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Hi. Yesterday when i ran an upgrade in squeeze, there was an updated virtualbox package. When the upgrade of virtualbox finished, I got a warning like this one "insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1) of script `vboxdrv' overwrites defaults (0 1 6)." From my understanding, this is not critical by any means, but ... | Currently the system only has a link to stop the service in /etc/rc1.d/ you can see this by running the following: Code: Select allls -l /etc/rc0.d/|grep vboxdrv ls -l /etc/rc1.d/|grep vboxdrv ls -l /etc/rc6.d/|grep vboxdrv The vboxdrv script in init.d has LSB headers that include: Code: Select all# Default-Stop: 0 1 6... |
I have a canon printer which was working so far. After my latest upgrade its giving errors saying "Printer not connected -- Check your connection" Fortunately I had a backup of my root before the upgrade and one difference I see is that on the new system theres no /dev/usb/lp0 which there is on the old one. So how do I... | Make the device node. You can't soft link to what doesn't exist, nor can you hard link to such. Do you have MAKEDEV and usb packages installed? |
Hi, I'm going to try to explain in bit more detail what happened to me, in case it might be relevant In a work folder I had around 100 PDF files. Roughly 2/3 were processed yesterday, and today I added others with intent to rename them then copy all together to repository folder for indexing. Before files get in this '... | I installed photorec and it recovered 11 files. Better then nothing. Next I installed trial version of R-Studio and will run in right away in next 2 hours in a hope of better results. I also want to know: 1. Is there some way I could find what were the names of the files in the folder where I had this accident? It will... |
Hello, I have a raid array using mdadm made up of two drives. The drives have two parts, the first for boot information and the 2nd for LVM. Everything but /boot is under LVM management. Originly the two drives were hooked up to a sata controller in a computer with no on-board sata. However I was not able to get the co... | If i understood well you had a computer with a normal disk which had the GRUB and the OS and a RAID array from a controller card which was mounted through that disk. (! It's the setup i am trying to do now !). When you moved the disks to your new computer, how did GRUB got installed on the RAID disks? Is there an OS on... |
Hi, I am trying to install Wheezy testing i386 using netinstall .iso disk. After the disk partition stage and while in the 'Install the base system' stage I get the message; Debootstrap error The following error occurred: The bzcat is not available on the system Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 the detail... | I do a minimal netinstall (no packages, no desktop environment, nothing) after the reboot do an update/dist-upgrade, change the sources.list to 'testing' do another update/dist-upgrade and 10 minutes later i got testing, i install the packages i want, and that's it. |
Hi all, I'm trying to backport gtk2-engines-oxygen from testing to squeeze. I'm following the HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way guide http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976 I have the testing source enabled and it pulls the source fine , when I try to get the build dependencies I get the foll... | Those minimum dependencies are available in Squeeze. The problems you are seeing usually are caused by running a mixed system, with an upstream library installed, and somehow the system can't figure out how to match up the -dev packages. Aptitude usually tries to figure some solution--how about taking a look at your so... |
Hi all, I have made two partitions / and /home . / is where all the packages and other stuff lives and /home is where user i.e. my data lives. I am sure everybody knows the 'disk space is less' warning dialog box when either we install too many packages or when we download many things. Now the last time it happened by ... | Hi, Are you using gnome, KDE, or some other DE ? There used to be something like Code: Select allgconf-editor Go to the key ( or something like this): /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/housekeeping/. However, Don't use gnome myself so cant check of it works... Alex. |
Hi all, I read sometime ago about the Debian release plan of .la files removal. http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval I also saw that list that is being talked about in that wiki entry. http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt Does anybody know how can one look in his/her system and find how many indiv... | shirish wrote:Does anybody know how can one look in his/her system and find how many individual .la files are installed ? Code: Select allfind / -iname "*.la" |wc -l |
Hi, I am running Squeeze 32-bit fully updated, PAE kernel, ext4 filesystem, with KDE desktop. I'm having problems compressing larger directories on an external HD with a FAT32 filesystem. I have tried compressing to zip, rar, zip/tar (.tar.gz), bz2, lzma, 7z... every combo available from Xarchiver, Ark, as well as the ... | Take a look at the Limits section at Wikipedia (fat32). Max file size is 4GiB. "Fat doesn't have permissions": right, but Linux does. By default it is mounted as root I believe, but I believe you can change this with mount options. |
Is there an app which makes it convenient to browse directories in /usr/share/doc? I mean, using a web browser isn't inconvenient, but I was wondering if there is something out there for extremely lazy people like myself, such as something which renders gzipped files inline, or automatically finds the index.html files ... | I use the "most" pager to render gzipped text in line. zless and zmore will do the same. Unfortunately, these are command line utilities so I'm not sure if they fit into what you're looking for. |
I am trying out Debian. I was using Ubuntu but am unhappy with the newest release 11.04. So far I have been able to configure my system pretty well but I am having a problem with slow internet. The internet speeds were fine in Ubuntu. I have noticed a few other threads about a similar issue but so far the solutions hav... | One of the threads you mention is about DNS, which I have to say is my first thought. To eliminate DNS as the issue, it's not enough to ping something you visit frequently (like google.com), you must also ping something that you never visit (like, say, google.in, or google.ca), in order to force a lookup. If forcing a ... |
Hi, I have moved /home to it's own partition and all is good. Testing is on sda1 and /home on sda2. However a bit later I wondered what would happen if I had to reinstall testing, would I then have /home on both partitions? | ozgta wrote: Testing is on sda1 and /home on sda2. However a bit later I wondered what would happen if I had to reinstall testing, would I then have /home on both partitions? No, you would set mount points during the install and point /home to sda2. |
hi i lost touchpad functionality during gdm login (i cant tap clicking) after playing with xorg.conf would somebody kindly paste-ing their xorg.conf for eee pc (1000HE) ? thanks edit: im on squeeze | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62092 |
I had/have an old program which works on XP called PaperPort. It allows me to edit and fill in blank forms. I have been searching for something like that for Linux, and to date found nothing, Chances are that I am looking in the wrong places. Any Ideas...Thanks in advance | Not sure. I know you can edit pdf in open/libre office with a plugin. It is in the debian repositories so you can install with synaptic. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/open ... -pdfimport Or run: Code: Select allapt-get install openoffice.org-pdfimport |
Hi all, I do not know scripting. Hence in absence of that required/basic skill I have used the alias command in .bashrc to do lot of stuff which is repetitive from time to time one of which is compiling small programs and games I like to compile from their svn . One of the games in this is allacrost http://www.allacros... | Code: Select allalias makeallacrost='autoreconf -i;echo;./configure;echo;make clean;echo;make' |
I'm trying to install the latest Kmess from source, but when configuring it (it's really a wrapper for cmake) I get the following error: Code: Select allconfiguring KMess 2.0.6.1 checking build directory running cmake from /usr/src/kmess-2.0.6.1/build command: cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=re... | Since the program is in repositories, you can just run Code: Select allapt-get build-dep kmess |
Hi all, When we use either apt-get or/and aptitude to update the index. Does anybody know where this index is kept ? The thing is when I remove an entry or two from /etc/apt/sources.list and run Code: Select all$ sudo aptitude update and then run apt-show-versions -a it still shows me packages whose paths I have delete... | Read the man page for apt-show-versions, and try running it as root. |
Hello, I have two servers (A and B) which are identical. My idea was to have a software RAID 1 with both of them running and if server A craps out I wanted to swap the hard drives from server B into server A. When I tried to test this idea the network driver doesn't seem to want to cooperate. ifconfig gives nothing and... | In my experience this has been the only difficulty in swapping a Linux hard disk into a new machine. There is an entry for every network card with a unique mac address a machine has ever used in Code: Select all/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules That ensures that each interface name is bound to a single mac addr... |
Hello everybody, I need some help here, I would really appreciate any advice.. I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with Debian Lenny and KDE 3. Now, almost everything worked "out of the box" except that there is no direct rendering mode enabled: Code: Select alljorge@flamingo:~$ sudo glxinfo | grep direct direct renderi... | Have you set the driver to intel? Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "intel" EndSection Setting your color depth to 24 might also help. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection |
Hello ! My firewall keeps blocking something called CPQ-Wbem. There have been about 10 instances of this. I did not have clue what this was until i found this on another forum. A machine on the network is advertising it runs, or looks for machines running, Compaq Insight Manager on TCP/2301. If the machine isn't yours ... | Could be just something sending packets to your port 2301 and your firewall software has that associated with the Compaq stuff regardless of what the actual content is. There's nothing preventing other things from using that port as well. It sounds like your machine is connected directly to the internet without an inte... |
Hi all, I am trying to figure out where is our ls-release or/and distribution string. Something like this for instance :- http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/cat-etc-rel ... buntu-p35/ Just found about http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444678 and lsb_release -a which does the same thing. | Code: Select allsudo find / -name *release [sudo] password for bw: /lib/udev/keymaps/force-release /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/force_release /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease /usr/share/bug/lsb-release /usr/share/doc/lsb-release /usr/bin/lsb_release /var/log/installer/lsb-release |
Hi all, I use subversion to check out some small projects and small games from time to time. Sometimes I see the 'U' which means upgrading coming in different places or even coming twice 'UU' . Now I always wondered if there is some specific reason why it comes out that. Here's an example of the check-out done from a g... | From 'svn help update': A character in the first column signifies an update to the actual file, while updates to the file's properties are shown in the second column. |
Running an upgrade today on my server and after "reading changelogs" it stops at this: Code: Select allsamba (2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze4) stable-proposed-updates; urgency=low * Please note that upgrading to 3.5.* series, the "map untrusted to domain" configuration parameters was introduced and defaults to "No". It means th... | Just press "q" to continue with the d-u. |
Hi! I have a laptop with a floppy drive, and it works fine in Windows, but I'm not sure how to use it under Linux. It does not show up in PCmanFM, like my USB-harddrive, but I do have a /dev/fd0, so I tried: Code: Select allsudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt and then it complains about the file system not being specified, so I d... | What happens when you type the -t vfat command? Is there actually a floppy disk in there? Is it faulty? Have you tried other options (msdos, fat, etc)? Are the vfat / fat /msdos modules available on your system (lsmod |grep vfat) |
Could I disable some services ? Is there anyting to be done ? I've heard about a 200 lines kernel code miracle, in version 2.6.38, but there's a power bug issue to it, but maybe from version 2.6.38.2 on only. Does anyone know better ? I'm running an overclocked system with 512 and it's still clumsy... I might actually ... | Edit: A troll asked me "how much does it cost" above. Just so I make sense. More than necessary if it can be handled by a few clicks. The question is, am I willing to pay just so unneeded stuff can run hapily in the background ? or rather... How much does bloat cost ? But if you are willing to pay the bill... |
After using Iceweasel/Firefox 4 on Squeeze for a while (an hour or two), the bookmark toolbar becomes unresponsive and sometimes the folders (I have some bookmark folders), when clicked, will open but as soon as I move the cursor to hover over the link (to select it) the menu disappears. I never had the problem with Ic... | Do you have Compiz running? Sounds like the Firefox 4 borking Compiz bug. |
Hi, I'm looking for a way to use "xterm -e" with multiple commands. (the -e option set the beginning program of xterm session) I have a script like this: Code: Select allecho "answer? " read answer_a if [ $answer_a = 'y' ] then #code else #code fi I'm wondering if it is possible use the script in only one line as argum... | I believe what you're looking for is "|" (xterm -e "xxx | yyy". The problem is that it executes them simoultaneously, so that if you want to do first one and then the other one (as in aptitude update/upgrade), I don't know the answer. Actually, if somebody knew it I would learn from it as well |
someone has got a docu/how-to/info stored somewhere? a bookmark? Problem is easy: http://www.dillo.org/ says you need to install fltk2 first. Version in experimental is 1.3. If i pick the download tar.bz of fltk2 i run into: " .... not declared in this scope" during compilation of glut. Error messages of that kind don'... | Is there a reason you can't use the GLUT in the repos? |
Hello, is there a way to set level of sound parameters (those you can set by running "alsamixer") at boot? Sound on my netbook is low. I fix that by running "alsamixer" and bringing PCM level to the max. However, as soon as I restart the system, low sound is there again, and I have to run "alsamixer" again. Any definit... | I think if you adjust alsamixer as root then it will stay. |
Hello, I'm running Debian Squeeze on a Dell Studio Laptop, and this morning my computer woke up and gnome was randomly frozen. I dismissed this as a random error and proceeded to hard-reboot the computer. It now will not boot at all. After multiple attempts, every time the boot process hangs on "Starting GNOME display ... | How about booting with Live CD and mounting the / parition of your installed debian squeeze and checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/log/dmesg or something in the mounted partition? Or how about checking filesystem error of your debian partition, for example by executing fsck? |
Hi, recently I am trying to switch from Iceweasel to Chromium. I am running Squeeze which has in its repos Chromium 6.0.472.63; unfortunately with this version I am not able to install any extension (I need some of them to sync bookmarks, tabs, etc..) because chrome web store wants me to upgrade before I can use any of... | Your idea is not so good because you would not recieve any security updates. You can use the Testing repo but you have to use pinning. http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#Pinning You do not have to run Testing yet of course. But there exists also the possibility to use Chrome not Chromium directly from Google. |
Upon booting my LVM wheezy setup, I get Code: Select allfsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=theUUID' where "theUUID" (without the quotes) is the UUID I believe this is caused by me trying to get lvm to use the external /boot because when I had unmounted the external /boot, it was creating a /boot in root. So, I booted a... | Just set the boot partition via fstab and it'll be fine (as far as mounting the boot partition as /boot goes). |
Hello all, I'm very new to Debian, though not so new to Linux. I could use some help with my internet connection, if possible. I have used the information available at wiki.debian.org/iwlagn to install firmware etc for my Intel Pro Wireless 4965 card. According to the network applet the connection is good, but it only ... | Did you install the required firmware actually? Could not figure it out from your post. |
This one is making me a bit confused since I am unable to find the log file. Ok here goes the background: If I build alsa using m-a it seems to work with skype and wine but the stock installed debs does not. (Skype crashes etc). So I use module-assistant to build the driver and it works. However if I use a custom kerne... | The headers package install is supposed to create symbolic links in /lib/modules/<kernel-version> that link to /usr/src/linux-headers-<kernel-version>, the links are called "build " and "source". Could you check and see if those exist? If not, the command to create them in the terminal for the running kernel (I'm going... |
(spaced removed to put [solved] infront) I have triplebuffer set up in the xorg.conf, i am using the squeeze Nvidia drivers (the ancient one), installed debian way. In nvidia-settings, i have enabled all the entries of sync to vblank, but after i log in, if i go a glxgears, i get 1000+fps, then i start nvidia-settings,... | solved add to autostart Code: Select allnvidia-settings -l & |
Something must have broken somewhere, but I have no idea why or how. After installing Squeeze and getting everything to work, I pretty much left my system unchanged. The only exception was trying out the latest KDE from the repositories ... which I later deleted again. Right around that same time I also noticed problem... | Hve you tried a reboot? |
Thats the problem, I have dosfstools installed but when i push mkfs...command not found....tha odd is when i install gparted for instance same thing i can't push gparted... My system was built from debian 6 terminal based, and is now with openbox / thunar, put it simple, with the only things i need, i dont have any pac... | You need to be root to use the command. Use the root terminal. Code: Select allmkfs.vfat |
Hi! This might be nothing but when booting a computer directly into the console (tty), and running htop, I expect the list of running processes to be very short, but it turns out I have more than 50 instances of Code: Select all/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon running (see screenshot below). Is this normal? htt... | It is normal. Those are not processes, it is only one process with several treads which htop shows as more processes. If you are unsure, kill any of them, it'll kill every single one of them. |
Sid cmake 2.8.1-2 dh-make .54 dpkg-dev 1.15.7.1 I'm having some issues building deb packages. dh_make --createorig behaves as expected, but when I attempt to buld the package with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot the build dies on a dpkg-source error. Code: Select alldpkg-buildpackage -rfakerootdpkg-buildpackage: export CP... | Hmmmm---I actually ported over Daisy from the Ubuntu Lucid repo, so I had an original source tarball sitting there when building it for Mepis. So you had a source folder and an .orig folder when you launched the build command? |
Hey guys! I've been around for a while, and I've tried using FAQ's, search engines, etcetera to solve my problems and questions, but sooner or later I came up with some problems. Here are the questions: 1) I am looking for a CD/DVD install image that suits me, preferably having the base system, xorg, awesome and if it'... | danielmarti5 wrote:Hey guys! I've been around for a while, and I've tried using FAQ's, search engines, etcetera to solve my problems and questions, but sooner or later I came up with some problems. Here are the questions: 1) I am looking for a CD/DVD install image that suits me, preferably having the base system, xorg,... |
I try to play a DVD but get the error Could not read from resource | What error did you get? Have you installed yet the codecs you need to play DVDs? |
I have Debian squeeze arm installed on Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 clamshell pda. Could not get gpsdrive (2.10~pre4-6.dfsg-5+b2) to read gpsd, xgps works and shows at least 7 satellites, also cat /dev/ttyS4, what is Billionton CF-gps receiver shows valid NMEA sentences. There was a bug filed on bug tracking system, no answer... | On the desktop, I can right-click on a displayed map and have it download the map plus a certain number of zoom levels. If your device does not support right-click, perhaps you can transfer the maps over from another machine. They end up in your HOME/Maps folder. |
I am using Deluge on my Debian server, for a simple auto start at boot I us the following lines in the /etc/rc.local Code: Select allsudo -u User deluged sudo -u User deluge-web Deluge is running after boot but i wane check if its running with User account and not as root. So I did a ps -aux | grep deluge and notice a ... | I really enjoyed this link ymmv http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/sy ... cd-scripts if it's only needed per user, are you sure it needs to be started this way? |
Hi, I'm becoming nuts with conky and remind me of the time when to draw a line we need to input the start and the end point, even so i realllyyy like the resources it consume...or better it don't... Said that all the config i find put all the info in one place of the screen, in this example on the right side: http://ro... | Please dont tell me i have to do this, in my conky.conf calling all the confs i need for each of my info, like in this example i find... conky -c /home/1.conf conky -c /home/2.conf and so on..... REV |
Hello! I need to install a Linux distribution at work and I'd like to give Debian a try (I've been using Gentoo for years at home). But as it's a Windows environment, I'm currently trying to see how Debian could cope with that, meaning how to register to LDAP (I found this: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/battista/do ... i... | Evolution-exhange is what you're looking for, I think. That should let evolution get emails from an exchange server. |
I cannot run safemode as user. Iceweasel ignores safemode and opens a normal window. It works fine as root. I tried a slew of switches I found posted on the Mozillazine KB and elsewhere: iceweasel --safe-mode iceweasel -safe-mode iceweasel --safemode iceweasel -safemode None of the above worked as user. I did not test ... | Just in case you don't get much in the way of reply traffic... I was unable to reproduce your problem. Entering iceweasel -safe-mode brought up Iceweasel in Safe Mode. |
I have these installations: 1. Wheezy on SSD (/dev/sdb) in one single partition (50GB) 2. Squeeze on HDD (/de/sda) with /boot, /root and /home. Both drives are ext4 and they share one single swap partition. I normally run wheezy on ssd since it is much faster. But, I have to log into my /home in squeeze in order to acc... | Just mount your Squeeze /home partition onto your Wheezy /home directory. Code: Select allmount /dev/sda? /home You need to be somewhat careful because certain Squeeze configuration files may be incompatible with the Wheezy versions of the same installed programs. Perhaps it would be better to just mount your Squeeze /... |
I am trying to upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (using my sandbox installation). After upgrade, I booted into 2.6.38-2-amd64 kernel, but there are no networks. I managed to fix the wired network, but have trouble with wireless network. In squeeze, I compiled the driver for my ralink usb and worked ok. But I cannot compil... | That driver may be too old for 2.6.38. Try the newer 2.5.0.2 driver. http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 |
Using Gnome, with which I am unfamiliar and am trying to get the basic thing of recording whatever is on the screen, 'screencasting'. So tried adapting http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/ ... -on-linux/ to debian. But the command Code: Select allffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -ac... | Code: Select all$ ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 output.mkv ffmpeg version git-N-30155-g01a73d6, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers built on May 23 2011 22:32:40 with gcc 4.4.5 configuration: --enable-gp... |
Trying out Kubuntu, I was pleasantly impressed with the in-depth localization of KDE. Anyway, Debian + KDE seems way behind. I set my locales using dpkg-reconfigure locales but few popular applications got properly translated. Crucial apps, like Dolphin, K3B or notification daemon still haven't a single word in my nati... | gdm3 lets you choose the localization before starting a session, else u have to edit some files (like duh) kdm i am not too sure, but when ur localization is chosen everything will be translated if possible. |
I was installing a Conexant driver when the process was interupted. Now when I try to open synaptic or install upgrades I get this message; Code: Select allE: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. When I run; 'dpkg --configure ... | That deb builds a kernel module as part of the install, so build-essential and your kernel headers need to be installed first. You could try force-removing the package that's creating the hang-up" su -c 'dpkg -r --force-all <package_name>' Though I don't have any idea if this would work. |
Hi all, Today I was updating grub and for some reason the system hanged. Going to a tty did not solve any problems. At the end I had to do a hard reboot and came up with the following on the grub boot Code: Select allreloc offset is out of segment Entering rescue mode grub rescue > Googling for the above I landed on th... | As far as I can remember, there is live-build that can create live Debian CDs. |
Respected Users/Admins hello, I am a Fedora user and have recently shifted to Debian. I tried to install httperf using the following command as root user: Code: Select allapt-get install httperf but apt-get cannot locate the package: Code: Select allroot@D6-VM:/home/saad# apt-get install httperf Reading package lists..... | Your sources.list only contains the lines Code: Select alldeb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib Generate sources.list : http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ Don't forget to add contrib and non-free Mine looks like ( just part of it ) : Cod... |
Hi, just got a new LCD, the fonts are a little blurry. This is what i got in my .Xdefaults: Code: Select allXft.dpi: 80 Xft.antialias: true Xft.hinting: full Xft.hintstyle: hintslight Xft.rgba: rgb Is there something else i can add to it or change? Thx | Check this forum first before posting a question here. Most issues are already discussed here! http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... ilit=fonts http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 4&start=15 |
I am trying to install grsecurity as per http://kernelsec.cr0.org/ The sources.list file is as follows. root@debian:/etc/apt# cat sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 ... | Hi I received your comment in my tutorial Install grsecurity kernel security from binary package (without kernel recompile) on Debian and Ubuntu - http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/install-gr ... nd-ubuntu/ I forgot to mention that the command: debian:~# apt-get update needs to be issued. Try to issue the command and try ag... |
Did not know where to post this so general looks good i guess I have three pc's in the house, one desktop and three laptops. the two windows pc's (windoze 7) worked with dsl and firefox just fine. my linux debian laptop DID give me a network connection, i can log in as admin and change the router/modem ect with no prob... | Probably not a browser issue. Rather, this sounds for all the world like a DNS problem. Typically, DNS servers are assigned by DHCP. Please post the output of:Code: Select allcat /etc/resolv.conf Also, let's try a ping to a 'Net address. What happens if you Code: Select allping 74.125.53.99 |
I want to use LaTeX text in Inkscape. Just a simple thing like $$x_i$$. There is an extension called textext with installation manual. Basically one have to copy four files into /usr/share/inkscape/extensions and one more option appears in Extensions menu. So far so good. If I try to use that extension I get an error m... | python-xml in Lenny appears to have been replaced in Squeeze by python-lxml. Can you try installing that package and see if that fixes the error? |
Hello, I'm tryin to install virtualbox on my debian testing, but when i check my package manager there is no virtualbox-ose package. Will virtualbox availabe again in testing ? Thx | Why not : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads |
i'm using iceweasel 4 form mozilla.debian.net, in last few days my package manager can't access their repository, their web page also unaccessible. Anyone knows why? thx | Same here....Just be patient... |
I am building a website for network use (maybe open it up later for my friends) but wanted to stream live video to a webpage with a chat bar so multiple people can chat and use their cams (maybe with voice?). looks like ffmpeg would do this ,but getting conflicting reading on the net as to which programs on linux debia... | Maybe webcamstudio? http://www.ws4gl.org/ Shoot, that's what I forgot to package for the M11 repo! |
So I'm using Iceweasel 4 from the mozilla.debian.net repos. I recently upgraded a friend's computer from Windows Vista to Debian Linux. I went over to his house to chill and hopped on his computer to check my Facebook and noticed that his Iceweasel has the Firefox 4 single menu button at the top left of the window. He'... | From the regular iceweasel menu... Code: Select allView-->Toolbars-->Menu Bar When you uncheck the Menu Bar it's replaced by the single button. I believe the default button placement is to the left of the tabs, but the "Movable Firefox Button" add-on allows you to to place it on any toolbar. |
Hi all, I have Debian v6.0 unstable successfully installed on ACER 8930G laptop with all the bells and whistles (nVidia 3D enabled, compiz, fusion,etc... ). I noticed every time I used gedit editor I get a warning like this when typed gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Code: Select all(gedit:15464): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Fa... | I have Debian v6.0 unstable There's no such thing as Debian v6.0 unstable. What did you install, Debian 6 (squeeze) or Debian Unstable or something else? |
Hi all, I had the illtime to upgrade to libc6 and it broke my kernel. I saw the bug-report but as I'm not cool/familiar with grub2 here's what my kernel line says and what the solution in bug-report says . Its a dual-boot box which got broken/borked. the following is after pressing 'e' for editing the kernel booting pr... | shirish wrote:Ok, now I have difficulty understanding/following the same. I *think* that the break= init rw is to do with this line :- Code: Select all linux /boot/vmlinuz -2.6.38.2+ root=uuid long alphanumeric uuid code [color=#FF4080]ro[/color] init =/sbin/bootchard quiet should this be changed to simply :- Code: Sel... |
wheezy 2.6.38-2-amd64 KDE update (about 15 min ago on other machine) completely obliterated operating system. can't even see it on grub menu. can't find it with super grub II disk either. any way to get it back or must i ...RE-INSTALL....AGAIN? | Gone how? And what upgraded? No issues on a fully upgraded Debian sid system. Other than you formatting the partition you had Debian installed on or doing one of the silly rm -f / things, there is no way it is actually gone. Grub or your kernel may have been removed. That is why you always pay attention to what is bein... |
I never set up cron before, but I figured I would use it to automate some things. I wrote a few simple bash scripts and threw them in /usr/local/bin, and I set up a time for them to run. The machine was on, but they never ran. If I run the commands manually, they work. But cron never seems to execute them. Inside /var/... | Most common cause of errors I've seen of symptoms where scripts work fine in a shell but not inside cron is PATH issues. cron executes scripts with a default PATH set to /usr/bin:/bin, so I'd recommend you check all your scripts and make sure they include full path if necessary. |
I've been using debian unstable/experimental for some time now (1-2 years), though I have never had to deal with anything quite like this. Put simply, my system appears to be completely FUBARed. A few minutes ago I was doing my routine $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade, this time it was pulling in libc6 2.13-3. Everything l... | Boot from a rescue disk, chroot to your install, reinstall the earlier libc6. |
Hi. Below are example screenshots of Freemind from Ubuntu Lucid and Debian Squeeze Lucid Squeeze You'll notice that there is slightly different quality, it is also applies to pdf documents. and my question is.. how do i increase rendering quality in debian squeeze? thanks | I don't see any difference, even if I switch between them very fast, they are pixel to pixel identical to me. Maybe you have different version of X/kernel/drivers/whatever and thus everything is rendered better (differently) in Ubuntu - everything that's being drawed on the screen. But the images seem the same to me. |
The folder "xxx" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to create it in the destination. Have a Raid-System and just made a 3TB ext4 partition and a little ntfs partition... Both Partitions are recognized perfectly and i have access to the ntfs partition without any problems, but when i try to copy a file... | You'll need to give yourself write permissions. If you're not particularly security conscious, you can allow "anybody" to write to the drive (I say anybody, I mean anybody who is in possession of the drive) by doing this as root:Code: Select allchmod 777 /path/to/mount/pointReplace "/path/to/mount/point" as appropriate... |
I want to install a clipboard that will copy from the internet and paste in office. I looked in the package manager and saw a plethora of clipboards. Before testing several, I would be interested in hearing opinions about available packages. Which ones do other users think are more useful or function better? | I like parcellite. It runs in the panel, and is configurable. I've tried several, and came back to parcellite. |
Okay, say I had two computers and each had a wireless card, there is no router and no cables or usb sticks etc. Would it be possible to connect the two computers together somehow through the two wireless cards? If so how | Never tried it, but this is the idea; http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc |
Is there a terminal command to lock the screen? I am using GNOME if that matters. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! | Code: Select allgnome-screensaver-command --lock (I think..) |
Hi, I'm wondering if exists a way to know how many writings I coulddo on my usb pen, by the moment that the number of writings is limited... anyone can help me? (sorry for my english, I'm italian) | Not really. There is no exact number of writes that flash memory can do before it breaks, it is all statistics and suchlike. And the statistics cover the individual memory cells, so it'll be different for each block on the drive (as will the number writes for each block). Basically, whatever is on your pen drive, keep ... |
Hi all, running Debian Squeeze on a toshiba laptop, 3G ram ,AMD 64. have a game disk (World of warcraft, wrath of the linch king) and when i put it in the drive it does display the grey icon on the desktop but i am not able to unmount it. The two commands i find are : sudo umount /dev/cdrom sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,... | It is busy because you are in it's mount point (lets say reading files). Your path says you are on /media/cdrom0 and you are trying to umount a drive mounted to that mount point. |
Was hard to find a title for my Thread. My situation is: Installed Ubuntu along with Debian on my Notebook and use Grub Manager to choose between them on startup.. Since i like Debian now a lot (in past days it was a very hard system to handle, but there has been some progress i noticed), i have to change some things (... | You will have to: 1. mount the /home partition of Ubuntu if it's not automounted by Debian. 2. then you need to automount it so you must edit /etc/fstab. 2a. run 'ls -l /dev/disks/by-uuid' to see the UUID of the partitions then put as /home the one currently used by Ubuntu (with the same values as the current /home in ... |
I just did a standard installation of Debian Squeeze. I want to get the following packages: compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-gtk According to the Debian Wiki (if I read it correctly), these packages are all in the Debian Squeeze Stable repo. But when I Code: Select all... | deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free |
Hi all, I'm sure all of you know this. Sometimes when we update/upgrade packages we get the restart required icon on the desktop panel which means we need to reboot for the update to complete. Is there someway to know which or what package required the reboot to happen ? | Install debian-goodies, then after doing an upgrade, type (as root) checkrestart. This will tell you if any of the currently running programs need restarting. |
Hi everyone I'm using Debian testing and sometimes my whole system just locks up. There are 2 cases: 1. System freezes while running * suddenly programs stall until complete freeze * then the whole screen freezes * sound stops playing and locks up in a loop * pushing the keyboard/sys rq/power button doesn't help anythi... | Denwid wrote:Hi everyone I'm using Debian testing and sometimes my whole system just locks up. There are 2 cases: Dennis Just curious, which version you're using? Lenny or squeeze? Squeeze has gone stable now |
Hi, Because of a serious cups bug in Squeeze, I need to install a new instance of Lenny on a computer today. I have been looking around the site, and I cannot find a way to download an installer for Lenny... Is this possible? I just want that first "small" cd for i386 PCs. I can pull the rest over the net. Thanks! G | http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archi ... 86/iso-cd/ |
I just did a fresh install of Wheezy and every time i try to install something, i get something like this: Code: Select allErrors were encountered while processing ca-certificates-java Down the error message i see: Code: Select allSetting up ca-certificates java Configured to not write apport reports Any ideas? Thanks.... | The certificates were upgraded. |
Machine has 600MHz Celeron cpu, 256MB ram. I did a Squeeze netinstall. At the software choice stage I unchecked "desktop", and left the bottom choice ("basic system" IIRC) checked. Then I installed Xorg, XFCE, Iceweasel, cups, Abiword, xpdf, using apt-get. It runs well, does what I need, BUT: after I log in and type st... | To be honest that system is simply too low spec for Xfce. My old craptop with an 866MHz (or something like that) Celeron and 256MB (now retired from use) was unusably slow with Xfce. You are going to need a window manager like openbox, fluxbox or icewm for that machine. |
I mean, I followed the http://mozilla.debian.net/ wizard, but I have a problem about I don't have xulrunner-2.0, but I need libcairo2, but I have at the last version(saying apt-get install libcairo2). So is there a way to install Iceweasel 4? Sorry for my not perfect english, and if you want more info, just ask me Edit... | mharrison wrote:Or you could go to mozilla.debian.net and select your version of Debian and select 4.0 and it will give you specific instructions on how to install. Read the first post, thats what he did. |
I have installed Debian for Sparc and it works fine. I can't get the video to go above 640x480 but it works. If anyone knows what I need to set to get a higher resolution please tell me. However, the subject of this thread is : Is there a place I can get updates? In my conf file it only shows getting files from the cd.... | Login single user. Code: Select allXorg -configure Edit what you need for your card. What modes can it use? Does it require a frame buffer? Do you need to set the card frequency? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml Pay attention to: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-spa ... hap2_sect2 I had to do what w... |
Hello! I am trying to execute command mactime in order to control changes made to the file system, but I am getting an error. I am running the shell as root, and it is the first time I run the command in this system - Debian Squeeze up to date. The I/O is as follows: Code: Select all# mactime 3/1/2011 cannot exec /bin/... | Run mactime with no arguments and read the usage message. The date string is particularly important. |
Hi all, Is there some command where I can do something like :- Lemme know all the packages which I have installed which are in experimental but which can be downgraded or can be had from unstable. Is there such a way ? Looking forward to know. | assuming you have apt-show-versions installed the following will show you all available versions of the packages that you currently have installed from experimental: Code: Select allapt-show-versions -a $(apt-show-versions |grep experiment|cut -d/ -f1) The following will show only the unstable versions which are availa... |
Hi all, I want to use bootchart to see how much time its taking for things to load up and the desktop to settle. I am having a little trouble figuring out how to make sure that bootchard loads up each time (non-interactively) so I can easily put up the results and see what could be done better. The man page of bootchar... | Try edit /etc/default/grub like Code: Select allGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/sbin/bootchartd" and run as root grub-update, then reboot. Peter. |
Hi all, Is there anyway to find out which packages are obsolete and which can be removed entirely without a dependancy issue. I get outputs something like this :- Code: Select allCurrent status: 51 updates [-9], 2370 new [-1655]. There are 35 newly obsolete packages: chromium-inspector, console-setup-linux, crystalspac... | Code: Select alldeborphan $(aptitude search ~o -F"%p") will run deborphan against each "obsolete" package. deborphan will tell you if any packages depend on the given package. You could also set all the obsolete packages as auto-installed. That should trigger a removal for any packages that aren't required. Just note t... |
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire One D260 netbook with Wheezy installed. The wireless connection to my router/modem keeps dropping out. The distance between the netbook and modem isn't an issue as it can happen when I'm in the same room as the modem. Most of the time I'm in the next room with a timber wall seperating the netb... | lspci |
Greetings! I got libgnome-keyring0_3.0.0-1_amd64 with my full-update with SMXI this morning. After that, the keyring wouldn't remember any passwords, and empathy wouldn't log into any accounts. A restart didn't help. I downgraded to 2.32.0-1 and everything works again. Anybody else with this problem? | Sort of the same problem here. Just installed Debian Sid from testing netinst and update. When synaptic pops up asking for password, the keyring option doesn't appear. I copied all the keyring configuration files from another sid install (about a week old), and I can see the keys in System/Preferences/Passwords and enc... |
It is happening on my netbook with Gnome running Squeeze. It was running squeeze before it became stable. X was running fine and loading automatically on booting. Then I did not use it for some time. Then I ran apt-get updates and upgrades after squeeze became stable. A few packages were kept back. So I did aptitude di... | Try running this command as root: Code: Select allapt-get install gdm3 |
I have a home server with over 200 GB of photos on it in my /home dir. The server runs Debian squeeze. There's room for two drives, so I had the bright idea to buy a second identical 1TB drive, format it with the same partitions as drive1, and periodically rsync from the main backup on drive1 to drive2. Then if/when dr... | try using paragon Disk manager do you have access to a windows computer? |
Hello, I want to find some interesting games but the complete list looks a bit daunting. I can search the web for this information but what would be even better is if I could search a category in order of popularity. Is there a way to do this? Categories can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ If not, is... | Have you tried Synaptic, or even the Software Center? Should both be installed by default in Squeeze if you are using Gnome. If not, you can install them. Code: Select all# apt-get intall synaptic software-center |
I've had this problem before in Ubuntu but I don't remember how I fixed it. I have buttons for the open applications on the bottom panel. If I move from one to the other with the mouse, the button highlight doesn't follow. I have to go out of the panel and back in to a different button. I removed and reinstalled the ap... | Same problem with another theme..? |
Hi, Yesterday I installed a RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI on my squeeze system. Now I have a connection to Internet but I can not connect other systems in my home network. An ssh-try to a system in my home network results in: ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: No route to host If I use my eth0, I do not have con... | A bit more detail is required. Are both interfaces connecting to the same network? DHCP or statically assigned? If you are using a network manager, they usually seem to disconnect one interface before connecting the other. |
Hi all, I get a small issue while I'm doing jigdo-lite which I do not know how to get rid off. Code: Select all$ jigdo-lite Jigsaw Download "lite" Copyright (C) 2001-2005 | jigdo@ Richard Atterer | atterer.net Loading settings from `/home/shirish/.jigdo-lite' ------------------------------------------------------------... | shirish wrote: What happened was sometime back when I was using jigdo-lite instead of putting the keyboard finger at 1. (which was /mnt/jigdo) the finger got placed somewhere else and I get a font-face like we get of unicode font without the font-mapping and each time I have to remember to carefully put my finger to 2.... |
Hi, I am currently using live-build version 2.0.12-1 with squeeze I am building a usb-hdd with lenny. when building, the following files from the directory "./config/chroot_local-includes/etc/ssh/" are not copied to "./chroot/etc/ssh/". ssh_host_dsa_key ssh_host_dsa_key.pub ssh_host_rsa_key ssh_host_rsa_key.pub But the... | I Have found the problem. The script "/usr/share/live/build/scripts/build/lb_chroot_hacks" is removing all the openssh-server hostkeys. Thus removing the ones I have put in "chroot_local-includes". I do not know the purpose of this! It took me several days of work to figure it out. I do not know what is the right way t... |
Is there a way to enable 60FPS in recordmydesktop? I can only do 50FPS even though my computer is outputting at 60FPS. | On Debian Stable using this command: Code: Select allrecordmydesktop --fps 60 --no-sound --no-frame I was able to record with 60 frames per second. My graphics hardware is integrated intel and I have no compositing active. Perhaps it is a limitation in your hardware? I am unsure exactly how recordmydesktop works. You c... |
problem is when I connect with WinSCP I get this error "Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?" if I use sftp in shell I get "Connection closed" this is how I installed Code: Select allaptitude install scponly --> Install the chrooted binary /usr/sbin/scponlyc SUID root? YES cd /usr/share/d... | tryed this Code: Select all scp hej.txt nissehult@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:in/ --> nissehult@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx's password: scponly[6448]: chrooted binary in place, will chroot() scponly[6448]: 3 arguments in total. scponly[6448]: arg 0 is scponlyc scponly[6448]: arg 1 is -c scponly[6448]: arg 2 is scp -t -- in/ scponly[6448]: ope... |
I can't install my graphics card Radeon HD 3200, I use the same driver as I always do. But this time it did not work, it boots with an X error and I can't get into gnome. Here is the Xorg log. Code: Select allX.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2... | why dont you just install firmware-linux-nonfree? those work perfect for me Code: Select allapt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree |
Hi! I'm having some troubles with Rhythmbox, I have a lyric plugin enabled but when I ask for a song's lyric I can't see it because of the character map settings, here is an example: Code: Select allIt's funny how So the question is how can I run Rhythmbox with an specific charmap? Thanks! | You are not alone. But you should google this issue first. Here it is with a patch for the TerraParser.py which has a regex error. And here is the clue for you also |
A day or two ago I saw a weird file in my downloads folder, and deleted it. I'm not sure why I deleted it rather than wondering why there was a weird file there, but anyway...another one has shown up. name: datetime type: PS document (application/postscript) It's an image. The top part of the image shows what I was doi... | Could be worse. It's odd they would appear in your downloads folder. I'd look into the logs corresponding to the date and time the file was created. |
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