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I have been looking at the multimedia packages. Most, if not all, music players and video players are maintained by Ubuntu developers. This is strange considering the amount of packages available. | "Board index ‹ Help ‹ General Questions" What is your question? |
A power loss seems to have done bad things to my Debian 11.10/KDE system. I did some updating and thought I had things working again, but some new errors indicate all is not well. I exited a program and was told it couldn't save its config file. The problem seemed to be that many of the directories had been changed from rwx to r-x. When I tried to change one of them while logged in as root, it didn't work and a bunch of errors were generated: Code: Select allroot@pc1:/# chmod 755 root chmod: changing permissions of `root': Read-only file system root@pc1:/# Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300057] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300448] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300451] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300454] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300456] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300458] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300460] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300462] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300465] journal commit I/O error Message from syslogd@pc1 at May 14 11:36:39 ... kernel:[13479.300467] journal commit I/O error Is there a way to fix this, or am I looking at a reinstall of the OS? Lane | What file system are you using? |
Hi all, ice weasel is not finding some sites such at google home, yahoo, ect. I sometimes can get a page but its no grafics and limited information on the page once it finally loads. I at first thought this was a DNS problem but i have a solid internet/network connection. I have online games i play and there fine. I can load some pages just fine by typeing in a direct address such as http://eternallands. I dont know what could have happened, was working great before and with no errors. i set my home to google home page and it cant find server all of a sudden. reset home and its still not finding server. any help? thanks charvey EDIT: Debian squeeze new install , latest stable release. Toshiba laptop l645D , ATI radeon 4200, all drivers up to date.Genome desktop . | Disable IPv6: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 Upgrade to a newer iceweasel: http://mozilla.debian.net/ Install flash plugin: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
hi...just installed Debian..when i try to log in(into gnome) i get "authentication failure" I can login as root in recovery mode So I boot into recovery mode as root and reset by Code: Select allpasswd root but problem remains the same . any suggestions please | Whay don't you reset user password by Code: Select allpasswd user ? That should help you to log in as user |
After performing a lenny to squeezy upgrade, I get the following message when trying to start icedove ~$ icedove /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc :~$ I've performed a general web search and the only similar results was someone on Debian experimental on amd64 architecture (I'm on 386). No solution there. Looking for ideas to get icedove working again. | Silly question: are you sure the upgrade fully completed? What was your procedure for the upgrade? Off the top of my head, my first instinct would be to try reinstalling icedove. Code: Select allaptitude reinstall icedove as the bug you mentioned seemed to involve libc6, you could try reinstalling that too. What versions of those packages are you running Code: Select allapt-cache policy libc6 icedove does the Code: Select allLD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/icedove icedove work around work for you? |
Just wondering, i'm not particularly happy with my btrfs filesystem, i think its a bit slow, so i thought if i installed the necessary XFS packages, and fiddled with fstab then i could copy the install onto a new XFS partition? The bootloader is on another install so thats not a problem. Cheers, Bill. | Yeah, it should work. I've done it myself a couple times. You just need to be careful that you update your fstab if you're using UUIDs or if you change partition numbers. Same goes for your bootloader. |
I just installed debian on a new system and upgraded to testing (necessarily), and now when I try to install any package, I just get a memo from Aurelien Jarno stating: Starting with eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/<triplet> instead of the more traditional /lib, where <triplet> is the multiarch triplet and can be retrieved with 'dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH'. Similarly the includes are now shipped in /usr/include/<triplet> instead of the more traditional /usr/include. . . . The message goes on but I don't want to type all that. I have no idea what this message means. Someone please help me out, thx. | It is apt-listchanges showing you relevant information about the packages you are upgrading. Push q and it will go away. |
I installed Debian using a USB DVD drive on a computer which supports USB booting to install Debian with LVM/Encryption to a PATA hard drive and then moved the hard drive to the other computer which cannot boot USB and I am having trouble with that computer. After a lot of work, I finally got the hard drive detected by the BIOS on that computer and then it booted Debian. My current problem is that when I choose to boot Debian, it hangs indefinitely at "Loading initial ramdisk." Is it something with the encryption mechanism preventing me from undergoing the usual Linux hard drive switching process or is that supposed to work and I should look into something else? I also noticed that it says the kernel is amd64 even though I installed through an i386 DVD and no, I did not play with kernels; I just took what the installer gave me. The specific DVD is stable/squeeze 6.0.4 DVD 1. I should mention that the installation worked on my computer which has USB booting. Sorry if my question is a little vague but I'm really unsure as to what the problem is. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Edit: The computer with USB booting has an EM64T CPU (64 bit) whereas the one that doesn't have USB booting uses an i686 Pentium 3 to my knowledge. | s3a wrote:it says the kernel is amd64...... an i686 Pentium 3 to my knowledge. <southern accent>Well now thur's yur problem.</southern accent> |
Hi all. New to the forums but been using debian a while (and linux for longer than I care to remember). Anyway, as per title. I need to install PHP5 on a server (squeeze) but I absolutely do not need or want apache. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve this. Thanks in advance. | Couldn't you just install php5-common & php5-cgi packages? According to the wiki article, apache shouldn't need to be installed at all. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/php5-common |
Hi, I have a data file (.vep extension) with some strange characters in the first line: <81>^@^@^@<<^@^@^@ They appear in blue (similar to ^M next line character from dos files) I don't know the encoding of the file, but $ file -i file.vep returns Code: Select allfile.vep: application/octet-stream; charset=binary So I assume it is kind of a binary file. However, if I open the file in vim I can read the data, but I need to remove the stange characters in the first line. I have thousands of files, so I need to do it from the command line. Does anybody know how to do it? PS: I wanted to attach an image, but I am unable to attach any file, so I give the link to a snapshot: | There are several variables at play that you didn't bother to mention, so it's impossible to give you a "cut-and-paste" answer. However, depending on the specifics, either sed or cut should give you a workable solution. Consult their respective man pages for details. (Note that cut is less flexible, but sed is harder to master if you've not already done so.) |
Hello, I just compiled volwheel and added "volwheel &" to my autostart.sh file in openbox and it would not start. I then ran it from my terminal and recieved this error message: Code: Select allCan't locate Alsa.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/volwheel /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/bin/volwheel line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/volwheel line 24. How do I fix this? | Try to create /usr/local/lib/volwheel before running the install.pl script. But instead you could use volumeicon. It's better than volwheel and is in the repo for wheezy/sid (package volumeicon-alsa). |
Hi, I have a data file which consists of thousands of lines in the form (read from the bottom of the file to understand the order): Code: Select allxn yn znn ... x2 y2 z22 x1 y2 z12 ... x3 y1 z31 x2 y1 z21 x1 y1 z11 where xi, yj, and zij are real numbers. I need to order it in the following way (in order to make a splot with gnuplot): Code: Select allx1 y1 z11 x1 y2 z12 x1 y3 z13 ... [blank line] x2 y1 z21 x2 y2 z22 ... [blank line] ... xn yn znn I tried the following: Code: Select all$ sort -n input-file > file-aux $ awk 'x \!= $1 { if(NR > 1) print ""; x = $1 } {print}' file-aux > output-file where sort orders the first column, and awk adds the blank line.. but the second column is not ordered.. Can anybody help me please?? | Code: Select allman sort says Code: Select all -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2 (default end of line). See POS syntax below |
I have been annoyed by the Bash \W bug on x86_64 for a ling time, so I decided to try patching it, and build a new Bash-package (for Squeeze). See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590052 for explanation of the problem. I tried this to extract the source (I also did "apt-get build-dep bash" as root): Code: Select all$ apt-get source bash This gives me the following: Code: Select allbash-4.1/ bash_4.1-3.diff.gz bash_4.1-3.dsc bash_4.1.orig.tar.gz Under bash-4.1/ I have: Code: Select allbash-4.1dfsg.tar.xz debian/ How do I go about extracting the source? It seems my problem is quite similar to the one described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/200 ... 01601.html But, unfortunately, I did not find an answer. After I have extracted the source, my intention is to create my own patch, and include it in bash-4.1/debian/patches/, then build the package. I hope this approach will give me less problems if I need to apply the changes to a newer bash package. Any thoughts on that? Any suggestions or pointers will be greatly appreciated. | This much I know. You can unpack the source using dpkg-source -x blahblah.dsc |
I wanted to create a new user account and I used the adduser command in the middle, I wanted to do something else so I did CTRL+C and then I don't remember much else since I didn't expect problems but I used stuff like userdel and userdel -r followed by adduser but when I do this, it creates the user again (I think) but it doesn't give any output and it doesn't even ask for a password and then when I use the login command to login, it asks for a password and a blank password doesn't work. How do I completely remove every piece of data that the initial adduser command run made that way I can start from scratch? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! | I always use kuser to do so. adduser and etc seem to be bugged beyond all recognition. |
Both have read/write permissions (I did chmod 700 on both the home directory and the external hard drive's) and I can create a folder on my desktop (and external hard drive) but only the external hard drive allows me to paste something I copied. If I go through /home and then go to desktop, I can choose to paste but then I get the same error (basically, one window saying "Copying files" and "Collecting files..." and another one saying "Permission denied." What's going on here? If more information is needed, just ask me for it. Any help in fixing my problem so I can properly copy paste my data would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! | The problem was that I needed to run it recursively using chmod -R username thelocation. Marking as solved. |
Debian squeeze stock kernel. With safe removal of external hardrive it locks the system. Hard reboot neccessary. Tried to update kernel but appears to get errors from backports. linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: Depends: linux-base (>=3~) but 2.6.32-43 is to be installed Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>=3~) but 2.6.32-43 is to be installed Breaks: initramfs-tools (<0.99~) but 0.98.8 is to be installed Help? | You need to run: Code: Select allapt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 It is quite possible the new kernel will fix the bug. If not look at the old logs (such as dmesg.1) under /var/log to see what might have caused the crash. |
Source code for some packages include debian/ subfolder, i.e. mupdf which has this contents: Code: Select all$ ls changelog libmupdf-dev.install mupdf.manpages mupdf-tools.docs compat mupdf.applications mupdf.menu mupdf-tools.install control mupdf.desktop mupdf.mime mupdf-tools.manpages copyright mupdf.docs mupdf.pc mupdf.xpm dirs mupdf.install mupdf.png rules I usually build with "make; checkinstall make install", and thought to ask if it's there some more appropriate command for building when there is this debian/ folder included in source distribution? | Checkinstall won't use that debian folder; one needs to use the proper Debian packaging tools for that, such as dpkg-buildpackage or the shortcuts in devscripts. If a source package does come with a debian folder, the usual policy is to rename it debian.orig and use a custom one. See the mplayer source for an example. |
Hi, I try to duplicate a directory from a server to another, this way: ORIGIN /srv/a --> DESTINATION /srv/b I use the following rsync command, from a prompt given by ORIGIN : Code: Select allrsync -avvvH --delete-before /srv/a/ root@destination:/srv/b/ I used -vvv to get maximum logs because, obviously, it doesn't work. I used a root access just to be sure and it doesn't work better. Here is the error I see: [sender] make_file(rep.7/data/data2/9602.jpg,*,2) [sender] make_file(daily.7/data/data2/9603.jpg,*,2) [sender] make_file(daily.7/data/data2/9536.jpg,*,2) [sender] make_file(daily.7/data/data2/9601.jpg,*,2) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (783 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7] [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=601): about to call exit(12) I can do and redo this command and always obtain the same error two or three hours after the beginning of the rsync job. I don't get any file on destination server so I suppose that the error comes between comparison work and transfer activity. My guess is the issue is related to the hardlink preservation: do you think it is possible? I saw that kind of opinion here and there around the Web but no more information... The volume of data is high (around 1 Tio) and is composed by a lot of files predominantly hard linked (origin:/srv/a is the directory in which I get some snapshots done by rsnapshot). I hope someone could help me, I have no more idea. Regards, Phil. | I suggest you use a much smaller subset of the data to test with until you get it working I use it successfully everyday in my backup script, from a snapshot collection containing hardlinks on a volumr on the server to a USB HDD Code: Select allrsync -av --stats --delete --exclude=lost+found --hard-links /mnt/storage/sitehost/ $mountpoint/sitehost/ Both filesystems support hardlinks? |
I am trying to install the packages liboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui and libglew1.5-dev, but I receive the following output/problem: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui libglew1.5-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: libgtk2.0-dev : Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.20) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcairo2-dev (>= 1.6.4-6.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages How do I resolve this? | doonzy wrote:I am trying to install the packages liboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui and libglew1.5-dev, but I receive the following output/problem: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libgtk2.0-dev cmake-curses-gui libglew1.5-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: libgtk2.0-dev : Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.20) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcairo2-dev (>= 1.6.4-6.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages How do I resolve this? From the versions mentioned for libcairo2-dev and libpango1.0-dev, it looks like you might be using Lenny. If that's the case you should know that Lenny reached it's EOL (end of life) in early February. On Mar. 25th the Lenny packages were removed from the debian.org servers, they are now on the archive.debian.org server. In your sources.list you need to change the Lenny debian.org repo entries to the following: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free If you were using either the Lenny security.debian.org or volatile repo there's also these repos that are now on the archive.debian.org server. deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main contrib non-free |
Hi all, getting this message when trying to update: [ /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:239:in `collect_candidates': undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:222:in `candidates' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/runtime/textdomain_manager.rb:78:in `each_textdomains' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/runtime/textdomain_manager.rb:102:in `translate_singluar_message' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext.rb:128:in `_' from /usr/share/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs/logic.rb:324 from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:258:in `require' from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:258 E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 A package failed to install. Trying to recover: ] I have searched for broken packages but non listed with aptitude. Any help will be greatly appreciated Warren | Bug#662983: When called by aptitude, apt-listbugs crash and precludes th : http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs ... 14120.html Code: Select alldpkg -r apt-listbugs libgettext-ruby1.8 liblocale-ruby1.8 ruby-locale |
Hey all. Flash isn't working for me. I've got Epiphany 3.3.91 installed in an attempt to convince myself GNOME apps aren't that bad. But nspluginwrapper is no longer in the repositories. And when I install nspluginwrapper from the Ubuntu Precise repos, it doesn't seem to help anything. Any ideas? | apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree FlashPlayer - Debian Wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
On some other older linux systems I use periodically I notice that whenever I need to reboot the machine it does a full reboot; ie it goes through a POST and starts the OS again. This behavior is similar to hitting the reset button. I've noticed on Debian Squeeze that a reboot doesn't go all the way down and reset to a POST screen. Is there a way to tell the OS to do this? I may be dense I suppose. I've looked over Google in addition to the MAN pages without much luck in telling the OS how to do this. If someone would point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. Thanks, edit: The reason I'm doing this is to workaround an IRQ problem that happens on what I call the "soft reboot". | You can edit /etc/default/kexec and set LOAD_KEXEC to “false” or just remove kexec-tools if you are don't want it. |
I was thinking about giving Wheezy a try. I am currently using Squeeze and have been considering changing. But before I install anything I was wondering if anyone has used the following programs with Wheezy and how well they worked. Not looking for comments like," They should work." I want to know if others have tried these first hand and if they had any issues. * Guitarx * Jack * Rakarrack * Creox * Hydrogen * Openshot * Kino * Lives * Pitivi * Avidemux * Cinelerra * Ardour * Audacity Also how is Gnome 3 now in general and specifically can I add desktop icons and can I add panels? Is Cinnamon available (I think I read another post somewhere that the Cinnamon repo can be added,) does it work well? Please leave personal opinions out. Just the facts. | iceman wrote:* Jack * Hydrogen * Kino * Ardour * Audacity These work. Haven't tried others. iceman wrote:Also how is Gnome 3 now in general and specifically can I add desktop icons and can I add panels? OK from what I've tested. Icons and panels? Maybe by installing couple of those gazillion shell extensions. iceman wrote:Is Cinnamon available (I think I read another post somewhere that the Cinnamon repo can be added,) does it work well? From your local grocery store, yes. Works alright with sugar on top of a plate of rice porridge for example. (Though this is a personal opinion and not a fact. Sorry.) iceman wrote:Please leave personal opinions out. Just the facts. Tried my best. |
Hello. I've gone over the wiki page on apt pinning, but I don't seem to be able to reach a definitive conclusion on a problem I'm having. Is it possible to block a package, or set of packages, from being installed by a specific repo? Considering that Debian SID just started officially supporting XBMC, I don't want my enabled Debian-Multimedia repo to pull in the xbmc related packages. Is there any way to block them from being installed from there? Sorry for my newbness on the matter... | Are we supposed to guess your sources list? We do no magic. What is the output of apt-cache policy for the relevant package? The version in Sid might be higher than the one in Debian Multimedia and thus it would be the candidate. |
Hello, I was trying to run a windows program through wine and in the wine AppDB I found that this software (Infovox) needs some configuration in order to work: the user review says: license check serial disk number and windows registration start winecfg and set: - disk C: serial number - windows registration paramenters I don't understand what does that mean. In the winecfg, there's an option in the "units" tab that seys asign manually and ethiquete and serial number, but what am I supposed to write there? should I write a valid windows serial number? should I write this program's serial number? what does it mean with "windows registration parameters"? BTW here's the link http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=16496 | http://www.sdconsult.no/linux/wine-doc/configuring.html |
Heya was wondering if anyone knew if Google Chrome (the official version not Chromium) can run in Wheezy Thanks -SPMcKinney | Yes. Download it off of google's site for it. It will automatically link you to deb packages. Try those and if it doesn't work then ask for help. |
Gnash works great with YouTube... and that's about it. It doesn't work with anything else that I've used. Not Jwplayer. Not my university's flash apps. None of it. It just gives me a perpetual loading screen -- if I even get that. I've given my version number in the title. I use it with Iceweasel 11.0 on Debian 6.0.4 with GNOME 2.30.2 with Kernel Linux 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 on an Intel Core i7 2630 QM cpu with 6 gigs of DDR3 ram. I'm usually on a good broadband connection so that's already been ruled out. Besides this apps work fine with a comparable version of Firefox and Adobe Flash Player. I'm sorry that these are all of the details I can provide. I'm not too much help in this department. However, tell me what information you need, and in a pinch, how to find it, and I'll get it to you. Thanks for the help. | I'm afraid that Gnash only supports some limited subset of SWF tags and almost nothing of DoABC tag (which is the compiled AS3 / HaXe code). My guess would be that YouTube identifies somehow what kind of the player you have and serves you the AS2 version, or maybe even HTML version (I'm not sure, but I think they used to have one). So it's very unlikely that you will be able to use it for regular browsing. |
tried mepis repo, but requires further mepis dependencies, so i dont want mepis package.wine_1.0.1-3.5.diff used: Code: Select allhttp://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages#head-a17f30175497e3c24b87cf7cee667664c0e7536 but the apt-get downloads ver from sid which is older version wine_1.0.1-3.5.diff Downloaded wine-1.4 from winehq and following failed after 3 hours building: Code: Select all$ bzip2 -kd wine-1.4.tar.bz2 $ tar -xf wine-1.4.tar $ cd wine-1.4/ $ dh_make --createorig -f ../wine-1.4.tar $ export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4 $ dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us well the last step i did was on cli, so could not copy paste the build failure, the original folder under built still exists. Kindly advise how to compile it. Thankyou. | I got wine version 1.5 up and running using git as detailed my post here. |
Ok, I have to say that I've tried to look for information regarding this topic for quite a while now, google, #debian, #nm... none of them could successfully help me. I have to go to uni everyday and connect through their proxy, come back home and switch it back (repeat forever). My idea was to create a script that was automatically called every time a connection was established. The script would look at the name of the wireless network I'm connected to and depending on the name of the network it would set the proxy on/off. The NetworkManager daemon allows me to do this by placing the script in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ folder, the script must be owned by root. In order to change the proxy, I use "gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host $PROXY" command (which only works for the user who's executing it and for that reason I use su $USER -c $COMMAND). Now here's the thing: The script works perfectly if I execute it manually as root BUT IT DOESN'T if it's executed by the daemon. I first thought if was because the environment set for the execution by the daemon didn't have a PATH, but I'm using the full path for every command I use. After debugging for a bit I realized that the command that fails to execute is the "su $USER -c $COMMAND".. why?? If I echo whoami inside the script I get root so there must be no reason why this command didn't work right? (i also replaced the su for the sudo command and no luck) =( Here's the script: Code: Select all#!/bin/bash my_interface="wlan0" proxy_network="net" desired_proxy="XXXX" desired_port="YYYY" function change_proxy { if [ $1 = "on" ] then /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host $2 /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port $3 /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host $2 /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port $3 /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual' else /usr/bin/sudo -u zero /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'none' fi } if [ $2 = "up" -a $1 = $my_interface ] #interface is up then /bin/echo $1 $2 >> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/debug /bin/echo `env` > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/environment network_name=`/usr/bin/nm-tool | /bin/grep \* | /usr/bin/tail -n 1 | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}' | /bin/sed 's/^\*\([a-zA-Z_0-9\-]*\).*/\1/g'` if [ $network_name = $proxy_network ] then change_proxy "on" $desired_proxy $desired_port else change_proxy "off" fi fi BTW I'm using wheezy, gnome 3.2.1, kernel 3.2.0-1-686-pae. Thanks in advance! | Solved. A user from #gnome pointed out that gsettings needs another env variable that is not included in the environment provided by the daemon. sudo -u $USER env$(string /proc/$(pgrep -U 1000 gnome-session | head -n 1)/environ | grep DBUS) gsettings ... did the trick. |
I use stable Debian, but I need to update dpkg-dev. So I tried to built id from souces. I built dpkg and installed it. Than I need to install libdpkg-perl and I have an error. Code: Select allroot@kron:/home/kron/qwe# apt-get -b source libdpkg-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Picking 'dpkg' as source package instead of 'libdpkg-perl' NOTICE: 'dpkg' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git Skipping already downloaded file 'dpkg_1.16.2.dsc' Skipping already downloaded file 'dpkg_1.16.2.tar.bz2' Need to get 0 B of source archives. Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in dpkg-1.16.2 sh: dpkg-buildpackage: not found Build command 'cd dpkg-1.16.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. N: Ignoring file 'google-chrome.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension N: Ignoring file 'dropbox.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension E: Child process failed Can you please explain me what I need to do to solve this problem? | To be quite honest, I would just reinstall the old version of dpkg. That is a fundamental part of a debian system and really should not be tampered with. |
Hello, guys, I use Debian stable with the latest updates and Chromium installed from the repos. When I log-in in Facebook, Chromium does not load the whole page, just the title bar; i can't open neither the notifications, nor the messages, also I'm unable to view my profile or any other fb page What may cause the problem, I deleted all the browsing data (cache, cookies etc) Here's a screenshot: http://postimage.org/image/n9o7h24el/ I hope someone can help, thanks in advance | I can confirm this problem. It is probably due to this chromium version being a bit out of date and some changes on facebook's site. A few solutions: You can try changing the user agent string. I am unsure if that would work and I am not a chrome user so I have no idea how to do so. Another is to install google chrome (instead of chromium) from google's site. There is also a Chromium package here: http://main.mepis-deb.org/M11packages.html I am not sure if it is compatible with squeeze. The package maintainer posts on this forum and may be able to answer. *fixed post a bit |
I was wondering if it would screw my system up to have the new kernel and firmware from Wheezy on Squeeze i think its 3.2.0-0.bpo? I see there is a backport but they don't seem to like me (just tried backporting Libreoffice so I can update it hell of a lot easier) Could I add (see below) to repository and get it and the firmware that way with no problem Code: Select alldeb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free Its not a big problem so doesn't really matter if i can or not just curious how it would affect the system. | If you want to keep squeeze, don't use testing. Use backports. |
I have VB 3.2x installed in squeeze, with Windows 7 as application. I wanted to increase the virtual disk size using this command Code: Select allshum@shum-i7:~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks$ VBoxManage modifyhd win7.vdi --resize 40000 It returned an error: Code: Select allOracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.10_OSE (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Usage: VBoxManage modifyhd <uuid>|<filename> [--type normal|writethrough|immutable|shareable] [--autoreset on|off] [--compact] Syntax error: unknown option: --resize I undstand this resize command exists in VB 4.0 which is in squezze backport. If I download the package from backport and install it, will I loose my Win7 installation and data files? | You are supposed to be able to upgrade VB without disturbing the guest. You should have to remove and rebuild the Guest Additions for a new version, though. |
Couldn't really thin of a Title that would work. The question is how to find out using apt/aptitude what packages are installed from a certain repo, namely debian-multimedia.org. I know I can use Synatic and look under the 'Origin" tab. but would like to get a list. This works for experimental, but not for dmm. aptitude search ~S~i~Aexperimental Code: Select all$ aptitude search ~S~i~Aexperimental i debian-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive i kpart-webkit - WebKit KPart i A libqt4-dbus - Qt 4 D-Bus module i A libqt4-declarative - Qt 4 Declarative module i A libqt4-designer - Qt 4 designer module i libqt4-gui - transitional package for Qt 4 GUI runtime libraries i A libqt4-help - Qt 4 help module i A libqt4-network - Qt 4 network module i A libqt4-opengl - Qt 4 OpenGL module i A libqt4-qt3support - Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 4 i A libqt4-script - Qt 4 script module i A libqt4-scripttools - Qt 4 script tools module i A libqt4-sql - Qt 4 SQL module i A libqt4-sql-mysql - Qt 4 MySQL database driver i A libqt4-sql-sqlite - Qt 4 SQLite 3 database driver i A libqt4-svg - Qt 4 SVG module i A libqt4-test - Qt 4 test module i A libqt4-xml - Qt 4 XML module i A libqt4-xmlpatterns - Qt 4 XML patterns module i A libqtcore4 - Qt 4 core module i A libqtgui4 - Qt 4 GUI module i A libvisio-0.0-0 - library for parsing the visio file structure i A qdbus - Qt 4 D-Bus tool i qt4-qtconfig - Qt 4 configuration tool If I try doing $ aptitude search ~S~i~Adebian-multimedia.org it does nothing but go to $ | emariz's suggestion looks like it works to me. Haven't tried any others... http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73207 |
I got obviously very famous "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)". I checked everything that was written on this topic, but things mostly happened when people were putting new kernels on - so described solutions didn't work for me. The system was working smoothly until I either: temporarily moved a file from boot menu (I ran out of space on root partition and tried to do "magic" - my mistake) and then put in the exactly same place but it did not work since then. or: did some automatic upgrades via synaptic apt. My system is Debian Lenny AMD 64 2.6.26-2 with software RAID 1 with traditional (old school) 5 partitions with recommended sizes. GRUB shows two kernels: 2.6.26-2 and 2.6.26-2 (single user) but they both show the same error on boot. I used latest Ubuntu live on USB stick where I was able to install my debian raid - so disk manager sees all raid partitions (including root) that can easily be mounted. I can see, move and edit all the files. The only problem is that USB stick is only 8GB. Like I said I tried all documented solutions - but none really worked for me, or were related to other distributions or invoked by different actions (kernel upgrades). I am not new to linux (have a good overview), but I definitely need a lot of learning in this field. I would be really grateful if somebody could help with that. | whyzerman wrote:The system was working smoothly until I either: temporarily moved a file from boot menu (I ran out of space on root partition and tried to do "magic" - my mistake) and then put in the exactly same place but it did not work since then. What file did you move and put back? Are there any free spaces on Debian partitions? You can check by booting with Ubuntu USB and mounting the Debian partitions and Code: Select alldf |
Hi: I'm trying to set file associations for various applications, and everywhere I look, I seem to see the same advice, and I guess I'm really thick, because I don't know how to implement it. For example, if I want to set a file association in Firefox, I go to edit, then preferences, then, under the applications tab, there are all the file types, and I have to click "choose other." Thing is, there's no list of applications that comes up for me to choose from, just the file tree, and I'm expected to go find the app somewhere. That's where I get stuck. All the advice I read online suggests this is something I'm supposed to already know, but I don't. How exactly do I do that? Unlike Windows, there is no .exe file to link to or anything like that. Where do I locate, say, openoffice writer to associate with .doc or .rtf files? I looked in /usr/share/applications, but all there are there are .desktop files. Is it that simple? | i'm not sure i completely understand what you have in mind, but a look into the /etc/alternatives directory might be of some help, and there is the mailcap system (man mailcap). |
I can't log into my user(in fact I think it does but after that all I get is the Debian image and the mouse pointer).The computer respond to CapsLock and when I connect my usb mobile modem it turns green (the LED)from red but does not connect automatically has it should,the hard drive does blink once every 15 second, it turned off normally before and I now zero or less about programing and recovery mode,does this mean that I've lost the sistem and must do it again? | Create a new user and see if you can login as that. |
Hi all, How do I reduce file size of a .jpg file ? I went through quite a few tries and whle I was able to get quite some reduction of the file didn't know if this is the right procedure one or not. I used imagemagick to figure out things (as that is one of the more known apps. perhaps) Code: Select all$ identify a.JPG a.JPG JPEG 4000x3000 4000x3000+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 4.549MB 0.000u 0:00.000 Then I used the identify -verbose to get some more info. Beware this is BIG . Code: Select all$ identify -verbose a.JPG Image: a.JPG Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format) Class: DirectClass Geometry: 4000x3000+0+0 Resolution: 72x72 Print size: 55.5556x41.6667 Units: PixelsPerInch Type: TrueColor Endianess: Undefined Colorspace: RGB Depth: 8-bit Channel depth: red: 8-bit green: 8-bit blue: 8-bit Channel statistics: Red: min: 2 (0.00784314) max: 249 (0.976471) mean: 103.717 (0.406732) standard deviation: 66.1511 (0.259416) kurtosis: -1.29374 skewness: 0.109711 Green: min: 0 (0) max: 245 (0.960784) mean: 91.5344 (0.358958) standard deviation: 74.0536 (0.290406) kurtosis: -1.11126 skewness: 0.519706 Blue: min: 0 (0) max: 246 (0.964706) mean: 90.3653 (0.354374) standard deviation: 74.0677 (0.290462) kurtosis: -1.00255 skewness: 0.676815 Image statistics: Overall: min: 0 (0) max: 249 (0.976471) mean: 95.2055 (0.373355) standard deviation: 71.5214 (0.280476) kurtosis: -1.14813 skewness: 0.446409 Rendering intent: Undefined Interlace: None Background color: white Border color: rgb(223,223,223) Matte color: grey74 Transparent color: black Compose: Over Page geometry: 4000x3000+0+0 Dispose: Undefined Iterations: 0 Compression: JPEG Quality: 99 Orientation: TopLeft Properties: date:create: 2012-03-05T15:00:01+06:00 date:modify: 2012-03-04T03:25:05+06:00 exif:ColorSpace: 1 exif:ComponentsConfiguration: 1, 2, 3, 0 exif:CompressedBitsPerPixel: 3/1 exif:Compression: 6 exif:CustomRendered: 0 exif:DateTime: 2012:02:26 15:15:00 exif:DateTimeDigitized: 2012:02:26 15:15:00 exif:DateTimeOriginal: 2012:02:26 15:15:00 exif:ExifImageLength: 3000 exif:ExifImageWidth: 4000 exif:ExifOffset: 270 exif:ExifVersion: 48, 50, 50, 49 exif:ExposureBiasValue: 0/10 exif:ExposureMode: 0 exif:ExposureProgram: 5 exif:ExposureTime: 1/25 exif:FileSource: 3 exif:Flash: 16 exif:FlashPixVersion: 48, 49, 48, 48 exif:FNumber: 42/10 exif:FocalLength: 1120/100 exif:ImageDescription: exif:InteroperabilityIndex: R98 exif:InteroperabilityOffset: 12712 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http://www.imagemagick.org Now one of the ways which I did was this (just reducing the size) using convert Code: Select allconvert a.JPG -resize 3000x2000\> shrink_a.JPG which basically did make it smaller but I don't know if there could be a better way. One quick question to add though . What is the print size its talking about ? Code: Select all Print size: 55.5556x41.6667 Is that in millimeteres or centimeters or Inches. I got lot of help from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php The only thing I have not shared is apart from the name of the image is the signature (both for privacy reasons). Looking forward to any answers. | I think simple-image-reducer reduces the file size without changing the image size. |
I am curious to see a text console, and I have a netbook that is available. Anybody have any tips, tricks, or advice about this subject? | Do you just mean an installation without X? You can do this pretty easily with the netinst iso. dd or cat it onto a usb stick ( http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i ... -isohybrid ) and install the base system only. Add everything you want afterwards using package management. |
I have searched the forums and google for over a month and have not found a suitable answer. I was using google + hangout to video chat with family on the other side of the US. About Christmas time it stopped working. I have made sure I have the latest version and that my system is uptodate. The camera works fine in cheese. If I go into gmail, settings, chat it will show that it is searching for devices and then give the message to install the plugin. This is the same in chromium, firefox nightly, and iceweasel. When I check ~/.xsession-errors I get the following lines repeated many times: Code: Select all[096:172] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start... [097:174] Attempting to connect to GoogleTalkPlugin... [097:174] Warning(clientchannel.cc:568): Unreadable or no port file. Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection [097:174] Warning(clientchannel.cc:411): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions on how to correct the problem or is this a google problem. There questions/answers in the google group do not provide a working solution. My sig gives my system config. I am using Xfce with compiz although I have tried it without compiz and using Xfce with xfwm4, metacity and even switched to gnome to give it a try. Thanks for any help, john | it seems that if cheese is ok with cam, the problem is with gogle plugin. u must report them. |
My Acer 522 has been running fine until the new kernel 3.2.0.1 was relesed to Wheezy. Now, the wireless adapter AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter which uses the ath9k driver seems to work fine, it connects to the accesspoint and i get an ipadress but i can't ping anything my router or anything on the net. If i revert back to the 3.1.0.1 kernel the wireless fine again. So the real question if it's a bug in the 3.2.0.1 kernel or some thing needs to be changed to get the wireless working again. I'll inclued some info when I ran the 3.2.0.1 kernel. Code: Select alllo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:638 (638.0 B) TX bytes:638 (638.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:de:2b:2d:9b:79 inet addr:192.168.1.29 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::76de:2bff:fe2d:9b79/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5167 (5.0 KiB) TX bytes:20456 (19.9 KiB) root@A522:/home/peter# root@A522:/home/peter# dmesg |grep wlan [ 14.372325] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 25.270993] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 26.136446] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 29.292495] wlan0: authenticate with 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (try 1) [ 29.294756] wlan0: authenticated [ 29.294832] wlan0: associate with 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (try 1) [ 29.297875] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) [ 29.297883] wlan0: associated [ 29.298314] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 40.304289] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 269.587444] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c by local choice (reason=3) [ 269.726226] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 282.648211] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 282.776984] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 286.709030] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 287.508209] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 289.835754] wlan0: authenticate with 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (try 1) [ 289.837918] wlan0: authenticated [ 289.856330] wlan0: associate with 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (try 1) [ 289.859603] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:6c:7c:d2:2c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) [ 289.859612] wlan0: associated [ 289.860081] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 299.984048] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present root@A522:/home/peter# Thanks in advance! Regards, Peter | I also suffered problems with the wireless device (Atheros AR9285) after updating the kernel to 3.2 from Backports and from Testing a couple of weeks ago. That being said, I only have issues with WEP encryption; open networks or those using WPA work fine. Too bad that, as a laptop user, you'll never know when you'll need to connect to a WEP one. This must be a regression. The error messages from my system are the same as those from yours. I also had to revert to the kernel 3.1, which, by the way, now loses the connection to WEP networks sporadically; something that didn't happen before updating to the kernel 3.2. You'll find lots of messages if you search the terms "deauthenticating" "by local choice (reason=3)", but I found no definitive answer. Some say that you should disable IPv6, others that you have to kill wpa_supplicant, others that the problem is caused by Network Manager. I tried the first two options without luck and then chose to keep my applications and just use a previous kernel. |
Hi all, I am looking for a block diagram or flow-chart of a Debian package as it comes from experimental or unstable and goes to testing and then stable. Does anybody know of such a flow-chart or block diagram in existence. I tried google images but could not get anything useful. Anybody ? | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debia ... -cycle.png OR: google with these three keywords: Debian package cycle |
I'm running Squeeze. I notice that whenever I insert a NTFS/FAT USB disk, Debian fails to automount them, pops up a dialog saying there was error mounting the partition. However I can successfully mount them manually from command line. Also Debian automounts Ext2/3/4 drivers automatically. What could be wrong? Edit: Here's what dmesg has to say: Code: Select all[10301.213060] usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 [10301.357245] usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=1949, idProduct=0004 [10301.357253] usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [10301.357258] usb 1-7: Product: Amazon Kindle [10301.357262] usb 1-7: Manufacturer: Amazon [10301.357266] usb 1-7: SerialNumber: B011140714645XC5 [10301.357448] usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [10301.822299] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [10301.822523] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [10301.822680] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [10301.822686] USB Mass Storage support registered. [10301.822859] usb-storage: device found at 3 [10301.822862] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [10306.821233] usb-storage: device scan complete [10306.822426] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kindle Internal Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [10306.823444] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [10306.828273] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 6828032 512-byte logical blocks: (3.49 GB/3.25 GiB) [10306.933923] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [10306.933931] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00 [10306.933936] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10307.043924] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10307.043934] sdb: sdb1 [10307.163779] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10307.163788] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [10308.555892] UDF-fs: No anchor found [10308.555898] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048 [10308.613392] UDF-fs: No anchor found [10308.613398] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) [10308.813629] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. -- Jeenu | This turned out to be that my fstab instructed /dev/sdb1 to mount as CDROM. I suppose they were put in by the installer. Automounting works as usual after removing those lines. Later I had to add myself to the 'disk' group to have write permission to mounted storage. |
Anyone know what is up with all these Gnome packages being installed on today's d-u on kde? Code: Select allThe following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-mime-data gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgdu0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl0 liborbit2 The following packages will be upgraded: base-files cdparanoia consolekit cpp-4.6 dash dialog diffutils foomatic-filters g++-4.6 gcc-4.6 gcc-4.6-base gcj-4.6-base ghostscript ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x gnupg gpgv klibc-utils libaudclient2 libcdparanoia0 libck-connector0 libgcc1 libgcj12 libgfortran3 libgomp1 libgs9 libgs9-common libklibc libp11-kit-dev libp11-kit0 libpam-ck-connector libperl5.14 libquadmath0 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.6-dev libtokyocabinet8 lsb lsb-base lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-qt4 lsb-release openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib perl perl-base perl-modules synaptic x11-common xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all 57 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. nVm it was openjdk-7-*, why the hell would java need gvfs and other Gnome BS? | Only thing I can think of is either gconf2 or some gtk apps. |
Hi All I'm currently mounting some windows shares to a couple of my debian servers using the following structure: mount -t cifs //ntserver/download -o username=vivek,password=myPassword /mnt/ntserver It works fine and this is initiated on boot via rc.local However, What I want to know is IF the share server died or was restarted for any reason will my shares do one of the following: -Reconnect Automatically -Reconnect on next access attempt -Require manual reconnection either by umount and remount or plain remount? Hope its clear enough. Thanks | OK I solved this with some local testing. For anyone interested the mounts simply reconnect on the next attempt to access the mounted folder. Happy days! |
I'm encountering this error after I run the command 'pyrit list_cores' "Failed to load Pyrit's OpenCL-core ('Failed to enumerate OpenCL- platforms (Unknown CLresult)')." I am using Debian Squeeze 6.0.4 x86-64, Squeeze's fglrx package which is Catalyst version 10.9, and AMD APP SDK version 2.3 x86-64. I'm using AMD APP SDK v2.3, because that is what is compatible with Catalyst v10.9. These are the steps I did to setup AMD APP SDK v2.3, Pyrit-0.4.0, and CPyrit-OpenCl-0.4.0. I have gone over these steps multiple times and tried reinstalling to no avail. I'm sure I have just overlooked something, but I don't know what. I'm thinking it's a library link issue with AMD APP SDK. STEP 1 - I successfully installed Catalyst 10.9, and ran the command "sudo aticonfig --initial -f" to setup my xorg. STEP 2 - I downloaded the archived AMD APP SDK v2.3 and unpacked it to '/home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64'. STEP 3 - As per the installation notes, I added these commands to the bottome of my ~/.bashrc file: export ATISTREAMSDKROOT=/home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64 export ATISTREAMSDKSAMPLESROOT=/home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64/ samples export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ATISTREAMSDKROOT/lib/x86_64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH STEP 4 - I created the directory and setup up library links via the following commands sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/OpenCL/vendors sudo ln -sf /home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64/lib/x86/ libatiocl32.so /usr/lib/OpenCL/vendors/libatiocl32.so sudo ln -sf /home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64/lib/x86_64/ libatiocl64.so /usr/lib/OpenCL/vendors/libatiocl64.so STEP 5 - I built and installed pyrit-0.4.0 successfully. Here are the associated commands and terminal output: --> Build Command: sudo python setup.py build --> Build Output: svn: '.' is not a working copy running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6 copying pyrit_cli.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/cpyrit.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/util.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/pckttools.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/config.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/network.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit copying cpyrit/storage.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit running build_ext building 'cpyrit._cpyrit_cpu' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c cpyrit/ _cpyrit_cpu.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.o - Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -DVERSION="0.4.0" gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c cpyrit/ _cpyrit_cpu_sse2.S -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/ _cpyrit_cpu_sse2.o -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -DVERSION="0.4.0" gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions build/temp.linux- x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/ _cpyrit_cpu_sse2.o -lcrypto -lpcap -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/ cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.so running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting pyrit -> build/scripts-2.6 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/pyrit from 644 to 755 --> Install Command: sudo python setup.py install --> Install Output: svn: '.' is not a working copy running install running build running build_py running build_ext running build_scripts running install_lib creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/pckttools.py -> /usr/local/ lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/cpyrit.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/_cpyrit_cpu.so -> /usr/local/ lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/network.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/util.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/__init__.py -> /usr/local/ lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/config.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/storage.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/pyrit_cli.py -> /usr/local/lib/ python2.6/dist-packages byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/ pckttools.py to pckttools.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/cpyrit.py to cpyrit.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/ network.py to network.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/util.py to util.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/ __init__.py to __init__.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/config.py to config.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit/ storage.py to storage.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyrit_cli.py to pyrit_cli.pyc writing byte-compilation script '/tmp/tmpOMf80F.py' /usr/bin/python -O /tmp/tmpOMf80F.py removing /tmp/tmpOMf80F.py running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.6/pyrit -> /usr/local/bin changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyrit to 755 running install_egg_info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyrit-0.4.0.egg-info STEP 6 - I built and installed cpyrit-opencl-0.4.0 successfully. For this step, I had to edit the setup.py file and on line 55 added "'/ home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64/include', \" If I didn't edit the setup.py file it couldn't find the headers. Here are the associated commands and terminal output: --> Build Command: sudo python setup.py build --> Build Output: svn: '.' is not a working copy running build running build_ext Building modules... building 'cpyrit._cpyrit_opencl' extension creating build creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6 gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/home/one/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64/include -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c _cpyrit_opencl.c -o build/temp.linux- x86_64-2.6/_cpyrit_opencl.o -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing - DVERSION="0.4.0" creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions build/temp.linux- x86_64-2.6/_cpyrit_opencl.o -lcrypto -lz -lOpenCL -o build/lib.linux- x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/_cpyrit_opencl.so --> Install Command: sudo python setup.py install --> Install Output: svn: '.' is not a working copy running install running build running build_ext Building modules... running install_lib copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/cpyrit/_cpyrit_opencl.so -> /usr/ local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit running install_egg_info Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cpyrit_opencl-0.4.0.egg- info STEP 7 - Reboot =========================================================================== Conclusion Those were all the steps I took to install the AMD APP SDK v2.3, Pyrit-0.4.0, and CPyrit-OpenCL-0.4.0 Here is the complete output when I run "pyrit list_cores" Failed to load Pyrit's OpenCL-core ('Failed to enumerate OpenCL- platforms (Unknown CLresult)'). Pyrit 0.4.0 (C) 2008-2011 Lukas Lueg http://pyrit.googlecode.com This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3+ The following cores seem available... #1: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)' #2: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)' #3: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)' #4: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)' I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me to help me solve my problem. If it is any help, I'm only running one HD5450. Thanks for reading. | apt-get install pyrit $ apt-cache policy pyrit pyrit: Installed: 0.4.0-2 Candidate: 0.4.0-2 Version table: *** 0.4.0-2 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status then download http://pyrit.googlecode.com/files/cpyri ... 3.0.tar.gz and install it. |
I am running wheezy 64-bit Xfce and it has run well, thanks to the people who are working on it! Recently if I do apt-get update I see this result at the end of the update list: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Repeating apt-get update does not resolve the problem. My experience and other threads in this forum suggest that the problem is a messy sources.list with duplicate entries. Here is mine: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETIN$ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETIN$ # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main I think I see just three active repositories, none of them duplicates? Do you agree? The apt-get output references /var/lib/apt/lists, something I do not understand. It seems to be dynamic, building file lists as apt-get update is run. Here is what I have: file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages.IndexDiff file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_contrib_i18n_Translation-en file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_InRelease file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_binary-amd64_Packages.IndexDiff file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_i18n_Index file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_i18n_Translation-en file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages.IndexDiff file:///var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_i18n_Translation-en file:///var/lib/apt/lists/lock file:///var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_wheezy_updates_InRelease file:///var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_wheezy_updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages Question: Can better eyes than mine spot a duplication? Is the duplication within sources.list or between sources .list and /var/lib/apt/lists? And what the heck does the /var ... /list do? I surely do appreciate your help! | julian516 wrote:Code: Select alldeb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main |
So at one point I had some KDE packages installed which are now all removed. But browsing around in aptitude, I see that pretty much all the core KDE libraries and infrastructure are still installed even though I have them all marked as auto-installed. I have apt/aptitude configured to NOT automatically install recommends and to automatically remove (actually purge) unused packages, however I do let recommends hold packages on the system (suggests do not). What I suspect is going on here is that these packages have circular dependencies that end up holding each other on the system, even though as a group none of them are needed. For example, kdebase-runtime depends on kdelibs5-plugins, which in turn recommends kdebase-runtime. There are also a couple other libraries recommending kdelibs5-plugins, but they're also auto-installed and are simply additional parts of KDE -- if I start tracing through the chain of dependencies, there does not appear to be any manually-installed package that actually requires any of these. Granted, this process quickly gets confusing, but short of any tools to do this automatically, I'm fairly certain none of these packages are needed. On the other hand, I also see that esound-common is auto-installed, which is being held by libesd0 (also auto-installed), which is only depended on by a suggests (libao4). Based on my configuration, both of these should be auto-removed, but there they sit. So I guess my questions are: 1) Has anyone else experienced this? 2) How does one go about dealing with this? For what it's worth, I'm running testing/sid as described in this how-to. Many thanks in advance! | deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge or aptitude remove -o but be careful with the aptitude command as it will also remove any packages you downloaded like Skype, Chrome, etc. You can also try apt-get autoremove A couple of links with articles: Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux system - http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/462 Removing unnecessary packages with deborphan - http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/134 |
Get Your Windows License Money Back !!! I read a topic where some pepole return there "Windows License" and get one re-found around 45 Euro. This is how it works. You buy a new computer with out starting the computer and return the tiny green/yellow papper back on the computer with serial number to the company or brand you computer belong to. There site have a document witch you have to download and fill with all kind of personal information and send to them with your tiny serial papper witch you find stuck on your computer. I read they are really picky that everything is in good shape. The best thing you could do if you want to try to get your money back for your Windows License is to call the support and let them pinpoint out the directions for you. I recon not many know about this option, so now you know better and what to do before you reconfigured you computer with Linux - get some money back for your Windows License Cheers | well, too late for me mate. but many thaks. kudos |
I'm learning Spanish, and I wanted to add some key bindings for the accent and tilde. For example, alt + n = ñ, or alt + a = á. I remember doing it in python a while ago in windows, back when I had a fairly basic knowledge of python. I don't know how you would do that in linux though. Another option in windows I found was an international layout, which was the standard english qwerty, plus several marks, but I don't see that layout here. Traditional spanish or mexican layout would jumble around several other keys, like <, >, and ?, so I don't want to do that. | Code: Select allapt-cache search input-pad unfortunately you can't save a current configuration, which means that every time you start it you have to select the language/ keymap again. and it has a somewhat nasty tendency to grab the keyboard. make sure, the "other" widget really, really has focus. apart from that it's quite useful. and even more apart from that: take a look at man xinit ans the xresources stuff - just in case you intend to use the keymap regularly. |
I have 2 machines (a laptop and a desktop) with almost identical installs of wheezy (KDE, only the graphics drivers are different). I use the laptop to pull in updates and then transfer them to the desktop due to bandwidth cap issues at home (copying the .deb contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to usb stick, etc). This all works fine, but I noticed yesterday that the laptop didn't pull in the update to kernel 3.2. The desktop machine saw it as upgradable, but not the laptop, even after refreshing the cache. I was using Synaptic to do this, but apt-get did the same thing. I checked the config files in /etc/apt and they were identical for both machines. Anyone know why this happened? | Because one has a meta-package (like linux-image-[architecture]) that pulls the latest kernel? Because they use kernels from different instruction sets? Say, one uses a 32-bits kernel and the other one uses a 64-bits one. Compare the outputs of aptitude search "linux-image" of both systems. |
Hi all, I was purging old stuff from /tmp and by mistake purge also some keyring stuff and hence getting an error like :- Code: Select allWARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-EcRSHd/pkcs11: No such file or directory At revision 994. Should I just recreate the folder or is there a way to do it ? | if every thing is running fine, just forget it. Reboot should remove this fault. |
Hello Debian world, I am trying to install Debian squeeze 6.0.4 64 bit on another system of mine, but when I go to install it I get this error: [1.136352] ata2 softreset failed (device not ready) [1.136466] ata1 softreset failed (device not ready) These are my hardware specs: AMD Phenom x2 (dual core for those that don't know, and yes it is 64 bit) Biostar TA790GXE (motherboard) Kingston 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz per card Western Digital 160 GB SATA spindle HD LG Bluray/DVD/CD reader/writer combo nVidia GeForce 210 Asus Xonar DS (sound card) 400 watt Corsair power supply Now I get this same error if I try to install the 32 bit version. I also thought because I had AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) enabled in my BIOS. I disabled it but to no avail. The reason I had it enabled is because I needed it for Windows 7 when ever I wanted to update my firmware for my Solid State Drive. I am trying to install this OS (Debian) on a DIFFERENT hard drive, it is completely wiped clean, also the hard drive with W7 on it is removed from the system. Is my system too new for the Linux image 2.6? Do I have to wait for Debian Lenny 7.0 with the Linux image 3.2 before I can install Debian on this machine? Thank you for your time, Bryan | BryanR87 wrote:I was wondering if there is a website provided by Debian where I can download this package. http://packages.debian.org |
It's a pretty long one, but here it is: An internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted. Error message: Code: Select allFetch failed: W:Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20111014-10:30]/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs , W:Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20111014-10:30]/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs , W:Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20111014-10:30]/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs , W:Failed to fetch cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20111014-10:30]/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 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 So I see the 'updates available' logo, and when I double click on it, the list is blank. Then I click 'Check' and this appears. Any idea's? | Comment out or delete the lines pertaining to the cdrom in /etc/apt/sources.list. You can also accomplish this from the software sources or synaptic under the administration menu in Gnome (provided you have these installed). If not you can this to edit the sources.list (from root terminal) nano /etc/apt/sources.list After you comment out the cdrom lines with # press ctrl+x followed by y to save. Then run apt-get update |
iOS 5 devices supposedly syncs using libimobiledevice from git, so I've been trying to compile, and I'm hoping you guys can help. I do a git clone, then run .autogen.sh, and everything seems fine. When I run make, I get some errors: Code: Select allmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/rorschach/libimobiledevice/tools' CC idevice_id-idevice_id.o CCLD idevice_id CC ideviceinfo-ideviceinfo.o CCLD ideviceinfo /usr/bin/ld: ideviceinfo-ideviceinfo.o: undefined reference to symbol 'plist_get_date_val' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'plist_get_date_val' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libplist.so.1 so try adding it to the linker command line /usr/lib/libplist.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [ideviceinfo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rorschach/libimobiledevice/tools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rorschach/libimobiledevice' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. | Try running ldconfig as root than compiling again. |
Just noticed that the temperature in my test Squeeze seems to be over 60 Celsius. Which seems to exceed the two suggested warning levels. In my other PC the temperature is much smaller, more like 45 Celsius. Should I panic? I don't need another problem right now, so I'm tempted to ignore it for now and hope for the best. | It depends. Different processors are rated to take different amounts of heat. Try and search for what your computer's processor is rated to take. You'll know if it's too much if you start getting weird errors, crashes, or lock ups. That said, 60C is pretty hot for a processor. How much was your processor doing when you read that temperature? That temperature is more typical for processors under a heavy load (over 90% utilization) but not typical for an idling processor (under 10% utilization). If it was idling, then you may only start having problems once you run a program that uses the processor heavily for an extended period of time. |
Does anyone know how to resolve this? Code: Select allapt-get update [...] W: Failed to fetch http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/squeeze-backports/Release Unable to find expected entry iceweasel-4.0/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. | Change the mozilla.debian.net line to iceweasel-5.0 4.0 is no longer available. |
hello I iinstalled google earth but doesn't work Code: Select allroot@debian:/opt/google/earth/free# ./googleearth Google Earth has caught signal 11. We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed. This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written to this text file: /root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4f27e453.txt Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google. Code: Select allroot@debian:/opt/google/earth/free#less /root/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4f27e453.txt Major Version 6 Minor Version 2 Build Number 0000 Build Date Jan 23 2012 Build Time 17:11:07 OS Type 3 OS Major Version 2 OS Minor Version 6 OS Build Version 32 OS Patch Version 0 Crash Signal 11 Crash Time 1328014419 Up Time 0.020329 Stacktrace from glibc: ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0af3)[0xf775baf3] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0c73)[0xf775bc73] [0xf77d2400] ./libbase.so(_ZN5earth15GfxCardInfoUnixC1Ev+0x4a)[0xf50ba61a] ./libbase.so(_ZN5earth11GfxCardInfo12GetSingletonEv+0x44)[0xf50ba664] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(_ZN5earth6client11Application3runEv+0x2e)[0xf776952e] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xbf5cb)[0xf775a5cb] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(earthmain+0x249)[0xf775b729] ./googleearth-bin[0x804878b] /lib32/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xf52bcc76] ./googleearth-bin[0x80486d1 what should I do ? | You need a video driver with 3d acceleration (GLX). |
My Wheezy installation which has always run pretty smoothly seems to have got progressively slower and jerky recently (don't think the Gnome 3 upgrade helped). I have provided the output for the 'top' command right now below. I have three pretty standard applications running. As you can see, there is some virtual memory being consumed and little empty physical RAM. So I have already concluded that buying more RAM may help. When things start to go badly, typically a bit more virtual memory than below is being consumed. But also, looking at the top output below again, the statistic 'wa' generally consumes the most out of all CPU statistics, often between 40% and 70% with something like 10%-30% from 'us'. From the man page for 'top', wa = Amount of time the CPU has been waiting for I/O to complete, us = User applications CPU time. I'm not entirely sure what is meant by "waiting for Input/Output" to complete? From this thread (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=27244) and Wikipedia, I'm making an educated guess that it means the CPU is waiting for the hard drive to complete operations? Is I/O referring exclusively to the hard drive? Is this likely to be caused by virtual memory use on my PC? Does it matter that my home partition is near full because my swap partition is separate (asking this as same question is asked in forum thread above). Partition usage is listed below. I'm often listening to music and this starts getting stuck like a broken record for a few seconds when certain operations are performed. Also a sign of too much virtual memory usage maybe? Probably enough questions anyway , some hardware / memory details also listed below. Any answers or other tips on speeding things up appreciated. Code: Select alltop - 12:42:59 up 3:45, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.25 Tasks: 149 total, 1 running, 148 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 8.6%us, 2.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1024632k total, 863132k used, 161500k free, 4692k buffers Swap: 2928636k total, 368372k used, 2560264k free, 396644k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3151 adam 20 0 360m 53m 10m S 9 5.4 31:02.12 songbird-bin 2988 adam 20 0 372m 40m 11m S 4 4.0 7:07.70 gnome-shell 2492 root 20 0 126m 13m 8264 S 3 1.3 6:41.85 Xorg 4989 adam 20 0 480m 51m 11m S 3 5.1 24:35.85 chromium 6151 adam 20 0 235m 42m 20m S 2 4.3 0:53.78 chromium 3268 adam 20 0 395m 55m 19m S 2 5.6 5:27.16 chromium 5553 adam 20 0 246m 22m 9568 S 2 2.3 0:47.78 chromium 4914 adam 20 0 82152 10m 5740 S 1 1.0 0:17.84 gnome-terminal 6150 adam 20 0 2644 1172 848 R 1 0.1 0:07.18 top 4978 adam 20 0 403m 103m 11m S 0 10.3 4:47.62 chromium 1 root 20 0 2232 20 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.20 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.93 ksoftirqd/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 watchdog/0 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.51 ksoftirqd/1 12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 watchdog/1 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs 16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 sync_supers 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd 20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:14.32 kswapd0 24 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd 25 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khugepaged Code: Select all~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 25G 11G 13G 46% / udev 496M 0 496M 0% /dev tmpfs 101M 680K 100M 1% /run /dev/mapper/Debian-Root 25G 11G 13G 46% / tmpfs 201M 11M 190M 6% /run/shm /dev/mapper/Debian-HOME 97G 91G 937M 99% /home /dev/mapper/Debian-OldRoot 9.2G 8.3G 484M 95% /mnt/OldRoot (Ignore OldRoot, this is not currently in use) Hardware details: Code: Select allCPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (hyperthreaded, presents itself as 2 processors to OS) GPU: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0e) RAM: 1GB Swap partition: 3GB | In no particular order... - Bless you for doing some initial research. - There's never a lot of "free" physical RAM in *nix. The OS believes that an unused byte is a wasted byte, so *nix automatically allocates "free" RAM for caching. (Though in your particular case, the bulk of your RAM is in use by applications, not cache.) - Yes, I/O wait refers to disk. - The single biggest drain on both your CPU (9%) and RAM (27%!) is chromium. I don't use chromium, so I can't speak to ways to get it to minimize RAM use. - Yes, buying more RAM would definitely help. With a little power-shopping, you could probably double your RAM for $15US. - The quickest way to test your hunch that swap is the culprit is with: Code: Select allswapoff -a which will (temporarily) disable swapping on your system. But beware: without swap, if you actually max out the RAM usage of the machine, it'll likely hang. (If you find that prospect scary, as an alternative, you can tweak the swapiness setting on your machine. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapF ... ange_it.3F for details.) HTH, even if only to get you started. Edit: I see that vbrummond came in right behind me with a "somewhat" shorter version. But yes, with today's bloated applications, you may be expecting a lot from 1GB of RAM. You might also wish to investigate a "lighter" DE than GNOME. |
I've put some alias definitions in my ~/.profile, but Bash is ignoring them. I'm confident Bash is loading ~/.profile because some settings of $PATH which I've put after such aliases are working. I'm also confident such aliases are syntactically correct and work, because if I run them into a terminal, they work. They look like this: Code: Select allalias tc='truecrypt&' alias ccl=$HOME/bin/ccl/ccl-1.7/lx86cl alias emacsclient24=$HOME/bin/emacs/emacs-24.0.92/bin/emacsclient If I type "source ~/.profile", then the aliases work. Any idea? Thank you. | If you have either a ~/.bash_profile or a ~/.bash_login file then it will be executed and ~/.profile will be ignored while logging in. If you are already logged in and are creating a new shell (the typical case when you open a terminal from a window manager), then none of those three files get executed; only the file ~/.bashrc will be executed (if it exists). This is covered in the BASH manual page under the section INVOCATION. It is not exactly straightforward what happens and it might be worthwhile to create a separate account to experiment with the various ways that your startup files can be configured. |
I came to Debian from Ubuntu, and in Ubuntu there was a handy application that could be downloaded quite easily that indicated which of my lock-keys were active. This is especially useful since my laptop doesn't have any indicator lights to let me know which keys are active. I've tried to find a Debian equivalent using Google, but I couldn't find one. I also tried to use the Ubuntu one, but it didn't seem to work. Does anyone know of an application like that? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. | Which desktop environment? |
So, I have a server running Debian testing. For most of the time Debian has been installed, it has behaved normally. Recently, however, it has begun shutting itself off on a reliable interval. I'll attempt to SSH into it or access one of it's services and it'll not respond. If I press the power button, the machine is instantly responsive, as if it never shut down (and it probably didn't do a real shut down), but then after a few seconds, it shuts off. I've noticed that during this period the VGA is also unresponsive. I don't see how the computer could've gone into standby as I'm not running X and therefor not any daemons that would do such a thing, and the interval on which it 'shuts down' is also irregular. I also attempted to manually put it into suspend to ram mode, and that functionality doesn't even work! So, I have no idea what's going on here, but it's really annoying and I don't know what else I can try to get it to stop doing this, and would really appreciate some help. Thanks. | Maybe look through system logs, like: Code: Select alltail -f /var/log/messages |
Hi, Is there a way to check a Windows formatted hard disk (like e2fsck)? I believe the file system is ntfs type. | man ntfsprogs Code: Select allNTFSPROGS(8) NTFSPROGS(8) NAME ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS OVERVIEW ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library. The tools are available for free and come with full source code. TOOLS mkntfs(8) - Create an NTFS filesystem. ntfscat(8) - Dump a file's content to the standard output. ntfsclone(8) - Efficiently clone, backup, restore or rescue NTFS. ntfscluster(8) - Locate the files which use the given sectors or clusters. ntfscmp(8) - Compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences. ntfscp(8) - Copy a file to an NTFS volume. ntfsfix(8) - Check and fix some common errors, clear the LogFile and make Windows perform a thorough check next time it boots. ntfsinfo(8) - Show information about NTFS or one of the files or directories within it. ntfslabel(8) - Show, or set, an NTFS filesystem's volume label. ntfsls(8) - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS. ntfsresize(8) - Resize NTFS without losing data. ntfsundelete(8) - Recover deleted files from NTFS. |
Hi, after the last update (this morning) of my Debian Stable, neither mouse or keyboard works and I can't do anything! The only repositories that I had, were those of stable (main contrib non-free) BUT i'm using proprietary NVIDIA drivers (driver 285) Could anyone tell my how I can resolve this issue? Thanks a lot | I ve tried to boot in text only mode. I ve succeeded to remove NVIDIA driver and boot only with nouveau BUT mouse and keyboard still freezed! could be a GDM issue? how can i boot into another desktop manager ? EDIT: I ve also delete non-debian packages like samsung-tools and samsung-backlight. Now USB mouse works but keyboard remains unusable. EDIT2: I ve tryed also with XDM and the problem still the same... no keyboard on graphical environment. thanks a lot |
Hi, I am currently searching for a solution and can't seem to find it. I installed Boxee from a .deb and after trying it out decided to remove it via dpkg -r. The program un installed but left behind an entry in the menu under "sound and video." I am using lxde and can't figure out how to remove the entry. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Penny | Have a look inside the Boxee .deb to see where it puts it, or ask their devs, or use find or locate to find it. FWIW this sort of thing is one reason not to use software from outside the repo's. |
I've had a home server for quite some time now. Since about a week after release it's been running Debian Squeeze. I use it as my personal FTP, HTTP, SSH, and media server. I have Gnome installed because occasionally we do flip the television over to VGA and use it to watch a movie I've ripped from one of my millions of DVDs, or a home video, etc. Anyway, over the past week or so, it's been running unusually loud, and I've noticed that there's quite a bit of CPU usage from some processes. Normally, even when it starts to get dirty, it doesn't run this loud, and the CPU usage makes me think there's something going on, but I don't really see any suspicous processes. I was told that since DBUS is higher on the list, something could be sending a lot of traffic to DBUS, but I'm not certain what that could be. I've attached a screenshot of the top portion of my "top" running on the server right now. I'm going to take a look at my init scripts and make sure that nothing has been placed there. Screenshot | Gerowen wrote:Anyway, over the past week or so, it's been running unusually loud, and I've noticed that there's quite a bit of CPU usage from some processes. In all likelihood, these two problems are unrelated. You don't specify what sort of noise, but the two most common sources of noise are (a) worn out bearings in a case fan or (b) a hard drive that's about to fail. It'd be helpful if you could provide a teeeeeny bit more detail beyond "noisy." As for your CPU "issue," I'm not (necessarily) seeing it. Your top 7 processes are consuming barely 10% of your CPU, and unless your wasting CPU resources by running your NAS on some multi-core behemoth, 10% strikes as within acceptable limits. (Again, it would have been helpful if you'd taken a moment to include CPU spec in your initial post.) The only thing that seems even slightly "off" in your "top" report is the presence of several KDE processes in what you say in a GNOME machine. Yes, you can run KDE apps in GNOME and vice-versa, but doing so always consumes RAM and CPU cycles. |
I'm running an ecrypted setup. Because it's from another Linux install, I had to roll my own initramfs because the debian installer is wonky with existing encrypted setups. However, when my system boots, I get text saying: "Looking for /dev/crtypvg/..." "Looking for /dev/cryptvg/root..." "Enter passphrase: " What I'd like is for the first two lines to disappear. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you. | Find the script or binary responsible and edit / recompile to suit |
Running squeeze with iceweasel 3.5.16. Many websites have flashing text which is quite irritating. Not javascript related since I browse with that disabled. Back in the day firefox or mozilla had a parameter to turn that off but I can't find one in iceweasel. Something to do with playing animations and number of loops to play. | /* Put an end to blinking text! */ user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false); user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false); /* Disable image animation */ user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none"); The second one is the one you are thinking about. I have both in my user.js. Always freaks me out when I use Chrome and people's avatars in forums are animated, because I don't see them that way in Firefox. |
Code: Select allError mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so I get this error whenever I try to mount my thumb drive. Yeah pretty self explanatory, I need to figure out how to mount it. Any idea's? EDIT: It's in NTFS format | Type in terminal: su TYPE ROOT PASSWORD apt-get update apt-get install ntfs-3g mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt -o rw ls /mnt If not showing the contents of /dev/sdc1, type dmesg|tail and post what is shown. |
I'm running Debian Wheezy, and have GNOME 3 installed. The Network Manager doesn't detect the Wired Network. When I go to Network Settings, it has the Ethernet device there, but it's labeled "Unmanaged" and the Customize button is greyed out. Linux detects my device as ifconfig and lspci show: Code: Select all$ lspci | grep Ethernet 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) Code: Select all$ sudo ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:2d:be:7a:e2 inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::226:2dff:febe:7ae2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6292 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4086 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3605502 (3.4 MiB) TX bytes:735451 (718.2 KiB) Interrupt:42 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:286858 (280.1 KiB) TX bytes:286858 (280.1 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:f1:a1:59:37:e2 inet addr:192.168.1.107 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe59:37e2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:724329 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:748517 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:779746052 (743.6 MiB) TX bytes:96484479 (92.0 MiB) Some data is even going through eth0 somehow. | As root, edit Code: Select all/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf change managed=false to managed=true |
Greetings all- I've been trying out debian live and everything works flawlessly except I can't get an internet connection. ifconfig doesn't recognize my wired network or wireless router. What are some of the settings I need to look at to get things in working order? Thanks! | Posting the output of ifconfig would have been helpful. If you mean that it's only showing the loopback (lo) interface and no other interfaces are shown, then the problem is likely to be that a kernel module has not been loaded for the device. Post outputs Code: Select allifconfig Code: Select alllspci And if it's by any chance a USB wireless adaptor Code: Select alllsusb |
Out of nowhere my private key has stopped working. This was working till yesterday night and today morning when I tried to connect I am getting this error "Server refused our key" from putty. I haven't done any configuration changes to the system which could affect .ssh folder. | Is the server yours? They might have blacklisted any unknown key, or might have just lost all the saved keys by accident. GPG makes no mistakes as far as I've seen. |
I tried to do a NetInstall of Debian on my new built computer, but apparently the built in Ethernet uses non-free firmware. Currently have CrunchBang Linux installed instead. Anyway, when possible I'd really like to get Debian going on this machine. How should I proceed? Im going to take a stab at it and say the thing that would make my life the easiest would be to get a NIC that uses free firmware; sound about right? If so, recommendations? My machine has 1 available PCI slot and 1 available PCI-E x1 slot, I personally dont have a preference, but if going with a regular PCI card, it needs to be as low profile as possible as thats on the fan side of my massive video card. This one looks promising: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... llFullInfo Oh, and I use my Linux box for past paced online gaming, so please nothing that will slow down my gaming experience. Thanks for any help -Chris P | Cobalt60 wrote:Im going to take a stab at it and say the thing that would make my life the easiest would be to get a NIC that uses free firmware; sound about right? Or simply install the non-free firmware required by your NIC. (Assuming that your hunch is correct, that is.) |
Here's the rest of the error Message: Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUNT). The service might not be installed on the host computer. Details: Code: Select allResult Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005) Component: Host Interface: IHost {dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f} Callee: IMachine{5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91} I found other topics on this problem but I still can't seem to fix it. Without it fixed I can't attached my USB Printer to the Windows XP I have running in a Virtual Machine. So far I've tried adding myself to the vboxusers group but either that wasn't the problem or I did it wrong. Any suggestions? | Unless something has changed recently you need to use virtualbox from Oracle not the virtualbox-ose that is in the Debian repos. |
When I install Debian, with UK, or non US English, check spell completely disappears, now that I am typing this message in this forum, the check spell is not working at all , any way to fix this ? | Maybe, if we knew what the browser was that you are using. It's a known issue with Seamonkey/IceApe that those localizations are broken. |
When yahoo email's slide show is clicked, it just show a black screen, any idea what software or library can fix the problem, in Debian squeeze? | Most likely flash player http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
Hi, I installed the file manager xfe with synaptic and made changes that I cannot unchange, so I 'Mark for Complete Removal' with synaptic to remove it and then reinstalled again. However the changes are still there. Does this mean that config files were not uninstalled, and if so how do I get rid of the entire package so I can start again. | Would apt-get purge packagename do it? |
I'm trying to run a windows binary using Wine, but when I try to run it, wine tells me that it can't find the file. I'm explicitly calling the corret file name; I have no idea why this is happening. I've tried running it with the same directory, using ./TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE, and the full path, all with the same result. dagoss@MAGIC-PORT:~/software/games/toee$ ls install.iso TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE play.iso TOEE_USA_ANY-PATCH2.EXE dagoss@MAGIC-PORT:~/software/games/toee$ wine /home/dagoss/software/games/toee/TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/dagoss/software/games/toee', starting in the Windows directory. wine: cannot find '/home/dagoss/software/games/toee/TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE' dagoss@MAGIC-PORT:~/software/games/toee$ | dagoss wrote:Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory ... a clue. Try putting it somewhere in your virtual C drive. |
Last year's Christmas compo was rad! I decided to download it, and everything was conveniently zipped into an archive so I could just extract the tunes I liked . Unfortunatley for me, one of the composers had decided to use a few characters that cause problems for me, in the file name. Here's how they show up (hideous really): link - ones with the diamonds »mr. crap« Why a problem? Well, the thing is that I can't move, rename, delete, or even open the file because of the file name problem. I've solved this (I'm surprised I did) to a few files a long time ago, but I can't remember. Basically from what I remember, I typed in the name for some program, then entered the part of the file name that wasn't bad, and hit tab (which auto-completes without a problem :O ), then »home« to the start, replace the current program with »mv« and hit enter. But anyway that sounds a little »noobish« I'd like to know if there is a proper way to rename files like this. | I haven't tried this yet but could you use wildcards? For example: Code: Select allmv *mr. crap* mr._crap Whereas there is a space between mr. and crap you will likely have to escape the space with a "\" or put the entire file name in single quotes - '*mr. crap*' |
around last November I stopped using my Debian OS, (really pissed about gnome3 turning my desktop into a damned unconfigurable i-phone look'n thing), and when I get back to it I have some 500+ updates to get installed. now here is my problem; I keep getting these errors and it won't update Any of it because of them. How do I get my Debian back on track and updated? errors: Error message: Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 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Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -9_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -1_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -5_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -5_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -5_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -5_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... -1_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found | So if you don't like change, run stable. |
I made a post that for some reason the admins decided to take down. SOPA is in effect. ANYWAYS, I was getting this error: Could not open location 'file:///home/username/place no application is registered as handling this file If you have this error and none of the other BS worked like uninstalling then reinstalling nautilus or metacity or messing around with ' mime ' or you don't have the ' open with ' tab option under your home folder properties, then do this and it is very important you follow these steps: Open up a terminal and type in ' nautilus ' *DO NOT USE alt + F2, the run command line The reason being you won't get the icons for your hardware and you could use the run command line but for the mentally challenged such as myself just do it this way it's simpler to explain. When nautilus pops up you should see icons of your hard drive, CD drive and whatever other hardware you have. Right click on the ' file system ' icon NOTE* If you don't know it's your hard drive where all of your crap is stored. Go to properties and there you should see the ' open with ' tab click on ' Add ' NOTE* If you have an old machine be patient it is loading all of the possible open with options that are installed scroll down until you see ' Open Folder ' select it then click ' Add ' and close out of everything. Now you should be able to open your places folders in gnome panel or whatever else issue you where having with the places folders. Have a nice day. -Bryan | BryanR87 wrote:I made a post that for some reason the admins decided to take down. SOPA is in effect. I saw your earlier post, and it was nothing more than a profanity-laden rant. You should not be in the least surprised that it was removed. |
Hi all, I have been hitting a kinda wall while trying to understand mercurial. I am/was trying to clone the hg repo of sumwars and this is what I get :- Code: Select all$ hg clone -v https://bitbucket.org/sumwars/sumwars-code destination directory: sumwars-code requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes while the bandwidth seems to indicate that something is moving, no idea what Using another tab in terminal and trying to see the if anything has landed in hg gives me nothing. ~/games/sumwars-code$ ls ~/games/sumwars-code$ After sometime the download kinda stops, nothing happens If anybody has any tips would be appreciative. I would like to have something similar to what git does . I did try making the file .hgrc but I got this parse error :- Code: Select all $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/sumwars/sumwars-code hg: parse error at /home/shirish/.hgrc:7: verbose = True This is what I had put in .hgrc file :- Code: Select all$ cat .hgrc ### --- User interface [ui] ### show changed files and be a bit more verbose if True verbose = True Looking forward for any infos. and any queries so that my hg is good. | The ouput of your clone command seems incomplete, wait until it completes. Then you'll see a .hg (hidden) directory in your current directory. Use 'hg up' to get a working directory. |
Hey there! I tried to upgrade my personal server for the first time in a while (about a year) but it didn't succeed. dpkg throws me an error about unable to move /usr/bin/find when installing the findutils upgrade. Now I notice that /usr/bin/find has user 122 an group 114 (deleted user/group?) and it cannot be moved/removed/chowned/chmoded by root. Root filesystem, in which the directory /usr/bin/ is, is read-write enabled (regular hard disk drive). Just in case, I created a test user (find_user) and modified /etc/passwd so it had UID 122. Then, logged as find_user and tried to remove /usr/bin/find with no success. My problem is I cannot dist-upgrade the system and I think it's related to that permission oddity with /usr/bin/find and my inability to modify it. Any suggestions or ideas? I really wont like to make a clean install. Some random information: /etc/debian_version: 6.0.3 it fails upgrading findutils from 4.4.2-1 to 4.4.2-1+b1 /etc/fstab: ROOT_PARTITION_UUID / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 ls -la /usr/bin/find: -rwxr-xr-x 1 122 114 59536 Jun 6 2009 /usr/bin/find dpkg error: (Reading database ... 85365 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace findutils 4.4.2-1 (using .../findutils_4.4.2-1+b1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement findutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/findutils_4.4.2-1+b1_i386.deb (--install): unable to make backup link of `./usr/bin/find' before installing new version: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/findutils_4.4.2-1+b1_i386.deb | Can you run a live cd such as knoppix and from there modify the permissions on /usr/bin/find? |
Today I go to youtube and it wants flash plugin updated. Says its out of date. How is this done in Debian? running Debian 6 64bit | http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer |
Hi all, Does anybody know how files, media files or otherwise which end up with some number can be extracted ? Gnome split is the answer. | http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
Hi, I run Debian Wheezy on 4 home computers which I changed from from 'linux-headers-2.6.39-2-486' to 'linux-headers-3.0.0-1-686-pae' In each case installing the new headers worked well. On two other computers I have tried it however on those two computers the grub boot window still only shows the 2.6.39-2-486 version. The only difference between the ones that worked and the two that didn't work is that with the successful ones I have Gnome desktop and the ones that failed have Xfce decktop. I have a limited understanding of these things and can't see why the desktop enviroment would make a difference. Any advice is appreciated. | Just do (as root) Code: Select allapt-get install linux-headers-686-pae linux-image-686-pae |
I don't know where to ask so here I am. I am running 64 bit v6. I've come back to Linux because I am tired of arguing with computers. I think Debian is just about where an OS should be except with this one frustrating feature, Cursors that decides to highlight what it wants, not what I scrolled over. I remember back with Red Hat 2, this was not an issue. Here is an example: I click to highlight and pull the cursor to the right, yet the cursor highlighted to the left. Another example is I like the cursor to set left of a character, not to the right. These may be minor issues to some, but with all the meds the drs. make me take, I have to focus carefully to do things and having things such as the cursor anticipating my intent (always wrong) I have stop what I am doing and undo what the auto features decided to do. Part of a fix is < z/ > I like what I am seeing here and of all things I have adjusted, this one is beyond me because I do not know what to call this problem so about 90 days of searching has been to no avail. If someone knows, or thinks they know I'd like to hear some ideas to turn off this feature. Thanks in advance for efforts here. | Bump. Come on guys, waiting two months and finding this question from me on Google tells me folks want to know the answer besides me. I just want to turn off the auto features of the cursor so that it does not automatically highlight words. I don't even know what to call it. I see some pretty dumb questions being asked and answered. Throw an old man a bone, at least. |
Hi all, Just putting up the post as it took me quite sometime to figure out how to associate between filetypes and associations. http://lwn.net/Articles/390679/ Especially the bit about either changing the values in/at /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list or better yet at "$HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list" If anybody has better idea/s or suggestions to add to it they are more than welcome. Just a newbie | From the command-line you can use xdg-mime |
Attached is the return of iceweasel 9.0.1 from some sites. The site in question here is gnome-look.org. Has anyone experienced this? I don't believe this is an iceweasel issue per se because nightly gives me the same display. Iceweasel 9.0.1 on Sid. image upload | On iceweasel, click View > Page Style. It looks like no style is set. |
Hi, I'm trying to install the last fartrat version from source. When i run cmake it says that I have no libcurl: Code: Select all-- checking for module 'libcurl >= 7.18.2' -- package 'libcurl >= 7.18.2' not found CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:266 (message): A required package was not found Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:320 (_pkg_check_modules_internal) CMakeLists.txt:116 (pkg_check_modules) FATAR_ERRORNo libcurl found -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! but i have libcurl 7.21.0-2 installed! Do you know how to fix it? | Do you have libcurl-dev installed? |
These are my problems. I can't boot into my desktop at all. A lot went wrong with the upgrade to Wheezy from Squeeze. However my big issue is this. I created two encrypted HD's with the Debian Squeeze Disk utility. However I can't decrypt them on another install I did of Debian on another hard drive. Now I can still access my old Debian install, it boots me into the command line. So I need to know what to do to decrypt those two hard drives from the command line. Or maybe what I need to back up so I can access them on other Debian installs? | This is annoying me. Next time I am only going to use truecypt. This is insane. |
I'm installing Debian 6.0.3 as a server. At the end of the installation process the system reboots and I must login. I try to login as root. However the system does not except my password. I get message: Authentication failure. Login as normal user is ok. So, I did a new install and paid extra attention to my password. However the same result. Again I can't login. (my password for root and user are the same. but I've always done that and it always worded fine) | I think, your problem has to do with the fact that you have identical root and user password. Try to create another user as root and choose another password. |
Hi guys...Excuse me if i'm posting in the wrong category and for my potential spelling mistakes I have debian 6 squeeze and windows 7 and today i realized that i am running out of memory so i decided to increase my partition size with gparted...In the middle of the procedure my pc accidentaly shutdown and when i restarted it i got the grub error message.. I tried to re-install grub from the dvd but honestly i got really confused..So i installed the windows boot loader..Debian is not listed at the windows boot loader 1) Is it posible that i lost all my debian data because of the unsuccessful termination of the resizing procedure? How can i test it? 2) How can i restore grub? Please give me a detailed explanation... Thank you | 7kostas7 wrote:1) Is it posible that i lost all my debian data because of the unsuccessful termination of the resizing procedure? How can i test it? Can you boot Live Debian DVD? Live Debian DVD can be downloaded from http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Boot with Live Debian DVD, and open Gparted, then you can check. 7kostas7 wrote:2) How can i restore grub? Please give me a detailed explanation... Boot with Live Debian DVD, and open terminal. Code: Select allsudo su blkid will give you information on the partitions. Please find the partition where debian had been installed before you changed partition configuration and confirm the device file name of it, for example, /dev/sda6. Execute the following if the device file name of the debian partition is /dev/sda6: Code: Select allmount -t auto /dev/sda6 /mnt -o rw grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda unless /boot partition is separated from / partition of debian. |
I've get an error message when boot to my Debian Squeeze. The message look like below: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated....[ 7.361437] ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c20-0x1c3f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c20-0x1c2f] I've try googling and find similiar problem, but with different hexa number and region. ( [0x400-0x41f] conflicts with ACPI region SMRG [0x400-0x40f]) in other forum. On that forum said, just ignore the warning. But when I try running "dmesg" I found line like below: [ 6.856477] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF] [ 6.857147] ACPI: SSDT 7f6d2308 000C8 (v01 PmRef Cpu1Ist 00003000 INTL 20050624) [ 6.857470] ACPI: SSDT 7f6d2009 00085 (v01 PmRef Cpu1Cst 00003000 INTL 20050624) [ 6.858563] Switching to clocksource hpet [ 6.859671] processor LNXCPU:01: registered as cooling_device1 [ 6.889733] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras [ 6.926477] acer-wmi: Brightness must be controlled by generic video driver [ 7.086868] tifm_7xx1 0000:0f:06.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 [ 7.360484] NET: Registered protocol family 23 [ 7.361431] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT C -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 7.361437] ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c20-0x1c3f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c20-0x1c2f] [ 7.361503] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [ 7.601750] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info [ 7.601753] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US [ 7.601755] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 7.601758] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm) [ 7.601760] (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 7.601763] (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 7.601766] (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 7.601768] (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 7.601771] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm) [ 7.601777] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US Under the warning message, there's suggestion using driver for this device instead of the native driver. But I didn't know, what device it is??? Should I just ignore this warning?? or is there any other solutions for this problem? Thanks in advance and sorry about my poor English. | I would not worry about it (much) unless you notice real problems. I will dig around though. edit: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... bi-840848/ |
Recently I had to do a full an clean install after this happened. I'm not really complaining, now that the systems cleaner that it was before . But I've been having some problems with some software since the install. I had ibus installed with »ibus-m17n« installed as well, since I need all those input methods. For some reason, none of the m17n input methods appear in the IM selection part othe ibus-preferences. I've tried se4arching on google to no avail, and have looked throug the manpages, tried purging and installing ibus again and again. Is there something that I have missed? As far as I can remember, all I did was just install ibus and ibus-m17n in my previous install. If, I have missed something please give me a slap on the head, and show me the right direction. Thank you for any replies. | I have ibus-table, ibus-array,ibus-qt4, python-ibus, libibus-qt1, libibus2 and im-config. I believe table and array are both needed to in-put Chinese, but I do not know if the other packages are also dependencies for Chinese in-put. From your location, I assume you in-put Indian scripts. I just checked the list of IBus packages and did not see anything specific for Indian in-put. Perhaps install array and table and see if they help. |
I was experimenting a little with .deb packages and wanted to see if I could manually build a package with tar, gzip, and ar. Well.... it didn't install. So I created a package with dpkg to compare it with. Command using dpkg: Code: Select all$ fakeroot dpkg -b blarg blarg_0.1_all.deb Commands using tar, gzip, and ar: Code: Select all$ tar -cf data.tar ./usr $ gzip data.tar $ tar -cf control.tar ./control $ gzip control.tar $ ar rcs blarg_0.1_all.deb data.tar.gz control.tar.gz debian-binary So now I have two .deb packages called blarg_0.1_all.deb. They both have identical content, but the one built with ar does not install. I read that a .deb is an ar package. But dpkg must do something more. Does anyone want to let me in on the secret? Here are the contents of the two packages: dpkg: control.tar.gz ./control data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/blarg debian-binary ar: control.tar.gz ./control data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/blarg debian-binary Here is the error that comes up when I try to install the ar package: Code: Select alldpkg-deb: file `blarg_0.1_all.deb' is not a debian binary archive (try dpkg-split?) dpkg: error processing blarg_0.1_all.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: blarg_0.1_all.deb Edit: I just found this article, it looks like it is not possible to create a working deb this way: http://wilmer.gaast.net/blog/archives/3 ... t-....html | Deluge wrote: Edit: I just found this article, it looks like it is not possible to create a working deb this way Or is it? |
Dear All, I hope that this is not too off topic. I am toying with different browsers, though...I often come back to good old iceweasel . I have recently tried my hands at opera 11.6 and I liked it. However, it looks like I cannot access certain websites (mainly needed for ebanking). For instance, the following site http://bit.ly/sUeiBt I suppose that the problem is that the browser (opera) is not a supported one http://bit.ly/tfKVCn but I wonder if this is a real problem or not (I mean: opera does not work on this site for some technical reasons, or simply the site is refusing to work with opera because...it is not iceweal?). Is there any way to trick the site into believing that opera is iceweasel or internet explorer? Many thanks larry77 | I think under the preferences somewhere you can choose an alternate user agent string. This tutorial may be out of date but I remember it being something like this: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-sp ... nt-string/ Edit: Not saying this will work; but it may. Edit edit: Yes, it is probably they just dont support Opera. I doubt there is a real technical reason. |
Hi! I've been using Debian (Testing) for some months, and I've just realized that the available free space in folder /tmp (about 780 Mb) is far inferior to the available free space on the root partition (about 42 Go). Folder /tmp is physically on the root partition (/dev/sda2). There are three physical partitions on my HDD (swap, / and /home), and there is no use of tmpfs in fstab. My questions are: 1) why is it so? and 2) how can I increase the size of folder /tmp? Thanks for your answers! | For information, here is the result of command "df -h" Sys. fich. Taille Util. Dispo Uti% Monté sur /dev/sda2 50G 5,3G 42G 12% / tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs 396M 748K 396M 1% /run tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 792M 504K 792M 1% /tmp udev 2,0G 0 2,0G 0% /dev tmpfs 792M 568K 792M 1% /run/shm /dev/sda3 1,3T 511G 741G 41% /home /dev/sdb1 231G 217G 2,3G 99% /mnt/HDD2 |
After upgrading how to do remove the older items from the grub menu. Thanks! | Uninstall the older kernels |
I am using Debian 6 64bit with Xfce 4.6. I have download and install the latest Skype ver 2.2.0.35 (Beta) and my webcam is Logitech c170. Everything works fine except that the other party couldn't see me on my webcam. Cheese and Guvcview works fine. Has anybody face similar problem? Is there anyway I could fix this? Appreciate if anyone can guide me step by step in solving this problem. Thanks! | Hey I know you. All I could find was help specific to the windows skype: https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA1 ... -my-webcam https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA3 ... -correctly I have a similar issue where my built in webcam is upside down in skype (it is actually installed in the laptop upside down for some reason). Cheese uses it correctly though. I am not sure how skype access the webcam.. Perhaps it uses v4l? If we could find out for sure there might be a v4l driver or etc for the device. I would say the best solution is find an external usb webcam that you are sure would work. |
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