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Hi, I have installed Debian 6.0.3 Standard so have no GUI. Does anyone know how I can change the screen resolution? I can change the Grub resolution but when Debian begins to boot it goes back to 640x480. I have an ATI Radeon 200m card. Thanks, Alex | http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition Go to the section named "Grub 2 and the VGA parameter" |
Hello, I've noticed that when playing stereo audio on my 5.1 sound system and attempting to adjust the fader slightly to the back so that the the front channels don't sound as overpowering results in the rear channels losing sound as the front channels do as well. In other words, adjusting the fader all the way to the ... | I see there have - to date - been no replies to your post. I'd just like to mention that I don't have any problems on my 5.1 sound system with OSS4 in Debian Stable. I don't use ALSA and or PulseAudio now at all because I much prefer the sound quality of OSS4 and am able to control the sound from each speaker perfectly... |
Hey, I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and have problem with provided GS version (9.01) impossible to resolve, so I thought to downgrade to latest stable as in Debian stable (8.71) I removed GS 9.01 (and bunch of other packages on the way) then downloaded this files from debian FTP: Code: Select allghostscript_8.71~dfsg2-9_i386.deb ... | Now, I might be getting this wrong but to me it sounds like you're trying to install Debian packages on a Ubuntu system. If that's the case forget about it, Debian and Ubuntu are not 100% compatible package-wise and mixing packages like that is bound to cause problems eventually. Now, if this is not the case, you need ... |
Hello all I've figured out wath is happening on my iceweasel. Without any apparent reason, but i can have forgot, iceweasel begin to have some difficultiés with youtube. 1. I cant login, when i click login, it's just load an "Redirecting" page and i'm on youtube home again, without being logged again. 2. 90% of videos ... | I understand what you are saying and thanks for marking this Solved and posting the solution. |
I know this is a point of contention, but I would rather use Firefox and Thunderbird instead of Iceweasle and Icedove. The main reason being that a lot of my favorite addons won't install on Iceweasel because it's based on Firefox 3.5. I know there's the whole FOSS issue because of the artwork, but it's not an issue fo... | http://mozilla.debian.net/ |
Hi people, My root partition is completly full. I gave to root partition 323MB, I think it's big enough. I'm wondering what is taking so much space in my /. Code: Select all $ df -lh File system Dim. Used Disp. Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 323M 295M 12M [b]97%[/b] / tmpfs 1,4G 0 1,4G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 1,4G 196K 1,4G 1%... | I would suspect /boot. If you have more than one kernel installed that might do it. run ' du -hx | less ' on / and browse through it to see which directory is hogging the partition. You can also go to /boot and just do ' du -hx ' . EDIT: Also check /lib, /lib32 and /lib64 if you have them. |
Unable to boot: ext4 partition recognized incorrectly as silicon_medley_raid_member This is in Ubuntu 10.10, but I figured debian folk might know what is going on. Similar to the problem in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1711929 But for ext4. As there, I can mount in live CD (of Ubuntu 11.04) using mount -t e... | And if this cant be easily corrected, I was thinking of copying over the files in the root partition to an external drive, reformatting and copying the files back. Will this work (instead of reinstalling)? |
I just made a clean install of Debian Squeeze with Xfce desktop environment. But somehow after a few days the panel has gone missing. I try to add or create the panel again but nothing happen. I don't believe I have change anything as it is a clean install. I may have install certain software but that was all through t... | The same thing happened to me. The solution I used was to launch the panel in the terminal with: Code: Select allxfce4-panel Then check Xfce 4 Settings Manager/Session and Startup/Application Autostart. Panel should now be listed. If it does not have a check mark, click the box. If your problem is the same as mine, thi... |
If this is the command for amd64 apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 what would the command be for i386? I tried adding i386 to the end and erase amd64 but that isnt it. | rolltide101x wrote:This? apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae yes http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-back ... .2-686-pae |
I pulled in a new kernel from backports, here's my output of "uname -a": Code: Select allLinux Laptotron 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 10:35:23 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux Being new to using Debian backports my question is will this kernel get security updates? What is prompting the question is that "Tue Jul 26." ... | That's the kernel release date. Read man uname. About security, read the fourth question from the Backports's FAQ: http://backports-master.debian.org/FAQ/ |
I am translating this Debian wiki page for prosody: http://wiki.debian.org/fr/InstallingProsody as i need the translation of prosody (which means that i don't know moin-moin and its syntax, i need the translation, not to learn moin-moin. I don't want to learn to fish in that ocean, all i want is a fish). How can i easi... | I'm not sure I follow what you're asking - do you mean where should you put a new English page for Installing Prosidy? That has as much to do with the Debian wiki's structure as it does to do with MoinMoin. It seems to me it should be here; http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingProsody Just click the 'create page' button, a... |
Well apparantly the day was a little weird Of course I am a little scared that I lost my data I was running Squeeze with KDE today, and after a long time of looking through the internet, I (as normal) started BleachBit to clean up my system a little bit. Somewhere along the start BleachBit crashed and I proceeded to tr... | Well apparently after a day of working with fsck and Kubuntu live CDs (stop complaining, it's the only live I had). It's finally okay. Phew! Thread Solved? |
HI, I have Testing with Gnome 3 and have recently installed XFCE. Will leaving gnome installed cause clashes with XFCE and if so should I remove 'gnome' and 'gnome-desktop-enviroment' and or other gnome applications? | Joined: 2009-05-25 02:32 Sigh. |
have googled many variations of the question but all come back with the 'ubuntu kernel mainline'. Is there a place to download kernel .deb's like they have for http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ | You can download a newer Debian kernel (2.6.39) from http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/ Though it is not a "mainline kernel, but still uses the Debian patches. The easiest way to get a newer kernel is to compile it yourself. Which is not as hard as it seems but can be a challenge to do effectively. |
Hello! I got a new system since my old work station was getting old (7 years). I got a intel i5 2500K with an Asus p8h61-m motherboard and a ssd to really get me a leap into the future. Debian version: Squeeze root@robert-workstation:/home/robert# uname -ra Linux robert-workstation 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 03:59... | Hi, welcome to the forum! The Ubuntu CD may have had trouble with the video driver, that's why the screen went black. Try with a Fedora 16 live CD, it should work much better with your new hardware. I have no idea how to solve your problem while keeping the Squeeze installation but I do think that newer software (wheez... |
As of today I can't watch Flash videos on Facebook as I get a "Flash player upgrade required" message... I'm running Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 amd64 with Iceweasel 8.0 from the mozilla.debian.net repo. There doesn't seem to be a newer version of flashplugin-nonfree in the backports either... Any ideas? Thanks! | As root Code: Select allupdate-flashplugin-nonfree --install |
Is there any bilingual users who have this bug? Whenever I log in to Xorg host, i.e my laptop, through ssh, I can only type English. I checked Google chrome, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal. All of them handle English and Korean by IBus. But in ssh mode IBus fails to switch Korean. | To use ibus, use the following commands. (ibus-daemon -xd; program) in ssh console. It creates ibus over the remote Xorg client and handles the input of program. I tested two programs: xfce4-terminal, google-chrome. Code: Select all$ (ibus-daemon -xd; xfce4-terminal;) $ (ibus-daemon -xd; google-chrome;) On the tint2 pa... |
Hi: I'm thinking of putting a fresh install of Debian on my laptop, for a number of reasons. It occurs to me that I'd like to partition it out so that I can run Windows on another partition (mainly so I can play games), but I don't have any Windoze CDs. What I do have, however, is the backup DVDs I made when I bought t... | I would restore your Win backup, give it a good clean & defrag, then pop in the debian installer - it will resize your Win partition for you during the install process. |
Hi people, i'm having a strange problem (and I didn't have it last time when I did tis). I'm trying to download a file from my server with wget because there is a yaBB board running since years and there are more than 10.000 files in the folder already. Because of the usual limit in file explorer lists I can't access t... | Use: Code: Select all-O "path/where/to/save/file.ext" to redirect the output. And read the man pages: Code: Select allman wget |
My friend is fairly new to linux so I was getting several desktop environments set up so he could try them out to pick out his favorite. But I can not get wifi working in Enlightenment, Openbox, or fvwm crystal. Though it works fine in Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, and KDE (there is a standard wifi manager. I tried to install WIC... | For Openbox, you need to start network manager manually by putting "nm-applet &" (without quotes) in Openbox's autostart file... http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart Depending on your programs, sometimes the applet needs to be delayed...Code: Select all(sleep 2 && nm-applet) & It's strange that it should work in LXDE... |
After a recent update (must be a few days ago), sun-java6-jdk was marked as "obsolute" in my wheezy amd64 system. I did the mistake to delete it, thinking that the package was renamed or something. I now see that, for some reason, sun-java6-jdk and its relatives (including sun-java6-plugin) are still available in squee... | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646524 |
First of all, here is my complete /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates ma... | headkase wrote:My question: will I ever have GNOME 3 come about as part of normal operations of Update-Manager in Debian Squeeze?No. |
Where's the Dropbox daemon? I installed nautilus-dropbox from the Wheezy non-free repo's and it works fine in GNOME 3, but I want to autostart it in an Openbox session and I can't find the executable. In other distros its ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd. Thanks! | $ locate dropboxd /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd |
I would like to apologize in advance if I'm "barking up the wrong tree", but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I have squeeze running with a rather restrictive firewall, configured by "firestarter". I do my updates daily, I don't run as root, I don't run commands before I know what they do, etc, etc. I just looked at the ... | It's callled "Google Analytics." (http://www.google.com/analytics/) You're being tracked, not hacked. If you're only now waking up to the fact that Google, Facebook, etc. look to watch your every move online, welcome to the 21st century. But, no, it's not "spyware," though it is surveillance. |
On my squeeze OS I have texlive-latex3 installed and I wanted to install revtex package of the American Physical Society. While trying to install I was prompted to run #unzip revtex4-1-tds.zip -d /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ However my machine does not have /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ Instead it has /usr/local/s... | rudra, It will unzip wherever you tell it to without issue. Your only problem is does the program you are trying to install require that specific installation directory? If so, I would go ahead and install it here: /usr/local/share/texmf/ Then link it to here: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/ Then all dependencies will ... |
hi guys i want to know how to install abaqusV6.10 in linux can anyone guide me on this. | Hi. According to http://www.simulia.com/support/v610/v610_sysRqmts.html Simulia only supports it on SuSE and RHEL. You may be breaking new ground by installing on Debian. They seem to require licenses, so you'll probably need advice from someone who has the code and has installed it before on Debian. If you have a supp... |
Hello everyone, this is my first post in the debian forums. I have set up debian wheezy on my machine, running X and XFCE on top. I am having trouble using cplay. This is the error I see: Code: Select all$ cplay env: python2: No such file or directory I am using Python 2.7.2 Thanks in advance. | Make sure you have mpg123 installed if your playing mp3's. Then you use cplay as... Code: Select allcplay -r /path/to/your/music You may need an entry in your mimeapps.list file to open cplay with a click. Just right click the music file and use "open with", then enter a custom command of... Code: Select allcplay -r %f... |
This sounds like a really dumb noobie question I know, But when I install via synaptic, it gives my version 1.0.1, and if I install from the site, it gives me version 1.3.2. I want the stable release, which is version 1.2.3. I'll probably install 1.3.3 when it comes out. But for now I just want the stable release. At b... | Search the forum, there a million and one threads about wine. You can either use the frickelplatz repo or you can follow the directions at: http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ # towo's repository for aptosid # secure APT - apt-get install frickelplatz-archive-keyring frickelplatz-keyring frickelplatz-ke... |
Greetings, I have recently installed PulseAudio and the sound is really better on my system while using PulseAudio. ALSA continues running alongside the PulseAudio. My questions are: Are they conflicting, PulseAudio and ALSA while running alongside? Is there any safe way of removing ALSA, not affecting any important de... | PulseAudio runs on top of ALSA, so no, you can't remove it. As for the icon, I have no idea. |
I was always under the impression that debian creates a ramdisk automatically, because I see it being created when grub is running. So, does it stay after squeeze boots? I need to use a ram disk for my tmp files, so I do not write to my SSD with tmp files, and I have this in my /etc/fstab: Code: Select alltmpfs /tmp tm... | You better read what a ramdisk is. You should also read the process of Linux booting and loading and you will understand your question. My answer is, I do not think you need one. |
Hi, Where do I post question for Debian KFreeBSD? thanks | Pretty sure any of the help sections would do. Edit: Remarks upon the paradox of asking a question on how to ask a question. Should we take it three layers deep? |
Eversince I downgraded to squeeze, and using backport .38 kernel, I have this kernel failure message appearing quite often. (I have an image of squeeze and used it to replace the wheezy which was totally screwed up) here is the details of the kernek failure message: Code: Select allKernel failure message 1: -----------... | I am pretty sure I solved the problem. I used root to install Rawtherapee (a photo processing software). While using it, kernel failure occurs from time to time. Yesterday, I noticed that the whole folder has a lock on it, meaning access by root only. So, I changed the owner and all is fine. It has been a whole day now... |
I used to build mesa from git on my old aptosid install and it worked great. Recently, I decided to redo my install and this is one thing I can't get back to how it was. No matter what I use as the driver or prefix options, the drivers just won't install (the libs and headers do though). I'm baffled by this one. I'll p... | If you haven't done so already, you may have to set LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH to wherever mesa installs. For me, LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/local/lib/dri |
Ok, this has me stumped. What could cause the processor speed reported by /proc/cpuinfo to be massively wrong? (As in: reporting 800 MHz on a 3.1 GHz desktop machine.) My best guess at good Google search terms (cpuinfo speed (error OR misreport)) yielded nothing obviously relevant in the first 30 or so hits. Again, thi... | This is normal: kazuma@debian-ghibli:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4400 @ 2.20GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1200.000 It has to do with cpu frequency scaling. If I warm up the cpu it reports the right frequency. |
Hi, I'm using the latest stable releases of Iceweasel and Icedove from the mozilla.debian.net repository on a Debian Squeeze box. Icedove displays its own (ugly) notifications... is there a way to integrate these notification so that they appear like all the other system notifications? I'm quite sure Iceweasel does tha... | I have no idea, but I can tell you that it's not yet been solved upstream as sid/xfce/icedove does the same thing. |
I'm writing from Windows, as using Internet on Ubuntu (same driver as Debian - zd1211rw) is frustrating right now. Yesterday I was testing some script accessing gdata and noticed huge lag in responses. I thought it's something with Google servers, but after that I tested same script (Python) on same PC under Windows 7 ... | OK, forget this. I reset main router (to which I connect through USB adapter) and everything turned to normal. Spent so much time resolving this, when "solution" was trivial. Great driver, sure Debian does not come with it, but you need it if you want to access Internet with this USB adapter |
Greetings, Could someone help me to find an answer to my problem regarding the MPlayer? I want to play an .avi file but I get the following error message: The playback of this movie requires a AC-3 (ATSC A/52) decoder plugin which is not installed. I installed alsa-tools, some packages of gstreamer are also installed(m... | Does this return anything? Code: Select allldd /usr/bin/mplayer | grep a52 |
my shell wraps before reaching the edge of the screen and overwrite the command there is a screenshot please help i'm getting crazy | Your image doesn't show here and it's hard to guess the problem from your description. |
hello there when i start terminal it goes like this Ae@debi an$ there is strange space between i and a , so when i tried to tape sudo i went like sud o again with space anyone know how to fix this? thanks duh it was font problem | anyone can help please? |
Greetings, I have a problem regarding wicd on my asus laptop, debian squeeze 6.0.3. After few days of attempts, I finally installed manually wicd and all its dependencies and I was glad to find it working, showing the wireless access points, etc. I'm trying to connect to an unsecured public network and it connects succ... | Try this, open a terminal. Can you ping this site? (Press CTRL+C to cancel after a few successes or fails, but you probably know this). If that is successful it means you can physically reach the internet. If it fails try the command on the bottom. Code: Select allping google.com Code: Select allping 72.14.204.105 If t... |
This video plays OK on Windows with Firefox but not on either Stable or Testing (on my system). http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/18/r ... dvertised/ Not a big deal but I wondered why. YouTube flash is fine by the way. | Are you using flash from Debian Multimedia? Try the one from non-free instead. |
Hello ! On a fresh Wheezy with Gnome desktop, the keyboard layout list is re-populated at each reboot. The (bad) layout is therefore added, and selected :S I need to delete it manually each time, that's strange... Something's wrong ? | Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? That's what I read when I read your post. Try this: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
Hello all, I am running squeeze on a dell inspiron 1525 with the dwm window manager, a quite minimal setup. I was wondering, what is the easiest way to connect my laptop to a TV or a projector. I dual boot with XP and all I have to do there is to connect the laptop to the TV and press a function key and the monitor wil... | Hey geo! I use my netbook for business. I have to connect it to a projector a lot of times. For me the simpliest way is to use the xrandr tool in the terminal!Just type xrandr in you favourite terminal and press enter. It gives you all informations you need about all connectet screens. On Linux new Screens are not swit... |
Looking for a script or ??? to convert ordinary strings with spaces and various characters, or output of built-ins and other commands (e.g. 'ls') to regular expression. Seems I wouldn't be the only one with a need for this but danged if I can come up with a solution. Thx! | dbruce wrote:Looking for a script or ??? to convert ordinary strings with spaces and various characters, or output of built-ins and other commands (e.g. 'ls') to regular expression. Seems I wouldn't be the only one with a need for this but danged if I can come up with a solution. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-man... |
Hi there, I'm trying to create a debian package for a python application. The application is composed of 3 python scripts, one of those is the main. I decided my package install all scripts in a folder, let's say /pentest/progName/. It all works, and when I install the package I'm able to launch the program from the fo... | In the past, I've just created a text file "links" in the /debian directory with the contents like so: Code: Select allusr/share/libs/pentest/progName/prog.py usr/bin/prog Note that a preceding "/" before "usr" is not needed, but it will work with one. I'm not really sure about where Debian policy puts standalone pytho... |
I'm getting some buzzing sound in Squeeze, it happens whenever I backspace when there is nothing left to delete, it happens when I Page Down when there is no where left to go, it occurs when I shutdown the computer. I just recently re-installed Squeeze and it's been making that noise since the beginning. The last time ... | When blacklisting did you reboot after or manually run modprobe -r pcspkr? Also check in your bios for a setting related to the system beep. You might also run 'alsamixer' in the terminal (as a normal user) and see if there are mixers with the volume too high or related to the system beep. |
Hi Debian friends. When I tried apt-get upgrade the other day it failed because mkinitramf filled up the /tmp volume. I've tried to google on the matter but havent found anything that applies to my problem so I hope someone here knows a workaround. It's a 32 bit Pentium 4 system with 1GB of RAM Here are my current volu... | Bansaie wrote:It's a 32 bit Pentium 4 system with 1GB of RAM Maybe thats not enaugh memory with tmpfs and a mkinitramfs. Did you tried mount a physical partition to /tmp with more space? |
This is an odd one which I can't find any info on. I'm running Wheezy and xfce 4.8. The "open current folder as root" constantly fails as "swith user command not set. Of course, I do then set it to "gksu %s" This works for the duration of that session of PCmanFM, yet as soon as I close the app. This setting disappears.... | I've never had a problem like this. You can edit "~/.config/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.conf" to achive the same and make sure you have write permissions to that file, this may cause the problem as pcmanfm may not be able to write to that file and so the changes can not be applied. |
I am wanting to copy files from one computer with Debian Sid installed to another computer with Debian Squeeze installed. I have gone through the process here http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=60620 I can click on a folder and change it to share, but the folder does not show up on the network. Any help? | Ok, I figured out what the problem was, the firewall. Disabled the firewall on the computer and everything works fine. |
Hi, I've Debian - Squeeze - apache2 - mysql - joomla installed. joomla work fine (so it's the proof that the mentioned sw are installed and work well. I trie to install phpmyadmin with the following command apt-get install phpmyadmin. I've received a well installed message. Then I try to access phpmyadmin with the foll... | Hi, Try to check apache configuration. You should have /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf file and link to this file /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf Are this file in place? Did you restart apache after phpmyadmin installation? (actually aptitude should do it himself, but may be smth was wrong). Check "Include conf.d/" str... |
I am looking for a way to make a bootable live image of my current installed Debian Squeeze system. Basically I am looking for an application that does what remastersys did for ubuntu. Remastersys is no longer supported and I was just wondering if anyone out there had found any alternatives. I know about the Debian Liv... | There is an existing thread about this very thing. Please, as a courtesy to everyone on the forums, search before you post. |
Hello, I'm french, i hope i will be understandable ! I'm trying to join Active Directory Domain (Windows 2003 SP2, with 4 DC) but i get an error. I can get an Kerberos ticket; My Debian (virtual machine running on ESXi) : Code: Select allroot@(none):~# uname -r 2.6.32-5-686 /etc/samba/smb.conf Code: Select all[global] ... | What about your /etc/hosts file, mate? |
Hello, Would anyone please help me installing the following package via apt-get? Issue I'm having is python has been recently upgraded to 2.7+ but the particular package I'm after requires an older version. Using debian-testing. Code: Select allThe following packages have unmet dependencies: planner : Depends: python (... | Deleted by roseway |
Hi, on my squeeze, I've installed chrome, but each time a click a link (on email i.e.) the browser that start is konqueror. I wish that the default browser will be chrome. How I can obtain that? Thank you Renato | As root:Code: Select allupdate-alternatives --config x-www-browser |
First when trying to play some video Totem (as was set as default application) asked about missing decoder then offered installing of gstreamer-version-xx, but it couldn't as described below. I removed Totem and installed MPlayer and Gnome-MPlayer interface and everything is perfect in regard of playing video files Now... | Do you only have Debian repositories installed or other 3rd software as well? Try: Code: Select allsudo apt-get -f install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg |
Another report about this problem on LinuxQuestions.org:laptop freeze in debian,ubuntu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tried Squeeze and Ubuntu 11.04, all freeze when it's idle for whole night. Nothing can't move including the keybord or mouce, only way is push ... | Run Memtest and Seagate Seatools to check the RAM and HDD as boot discs. |
My display manager is gdm3... and it mostly works okay. Except that during system shutdown, when there is an annoying bell noise, that I have worked out it comes from gdm3. I've managed to eliminate all other annoying bell sounds from the rest of my system. Does anyone know how to get rid the gdm3 bell too please? Than... | Rename the file: /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga |
When trying to install build essential sudo apt-get install build-essential nothing gets installed and I get this message: E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) I try to install it again to verify that it hasn't been installed s... | Look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... rl-907220/ (and at the last post by jdkaye) which links to here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=69155 which contains a bug-report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639290 good luck |
Hello For the second time I tried updating my Debian installation to latest testing. Prior to doing this I was using only the stable repositories. After enabling the testing repositories, i did an update, upgrade and dist-upgrade using apt. At which point a newer kernel 3.0.0.1 is installed, alongside gcc-4.6. After do... | Have you tried sgfxi ? |
I downloaded the latest 64-bit Linux Flash Player 11 tarball, then tar zxvf install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so sudo cp -r usr /usr , restarted Iceweasel. Every Flash applet just draws nothing to the screen (making the previous page appear in ... | Maybe this thread can help you. |
Ok, here we go... I have a Dell laptop that is dual boot, Debian and Windows 7 All was going well, until I get an error at boot "autochk program not found - AUTOCHECK skipped..." Yeah from the Windows 7 system Tech support says to fix it I need to do a system restore, no a big deal, since I barely use Windows 7 BUT! I ... | I am concerned they [sic] restore operation may force a repartition of the system Don't think so.... |
I am running wheezy. There are updates at least once a day. If I ignore them, and update one month later, will I get the cumulative update, i.e., if there are 3 updates to the same package within this period of time, will I automatically get the 3rd update or will I be going through all 3 updates. TIA | No, they are not cumulative. You will only get the most recent update. Phil |
So I have been running squeeze the last few months and using the proprietary drivers listed in the debian wikis for my ATI Radeon HD5750 located at: http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary The above works fine in 9 out of 10 cases, some games were crashing upon exit, but I was (and I may be wrong) thinking that driver ma... | I don't recommend proprietary drivers; they are too much trouble. |
During updates to Testing a while back Iceweasel lost most of the usual icons in the navigation toolbar. Now it has just forward and back arrows, but not the usual refresh button and other icons. Nor are they found under view > toolbars > customize. Anyone know what is going on here and how to fix it? | Point 1: When asking a question like this, it's very helpful to say which version of a program is giving you a problem--especially these days, when FF/IW versions are propagating like rabbits. Point 2: What you're describing sounds like the default appearance of the "improved" toolbar introduced in FF4 (I think... it's... |
Hi all, How do I replace wallpaper in grub2 . By wallpaper I mean the background in grub2. I looked if the wiki had any directions but unfortunately wiki.debian.org is silent on this. The only documentation I could find was at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 ... ash_Images and especially the later Natty Narwhal... | Code: Select allsudo gedit /etc/default/grub Add: for a background image: GRUB_BACKGROUND="path/to/new/background/image" For terminal text colours (for example): GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black" GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue" When finished: Code: Select allsudo update-grub |
I thought I knew at least a bit about shell scripts, but I'm stumped by this simple one. I'm having problems reliably logging-in to my domain hosting service's FTP server. It works 95% of the time, but fails briefly several times a day. Despite repeated pleas for them to check their server, they keep telling me to reco... | Never mind. The first line of my shell script was missing the exclamation point: #!/bin/bash Duh! It now works as expected. --- Mike |
I sent a reportbug some months ago and got no inidication it had been received. It was a minor thing so didn't mind. But I sent another reportbuf about 12h00GMT. No email to suggest even if it has been acknowledged. This one irritates me a bit so I would like it acknowledged at the least. Code: Select all# reportbug pr... | It might get filtered for looking spammy by servers along your regular SMTP chain, so submitting it direct to the debian SMTP server makes sense. |
I rebooted yesterday to hear the disks spinning. With top i saw a user "man" and a command "mandb" which i killed and the disks stopped. Searching the packages for mandb i found nothing. The only users in my computer are root and Aris. Does anyone have any explanation for this? | Run Code: Select allman man |
So I've had this problem for a while. I've already asked about it here: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/f ... read,31104 So I decided to test whether curl was compiled with OpenSSL support like https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/f ... t,0#150072 implies might be the problem. Code: Select all$ curl https://down... | Anyone? |
Hello, I've been using Debian Squeeze for four days and I came across a couple of problems.I handled some of them pretty quickly but there are 2 things that bother me. Here they are: 1. Iceweasel - since flash is installed (by synaptic, version 1:2.8.2) sometimes I enter the page that contains a lot of flash stuff (vid... | mark xulrunner-6.0 also |
After installing Debian Squeeze or testing on my new laptop, an Acer Extensa 5235, I noticed that the screen was unusually bright. I tried to adjust brightness with the key FN+Arrow keys but it didn't work. Not knowing when the screen brightness problem will be fixed, I found a simple temporary solution which I suppose... | it is never too late to say THANKS !! it works !! My eyes are more than happy with this solution !! |
Hi, I am new in Debian. I use debian squeeze. I use ZTE AC682 CDMA modem to connect. it's recognized as /dev/sr0. But, I've got problem in ejecting (since the modem use switchmode to be recognized as modem). I type "eject /dev/sr0" in root terminal but nothing's happen and terminal going to be not responding. then, I f... | Perhaps someone else can provide more specific advice, but I would recommend looking into the possibility that your device is mounted (automatically by udev?) and thus can not be ejected until unmounted. |
Hi, I have now installed Wheezy on two different hard drives and in each case it seems only one CPU of my dual core CPU computer is recognized. System Monitor, Gkrellm and lscpu show just one when prior to the new install the old Wheezy showed both CPU's. I have put the hard drive into two other computers with dual cor... | Not sure I have the 3.0.0-1 kernel installed and it sees and uses all my cores. Other than that I wouldn't have a clue. P.S. Make sure you are not using the linux-image-3.0.0-1-486, this the one you should be using linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64. to check do ' uname -r ' Code: Select allchevy@wmaker:~$ uname -r 3.0.0-1-amd6... |
Hi, I have tried to install some applications on my Debian Testing but I've got this common error after fetching packages from internet: dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PA... | Which apps and how are you trying to install them? Are you not using the Debian repositories? |
Hi: I use xarchiver to open all kinds of stuff (like most of you do, I'm guessing), but all of a sudden, it's not working right. I used to be able to right-click on the download, select "Open with xarchiver" and the window opens, and everything's good. Now, when I do that, it hangs. I right-click, click "Open with xarc... | I use gnomes File-Roller and sometimes it will take a long time to open an archive too. It's not always the big ones either but poorly made archives that do it the most. |
Hi all, #I've been planning to build a portable system on my usb hard drive for some time. The aim is to make the system bootable #and usable on both i386 and amd64 PCs. Basically, I will use it on amd64 machines. AFIK, before, there are two basic ways #to do it: 1. Use the i386 port version. 2. Install both and then d... | KISS!!!! And I'm not talking about the Rock Group either. What you call multiarch and what Debian multiarch is is two different things. You want to keep this as simple as possible so build an i386 system with a 486 kernel 686 kernel and an amd64 kernel to boot from. |
Hi all, I have set up a test server running debian 5.0.8 running apache2, php5 and mysql 8.41. I have installed this all from the downloadable dvd's. this all worked great till i decided to update my server by running aptitude. I selected the updateable packages and installed them. so far, so good. then i tried to get ... | Well, after a day searching and trying i ended up reinstalling apache, php and mysql. this didn't solve the problem however. finally i got it working by installing the package php5-mysql by entering: apt-get install php5-mysql and restarting apache. probably should have done that at first..... problem solved. |
Good evening, On a recently installed Debian, I try to install third-party RPM packages. I proceed in two steps, using alien and dpkg. Despite of having about 4 GB free in /var and 30 GB on the target partition, I get the infamous "no space left on device" error during the dpkg install. I also get a warning that might ... | Finally an inode problem. Now that I have found the magic word "inode" I can find answers to the problem on discussion forums… |
I have this strange problem with screensaver (in fact i dont know if it is the problem, but it seems to be), i describe the problem next: I have a computer with debian squeeze installed. I use this computer only as a dumb terminal for showing information about companies, this means that it have no mouse nor keyboard co... | You can always uninstall screensaver . |
I normally run Debian Squeeze and it is very good indeed. I decided two days ago to take a look at the state of testing and so installed 64-bit wheezy/KDE doing a net-install. (No, I certainly did not replace squeeze!) Very smooth process in all respects. All seems to be running as it should save for one strange glitch... | I don't know what causes this problem or anything, but one thing you maybe could check is Code: Select all$ iceweasel -preferences which should open the preference dialog. I think I've heard about some similar problems before, but couldn't find anything myself either after some searching here on the board.. |
Hi all, I am on a friend's box and we are atm transitioning from stable to sid on his box. Instead of doing the whole thing at one shot via update-manager we are doing it using the apt tools. Now while upgrading, I'm not able to update any of the perl 5.12 packages, perhaps due to circular dependencies or what. This is... | Thanks for posting, I am having the same problem now. I was following instructions on this page: http://rustyshacklefordslibrarycard.wor ... n-squeeze/ This actually worked earlier this week, the 28th I think. This time (30 aug. 2011, after a reinstall with the same disc) it gave the above error "Could not perform imme... |
Hi, Using Debian testing and gdm3. I had set the login screen settings to automatically log me in however I want to change it back so that I have to login on startup however I cannot change the settings. In System > Administration > Login Screen the 'Click to make changes' highlights when I put the mouse pointer over i... | Take a look at /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf. There is a section that deals with auto login. Code: Select all[daemon] # AutomaticLoginEnable = false # AutomaticLogin = |
This morning gkrellm updated from 2.3.4-1 to 2.3.5-2 and now the CPU temperatures aren't displayed. I've rerun sensors-detect and restarted module-init-tools, but the temperatures still don't display. If I run sensors from a terminal, the CPU core temperatures are displayed correctly. Has anyone else seen this? | Are the temperatures visible in the gkrellm configuration dialogue, and if so, are they marked as activated? |
I recently purchased a camera with a 2GB microSD flash card. It has a usb card reader and works well. Is it possible to use that as a usb stick (disk) for installation? I want to burn the netinstall iso and also use the rest (partition the card) as storage for the camera if it can be done. | Maybe possible, if you set MBR of your SD correctly and BIOS recognize your SD as bootable USB or something. Even if your BIOS does not recognize your SD as bootable or does not have ability to boot USB (or SD), you may be able to boot by something like PLoP boot manager or mine. |
I have the following installations: On my 640GB HDD 1. sda2 windows7 ntfs 2. squeeze sda4 squeeze /boot ext3 sda5 squeeze /root ext4 sda6 squeezy /home ext4 3. wheezy (this is my sandbox for trying wheezy before I acquired the ssd drvie) sda7 wheezy (one single partition) ext3 sda8 swap 4. wheezy (on ssd drive) sdb1 wh... | I use symlinks in both Squeeze and Sid. by having one partition for all your data makes thing simple. The only thing I'm not sure about is your Windows install but I don't think that should be the huge problem it used to be now that Linux can read and write to ntfs. If memory serves me right there is a program for wind... |
Libre Office can be removed from Ubuntu 11.04 without making a mess of an installation but when I began ot attempt the same with Debian I was concerned it would take too much necessary stuff with it requiring a fresh install. I use Abiword and don't need Open Office. Can it be removed somehow cleanly? How would I do th... | You can easily remove open office by running these commands: Code: Select all# apt-get remove openoffice.org Then run the command: Code: Select all# apt-get autoremove |
I have noticed with Linux in general, when an e-mail is sent out using something along the lines of Iceape or Icedove, one of the e-mail headers will display the internal IP address of the computer (as assigned by the router) that sent it. In comparison, Windows (at least Vista) will display the localhost IP 127.0.0.1 ... | epp wrote:Thank you for the replies. I'm not running a mail server, just using Debian on home PC's. If mails sent from Vista are showing a Received: header from 127.0.0.1, then it IS running a MTA of some description - probably an AV SMTP proxy. |
CUPS has been working properly on my machine since forever. Last night I entered my usual 'http://127.0.0.1:631/printers' and I was greeted with "Iceweasel can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:631." I tried other browsers and got a similar message. I don't know whether or not this has anything to do ... | Have you check things?? - Check your browser network settings. - Check whether CUPS is running : netstat -tapln | grep cups - Check CUPS log and syslog |
Hello, perhaps somone can help with the following problem : I have installed fresh new Debian 6 by netinstall on a virtual machine (kernel 2.6.32-5-686). So far so good - everything is working. I compiled the kernel 2.6.32 by myself, installed it, made a new initrd and added it to the grub menu. The original kernel sta... | Hello, i have some updates on my problem - i misinterprted the message : Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) At this point i could start a bash, but didn't try Control-D - it continues booting into Runlevel 2. Even cancelling the bash with "exit" continues booting into Runlevel 2. The las... |
Does anyone know of any repos/packages for GIMP 2.7 on Squeeze by any chance? Besides compiling it. I've done some googling and haven't found anything for Debian (Of course found stuff for Ubuntu. lol) But I have seen that some people have used Ubuntu packages from the repositories but I really don't think thats a good... | line for Squeeze deb http://notesalexp.org/debian/squeeze/ squeeze main wget -O - http://notesalexp.org/debian/alexp_key.asc | sudo apt-key add - apt-get install gimp2.7 line for Wheezy: deb http://notesalexp.org/debian/wheezy/ wheezy main line for Sid: deb http://notesalexp.org/debian/sid/ sid main |
Hi, i am interested how to remove mono from my Debian Squeeze Gnome. Thank you. | search for things named mono and/or libmono in the package manager and uninstall them I would probably do something crazy like apt-get remove --purge libmono* |
Squeeze with lxde. Using network-manager-gnome to manage wifi. I have to disconnect from a nearby unprotected AP to connect to my WPA2 AP. It has stored the pw for my AP; I don't have to type it in when I connect, but it always wants to hit the unprotected Motorola AP by default. This is really the last issue I'm facin... | You need to edit the connection to remove the "connect automatically" setting. I don't know how you do that in lxde. |
Hi all, Today i`ve updated kernel packages to version 3.0.0. on Debian testing. After that- updated grub. But after all this the old one kernel version[2.6.39-3] is booting. What can i do? Please, help | The update process itself should have updated the grub links automatically. You can however run: Code: Select all# update-grub to invoke the updating process yourself. |
If its for believing: I was looking for some way to make 'watch folder' and I found and installed inotify and incron. Explanations were perfect and everything seemed great. So I made test script and it worked as expected. Now, bash script that was evoked by event by incron consisted this terrible line: Code: Select all... | System back to normal Live CD had option to log as root, which granted me permission to move files back on Debian partition Slightly problems while moving back /vars/ resolved on Debian prompt Couple of warnings I'll look closely in log Don't forget to correct cron evoked script Then sleep |
I have an issue, that my /home does not get mounted at boot. I get the following error at boottime. Code: Select allMounting local filesystems... Segmentation fault failed. I can login as root, and mount it without any issues. I have tried fsck.ext3 -fp /dev/sda7, which did not help Any suggestions? | Show your /etc/fstab. For example, in my /etc/fstab reocrd for /home is Code: Select allLABEL=D_Home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /home is on /dev/sdb5. Peter. |
I have a netbook running squeeze + lxde. Every time I boot, I have to open alsamixer and turn on my speaker channel. Master and PCM are both enabled and at 100%, as is everything relating to the mic. Speaker just refuses to work with me though. Help would be greatly appreciated. | For release Squeeze or any later release, alsaconf is no longer available in package alsa-utils. So try to configure alsa by running the command 'alsactl init' as root. Just ignore the error message like 'Unknown hardware' (this issue said to be fixed in alsa-utils .20), then reboot and try to test your sound. For more... |
I was in 2.6.38.-2-amd64 and it was upgraded to 2.6.39-2-amd64. After the upgrade, every reboot disables the bluetooth mouse. There is a message from the panel with a bluetooth icon Code: Select allBluetooth Device Authorization request from Logitec mouse... check authorization I push the buttons on my mouse and the bu... | I would sugest that once it is working that your remake initrd.img. I have a feeling the driver got left out when you installed 2.6.39. I would just " aptitude reinstall linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64 or what ever it is. If you do a search there are ton of posts on how to remake initd.img. |
Hi all, I am/was looking at few presentations in libreoffice and the numbering seems to be of some other language. This is consistent of many presentations even though there are in English. For instance the numbering of slides, they should have been from the locale or something. This is what my locale states :- Code: S... | Do you mean the numbers are out of sequence or do you mean they are displayed with characters that are not of Indian (Arabic) origin? |
Hi all, I wanted to make my boot logging pretty hence used this shell script from http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2010/ ... utput.html As given in the instructions therein, I just copied the shell script in /etc/ directory with the name lsb-base-logging.sh and gave the shell script executable rights. ($ sudo chmod +x... | The blogger who posted it didn't say to make it executable, and neither do similar instructions I found at gnome-look.org. I guess you have to remove it or maybe rename it to disable it. To change your console font, run 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup'. (You might need to install the console-setup package.) |
I'm trying to generate a list of my music directory folder structure WITHOUT the files included. I have my music directory set up in a hierarchy of Artist>Album>Files, and I just want to generate a list of the folders because that will, in effect, output a list of what albums I have by what artists, which is ultimately... | Hi, regarding the first approach, doesn't the tree (package tree)command give something the way you want? |
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