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I have been looking at the multimedia packages. Most, if not all, music players and video players are maintained by Ubuntu developers. This is strange considering the amount of packages available. | "Board index ‹ Help ‹ General Questions" What is your question? |
A power loss seems to have done bad things to my Debian 11.10/KDE system. I did some updating and thought I had things working again, but some new errors indicate all is not well. I exited a program and was told it couldn't save its config file. The problem seemed to be that many of the directories had been changed fro... | What file system are you using? |
Hi all, ice weasel is not finding some sites such at google home, yahoo, ect. I sometimes can get a page but its no grafics and limited information on the page once it finally loads. I at first thought this was a DNS problem but i have a solid internet/network connection. I have online games i play and there fine. I ca... | Disable IPv6: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 Upgrade to a newer iceweasel: http://mozilla.debian.net/ Install flash plugin: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
hi...just installed Debian..when i try to log in(into gnome) i get "authentication failure" I can login as root in recovery mode So I boot into recovery mode as root and reset by Code: Select allpasswd root but problem remains the same . any suggestions please | Whay don't you reset user password by Code: Select allpasswd user ? That should help you to log in as user |
After performing a lenny to squeezy upgrade, I get the following message when trying to start icedove ~$ icedove /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc :~$ I've performed a general web search and the only similar results was someone o... | Silly question: are you sure the upgrade fully completed? What was your procedure for the upgrade? Off the top of my head, my first instinct would be to try reinstalling icedove. Code: Select allaptitude reinstall icedove as the bug you mentioned seemed to involve libc6, you could try reinstalling that too. What versio... |
Just wondering, i'm not particularly happy with my btrfs filesystem, i think its a bit slow, so i thought if i installed the necessary XFS packages, and fiddled with fstab then i could copy the install onto a new XFS partition? The bootloader is on another install so thats not a problem. Cheers, Bill. | Yeah, it should work. I've done it myself a couple times. You just need to be careful that you update your fstab if you're using UUIDs or if you change partition numbers. Same goes for your bootloader. |
I just installed debian on a new system and upgraded to testing (necessarily), and now when I try to install any package, I just get a memo from Aurelien Jarno stating: Starting with eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/<triplet> instead of the more traditional /lib, ... | It is apt-listchanges showing you relevant information about the packages you are upgrading. Push q and it will go away. |
I installed Debian using a USB DVD drive on a computer which supports USB booting to install Debian with LVM/Encryption to a PATA hard drive and then moved the hard drive to the other computer which cannot boot USB and I am having trouble with that computer. After a lot of work, I finally got the hard drive detected by... | s3a wrote:it says the kernel is amd64...... an i686 Pentium 3 to my knowledge. <southern accent>Well now thur's yur problem.</southern accent> |
Hi all. New to the forums but been using debian a while (and linux for longer than I care to remember). Anyway, as per title. I need to install PHP5 on a server (squeeze) but I absolutely do not need or want apache. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve this. Thanks in advance. | Couldn't you just install php5-common & php5-cgi packages? According to the wiki article, apache shouldn't need to be installed at all. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/php5-common |
Hi, I have a data file (.vep extension) with some strange characters in the first line: <81>^@^@^@<<^@^@^@ They appear in blue (similar to ^M next line character from dos files) I don't know the encoding of the file, but $ file -i file.vep returns Code: Select allfile.vep: application/octet-stream; charset=binary So I ... | There are several variables at play that you didn't bother to mention, so it's impossible to give you a "cut-and-paste" answer. However, depending on the specifics, either sed or cut should give you a workable solution. Consult their respective man pages for details. (Note that cut is less flexible, but sed is harder t... |
Hello, I just compiled volwheel and added "volwheel &" to my autostart.sh file in openbox and it would not start. I then ran it from my terminal and recieved this error message: Code: Select allCan't locate Alsa.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/volwheel /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/per... | Try to create /usr/local/lib/volwheel before running the install.pl script. But instead you could use volumeicon. It's better than volwheel and is in the repo for wheezy/sid (package volumeicon-alsa). |
Hi, I have a data file which consists of thousands of lines in the form (read from the bottom of the file to understand the order): Code: Select allxn yn znn ... x2 y2 z22 x1 y2 z12 ... x3 y1 z31 x2 y1 z21 x1 y1 z11 where xi, yj, and zij are real numbers. I need to order it in the following way (in order to make a splo... | Code: Select allman sort says Code: Select all -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2 (default end of line). See POS syntax below |
I have been annoyed by the Bash \W bug on x86_64 for a ling time, so I decided to try patching it, and build a new Bash-package (for Squeeze). See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590052 for explanation of the problem. I tried this to extract the source (I also did "apt-get build-dep bash" as root): Cod... | This much I know. You can unpack the source using dpkg-source -x blahblah.dsc |
I wanted to create a new user account and I used the adduser command in the middle, I wanted to do something else so I did CTRL+C and then I don't remember much else since I didn't expect problems but I used stuff like userdel and userdel -r followed by adduser but when I do this, it creates the user again (I think) bu... | I always use kuser to do so. adduser and etc seem to be bugged beyond all recognition. |
Both have read/write permissions (I did chmod 700 on both the home directory and the external hard drive's) and I can create a folder on my desktop (and external hard drive) but only the external hard drive allows me to paste something I copied. If I go through /home and then go to desktop, I can choose to paste but th... | The problem was that I needed to run it recursively using chmod -R username thelocation. Marking as solved. |
Debian squeeze stock kernel. With safe removal of external hardrive it locks the system. Hard reboot neccessary. Tried to update kernel but appears to get errors from backports. linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: Depends: linux-base (>=3~) but 2.6.32-43 is to be installed Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>=3~) but 2.6.32... | You need to run: Code: Select allapt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 It is quite possible the new kernel will fix the bug. If not look at the old logs (such as dmesg.1) under /var/log to see what might have caused the crash. |
Source code for some packages include debian/ subfolder, i.e. mupdf which has this contents: Code: Select all$ ls changelog libmupdf-dev.install mupdf.manpages mupdf-tools.docs compat mupdf.applications mupdf.menu mupdf-tools.install control mupdf.desktop mupdf.mime mupdf-tools.manpages copyright mupdf.docs mupdf.pc mu... | Checkinstall won't use that debian folder; one needs to use the proper Debian packaging tools for that, such as dpkg-buildpackage or the shortcuts in devscripts. If a source package does come with a debian folder, the usual policy is to rename it debian.orig and use a custom one. See the mplayer source for an example. |
Hi, I try to duplicate a directory from a server to another, this way: ORIGIN /srv/a --> DESTINATION /srv/b I use the following rsync command, from a prompt given by ORIGIN : Code: Select allrsync -avvvH --delete-before /srv/a/ root@destination:/srv/b/ I used -vvv to get maximum logs because, obviously, it doesn't work... | I suggest you use a much smaller subset of the data to test with until you get it working I use it successfully everyday in my backup script, from a snapshot collection containing hardlinks on a volumr on the server to a USB HDD Code: Select allrsync -av --stats --delete --exclude=lost+found --hard-links /mnt/storage/s... |
I am trying to install the packages liboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui and libglew1.5-dev, but I receive the following output/problem: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui libglew1.5-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ... | doonzy wrote:I am trying to install the packages liboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui and libglew1.5-dev, but I receive the following output/problem: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui libglew1.5-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state informa... |
Hi all, getting this message when trying to update: [ /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:239:in `collect_candidates': undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:222:in `candidates' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/runtime/textdomain_manager.rb:78:in `each_textdomain... | Bug#662983: When called by aptitude, apt-listbugs crash and precludes th : http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs ... 14120.html Code: Select alldpkg -r apt-listbugs libgettext-ruby1.8 liblocale-ruby1.8 ruby-locale |
Hey all. Flash isn't working for me. I've got Epiphany 3.3.91 installed in an attempt to convince myself GNOME apps aren't that bad. But nspluginwrapper is no longer in the repositories. And when I install nspluginwrapper from the Ubuntu Precise repos, it doesn't seem to help anything. Any ideas? | apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree FlashPlayer - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
On some other older linux systems I use periodically I notice that whenever I need to reboot the machine it does a full reboot; ie it goes through a POST and starts the OS again. This behavior is similar to hitting the reset button. I've noticed on Debian Squeeze that a reboot doesn't go all the way down and reset to a... | You can edit /etc/default/kexec and set LOAD_KEXEC to “false” or just remove kexec-tools if you are don't want it. |
I was thinking about giving Wheezy a try. I am currently using Squeeze and have been considering changing. But before I install anything I was wondering if anyone has used the following programs with Wheezy and how well they worked. Not looking for comments like," They should work." I want to know if others have tried ... | iceman wrote:* Jack * Hydrogen * Kino * Ardour * Audacity These work. Haven't tried others. iceman wrote:Also how is Gnome 3 now in general and specifically can I add desktop icons and can I add panels? OK from what I've tested. Icons and panels? Maybe by installing couple of those gazillion shell extensions. iceman wr... |
Hello. I've gone over the wiki page on apt pinning, but I don't seem to be able to reach a definitive conclusion on a problem I'm having. Is it possible to block a package, or set of packages, from being installed by a specific repo? Considering that Debian SID just started officially supporting XBMC, I don't want my e... | Are we supposed to guess your sources list? We do no magic. What is the output of apt-cache policy for the relevant package? The version in Sid might be higher than the one in Debian Multimedia and thus it would be the candidate. |
Hello, I was trying to run a windows program through wine and in the wine AppDB I found that this software (Infovox) needs some configuration in order to work: the user review says: license check serial disk number and windows registration start winecfg and set: - disk C: serial number - windows registration paramenter... | http://www.sdconsult.no/linux/wine-doc/configuring.html |
Heya was wondering if anyone knew if Google Chrome (the official version not Chromium) can run in Wheezy Thanks -SPMcKinney | Yes. Download it off of google's site for it. It will automatically link you to deb packages. Try those and if it doesn't work then ask for help. |
Gnash works great with YouTube... and that's about it. It doesn't work with anything else that I've used. Not Jwplayer. Not my university's flash apps. None of it. It just gives me a perpetual loading screen -- if I even get that. I've given my version number in the title. I use it with Iceweasel 11.0 on Debian 6.0.4 w... | I'm afraid that Gnash only supports some limited subset of SWF tags and almost nothing of DoABC tag (which is the compiled AS3 / HaXe code). My guess would be that YouTube identifies somehow what kind of the player you have and serves you the AS2 version, or maybe even HTML version (I'm not sure, but I think they used ... |
tried mepis repo, but requires further mepis dependencies, so i dont want mepis package.wine_1.0.1-3.5.diff used: Code: Select allhttp://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages#head-a17f30175497e3c24b87cf7cee667664c0e7536 but the apt-get downloads ver from sid which is older version wine_1.0.1-3.5.diff Downloaded wine-1.4... | I got wine version 1.5 up and running using git as detailed my post here. |
Ok, I have to say that I've tried to look for information regarding this topic for quite a while now, google, #debian, #nm... none of them could successfully help me. I have to go to uni everyday and connect through their proxy, come back home and switch it back (repeat forever). My idea was to create a script that was... | Solved. A user from #gnome pointed out that gsettings needs another env variable that is not included in the environment provided by the daemon. sudo -u $USER env$(string /proc/$(pgrep -U 1000 gnome-session | head -n 1)/environ | grep DBUS) gsettings ... did the trick. |
I use stable Debian, but I need to update dpkg-dev. So I tried to built id from souces. I built dpkg and installed it. Than I need to install libdpkg-perl and I have an error. Code: Select allroot@kron:/home/kron/qwe# apt-get -b source libdpkg-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state in... | To be quite honest, I would just reinstall the old version of dpkg. That is a fundamental part of a debian system and really should not be tampered with. |
Hello, guys, I use Debian stable with the latest updates and Chromium installed from the repos. When I log-in in Facebook, Chromium does not load the whole page, just the title bar; i can't open neither the notifications, nor the messages, also I'm unable to view my profile or any other fb page What may cause the probl... | I can confirm this problem. It is probably due to this chromium version being a bit out of date and some changes on facebook's site. A few solutions: You can try changing the user agent string. I am unsure if that would work and I am not a chrome user so I have no idea how to do so. Another is to install google chrome ... |
I was wondering if it would screw my system up to have the new kernel and firmware from Wheezy on Squeeze i think its 3.2.0-0.bpo? I see there is a backport but they don't seem to like me (just tried backporting Libreoffice so I can update it hell of a lot easier) Could I add (see below) to repository and get it and th... | If you want to keep squeeze, don't use testing. Use backports. |
I have VB 3.2x installed in squeeze, with Windows 7 as application. I wanted to increase the virtual disk size using this command Code: Select allshum@shum-i7:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks$ VBoxManage modifyhd win7.vdi --resize 40000 It returned an error: Code: Select allOracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface... | You are supposed to be able to upgrade VB without disturbing the guest. You should have to remove and rebuild the Guest Additions for a new version, though. |
Couldn't really thin of a Title that would work. The question is how to find out using apt/aptitude what packages are installed from a certain repo, namely debian-multimedia.org. I know I can use Synatic and look under the 'Origin" tab. but would like to get a list. This works for experimental, but not for dmm. aptitud... | emariz's suggestion looks like it works to me. Haven't tried any others... http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73207 |
I got obviously very famous "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)". I checked everything that was written on this topic, but things mostly happened when people were putting new kernels on - so described solutions didn't work for me. The system was working smoothly until I eithe... | whyzerman wrote:The system was working smoothly until I either: temporarily moved a file from boot menu (I ran out of space on root partition and tried to do "magic" - my mistake) and then put in the exactly same place but it did not work since then. What file did you move and put back? Are there any free spaces on Deb... |
Hi: I'm trying to set file associations for various applications, and everywhere I look, I seem to see the same advice, and I guess I'm really thick, because I don't know how to implement it. For example, if I want to set a file association in Firefox, I go to edit, then preferences, then, under the applications tab, t... | i'm not sure i completely understand what you have in mind, but a look into the /etc/alternatives directory might be of some help, and there is the mailcap system (man mailcap). |
I can't log into my user(in fact I think it does but after that all I get is the Debian image and the mouse pointer).The computer respond to CapsLock and when I connect my usb mobile modem it turns green (the LED)from red but does not connect automatically has it should,the hard drive does blink once every 15 second, i... | Create a new user and see if you can login as that. |
Hi all, How do I reduce file size of a .jpg file ? I went through quite a few tries and whle I was able to get quite some reduction of the file didn't know if this is the right procedure one or not. I used imagemagick to figure out things (as that is one of the more known apps. perhaps) Code: Select all$ identify a.JPG... | I think simple-image-reducer reduces the file size without changing the image size. |
I am curious to see a text console, and I have a netbook that is available. Anybody have any tips, tricks, or advice about this subject? | Do you just mean an installation without X? You can do this pretty easily with the netinst iso. dd or cat it onto a usb stick ( http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i ... -isohybrid ) and install the base system only. Add everything you want afterwards using package management. |
I have searched the forums and google for over a month and have not found a suitable answer. I was using google + hangout to video chat with family on the other side of the US. About Christmas time it stopped working. I have made sure I have the latest version and that my system is uptodate. The camera works fine in ch... | it seems that if cheese is ok with cam, the problem is with gogle plugin. u must report them. |
My Acer 522 has been running fine until the new kernel 3.2.0.1 was relesed to Wheezy. Now, the wireless adapter AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter which uses the ath9k driver seems to work fine, it connects to the accesspoint and i get an ipadress but i can't ping anything my router or anything on the net. If i revert bac... | I also suffered problems with the wireless device (Atheros AR9285) after updating the kernel to 3.2 from Backports and from Testing a couple of weeks ago. That being said, I only have issues with WEP encryption; open networks or those using WPA work fine. Too bad that, as a laptop user, you'll never know when you'll ne... |
Hi all, I am looking for a block diagram or flow-chart of a Debian package as it comes from experimental or unstable and goes to testing and then stable. Does anybody know of such a flow-chart or block diagram in existence. I tried google images but could not get anything useful. Anybody ? | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debia ... -cycle.png OR: google with these three keywords: Debian package cycle |
I'm running Squeeze. I notice that whenever I insert a NTFS/FAT USB disk, Debian fails to automount them, pops up a dialog saying there was error mounting the partition. However I can successfully mount them manually from command line. Also Debian automounts Ext2/3/4 drivers automatically. What could be wrong? Edit: He... | This turned out to be that my fstab instructed /dev/sdb1 to mount as CDROM. I suppose they were put in by the installer. Automounting works as usual after removing those lines. Later I had to add myself to the 'disk' group to have write permission to mounted storage. |
Anyone know what is up with all these Gnome packages being installed on today's d-u on kde? Code: Select allThe following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-mime-data gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgdu0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2... | Only thing I can think of is either gconf2 or some gtk apps. |
Hi All I'm currently mounting some windows shares to a couple of my debian servers using the following structure: mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/ntserver It works fine and this is initiated on boot via rc.local However, What I want to know is IF the share server died or was... | OK I solved this with some local testing. For anyone interested the mounts simply reconnect on the next attempt to access the mounted folder. Happy days! |
I'm encountering this error after I run the command 'pyrit list_cores' "Failed to load Pyrit's OpenCL-core ('Failed to enumerate OpenCL- platforms (Unknown CLresult)')." I am using Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 x86-64, Squeeze's fglrx package which is Catalyst version 10.9, and AMD APP SDK version 2.3 x86-64. I'm using AMD APP ... | apt-get install pyrit $ apt-cache policy pyrit pyrit: Installed: 0.4.0-2 Candidate: 0.4.0-2 Version table: *** 0.4.0-2 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status then download http://pyrit.googlecode.com/files/cpyri ... 3.0.tar.gz and install it. |
I am running wheezy 64-bit Xfce and it has run well, thanks to the people who are working on it! Recently if I do apt-get update I see this result at the end of the update list: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dis... | julian516 wrote:Code: Select alldeb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main |
So at one point I had some KDE packages installed which are now all removed. But browsing around in aptitude, I see that pretty much all the core KDE libraries and infrastructure are still installed even though I have them all marked as auto-installed. I have apt/aptitude configured to NOT automatically install recomme... | deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge or aptitude remove -o but be careful with the aptitude command as it will also remove any packages you downloaded like Skype, Chrome, etc. You can also try apt-get autoremove A couple of links with articles: Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux system - http://www.debian-administra... |
Get Your Windows License Money Back !!! I read a topic where some pepole return there "Windows License" and get one re-found around 45 Euro. This is how it works. You buy a new computer with out starting the computer and return the tiny green/yellow papper back on the computer with serial number to the company or brand... | well, too late for me mate. but many thaks. kudos |
I'm learning Spanish, and I wanted to add some key bindings for the accent and tilde. For example, alt + n = ñ, or alt + a = á. I remember doing it in python a while ago in windows, back when I had a fairly basic knowledge of python. I don't know how you would do that in linux though. Another option in windows I found ... | Code: Select allapt-cache search input-pad unfortunately you can't save a current configuration, which means that every time you start it you have to select the language/ keymap again. and it has a somewhat nasty tendency to grab the keyboard. make sure, the "other" widget really, really has focus. apart from that it's... |
I have 2 machines (a laptop and a desktop) with almost identical installs of wheezy (KDE, only the graphics drivers are different). I use the laptop to pull in updates and then transfer them to the desktop due to bandwidth cap issues at home (copying the .deb contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to usb stick, etc). This... | Because one has a meta-package (like linux-image-[architecture]) that pulls the latest kernel? Because they use kernels from different instruction sets? Say, one uses a 32-bits kernel and the other one uses a 64-bits one. Compare the outputs of aptitude search "linux-image" of both systems. |
Hi all, I was purging old stuff from /tmp and by mistake purge also some keyring stuff and hence getting an error like :- Code: Select allWARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-EcRSHd/pkcs11: No such file or directory At revision 994. Should I just recreate the folder or is there a way to do it ? | if every thing is running fine, just forget it. Reboot should remove this fault. |
Hello Debian world, I am trying to install Debian squeeze 6.0.4 64 bit on another system of mine, but when I go to install it I get this error: [1.136352] ata2 softreset failed (device not ready) [1.136466] ata1 softreset failed (device not ready) These are my hardware specs: AMD Phenom x2 (dual core for those that don... | BryanR87 wrote:I was wondering if there is a website provided by Debian where I can download this package. http://packages.debian.org |
It's a pretty long one, but here it is: An internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted. Error message: Code: Select allFetch failed: W:Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20111014-10:30]/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please... | Comment out or delete the lines pertaining to the cdrom in /etc/apt/sources.list. You can also accomplish this from the software sources or synaptic under the administration menu in Gnome (provided you have these installed). If not you can this to edit the sources.list (from root terminal) nano /etc/apt/sources.list Af... |
iOS 5 devices supposedly syncs using libimobiledevice from git, so I've been trying to compile, and I'm hoping you guys can help. I do a git clone, then run .autogen.sh, and everything seems fine. When I run make, I get some errors: Code: Select allmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/rorschach/libimobiledevice/tools' CC... | Try running ldconfig as root than compiling again. |
Just noticed that the temperature in my test Squeeze seems to be over 60 Celsius. Which seems to exceed the two suggested warning levels. In my other PC the temperature is much smaller, more like 45 Celsius. Should I panic? I don't need another problem right now, so I'm tempted to ignore it for now and hope for the bes... | It depends. Different processors are rated to take different amounts of heat. Try and search for what your computer's processor is rated to take. You'll know if it's too much if you start getting weird errors, crashes, or lock ups. That said, 60C is pretty hot for a processor. How much was your processor doing when you... |
Does anyone know how to resolve this? Code: Select allapt-get update [...] W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/squeeze-backports/Release Unable to find expected entry iceweasel-4.0/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ign... | Change the mozilla.debian.net line to iceweasel-5.0 4.0 is no longer available. |
hello I iinstalled google earth but doesn't work Code: Select allroot@debian:/opt/google/earth/free# ./googleearth Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debug... | You need a video driver with 3d acceleration (GLX). |
My Wheezy installation which has always run pretty smoothly seems to have got progressively slower and jerky recently (don't think the Gnome 3 upgrade helped). I have provided the output for the 'top' command right now below. I have three pretty standard applications running. As you can see, there is some virtual memor... | In no particular order... - Bless you for doing some initial research. - There's never a lot of "free" physical RAM in *nix. The OS believes that an unused byte is a wasted byte, so *nix automatically allocates "free" RAM for caching. (Though in your particular case, the bulk of your RAM is in use by applications, not ... |
I've put some alias definitions in my ~/.profile, but Bash is ignoring them. I'm confident Bash is loading ~/.profile because some settings of $PATH which I've put after such aliases are working. I'm also confident such aliases are syntactically correct and work, because if I run them into a terminal, they work. They l... | If you have either a ~/.bash_profile or a ~/.bash_login file then it will be executed and ~/.profile will be ignored while logging in. If you are already logged in and are creating a new shell (the typical case when you open a terminal from a window manager), then none of those three files get executed; only the file ~... |
I came to Debian from Ubuntu, and in Ubuntu there was a handy application that could be downloaded quite easily that indicated which of my lock-keys were active. This is especially useful since my laptop doesn't have any indicator lights to let me know which keys are active. I've tried to find a Debian equivalent using... | Which desktop environment? |
So, I have a server running Debian testing. For most of the time Debian has been installed, it has behaved normally. Recently, however, it has begun shutting itself off on a reliable interval. I'll attempt to SSH into it or access one of it's services and it'll not respond. If I press the power button, the machine is i... | Maybe look through system logs, like: Code: Select alltail -f /var/log/messages |
Hi, Is there a way to check a Windows formatted hard disk (like e2fsck)? I believe the file system is ntfs type. | man ntfsprogs Code: Select allNTFSPROGS(8) NTFSPROGS(8) NAME ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS OVERVIEW ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library. The tools are available for free and come with full source code. TOOLS mkntfs(8) - Create an NTFS filesystem. ntfscat(8) - Dump a ... |
Hi, after the last update (this morning) of my Debian Stable, neither mouse or keyboard works and I can't do anything! The only repositories that I had, were those of stable (main contrib non-free) BUT i'm using proprietary NVIDIA drivers (driver 285) Could anyone tell my how I can resolve this issue? Thanks a lot | I ve tried to boot in text only mode. I ve succeeded to remove NVIDIA driver and boot only with nouveau BUT mouse and keyboard still freezed! could be a GDM issue? how can i boot into another desktop manager ? EDIT: I ve also delete non-debian packages like samsung-tools and samsung-backlight. Now USB mouse works but k... |
Hi, I am currently searching for a solution and can't seem to find it. I installed Boxee from a .deb and after trying it out decided to remove it via dpkg -r. The program un installed but left behind an entry in the menu under "sound and video." I am using lxde and can't figure out how to remove the entry. Any help wou... | Have a look inside the Boxee .deb to see where it puts it, or ask their devs, or use find or locate to find it. FWIW this sort of thing is one reason not to use software from outside the repo's. |
I've had a home server for quite some time now. Since about a week after release it's been running Debian Squeeze. I use it as my personal FTP, HTTP, SSH, and media server. I have Gnome installed because occasionally we do flip the television over to VGA and use it to watch a movie I've ripped from one of my millions o... | Gerowen wrote:Anyway, over the past week or so, it's been running unusually loud, and I've noticed that there's quite a bit of CPU usage from some processes. In all likelihood, these two problems are unrelated. You don't specify what sort of noise, but the two most common sources of noise are (a) worn out bearings in a... |
I'm running an ecrypted setup. Because it's from another Linux install, I had to roll my own initramfs because the debian installer is wonky with existing encrypted setups. However, when my system boots, I get text saying: "Looking for /dev/crtypvg/..." "Looking for /dev/cryptvg/root..." "Enter passphrase: " What I'd l... | Find the script or binary responsible and edit / recompile to suit |
Running squeeze with iceweasel 3.5.16. Many websites have flashing text which is quite irritating. Not javascript related since I browse with that disabled. Back in the day firefox or mozilla had a parameter to turn that off but I can't find one in iceweasel. Something to do with playing animations and number of loops ... | /* Put an end to blinking text! */ user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false); user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false); /* Disable image animation */ user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none"); The second one is the one you are thinking about. I have both in my user.js. Always freaks me out when I use... |
Code: Select allError mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so I get this error whenever I try to mount my thumb dri... | Type in terminal: su TYPE ROOT PASSWORD apt-get update apt-get install ntfs-3g mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt -o rw ls /mnt If not showing the contents of /dev/sdc1, type dmesg|tail and post what is shown. |
I'm running Debian Wheezy, and have GNOME 3 installed. The Network Manager doesn't detect the Wired Network. When I go to Network Settings, it has the Ethernet device there, but it's labeled "Unmanaged" and the Customize button is greyed out. Linux detects my device as ifconfig and lspci show: Code: Select all$ lspci |... | As root, edit Code: Select all/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf change managed=false to managed=true |
Greetings all- I've been trying out debian live and everything works flawlessly except I can't get an internet connection. ifconfig doesn't recognize my wired network or wireless router. What are some of the settings I need to look at to get things in working order? Thanks! | Posting the output of ifconfig would have been helpful. If you mean that it's only showing the loopback (lo) interface and no other interfaces are shown, then the problem is likely to be that a kernel module has not been loaded for the device. Post outputs Code: Select allifconfig Code: Select alllspci And if it's by a... |
Out of nowhere my private key has stopped working. This was working till yesterday night and today morning when I tried to connect I am getting this error "Server refused our key" from putty. I haven't done any configuration changes to the system which could affect .ssh folder. | Is the server yours? They might have blacklisted any unknown key, or might have just lost all the saved keys by accident. GPG makes no mistakes as far as I've seen. |
I tried to do a NetInstall of Debian on my new built computer, but apparently the built in Ethernet uses non-free firmware. Currently have CrunchBang Linux installed instead. Anyway, when possible I'd really like to get Debian going on this machine. How should I proceed? Im going to take a stab at it and say the thing ... | Cobalt60 wrote:Im going to take a stab at it and say the thing that would make my life the easiest would be to get a NIC that uses free firmware; sound about right? Or simply install the non-free firmware required by your NIC. (Assuming that your hunch is correct, that is.) |
Here's the rest of the error Message: Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUNT). The service might not be installed on the host computer. Details: Code: Select allResult Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005) Component: Host Interface: IHost {dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f} Callee: IMachine{5ea... | Unless something has changed recently you need to use virtualbox from Oracle not the virtualbox-ose that is in the Debian repos. |
When I install Debian, with UK, or non US English, check spell completely disappears, now that I am typing this message in this forum, the check spell is not working at all , any way to fix this ? | Maybe, if we knew what the browser was that you are using. It's a known issue with Seamonkey/IceApe that those localizations are broken. |
When yahoo email's slide show is clicked, it just show a black screen, any idea what software or library can fix the problem, in Debian squeeze? | Most likely flash player http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
Hi, I installed the file manager xfe with synaptic and made changes that I cannot unchange, so I 'Mark for Complete Removal' with synaptic to remove it and then reinstalled again. However the changes are still there. Does this mean that config files were not uninstalled, and if so how do I get rid of the entire package... | Would apt-get purge packagename do it? |
I'm trying to run a windows binary using Wine, but when I try to run it, wine tells me that it can't find the file. I'm explicitly calling the corret file name; I have no idea why this is happening. I've tried running it with the same directory, using ./TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE, and the full path, all with the same result. ... | dagoss wrote:Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory ... a clue. Try putting it somewhere in your virtual C drive. |
Last year's Christmas compo was rad! I decided to download it, and everything was conveniently zipped into an archive so I could just extract the tunes I liked . Unfortunatley for me, one of the composers had decided to use a few characters that cause problems for me, in the file name. Here's how they show up (hideous ... | I haven't tried this yet but could you use wildcards? For example: Code: Select allmv *mr. crap* mr._crap Whereas there is a space between mr. and crap you will likely have to escape the space with a "\" or put the entire file name in single quotes - '*mr. crap*' |
around last November I stopped using my Debian OS, (really pissed about gnome3 turning my desktop into a damned unconfigurable i-phone look'n thing), and when I get back to it I have some 500+ updates to get installed. now here is my problem; I keep getting these errors and it won't update Any of it because of them. Ho... | So if you don't like change, run stable. |
I made a post that for some reason the admins decided to take down. SOPA is in effect. ANYWAYS, I was getting this error: Could not open location 'file:///home/username/place no application is registered as handling this file If you have this error and none of the other BS worked like uninstalling then reinstalling nau... | BryanR87 wrote:I made a post that for some reason the admins decided to take down. SOPA is in effect. I saw your earlier post, and it was nothing more than a profanity-laden rant. You should not be in the least surprised that it was removed. |
Hi all, I have been hitting a kinda wall while trying to understand mercurial. I am/was trying to clone the hg repo of sumwars and this is what I get :- Code: Select all$ hg clone -v https://bitbucket.org/sumwars/sumwars-code destination directory: sumwars-code requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests ... | The ouput of your clone command seems incomplete, wait until it completes. Then you'll see a .hg (hidden) directory in your current directory. Use 'hg up' to get a working directory. |
Hey there! I tried to upgrade my personal server for the first time in a while (about a year) but it didn't succeed. dpkg throws me an error about unable to move /usr/bin/find when installing the findutils upgrade. Now I notice that /usr/bin/find has user 122 an group 114 (deleted user/group?) and it cannot be moved/re... | Can you run a live cd such as knoppix and from there modify the permissions on /usr/bin/find? |
Today I go to youtube and it wants flash plugin updated. Says its out of date. How is this done in Debian? running Debian 6 64bit | http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
Hi all, Does anybody know how files, media files or otherwise which end up with some number can be extracted ? Gnome split is the answer. | http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
Hi, I run Debian Wheezy on 4 home computers which I changed from from 'linux-headers-2.6.39-2-486' to 'linux-headers-3.0.0-1-686-pae' In each case installing the new headers worked well. On two other computers I have tried it however on those two computers the grub boot window still only shows the 2.6.39-2-486 version.... | Just do (as root) Code: Select allapt-get install linux-headers-686-pae linux-image-686-pae |
I don't know where to ask so here I am. I am running 64 bit v6. I've come back to Linux because I am tired of arguing with computers. I think Debian is just about where an OS should be except with this one frustrating feature, Cursors that decides to highlight what it wants, not what I scrolled over. I remember back wi... | Bump. Come on guys, waiting two months and finding this question from me on Google tells me folks want to know the answer besides me. I just want to turn off the auto features of the cursor so that it does not automatically highlight words. I don't even know what to call it. I see some pretty dumb questions being asked... |
Hi all, Just putting up the post as it took me quite sometime to figure out how to associate between filetypes and associations. http://lwn.net/Articles/390679/ Especially the bit about either changing the values in/at /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list or better yet at "$HOME/.local/share/applications/default... | From the command-line you can use xdg-mime |
Attached is the return of iceweasel 9.0.1 from some sites. The site in question here is gnome-look.org. Has anyone experienced this? I don't believe this is an iceweasel issue per se because nightly gives me the same display. Iceweasel 9.0.1 on Sid. image upload | On iceweasel, click View > Page Style. It looks like no style is set. |
Hi, I'm trying to install the last fartrat version from source. When i run cmake it says that I have no libcurl: Code: Select all-- checking for module 'libcurl >= 7.18.2' -- package 'libcurl >= 7.18.2' not found CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:266 (message): A required package was not f... | Do you have libcurl-dev installed? |
These are my problems. I can't boot into my desktop at all. A lot went wrong with the upgrade to Wheezy from Squeeze. However my big issue is this. I created two encrypted HD's with the Debian Squeeze Disk utility. However I can't decrypt them on another install I did of Debian on another hard drive. Now I can still ac... | This is annoying me. Next time I am only going to use truecypt. This is insane. |
I'm installing Debian 6.0.3 as a server. At the end of the installation process the system reboots and I must login. I try to login as root. However the system does not except my password. I get message: Authentication failure. Login as normal user is ok. So, I did a new install and paid extra attention to my password.... | I think, your problem has to do with the fact that you have identical root and user password. Try to create another user as root and choose another password. |
Hi guys...Excuse me if i'm posting in the wrong category and for my potential spelling mistakes I have debian 6 squeeze and windows 7 and today i realized that i am running out of memory so i decided to increase my partition size with gparted...In the middle of the procedure my pc accidentaly shutdown and when i restar... | 7kostas7 wrote:1) Is it posible that i lost all my debian data because of the unsuccessful termination of the resizing procedure? How can i test it? Can you boot Live Debian DVD? Live Debian DVD can be downloaded from http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Boot with Live Debian DVD, and open Gparted, then you can check. 7kosta... |
I've get an error message when boot to my Debian Squeeze. The message look like below: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated....[ 7.361437] ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c20-0x1c3f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c20-0x1c2f] I've try googling and find similiar problem, but with different hexa number and reg... | I would not worry about it (much) unless you notice real problems. I will dig around though. edit: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... bi-840848/ |
Recently I had to do a full an clean install after this happened. I'm not really complaining, now that the systems cleaner that it was before . But I've been having some problems with some software since the install. I had ibus installed with »ibus-m17n« installed as well, since I need all those input methods. For some... | I have ibus-table, ibus-array,ibus-qt4, python-ibus, libibus-qt1, libibus2 and im-config. I believe table and array are both needed to in-put Chinese, but I do not know if the other packages are also dependencies for Chinese in-put. From your location, I assume you in-put Indian scripts. I just checked the list of IBus... |
I was experimenting a little with .deb packages and wanted to see if I could manually build a package with tar, gzip, and ar. Well.... it didn't install. So I created a package with dpkg to compare it with. Command using dpkg: Code: Select all$ fakeroot dpkg -b blarg blarg_0.1_all.deb Commands using tar, gzip, and ar: ... | Deluge wrote: Edit: I just found this article, it looks like it is not possible to create a working deb this way Or is it? |
Dear All, I hope that this is not too off topic. I am toying with different browsers, though...I often come back to good old iceweasel . I have recently tried my hands at opera 11.6 and I liked it. However, it looks like I cannot access certain websites (mainly needed for ebanking). For instance, the following site htt... | I think under the preferences somewhere you can choose an alternate user agent string. This tutorial may be out of date but I remember it being something like this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-sp ... nt-string/ Edit: Not saying this will work; but it may. Edit edit: Yes, it is probably they just dont support O... |
Hi! I've been using Debian (Testing) for some months, and I've just realized that the available free space in folder /tmp (about 780 Mb) is far inferior to the available free space on the root partition (about 42 Go). Folder /tmp is physically on the root partition (/dev/sda2). There are three physical partitions on my... | For information, here is the result of command "df -h" Sys. fich. Taille Util. Dispo Uti% Monté sur /dev/sda2 50G 5,3G 42G 12% / tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 396M 748K 396M 1% /run tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 792M 504K 792M 1% /tmp udev 2,0G 0 2,0G 0% /dev tmpfs 792M 568K 792M 1% /run/shm /dev/sd... |
After upgrading how to do remove the older items from the grub menu. Thanks! | Uninstall the older kernels |
I am using Debian 6 64bit with Xfce 4.6. I have download and install the latest Skype ver 2.2.0.35 (Beta) and my webcam is Logitech c170. Everything works fine except that the other party couldn't see me on my webcam. Cheese and Guvcview works fine. Has anybody face similar problem? Is there anyway I could fix this? Ap... | Hey I know you. All I could find was help specific to the windows skype: https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA1 ... -my-webcam https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA3 ... -correctly I have a similar issue where my built in webcam is upside down in skype (it is actually installed in the laptop upside down for some reas... |
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