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I upgraded my system to lenny, but I am still running a 2.4 kernel. This is creating problems with the libc6 package. I have tried upgrading my kernel, but it wants a newer version of libc6. When I try to upgrade the libc6 it gives me trouble about the kernel version. I can't find a way to fix this. Does anyone have so... | post the output of: Code: Select allaptitude full-upgrade -DV -s (You can run that as a normal user) |
Hi guys! I need help in configuring a fresh install of Squeeze. I discovered that it is possible to power off the system under gnome simply by pressing the power button or by selecting the "Shut Down" entry on "System" menu. However I need to restrict this option only to root. How can I do that? Thank you Davide | Code: Select all$ gksu gdmsetup Local tab, uncheck "Show actions menu" CORRECTION : Disregard my post. It's for gdm menu. Did not fully understand the question. I think I need more coffee ( duh ) *Goes back to sleep* |
Hello everyone, My Debian Lenny server at my home doesn't want to route any traffic i think. Everything went well, but then when I installed OpenVPN it didn't work. I have Samba, Bind9 (slave), Shorewall, OpenVPN, Snort and LAMP for Base on the Debian installed. This is my network: You probably need more information wh... | Can someone help me? |
I have a fairly new laptop, 2*1.8 Ghz, but when I try to run games more advanced than pac-man, it's about 1-0.5 frames / second. This doesn't seem right. I've goggled it, and found a few posts from 2008-2009, but nothing that actually helped. Does anyone have any idea, as to what might be wrong? If anyone has this card... | Perhaps I should elaborate a bit. I'm guessing it's the 3D rendering-stuff that doesn't work. Compiz is completely dead, and running games like OpenArena is out of the question, CPU goes up to 100 % just by showing the menu. Same problem for other games. |
Dear all, I have a problem copying my udev rules from other distro to another pc running debian. My box is running debian without any DE and I want my USB disks to be automounted based on the label; I believe udev is the nicest way to do this taks. Anyways : my rules are (copied from archlinux wiki btw) cat /etc/udev/r... | Why don't you mount them with fstab by their UUID? I think it would be much easier. For example: Code: Select allUUID=14542DA2542D8816 /media/external-hd1 ntfs-3g exec,auto,user,uid=0,gid=1000,umask=007 0 0 If you don't know their UUID, this command will reveal the UUID for all pluged devices: Code: Select all# ls -l /... |
I have been having trouble setting up a daily backup script with cron. It would basically never worked. Searched the net for answers but didn't find anything. I finally figured it out !! When root crontab is edited the execute flag is removed from #/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. I change it with #chmod a+x /var/spool/c... | How you are editing crontab file? By "crontab -e" or otherwise? Code: Select allman -a crontab Peter. |
Hi all, i am looking for some help, since i am in a really hard situation from where i couldn't get out after many hours of reading documents/posts/forums etc. The issue: In Kde 4.4.5, using xorg and radeon opensource driver, i can't set OpenGL for desktop effects. Clicking "Apply" it fails. OpenGL seems corrupted some... | Hello, try to install firmware-linux-nonfree package. It would help you. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firm ... ux-nonfree |
hello all i'm a beginner in linux actually we have only a workgroup, now i want to setup a domain to "centralize" the management of network, we got 10 machines with dual boot debian/windows, i also want to install DNS to access computers using their hostnames i'm actually trying to do so by isntalling GUI samba, how ca... | You may find what you are looking for here . . . good luck. http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/dns |
Hi, I installed Debian Squeeze (choosing no when prompted to add support for non-free or contrib sources) and noticed that the fan of my Nvidia 9600 GT video card is constantly running at full speed. I thought this meant that the default driver is not properly working. I would like to configure my system so that the vi... | After further research I found that to regulate the video card fan, I had to forgo using KMS via Nouveau. I followed Method 2 on the link below to install a proprietary nVidia driver (after ensuring I had configured X and copied the generated /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf). http://www.linuxquestions.org/que... |
Hi! I am running testing (with fluxbox) and my keyboard periodically freezes, meaning whatever I type in it doesn't respond. This lasts a few seconds (can be 2-3 or sometimes even more like 10) and one's it comes back I get all the keystrokes I was typing during the freeze. The frequency of the freezes can be like 4-5 ... | Hm! just posting back to report that I seem to have solved the issue by reinstalling. Probably something was wrong with my previous system which at some point I upgraded from lenny to squeeze. Maybe the transition to the new xorg? Who knows! I got suspicious when, in order to test what was going wrong, I installed in a... |
In order to solve a problem with the hibernate feature, I've been suggested to downgrade my squeeze installation to kernel 2.6.32-29 (I think I have -30 now). Questions: - what is the proper way to downgrade to that version of the kernel (I got my current kernel version when I installed squeeze few days ago and the off... | The thing is that Lenny Backports and Squeeze have the same version of the kernel (2.6.32-30) and Lenny uses the 2.6.26 one, thus, its is not possible to install the version 2.6.32-29 using the official repositories. Have you tried the kernel in Sid or the Liquorix (1) one? To prevent a kernel upgrade, one can put the ... |
Has someone tried to build and install wine in squeeze? I tried follow different manuals (e.g. http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit), but always run into lots of warnings, missing packages and abortion of make. No wonder, squeeze seem to be pretty different from lenny. I installed the binary wine, but that does not help ... | Sergio wrote:Has someone tried to build and install wine in squeeze? I tried follow different manuals (e.g. http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit), but always run into lots of warnings, missing packages and abortion of make. No wonder, squeeze seem to be pretty different from lenny. I installed the binary wine, but that d... |
I am using Squeeze and all appears OK at first... I have a DHCP lease, PING to router works, apache servering fine in and outside the network, Epiphany seems to connects to default debian.org only, BUT I cannot connect to any other websites and apt will not connect to any servers. I installed once, tried to fix problem... | Hi Desierto, First thing to check is if it is Domain names that do not work, or that you really cannot connect to any websites using its address: Try this by visiting an IP address instead of a webname in your browser: F.e. 128.31.0.51 or 209.85.229.147 If IP numbers work, and domain names do not, it is a DNS problem. ... |
Dear All, I am running Debian testing. Today, I got this error after running sudo aptitude update W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures were invalid: BA... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=60692 |
I am using Lenny--iceweasel, konqueror, epiphany (those I tested) don't connect to the Internet, but Opera does, although some links don't work. Thanks, Hearthstone. | hearthstone wrote:I am using Lenny--iceweasel, konqueror, epiphany (those I tested) don't connect to the Internet, but Opera does, although some links don't work. Thanks, Hearthstone. Hi, Some checks to determine possible problems: - Are you sure the browsers are not in offline mode? - Did you try visiting an IP addres... |
I am trying to installed a dhcp server in my system(Debian squeeze) I have installed a dhcpd server in the system using Code: Select all# apt-get install dhcp3-server It is installed in the system but I cannot find the configuration file /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd3.conf there is no dhcpd3 directory. Similarly I couldnot find the... | It's in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf (and take a look into /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server too). |
Hello, I have a new install of Debian Squeeze from debian-6.0.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso but I'm experiencing problems with the wireless internet applet in the taskbar. When the computer boots, it doesn't connect automatically eventhough I have it set as such. I have to fiddle with it until I get the request from KDE Wallet ... | Ok, let me answer my own question. Changing "managed" from false to true in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf fixed the problem. |
I know that in an xterminal I can redefine the default colour with something like Code: Select all!!red URxvt.color1: rgb:cc/00/00 URxvt.color9: rgb:ef/29/29 Is it possible to do something similar in the Linux (framebuffer) console? | Yes, have a look at the arch forum, like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 72#p881672 There are many more color schemes available on the Arch forum. |
how to hide an unmounted partition from the nautilus right side panel? for lenny an hal policy did the trick, but it does not seem working with squeeze anymore... TIA | in squeeze, if a partition is added to the /etc/fstab file with a mount path different than /media/something, for instance /mnt/something then it's not shown in nautilus. adding the noauto option will prevent those partitions being mounted at startup. |
Hello dear friends. I have a little problem here, but hope I can find some help from you! I have always used apt-get to update the system. Yesterday, I was doing some tests and one of them was to try to update the system using the aptitude command, instead. I ran aptitude update and then aptitude safe-ugrade. I thought... | Code: Select allUPDATE-GRUB(8) UPDATE-GRUB(8) NAME update-grub - stub for grub-mkconfig SYNOPSIS update-grub DESCRIPTION update-grub is a stub for running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate a grub2 config file. SEE ALSO grub-mkconfig(8) I think, you can repair grub by using this command. You can also use ... |
I got a brandnew Acer Travelmate Timeline X (13"). I do not really know if this is the right topic for my problem. But here it comes: The Acer uses a special smart battery with special chips in it controling the powermanagement of the battery and the system. In general there is a kernel module to handle this (sbs). But... | Hey does no one got an idea? Do you need further information? In the normal acpi directories is nothing about batteries, so to post that would not give more information. Also no other program does recognize the battery it is as if there is no battery! It is very nerving, that the battery is not recognized. Normal work ... |
I have a windows 7 box and a debian 5.0 box connected to a linksys wrt300n router. I can access the linux box from windows 7 through ssh. I used to be able to access the linux box from outside the LAN, but when I was messing with the ssh port configuration (at least I think this was what happened), i lost my ability to... | New DHCP lease & your linux box's ip has changed? Verify that your port forward rule in your router is pointing to the right place. |
Hello everybody, I use Debian Squeeze and I have some questions about pinning. I would appreciate very much if you guys could give me a little help. Q1. I noticed that Squeeze has the directories /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and /etc/apt/preferences.d/. Should I still use the tradicional config files /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc... | 1) Whichever you're more comfortable with. There was a bug in relation to preferences.d where aptitude (I think) wasn't picking up the preferences from the sub-directory. Or maybe it was one of the other programs. In any case that bug has been fixed, so at this point it's really a matter of preference. I still have one... |
Goal: share network over wireless interface. Ethernet -> eth0 -> dnsmasq-> wlan0 -> wireless clients All hardware is confirmed as working. Network-manager handles the wired network (at work) and my private wireless network (at home) just fine. At work we have a wired network serving ip's in the 10.x.x.x range. The how-... | Ha! Fixed - and it was simple - uncomment bind-interfaces in /etc/dnsmasq.conf Code: Select allsed -i 's/#bind-interfaces/bind-interfaces/g' /etc/dnsmasq.conf Restart dnsmasq Code: Select all/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart or Code: Select allservice dnsmasq restart |
Hello, I have read much material on the backports service and have a few questions not covered in the text I have read: 1. How long after a stable realease until stuff appears in the backports service - kernels in particular? 2. Are Xorg drivers and mesa included in backports? 3. Are the packages in backports buggy or ... | I can only answer 3 and 4: 3: i have never found the backports packages to be NOT stable. I remember some message saying that backports are now officially declared "part of Debian", but can't find what I once have read. 4: yes, you can take a look at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/ and/or http://backports... |
Hello all, I'm trying to get a framebuffer console with acceptable scrolling speed on Dell XPS M1530. It has GeForce 8600M GT card with maximum resolution supported by bios 1920x1200 Code: Select all# cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes | sort U:1024x768p-60 U:1280x1024p-59 U:1280x800p-60 U:1600x1200p-60 U:1920x1200p-60 ... | nvidiafb isn't proprietary(in fact, I'm pretty sure it's incompatible with nVidia's driver); it's merely one of a number of deprecated framebuffer drivers replaced by generic ones and KMS(ie, nouveau). |
Hi, I have just joined the Debian community, for the past 2 years I have been using Linux Mint (ubuntu), I am now using Linux Mint Debian 64. I have a Lenovo A700 ideacentre with a Broadcom 4313 WiFi card. I manage to get the card working, now I have a new problem. If I suspend the machine the WiFi will not connect on ... | rdonnelly wrote:Is there a simple command I can use to getting the connection restarted, or better yet a work around so it will restart on its own? As a test, try using the modprobe command to remove and immediately reload the wireless module. Give NetworkManager several seconds to react. If it reconnects, then you pos... |
This only started after the recent updates which included a lot of sysv stuff in Squeeze. I'm not talking the Gnome or Xwindows consoles, I'm talking the full-on type you get when you do the CTL-ALT-F2 type of console. before those updates, I had no trouble. Now I can't get back into the gui by pressing CTL-ALT-F7 as u... | robert3242 wrote:I do have the nvidia proprietary driver installed using DKMS, and I am running the latest (I think) liquorix kernel. You may need to purge and reinstall the nvidia proprietary driver. Did you check the logs? Code: Select allcat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW |
Hi, I'm running a minimal install of Debian Lenny. I don't use GNOME (I primarily use IceWM), but I decided to give GDM a try because I've had trouble finding the Perfect Login Manager for me. (I use SLiM, but despite its small footprint it's slow to come up, especially after logging out.) After installing GDM and deci... | xserver-xephyr lets you run multiple xserver instances. zenity is a program that allows for easy use of graphical dialogue boxes. None of this should change hal. What if you boot into single user mode and restart dbus? Is dbus running by default? Can you restart hal? |
I have some kind of internet connection configuration problem, thats the best I can word it at the moment because I not sure what is causing the problem. The easiest way for me to explain it is by posting screen shots I took in Squeeze and Windows XP, switching between the two OSes. These are benchmark ping test taken ... | I would suspect IPv6 first. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6 |
Part II I have a desktop box, 3 laptops using the wireless connection. The laptops are used while on the road, desktop is used by me at home, for laptop backups, sharing picture and videos. The desktop has all the accounts set up, while the laptop has only one account that of it´s user. How do I march the laptop user a... | Are all of the laptops used by you and you alone? Why does your desktop have 3 separate accounts? |
Help with NFS shares part 1 Part I I have a couple of questions. I have a desktop box running Debian testing connected to a Leadtek VOIP TA router and the Internet; a Linksys wireless router connects to Leadtek, 3 laptops using the wireless connection. The laptops are used while on the road, desktop is used by me at ho... | For dhcp simply set up reservations on your dhcp server so that the clients get the same ip automatically. |
computer a static ip (ethernet connection running testing) computer b static ip (wireless connection running sid) computer c dhcp (wireless laptop running testing) i can ssh and ping from computer a to both b and c i can ssh and ping computer a from computer b, but can't find computer c i can ssh and ping computer a fr... | I'm no network guru, but just for giggles, set a static ip for the lappy... |
Hi. I'm writing because of a very strange problem i encountered yesterday. I have a wireless router at my home and 3 laptops connected to it one of which is my Thinkpad with Debian Unstable installed on it. I restarted the laptop and after i did that i couldn't detect my network. The windows laptop detected the network... | did you also restart your windows machine? guess mode: if the issue happened between the time you booted up the windows box and the time you restarted the debian machine, that would narrow your search for the problem by about 50% it's windows dude, it's not rocket science..... |
I can not get a few web pages to load in any browser I have installed. Google Chrome, Chromium, or Iceweasle. In LMDE I also have Firefox and Epiphany and none of these browser in either OS will load speedtest.bhntampa.com. My ISP is Bright House and if I have an issue they want me to run their speed test. I have to bo... | Your speed test site works for me in iceweasel with flashplugin-nonfree from debian repo. |
Ok, after reading http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=34902 about debirf, i decided to give it a try. The steps were easy enough to follow; only i've had to do it as root and only using a kernel already on the system building the new kernel and initrd. Otherwise, the process could not be completed. After that... | Are you sure you are keeping the kernels under /home? |
I'm trying to change my DNS to a faster server but the changes will not stick on reboot. This is how it looks on boot: Screenshot.png (19.15 KiB) Viewed 943 times I change it to look like this: Screenshot-1.png (20.11 KiB) Viewed 943 times I click on "Click here to prevent changes" Reboot and it is back to the first sc... | Sleven wrote:I'm trying to change my DNS to a faster server but the changes will not stick on reboot. This is how it looks on boot: Screenshot.png I change it to look like this: Screenshot-1.png I click on "Click here to prevent changes" Reboot and it is back to the first screen shot Any suggestions as to how to make t... |
Hello everyone. I got a problem on Squeeze with KDE - the network manager only gives me one enabled tab: VPN. All others (including the one I want, mobile broadband) are disabled and not accessible. What Gives? I can use wvdial to get online with my Huawie USB 3G dongle, but I would like to use network manager. I got n... | Just a guess, do you have modemmanager installed? I think it's made to manage 3G modems. |
ok: i got this problem, for a long time now. as its not that much of a headache i dont get further (and its a bit too difficult for me). Thats the situation: I create a live-cd with live-helper and install it afterwards (just to test if it works) Thats the problem: When i try to upgrade/dist-upgrade or install a kernel... | The problem related to initrd is not a problem. Either edit the file or simply continue and everything should be fine. Debian uses a initrd so it shouldn't be a issue. I think I also have trouble with the 2.6.30-libre-fshoppe1 kernel booting on some hardware so you may not be doing anything wrong at all. Give me a sec ... |
I have a very slow, unreliable Internet connection (Africa). I thought I would try using Squid as a caching proxy to see if that would help. I'm running Squeeze (current). I installed squid3 on my workstation via aptitude from the Squeeze repository. I configured "http_access localnet" in /etc/squid/squid.conf accordin... | Squid 2.7 is more suited for caching. |
Hello everyone. I am currently running: Code: Select allhornet@Athena:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-26lenny1) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 01:53:57 UTC 2010 Uname -r gives me: Code: Select all00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel... | You could try this command and see if it gets your audio working: Code: Select all# alsactl init |
Can anyone here help? Ive been trying to setup bonding on my debian lenny box for about a week now with still no luck. i thinks its ver 2.6.26 or summing like that. I have followed the following #apt-get install ifenslave-2.6 edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: iface bond0 inet static address 10.0.1.2 netma... | Update. I have tinkered with our HP 1800-24G switch and setup LinkAG Now I have the following problem. The server can ping anything on its own subnet 10.0.1.0 but cannot ping anything from 10.0.0.0 subnet... We have a windows 2003 R2 server running RRAS which is routing the traffic between the two subnets. There is cur... |
This morning's update Code: Select allroot@squeeze:/home/me# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [835 B] Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_AU Get:2 http://security.debian.org sq... | dotlj wrote:This morning's update Code: Select allroot@squeeze:/home/me# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [835 B] Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_AU Get:2 http://security.d... |
Hi guys, I'm quite new to Linux, but I hope I can give you all the information you need. I'll just post what I did, so this might be self explaining already server:~# apt-get install cryptsetup hashalot Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages... | Btw, 'dmesg' shows a few "padlock: VIA PadLock not detected." messages. Not sure whether this information is useful or not... |
I have 2 users on my HPmini 210 netbook running Squeeze. I just found out that it does not connect to existing wireless networks when I login as the second user. Is it supposed to happen by default or am I supposed to do something to make that happen? Another problem is that when I tried to create "new connections" aga... | Assuming you're using NM: Right-click on Network Manager icon that shows signal (by the date in Gnome). In menu select "Edit Connections." Click on the "Wireless" tab. Select your network under where it says "Name" and......"Last Used." Click on Edit on the right. You'll have to enter root passwd. Mark the box in lower... |
I have installed splashy from sid. Rest of the system is squeeze, and put the parameter "vga=791 splash quiet" in the kernel parameter... Unfortunately this is not working properly. It does load the splash image as intended, but it then just hangs here, and does not load the OS unless I press enter. (I asume that somet... | Hm, I get this error after timeout. Code: Select alllibsplashy: line 28: depmod: not found commandline read: splashy commandline read: boot splashy error: timeout (120 sec) occured while waiting for a message on the splashy socket |
I am running Squeeze on a HPmini 210. The system is listing 2 cpu while there is actually only one. The boot log shows Code: Select allWed Dec 1 16:58:05 2010: CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor.. .CPU0...CPU1...done. The system log GUI is also showing 2 cpus. How should I correct it? | Do you have an Intel processor? If so, it probably has hyperthreading enabled, which splits each physical processor into two logical ones. |
I migrated a Debain install to another system (through a medium of a squashfs image). Everything appears to be working fine except Gnome's volume management - 1) Any filesystems wont be show anywhere (i.e not in computer, places etc...). Even plugged in external block device or CD/DVD... or in general any storage mediu... | If partition tables are not in order, reorder them to solve the issue. |
Running Debian stable. I added the following command to rc.local and made it executable: mount -t cifs -o username=ted,password=computer,uid=mooreted,gid=users "//192.168.1.121/Storage Volume" /mnt/vortex After rebooting dmesg throws the following error: [ 21.400697] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting ... | I have no problems with a such resources mounting as user. Place record with it in /etc/fstab with "users" option like Code: Select all<resource> <mounting_point> cifs <options> 0 0 and mount it as user by command Code: Select allmount <resource> Peter. |
I have a windows pc currently running vista, and has Debian in the second partition. Can i boot up Debian from a flash drive? (I don't want to change boot sector) | sure, if the computer supports booting from usb devices |
I installed Lenny on a computer and set up grub to boot windows by default with a timeout of 0 Is there a way to interrupt the boot process so I can boot linux? Or can I boot from a flash drive somehow? PS: nothing to do with topic, but I just found out that the top 24 supercomputers run linux , and more besides. That ... | Pressing a button the instant GRUB comes up might do it, but I'd change the timeout to something reasonable(five seconds is a good number), |
Hi folks, I'm trying to get my Intel HM55 GMA HD graphics card to work in Debian Lenny. As the vanilla Xorg didn't have any support for it, I manually compiled the last stable Xorg source (1.7.1 - such a pain) and the Intel driver. But when I try to launch X, I get the following message : (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open ... | Try squeeze. |
I have Debian Squeeze x64 on ThinkPad T61p with standard 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel. thinkpad_acpi loaded as module, suspend to RAM works fine from menu in KDE as well as by closing the lid, however machine doesn't appear to react on pressing Fn+F4 which should put it to sleep as well. I've read through thinkpad_acpi docume... | Go into a terminal and type "xev" a window should open that will show you keycodes and everything. Press fn key and see what it outputs. Press w and see what it outputs. Now that you understand what's happening, try pressing something like shift and w, then just w... ok, grand finale, press fn and f4. If nothing shows ... |
This is a Debian Xen domU on a Debian dom0. I am trying to get BIND running an a chroot in /var/lib/bind. For some reason, named can't access /var/lib/bind/dev/null and /var/lib/bind/dev/random, and the following appears in the log: Code: Select allnamed[1222]: could not open entropy source /dev/random: permission deni... | Try mknod with "-m <mode>" option. Peter. |
I just installed fresh Squeeze to my new hpmini 210-1100 netbook. No wireless. I have checked and I have Network Manager installed already. I also compiled and installed Broadcom driver from here http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I followed their instructions and compiled the driver. I did get a wl.k... | maybe this will help http://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211 |
Hi all, When I make a vpn connection to an openvpn server, I loose the internet connection. The VPN works all right. Server config (extract) Code: Select allport 1194 proto udp dev tun server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0" Client config Code: Select allclient dev tun proto udp remote ****... | The default route to the gateway was deleted and replaced by a default route to the VPN subnet (10.8.0.5). That was the problem. I say "was" because the problem is solved. I was having that issue only when using the Gnome Network Manager VPN applet and not when using the direct command: Code: Select allopenvpn client.c... |
Hi all, I've been scouring the internet for an answer to this problem. I am using Squeeze and have properly configured Grub2 to set my console screen resolution to 1024x768x32 (as per updating /etc/default/grub to contain 'GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32' and updating /etc/grub.d/00_header to contain 'set gfxpayload=keep') an... | When you install xorg, you will also install a display driver which will probably enable kernel mode setting, this is why your console resolution will change during boot up. It's never worried me much, but I think you can change the framebuffer resolution using fbset. |
Beginning this weekend on my 64bit AMD Testing box, Iceweasel continually freezes for about 10 seconds. It's getting script errors and the Iceweasel Error Console is rarely empty. I have disabled Java scripts and Java, the freezes stop, but there are many errors that fill the console. This error occurs on all websites.... | Ok...I finally figured this out. Not the specific cause, but more so the solution. So far I haven't been receiving scripting errors. After finding this page about unresponsive script errors. Which lead me to another page. I first made a back-up of my bookmarks and saved it to my desktop just to make it easy to find. I ... |
This problem is on my Acer AsprireOne running Testing and started early last month. Printing to a shared HP 5L printer on my 64bit AMD (Testing) has been working fine until then. It first started when I noticed I lost the connection to the shared printer/box when printing from the Testing Acer(cups and/or cups-pdf upda... | Something during a CUPS, CUPS-PDF, or SAMBA update, changed, but I had a thought this evening and tried it. It worked! Until it broke, I had configured in CUPS the location as: http://debian64:631/ipp/. changing it to: smb://192.168.1.4/hp_laserjet_5l fixed the issue. I can now print to CUPS-PDF and the shared HP 5L. R... |
Does anyone know how to delete or disable kickoff menu items? I need to disable or delete the SLEEP and HIBERNATE menus as they don't function properly causing the system to crash. I searched the internet and local configuration files without success. Thanks for any help. | Apparently, the kickoff menu application uses the script: /usr/bin/pm-is-supported to determine whether it makes sense to include a sleep and hibernate menu items. I renamed this script to pm-is-supported.bak and created a new one obviously with the same name with only "exit 1". I changed the file permissions to match ... |
I did: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Code: Select all# cat /var/log/vbox-install.log Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.36-rc5) does not match the current kernel (version 2.6.36-rc5-mt-localmodconfig-0). Stop. Code: Select all# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.36-rc5-mt-localmodconfig-0/build lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root... | No problems using the liquorix kernel. /lib/modules/2.6.35-6.dmz.2-liquorix-686/misc/vboxdrv.ko /lib/modules/2.6.35-6.dmz.2-liquorix-686/misc/vboxnetadp.ko /lib/modules/2.6.35-6.dmz.2-liquorix-686/misc/vboxnetflt.ko But I am lazy I just use svmi. http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#svmi $ apt-cache policy virtualbox-ose vir... |
Canon mp250 printer/scanner and Debian Lenny. When I installed the Canon printer for my sister it scanned and printed correctly even after several reboots. Now, a couple of days later, the printer no longer works. Code: Select all/etc/init.d/cups restart has to be given before she can view the cups interface by going t... | I've changed the group name in the udev rule from "scanner" to "lp" and it seems to have fixed the problem. Why does explaining things to other people help clear ones thoughts? |
I have set up NFS on a server and a client. I have set up for the server to export the directory in rw but the client is only given ro permissions. Here are the pertinent config files. Server: Code: Select all/etc/exports /home 192.168.1.102(rw,no_root_squash,sync) /home 192.168.1.103(rw,no_root_squash,sync) /home 192.... | You are correct. The problem is the uids. |
Suspend worked before I completely reinstalled Testing from scratch. Now it seems to suspend OK, but when it tries to wake up it fails. Details here: http://pastebin.com/8tA7kcpw | Upgrade your kernel? |
This is embarrassing. I can't get a wireless address from my router with dhclient. The distribution is sid/lxde/liquorix kernel with no network manager on /dev/sdb1. Code: Select allroot@sid:/home/jheaton5# dhclient -4 -v wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consor... | New information: The network is activated by the script ifupdown during init. Ifupdown uses the commands ifup and ifdown to start and shutdown the network using the interfaces defined in the /etc/network/intefaces file. Here is what is happening: When the system starts ifup wlan0 is called. What if up does is to activa... |
Hello, I'm running a lenny amd64, and shifted from kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 to 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (lenny-backports), to get support for my laptop WiFi chipset. Done this yesterday, rebooted several times since then. But since this update, I don't get sound anymore when running inside one of my chroots, whereas it plays we... | Do you have /dev mounted to your chroot? Generally I mount the following using the bind option, /proc, /sys, /tmp, /dev/pts, /dev Example: mount -o bind /dev /chroot/dev You could also put the required lines in fstab so that they are mounted automatically. /dev /chroot/dev none bind 0 0 |
Hello, I run an old Toshiba Satellite M35x S114 Laptop with Debian Testing, it always runned smoothly - although it IS testing . Since the latest update to kernel 2.6.32 , the X server just freezes. The init goes all the way to gdm, and then a blank screen , no mouse pointer, no way to get out of this screen (not CTRL+... | Try re-naming xorg.conf and booting without it. I'm wondering if one of your settings is conflicting. Most Testing machines can run without xorg.conf. If yours does, edit xorg.config to a minimum. This is all I have left in mine. Code: Select allSection "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" EndSect... |
Every time I attempt to install a package this message is shown at the end of installation process:Code: Select allErrors were encountered while processing: python-apt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) For Example I tried to install smplayer and this was the result:Code: Select allabz@aptosidbox:~... | View topic - 29 Sept 2010::python-apt error :: fixed :: aptosid.com :: aptosid - Debian hot and spicy! http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphp ... opic&t=193 |
I have installed Wicd removing Network Manager to enable domain name server information from my ISP to be transferred through my router to my DHCP Client ID. The problem is that every time I reboot, I have to disconnect and reconnect my network using Wicd Network Manager to get the dns info transferred.. Do I need to e... | What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces? When running wicd you should only have Code: Select allauto lo iface lo inet loopback Put a # in front of everything else. |
Hi All. I searched on internet about how to set up multiple IP addresses on Debian server, but I still have problem with that. So maybe someone can help me fix thees problems? nano /etc/network/interfaces Code: Select all# The primary network interface #First IP address auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address x.x.x.77... | On the virtual interfaces you don't need gateway or dns. Also add another 'd' to addres. |
I have an NFS mount that is in my NFS client's fstab file Code: Select all192.168.1.102:/mnt/mythtv /mnt/mythtv nfs defaults 0 0 sudo mount -a will mount it after i have booted the system. However, at boot it is not mounted. An extract of /var/log/boot shows Code: Select allSun Aug 22 15:45:34 2010: Setting kernel vari... | So I have another Debian Sid computer that seems to load the NFS partition correctly. It uses the exact same fstab as the one that doesn't. NFS not mounted properly Code: Select all# dpkg -l | grep nfs ii libnfsidmap2 0.23-2 An nfs idmapping library ii nfs-common 1:1.2.2-4 NFS support files common to client and server ... |
When i upgrade my packages with aptitude in testing, I am starting to get this error. Also I get this from cron now and then. Any ideas to how I could solve this error ? Code: Select allwarning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 35897 package 'virtualbox-3.0': error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Debian_lenny':... | I get the same thing, but it didn't start until I forcibly installed a 64-bit version on a 32-bit install; if that's not what's going on, try installing a Squeeze build(not sure when they started offering those, but they do). |
Hello All, I am running a Debian Lenny, configured as router / dns /dhcp + ddns server and am trying to get rndc to work remotely. Configuration on the server seems ok, i can connect tru rndc , when i ask the rndc status i get a response. Now i am configuring a client for remote rndc connection, and it trows me connect... | Sorry girls and boys, i found the problem, Apparently you cannot define another ip then the loopback in named.conf where rndc is listening on. you need to put a wildcard "*" and then it works. greetings, |
ok, i'm about to install squeeze from a netinstall cd, but i want kde instead of gnome, let me see if i got this right: - the tasksel dialog during the installation (from cd1, i assume netinstall is the same) shows entries like "standard system" "graphical desktop environment", "web server", and so on - if i check "gra... | I would say during the install just choose 'standard system' and not 'desktop'. Once the install is finished, fire up your package manager of choice (I recommend aptitude) and install the KDE packages that you want. Using the tasksel method you seem to get everything, including the kitchen sink. |
Hi guys, I switched over from ubuntu and I have an audio issue with my Asus EEE 1001PXB and my Realtek ALC265 soundcard. Basically, sound only comes from the internal speaker, but when I plug in my headphones the sound goes dead on my internal speaker and no sound comes from my headphones. I solved this issue by instal... | Adding an Ubuntu repo is a good way to mess up your Debian system as they are not really binary compatible. While I am not really firmilier with your sound chip or system you can do a search in Synaptic for alsa for the Debian components. Remember to remove the Ubuntu packages and then remove the Ubuntu repos from your... |
Is it possible to setup tapping so that a fast tap with two fingers behaves like the right click button. | I suppose you mean Synaptics and not Synaptic. Code: Select allman synaptics |
I use a wireless ralink rt2870 usb. The driver that comes with squeeze does not work. I had to blacklist them all and install the driver from ralink. All works well until I did the recent updates which include updating the kernel. My wireless driver was replaced by the default. This is the lsmod output: Code: Select al... | If you want your own driver to take precedence over a like-named driver that comes with the kernel, put it in the /lib/modules/<your-kernel>/misc/ directory (make this directory if it doesn't already exist). I'm curious to know in what way the rt2870sta.ko driver that comes with the kernel doesn't work... did you insta... |
I made a directory called download in the root directory. It's assigned to root and won't let me access it. I would like to change the owner permission. Can someone explain how?? | Harley51 wrote:I made a directory called download in the root directory. Why? Your /home/username is the place to make directories that your username is supposed to be using. Anyway, the command to change file/directory ownership is chown. As root: Code: Select all# chown username:username /download And better yet: Cod... |
So I was reading this thread on internet privacy and decided to 'upgrade' my system. I installed privoxy and tor and chained them from squid so it looks like this: iceweasel >> squid >> privoxy >> tor. All is working well except when I go to edit my privoxy default.action file I get a fatal error. I've got version 3.0.... | Changes had to be made AFTER the {{settings}} and {{alias}} lines in the file. |
I have a TV/radio tuner and I installed the gkrellm-radio plugin. The plugin works fine, but, it only works with /dev/radio. I'm not sure if its safe to rename files so I just create a symlink of /dev/radio0 as /dev/radio. It gets pretty annoying to me to have to create a symlink every time I start up my computer so I ... | In udev rule like SYMLINK+="radio". It can be added in the appropriate rule or can by written the new rule with it and with the smaller number than common rule. Peter. |
Ethernet, bluetooth and video work fine. I also managed to get the wireless card working by installling "firmware-iwlwifi". I can make the touchpad work sending to the kernel the parameter "i8042.nopnp" at boot time(grub), but then I get the computer frozen for a second every five second(just to make and idea), so I de... | I don't really know what information you would find useful, this are those I use to search the web: lspci -m | grep Audio 00:1b.0 "Audio device" "Intel Corporation" "5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio" -r05 "Sony Corporation" "Device 9067" 01:00.1 "Audio device" "nVidia Corporation" "High Definition Aud... |
I decided to try wireless so I bought a TP-Link pci adapter TL-WN851N and installed it. I installed Wcid and firmware-atheros. I set /etc/network/interfaces to read auto lo iface lo inet loopback All Wicd does is tell me "No wireless networks found." Any suggestions will be appreciated. | I guess it is an atheros chip of some kind since you installed that firmware. Is the module loaded? Probably either ath5k or ath9k. Is the interface listed in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules? |
Added the following line to sources.list : deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free After that I did an update and upgrade. The following packages were kept back : ffmpeg libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libcairo2 libpostproc51 libswscale0 mplayer ( libcairo2 is on hold ). To overcome this I d... | eric1959 wrote: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.xpm', which is also in package mplayer-gui 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 There's your problem. Uninstall mplayer-gui (which is an mplayer version from debian testing or sid) and then you can install mplayer or mplayer-nogui from debian-multimedia. The conflict ... |
Hey all, I am using a ASUS 1000HE with 2GIG Ram and 64GB SSD Drive, Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5 (version 2.6.32-18) - LXDE / XFCE - slim I have initramfs-tools version 0.97.2 installed - When I upgrade to version 0.98 and reboot, I get a Kernel Panic error - something about /sbin/bootchard - (I think?) I have backed up my ... | Hey friend, I had the same problem you had except I pulled mine from lenny-backports (and the version was not quite as new as yours) but the same bug appears to manifest itself in both. I am currently running a mixed Debian Lenny 64-bit system (basically lenny with several backports such as kernel, iceweasel, and OpenO... |
I use Tor chained with Privoxy (not Polipo) on my Debian Lenny system. My default browser is Iceweasel with NoScript and Torbutton. Previously, when I toggled torbutton "off", in Iceweasel, Edit -> Preferences --> Advanced -> Setting shows "no proxy", and when torbutton "on", shows the expected proxy settings. Previous... | Well, so far i know that on Lenny polipo is doing its part to get tor to work, you should try changing privoxy for polipo. |
Hello, I have installed a Medion Scanner MD9890 as a Mustek-cis1200 under a new Debian System without any graphical interface. Scanimage -L and sane-find-scanner -p can find this scanner. Now I try to access to it from my other computers in my network, but both, a Linux-system with xsane and a Windows-System with Sanet... | Checklist: server: saned is installed - obviously cat /etc/sane.d/saned.conf contains addresses of machines allowed to connect? cat /etc/services | grep sane is not empty and not commented out? cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep sane is not empty and not commented out? The user "saned" is member of the group "scanner"? inetd r... |
here's the wonderful output. Code: Select all moleque@c-98-211-118-98:~$ Message from syslogd@c-98-211-118-98 at Aug 20 15:35:02 ... kernel:[ 1707.343762] Process mrtg (pid: 3241, ti=f0680000 task=f064aa80 task.ti=f0680000) Message from syslogd@c-98-211-118-98 at Aug 20 15:35:02 ... kernel:[ 1707.343765] Stack: Message... | New message. Code: Select allMessage from syslogd@c-98-211-118-98 at Aug 21 12:05:40 ... kernel:[46475.744616] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/loop7/removable Message from syslogd@c-98-211-118-98 at Aug 21 12:05:40 ... kernel:[46475.744725] Process kicker (pid: 2947, ti=ef0b8000 task=ef034c80 task.ti=ef0b80... |
Hi All, I'm running an up-to-date install of Squeeze, and I'm having an annoying issue where php5 won't parse in userdirs (/home/*/public_html), although it works fine in the main document root (/var/www). I found this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571714 Which seems to say the issue is fixed. H... | I purged all the related packages and re-installed. That fixed it... |
How can I have /etc/resolv.conf point to my router address as the nameserver Code: Select allnameserver 192.168.1.1 instead of picking up the ISP's DNS servers and using that as the nameserver entries? Reason being I have more than one ISP account, and when I change I do not want to have to remember to restart the netw... | milomak wrote:How can I have /etc/resolv.conf point to my router address as the nameserver Code: Select allnameserver 192.168.1.1 instead of picking up the ISP's DNS servers and using that as the nameserver entries? Reason being I have more than one ISP account, and when I change I do not want to have to remember to re... |
lspci reports Code: Select all07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) eth0 is picked up (light when I plug n the cable lights up). nothing f... | If both network cards are working you should see both of them in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. You need to complete the static network configuration in interfaces with network 10.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 If both NICs are listed in 70-persistent-net.rules and you make the above adjustments it should work. |
When I execute the command apt-get update it doesn't finish and says this: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/e ... ackages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.236.52 80] Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/e ... Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.236.52 80] Reading package lists... Done W... | etch is old....moved to archive http://archive.debian.org/debian/ |
Hi, I'm trying to TFTP router configurations to a server in the same local network without having to first make files in the server's TFTP directory . The transfer of a config file from router to server works perfectly if I make a file with touch and then chmod the file with 777. I found information that says to use th... | I use normal tftpd with xinetd, not the tftpd-hpa. If you want to try, this this the configurations. Install tftpd and xinetd Code: Select allservice tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -s /pathto/tftproot disable = no } |
I recently installed Squeeze. I had sound with the video driver that came with the install. Then I installed the Nvidia driver from Nvidia website. The sound dissappeared. When I uninstalled the Nvidia driver and removed xorg.conf and rebooted again, the sound came back. Then I installed the Nvidia driver from (nvidia-... | what is the output of lspci -nn |
I'm running squeeze. The klipper icon has disappeared from the system tray and I can't figure out how to restore it. The service is running. Stopping and starting it has no effect. Changing the display options for the system tray has no effect. I can bring the klipper dialog up with Ctrl-Alt-V but there are no options ... | Try deleting the klipper config file. Rather than being a klipper bug it might be a bug with the panel or plasma. Try checking the BTS. Bug Tracking System for Debian packages, http://bugs.debian.org/ or to go directly to the bug page for a particular package/bug, try http://bugs.debian.org/packagename or http://bugs.d... |
Hi everyone, I upgraded my kernel in my Debian Lenny to version 2.6.32-bpo.4-amd64 to fix a problem with a software and ALSA-related issues. The thing is that now, when I boot, eth1 is not enabled and I have to "load" (I guess) the driver each time. To do this, I go to the folder where all the files for the drivers are... | You can do 2 things. Load the required modules. Then do as root depmod -a If the problem is existing again, place the following lines at the end of /etc/modules Code: Select alllib80211 wl |
Hi again, How do I install software packages? I downloaded google chrome and I seem to be unable to install it. Can't find the appropriate program to open it with. Thanks, ElWray | http://blogs.computerworld.com/installi ... dows_users https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Insta ... 20packages The second is a Ubuntu resource but, in this case, it also applies to Debian. Since you come from Ubuntu, it might be easier to follow than a manual page. |
I'm running Debian testing/unstable, with my swap on an lvm volume. When I boot into the system, the swap doesn't become activated, even though there are messages that point to the contrary (for instance: "activating swap file...done"). After it's done booting, I run the command "free" and it shows that there is no spa... | can you post the relevant line from fstab. Also the output of "swapon -s" after you get it mounted. What other portions of the system are on lvm? Actually post the entire fstab |
Hi all! I'm rather new to Linux...especially Debian. I've been running Kubuntu for about 1 month now and I wanted to try out Debian as well. So I installed it on a laptop (Downloaded the 6 DVDs). Now, how do I add some repositories to Synaptic so I can update my software? Also, is there a list of repositories? So far, ... | http://man.cx/?page=sources.list http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Make sure to also read Synaptic's manual. |
Hi, Enabling kernel modesetting on my computer breaks graphics, but Xorg.log and syslog don't tell me much, because they don't log any error. The symptoms are the following: boot goes on normally, then the KDM login screen is corrupted. On the login screen there is a big square instead of the cursor, and that square do... | Make sure firmware-linux-nonfree is installed, radeon and fbcon are listed in /etc/modules and try rebuilding the initrd. |
Hello, I have the following problem (from dmesg): Code: Select all[ 917.988914] iwl4965: iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 [ 917.988914] iwl4965: Could not read microcode: -2 After search, I found the microcode here: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=do ... &p=iwlwifi Then, I copied it in /lib... | Ok here's some welp: Suggest remove the firmware you downloaded and instead install firmware-iwlwifi_0.26_all.deb. Get it from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/ ... i/download I've noticed some firmwares need to be in /lib/firmware while others need to be in /lib/firmware/<a_directory>/ Installing the firmware us... |
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