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Hi, i got a second screen and i want to expand the desktop. i want to move the windows between the screens, also expand a window on both screens and so on. It's lastest Debian Jessi, Nvidia GTS 250 with proprietary driver and XFCE. I use Xinerama with nvidia-settings but i have one problem. If i grab a icon from Deskto... | Xinerama doesn't work with the nvidia blob. You need to use the nvidia TwinView option instead. |
Hi! I don't know much about UPnP. How can I confirm that it is up and running? Are there any related setting somewhere? I couldn't even find any related documentation. I only found a couple of related programs (at repositories), but they are heavily outdated and my router isn't at their list. TIA! | You should have something in your router settings to say if UPnP in enabled (or not), I can't say where exactly you will find it but if you browse the pages of your router settings I'm sure you will find it somewhere. |
So libpam-mysql which seems to be extremely old only supports sha(1), and not sha256/512. Ref: http://pam-mysql.sourceforge.net/Docume ... readme.php Does anyone know any other solution to use together with saslauth which can connect to an mysql DB, which supports >= sha256 ? Apperently it seems that is a patched versi... | You could try rebuilding the current Jessie packages, and add that patch. Or try backporting the 0.8.0 version in Stretch...it should also build against libmysqlclient-dev instead of the mariadb dev packages they have listed as build-depends. |
I have a Panda Wireless PAU07 usb wireless adapter on a desktop pc. The chipset is realtek rt5572 and the driver is rt2800usb from my research. It works on Debian 8. It works on the Debian 9 net-install disc with firmware. However it does not work after Debian 9 is installed and rebooted. Nor does it work with the non-... | Boot into your Debian 9 installation, plug in the usb wireless adapter, and post the output of the following commands. Code: Select alluname -a lsusb lsusb -t /sbin/iwconfig /usr/sbin/rfkill list all Make sure you are in your Debian 9 installation. sgian wrote:However it does not work after Debian 9 is installed Descri... |
Hello to everyone, this is my first post, and I have a little problem. I have been tryng to fix the problem by myself or searching for a solution with no luck for now. Recently I have purchased a new computer with a new AMD cpu Ryzen, an Asus motherboard and a I have put in it an AMD R9 290 GPU. After installing a Debi... | More (don't work): - Trying to kms on early boot adding radeonsi on /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf - Trying to put my resolution (ultrawide 3440x1440) on /etc/default/grub by GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX or by GRUB_GFXMODE So, keep trying. |
After a recent upgrade to stretch, when I use pcman to open an encrypted data drive, it complains "Not authorized to perform operation". Before the upgrade, the same operation would result in asking me the passphrase and then the root password. The drive would then be readable. I want to recover this behaviour. Right n... | I use LXQt, not LXDE... I have LXQt-PolicyKit Authentication in Startup The lxqt-policykit D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges. This package contains the LXQt policy kit authentication agent. Do you have lxpolkit in Startup? LXPolkit is a GUI applicati... |
Hello, I have such problem on loading up a system: http://imgur.com/a/zyWZF My graphic is: Code: Select all0:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [ Radeon R6 Graphics] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2234 Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 45 Memory ... | screenshot: bluetooth. has nothing to do with your GPU. please describe your problem fully, in all detail, with code & complete messages. |
I did an upgrade and then a dist-upgrade today and the dist-upgrade wants to do this: Code: Select allThe following NEW packages will be installed: xserver-xorg-legacy The following packages will be upgraded: xserver-xorg But I use open source radeon with KMS (I need to rotate one of my monitors with dual GPUs) and log... | I found strange things. This returns nothing: Code: Select all# dmesg | grep -i modesetting also missing is /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf. I wonder what happened? Is KMS missing? Code: Select all# aptitude search radeon | grep '^i' i A libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- run... |
Hi, For all years using Debian and Ubuntu i have always been using apt-get for package management. Yesterday i dived more into aptitude and found it much more powerfull and convinient. I have one question regarding --add-user-tag. I want to achieve that all packages i manually install will have specific tag (for exampl... | Code: Select allsudo aptitude add-user-tag tag package |
Hello, I bought a new notebook without a system and wanted to install debian, everything went nicely. Aside from one thing no wifi, read the information on the internet and i know need to upgrade to 4+ kernel, because 3+ does not have these drivers. After upgrade to version 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 X11 did not work, I tried... | what does apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-dkms return? |
8.6, Gnome Hi, on my HP laptop, the system will prompt for the WiFi password during the boot process, immediately after the prompt for the user password. When I hit "abort", I have to connect to WiFi manually afterwards. The "auto connect" is ticked within the network manager. I'd like not to have the Wifi password pro... | Hi herrdeh, I don't know if I misunderstood something because what you're asking is supposed to be the normal behaviour. You should try to delete your wifi connection in network manager and create it again. I'm not sure but if your user automatically logins, it's likely gnome keymanager prompts you about user's passwor... |
Hello. You may ignore what is colored. The solution is given below. I have got myself in considerable Wi-Fi troubles recently. I have a Packard Bell iMedia S3720, which multi-boots between Windows 7 64-Bit (default OS), Windows Vista 64-Bit and Debian amd64. I recently upgraded Debian to Debian 8.8 with the MATE deskto... | Can you update your pci and usb device databases as sysadmin: Code: Select allupdate-pciids update-usbids install inxi, then give the result of Code: Select allinxi -N so we have a better idea of what hardware you have? It was my impression that the Realtek problems with the 4.9 kernel could be resolved with a simple t... |
Hi all, From about a month, every single time "apt upgrade" calls to "update-initramfs" I'm receiving this message: W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=UUID=75a1abae-a571-45e0-8ba8-2af714d13b59 W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda3 I: (UUID=010325a0... | i'm not sure, but i'm guessing that this: marcetm wrote:W: but no matching swap device is available. might mean that your swap partition has changed UUID and you need t adjust that in fstab (and maybe elsewhere) this typically happens when you install another OS alongside the first one. so check your swaps actual UUID ... |
Hello everybody ! I'm on a Debian 8 Jessie and all was working well at start (well, not really, as you will see soon). This computer has been given to me to install a Moodle test server and create a plugin that will use Flash (I haven't the choice for Flash ). Neither Flash nor the update command (just below) was worki... | When I've set a value to http_proxy, I typed "http_proxy=..." into the terminal. And even after rebooting, http_proxy has still a value. When I type "echo $http_proxy", I get "http://192.168.1.10:3128". Is it an old value that was there before I do anything ? I don't think so, because I remember that I've typed "echo $... |
Hello, I can't connect to my hotel's wireless network reliably. I can connect to other networks reliably, both protected and free, therefore it can't be a configuration or card issue (and thus every troubleshooting article I've found didn't help). I'm using Gnome Network Manager, and I don't change any default setting ... | Now my Debian can't connect even to free wireless network I've connected to without any issue whatsoever during past days. Neither /var/log/messages nor dmesg give out any hint about what's going wrong. I could try debugging NetworkManager by following instructions given here: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debug... |
Hi, How can i install debian filesystem over a subvolume btrfs with debian's CD installation? I tried to mount subvolume in /target directory as i usaully do with sparky distro (debian based on), but the wizard installation automatic unmount the subvolume just before to proceed with the files copy installation..and it ... | I had to apply some tweaks, to get my goal: I had previouslly created two btrfs subvolumes: /home /rootsys (Here, i wanted to put inside debian target installation) 0-I installed all together (the file system next to subvolumes) in the same parent level. 1- After syste, installation, I created a volume snaphot to put i... |
Hi. I am having an issue I don't completely understand. I suspect it has something to do with the old PATA interface. Here is my setup: 1a. Server Pentium 4 with PATA bus. Debian Jessie CLI install. 1b. Gigabit ethernet network card connected to said PATA bus. 1c. SATA card connected to said PATA bus. To that is connec... | KingBongo wrote:1b. Gigabit ethernet network card connected to said PATA bus. Do you mean PCI rather than PATA? Please post the output of these: Code: Select alluname -a lspci -k |
Hello, I have Debian Jessie 8.7.1 KDE, My wireless connection losts itself all the time, it connects and after a few time losts and so on..... How to solve it? please help me. thanks in advanced. My wireless is that: lspci | grep -i wireless Code: Select all2:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL... | There are already many other threads on this forum about the same exact device and problem, so please let us know which of those solutions you have tried already so we don't waste time. Search "RTL8723BE". |
Hi I have a minimal Debian Jessie install with lightdm and openbox to run over x window. Everything works fine but only if I log in via terminal first; lightdm will not start at boot time unless I manually set the runlevel via grub. I have checked and I have /etc/init.d/lightdm i have installed sysv-rc-conf and it show... | Since you "have a minimal Debian Jessie install" why do you need a display manager? I haven't used one for years. |
Hi, I just got Civilization VI today and can't get it to work. I open Steam, then click play and eventually I get to the menu. But when I try to start a single player game or just try the benchmark option, then the game closes immediately. With the "less /var/log/messages" command at the end I find this stuff... Code: ... | I installed kubuntu 16.04 on another partition on this pc, with the same proprietary driver and Civ VI works fine. I would prefer to keep using debian though. Are there any ideas on what to do? I'm thinking it is some package that needs to be updated but I don't know which one. I tried a dist-upgrade and nothing was av... |
openssh-client 7.x is available in archive stretch (testing); but I don't want everything from stretch; so I pinned the testing archive low: Code: Select allPackage: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release l=Debian-Security Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 100... | I have just glanced at your post and noticed that you have pinned Debian-Security with 1000. This is still above 990 (-t parameter of apt-get) and therefore apt won't install anything from testing. Just remove the security and stable pin. Both have a default pin of 500, which is enough. You should also use the release ... |
Hi all, I've got a Debian 9 desktop that is experiencing difficulty updating exim4. The result of trying to upgrade is: Code: Select allroot@olive:/home/hbarta# apt -y upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly install... | Iv'e never seen this before, but I dug up this issue [1] on CentOS from a few years ago. Could you check the permissions to make sure they look ok? [1] https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/exim- ... und.32781/ |
For some reason, the Synaptic Package Manager is no longer accepting my root password but instead will accept only my user password. What the heck? Where do I look and what do I look for to see what may have happened? To my knowledge I did nothing to cause the problem. UPDATE: Just to be clear, if I want to open a term... | Does it work? Does a CLI command such as apt-get update work? |
I am currently running Jessie 8.7 with kernel 3.16 on an older processor (Core 2 Duo). If I were to install linux-image-686-pae (4.9+79~bpo8+1) from the jessie-backports, would I then be able to run on a motherboard with a Skylake processor or is a full upgrade to amd64 required? | Don't get it... Is t here any Core 2 Duo processor lacking 64-bit instruction set? |
I'm trying to configure my Nvidia ION card on Stretch. uname -a Linux host 4.9.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.13-1 (2017-02-27) i686 GNU/Linux nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA [10de:087d] (rev b1) Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA (rev b1) Y... | You'll need a lot more than just the driver to use legacy nvidia. For example, I am running Stretch 64 bit and recently installed the legacy driver, these packages were installed with it using Synaptic after selecting the nvidia legacy driver and dkms.: Commit Log for Sun Mar 5 20:42:08 2017 Installed the following pac... |
Hello, we've just got a new computer having a hardware RAID and decided to install Debian Jessie. We use the recommended partition setup (root, home, var, tmp, swap). We now have the problem that the system always starts in emergency mode. Sometimes it boots without visible errors (only green OKs). Sometimes it cannot ... | What makes you think you have hardware RAID? Required reading. If you really have hardware RAID, what model? |
I'm not sure if it goes here or in Hardware. I tried using both the Gnome EasyScreenCast extension and SimpleScreenRecorder. I'm trying to record gameplay but the audio in the video is pretty much nothing but static and a somewhat whirring noise. You can barely makeout the games audio. I can't figure this out. I ran "p... | Snake wrote:the audio in the video is pretty much nothing but static and a somewhat whirring noise. You can barely makeout the games audio. maybe it's recording the microphone input? |
Hi, I'm running debian 8 jessie with gnome. I would like to make my system hibernate when battery level is at a certain point, say 30%. What I tried so far: Gnome power manager doesn't have an option of changing the critical battery value. dconf-editor also doesn't give that option. I also tried to follow another sugge... | I haven't tested it but... http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -threshold |
I have the same repo on 3 different sid installs Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib ... | I'm not sure aptitude was meant to manage dependencies for stable, testing, sid, and experimental all at the same time? one guess would be, there is a broken, held, half installed, or otherwise borked package state on the machine with the problem? |
Hi All, I am using Jessie with Wicd. I can connect to my church wifi just fine with Windows. I have also been able to connect with Debian in the past but it is very sketchy. I recently switched from Network Manager to wicd and it makes it much easier to connect to my work wifi but does not seem to make any difference a... | Or even Code: Select alllspci |grep Network |
Hello there! I had some problem to use virtualbox on my Debian (kernel 4.9 & virtualbox 5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) -> http://git.net/ml/general/2017-02/msg01206.html But it seems normal... So, after talk with someone from Debian world, he put me on the way to try KVM. Thing I've done, but this is what I get when I try to lau... | Determine the user needed then do a Code: Select allsudo -u username ls -al /path/file To see if that user can access that file. Note that for this all directories need to permit traversal access. |
Dear All, Due to space constraints on my cluttered desk, I would like to buy a smaller (fewer keys) keyboard. In particular, I would like to give a shot to some cheap mechanical keyboard such as http://amzn.to/2fDdKAG My question is the following: will I experience any problem with this "short" keyboard in Debian, or s... | You might get a solid answer to your questions by following the link on the product page which says "Sold by VicTop and Fulfilled by Amazon." then looking for the "Contact the seller" link. |
My 6 years old Dell Vostrp 1014 laptop with Debian 8.7 OS is showing this disease. On booting it is showing an error message that there is an error in \home directory and will only boot after typing Ctrl+D. I ran #fsck \sda from a live medium screen and found the message, `Bad magic number in superblock while trying to... | https://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/201 ... in-ubuntu/ ? |
I'm running Debian Jessie since Stretch didn't work for me 2 months ago. Then I tried to configure it, and it was OK with the kernel from backports, but Bluetooth didn't work. Kernel: 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (4.8.15-2~bpo8+1 (2017-01-13) x86_64) Typing dmesg | egrep -i 'blue' gives Code: Select all[ 2.268764] usb 1-1.3: Pr... | What's the output of Code: Select allapt-cache policy firmware-realtek If you don't have it installed or it's the stock Jessie version, install the version from jessie-backport's nonfree section. |
Hi, This is the problem: NM shows that is connected but I have no Internet. My card: Code: Select all01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01) I installed WL d... | Someone has any idea what's the problem? There are a lot of threads on here about how to troubleshoot basic lack of internet. Not a lot of point in repeating them, just do a quick search or two for networkmanager or network+internet and you'll find some good tips. |
Hi, Since I'm an idiot I would like to ask for advise and confirmation whether I understand correctly holding packages. I want to block Linux image 4.9 as it has some ACPI bug. What should I do is?: Code: Select allaptitude hold linux-image-amd64 Right? My current kernel is 4.8.0 and a second question is whether this k... | You can PIN the package: https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences ... although I find it easier to do in Synaptic. Not sure what impact that will have on the rest of the system when you upgrade if something depends on kernel 4.9. |
(edit) - changed topic from "strange LVM/PV UUID" to "strange LVM/PV UUID problem" + more Hi, I have been struggling with 'lvmetad' errors during the boot, and update-grub complains as well. When looking at the blkid before running update-grub it looks quite normal: Code: Select all$ blkid /dev/sda1: LABEL="debboot" UU... | Hello, I ended up doing pvmove, and re-creating the LVM partition - probably one of the cleanest ways... On the other hand, the behavior of 'update-grub/os-prober' leaving '/dev/mapper/osprober-linux-sda4' in a used/busy state, does not look like it is very well handled. Mike |
Dear All, Probably it is nothing to worry about, but when I try to update my system (debian jessie + some backports), a couple of packages are kept back no matter what (I tried a dist-upgrade, a -f install etc...). Code: Select allThe following packages have been kept back: openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless 0 upgrad... | Those packages are from jessie-backports, how did you install them? Code: Select allapt-cache policy openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless Did you try Code: Select all# aptitude full-upgrade Also, what is that "jessie-cran3" repository for? |
I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine. I suspect it has something to do with firmware-linux-free so I did an apt-get remove and I re installed the package fir... | What you could do is to (using cable) read this forum before wiping your Debian:) Now anyway, check here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=131346 |
My setup: DHCP server dishing out config, tftp dishing out pxelinux and config, chroot created deb9 minimal on an nfs mount. I am attempting to boot a machine diskless to NFS. This works gorgeously with debian 8. And I can make it boot if I switch out vmlinuz and initrd for it's debian 8 versions. But this is not a sol... | I got it! Needed to install live-boot onto the image. Then initrd is boot=nfs and it works! Thought I was missing something silly... Works when squashfs'd to an image too with fetch=ftp://ad.dr.es.s/imagefile.squashfs |
I had Jessie installed on my laptop a week ago. I wanted to upgrade it to Stretch because of some packages I use, and because of Radeon driver. In Jessie, I had a very slow internet connection, specially using apt-get. It was terribly slow (apt package downloader was downloading something like 5 KB/s. It was exasperati... | serpastorg wrote:one of those low-speed connection is the one made by APT. I tried Germany and U.S.'s official repositories (ftp.**.debian.org) and it's really slow. If your internet connection is otherwise ok but you're experiencing very slow speeds on apt then you may want to try the Debian redirector which will find... |
Hi all, My daughter has a new laptop. I just did a fresh install of Jessie. The wifi can see my network but does not connect to the internet. I can ping my router but not a website. Where do i start with troubleshooting? chadrick | At least for testing, I'd resort to manual IPv4 settings, somehow similar to what I'm working with (ft. openDNS nameservers): In addition to that, I'd set IPv6 to ignore. Then reconnect and give the internet another ping If you're still "caged" (read: outbound pings keep getting lost), you may want to show us the detai... |
Hey guys.. I have the TP-LINK TL-WN823N Wifi Adapter for which I am using the Github repo drivers at https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver .. Everytime I upgrade I have been succesfully able to re-compile the package using 'make && make install'.. Here is the Terminal output of a succesful install: Code: Sele... | It would be nice if that driver was added to the kernel. I had to compile the same driver 6 months ago to get wireless to work. |
Hello, Happy new year all Here! I need your advices about Kernel. I found that there is new version of Kernel 4.8. Mine is: Code: Select allLinux ION 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux My Debian is x64 bit. before my system was x86 bit and i updated system from Software Manageme... | it solve my wireless issues. What are your wireless issues? apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package" You need to substiture "package" for the actual package you want to install. That is only an example. |
I tried to update the flashplugin using update-flashplugin-nonfree --install and get the following Code: Select allupdate-flashplugin-nonfree --install --2016-12-28 15:41:51-- https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.644/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz Resolving fpdownload.adobe.com (fpdownlo... | The Debian package is trying to download an obsolete version of FlashPlayer so it's probably a good thing that it fails. Are you sure that you downloaded the 32-bit version of Flash Player? Did you try the NPAPI or the PPAPI version? Firefox will only work with NPAPI, the PPAPI plugin will not work in FF unless the bro... |
When I run the apt-get updateor aptitude update command the execution takes a unreasonable amout of time (30+ minutes) and than fails.The output of aptitude update can be found here http://pastebin.com/YYQ0nZgn. My /etc/apt/sources.list and everything that is inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ can be found here http://pas... | IPv6 may be timing out. Try having update default to IPv4 first. Edit the gai.conf file: Code: Select allsudo nano /etc/gai.conf The following line is probably commented out. Remove the # so that it is active. (If I remember correctly, it is line 54.) Be sure to save you change. Code: Select allprecedence ::ffff:0:0/96... |
I'm using Debian and Gnome and followed the guide: https://wiki.debian.org/I18n/ibus However at the third step when I ran "ibus-setup", it returns "The IBus daemon is not running. Do you wish to start it?". I clicked yes. Then it returns the following message: IBus has been started! If you cannot use IBus, add the foll... | seems there must be something wrong with dconf, when I was installing Fcitx and running "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard active false", the same error appeared! The problem must be related to dconf. But the commands like "rm -rf .config/dconf/" running with a root user under my home directory d... |
Hello! I'm not very good with Debian,but i love this operating system!!! So my problem is that when I type command "sensors" in terminal I receive this: adt7463-i2c-0-2e Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at fc00 in0: +0.01 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.32 V) ALARM Vcore: +1.49 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +2.99 V) +3.3V: +3.27 V (mi... | bitu33 wrote:I hope this will be helpful. We do too - good luck! |
I'm connected to my university via cisco anyconnect vpn and try to get a connection to samba-shares. Code: Select allmount -t cifs //vpn.university.xxx/mars/lv_sam/ /mnt/xxx -o username=myname,domain=university.xxx Unfortunately its doesn't work. It seems to connect, but after giving my pass i get a mount error: Code: ... | Hi squeeze, Not sure, but I think that if you've already logged in that VPN then you should try: Code: Select allmount -t cifs //mars/lv_sam/ /mnt/xxx -o username=myname,domain=university.xxx I understand mars is the server you want to connect to... Anyway have you ping it? Is there any answer to those pings? |
This is kind of an afterthought to suggestions regarding my printer problems. Since it really involves a new topic, ie Virtualbox, I thought it best to start a new topic. The problem I have is that I have a printer that works in Wheezy but not in Jessie, and it was suggested that I install Wheezy as a VM on my Jessie d... | I am not sure on that, as Dasein suggested in the other thread, it would take some experimenting, One thing for sure, after you have installed Virtual Box, if the is what you decide to use,... When you create the new, VM, there is a option to use a existing HD (drive), but I do not know if it actually boots from that, ... |
Hello everyone! I have just updated to Wheezy, I have quite a few problems (such as fallback mode in Gnome 3) but the most annoying one is that my Wifi doesen't work properly. When I try to connect to a different Wifi network, I get Code: Select allFailed to add/activate connection (32) Not authorized to control Networ... | Anybody???? |
Hello, I'm new to the world of Debian. Recently, I've modified my .bashrc file to configure colors on it, like : Code: Select allPS1='\e[1;34m\u@ \e[0;35m\h \e[0;35m\@ \e[1;35m\w > \e[1;33m' with putting Code: Select allexport before this sentence equally. I've made some modifications before on this file too, to try to... | found this at /usr/share/doc/bash/README.Debian.gz 4. bash doesn't display prompts correctly. When using colors in prompts (or escape characters), then make sure those characters are surrounded by \[ and \]. For more information look at the man page bash(1) and search for PROMPTING. found this searching for default ".b... |
I recently installed Jessie on new SSD and have been installing software. I installed NUT and used the same configuration file information that I used with Wheezy. The problem I am having is that during system boot the nut-driver.service fails to start. Here is the line from systemctl: Code: Select all● nut-driver.serv... | I found the solution!!! In the ups.conf file there is a maxretry = 3 option. When I tried to implement that option during NUT setup, I got a message saying that maxretry was not a valid option, so I commented out that line of code. Turns out that maxretry needs to be specified BEFORE the driver is specified. HMMM! Anyw... |
Hi, Under Stretch, Plasma 5.8.2, my computer works not so quiet as under other distros like Kubuntu or Manjaro. It reaches suddenly 50 and keeps it for even a minute. Its work doesn't look regular. I installed cpufrequtils and my governor is ondemand but when I play anything on youtube, even no HD, it reaches the maxim... | I see posts like this pretty often, not sure why you are worried, but are you saying you are concerned because the machine reaches 50C in temperature? And the fan is running more often or at a higher speed? That sounds like a good cool system to me, I sit around 62C most of the time which is under 150 degrees F but my ... |
I have Debian on sdb and Xubuntu 11.10 on sda. Xubuntu boots fine, but Debian gives me the error: Code: Select allerror: hd1 out of disk error: you need to load the kernel first... press any key to continue Regardless of whether I press a key, it eventually returns me to the boot menu. | Update your GRUB configuration. |
I am trying to set up a LAMP development environment with the main purpose to create a web-database application. The web-database application needs to do the following: search through a database with names, return the results as a list, each name in the returned list should be clickable and by clicking on it you should... | Or stick it on an accessible server and access it from any client you like - you know - how web servers are supposed to work. |
Hi, Im very dissapointed with btrfs , it seems still unstable or so, its eating my disk, and i dont know how to proceed, At first i thought it might need one or two GB more, for metada indexing, so i gave it 2 more GB and, now i see its eating again all the disk, i deleted all the snapshoots, but its not giving back al... | ...like the btrfs partition is not catching the 2GB or so i added with gparted, I haven't used it in years, did gparted resize the filesystem btrfs after resize the partition? |
Back to the issues with the Canon iP1900 in Jessie i386. The printer is not supported (drivers won't install because of dependency issues). Had it working with Wheezy by downloading and installing libtiff4. However, that is not an option with Jessie (I tried and failed). I found the PPD file for that printer in my Whee... | That's an odd one. The best I can find is on this page which lists some Gutenprint drivers. You may have to install Gutenprint. I'd try your PPD but make sure you know where it goes so that you can remove it if necessary. Printer drivers are pretty much all alike with little tweaks for different versions. You should be... |
Hi everyone, I am actually trying to install a small program for protein analysis call Qprot and after 3 day I still cannot make it. i am using te last version of debian on virtual box and everything going fine with it. the install instruction file of the program is really small : Type ‘make all’ to install all compone... | after 3 day I still cannot make it Well, that's a real problem. You should go after the maker and find out how he built it. Don't ever spend three days without asking somebody, that's really trying to do it yourself, I admire that, but after 3-4 hours you should probably realize maybe something wrong with the code? Whe... |
Is it possible to create a connection to a wireless connection via NetworkManager in console (ie not use /etc/network/interfaces) I seem to remember there used to be a package called cnetworkmanager that did this but that seems to no longer be available. | Yes it is possible Have you looked at : Code: Select allman nmcli https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... nmcli.html https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse Wireless network interface configuration can be performed using a connection manager (such as NetworkManager) or through Debian's /etc/network/interfaces file wi... |
hello I have not succeeded to activate apache2.4 "server side includes" on my localhost. I have debian jessie (stable) installation and the web server is running ok, but with SSI services nothing happens. Any advice is welcome! regards: Harri | Maybe you should explain what you are trying, what you expect to happen and what actually happens - in detail. |
Hi! I am trying to fix a bothering issue with my audio: I get my audio working (through the speakers) only plugging in and out my headphones. There is no sound before I do that. I don't know how to investigate this, so I hope in some help! My chip audio: Code: Select all$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec Code... | As update: these are the diffs for dmesg and /var/log/daemons.log . The diff are the output before me pluggin in and out the headphones (audio not working) and after that (then the audio works). dmesg: http://pastebin.com/tz3ZqJxm /var/log/daemons.log: http://pastebin.com/Apj7hwsK |
Code: Select all# cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v "^#" deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main deb http://ft... | Yep. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=837788 http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/c ... _changelog |
Hi all, I am at a loss as to what to do to get Privoxy working. I have tried it using Ice Weasel and Konqueror and end up with the same problem: after I set the configuration in the browser, I cannot access anything on the internet. Any ideas? chadrick | For me it required the proxy setting to be "localhost" and not "127.0.0.1" (which the instructions suggest). |
I have upgraded my Debian stable to testing and I noticed that the clock was given back with 2 hours. I haven't changed the timezone nor date. On stable, the timezone was fixed to UTC, for the purpose of compatibility with Windows 7 (I have a laptop with Debian/Windows 7 dual-boot). What can I do? Edit: sorry for the m... | Naron wrote:What can I do? You aren't going to like this answer... If you can't do very simple diagnostics and a few minutes' original research on what is very likely a well-understood and trivially fixable problem, what you should do is go back to Stable and stay there. Testing is best suited to experienced and motiva... |
I have a 2011 Asus CM6850 Desktop and now use Mint 17.3 Rosa (64-bit MATE) with an x86_64 Linux 4.2.0-42-generic kernel because using an OS with a newer kernel causes a regression that affects my native 1920x1080 resolution (distorting it to the extent that I cannot use or fix it. Mint gives me fairly updated applicati... | The main MX 15 repository has a 64-bit 4.2 jessie-backports kernel that was patched recently to fix the dirty COW vulnerability. It seems odd that your Sandybridge graphic chipset is having trouble, I thought it should have been supported by Jessie's 3.16 kernel out of the box. |
I have a ethernet controller "marvell 88E8057" in debian Stable but it not work. I have in "/etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf" "sky2". Any ideas? Thanks. | EchoONE wrote:marvell 88E8057 That should be supported by the sky2 module which is included in the stock jessie kernel. https://packages.debian.org/search?sear ... e&arch=any Which kernel driver is actually in use? Code: Select alllspci -knn | grep -iA2 net |
I have a NUC5i5ryh that was set up to dual boot. Has a 256GB NVME SSD for Debian Stretch and had a 500GB HDD for Ubuntu. I decided to wipe the HDD so I could use it for mass storage. I successfully wiped the HDD and set it up to mount automatically using the "Disks" GUI. Works fine. However, when I shut down the comput... | ticojohn wrote:Would somebody be so kind to, first give me hell for being dumb all over I can handle this first part. At the risk of sounding harsh, you've done this now at least a dozen times: you get bored, and end up blindly dicking around with your production system(s), and then asking folks here to bail you out fr... |
Hello all! I have this problem for quite some time. The server runs Debian Wheezy. Windows 8.1 client can rename from upper case to lower case without problems. But Jessie client cannot. Not even from command line. It says the file already exists and asks me if I want to overwrite. Choosing Yes returns the same dialog.... | I think it's most likely in /etc/samba/smb.conf in Jessie. That's where case sensitivity is set. Here is discussion from Using Samba on that subject: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/ch05_04.html Compare smb.conf in both Wheezy and Jessie. If Wheezy works and Jessie doesn't, edit the Jessie smb.conf to match ... |
Hello, I come to install Debian 8.5 with a Gnome desktop but I have no sound through my HDMI output whereas it worked well with my previous graphic card (maybe because I was under Fedora). I read that it was because the drivers were not embed in the kernel anymore and tried to active the sound thanks to radeon.audio=1 ... | I don't think you're going to get sound out of that, Radeon™ R9 Series Graphics Cards | AMD With AMD Radeon R9 series gaming graphics cards get extreme 4K performance and virtual reality experiences for your gaming. Visit AMD.com today and grab one! try this https://wiki.debian.org/SoundCard SoundCard - Debian Wiki A s... |
Hi there, please keep in mind that i'm not a native english speaker After 4 days trying to solve this error i'm almost giving up and any help will be MUCH appreciated. I got a VPS running Debian Jessie for almost 1 year now, and after the last update I did, my e-mail server [postfix,courier with virtual users via mysql... | after asking for some help on IRC to get unstuck, one user told me about swaks (swiss army knife for SMTP). using swaks i get: Code: Select allroot@SSS:/var/log# swaks -tls --server SSS.cloud.com -f SSS@SSS.io -t other_email@other_provider.com -ao --auth-user=SSS@SSS.io Password: my_pa$$word === Trying SSS.cloud.com:25... |
Code: Select all uname -a Linux davidlaptop 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.5-1~bpo8+1 (2016-02-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux dbohon@davidlaptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-unsigned Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not ... | I got stuck with this too, unable to install backports kernel, and the metapackage doesn't work either. Probably just best to wait and try again in a day or a few days. |
I have a portable usb hd, I just bought the other day, Western Digital. It works fine, and it boots just fine, if I use it to boot on a different computer from the one I used to make it. I used the 'dd' command, so that is why the uuid's are the same. However, what I need to do now is change the uuid on the sdb4 partit... | Not the best way I'm sure, but what I do is use the partition label or flag files instead of uuid's, but then I boot using menu.lst (grub4dos). I 'installed' Debian Live CD to HDD, and updated that to similar to a full install, but that I can also boot like a live CD with optional persistence. So two choices of boot, b... |
I've successfully set up an email server in Jessie using the ispmail guide with postfix and dovecot and have also installed postfixadmin. I'd now like to configure the system to use quota but the fstab file I wish to edit is unlike the following file on my home computer: Code: Select all$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: s... | kedaha wrote:As I understand it, to use quota, /etc/fstab/ devices like /dev/sda1 must just be renamed I have absolutely no experience of setting up quotas through fstab but the ArchWiki page on this subject suggests that is not the case, /dev/sdXY is used in the examples: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_quot... |
Hello, yesterday I confirmed applying update after restart. It restarted, installed packages and after booting into the GNOME I find out that my WiFi is gone. By googling I was able to find similar problem in mail-lists (https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/ ... 00122.html). But I can't see any solution there. Tobias... | Have you seen? https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... vent-flush Try booting from an older kernel? |
Hi, I dont know what im doing wrong, but im sure you can help me with this!, I migrated to debian testing and now the script i had in "/etc/cron.daily" seems not launching.. I create a link to the script as i did in Jessie: Code: Select alluser@hall:/etc/cron.daily$ ln -s ~/scripts/cr_dedup.sh cr_dedup if i execute run... | How's it going bester? Maybe it's a permissions problem, according to the man page for cron links are ok in .daily, but those links and scripts should be owned by root. |
Hi, I got high CPU cycles looping eventually. Threre is 4 years or so with this annoing problem, I cant find any solution on the internet, for what i've read seems a KDE bug without any solution in KDE 4.14. Do you know any workaround to this eventually ciclyng CPU loops while inactivity.. I can improve it a litle bit ... | Can't reproduce that behavior here, Xorg and KDE system is very stable, very low cpu generally idle at 5-8%, cpu ondemand is very active. Maybe it's a configuration issue? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... d7#p619535 |
Hi fellas, New to Debian, and I want to ask something. I have the following laptop, HP Pavilion 15 bc000nv, CPU: Intel Core i7 6700HQ and GPU: nVidia GTX GeForce 960M. I will install Debian 8.5 stable and I was thinking to upgrade to 4.6 Kernel, for its new improvements/adds-on from backports and then install Bumblebee... | It's not that you should update those packages from backports, you need to: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 0m#p605718 |
This is a new debian testing installation and I am using fluxbox as my WM. My problem is that most installed applications are missing from my menu (e.g. libreoffice, kile et.). I have checked the /usr/share/menu directory and indeed there are no entries for the missing apps. Other apps however, e.g. thunar, have an ent... | What does your fluxbox-menu file look like? Can you Copy and Paste it here? What do you use to edit your fluxbox-menu? Have you seen e.g. http://www.techtimejourney.net/creating ... xbox-menu/ |
Hi I want to use a computer for day to day use, and run a few VM and containers inside too. Because I'm a human, I want to prevent mounting in the host some Logical Volumes dedicated to my VMs. I know how dangerous is to mount a filesystem twice at the same time if it is not designed for this. The best I found is to us... | Preventing root from doing something (anything) sort of renders the whole concept of a root account meaningless, no? You should never run X as root, which leaves the CLI as the only possible path to "accidental" mounting, making the whole idea nonsensical on its face. Is there something you're not telling us? |
Hello, I got a very strange issue using samba. From a Windows 7 client that joined the domain, i want to change a user password. Here is what i am doing exactly : Loging into the domain account, with username and password. Pressing ctrl + alt + del Clic on Change password menu Enter old password and 2 times new pasword... | Purgator wrote:The amazing thing is that with the same user i can change the password from the virtual machine but from the real machine. you mean "but not from the real machine", right? |
Hi, I've got a pc that can't get connected to a openVPN server through network-manager-openvpn plugin in Gnome 3.14. However I'm able to get connected if I use the command line, that's the reason why I'm not too much worried about it, but I would like to know the reason why it doesn't work through my Gnome network-mana... | I fixed it, I write down the commands that worked for me: Code: Select all# service network-manager restart # service dbus restart # reboot Someone can mark this thread as solved or tell me how to do it? EDIT: I've already marked as SOLVED this thread by myself |
Hey, I'm using Debian 8.3 (64-bit) with XFCE in a VMware Workstation window, and every now and then I get a glitch in the system that causes my system to lose it's sound abilities so I had to revert back to a much older image and start over. Anyway, I have tried to do a sudo apt-get upgrade to this image and bring it u... | Code: Select allsudo apt-get update |
Well yeah, basically that's my problem, I have an Hp laptop, I move my system from another laptop which also had the same problem, but I thought it was the battery and when I move the system to the new laptop I still have the problem, I get something about 15-20 minutes without the laptop connected before it shuts down... | I don't know if this battery is bad Sounds like it, here's how I checked my first battery, it started doing something similar. Even though battery monitor apps will show this battery as 100% charged, it is only 100% of 35% yeah I know it is confrusing. Code: Select all$ acpi -i Battery 0: Full, 100% Battery 0: design c... |
I'm trying to change my boot order. Following this https://wiki.debian.org/Grub#Debian_Squeeze_and_later guide, I've tried the procedures for both Grub v1 and v2, but neither work. I assumed that I had Grub v1 installed because the output of Code: Select all/usr/sbin/grub-install -v was 0.97. I want Debian to boot firs... | Output Code: Select alldpkg --list | grep grub (which I got from stackexchange: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -not-found) seems to show that I have both grub versions installed: ii grub-common 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 amd64 GRand Unified Bootloader (common files) rc grub-legacy 0.97-70 amd64 GRand Unified Boo... |
Installed Debian jessie 8.5 stable today on new desktop pc with "Intel Corporation Device 1902 (rev 06)" video (package intel-xserver-xorg.video-intel installed). The problem is the unreadable text under icons, menu and other section of xfce de. I'm looking for a solution, bearing in mind that is impossible to use xfce... | I guess you must have a HDPI screen. I think if you edit this file in your home folder, either from a terminal interface with nano or some other method like a LiveUSB, you can increase the font size: .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml full path would be ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xse... |
Hello, I'm using Debian on a laptop Lenovo Yoga 500-14ACL. Wifi is not working with broadcom drivers. Code: Select allbellinuxien@lenovo2:~$ sudo lspci -nn | grep Net 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:43ae] (rev 02) Thanks for the help.. | I found a solution that worked, it's a script not written by me, that you can found on: https://github.com/roryrjb/lenovo-ideap ... install.sh Thanks... |
Hi, I'm using a nvidia gtx980 and debian 8.5 64-bit and was installing steam when I had the following problem. I followed the steps Code: Select alldpkg --add-architecture i386 aptitude update aptitude install steam aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 and then after a reboot, grub works and I go into my debian part... | seem to have everything fixed, I had a line in grub with quiet spalsh nomodeset and changing it to only have quiet fixed it |
I've had this type of thing ocuur in the past and it has always been a video driver issue, and I have managed to fix it. This time I am stumped. Details: Intel CPU, was running Stretch 4.5.0-2-686-pae before applying the update. Nvidia GT210 graphics card, installed the debian way (using dkms) lightdm + lxde lightdm is... | ticketman wrote:Very disappointed a simple update without errors has now made the system unusable. Really? You do know you are running testing...(with a legacy proprietary driver). 500MB is not a "simple update" - you not been keeping up with regular updates? How can I recover? Investigate logs, check out what has chan... |
Hello, I had the system running for about 60 days, till it has been restarted. Within the 60 days, there was at least one kernel/module update that has been applied. The system came back up ( it is my home router ) and the firewall script failed to apply all the rules with: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.... | I do find it a bit "odd"... do you as well? I do find kernel modules a bit odd in general sometimes. according to man page for modprobe, modprobe expects an up-to-date modules.dep.bin file as generated by the corresponding depmod utility shipped along with modprobe maybe that was the issue in this case? Is the system w... |
What is wrong with this damn systemd? Makes only problems! I've a nfs mount in my fstab, with mount option _netdev and noauto. But what does systemd? Try to mount the nfs mount and loops never ending on boot. So, how can I put systemd in state to NOT mount the nfs mount, if there a mount option _netdev or noauto?! syst... | Did you try doing any searches first ? : systemd and fstab options. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fstab https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy ... rator.html There is all sorts of information available . ---------------- edit ----------------- how can I put systemd in state to NOT mount the nfs mount Most of th... |
Hi, I'm following this old guide but I guess some things have been changed, because it doesn't work. http://reboot.pro/topic/14547-linux-loa ... nd-boot-it Anyone can share a tip or two? | The 1st post of http://reboot.pro/topic/14547-linux-loa ... nd-boot-it has many typo. For example, "copy the first boot entry and replace the /initrd line with this: /initrd /initrd.img-ramdisk" is wrong. The following is better: "replace the line starting with initrd with the following: initrd /boot/initrd.img-ramboot... |
What I am trying to achieve: Using Mac connect to debian server, running x11vnc+xfce4+lightdm. Have x11vnc present a lightdm greeter screen, so that remote user can login and create their own desktop session. Base system: Debian 8.5 armhf What I have done so far: Edited /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf & added [XDMCPServer] e... | one vnc connection = one user, one display |
Hi, I have a functionning dual boot windows/fedora and I would like to install kali with, as a third os> Does anyone know the default behaviour of the debian installer regarding grub when encounter such configuration ? Thank you, | The installer will ask you if you want to install grub in the mbr and when you confirm this question, the installer will try to find your fedora and windows and add the entries of them to the grub menu. Personally I wouldn't install grub in such a situation and just add an entry to the current installed grub which was ... |
Hello, I have recently acquired a new desktop and bought a usb wireless adapter in order to use internet. I have decided to choose this model “TPE-N150USB” (https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/ ... pe-n150usb )as I’ve had issues with most of my wifi cards in the past because of proprietary drivers. Excited to have i... | FredB wrote: - echo "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf (I'M NOT SURE WHICH ONE TO USE : ath9k or ath9k_htc. What is the difference ? PCI cards of atheros use the ath9k module, the usb ones use the .._htc module (even though the chip may be the same!). So your adapter uses the ath9k_htc module. (se... |
installed debian 7.11 wheezy 64 with 3.2.0-4 kernel gnome 3.4.2 booted the system and i guess i missed a step as i have no root password for apt-get and sudo. how can i fix this? its been years sense i used linux and do not remember where or how to edit that. thanks | If you can't find a nicer solution, you might be able to take the path of booting up the installation again, but immediately shift to vt2, then mount the target and use chroot and passwd to set a new root password.. |
I am running Wheezy with Gnome Classic as the desktop. I would like to disable the "silly" animation when I iconify a window (eg Firefox). I have tried the following, as root: Code: Select allroot@JohnBoy:/home/john# gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false When queried I then get the response ... | ticojohn wrote:I have tried the following, as root: As root? Gnome doesn't open until you log into your ~/user. I would expect the changes should go into either a hidden (.) file or a startup file. Sorry, I don't have a perfect answer for you. |
seeing alot of pages on how to upgrade my video drivers. not sure what im doing so ...any advice is welcome. system: linux 3.2.0-4 amd 64 with ATI radeon 4200. linux version 7.11 wheezy i will need a step by step tutor / guide . havent used linux in years but am returning to stay thanks | It may help to install firmware-linux-nonfree. |
Hi folks, I have a permission problem and hope you can help me out. I able to transfer a file via to /home/ssh_user/ and /tmp/ but not to other directories. I get the following error message: Code: Select allpscp: unable to open /bla/bla/: permission denied The permissions of the directory are: Code: Select all$ls -l /... | cronoik wrote:Yes this is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to upload a file from a client to the local folder /bla/bla/ of a server. I have noticed the problem while I was developing a program with the Winscp api but I can reproduce the problem with pscp. The pscp command looks like this (I'm currently not at work and... |
Hi ! I am setting up a mail server on debian. Once it's done, I'd like to have an indentical server on another machine, where debian will also be installed. The solution has to be hardware agnostic, so source machine is different than destination machine. I was reading on some wiki page that one can simply copy the roo... | Yep, works good - I've done it a number of times. You'll need to reinstall the bootloader too. ... and delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (or such...). |
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