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Fetching the html for some web sites sometimes results in large outputs that exceed what can be scrolled/accessed using the up/down features. How can I move up/back to access the entire output; i.e., to the beginning of the html? It's probably something simple, but even after reviewing the man bash page, I can't find t... | in console or terminal: Code: Select allshift+page up |
I have Debian Etch installed on 2.4 Ghtz P4 with 1GB of RAM. Everything is working great (even Compiz-Fusion). The only problem I have is with the system sounds enabled, I have no audio on videos in VLC or in Iceweasal flash (YouTube). When I disable system sounds the audio for the videos is fine. I know the system sou... | Code: Select all find /dev -group audio This command shows all your audio-devices. ( ignore the errormessage ) Code: Select all lsof -w $( find /dev -group audio 2>/dev/null ) With this command you can see which apps uses which devices. If an app uses /dev/dsp* then that one might be the problem. All apps should use th... |
I downloaded a backup file from a web host using Plesk. Please don't ask about this host--they are TERRIBLE. Anyhow I see online that there is a tool called ripmime which I can use to unpack it. Problem is I apparently must compile the C code. I tried compiling the source from http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/downloads... | When you extract the tar.gz file you will see a file called "INSTALL". It's the install instructions... Code: Select alltar -xvzf ripmime-1.4.0.7.tar.gz to unpack under the current directory. |
Hi all!I have a strange problem which happens every time i open images with gimageview (gimv),or browsing the web(randominly) . When i use vesa i dont have problems but i really need accelerated graphics so i use the s3virge driver.Here is the problem: And here is my xorg file: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window Syste... | Hmm... will the vesa driver work? |
What's the difference between "debian-40r3-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent" and "debian-update-4.0r3-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent" from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0 ... 64/bt-dvd/ ? | about 2gigs different... one is to install a system and one is to update a system |
I feel completely stupid for asking this, but: I can log in with SSH with my user name. However, Gnome tells me that its an invalid user name/password. I even created a new user to test with, and the auth log shows: Code: Select allJul 22 12:31:31 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0... | I am thinking that maybe something got out of whack, or maybe I made a change some where? What sort of change would affect GDM, but not SSH? I thought they both goto the same place for user auth. Any suggestions would be helpful. |
I would like to slowly move over my files to Debian but I can't seem to get access to the partition in which Ubuntu is installed. With Ubuntu I had access to the Windows partition! Anyway; here is the output for the problem: Unable to mount the selected volume. libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_erro... | Open a terminal, su, mount. pmount only works with removable devices. |
i'm trying to get port forwarding working 3 interfaces eth1 192.168.2.0/24 internal net ppp0 external net -inet over eth0 192.168.1.0/24 i'm trying to forward 110 port on eth1 to 10.10.10.1:110 via ppp0 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.10.10.1:110 what should I do? | the solution is iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j DNAT --to-destination mailserverip:110 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j SNAT --to-source ipppp0 |
hey fellas, i'm new at linux. so, i got 192.168.1.0/24 local network 192.168.1.1 - mail server 192.168.1.2 - windows machine && mail client 192.168.1.3 - my machine so, the mail client 192.168.1.2 should send and receive mail through my machine (i know it's stupid so don't tell) and i have to forward smpt/pop ports to ... | i dont know iptables very well but if my limited knowledge is right you are trying to: If traffic goes to 192.168.1.3 on eth1 to port 25 then forward it to 192.168.1.1 Doesnt it suppose to look like: If traffic goes to port 25 then forward it to 192.168.1.1 I might be misunderstanding iptables, i might be wrong. But i ... |
I have a bunch of files called Code: Select allimg_1001.jpg img_1006.jpg img_1007.jpg img_1008.jpg img_1013.jpg img_1015.jpg img_1021.jpg and I would like to have them renamed toCode: Select all1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg etc I assume there is an easy bash script to make this work. thanks | Code: Select all#!/bin/bash i=1 for l in `ls | grep img` ; do echo $l renamed to $i.jpg mv $l $i.jpg let i++ done I guess it should fit your needs, coded it for you in 1 minute or so. |
My system came to a halt, well almost anyway. It took several minutes to change workspace to where I have top running in a terminal. Mem: 451248k total Swap: 489972k total All swap was gone and a few kilos were left of the RAM. ld-linux.so.2 used it all. I figured it would finish it's task if I gave it more memory by k... | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=754944 |
I'm having a problem with MLDonkey on a machine running Debian Etch. The problem is that I am always assigned a lowid and I'm being blocked from several servers as a result. Here are the details: OS: Debian Etch 2.6.18-4-686 MLDonkey version: 2.8.1-2etch1 The MLDonkey server is behind a router/firewall. It is assigned ... | Problem solved. For some bizarre reason, I had to enable Overnet and open the port for that. Who'd have thunk? |
here's the situtation. I am creating some flow charts for work in open office draw (which is a breeze) but i am attempting to find a method to convert the resulting .odg files into a format that is above-all viewable using microsoft office or if at all possible editable in MS office. I have been attempting to use unoco... | If something that is viewable is enough, why don't you try to export from OpenOffice.org Draw to PDF? There are many PDF editors for Windows available and also converters to make PDF files into Word douments. Using converters is likely to have a 50% loss of the original data, but if you can export to functional PDF fil... |
there's on nagios web readme that tells: make sure the wwwrun user has read to all files and write access to your $nagios/etc directory but the apache user is www-data and there's only /etc/nagios and /etc/nagios2 what should a newbie do? | On debian system, apache process run as www-data and not wwwrun. So, do the same things but with www-data user. In your case, you have to read what nagios say as : Code: Select allmake sure the www-data user has read to all files and write access to your $nagios/etc directory |
Hey guys, I've been running a Debian system for awhile now and from the look of things it seems that there is a lot of clutter. I don't know if its too much but I have like 7 different debian versions when grub comes up. So I was wondered if there is a script or program that cleans up the clutter and frees some space u... | localepurge apt-get clean deborphan check the forum data base. |
fsck is doing a disk scan every time I start my computer. Is there a way to reconfigure it? Do I need to reconfigure the package e2fsprogs? Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks. | this is probally something major wrong with the hd, i would be sure the drive was physically ok before trying to mess about with fcsk. hope this helps |
I was doing so spring cleaning as my root partition was bursting. I then did an upgrade and when I rebooted X was gone!! I thought dam I've broken something, never mind I was wanting more space in my root partition I'll just reinstall the root partition and kill two bird with one stone. No go it seems the new X is bugg... | Jeumeu wrote:Hi, Did you install the ATI proprietary driver ? Had you an update of the kernel version ? In this case, you should re-install it with your new kernel... There is no ati driver for ppc, only the free one. I just tried a new kernel. No go. It's not really a major issue, all my data is safe and accessible an... |
I recently noticed that find no longer works. Code: Select all$ find grep find: grep: No such file or directory $ find gzip find: gzip: No such file or directory $ find cat find: cat: No such file or directory Anyone know what could cause this to happen? I don't know if it's related, but I recently used Knoppix to run ... | pcalvert wrote:I recently noticed that find no longer works. Code: Select all$ find grep find: grep: No such file or directory $ find gzip find: gzip: No such file or directory $ find cat find: cat: No such file or directory Anyone know what could cause this to happen? I don't know if it's related, but I recently used ... |
Good morning/evening. I currently use cplay or moc but was looking at trying Sonata out. So I read that it's a front-end to mpd and you have to setup mpd manually. I'm having a hard time finding a real how-to for this however. Most of the information I can find is for users who want to access there music across differe... | Try this basic one: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15599 If that doesn't do the job, try this (more detailed) post: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration |
Hi.. i'm a linux newbie. I use Debian Etch. Today morning i updated Debian, using MARK ALL UPGRADES option in SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER. 1. Kernel was updated from 2.6.18-4-686 to 2.6.25-2-686 2. Iceweasel was updated to version 3.0 3. Gnome, synaptic & many others also got updated. Everything went smoothly. But after t... | Those updates didn't come from the Etch repositories (or even from Lenny). It sounds as though you've got some Sid repos enabled, and it's something of a tribute to the Debian developers that the upgrade went so smoothly. |
I am trying to install Recorder in Debian xfce and I am getting the following. I am probably missing some libraries, but I cannot say which. Code: Select allinxsible@debian:~/recorder-1.3.2$ sudo make install install -m 755 -d /bin /share/applications /share/pixmaps install -m 644 recorder.png /share/pixmaps install -m... | Did youCode: Select all./configure makefirst? It may be referring to things that need to be built if you haven't. However, if you did, try using auto-apt - it will automagically get the needed packages. |
Hello! I would like to write a bash scrit that opens a window, waits for 2 secons, and then take a screenshot of the opened window, and finally close the window. Is there any way to do that? For example, if I want to take screenshots to a PDF, #!/bin/bash xpdf file.pdf (delay 2 seconds) import -window root file.png (cl... | I think "sleep" will work for this. |
Ok, this is a new one on me. On my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405, Intel video card, Lenny, Openbox wm), I have (as of yesterday) some odd monitor (?) problems. (1) Twice the monitor has gone black, though I don't think the system failed. I couldn't get at a console, but if I held the power button for a second, I got a cl... | Definitely symptoms of a hardware failure, probably the video card failing. On a laptop, that's the kiss of death. Hopefully it's still under warranty. If not, hopefully it's just the monitor dying, which can be replaced. EDIT: Try connecting an external monitor, and use the function keys to keep toggling between inter... |
hey fellas, im kinda new at linux. got a quick question as i know if i would install the software from the sources (make, make install) that software wouldn't be registered in the system. so how to create a *.deb instead of doing "make install" thanks yall | You can use "checkinstall", install checkinstall and then instead of "make install" you type "checkinstall" follow the prompts and obtain a .deb This deb will not be a perfect deb package you can't share it with other people because it doesn't list dependencies, but it should serve the original purpose... To make a deb... |
I upgraded from Etch to Lenny the other day and it seems pretty stable. However, the version of Wine that Lenny has doesn't seem to work with my app like Etch did. So can I just enable the etch repos and find the older version of wine that's already in etch to install? Also, I haven't found a decent compiz how to for l... | oh, and I tried to get an older version of Wine from the official website, but my deb installer doesn't want to install it for some strange reason? I download it, then try to open the deb. file with the isntaller, and it just closes as soon as it opens... very strange... |
Hi, I updated linux-image-2.6.24-6 to linux-image-2.6.24-7 using Aptitude. However the ctalsa driver of my Creative X-Fi soundcard won't work anymore. I also tried to go back to 2.6.22-3 but I can't install the kernel headers (kbuild package is missing) needed for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers. Can I somehow un... | Did you remove the old one? If it's still there, Grub should still have it. Then it's simply a matter of booting to the old one. I always have two kernels: the previous one which worked flawlessly and the new one which I'm trying out. That way, I can always fall back. |
I've Googled this and done several aptitude searches, but this is what I get when trying to compile wine: Code: Select allconfigure: error: X development files not found. Wine will be built without X support, which probably isn't what you want. You will need to install development packages of Xlib/Xfree86 at the very l... | I've not tried to build WINE myself but try these two: Code: Select allxserver-xorg-dev libx11-dev In Debian you always need the -dev packages to build against. |
Hi everybody, I installed live-helper on a Debian Etch...I tried to create a simple image: Code: Select allmkdir DebianLive cd DebianLive (as root) lh_config lh_build but I obtain many errors like: Code: Select all tar: ./bin/umount: impossibile a cambiare il modo a rwsr-xr-x: Operation not permitted or Code: Select al... | corra wrote:Hi everybody, I installed live-helper on a Debian Etch...I tried to create a simple image: Code: Select allmkdir DebianLive cd DebianLive (as root) lh_config lh_build but I obtain many errors like: Code: Select all tar: ./bin/umount: impossibile a cambiare il modo a rwsr-xr-x: Operation not permitted or Cod... |
Hi again I decided to just try out other distro's with the free space that I had on my Hdd, so I installed PClinux minime. Everything seems ok so far, but PC linux only boots up it's own kernel by default. There's an option in the configuration to add new boot-up options but you have to specify the kernel image. I woul... | If your Debian install is untouched just boot into PCLinuxOS, mount the partition with Debian on it, chroot into it and restore Debian's grub. It's easy enough and it takes just a few commands from a terminal. Code: Select all# mount /dev/whatever/ /media/where-ever Where /dev/whatever is your partition with Debian on ... |
When I used Windows on a regular basis, a friend told me to reinstall Windows at least every six months. The reason he gave me was that data written on hard-disks gets corrupt with time. I would like hear from you what you think, especially, from those of you who know how hard-disks work. Thanks. | It may well be true of Windows, but it's not true of hard disks. |
Just installed testing on my desktop computer. Starts to boot, then I get this error: Code: Select allpadlock: VIA PadLock not Detected. modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting padlock_aes (/lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.ko): No such device After about 5 min, it times out and continues booting. | Try adding the module to the blacklist at: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Make a backup first and then : Code: Select allecho "blacklist padlock_aes" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist or edit with your favorite editor |
I'd like to edit menu.lst so I have an option to boot straight to CLI. "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" gets me there. But there are times I don't want to boot a desktop environment just to enjoy the CLI. Anyone know of a way? TIA! | Ook wrote:I'd like to edit menu.lst so I have an option to boot straight to CLI. "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" gets me there. But there are times I don't want to boot a desktop environment just to enjoy the CLI. Anyone know of a way? TIA! Why not just select the cli from your gdm login? Or remove gdm all together & use startx... |
Experts, please. Sometimes, when I do my apt-get upgrade, after all download, setingup and install, I can see these lines: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No ... | dpkg-reconfigure locales |
A couple of days ago initscripts, sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and sysv-rc were updated in testing and on shutdown I now get the message "killing all remaining prosesses failed". Is anyone experiencing the same thing? | ' |
I'm not sure if this is the right forum category. I am running Kubuntu 7.10 on AMD64. I made the mistake of trying to install VMware 2 beta 2 using the RPM package and converting it to DEB via "alien --scripts -d". That part worked. Then I installed it with "dpkg -i". That also seemed to work, but VMware didn't work. I... | We just talked about a similar issue in this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... highlight= |
I am using debian etch testing (amd64 edition). When using the stable version, wine worked without any problems. The problems started after I dist-upgraded to testing. When trying to execute wine, the script reports: Code: Select all/usr/bin/wine: line 394: /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin: No such file or directory The executab... | upgrade to sid, wine works perfectly ! |
I'm trying to set up an SSH tunnel to allow myself to use an SMTP server which is behind a firewall. I have an SSH server also behind the firewall that has access to the SMTP server. So, I ran this command: ssh -C -f user@ssh_server_ip -L 25:mail_server_ip:25 It asks me for my ssh user's password. I enter it an it appe... | You need to telnet to localhost:25 You are forwarding traffic to your local port 25 to the remote machine's 25. |
Hi Guys I have a Debain Linux 4.0 etch I used to connect it using ssh I need to configure ffmpeg and flvtool2 I am not able to do it as the CHMOD and UNAME commands are not working. Can any body help me in this issue how to resolve this | I presume that you are typing those commands correctly in lower case? |
Is it possible to use Synaptic with Debian KDE install? How do I d/l it? Does not appear to be in repos and link from Synaptic site is dead. Thanks! | As root: Code: Select allapt-get update apt-get install synaptic |
I don't find VirtualBox in the repos. Is there any similar program that could be used in Debian? I wonder why it is not available when the site specifically shows several different builds for the various Debian releases? | It is in the Lenny Repos as the OSE version. It also can be added by adding the vbox repo described on the Virtualbox site. |
I brought a set of blanks DVD+R, admittedly cheap but I just want to have temporary storage anyway. So yesterday I created a MPEG DVD by using this command: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/, it worked fine and I was able to watch the DVD. Well today I attempted to create another set of MPEG DVD but was stumped as ... | Disregard this query! I just discovered what the problem was. It was so obvious and staring at my face: Code: Select all:-( write failed: No space left on device I was attempting to write more than 4.7GB of data to the DVD disc. I forget to check the total amount of space in the /DVD file. Anyway, I have reduced the am... |
Hi guys, I'm new to Debian. I just installed sid and I'm trying to install Opera. This is what I get Code: Select alldebian:/home/corneliu# apt-get install opera Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package opera is not available, but is referred to by another package... | http://deb.opera.com/ |
Today, I tried to update my Debian installation. aptitude failed issuing the following message: Code: Select alledbarx-pc:/home/edbarx# aptitude update Get:1 http://ftp.it.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B] Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch Release Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit ht... | Maybe try replacing the /'s with spaces like this: Code: Select allhttp://security.debian.org etch updates main I don't really know, but that might help. |
Hi All, can someone please point me to a good how-to inorder to get my midi files to play? At present my players say they are playing but I get no sound out of my sound card. Everything seems to be in order, all my drivers for my card seem to be installed. Do I need to manually install sound fonts? I am a little lost h... | Should be something like: Code: Select allaptitude install timidity This'll allow you to play midi files through ALSA. |
I just installed deinan testing. I found out the update manager does not allow me to deselect all updates. Right now, It has a long list of updates totaling 300MB. I only want to install a few now, and I don't want to individually deselect every update. Is there any way to avoid this? | My suggestion, use the Synaptic, have it mark the updates, then you try to deselect what you don't want. |
I need the kernel headers for kernel 2.6.19. If you have it please reply to this thread and I'll PM you my E-Mail address so you can e-mail it to me. Package name:linux-headers-2.6.19 | The filename ('custom') indicates that this is a kernel you have compiled your self and hence no one has the header you need. I think you can make them your self though if you have the source from which you made the kernel. I'm not entirely sure but I think it should be something like this: Code: Select allfakeroot mak... |
hi, debian linuxers, I tried to install opera 9.26 but I failed at all. I wrote those commands as supeuser after I downloaded opera straight at the opera site, as follows: dpkg -i opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb apt-get -f install in order to chek which step I made a mistake I pasted the error down there be... | When I did that, it was easy. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list like this: Code: Select alldeb http://deb.opera.com/opera stable non-free And run: Code: Select allapt-get install opera Only it was not qt, but a regular one from here: http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/841/ Sorry, I don't understand your Spanish e... |
I have an Officejet All-In-One (6100 series) and I wanted to scan something with it using Xsane. But when I start it up Xsane it says that no scanning devices are detected. Is there a package I need to install to get this certain scanner to work? Could somebody help me set up my scanner or give me a link to a good walk... | try sane−find−scanner |
Application Post Cleanup? Is it possible to make a program started by clicking on in with KDE's menu to run a command on exit? This is my problem. I am using Kradio, as my front end for WinTv-PVR 350 radio. The default command Kradio uses does not make a connection to /dev/radio0. So I had to modify it like this. aplay... | you could put this in a script. Code: Select allaplay -f dat < /dev/video24 & kradio killall -9 aplay make it executable Code: Select allchmod +x ./nameofscript Then when you close kradio the last line of script would execute. edit:you might have to put the initial redirect outside of this script, even though you are s... |
The root terminal fonts on my Lenny installation are very small. Not the border fonts but the text fonts. The fonts on the user terminal seem to be an appropriate size. Is there a way to adjust the terminal text fonts? | This works in Etch and hopefully in Lenny. Right click on the terminal window --> Edit current profile --> Fonts. Change the font size and close to apply the changes. I hope this helps |
Using the instructions found here: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sudo.htm I have problems left and right. I have sudo and emacs installed, but I receive Code: Select alled@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/ed# emacs /etc/sudoers Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified emacs: Cannot conn... | fleetadmiral73 wrote:ps. How do I mark this thread as solved now? Edit the subject line of your first post... |
This is what I get fromCode: Select allaptitude update in Sid Code: Select allW: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems What!!! aptitude says to run apt-get????????? How is this possible?????? I am shocked and appalled Oh ya BTW Please do not tell me thatCode: Select allif it breaks you get to kee... | Please post the complete error message. That is the end of a lot of standard error messages. It hasn't been adjusted (as far as I can tell) to note whether you are actually using aptitude or apt-get. |
Using nano for a log / diary (text)file. When opening this file I want a date and time (a timestamp?) on the first line and then enter a text and typing it every time is .. well .... What is the easy way to do this .. command? or keybind? or .... Probebly easy but .. I don't know and can't find it in the nano manpage a... | There is a program but i can't remember it, the grml distro uses it, maybe the boys at #grml in the irc will tell you. |
If I add the unstable (sid) repositories to the sources.list file Synaptic crashes because of a segmention fault, if I take the unstable repositories away it works just fine. Does anyone know how to add the unstable repositories without causing Synaptic and apt-get to go haywire? | Please post the non-functioning sources.list |
I just updated Debian (there were about 500 packages that needed to be updated) and when the update was almost finished Debian froze forcing me to shut down the computer forcefully. When I turned the power back on xserver could not start properly. I figured out the problem, for some reason nvidia-glx had been uninstall... | Well, while doing that upgrade (to testing?) you also installed a new kernel that gets booted by default, for which there isn't yet an nvidia kernel module. Now, you can always boot the old kernel (for which there apparently was an nvidia kernel module), all you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to change the defa... |
I have compiled the 2.6.24.1 kernel because acpi is much more stable and my laptop sleeps and wakes in about 4 seconds instead of 20 or so in the 23 kernel, but.... there is a problem. I cannot make wireless work. With the new kernel the ipw3945 driver doesn't work, but the iwlwifi driver is included in the kernel. So ... | You were using ipw3945 driver before? So check /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and if you got there something like: Code: Select all# PCI device 0x8086:0x4222 (ipw3945) SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:19:d2:59:88:a7", NAME="eth1" then delete it and reboot your machine. |
Whenever I leave X and go into a virtual terminal.. the terminal is garbled and is showing information about ethernet, my mac adress etc... I can login however so it's not a huge problem. I just don't understand why there's information popping up on my VT. Any ideas? | You could try Code: Select allmesg n see if that quiets the VT. |
Hi I'm very new to Debian (ie 2 days) and I'm a little confused about the permssions system. I have 2 users, one called lma and the other rjo. I have a directory called publique configured as follows : Code: Select all ls -lah /home/ total 36K drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:44 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K ... | edit- my post was wrong eyelids post below is the correct answere |
Hey there, I would like to ask a few questions, so here they are: [solved]1- I have to run umount before shutdown, on two remote shares, otherwise the computer takes ages to shutdown. Can I edit the shutdown script to do that automatically, or is there another work-around?(credits to eyelid) [solved]2-Is there any deam... | I can help with #s 1 and 3, which basically work in similar ways. Runlevel scripts are all initiated in the /etc/rc[x].d/ directories. The files that control the unmount process are /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs (for shutdown) and /etc/rc6.d/S40umountfs (for reboot). You could edit these scripts, but frankly I think it would ... |
I have been searching for the deb menu program to use under Lenny and just can not find it. Would someone be able to tell me what I need to install to get my debmenu back? If I upgrade from Etch I get to keep it but some of my stuff stops finctioning so I did a reinstall with this last weeks Lenny version and cannot fi... | Is this what you're looking for? |
i have an item on my grub menu that i want removed or hidden so i won't hit it accidentally. anyone know how to edit this? debian 4.0 r3 GNU GRUB version 0.97 | As root edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and then erase or better comment out the lines you want to hide. You can use nano or your favourite text editor. You may want to make a backup copy or your menu.lst file so that you have something to fall back on if anything should go wrong with your editing. |
"gksudo gedit /var/www/file" doesn't work like in Ubuntu terminal. How do I do it? I even try to open up gedit as root but it gives these errors. (gksudo:3519): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: cannot open display: (null) Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. | Have a look at this thread for a similar problem to yours. |
The answer to my question is: I did not enable root to be able to login. As I was not familiar with this option while installing debian. (expertgui...) Anyway, sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help. "I've changed my root passwd and my user passwd the only way I can open firestarter and synaptic is if I make u... | asdf |
Hello i have ghosted a debian machine to another machine problem is that the hardware is different , on the new machine the os boot fine but i have no network since i suppose it takes the config from the old machine , is there a way to redetect hardware in order to configure it properly or is it just impossible to try ... | Any errors from log? Kernel may not support network card on the new machine. |
I tried to install Lenny (from Etch) last week, and it downloaded all the files for a few hours, used up a lot of my allocated bandwidth for this month, and then actually forgot all the files, and didn't use them for anything, even though it said it did. On the next occasion, I reinstalled Etch, then I did apt-get dist... | APT Howto: How to use APT locally |
I'm playing tech support for a friend and I'm heading out of the country in a few days... I need to get him up and running (and it's over the phone too). He's running 32bit Etch and this is his MythTV system. Here is the issue. He did an update the other week then this morning restarted the system (not sure if the two ... | What DM is he using? Have him boot into single mode and check syslog log files and .xsession-errors file in his home directory for any interesting messages. |
Is anyone else having issues with bzip2 using Lenny AMD64? Several times now I've downloaded and tried to decompress the linux kernel (both 2.6.24.1 and 2.6.24.2) but decompression of this results in a "Data integrity error when decompressing". I'm able to decompress the exact same file on my 32 bit Lenny system (copie... | Link to the file and I'll try to decompress it on my 64-bit Sidux machine. |
(first post ) I have a strange problem that only happens to one user. It started happening about a week ago. (I have been running Etch since it was 'testing') When I am logged in (KDE) and I rt-click the desktop to "lock session", I get logged out. If I am away and the screensaver kicks in, it logs me out. If I try to ... | Sometimes, if you use the Nvidia driver and an openGL screensaver X will crash after an Xorg update. Reinstalling the Nvidia driver fixes it. There might be a better solution that will avoid the problem but I've been too lazy to investigate |
When I compile a kernel on my core 2 duo machine its only using one core to compile, I can tell because I am using gnome-system-monitor and one core is sitting fairly inactive while one is at full usage. I know both cores work because if I run 2 single core tasks both cores will go to 100% usage. The command I use to c... | You can use "export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2" before you issue the fakeroot command. (See man make-kpkg about not using -j flags directly.) |
Perhaps I am remembering something that is only in my mind, but wasn't there way of changing the browser id on the web so that it could be identified as Explorer, Opera,etc.? It would come in handy on sites that want Explorer as the browser. I did a number of searches with no result, but I'm not really sure of what it ... | If you use Iceweasel: http://www.geticeweasel.org/useragent/ |
Has modprobe been superseded by something? I can't find it in any of the repos and need to load some sound moduals that alsa wont configure correctly. Any help would be appreciated. Michael | modprobe is in the module-init-tools package. |
Hi! I have just installed Debian, and set up the wireless networking. However, I can't seem to get apt-get to work. I have looked around the forums, and can't see what is wrong. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r2 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080102-13:35]/ etch contrib... | jommoner wrote: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib You must place a backslash immediately after the final... |
hi, i have debian with kernel 2.6.18-4-686, and i am trying to update to the latest version 2.6.18-6-686. when i try with synaptic it doesnt give any errors, but when booting, the grub menu only shows the old 2.6.18-4-686 version. Strange...because /boot/grub/menu.lst shows: Code: Select all title Debian GNU/Linux, ker... | I don't see any errors here! From the menu.lst file you have four boot choices -- 2 with your old kernel and 2 with your new kernel. Boot into your new kernel and once you are satisfied that all is OK you can remove the old one. |
KDE screensaver is crashing KDE! I used to solve this problem by issuing this command. This time it didn't work. Code: Select alldpkg-reconfigure screensaver-package Thanks for any help. | Are you using the Nvidia driver? If so, reinstall it. I had that problem after an xorg update. The OpenGL screensavers crashed KDE. Just a shot in the dark |
I feel like a n00b having to ask this here, but I'm having problems with apt-get. Here's what happened: root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get -s install vim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim-common Suggested packages: gpm ctags vim-doc... | I think one problem is you're running Sarge and your apt sources are pointing to stable aka Etch. You should use "old-stable" for Sarge at this time. |
Hello all, I have a new server here and I am trying to figure out why the box keep freezing when its under somewhat heavy sata usage. It ran rock solid for 2 days with out issues, then when I tried to copy files over from the old server to this new one, it locks up completely after about 10 min. Tried again, same thing... | Ok, I just got this msg when moving the files: Code: Select allMessage from syslogd@fileserver at Sun Jan 6 23:29:43 2008 ... fileserver kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: CPU 0 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserv... |
Hey guys. I recently installed Debian on my HP Pavilion DV9000. Everything went smooth and I did a default install. I then went to boot, Grub started I selected the non single user and I get all that text on the screen. Then after that the screen just goes blank. I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and stuff. Anyone ... | Press Ctrl+Alt-Fn (where 'n' = 1 -6. Say F2) to enter a terminal. You'll get a login prompt where you can log in either as a user or as root. When you do "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" what driver do you choose? You should use "nv" unless you have installed the Nvidia proprietary driver. You can check the X log to see... |
Hello. I'm pretty new to using Linux. I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this post, but it certainly doesn't fit under some of the other categories. My computer is a 550MHz PIII, dual boot system. Debian Linux is the main boot, while Windows 98SE is the other operating system. History: When I first installed Li... | Does you wired connection work ok? This was not explicit, but you mentioned that you'd have to download things to your windows partition and install from there. Have you had a look at this:http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17719? Module-assistant (or m-a) should download all the right packages it needs, automagi... |
I have a Canon XL1 and I am trying to copy tapes off of it to .dv files. I have it connected to my computer with firewire but when I click the "Capture" button in kino I get this errorCode: Select allWARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw/1394! modprobe raw1394 does not solve the pr... | 987687 wrote:I have a Canon XL1 and I am trying to copy tapes off of it to .dv files. I have it connected to my computer with firewire but when I click the "Capture" button in kino I get this errorCode: Select allWARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw/1394! modprobe raw1394 does not... |
Today came to my updates> linux-image 2.6.18-5-686 exactly same I am using right now. I have no idea why...? Should I install it please? | it's probably security upgrade, you should probably upgrade. |
Hello . I am new to Debian ! and Linux for the most part . I am having trouble grasping the whole software handler in Debian . In Gentoo there is portage . I guess what I want to know is what is a good c compiler for debian and how to install it ? | anemul wrote:Hello . I am new to Debian ! and Linux for the most part . I am having trouble grasping the whole software handler in Debian . In Gentoo there is portage . I guess what I want to know is what is a good c compiler for debian and how to install it ? Debian use apt (or aptitude) to install pre-compiled binari... |
I'm running testing and very nice it is to but last night I tried to add an application and apt failed with lots of messages similar to the on here W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... owerpc.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) I have rerun a... | Thanks for your replies. The sources list is fine as I copied the one off the computer no 3 foot away and that works fine? they both go through the same router. I had a look at the anon-proxy link and searched my system so I could delete it as the post. If it failed I wouldn't be much worse off (well I hope not!) I'll ... |
Hello, Could anyone help me with a little problem which I have been trying to solve for a few weeks. I've installed Band in a Box, which runs via Crossover, and all appears to work fine, until I try to actually play something, when there is no sound at all. This is the error message I get: There are no midi drivers ins... | You should be able to hear sound even if you dont have realtime and 1000hz timer frequency in your kernel, its more of a recommendation, since the lower latency you have the better. (There's a guide to compiling your own realtime kernel in the howto section of this forum) The first time i ran Rosegarden i had to config... |
I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but if I open up a folder on my desktop (double-click), it opens into a single window, not a complete browser. Instead, I have to right click to browse in nautilus. How can I set up my management to use nautilus automatically? | I have no idea what you're asking. |
I have Windows, ubuntu and debian sid installed. I am new to debian and I have a problem. When starting debian it changes my clock 4 hours later. any ideeas? | Do you use UTC or local time in your clock? Changing to the other one might help. What timezone are you in, GMT +(-)4, by any chance? I've been thinking of starting to use NTP (=Net Time Protocol, IIRC) myself, but have never gotten around to do it. Should be very easy to set up, and it should keep your clocks in sync;... |
I am trying to get fusion-icon to run on the startup but so far no changes, not even to existing apps in the session startup are being saved. I haven't found anything like this on google or on these forums... it must be something on my end since no one else is experiencing this. What file would I edit to get fusion-ico... | Well I for one do not even know what fusion-icon is. What is it? Getting something to run on login is specific to your particular desktop. Which desktop are you using? |
Hi there, still solving my sound trouble. I have collection of some mp3. In windows OS they are playin in all my speakers, using 6 speakers 5.1 Creative. And when I switch to Debian and play them, only 2 speakers + sub woofer playing. I unmuted all setting. I tried xmms so far. Any help? Thanks a lot ps. 5 channels WAV... | do you try with other player ? amarok ? helix banshe ? |
Please, my sources list looks like this: Code: Select all#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian... | change deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free |
** Edit - now solved - needed to change apt sources.list - had become borked with a non-working mirror ** So this is what happened: I was doing my usual updates in sid - but hadn't done any for a while and there was a few to get. The update started to say that it would take hours(!) so I pulled the plug on it (it was s... | ' |
Hi. I started to use ssh to remote control my server at home. In these 2 days I try to use rTorrent to download Ubuntu ISO images and be a seed (becoz I don't need the ISO image, I just want to donate some of my wasted bandwidth). So... I will ssh username@server, then screen rTorrent, and then add the torrent to start... | When you reconnect to your rtorrent screen, are you using 'screen -r'? Because if you use 'screen rtorrent' then it will fork a new instance of rtorrent and your previous activity will not be evident. |
Hi, I love to use nano (an editor) very much, but now I have a little problem. There are 2 shortcuts in nano: 1. Ctrl+D Delete the character under the cursor. 2. Ctrl+H Delete the character on left-hand side of cursor. By default, when I press Backspace on keyboard (or Delete on Mac keyboard), the default action should... | Code: Select allnano /etc/nanorc Take a look at that file. I wander if this line has anything to do with your problem? You can test it out by deleting the '#'. ## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem. # set rebinddelete I don't know for sure, but I thought I would bring it up. Can't hurt to try. Theres also lots of n... |
Somehow I deleted Trash Icon from desktop, now please how can I put correctly icon back to desktop? All what can I do now it's just copy or link it from System Menu, but with icon like a folder and right click on that is also different. I am using KDE. Thanks | Copy this in a text editor Code: Select all[Desktop Entry] Comment=Contains removed files EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=trashcan_full Name=Trash NoDisplay=false OnlyShowIn=KDE Type=Link URL=trash:/ Save it as trash.desktop on Desktop |
I have one other thing that I cannot get to work. I can't get my sound going. It has the intel 82801H sound card. If I can get this and the wireless working this will be a great little machine! Thanks | I would need a bit more information to help diagnose the problem are there any error messages you are getting? Did you un-enable the sound in installation? Is the sound card integrated into the motherboard (I think it is, but I'm not sure), and most importantly have you run alsaconf yet? |
I though that ia64 and amd64 are the same thing, so on the debian website why is there the option to download a install disk for ia64 and one for amd64. This makes me really confused. | There are two different architectures, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 |
I got problem, when I start debian, log in screen appear. On the right hand side corner it's visible correct time. But when I log in to KDE, environment appear, there is time 2 Hrs more, compare current time. Any idea please, how to fix it? In Gnome, time is just fine. Thanks | Check the time zone: Control Center -> search for "time" -> time zone |
Hi, there's something wrong with my webserver. This morning, someone tried to hack it. The Authlog shows a lot of lines like these: Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: Invalid user oubiwann from 67.132.216.246 Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for gf-... | look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config I think "root" is not allowed... |
I just installed new jabber client - PSI, but it is not running on the taskbar in system tray(righ hand side eg. to change status and so on...) How can I do that? I am using Kde 3.5 Thanks | demon wrote:I just installed new jabber client - PSI, but it is not running on the taskbar (righ hand side eg. to change status and so on...) How can I do that? I am using Kde 3.5 Thanks You mean the "system tray"? Where all the "hidden applications" show? I've never tried that client (http://psi-im.org/home, right?), ... |
I have used MEPIS (debain based) for years. I am accustomed to being able to mount new drives easily with kDiskFree, either as user or root. Or simply to login to KDM as root to do things that root must do. I've installed Etch and now can't do things at all that I'm used to doing easily. What is the KDE GUI method for ... | I don't have it in front of me, but it's something like; can't find mount point /mnt/hdd1 Do you actually have /mnt/hdd1? What's the output of Code: Select allls /mnt |
hi, i recently moved from ubuntu 7.04 to debian sid. but i'm having this wierd problem, xorg new updates (1.7.3) removes nvidia-glx (and dosent work with the nvidia drivers as well) and gnome-applets & gnome-about are trying to upgrade to 2.20 while gnome-core & gnome-panel are staying 2.18 and it removes them!! can so... | adamruss wrote:about gnome - i just dont understand why the repo has updates only to some packages of gnome to 2.20 and not all of them.. because it makes them conflicting. That's why it's called "unstable" and it's very common during big updates. Stuff is uploaded over time as it's getting ready or needs to be tested.... |
I would like to know the best procedure to "install" (a big word) an application. I have downloaded the latest version of Eclipse which comes in a tar.gz and is already compiled for my platform. The questions are : - where do I put the files and which rights/owner/group should I apply to them ? - which file do I need t... | Eclipse is available in Debian. Code: Select allapt-cache search eclipse You can simply use apt-get to install eclipse. If you must install from source then read the source for the installation procedure. |
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