work. |
Good day. I would appear that I recently installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64. Since then I have noted that my HP media bar up top doesn't work. This means I can't enable/disable wireless. From an lspci output, it still sees the hardware, and it's loaded, however, not functioning. Should I be looking at rolling the ker... | Code: Select all10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) Have you installed firmware-iwlwifi and wireless-tools from the non-free repository following the instructions here? By the way, what is a hp media bar? On my system, information about the conn... |
Hie everyone, it's just a question about something weird happening here on my computer. It's about the ethernet driver. I've got a Dell Optiplex Desktop here, the CPU is a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz. The integrated ethernet here is from intel also, it's a 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection. This computer i... | A little bit more information. After I reboot my machine, I do a : Code: Select all$ lsmod | grep e1000e e1000e 128034 0 Well, now, try to remove and insert the module again, and compare the size : Code: Select all$ sudo modprobe -r e1000e $ sudo modprobe e1000e $ lsmod | grep e1000e e1000e 145794 0 This is definitely ... |
I'm building a Debian Live system, http://live.debian.net/, and I've pared it down to a very light distro. It is using the IceWM, has the basic linux commands, and very very little else. When I run "top" and "ps aux", I see that I have multiple terminals and logins waiting to be used. It's a small amount, but I'd like ... | Edit /etc/inittab. Comment out like this: Code: Select all# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X. # 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 #3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3... |
When I right click on a free area of the desktop or within an open folder, I read "Create Document" -> "no templates installed" and "Empty File". How to install the templates in there so I could open a file of my choice? | http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm |
To illustrate what I wish to learn I will begin with a specific example: Open With.jpg Suppose I create an empty file and rename it as 1.torrent Right click on the file and go to the "Open with" tab We find a list of applications to open the said file. Of the list of applications we find, some can be deleted by logging... | The file browser associates MIME types with applications based on the information in the applications' desktop files (in /usr/share/applications, /usr/local/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications). You can see all the associations in mimeinfo.cache in those directories. This may help too: http://www.freedesk... |
I am running testing on a HP Eliteboko 8530P. I did an upgrade of the packages, and it was complaining about the fglrx packages, I am using. So I decided to remove these manually instead, and then run the upgrade again. Now, when I boot, it comes with the grub menu, I select debian, and it starts to boot. Then right af... | My boot sequence does the same thing. It starts in 640x800 and then changes to a higher resolution after about 4 lines. All my systems do this. I think it has to do with the nouveau driver i use for my nvidia card. |
Browsing the web I often open a number of links in background tabs. I'm finding that a great many pages don't load, though if I open that tab, stop the loading and do a page refresh they usually do. The problem is browser independent and appears to be related to my iptables firewall: even the simplest stateful firewall... | From the symptoms you describe, it really doesn't sound like your issue is a firewall problem. That is, if a manual refresh loads the page, then it's hard to imagine how the firewall is blocking the page's content. Seems to me as though a first step would be to confirm that it is in fact a firewall issue. So, next time... |
Hi all, fired up my debian laptop this morning ,saw that the update manager had updates..97 of them??? then when tried to view them the package manager freezes and becomes unresponsive. needed to do a few things and found my root password is NOT working. this all happened at the same time, i wonder if its related? have... | charvey wrote:Hi all, fired up my debian laptop this morning ,saw that the update manager had updates..97 of them??? then when tried to view them the package manager freezes and becomes unresponsive. needed to do a few things and found my root password is NOT working. this all happened at the same time, i wonder if its... |
When I tried to compile a kernel I get the following error: cc1: warnings being treated as errors arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c: In function ‘chrp_event_scan’: arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c:378: error: the frame size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.o] ... | Linux is not meant to be compiled -Werror; "Warnings will never be eliminated until the kernel ships with its own version of gcc" (paraphrase of something I saw on LKML) as gcc has some really lame stuff it warns about (eg- #undef MACRO => warning, #undef /*MACRO*/ =>error). You are less likely to see it when you have ... |
My debian machine works fine other that it loses network after a few (12 or so) hours. The dhclient manages to renew the DHCP lease the first time, after a few hours, but later when it tries again the modem gives a DHCPNAK. If I understood correctly, this should make the dhclient to fetch a new ip address but it does n... | First off, why do you use network-manager at all? You have no wireless and the computer is in a fixed network, there is absolutely no reason using it. Instead use the linux standard networking, that is more stable than network-manager. Just edit the /etc/network/interfaces file, configure the interface (after removing ... |
I was trying to sync my Tungsten E with Debian Squeeze and it would just hang as if there was no connection. Trying pilot-link -l resulted in a message saying that it was looking for a new usb connection (or something to that effect) and would never connect. jpilot is set to use "usb:". I moved to my laptop, which has ... | I wouldn't be surprised if Ubuntu has "gnome-pilot" and/or "gnome-pilot-conduits" installed by default. I also notice that "jpilot" recommends "jpilot-plugins" and suggests "jpilot-backups". Are those packages installed on your debian machine? Not to suggest you should do this on a regular basis, but for testing purpos... |
I have a Dell PowerEdge SC430, Squeeze 6.0.2 box, Broadcom NetXtreme NIC which works fine DHCP. The network-manager package is not installed. I have now reconfigured /etc/network/interfaces for a static IP: Code: Select allauto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ... | try adding allow-hotplug eth0 more info http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia ... interfaces |
Hi. Yesterday I installed debian "squeeze" on my desktop pc and everything is good so far. I'm used to using sudo and gksudo for tasks that require root permissions (ubuntu). How do I properly setup sudo and gksudo in debian to function the way it does in ubuntu? I found this guide: http://gaffa.wordpress.com/2009/11/0... | There is no reason you shouldn't use sudo/gksudo. You probably learned this using ubuntu. In Debian you can use su and then enter your root password. You then just enter the command you want to run as root. You can't do that in ubuntu. Ubuntu does not want you to have that kind of control over YOUR system. If you reall... |
Hello, on my netbook I've tried to make possible for my user to shutdown without needing a password. This is necessary, because battery could run low when I'm not in front of it. Editing sudoers has allowed my user to shutdown the system, but Gnome still prompts me for the root password whenever root is logged in too. ... | Try first logout as user and when the GDM greeting will be appear, shutdown from menu on the bottom, but I'm not sure that is will work. Peter. |
I'm trying to secure one of my database servers before openin it up to the wider world, but since enabling ssl on the sql server it it refusing to allow me to log in via phpmyadmin. I can connect via the local mysql client without a problem. I have put $cfg['Servers'][$i]['ssl'] = TRUE; in the config.inc.php in /etc/ph... | Done a bit more digging and added the ca, cert and key fields to the phpmyadmin file as well as a forcessl. the login screen is displayed, so i presume that the file format is correct, however its not forcing the ssl connection for apache, so I presume its not doing the ssl connection to the mysql server either. If the... |
I have installed squeeze on a HP notebook. I have one small problem though. It does not resume from suspend. If I shutdown -> suspend, or close the the lid, or shut downs (suspends) as expected, but when I then power it backup up, the screen just stays black. Hibernate is working fine. Any ideas, how I can fix this. Th... | In a completely different laptop I can create the same behavior with kernel 2.6.32 or older. The display never comes back from suspend. Needless to say I use a newer kernel. |
Hi, I have installed Debian squeeze 6.0.1 using the CD1 of the i686 version (kernel 2.6.32.5) on my compaq presario sr1799es desktop. My machine has a ethernet card RTL8139 (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+) (it has no wireless card). I can't connect to internet with debian. I can connect to internet in this machine using windows... | You've set up your interfaces file for a static address... not knowing how your network/router is set up, it's up to you to check that you have the correct subnet mask, gateway and address, etc. Change your interfaces file to connect via dhcp and see if that works first. |
Hi. I am an old Debian user, ho just reinstalled it again to see how it evolved since my las version (3.2). I am sharing it with Arch Linux, And decided to let bot of them. I am using GDM compiled and configured in Arch, and removed GDM2 from Debian (i just like the easy menu.list from the old GDM). The problem is that... | vladimir1986 wrote:I am using GDM compiled and configured in Arch, and removed GDM2 from Debian (i just like the easy menu.list from the old GDM). Did you mean GRUB instead of GDM? It would make more sense. If that were the case, install the package grub-legacy to use the former GRUB. |
Running Wheezy on my laptop and uninstalled OpenOffice to switch to LibreOffice. Not a good idea - now both LibreOffice and OpenOffice fail to install. Basically aptitude wants me to remove 127 packages... Code: Select allThe following NEW packages will be installed: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0{a} libgraphite3{a} libreoffice li... | And Code: Select allapt-cache policy libreoffice libreoffice: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:3.3.2-2+b1 Version table: 1:3.3.2-2+b1 0 650 http://ftp.no.debian.org testing/main Packages Code: Select allLinux computern 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 8 13:51:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux |
I am having a problem setting up an interface. the state does not seem to change to up and i don't even see any errors Code: Select all#/etc/network/interfaces # The Office LAN auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 192.168.0.232 netmask 255.255.255.0 # gateway 192.168.0.199 # gateway 192.168.0.254 up /sbin/ifensla... | Found the problem.. my physical interface where renamed wrong for some weird reason, don't know how either. so eth2 was eth3 and eth3 was eth2 |
Hello All I'm booting a T42 thinkpad from the live Debian Squeeze image, the XFCE version that uses WICD for network management. I'm trying to test the wifi before installing permanently. This laptop needs the ipw2100 firmware installing. I've followed the instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 lspci gave Code:... | I've followed the instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 #6. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate. http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#wi ... 2C_Fluxbox did you fix the /etc/network/interfaces file? |
I have installed the Nvidia drivers on my desktop using http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers according to the Debian way. Everything seems to be fine except the resolution. The best it will let me choose is something like 600x480. I have searched and most of what is suggested around the web is to change xorg.co... | what card? what monitor? native res? |
After reboot SSH server is down: Code: Select all# /etc/init.d/ssh status could not access PID file for sshd ... failed! It doesn't work, doesn't listen to port (netstat -ln). Needs a manual kick and then starts like a charm: Code: Select all# /etc/init.d/ssh restart Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. # /etc... | Some more detailed info that might help you suggest me where more to look at: Code: Select allls -l /etc/rc2.d/*ssh* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 6 09:07 /etc/rc2.d/S04ssh -> ../init.d/ssh Code: Select allls -l /etc/init.d/ssh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3704 Mar 31 2010 /etc/init.d/ssh Code: Select allgrep sshd /var/log/*... |
Hello everyone, My current Operating System is Debian Squeeze and I am very new to Debian. I have been using Linux Ubuntu since 9.10 so I do have a little experience with using the Terminal and other minor things. For the past week or two, I have had a problem mounting external devices. It doesn't matter whether it's a... | rhss62011 wrote: Can anyone help me with correcting this? When I first installed Debian, when I connected an external drive to my Laptop it would automatically be mounted, and as a normal user I obviously had access to my files... Did you recently install sudo or do you recall? What;s mounted now, is there something ab... |
Hello there, Last week I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy. Everything seems to be in order, except now launching empathy will get my 4 separate GNOME keyring prompts in a row. I guess my keyring got copied for some reason, but I can’t figure out what package to install to deal with my keyrings, as gnome-keyring-manager ... | I also get this in Sid, when I log in, I am asked twice to unlock my login keyring. Try installing the seahorse package. It should give you some control over your keyrings. Chris |
I am trying to install grsecurity as per http://kernelsec.cr0.org/ The sources.list file is as follows. root@debian:/etc/apt# cat sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 ... | Run ..... debian:~# apt-get update .... before executing .... debian:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32.15-1-grsec |
So I'm going to start this off by telling you all I know how stupid I was and I can't believe I made such a noob mistake... long story short, my ENTIRE hard drive now has user AND group permissions root. I can't start X and are having various permissions issues. although ive been using linux for a long time, im no geni... | I don't get what's your problem here, as you said you copied the files - don't you have a master copy that has all the permissions still intact? |
I originally installed Debian and configured it the way I want it without any problems. It was working perfectly and I was happy. I then tried openSuse. I did not like it and re-installed Debian five hours later. Now I have a strange problem. This is the third re-install. With the first two, after installing a few foun... | Any installation I have done included fonts, even the minimalist ones. Where did you get your install from? |
Hello everybody The problem i'm experiencing is driving me crazy.. I can't access youtube (and possibly other google servers) from my debian system. Iceweasel returns 'server not found' and epiphany 'Cannot resolve hostname'. At the same time, other pc's in my home network (running windows) have no issue. To make thing... | It's almost certainly a DNS problem. Solution: manually configure your network interface and explicitly set your DNS servers. Two very popular choices are: OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Google 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 |
Hi When I connect a USB stick to my laptop, it is mounted as root:root. I want ot be able to use it as the logged in user It has worked in the past (1+ month ago), but recently it just mount it as root:root. Code: Select allMay 20 22:59:42 leon kernel: [ 203.272120] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and... | I have "progress". I tested it on a secondary machine and it had the same problem. Apparently it is an XFCE problem. Using gnome, permissions were correct. It is probably some stupid detail about which group XFCE allows to read/write the new mounts. Any suggestions about what part of XFCE handles mounting? |
HI, last week while I was using ssh to the computer1 inside a NAT as usual, I made another tunnel from the computer1 that I was connecting to, to another computer2 inside that NAT (ssh 192.168.1.130) and after making some changes in computer2 I typed reboot. The computer2 rebooted but the tunnel totally hung and I had ... | toopho wrote:Well, seems like ssh is not foolproof Nothing is foolproof, as fools are persistent and ingenious! |
Hey guys. I have a client computer PXE booting from my host computer and it is supposed to give the client the ip address 172.16.0.100 however instead it gives it the ip address 172.16.0.208. I have this set up working with two other computers and there is no noticeable difference other than mac addresses for the netwo... | Just in case... If you're using squeeze, the file you want to configure is /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. |
SOLUTION: Thanks to everyone that helped me and especially bw123 for this solution. Go to "/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/" and delete the e1000e.ko-file Then download http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/4ddeb ... -amd64.tar Take the newly downloaded e1000e.ko-file and move it to "/lib/modules/2.6.... | A little Googling suggests that the Network Interface (NIC) on that mobo is Intel's (very) new 82579. "New" is bad in the sense that driver support is/will be spotty as best. Some sources suggest that very recent kernels (2.6.36, et seq) may support this widget. Others suggest that the very latest versions of the e1000... |
Hi, I have a problem in the shutdown of my computer: sometimes it give some errors (of the type "killall5: can't get program name from /proc/*number*/stat"), other times it doesn't kill processes (so it stops at "killing all other processes") Unfortunately I'm not able to see all the output because it is too rapid, so ... | anyone can help me? |
Hello. My Squeeze installation has the horrific 80x25 line display, and I cannot stand it. I know it can do better, because the grub screen is very tiny. I ran dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, but the offerings there aren't much better. I don't know what happened to the good ol' days of grub when all you had to do was p... | I have not tried this but from what I understand, you edit /etc/default/grub and add to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, then run update-grub. Can't you just enter it when you boot? I think you type e or tab or something... why go messing with a working system until you are sure what you are doing? I'm brand new and I tell... |
I bought a USB wireless adapter for my desktop. I finally got it to partially work using firmware-ralink as described http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/rt73 Using network manager it will pick up my wireless network. However it will not connect to it. I am not sure where to go from here so any help is appreciated. The output ... | looks like you are connected? might try: Code: Select alliwconfig wlan0 rate 54M with stanza pre-up in /etc/network/interfaces Code: Select allman interfaces |
Hello Everyone, I rescently upgraded to 'Testing' from Squeeze. Since then I cannot paste by clicking left and right mouse buttons together (I'm using a trackball). From what I gathered this is governed by X with an option 'emulate3buttons'. I do not have a xorg.conf file, but I have created a xorg.conf.d directory and... | Ok, after some staller work by babilen here is the solution: Modify xx-name.conf (10-mouse.conf) file to: Code: Select allSection "InputClass" Identifier "Mouse" Driver "evdev" MatchProduct "Logitech USB Trackball" MatchIsPointer "on" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Modifying 'Matc... |
vrms reveals the nefarious presence of Code: Select allvrms Non-free packages installed on debianbook-asusn61j nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-am NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 nvidia-libvdpau1 NVIDIA vdpau libraries (transitional package) nvidia-vdpau-driver NVIDIA vdpau driver opera A fast and secure web... | Code: Select allaptitude purge ~i~nnvidia should work just fine |
On squeeze with D-Link DWA-160 ver A1 this guide does not work. http://wiki.debian.org/ar9170usb#Squeeze Has anyone had success using the guide with D-Link DWA 160 A1. Not complaining, just posting the result of my efforts. | Works with kernel 2.6.38 |
Hello, I have Acer Aspire 4740 laptop with Atheros ar928x wireless. My wireless is very slow, unstable. Wireless card still works well and fast in Windows (dual booting). After searching I see that there are many Ubuntu users have the same problem in Ubuntu 11.04 with this card, but sadly no solution they posted works ... | You can try to install the 2.6.38 which is in backports. The replaced 2.6.38-2 in testing gives a good speed without having anything to tweak! |
I just installed, and evolution doesn't seem to think it has internet. The icon with the power cord in the bottom left is unplugged, and send/receive is greyed out. Internet is working , but it is not using network manager, since network manager says no internet is connected. Maybe this has something to do with it? SOL... | Are you sure it is working? Try using ping with some website. Also, are any other programs successfully connecting to the internet? If so, the problem may come from a firewall or some network configuration coming from the network server, modem, provider, etcetera. |
A friend of mine installed a new debian server. However, when I ssh into, the TERM environmental variable equals 'screen'. But screen was not installed. What is going wrong? Is it some selinux stuff? Code: Select all# echo $TERM screen # cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.1 | Is it running in a screen session? Check "screen -list" for a list of screen terminal multiplexing sessions. |
I did an update/upgrade on Monday May 16 using smxi. inxi output following that action shows: beejay@Home03:~$ inxi -FS System: Host Home03 Kernel 2.6.38-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T6400 (-MCP-) cache 2048 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3) bmips 7... | does error persist if you boot into your old kernel? Also, just a correction: inxi -FS -F triggers all upper case options, plus -s, so you don't need to add S If you have an old kernel to boot into, which you should ideally always have, try installing the liquorix kernel and see if the problem persists. I heard somethi... |
Hello everyone, I have searched google far and wide for two days now and went through pages of search results on these forums, yet if I'm raising a topic that exists, I do apologise. I have a fresh Debian install, since this install was on a desktop, I had an internet connection and didn't notice (it was late, I was ha... | Got it to work, basically dpkg --set-selections works as a command list of sorts. If you anyone wants more details contact me. |
I have a Knoppix DVD-ROM. I also have its image as k.iso at the second partition of HDD of my laptop. I use the DVD-ROM and write at the boot prompt the cheat code: Code: Select allknoppix bootfrom=/dev/sda5/k.iso I also have a folder Knoppix made during bootprompt by using the cheatcode Code: Select allknoppix tohd=/d... | If you are using grub2 it is possible. It is not easy however. I have the systemrescue ISO and a sidux ISO setup as follows Code: Select all#!/bin/sh #A menu entry in grub2 has the following important parameters #insmod -----> defines the partition type from where it will boot #set root----> defines the root #loopback-... |
New to linux/debian. I scanned the forms first, did not see an answer so... the prob is this. I have a toshiba laptop AMD 64 with 3G ram running latest Debian Squeeze. got the wireless working, everything seems great but... games on my ATI radon card run like junk. here is the output for my hardware: ATI technologies i... | Open source driver is radeon. You will need firmware-linux-nonfree package to enable direct rendering. Proprietary driver is fglrx, which is binary-only driver from ATI website. http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo#Install ... y_firmware http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary |
I installed Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on the same system. I didn't reinstall grub with kfreebsd, because I figured running grub-mkconfig would modify grub.cfg. But it didn't. It recognized the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as GNU/Linux (6.0.1): Code: Select all### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### Found Debian GN... | It is a bug in os-prober: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555394 How can I modify grub.cfg manually? |
Ok recent events have lead to some problems. I recently on suggestion from a poster here tried backports. Not sure if that was my mistake or not, but I do wish to not use backports further, including getting listings from apt-cache show/search. I have removed the backports line from my sources.list, questions is will a... | I also have lots of console-kit-daemon instances running in htop, but if I run: Code: Select allps aux | grep console-kit molly 20409 0.0 0.0 7776 856 pts/0 S+ 08:52 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto console-kit root 2393 0.0 0.0 124992 3760 ? Sl 08:00 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon It only returns the one. De... |
I upgraded from lenny to squeeze on a notebook and I can no longer connect to the wireless network. The computer is an LG notebook and the network card is ralink rt2860. I am using Gnome and NetworkManager. The wireless key is WEP hex. It was working fine with lenny till before the upgrade. After the upgrade, the netwo... | Can someone please help me out. Thank you. |
Would like to know the best way (or the pros and cons of different ways) to set up Alsa. I did a search for information on how to setup alsa on my system. I found a lot of out-of-date information even on the alsa wiki. What I did finally locate was two different methods for setup, both seemed somewhat up-to-date. One m... | lm8 wrote:Would be very interested to hear how others set sound up on their machines. What do others recommend as best steps to do this? Ok, here are the steps... 1. Download Debian Squeeze 2. Burn the CD 3. Install Debian 4. Reboot 5. ??? 6. Profit The thing is you don't need to do anything with alsa if you hear sound... |
Oh, what a bummer. Installed Debian 6 last night after using Ubuntu for close to 3 years. Couldn't believe how wonderful everything was put together and working, with some minor beginning glitches (like nvidea 3D drivers not working) which were to be expected. But now I'm sitting back in Ubuntu because I can't get Debi... | Still no change, but at least I'm sure now that xserver has nothing to do with this. I went ahead and tried: (in order to remove the existing, followed by replacing it with a default xorg.conf file during reboot) Code: Select allrm /etc/x11/xorg.conf followed by a reboot, but everything remained exactly the same as bef... |
hi ]Just for some testing on a test non-productive machine, howto allow Gnome login by root user on squeeze? | The problem is that you are doing it wrong. You simply need to use the tools correctly, to allow root to access the X session of the regular user. As recommended in the other thread, simply use gksudo or see 'man xhost' for a more customised approach (not just xhost +) |
I'm using alsa after ditching pulseaudio from my KDE installation. Alsa has always been reliable. However, I suffer from the inability to have two audio streams play at the same time. If I'm watching a movie, and the system gives a notification beep (like download complete or something), sound stops from smplayer or wh... | It is a known issue I have posted on the bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556578 No answer so far. The issue only seems to be with phonon no matter what backend I use. I have alleviated by the problem a little by disabling kde system sounds and etc. I am not sure if using pulse would help or... |
Greets, I just did a fresh install of squeeze and I am having a hard time getting x11vnc working on the system... Normally I would use the following command once I am logged in via GDM, and place this into the gnome startup. Code: Select allx11vnc -auth ~/.Xauthority -display :0 -rfbport 9600 -usepw -localhost -shared ... | What do you mean by "place this into the gnome startup"? Doesn't that startup environment already have XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY set correctly? |
System: Code: Select alluname -a Linux wolfgang-laptop 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux OS: Debian Squeeze I'm currently using the Dvorak Simplified keyboard layout in KDE4. Although the keyboard seems to be generating correct input (e.g. this post) under this layout, keyboard shortcuts ar... | I just wanted to comment that I am using both the programmer DVORAK and spanish QWERTY layouts using the command setxkbmap xx -variant xx and, although it is working perfectly, the keyboard shortcuts under Fluxbox are also responding to the QWERTY layout even when I am using the other one. I can confirm that Firefox (I... |
My new laptop works out of the box except for the video and the ethernet. For this, I have to use a later kernel than the Debian kernel (debian squeeze is currently 2.6.32). Upgrading to the new kernel (without moving to the testing dist itself) was pretty easy. I just installed linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 and linux-bas... | And, just to be clear: Code: Select all# cat /lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/build/include/config/kernel.release 2.6.38-2-amd64 which flat-out contradicts the statement "/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/build (version 2.6.38)" I thought this might be a bug in vboxdrv, but when I look at how it finds the version and run it mysel... |
Hi guys, It's been 2 days trying to get my wireless running and no result and no one managed to help me. The setup: 1 linksys router: gets the net from PPPOE and give the network DHCP. The router IP is 192.168.1.1 1 windows laptop that work wireless and wired 1 debian desktop that work wired and not working wireless. T... | Have you installed the required firmware? I think it's Debian -- Package Search Results -- firmware-ralink See also WiFi/rt73 - Debian Wiki |
Hello, i got some problems with apache2. I cant start apache to run, says only: $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start Starting web server: apache2Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information. failed! Ok, i searched apache log file and here error: (2)No such file or directory: apache2: could not open... | Solved, just needed to create folder with root. |
I recently purchased a HVM VPS. I had issues installing debian using the debian 6 netinstaller. The 2.6.32 kernel just would not see the nic. I figured it was a weird installer error because the debian 5 netinstaller cd worked fine. So now my VPS is running debian 5 with the 2.6.26 kernel and I perform a dist-upgrade t... | Done some more poking around. Seems this is a problem with debian squeeze when it is a xen DomU. Or at least with the 2.6.32 kernel debian squeeze uses. I'm finding more and more people with my problem as I use more proper search terms. The no-solution dead-end remain consistent however. The only thing that works for m... |
Hi I'm having issues with my hibernation. It works well, but the wake-up speed is to slow. I use the default hibernate package from squeeze/stable. An example Hibernation: saves 126867 pages with a speed of 38,24 Mb/s Wake up: restores 126867 pages with a speed of 18,58 Mb/s Note that the read speed is half of the writ... | Is their an option to compress the data as you save it to the hibernation file? It does not slow down the write, since you are writing less, and speeds up the resume, since decompression is very fast and the bottleneck is reading data from the file. Reading Code: Select allman hibernate.conf Wow, there's a lot of optio... |
Topic sys it all. How can I recover from it? System Specs: Code: Select allfdisk -l /dev/sda1 = boot /dev/sda2 = osroot What I have tried: 01 - Booted with LiveCD 02 - Ran these commands Code: Select allsudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc sudo mount --bind /sys /m... | BKJ wrote: Code: Select allsudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys sudo chroot /mnt aptitude install linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 update-grub2 rebooted Still does not work. Any help in recovering the system would be greatly appreciated Ca... |
I installed the Gnome desktop CD1 AMD 64 version of Debian Squeeze. I installed samba and python-smbc. I am missing samba printers in my system-config-printer. Anyone know why? http://imgur.com/G79sH | There are many answers to that question. Here are a few: 1-does the printer work on the computer it's attached to? 2-Has cups been configured to share the printer? 3-Has samba been configured to share the printer? 4-Have you tried to use the cups interface at http://localhost:631 5-.......... 6-..... 7-... Sorry, these... |
Greatings everyone! I have a probplem compiling kernel in chroot env. I debootstrap a minimal Debian (using cdebootstrap) to another partition using this command: Code: Select allcdebootstrap --flavour=minimal --arch=amd64 squeeze /mnt/install http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian Then i chroot (whith a script) on that new s... | First of all why do you want chroot to compile the kernel? where did you take your basic kernel config from? I would suggest to take a working config and use make oldconfig to update it. |
In my search to get my ipod touch working with Debian 6 I tried to install a newer version of libimobiledevice1 which I downloaded as I believe the one that comes with this distro is not working with my ipod. Anyway, I did dpkg -i libimobiledevice1 I had unmet multiple dependancies. You might want to run 'apt-get -f in... | Why not use the aptitude interface? It's much easier to see what is going on, and why, and change any auto/manual install flags you want as you go. |
I have two ethernet NIC's on my debian server. One built-in Realtek [eth0] (attached to internet), and a PCI Nvidia ethernet card [eth1] (attached to my Win7 netbook). I used this guide to setup the bridge: http://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections. It worked when I was behind a router. But when I moved the compu... | Code: Select allAutoconfiguration IPv4 Address..: 169.254.134.17 Subnet Mask.......:255.255.0.0 Default Gateway......: That says your win machine is not getting a DHCP lease. Presumably it was getting it from the router before, that is now not there... |
I have an apache installation with /var/www/bob as the document root and the only site served up. I have bob as the directory's owner, and he is able to upload his files to that folder via ftp (vsftpd on the server). When a browser tries to access the pages, it simply gets a 403 forbidden. The problem occurs when apach... | I figured it out. My ftp daemon was the one putting the stringent permissions on the file. I'm using vsftpd, and I had to go through /etc/vsftpd.conf to find Code: Select all# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022, # if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's) #local_... |
Hey I have been trying to install programs and I keep getting a screen error message. and it does it on every package i install unless i remove screen.. Help please Running Debian Squeeze x86_x64 root@Phoenix33:/# apt-get install screen Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...... | http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 1&p=402471 |
Hello all, I've just installed Debian Squeeze from a live CD. When I open a web browser (be it iceweasel or epiphany) and try to go to google.com, it tells me it can't resolve the host name. [Edit: They do, however, allow me to go anywhere on debian.org, minus the search feature] I also get the same error when I try to... | Disable ipv6 in Iceweasel. |
Hello. I am attempting a netboot installation and I aw following the documentation found here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/a ... l.en#dhcpd My problem is that given my dhcpd.conf I am met with the errors listed below. I have checked to make sure that none of the conditions that the error warns about possible c... | A restart fixed the issue |
Certain applications appear to be unable to resolve domain names via DNS: Code: Select allErr http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' Err http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en_US Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org' root@sini... | Perhaps you should try Googling your error message. I think you'll find it very helpful. |
Up until very recently I've had a wired network, and at boot I'd see messages about DHCPREQUEST and DHCPOFFER and stuff as it set up the wired network. Great. Now I've just got wireless working instead, but it still tries to use DHCP on the no-longer-existing wired network. So it says "DHCPDISCOVER on eth0..." and wait... | So when you installed wireless did you also install networkmanager to manage the wireless? Have a peek in /etc/network/interfaces if you use networkmanager to manage the network connections is should contain Code: Select allauto lo iface lo inet loopback else use this file to configure your interfaces. see Code: Select... |
I am looking into migrating my laptop from Arch to Debian Squeeze. I like lighter Desktop Environments like LXDE or XFCE4 and would like to avoid having to edit wpa_supplicant.conf when I move from one network to another. When traveling it would also be nice to quickly associate with open networks at airports/coffeessh... | Which wicd client are you using? I've used both the gtk & ncurses clients to add multiple WPA2 networks and all work as expected, i.e automatically connect when each available. I've never had to edit wpa_supplicant.conf manually. |
Hi all. First post. About Me: - Mandriva refugee, looking for an OS that doesn't self-destruct 2-3 times a year. - High Priest of RTFM. From what I've seen in this forum, looks like I'm not alone. My issue: I've installed Squeeze on my main desktop, and am pleased to report that only one issue has emerged that's drivin... | Try, as root: Code: Select all# apt-get -f install This should get any dependencies needed. |
This topic is about setting up dual boot with Debian and Windows using two hard disks after Debian was installed. Historical order of events: 1) bought new pc with two identical hard disks, plugged both in 2) installed squeeze on one hd (sda1 boot, sda2, sda5-sda8) 3) formated another hd (sdb1 no system, sdb2, sdb5 ext... | An interesting story. Thanks for telling it. And I'm glad it ended well. It was a lot to absorb, and I think I followed it all correctly. Here are some thoughts that I had along the way... Sergio wrote:4) tried to install windows 7 => first problem: windows does not recognize sdb1 and does not want to format it When yo... |
Setup a new machine with Apache, identical setup to all the other machines I got, yet this one is logging hostnames instead of IPs. "HostnameLookups" are "Off" and LogFormat settings are identical to all the other machines: Code: Select allLogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" v... | The cause was directives where hostname instead of IP was used. For example: Code: Select all<Directory "/path/to/dir"> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from xx.xx.xx.xx Allow from xx.xx.xx.xx/xx Allow from host.example.com </Directory> <Location /server-status> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost i... |
If you want, skip straight to the 'QUESTION' at the end of my post & refer to the 'EXPLANATION' later. EXPLANATION: Using Debian 6.01 Squeeze 64-bit. Just put together a brand new 3.3Ghz 6-core AMD. I had a nightmare with my Highpoint 640 raid controller, apparently because Debian Squeeze now handles raid through sysfs... | I don't remember for sure and I haven't double checked, for sure I don't remember details off the top of my head, but I think you need to add the necessary modules to initramfs, which involves adding them to the correct conf file and then rebuilding initramfs. Easy enough to actually do, if you can get the details righ... |
Hi , i have successfully set up squid3 with squeeze using guide on this forum http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=59301 . The only problem that i have is the size of /var/log/access.log is too big and keep increasing so i run out of free space. The size of it always the same size as my free space hard disk (s... | Large logfiles can occur with squid. Usually, logrotate is used to periodically clean up your logfiles. However, since your logfile is extremely large after one hour, you better take a look at the logfile: - are there many errors? Of so, fix them first - maybe your loging to much More on squid logging: http://wiki.squi... |
I have just got a new machine - hp Z400 with Nvidia Quadro NVS 295. I can install Debian 6 apparently with no problems, but when it reboots, it shows a few messages and then the screen shuts down, it seems. I have tried to edit the grub-settings, removing the "quiet" option from the kernel entry and adding a "vga=norma... | grub2 uses gfxpayload instead of vga= check for this, including section before any menu entries in grub.cfg most reliable method would be Code: Select allgrep gfxpayload grub.cfg |
Hey guys, I noticed that KDE does not have a way to browse for network printers like Gnome does. I installed system-config-printer to fix this(if there is a KDE route that would be nice as well). Anyway, I go to add a printer and select "Network Printer" and click "Windows Printer via SAMBA". This is where i would typi... | does you user has the permission for that? probably thats why the browse button is unclickable, you can run Code: Select allkdesudo systemsettingsthat way you can have privileges but the user has to be on the sudoers list, and you can always run the printer manager with cups on any browser http://localhost:631 |
I installed Debian 6 last night on an older Compaq. For the system to properly reboot and shutdown when requested, both acpi=force and reboot=warm must be in the boot parameters, this was required with other Linux distros installed on this hardware. Otherwise, the system erroneously shuts down when reboot is chosen. I ... | Hmm /etc/default/grub should work. Code: Select allGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi=force reboot=warm " What does this tell you? Code: Select allgrep LINUX_DEFAULT /boot/grub/grub.cfg I used sed to edit /etc/default/grub Code: Select all# sed -i 's|GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"|GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="qu... |
This is related to the mail notification after a login in text mode. You know, when it writes "you have mail," or "you have new mail." Just in case, do you know to make the Login(1) program look in maildirs for the new mail notification instead of /var/mail/user? If it can't be done, then I'd like to disable the new ma... | I found the answer to this question (after more than 26 months!). It can be done. For the record, you have to edit /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/sshd and the way to do it is explained in man 8 pam_mail. |
New install of Mint LMDE (Debian Testing) I installed Blueman & paired my headset successfully but I get this error message when I connect my headset, "Failed to initialize pulseaudio bluetooth module. Bluetooth audio over pulseaudio will not work". When I go to Pulse Audio Volume Control, it's not showing in my hardwa... | Just needed to install this package: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth |
I installed Debian sid recently. I installed the B43 driver and wireless is working just fine at home and elsewhere. I can't connect to the wireless networks at school though. There are two networks, one is unsecured (and you have to enter your login details after connecting - I can't connect at all though), the other ... | Can you see the networks at all and just can't connect, or you can't even see them? Are you using Network Manager, wicd, or something else? The fact that it works everyplace else definitely indicates that it's a configuration issue specifically for those networks. As a pure guess since I really have nothing to go on yo... |
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