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I want to upgrade the F1 BIOS on my Gigabyte J1800M-DH2 motherboard that only boots using a 32-bit UEFI solution. Compatability Support Mode ("CSM") does not work with my current BIOS. There is a DOS option to update the BIOS but it requires a DOS 32-bit UEFI boot. Is that possible? There is also a online Windows updat... | You may be able to upgrade your mobo's BIOS with a tool that runs on GNU/Linux. If my memory serves me right, there was a tool but I don't know what hardware it supports. |
Hi folks. I recently upgraded a system from squeeze to wheezy. Upon shutdown, an /etc/init.d script that takes a while to run (anywhere from 5 to 60 seconds) is no longer finishing its tasks before the machine is halted. It almost seems as though the script is started in the background, and after X seconds (perhaps 5),... | Wheezy is Stable implying only security updates are allowed into it. I think, it would be better is specify which script you are talking about. |
Hello everyone, My desktop has two hard disks. The first hard disk contains the Windows boot partition and /home partition of Debian. And the second partition contains a few non-essential Windows partitions and the Debian /root partition. Now I am going to format the entire first hard disk. This will lead to me losing ... | sreyan32 wrote:If there is an easier way to deal with the /home partition in my case please be so kind as to mention it. Thank you. How about leave it alone? What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? (Don't tell me what you think the solution is; rather, articulate the problem you're trying to solve.) |
I need to retrieve some files from an old computer which: 1. Is not bootable via the operating system on the hard drive 2. Has non-working USB ports 3. Only has a CD-rom drive, does not read DVDs So I go to: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ and download the "Hybrid" ISO image. The page claims: "Hybrid" ISO image files s... | Not Debian, but very close and very good, MX-14 has Xfce desktop and fits on a CD. |
After installing wheezy and using it for a day, I decide to upgrade to jessie. Edit the sources.list file, then apt-get dist-grade. At the end of the upgrade, the system auto restarts to a blank screen. Manual reset also has same result. Use ctrl-alt-f1 to enter text mode. Took a look at Xorg.0.log. There were error ms... | Are you using a proprietary video driver? Those don't survive upgrades. Jesse is not an upgrade yet. It is Testing and won't become an upgrade until it becomes Stable. Since you only installed yesterday, I suggest that you re-install Wheezy. |
howto install openssh with/from a usbkey ? When I install openssh in Debian, I do command "tasksel" it ask for a cd, but I have a usbkey. | While connected to the Internet and as root do Code: Select allaptitude install openssh-client Is there some reason you need to use the USB key? |
Hi everybody ! I'm using Debian 7 xfce, i updated Libreoffice by activating the backports and everything went well. Now i saw Libreoffice Math isn't installed, but i need it. I searched it in the Package Manager, but there's only the old version (Libreoffice math 3.5). Can you help me please! P.S. Please write me in si... | Are you sure you have enabled wheezy backports repo? And if you have then also you have to specify it to install from it. There is version 4.2.5 of libreoffice-math in wheezy backports. To install it you have to run following as root, Code: Select allapt-get -t wheezy-backports install libreoffice-math Cheers!!! |
Dear Debian Users, I have a proble during the installation of the openssh- server. I launch the command : apt-get install openssh-server ssh The proces stop to work during the installation of the packets : libkeyutils1 I have search with Google but the only help i have find is this : launch the command apt-get -f insta... | Mattia86 wrote: Code: Select all...Unpacking libkeyutils1 (from .../libkeyutils1_1.5.5-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg-deb: file `/var/cache/apt/archives/libkeyutils1_1.5.5-3_i386.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libkeyutils1_1.5.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack):... |
I've used "apot-get update" on other distros and its always worked for me. But for some reason, after I run it in wheezy and try to install a program, I get an "unable to locate package" message. Code: Select allbedge@Anonymous:~$ su Password: root@Anonymous:/home/bedge# apt-get update Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 7.5... | You don't have a main mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Try adding: Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free contrib Then update sources again. |
Hi all. I could use some help here with google earth on Jessie. Here's the story: Debian was upgraded from wheezy to jessie. It was working on wheezy but broke BEFORE upgrading to jessie. Unfortunately, I can't recall what could have caused this. So I pretend it never happened , removed everything and tried to make a f... | Well it seems noone has a clue.. If I get it right, my problem is that X is crashing when googleearth tries to load graphics. Can someone tell me where can I find a crashlog of X, or anything similar to help with my quest? Thanks again. |
Hi everyone , I have a spacebar problem here. I suspect it is caused by debian, but it might be from my hardware I would like to knowhow t o diagnose this. Description: system acts like if I keeping my finger on spacebar. It does it randomly, and not under any specific program. For exemple, once it did it just after I ... | This would be a good use of a Linux Live CD of a different distribution than Debian or Debian-based. Pick one, make the Live CD, boot it and let it run for awhile, testing whatever text editor it comes with. If your problem is hardware, you'll see it with the Live CD. If your problem is Debian/some desktop environment ... |
Hi all, I got this error, does anybody know how I can give more space to tmpfs ? Code: Select allDownloaded, time 4575.50sec, speed 29kB/sec, texlive-latex-extra-doc_2009-10_2011.20120322-1_all.debdelta Error: applying of delta for texlive-latex-extra-doc failed: : Sorry, not enough disk space (581788kB) in directory /... | You must be running wheezy/sid, tmpfs seems by default to be a ramdisk using /tmp as it's mountpoint. That can (probably, I don't know for sure) be changed in /etc/default/rcS /tmp out of space can be problem for some applications, e.g. this recent post: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=77464 |
Hi all, I had my router set at 192.168.1.1 and it got hacked. Now I have put it at some other address, and I am unable to access internet. This is how my /etc/network/interfaces is laid out. Code: Select all$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to ... | Probably a DNS error. What's in /etc/resolv.conf? |
I'm using testing on my eee1201n, gnome shell 3.8.4, kernel 3.13-1-686-pae (laptop: intel atom CPU, nVidia GPU) but today after system update my power command button is now working. I had try to log command with gnome-session-quit --power-off > gnome-session-quit.log 2>&1 but log file is empty. how to get power button ... | somehow package systemd-shim has some kind of problem. after reinstall only this package system is back to OK state |
Just installed Jessie with KDE and whenever I try to open either Chrome or Chromium, my session is closed and I'm at the login screen again. Do you know if they are broken in Jessie or if it's something related to KDE? Never had this error when I used Gnome but last time that I used Jessie with Gnome was few months ago... | Works For Me (TM), though I don't have KDE here... Tried creating a new user? Code: Select all% apt-cache policy chromium chromium: Installed: 35.0.1916.114-2 Candidate: 35.0.1916.114-2 Version table: 36.0.1985.36-1 0 1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages *** 35.0.1916.114-2 0 990 http://f... |
Hi. I normally use Debian Sid amd64 with MATE desktop. "normally" because this issue spans a long time and sometimes I was using XFCE, OpenBox, Debian Jessie. I've deleted files by mistake so I went and ran Foremost[1] and restored all the files from my /home partition. Then, when going through the files, I found somet... | It might be previous Iceweasel cached images that you have recovered. These are 'picked up along the way' when you browse the web. The cached images used to exist in '.mozilla/firefox' but now exist in '.cache/mozilla/firefox/'. |
According to the documentation, I need to replace local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar in my jre/lib/security directory. However, there is no such files in that folder, and it seems that just copying them there don't work as I'm getting errors on my code due to the lack of JCE. | Where did you install JRE? Go to the 'jre' directory, enter: $JRE/lib/security and make backup local_policy.jar & US_export_policy jar. Replace them with the ones found in the jce zip folder. |
My / partition is 20 GB of which 17GB is used (jessie installed) . It used to be about 12 GB before squeezy. This folder /var/cache is 6.7GBin which /var/cache/apt is 6.5GB. Can this file be removed to free up some disk space? | It's very probably /var/cache/apt/archives which is where package manager downloads are saved. Try (as root) apt-get autoclean which will clear out all but the latest versions of the packages in that directory, or apt-get clean which will clear out all of them. |
Hi, I am getting occasional mouse lags (like seconds-lasting freezes) when running Debian Wheezy stable with default (Gnome 3 shell GUI). The mouse cursor just stays on one place for a second and after that moves to where I have pointed it. Same thing happened to scrolling a page with the middle mouse button - a lag of... | Rplaced it with another USB mouse and after that with PS2 mouse. All USB mouses seems to have the lag but the PS2 is OK. Even stranger, in xinput --list it shows 2 mouses when I connect one USB mouse. My PS2 mouse is old and not good and I am still looking for a way to get my USB mouse working normaly. |
What do these messages in dmesg mean? [195853.456015] TCP: Peer 85.56.218.160:36119/42041 unexpectedly shrunk window 2409559863:2409560645 (repaired) [195855.340083] TCP: Peer 85.56.218.160:36119/42041 unexpectedly shrunk window 2409559863:2409560645 (repaired) [195972.284096] TCP: Peer 85.56.218.160:36119/42041 unexpe... | Nothing too serious according to this, TCP Peer unexpectedly shrunk window messages in dmesg log Cheers!!! |
I realise that Debian Experimental is as it says, but... Is the next Libreoffice upgrade really going to pull in much of KDE, like it or not? This seems absurd. Something is wrong surely... | 1. No 2. Libreoffice is no longer in Debian experimental https://packages.debian.org/sid/libreoffice https://packages.debian.org/experimental/libreoffice |
Hello, I'm trying to backport gcc-4.8.2 on Debian Wheezy. I'm using Jessie .dsc, I have removed libc6-dev-x32 and libx32gcc1from debian/control, and I have disabled by hand gcc testsuite in rules.defs. Yep, you have understood it, something go wrong Here is the end of the log : Code: Select all... Generating graph info... | Okay, problem solved. Cause of the problem was : I had Code: Select allDEBBUILDOPTS="-j6" in my pbuilderrc. I don't know exactly of the build works but it seems the script mv stamps to stamps-tmp each time it begin a compilation and mv stamps-tmp to stamps once it's finished. So my problem was that scripts were trying ... |
I wasn't sure where to post this, so I decided to post it here. Hope I made the right choice. If not, maybe one of the moderators can move it. I installed Privacy Badger on two machines, a laptop and a desktop. The machines are not identical, but are very similar. Both are running Debian Jessie, both have the latest up... | For anyone who may have the same problem, I eventually found that turning off "Private Navigation" mode in the browser makes the icone appear. |
i currently mount a lvm2 partition i use to store mythtv related media as Code: Select all/dev/mapper/mythtv-lvol0 /mnt/mythtv ext4 rw,relatime,exec,user 0 1 the permissions are set for user mythtv and group mythtv. i also happen to share that mountpoint via nfs. i want users that are part of the mythtv group (but not ... | remove gid=mythtv and see if you get a clean mount check mtab double check mount man page for the ext4 defaults and available options for the Version you are using. |
Hello! I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.1 with OpenBox and when i try to open some app, like: eog, gvim, firefox sometimes my screen gets a weird shadow and she only disappears if i restart my system. This problem began after i install and use "xcompmgr v1.1.3". This is how i start xcompmgr: xcompmgr -cCfF & Additional info: ... | you know what xcompmgr is doing, right? amongst other things it has the ability to paint shadows under your windows. so, what you see is something on your desktop painting an empty window. xcompmgr only reveals this by painting a shadow under it. so the question should be: what application is creating a completely empt... |
This question has been asked before, but I can't find an exhaustive guide on how to achieve this. What I want is simple. I'm using a laptop, mostly the only person who'll ever use it. When I plug a usb stick, I'd like it to mount automatically and be able to write on it. Using Debian SId with Gnome, is there a simple w... | One thing to check is whether your user account is a member of the 'plugdev' group. Open a terminal and type: groups <followed by pressing enter> If plugdev is not listed you can add your user account to this group by typing: adduser username plugdev Highlighted In bold is where your user account name should be. Also, ... |
Hi, I would like to set up a PC with a Debian/ Win 8.1dual boot. I read a little about the Secure Boot challenge, but I have not found a clear solution on how to setup a Debian machine in dual boot with windows 8. According to the FSF: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boo ... epaper-web The best solution currently a... | The best option is to disable secure boot. Many implementations of EFI don't allow you to manipulate the keys, leaving Microsoft's keys the sole option. It can be argued the Microsoft knew OEM's would implement the bare minimum feature set required to support WIndows 8, leaving linux out in the cold. If you insist on u... |
I have installed Debian 7.5. I get these error messages: davek@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/davek# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages Hit http://secur... | That mirror seems to be down for me too, try a different one. https://www.debian.org/mirror/ |
I'm using debian stable, and testing. On stable, when I connect to an ftp with dolphin, it will ask for the password way to often when editing files. When on debian testing, this problem doesn't happen! Any ideas? I'd rather be using debian stable. | actionM888 wrote:I'm using debian stable, and testing. On stable, when I connect to an ftp with dolphin, it will ask for the password way to often when editing files. When on debian testing, this problem doesn't happen! Any ideas? I'd rather be using debian stable. ActionM888-- Is dolphin on stable saving the passwords... |
I just installed Debian wheezy with KDE on my laptop two weeks ago after using LMDE for the last year. Everything has gone great except that when I am asked for my sudo password in the terminal, it will not except my root password. Shouldn't my sudo password be the same as my root password? I am able to use the su comm... | Sudo requires a user password. My advice? Forget sudo and use su. Don't know about KDE but sudo has never been set up by default on my gnome or xfce Debian installations. |
I'm running Debian Wheezy. I would like to know if there is a way (script or application) that can show what packages installed on my system have updates available from wheezy-backports. This will allow me to choose and install updates for only necessary packages. I can fiddle with apt-pinning and pull in all available... | Execute with an ordianary user Code: Select allsu -c 'apt-get update';for a in $(dpkg -l|grep ^i|tr -s " "|cut -d " " -f2);do LANG=C apt-cache policy $a|grep -C10 wheezy-backports;done and type root password, then many informations will be displayed. To display only the package names, Code: Select allsu -c 'apt-get upd... |
I have received a password-protected pdf document that I need to open. I know the password, but it's not working. Here's what I tried so far: (1) First, I tried opening it using the default pdfviewer (evince). It prompted for the password, but the password I have did not work. (2) The source of the file claims that it ... | try after installing one of these: Code: Select alllibcanberra-gtk-module - translates GTK+ widgets signals to event sounds libcanberra-gtk3-module - translates GTK3 widgets signals to event sounds |
I have an issue similar to the one here. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=114085 I was doing what had come to feel like a routine process. I install stable debian, change sources.list, update and upgrade to testing, then repeat for Sid. No problems until I tried to install Nvidia drivers, at which point ap... | keithpeter wrote:In my limited experience, proprietary nvidia plus Sid means breakage at certain points, but I'm not getting much on Google. Perhaps a search with the package numbers would help? IME nvidia on sid isn't really an issue - however [gnome|kde] plus sid means frequent breakage. |
I need to develop add-ons for firefox, but for this I need the latest firefox. (With iceweasel I run into a problem like this one: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewt ... 666#p34666 ) What is the correct way to have two separate firefox installations, side by side, on Debian? I want to use the latest firefox (29) e... | Two popular solutions involve installing a local version of Firefox in your /home directory (for your own personal use), or in /opt (system-wide). The main thing to be mindful of is that these two installs will share a single directory for settings, add-ons, etc. unless you use two different profiles, one for each inst... |
Starting any VirtualBox virtual machine makes my X session crash. The following is the message spit out before the startx process terminates (copied by hand): Code: Select allerrors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server. another window manager is running. xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to... | I'm running virtualbox on Wheezy KDE with no issues. |
Any help on this would greatly be appreciated. I've encountered this before on Arch, but that was a couple years ago and right now I'm not having any luck. I've tried all the online "fixes" available, yet so far nothing has worked. ALSA was working prior to running weekend updates on my office PC (update/upgrade/dist-u... | Do you have pulseaudio installed? Look in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/ |
Hi. I've encountered some issues while calling APT to install some packages on Debian 7.5 (Wheezy). Basically, it would remove various packages from Gnome Shell (witch I'm using). Here's the output from: apt-get install wine # apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state inf... | Mixing Stable and Testing will result in problems, unless you take appropriate precautions (e.g. setting the default release to Stable) and only install things from Testing carefully. At the moment, you're probably running Testing (even if you think you're running Wheezy... according to your sources.list, you probably ... |
Hi, I just mounted three times in a row my server using sshfs in three differetn folders, verified permissions, etc... No errors, eveyrthing seems to go fine. However, when I open then a text editor and try to open some file from the mounted folders I can see that these folders are totally empty. When trying to create ... | Solved: 1.Code: Select allsu usermod -aG fuse <your-username> exec su -l $USER 2. Reboot 3. Mount sshfs as non-root |
Hi all, Somehow during the wheezy cycle and now we have this dhcp client coming up each time we boot or reboot and it takes an awfully long time whether we are connected or not connected to the internet. Code: Select allCopyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https:/... | Something is not set right. What is in etc/network/interfaces? Are you ready to ditch Network-Manager and Wicd and start configuring wpa-supplicant? |
To solve a problem with Network Manager in Debian Testing, I just started using systemd by adding init=/bin/systemd to the grub invocation. Everything was fine until today I tried Virtual Machine Manager and got "unable to connect to libvirt" because libvirtd is not running. And there is no /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-soc... | Well, I can manually start the libvirtd daemon with "sudo libvirtd -d" and all works fine. Don't know much about systemd but the bin and guests libvirtd service scripts are in place: /lib/systemd/system. Must be a systemd initiallization log somewhere ... |
this is i get when i run Code: Select allwine Wow.exe this is the output from the terminal Code: Select allerr:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly (using GL renderer "AMD Radeon HD 6450", version "1.4 (2.1 (4.3.12618 Compat... | im confused the terminal output above says Code: Select allerr:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled ... but when i Code: Select allglxinfo | grep "direct rendering" the output is Code: Select alldirect rendering: Yes |
When ever I try to do an upgrade or install a package I get this error: Code: Select all/bin/sh: 1: /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs: not found E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt Any ideas? | Most likely this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=733140 There is also at least one topic on this board about it from back when it happened (a few months now), try to search for it. Bye |
I'm running Debian Stable. This morning I updated Icedove, via Synaptic, to version 24.4.0-1~deb7u1, including the Iceowl Calendar extension (which is absolutely essential for my job). After the update, Icedove will not start at all - I got the following error: Code: Select allicedove: relocation error: .../components/... | I had the same problem after the update to Icedove 24 this morning. I was able to get the calendar working again by uninstalling the Lightning calendar extension and installing iceowl-extension from the Wheezy repo. |
Hi all, I want to write some text but it needs to be prefaced with four spaces up_front (spaces as in whitespace). Is there a way to achieve that with using any text editor or anyway to do that ? I prefer leafpad but even gedit would do if there is such a way. | How about tapping the spacebar 4 times? |
Hi, Running Testing AMD64. I need to control the cpu fan in my desktop computer. I have read that pwmconfig should be used with some caution and I have not tried any of the fancontrol hardware that fits into a DVD or Floppy bay. I would appreciate feedback from people who have used either or both of these methods. | Desktop PCs usually come already with fan control hardware inbuilt on the mainboard. I would start with looking at BIOS options and consulting your mainboard manual regarding that topic. |
I just installed Debian 7.4 Wheezy 64 bitGnome 3 and I've run into a problem where when I boot up debian it will hang with text saying: Code: Select alludevd[508]: timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe -b pci:v00001002d0000683Dsv00001787sd0000201Cbc03sc00i00' [529] It will spam this over and over again until I either ctrl +... | I want to point out this is still a an issue. And I also wanted to give thanks to hwman48 for the ctrl+c cheat.. I installed a gpu and amd drivers/cgminers/etc for it to start mining, but faced this problem at boot. For some reason when I also installed the gpu, my LSI card started to act up - sometimes on boot, it can... |
I am running Debian testing with Xfce. When I boot the machine I can see some usual booting messages, the last message is this: Code: Select allWaiting for /dev to be fully populated ... After a short time (1-2 seconds) the screen goes blank and Xfce is loaded. Now when I want to switch from Xorg/Xfce to a console as u... | Ctrl-Alt-F2 |
I just upgraded chromium along with a few other apps (I dont remember the names). Since then, fonts lok horrible. How can I fix those? But some websites with google fonts looks okay, like gmail. It seems the fonts I have in my computer is being rendered properly. I have google's open sans, and that my default font in c... | Fixed. I put these lines into ~/.fonts.conf Code: Select allfont.rgba = rgb font.hinting = false font.hintstyle = hintslight font.lcdfilter = lcddefault |
I need help to track down a network issue I'm having with jessie. Can someone please help me with where to look next? Problem Fetching websites on chromium/iceweasel/konqueror never complete (always loading). "# aptitude update" gets stuck at some point during fetching and never completes. When it Started After wiping ... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 00#p526726 |
Can someone explain how to convert an existing SolydX (based on testing) to a pure Debian Stable OS? Thanks.... | Why should a Debian user know this? You should ask in the SolydX forums. |
As a newbie to Debian, I can't understand potential problems with MySQL. During boot, I often see a [Fail] message concerning MySQL Server. (Is this logged somewhere?, as I can't find out where) After logging in, MySQL Server seems to be working ok, and I can access the various databases within. I have also accessed My... | First Google result: Debian / Ubuntu MySQL Error Log File Location http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubu ... error-log/ Third result: http://www.pontikis.net/blog/how-and-wh ... mysql-logs Also found these: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/starting-a ... ing-mysql/ http://superuser.com/questions/268053/d ... ermissions M... |
I've tried to install Firefox manually so I could get the latest versions, and the posibility to update the browser myself, but it still uses Iceweasel's default layout, which I'm not quite fond of. Is there any way to set Firefox to it's default layout that's present over all the platforms it's ported to? | andoru wrote:I've tried to install Firefox manually...but it still uses Iceweasel's default layout All FF/IW settings live in ~/.mozilla, regardless of what/how you install it/them, and are shared by both. (For instance, if you install an extension in IW, that same extension will "magically" appear in FF as well.) ando... |
Hello. I'm using Debian Wheezy 7.1.0 with OpenBox and i have four apps i would like to automatically start, one in each different desktop, but i only know how to start one app in my default desktop using "autostart.sh" file! How can i tell the system automatically launch other applications each in a different desktop? ... | Someone posted an identical question a few months back. If memory serves, the solution involved wmctrl That ought to be enough to get you over the first hurdle at Google. |
It is an old problem, at least 3-4 yrs old. One install fgfs-base; -aircraft; -models; etc... flightgear-data-all; -base; -aircrafts; -models; etc... libsimgearcore; libsimgearscene... and, in a somewhat tipical way for a long time now... NOTHING WORKS. I get it: fgfs is still not here.Need to install from sources so..... | Hi. I find the best option to compile everything from source. You not only get the absolute latest version, but you can save the folder to a DVD and copy it back again if you need it. |
Hey people! Just to say, I'm new to having Debian, and I am running the Testing branch of it. Figured out how to switch from Stable to Testing. Loving it so far! The Situation: I was running the Gnome edition (not a fan of the new Gnome editions) and was liking it a bit... until I remembered how much I didn't like it..... | If you setup sudo try: Code: Select allgksudo synaptic otherwise try: Code: Select allgksu synaptic |
I'm still trying to get a handle on adding scaling frequencies. When I do cat of scaling_frequencies_available I see that there are three (3) frequencies available (3200000 2560000 1920000 in KHz). These frequencies would correspond to scaling multipliers of 10 8 and 6 respectfully. I have looked at the man pages for t... | ticojohn wrote:, perhaps I should just leave well enough alone. Sounds like a plan. I find the default scaling settings are perfectly fine for my E8500, only 2 frequencies - 2.00GHz and 3.17GHz. The "ondemand" governor switches seamlessly. |
After installing Wheezy the other day Iceweasel doesn't look like it used to do in Squeezy. It looks like it's missing its theme or something, you could say it looks like a really old web browser. Also the plus for opening a new tab isn't there. I'm sure I'm missing a package that makes it look 'normal', but can't figu... | Iceweasel looks plain...that is it's beautiful simplicity to me Tools > addons - install whatever theme you want. If iceweasel is functioning it's doubtful you're missing a package. You could always post a screenshot. |
Hello all I have just done a fresh (wheezy) debian installation and I added the following repositories in order to upgrade to testing: Code: Select all#TESTING: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/deb... | The 'automatically removed' bits have to do with something you've removed rather than the installation of Chromium. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=104157 But you haven't fully upgraded if you've just used upgrade - you would need to dist-upgrade. |
Hi there, First of all I did search similar topics and tried almost everything, however still cannot find what consumed most of my free space on Debian Wheezy. Here's output from df and du and you can see there's huge discrepancy there, like close to 100GB lost somewhere! Du shows may be 35GB used on root partition and... | Unmount other partitions - you've probably written things to /media/..., rather than the things that are supposed to be mounted there. |
Hi all, The auto-complete is not working in Debian. This used to work well before. I'm not sure whether it's the terminal-emulator which is at fault (Guake) or something else. I have bash-completion installed. Code: Select all$ aptitude search bash-completion i bash-completion - programmable completion for the bash she... | Why are you adding a backslash and a space after Network? Are you certain that Network should be capitalized? What happens if you just enter Net and then press the Tab key? Or Networ and the Tab? What is the exact name, or names, of the subdirectories you expect to be filled by pressing Tab? What you are describing app... |
Hi all, I'm getting the above whenever I run a new terminal (as a user) . I upgraded bash just yesterday, can somebody see if something is off at my .bashrc :- Code: Select all# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples... | Looks like a syntax error causing bash to interpret something as an fg command that you didn't intend. An example would be commenting a line with % (used for commenting in some languages) instead of #. (The percent sign can be used as a shortcut for fg.) This could be the culprit: Code: Select allHISTTIMEFORMAT=”%F %T“... |
About once a week I get a prompt at the bottom of the screen saying that updates are available. I click on that prompt and an update window opens with a list of packages available. I usually just click on the update button and the packages are downloaded, configures and then changes are committed. My problem is that th... | man apt-get wrote:dist-upgrade dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important one... |
Packages intel-microcode and amd-microcode are described as "Processor microcode firmware for Intel or AMD CPUs". However it's not clear to me if I'm supposed to install them. My laptop has an Intel cpu and an amd based graphics card. Do I need one of those packages? or both? none? Thanks in advance. | It is very small code. Basically firmware for hardware devices that gets loaded at boot. You will probably need firmware-linux-nonfree for AMD graphics and some Intel network chips. See https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firm ... ux-nonfree |
Hi all, I know the command for doing manipulations on a single image. I use convert to keep file-size small with same/similar resolution but do not know how to use it on batch of images with some unique among them. Code: Select all$ convert -define jpeg:extent=1024kb sample.JPG des.JPG This works but only if both the t... | Maybe with find: Code: Select all$ find . -name "*JPG" -exec convert -define jpeg:extent=1024kb {} \; Not tested by me. It will probably overwrite the target though. Someone fluent in scripting will have an answer. Maybe making the destination as .jpg would work. |
Hello everyone, I'm working with samba over some directories. And what i want to do, is to share a directory with 775 but what I don't want is "guest" to authenticate. users and group have RWX permissions. Other just rx. Path has the following cmd: chown -R USER1:tech Tech/ Of course, USER1 and USER2 belongs to group:t... | Ok. I really don't know what it was. But is solved now. I've just set permission to 775 over the dir. again. before: Code: Select allchmod -R u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx Tech/ after: Code: Select allchmod -R 775 Tech/ Is there any difference between the first and the other one? |
Having a problem running the third-party, 32-bit game Little Inferno. It's an i386 .deb built by or at least made available by Humble Bundle. The game works on one machine under testing amd64; I tried installing it on a laptop under unstable amd64: Code: Select alldpkg -i ./little-inferno_0_20130509-0ubuntu1_i386.deb I... | I figured the problem was due to a missing package. Since the Internet failed me, I examined a list of i386 packages installed on the machine where the game does work: Code: Select alldpkg --list | grep 386 Going through the resulting list allowed me to try out installing helpful-looking packages. It was of course impo... |
Solution: confuseling wrote:Once you're used to it, the middle-mouse buffer is great - though it can be a source of fury at first. Just click and drag to highlight the text to copy, and click middle-mouse button to paste. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello there, fi... | I just tried this as I hadn't noticed anomolous behaviour you mentioned. Copied from Konsole, closed Konsole before pasting to Kate. - Ctl-Shift-C > Ctl-V worked - Right click Copy > Right click Paste worked - Highlight text > Middle button paste worked. This is in new KDE 4.12.3, but I don't recall it ever not working... |
Hello Everyone I have been fixing my fn keys I pretty much fixed all the keys, but I still need your help to fix one last key, fn+f1 which is the sleep key. Now I mostly didn't have to do much to fix the other keys, the volume keys (fn+f12 fn+f11 fn+f10) worked out of the box fn+f7 for turning the screen on and off wor... | sigh... not a single reply on the official support forums anyway managed to fix my problem... In case anyone ends up having the same problem that i do here it is: when you do acpi_listen on fn+f1 an event is created, that event comes up as button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000000 take note of it. go to /etc/acpi/event and c... |
I am in the process of moving everything possible from Win XP to Debian Wheezy. I already have my bookmarks transferred but am looking for a relatively easy way of getting all of my passwords moved over. Any suggestions ? Thanks for the help. | ticojohn wrote:Well, as it turns out there were actually some good suggestions. Only needed to copy the keys3.db and signons.sqllite files and it worked like a charm (although I found those ideas someplace else, thank you very much). You're welcome. And thanks for posting your solution. And no we won't give it up on XP... |
I can't see Chinese in xterm. When I copy Chinese characters from a website I see blocks instead. I tried this http://www.fedorenchik.org/tooltips/xte ... nese.xhtml and http://superuser.com/questions/526669/c ... n-my-xterm but got no results. Also relevant - I don't use a desktop manager. I use wheezy with i3 as the ... | Edit, odd, it does work for me with mlterm, but xfce4-terminal works. |
When I was performing update & dist-upgrade for Jessie, it reported holding back "Flightgear". I had a look using Synaptic and found (I think) fgsg-base waiting to be upgraded, so I told it to carry it out. It said that it needed to remove "flightgear", which I let it do. I then performed an autoremove which removed se... | http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... ection=all Only in squeeze & sid. See the PTS for why. |
Hello all At each system boot a lot of errors shows up, it takes a few minutes and then the system starts. In my opinion, this are a serious system errors and system instead of 20 seconds, boots in five minutes Sorry for my bad english. Debian Jessie update from Debian Wheezy Code: Select allLinux msi 3.9-1-686-pae #1 ... | Hello, Did it boot in good time with "wheezy"? |
Are there problems installing Debian with older DVD's? I have a 7.3.0 DVD and I'm over my monthly bandwidth so I can't download new images. | No problem. Pick a mirror during install and you will get the security updates to 7.4 anyway. |
hello i was running debian wheezy with kde 4.8 with no problems. i upgraded to debian jessie to use kde 4.11 and since doing so any external drive i plug in dolphin cant write access. im also have problems with certain gtk apps such as synaptic and gparted not using the gtk2-engines-oxygen and gkt3-engines-oxygen packa... | clifford jnr wrote:since doing so any external drive i plug in dolphin cant write access Hi! I have a few questions. How do you mount, and access the drive? What is the file system, and what are the permissions on the drive? Also make sure there isn't an option for it in /etc/fstab, this can mess with automounting it. ... |
Hi! So, when i boot my computer, it's quiet as it's supposed to be. It remains that way until i start a torrent client, and then tracker-miner-fs starts eating up my CPU (goes up to 100%), my fan starts working really hard, and the computer gets quite warm - for torrent downloading? And even when i turn off a torrent c... | I think that is two separate things, tracker and torrent. By all means rip out torrent software if you aren't using it. I never use torrents so I do not bother to install any of it. Obviously you will lose the torrent functionality but I assume you know that. That being said, I doubt your problem is with torrent softwa... |
Hey, I was running wheezy and I changed my repository to jessie in order so I could upgrade a package and everything worked fine, except for one thing. Somehow samba broke. Whenever I try to install samba I get the following error message. Code: Select allSetting up samba (2:4.1.5+dfsg-1) ... [FAIL] Starting SMB/CIFS d... | First post i ever remember marked solved without a response Is there still something I can do or is samba fried? Reverting to wheezy gives the same error. Well, if anything this will teach me not to play around with different repositories. There's nothing wrong with upgrading versions and repositories when necessary bu... |
Hi all, Does anybody know how to minimize qbittorrent via keyboard ? I know it can be done via clicking the minimize button on the title bar but wanna use the keyboard. I tried using the intertube/web/interweb but wasn't able to get anywhere. Looking forward to a solution. Update 07/03 : In this instance Super+H to the... | How to minimize the active window depends on the desktop environment or window manager you’re using. You can also assign your own keyboard shortcut for the desired function, even in GNOME. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_ ... management |
When I first installed VMWare Workstation and Player everything ran great. I guess after a system restart things started to get buggy. When trying to load my virtual machine I get the following error: Code: Select allCould not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' i... | Well I figured it out. I followed the guide here: VMware Workstation fails to load when restarting a SUSE Linux host after the initial installation Obviously that tutorial is written for SUSE, so I had to convert it into something Debian can understand. (I am doing this off the top of my head, please tell me if I made ... |
I'm using LMDE, a distro based on Debian testing. It uses gtk 3.8 but I have accidentally upgraded to 3.10 from the testing repo and now some dialogs look odd. apt-get --reinstall won't do anything and I can't remove it (in order to reinstall) because of the many dependencies it has. Any idea how can I downgrade it to ... | Disable the testing repository, and try and use aptitude to install the libgtk-3-dev package. Remove that package if already installed. su -c 'aptitude install libgtk-3-dev' Keep telling aptitude to try another solution until it comes up with one that downgrades back to the wheezy GTK 3 without removing anything. |
I am trying to use icecat, and every time I get a new page in ebay it comes up with a torch and Non Free Java Script Complain. EACH time I have to click on the little icon and allow the page. I just want to turn this off. I have tried everything I can think of and googled everything I can think of. the HTTPS everywhere... | Worked it out. Doh. I had not realised this was an addon. I thought it was the java script handler for icecat, and part of the code. Just disabled the addon to solve the problem. Leaving this up in case anyone else gets similarly confused! |
I'm trying to get xterm working on a cloud server. I've installed xterm, when run it I get xterm: cannot load font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 I've been researching this for a couple of hours, I've downloaded the missing font, but I'm not sure where to place it. Does anyone know wh... | There are no special xterm fonts. Install xfonts-base package. Peter. |
I wanted to donate some money to the project, but the blank terms and conditions section made me pause. Am I being overly paranoid here? I sent and email to the webmaster but never received a response. http://i.imgur.com/ABuJMdi.png | thatguychuck wrote:Am I being overly paranoid here? Yes. But if you're truly worried, you could always try their alternate payment service, which seems not to have a T&C box, empty or otherwise. |
Ok a bit of a wierd problem. I installed flash but nothing has changed, it is still as if I do not have it. Code: Select alldeb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree It all works fine but it dos not show in the default browser. Could anone ... | Code: Select alldeb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free So you copied this into your /etc/apt/sources.list file correct? Your post made it look like you ran it from command line. Code: Select allsudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Debian typically uses the 'su' command, not... |
I followed the tutorial on: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html and I also installed the hal and libhal1 packages, and I can get my videos on labsim to work (which requires silverlight), but when I try to watch videos on Amazon Prime it just gets stuck at loading and I won't get an error or anything sayi... | You could try adding the repository and installing the latest Iceweasel from mozilla.debian.net . Is your Flash version the latest as in stevepusser's first post? |
Hi! I posted this message in the wrong place originally, so here it is again as a new topic! I'm using Debian Stable 32 bit, with Xfce desktop, on my desktop. I did the the update, which appeared to go smoothly. However, before I shut down, I found that none of LibreOffice files would open - in fact, they were locked. ... | Can you log in to CLI (command line interface), which displays text ? If the end of the text displayed is "login:", input your ordinary user name and then its password. If the end of the line becomes "$", you can execute some commands. How about executing Code: Select allstartx If there come some error messages, post t... |
I find the bulk rename tool incredibly useful, but for me it causes problems when used repeatedly. I'm running Wheezy in a kvm virtual machine and renaming a set of between 500-1000 files at once. The problem occurs if I repeatedly rename the files. For example, I may rename to remove some leading characters, then do a... | Because you are out of operative memory. Probably while loops are implied. Increase RAM or find a different bulk renaming program that uses less memory. |
Until now the SO/SWMBO/The Boss has used private browsing to read a few sites, but it has now disappeared from Iceweasel. I'm assuming that this recent upgrade is the culprit' .aptitude:[UPGRADE] iceweasel:amd64 17.0.10esr-1~deb7u1 -> 24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1 Unfortunately, changing and rechanging and rechanging cookie setti... | Try File > New Private Window. BTW, Iceweasel's private browsing feature is not very private. If you are really concerned, use Tor Browser Bundle. |
Hello all, So I was running an update on system and ran into an issue updating, after research came across this lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2014/01/msg00034.html I didn't follow the exact path they did, but ended in the same state before they state "Start from scratch", I got there by a different path though. I set t... | Ok, so found part of the problem. ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in /lib64 was pointing to ld-2.13.so, copied over ld-.2.17.so and linked to ld-linux...Now I can run commands without that error and apt-get install -f to fix dependencies. Don't know if everything is fixed yet, but at least I can run some commands. |
Hi all, As a disclaimer, I still consider myself a noob, but I'm willing to learn. I run a headless Debian Wheezy server. One of the services I have installed is not at the version I need it to be, but the repo for Jessie is supposed to have it. Now I can either edit the sources list and add Jessie, run the install for... | What package(s) are we talking about? I never recommend mixing stable and any other flavor, much better to go with a backport. The best way to figure out pinning/prefs is to configure it and then check and see if it does what you want. |
Hi folks! OK! I know someone has probably asked this Before....so shoot me... 2x1TB hard drives 2x2TB hard drives With the above drives can I create a raid with all four whereby I create partitions on the two larger drives - so they are 1TB? I understand that I have what you can call waste - but am not sure if that is ... | You could use the 2TB disks but you would lose 1TB on each disk meaning you would end up with the data over the four disks with a total of 3TB (parity uses the equivalent of a disk) usable space and 2TB of disk wasted. You could also use two mirror sets that would give you 3TB usable but performance will differ. The ab... |
Hi all, I have been trying to follow this guide for dnssec http://wiki.debian.org/DNSSEC in which at the very last it gives that you should change the value in /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1 Now in mine, network-manager overwrites the values. Is there a way to stop network-manager from overwriting the values in /etc/res... | Have a look at post 18 here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45394 |
Hello, My first time posting on the Debian forums. I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question. I have debian-live-6.0.6-i386-kde-desktop.iso installed as a guest OS in VirtualBox on my main computer running another flavor of Linux. I installed it using the install icon. It isn't running as a Live OS now... | I may be mistaken, but aren't there guest additions in the repository? |
I am trying to install vlc backports on my laptop running Debian 7.3 x64. On my desktop computer, running the same OS the following commands were sufficient: Code: Select allapt-get purge vlc apt-get -t wheezy-backports install vlc However, on my laptop, I get this after typing in the above commands: Code: Select allRe... | Try Code: Select allapt-get install -t wheezy-backports vlc vlc-nox libvlccore7 |
Hi. The problem with synaptic is that everytime I change my repository server and choose "Main sever" my settings get messed up (like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u31hy_jPm0) The second problem is this : this is my server for Romania : ftp://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ . When I update, i got this ... | Lots of the advanced settings in Synaptic and related tools are broken. It's better to edit the respective files directly, so they never get fixed. Personally I think they should just disable them 'permanently', but hey, I'm just a spambuster... That line is malformed... Part of mine looks like this Code: Select alldeb... |
On a Wheezy system, aptitude update && aptitude upgrade just resulted in this: Code: Select allCurrent status: 19 updates [+19], 12984 new [-24]. The following packages will be upgraded: base-files kexec-tools libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libssl1.0.0 linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae linux-headers-3.2.0... | What does the following code show? Code: Select allapt-cache policy base-files Post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. |
Hi guys, I've just installed Apache. Is it possible to share a HTML file somewhere in my HD (ex: index.html) to the whole internet using Apache, so when people try to access my IP, this HTML file will be shown? I guess what I'm trying to ask is something related to configuring a web server, right? ps: I'm newbie to thi... | Yes to most all your questions, with one possible exception, to wit: renatov wrote:... so when people try to access my IP, this HTML file will be shown? So long as your ISP doesn't block port 80, yes. (There are workarounds, even then.) renatov wrote:if you could suggest me some good basic tutorials or other references... |
i would like to boot into windows or an old kernel once* without having to select from the boot options menu (i.e it becomes the first option so it boots into that). how can one do this with grub2? *: because sometimes my keyboard hangs during grub. | Here is a good Grub2 tutorial. http://dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html Sent from my easy chair using brainwaves. |
Hi there, So my sound was working this morning when I woke up but is currently not working at all. I am running debian unstable on the stock kernel, x64. I believe this to be a software issue because it doesn't work on my headphones or my speakers (through a stereo amplifier) and I tried playing audio through cmus and ... | So for whatever strange reason, I plugged my headphones in again to test this and the sound just started working - through the stereo amp to speakers and through the headphones. I have absolutely no idea. Static electricity? |
Bash, dash only allows 54 columns of screen ouput. Xterm is OK. The problem just showed up with no prior history. My brain hurts from looking at the likely solutions to no avail. Surely I have overlooked the obvious. | AFAIK number of columns in terminal is limited with the width of your screen. If I want a better output I just drag an edge of my terminal to enlarge it from default 80 to whatever width I want. |
Hello, I am currently running Stable with Cinnamon DE. I am thinking of moving to straight testing. Will the upgrade (stable to testing) affect the Cinnamon DE install? | Try it and see. Make a full partition backup first so you can restore if it breaks. As there is no cinnamon package in the official Debian repos for stable and testing, it obviously will not be officially supported. |
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