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Can someone please tell me the login password for the LiveCD if I Logout? Is the login "Debian Livecd user"? I can't find it on the forum with searches. Thanks. Larry | Try: user: user Pswd: live Those are common. If they don't work, Google. This is a common question and someone out there has it. You can also go to a terminal and do "sudo pswd root" and then set a new root password. |
Hello everyone. I'm setting up a Squeeze system with multiple users. I would like to have it the way that no user is allowed to read other user's files. I have searched the net and the forums here and have found quite a lot of stuff but it's all a bit confusing to me. Some suggest that one should use Code: Select alldp... | Why not just Code: Select allchmod o-wrx /home/user1 You can do the same with groups I suppose, but the default user setup is that they are a member of their own group. |
Is here somebody who knows why are not available on mirror packages linux-headers-2.6.38-1-686 and linux-image-2.6.38-1-686? These packages are required as dependencies for linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-headers-2.6-686. http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6-686 http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-... | It was fixed a few hours ago on my local mirror. 2.6.38 is now in the repo. |
Folks, I need a bit of help. I want to set up my printer, and a PDF printer. The HOWTO: at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6 states to run "printerdrake". But I can't find that software by using "which printerdrake". I've searched the forum and got 200+ hits and it states to use [url]http://localhost:... | WHOO HOO! Finally found it on the Wiki under Hardware - NICE! Larry |
Cannot install updates. Click on icon which says 65 updates available but update manager opens and is blank and frozen .Reboot and same results. apt-get install updates says Unable to locate package updates. Everything has worked perfectly upto now I am running Squeeze. | post the output of Code: Select all$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list Bobkat wrote:apt-get install updates says Unable to locate package updates Because there is no package called 'updates' Code: Select all$ man apt-get Update notifier is a useless sack anyway, use aptitude or synaptic. |
Is it possible to prevent the disclaimer from being displayed as soon as one logs into a terminal? I am referring to the six standard terminals. If there is a manual that I can refer to, please indicate me what I should read. P.S. I searched the contents of /etc and googled without much success. Thanks. | Have you seen /etc/motd ? |
I have a removable USB pen drive, that all of a sudden, when it got 99% used, stopped working. When I try to mount it (manually) I get "can't read superblock". I know there is a ton about this on Google, and I've read a lot of them, but most seem to be about formatting a drive, or fiddling in fstab. I'm trying to run f... | Before trying fsck, I suggest you to use testdisk which can allow you to recover your files back. In the not so remote past, I recovered full MBRs with it! |
hi, is there any extra repositories for debian that contains flash, sun-java java and some other restricted stuff? thanks. | Have you enabled contrib and non-free in your sources list, doing so should get you both flash and sun-java. Additionally you may want to consider debian-multimedia. |
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ ... ent=134123 does this theme work properly in debian? tried installing it but has many defects, what do I need to make it to work? thanks edit: Debian 6 squeeze | What defects are we talking about? I've been using it for some time now, haven't noticed any serious issue (actually no issues at all). I added the repository listed on gnome-look page and installed it through Synaptic. After installation, take a look at System > Preferences > Orta Settings Manager for fine-tuning. |
Hi all, I've just moved all my machines from Ubuntu to Squeeze and am currently trying to remove Open Office. When marking for removal and uninstalling OO the package manager requires that AbiWord and associated suite of office apps be installed as a replacement. I would like to completely purge both as I have little t... | Remove the package(s) that are depending on them being installed. |
I have the Assistive Technologies Blue Icon in the Top Right Panel, and I'd like to Remove it. I have un-checked "Show" in the APPLICATIONS Menu after unlocking that Panel. I have Dasher, On Screen Keyboard, and Orca un-checked so they don't "Show". I also have Assistive Technologies un-checked in SYSTEM -> PREFERENCES... | Try System > Preferences > Keyboard On the Accessibility Tab uncheck "Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts" |
Hello everyone, I have a Debian Lenny server with Bind9 (slave) Shorewall and OpenVPN on it. I also have a Win 7 client at my disposal to test the OpenVPN connection. I can make a connection with my Win 7 but when i'm connected i can only ping myself and the server's OpenVPN NIC (TUN0). The Debian server has 3 NICS. On... | Never mind it i have found it. I needed to add the following to my openvpn.conf at the server: Code: Select allpush "route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0" push "route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0" route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 |
hi. just started using Debian today and I would like to know how can I disable the user acount password, I am the only user on this computer so I would like it to boot strait into my account. thanks | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=29333 Another method, if you're using gdm ( not gdm3, i don't know gdm3 ), execute : Code: Select all$ gksu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup On Security tab => Enable automatic login => Put your username there |
Did a fresh install of Debian 6.0. Cannot start fsck. None of the ways seem to work. I tried issuing 'shutdown -rF' and 'touch /forcefsck'. Where's the culprit? | Which partition you want to do fsck? Post the corresponding lines from your /etc/fstab You could force fsck in the following ways. 1. If the partition is not the root paritition, unmount it and do fsck manually as root 2. If it is the root paritition, the easiest way is to change the mount count. You could find the mou... |
Hello. I am currently working on making a audio interface work with a otherwise working debian desktop (its actually AVLinux, but its Debian for all intents and purposes). The problem is, the current version of ffado-svn installed (1949, from the experimental repository) has a bug with the firmware on the interface (an... | From your experimental source files, follow the procedure here: https://sites.google.com/site/stevosfil ... kports.txt Extract the Debian files and then pull out the /debian folder. Extract your svn pull if necessary, and rename it in the debian fashion. You may have to poke around inside to find the svn version. If it... |
Hi all, I've been a very happy user of Debian Squeeze (gnome) for a few months already. Everything works great, but I am encountering an annoying, and regular problem: almost every time I update my system (through synaptic) and reboot, my desktop theme gets reset to the more "blocky" default gnome one. What I do is run... | Anybody? |
The Problem: I use LXDE and in the "preferred applications" I set icedove and iceweasel as preferred mail and internet applications but when I click on an e-mail link(craigslist in my case) not only does Icedove not open, but in Iceweasel HUNDREDS of blank tabs open up rapidly and it is difficult to kill the program. T... | Did you look at : Iceweasel : Edit > Preferences > Applications > mailto ? |
using squeeze + gnome when the screensaver kicks in, the unlock window has a "leave message" button does the "leave message" function work for you? any message I leave there is not displayed back to the user after unlocking the screensaver | Yes I know it's from the Arch forums, but I think this will answer your question: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38775 |
Hello, I've grub2 installed on my debian sid 64bit. In the grub.cfg file, I have : Code: Select allinsmod png if background_image /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-grub.png; then set color_normal=light-gray/black set color_highlight=white/black else set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/b... | You should not be modifying grub.cfg directly. For what you want see /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh After modifying that run Code: Select all# update-grub |
I have 2 debian squeeze in 2 computers. Both set up like this: pc#1 /boot ext2 / ext3 /home ext3 pc#2 /boot ext2 / ext4 /home ext4 I would like to upgrade pc#1 to ext4. I propose to do this: 1. on pc#1 change the / partition to ext4 2. copy /boot and / images from pc#2 and write the images to pc#1 That will still leave... | You can change your filesystems "in place" if you wish, using the 'tune2fs' command and then performing an 'fsck'. You can also convert from ext2 to ext3 using 'tune2fs' with the -j option. This is explained in more detail on the EXT4 WIKI. Be sure to read the "notes", especially the one on the steps needed to perform ... |
I've search the web, but didn't find anything specific to what I'm trying to do. Is it possible to batch print all files in a directory from the CLI? I'm sure it is, I just haven't found the right package. It can be done with OpenOffice, but the files are all PDFs. Rich | http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/prn/filetypes.html |
Hi, Is it wise to mix Squeeze stable with sid packages? Or is it better to install squeze testing and mix testing with sid? Please advise since i'm not quit sure what to do with this. many thanks! | Nope, it isn't wise - which isn't to say it isn't possible, if you're knowledgeable. This question comes up a lot - did you search? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612 [By the way, testing is now called Wheezy, not Squeeze - although they're very similar at this stage.] |
Can Google Chrome be used on Debian Squeeze? Yes or No | http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html? ... form=linux |
I've been using debian unstable for some months, and after some problems I've been having with the nvidia non-free drivers and pulseaudio, I decided to do a new fresh install. As in the first time, I used a netinst CD, and all went ok. The first three times it booted perfectly, with gnome and all the apps, without prob... | DanielMarti wrote:and after some problems ... with the nvidia non-free drivers ... I updated the system ... boots, but it brings me to the console... there's no display or that the X window system is not available. What happens? What response do you get toCode: Select allstartx What method did you use to install the nv... |
Hello all, while trying to get a game to work on wine I was surprised to find out that the wine version that ships with sid is 1.0.1 released in October 2005. So I installed the latest release I found at http://www.lamaresh.net/binary.php#sid_amd64, like this : dpkg -i wine_1.1.42~winehq1-1_amd64.deb The install failed... | You might try these more recent packages.... http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ |
Hello, I've been searching for a utility in Debian that allows me to zero fill the UNUSED space on my partitions (thus dd is useless) and have had no luck googling. Is the such a utility? The idea is to make deleted data unrecoverable. Thanks. Edit: If such a tool exists, how would it deal with journaling? | Journalling is a bit tricky, since some metadata for deleted files might still exist. But if you're worried about that then zeroing the drive won't be much better, you'd be looking at /dev/urandom or simply destroying the hard-drive. The simplest method in fact uses dd, dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bigfile.0000 The above c... |
Hi, I am trying to install iptux from source because i need to change the default port else it won't work. while configuring i get this error : configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.16.0) were not met: No package 'glib-2.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you install... | It's not asking for libc, it's asking for glib:Code: Select allapt-cache show libglib2.0-0 Package: libglib2.0-0 Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 2396 Maintainer: Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: glib2.0 Version: 2.24.2-1 Replaces: libglib2.0-dev (<< 2.23.2-2) Depends: libc6 (>= 2... |
Hello, I have been experimenting with using apt-get to compile from source. I have some questions on what is really happening, concerning specification of the deb and the subsequent upgrade. This is the course of events, for a compile of, say, htop: Code: Select allcd /usr/src su root apt-get build-dep htop apt-get -b ... | You might find something useful in this thread: HowTo Build a Package from Source the Smart Way |
I'm sure it's possible, but I haven't found an elegant way to do it. I can't just use the GUI since I want to integrate this line of code into a greater shell script for this project. My preferred terminal is terminator, but it doesn't really matter at this point. | I don't know about terminator but this might help : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-shell ... x-or-unix/ |
When does the grub-pc splash screen disappear? On my computer it is displayed until "Loading, please wait" appears i.e. after both initrd.img and the kernel are loaded. A yes and no answer is enough. Thanks. | I admit the question sounds dull, but I am referring to the splash image, not to the grub menu which obviously is cleared when the kernel starts loading. Why am I asking this: I have used Trinity Rescue Kit CD which uses the splash image both for the bootloader's screen and the terminals' background. So, the questions ... |
Fresh Squeeze install: I have AWN running and right now I have used gconf-editor to stop gnome-panel from being a part of the Gnome Sessions...I think it was in Desktop -> Sessions -> Default Settings..or something like that. Before I did this I was just clearing out the entries for the top panel, using Apps -> Panel -... | mharrison wrote: Since removing gnome-panel from the session, I cannot use ALT + F2 anymore. Well that's how it is. If you remove the panel ALT+F2 doesn't work. What I've done is to install gmrun. You can bind gmrun to ALT+F2. Preferences>Keyboard shortcuts>Add If I were to put gnome-panel back, is there a way to keep ... |
Hi, I've tried with the help of some older topics about Dropbox to install Dropbox. But for some reason Dropbox can't be installed no longer?? Or am I searching on the wrong place?? See screenshot. Can someone tell me what's going on with Dropbox. Many thanks! | just download the source from the dropbox site and compile it your self. it's not difficult, even i can do it |
Hi all, I have installed phpBB3 and I need a turorial of how to set it up. This is my first time trying to use this software and sadly I cant even figure out how to access it. I have tried http://localhost/forum as suggested by some other tutorials but I still cannot access it. If someone would be so kind as to point m... | Absent Minded wrote:That is a great link Rolling Stone but I don't have a install directory. I will look around the site some more to see if there is a way I don't have to install from source. Just a thought for you (and slightly off topic): For live sites I personally prefer to install apps like phpbb and other CMS so... |
Since I cannot upgrade Adblock Plus anymore because iceweasel is too out of date for the new versions, I am trying to give privoxy a try. I am following the howto Block Ads & Fast Caching w/Privoxy +Squid without success. I am always receiving the error: Code: Select allThe proxy server is refusing connections Icewease... | edbarx wrote:Since I cannot upgrade Adblock Plus anymore because iceweasel is too out of date for the new versions [...] Well, can't help you with privoxy, but you know you can get Iceweasel 3.5.16 from backports and grab a newer version of Adblock plus? If you use pinning, you will get the latest version and security ... |
Hi! I am now preparing myself to upgrade lenny to squeeze and decided to do a backup on my system. I used backup-manager to do the job and it worked fine. My question (sounds trivial and very noobish) but how do you restore said backup data? Sorry, I practically lost the restore part. Any guide is highly appreciated. T... | I haven't used backup-manager... Based on its website, I'm assuming it created one, compressed archive file? If so, uncompress the archive with the appropriate tool (e.g. tar, gzip) in the location you want to restore it to. |
Hi mates. I recently removed my extra partition to use my /home for all my files. Now I wonder.. When I do a new install and choose to mount this partition as /home, will the installer add the new config files to it or edit the linux-related files on it..? Or does it leave the partition as it is? I figured, new install... | Leaves the partition as is if that is what you specify in the partitioning portion of the installer. When reinstalling, I always Code: Select allrm -r .* To clean the accumulated crap and configuration files from the previous install. |
has anyone got Weatherbug to work on debian 6 yet? downloaded and install full java and it works. | I never use it, I just go here. Link has profanity... |
I've been struggling with CUPS on Debian for close to a year now. I've got both Debian Squeeze and Maverick on my EeePC that I use at work (at a high school). The printer we use is an NEC MultiWriter 3650N---a Japanese-only model; the only info I can find on it is in Japanese. NEC has a CUPS driver for it in a .deb pac... | angus77 wrote: I'm not too fond of the idea of installing an Ubuntu package on Debian, but if there's a safe way to do that in order to get access to the printer, I'd do it. How stupid would it be to try? The fact of the matter is that Ubuntu packages are binary incompatible with Debian packages. The openprinting.org l... |
I'm hoping someone can help me with the problem of my MPC client being refused connection to my MPD server. Here's the background. I'm building a music server using an Alix board with Voyage linux installed on that. The Alix board is attached to my laptop, running Debian, and the laptop acts as the file server via NFS.... | did this connection issue start before you configured ripit or after the ripit thing? |
Hi all, I've been getting this message at every boot sequence: line 8 in /etc/fstab bad but othewise everything works fine. Been googling everywhere, but for the life of me I can't find the culprit. Below is my fstab; any help is appreciated, thanks! [Using gnome on Squeeze, fully updated] ----------------------- # /et... | Replace the mount option for the root (/) with those the system provided, as seen on the line above it. |
Ok, new problem. I can now get Ripit to run, but right after its got the artist and track data and displayed it, it then says it can't write to the error log on my output path. However ripping and encoding of the music seems to happen as it goes through all the tracks, but at the end the same error message appears and ... | An update on the problem. The actual error message is "Can not append to file /dev/sdb/Ian Astbury - Spirit Light Speed/error.log" Can not append to file error.log. The Ian Astbury part of the error is the name of the CD. Can anyone shed any light on this? I thought it may have been file permissions and changed them to... |
He guys i got a question about making a package from orginal wine source. I keep getting a error on the last part (will post the errro later in post ) What i do is this . apt-get install devscripts cdbs dh-make apt-get build-dep wine cd to the directory dh_make -n -b -s Edit the debian/rules and add: CONFIGOPTS = --wit... | never mind already found it (after 2 weeks ) Needed to remove the fglrx-glx-ia32 package from the package manager |
I've installed RIPIT 3.6.0-1 for Lenny and have been following this tutorial to define a config file that saves all my options and which I can call every time I want to rip a CD http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... ilit=ripit Following that tutorial I copied the config file in etc/ripit/config to the new directo... | Solved for now. For some reason when I created a new directory in root called .ripit it created a file instead. |
I'm using Debian stable. When I turned on Synaptic today and reloaded it I got the "Could not download all repository indexes" error and the following info was in the window: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/l ... 6/Packages: 403 Forbidden [IP: 149.20.20.135 80] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/l ... 6/Packag... | I was having similar problems on my two systems that run Debian Squeeze Xfce. In my case, after about an hour's worth of trial and error, I solved my problem by exiting Synaptic and then manually editing /etc/sources.list to change my repositories from http://ftp.us.debian.org/.... to http://http.us.debian.org/.... It ... |
Hi... I want to have Debian on a seperate partition on my USB stick... How can I do this? Also, how can I specify which packages I want to be installed on that? Thanks in advance guys! | That is what i would do: install Debian in VBox set it up the way i want it. follow this guide: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38870 put the result on a stick with unetbootin |
I just installed Squeeze_di_rc1, whit gnome, when i insert any usb stick i recive how can i solve it? At the same times i tried to format in fat 16 with gparted but the result is the same. tanks | Is your USB stick formated properly? If it is, then what file system does it have? |
I just updated Grub2, I have a dual core AMD with /boot on sda1, swap on sda2, and / on an encrypted LVM (AES2) somewhere on sda Nothing I do makes it work again. Grub just says xputs not found and gives me the grub_rescue prompt. Is there now or will there ever be a grub2 package that works on amd without problem agai... | Please help rather than letting this be pushed to the bottom |
I am trying to find out, if an application is chrooted jail or not. I have tried to do as suggested here, but something is wrong I believe. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-chroot-service.html Code: Select allpidof apache2 24714 24404 24366 24365 24364 24363 24362 4923 Code: Select allls -ld /proc/24714/root lrwxrwx... | If you're checking the symlink from inside the chroot, it'll look like there's not one; this is the intended behavior. |
Hello everybody, I'm currently using Debian Lenny 5.0.7 and I tryed to upgrade to Squeeze. I followed the instructions from Debian's Guide: 1. I changed my repositories to squeeze in sources.list 2. # aptitude update 3. # aptitude install apt aptitude dpkg 4. # aptitude safe-upgrade After this last command, the compute... | Sounds strange that the system takes so long. The error has to do with memory allocation andindicates that apt made your computer run out of memory... Did you have a fully up-to-date system before you started the process? Also, maybe first maker sure you only have the standard repositories selected, and not any additio... |
Good afternoon Debian Community, I have used Debian extensively since the Etch days. Recently I have an opportunity to do some cutting edge 3d stuff. It involves BluRay and 3DS Maya/Blender. Unfortunately, Linux and BluRay are two technologies that sometimes don't fit perfectly. Even with the nearing release of Squeeze... | Many people who do not know write many things on the web that are not true. What you have heard about the Debian online community being unwilling to help are untrue. Most Debian people will do anything to help anyone who needs it. Some get short with users who demand that the problem be fixed for them, as if that is th... |
Got some strange output during removal of a package: Code: Select alldebian:/home/hallvor# aptitude remove deluge-torrent-common Desse pakkane vil bli FJERNA: deluge-torrent-common The following partially installed packages will be configured: python 0 pakkar oppgradert, 0 nyleg installert, 1 skal fjernast og 0 skal ik... | That didn't work. There was also the same error when Squeeze tried to upgrade python yesterday. Complains of a missing directory. Code: Select alldebian:/home/hallvor# apt-get -f install python Les pakkelister ... Ferdig Byggjer kravtre Leser tilstandsinformasjon ... Ferdig Den nyaste versjonen av python er installert ... |
Hi All, I've been running squeeze for ages without issue, and have been using Chrome from the Google repo. I performed an aptitude dist-upgrade last Friday and got the following error: Code: Select allroot@thinkpad:/home/rob# aptitude dist-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: google-chrome-beta 1 packages u... | I don't think you're supposed to do dist-upgrade on a thing like that, try Code: Select allaptitude safe-upgrade |
Hi there. I was wondering how can I re-download only all currently installed packages. I would like to save them to removable media, because I use netinst disc to install, and on slow connection it's hell to download 1GB of packages with console-only. Advice? | Maybe something like following would do... Code: Select all$ dpkg -l | grep "^ii" | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs aptitude download |
Hi all, I have been trying to understand the program jigdo-lite which is part and parcel of the package Jigdo-file. This is the description. Download Debian CD images from any Debian mirror Using the jigdo-lite script contained in this package, you can use your nearest "regular" Debian mirror to download Debian CD imag... | Now of course this is going to take some time. I noticed few things. Now in this directory four-five files and a directory is made :- Code: Select all~/jigdobeta2rc$ ls debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso.list debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso.tmp debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso.tmpdir debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.jigdo debian-testin... |
I wanted to upload photos to my flickr account. I installed flickrfs using synaptic manager. In terminal I did this: Code: Select allshum@shum-i7:~$ flickrfs Authorizing with flickr... ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variab... | Check this: - open terminal as root - type: gedit /etc/groups Look in this file for the fuse entry and check if your (user)name is added at the end of the line. Let us now if this helped you. |
Hi, Wen i send a private message, it takes a very long time for sending it. Anyone else witht the same problem? | It doesn't get recorded as sent until the recipient reads it. |
Solved: Generated a new pair of keys and put the public key on my router... Hi all, I always used my Win XP laptop with putty to connect to my home router when not at home. I now have a debian notebook running squeeze and like to do the same. I exported an OpenSSH key from my putty ppk file with puttygen and copied it ... | Putty uses a key format of its own. It can convert the keys to and from the format that Debian uses. |
Hi all, I was trying to adjust my gnome-terminal actually. Opened up Gnome-terminal and went to Edit > Profile Preferences > General Tab. In the General Tab there is a font option. Tried to change font-sizes but saw there is only 18, 20 and other sizes but no 19. I also saw similar things in many other fonts. To invest... | You should be able to type any value you want into the font size box. |
Just upgraded from Lenny to squeeze, and noticed that the comment in /etc/fstab, and it says that I should use vol_id to find my UUID, but shouldn't it be blkid? My system can't find vol_id? What am I doing wrong? | vol_id is present in Lenny, but it was removed from udev version 142 upstream and version 146-1 in Debian (the current one is version 164-2), about a year ago. The upstream change log reads "delete vol_id and require util-linux-ng's blkid" (1), thus a bug against mount (I think) should be filed, asking for a documentat... |
Can i make a .desktop file taht it executes autostart.sh script or any other script? like xmonad.desktop od dwm.desktop?so that when gdm or any other gui login manager loads autostart apps in xmonad? | Problem solved.I made a litle scrpit xmonad_start.sh that looks like this nm-applet & conky ? nitrogen --restore & urxvt & xmonad | dzen2 made it executable with chmod +x, opend usr/share/xsessions the xmonad.desktop file in gedit as root and in line EXEC= xomnad upt the path to the xmonad_start.sh script. Sorry for bo... |
Using Debian Stable and Chrome 8.0.552.215. Whenever I try to print from Chrome it crashes. Running it from the terminal gives. ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: ... | Updated Chrome, seems to be working now. |
hi guys,for the past two days i am trying to update my system using synaptic but it always end with the error while reloading the package lists Code: Select allRelease file expired, ignoring http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release (invalid since 12d 5h 39min 10s) i am using Debian squeeze amd64 gnome 2.30... | Note: This repository will not be updated anymore. After the squeeze release, it will be removed in favour of a new, soon to be announced, project. http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ |
I am unable to use Steam via Wine. Here is exactly how I have installed Steam (downloaded the sid amd64 .deb from lamaresh.net): Code: Select all# dpkg -i wine<tab-completed>.deb # aptitude install lib32nss-mdns wine $ cd /tmp/ wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97pro/fonts/1/w95/en-us/tahoma32.exe # apt... | According to the wine website http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=19444 Steam runs good, but in newer wine-versions. Exactly that is the reason why I have an installation of Arch Linux on my desktop. It is a minimal install with only Openbox and Wine, it gives me the latest wine-versions and all is running... |
Update: my solution is in this post: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 72#p307103 For days now I've been trying to work out how to get a "full" debian installer (ie, not a netinst installer but as much as you'd find on say, the first CD) onto a bootable USB stick. Most of the tutorials I've seen work with the... | The new #! Linux uses the Debian installer AFAIK, and their solution is here. |
Hello, When i go top http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ and click on the link to download/install de debian-multimedia-keyring, a pop-up windows appears with the choice to open the file with file-roller. But i want to open it with aptitude to get it installed. Am i missing something? How can i setup Iceweasel to make su... | gdebi |
Hello, I'm building my minimal LXDE desktop. I want to install a GUI application to manage users and groups (we can run with command: users-admin), but I have to install gnome-system-tools to get it. I don't wan't to install gnome-system-tools because it will bring many other applications that I don't want. I try to se... | You can find a python gui made for arch at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch5.3/i686/ (luser) Never tried, found it with Google. |
Is there any actual difference in performance by installing from source beside the config options? And is there a way to "benchmark" applications, to see if there is any difference? | Hexley wrote:Is there a way to "benchmark" applications, just to see if there is any difference? To measure what? You can certainly time startup speed. Hexley wrote:And is there any actual difference in performance by installing from source beside the config options? Probably so, but I doubt it is enough of a differenc... |
I just updated to a new Kernel, in Squeeze. So far everything seems to be working properly but NetworkManager. It shows that I am not connected but I obviously am because I am posting this thread. When I click on the icon in the bar by the clock, with active applications, it does not show any networks available, even t... | Post the output of: cat /etc/network/interfaces cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf Read /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian Its new configuration (1) should manage the connections but it might not work as expected if you edited the configuration files manually. 1. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs... |
Hello Debian users , Today I ran fdisk command and I was so surprised with its result: Disk /dev/sda: 320 GB, 320070320640 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 38914 312576673 5 Extended Warning: Partitio... | I never tried to create the extended partition only, but according to "man fdisk" it must no cause difficulties. If your system is working then it is no needed make anything. See the output of the command Code: Select allfdisk -cu /dev/sdb for example to my disk Code: Select all#fdisk -cu /dev/sdb Command (m for help):... |
Hi I inastalled Debain Lenny as a dual boot with ubuntu 10.10. Chose not to install Grub legacy in the mbr or in any partition because I thought grub2 could handle it. All went well, updated grub2 in ubuntu and it found Debian, but when I try to boot into Debain it hangs at - waiting for root filesystem. I've searched,... | Ubuntu 10.10 parses UUID as root device instead of /dev/sdx to kernels that have initrds, but Lenny initrd cannot handle them. You can try editing Debian boot entry (by hitting 'e' when selected) and changing "root=UUID=...." to "root=/dev/sdx" for SATA or SCSI drives, or "root=/dev/hdx" for ATA drives. |
I want to add something at the end of each line, from line 4 to line 8, in vim? How can i do that? I know adding at the beginning is like: 4,8: normal: i# What i want to add contains special characters ( here it is: <br/> ) , in case that matters. I want to add tabs at the beginning of each line, from line 6 to line 12... | To put something at the end of 4 to 8 lines do the following Code: Select all:4,8s/$/something/g To put tab at the beginning of 6 to 12 lines Code: Select all:6,12s/^/ /g You could use '\' as escape character |
I first had Virtualbox installed in Lenny, before I dist-upgraded to Squeeze some time ago. After the upgrade, however, I can no longer boot iso images from the hard drive in Virtualbox. For instance, I tried booting a Debian Lenny netinstall iso and the Squeeze beta iso, and had the same problem with both of them. The... | Booting from a "real" CD worked. Not an ideal solution, but it did the job. Thanks! |
When installing from source, you usually need to full fill the dependencies. Are those deps only needed while compiling or to actually run the application? I imagine that the -dev deps only are needed for compile... Am I wrong? | The -dev packages shouldn't be needed after installation. |
I am runing squeeze. "uname -r" returns 2.6.32-5-amd64 As root I issued my usual update and upgrade commands this morning, all of which seemed to go nicely as it always does. I then did “shutdown -r now”, another habit of mine, to reboot the system. Great surprise! I suddenly had a quite colorful splash screen and a ma... | This happened to me also several times (grub failed to recognize LMDE, so no Debian plot ). Only solution to me was to run update-grub several times, after I think 4-5 times it suddenly recognised LMDE. |
Hi Using Squeeze and a Canon Pixma IP4600 Printer. The color on the printed pages used to be true and now it isn't, it still print is color just not the correct colors....hmmm please don't ask of clarification on this as I am color deficiant or color challenged (what used to be called color blind) which dosen't mean I ... | Hey! Which driver do you use? You will need to install the "color-model". I hope no one tries to kill me for this frowzy declaration.In fact you will need these two packages: cnijfilter-ip4600series_3.00-1_i386.deb + cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb. You can download them via ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linu... |
Hi All, I am having some good time with Linux Mint Debian Edition, but I want to transform it into Debian Squeeze. In my installation, I've just 7 minty packages, the rest are from debian repo. Please have a detailed look here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=59424, and suggest me debian replacements o... | I wouldn't do it. There are likely to be configuration files that do things differently. Having said that, I did the same thing some years ago. The distro I was using came to an end and I had nowhere else to go. So I changed my sources.list to the most compatible Debian one and slowly did upgrades; a few at a time over... |
Hi, After a large update of software I can nolonger open Squeeze. I get past the grub screen however before the gdm starts up the screen goes blank and stays that way. I have only one kernel showing on the grub screen. I tried in Recovery Mode: Ctrl+Alt +F keys with effect and startx returns a blank screen, this is why... | Bulkley wrote: That's why I gave up on proprietary drivers. The Open source drivers available for Debian are pretty good these days and they survive upgrades. I agree completely with exception of nvidia drivers. |
I have a Truecrypt-encrypted Windows [system] partition, that I want to be opened and mounted automatically (using a keyfile) when I log into Debian, since it is also encrypted and I don't want to type two passphrases. It think this could be done with LUKS. With TC I probably have to go with the CLI, but haven't figure... | Fsck, it is impossible. TrueCrypt User Guide (for Windows): Keyfiles are currently not supported for system encryption So maybe I can use the CLI tool, to supply the passphrase? NO! Now this should have worked: Code: Select alltruecrypt -t -k "" --password=MYPASSWORD --protect-hidden=no /dev/sda1 /media/truecrypt1 ...o... |
I am using my netbook with Squeeze when I travel. I recently started getting a msg "Network discovery service has been disabled" or something to that effect. And many websites have been blocked as well. I discovered that I could remove avahi-daemon to fix it and I have done so. Unfortunately, the websites are still blo... | Hmmm at a guess I'd say IPv6 is your problem: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6 |
I want to prevent grub-pc from automatically creating links to other operating systems on my laptop. Whenever there is a kernel update, grub.cfg ends with links pointing at my Windows 7 installation - I want to get rid of those links. At the moment I am doing that by manually editing the grub.cfg file and it has always... | Maybe Code: Select allaptitude purge os-prober |
Over at linuxquestions came up a question about installing from pendrive. I a) am in the mood of buying something like a laptop/netbook or such without cd-rom and b)just was curious. I don't get it running. I am following this how-to: http://www.linuxconfig.org/install-debi ... mory-stick which was posted by craigevil ... | I tried with lenny and with squeeze, with a self-made live including an installer, expert-mode, stock installation, unetbootin, business-card and netinstall and what not. |
Hello fellow Debian users! ^_^ I'm running 32bit Lenny on an older Dell Dimension 2400 running the 2.6.26 Kernel. This box was mainly used to play movies for my son over the network (most are encoded by me using xvid and lame). One of my kids wanted to use the computer to watch videos on youtube. I attempted to install... | do a "cat /proc/asound/cards" It SHOULD look something like 0: [Audigy ] "bunch of numbers IRQ: "some number" if you see come other card listed first like "pcspkr" or "Intel / NVidia HDA audio" (these can either come from on board sound or video cards with HDMI ) you will have to edit a file to make sure it never gets ... |
After following some suggestions I've found searching the web, I have installed VLC to handle these files, but was only rewarded with half success as I was only able to put my system reading the sound portion of the files, with no image. Is this an "issue" of Debian (I'm running Lenny) with the available codecs being a... | mkv is only a container. Certainly the applications in Lenny can handle the matroska container. Where it gets more interesting is in the contents of the container. If it's h.264 at 1080p or maybe even 720p then the applications in Lenny may struggle to decode it easily. Lenny is quite old now and approaching the end of... |
I'm thinking it might be a PuTTY issue, or maybe just a windows issue, but when I ssh into my linux seedbox and run mc from windows it has a bunch of funny characters , but when I ssh in from a linux computer it looks fine. mc, via putty on winXP http://debe17.com/images/2010-10-22-094 ... 4_wixp.png mc, via open-ssh-c... | Ah, a wee bit more searching & reading (as well as contemplating while writing the OP) I've sorted this out. It is a PuTTY issue, and how it translates character sets. All I had to do was in PuTTY was to configure it to use UTF-8. Cheers |
In general i use my main PC. I got a little github-repo i work on with others. If i make changes on my main PC i do Code: Select alladd name_of_changed_file[s] git commit -m "what did i change" git push origin master I am now at my second PC. i did: Code: Select allgit clone git://github.com/tornow/backup_scripts made ... | nadir wrote:In general i use my main PC. I got a little github-repo i work on with others. If i make changes on my main PC i do Code: Select alladd name_of_changed_file[s] git commit -m "what did i change" git push origin master I am now at my second PC. i did: Code: Select allgit clone git://github.com/tornow/backup_s... |
So I know I've got inotify-tools installed; I've got a daemon that runs and it's using inotifywait to move some files around. This thing is: Code: Select all12:20:16 /home/barrie $ >> dpkg --get-selections | grep inotify* 12:20:29 /home/barrie $ >> aptitude show inotify-tools Package: inotify-tools New: yes State: not ... | Have you got libinotifytools0 installed? It replaces inotify-tools. |
Hi there, /home is running out of space, the partition on my computer is LVM, any software like Partition Magic etc to handle it? If doing from command line, any know of any tutorial? Thanking you | All commands to work with logical volumes start with lv. Type lv and hit the tab twice to see them. You probably want lvresize. |
Hi, I set up a debian lenny in vmware on my windows machine. The network interface is set to bridged, so the virtual machine is connected directly to the university network i am connected to. I want to be able to ssh into the vm. I installed sshd via "apt-get install ssh", generated a key pair with puttygen and copied ... | hm, I may have found the problem. After altering the configuration, I restarted the sshd with "/usr/sbin/sshd restart". Now I tried a simple ""/usr/sbin/sshd stop" and my ssh console session is still running. Somewhere i found "/etc/init.d/ssh stop" but this doesn't work either. How do I start and stop the sshd properl... |
Hi all, I've carelessly installed grub on hda5 instead of hda, using: Code: Select all# grub-install /dev/hda5 And now my hda5 cannot be mounted with ntfs-3g. Here the error message 'mount' gives: Code: Select allFailed to mount '/dev/hda5': Invalid argument The device '/dev/hda5' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. As ... | 'testdisk' would be my first port of call. It's in the repo's Code: Select allaptitude install testdisk |
I have a relatively new Squeeze installation I have been living with for several weeks now and it is working extremely well. At this point I am in Squeeze 90% of the time and two other Linux distros are used only sporadically. Debian has emerged quickly as my preferred tool. I really do like it. I have just one small p... | Are you sure you're not typing it in wrong the first time? |
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/dists ... ckages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Tried 3 different mirrors all have the same error. I assume this is the same issue we had a while back where one package was messing thing... | Having problem here too :W: GPG error: http://mirror.yandex.ru squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2 Tried several repos, the output is the same. What's wrong? |
Hi. In a squeeze box, I'm trying to create an ISO image from a CD using brasero, but brasero only shows the options to create cue or cdrdao options. What can I do or install to let brasero create iso images? Thanks in advance | Code: Select alldd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/cdrom_image.iso should work too |
Hello guys... I'd like to cut the 5th field of df command's output, but I'm not successful... Code: Select allamlj@debian:~$ df -P /usr/ |tail -n1 |cut -f5 /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt 118231084 6658328 105566908 6% / I tried out every option I could think of... Not successful yet... What I want, is to have the used space, l... | If you want to use cut, you may want to tweak with -d option. I would pipe it to awk: Code: Select all$ df -P /usr/ | tail -n1 | awk '{ print $5 }' |
Dear All, I am running debian testing for the x86 architecture on my box. This morning, while updating, I got this error message (I ran apt-get update before) $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libx264-... | Either a bad download or a defective package in the repo. Try again tomorrow, I suggest. |
Experts, Please during # apt-get update and # apt-get ugrade, I get this screen? What to do with this? Code: Select all cron (3.0pl1-110) unstable; urgency=low In the past, long-running jobs caused certain MTAs to time out, resulting in no output being sent. Justin Pryzby's patch to fix this has been included. It may b... | This is called apt-listchanges and are warnings related to the new packages to be installed; just hit 'Q' like you would to exit a man page to proceed with the upgrade. |
Dear All, I often happen to give skype-to-landline (or skype-to-mobile) phone calls for work (calls to my boss who does not have an internet connection when in exotic places). Most of this conversations are work related and, having been granted permission by my boss, I would like to record them to an audio file instead... | you could probably use audacity to record them. its a very nice audio program. you'll want to tell it to record mixer, but not all sound cards let you do this - that may depend on your sound card. if you can't select the mixer, there are a couple workarounds. first, you could try to put a microphone directly up to your... |
Hello all, does anyone know of a good subtitling tool? I want to create hardsubs for a .mkv file, I tried converting it to .avi using ffmpeg to use avidemux and merge the video with a subtitle file, but the resolution gets really messed up after conversion. Anyways I don't want and additional subtitle file, but permane... | hmm... aren't most subtitles just specialized text files? i don't really know a whole lot about how they work but i'd suggest that you can just look at a template subtitle somewhere online and see if you can do that yourself. i also found the packages "aegisub" and "gaupol" in synaptic, which are related to editing sub... |
Hello, so I've got noip.com is supposedly redirecting requests to my machine but my work laptop, via cricket wireless, says it's done loading the page and nothing is there. Could someone please tell me if this is working? Should just see the basic 'It Works' screen. TIA, Barrie | The connection has timed out The server at 68.108.183.183 is taking too long to respond. |
Hi all, Been using Debian Squeeze for a few days now and I think it's a SUPERB distro. Everything works perfectly. To my topic: "Software-center" hangs forever when I try to browse non-installed packages. A search on this forum shows that it's probably a non-solvable bug. No problem, I use Synaptic and am very willing ... | use a terminal, su to root, and post the ouput of the command apt-get remove software-center -s |
Hi, I'm running Debian Lenny on a machine and every time I try to update apt I get the following error message: Code: Select allOK http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg OK http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-de OK http://security.debian... | Your network connection must be on before you use apt-get update. |
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