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So I have NAS at home which I use for backups and some other files. I want to mount some shared folders on my PC via CIFS in fstab, but I'm running into some problems. When I boot my PC, I see some error messages as pictured below: This message repeats for the other 3 shares I mount using CIFS as well. The weirdest thing is though, when I run sudo mount -a in a terminal after boot, the shares mount just fine... Pictured below are the lines in /etc/fstab which I use to mount the shares: As some additional info: The NAS shares via SMB using SMB2 as a minimum protocol and SMB3 as a maximum. It is also setup as a Local Master Browser. I hope I have provided you with enough information, please tell me if you need more. | Your init system**, whichever one you are using, is trying to mount the fstab entries before the network becomes available. There is information out there that you can search for that will help you set up the behavior as you want. ** by default SystemD on modern Debian installs. It doesn't really matter WHAT init system you use, the issue will remain unless you resolve the problem of the network not being up before the fstab network share are attempted to be mounted. The only thing that will change is HOW you go about getting the network up before the mounts. |
my system runs Debian Stretch 9.6 internal I have an M2.SSD on which the system is installed. externally I have an usb3 HDD. for this disk I have a line in my /etc/fstab so the disk mounts at boot. there is also a setting for sharing files on this external disk in /etc/samba/smb.conf ok, no problem when I shut down my system, remove the usbhdd, my system does not boot, but goes in Emergency Mode so, I commented out the line for this disk in /etc/fstab system does not boot. after reconnecting the usbhdd, it booted again properly. so, how can I boot my system without the usbhdd ?? | Does the fstab line for the external hdd include noauto -option? |
Code: Select allapt install libgtk-3-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgtk-3-dev : Depends: libegl1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libwayland-dev (>= 1.9.91) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. (Also aptitude fails). So I tried to install the missing dependencies: Code: Select allapt install libegl1-mesa-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libegl1-mesa (= 13.0.6-1+b2) but 18.1.9-1~bpo9+1 is to be installed Depends: libwayland-egl1-mesa (= 13.0.6-1+b2) Depends: libwayland-dev (>= 1.2.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Code: Select allapt install libwayland-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libwayland-dev : Depends: libwayland-client0 (= 1.12.0-1) but 1.16.0-1~bpo9+1 is to be installed Depends: libwayland-server0 (= 1.12.0-1) but 1.16.0-1~bpo9+1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. How so? Is a fresh installation. Should I fill a bug? How is possible that debian doesn' t support libgtk-3-dev? | In case of dependency problems, always post your sources: Code: Select allapt policy |
My Debian 9 PC communicated well over a USB cable with my Samsung Z3 phone, which ran on the not popular Tizen operating system. However, I have not been able to get a Nokia 2.1 (Android Go) phone, bought yesterday, to speak to my computer. This makes things difficult as I must look for numbers and e-mail addresses elsewhere. When the phone is connected to the computer it appears in two places, one labelled "Android" and the other "CDROM". The first is empty and the second has directories which are unreadable. | Check on the phone how it presents through usb. That 'cdrom' is a emulated cd drive that would likely have some utilities and maybe a pdf, and apparently an unrecognized file system. I had a 'mtk' phone that did that, the setting was on the phone to set appear as mass storage device, that cdrom, as camera and some other options, etc. |
The last couple of days I was getting a key expired message, for Steve Pusser's Palemoon repo, when checking for updates. I just reinstalled/updated the key and all seems to be fine. Steve did you indeed update the key, or would something have goofed up on my end? This was for my Jessie system... I should probably try my Debian 9 system, but I tend to forget about that one. | It seems to have happened all at once for every OBS repository...hopefully they didn't have to do that because of a data breach. I'll go look to see if I can find any reason for it. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 00#p157607 |
Hi, For different reasons I would like to rebuild a Debian ISO after having tested some modifications into the code and build parameters Do somebody knows how Debian ISO are made, what are the steps that are currently used for building the Debian ISO that can be found here : https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ Is it just build-essentials and a huge Makefile / source directory ? If so, where can we find it ? I didn't found anything interesting despite my Google searches. Thank you in advance | Oh, I think I found better than Google, by browsing over available iso https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd |
After the latest update TBB 8.0 fails to open or give any kind of error message: Code: Select all$ ./start-tor-browser $ When i move up a few directories and try the .desktop link i get: Code: Select all$./start-tor-browser.desktop /usr/bin/env: ‘./Browser/execdesktop’: No such file or directory Anyone else experiencing this? | How about To open Tor Browser choose one of the following two options Option 1: Using GNOME, open the Activities Search. Simply type in Tor Browser Option 2: Using Terminal as user run the following command Code: Select alltorbrowser-launcher Source - https://wiki.debian.org/TorBrowser |
Running Debian Stretch 4.9.130-2 x86_64 LXDE desktop NetworkManager states that no WiFi networks are available. That is why I am falling back on the nmcli command. Code: Select allroot@x:~# nmcli device wifi list * SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY C&WM Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 100 (4 bars) WPA2 root@x~# nmcli device wifi connect "C&WM" password 5y)+AqbK8 bash: syntax error near unexpeted token ")" root@x~# nmcli device wifi connect "C&WM" password "5y)+AqbK8" > Presumably, nmcli is asking for something. I don't know what. | Might have to put that password in quotes, and probably you should change it now that the world has seen it. |
I have installed Debian 9 using a pen drive. I have already used su - command to become root user. When reloading Synaptic package manager I get: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-10:25] stretch Release' does not have a Release file. Every time when using apt-get update I get these many errors: W: The repository 'cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-10:25] stretch Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 E: Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-10:25]/dists/stretch/main/binary-amd64/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:5 I am trying all different things to correct this. I have reinstalled Debian 9 about 6 time and breaking it again and again by doing all crap I get in google. Please Help... Thanks and here is the source list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-10:25]/ stretch main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-10:25]/ stretch main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main non-free # stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main non-free | It would have helped if you had included your sources list. The CD is still listed as a Repository in your sources list. You can disable it by putting a # at the beginning of the CD line. |
Hello, I've installed debian two days ago, and since then I have tried a lot of different solutions found on internet to fix my issue, without results :/ . So my problem is that I can't connect on wifi with my laptop, and I could with Windows before. Anyone could help me ? I would be forever grateful ^^ | The first thing is probably read these two pages in the wiki https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse If you've already read them but they didn't help, then adding more details to your post will help other people help you. Please don;t make people drag info out of you, it makes confusing thread. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=47078 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10653 |
Hi, I'm having some issues with SSH. I am able to use it very well over the lan after i allowed Port 22 in the firewall and remote login in settings - sharing(Gnome), however i cant connect to it with my public address(https://www.whatismyip.com). I don't really know or understand what i am missing, the response i get from the terminal is "Connection refused". I didn't change any config files, everything is by default. My understanding in network is very poor but i assume i should get a different public ipv4 for each machine, however when i connect to the website i see that my Arch and my Debian have the same public ipv4 ? Am i missing something ? Thanks for your help. | Your machines and LAN have private IP addresses (192.168, 172.16-31, 10 ranges) and the router does NAT. The public IP address belongs to the router. It appears that the router does not listen nor forward SSH connections. |
I updated alot of packages and now no sound is working. Pulseaudio is just showing a dummy output and no input. I have tried alot of troubleshooting steps but nothing have been working, here I am 4 hours later and frustrated making this post. I've tried to reinstall alsa and pulseaudio several times. Here's some info I think would help anyone kind enough to take a look into this problem of mine. aplay -l Code: Select all**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration aplay: device_list:281: control open (0): No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration aplay: device_list:281: control open (1): No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration aplay: device_list:281: control open (2): No such file or directory inxi -Fxz (if there is any other field that would be of any help please tell me and I will provide the full output) Code: Select allSystem: Host: lmao Kernel: 4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: i3 4.15.0.1-143-gfcdf8d30 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid Audio: Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 Device-3: Yamaha type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus ID: 3-9.1:7 Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ls -l /dev/snd/ Code: Select alltotal 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 3 2018 by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Nov 3 2018 by-path crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 14 Nov 3 2018 controlC0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Nov 3 2018 controlC1 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Nov 3 2018 controlC2 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 18 Nov 3 2018 hwC0D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Nov 3 2018 hwC2D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Nov 3 2018 midiC1D0 crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 16 Nov 3 2018 pcmC0D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 15 Nov 3 2018 pcmC0D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 17 Nov 3 2018 pcmC0D2c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Nov 3 2018 pcmC1D0c crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Nov 3 2018 pcmC1D0p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D10p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D11p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D3p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D7p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D8p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Nov 3 2018 pcmC2D9p crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Nov 3 2018 seq crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Nov 3 2018 timer amixer Code: Select allALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory some groups of interest: Code: Select allaudio:x:29:pulse,ayy,root pulse:x:114:ayy,root pulse-access:x:115:ayy,root | As you appear to be running testing/unstable booted with a backported kernel I think you should probably read this: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian EDIT: and maybe search the boards before posting? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=138976 |
Hi. I use stretch and I need to use VirtualBox for a project for school. I'm not sure I fully understand what the documentation is saying regarding backports and I was hoping someone could help me interpret some of it. I've read https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ https://backports.debian.org/news/stretch-backports/ and https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian. So as I understand it, backports from testing for stable are packages that still have some bugs however they're relatively safe to install because their dependencies, for the most part, are available in stable? If I want to install a stretch-backport I add it to my sources and override the default deactivation like so, Code: Select allapt-get -t stretch-backports install "package" Now assuming what I've said so far is correct here's where my understanding gets fuzzy, when a new stable is eventually available will I or will I not have problems preforming a full-upgrade? The reason I'm confused and the part I really don't understand is the "sloppy distribution" section of the doc right here https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index4h2 which comes right after the "Install a package from backports" section. I've read this section many times and I don't understand what its saying. To guarantee a clean upgrade path from a previously stable distribution to the next stable it is not allowed to upload packages from the current testing to that backport distribution. To allow some newer packages for those systems we create so called sloppy distributions. Does that mean I will have trouble upgrading? Does that mean my installation is now sloppy? Or is it talking about something else entirely? Thanks!! | To me, it means they don't backport from testing directly to oldstable, they create a fuzzy thing called "sloppy" to fill the gap. Since you're on stretch, I wouldn't worry about it. But pick backports with care like the instructions say, just install what you need. |
Howdy. I've run into problems installing some software. I've used apt-get install ... with success most of the time. There are times when I can't seem to install anything, no matter what method I use. I've tried using dpkg, but I've forget how to use it the next time I need it. All I'm asking here is to be pointed to where I can learn all about installation of various packages. The printer installation was the most difficult. I stumbled upon a successful install by accident. I still don't know what the heck I did Many thanks every one for your help. | Some people swear that apt-get is the best way to go, but I got hooked on the aptitude ncurses interface a long time ago. It has a lot of info on pkgs and dependencies presented in a way that i find convenient and easy to understand, and a good problem resolver when things go wrong. |
Hi What will be a better choice to use for a usb pen drive? I was seeing that even gparted doesnt fully support exfat! Sometimes the Fat32 format gets corrupted and the only fix is reformat. Thats troubling me! Thankyou Edit 1: Are both of these backward compatible to FAT32? | makh wrote:What will be a better choice to use for a usb pen drive? It depends on how you intend to use the pen drive. If you want to install a GNU/Linux system, F2FS is a better choice because it is POSIX-compliant and is natively supported by the mainline Linux kernel. exFAT is only supported via FUSE or a non-mainline kernel driver. makh wrote:Are both of these backward compatible to FAT32? No. |
Simplest: IceWeasel is not usable. I have installed it through the software manager without issue, or so it says, but when I go to open it to use it says that IceWeasel is not found What brought me to try IceWeasel was the repeat unsuccessful installation of the latest Firefox Quantum version. Some pages I have read indicate that the latest version of Firefox Quantum will never be seen on Debian though I am unclear as to why. Is there something wrong with it I am unaware of? And if so is there an alternate source for an IceWeasel install? | 3hre wrote:Some pages I have read indicate that the latest version of Firefox Quantum will never be seen on Debian though I am unclear as to why. Is there something wrong with it I am unaware of? And if so is there an alternate source for an IceWeasel install? The latest Firefox-esr (version 60.2.0esr Firefox Quantum) is already in Debian Stretch repo. . |
Hi I was looking into: https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg It uses by default: Code: Select all/var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/ Can I use: Code: Select all/var/cache/apt/archives/ ... instead. But I see a small issue: /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/ has sub folders system. Thankyou | For an alternative to a complete package solution you could use the package dpkg-dev. Arrange your pool how and where you like and serve it up as you like. from a terminal in the top of your structure run Code: Select alldpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz along with an http solution you can also make it local with sources.list something like deb [trusted=yes] file:///pool/dists/stretch/binary-amd64/ ./ In my arrangement this pool is served up by passing around a usb, either real or as a qcow2. Works fine. |
I just upgraded Linux Mint to Debian 9.5. The installation went okay. After the system boots, I am asked for my user name and password. The trouble is, my password isn't recognized. I know this password because it is from the VIN number of a 1967 Ford Torino. The system I'm using is a Dell Studio XPS 9100. It has 9 GB of RAM, a DVD, and a Seagate 2 TB drive. I installed Debian on one partition. I have created the Super User password, and the password for normal user. It just plain won't accept my password. I hope there is some kind of workaround so I can get back into that system. Right now I'm using my laptop (also a Dell machine) and it is running Debian 9.5. No problems with this machine. The only solution I can come up with on my own, is to re-install the OS. I've already re-installed the OS twice because of this very same problem. Along with that, I can't do a re-boot while trying to log in. I'm not certain that this is a hardware problem. The system runs well when I have been able to get in past logging in. I appreciate any help you can lend me. | It seems that only using su to get root access works. As I said earlier, sudo doesn't work for me. I'll have to tinker with something after reading more about this distro.By default, Debian does not use sudo. It can be added if wanted. Code: Select allsu Code: Select allapt-get install sudo Code: Select allusermod -a -G sudo <username> Replace <username> with your username to which you want to grant sudo access. Now logout & login to get sudo access to those users. Source - https://linuxpanda.wordpress.com/2016/1 ... n-stretch/ |
After I log in as normal user, I get an error message. X session: warning: unable to write to /tmp; X session may exit with an error. I've never seen an error message like that before. I can't access the GUI. No response from keyboard input. I tried Xterm, but then I couldn't figure out where to go or what to do. At best I could log in as su, and init 6. When I logged back in, the same error message. I went back into Xterm, did the su login so I could to init 0. I'm only able to get here by using a live USB stick of Fedora. I'm using Debian 9.5 on a Dell laptop with 8 GB of ram, and an SSD. Thanks for reading this. | I've never seen an error message like that before. I don't recall ever seeing this one myself, but there does seem to be a lot of people that have. X session: warning: unable to write to /tmp; X session may exit with an error. Maybe you should look at some of the results, and see if any are similar to your situation, After really trying some things, if none of the solutions in the results work for you, show us some details about what you did, and your system. If you don't know how to use the CLI, then you will need to learn how to do that first, and that would be another topic in itself. Here is 1 of the many hits, it might apply to your situation: from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... space?rq=1 accepted Your root file system is full and hence your temp dir (/tmp, and /var/tmp for that matter) are also full. A lot of scripts and programs require some space for working files, even lock files. When /tmp is unwriteable bad things happen. You need to work out how you've filled the filesystem up. Typically places this will happen is in /var/log (check that you're cycling the log files). Or /tmp may be full. There's many, many other ways that a disk can fill up, however. du -hs /tmp /var/log You may wish to re-partition to give /tmp it's own partition (that's the old school way of doing it, but if you have plenty of disk it's fine), or map it into memory (which will make it very fast but start to cause swapping issues if you overdo the temporary files).---snip-- Read the entire thread, it goes into details on trouble shooting this. |
hi guys , i'm sick of this popup after Fires_it launchs ( all starts after downloading some crap downloader music ) http://oi65.tinypic.com/nogfx3.jpg | Wow! What browser are you using and do you have any plugins? |
Hello all, Over the last couple days I have been trying to install Steam onto Debian 9 (Stretch), but have not had any luck. I have followed the wikis instructions and this tutorial https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux. Neither has been able to fully complete. Whenever I run: Code: Select allsudo apt install steam I end up with these errors: Code: Select allSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: steam:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I have added multi-arch support via this command: Code: Select alldpkg --add-architecture i386 followed by Code: Select allsudo apt update A force install didn't seem to accomplish anything, and after manually attempts to install these dependencies I receive similar errors: Code: Select alltoffer@Kodia:~/Programs$ sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 (>= 2.4.63) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm-intel1:i386 (>= 2.4.48) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm-nouveau2:i386 (>= 2.4.66) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm-radeon1:i386 (>= 2.4.31) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm2:i386 (>= 2.4.66) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. toffer@Kodia:~/Programs$ sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libdrm2:i386 (>= 2.4.66) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 (= 13.0.6-1+b2) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Here is the output of my apt sources.list file: Code: Select all# deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 9.5.0 gnome 2018-07-14T17:01]/ stretch main #deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 9.5.0 gnome 2018-07-14T17:01]/ stretch main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main # stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main # stretch-backports deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/ deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main Any idea on how to fix these broken dependencies? | I'm not sure, if it is the source of your problem, but why do you have wheezy in you sources list, when running stretch? |
This is the query - How to have a standalone QSoX of SourceForge? | I tried to run the application from my system, but the binary won't run. I checked my system with Code: Select allqmake --version My system says: Code: Select allQMake version 2.01a Using Qt version 4.8.2 in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu The Readme.txt of QSox says: INSTALLATION ========================== Requirements for Linux : install SoX with "apt-get install sox" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Just launch the executable.Which is crazy. From my terminal in the directory of SoX I checked to see the rwx option active. I tried running the command directly from the downloaded directory, but won't run. I copied it to /usr/sbin, but it won't run from there too. Code: Select allQSox Code: Select allbash: /usr/sbin/QSox: cannot execute binary file Also, Code: Select all QSox bash: /usr/bin/QSox: cannot execute binary file I have been searching for a GUI version for SoX as the man page and application for SoX via the CUI is something beyond my abilities. Entering Computing in the era of Win3.11 I could never push myself hard enough to work from CLI. I missed out a lot on utilising the power of UNIX as a result. I found that a better initiation to the man page for SoX could be via this page: Using Sox The QT version for SoX could be downloaded from here: QSox A batch-oriented frontend for SoX with Qt. |
Hi, I've been having a lot of trouble trying to mount a LUKS encrypted hard drive to recover the data on it. I've followed the directions found here (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... ost5924459), but what I get in the end when I try to mount the logical volume is "mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS'." Below are the steps I've taken to mount the LV, along with the relevant output. Code: Select allsudo modprobe dm-crypt sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb5 crypt sudo modprobe dm-mod sudo vgscan >> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... >> Found volume group "Cringe-vg" using metadata type lvm2 >> Found volume group "Cringe4-vg" using metadata type lvm2 sudo vgchange -a y Cringe-vg >> 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "Cringe-vg" now active sudo lvscan >> ACTIVE '/dev/Cringe-vg/Backup' [566.13 GiB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/Cringe4-vg/root' [9.31 GiB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/Cringe4-vg/swap_1' [4.12 GiB] inherit >> ACTIVE '/dev/Cringe4-vg/home' [98.12 GiB] inherit sudo mount /dev/Cringe-vg/Backup /media/temp >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' Any help would be greatly appreciated. | It seems that the logical volume is used as a LUKS container too. You have to open it with cryptsetup. Confirm with Code: Select alllsblk blkid |
Within this present thread itself, I sent my original post to my immediately next post below it. I had to do this because the BB-code doesn't allow the Subject/Thread Title to be changed independently of the first post on that thread. The independence is required because the solution is likely at the bottom of any thread, not at the top. The solution to this query is at the last post within this thread. | Hello, friends. Open a terminal. Copy-paste the code: Code: Select allnohup play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth sine amod 0.3 20 I may use multiple terminals, all playing the same sound at a mutual time-lapse with each other. I want to grab the output audio using a terminal to a wave file. How can I do it? Can be done with using Sox's "rec" utility: Code: Select allrec -c 2 myFile.mp3 Very good noise quality for sleeping and relaxing. Question is: How to combine the two codes for an output file with the combined sounds in myFile.mp3? The following special filenames may be used in certain circumstances in place of a normal filename on the command line: - SoX can be used in simple pipeline operations by using the special filename '-' which, if used in place of an input filename, will cause SoX will read audio data from 'standard input' (stdin), and which, if used in place of the output filename, will cause SoX will send audio data to 'standard output' (stdout). Note that when using this option, the file-type (see -t below) must also be given. "|program [options] ..." This can be used in place of an input filename to specify the the given program's standard output (stdout) be used as an input file. Unlike - (above), this can be used for several inputs to one SoX command. For example, if 'genw' generates mono WAV formatted signals to its standard output, then the following command makes a stereo file from two generated signals: Code: Select all sox -M -t wav "|genw --imd -" -t wav "|genw --thd -" out.wav If -t is not given then the signal is assumed (and checked) to be in SoX's native .sox format (see -p below and soxformat(7)). But can't make head or tail of either genw, imd or thd. And like man pages are cryptic, this one is also cryptic. |
How to force Debian 9 Linux to make forced automatic LVM disc scan with automatic LVM disk repair on boot? | vitaliok78 wrote:I want the Debian to execute fsck -p -y -v /dev/sda* on every boot. This has nothing to do with LVM disk scan. Please correct the subject. |
Hi!I am running Debian 9.5 Stretch 64 bit.I have latest version of transmission 2.92-2+deb9u1 installed and from Preferences I have ticked 'Play a sound when torrents finish'. Unfortunately,when torrents finish no sound is played. Kindly assist. | probably only works on a full-blown gnome desktop. either provide more info, or try this workaround: do you also have an option to "run script when torrent finishes"? i do, and i have pointed it to this script: Code: Select all#!/bin/sh notify-send "Torrent finished:" "$TR_TORRENT_NAME" espeak "Torrent finished: $TR_TORRENT_NAME" exit 0it works. of course that espeak is very ugly, only for testing. you might want to replace it with "aplay nice_ding.wav" or something. do you know how to use this or should we walk you through it? |
Hello, in the new Kernel Version 4.9.0-8-amd64 sddm won't start. With the old kernel Version 4.9.0-7-amd64 it is just fine. I am using a GTX 660 ti with the driver Version 384.130. I have invested some time in searching but I can't figure out the Problem. Output of: cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager Code: Select all/usr/bin/sddm Output of systemctl status sddm.service in rocovery mode of 4.9.0-8-amd64 Code: Select all● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Wed 2018-08-29 09:49:28 CEST; 3min 0s ago Docs: man:sddm(1) man:sddm.conf(5) Process: 744 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sddm (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Process: 741 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/bin/sddm" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 744 (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Aug 29 09:49:27 Staubsauger systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'signal'. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: sddm.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: Stopped Simple Desktop Display Manager. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: sddm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: sddm.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 29 09:49:28 Staubsauger systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'signal'. I have trief dpkg-reconfigure sddm in recovery mode of 4.9.0-8-amd64, but it didn't worked for me. I every time get an error when I try to add my journalctl - b output as attachment, so I copied it to pastebin: https://pastebin.com/eje6rv2D | Please show: Code: Select allsystemctl cat sddm | grep '^After' dpkg -l | egrep 'sddm|haveged' |
Transcendence / Solution provided at the end of this thread. | Query originally posted on 2018-03-24 06:15 Many years back I had observed TextAloud with AT&T Natural Voice. It was as natural as a computer generated voice could be. I have since searched similar applications in Debian and other flavours of GNU-Linux or FOSS, but failed to find one. I searched the AT&T site for the software but found nothing. However, software companies like these offer such software: Audrey (16khz UK English) AT&T Natural Voice Search queries in Google such as these: Code: Select allnatural voice site:www.att.com/ leads to AT&T Technology Licensing - Speech Recognition which has this information: Natural Voices ® AT&T Natural Voices® patented technology provides engines, languages and custom voices for text-to-speech (TTS) applications. Contact Wizard Software for further information at http://www.wizzardsoftware.com. Best in class accuracy in US English, U.K. English, Spanish, German, and French. If I buy the license to use one British English voice is it possible in Debian to direct Jovie to use this natural voice? I went to the webpage of Wizzardsoftware. It says: ... Wizzard offers desktop or server SDKs for Developers in Windows or Linux, or a wavefile-producing application for high volume deployment by non-technical users, making this voice technology available to anyone with a need for commercial grade TTS that can be deployed across an extensive variety of environments ... I then went to their ordering page. They sell only SDKsAT&T Natural Voices SDK for Linux I don't need their SDKs. I need only the Natural Voice speech engine to be used by a Linux application. I have posted the query at their Sales Inquiry webpage. There is a post in Ubuntu forum that discusses these issues. The thread is: Natural Sounding Text to Speech? Debian has this package: svox which has libttspico-utils SVOX is available as source, while libttspico-utils is a binary. libttspico-utils depend on two binaries: Code: Select alllibttspico-data and Code: Select alllibttspico0 Has anyone using Debian implemented the AT&T Natural Voice Speech Engine with any TTS package? Jovie? ===================================== The above Query originally posted on 2018-03-24 06:15 ========================================= I just received the answer to my question: ... Possible? Speech Technologies Dept., Wizzard Speech LLC, wizzardsoftware.com, the software company involved with the AT&T Natural Voices speech engine part, informed: "... The AT&T Natural Voices engine/runtimes comes in a developers toolkit and must be integrated into an application to voice enable it. We provide the toolkit and licenses in volume for further distribution ... " |
howdy folks ... Can i delete or at least disable ( HOW ) discover software center ? tia ! | Watch out for metapackage issues, though...let us know if it then makes hundreds of packages autoremovable. There's ways to fix that. |
I have got a Packard Bell TE69KB. It is ugly, it is slow, but it is good enough to keep in the cabin. However, I am concerned someone might steal it and recover my passwords and data. Normally, I would just do an encrypted install, but there are a couple of problems: 1. I can not enter the BIOS to change the boot order. The password is long forgotten. (What a great idea that was...) 2. It will not boot from CD-Rom. 3. I therefore do not know how to make a reinstall. (I was able to install Debian Stretch from CD-Rom a few months ago when there was no OS on the HDD, however, but am a little reluctant to do it again, if that should fail.) Is there an easy and safe way to encrypt the home partition, or should I wipe the current install and hope it is possible to reinstall...? Any advice? | reset the bios? find the jumper or contact pad, pull the battery, whatever. Always worked for me. Then full disk encryption. |
I do want to reduce the /home from 100 GB to 25 GB and I do want the remaining free space to assign to /var. What exact commands should I perform in order to have those LVM partitions be resized as I do want to have it in right place? | Please post the output of Code: Select alllsblk df -hT so we know more about your installation and can provide adequate advice. Some filesystems types such as XFS cannot be reduced. General steps : Login directly as root, or preferably boot in rescue/maintenance/emergency/single user mode. Unmount /home unless its filesystem type allows online shrinking (such as BTRFS or NILFS2). Reduce the home filesystem with the appropriate tool (resize2fs for the ext* family). Reduce the home logical volume to the same (or bigger, NOT smaller) size with lvreduce. If a logical volume for /var does not already exist : - Create a new logical volume for /var with lvcreate. - Create a filesystem in the logical volume with the appropriate tool (mkfs.ext* for ext*). - Mount the logical volume on a temporary mount point. - Copy the contents of /var into the mount point. - Reboot the system. - Edit /etc/fstab to automatically mount the logical volume on /var at boot. - If everything works as expected, bind mount / on a temporary directory to access the old contents hidden under /var and delete it. If a logical volume for /var already exists : - Extend the logical volume with lvextend. - Resize the filesystem in the logical volume with the appropriate command (resize2fs for ext*) - Remount /home if you had to unmount it. Or you can do all this in a live system. GarryRicketson wrote: Or you can use the 'fdisk' command, use the 'man fdisk' command to get details, or can use the command 'gparted', if you have "gparted" installed. Fdisk and gparted cannot handle LVM logical volumes. Gparted can only be used to resize a partition containing an LVM physical volume. |
Yesterday, I ran a security update that upgraded my Squeeze kernel from 2.6.32-48squeeze8 to 2.6.32-48squeeze9. Ever since then, my suspend to ram (STR) function is broken. The machine will suspend normally, but will not resume. When I try to awaken the machine, I can hear the fan in the tower start up (the subject machine is a desktop computer, please see below for specifics), but the machine seems to be otherwise dead (e.g. the monitor stays blank, pressing the "caps lock" key on my keyboard does not activate said keyboard's "caps lock" led, Ctrl-Alt-F[x] has no effect, etc). My only recourse at that point is a hardware reset (ouch!). I tried running Code: Select allpm-suspend from a terminal, with no joy. Same result running Code: Select allecho -n "mem" > /sys/power/state from a terminal. I checked the /var/log/pm-suspend.log file and noticed that each Code: Select all...performing suspend line used to (before said kernel upgrade) be directly followed by a Code: Select all...Awake. line, but, now, all said Code: Select all...performing suspend lines are followed by an Code: Select allInitial commandline parameters... line. Before this, STR has worked well ever since I first loaded Squeeze on this machine back in 2012. Any ideas as to where I can go next? Has anyone experienced a similar problem after said kernel upgrade? TIA! Here is my rig: Code: Select allSqueeze 6.0.10; 2.6.32-5-amd64 Intel i7-980 Gulftown CPU Asus P6X58D Premium Motherboard EVGA GeForce GTS-450 Graphics Card G.SKILL Ripjaw DDR3-1600, PC3-12800, 1.5v RAM (6x4GB sticks, 24GB total) Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB SSD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB HDD Corsair HX850 PSU MSI TV@nywhere Plus Analog Video Capture Card Asus DRW-24B1ST Black STAT 24X DVD/CD Player/Burner, OEM AFT XM-35U Black Kiosk Card Reader (3.5") Lian Li PC-9F Case 2006-Vintage HP Internet Keyboard (PS/2) Acer H203H LCD Wide-Screen monitor Logitech M-SBF96 PS/2 Mouse HP Photosmart Premium Fax e-All-In-One C410 Printer Actiontec Q1000 Modem/Router 1998-Vintage Altec Lansing Speakers | Running nvidia blob? Tried rebuilding the kernel module? (dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms) |
I'm using Firefox 52.9 on Debian 9.5 (both properly updated) and I've just installed the latest version of Flash. Either I activate Flash or not, I cannot see the videos on this website (and can only hear the sound of them) Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? | Flash has nothing to do with it, they are using HTML5, the video is encoded with AVC. |
I decided to give bspwm a try but when i run startx there is black screen and no mouse. I know black screen is ok but no mouse worries me. Do i need config files or it should work anyway? All i installed is xorg and bspwm from deb repos. | Add this line to your ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc: Code: Select allxsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr Here's my old file: https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/conf ... spwmrc#L29 |
The Spotify GPG key has changed, this now makes the Debian Wiki page for Spotify, which I last updated, incorrect. The new page on the Spotify site has changed the key via command to: Code: Select allsudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 931FF8E79F0876134EDDBDCCA87FF9DF48BF1C90 but it still does not update. After executing the above: Code: Select alllysander@psychopig-xxxiii:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 931FF8E79F0876134EDDBDCCA87FF9DF48BF1C90 Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.kFATzHiOLU/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 931FF8E79F0876134EDDBDCCA87FF9DF48BF1C90 gpg: key A87FF9DF48BF1C90: "Spotify Public Repository Signing Key <tux@spotify.com>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 And after apt update, I get this error Code: Select alllysander@psychopig-xxxiii:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt update Ign:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Get:4 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease [3,302 B] Hit:5 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch Release Hit:6 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease Hit:7 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease Err:4 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EFDC8610341D9410 Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EFDC8610341D9410 E: The repository 'http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Any help as to what I am missing here would be appreciated re how to update the key. I will then update the Wiki. I have checked the man page, deleted the old key and resubmitted, but not luck. | Simply add the required key: Code: Select allsudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EFDC8610341D9410 Then you can do Code: Select allsudo apt update and there should be no more errors. |
Today, when passing apt full-upgrade in Sid, I get these errors: Code: Select allReading changelogs... Done Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Will this go away eventually? Or do I need to do some manual work? EDIT: It went away when I used Code: Select allsu - instead of just su. Path problem, not surprisingly. | Its not solved, that is a workaround. There is a bug in util-linux that has su path screwed up. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=904988 |
Hello guys, I have just installed SAMBA in a Debian box. The only thing I have done has been edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and changed the workgroup so that it matched witch my Windows box. Then I restarted the smbd service and tried to browse "Other locations" with the gnome File Explorer. It doesn't even show the windows machine. ¿What's wrong? Thanks! | Samba server is not needed to browse windows shares. Your problem is elsewhere. |
My newly installed system has been crashing on me. I don't really know what information to give you but please ask me what you need. Thank you for your patience. Debian Stretch XFCE 64bit Nvidia drivers are installed. (there were problems with nouveau as well) I made a blog post with the contents: /var/log/syslog https://rodmusiclessons.blogspot.com/p/system-logs.html THANK YOU | Where/how did you get/install this ver? loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 304.137 Thu Sep 14 13:51:03 PDT 2017 https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... dia-driver Have you installed anything else from outside the debian repo on the newly installed system? https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian |
Hi, I need to use Linux 4.4 since this is the best version for my laptop. I've encountered many problesm with newer ones, e.g. the laptop switches off suddenly, problems with Intel graphics driver. I have no problems with version 4.4. I know that I can install it according to these instructions: http://snapshot.debian.org/ My question is: Will I receive updates to this kernel? Do Debian developers provide updates since it's still an LTS kernel or it's not maintained anymore once gone from Debian? Sincerely, I subordinate choosing Linux distro on availability of kernel 4.4 in repositories since downloading and recompiling kernel and drivers every time there's a new version, doesn't come into play. Regards | floreado wrote:Will I receive updates to this kernel? No, only the 4.9 LTS branch is maintained by the Security Team, v4.4 is full of holes and should only be used with extreme caution and preferably no internet connection |
Hello, I have installed cifs-utils to be able to access Windows folders from Debian. I have issued: Code: Select allsudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.137/shared ./Win-share/ -o user=user1 rw The share mounts, but I can only read files. I'm unable to write anything to the windows share. Also, i switch to root and I do: Code: Select allchmod -R 777 Win-share/ chmod: changing permissions of 'Win-share/': Permission denied ¿What am I doing wrong? Thanks! | banderas20 wrote:Hello, I have installed cifs-utils to be able to access Windows folders from Debian. I have issued: Code: Select alls[code]udo mount.cifs //192.168.1.137/shared ./Win-share/ -o user=user1 rw[/code] The share mounts, but I can only read files. I'm unable to write anything to the windows share. Also, i switch to root and I do: Code: Select allchmod -R 777 Win-share/ chmod: changing permissions of 'Win-share/': Permission denied ¿What am I doing wrong? Thanks! cifs-utils man page has explanation, why chown does not work. Try mounting like this: Code: Select allsudo mount -t cifs -o rw,user,exec //192.168.1.137/shared ./Win-share/ |
Hello, i am at the root of the filesystem. If I run "du -h -d 1", I get Code: Select all56K ./root 870M ./var 686M ./home 3.7G ./usr du: cannot access './run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied 41M ./run 9.7M ./bin du: cannot access './proc/14174/task/14174/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access './proc/14174/task/14174/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access './proc/14174/fd/3': No such file or directory du: cannot access './proc/14174/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory 0 ./proc 8.0K ./mnt 16K ./lost+found 8.0K ./media 8.8M ./etc 4.0K ./opt 4.0K ./.cache 8.0K ./srv 0 ./sys 9.4M ./sbin 376K ./tmp 34M ./boot 0 ./dev 233M ./lib 4.0K ./lib64 5.6G . Wich matches with the free space given by "df" command. However, if i run "la -lah", i get only a bunch of KB: Code: Select alldrwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Jul 22 13:24 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Jul 22 13:24 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 1 20:06 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jul 1 20:07 boot drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:44 .cache drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3.1K Jul 19 09:57 dev drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12K Jul 23 15:20 etc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jul 5 18:28 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 18 20:23 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 18 20:23 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:43 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:23 lib64 drwx------ 2 root root 16K Jun 18 20:22 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:22 media drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jul 1 20:07 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:23 opt dr-xr-xr-x 183 root root 0 Jul 19 09:56 proc drwx------ 5 root root 4.0K Jul 2 18:54 root drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 820 Jul 23 15:21 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 19 10:10 sbin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jul 2 19:06 srv dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Jul 23 15:22 sys drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 4.0K Jul 23 15:39 tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Jun 18 20:23 usr drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Jul 1 13:39 var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 18 20:23 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Jun 18 20:23 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64 ¿Why is that so? ¿Shouldn't they match? Thanks! | Try: Code: Select alldf -h |
Hello. I love putty. What I don't like it's the fact that it spreads config files and SSH fingerprints across Windows registry and subfolders. ¿Is there any version which puts all of its configuration into a folder with files which I can move from one workstation to another? Thanks! | wizard10000 wrote:Almost positive portableapps.com has a copy of putty that'll run in a single directory. Yup. Here it is - https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable Thanks!!! |
Hi I use a minimal install within virtualbox. Today I tried: Code: Select allsystemctl start network ifup wrt: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi ... rence/ch05 and https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration But all failed to do it. I dont have network manager installed. On my googling, this guy was dishearted too: https://manurevah.com/blah/en/blog/Debi ... networking but a reboot to bring the network up sounds silly. Is there a specific systemd command for it? Thankyou | I believe the systemd service is 'networking' not network, and it might need to be restarted instead of started, since it is default enabled at boot. ifup by itself does nothing, as you would have seen if you ran it? Code: Select all# ifup ifup: no interface(s) specified ifup: Use --help for help Your question is a little confusing, I know you have been around a long while. systemd runs ifupdown configuration if it exists, but there is a network component to systemd also, as shown in your link. Why confuse the two? Which do you wish to use? |
Hi, I found out some importat/big files deleted accidentally, and its not first time it happens to me, I would like to do a mirror target backup , mirroring all files as hard links so I can prevent accidental file deletions (hardlinks backup) within some specific folders ..That way, when I find out some missing deleted files, I can go to "backup mirrored hardlinks folder" and restore the structure/files deleted. How can I do it??, Can rsync do that? Thanks. | Ive searched in internet and gave into rsync --link-dest I dont understand how this works, Im doing something like this.: rsync -av --delete --link-dest=../linkedbackup/ source/ target/ I want a mirrored source backup in "--link-dest=../linkedbackup/" folder, where all files but directories should be hardlinks.. |
Hey everyone - I really like the data I get from running Lynis, and in my quest to have a completely native sources file (this happen to be the only one left to deal with), is there something that is comparable to Lynis that I can use to "keep an eye" on things? It does not have to be one application (I'm not opposed to sever to do the work of one). And for a completely off topic question, for those that create "helper scripts" to do some odds and ends things (backups, rsync, encrypting files, and some general house-cleaning, etc) I am toying with the idea of installing some versioning system (yes I know, seems a bit much for scripts, but more the learning experience I suppose). Would appreciate some experiences and recommendations with the goal of not being so complex as to make this ridiculous to even attempt (again, this is for scripts, lol). I would rather not use the archaic way I'm now keeping historical creations but, if the overhead and work involved would not be worth it, I would like to know that too! Thanks for all your help and suggestions so far everyone, muchly appreciated. Cheers Chris | pendrachken wrote:cds60601 wrote: So install lynis from the stretch repositories? No need for GIT / using any other repositories, it should be in stretch main. Matter of fact, it's in oldstable to unstable. You really should at least do an apt-cache search for this before asking... I had no idea it was in the repos. I will admit, ignorance is not an excuse, I should have looked. That being said in I did as mentioned and now have a native source file. Cheers Chris |
I got a drive that's using btrfs as the filesystem to be successfully mounted with compression with a command like mount /dev/sda /mnt -o compress=zlib, but a command like mount /dev/sda /mnt -o compress=zlib:9 doesn't work. (If I remember correctly, it gives me an error along the lines of "wrong filesystem type, bad superblock" or something like that.) I tried this on Debian stable/stretch. Does anyone have any insight into this? Any input would be greatly appreciated! | maybe this? https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression ... Can I set the compression level? The level support of ZLIB has been added in v4.14... Code: Select all$ apt policy btrfs-progs btrfs-progs: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.7.3-1 Version table: 4.7.3-1 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages |
Hello everyone. Please forgive me if this is not the correct forum to post in, but I am fairly new to Debian, Postfix, Mail Servers, Domain DNS settings, etc. I have installed and configured postfix and dovecot, and am successfully able to send emails, but for some reason I cannot receive them. I believe its got something to do with my MX records, but again I have no clue. I would provide some logs/details, but I dont' know what is needed and I also am not sure what would be considered 'insecure' to share. Thanks, | bardichobo wrote:I believe its got something to do with my MX recordsWhat makes you think that? What happens when you try?I would provide some logs/details, but I dont' know what is needed and I also am not sure what would be considered 'insecure' to share. Well if your server is online it's already known to the world, so your ip & hostname is already public anyway. |
Does anyone know if it is possible to install cava (Console-based Audio Visualizer for ALSA) on debian 9 stretch? If so plz tell me how. Thanks. | Are you saying you can't follow the instructions posted on github? or are you having problems/failures while trying to install? |
I'm running Buster, maybe the past 6 months, with daily updates. As is normally the case with Debian testing, I've only run into a few minor issues, until I did an update a couple days ago. After the update, a reboot took me to a black screen. Mouse and keyboard were unresponsive. Since there were a large number of packages involved, I had little hope of isolating the culprit and restored my system to its original state from backup. I experienced a similar problem some months ago when first attempting to install Buster. The problem at that time was a buggy Nvidia driver. I had upgraded my PC and the video card I installed required the latest driver. At first, I thought the problem was with SDDM (I'm running KDE) as I've had numerous problems with SDDM since its introduction. This time it may actually have something to do with SDDM, although SDDM itself was not one of the packages updated. An SDDM configuration utility was. But so were a lot of other KDE-related packages. The Nvidia driver was not one of the updates. Normally, I'd submit a bug report via Reportbug, but I have no idea how to report this, since I don't know what caused the problem. Interestingly, I updated a laptop which relies on an Intel graphics chip, and all is well. So there does seem to be something related to the Nvidia driver, though the driver itself was not updated. Anyone have any advice on how to procede? Anyone with a similar experience? I'm holding off on any further updates until I can isolate the problem. | I don't have a nvidia card but does running Code: Select allnvidia-xconfig do anything to help |
Greetings everyone, I am currently having some difficulty installing the mono repository. Code: Select allsudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list sudo apt update Here are my steps. I have correctly done the first to lines of code, logging in as super user in the terminal. I entered the code as follows. Code: Select allecho "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list Followed by the following error. Code: Select allbash: sudo: command not found It would seem that the sudo command does not work directly. I am wondering about how I would go about granting super user to that second half of that command Code: Select all| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list If anyone could shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time. | It's just one of those things you have to figure out, some people use sudo, some use su to become root. Just take your time and find the right way for you. If sudo isn't installed there's a wiki that should tell you how. Try a websearch for 'debian wiki sudo' Practice a little in the shell before you do too much altering the system? Are you sure that is the best way to install mono on debian? Are you using debian? |
Hey all - Running Stable here and would like to see what other options might be out there for installing newer versions of the above. From what I can see, I have found 3 options so far: 1. There is a Sourceforge url that was/is designed mainly for Ubuntu but does state that most all apt-driven distros could use it. 2. I found mozilla.debian.net as an option however, you really need to be running at least Testing. 3. Just nabbing the tarball from Mozilla and install that way. So I suppose one would consider ease of updating to newer versions would be the main thing to look at. I'm not sold on using the Sourceforge option as I would prefer to keep my repos as native as possible. Would really appreciate options and ways others might be looking into this. As always, thanks in advance and cheers! Chris | stevepusser wrote:The current Thunderbirb 52.8 is available in the Stretch security repository...https://packages.debian.org/stretch/thunderbird It doesn't need the latest rustc to build from source like the current Firefoxes, which prevents those backports. Ah - good to know. I just assumed ... and I should have known better. There is so little that can change in T-Bird I suppose that why wouldn't it be current, lol. I have opted to not use the Ubuntuzilla repo and opted to follow the guide listed in the Debian Firefox Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Firefox ... nd_Nightly for my Firefox needs. Appreciate the input folks! Cheers Chris |
My main operating system is Debian 9. On a separate partition on the same hard drive I have installed Fedora 28. After Fedora was installed it was the first option in the GRUB list. In order to make Debian the first, I tried sudo update-grub and then sudo grub-install /dev/sda. Debian then became not the first but the only option -- Fedora had disappeared. Is there any way to add Fedora to GRUB without re-installing it? | Do you have os-prober installed? If not, install it and run `update-grub` again (as root). |
Hi! I haven't installed or updated anything and suddenly today Debian took 5 minutes or more to load and I was able to enter my user password. The display stays on during this time with the black background and messages like: Code: Select allFailed to load rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw (-2) Code: Select allDRM: Pointer to TMDS table invalid. Code: Select allDRM: Pointer to flat panel table invalid. How can I fix this? | Look here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=137404 All of us, though, had just updated the kernel. Might still be your problem though... |
Hello, I'm using Debian 9.4. I'd like to remove a repository I added myself by mistake, but it doesn't work: Code: Select all~# add-apt-repository -r http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu ~# apt-get update Ign:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Ign:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic InRelease Hit:5 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch Release Ign:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic Release Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main all Packages Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main armel Packages 404 Not Found Ign:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en_US Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic/main Translation-en Reading package lists... Done W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlex/ubuntu/dists/cosmic/main/binary-armel/Packages 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Am I using the wrong URL? Thank you. | Look here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... repository I daren't look at your sources.list, I fear the worst, but why don't you post it here so we can have a look to see if there are any glaring issues? |
Hi, I have an error installing Docke-CE using this instruction: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/debian/ I got stuck on ap-get update with the following error: Code: Select allErr:13 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch/stable amd64 Packages gnutls_handshake() failed: Public key signature verification has failed. ..... W: The repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: Failed to fetch https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/dists/stretch/stable/binary-amd64/Packages gnutls_handshake() failed: Public key signature verification has failed. I also got this: Code: Select allapt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88 pub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [SCEA] 9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88 uid [ unknown] Docker Release (CE deb) <docker@docker.com> sub rsa4096 2017-02-22 [S] There's an [ unknown] word in the apt-key command. What is this and how do I troubleshoot this. Thank you. | What's wrong with the Docker in Debian's repository? Code: Select allapt install docker |
I downloaded and installed Vivaldi-stable via a .deb file from Vivaldi's website. I assume because of proprietary issues it doesn't come with HTML5 and MP4 (H.264AAC) codecs installed. However, those codecs are available in separate packages in ubuntu and arch repositories, perhaps others. Is there a package available to use with Debian? Can I install from the ubuntu repository? Thank you. | Just use the package from the main repo: Code: Select allapt install gstreamer1.0-libav |
Hi, I need help to recover a LUKS partition. It would be great if someone could give me some advice. I have already posted in the ubuntu forums in december-2016, but nobody answered: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st13581732 This is a disk I use for important data. I have a backup, but I lost some data from the date of the last backup I've made and I would like to get it back. So, here's what happened. Initially, I was using Debian 7 and at that time I've formated the disk like this: parted /dev/sdx mklabel gpt unit s mkpart primary ext3 2048s -1 cryptsetup luksFormat --cipher aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 --verify-passphrase --key-size 256 /dev/sdx cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx sdx_crypt mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/sdx_crypt Copied data to it and used it for many months without problems. Life was perfect up to this point. Then, I changed from Debian 7 to Debian 8, doing a clean install. I mention this because it may be relevant, as the versions of many programs may have changed, like cryptsetup, parted, etc, and also because I may have made some mistakes on my old or new Debian instalation that led to this situation. One day, I connected the disk to my new Debian 8 system and tried mounting and it gave me an error and didn't mount anymore. When I tried with terminal, is said "either superblock or partition table is corrupt". When I tried to mount it with the Gnome-Disk-Utility, I got this error: "Error mounting /dev/dm-6 at /media/user1/3PAB: Command-line `mount -t "ext3" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/dm-6" "/media/user1/3PAB"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/luks-c4ebeef5-7537-417e-b63b-fedc99561677, missing codepage or helper program, or other error So, instead of making a clone with DD to another disk, I did one thing that I shouldn't have done: I created a new partition table equal to the one before, as you can see in the above: parted /dev/sdx mklabel gpt unit s mkpart primary ext3 2048s -1 (and stopped here) I did that hoping it would solve my problem, because in the past it had worked in similar situations But this time, it didn't work Then, afraid of making more mistakes, I made a clone using DD to another disk of the same make and model And now I would like somebody to give me some advice or tell me I should give up on this I also would like to mention that I had other disks with different data on them and they also stopped mounting in this Debian 8 install But the I went and booted with a clone of my Debian 7 installation I had from a year ago and I could mount them Bad luck I didn't think of that before making a new partition disk to this disk At this point, I believe that all my luks encrypted data is still on the disk, because the new partition table start in the same 2048 sector But I'm not sure if I can recover it or not So, I'd appreciate if you could share your thoughts on this Please do that, even if you think it may be a long shot or even if you are unsure but have some hint you could share | Now I'm making a clone (using DD) of an identical disk, formatted the same way, to an identical third disk. Afterwards, I will only copy (also using DD, starting at sector 2048 until the correct sector of the partition) the LUKS partition to this third disk. |
Firefox or Chromium Apparmor profiles for Debian 9? Do they exist? Can anyone link me to one? I searched but we don't seem to have any apparmor profiles for commonly used browsers yet. :S | Chiefahol2 wrote:I searched Not hard enough, apparently. https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/HowToUse |
I keep getting several of the following type of errors: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-ia386/Packages' as repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'ia386' I have looked through sources.list and in the sources.list.d directory. I can't seem to find it. My sources.list looks pretty normal: deb http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # stable-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates contrib main non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates contrib main non-free | I have never heard of a architecture; "ia386" InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'ia386' And have never seen any Debian Install images for ia386 on the Debian.org site, Where did you get your original install ? They do have repositories for : i386 https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ... 01.html.en ======== edit ===== Nothing listed for ia386 here: https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64, elmipsel, ppc64, els390x, source, multi-arch ====== edited again ===== All though your sources.list points to Debian Stable, what is the actual version of Debian you are using ? IE, Debian 6, Debian 7, Debian 8, or is it 9 the current stable version,.... For example , if you are using Debian 7, and your sources point toward "stable", you would be trying to install or update , for Debian 9 (stable), and that would not work. |
Hi, I would like to upgrade an old Lenny installation. When I run "apt-get update", I get this: Code: Select all# apt-get update Get:1 http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1655B] Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze/main Translation-en_US Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release Err http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release Get:2 http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release [96.0kB] Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://archive.debian.org squeeze/main Packages Fetched 97.7kB in 0s (260kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1520281423 KEYEXPIRED 1501892461 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems How can I go ahead? Thank you ! | Backup your important files and do a clean install of Stretch. |
Hi, I am running this system: Code: Select all# cat /etc/debian_version 7.11 root@mail:~# uname -ar Linux mail 3.2.0-5-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.96-3 i686 GNU/Linux When I run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, it says: Code: Select allReading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: linux-image-686-pae The following packages will be upgraded: linux-libc-dev tzdata 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,383 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Why is kernel kept back? As far as I remember, I always upgraded kernel simply with apt-get upgrade. Thank you for you clarification. | Because the new version of linux-image-686-pae has a new dependency, linux-image-3.2.0-6-686-pae instead of linux-image-3.2.0-5-686-pae, and apt-get update won't install new packages nor remove existing packages. This happens when the new kernel version comes with an ABI (application binary interface) change. Quite frequent lately. Note that linux-image-686-pae is not the real kernel, it is just a meta-package which depends on the latest available kernel. |
I am running Debian 9 on a laptop and mainly through this forum learned about MX, so I added the repository. So far I've appreciated many of the packages that are now available to me, mainly newer backported versions of essential software. In fact, I decided to install the full MX Linux on an old Dell Inspiron 10 I was setting up for someone and I was happy everything just worked, wifi and all, out of the box as it were. I noticed a package called mx-tweak I'd like to install on this first Stretch laptop, but can't get it to work. I get led to a dependency called faenza-cupertino-icons that isn't available. I wonder why a particular icon set would be a dependency and if there is any way to get around this. I don't just want to go installing various packages as I'm interested in stability. But here his where a simulation led me. Any help appreciated: Code: Select allapt-get --simulate install mx-tweak NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation! Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mx-tweak : Depends: mx-tweak-data but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. kendew@Ao:~$ apt-get --simulate install mx-tweak-data NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation! Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mx-tweak-data : Depends: faenza-cupertino-icons but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. kendew@Ao:~$ apt-get --simulate install faenza-cupertino-icons NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation! Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package faenza-cupertino-icons is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'faenza-cupertino-icons' has no installation candidate | Your first clue should have been that MX. Mx-tweak has been customized by and for MX Linux. I'm not sure but it may be a spin-off of gnome-tweak-tool which is in the Debian repository. Do yourself a really big favour and remove that mx repository. You don't want to break your Debian. Or do you? MX Linux is a good distro with lots to recommend it but it has some customized stuff which may not play well with Debian. |
Interesting... The newest Debian stretch release (Debian 9.4.0 amd64) does NOT have libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u8_amd64.deb included in the set of neither basic, neither extended packages??? Why, that is the question? As one of main/one of the examples, viber installation does NOT work without libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u8_amd64.deb . Debian admins should fix this issue, don't you agree!? To fix this problem, the following should be done: Code: Select all[1] go to: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/libssl1.0.0/download [2] Download: security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u8_amd64.deb [3] cd ~/Download [4] sudo dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.1t-1+deb8u8_amd64.deb Do we, Debian people, have major problem here? _nobody_ | _nobody_ wrote: Why, that is the question? Maybe it is not needed for any of the other pkgs in stretch? Why would a single older ver of a lib be included if it's not needed? Debian admins should fix this issue, don't you agree!? I think viber should fix their software, or make it open-source so other people can fix it. I think you could request that the libssl1.0.0 pkg be added back to the repo, and if you were willing to maintain it, maybe it would be accepted for buster? found these on a search http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=127111 https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment ... iber_fail/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber#Security Are you aware of any security implications of using the older ver? Not saying there are, but I would consider that before advising other people to do it. |
I know that Sid is not encouraged for general usage, but I wonder if it's safe to upgrade in this case. This is purely informative, the hashes don't match for non-free repo. Here is an error message: Code: Select allReading package lists... Done E: Failed to fetch store:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_non-free_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.xz Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - Filesize:72292 [weak] - SHA256:64b9be98f14db2f20b9730981fc799db28903d53adec5e501ad25ffe965d5c7e - MD5Sum:138830c87e09a8e9a1b2f449c8687e13 [weak] Hashes of received file: - SHA256:997f4a6bd4e0a4bda048eec9f0ea3539d8995fe825417c9dfe6c70b5beb6f5fe - MD5Sum:3ce213b33bd27fa8b0b89bedf3e05dd3 [weak] - Filesize:72292 [weak] Last modification reported: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:29:53 +0000 Release file created at: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 08:34:47 +0000 E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. More info: It seems that all my software is up-to-date: Code: Select allapt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I just want to know what this means? From the looks of it, non-free repo isn't yet updated with the right info. | as root Code: Select allrm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/ |
I got myself a brand new SSD for my computer, and thought I'd set up trim. After having read a little online, I decided to try the following: Code: Select all# cp /usr/share/doc/util-linux/examples/fstrim.{service,timer} /etc/systemd/system And Code: Select all# systemctl enable fstrim.timer However, when I try to list it, the output is this: Code: Select allhallvor@debian-hp:~$ systemctl list-timers fstrim.timer --all NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES n/a n/a n/a n/a fstrim.timer fstrim.service It basically doesn't say that much. Is there some way I can tell of it is working, except waiting for a week? | Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Code: Select all# systemctl start fstrim.timer Or you could have used this command origianlly: Code: Select all# systemctl enable fstrim.timer --now Why didn't I think of that? Code: Select allroot@debian-hp:/home/hallvor# systemctl start fstrim.timer root@debian-hp:/home/hallvor# systemctl list-timers fstrim.timer NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES Mon 2018-04-23 00:00:00 CEST 6 days left n/a n/a fstrim.timer fstrim.service Well, it should work now. Marking thread as solved. Thank you very much! |
I was looking at the System76 Serval WS with an 8th Generation i7 desktop CPU (4.3 Ghz Turbo, 6 cores, 12 threads), 16 GB RAM, and a 256 GB NvME SSD. That looks like a beast. Does anyone have any alternate suggestions? Update and resolution: it was worth waiting a bit--I just had this ordered: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BWF4H3W/re ... =UTF8&th=1 Much lighter than the Serval, I could buy two for the price of one Serval,( money is definitely an object here) and the battery life should be much, much longer, especially since I should be able to use the Intel GPU on it most of the time. The SSD is probably considerably slower than the Serval's, though. No doubt I'll see some much better laptop tomorrow... | i7-8700K... GTX 1080Beastly Just flat out "ultimate performance laptop" compiling, gaming, rendering, whatever. Might have to get one to run Gentoo on That looks like a pretty beefy cooling arrangement too, wonder what kind of load it can do continuous? As for the Nvidia vs AMD debate back a bit, I too have had "fun" with the garbage AMD/ATI drivers. Never again. Nvidia may be non-free and a bit of a PITA, but at least their drivers work. |
Just installed Debian 9 alongside w10 with netinstall. The problem though is that when I choose to start Debian, I see a black screen with a couple of logs. But nothing else happens and the screen is suspended. If I set the boot mode in bios to legacy support, the system does start. Can anyone explain why legacy works and uefi not? Extra info: laptop is a Lenovo ideapad and Debian was installed in uefi mode. | You said Debian starts but goes to a blank screen. Maybe you have a graphics problem rather than a grub problem. Once you manage to get back to having Debian boot with grub-efi, try adding "nomodeset" to the grub kernel line. You may get a basic graphical interface from where you can set up your graphics properly. |
I have never performed a full system backup but have always backed up my /home directory using Grsync. I am now thinking about upgrading fro Jessie to Stretch and want to do a full backup first in case there are problems. This is the command I am trying to run but on execution NOTHING happens. Now error messages, nothing. Can somebody take a look at the command and tell me where I am going wrong? Code: Select all# rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/home/*/.thumbnails/*","/home/*/.cache/mozilla/*","/home/*/.cache/chromium/*","/home/*/.local/share/Trash/*","/lost+found"} / /media/john/5718-482B/Jessie_BU The target is an external USB HDD formatted as vfat. Do I need to reformat the drive as ext4? It always worked with Grsync, but perhaps rsync will not write to vfat. UPDATE: Doing some research and I think the problem is that the USB HDD is formatted as VFAT. I will reformat it to ext4 and see how thing go. | VFAT is a poor target for a system backup - you will get the files, but no links, permissions or ownership metadata, so it will be effectively useless. |
Never had problems with rxvt-unicode-256colors , but now on new setup it suddenly doesn't want to get transparent. My .Xresources Code: Select allURxvt.background: [80]#082B4A URxvt.foreground: #ffffff I run compton via this command Code: Select allexec --no-startup-id compton -CGb Any ideas ? | You need this line as well: Code: Select allURxvt.depth:32 Note that the URxvt.transparent option only sets fake transparency. |
So there is Beta and Unstable channels one can follow for Chrome. Is there by chance something like that for Chromium? Thanks! Chris | cds60601 wrote:So there is Beta and Unstable channels one can follow for Chrome. Is there by chance something like that for Chromium? Check this. |
Last thing I did setting up a new 9.4 install was attempt adjusting swappiness. 1st try was a gksu/editor with my user logged into Gnome. System hung, restarted, no biggie. But swappiness returned to the stock setting of 60. Logged out, did it again from Nano in a root console - same result. The 60-value setting is obviously being re-applied at boot. SO the topic question remains - any advice? Or possibly, why am I attempting to do this incorrectly? | What file did you edit exactly and what did you write into it ? You did not try to edit /proc/sys/vm/swapiness directly, did you ? |
Hi all is anyone actively doing anything with the nightly KiCAD builds like what is happening under Ubuntu? Allow me to direct you - If you head on over to this link, http://kicad-pcb.org/download/ubuntu/ you can find that there is a ppa that allows anyone to pull in the previously mentioned. I setup a quick Ubuntu system and pulled down a build last night (deb format) and thought i might just be able to install them under STABLE. There were a few items, one that stands out is libssl 1.0.0 and I thought that was not being used due to vulnerabilities (just guessing on this) But other upward dependencies were required that apparently Ubuntu knows how to deal with. Anyways, if anyone has insight on the use of the older libssl and the upward dependencies (I'm just guessing here, but would including backports deal with these?) or if someone is actually doing something like the PPA I mentioned, please let me know. Yes I know, I always have the option to install build-essential etc. and try to build from source (if I was a programmer of sorts, I would consider this - but I am not). I would prefer not to invest that much time for one application. No - I'm not lazy, I just don't have the time (I wish I did have the time). TIA and cheers Chris | GarryRicketson wrote:Strange post for Debian User Forums by cds60601 » I setup a quick Ubuntu system and pulled down a ----snip----- Most of us are using Debian and not Ubuntu, Are you sure you have the right forum ? Indeed I do and if you read the post, I did mentioned that I stood up an Ubuntu instance to see if I could offload the debs to my STABLE system (Meaning, Debian stable). The whole point of the post was to see if someone/anyone has done anything with the Ki nightly like is being done for Ubuntu via the PPA. So - I sorta blame myself if I was not clear on the wording (that tends to happen) so the fault lays on me Cheers Chris |
Hi, I would like to automate package installation on different debian nodes. I do have to ensure, that the correct package versions for each node are getting installed (which are not necessarily the newest in the repository!). AFAIK "dpkg --set-selections" does not care about versions. I would like to have some text/xml/json/whatsoever file which defines the package names plus versions which should be installed. Is there any toolset in place which could be used, or is my use case that extraordinary that i do have to implement that with scripts? Thanks for hints. | you do not mention which debian version you use. why do you need some specific version of what software? in any case, debian's package management allows for a LOT of fine-tuning - after defining your requirements (for yourself), you should check first if what you want is possible with apt. |
Hello, I was wondering why a specific man page has today's date without me doing any updates to the system ? also the unattended update log doesn't show any specific activity for today. Code: Select all2018-03-14 07:47:38,124 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2018-03-14 07:47:38,135 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2018-03-14 07:47:38,135 INFO Allowed origins are: ['o=LinuxMint,a=qiana-security', 'o=LinuxMintESM,a=qiana'] 2018-03-14 07:47:51,767 INFO No packages found that can be upgraded unattended and no pending auto-removals This is nc's man page footer Code: Select allBSD March 14, 2018 BSD | Linux Mint is not Debian. Maybe you should ask in Linux Mint forums? |
I have Orca screen reader, but can it be used to read any open text files? I don't know how it can be in GUI. I also see that there is speech-dispatcher-espeak for reading text files. But is there a standalone application in Linux to read text files? With AT&T speech engine if someone has a copy of the engine? How is GNUSpeech? Is it standalone? That is, can it be downloaded, decompressed and run without installation? | Something like this? https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/jovie/ |
Guys, why GParted or cfdisk doesn't work as expected with Live Linux USB flash sticks ? I mean when you dd or cp a Linux distro .iso onto any USB flash stick and then, after a while, decide to clean it and bring it to its original state. GParted starts showing me lots of warnings like: 'we need to inform the kernel about something, but we can't... you need to reboot' and driver descriptors and physical block sizes mismatch like this one, etc, etc. I also tried cfdisk to erase all partitions on it but was getting the same errors and warnings. In order to make a clean USB stick I need to reboot and accomplish this successfully with Winblows' Drive Management tool Am I doing something wrong? What other tools do you, guys, use when working with USB ? Thank you in advance. | This command should restore a USB key to original format, "superfloppy" mode unpartitioned: Code: Select allmkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdx (upper case "i") |
Hi I am trying to get volume levels from amixer so i can use it in Conky, if i type this Code: Select allamixer -c 0 get Master | grep Mono: i am getting Code: Select allamixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 why is that ? if i just type amixer get Master Code: Select allamixer get Master Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 36043 [55%] [on] Front Right: Playback 36043 [55%] [on] Any ideas? | Hello. In my Xmobar, i use this small script. Works like a charm Code: Select all#!/bin/bash vol=$(amixer get Master | awk -F'[]%[]' '/%/ {if ($7 == "off") { print "MM" } else { print $2 }}' | head -n 1) echo Vol: $vol exit 0 |
Hi I can't figure it out, how can i bind volume + / - in i3 ? I have pulseaudio, alsa-utils and pavucontrol installed. EDIT: amixer set Master 1%+ amixer set Master 1%- | Check this. |
Was using a clean install of debian 9 on a Acer 5630 laptop, was very happy to start, seemed to be running faster than it was. Eventually I started getting kicked off the WIFI inconsistently with this kernel message: deauthenticating from by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING) . Not a surprising bug, as you have to test every NIC with every router. Still, it used to work, and getting kicked off 10 times per hour while you 'work' is a hell of a bug. Also annoying is how the clipboard wouldn't work if you opened new windows. And Weird screen flashing, Also a lack of documentation for setting up .profile, which wasn't getting run. So, I fixed all three things. When researching the wireless problem, someone mentioned that the cinnamon desktop had the correct file permissions (weird i no). So I just installed mint. I hate everything about it, but my WIFI is fine now. Cheers, k. anliot | If you wanted to solve it in Debian, you could have tried updating the driver. Usually, that can be done by updating the kernel from stretch-backports or another compatible repository. "Solving" it by dumping Debian makes you sound like a troll. |
Hi I need to know window titles from some Steam games, so i can open them on different workspaces in i3wm. The problem is that i can't use xprop, because when i run a game, it will be active window and i can't switch to xprop. Any ideas ? | i don't understand. read the xprop man page. i think you haven't considered all options. there's also similar tools like xwininfo etc. |
My default setup is still Debian 8, but I thought I'd test-drive a Debian 9 ISO on a spare partition. It works fine with my Dell laptop's default display, but when trying to view on a VGA monitor attached to the laptop's docking station, I get the login screen, am able to log in to the initial desktop, see the backsplash and status bar, but then am unable to view any applications launched from the menu. A "ps" shows that the applications are actually running, but I'm unable to see them. About the only thing I'm able to do - besides bringing up a console - is logout or reboot. This also happens with the Live ISO. | A little digging into Xorg.0.log indicates that the virtual display for my VGA monitor is being moved to the right of the laptop display, rendering it invisible. Code: Select all[ 7.692] (II) modeset(0): Output eDP-1 using initial mode 1280x800 +0+0 [ 7.692] (II) modeset(0): Output VGA-1 using initial mode 1920x1080 +1280+0 Is there some way to remedy this after the fact, if I can't avoid it proactively? |
Is there a screensaver in Debian9 apps, or is it something I need to download and install? If I need to d/l and install, any suggestions? | https://wiki.debian.org/Screensaver https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... creensaver |
I thought I'd try the good old sysvinit, and installed it with Code: Select allapt install sysvinit-core. I rebooted, and everything looked good until I noticed that the wifi connection was down. I was able to bring it back up again by selecting it manually in the network manager, but I could not make it autoconnect. Installing systemd again fixed the issue. Does anyone else run sysvinit and have wifi autoconnect working? What am I missing? | This is really strange. When I wrote the last message, I was at my brother's house. It flat out refused to autoconnect to the wifi. Back home again, it autoconnects. Output: Code: Select allhallvor@debian-hp:~$ ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 9c:b6:54:a2:f5:ab brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether a4:4e:31:90:8b:68 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.*/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic wlan0 valid_lft 86283sec preferred_lft 86283sec inet6 fe80::b116:34f4:149d:590e/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever hallvor@debian-hp:~$ |
Debian stretch amd64 XFCE. HW System running Debian without problems for c. 3 years, apart from HDD crash 3 months ago; HDD replaced with SSD. Since about 2 weeks I have 2 strange repeatable symptoms: (1) To logout or shutdown, I have to perform the complete action two times: click on 'applications-logout-logout'; the two instances of logout or shutdown can be separated by any length of time, as if a latch is being set. (2) On boot and login, .bashrc is not executed. Normally .bashrc is run when .profile is executed, so that after login, certain actions such character composing and sound settings are carried out. But .bashrc is now only executed when I open a console. These 2 consistent faults are a minor nuisance, but are possibly indicative of a more serious problem. I cannot say if the 2 problems started at the same time or not, nor can I recall any causative specific action. Seems unlikely that the 2 symptoms are linked, but.... I played around trying to run fsck, but this was not possible - 'init 1' just freezes the system, after a some screen output. fsck is also not part of the installation image. Anyway, it seems that fsck is run during boot. | I've been confused by .profile and .bashrc myself Your not the only one. https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/she ... ripts.html |
Are there any security implications with installing flatpak applications in my /home using --user flag instead of default system? How do you do it? I have much more space on my /home partition, so I want to save space on root. OS: Debian 9 GNOME | Wheelerof4te wrote:Are there any security implications with installing flatpak applications in my /home using --user flag instead of default system? There shouldn't any implications, the app should still run in its own flatpak runtime environment. Just in your home directory. Wheelerof4te wrote: How do you do it? I have much more space on my /home partition, so I want to save space on root. OS: Debian 9 GNOME AFAIK you just run --user just after flakpak. e.g. Code: Select allflatpak --user remote-add name location Code: Select allflatpak --user install name location Then you should be able to just run the application. Code: Select allflatpak run application |
I was installing an application that installs a number of packages. Somewhere in the middle of this, the process hung. I had to reboot to get the system unstuck and now dpkg hangs. root@debian:~# dpkg --configure -a Setting up haveged (1.9.1-1) ... It's stuck there for way too long. If I kill it and remove the lock and try again, it just hangs again. I can no longer do anything dpkg related because of this error everytime. E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. Other than reinstalling debian, is there something I can do? Thanks, Jim. | E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. Other than reinstalling debian, is there something I can do? I've been there, long time ago. From what I recall I read the man page for dpkg first, then second. It's a long read, but before typing in commands it's really good to understand what they are going to do. I used the non-destructive actions like -V and -C to gather information. I think I probably purged a package, or maybe reinstalled pkgs that could not be purged without --force* ing the action. I probably made sure the problem could not be solved by aptitude pkg manager first. |
I am running Debian 9 Stable on AMD64. I enabled i386 libraries and followed several different guides trying to make it work but I still get the error: "You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libGL.so.1" dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20171209-12:10]/ stretch main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20171209-12:10]/ stretch main deb http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free # stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free | Had to: apt install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 |
I just changed my version of Debian from 9.0.0 to 9.3.0, but when I went to install the ever-so-useful New Tab Override add on, it said I need to have at least Firefox 58 (FF 52 came with the software change). Apparently, this add-on was rewritten to work ONLY with the latest and greatest Firefox, leaving users of older versions up **** creek. I hate the idea of HAVING to upgrade; what if I don't like the new look and feel? (I want to access the web, I'm not here to have an experience.) Anyway, the way I see it I have four ways to go: (1) see if I can find another add-on (or an older version of this add-on) that does what I want and will work with Firefox 52, (2) Install Firefox 58 into ~ and later try to move into /opt or somewhere where it can be accessed from ANY user account (I already downloaded the tarball, and no, I don't care about automatic upgrades), (3) Try to install it directly into /opt or somewhere, or (4) Do without it and click on the stupid looking house each time I open a new tab. One concern is that I would lose access to Firefox through the Applications menu and have to run a script each time. Also, the installation directions don't look all that simple. What should I do? Caitlin | Caitlin, I'm fairly sure someone discussed installing firefox 58 in /opt here on the forum in the last few days. I don't have a bookmark for it. However, I expect if you expand the tarball you have into /opt, you could change permissions on the resulting Firefox folder and allow other users to use it and even allow one or all to upgrade it. I do recommend you keep it upgraded, browsers can be problematic. I don't see why you need a script, you could probably setup a link to the firefox executable in the Firefox folder in /opt. If you try and then post details of anything you can't get to work, I expect someone here would try to help you sort it out. You know, good details not vague descriptions. I'm not sure about the house you mention but perhaps there is something in edit preferences on firefox-esr. But don't take my word for it, wait until someone looks over my post for possible mistakes or inaccuracies and advises you. I haven't done what you want to do. |
I am trying to install MPV in i3WM, in Gnome after installing mpv package i was getting mpv with gui, just like with VLC. However in i3 if i run it from terminal it doesn't show up as GUI program, i am not sure now if i should install some frontend package for it or what ? | https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ |
Hey all I have a cron job (that runs under root user) that calls a script that creates a tarball of directories /root /opt /etc and /home My question is this; what would be the most efficient way to have this create the tarball and encrypt it, preferably with gpg that uses the key created for a user other than root (chris in this case). I can do this if I run it as myself (of course, since I have the cipher) but Is it possible based on the scenario provided? I have read that openssl can be used but that is not my objective. Currently (as a work-a-round), I am using 7z with a password being passed from the script (I know, not a good way of doing this but it works for now). Any ideas/help/alternatives would be greatly appreciated. TIA and cheers Chris | So why can't you just use chris's key? |
Hi I am installing Firefox from official website, and i am following this guide: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox, and now 2 questions. 1. Code: Select all[Desktop Entry] Name=Firefox ''Your version'' Comment=Web Browser GenericName=Web Browser X-GNOME-FullName=Firefox ''Your version'' Web Browser Exec=/path/to/firefox/firefox %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=/path/to/firefox/icon Categories=Network;WebBrowser; MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; StartupWMClass=Firefox StartupNotify=true ^ here i would like to set path to icon, but i can't find any icon inside firefox folder i downloaded, do i have to use custom one (downloaded from internet), or am i missing something ? 2. Anyone know how to download latest Linux Firefox build from Mozilla website using for example wget ? I want to make shell script which configures Firefox automatically. | pawRoot wrote: ^ here i would like to set path to icon, but i can't find any icon inside firefox folder i downloaded, do i have to use custom one (downloaded from internet), or am i missing something ? From the extracted firefox folder = firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png pawRoot wrote: 2. Anyone know how to download latest Linux Firefox build from Mozilla website using for example wget ? I want to make shell script which configures Firefox automatically. https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla. ... .1.tar.bz2 AFAIK there is no "universal url" which can download the latest version. You can change the numbering around for different versions. |
Hi Is it possible to install Debian on a SSD which is connected via USB not SATA? | Yes. |
Hi On Gnome mounting Android device was working out of the box, but not in i3. Is there any way to set it up so every time i connect my device it will get auto mounted and show up in lets say pcmanfm or nautilus? Thanks | For me, auto mount forks just fine (in i3, with PcManFM). Also, you can check udevil package. |
I have a little shell script that is supposed to copy a folder named BrightNight (and its contents) to another location. Command: Code: Select allrsync -R BrightNight ~/.themes/BrightNight/ The directory .themes doesn't exist but it was supposed to create it right? But it doesn't work, it says "no such file or directory", although im using the same command for other folders in my shell. The folder BrightNight is in same folder as the shell script, am i doing something wrong? | I prefer to use rdiff-backup. To me, it seems more robust. I do pretty much what you do but a whole drive (1 TB to another on a nightly basis) If you opt to use rdiff-backup, this is the syntax I use (YMMV) Code: Select all#/usr/bin/rdiff-backup -b -v5 /media/Data /media/Backup /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v5 /media/Data /media/Backup In the example above, the first line completes a full backup of the 1 TB drive mounted as Data to the second 1TB drive mounted as Backup The second line runs every night and copies only changed data. I think (could be mistaken since its been a long time since I implemented this) the change is not only based on new data but also if the timestamp is changed by access the file/files. In my opinion, rdiff-backup is far faster than rsync (I tried using just rsync and it ran terrifyingly slow - then again, this just could have just been something I overlooked). The above may be a bit overkill for your needs. Just wanted to present another option for you to consider should your scripting/backup needs require something a little more. Added info for your consumption: "rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. ... The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks." |
This isn't the first time happening to me, and i dont know why but, there is no folders like Pictures, Videos etc. in my home folder. Most of the time reinstall helps, but why the hell is this happening? https://i.imgur.com/qd8vDoL.png It's a fresh install of i3, on Debian netinst (standard system utilities selected only). I made the whole install with this: Code: Select all#!/bin/sh sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y ### installing packages sudo apt install -f -y i3 suckless-tools xorg software-properties-common \ chromium fonts-font-awesome fonts-roboto devscripts \ file-roller pcmanfm leafpad pulseaudio pavucontrol \ alsa-utils gdebi neofetch clipit feh \ build-essential gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines \ vim ranger caca-utils highlight atool w3m poppler-utils \ mediainfo compton python-pip libcanberra-gtk-module \ rxvt-unicode-256color curl wget apt-transport-https dirmngr \ numix-icon-theme scrot ristretto ### creating dirs mkdir ~/.config/ mkdir ~/.themes/ mkdir ~/.fonts/ ### configs rsync -a .xinitrc ~/ rsync -a .Xresources ~/ rsync -a .config/ ~/.config/ #rsync -a .gtkrc-2.0 ~/ ### wallpaper sudo rsync -a wallpaper.png /usr/share/wallpapers/ | pawRoot wrote:### creating dirs mkdir ~/.config/ mkdir ~/.themes/ mkdir ~/.fonts/ Well, these are the only ones you made ... ? |
Code: Select allsudo apt autoremove suggests the removal of linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64. Now this is 190mb. Will it be OK to get rid of it? I'm currently running Code: Select alllysander@psychopig-xxxiii:~$ uname -a Linux psychopig-xxxiii 4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux | Yes it is safe to remove. It is also a good idea to keep the old kernel around until you are sure 4.9.0-5-amd64 is working properly for you. |
Using Code: Select allsystemctl set-default multi-user.target I have set my desktop up to drop to console at startup rather than go to gdm3. I only have GNOME as a DE. It works fine. My netbook has both XFCE and LXDE, the latter being the default. However, when I set multi-user.target it boots into XFCE though LXDE is the default when using lightDM. I read around and apparently the right option can be set in /.dmrc. On my desktop the file says Code: Select all[Desktop] Language=en_GB.utf8 Session=xfce which is odd because I uninstalled xfce. Whereas in my netbook it says Code: Select all[Desktop] Language=en_GB.utf8 Session=LXDE though it boots into XFCE when going through tty1. Are these files configured wrongly? Should I update them to boot into the DEs I want or is there another way? | Lysander wrote:when I set multi-user.target it boots into XFCE I'm not sure I understand this — if you are booting to multi-user.target then a console login should just return a command prompt unless ~/.profile is modified, AFAIUI. So do you mean that XFCE is started when you run the `startx` (or `xinit`) command? If so, then try this: Code: Select all# update-alternatives --set x-session-manager I think that should let you choose a desktop to become the default. Otherwise, add "exec startxfce4" to ~/.xsession, this will let `startx` run that desktop and will also become the file parsed for the "Default XSession" in LightDM. EDIT: no idea about this "~/.dmrc", can you quote a link for that? |
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main Or should i add contrib and non-free to the rest too? | pawRoot wrote:should i add contrib and non-free to the rest tooYes, if you want security updates for contrib & non-free packages. |
I have installed freecad, however, when I run from terminal I receive Code: Select all$ freecad freecad: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_signals.so.1.55.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Freecad is looking for libboost_signals.so.1.55.0, but 1.62 is the most current, 1.55 isn't available for Wheezy. Is this a bug with Freecad? My system info: lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch) Release: 9.3 Codename: stretch uname -a 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux Output from installing freecad Code: Select all$ sudo apt-get install freecad Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libboost-atomic1.62.0 libboost-signals1.62.0 libcoin80v5 libfreeimage3 libgl2ps1 liboce10 libpyside1.2 libshiboken1.2v5 libsoqt4-20 libspnav0 libxerces-c3.1 libzipios++0v5 python-collada python-pivy python-pyside python-pyside.phonon python-pyside.qtcore python-pyside.qtdeclarative python-pyside.qtgui python-pyside.qthelp python-pyside.qtnetwork python-pyside.qtopengl python-pyside.qtscript python-pyside.qtsql python-pyside.qtsvg python-pyside.qttest python-pyside.qtuitools python-pyside.qtwebkit python-pyside.qtxml python-qt4-gl Suggested packages: libopenal0a libsimage-dev spacenavd The following NEW packages will be installed: freecad libboost-atomic1.62.0 libboost-signals1.62.0 libcoin80v5 libfreeimage3 libgl2ps1 liboce10 libpyside1.2 libshiboken1.2v5 libsoqt4-20 libspnav0 libxerces-c3.1 libzipios++0v5 python-collada python-pivy python-pyside python-pyside.phonon python-pyside.qtcore python-pyside.qtdeclarative python-pyside.qtgui python-pyside.qthelp python-pyside.qtnetwork python-pyside.qtopengl python-pyside.qtscript python-pyside.qtsql python-pyside.qtsvg python-pyside.qttest python-pyside.qtuitools python-pyside.qtwebkit python-pyside.qtxml python-qt4-gl 0 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 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Setting up python-pyside.qtscript (1.2.2-2+b1) ... Setting up python-pyside.qtuitools (1.2.2-2+b1) ... Setting up python-pyside.qtopengl (1.2.2-2+b1) ... Setting up python-pyside.qtsvg (1.2.2-2+b1) ... Setting up python-pyside.qttest (1.2.2-2+b1) ... Setting up python-pyside (1.2.2-2) ... Setting up freecad (0.17.11141) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ... ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbrscandec.so.1 is not a symbolic link ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbrcolm.so.1 is not a symbolic link | this is freecad from the repos? please post output of Code: Select allapt update |
I have a debian 9 vm, quad core, 8GB Ram. I run the Unifi Video software on it. I have 60GB boot & 1TB Data VHD's and then I have a 2TB NFS drive that runs over a VPN tunnel (offsite). Now I have a simple rsync script that I call from crontab through flock. Code: Select all*\5 * * * * /usr/bin/flock -n /var/lock/cameracopy.lck -c "/usr/local/bin/cameracopy.sh" Yes, I know flock doesn't work well with NFS but it doesn't know it is NFS, I'm not calling an NFS store through flock, The system is handling that so it shouldn't matter. to flock, its just another directory. The script is: #!/bin/bash echo "Time: $(date -Iseconds). RSync Starting."$'\r' >> /mnt/backup/cronjob.log rsync -rltzhu --log-file=/mnt/backup/cambackup.log /cameras/videos /mnt/backup echo "Time: $(date -Iseconds). RSync Finished."$'\r' >> /mnt/backup/cronjob.log echo $'\r' >> /mnt/backup/cronjob.log Well the lock file is created, but never gets deleted and I keep getting multiple RSync Starting in the log. Code: Select allTime: 2017-12-29T15:20:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:21:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:22:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:23:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:24:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:25:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:26:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:27:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:28:01-05:00. RSync Starting. Time: 2017-12-29T15:29:01-05:00. RSync Starting. However the cambackup.log shows no changes since 7am this morning when I ran it manually (the script works, but never writes RSync Finished, ever- even manually). I've even gone in and deleted the lock file and it just gets recreated. | Full paths are your friends. |
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