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hello i would like to mount kernel files vmlinuz i have tried this : mount -o loop /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 /mnt without success i have also tried to mount -o loop -t vfat /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 /mnt with the same result. it alwasys complains about wrong fs type is it comprssed? how can i mount it? | vmlinuz is not a filesystem, it is a self-contained executable file. You should not be expecting to mount it any more than you would expect to mount GIMP or Iceweasel. |
OK, so I'm having trouble installing Tribler in my latest version of Debian. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the program, from the wikipedia article: "Tribler is an open source peer-to-peer client with various features for watching videos online. The user interface of Tribler is very basic and focused on ease ... | Programs link with libraries to extend their functionality. I think, your program is attempting to link with the wrong version libraries. The reason may be you are trying to install an incompatible version of Tribler. When downloading from third-party sites, the required library versions are more probable not to coinci... |
Could someone please point me to a tutorial that explains in detail how to create a live DEBIAN usb image with persistence using for example debian-live-6.0.4-i386-xfce-desktop.img ,which I have on my HDD and as a CD. The tutorials I have so far only speak of making " custom images". Thanks in anticipation. | glynne wrote:Could someone please point me to a tutorial that explains in detail how to create a live DEBIAN usb image with persistence... No, but I'll point you to something that points you to a tutorial Let's take the words you used in the subject line of this posting: live, persistence, tutorial. Let's add the commo... |
Hi, after the last iceweasel update on wheezy, adblock deactivated automatically. I had to reactivate it and it works less good than before (it forgets many ads). Moreover, popup blocking does not work anymore (it was still activated in the preferences). Someone has the same issue ? Should I report a bug ? | Its more of a bug with Adblock. The latest Adblock update has a bug that causes it to disregard your choice of filter subscription each time Firefox closes on all but the newest version of Firefox. So every time you restart firefox you're seeing ads because your Adblock doesn't have any ad filters. When the bug was dis... |
Hello, guys. I am running Debian stable on HP Mini 210 netbook. Problem 1:I tried to create a bootable usb flash with Unetbootin, installed through apt-get. The distro I wanted to try was Xubuntu 12.10. Though in time I have got problems with various distros. After a successful copying files and installing bootloader, ... | If you dd'd an iso/img to the flash drive it probably has an iso9660/udf filesystem on it same as the image & ergo read-only. can cause great confusion if the drive also has an ibm-pc partition table (showing up as 2 devices etc.) the best option in this case is to simply dd /dev/zero over the drive (actually just the ... |
Hi, kinda new to linux and sort of hacking my way around to get things working.. anyway previously my trackpad on my laprtop was working, edge scrolled fine (but didn't tap click, which never really bothered me) after doing a kernel upgrade and messing with various stuff it's now not, no edge scroll but it has gained t... | http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpa ... C_Xorg_7.5 |
Trying to start sopcast and get a message that file not found: Code: Select allsopcast sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6418 sopcast: starting stream sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6418 on port 6418 /usr/bin/sopcast: line 23: /usr/bin/sp-sc-auth: No such file or directory sopcast: stream sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6418 ... | I long ago ran sopcast. I did it like in README, p.3: Code: Select all1.change log --Improve the data transfering performance. --H.264 support 2.library dependency If you don't have stdc++ 5 in your system, please download the libstdcpp5.tgz from www.sopcast.com, and copy the libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++.so.5.0.1 to /usr/l... |
Hi all, It's been a while since my last post I'm currently using Wheezy with a few packages from unstable and experimental. I normally upgrade these packages with apt-show-versions, since the pin priority is set to Testing, as shown below: /etc/apt/preferences: Code: Select allPackage: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Prio... | Hi all, Please ignore this post, I'm an idiot. For some reason, I had deleted /etc/apt/sources.list and the sources which were being updated where only the ones under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ - precisely the one's from unstable and experimental. I use the 'main' sources in sources.list (testing) Everything else goes to... |
I use Debian Testing. Today I received an update for the kernel. After update the kernel Debian doesn't start. Everything goes fine but when lightdm should appear I just can see a black screen. What is the problem??? Is it because after updating the kernel I also must update the nvidia driver?? | Yes I confirm that I just had to install again the nvidia driver. |
I have setup a personal folder with my own executable files. It is housed on a lvm drive. Last week before I reinstalled Debian, the files were executing properly. Under my new install they are not. I suspect it is something fairly straightforward that I am missing The mount point is Code: Select all/dev/mapper/Data-lv... | Maybe run chown and chgrp on them again. |
Hi, I was trying to install a new version of python in Debian, and since I had some problem configuring the new version, I decided to uninstall the previous version first. For that, I used the synaptic package manager. This is where I think I screwed up something. After uninstalling, I mentioned that a few things have ... | I would reinstall whatever desktop you were on. If you were on Debian 6 (Squeeze) using Gnome; Log on as root and run: Code: Select allapt-get update && apt-get -f install && apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment You will need a ethernet connection. If it does not connect by default, before the above command first ... |
I'm using Libreoffice Impress. There seems to be only a small number of special characters. I'm trying to use them in equation mode. After Insert->Object->Formula, I click on "catalog" in the equation editor, and then it has three options: Greek (which is Greek letters), iGreek (italic Greek letters) and "Special" whic... | It is there. Press the sigma symbol in the upper toolbar. A dialog opens. Then, press Edit. You should find the symbol in the grid. |
DWM is a window manager which needs to be customized by its source code. It seems apt-get cannot customize it ? Regards! | Hi there, To get the source code, run Code: Select allapt-get source dwm I wrote a howto about customising dwm a while ago: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=65110 Once you've got dwm set up just how you want it, your wm-hopping days are numbered... Loomx |
Hello Debian world, it is I again. I have a couple of quick questions. I am going to college online and I need to access their computer that is assigned to me with Citrix. I went online and I found what they called the receiver but, it needs this package called OpenMotif (here is the website https://www.citrix.com/down... | http://lmgtfy.com/?q=OpenMotif |
Hello. I installed Debian Squeeze about 6 months ago, and it worked fine without any problems, updates and maintenance. Today I wanted to install python-dev package and got a problem. Code: Select all$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tr... | vlmig wrote:I installed Debian Squeeze about 6 months ago vlmig wrote:Code: Select all$ uname -a Linux host55 2.6.18-308.el5.028stab099.3 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:56:00 MSK 2012 i686 GNU/Linux This does not make any sense. 2.6.18 is a very old kernel (etch!). vlmig wrote:Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sque... |
Hello, I wasn't sure where to post this issue so I figured I could do it here. I have GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu13. I just did some modifications to my partitions using GParted. Everything went fine and my other OSses were detected fine by the OS-prober script. I had a problem with my Archlinux partition though. The UUI... | mashen wrote:Hello, I wasn't sure where to post this issue so I figured I could do it here. I have GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu13. I just did some modifications to my partitions using GParted. Everything went fine and my other OSses were detected fine by the OS-prober script. I had a problem with my Archlinux partition th... |
Hi all, What's the difference between these two grep commands :- Code: Select all$ cat /etc/reportbug.conf | grep interface # User interface: text, urwid or gtk2 and this :- Code: Select all$ grep -A2 interface /etc/reportbug.conf # User interface: text, urwid or gtk2 # querybts and reportbug will use this setting # ui... | shirish wrote:What does -A2 do ? Open up a terminal and type man grep. It's quicker and easier than writing a forum post. |
Hello Debian world, I need help in finding what I believe to be a package for the LaTeX Documentation program. I am writing all my math notes using this program and I need the side ways open square symbol for a graph math problem, it is basically the bracket symbol but longer. In the book I got from their website The N... | Do you mean the \sqsubset symbol? Use amssym: Code: Select all\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \begin{document} A$\sqsubset$B \end{document} It should be part of texlive-base: Code: Select alllocate amssym /usr/share/doc/texlive-base/fonts/amsfonts/amssymb.pdf /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/fonts/... |
I just did a fresh install of Debian 6.0 Squeeze (stable) and every time I go to any website I get nagged by the certificate police: "This Connection is Untrusted" I'm running Openbox, but it's happening in Gnome too. Website content doesn't seem to be lining up correctly either. Please help. Thanks in advance! | It could be a DNS issue. What is the output of cat /etc/resolv.conf? You could also try the latest version of Iceweasel from http://mozilla.debian.net/ |
Hello, im new to Debian and today I wanted to put some data in a CD and when I inserted the CD debian didnt detect it. I tryed inserting different CDs and I saw that it dosen't see empty CDs but it does with CDs that has stuff in it. Maybe im doing it wrong, I just insert the CD and wait... but nothing happen. In CDs t... | Please do not cross-post. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=85819 |
I'm looking for an amd64 Debian 6 LXDE installation live CD for a text-based installation. Where is?? Have spent a while searching for it and can't seem to find it! | AMD64 live cds here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cur ... so-hybrid/ |
Hi by accident I have used dd to write over the first 208MB of my external disk. The whole disk is 320GB and should be a single ext4 partition. However, it's all gone now, there's a 208MB parttion at the start and the rest shows up as free space. The data is still there, Rhythmbox could keep playing the songs for examp... | I do not know much more how to help you but using testdisk might work. You can install it on most live cd linux distros. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step |
Hi, got a weird problem in Debian Testing with apt-get for the past 5 days. At first I tought I'll just let it go and wait a few days but it doesn't seem to want to fix itself. So I run apt-get update, all fine. Then I run apt-get upgrade which says : Code: Select allThe following packages have been kept back: gnome-co... | Not sure why apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't work. You may want to try aptitude full-upgrade. Regards, Herman |
Hi all, Is there a way to figure out how many packages are from 'experimental' repo. in my system ? I have a mixed system with most packages from 'testing' repo and very few from experimental. For instance I know that the iceweasel version I take from experimental but no idea about others (I am sure there are few other... | I use apt-show-versions: Code: Select all$ apt-show-versions |grep '/experimental ' java-package/experimental uptodate 0.51~exp1 linux-headers-3.5-trunk-486/experimental uptodate 3.5.2-1~experimental.1 linux-headers-3.5-trunk-common/experimental uptodate 3.5.2-1~experimental.1 linux-image-3.5-trunk-486/experimental upt... |
I've successfully compiled all 5 but Transmission GTK2 has an ugly-old GUI. Does anybody know why? http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18 ... 0gtk2.png/ 1. Build glib-2.32.4.tar.xz apt-get build-dep glib2.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/glib make make install 2. Build gdk-pixbuf-2.26.4.tar.xz apt-get build-dep libgtk2.0-0... | I found out why. It needs symbolic links to themes: ln -s /usr/share/themes/AgingGorilla /opt/gtk2/share/themes ln -s /usr/share/themes/Amaranth /opt/gtk2/share/themes ln -s /usr/share/themes/Atlanta /opt/gtk2/share/themes ln -s /usr/share/themes/Bright /opt/gtk2/share/themes ln -s /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks /opt/gtk... |
I've been playing with multiple desktops on Wheezy (trying to find an alternative to Gnome 3) and now I have some unwanted entries in the xsession options on the gdm3 login screen. I found the list here - /usr/share/xsessions. Is this where I would delete the ones I no longer want or do I have to do it somewhere else? ... | golinux wrote:I've been playing with multiple desktops on Wheezy window managers and desktop environments, not desktops problem: and now I have some unwanted entries in the xsession options on the gdm3 login screen. solution . . . a new install is no big deal . . . But i think i would rather buy a new PC. The old one i... |
Hello Debian world, I did my research on my topic to see if it is even possible to recover data from a failed solid state drive. From my understanding I can with in reason of course i.e. can't recover data from corrupt sectors of the solid state drive (my apologizes if my terminology is wrong). Now I found many of tuto... | My problem is when I plug in the drive in my dock it doesn't see the drive at all... Did you test this with: Code: Select all# fdisk -l? |
All it took was rename... mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak5 oh my lol So i was thinking wouldn't it be cool to have a dock coz i've seen them in linux screenies before. So i downloaded docky and it said I need composite or something and wouldn't display properly. I kinda figured out by composite it meant co... | I kinda figured out by composite it meant compiz (i think). Not really. For xfce4 you open the xfce4-settings-manager, go to desktop or window-manager, advanced, and enable composite. Else, for window-managers like fluxbox, there is xcompmgr. Not sure for kde or gnome, but similar to xfce4. lxde doesn't exist in my wor... |
New install of Wheezy xfce using netinst. When I 'apt-get update' i get the output shown below, though this is only a very small part of the output showing Get:45 through to Get:65 it doesn't stop until it gets to about Get:300 or there abouts and ends with 'W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org/dists/test ..... | dpkg-reconfigure locales add Acquire::Languages "none" ; to your apt.conf or create a new file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and name it 05translations with the same info Code: Select allAcquire::Languages "none" ; Debian User Forums • View topic - [solved]apt language settings - how to? - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.... |
Hello Debian world, I installed two extra drives in my machine and the one mounts fine but the other gets mounted under usb or usb0 under /dev/media but I can only mount with this code sudo mount usb or usb0. Also what I find is weird is that the one drive I have issues mounting is the only one that shows up under /dev... | Is the other drive mounted NTFS also? Did you install both ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs? I remember having to include the filesystem when I used NTFS (/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 -t NTFS rw,user,noauto 0 0). YOu can try that. Also, why d you use both fstab and mtab? I use only fstab. |
Hi. I just installed screen and rtorrent. I kept rtorrent running by: Code: Select allscreen -d -m -S rTorrent rtorrent -n -o import=/home/peter/.config.rc When I tried to start downloading files by pressing Ctrl+s (or Ctrl+a Ctrl+s, which means sending Ctrl+s to application as specified in the manual) to start downloa... | Some additional tips can be found in this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=54670 |
Hi, I recently replaced my HDD with an Intel 320 SSD on my Thinkpad T410, and installed Debian Sid on it. Everything works but when I try to shutdown/reboot the system Debian just hangs, I think it might have something to do with the SSD since this never happened before, but I'm not sure. This is what it looks like, if... | Got any samba shares mounted? If there is a samba share mounted and you lose network connectivity - like during a shutdown - it will hang for quite a while before ( usually ) finishing after the share times out. That is the only time I ever see that happening, I know there have been ACPI bugs in the past that would mak... |
Hi, I would like to try xfce4.10 on Wheezy and have downloaded the tar file, from the xfce site, and know the packages are available in the Experimental Repositories. However the instructions I've found through searching are for me rather complicated for my level. Does anyone know of an easy method to use? | TBH there probably isn't an 'easy way' if you're not comfortable even just adding repo's. There are gong to be a lot of problems that you will need to solve or workaround. |
Hi, When I go to View Your Posts to check on my last topic; http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 5&e=451125 it is not listed. When I enter the email notification and enter the above URL I get; You are not authorised to read this forum. Can I have done something wrong without being aware of it? | ozgta wrote:Can I have done something wrong without being aware of it? You maybe have replied to spam and the whole thread has been moved to spam forum where we, the mortals, don't have access rights... You know, it would be so exciting to be able to go there! I really don't know anything about the subject but the spam... |
Dear All, When I try watching a movie for which I downloaded subtitles in Cyrillic (e.g. Russian subtitles), the result is always a mess...in the sense that the subtitles always look like funny Latin characters. I wonder if this is due to Cyrillic fonts not being installed on my system. For instance, if I look at this ... | e.g. VlC player - Tool - Preferences - Subtitles - Default encoding - Russian(KOI8-R) |
Hello Debian world, my apologizes if this ins't in the right thread but I really need your help. I need a graphics calculator, now I have tried extcalc, TilEm, I mean just about every one available for Linux. I even went as far as to trying to getting the ones made for Windows to work in wine but, it is either I that d... | WolframAlpha? |
I have had this for a couple of days, when I try to run aptitude update. The files are there, and I have tried with a different mirror with same error. Code: Select all# aptitude update Get: 1 http://ftp.dk.debian.org wheezy InRelease [190 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.dk.debian.org wheezy/main Sources [5,966 kB] Get: 3 http:/... | Ok, perhaps as a safe initial try, comment out all of the repositories in sources.list with # such as: Code: Select all#deb http://etc.. Then run: Code: Select allapt-get update If this does not have any package cache errors, try re-enabling the repositories and running apt-get update again. |
I am having a problem, and I can't quite figure out whats wrong. I believe it is a java issue. everytime I run something that runs off java it randomly crashes. It does this with Iceweasel, and Minecraft ( a game). Lately I can hardly play minecraft due to this. lately it does seem that iceasel is doing it a little les... | Yeah iceweasel has nothing to do with java directly but if those crashes are sporadically I would check for faulty RAM. You can try the memtest and if that comes up without an error try removing one RAM bar (if you have multiple) and let the system run a while. |
I have debian wheezy with resolvconf, dnsmasq and apache2 running web server for my local domains, i have dynamic ip so the script updates the "/etc/hosts" on each new dialup connection for the new ip. The problem is i can ping the global net and the local domain with the ip address 127.0.0.1 like one from the /etc/hos... | post output of Code: Select all/sbin/ifconfig andCode: Select all/sbin/route -n |
After my Dell R210-II server with Debian Squeeze had been running for 4 months without any problems, today I suddenly could not get a shell prompt after a successful login using SSH. Also using the virtual console from iDRAC6 I could not see any prompt. But all other services like httpd, mysqld and so on were still run... | We upgraded the kernel and all problems were solved. For more info, see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ost4767275 |
I am in kind of migration process from Fedora to Debian. I very much like redhat bugzilla, where one can fill a bug and then press "submit" button. I tried to send a bug report to submit@bugs.debian.org, and always get: Your message didn't have a Package: line at the very first line of the mail body (part of the pseudo... | The BTS pseudo-headers are part of the body of the email. This means if you're using an email client which allows for direct modification of the email headers, you need to separate the message headers from the BTS headers with a blank line. Using your example, the correct format would be:Code: Select allSubject: xorg: ... |
so far my systems been working pretty good, im running debian wheezy. i stupidly made the mistake of doing apt-get autoremove after the terminal showed me a huge number of programs that were apparently deemed useless. most of them seemed to be, except for all of the kde software. now my system boots up to terminal, no ... | Yeah, but then everything on your system is marked as manually installed and apt won't autoremove it any more ... |
I am running an up to date wheezy/testing computer. I have not changed any of my custom kernels recently. I just upgraded after being on vacation. I upgraded everything that hit testing between July 25 and August 12. The next day when I booted my computer, right after "Loading initial ram disk...", I got a dump and the... | use shift + page up / page down keys to move the framebuffer screen up and down. Try booting into recovery console If recovery mode doesn't work try editing the recovery line to only have "init=/bin/bash single" in the kernel options part ( quite a lot won't work since you are starting NO services at all, it should be ... |
Hi. How would I tell where USB is mounted (what device, as in /dev/cd*). I've tried "mount" and "dmesg", but neither prints any meaningful information. After filtering a bit, I can guess the device, but I'm in need of a generic solution. For example, dmesg would print only things like: Code: Select all[ 2.744496] usb 5... | Shooting in the dark: blkid | grep -i label should give you devices by label. blkid | grep -i label | awk -F: '{print $1}' prints only the first field, /dev/sd[abc]/, and -F uses the colon as a field separator, hence it ain't printed. well my foo stops here. I wanted to use that output as a search pattern for "mount": ... |
Hi I cannot update package list on my squeeze due to the following problem:Code: Select all# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en_US Hit http... | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=61493 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=61810 |
Hi to all!! A doubt: I have some servers in which I activated unattended-upgrades. All works like a charm. Default config. But when Debian 7 will be next stable, unattended-upgrades will perform an upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy? I don't wont this, of course. It's all ruled by sources.list, or I have to do with some co... | if you have specified squeeze in sources then the system will stick with squeeze as it becomes old-stable if you have specified stable in sources then it will pull in the upgrades necessary to become a wheezy system |
Hi all, For e.g. I want a list of all the mozilla extensions I have installed . For e.g. If I do something like :- Code: Select all aptitude search xul-ext p xul-ext-adblock-plus - Advertisement blocking extension for web browsers p xul-ext-adblock-plus-element-hiding-helper - extension for Adblock Plus meant to make c... | dpkg --get-selections |
Howdy, I created a user to do my backups. I am running into file read permission issues. Code: Select allcat debian_version 6.0.3 uname -a Linux incog2 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 22 17:26:33 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux The folder looks like this: Code: Select allremotebackup@server2:/usr/lib/ipcmdr/data/backup$ ls -l ... | rich9000 wrote:Sorry if this is a stupid question, I usually deal with freebsd. Doesn't freebsd also require execute permissions on a directory in order to access files in said directory? ('Cause I'm pretty sure that that's your problem.) |
I'm having problems with apt-get, installing, removing or purging. After apt-get update, I try to dist-upgrade and receive a dependency error. Running apt-get -f install which usually fixes this type of error produces a similar error. Any ideas? Code: Select allramack@debian-acer:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ... | Code: Select alllibncursesw5 : Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9-9) but 5.9-10 is installed Been engaging in some extra-curricular activities? Where did you get that libncursesw5 from? The squeeze one doesn't depend on libtinfo5 and the wheezy one depends on libtinfo5 ver. 5.9-10 Post your sources.list |
Hello, it is currently 20:40 GMT-8 (PST), but my computer clock reads 15:40. The time does not rectify if I enable or disable "Network Time." If I edit Clock Preferences > Time Settings and try to correct the time manually, it will accept the input, but then on system reset, the time is again incorrect. I would like su... | If all else fails, you could adjust the time setting in the BIOS (set it five hours ahead of the actual time). Obviously, it is not a good solution, but the last resort. |
My suspend and hibernate havn't worked at all since I installed debian 6.0.5-amd64. I did a netinstall every time and always get this problem. My computer is a Sony VPCM111AX with an Atom N450 and 2Gb RAM. I get this error whenever I boot at about [0.4???] "PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not reserved in ACPI m... | A quick check on specs for your machine suggests intel chipset and integrated intel graphics. I am not familiar with the Atom N-450 CPU. In any event here are a few quick things to do. Test suspend once again then go to /var/log/pm-suspend.log The file there is relatively easy to read and it can give you a sense of whe... |
Hi all, I have cloned a repo and then had to change to master and then to some branches couple of times, now not sure where I am, is there a way (a command) to know whether I'm on an branch or the master in git ? | Code: Select allgit branch |
Hello. I am running debian wheezy with linux kernel 3.1.0-1 on amd64 architecture. When I run glchess (included with default installation), I am unable to figure out how to play against a computer using the default chess engine (gnuchess). In the preferences pane, my opponent is listed as "GNUchess"; however, regardles... | Have you tried GNUchess in conjunction with eboard? I have not had any problems with it. The only annoying feature I have encountered is the need to pick an engine to play against from the menu, every time the game is opened. Otherwise, it works quite well. |
Hello, I installed squeeze and upgraded to wheezy via sources.list modification. After an "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && reboot", whenever I attempt to install something apt-get suggests a huge list of packages to autoremove, I looked at the list, and apt-get wants to uninstall a whole bunch of programs tha... | Could you run `apt-cache policy` on one or two of the files that apt-get suggests auto-removing and see if you happen to have copies from both stable and testing? |
After the recent update, Chromium is reporting that Flash is out of date and needs an upgrade. I thought flash was built in to Chromium but apparently not. My other browsers, Iceweasel, Midori, etc., work without hitch on an older libflashplugin.so. I tried adding it to /usr/lib/chromium/plugins but that did not help C... | Found an answer here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5O0iYPVegw After watching the video I changed the line in my Openbox menu to read "/usr/bin/chromium --allow-outdated-plugins %U". (without the quotes) It works. |
Apparently my hard drive is full. But I can't tell where the data is. Code: Select allvmhost:/backup# df -h | grep backup /dev/sdb1 917G 878G 0 100% /backup vmhost:/backup# du -h --max-depth=1 ./ 9.5G ./remote_webserver 20K ./lost+found 41G ./iso 105M ./local_server 16K ./.Trash-1000 4.1G ./remote_runuo 23M ./remote_ra... | Try looking without your backup volume mounted. My guess is you did a backup into the mountpoint. |
Hello, I've installed a custom Wheezy with openbox and I've installed Slim as a display manager but I like autologin. I've set it to autologin with the options in /etc/slim.conf: default_user ix # ix is my username auto_login yes At first it works fine but after a while the autologin stops working for some unknown reas... | Very strange, now it works fine. It reminds me of the ghost in the machine, it acts a bit quirky. This morning it asked me for my password and now when I reboot it autologins fine. |
Hello. I'm trying to backport a package rtmpdump from testing to stable. I'm using these instructions. .dsc file I'm using is http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... 6e21-1.dsc I'm stuck on the testing part: Code: Select all$ LANG=C fakeroot debian/rules binary dh binary dh_testdir dh_auto_configure debian/rules ov... | Stable does not support the upstream multiarch changes, so they've got to be pruned out to get a good package. Usually the files that need to be edited are debian/rules, debian/control, and possibly various debian/*.install files. Let me take a look at the sources. Later: OK, the fault is mainly with the librtmp0.insta... |
Top shows main-raid5 using upwards of 80% cpu when I transfer files to my raid drive. The raid is 3 2TB SATA drives on a Sil3124 controller sitting in a PCI slot. It's formatted with xfs with 4K blocks. My two other drives are IDE and seem to be fine and running on UDMA. Are there any tweaks or settings I should be che... | I can't say if this is solved or not but I found an old bug where you get high cpu if you set CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 to Y. This is an experimental setting and I verified mines is Y. I am currently recompiling a kernel and will report the thread as resolved if this fixes it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id... |
Running Debian Wheezy, I just ran 30 minutes ago an apt-get update, upgrade then dist-upgrade which installed linux-image-3.2.0-3 and I had 3.2.0-2. All went well but after reboot, GRUB still list the old 3.2.0-2 (usually it removes it) and if I choose the newest 3.2.0-3, it will boot but in console mode (and I didn't ... | The older kernel link is not a problem and can be easily removed by uninstalling the older kernel. Did you use a proprietary/closed graphics driver? If not, you can attempt to repair your system by using the dpkg-reconfigure command which calls the package's post installation scripts. You can also select the package wh... |
I was having trouble with a network printer, finally solved it, it was a router issue. In the meantime, Samsung support wanted me to install their unified driver. I pointed out that issue was not in my computer, but they insisted. Now I cannot uninstall this stupid thing which takes a whole chunk of my menu. I don't kn... | please disregard, I found an uninstall.sh in /Home/Downloads/cdroot/Linux and slashdotted it as su. It worked. |
After today's upgrade my system (64 bit) has a dependency issue: Code: Select allHit http://ftp.nluug.nl wheezy InRelease Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl experimental InRelease Hit http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy Rel... | I guess it could have something to do with upcoming changes in the ia32 packages (link)? ia32-libs(-gtk) in sid: This is a transitional package used to migrate the ia32-libs package to true multiarch. If I'm not mistaken the ia32-libs-gtk package provides the 32-bit version of libcairo2 (/usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2 and /u... |
Last month (in the beginning) I was able to boot from a disk (disk1) with Debian Squeeze and a broken X. At the end of the month I tried to boot and got stuck as soon as BIOS started to read the disk1 with the word GRUB printed at the bottom of the BIOS screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del work for reboot but no other keyboard buttons... | Did you try to reinstall GRUB in the disk drive where it does not boot? Did you choose the proper booting order in the BIOS setup? |
So the other day I burned a DVD in Arch Linux with linux compatible binaries. I was able to run them just fine in Arch. However in Debian, no matter what I do it says "permission denied" when I try to run them. This includes running them as root. Since when does root not have the permission to run a binary, and what ca... | That's weird--can you copy a binary off the DVD to your hard drive and run it? I'm going to assume they all have the executable bit set |
I have some problem installing Firefox 13.0.1 (latest from official site) on my fresh Debian 6.0.5 installation. What i did: Removed iceweasel, unzipped firefox*.tar.bz2 into /opt/ Created symlink /usr/bin/firefox pointing to /opt/firefox/firefox But when trying to open from terminal with firefox i get: bash: /usr/bin/... | And what happens if you type in a terminalCode: Select all/opt/firefox/firefox |
I tried Wheezy today and bumped into many issues. 1) First GRUB gives error: Code: Select allerror: fd0 read error But still it loads menu. 2) So I tried to boot, but boot failed with: Code: Select allError: driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... 3) Then I tired safe mode and it still failed to boot too: Co... | Those are all simple warnings and will not stop your system booting or operating normally. Your problem is elsewhere, my guess is video card driver, as presumably you get the proverbial black screen shortly after seeing those messages. |
I'm trying to blow away Rhythmbox (out of Squeeze). I don't and I won't ever use it (I use QMMP). Both "apt-get remove rhythmbox" and "aptitude remove rhythmbox" want to remove Gnome as well. Yes, I know it's a metapackage problem, and I have reviewed what I could find about it on the web. I tried the solution in tangu... | Caitlin wrote:"aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)'" "aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-core) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-core)'" "aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-desktop-environment) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-desktop-environment)'" but apt-get still wants t... |
Hi, This is the situation: I have 100 data files in a folder, each one with 5 columns (the values of x, y, vx, vy, rsb) and 16129 rows. First of all, I need to compute the average of each position in all files. To clarify, let's say that I take the value of the 3rd column and the 4th row of the first file. I sum this v... | Make sure that package "bc" is installed on your debian. If not, you can install by Code: Select allapt-get update apt-get install bc Make a new directory. Copy all the text files containing the data. If there are files the name of which is "av" and/or "result", rename them to the other names. Make a new file and edit ... |
Hi all, I'm looking to create a livecd from an installation on a VM using Debian 6.04. I've tried all sorts of things using the live-helper scripts, and I keep getting the following error on lb build or lh build. Code: Select allP: Configuring file /etc/hostname P: Configuring file /bin/hostname P: Configuring file /et... | You can try refractasnapshot-gui, from here: https://github.com/fsmithred/refracta No idea about your error message (live-helper can give all kind of errors, and its not easy to figure out why they occur. Perhaps try their mailing list) |
I have a week old install of Wheezy, KDE version. It replaces a much loved but simply too long of tooth install of Kubuntu 8.04. I had pre-partitioned a new SSD, but I could not make the installer use the planned partition. No data on the new SSD, so I let the installer do what it wanted. Today I re-sized the install p... | Post the results of these commands, run as rootCode: Select allblkid cat /etc/fstab Cautionary note: Based on what you posted above, you should probably ask for advice/guidance/confirmation before you go issuing commands that are potentially destructive to data. (Aside: Using an SSD to store backups?? Man, what a waste... |
Hi all, for some reason I'm unable to update my system because it gets stuck with the 'libxalan2-java-gcj' package. user1@debian1:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo aptitude upgrade Resolving dependencies... The following NEW packages will be installed: libcamel-1.2-33{a} libebook-1.2-13{a} libecal-1.2-11{a} libedataserver-1.2-16{a} ... | apt-get -f install apt-get dist-upgrade |
Been 3 days I'm having a problem with apt-get upgrade in my Debian Wheezy. I can still upgrade newest package but just not this one. I tried 'apt-get -f install', 'aptitude full-upgrade', 'apt-get remove exim4', 'apt-get remove exim4-base' but I still have this error : Code: Select all> sudo apt-get upgrade Reading pac... | Um... the error says vmware, not exim. |
I'm running Debian 6.0.1 Squeeze, 64 Bit, Kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64, and I have ffmpeg installed. When I try to record my desktop with a song playing I don't get any sound. Here is the output of aplay: Code: Select alllarry@debian:~$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ... | I finally stumbled on a posting stating that a Sound Server was needed. So, I installed Pulseaudio, and pavucontrol. Then I removed the Sound Icon from the top right Menu. Then created the file asound.conf Code: Select allsudo nano /etc/asound.conf which contains Code: Select allpcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { typ... |
I use debian squeeze desktop as my OS. And I need ssh dynami forward function to access WWW. I can log in the remote host, but it can't forward as following errors. Please help. Thanks. here's my connection: Code: Select allssh -D 7070 user@proxyhost $ channel 68: open failed: connect failed: Operation not permitted ch... | My guess is that it is not being allowed on the remote end. Can you try root@proxyhost? Maybe there is a relevent setting in sshd_config? |
Hello guys I recently installed debian-testing-amd64 on my pc which has a gpu HD6850, I downloaded the drivers from AMD site and installed them on my pc. I could uprage successfully my system until I started getting the following error as response from the apt-get upgrade command: Code: Select allRemoving fglrx-glx-ia3... | vitotol wrote:I downloaded the drivers from AMD site and installed them on my pc. You downloaded the driver from AMD - yet: vitotol wrote:Code: Select allRemoving fglrx-glx-ia32 ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib32/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1.2 by fglrx-glx-ia32' dpkg-divert: error: rename i... |
For some reason my bash autocomplete stopped working. I get the error when I try to cd into a directory, pressing <tab> for autocomplete: Code: Select allcd A-sh: <( compgen -d -- 'A' ): No such file or directory Autocomplete works for the root user and for the other user on the machine, just not logged in as this user... | Can you just confirm that the user having the issues is actually using bash? Code: Select allgetent passwd | grep user | cut -d: -f7 replacing user with the username that's having the issues |
Hi, I recently installed stable, added testing to the sources.list, and then aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade. I have read that it is not recommended to mix the releases but everything looks good so far. In contrast to this, I have seen cases that downgrading a package was a fix to a broken package or a depende... | Aris Veresie wrote:I recently installed stable, added testing to the sources.list, and then aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade. Now you are running testing. Aris Veresie wrote: I have read that it is not recommended to mix the releases but everything looks good so far. Mixing stable with testing packages is a roa... |
Hi, After I did an upgrade on SID, the system hangs on boot. When I switch to a console I can still access the system, and even start X, but in X my keyboard doesn't work. (it does in console) I re-enabled all services I had previously unselected, but no real change. Here's the last part of my kern.log: Code: Select al... | I do not see any errors there, the ipv6 thing is probably normal. After you log into X, switch back to the console, does the keyboard work there? If so, I would look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what it says. |
I'm getting an error when i tried to install Mint in virtualbox. I searched whit google and just dont get the right answer. I tried to reinstall virtualbox and i see this error: I cant find the solution. I'm using debian testing. | You need to update your kernel and headers to version 3.2. Then try reinstalling virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms. Code: Select allapt-cache policy linux-image-3.2.0-2-686-pae Candidate: 3.2.18-1 Version table: 3.2.19-1 0 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages 3.2.18-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/de... |
Where's the boinc-client? I can't even find anything of boinc. I got an amd64 with Debian wheezy, just installed it this week, fresh new install. Just ran apt-get update and upgrade, still can't find it. Code: Select all> apt-cache search boinc > Code: Select all> uname -a Linux zz 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 17:45... | Boinc is currently not in wheezy. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... ection=all You can probably install it from sid, just use caution and dont upgrade while you have sid enabled or to be safe use pinning. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... ection=all |
Hi, Debian Squeeze. I am new to Debian, but quite experienced in the Red Hat varieties of GNU/Linux. I notice that there are a number of .desktop files in /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg. What are they for? I am running LXDE and they just clog up the "Other" menu with stuff I don't want. The menu entries I do w... | Try removing the package menu-xdg |
Hello, After the upgrade to libcairo2 1.12 made my system practically unusable, I found out that this was due to a missing patch in the Debian packages. Instead of applying this patch myself on the Debian source, I chose the easy way out by trying to install the Ubuntu version of libcairo2 1.12, which did include the s... | *facepalm* Well in any case you will need to force the install of the correct debian native packages with dpkg and remove all the ubuntu ones. You can also force version such as: Code: Select allapt-get install libc6/wheezy Dont randomly copy paste though as I am not sure if it says testing, sid, whatever in your sourc... |
before i go to the local 'hang out' to get trashed, is there any way to delete usb flash drive files without having to send them to trash first? | Uhhh... [shift-delete] same as any other files on any other read/write medium? Or is this a trick question? |
Hi. I've been using Debian off and on for years, and have generally been able to solve my own problems, whether by tinkering until i found a solution, or by googling and trying ad nauseum... This time is different. Occasionally, on reboot or cold boot of my IBM ThinkPad T60, the system freezes just as it is switching f... | Post the output of... nano /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
I have a program called mnemosyne and the only way I previously made it look nice was to install all of kde then remove it and something must be left behind that makes it look nice. These bugs (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589797 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+sour ... bug/465967) reinforce ... | I'm not sure, but installing the following packages and then configuring your window manager to use the qt-curve theme, might help: Code: Select allaptitude install qtcurve and lxappearance kde-config-gtk-style gtk2-engines-qtcurve |
I've installed debian wheezy as I need pulse audio and want x264 encoding for my videos and I've been really happy with it for months now but when I try and play minecraft I get intermittent audio 1 out of 100 times there is perfect audio and there is an entry in the volume applet but the rest of the time there is no a... | You might just need to set up alsa to use pulseaudio as the default device. Make a file called /etc/asound.conf and place in it: Code: Select allpcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } |
Hello everybody! First of all: my name is Dylan (as you can easily guess ) and I am italian. I started to use debian around-ish two years ago, for both ethical and economic reasons. Saying that I extremely appreciate Debian Community efforts to make this a greater, freer, world, I would like to thank in advance any of ... | Just for people who may be interested in this topic. I've tried to mount the btrfs partition with a lot of different live distros, without any success. I've studied a bit something about the new btrfsck options, here (http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/BTRFS_Fun). I found out that actually GParted Live has the new btrfsck-prog... |
...or something else did. Ok, I installed another distro to test out and then wanted to return to debian. Since my laptops screen doesnt work and the normal d-i does not work with my external plugged in I downloaded the live gnome installer for squeeze. I did a normal install as usual, name, password, etc. I partitione... | Ok, if I look in testdisk I can actually 'see' the deleted directory structure. Such as: Code: Select alldrwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 31-May-2012 11:50 . drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 31-May-2012 11:50 .. drwx------ 0 0 0 31-May-2012 11:49 lost+found drwx------ 1000 500 0 31-May-2012 11:50 Documents drwx------ 1000 500 0 31-May-2012 11:4... |
Hi all, Can something be done about this. I was upgrading and was hit by bug #671686 . I tried downgrading to either stable or testing but have been unable too. Either ones I try I get this :- Code: Select all$ sudo aptitude install libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0=0.1.4-2 The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: libclutte... | According to the bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671686), they have fixed it by releasing a binNMU version, "0.1.4-2+b2". I have no idea what binNMU is but you can just install that version and it will add some more packages and remove some other ones and finally configure correctly! This i... |
Hello Everybody, Is there a way to stop (disable) all internet traffic if you loose your connection to a VPN (PPTP)? As it stands if the VPN connection is lost, all of the services that were communicating through the VPN will eventually reconnect only it will be over the direct internet connection. Thank You | Hello everybody here is a solution I found and modified. I found it at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=228773 and made some modifications. It is written in python. When the VPN connection is lost or manually disconnected it will disable the network adapter. Just change "eth0" to your network adapter. Che... |
Hi folks, I have troubles with upgrading lenny->squeeze. I need your hints, because I stuck. when I boot into "new" (squeeze) kernel 2.6.32-5-686, I end up in initramfs with next error: Code: Select allGave up waiting for root device. Common problems: ... ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/350b44f4-442e-45ec-85f2-a37cccabf4fe do... | Do you have a motherboard with both SATA and IDE drives? I had trouble when squeeze decided that the first ide drive was now /dev/sda, where lenny used the first SATA as /dev/sda, even when the motherboard bios was changed to look at the SATA first. I also hadn't labelled the disk partitions and once that was done and ... |
Hello I need to make a script that erases a usb-stick and create a new partition and format it to exfat. To format is not a problem it is the partitioning that i'm stuck on. I know about fsdisk but I don't wan't to go in to a console program and make choises from there. I want to do it in one command line if that is po... | I am not familiar with 'exfat' but the following is how it could be done for a Linux partition formatted with an EXT2 filesystem: Code: Select allsfdisk /dev/sdX <<HERE 1,,83 HERE mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdX The "83" value is the partition type and should be changed to one that is compatible with your target system (Windows?). ... |
ctrl+alt+L works here. $ xdg-screensaver status disabled systemsettings>Display and Monitor>Screensaver Set a screensaver | I would suggest using either the qt-kde repo or experimental and upgrading your KDE/Qt. No issues here. Host: debian Kernel: 3.3.0-trunk-486 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid Isn't krunner the thing that pops-up when you do alt+F2? Plasma/Krunner - KDE UserBase Wiki - http://userbase.... |
I have 100+ textfiles, all with Linux line ending. Is there a way to modify all of them with Windows line ending ? | Code: Select allman nkf may help you. For example, to make new files the end of the name of which is ".new" for all the files in current directory, Code: Select allfor i in *;do nkf -c $i > $i.new;done may work, though I may be wrong. Only for all the text files without CRLF line terminators, Code: Select allfor i in *... |
I'm not sure if it's because of an update or not since it updates automatically but this is Debian squeeze/stable (where only security updates get through). Here is the error message when I click on the Volume Control Applet (in Gnome 2): The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This mean... | Code: Select alldeniz@debian:~$ arecord -l arecord: device_list:235: no soundcards found... What have you done about this? I would also recommend reading the man page for alsactl. If have any questions about the man page please ask. |
I came upon nice options in cli for many normal functions. Even tab exists for elinks. But could not locate tab feature for a virtual console.... though its available by default in standard debian X desktops. What if I dont use X? | Sounds like a job for 'screen'? Never used it, but it's well regarded... Or there's FreeBSD, where they go as far as to give you a cursor... |
I have recently installed Debian squeeze . I had sound wiht Puppy Linux (lucid puppy ) and Lubuntu but not with Debian here is the link for error I get (screenshot) http://picpaste.com/error-Y9talBj4.png and here is output for lspci Code: Select allasif@dhcppc3:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/D... | asifnaz wrote:Code: Select all[ 21.212592] Sound Fusion CS46xx 0000:00:05.0: firmware: requesting cs46xx/cs46xx-old.fw [ 21.263654] cs46xx: no firmware You need to find a way to get this firmware file and copy it to /lib/firmware/cs46xx/cs46xx-old.fw. |
Hi. Every time I boot my laptop, I have to reset the date - it always comes up as 2099, although the day and month are both correct. I would not bother about this, except that the occasional download or update won't install if I haven't changed it. I have set the system time and date within 'clock preference/time setti... | If date/time setting are loss after shutdown when its were settled in BIOS SETUP or in terminal by command as root "hwclock -w" hence the battery in motherboard is discharged. Peter. |
Hi! I have a weird problem with my server running Debian 6. When I try to reach it via SSH or HTTP it doesn't work, but when I've tried 4-5 times it works again and works every time a while after that. The server has been up and running for a long time and I started having this problem just a couple of weeks ago. The e... | Intermittent errors usually indicate flaky hardware. They are also notoriously difficult to diagnose. The "no route to host" error suggests that the issue is most likely on the server. Random thoughts/questions: 1) Wired or WiFi? (for all machines) 2) Please post the output of the following command, run as root from th... |
Hello,I compiled vim73 and installed it in /usr/local. When I typed vim in bash as root user,it's OK.However,when I ran vim as normal user instead,it came out: Code: Select allbash: /usr/bin/vim: No such file or directory I checked my $PATH: Code: Select allecho $PATH I got this: Code: Select all/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin... | No problem glad you solved it. |
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