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What problems may I face if I change my Iceweasel's User-Agent to Firefox? I need to do so to properly display media content in WhatsApp Web. Alternatively, do you know of any extension in which I can apply a specific user-agent string for a determined site? | yzT wrote:What problems may I face if I change my Iceweasel's User-Agent to Firefox? None. Problems with UA spoofing may arise when someone crosses "families" of browsers (for example, FF -> MSIE, or Webkit -> gekko). Since IW ~ FF, you should be fine. |
Hi, I have Inceweasel 31.8.0 installed on LXDE Debian Wheezy and I am trying to make AdBlock Plus work. The thing is that I get pop-ups from any site, Youtube ad videos, etc. all the time, just like I have nothing installed to prevent that. I tried: - Installing AdBlock from Iceweasel add-ons, with a suscription to eas... | I have the same Iceweasel version and use uBlock, which is equally good and takes less memory. |
I recently upgrade to Jessie and instead of installing Chrome from the google site I decided it was best to install Chromium from the Debian contrib and/or non-free repositories. After installing I then found that i had to install the pepperflash plugin. I find that viewing flash content ( I wanted to watch the SpaceX ... | I presume you installed pepperflash using: Code: Select all# aptitude install pepperflashplugin-nonfree Have you tried: Code: Select all# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install You can check the version with: Code: Select allupdate-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status FWIW, my jessie system has pepperflash and it wor... |
I am running a new install of Debian (a whopping two days now), and I installed the drivers for wifi. The internet can work just fine when the machine first boots, but after about 45 minutes of use and/or wake up from sleep, the machine will not connect to the internet. I will attempt to connect with Wicd, and it will ... | Please post the output of: Code: Select alllspci -knn|grep -iA2 net |
Hi, i have intalled Debian 8 on bi quad cores opteron, also Tomcat 8 and openjdk7 are installed, i have do a mistake about version eclipse because i have installed eclipse Kepler or the lasted version of eclipse is Luna, after douwload Luna, i have deleted eclipse kepler who was installed in /opt directory, i do the co... | Je crois que changer le fichier /opt/eclipse/eclipse en fichier executable fera l'affaire. i.e chmod a+rx /opt/eclipse/eclipse. Tu devrais te rassurer au paravant que ledit fichier existe bel et bien |
Hi! My network card (Ralink RT 5390) acts really wierd and does not preform up to speed. My network speed is 1.1MBps and on Windows i get the full 1.1. But when using Debian on my laptop it only gets to about 350KB. I dont know what to do and it is really getting on my nerves. Here is some information about my laptop: ... | What is the output of: Code: Select all# iwconfig # modinfo rt2800pci |
bonsoir, HI, J'ai installé debian 8 sur un acer aspire one, tout marche très bien sauf que lorsque je suis en mode commandes (dans la vt320), j'ai des erreurs sur le protocole https ! Depuis un navigateur comme Iceweasel, mes connections aux sites web sécurisées via https fonctionnent très bien! voici un example avec l... | Forum guidelines. Please read before first post! ; Les lignes directrices du Forum. S'il vous plaît lire avant premier post! The language on this board is primarily English but we do not exclude people with little or no English. When replying to posts in other languages please include an English translation. It's a goo... |
I recently upgraded to Jessie and am using the LXDE desktop. I like using the keyboard power button to shutdown the system but it does not work. I looked at /etc/acpi and everything appears okay to my untrained eyes, but there is obviously something not working correctly. Do I need to edit some config file or install s... | Look at /etc/systemd/logind.conf Code: Select allman logind.conf Disable acpid power management if you are going to use this file to set things up. |
Hi guys. I'm new with debian and my english isn't really good but I need help. I will try my best for explain myself, pls help me.. I installed debian 8 (I used windows 8.1 before that) but when i installed debian it locked the partition which windows 8.1 installed. so when i try to boot windows it didnt and when a tri... | Code: Select all# hdparm -r0 /dev/sda5 |
So far I've tried to add a number to 'GRUB_DEFAULT=', but it wouldn't want to boot in anything other than Debian or Windows, same with StartUp-Manager... I currently have the liquorix kernels installed, but I can't get to use them as the standard Debian kernel is always picked. So is there any way to change this behavi... | Are you sure that the grub2 code installed by the debian is booted at boot time? Have you executed "grub-install <to proper place>" and "update-grub" with root privilege? Post the concrete contents of /etc/default/grub and execute the following and post the results Code: Select alldpkg -l |grep grub ls /sys/firmware |
I ran iptraf last night, and I saw activity that I'm pretty sure should not have been there. I closed all apps that connect to the internet first, and yet there were connections appearing from various places in the world. They appeared and closed pretty quickly, and I'm sure they were not all due to the whois lookups I... | What is your network setup and net connection type? fsmithred wrote:and yet there were connections appearing from various places Incoming? what protocol (TCP/UDP/??)? to what ports? any other identifying details? Wireshark will let you capture the traffic and do a deeper inspection of the packet contents. If you have b... |
summary: I'm creating a multiboot/multi-ISO Linux LiveUSB as detailed here. IIUC all the ISOs I'm targeting are derived from Debian Live; all are being {tested on, booted by} legacy BIOS hosts. All of my target ISOs are now passing (i.e., they boot on appropriate test hosts), but that's only because I've fortunately st... | I have fixes for my previous ISO failures, regarding which I have updated my initial post in this thread. However, I still don't know how to debug this situation, and would still like to know more. |
In Iceweasel, WhatsApp does not properly work, because you can't download images. Oddly, that doesn't happen on Firefox, so I'm considering using it. As Firefox is not in the repos, I downloaded the tar.bz2 file from Mozilla and uncompressed it at my home. What I don't know is, what will happen when a new version is re... | When you unpack it as user in your home directory, you own it. It can be updated (or whatever you want to do with it) without root. |
Code: Select all:~$ su Password: #Typed user password su: Authentication failure ~$ su Password: #Typed root password su: Authentication failure :~$ sudo su [sudo] password for m: #Typed user password i:~# mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list (mousepad:1299): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/sha... | What is the output of: Code: Select allsudo cat /etc/shadow | grep root Try this: Code: Select allsudo passwd root To reset your root password. |
Hi all, Does anybody know where does quassel irc monolithic client store its logs ? | The logfile is located at: Code: Select all /var/log/quassel.log But depending on how you installed it, to start with, you might want to look here: Code: Select all/etc/sysconfig/quasselcore You could have found the answer to this using "google search" For more details It really is pretty easy, you just start "google s... |
Hello everyone. I've recently installed Debian 8 in my machine. I've got excited when I saw the possibilty to use my Owncloud account (my server is installed on a Digital Ocean cloud machine) directly on the system configuration. Well, I added the acount there and my owncloud webdav folder appeared on Nautilus everytim... | I've found a solution for this and I will post to help anyone who has detected the same problem. The best way is to install the package owncloud-client. Code: Select allsudo apt-get install owncloud-client You can create a folder on your /home partition which sync every local file modification with your owncloud root f... |
Hey there, First time poster, second time linux. When I was 18 (not too long ago yet) I operated Ubuntu for a couple of years because windows. This was very straightforward and a pleasant experience all round. Recently I decided to install on my new laptop and thought I'd give debian (Jessie) a spin. My laptop (HP pavi... | First time poster, Well welcome, to Debian, I have a large grey box which just asks for a username (no suggestions) then a password (no *'s to mark place) and no option for choosing sessions. I have since changed the default session to Gnome 3 normal but the login remains. Do you know your "username" ?, no suggestions ... |
Hi, I have a problem with my debian install. I 've got a laptop with 3 OS: First I installed windows. Then I installed ubuntu 15.04 in an encrypted partition, and another partition with /boot (/dev/sda6) created when I installed Ubuntu. And, finally I installed Debian 8 in an encrypted LVM (/dev/sda8) with 3 partitions... | Boot debian and get root privilege and execute the following and post the results Code: Select allos-prober dpkg -l |grep grub mount |grep /boot fdisk -l ls /sys/firmware/efi |
After spending hours trying to get NUT to work with my UPS (Asium P700), to no avail, I decided to install WinPower. WinPower works fine but I have noticed something strange when I do an apt-get dist-upgrade. I get the following messages: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libjspAixPpc.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic by... | Well, the answer to the first question is PROBABLY CAN NOT REMOVE from /usr/lib . That is because it is used every time WInPower runs. So, answers to the other questions would be appreciated. Thanks. |
I was trying to install recent updates, but apt-get couldn't do this. Here's the output I got: Code: Select all(Reading database ... 187979 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../udev_215-17+deb8u1_i386.deb ... Failed to execute operation: Connection reset by peer Message from syslogd@debia... | The first of my updates (in one of my VM's) went without problems; i will do the other systems next. try Code: Select allapt-get -f install Code: Select alldpkg --configure -a |
Hi again I upgraded my Wheezy 7.8 to make sure all packages were installed Before taking the next step to upgrade to Jessie... I upgraded to Jessie and it seemed to run OK....but after reboot I had no network Connection... I checked ifconfig and the wrong network card mac address is being assigned to the wrong card....... | Hi again! More info from the different outputs: Sudo dmseg | grep eth Code: Select allmartyn@DN-Server:~$ sudo dmesg | grep eth [sudo] password for martyn: [ 1.571663] via-rhine 0000:04:06.0 eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1bc00, 00:26:5a:73:9a:f1, IRQ 20 [ 1.572490] via-rhine 0000:04:06.0 eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, st... |
Hi all, Before I used to make a copy of configuration file and give the end of the file name as 'something.conf.bkp' . Later realized it was a mistake. The correct wording should end in .bak and not bkp . As per (See apt.conf(5) manpage, section DIRECTORIES, last paragraph.) The Ignore-Files-Silently list can be used t... | Usually you can just add anything to a file suffix to stop it being parsed eg. configfile.conf.mycatsname. .bak and .old are regularly used. Your quoted section looks to be specifically for apt. |
No matter what I do, this is a broke package, and I cant fix, remove it, reinstall it, and I can't do anything else because synaptic continues to ask me to fix that broken package first.. on top of that my username has been removed from the sudoers list by itself.. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' (synaptic:153... | mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGENAME.* /tmp/ dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq PACKAGENAME did it.. found it on http://www.piprime.fr/1480/manually-rem ... an-ubuntu/ post it here in case anyone is interested in the future.. sometimes you just have to do things manually.. thanks guys anyways.. |
Hello. I'm looking forward to know how to connect to a remote server through SSH but from a specific port, so I con drop connections from random ports that's not the one I choose. Is this possible? I have tried by setting up an iptables entry to forward output through both, PREROUTING and OUTPUT (one at each time, flus... | If you already have fail2ban, no passwords, and only key authentication I feel like those things are good enough from a security perspective. I feel like what you are trying to do is possible but also pretty complicated and not really necessary. |
Hi guys I suppose a lot of you have seen the long thread about network-card problems.... Yep, it's me...lol I am one very unhappy bunny at the moment.... I would like some suggestions if you could on the best way to retain my raid-array setup and do a fresh install of Debian Jessie? My setup is as these gparted pics...... | bookie wrote:it ended up being allocated as sdc The allocation will change from boot to boot -- this is why your fstab identifies the partitions using the UUID. I know nothing about RAID but as long as you stick to UUID designations the block device allocation is irrelevant. |
Hi again! After all I have gone through with problems with the network cards installed in my computer... I now try to install Jessie and the first thing is it says Swedish is incomplete do you want to continue?!!! Since when has Swedish been incomplete?!! The second thing which really ****** me off is the fact on insta... | Hi again! OK! I have noticed something that didn't seem to matter when installing Wheezy... My inbuilt network card has a realtek driver and I am now on my second attempt at installing Jessie... This time I have chosen the netinstall and had my realtek driver on a USB....this time it installed the driver and then eth0 ... |
Hi guys! This is the error code for installation of cairo-dock-core on Jessie Code: Select allError handling /var/cache/apt/archives/cairo-dock-core_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have tried running force install and no luck... I purged all files and tried again...nada...sam... | I think this isn't a problem of cairo-dock. Can you install other packages? If not please post the complete output of apt-get install. Another fancy dock ist wbar [1]. [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/wbar |
Now that I finally figured out the printer problem (USB) and "permission denied" problem (printer mask), I encountered a new problem. When my Debian box (7.1, 64-bit) is sharing a disk and a printer (via CUPS), printing a couple of pages from another machine (Windows Vista) works fine, but then suddenly the system seem... | You don't need samba to share a printer but, if your printer is Wifi capable or will plug into a Wifi router you can forget sharing; each unit can handle its own printing. |
This maybe related to systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service, though I can't say I understand. After my most recent update, the boot sequence hangs at: "a start job is running for Create Volatile files and directories" with a timer and no limit .. I let it go for 12 minutes, but nothing. It seems as long as this sequence remai... | After doing a bit of research from what I can see it is to do with either your /tmp or swap partitions. Can you check to see if they are mounted properly in the fstab? |
I have Jessie on my laptop. The size of the letters during the booting screen when i choose the operating system is small for my convenience. How shall I increase the size? And thanks for help. | Set GRUB_GFXMODE to your desired resolution in /etc/default/grub and re-run update-grub. |
Hello. I followed the instructions from the wiki page, i searched the internet for other solutions but i can not install skype in Debian 8. The only code that worked was from here http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/45998. Following those commands skype managed to finish its installation, but i could not find it anywhere i... | Hi aquar and welcome to Debian, I went to this page and downloaded the install file from there (it still says debian 7 but work fine on debian Then install gdebi if it's not already installed , use that to install skype Code: Select allsu apt-get gdebi if your system is a 64bit install you will have to set it up for mu... |
Recently I installed Debuan "jessie". I previously had Windows 8.1 and Xubuntu installed. After installation Debian installed it's own version of GRUB, with entries for Debian, Xubuntu and Windows. The problem is that after I selected Windows when booting, GRUB menu no longer appears. It boots straight into Windows. It... | Try this from Windows (administrator privileges required): Code: Select allbcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi If that doesn't work, you can try following this guide: https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall If that doesn't work, boot up Ubuntu and post the output of: Code: Select all# efibootmgr -v |
I just installed jessie on a machine that had been running wheezy with no problems. Now I see that a kworker process is hogging nearly 100% of one of the CPUs. I am not sure how to proceed with solving the problem even after doing a number of Google searches. I'm not sure if this is related, but I am getting the follow... | Looks like you're not the only one: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/ ... 00372.html Perhaps it is a kernel regression -- try a bisect & see if you can pin it down. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect |
My graphic card is Intel HD Graphics, but system details says it's Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe. I think there's something wrong with the driver. Now gnome-shell has high CPU usage. This problem came up after I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. And I found Code: Select allxx@XX:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo|grep render libGL... | xiexun wrote:This problem came up after I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. how did you upgrade? Also, please, share the output of Code: Select alllspci -knn|grep -iA2 vga; lsb_release -a; uname -a; cat /etc/apt/sources.list |
Hello. Im looking forward to setup a Karaoke in Debian 8. I don't really know where to start. What software should I be using? System is Debian 8, motherboard Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X. Any suggestions please? Thanks | I don't really know where to start. I started with a "google search", if this isn't enough, you can search more. http://www.howtoinstall.co/en/debian/je ... n-karaoke/ Code: Select allapt-get install xmms2-plugin-karaoke |
I recently installed Debian 7.6 64-bit on Dell Vostro 1520 laptop. I would like to install OneDrive (Microsoft) but doesn't seem to be officially supported for Linux. I found these instructions for "onedrive-d" at following http://xmodulo.com/sync-microsoft-onedrive-linux.html the instructions mention.... "onedrive-d" ... | it all depends on your level of comfort and what you use the computer for. the standard advice (and i assume here that 7.6 is a stable version), is that you should only run packages from the official repos. because well they have been tested to work well together. the moment you introduce something like this, you move ... |
I ran WINE on Wheezy but am unable to get it to run on Jessie. Q4Wine complains that it cannot find the wineserver binary and I do not know what to enter in "Default Wine paths". | How did you install wine? How about installing by Code: Select allapt-get install wine Refer https://wiki.debian.org/RunningWindowsPrograms#Wine |
I am trying to setup NUT for my UPS and am running in to some problems. I am running Wheezy 7.7 with LXDE as my desktop. First, I checked the USB connection using lsusb and got this for my UPS: Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0665:5161 Cypress Semiconductor USB to Serial Then I ran dmesg and got this: [ 556.949151] generic-usb ... | Well, I believe I have found the problem. The usbhid-ups driver is NOT built by default !!! So I will have to do that. Problem is that I am TOTALLY ignorant on how to do it. Guess I will just give up and fall back to the normal mode of operation: don't leave the computer unattended for more time than the UPS will serve... |
having a slight problem with Icedove, it won't save any of my sent mail to the sent folder. get an error that simply says error in saving to sent folder I've re-installed and rebooted but no change. This is a 64 bit install of Debian 8. any help appreciated. | Your post is really short on information, but here are my candidates for blind guesses: 1) Have you already eliminated the most obvious candidates? a) full disk or partition b) permission/mounting issues 2) Try starting Icedove from a command line and see what (if any) errors it throws when you go to save (or is it sen... |
Mozilla Firefox won't let checking for plugin on non Firefox browser. Just noticed i can't check plugins on Iceweasel 37.0.1 There is some feedback on Pale Moon forum. Hope Iceweasel devs do something or patch it to a working/fix in Iceweasel next version. Kindly regards, Nili | Could you try an extension that will spoof the user agent to fool the plugin checker? I think the more correct thread title could be Mozilla won't let FF derivatives check plugins Since those running the Mozilla Firefox binaries, or probably something like the Ubuntu FF builds, certainly can do the checking. |
Whenever I try to use GDebi to install a .deb file, I get the following message: Software Index is broken This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file 'etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software info... | Try this: Code: Select all# dpkg -i <name of .deb> If there are any messages about missing packages, use: Code: Select all# apt-get install -f |
G'day! I'm not really sure of the correct terminology for this question, so please bear with me. I noticed in Live Jessie (Cinnamon, maybe it is in all of them) a neat little screen that appears when the system is booting up--maybe called the splash screen? Anyhow, it's the Debian icon with some swirls around it; simil... | fred barclay wrote:Can I add this feature to Jessie post-installation? Yup. https://wiki.debian.org/plymouth |
From message 35 in 78129 bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=781929 The version in experimental drops symbols. This is intentional. All reverse dependencies making use of those symbols are affected. All of them will need to be fixed not to use those symbols. I have held openssl for a bit now. My working... | https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... 768476#119 http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/c ... _changelog Openssl 1.0.2a-1 is not afected. |
Hello chaps, Quick Question asking for your opinions. I am using an 128GB SSD with three partitions: One partition is / with 50GB Second is /boot with 1 GB Third is unused currently but formatted with an ext4 partiton. My second drive is an 500GB HDD used just for /home. My question is is it safe to mount the unused pa... | Why wouldn't it be? It's just like any other mount, just make sure /home is mounted first. |
I have just installed Jessie and XFCE. I have successfully added some programs with synaptic (Gwenview for example) and removed some (Iceweasel for example) but my current attempts to run synaptic all fail with the message Code: Select all Please insert the disc labelled: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386... | As the Wiki page directs, comment out the lines in sources.list for the optical media. If you want a more detailed answer, please consult the Wiki or any of the several dozen existing threads that ask/answer this exact same question. See also: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078 |
I am using Debian 8 with the MATE desktop and have the chromium web browser installed. In various files (such as PDFs, word processor documents, emails) there are hyperlinks for websites. When I click on a website hyperlink a new instance of chromium is started with a new tab screen displayed but the website I want to ... | No, it has nothing to do with that bug. Symlinks and hyperlinks are entirely separate beasts. I don't use MATE. In fact, I have never even so much as seen it. And yet I was able to suss out the answer to this question in under 2 minutes at startpage. I'll offer a hint. You are wanting to set a specific browser as the d... |
My Sid Debian install on an encrypted drive is taking a very long time to bootup. The system is up to date. I have had the problem for a couple of weeks. I'm looking for some help to isolate the problem ... Below is the output from 'sudo uname -a' Linux debian 3.16-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) x86_64 GNU... | Thanks slackguy ... There is a lot of information in your post so I will work through it and see what turns up ... I have not changed any of the setup, it is just a stock Debian unstable, with the odd experimental package installed ... Yes, probably many of the services that are started I don't use or need. Now, someth... |
Hi all, Which mbox format is used by icedove ? It seems there are several variants according to http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html Of these most people on the web think/tell that mboxrd is a better file-format. I am using icedove, is there a way to tell icedove to use this format ? | You really are the poster child for indolence. http://bit.ly/1OIN2CC |
After new Jessie Mate on a nerbook System/Preference/Screensaver is not responding. Thinking that something is wrong with GUI I ran terminal command $/usr/bin/matr-screensaver but got the warning WARNING **: screensaver already running in this session Howcan I make it behave properly? On my other Derll Vostro laptop it... | I solved the problem, I ran as user $mate-screensaver-preferences and found that the mate-screensaver was not activated, After activation, it is behaving well. I thought that during installation screensaver is automatically activated. |
Hi all, I'm looking to list all .c and all .cc files in the debian archive if there are any within the archive. I tried Code: Select all$ apt-file search *.c That didn't return anything. Doing it against .cc didn't improve the matter as well. I have both the binary package listing as well as the sources listed in my /e... | Any of those files are in compressed tarballs in the archive, so there's no "loose" source code files floating around. They are in the "orig.tar.xx" format files, or just in a tarball if they are a native Debian package, such as Synaptic. |
Short version : Please, I need help ! On a normal computer, where is hidden the "thing" that makes 127.0.0.1 existing fine without having anything to do ? Long version : So as i read, The very first interface to be activated is the loopback interface: # ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 I have thousands of jokes like that every ye... | ... and your /etc/network/interfaces ? |
Hello everyone, when I had Wheezy installed on my laptop (acer aspire V5-571) I experienced a problem that I later discovered was not so uncommon among Debian users, namely the system restarted (not rebooted: the power light went off and after a few seconds the computer turned on again, while when rebooting the power l... | Jessie uses systemd by default which means, if you haven't changed that to use sysvinit, the script has to be run by systemd. As far as I can remember reading, I think, Debian Jessie allows initialisation scripts to be run just like with sysvinit. So, your solution, is to read how a script is added to be run by systemd... |
I'm not sure if this has been done before, but I'd like to add a terminal window onto the right side of Gedit. I'm not going over column 80 on Gedit, and I have to use the terminal a lot anyway to test my code, so it'd be convenient to add it into the extra space from column 80 beyond. Do you know how to do this? I hav... | To actually add a terminal to gedit would probably be difficult (unless gedit is a lot more extensible than I realise, which is distinctly possible, since I hardly use it). I'd suggest using a window manager to do something similar instead. Tiling window managers are very suited to constantly flipping back and forth be... |
I have a persistent problem in Aptitude: the "libgnutls26" package always shows as a New Package when opening Aptitude. This package is installed (and shows as such with "i"); I can let it disappear from the New Package listing by hitting "f", yet it reappears when opening Aptitude the next time. Removing this package,... | hkoster1 wrote:Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this problem? Look up it's dependencies. If their aren't any remove it. I have Jessie on this machine and libgnutls26 isn't even listed as available. |
I did a new net install of wheezy the other day, and I have been seeing reboots every few hours since. Last night, approximately 13 hours ago, I removed all logs and recreated the directory. I have posted links to all relevant logs. No desktop environment or anything is installed; it is the base system with ssh running... | We have several (several!!) existing threads that talk about "random" problems. Read them. Post back if you still have questions. |
Are there any good time-tracking utilities which can be recommended in debian ? I tried ktimetracker and gnotime, both of them were not upto the task. Gnotime segfaults while ktimetracker hogs memory like anything ( I *think* it has memory leakage issues also.) Are there any others that people could recommend perhaps ? | A search in the repo for a similar applet brings up hamster-applet for GNOME. Or these, most not in the repository. |
Hi all, I am looking for a GUI (preferably GTK3-based) TODO manager/list/virtual post-it notes . I tried keepnote but got https://bugs.debian.org/783039 any other ideas people ? | Hi. If you are using Gnome Shell, I can recommend TODO.txt from extensions.gnome.org. Simple todo list, which is easy to sync. |
Today I ran another "rkhunter --checkall" and for my surprise a user named "geoclue" has been added. I didn't install this and I don't know how it installed. I'm the only user of my machine and I always lock my Debian when I leave it's surroundings. How is this possible? [21:44:35] Info: Starting test name 'passwd_chan... | Code: Select allaptitude why geoclue |
Hello, I'm trying to figure out why my system keeps crashing when I initiate large file transfers, either via SCP, FTP or SMB over LAN. Here are the machine specs: Code: Select allRAM: 32GB Primary disk: Samsung 830 SSD 128GB (ext4) Secondary disk: 2TB WD Green (ext4) Intel Core i7-3770K Processor Running headless on D... | I had a WD 2TB Green drive and ended up shelving it. Transfers were very slow apparently due to the Intellipark feature which parks the head after 8 secs of idle. I don't recall crashes though. There is a package called idle3-tools which can disable the feature - https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=idle3-tools ... |
Hi there, after upgrade debian I've got an issue with apache2 service: Code: Select all# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y Hit http://ftp.pl.debian.org stable InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates InRelease Hit http://ftp.pl.debian.org stable/main Sources Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updat... | Ok, probably got solution from manual page: Here are some examples of old and new ways to do the same access control. In this example, all requests are denied. 2.2 configuration: Order deny,allow Deny from all 2.4 configuration: Require all denied |
Hi. I'm trying to expand my Debian partition. I have some free space in front of it. But I have problems. I tried to use some tools on Windows but somehow they didn't want to expand my Debian partition. They could only move the partition. I've searched through internet and I've found some answers. resize2fs gave me thi... | I think I must redefine the start and end points of the partition using fdisk... Correct, but for a root partition you'll want to use a livecd like partedmagic or gparted from a live disc. This is a well documented topic, see google. Use /dev/sda, not /dev/sda3 with fdisk / parted. (n.b. fdisk doesn't handle GPT, IIRC.... |
Hi all, Just a little question concerning vlc-nox. I have a "minimal debian" system that I want to stay minimal. I would like to install vlc-nox, which shouldn't require any gui dependencies, but it's not what apt-get tells me. More precisely, apt-cache depends vlc-nox seems to be fine: Code: Select all Depends: liba52... | @wizard10000 Hep, thanks for your answer. Un facture I have already se en tant, but if look l'île dependencies I have post are not thé recommanded ones but "extra packages". Recommanded packages are displayed after (i didn't put them in the post.... I Will try anyway tout confirm. |
I want to install ia32 libs for running a game with wine on debian testing, but this error happend : I have this problem with my game : Code: Select allerr:wgl:has_opengl Failed to load libGL: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory err:wgl:has_opengl OpenGL support is disabled. err:d3d_ca... | Have you enabled i386 multiarch? Code: Select allsudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ( http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/06 ... -libs.html ) |
I'm looking for a new web browser to use; I carried on using the old Iceape package browser after it became deprecated because, at the time, it seemed to be the only one that would allow me to set a limit on the cache size. <rant>The static content of the vast majority of web-sites is relatively small, typically < 500K... | I might be doing something wrong here, but Firefox/Iceweasel works with the only plugin I still need (Flash), lets me set an upper limit for the cache size, and doesn't nag me about updates (it gets updated via apt-get like everything else)... |
How can I block specific url of some domain from being opened in a browser of a PC runing Debian Wheezy, although other web pages from this domain should be freely accessible? Thank you. | A proxy server (squid) would probably be the best way. |
Hi all, I was looking at http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2008/12/ ... ian-linux/ and tried to do the same. Code: Select all[$] ll -h all*.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 1.3M Mar 25 18:10 allpackages?format=txt.gz I extracted the archive and renamed it to allpackages.txt for better understanding. Code: Select all[$] ll ... | It's probably not what you are looking for, but Synaptic puts the number of available packages at the bottom of its window. You could also save this page as text for stable, or the other upstream versions, and do a line count: https://packages.debian.org/stable/allp ... mat=txt.gz |
I have a script test.sh which has to reduce brightness of the screen: Code: Select all#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS-0 --brightness 0.5 * LVDS-0 is the identifier of my monitor located at /home/user_name/test.sh if I execute the file manually it works, but if I want to execute it using "at" nothing happens, ... | Please clarify 'at' - do you mean as root? |
Hi, The system I set up about 1 month ago ( AMD E-350 / 1GB RAM / 3 NIC / 4 GB flash ) as a router/fw, running latest Jessie, experiences an oops on the e1000e driver every couple of days. It is able to recover ( restart the interfaces ) within 5-7 seconds, but it still bothers me. There is similar issues with e1000e t... | As far as I can see, the target is an amd64 architecture, but you are compiling the module on a MIPS architecture: not binary compatible. It should be possible to use pbuilder and QEMU on the workstation to cross-compile amd64 on the workstation, but I'm still trying to figure this out at the moment myself. Or you coul... |
Hello since a few days I am experiencing an annoying trouble with the two programs Synaptic and Gparted. At each (re-)start of the computer, both programs will not run from the menu, panel, or command line. The menu&panel commands are synaptic-pkexec and gparted-pkexec, respectively. Absolutely no reaction . Now I foun... | I found a bug report providing a more competent description https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=703016 Another recent good report can be found here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146177 in the last comment by Lennie. Short summary: 1) run Code: Select allps x|$ ps x | grep polkit 1065 ? Sl 0:00 ... |
Hi all, I know one can use 'apt-cache search $PACKAGNAME/KEYWORD' or 'aptitude search '$PACKAGENAME/$KEYWORD' but what if you remember snippets from the short description or/and long-description of a package' . For e.g. I don't remember name of a package which was recent and is about 'intel' 'compiler and memory optimi... | Within your system Code: Select allaptitude search '?archive(experimental) ?description(word)' The pattern is probably more helpful and easier to understand within Aptitude's graphical interface, using "L" to limit the view. Within the whole Experimental archive Code: Select allhttp://packages.debian.org/search?suite=e... |
Hi all, first time here! I'm on CrunchBang 11 waldorf and came here after people at http://crunchbang.org/forums told me to try here... Did anyone manage installing Zeal*? One way is to download and install the deb file they have in https://launchpad.net/~jerzy-kozera/+ar ... /+packages (which is an ubuntu deb file) bu... | Anyone...? |
In gentoo we have many sword modules in the portage tree (the portage tree is something like a repository). Code: Select all# emerge -s sword | grep app-dicts/sword- * app-dicts/sword-ab * app-dicts/sword-abbott * app-dicts/sword-abs_essay_goodsam_swb * app-dicts/sword-acv * app-dicts/sword-afr1953 * app-dicts/sword-ak... | Oh I get it. You have to install xiphos and then go to the module manager to install them there. |
Currently using Debian Wheezy 7.6. Long story short, I accidentally ran a couple root operations on my /etc/apt/sources.list with Ubuntu code I copied and pasted from a forum. Result? My Wheezy repositories were dumped and replaced with Ubuntu sources in my /etc/apt/sources.list. That broke by Synaptic Pakage Manager, ... | /etc/apt/sources.list should be a file not a directory. Post output of Code: Select allls -l /etc/apt You need to be root to edit that file. If you have already installed a bunch of stuff from those 'other' repo's you're probably up for a reinstall anyway... |
Debian Stable AMD-64; Gigabyte motherboard w/ dual memory, 8 core AMD CPU At bootup, there is a full screen of page faults listed. Same screen since I built the box over a year ago. I have been ignoring the report since I can sense no operating problems. However, I am curious. Anyone else? Continue to ignore it? | You should probably post the error messages. |
I have Debian Jessie (Testing) 64 Bit installed on my Laptop with XFCE Desktop. I've downloaded the Arduino ver 1.60 package and have it extracted. When I try to compile a prebuilt sketch (program) for the Arduino Mega 2560, I get the following error message: "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h:30:26: fatal error: bits/predefs... | Debian repository has arduino ver 1.05. https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/arduino Do you need version 1.60? If not, how about removing 1.60 and installing 1.05 from repository? As for bugs in arduino, how about reading https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo ... st=testing and http://playground.arduino.cc/Linux/Deb... |
Hi everyone. for work, I need some piece of software. It was shipped as a binary *.rpm, which I converted to a *.deb with Alien ( https://wiki.debian.org/Alien ) and installed it with dpkg. Said software works. Fine. However: Code: Select allroot@x200s:/home/b# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dep... | I need some piece of software What is the name of this software? |
Hi, Debian Wheezy with Xfce I had auto login setup however after an update I have to login again and cannot find the file to reset it. I looked for the Login Window to make the change however I could not find that either but maybe it's an application I remember from Gnome desktop. Can anyone show me the path to the cor... | Since you're using XFCE, my guess is that you use LighDM. The Debian wiki explains how to enable autologin: http://wiki.debian.org/LightDM#Enable_autologin |
hi, i just did a Code: Select allapt-get remove python-numpy and apt immediately started printing this (without asking for a confirmation) Code: Select allReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer requir... | Please paste your /etc/apt/sources.list. |
Hello. When I press the power button on my laptop the shutdown menu should appear for 60 seconds, and then it should shutdown automatically (after those 60 seconds) if there's no input from the user. That's how all my other laptops work. However my shutdown menu (with the options Power Off, Reboot, Hibernate, Suspend, ... | Try change "now" to "0" in /etc/acpi/powerbtn-acpi-support.sh at the end of this script, but I'm not sure what it will solve the problem. Peter. |
Hi everyone, I would like to know if a 2go ram and dual core 2.16ghz laptop would be enough to run debian with xfce ? I'm going to use it mostly to code and do latex but also to surf on the internet/watch videos. I really don't know what 2go ram is able to support so, would it be enough to run eclipse, kile, (on th sam... | Yes...more than adequate. Really depends on how you set up your system. Xfce will run great. System might chug a bit if running HD video or too many concurrent apps...otherwise your Debian Xfce decision should make a wonderful system. |
I've got a fresh install of Debian Jessie, 64-bit architecture, integrated intel graphics card. I'm having trouble running steam. I downloaded the deb and installed it using dpkg. That appeared to work. But steam won't run. I get the following: Code: Select all$ steam Failed to parse arguments: Option "--disable-factor... | adasilva wrote:I downloaded the deb and installed it using dpkg. Why? https://packages.debian.org/jessie/steam The version from the repositories works just fine on my jessie system -- remove all traces of the one you have installed from the .deb package and use the correct method instead. https://wiki.debian.org/Steam |
I cannot get the microphone of my new logitech C270 webcam to work. No sound on GUVCVIdeo, Cheese, Skype or anything else I have tried. Works OK under Windows7. Bought a Trust TRINO to try - video also works, but not the mic. Mic shows up ok on Mixer. Xfce on Wheezy. I have searched and found this to have been a histor... | consufed wrote:I cannot get the microphone of my new logitech C270 webcam to work. No sound on GUVCVIdeo, Cheese, Skype or anything else I have tried. Code: Select allmodprobe snd_usb_audio (http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/201 ... -hd-webcam |
Thinkpad T430s here. When plugged in, both suspend and hibernate instantly resume when I try them. This behavior continues even after unplugging AC, until I restart the system. Then it suspends and hibernates correctly. In my BIOS "wake on AC" is disabled. /var/log/pm-suspend.log (one cycle of suspending then resuming ... | Many machines have what is called wake on USB, so this could also be the culprit if you have a USB mouse or external HD plugged in. There's also a way to disable it. Google will help (I forgot the procedure). |
I am looking to install vmware so that I can run windows on my linux machine. Does anyone have any good links to tutorials to help me install it on Wheezy? I have found a couple of links but I have not found them helpful. Thanks | I used this, and found it helpful, maybe you will: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/02/vir ... create-vm/ EDIT: Oops! sorry, ignore that, you're talking about a different VM. |
I just switched from another linux distribution to debian. I used debian before and I'm happy to be back However I have some issues regarding javascripts in Iceweasel. As far as I can see no javascripts are loaded in Icweasel. I discovered this while working on github and wanted to upload an ssh key. On the website the... | As far as I can see no javascripts are loaded in Icweasel This is almost certainly not an Iceweasel (IW) issue, but some sort of local config/user error problem. Try creating a brand new IW profile, don't install any addons, and see if the problem goes away. |
I am not really knowledgeable about these things but just have a question. In the past, ie 1 month ago, when I would check on whether my system was using systemd ( pidof systemd && echo "systemd" || echo "other" ) I would get systemd as the response. After the latest update I now get "other" as the response. So what is... | What is the output of: Code: Select allls -l /sbin/init |
Hello there! This is my first post so i'm sorry if i'm missing something that you expect I should include in this post. If some more info is necessary, i'll gladly post it . So, let's go to the problem: After upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, GDM3 stopped working. It shows a screen with the following text: "oops somethi... | nomadwolf wrote:After upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy I'm going to presume you mean the other way around... How exactly did you go about upgrading your system? What is the content of your sources.list? What is your graphics card & driver? Code: Select alllspci -knn | grep -iA2 vga Log files for X are at /var/log/Xorg.0... |
After finally installing debian on a new netbook I purchased, and after attempting to boot from the netbook hard disk, all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor on the top left. I don't get a grub screen or anything else. Any ideas as to what may have gone wrong? I told the debian installer to use the entire d... | You installed via USB correct? Hopefully you haven't modified the USB yet, shut down system and re-insert the USB stick and reboot. Grub may have installed to the USB instead of the hard drive. |
Hi all, hope this is the right forum to post my question I have a HP printer HP Deskjet 2540 series. In Debian stable I could add the printer with no problem, but I just installed Debian Jessie, and now I can not add the printer for some reason - although the system sees the printer. When I go to tyhe gnome system sett... | I have some more log data that I hope can be of some use Code: Select allJan 16 23:25:39 workstation dleyna-server-service[6554]: dLeyna: Exit Jan 16 23:26:19 workstation org.gnome.ControlCenter.SearchProvider[1346]: Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. Jan 16 23:26:19 workstat... |
I'm trying to remove a repository that I entered by mistake: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/pp ... ce/Sources 404 Not Found W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/pp ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used in... | It may be difficult to repair after messing up by adding Ubuntu repository... I found http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 00#p555212 Anyway, can you use sudo or su? First, close synaptic (package manager) or any updating aplication. Can you use terminal? If you can, open it and get root privilege by either exec... |
Last year Wine 1.41 was just fine for my little program, but since the new version of my program came out I cannot get it to work in Wine. If there is no way to upgrade Wine is there something else I can use to run my Windows based program? I'm running Debian Linux Mint LMDE Thanks for your assistance. | LittleToucan wrote:I'm running Debian Linux Mint LMDE You should ask on their boards. The last time I used it, the system had mixed sources as stock and was very unreliable. Their set up is very different from a pure Debian system and the developers have decided to base the next version on Debian Stable to improve the ... |
My system is running Wheezy 7.7 and I have both LXDE and Gnome desktops available. I have the need to edit a PDF file and am having difficulty finding something that works well. Tried importing the file into LibreOffice Draw and the results were, as expected, pretty bad. So I am looking at a couple of possibilities and... | The stock Wheezy Qt4 is 4.8.2, while wheezy-backports has 4.8.6. |
Hello, everyone. I'm running Debian Jessie and wanted to upgrade to Sid. This is not a production installation, and I have no reasons not to try it, so I thought the experience would be worthwhile. So I backed up my Jessie installation and edited my /etc/apt/source.list to deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable m... | You can use packages from experimental, but the repo does not contain a full set of packages for a working system, so no you can't just use experimental. |
Hi! I am having trouble with automounting USB-drives in Debian Wheezy (64 bit). I did an expert install with only the basic tools. I later installed xorg, openbox and the file manager PCManFM. When inserting a USB-drive, the drive appears in PCManFM, however I get an error message saying "Not authorized" and I cannot a... | yea it sounds like a proper session isn't being setup install lightdm and I suspect everything will just magically work once verified to work you could remove lightdm and see if you can duplicate the session it sets up or just keep lightdm installed you likely need something like exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch open... |
i installed wheezy few days ago. i had it before but now this problem appeared for first time - i just cant extract rar files. i tried with archive manager, arc, xarchiver... nothing works. | Check if unrar is installed: Code: Select all aptitude show unrar | grep State or unrar-free Code: Select all aptitude show unrar-free | grep State One of them has to be installed in order for rar files to be readable. Be aware that unrar-free does not support all rar files. The proprietary unrar is available if you ad... |
Hi. So Clementine has been working perfectly until just now. Here is what I did: - Ripped a CD to my ~/Music folder using K3b (Ogg vorbis quality 4 if it matters). - Attempted to launch Clementine but screen pops up for a second before vanishing/crashing. - Launching from terminal only gives a single line error: "Segme... | Are you sure clementine is using the libraries (.so files) it expects? Segmentation faults happen as an executable expects data in a particular form but is handed it in some other unexpected form. This means, the most probable cause is you have mixed repositories. Use ldd as the following example on the clementine exec... |
Hello everyone, It seems that VLC can nolonger be installed from wheezy-backports due to libchromaprint0 which depends on two packages that are non existent in wheezy-backports: dep: libavcodec54 (>= 6:9.1-1) Package not available or libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.10) Package not available dep: libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1) Pa... | Still? They removed the libav 0.9 packages months ago, and still have not fixed the issue? That's disheartening. We rebuilt the missing packages and put them in the MEPIS 12 community repos to work round the problem. |
I have been using the stable version of Google earth for some time and today, for the first time, tried to search for a location. I got an error message - Invalid http request . I read where this may be caused by a problem with a curl library. Anybody know how to fix this? Running Wheezy 7.7 and LXDE desktop. | ticojohn wrote:I have been using the stable version of Google earth for some time and today, for the first time, tried to search for a location. I got an error message - Invalid http request . I read where this may be caused by a problem with a curl library. Anybody know how to fix this? Running Wheezy 7.7 and LXDE des... |
I have noticed a lot of internet flak regarding the addition of a leap-second this year. Just wondered if it was going to cause any problems. I am guessing NO but just want to be sure. I am running Wheezy 7.7 | NO. |
I cloned the hard drive of my laptop to a USB drive. Debian is installed on Luks encrypted LVM volume /dev/sda7. I wish to copy some data from the cloned /dev/sda7 volume into the Debian system so I plug in the USB drive and click on the encrypted volume in Nautilus. A window pops up requesting the password to unlock t... | I don't recall if I've ever done this with a cloned drive, but I know it works on the original drive if you boot from live-cd/usb. I probably have done it, and it probably does work. Replace sdxY with sdb7. Replace label with whatever word you want to use. Code: Select allcryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxY <label> # then ru... |
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