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Hi all, I have made a new partition, called /data (for lack of imagination) which I want to give access to everybody without them going through any hullaballo. Also I want to make my /home/$USERNAME/Videos or /home/$USERNAME/Downloads or anything like that to go to /data. How do I make it. Currently I am the only user ... | He will still need x permissions on the /data directory to be able to get to it though. On a single user system I usually just give the user sensible rights to the mount point prior to mounting the (fresh) data partition (if there is existing files on it they will need attention too). I don't recall having to do anythi... |
Hi everyone. I do Code: Select allsudo aptitude -t experimental install nvidia-settings And it shows me this error: Code: Select allnvidia-settings : Depends from: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) which is virtual package. I can't find this package anywhere. | Why do you have experimental repos active on a stable system? Nvidia drivers for wheezy/stable are best installed from the wheezy repos. Then you would have no need to install nvidia-settings from experimental as it is also available from wheezy. http://packages.debian.org/search?suite ... a-settings |
Hello, I'm installing Squeeze on a new system and I want to put Firefox instead of Iceweasel. After having read numerous and very helpful thread here, I only have one question unanswered : with Mozilla's instructions (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ins ... efox-linux), should I move the binary from Code: Select al... | Dan077 wrote: I want to put Firefox instead of Iceweasel. Pointless. |
when ever i try to edit timezone or any other file as root and save it i am getting this error Code: Select all(gedit:3679): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.KRXRZW': No such file or directo... | Is gedit working or is it not letting you save at all? As long as the files are actually being saved correctly, you can ignore that message. |
I installed Debian on my laptop and on my PC too. During the install proccess both computers were connected to internet by wifi (dynamic), and both of them installed the system without errors. The problem is when the O.S starts, network manager doesn't detect any wifi network. It saids that there isn't a wifi device. I... | In my Gnome Squeeze system: Code: Select all$ su Password: # nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf Change managed=false to managed=true thus: Code: Select all[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=true Control+(letter) O to save and Control+X to exit. Right-click on Network Manager icon (next to date... |
Hey guys, When booting and I see all the [DONE] statements fly by I also see this: [FAIL] setting sysfs variables ... unknown attribute /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler failed Some extra info that might help: I have an ssd with only one partition, no swap. Everything else seems fine and it completes boot. No need for spo... | Does that file exist, and what are you trying to set it to? Look in /etc/sysctl.conf or the files in /etc/sysctl.d to find it. The value should be a valid scheduler for your kernel. The file, if it exists, will contain a list of the valid schedulers with the current one bracketed. |
This is probably a sources.list problem. Recently switched from Wheezy to Jessie, on KDE. Kept security updates from Wheezy, set all else for Jessie. System updated to Jessie ok (hundreds of updates, about 500MB downloaded). Short version, I suspect I have problems with my sources.list, I have poked about the Debian si... | Tony G wrote:Kept security updates from Wheezy, set all else for Jessie This would count as mixing stable and testing. I would instead use testing and manually (or using pinning) backport security fixes from unstable. If you don't know why you need security fixes, then just testing is probably fine. Short version, I su... |
Hello, I'm using Debian testing. Everything works great but I'm noticing that text file previews don't appear in Nautilus. Other files' thumbnails like PDF, images, fonts are appearing correctly, but text don't. I looked at the Nautilus preview preferences and "Preview text files" is set at "Always". I also looked in d... | I searched more about this and it seems an error on the script or package which generates the previews. Does someone know what package is? Did anyone have this problem in an out-of-the-box Debian install? If someone knows something, please, respond to this thread. Thank you. |
I regularly clean the trash, but there are some icons that remain there, and suggests that it is not empty. Where is the trash information stored, i.e., not the .trash-0 and the .trash-1000 folders but the trash information. Any ideas using the command line...? Suggestions welcome! | The trash is in Code: Select all/home/USER/.local/share/Trash Also think that the reason why you see it containing something might lie in trash present in some removable drive and improperly synched. |
I have tried compiling Dolphin-emu, the Nintendo wii emulator, on wheezy and I have had numerous errors and have been unable to install it. I have also searched long and hard online and have been unable to find a compatible .Deb already made, Ive even tried installing the Ubuntu version from getdeb (bad bad, i know) an... | I have it running right now. I can build a checkinstall .deb on the amd64 arch for you if you want. Not sure how to cross compile or etc if you need i386. If you want to do it yourself it IS possible. Where are you having an error? I personally use an older branch called "misc-speedups" and it is a lot more well behave... |
Hello, I'm running Debian on an ALIX board (pretty much PC-compatible thing: http://pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm ). All is working fine, except recently it started happening that after each reboot fsck chokes complaining about superblock mount time: Code: Select allChecking root file system...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.1... | I had a similar problem. It kept recurring until I went into my BIOS and changed the time there. If it keeps happening even after that, your battery could be dead. |
Hi there, I did a mistake with dd. I went to quickly on "/dev/sdc" instead of the "/dev/sdb" orginaly targeted, making a HD unable to reach original datas. Problem also is that HD is the girlfriend's one, who NEEEEED her staff back, what I understand fully. Even if datas are expandables, except for her photos. Basicaly... | If it's really important, you may get some files back if you take it to a very expensive professional recovery service. A bit level reading scan may be the only way to get anything back especially if Photorec hasn't given results. In future, remember to make a backup of all important data. Hard drives may fail, mistake... |
Hello all. I've been using Debian wheezy for about a year now. A couple of months ago, both Synaptic Package Manager and Update Manager stopped displaying changelogs for upgradable packages. It hasn't bothered me much, but I'd still like to fix it if possible. For example, right now there are seven Mesa packages that c... | So when and why that was happen: http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastr ... 00000.html After around month of that failure, they store changelogs on different location, see where are chagelogs now http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/c ... _changelog And they did make redirect ftp-master.metadata.debian.org to package... |
what are the default start up applications? i opened the start up applications maanager and hit delete by mistake, now one of the startup application si deleted. | Hi Bold, it might help to give us more details. Are you using Debian? Which version? And which desktop. Thanks! |
Worked fine on 64b Squeeze, now on Wheezy got this error while installing Code: Select all./et-linux-2.60.x86.run ./setup.sh: 191: ./setup.sh: /root/.setup10469: not found http://paste.debian.net/10052/ Thanks in advance. | it's okay, looks like someone got it installed on wheezy, search the forum http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=51437 |
Hi all, Does anybody know how to extend time for a subtitle (an .srt) file using either subtitlecomposer or subtitleeditor or any of the other half-a-dozen GUI subtitle editors out there. Looking forward to reply. | Use a subtitle editor: subtitlecomposer, subtitleeditor or gnome-subtitles |
As per http://wiki.debian.org/ChangeLanguage I expected to switch system language from spanish to english with no success ! root@i-ching:/home/jorbian/Descargas# export LANG=en_ES.UTF-8 root@i-ching:/home/jorbian/Descargas# dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that ... | Try using en_GB or en_US instead of en_ES, that locale do not exist. |
Hello, everybody I have a question concerning the boot sequence in Debian 7: what is that new boot messages with yellow OKs at the beginning? Is it an option in the kernel or something? And another question... I've disabled some services with sysv-rc-conf, but I still see them while booting with 'OK' status, like NFS, ... | Sorry for bumping... Anyone? |
Hi, I meet a problem with my connection that trouble some specific download, like getting a gpg key from deb-multimedia.org. Code: Select allW: GPG error: http://www.deb-multimedia.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 su ... | Did you follow the instructions at http://www.deb-multimedia.org/? Code: Select allsudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring sudo apt-get update |
I've been a long time Picasa user (3.0) till a couple of weeks when it suddenly dissapeared from my system (I still don't even how that happened). I found on the Internet a package and proceeded to install, but later realized that it's for i386 architecture (my system is 64). Now I'm trying to uninstall it, but for som... | Google has retired picassa and they are pushing their on line Photo. no more picassa here's an Article : http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/05/goog ... -redirect/ |
In case anyone has trouble running the Citrix Receiver: After getting the package installed and attempting to log into Citrix; you may run into an issue where ICA complains about the certificate such as: Code: Select allyou have not chosen to trust <certificate name> The solution I found http://forums.citrix.com/thread... | Here is an alternative method if using IceWeasel: Ubuntu's Citrix help page: To prevent the following error when accessing remote sessions: Code: Select allCitrix Receiver SSL error Contact your help desk with the following information: You have not chosen to trust"/C=US/ST=/L=/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate A... |
Where is my grub-install ?? Code: Select allroot@pc-debian:/home/ali# grub-install /dev/sda bash: grub-install: command not found root@pc-debian:/home/ali# grub- grub-bin2h grub-menulst2cfg grub-mkimage grub-mkrescue grub-reboot grub-editenv grub-mkconfig grub-mklayout grub-mount grub-script-check grub-fstest grub-mkde... | Code: Select allapt-file search grub-install debian-installer: /usr/share/doc/debian-installer/talks/d-i_internals/2004/096-grub-install-mbr.png debian-installer: /usr/share/doc/debian-installer/talks/d-i_internals/2006/096-grub-install-mbr.png grub-coreboot: /usr/sbin/grub-install grub-coreboot: /usr/share/man/man8/gr... |
Hi hibernate not working suddenly in my debian pc, Code: Select allroot@pc-debian:/home/ali# pm-hibernate root@pc-debian:/home/ali# and this log: Code: Select allJun 14 02:02:10 pc-debian kernel: [ 3316.324654] snapshot_ioctl: ioctl '4004330a' is deprecated and will be removed soon, update your suspend-to-disk utilitie... | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628546 |
I've been using Debian forever and love it and its package management system, but can't bear to have such an outdated desktop environment. The reason I use sid (unstable) is to stay up-to-date with the latest software releases... now wheezy has been released, and yet gnome in sid is still 3.4 with no sign of any major ... | I'm using Semplice Linux which is based on Sid but it is still using 3.4+7 dibl is a big fan of Aptosid. I think that is currently using 3.8.1 |
I recently made my second router act as a switch instead of a router. Now I can no longer get wireless to work on Debian. It worked fine when the switch was a normal router and it also works fine now in Windows Vista and on my PS3. I have tried to make a new wireless connection in Network Manager, but it's like Debian ... | For future reference, you don't really need to change any settings in the router to make it a switch. just put the "live" cable into one of the out ports on the router. |
Hi all, I have been happily using Squeeze with Xfce 4.8 on my laptop for nearly two years. Until now I have been able to google/read/thump head on desk with great success in solving various puzzles. But this one has me stumped...and I haven't been able to come up with a search parameter to help. (Lots of how to OPEN li... | Sounds as if Xfce has forgotten your preferred browser setting. This may help: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications |
I have Debian testing. 2 days ago i have reinstalled Nvidia proprietary drivers and all work well until today. This morning i have update several packages and now i not see windows/applications bars and is impossible to use firefox menubars. I partially fixed running metacity but gnome-shell say: Code: Select allUnable... | I fixed with an uninstall & reinstall proprietary drivers (Version 319.23 64 bit for Nvidia GTX650Ti). |
Ever since I've come across this --> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976, I've been avoiding the "make install" routine, and have pretty much made my software-management much simpler and easier. I've looked at a few games on the repositories and I've seen that there's a package for the application, and ... | Okay, hell am I ashamed of myself! I should have tried more before posting! Sorry for cluttering the forums, and sorry to the guys who thought "this guy's just lazy"! I looked around packages.debian.org, downloaded and dug into one of the files in the source and found out that the way data packages are made is by using... |
Hi folks, I've a very annoying problem with my debian-box (sid, 64 bit, gnome 3.4.2). As shown in the attachment, the visualization of bottoms and text labels is quite awful (I would say GTK2-style...) The story begins when, a couple of days ago. I tried to install a lib (ia32-lib) in order to use a sw. This lib has so... | You are most likely fucked, but let us try to undo the changes done with the package manager. If you used Aptitude, open /var/log/aptitude (or /var/log/aptitude.1.gz if the changes were made various days ago), look for the changes that you made when you installed ia32-libs and purge all the packages involved in that si... |
Hi all, I was having the problem of having multiple audio and not getting the english version by default. I did manage to fix it via http://www.howtogeek.com/107902/how-to- ... matically/ Basically as is shared :- This one is super simple, but not necessarily obvious. Just head into Preferences –> Audio (assuming it’s ... | Some times it seems to me that i hit on my head seeing the language of VLC player after the installation. Thank you for this post. |
Hello, I have a problem with octave installation from the packet manager, with the error message: Code: Select alloctave: error while loading shared libraries: libfftw3f.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when installing or trying to run octave I searched for something like libfftw3f in deb... | libfftw3-3 is a dependency of octave -- it should have been installed with octave. What version of debian are you running? What is the 'package manager' -- apt, aptitude, synaptic? The -dev and -dbg packages are for compilation and debugging, respectively. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu should be in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64... |
Hello everyone! I'm in deep trouble... I wanted to create a bootable usb key with dd if=my-image.iso of=/dev/sdc (my key) and I accidentaly replaced sdc by sda (my main hard drive...). Now, when I boot my computer, I get the content that should have been on the key and I can't access any of my partitions (I have comple... | mcorteel wrote:kiyop wrote:PS: About data backup, I backed some of it up, I should have made a more extensive backup... Hard drives die, mistakes are made. Always have a current backup. |
let's say there is one file foo ,i put it in /etc/init.d and can manually start or stop it by calling /etc/init.d/foo start (stop) on debian squeeze , i know there is update-rc.d to help add item in rc.d to start or stop service foo but when i manually add item instead, i don't get service start i want to start service... | what was the command you used to add the service using updated-rc.d? also show the output. |
Hey, I'm not sure when it started, but I am not able to move tabs around in iceweasel. According to Mozilla support, this has been an issue since V8? I haven't noticed the problem until maybe, last week or two ago. Anyone else having problems moving Iceweasel tab left to right, right to left or to a new window by dragg... | Mine work fine on Iceweasel 20, using Tab Mix Plus extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -mix-plus/ There are a few similar extensions, and with at least some you can probably 'configure them out of existence', i.e. turn everything off so you get pretty near default behaviour, but different code handli... |
After booting into squeeze, the computer seem to slowed down to a crawl (I have a quad core 8 thread i7920). I opened up terminal and executed top to see what is running, and I found this: gnome-panel 90% cpu gconfd-2 29% Xorg 21% On the bottom of the screen, across from left to right, there are little squarish boxes m... | Based on what you posted, I'd question whether your installation of the video driver from AMD actually "worked." It may have installed without showing you any errors, but working correctly isn't necessarily the same thing, particularly when you install something from outside of the Debian repos. If the flgrx-driver pac... |
Hi all, I read this story on phoronix :- http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTM2MTA I have the xserver-xorg-video-intel package Code: Select all$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-intel Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=... | Your card will have to support OpenGL 2.1 to begin with. Some do not. For example, I am on Wheezy, and my intel card only has OpenGL 2.1 support even though 3.0 is technically available. Here is my info: Code: Select all apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-glx: Installed: 8.0.5-4 Code: Select allglxinfo | grep... |
my first attempt at using debian and upon installing, i DID NOT check for debian to use the default config for desktop so now i have no menu bar or top menubar/panel and the bottom panel only has the date/time and log out button. everything is working and running fine but i need that menu button/bar and stuff. just see... | cork1958 wrote:get this upon the first command, cd. config No such file or directory That's because you mistyped it. |
Hello all, I have encountered an issue at (what I believe) the end of the ffmpeg installation process. I am using a Managed Linux Server (chrooted environment with no root access) to install ffmpeg on. The error I am receiving after issuing the make && make install commands is: Code: Select alllibavcodec/x86/h264_qpel_... | The issue was caused by a 'too new' version of GCC. I redid everything using GCC 4.3.6 and then I was able to successfully install FFMpeg. For anyone that's interested here are my complete steps: Code: Select allCreate required directories and set their correct permissions: mkdir bin lib tmp src chmod 777 tmp chmod 775... |
So I changed my Google password, updated it in "Online Accounts" with Gnome, but now only Empathy seems to want to work with it. Evolution says there's an error communicating with the keyring, and I can't get my Facebook account to re-authorize at all after I changed its password as well. | The keyring files can be moved or deleted using nautilus, In Places -> View -> Show Hidden Files -> .gnome2 -> keyrings you'll find login.keyring and user.keystore. Just move them somewhere else or delete, then logout and login again and do the user password stuff again. Alternatively, if you prefer the command line th... |
hi @all, i'm pretty sure it's not the first time i'm having this problem, but quite certain i am of my no longer recalling what the proper solution was. hence i dare bothering you (again): after i dist-upgraded to weezy (though still sticking to the unstable/sid branch) i've been getting warning messages from apt: Code... | Maybe this command will show something useful: Code: Select all# apt-key update && apt-get update |
Is there a way to get it to work? Whenever I try to install a game, it says Wine has crashed. Also, when I start PlayOnLinux, it says it can't find 32bits OpenGL libraries. | You will need to add the 32-bit architecture as root: Code: Select alldpkg --add-architecture i386 Then update the package cache: Code: Select allapt-get update Finally install 32-bit libraries: Code: Select allapt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libasound2:i386 Also if you have nvidia/ati, you might need 'their' 32-b... |
Hello I just installed Debian 7 and the install went good but when i log in to the desktop it freezes. I can go to a tty using ctrl+alt+f1 and use the system there. I've used crunchbang-squeese with no errors on this computer and I've tested to use wheezy sources aswell from that install with no problems. But with a fr... | Your GTX 580 will work much better with proprietary driver. Make sure contrib non-free are enabled in your sources.list and install a pre-built driver or use the dkms method. Both ways will require you to make a small xorg.conf file. Its easier than it sounds. Everything you need to know is here http://wiki.debian.org/... |
anyone know how to get around this issue ?? trying to install slimboat_amd64.deb compalins libssl0.9.8 is not installed .. wheezy xfce comes with libssl1.0.0 already installed and neither aptitude nor synaptic recognizes libssl0.9.8 as a pkg .. running apt-get -f install just removes the failed install .. Any ideas app... | resolved .. installed the pkg manually |
I think that my graphic-card is going in an idle state when not actively rendering. For example, when I hover over activities in gnome3, the zoom effect is in 5-10 fps but if i keep showing the activity page it goes up to high fps, like the graphic card is slowly starting, but then if I don't use that feature for a sma... | I have a GTX560Ti, this is expected behaviour from the PowerMizer settings. It will run at low clock speed for idle and undemanding tasks but ramp to full speed clock when required. I have found it to be very effective and is to reduce power consumption and heat. If you want to disable it (and use more power and make m... |
Hi guys, after using Debian for a while i must say im loving it! The only issue im having is using a script called XpressConnect (Used to connect to University Wifi) The script runs perfectly on Ubuntu 12.10, but it seems to be broken on debians side. Im using a Thinkpad T420. I can also upload the script if requested.... | Can you connect to any other wifi normally? Post output of 'lspci -k' |
Hi there, I accidentally pulled out the wrong HDD out of my server, which apparently was still opened in LUKS. I can still unlock the encrypted LVM Volume, but trying to mount the acutal ext4 filesystem results in the following errors (to be honest, I don't really see the error message here). I already tried e2fsck and... | Did you actually use the LVM commands to open the lvm layers? What is the output of: lvdisplay lsblk blkid mount ??? Rocky |
Following:http://fak3r.com/2012/04/30/howto-creat ... ux-livecd/ Gives an option: lb config –packages “irssi screen obmenu obconf iptraf vim” How can these – and “ be generated on the prompt as using the normal ones: - and " gives error. Thanks in advance. | Are you sure it is the characters "-" and "" that are generating the error message? You must list packages that are actually available -- the ones shown are only examples. If you list a package that is not actually available from your source repository(ies), then I would suppose that would generate an error. (Disclosur... |
Running an up-to-date Wheezy system here, amd64 variety. Oddly, neither doc-linux-html or doc-linux-text seem to be available in the repos. The French, Polish, and Japanese versions are, but those are the only available "HOWTO" packages I find available. Does anyone know why? | http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/doc-linux.html |
Hey guys I am out of ideas, so I hope there is someone, who can give me a hint. I am running debian wheezy with linux kernel 3.6 (I had to compile a newer kernel because kernel 3.2 has a bug with ivy bridge-processors) When I installed virtualbox (in linux-kernel 3.2) everything was fine. Also, after I updated to kerne... | Did you compile the kernel using make-kpkg or manually with make make modules_install make install? Also, rather than compile the kernel, you might try using the trunk kernel in experimental. |
I'm trying to do something unique, apparently, because I can't find the answer after hours of searching. I really like the splash screen that comes up after I log in showing that KDE is loading on Wheezy (7.0) testing. I've attached a screenshot to show what I mean. I'm looking forward to updating to the stable that ju... | It is indeed called the KDE Splash Screen. And the one you're using is indeed Wheezy's default. (It's called "joy") And you need not worry. The "joy" splash hasn't changed merely because Wheezy has been released. Edit: For your future reference, when you go into KDE's system settings, the KDE splash currently in use is... |
Hi all, I have an another system on which I have debian which needed to be dual-boot. I installed the other OS and grub was damaged . I didn't have the Debian CD there and had an oldish sysrescueCD (circa 2011) which helped a lot . Now I'm in a weird place where / is mounted but /home is not mounted . How do I tell it ... | It's just a text file. Copy one from your working machine and adjust as necessary. |
i have formated /boot as EXT3, and put kernel , sysmap there if i compiled the kernel with EXT3 as a module , then i will need initrd to make it able to mount HD but i have a question here , why grub not need this module and load the kenel but kernel does | GRUB does not really need to "mount" the filesystem, all it needs to do is understand enough about the filesystem to be able to read the directory structure in order to find a particular file's associated blocks, and then load those blocks. GRUB has support for doing this with the EXT2 filesystem, and from a read-only ... |
Hi all, I was reading this article today :- http://archive09.linux.com/articles/48910 and came across these lines :- Another useful tool is script, which allows you to save a log file of your recovery efforts from a command shell. By keeping this record, you can avoid repeating failed solutions and ensure that any info... | I think it's refering to the "/usr/bin/script" executable that's installed by the bsdutils package (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/i386 ... s/filelist) Here's it's manpage:Code: Select all$ man script | cat SCRIPT(1) User Commands SCRIPT(1) NAME script -- make typescript of terminal session SYNOPSIS script [-a] [-c... |
I'm running Debian Wheezy with gnome and xfce installed. If I wanted to replace the xfce panel with cairo-dock, how is it done? By installing cairo-dock will it automatically replace the xfce panel? | Simple. Just right click on the xfce panel(s) you want to remove, and click remove panel (or something like that). Then add cairo-dock as an autostart item and change its settings to fit your needs. |
Hi, I've been trying to get ndiswrapper to on on Debian Wheezy, I started with this: Code: Select allmothership: ~ → ndiswrapper -v zsh: command not found: ndiswrapper Next, when I install it using the packages, it just says through dkms that it doesn't install since It already has ndiswrapper's same version 1.57 btw. ... | it's possible that you installed ndiswrapper to the root. try Code: Select allsudo ndiswrapper and tell us what happens. Also, when you compile from source, did you properly do 'make install' after make? |
hi all, Was trying to add a user via console. Found out that adduser is much more fruitful and better than useradd. It gives me the following :- Code: Select all$ sudo adduser kapil perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = ... | ... Then you can remove kapil by doing deluser but it does not remove his /home/kapil directory, just the user is removed. ... FYI: From man deluser: By default, deluser will remove the user without removing the home directory, the mail spool or any other files on the system owned by the user. Removing the home directo... |
hello everybody, is it possible to save a file into memory, not to hard disk? in a way that one shell script can save it and another (conky) can read it, without having to read from the hd every second? now i think of it, the batch script itself would have to be in ram, too. i think i read somewhere that i can tell lin... | Run mount and see if any location is mounted as type "tempfs" with a device of "none". Tempfs is a RAM filesystem. Also, most systems let you use /dev/shm (shared memory) in this way. |
Dear all, I've been a happy Debian user for a year and a half now and it's been smooth sailing most of the time. Therefor I'm new to this forum: I hope this is the right place to post the following problem. As of last Friday I've lost normal access to my Debian Squeeze installation. Somewhere during booting the system ... | Looks like the same issue as detailed in debian-squeeze-resume-from-disk-error and the solution proposed might be found here. |
Hi all, Is there a way to see a huge text file without everything go haywire ? For e.g. I have say this log :- Code: Select all$strace -f -o log apt-get install --reinstall guake Now the resultant log is 23 MB Code: Select all$ ll -h log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23M 2013-03-25 23:34 log Now if I take it in a traditional ... | Lots of hits on Google for "edit large file linux"... Did you try searching? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1591 ... huge-files I'd probably use 'less' if I weren't searching for anything specific. $ man less DESCRIPTION Less is a program similar to more (1), but it has many more features. Less does not have to rea... |
During bootup in wheezy, there is a message about failed postgresql 9.1 (the rest I cannot read as it scrolled too fast). After log-in, I tried to look at syslog (using the log viewer in system tools), there is a message that there is no /var/log/dpkg.log. I looked at the files system, and cannot find it. I scanned the... | You can try starting potgresql manually to see the errors. Code: Select all/etc/init.d/postgresql restart As for your dpkg.log, no idea. Code: Select allls -l /var/log | grep dpkg |
Hello Debian world, I have two questions: 1. Is it OK if I remove sudo privileges from S.M.A.R.T for me the user? Meaning are there any security risks? 2. How can I get only the temperature information from this: ' 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 065 065 000 Old_age Always - 35 '? The command I used to get this info... | Far be it for me to discourage you, but it seems like you're expending a lot of effort trying to monitor something that most likely doesn't actually predict drive failure. Experimental results in the research literature are at best inconclusive regarding a relationship between temperature and drive failure. And these e... |
Are there backports for Wheezy yet? Isn't it the way to get newer versions of programs like iceweasel, etc. ? I tried this link: http://wiki.debian.org/Backports changing sqeeze to wheezy in the backports line didn't work. | See this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=491421#p491421 The repo entry would be something like what's shown below {change the ".us" part as needed}Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free There aren't any packages in wheezy-backports yet and probably w... |
hi, i'm experiencing a problem with apt/aptitude in order to remove/purge the 'libjaxp1.3-java-gcj' package. I'm mainly running the testing branch except for a couple of packages (pinned) from unstable like iceweasel/cinnamon. Here's the output: Code: Select allProcessing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing ... | Post outputsCode: Select all$ apt-cache policy libjaxp1.3-java-gcjCode: Select all$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list//edit:Code: Select all$ aptitude why libjaxp1.3-java-gcj |
I have a new install of 6.0.7 on a sata drive. The system uses 2.6.32-5-686 and sometimes on startup and always on a restart hangs after "waiting for /dev to be fully populated" comes up on the screen. The system hangs, no further apparent activity and the monitor goes into hibernate and will not reawaken with mouse mo... | It happens on my old desktop with an Atom processor with 1 gig ram but not on my new dual Celeron with 4 gigs ram. I'm on the same boat. |
Hi all, After using testing (now Wheezy) for almost a year and breaking my machine (latest nvidia broken packages), I went back to vanilla Squeeze (after updates, now at 6.02). Nothing from outside the stable repos; not even the nvidia driver (kept it at default nv and nouveau). Repo "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.o... | Start by removing flash and gnash completely from your system. After, remove all references to flash or gnash in both $HOME/.mozilla and th enire system. Be sure to run Code: Select allupdatedb as root. |
I've been running Debian 7 from beta 4 in December. I've been doing update and upgrade every couple days and it runs so well I forgot that its a beta! It's using Gnome 3.4 now, will there be an upgrade to 3.6 by the final version? I like the menu button on the program bar better than Applications at the top of the scre... | Short answer, no. Its stable, nothing changes. Maybee in backports later, but dont hold your breath. Sent from Nexus 7 via Tapatalk 2 |
Hello everybody! Can anybody give me /etc/shadow user password hash to "123456789" password? Code: Select allLinux sprinter 3.7.8 #1 SMP Wed Feb 27 22:58:30 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux I removed root and user password because of problems with keyboard symbols typing and can't log in by root without password. I had proble... | If you have removed root password, you must neither boot on single mode nor from Live-Cd and use chroot and the set new password, for example http://aneeska.com/2009/06/16/howto-roo ... in-linux/] It should not be change /etc/shadow's permissions. Peter. |
System: Debian 6 According to: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia ... 03.en.html If you are to use command line only instead, here is how you do it (after the default installation of the gdm3 package and selecting it to be the choice of display manager). # cd /etc/rc2.d ; mv S21gdm3 K21gdm3 # cd /etc ; perl -i -p ... | I never do such things. What i can see: 8 is not in the range 1-6 (iow not in inittab, but i am not sure if that matters). I would use sysv-rc-conf instead of fooling with /etc/rc*, more comfortable I would edit inittab manually instead of using perl, but i wouldn't edit it at all: I would disable xdm for runlevel 2, w... |
Hey gang, as the title says, my system got wrecked by the latest upgrade. I have sid enabled in my sources.list and am running Debian on a HP Pavilion g6. After being prompted to upgrade by the update manager, it installed over a hundred packages, including a new kernel, but the upgrade failed saying such and such a fi... | Johnny Cache wrote: After being prompted to upgrade by the update manager, it installed over a hundred packages... You are not updating your system often enough. what help did you want? post your software sources |
Hi, I just got one USB wireless adapter, want to get it work on my Debian. So Code: Select all/etc/debian_version 6.0.4 and I'm running kernel 2.6.38-2-686. So I basically follow this wonderful page http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800usb I installed firmware-ralink Code: Select all$ dpkg -l |grep ralink ii firmware-ralink 0.... | Squeeze kernel does not support your chip but wheezy kernel does, your kernel is in between. As root post the output of Code: Select allmodinfo rt2800usb | grep 5370 |
I am looking for a monitor for cpu temp, fan, etc. I am using sensors now, but I have to attach them to GKrellM to see them. This open hardware monitor looks like the same set up in MS CPUID Hardwaremonitor. It says it can run in linux. Anyone tried it? http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ | GKrellm is about as easy as they come. Conky is excellent and vastly configurable but you'll probably spend days just learning and tweaking it. |
Just curious, where is the location of Debian's main American mirror site? I used netselect-apt to try to get the best mirror for my computer and was a little surprised that it recommended I just continue to use the main mirror. I live roughly between the University of Illinois and Indiana University and I was sure tha... | The us mirror will usually redirect to your nearest mirror. If you know the mirror you want to use simple edit your sources.list and change it there. |
I setup windows xp in virtualbox and each load I get bsod. How can fix this problem ? Windows Live CD successful running http://libreportal.net/images/img/2013-02/14/psz26gupsd1s7gmtupxgqper5.png[/img] | in qemu this error is also present |
System Requirements: Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst™ Linux graphics driver, the following software must be installed: Xorg/Xserver 6.9 and above (up to 1.13) Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.5) glibc version 2.2 or 2.3 POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications Is it compati... | Yes, the versions in Squeeze meet all those requirements. |
I installed iptables-persistent and set up a couple of basic rules for my system. I then saved those rules using iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules I ran update-rc.d iptables-persistent defaults so that iptables-persistent would run during start up. When I look at /etc/rcS.d, I can see that the link to /etc/init.d/ipt... | http://wiki.debian.org/iptables |
I have a list of files in a text file. Each filename, complete with path, is on its own line. I need to generate modify that list to include the modification date/time for each of those files. Ideally, I'd like to sort by the modification date/time, but a list that includes modification times would be sufficient. I've ... | If your filenames do not contain spaces, the simple solution is to leave out the -0 switch. Otherwise, a looping construct should work: Code: Select all for i in $( cat listoffilenames); do stat -c %y%N "$i";done |
Recent installation of Debian Testing x86_64 using Openbox and I can't get any sound. I have a Realtek chip and installed firmware-realtek followed by modprobe -r r8169 then modprobe r8169. lspci excerpt: Code: Select all01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet... | Have you tried: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=53708 |
Hello everyone, I'm trying to find out how to be able to configure my router to foward certain port on my PC automatically. I understood that my PC should use the UPnP protocol to do so. And I found a graphical application to open certain port on the router (i.e. "upnp-router-control" among the Debian's packages). My p... | Assuming you have an otherwise mainstream home router, port forwarding is easily accomplished through the routers firmware-based "control panel." UPnP is not required. Each router is different, so you'd have to read the manual for your particular make/model, but I've never owned a router whose manual wasn't available o... |
Hi all, sometimes some process takes too much time, or gets zombied or whatever the process continues. The way I use is the following :- Code: Select all$ sudo ps ux | grep 'foo' shirish 17301 12.3 8.2 1070640 169912 pts/1 Sl+ 02:22 0:45 foo shirish 17867 0.0 0.0 7832 872 pts/2 S+ 02:28 0:00 grep foo I then just take a... | shirish wrote:Can anybody tell me what would be a good way of killing processes but with some grace or something ? Substitute 15 for 9. That sends a SIGTERM signal, which politely asks the process to finish whatever it's doing and exit gracefully. But bear in mind that sometimes asking politely simply doesn't work, and... |
hi all, Actually I know how to use it to find why a package is needed but I'm looking to know how to figure out a package worthiness within the debian archive . An e.g. perhaps might make it clearer :- Code: Select all~$ aptitude why kdelibs4c2a i score-reading-trainer Depends kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.9) Now this tells th... | Try Code: Select allapt-cache rdepends kdelibs4c2a |
Dear All, I installed Debian Squeeze (6.0.6) both on my laptop and on my desktop. On the laptop everything works well. On the Desktop, on the contrary, I had some problems. It seems that something is missing. For example, the menu system/preferences and system/administration are very short and many items are missing. W... | What desktop environment are you using? Which install iso did you use? More detail is better... |
I''ve been trying to figure out why this command Code: Select allgpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --export 310180050905E40C | apt-key add is borking badly on a default wheezy install using this image http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheez ... inst.jigdo it's a debian.org/people... | The direction to go is to the end of the line. Note the dash, which tells apt-key to take standard input piped from the gpg command. Code: Select allapt-key add - Edit: I didn't investigate the rest of that command line - I just saw the most common error. You're using some options I've never used, so I can't comment on... |
On Debian wheezy, when I run apt-get upgrade, from a couple of days I receive this error: Code: Select allroot@user:/home/user# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: libqt4-dbus libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-declara... | apt-get -f install apt-get dist-upgrade Post any errors including the full message. |
Hi everybody! I've got a problem with my wheezy-amd64 on my desktop. When I try to put it on suspend mode a black screen appears and the fans don't stop working, furthermore I can't wake up my pc from this state. I googled a little bit but I found nothing helpful, here it is the code of "/var/log/pm-suspend.log" Maybe ... | What an idiot, the suspend mode was disabled in the BIOS. Sorry for bothering guys! Happy Debian! |
files on apache2 server visible internally but not via external ip:port Good afternoon, I am running CrunchBang Statler (based on Debian Squeeze/Stable) on an HP Compaq dx2200 Microtower with a 250GB internal hard drive. This machine is connected to the internet via an ethernet connection, which in turn is supplied fro... | Are you trying to access the server (using public IP) from within the LAN or from another remote location? If you're trying to access from within the LAN, and it's not working, you're router may have "NAT loopback" disabled or does not support it. Though even if the router does not support NAT loopback through its web ... |
Hi all, I have been trying to play with the date thingie and they have worked flawlessely. See for instance :- Code: Select all01:11:29 shirish@deb-home: ~/Documents$ sudo date -s "June 21 13:45" [sudo] password for shirish: शुक्र जून 21 13:45:00 IST 2013 13:45:00 shirish@deb-home: ~/Documents$ date शुक्र जून 21 13:45:... | I wouldn't call it a bug. The InRelease files, such as: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease, are only considered to be good/valid for 7 days. The "Valid-Until" line controls that behaviour. With the date set to June 21 the InRelease files are being ignored. You can override the "Valid-Until" setting wit... |
I am running squeeze, but need this package to compile Rawtherapee (a raw photo editor). It exits in wheezy, and to install it, there are many dependencies upon dependencies to download and install, that would make this oldboy's head spin. Is there any quick way of doing it? Can I include wheezy in my sources.list so I... | No. Upgrade to Wheezy. |
Howdy. Running Lenny system with standard gnome desktop and iceweasel with the following "about" info: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20121207 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16) When javascripy is enabled I get frequent crashes when web sites attempt to display their ad info. Response is... | Use a modern version of Iceweasel. Are you sure you mean Squeeze and not Lenny? http://mozilla.debian.net/ The web has changed enough that even a few generations older versions of browsers can have problems and incompatibilities. In any case make sure browser-plugin-gnash, gnash, and gnash-common are uninstalled. |
For 2 weeks I'm having a lot of files ending in ~. Practically each file I modify generates a file with same name ending in ~. These files are backups if I'm not mistaken, but why are they generating always? I remember that this never happened to me before. | Configure your $EDITOR to not do automatic backups. E.g. with Vim, in your ~/.vimrc Code: Select allset nobackup set nowritebackup Or with Emacs, in your ~/.emacs Code: Select all; Disable backup (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Disable auto save (setq auto-save-default nil) |
I'm setting up compiz stand-alone for the first time and can't seem to get notifications working. I've installed libnotify-bin and notification-daemon. When notify-send is run from command line, nothing happens - no output whatsoever. I'm probably missing some kind of package but can't figure out which. EDIT: xfce noti... | might be because wheezy doesn't support compiz. I'm not even sure how you managed to install it. |
I know this topic has been covered a few times on here, but it's been awhile and perhaps there's a solution now. I have Debian Wheezy AMD64 and I would like to emulate a SNES. Zsnes is available in the repos for x86 but is evidently not supported in AMD64. I looked at bsnes and it doesn't seem to use .smc files, which ... | this works good, don't have the link handy snes9x-1.52-gtk-79-x86-64.tar.bz2 |
Hi When i want to open firefox 18(downloaded from mozilla site), this error happend: Code: Select all ./firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/alireza/Desktop/archives/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. Any ideas? | Try the 64bit one. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/relea ... ux-x86_64/ |
If I try to start the KeepNote application through the Gnome menu, nothing happens. If enter enter a terminal as a standard user and type keepnote, I get the following output: Code: Select allkeepnote Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/keepnote", line 186, in start_error_log errorlog = open(keepnote.get_... | sounds like it's trying to use a priveliged port number, change the port in the config, if there is a config, otherwise you'll need to portforward via some form of proxy'ing... check what port it's using once run as root... netstat -tln | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/.*://' | sort -nu | tr " " "," | sed 's/,$... |
Good day, every one: Recently I disable HAL and thunar and use udisks instead. And I found I can not use udisk mount my usb optical disc driver. This is how I type: udisks --mount /dev/sr0 --mount-options ro --mount-fstype iso9660 And I got: Mount failed: Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock... | think i had this same issue before, was copy protected disk... make sure you have the css package installed |
While I was crawling on Google some time ago, I came across a few forum threads stating that X should not be installed on servers. (unfortunately I can't provide a link to it, http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=87361). Straight to the point, what I'm asking is if it's a bad idea to run X on a server, and if s... | ChipOManiac wrote:Straight to the point, what I'm asking is if it's a bad idea to run X on a server, and if so why? Is it just unnecessary, or is there any danger associated with doing so? X takes some extra resources, and it adds another attack vector. If you can avoid a GUI, it is best to do so. If you can't avoid it... |
I've installed Debian 7 beta 4 this morning and it's working fine. Got the printer and multimedia all set up. Will I be able to upgrade to the Debian 7 final whenever its released by continuing to run #apt-get update and apt-get upgrade? Or is there a better command? Thanks. | vinoman wrote: Will I be able to upgrade to the Debian 7 final whenever its released by continuing to run #apt-get update and apt-get upgrade? . yes |
On my Debian system, waking up from suspend to RAM is very slow (around 10-15 seconds). For comparison, my old (much less powerful) laptop could wake up in around 5-8 seconds while this laptop on Windows resumes in 2 seconds. On the screen, I see an error message "ata1 comreset failed ( errno =-16)". Any ideas what's c... | Which version of Debian you are using? Is pm-utils package installed? Also double check the cable of your hard drive is firmly connected. |
Acquire::Languages "none"; in apt.conf is what did it. I assumed it would revert to en_US, but apparently not. And it took a while to take effect, so I didn't realise that's what had done it. Clue was realising they were missing in 'aptitude show' as well... ----- Oh dear, I broke aptitude... I have no idea how. If I o... | edit: nevermind, I now see it's "Solved" The full descriptions come from the i18n/Translation-xx files, like the http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/whee ... ion-en.bz2 file. Are you getting full descriptions with the apt-cache show command? Such as: Code: Select allapt-cache show 0ad Code: Select all$ apt-cache show 0a... |
Hello it's my first post here. I'm not an experienced user and my english is pretty poor - so please be nice Anyway I've got encrypted wheezy (encrypted lvm) and I can't change grub2 splashscreen. The method I'm using is : to put image .jpg to /boot/grub (which of course is on the unencrypted primary partition) and run... | Yes, I think you're right that it's because of the encryption. There are files in the encrypted partition that grub needs but can't read until after the encrypted volume is opened and mounted. The way around it is to put the files in /boot. I've got /boot/splash/fonts/unicode.pf2 and /boot/splash/images/splash.png. Cop... |
For testing purposes I am currently dual-booting Win7 and Debian Wheezy. The bootable system disk contains the primary partitions for both OS's and is a single SSD. I have have a non-system disk which is an intel fake-raid 5 consisting of 4 SATA drives. This question is not regarding the merits of linux software raid o... | No takers, eh? Oh well, I did manage to work around this issue. The kernel was auto-mounting some funky stuff raid-wise at boot time, so I simply needed to stop those raid instances and create a proper one. Code: Select allmdadm --stop --scan mdadm --assemble --scan Now I'm able to mount my truecrypt volume on the fake... |
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