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seems i have one that tries to run an old cron job every minute.. according to this http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/zombies.html it's no big deal, but it does bother me.. this came out of my cron.lg ( sometimes it's error 127) - Jul 31 17:00:01 me /USR/SBIN/CRON[9212]: (root) CMD (/etc/gadmin-rsync/scripts/gadmin-rsync-... | If you kill whatever the parent process is then a zombie will die. If it is coming back through reboots then it is being called and dying again each time. You gotta track down where it's being called and remove the call. The crontab entry must still be there. Check crontab -e as root. However are you sure there is actu... |
I am using Squeeze. I've been trying to change the name server my computer uses for dns lookups but I'm not sure if it'd working. I've added the following lines to my /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf Code: Select allsupersede domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4; prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4; which results in m... | Where does resolv.conf.auto come from? There are so many applications controlling the same things that I can not keep track of all of them. I expect it is installed by some package that is intended to make your life easier. Personally I think it is easier to know the old way of doing things that can be carried from one... |
Hi everybody I'm having some trouble getting Miro updated. The package in Stable is 1.2.3-2, and I can't see all the online content because I don't have the 2.0 version. The thing is thar actually Miro is in its 3.0.1-2 version! I searched the package and is only found on testing (It's not in backports). I was wonderin... | You have a few choices. 1) backport it yourself First, check for a backport on <backports.org>. If unavailable: 1) Add ONLY a "deb-src ..." line for sid to your sources.list 2) enable backports.org (see <bpo>) 3) aptitude update; aptitude install build-essential; aptitude build-dep packagename; apt-get -b source packag... |
Hi I'm trying to use module-assistant to add the vboxdrv using instructions also found here in the debian forum. However, m-a can't find the linux-headers because it looks for the package linux-headers-2.6.32-5-trunk-686. I attempted to specifify were the headers were by using: Code: Select allm-a prepare --kernel-dir ... | First, find out what kernel you are running with one of these commands. Code: Select alluname -r Code: Select allcat /proc/version You will almost certainly find that it includes trunk in the name. Make sure you have another version, probably linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 installed. Code: Select alldpkg -l | grep linux-im T... |
Hello guys. I just installed Debian 5 in my pc. I have made all the updates but my screen is a bit bright and the resolution isn't very good. I think that i need to install the graphic card driver but all the solution i find in google didn't work . My laptop is Toshiba satellite pro u400 and my card is Intel GMA 4500 M... | InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T400/lenny - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebian ... T400/lenny Not the same laptop but the graphics part of that page should help. |
Hello again. When i open applications which need su or gksu commands sometimes a string "Granting rights" appears in the window. I just find this http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs ... 28423.html. Anyone who can help me? edit: It happens mostly when i use desktop launchers to run these applications. | Have you kept up with your upgrades? I wonder if you have a mis-match somewhere. Gksu and su cause me no problems. |
hi guyz my first post here , last two days i deal with something that i cannot figure out... during startup it loads up a terminal and a pdf that i had opened before two days. The pdf doesn't exist any more ,i have deleted it. maybe it has to do with my startup services or something else i don't know. i have debian len... | Did you log off with those open one day? If so, it's your session manager's fault; look in kcontrol if you use KDE(I don't know where GNOME keeps that setting). |
Hello, I bought a laptop : Samsung R580 and when i want to install Debian Squeeze with NetInstall, it's impossible because ma Ethernet Card isn't recognized. These are the caracteristics of my card : Code: Select allPCI ID : 11ab4381 Supporté : Yes Fabricant : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Matériel : 88E8059 PCI-E Giga... | For Debian Lenny installers with up-to-date kernels, see http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ sky2 is the Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet driver, supported devices are listed at http://wiki.debian.org/sky2 |
Hey, I'm running Testing on this AMD64 and after a dist-upgrade this morning, the max screen resolution I can set is 800x600. Just curious if any one else is having trouble. At this point I'm not sure if it is a HAL, X or nVidia problem. lspci reports: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce ... | Ok, so I start out with this tutorial: http://www.debiantutorials.org/module-a ... idia-lenny And after Code: Select allm-a a-i nvidia The following errors occur. ┌────────────────┤ module-assistant, error message ├─────────────────┐ │ Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could │ not be found and ... |
Hey, folks, I need some help and I hope you can provide it. As you can see in the picture I've got unused space in /dev/sda2 (wich is my extended partition) after sda5 and sda7. I want to install windows but I somehow need to merge the unused space and create a primary partition. Can anyone tell me how I go about doing... | I think you can move the logical partitions using gparted.right click on "/dev/sda6"(as per your screensot) name and use "Resize/Move" Option.Later You Can Move the Partition by grab with the Mouse towards the right?Later to Move Swap as well ,so that Free Space is available in the end region .see for eg(regarding movi... |
I don't print much, but tonight needed to print and found that none of the printers were listed in Okular or Openoffice, then when I tried to open Cups Administration http://localhost:631/ I got the error message Connection to Server Refused I looked at jheaton5's advice http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... te#p... | These are all of the cups/hp/foomatic packages I have installed: Code: Select allii cups 1.4.4-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cups-bsd 1.4.4-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cups-client 1.4.4-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii cups-common 1.4.4-1 Common UNIX Printing Syste... |
Since I got the liquorix kernel installed on my machine I got an error of setting kernel variable error. net.ipv6.bindv6only at boot time, since it wasnt a big deal I never looked further into it, but now that I had some spare time and I didnt want to see any errors on my machine I found a solution for it, with a littl... | Noticed that for a while now. Its in the kernel, asked damentz about the error he said he didn't have it on his systems. The $64,000 question, would putting ipv6 in /etc/modules conflict with disabling ipv6 by having GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1" |
I recently upgraded to debian kernel 2.6.35' when booting the screen seems for gone into Frame buffer or a very small type font in console. I run console mostly and when I need a GUI i load X. I have a Nvidia MX440 card and do not want a console frame buffer. I cannot find the changes I have to make in recompiling a ke... | What exactly is your goal? It isn't clear from your post what you want to do. My guess is that you can no longer start X because you haven't built an nvidia module for your new kernel. |
Hello there, I just installed debian on my laptop. In the install it asked me if I wanted to set up the wireless network, but I only had the choice of entering WEP authentication (who in the world uses that anyways), and I have WPA2 on my wireless access point, so I chose to set it up manually after the install. The ne... | Debian doesn't include the firmware on an initial install since it is non-free. You need to download it manually. Its called firmware-iwlwifi Then modprobe etc. |
When i want to configure my touchpad on my dell inspiron 1525 with debian lenny then i got this message: gsynaptics couldnt initialize you have to set 'shmconfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or xf86config to use gsynaptics My touchpad is an alps and not a synaptics so far i can see. My xorg.conf is this: http://pastebin.com/en... | kruijf76 wrote: My xorg.conf is this: http://pastebin.com/enWzRpVe i hope some one can help me Try adding this to xorg.conf Code: Select allOption "SHMConfig" "true" Something like this then: Code: Select allSection "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SHMConfig" "true" Option "SendC... |
I'm trying to install Kamailio DEB repository. (see http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/packages:debs) These are the steps I've done(as explained on the web site): 1. First download and add our GPG key to your apt key list: Code: Select allwget http://deb.kamailio.org/kamailiodebkey.gpg apt-key add kamailiodebkey... | apt-get update then you can do apt-get install. You always have to run apt-get update any time you change sources.list. |
I have a netgear wg111t that is running with ndiswrapper. It has an atheros chipset, but calling it ath0 didn't work. heres /etc/network/interface : # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface... | Hi, if you decide on configuring your network interface via dhcp server you have to build an adequate "/etc/network/interfaces" file in which these method is explicitly mentioned. Remove all entries except the following three lines from your "ath0" interface entry. auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_suppl... |
I installed Lenny for my new server and set a static IP the usual way: Code: Select all# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interfac... | Why not disable dhclient for this machine? |
So, I can use this at the end of bash_profile to autorun start x after logging on. Code: Select allif [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then startx fi But what about to auto logout after killing the X session? I hit exit from fluxbox, but I could add a menu item I suppose to just kill the xsession. Wonderin... | Maybe, Code: Select all# shutdown -h now |
Suddenly I cannot get into my contacts, which are vital for my business. Arbitrary failures like this are unforgivable in mission-critical applications. When I click on Kontact it says "Akonadi not operational". Details shows the following: I do have libqt4-sql and python-qt4 installed. I found that mysql-server was no... | Take a look at View topic - Akonadi upgrade to 4.4: some problems :: sidux.com :: debian based live cd development - http://www.sidux.com/index.php?name=PNp ... ic&t=20709 |
I have two Lenny (5.0.4) boxes, both with proftpd installed... one works just fine, while the other is a real pain When I attempt to ftp to the box it gags and says: Code: Select all550 SSL/TLS required on the control channel Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. I don't get thi... | By SIGHUPing proftpd, the SSL/TLS has gone away, but now it refuses a connection... Seems like I have made things a tad worse, now And, Finally, I copied the proftpd.conf file from the site that worked to the one that refused, and now both are doing as expected... Sorry about the bandwidth |
Hello all, Having this issue: Code: Select all~/home/pete/kernel-compiling# dpkg -i *deb Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.30polaris3a. (Reading database ... 89751 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.30polaris3a (from linux-headers-2.6.30polaris3a_custom.001_i... | Ok, looked around and wound up here http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/05/11/tip ... s-missing/ the required package is firmware-linux from the non-free repo. This is a pretty hacky fix but it DOES solve the problem. Currently running Lenny with 2.6.30. |
Hello, I have just set up the above OS, however, installation did not find my network and therefore APT additional software & security updates could not be accessed. The network was simple to setup post installation. Could I please have the steps to belatedly configure APT in this situation. I have uncommented a few so... | Post your sources.list so others can see what is missing. A basic source.list for Stable would be: #Stable deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free #Stable Sources deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free #Security Updates http://www.debian.org/security/ deb http://... |
I installed ndiswrapper and tried adding a driver. Error: module ndiswrapper not found. So I recompiled my kernel, upgrading to 2.6.33.4 (no, I can't see the logical connection either) After a week, I got the new kernel working ( in the interim I reinstalled debian- it didn't survive my first kernel attempt. don't ask)... | Solved!!! download the ndiswrapper source package, and check out http://www.howtoforge.com/building-kern ... bian-lenny. Beutiful! |
I enjoy Debian Stable. Everything is great! A little bit compatibility with Toshiba laptops would be extremely appreciated though. Just resently I managed to activate internal bluetooth adapter. I'm not expert in command line and everything I could was done in GNOME. Same like most other systems an icon appears in pane... | Bluetooth is a bit shabby in older kernels as i have seen it. Only in 2.6.30 and upwards i have seen really working bluetooth drivers (and in .32 was working badly again). From 2.6.30 is the rfkill application introduced - this tool blocks/unblocks all wifi including bluetooth and wireless. It is really handy. I dunno ... |
I have had trouble getting Debian to run, I think I have figured out the grub error I had but what happens is it shows me all the expected writing, like telling me it is loading Alsa etcetera, then just when it should show a login screen for the desktop it goes blank and the monitor I use says "no signal". I`m guessing... | I really need this sorted soon as annoying to have to use a live dvd as os when a good os is waiting to be used so really really hope someone will help me understand the solution. Looking at X11 config file in etc using nano it shows my config file as totally empty. I reinstalled a fresh and still the same. Before I co... |
HI guys! Here's the story. I had my laptop turned on. The battery turned out low and my pc shut down (not in the correct way obviously)! Plus: I was running apt-get upgrade but it should have done before shutting down. Now, I restarted my pc and under nm-applet I see: "wireless network: device not ready" and at login I... | Problem solved guys! It was due to a corrupted update! |
I was following section D in the handbook and I added these lines to aptitude source list per the handbook: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updat... | kde4 is only in testing/squeeze and unstable. it is not nor will it ever be in Lenny the current stable. Package kde-full * squeeze (testing) (kde): the K Desktop Environment official modules 5:55: all * sid (unstable) (kde): the complete KDE Software Compilation for end users 5:60: all Can you post your /etc/apt/sourc... |
Hi, I installed debian with minimal packages (without an any X components). Later I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel , xserver-xorg-input-mouse, xserver-xorg-input-kbd ... and other X components through apt-get. Created a Xorg.conf file. On execution of X, I see black screen without cursor. What are the other minimal... | You didn't need to install those packages, unless I am mistaken. It sounds as though you want what I always do, a minimal X setup. Try installing the package "xserver-xorg-core". That installs just the core of X, no desktop or anything. Then you can install your desktop. If you want a minimal desktop as well, use the c... |
I'm learning vim, but flying to esc is annoying, so I end up pressing the arrows twenty times to move around instead. Yeah, I know that doesn't make any sense, but humans (especial me) are crazy. How can I swap esc and caps for vim with the vimrc file? (I don't want this change to be outside of vim). Or should I just l... | ybme wrote:I'm learning vim, but flying to esc is annoying, so I end up pressing the arrows twenty times to move around instead. Yeah, I know that doesn't make any sense, but humans (especial me) are crazy. It does make sense. And arrow keys in Insert mode are a bad habit. Since I've already mapped capslock to ctrl thr... |
I'm running debian on a dell c600, and my ttyys (virtual terminals) fill up only the middle of the screen. For most of what I do (learning programing) I don't need the gui at all, but i can't bear squinting at the tiny terminal. Any suggestions? | Post the output of: Code: Select allgrep ^kernel /boot/grub/menu.lst I have a similar issue on an old Dell Latitude C510. Specifying the VESA mode number on the kernel line resolved it. Specifically, on my machine, the screen's maximum resolution is 1024x768, so appending vga=791 to the kernel line resolves the issue f... |
After I did a safe-upgrade on my lenny system, clamav is now broken, which is quite a pain since my e-mail flow is now failing. I get this in the log. Code: Select allCLAMAV: couldn't connect to: /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: I have volatile in the list, and clamav is also installed from volatiel of what I can see, so wha... | I am completely stuck here. For now I have disabled the av filter, and requed the mails to get the flow starting again! clamav is the user who runs the processes and is also owner of the correct folders, which are these that are showed below! snip from the clamsmtpd.conf Code: Select allClamAddress: /var/run/clamav/cla... |
I want to be able to have two x terminals at a time, one for the graphical login, and one for miscellaneous 'startx's by tty users. How can I do this? Can I do this? | Sure it's possible. If you use GDM you can start a second login. See this thread that mentions startx as obsolete and gives some more good examples: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 31&start=0 |
Hello everyone, I'm trying to install the driver for mi wireless card. The instructions say that to build the tar.gz file, I have to: # mkdir hybrid_wl # cd hybrid_wl # tar <path>/hybrid-portsrc.tarhybrid-portsrc-x86_64.tar.gz The third step i don't understand. I want the folder of the driver to be located in a folder ... | What wireless device is it? Brand/model? What version of debian are you running please? We require details to narrow things down. Thank you. |
Hi all, I have very strange problem with kernels 2.6.33 and 2.6.34. I have a wireless card Linksys WMP200 using rt61pci. It connects just fine using WPA2 and works, but in less than 20 minutes I still can reach any machine on my network, but this machine cannot be reached by the others (i.e. before these 20 minutes oth... | Your "in less than 20 minutes I can still reach any machine" has me baffled. Does your wireless work for twenty minutes, then stop? Look at these links http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi Have you installed wireless-tools? I presume you have wpa-supplicant as you mentioned it works with WPA... |
Hello to all, I've been using debian for about two years now and I always used gnome since it was was came with it (and I didn't know all the options I had for window managers ). Anyways, as of a few months ago I started liking Awesome Window Manager and gave it a shot, I bought a new HDD now and had to install Squeeze... | jay wrote:Code: Select allOSError: [Errno 2] no such file or directory: '/etc/hal/fdi/policy' so I can't mount the partitions now. Get the obvious out of the way first, since you built this up from base and didn't tell us what tasks you selected during install (standard? laptop?), is hal installed? That's one reason th... |
hi, i have created a wordpress user with a symbolic link from his home (/home/wordpress) to /usr/share/wordpress but when wordpress ftps to wordpress home dir it does not follow the sym-link. is there a way to set default ftp dir for the wordpress user to /usr/share/wordpress rather than /home/wordpress? thank you. | Most FTP servers I am firmilyer with will not fallow symbolic links (at least out of the box). You "should" be able to configure a new "root directory" for the FTP server though. What FTP server software are you using? |
See this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWkdfStBw4Y I install debian lenny using CD installer (expert install, only base files, skipping GNOME and some programs). I updated to debian squeeze/sid and install KDE4 (using synaptic) + some programs. I do some Ubuntu bootup speed optimalization (useful for Debian also... | Perhaps, you did installed kexec-tools and allowed boot the kernel to it. I have the case like this year ago. Peter. |
I'm always getting a blank console screen after booting a 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 kernel in squeeze. I still can read the line "Loading, please wait ..." in the display for a second - then it's completely black until X windows is starting. When I try switching from the X console to another virtual console (by pressing Ctrl-... | The -trunk kernel is not supposed to work. If it's broken, remove it and live without it. Anyway, the 'previous' kernel you've mentioned is actually more current. |
Which moment in te boot of a Debian system are tmpfs filesystems from fstab mounted? I'm asking because mountall.sh does not seem to be the one, because it mounts Code: Select allnonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs,gfs2 types, but does not mention tmpfs. Thanks | If you check the man page for mount you find: More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with no to specify the filesystem types on which no action should be taken. (This can be meaningful with the -a option.) For example, the command: mount -a -t nomsdos... |
I've been testing Squeeze to determine whether KDE4 is finally suitable for my primary machine. Everything seems to be working fine except for detection of IDE devices. My CD/DVD drive no longer automounts and the reason seems to be that no device is being created. My Lenny system detects the drive as /dev/hda, but no ... | What does this tell you? Code: Select alldmesg|grep CD-ROM and/or Code: Select alldmesg|grep DVD |
... but it isn't. It overestimates its use by at approximately 250MB. How come? I do not know. I have my root file system / on a partition of 382.0MiB, which was always sufficient in the past (my pre-Debian life period) However, when I updated my system, it gave an error and told my I should do dpkg --configure -a But ... | try a filesystem-check Code: Select allshutdown -r -F now the commands are in tags, the rest is german: http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.p ... t+ist+voll |
I've been playing with live-helper in lenny for a couple of months, and I decided to try it in squeeze. It seems the default desktop (in xfce, anyway) leaves me with seven folders that I don't want in my home - Documents, Music, Video, Templates, and some others. I want to know how to get rid of them. I tried editing .... | Try editing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf Code: Select allenabled=False Remove ~/.config/user-dir.dirs See freedesktop.org - Software/xdg-user-dirs |
Hello, I am reasonably experienced in linux, but new to Debian. I have installed Lenny (v.5.0.4) on an old acer travelmate 220 which I have rescued from being thrown away. I don't expect much from it, but it will be good for backup/experimentation. I have a few issues when booting, one of which causes the machine rando... | Answering my own post, in case anybody finds it on a search. I don't think that sound is ever going to work, and the hangs were too frequent for the box to be usable. I blacklisted kernel autoloading of snd-intel8x0, using the procedure descirbed here http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting, which means that I ... |
Hi Everybody, I am brand new to Debian. Installed about 24 hours ago. So far I'm very impressed & loving it. I have successfully mounted my Win7 volume and my external hard drives NTFS volume as well. However, after modifying the fstab I seem to only be getting the win7 volume to auto-mount. Below is the contents of my... | The external volume: USB? Firewire? eSATA? If it's USB it should automount in /media, no fstab entry required. If it's eSATA then an fstab entry is needed. If it's firewire...don't know, never used one. NTFS will fail to mount using ntfs-3g if the filesystem needs to be checked. This can only be done in Windows. It's i... |
Hello everyone, I have a small and -I'm sure- very solvable problem. I'm trying to install a software called Stopmotion to... well... to stopmotion. The thing is that the version I downloaded from the repositories had a bug which unabled it to open many files at a time. To solve this, I wanted to download directly from... | You may need to install libqt4-dev package. |
Hello I installed Debian Testing today. My system is encrypted with a lvm and now I wanted to boot for the first time. After starting grub 2 and entering my passphrase for encryption I only got the error message "no key available with this passphrase". I figured out that the problem are german umlauts because the keybo... | Hello, I've just installed squeeze on my notebook with German keyboard-layout and I've got the same problem (passphrase for cryptsetup with some characters at a different position on the German than on the US layout). It looks like grub2 uses US keyboard layout with no way to change the layout at boot-time. I found a d... |
Hi! I have a lenny box: Code: Select allLinux ulet 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 18:01:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux In order to get a newer kernel that would recognize a linksys usb wifi adapter I got the advice to upgrade to a newer kernel - 2.6.30 or newer. Which I am able to get from backports. But when I try w... | Can you boot without the quiet kernel argument? When grub comes up, you can press 'e' to edit the entry. Maybe it's failing to find your root because a driver you need isn't being loaded or you need a newer version of something. I assume you didn't forcefully install the kernel without taking on any required/suggested ... |
Hi to all! I am having problems while testing out squid proxy server. I just can't get it block anything... So, I'm running Debian lenny on my Virtualbox and Squid on it. I'm having windows 7 on virtualbox too and they can ping each other and the webserver on debian (apache2) is working fine. The problem is i can't get... | What version of squid? I know when I moved from Ubuntu to Debian the version of squid that came with Debian was a hair puller for me! I couldn't get it to work for anything. I backed up to 2.7.STABLE3-4.1 and my Ubuntu config worked. I was really determined too because my squid configuration gets updated once a week do... |
Hi! I just upgraded samba on my lenny-server: Code: Select allapt-cache policy samba samba: Installed: 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1~bpo50+1 ...and since then my windows xp clients cannot follow a symbolic link to a common area from their home folders. I have googled and tried to add follow symlinks and wide links to my homes share C... | add to /etc/samba/smb.conf the following string Code: Select allunix extensions = no and restart samba |
Hi. Why is my Xen server (An up-to-date Lenny box) making Xen DomUs as Etch boxes? I run a command such as: Code: Select allxen-create-image --hostname=myvm --size=2Gb --swap=256Mb --ip=192.168.0.101 --memory=128Mb --arch=amd64 --role=udev --lvm vg And it gives me this: Code: Select allGeneral Information -------------... | Try to check this file: /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf |
Hello, Using Squeeze, I wanted to get KMS + DRI2 and suspend/hibernate working with my radeon card using the Open source driver (my card: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M IGP (5955) PCIE (RC410) is no longer supported by the ATI/AMD proprietary driver). I know my card has problems with suspend/hibernate in User modesetting and f... | I found a fix. It appears to be a bug in Network-Manager: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571331 |
Hi all, After each boot I find 2 occurrences of Code: Select allWARING! Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs! in /var/log/boot. This box is running as KVM-host, so I am a bit worried about 'warings' like these... How do I resolve? | I solved it by removing the kvm-package and installing the qemu-kvm package. |
Hi, I have configured a RaLink wireless card to connecto to an 802.1x network. I connect by selecting the network, and the i give the credentials(username/password). How do i configure Debian to automatically connect to this network when a session begins? Thanks | I suggest wicd (from backports if you're using lenny). Once it's correctly configured it will start as a daemon via the init scripts and autoconnect. There's a gui client available to enable easy configuration. The version in testing also has an ncurses interface (not sure about the version in backports). If you enable... |
Hi everybody, Nothing serious (I think), but everytime I run apt-get to remove programs and doing upgrades... I get a strange message. This is the output of apt-get upgrade: Code: Select allInspiron1525:/home/hernan# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Don... | What's the output of: Code: Select allcat /var/lib/dpkg/info/iamerican.postrm (FWIW this appears to be fixed in testing). |
I've been enjoying wireless for a long time on Squeeze (iwl3945) with KDE, but the recent network manager update stopped that. I've tried a few things, like going back to /etc/network/interfaces and ifup wlan0 that I use with Lenny, but still not working. Any advice appreciated. | Try using Wicd. I use it and its better than Network Manager (although doesnt have that much features such as 3G device support, VPN support, but for wireless it is the best). |
Hello to all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this. If not, excuse me and please let me know. A warning: Total newbie. I'm trying to configure the touchpad of my DELL Inspiron 1525 Laptop. I added the following to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: Code: Select allSection "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Tou... | Personally I don't use an xorg.conf. Instead I simply start gsynaptics-init on login. Then Gsynaptics works fine. Code: Select alldpkg -l|grep synaptic ii gsynaptics 0.9.16-4 configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X server ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.1-1 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server I... |
Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a Debian client for LDAP authentication. After altering the nsswitch.conf so that passwd, group and shadow search files then ldap, the accounts in the LDAP server are displayed correctly when running getent passwd for example. However when the client is restarted, is looks like libn... | OK, just in case it's bugging anyone as much as it did me , I found another site that help me solve this one. If you use the newer libnss-ldapd package (rather than libnss-ldap) and uninstall Network Manager, all is well. Hope this is useful to someone! |
I am new to this forum and also to Debian. I am trying out the live cd but can't seem to find how to connect to the internet. My setup is Ethernet card and DSL modem, no routers, no wireless. How do I set this up? | You would not have to set this up. The CD ought to do this for you. If this does not happen, post output of the following commands - "lspci"; "uname -r" and "lsmod". You may have to open the command line. |
Hello, I've been using lenny for some time now without major issues, but recently i decided to upgrade to squeeze (i used latest amd64 netinst) mainly because version of awesome wm in lenny repository was too old. I've since also installed gnome, but the problem is there as well - moving windows or scrolling is extreme... | Install firmware-linux-nonfree. You will have to point your sources.list to non-free to get it. |
So this very (for me) important little package fails me once again. But this time it refuses to restart/start This is the output: Code: Select allSetting up openssh-server (1:5.3p1:-1) Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell Server: sshd: failed! /dev/null is not a character device! invoke-rc.d: initscript ssh, action "restart... | So the ssh server is not running at the moment? /etc/init.d/ssh start fails? What message do you get? You seem to imply that you have had trouble with the ssh server before. Did you customize it at that time? |
I'm installing Squeeze on on a Dell Latitude D830 laptop with a Broadcom BCM4328 wireless network card, and I'm stuck on getting wireless internet to work. I have the 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem kernel. I run KDE and I have knetworkmanager installed to sort the network connections out. Unfortunately, knetworkmanager cannot... | Sallin wrote: Code: Select all Tx-Power:off uh...looks like a problem... try the command iwconfig eth2 txpower auto and then see what iwconfig reports |
So I saved a copy of my iptables so that after my install I wouldn't have to add in all the rules again, it's been a matter of course with my backups. I've noticed that Debian does this a bit differently than I'm used to. My 'old' /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: Code: Select allauto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp p... | Nope, that doesn't work... I'm going to install firehol, it's not a GUI and with a printout of my old iptables should be a snap. TIA, Barrie Edit: Not a snap, it wouldn't start... Copying over the iptable on hda1 didn't work either. Maybe I'm overthinking this, been to long installing and customising... |
since i rarely need my wireless, and i want it off by default, i am going to disable it during bootup with Code: Select allecho 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless what would be the proper place for this? if i put it in rc.local it will be executed very late, i'd rather have it sooner. if add a new script to in... | would have to adhere to the start|stop|reload structure of these scripts, right? Not necessarily, but that is the proper sysv way. I think this script would work. You would turn on wireless by running /etc/init.d/foobar on. Code: Select all#!/bin/sh #dissable wireless enable with "on" case $1 in start)echo 0>/sys/devic... |
Well recently my gnome crashed , so i went through some postings n zeroed on two solutions. 1. delete lock file in /tmp/gconfd-username (this one did not work) 2. to delete saved_state file in /home/username/.gconfd (This worked) After recovery i can see that "Update manager" utility is always orange n it shows there a... | ...are these two problems related Probably. What did you mean when you said "delete saved_state file in /home/username/.gconfd (This worked)"? As I understand your situation, gnome crashed: What exactly happened? Report the results when you execute the following commands in a terminal:Code: Select allsu <password> apti... |
I'm trying to install vmware server 2 on my lenny and first I must install the kernel headers but I'm having troubels with it. apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.28.9 I have even tri... | It would probably help if you tried to install a package that existed. Last I checked, 2.6.26 was the default kernel in lenny anyway. Maybe you could install it and its headers. |
Hi. I have vsftpd installed on my Debian (squeeze). I wish to let a local user (ftp) access the FTP server, but not login as normal user through SSH. In vsftpd.conf, I have enabed local user and chroot. I have also changed the shell of the local user (ftp) to /bin/false. The problem is that, I cannot login the FTP serv... | Unfortunantly I don't think it is a Windows problem. I use proFTP and what you are suggesting works for me. I would try a differnt shell. If my memory serves there are a few null shells out there for this purpose. |
Running /dlf/Realtek/r8168-8.016.00# ./autorun.sh gives this result: " Check old driver and unload it. rmmod r8169 Build the module and install make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make: *** [modules] Error 2 " I have checked the directory and ./buil... | Its already in the kernel. [r8169] the RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver, included in mainline kernels. linux-2.6 2.6.26-21 corrects several bugs relating to r8169 Unless you mean rtl8169d [rtl8168d] the RealTek RTL8168D Ethernet controller, supported by <r8169> since Linux 2.6.31. v1 is supported in linux-2.6 2... |
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.30, but now Vitualbox tells med I have to upgrade my virtualbox-ose-modules for my kernel. I've found this: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/virt ... 6.30-1-686 but that's for the testing edition of debian, and I'm using Lenny. Can I install this anyway? | check the ninth post in this thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=45091 bout your link: i dont know, i didnt install the modules via apt-get for a while (as its such a pain...). looks good, install it, if it doesnt work: remove it. edit: if someone has got a link how to edit the links inside of posts ple... |
I have a problem with my custom kernel when I want to create the Nvidia kernel module. I extracted Debian's linux-source to my home directory where I compiled a custom kernel-image and kernel-headers. I used this command: Code: Select allMAKEFLAGS="CC=/usr/lib/ccache/gcc-4.3" make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --app... | Check the symlinks in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>. Specifically the build and source symlinks. Change them if necessary to point to /usr/src/linux-headers-<kernel-version> (which is where the headers for the kernel should be installed to). as root: Code: Select allcd /lib/modules/<kernel-version> ln -nsf /usr/src/lin... |
Hi everyone. New week, new topic from me. This time I have a friends desktop computer and I'm now trying to make the wireless card work. I'm running Debian squeeze and used stable to install madwifi. (from now on, its squeeze) The kernel I'm using: Code: Select allLinux debian 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP The wireless pci c... | I have the same card and used madwifi with stock Lenny kernel. It is supported by kernels > 2.6.27 so I installed the 2.6.30 kernel, removed madwifi & rebooted and works now at N speeds. lsmod shows Code: Select allme@toshiba:~$ lsmod | grep ath ath9k 207748 0 also it now uses wlan0 rather than ath0 with madwifi Code: ... |
Hello, I maintain several Debian boxes which need to run customised versions of the packages available in the official repositories. Every now and then, I apply a patch, build the package and install it. However, I am seeking to streamline the administration process by making the download-patch-build-install process au... | You can stop the packages from upgrading by changing the version in debian/changelog. For example something (0.9.3-2) change to something (1:0.9.3-2) but you will then manually have to find out when the sources are upgraded. |
I installed Debian Squeeze on my Acer AspireOne yesterday, and was delighted to see that my ZTE MF627 broadband dongle (from 3 UK) appeared to work "out of the box". I wasn't able to connect due to lack of signal, but the behaviour was as I expected. (The dongle is one with a "zero CD" that needs to be ejected before t... | Managed to reset modem to factory settings and that has resolved the problem. Waiting to see if it recurs, but if it does then that's still a different problem from the one described here, so marking this as solved. |
Tryin to update guest additions to match new host. Change fstab to allow exec. Still get permission denied. Any ideas why? Code: Select alldebian:/home/bill# cd /cdrom debian:/cdrom# ls -lh total 30M dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2.0K 2009-12-17 07:37 32Bit dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2.0K 2009-12-17 07:37 64Bit -r-xr-xr-x 1 root ... | A shot in the dark, but if they're Bash scripts and your /bin/sh is symlinked to dash instead, you could try Code: Select all# bash VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run |
I want to mount some directories in the host(Vista) at boot. I can mount them Okay from command line after startup. But, adding to fstab doesn't work. I think it is because fstab mounts are earlier than the vbox services starting up. Is there another file or script I can use to mount these each boot but, have the mount... | Try mounting them from /etc/rc.local That script runs last in the boot process, so everything else will have started already. Just use the same commands as you would use from the command line. |
I am in time zone gmt -6. At shutdown the superblock for /dev/hda1 is being written at local-6 hours. This is causing a failed fsck (code 4) at boot time. After a manual fsck I am able to boot OKay. System is running as VirtualBox guest. How can I resolve this timing problem? | In /etc/default/rcS try switching the value of UTC= to the opposite of what's there. My guess is that it's currently set to yes and for your virtual machine it should be NO. |
Hi. This is my first post so please excuse any transgressions. I'm trying to set up bind so that I can get mail straight to my server. This is what I've done so far:- My domain is almostfinished.co.uk My server's external ip is 212.159.20.117and it's internal ip is 192.168.1.101 I've based my server on this tutorial : ... | There are some nice sites out there that can give a detailed overview of the current DNS status - checkdns for one. It seems indeed as though there is a problem with the mailserver, in the form of a timeout. But more importantly, the reported DNS zone serial number is 1261165272, while yours is 00000001. Code: Select a... |
In the following i am not asking for a detailed step-by-step, but for a general advice. situation is the following: my ISP has given me a modem, which i was able to set up as a router the modem: Siemens ADSL C2-010-l http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47207 So far, so good. I have bought a switch, of which i ... | what ports do you have on the router(modem)? what ports do you have on the switch? |
i just want to know if i do it right or wrong: i added the router behind the modem and it does set the IP`s via dhcp. So far, so good. I would prefer to have got static IP`s to reach PC1 from PC2. I have read this and that, tried this and that (by editing the interfaces file), but all of it didnt work. Finally i found ... | It's your router config that should be changed. If you have no need for dynamic, you can set them all to static(in the router), and then just update your interfaces file manually, or use a gui. |
Just started to learn how to use mySQL. I noticed that at system boot and also in terminal when I restart mySQL, it has this message: Code: Select allshum-i7:/home/shum# /etc/init.d/mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and... | It's just a message informing you that Debian has checked that everything's all right with the databases and tables. It is generated by /etc/mysql/debian-start and it's nothing to worry about. |
I'm trying to set up Debian after using Ubuntu for a while. Wireless networking worked perfectly and effortlessly under Karmic, but during the Lenny installation, dhcp failed and after booting successfully, network manager says there are no network devices. I'm using a Karmic liveCD now which works fine, so I know noth... | Start here http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi |
Hi All, I'm trying to get Mutt to do Kerberos authentication when talking to my SMTP servers. This works perfectly well on my Gentoo/OpenSUSE boxes, however does not work on my Debian box. The relevant parts of my config file: Code: Select all set smtp_url="smtps://username@smtp.server.com" set smtp_authenticators="gss... | Of course, as soon as I post my message, I figure out the problem. Code: Select all aptitude install libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal and then restart mutt. |
Hello! I use debian lenny. when I become root I can run commands like ls,cp,etc. easily. But when I want to start a program like "gedit" that uses graphics, the message "cannot connect to X server" is displayed and then nothing! I used this command as root and also normal user environment but the problem still persists... | use gksudo or kdesu to run graphical programs with root privys |
Man, I know I'm gonna sound like a stupid Windows dork (which would only be partially correct), but this is not that kind of 'Where's the network settings?' question. I've been using Ubuntu for a while, and have a few instances deployed in my virtual infrastructure to run various systems. However, the makers of one of ... | Any particular DE? KDE, Gnome? you can just put the settings in /etc/network/interfaces edit: ah yes gnome, after rereading your post. I don't use it so can't help with that sorry. could also help to supply the branch (stable, testing etc) and kernel version when asking for help as it can have a bearing on the required... |
Rather strange problem here. I have a windows box with two drives (C:\ and D:\). Drive C:\ is ntfs and drive D:\ was fat32 but now its been converted to ntfs. When D:\ was fat32 I used to mount both C:\ and D:\ under my linux box with the following general command: Code: Select all#mount.cifs //192.168.0.2/music /home/... | what about when you login as root and trying to access the directory? |
Dear friends, My java enabled iceweasel was working fine. I had free Java SDK kit. One fine day I decided to install jABC software and it worked like charm. I tested the application at the following link and it worked wonderfully: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resourc ... /index.htm Then, overwhelmed by excitement, I... | You would probably be better off install sun-java6, you just need contrib non-free in your sources.list. The 'free' java works on 99% of sites, but unfortunately not all of them. |
Hi everyone, I've been experiencing a really bizarre problem with an old DELL desktop I installed lenny on. It's a dual-pentium III 866 MHz, 40 Gb HD, 256 Mb RAM DELL optiplex gx300. I installed Debian Leanny 5.0.3 from the LXDE+XFCE CD. I ended up installing both Desktop environments to test them out. Right now, I'm f... | This is one of the questions I posted. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... it=+libata I think your problem also arise from the fact that, instead of using old ide driver, your new kernel may be using the pata driver. Old ide driver uses hda, hdb etc. where as the new pata driver uses sda, sdb etc. In case you w... |
I recently restarted networking on my headless homeserver using "/etc/init.d/networking restart;logout". Well, I found myself locked out, because eth0 didn't come up automatically. I had to connect a screen and keyboard and after logging in on the console I could issue Code: Select allifconfig eth0 up dhclient eth0 Aft... | post your /etc/network/interfaces file |
have a good laugh if you like: if a portscan from here: http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/Ne ... -2114.html tells me the ports are closed or filtered and i am able to download a torrent with deluge, may i assume i have set it up correct? or do i have to check further "things" (for the firewall and for deluge)? | have a good laugh if you like, but I can't read your link. |
By accident (or stupidity), I deleted my upper panel. I put it back, and managed to put back the menu items, and others like time, volume, but I cannot put back the nice wicd icon. I searched and tried many commands, such as wicd-client, but cannot get the icon back. Under Applications-internet-wicd, if I mouse over it... | wicd-client is the command needed to start wicd with a tray icon. [add --no tray ...... if you don't want a tray icon.] Make sure you have tk installed or the icon will not appear! [tk is not a dependency, but it probably should be.] Maybe your tk got removed? |
Hi, I'm running syslog-ng on Lenny. Right now, my router logs to my system using UDP port 514: Code: Select allsource router_log {udp(ip(192.168.1.37) port(514));}; destination router {file("/var/log/router.log");}; log {source(router_log); destination(router);}; I'd like to log some other hosts, too. Do I need to make... | My guess is that you'd make another entry naming a different source, same port, and different destination log file. But guessing might not be the best way to go about it. Here's a thread showing how I screwed up syslog-ng and made it so that no logging would occur if the firewall got turned off. http://forums.debian.ne... |
Bought this usb adapter on sale yesterday. I can make it connect to my home wireless network, but cannot make the configuration stick. After reboot, it is all gone. I followed the instructions of Belkin to install the linux usb driver rt2870: Code: Select allBuild Instructions: ==================== 1> $tar -xvzf RT2870... | This Debian Wiki article may be useful. I've no idea if it's applicable to 64-bit though. |
How can I make it so that certain applications see a different $HOME folder than others? I want to do this because I hate having all of my .config files in the root of my home directory and really have always wanted them to be in a single ~/config folder similar to what some applications do now which is use $HOME/.conf... | symlinks |
I've used this tutorial before on Etch and things worked. But when I use it on Lenny I can't make the Virtualhosts work at all. I managed to get rid of most [warnings] and [errors] by poking around the system but it doesn't really solve the main problem with Virtualhosts in Apache2. Hosting multiple websites with Apach... | My gosh - that's a really old tutorial methinks. All you need is the /etc/hosts part (looks good), and the directories under /var/www/example.com (and so forth), and then to add virtualhosts to apache2 you can simply edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and go off the example <virtualhost> statement provided to ... |
bare with me, i did never had to fiddle with networks before. 1) my router is: Siemens ADSL C2-010-l 2) i followed this how-to (which is german, if one knows an english one let me know): C2-as-router. 3) Atm its me, my main PC and the modem (no switch, hub or whatsoever). i want to add a second PC later. 4) i changed /... | Why are you not using DHCP? You will need to translate what your info has to say for me to help my friend. |
i have 600+M before i start Code: Select allfakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=.091102 kernel_image i run out of disk space before the command completes! am i doing something wrong? or does the kernel compile require huge amounts of free disk space? | Kernel compilation could take much more than that also. 600MB seems to be a bit low for a PC kernel compilation. |
How do I go about compiling a module for a kernel that isn't what uname -r would return but is installed, along with the necessary headers, on the same system? EDIT: "module" was originally "program." | What program? Programs in general don't need to be compiled for a specific kernel, only modules, and I guess it depends what module you plan to compile there might be different procedures for different modules. Is it something like VirtualBox, VMware? |
An important aptitude bug that not everyone might know about. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507603 It basically states that because aptitude lacks an option equal to apt-get --list-cleanup, the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ will grow forever. While this bug gets fixed, it's recommended to update the ... | Interesting. Aptitude version: Code: Select alltelemachus ~ $ aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 c... |
Hi there! I have a problem: I have formatted my laptop and I created one partition for / of 130GB and another for swap. After the installation I see, in Nautilus, that my / is smaller: only 50GB!!! In Gparted I see that I have: - /dev/sda4 extended 133,60GB -/dev/sda5 ext4 128,14GB -/dev/sda6 linux-swap 5,47GB sda5 and... | Your description is a little bit confusing. If sda5 is 128G with 88 used and 39 free, that accounts for all of it. What's the 10GB you mention at the end? Please post the output of "fdisk -l" and "df -Th". |
Hello, I was really excited to see Xfce 4.6 available in Lenny backports, but I'm not having the best of luck getting it installed. Has anyone gotten this to work successfully? I added backports to my sources.list - Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.d... | Wouldn't it be easier to upgrade to Squeeze? It looks like it can't find or doesn't want thunar. |
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