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I've been having a problem with my system freezing. It doesn't seem to do it all the time but most often seems to happen when I am browsing the web with Firefox (the official Firefox downloaded from Mozilla). It may be that it is only happening when I browse the web, but I am not sure. What happens is the system will f... | Is there any reason you use Firefox instead of iceweasel? How about filesystem check or memory check? Filesystem check can be done by fsck. What partitions and what filesystems are your debian using? You can know by Code: Select allmount About memory, you can execute the following with root privilege: Code: Select alls... |
Hi there. I'm experiencing an issue with Debian Testing (Jessie). I think it started to happen after a recent update. When opening QBittorrent or the open-file dialog of any GTK2 application (GTK3 works just fine), I get the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. All exte... | Anything in the logs? Code: Select allgrep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log Also, have a look at the GNOME logs application (press the Windows key & type "logs"). |
I would like to install Seamonkey/Iceape in LXDE Wheezy. Unfortunately it is not maintained in the Wheezy repos. Can someone teach me how to turn the latest Seamonkey from Mozilla's website, into a deb and and install it. If i can do that is there a way to become a package maintainer for it? Is Iceape a possibility or ... | noalternative wrote:Can someone teach me how to turn the latest Seamonkey from Mozilla's website, into a deb and and install it. You don't need to turn it into a deb to install it. And Seamonkey per se will never be a part of Debian, for the same reason as Firefox. As for HOWTO installation assistance for Seamonkey, th... |
I've had to reinstall Debian after a botched attempt to revert to open source graphics drivers on my system (fglrx causes lots of tearing). Now I'm trying to get sound to work in my browsers again, and I remember last time I got it working I installed gnash. I'm not sure if it will really help, but it's worth a shot. A... | I noticed there was a difference in these two lines not present in the other groups of deb and deb-src URLs: Code: Select alldeb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.gtisc.gatech.edu/debian/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free The other two groups have the same URL for... |
By accident I deleted the main menu, I've tried a few things but I still don't have a main menu. In the past I would hit the Windows button and it would drop down, now nothing happens. I'm running Linux Mint Debian. Short of reinstalling everything again, is there a way to restore this menu? If it's still there but hid... | Not sure this will do it, but I would try reconfiguring the gdm3 (or maybe gnome-menus) package. hit keys alt+f2 Code: Select allgnome-terminal su - dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 reboot EDIT: just noticed your running mint...I have never used mint don't know if it uses gdm3 looks like you might try 'dpkg-reconfigure mdm' |
Hi, I have the following problem in Debian LXDE: When I login as a normal user (there is just one normal user on my system) the login screen disappears but after a second or so shows up again. There is no error message. I can login as root. I did so to set a password. But that did not help. Before I had this I was expe... | Anything in the logs? Code: Select allgrep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log PvO wrote:I was experimenting with vncsever and x11vnc What was the nature of these experiments? |
G'day I have a Debian desktop with virtualbox. I have a command prompt only debian vm that is my mail/web server. Last night, I remoted in and ran apt-get update and upgrade, without watching it too closely. Once it finished, I restarted the vm. Grub presents the new kernel (3.2.0-4-amd64) and recovery only When I sele... | Champs1 wrote: I expect this should be able to be fixed from grub bash, but I have no idea how to do it. Well without any further info, the best percentage play would be to boot from a rescue disk and reinstall the kernel / regenerate the initramfs and watch closely. Unless you've done something else to it... |
After having updated and upgraded the system conky no longer shows the day number. All I get is this: 14:02:19 MON DEC 2014 Today is the 29th and this is missing. How can I fix this? | Post your conkyrc For the date syntax, see man strftime |
Whenever I try to start gedit, it fails with the following error message: Code: Select allGLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile' does not contain a key named 'word-chars' Trace/breakpoint trap However,Code: Select allsudo gedit works and runs fine, interestingly. According to dconf-edito... | Denwid wrote:I'm on Debian unstable, gedit version 3.12.1. I think you need to update; on my sid box: Code: Select all % gedit --version gedit - Version 3.14.0 And gedit works just fine for a normal user... |
Hello everyone, I suppose we must simply wait until some Debian package maintainer-magician solves the following issue: Can't upgrade Debian wheezy because of unsolved dependencies: Libreoffice which I installed from wheezy-backports can't be upgraded from 1:4.3.3~rc2-1~bpo70+1 to 1:4.3.3-2~bpo70+1 because it requires ... | You could try backporting it yourself, it's not as difficult as it sounds: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation If you are feeling particularly altruistic, you could even submit a formal backport to Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingFormalBackports EDIT: I think it's fair to say the Debian devs are pret... |
Any one had any problems with the latest release of Wheezy 7.7? Since upgrading, the shutdown dialogue in Gnome is behaving oddly. It gives me the options to Cancel, Restart or Power Off, but powers off within a few seconds whether I want to or not. If I want to restart, I need to be quick in selecting it. The dialogue... | The "beta2" is the installer. Jessie is testing. |
Hello! I'm using Debain Wheezy last version with Firefox 33.1 and FlashPlayer last version avaliable for Linux (11.2.202.411). The problem is youtube and many other video sites are blocking my flashplayer saying the plugin is vulnerable and should be updated, but there is no update for flashplayer for linux! How can i ... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=119405 |
Specifically, I am trying to get Dwarf Fortress working. I keep getting EFLCLASS64 errors or "file not found", when I "locate <file>" I can find it but readelf says it's class 64. I've searched google and found some tips that got me past some errors but not all. So far, I have installed ia32-libs and ran "dpkg --add-ar... | Have you seen the Debian wiki page on multi-architecture support? https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch There are instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO Let us know if you have any problems following them |
Should root authorized to mount any external drives by default ? Recently I've installed Wheezy. Root can mount only from konsole. When trying to mount external drives with Dolphin (started as 'kdesu dolphin') error message appearing: Code: Select allAn error occurred while accessing 'PAKAGE', the system responded: An ... | Teufel wrote:Yes, of course, I can mount devices from root konsole, but this solution makes device inaccessible for user. What I missed? I guess you miss how to mount ntfs correctly The filesystem of the partition you want to mount is ntfs, isn't it? You can learn by Code: Select allman mount Look for the options: uid,... |
So I was thinking of doing this, and this, but I can't install GRUB on the pendrive: Code: Select all$ grub-install --force --no-floppy --boot-directory=/media/andoru/3720-1018/boot /dev/sdc Installing for i386-pc platform. /proc/devices: No entry for device-mapper found grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so f... | You can install GRUB if you install Debian to a pen drive like on a regular hard drive. Then you will have a bootable pen drive. You can use just a base system. Another option. https://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb |
Solved. The easiest way to update your flash player in linux is: dzz wrote:Code: Select allupdate-flashplugin-nonfree --install Cheers ------------------- Today, I started getting errors in Ice Weasel (Firefox), complaining my Adobe Flash Player is out of date, and needs to be updated. I'm running Jessie (testing). Aft... | Adobe doesn't release new versions of Flash Player for Linux since February 2012. Only Chrome gets new versions directly from Google. (see http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012 ... linux.html) But they still release security updates, and that's what your Iceweasel is complaining about. The current version of Flash Pl... |
Hello there, i'm getting nervous about a problem that I can't fix. I'm an aptitude user on a Debian Sid (3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux). After an "aptitude update", that worked, "aptitude upgrade" gave me the following error message: Code: Select allDo you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y... | maybe you could check /var/lib/dpkg/status |
Hi everyone I've an annoying problem and I can't figure out how to solve this. After 9 hours of uptime, some sites become really slow, specially Google Services (Google search, Gmail, Youtube, etc). If I use this command "time wget http://www.google.com" I get: real 2m10.184s user 0m0.367s sys 0m0.054s and this "time w... | When your system is slow, what is the output of: Code: Select allfree -h df -h |
THIS PROBLEM IS SO SERIOUS THAT I CAN'T EVEN POST ON THIIS FORUM. I HAVE HAD TO USE A WINDOWS COMPUTER WITH INTERNET EXPLORER (and I have to copy this manually rather than copy and paste...) I'm experiencing some serious network problems on three computers, maybe four. These are computers my family uses. I suspect that... | After some more help, I have discovered that the problem was: Path MTU Discovery I was given the following code: Code: Select allsudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 600 And now everything is working like magic. Weird. |
Hello, I have the following error: Code: Select allman: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config From: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/19 ... 01542.html : A developer asked two questions to a user with this similar problem: Does the file /etc/manpath.config exist? Is it readable by the user yo... | Did you try re-installing man-db? What is the content of /etc/manpath.config? Do your info pages work? Code: Select allinfo info |
Hi! I'm using Debian Wheezy last version with OpenBox only, and i installed wireshark by "aptitude install wireshark". The problem is when i try to launch it in terminal i get "command not found". Look: Code: Select allroot@robgeek:/home/rob# wireshark bash: wireshark: command not found root@robgeek:/home/rob# aptitude... | FWIW, I've just installed it (using aptitude) in Debian sid and it runs just fine by typing `wireshark` in a terminal (even when run as root, but it complains). What is the output of: Code: Select allwhich wireshark whereis wireshark |
Hello all I'm fresh Debian user (previously stuck on Mint and Ubuntu). I have some strange problem with mate desktop and I'm not sure if it is questiuon of Mate bug or my system configuration. I realized that Mate 1.8 does not process ~/profile during login process (I was suprised because old 1.2 one that I used with M... | Ok, Got it! I have to start mate-session from .xsession file explicitely. |
A couple of days ago I installed Debian with LXDE and run into this problem. I tried to google this thing, but it hasn't led to any sensibe results; whenever I start debian (with lxde), the bottom panel is white and flickers. When I click on it, nothing happens. When I terminate it with killall lxpanel and try to start... | Sorry for double post, but I managed to solve it with reinstall... |
Hello, I try to configure tftpd-hpa server on my debian jessie. Every time I want to put or download a file I get error timed out. My configuration is: Code: Select all# /etc/default/tftpd-hpa TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp" TFTP_ADDRESS="192.168.5.250:69" TFTP_OPTIONS="--ipv4 --create --secure" Rights ... | Do you have a firewall blocking port 69? This is the first thing that I would check. Port 69 is the default tftpd port. Also, are you trying to do a nfs root mount in conjuction with tftpd-hpa? I ran into a problem with this recently and found a solution, which is why I ask. This was a matter with the nfs server, not t... |
I am experiencing this bug here and the proposed solution is to upgrade wpasupplicant to version 2.2-1. I am on Debian 7.7 and my current version of wpasupplicant (given by apt-cache policy) is 1.0-3+deb7u1 0. How do I upgrade wpasupplicant manually? I can't just remove the package as this uninstalls gnome. Would I hav... | even though i run sid, i keep all the other repos enabled as well. so the below suggests that not even backports will help Code: Select all# apt-cache policy wpasupplicant wpasupplicant: Installed: 2.3-1 Candidate: 2.3-1 Version table: *** 2.3-1 0 700 http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 500 http:... |
Hi, i have an old laptop (10+ yrs) that has no boot from usb option in bios setup. Previously i have used plop boot manager to work around this, and with grub4dos i could also add an entry to boot from usb. Is there a way to add an entry for booting from usb in grub2? (and no uuid's please, i want to be able to boot an... | Well it seems there is .. After reading countless other posts all voer the internet, mostly from people trying to put grub2 on a stick, wrestling through the grub2 documentation, which isnt up to date, and experimenting with the grub cli i found a way. the place to put your custom entry is /etc/grub.d/40_custom where y... |
I'm using Iceweasel 31.1.0 This version has a problem with google Street View and I'd like to use a more recent version to overcome this. I would like to move to a 33.* version. I see slightly newer vesions now available in stable/testing/unstable, but all 31.2* I see 33.* in expreimental, but am scared off by " This p... | https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel |
Hello everyone, I have executed Code: Select allsudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and selected Iceweasel as my default browser. Now, when I click on a link in an email in Icedove, it launches Chromium to view the website, instead of my preferred browser. How can I make Icedove open links in Iceweasel? edi... | I can confirm that what you tried does not work. I tried it the other direction, switching from iceweasel to chromium, but it made no difference. Icedove still uses iceweasel. Restarting icedove, logging out and in to the desktop, and changing the default browser through the desktop settings (in xfce) did not help. In ... |
Guys, i'm facing a massive problem. Suddenly, after playing with mount/umount, ran from a script, my storage (sdc5) disk shows up empy (1TB).Here's what fdisk -l returns: Code: Select allroot@debian:/home/dagon# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 146... | Execute the following with root privilege and post the results. Code: Select allblkid /dev/sdc5 df |grep sdc5 Are you sure that /dev/sdc5 is mounted correctly? |
Maybe this weekend I have some spare time to install Jessie from the scratch (instead of upgrading Wheezy), but before wasting my time... do you know if cairo-dock is already working properly in Jessie? Last time I upgraded to Jessie (like a month ago) there was a known bug (http://glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=8054) tha... | not sure how helpful this is Code: Select all# apt-listbugs list cairo-dock Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done # apt-cache policy cairo-dock cairo-dock: Installed: 3.4.0-0~unstable Candidate: 3.4.0-0~unstable Package pin: 3.4.0-0~unstable Version table: 3.4.0-1 990 700 http://debian.... |
Hi, I have installed debian 7.6.0 on very old hp530 laptop using "debian-live-7.6.0-i386-lxde-desktop.iso", Installation is perfect and laptop is running very fast so I'm pleased about that as I am fairly new to linux. I would like to enable automatic login to avoid entering pasword each time I switch on, but not sure ... | To activate autologin when lightdm is the display manager, open (as root) /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, uncomment (delete "#") and change the appropriate lines in "session-wrapper" to: autologin-user=roger, autologin-user-timeout=0 http://lxlinux.com/#12 roger is the example and should be changed |
New installation of Jessie. Gnome Shell 3.14.1. AMD HD 5770 using free radeon drivers. The screen is blinking all the time, like 15-20 times per minute. I don't see anything related in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I even did a tail -f on those logs to check whether when the screen blinks something is logge... | A similar thing is described on the Arch Wiki related to power saving profile switching. Maybe this is your problem as well? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Powersaving |
I am trying to get RSYNC set up to do backups from my computer to an external hard drive. Here is my first command for the initial back up: Code: Select allrsync -avu /home/mrcrunchy/ /media/Iomega\ HDD/RSYNC_Backup It worked fine and created my initial backup file. Now I want to be able to run subsequent backups and o... | ILC77 wrote:drakez wrote:What filesystem is in use on the external drive? My Iomega has a MS Windows Fat filesystem. I ran a test command with --modify-window=1 and it seemed to limit the amount of stuff backed up. I am sure that my problem is due to this fact and the different time stamping between the two. Another wo... |
Fresh install of AMD64 testing and xfce4. All updating went well after the installation however now when I open synaptic I get a message saying that there is a broken package and to fix it. I click on 'Fix Broken Packages' and nothing seems to happen. If I then try to install an appp I get this message: E: /var/cache/a... | The fixed packages have been uploaded to the testing repos. Code: Select allPreparing to unpack .../libaudio2_1.9.4-3_i386.deb ... De-configuring libaudio2:amd64 (1.9.4-1) ... Unpacking libaudio2:i386 (1.9.4-3) over (1.9.4-1+b1) ... Preparing to unpack .../libaudio2_1.9.4-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libaudio2:amd64 (1.9.... |
I've tried to maintain a direct answer to my question, but I may have been asking to specific of a question? My question is simply this: I understand Debain /kFreeBSD utilizes the Debian Userland, in conjunction of the FreeBSD kernel... Where I find myself asking questions is which of the two is responsible for softwar... | It is compatible. You install just like you usually install, and /etc/apt/sources.list will have the same content. How Debian (the packagemanagement) figures out which port (Linux, kFreeBSD or Hurd) or architecture (amd64, sparc, powrpc, armel, etc) you are using is beyond me. Different dependencies or rules for buildi... |
I'm using Debian Jessie and wanted to add DropBox, looking at https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/246 it suggested to add: Code: Select alldeb http://linux.dropbox.com/debian squeeze main to /etc/apt/sources.list, which I did replacing squeeze with jessie, that didn't work, so tried replacing it with wheezy, which also did... | There's no such thing as a jessie-backports (yet)or jessie-updates repository. If you think about the differences between stable and testing, the reasons would be become clear. So just remove or comment those out of sources.list |
Hi, Some years ago I installed debian. At the time it was version 6 IIRC. Default wallpaper was very nice: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun and I found even nicer one, which was adopted and very similar to this wallpaper but it was like 3D, like processed with some CG tool and it author had a blog and ... | I guess I wasn't that much tired. I found it: http://www.debianart.org/cchost/?ccm=/f ... rumru/1013 |
Morning All, Having a minor issue with a script I'm running via Cron. Now please note, I appreciate this isn't a script anyone would recommend for a Linux server, but as I'm currently away from site on the other side of the world this script is a "temp" fix for a problem I'm having with an ethernet driver. Basically th... | 1st, try to call program with full path: /bin/ping and /bin/grep. Code: Select allx=`/bin/ping -c1 google.com 2>&1 | /bin/grep unknown` Peter. |
If I haven't changed the volume on my computer for a few minutes, then when I change the volume there is a slight but noticeable jump in the audio track I am playing on Banshee or Rhythmbox. The problem then goes away for a few minutes as long as I don't change the volume. I never noticed this on Ubuntu with the same l... | texasflood wrote:for some reason removing those packages essentially removed gnome :? "for some reason". It's called a dependency. That's the whole point of debian. |
Hello, I am trying to install git, but there is this problem, when I enter Code: Select allsudo apt-get install git-core i get this output: Code: Select allReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested... | OK, so you get the error message: Code: Select allThe following packages have unmet dependencies: git-core : Depends: git (> 1:1.7.0.2) So...see what versions of git are available: Code: Select allapt-cache policy git You have backports enabled, so you should get Code: Select all Candidate: 1:1.9.1-1~bpo70+2 Version ta... |
Hi, I want to build an upstream kernel with the Debian image's configuration. My system is normally i386 but I use the -amd64 variant so I want to build that one. My workflow is like this: I build kernels in a i386 jessie chroot. I use the upstream tarballs, copy the config file of the relevant debian kernel variant an... | I found a highly relevant bug report I'll stript the ARCH=i386 vars, build with KBUILD_DEBARCH=i386 and will post the result here. |
Hi, I've had this issue for a month or two -- I am using Jessie and figured it would fix itself after a few more apt-get updates but it hasn't changed. The system is up to date. The issue: I use networkManager and the wireless connection connects to my router and is assigned an IP address. I can connect to the internal... | post output of 'route -n' |
I'm using gnome-shell (at the moment ver. is 3.14 from testing) and autologin is not working. problem was on 3.12 and still is active. is there any solution? settings in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf are set a few ago and for that time all was OK. | I'm using debian for 4-5yrs and autologin to gdm3 was working like a charm. for a couple of months I need to type a pass to login but this is a home comp so I don't need to type pass. type a pass is just a pain in the ass for me cat /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf Code: Select allAutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin=stefaca ... |
Hey guys! I downloaded Sublime Text 2.0.2 32bit today and i'm using Debian Wheezy last version 64bit. When i try to run him(Sublime) i get this error message from terminal: rob@robgeek:~/Downloads/Sublime Text 2$ ./sublime_text bash: ./sublime_text: No such file or directory Why this is happening? How can i run Sublime... | robgeek wrote:Hey guys! I downloaded Sublime Text 2.0.2 32bit today and i'm using Debian Wheezy last version 64bit. When i try to run him(Sublime) i get this error message from terminal: rob@robgeek:~/Downloads/Sublime Text 2$ ./sublime_text bash: ./sublime_text: No such file or directory Why this is happening? How can... |
I cannot express how much I hate the chrome-ified new UI on Iceweasel31. So I'm desperate to downgrade back to 24. I thought I could put a wheezy line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free run sudo apt-get update, and then Code: Select allsudo apt-... | There is no "one size fits all" answer to that question. Whenever you want to install a particular version of a particular app, then the package manager "solution" is never going to work. And for the love of whatever you hold sacred, stop thinking that Stable/Testing are intermixable. They aren't. |
Hi, finally I decided to upgrade one of systems from Squeeze to Wheezy. I followed the general recommendations on the Debian website, and I (at least thought I was) am used to dist upgrades So my sources.list was containing squeeze + squeeze-lts depots : Code: Select all# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - O... | OK Solved, my preferences file was blocking the update : Code: Select allapt-cache policy Fichiers du paquet : 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main Translation-en -1 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=whe... |
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my debian from Wheezy to Jessie referring to this page https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting I edited the /etc/apt/sources.list replacing all wheezy with jessie and then testing, But no matter jessie nor testing, after "apt-get update", the "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" do no... | vgt wrote:Do you mean that the update via editing the sources.list tends to fail? Because it seems that apt-get cannot figure out the states of a lot of machines. So we have to use an image to re install the whole system? Actually the problem is the mirror you're using. Try again later or dump that mirror and use anoth... |
Hello, I have installed drupal7 on a debian wheezy system with the debian package drupal7. I have a few questions concerning the initial setup. Starting point : a fresh debian wheezy amd64 installation on a virtualbox instance, only basic utilities and ssh activated at the install stage. Next : drupal7 package installa... | What updates are you expecting? Updates will come via apt-get (or such), as the debian maintainer releases them. For wheezy, this will only be security fixes. With all the files owned by root the www-data user will not be able to change them (this is a good thing), but it also means your admin panel is restricted to ch... |
Debian 7.6, installed firefox No protocol specified, cannot open display: :0 I am fairly new to linux and Debian especially. I wanted to install firefox because I would like to sync my bookmarks and I believe you can't do this with Ice Weasel. (If am wrong on this please let me know) Found these instructions... http://... | hughparker1 wrote: I would like to sync my bookmarks and I believe you can't do this with Ice Weasel. (If am wrong on this please let me know) You are wrong on this. Iceweasel has a "Sync" button in the menu and Sync tab in Preferences. You can install Iceweasel from the repos and it will appear in the Menu. Recent ver... |
Current kernel on Jessie is 3.16, but fglrx is incompatible with such version. Latest fglrx version (14.6) support up to kernel 3.13, so how could I install this version on Jessie?? As it's not in the repository. On another system with Wheezy and backports I don't have this problem because backports include 3.12, 3.14 ... | Have a look at snapshots.debian.org |
Debian 7.6 - would like to install Dropbox, but get mesage "bash: add-apt-repository: command not found" Sony Vaio VGN-AW11Z, running windows 7 pro, I installed Debian in VM usingVMware. Testing before full install. I would like to install Dropbox. Adding the official PPA. So that I can get regular updates. I found fol... | Good thing, too. PPAs are for Ubuntu packages only, and more people have borked their Debian systems by adding them carelessly than we can count. That command is not installed by default in Debian, but it does exist in a package in the repositories. Instead just download the appropriate Debian deb from Dropbox and inst... |
Hello Debian world, long time no see. I have been doing pretty good up until now. I am trying to get feh and X to start at login using the tile window manager spectrWM with no Display Manager. I can get X to start automatically if I add Code: Select all[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx to my ~/.profil... | I use the same method as you to start the X server, my ~/.zprofile is the same as yours (with `-- vt7` at the end to start in TTY7) and my ~/.xinitrc can run fehbg without trouble... Neither ~/.fehbg or ~/.xinitrc are executable. However, I do have this line under the shebang: Code: Select allsource /etc/X11/Xsession S... |
I just did an apt-get update and a dist-upgrade. A new version of Google Chrome was installed. However, it does not open when I click on the icon. I am running Debian Wheezy 7.6 , using LXDE as my desktop, and gdm3 as the default display manager . Everything had worked fine before the upgrade. Any help ? A possibly hel... | Try removing the singleton lock. |
Since, I have no current backups, the dreadful thought of getting a sudden hard disk failure is starting to haunt me. This is quite reasonable as I have a very complicated setup and at the moment I am trying to do some source porting to Debian. I have two IDE hard disks sitting peacefully on a table which I know they b... | On my Debian 6 LTS I use SATA to USB dapter to mount extra drives for the server. In a power tower I can mount now up to nearly 10 hard disks for my sons work as music photographer. Five are already in use, I've 6 SATA connectors on the motherboard so the adapter allows me to use 4 out of the 6 USB points to go up to 1... |
hi, I am currently toggling between dvorak and qwerty with alt-shift. I would like to switch this to super-shift or anything else that doesn't use alt or ctrl but my attempts to change this have failed. Code: Select all# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="dvor... | Perhaps, kbd settings in your $HOME has priority before system settings. Peter. |
When I do an apt-get update I see the following message : There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 4D270D06F42584E6 Can somebody tell me what this means ? Thanks. | ticojohn wrote:When I do an apt-get update I see the following message : There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 4D270D06F42584E6 Can somebody tell me what this means ? Thanks. Well, I don't know exactly what it means, but I fixed the problem. I had recently added a source from debian archives as I ... |
I'm trying to install a GNOME game called Quadrapassel. When I configure it, the output is Code: Select allNo package 'librsvg-2.0' found No package 'libcanberra-gtk3' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the env... | Post your sources.list. In the meantime, read this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?&t=114130 |
I just upgraded to Linux 3.16 and noticed that the suspend/resume behavior has changed. Previously, suspending was handled by the packages acpi-support and pm-utils. There were also some config variables in /etc/default/acpi-support. Now with 3.16, all this doesn't seem to be used anymore. The settings in /etc/default/... | If you're using sid then you're most likely using systemd. It (also) takes care of such things. |
Hi, I run a server on Debian 7.6 but when I tried to update my bash, it says : « bash is already the newest version »… The problem is my server still has the vulnerability… Could someone help me to fix this ? Thanks in advance, -T | Post your sources.list |
Hi all, I am unable to mark a topic as Solved ! I request you to point me in the right direction.TIA Vyverjet | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=63780 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=63719 |
Hello everyone I have installed Debian from a month ago. If I try to update with the terminal with apt-get update he answered this message at the end of the process: Err ftp://ftp.gul.uc3m.es wheezy/updates/main Sources Imposible traer archivo, el servidor dijo «/debian/dists/wheezy/updates/main/source/Sources: No exis... | Try cleaning it up and change the mirrors: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList |
I'm running Wheezy 64-bit fully updated. When I try to run clamscan, I keep getting the following problem: joegumbo@PC-0:~$ clamscan -a -i -r -z --remove --bell /home/joegumbo/.* Segmentation fault joegumbo@PC-0:~$ su - Password: root@PC-0:~# clamscan -a -i -r -z --remove /home/joegumbo/.* Segmentation fault root@PC-0:... | i don't know if this should be marked solved or not. I've been tinkering around a bit and something does not make sense... The segmentation fault occurs when scanning /home/joegumbo as joegumbo. The segmentation fault occurs when "su -" and then scanning /home/joegumbo as root. "joegumbo" is now added to "sudoers" grou... |
I'm in Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 (Sid). I see an Error Message after the upgrade: Code: Select allE: Can not write log (is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (1073741902: function not implemented) Setting up powermgmt-base (1.31+nmu1)... ./MAKEDEV: apm: Unknown device name dpkg: error processing package powermgmt-base (--con... | I found a guide here, about pts: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-mount-devpts/ but is abount Linux systems. Is the same for Hurd too? Of course, the problem is about the configuration of powermgmt-base and pm-utils from dpkg. Is it something critical for the system or I can live with it? |
Just read about a possible security threat called the Bash software bug. Hope the team is working on this. Any ideas as to when we might see a patch? | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=117606 |
Hello, running Libreoffice in Wheezy; spell checking does not seem to work. I googled and all information found was obsolete for this version of libreoffice. Does anyone know why this is. Thankyou | To rule out the obvious, do you have the correct language package installed. For example; if Office is set to use British English, the en-gb language pack must be installed. If American English is chosen during installation, that is the only language pack that is installed. Changing the locale to British English afterw... |
Today, for no obvious reason, when I open Yahoo, it switches to the mobile URL and appearance. No other sites are doing this. My User Agent String is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140903 Firefox/24.0 Iceweasel/24.8.0 I believe that should "tell" Yahoo to display the desktop version..., but it no longe... | In the future, you will save everyone (including yourself) a lot of time by checking the really obvious things first, and including them in your initial description of the problem. For instance: Is the behavior specific to Iceweasel? Does it happen if you start the browser in "safe mode"? You get the idea. |
The other day I inadvertently clicked on the suspend option, instead of restart, and found myself in a difficult situation. Nothing I tried could bring the system back from suspend. I tried every combination I could think of from the keyboard but nothing seemed to work. I finally did the only thing I could think of and... | Did it sort of come out of suspend, or was it stuck in suspend mode (lights blinking)? If it sort of came up, but not all the way, did the caps lock key work? If it did sort of come up partway, and you wish to kill the system as gracefully as possible, try the magic key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key with... |
I have Debian 7.0 installed on a Dell Insperion. It has been working fine for a while but I have been making some changes suggested by lynis. The changes that may have caused this problem were most likely changes suggested here to deal with unreliable ntpq peers. But, whatever caused it, when I rebooted the PC I got th... | OtagoHarbour wrote:Code: Select allsudo apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree still results inCode: Select allUnable to locate package firmware-linux-nonfree Because it still doesn't appear in the list of packages available to apt-get. Posting your sources.list might help. OtagoHarbour wrote:Code: Select allsudo apt-g... |
I just upgraded my packages Code: Select all# aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade on my Jessie install, and now dolphin refuses to mount any of my USB drives. It complains: An unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform operation What package broke here, and how do I let them know? Fix is here | you can still mount by cli? what is your partition type? probably theres a policy of mount issue, not the mount itself. |
I have Debian 7.0 installed on a Dell Insperion. The other night, the PC randonly froze and I thought the CPU fan had died. However, when I open the box, the fans were working fine and the PC is also working again properly. However I installed psensor using the process outlined here. Psensor works fine but lynis lists ... | Remove? NO! Removing some of those will break your system. It appears that security updates for many of those appeared yesterday for Wheezy, no doubt due to the fixed issues. Do you run any sort of update-notifier? Code: Select allStart-Date: 2014-09-12 08:37:06 Commandline: synaptic Upgrade: bind9-host:amd64 (9.8.4.df... |
Hi all, I usually frequent sessions under different desktops, window managers. Now sometimes I copy and paste data from one place to another and forget that the data (which may be sensitive) is still residing in the clipboard. Now as I understand it, there is no way to know where in memory would the information be (bec... | Best way is to read the man page. Since there are 2 clipboards I would use as follwed. Code: Select allxsel -c && xsel -bc |
Ever since Microsoft decided to pull support for older versions of Skype, I have been trying to find a solution to make Skype working for my son again. So far to no avail. His computer runs a plain Debian Wheezy 64 bit. I have tried both the Wiki way and installing the 32 bit Wheezy package from skype.com Upon installa... | Thanks. Multiarch and pulseaudio is installed. Trying to install the missing dependency, libasound2-plugins: Code: Select allroot@haakon:/home/haakon/Downloads# apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386 Leser pakkelister ... Ferdig Skaper oversikt over avhengighetsforhold Leser tilstandsinformasjon ... Ferdig Du vil kans... |
Hello! I'm using Debian Wheezy 7 and i'm trying to install PHP last version available in my system. I read in internet that i have to use the following command to do that: Code: Select allaptitude install php5 php-pear php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 But i'm having this output: Err http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ wheez... | No, server is up (and responding with the 404 b/c that file is not found). You need to update your package lists. 'apt-get update' |
Hello! Guys, could you, please, tell me a simple command line program that converts .txt files to .pdf? Could be more than one format(.txt) do pdf, but mainly .txt to pdf. He needs to be freeware too. First, i tried text2pdf, but i have to pay for it after 30 days! I'm using Sublime Text 2 and, i don't know, but i beli... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 59#p549694 You have not learnt how to search by yourself. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+text+pdf+co ... mmand+line http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=168290 |
Hello all I have a small script that looks like this: #!/bin/bash ls -l echo "end of listing" echo 0 > this_script.sh Basically, what it does is execute two commands and after it, it has to erase its own contents. I won't go into details regarding the reason I want this to happen because it's a long story (but might ma... | * * * * * sh /home/raiduser/test/autoerase.sh |
Hello everyone, apt-get is not working anymore. I'll try to explain first what the situation is and then describe, what events lead there. Situation is: I want to install something, e.g. emacs. This is what happens: Code: Select allroot@x200s:/home/b# apt-get install emacs Reading package lists... Done Building depende... | Try running: Code: Select alldpkg --configure -a Code: Select allapt-get -f install |
I have never been able to view pdf files on line with Iceweasel. The only way I can view a pdf file is to right click and "save link as" to download it and then view it. But then I have to delete it afterwards which makes it cumbersome. Please enlighten me how I can view it on line. I have installed flashplugin-non-fre... | Please enlighten me how I can view it on line. I have installed flashplugin-non-free, and have installed pdf downloader 3.0.0.2 and pdf viewer 1.0.0.277. In the tools menu, I tried everything in the PDF download options, but can never view it without actually downloaded it as mentioned erlier. I prefer to use my favour... |
Hey, guys. I would like to know what are the file systems supported by Debian. In the following website i found: The supported file systems include FAT, Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT) and NTFS. https://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/ch02s02.html But i know there are more. I would like to know all of them. Thanks. | Generally, the Debian installation system includes support for floppies, IDE drives, IDE floppies, parallel port IDE devices, SCSI controllers and drives, USB, and FireWire. The supported file systems include FAT, Win-32 FAT extensions (VFAT) and NTFS. Based on the link you provided, this refers to installation media. ... |
Just did an upgrade and it removed both of those and now no longer able to install. Code: Select allThe following packages have unmet dependencies: pidgin : Depends: libpurple0 (>= 2.8.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: perlapi-5.18.2 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held b... | That happens on sid. Unless you have caused it yourself by holding some related package, then the solution is probably simply to wait, use a different program in the mean time, or downgrade again. The aptitude ncurses interface can be very helpful, as can snapshots.debian.org if you are impatient. |
Probably I have something misconfigured on my debian 7. As email engine I use posfix 2.9.6. This is last few line of Code: Select all/etc/postfix/main.cf: Code: Select all## start spam config ## #smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain smtpd_require... | So what is the issue? That google is blocking your emails or that your server was hacked and sending out tons of spam? What is getting through your firewall? Is that mail traffic on port 25? what is this in the smptd_recipient_restrictions? reject_rhsbl_rev$ do you mean reject_rhsbl_recipient rbl_domain=d.d.d.d if you ... |
Hi, I've been looking over the documentation a bit and searching (DuckDuckGo) and I'm not able to find the exact answer to this question: I'm running Debian Wheezy 32-bit (3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux) and using the Xfce DE. I have aded the dependencies to un-gray-out the buttons on the ... | Hi Joe, you need two connections: one connection, where you can reach the VPN "entry". No matter if it's a vpn server on the internet or at home, ifyou connect via cable or wifi. As long as you can reach the vpn servers' IP, all is good. If you have working internet connectivity, this should be all set. The second conn... |
I'm setting up a failover server for mail and web. The plan was to keep the backup server in rough sync with the primary by nfs sharing the backup's various directories and allowing the primary to rsync to them periodically. Some of those are in /var - /var/www, /var/mail, and so on. I find that nfs is not stable when ... | "sharing /var" produced 1,659,891 results when I searched. The first three hits use Samba. Is that what you are doing? |
Sometimes my external hard drive mounts and the path to it is /media/HD750/, and sometimes it's something like /media/USB1/ HD750 is the hard drive label. What's the best way to get some consistency on this? My virtual machines are located on that drive and virtualbox is complaining half the time. | Maybe you could just do Code: Select allln -s /media/HD750/ /media/USB1/ as root. But there should be better ways |
Hi, I recently performed a netinst install without X, in order to avoid GNOME. I have installed SLiM display manager and would like it to start at boot, the way gdm normally does on a "default" install. I've run the following: Code: Select all# dpkg-reconfigure slim and /etc/X11/default-display-manager shows /usr/bin/s... | wizard10000 wrote:Not sure about sid, but I ran into the same problem for the same reason with Jessie on a netbook - turned out that the DM install didn't pull in xinit. This was a lightdm install, but slim doesn't depend on xinit either. If you do 'startx' does X start? If startx isn't found the xinit package most lik... |
I am using Debian 7.0 with Gnome. I used GParted to make a new partition for /tmp. The new partition is /dev/sda3. I then added the following to the end of /etc/fstab Code: Select all/dev/sda3 /tmp ext4 noatime,nodiratime,noexec 0 3 I then did Code: Select allsudo mount -a /tmp is now in its own partition. However, whe... | It says /temp in the entry which is incorrect. |
I'm not sure if it's correct to post to this forum or not. If not, I apologize and request that this post be moved to the correct forum. I am running Debian Wheezy 32-bit: 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux My system is fully updated using aptitude update aptitude safe-upgrade Every time I vis... | Wasn't able to reproduce using Pale Moon and Pepperflash, but that's only one data point. The page displays without any problems at all. P.S. If you don't know about the "magic SysReq keys," now would be a good time to learn. Details here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=432168 |
I just upgraded to jessie 3.14-2-amd64, reboot, grub menu is ok, but and it hangs after systemd-fsck, for about 2 minutes before the log in screen comes on. I noticed that systemd-sysv is now installed. It was not installed before the upgrade. I tried to uninstall systemd-sysv, but it will also uninstall gdm3 as well w... | This has (most likely) nothing to do with the kernel. Gnome requires AFAIK systemd, and you've somehow blindly (or forcibly) installed systemd-sysv, which replaces your /sbin/init with systemd. So you cannot really go back (unless Gnome can work with systemd not being PID 1, but I don't know). In any case, systemd "sho... |
Problem: I can't see anything at the hi-res of modern monitors, as my eyes degrade. I need to console lower res to good-old DOS-style, 80x25. I installed brand-new Debian 8 (netinst), no X11, no display manager for now. (Intel 4400 graphics chip) I tried: edit in file /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_GFXPA... | Turn off your display manager. You can set that to happen in a particular runlevel, so that you have the option to boot into a desktop environment with another runlevel. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=116373 You might be able to tweak the accessibility settsings for your desktop to make it usable. You mi... |
Hi guys, Recently my Debian Wheezy is experiencing some form of lag which didn't happen before. It's like when I rename files, when I type, it lags by a letter, and you'll have to wait for a few seconds for the text to be updated. In Synaptic as well as Advanced settings for extensions, I click on a package, the descri... | What is your gpu/driver? Also look at the output of top while it is lagging and see if Xorg has 100% usage. This output might help. It needs mesa-utils install. Code: Select allglxinfo | grep -i render |
I am unable to hibernate or suspend from the KDE and XFCE menus. I only get the lockout screen and screensaver as per my settings when I run the following command as normal user: Code: Select allqdbus org.kde.kded /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement Suspend No suspend. Same with hibernate. In XFCE, laptop lid closing does... | Older packages can be found at snapshot.debian.org: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/upow ... r_0.9.23-2 It seems to be the same problem as this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=116443 |
I have two laptops that are exactly the same. How can I make an exact copy of the hard disk from laptop 1 to laptop 2 ? First I tried to tar everything from laptop 1 and install debian on laptop 2 and then untar everything but that did not work. The untar was unsuccessful (exited with errors) Next I tried to connect th... | Probably easiest with dd and both in the same machine:Code: Select alldd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb or with clonezilla or such. Or with udpcast. Or with rsync. Or with tar. Or with cp. With varying degrees of "difficulty" and extra steps required. |
...can be left alone but good for my eyes if solved. The user interface fonts of gnome apps running under kde are too small, examples, gkrellm, grsync, etc. Web-surfing suggests installing gnome-settings-daemon which I recalled I had used before, But this time round, when that daemon is run, no window pop-up for settin... | You can use your KDE font config in gtk applications if you install kde-config-gtk-style. You can then configure them from the GTK tab in your KDE system settings. |
I have searched the forum but have not found a definitive answer. Hopefully someone can set me straight. I am running Wheezy 7.6 and have installed Gnome, KDE and LXDE desktops. I have found that I am not particularly fond of KDE and would like to uninstall it. However, I am concerned that running apt-get uninstall mig... | If you installed KDE first, then removing it will probably remove shared dependencies as well. Probably, because that would be true if it was a metapackage, but I do not know if kde-standard is a metapackage. If KDE was installed after one or both of the other GUIs, there should be no problem removing it. You could try... |
a few hours ago I did update of my debian testing on asus eee1201n. on net I'm going with wifi card from netbook. but after today update network manager has new connection: vmnet8 and vmnet1 (this is devices from vmware player and they are not problematic). but somehow now comp is thinkig that LAN cable is connected an... | https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Network ... emSettings |
Hello all, first of all, i know this is not specifically an debian-related issue, so forgive me if this is the wrong forum (please point me the right way). The thing is, i made the most stupid mistake when set to installing debian on a friend's laptop. The machine was almost new, and my friend wanted to keep the origin... | camarada wrote:I should've expected that to happen. Indeed, you should have expected that to happen, because: 1. FAT32 can not store files over 4GB size, so the image file would not have fitted anyways. Probably the cause for the recovery program to create a new partition. 2. No or not complete backups, which is basica... |
I have Debian 7.5 Wheezy (amd64) on three DVDs. Following the skype page on the debian wiki, I found that I had to add the i386 architecture in order to install it. Ever since that, I have been getting notifcations every 30 mins or so with this: It seems as if it's trying to find install sources for i386 packages on my... | You need to add this to the DVD lines: (i haven't tested this but about 60% sure this will work) Code: Select all[arch=amd64] Such as: Code: Select alldeb [arch=amd64] cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.5.0 _Wheezy_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20140426-13:37]/ wheezy contrib main |
I've recently installed Debian Wheezy on my pc and I'm experiencing several segfault issues when I'm on the internet or just listening to music with rhythmbox, after the segmentation faults the os goes back to the login screen or shows the message "Oh no! Something has gone wrong, a problem has occurred and the system ... | The problem persists, I will do a memtest for a day or two and see if it's a ram issue. Update: memtest found several errors, so it was the ram. Problem solved. |
I found many resources on the Internet. They showed me how to use SELinux on Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux. Are there any help documents devoted to Debian Linux? I don't know how to (1) troubleshoot error messages, and (2) write custom policies for some of my programs. Any help is appreciated. | Well there is: Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ It has a lot of detail but doesn't have headings that directly address your questions. In my experience there is no directory for error messages. Linux is a collection of utilities and an error message is specific to an in... |
So, it seems i just got a rough introduction to systemd when dist-upgrading my jessie installation yesterday. I trust the transition is for the best, but after upgrading my system started to hang for about 1-2 minutes on boot. Apparently, this was because the start process timed out trying to activate the swap partitio... | That happened to me after I installed KXStudio. Just needed to find the new UUID and edit fstab to the correct one. I can't use /dev/sdX as they all change depending on whether my eSATA drives are switched on. Maybe LABEL might work better. But yeah, dist-upgrade alone should not change UUID. |
Hello, I'm setting up a home server on an old P4 laptop (Dell Inspiron 2650.) I have Wheezy up and running, however I haven't observed the fans operating. I've installed lm_sensors but when I run sensors-detect nothing turns up. I get the impression from searching the net that this is normal for Dell Hardware. Guides I... | Check if the dependency on X is real or not. You might want to try: apt-get --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends install i8kutils PS: nope. X is a hard dependency of TCL (why??), which means you either install it by hand/from source or you live with X unnecessarily installed (which is not a problem anyway). |
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