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Hi all, I was looking at my apt-get keys (with APT Key Manager) and, besides the usual keys: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny), valid until 2012-13-31 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze), valid until 2018-03-05 Devian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny), valid until 2013-01-23 Lenny Stable Release Key, valid until 2012-05-15 Squeeze Stable Release Key, valid until 2017-08-05 I have this one: live-helper local packages key, no expiration I am using Debian Squeeze from an original live-dvd installation; is the last key normal or should I remove it? Thanks! | Did you install live-helper for any reason? Here! Try doing a 'dpkg -l |grep live-helper' to see if its installed. You can also use dbbolton's reverse dependency script to show which installed packages required live-helper -- here. |
I am running Debian squeeze and I am trying to install hplip-3.10.5 so I can use my new HP Photosmart C4750 printer. I downloaded the automatic installer and ran it and it gave me the following error message: RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES ------------------------ error: A required dependency 'cups-image (CUPS image - CUPS image development files)' is still missing. error: Installation cannot continue without this dependency. error: Please manually install this dependency and re-run this installer. So I ran apt-get install cups-image and got the following: raygo75@RayGo1:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install cups-image Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package cups-image does the package "cups-image" exist? and if it does were can I find it. I have looked to no avail. I have posted a question on hplip seeing as that is were I got the script from. Any help is appreciated. | aptitude install hplip hplip-data and if you want the gui hplip-gui, but i don't know if your printer is supported. |
Trying to upgrade the following packages in Squeeze: apt apt-utils aptitude libept1 python-apt synaptic The output terminal gets hung up with this message: Code: Select allWARNING: terminal is not fully functional /tmp/tmp9PEsnI (press RETURN) After pressing RETURN: Code: Select allapt (0.7.26-exp3) experimental; urgency=low * apt-ftparchive now reads the standard configuration files in /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d -- Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:34:16 +0100 /tmp/tmp9PEsnI (END) Nothing else happens. I used ctrl+c to get out of the terminal. Nothing gets upgraded. Then tried apt-get update, then: Code: Select all# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: apt apt-utils aptitude libept1 python-apt synaptic 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. After doing a few web searches, I ran apt-get autoremove, then: Code: Select all# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libept0 The following packages will be upgraded: apt apt-utils aptitude libept1 python-apt synaptic 6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8,997kB of archives. After this operation, 1,896kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? If I answer "y" I get stuck with this in the terminal: Code: Select allapt (0.7.26~exp3) experimental; urgency=low * apt-ftparchive now reads the standard configuration files in /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. -- Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:34:16 +0100 /tmp/tmpyY02wo {END) Any suggestions on how to proceed? | Same issue here, I recommend waiting a few days until apt, libept0, et. al., are fixed. When they are fixed apt-get update will update these files. |
This follows on from; http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 16#p319016 which dealt mainly with xserver and gdm, I hope I'm not in error starting a new topic. After a recent update of Squeeze I could no longer get to the login screen. I get past the grub screen to dark screen where all the information is scrolling past and then just a blank screen appears, I'm sure all is working fine behind the blank screen as the wifi indicator light behaves normally and tells me that connection has been made. I decided to do a reinstall using a daily build netinst (Sept 2) thinking that would solve the issue and I was surprised to find the problem exists. Could it be a video driver clash? Acer Aspire 5738 ATI Radeon HD 4570 Don't know if it is relevant however I multi boot with Ubuntu and windows and all is good with the screen. | Solved; /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf and change options radeon modeset=1 to options radeon modeset=0 which turns KMS off. Reboot. From; http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... te#p308356 |
Hey Debian Users. Im currently installing debian on my old server, its a 64bit computer, so i've downloaded the amd64 for this project. But under the Basis Installation, of this cd image, im getting a debootstrap warning every time i want to continue the installation, the last warning i remember was something coreutils_6.10-6_amd64.deb (Something like that, not totaly sure), and im lost, can't find anything closely related to the subject. Anyone that can help? Would be greath if a Dane could help me out, and explain to me what im doing wrong. But ill thank anyone that can help. | What version of Debian? What Debian cd image? What is your processor? |
Hi, I'm using Squeeze and am changing from Ice Weasel to Epiphany 2.30.2 however I cannot view Youtube videos. I have read many topics yet nothing seems conclusive. Most comments are about HTML5tube which I have activated yet still no Youtube. Does anyone have a anwser to this issue? | Have you installed Flash Player? |
My desktop Debian Lenny installation is crashed. And I need to gain access to home directory! Partition is logical volume. I put HDD in a External HDD case and connected with my notebook (Debian Lenny) using USB. Please help, Thank You. | When you connect an external USB harddisk to a Debian computer it will usually be automounted. If it requires a password you have the option to provide a password. How was the disk partitioned? How many volume groups? How many logical volumes? When you say the installation 'crashed', exactly what do you mean? It won't boot, it will boot but not mount /, or not mount /home? If you have only one hard disk it may be /dev/sdb, in which case Code: Select allmount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt replace ext3 with another filesystem if different. It might have been easier to use a Lenny installation CD as a rescue disk on the crashed system. Boot from the installation disk, select "rescue" and then you have a choice of mounting any partitions manually and accessing data which can then be backed up to an external device, or, perhaps the problem can be fixed. Look at the log files for hints about what the problem is. |
I just noticed that my ClamAV is too old, and it will no longer start: Code: Select allStarting ClamAV daemon: clamd LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq *** LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** LibClamAV Error: cli_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: This ClamAV version has reached End of Life! Please upgrade to version 0.95 or later. For more information see www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094 and www.clamav.net/download (length: 169) LibClamAV Error: Problem parsing database at line 740 LibClamAV Error: Can't load daily.ndb: Malformed database LibClamAV Error: cli_tgzload: Can't load daily.ndb LibClamAV Error: Can't load /var/lib/clamav/daily.cld: Malformed database ERROR: Malformed database failed! Problem is, that there is no newer version for Debian Lenny. I did my aptitude-update and aptitude safe-upgrade, but nothing newer is available. I want to stay within stable (cuz it is a production server). What am I to do? Thanks! G | Do you have volatile in your /etc/apt/sources.list? eg: Code: Select alldeb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main |
Hi folks, Debian 504 64-bit How to create ISO image from .bin and .cue files? TIA B.R. satimis | hmm, been a while, but have you tried bchunk ? Code: Select allapt-get install bchunk should install it. then run Code: Select allbchunk IMAGE.bin IMAGE.cue IMAGE.iso give it a go & see if it helps |
To make a long story short, i made a mistake and left an experimental source open and did a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Got distracted during the process and lost a few programs. Looks like part of apt is missing, and synaptic is also missing. Tried to install synaptic and this is what I got. Code: Select all root@debian:/home/warren# apt-get install synaptic 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: synaptic : Depends: libapt-inst-libc6.9-6-1.1 but it is not installable Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 but it is not installable Depends: libept1 but it is not going to be installed Recommends: software-properties-gtk but it is not going to be installed Recommends: apt-xapian-index but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Warren | may be a silly question - did you comment out the experimental repo before you tried to reinstall synaptic? maybe try Code: Select all$apt-get install -f to solve the missing dependencies |
I have installed Debian on My Macbook Pro. I want to be able to write to the HFS+ partition. I have disabled journaling on the HFS+ partion. I have the following in my fstab Code: Select all/dev/sda2 /mnt/mac/ hfsplus defaults,force 0 2 but it still mounts as read-only | This is very old and maybe obsolete. In fact I cringe when looking at it but post it warts an all. That said it may give you some clues. I also know now debian can read and write to hfs+ but I did not do it my self at the time, and no longer use OSX. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php Anyway this is what I did when I had OSX on a dual boot. Ignore all the extra Linux native and swap partitions. I was trying to figure out dual boot with as many other PPC distros as I could at the time. oswaldkelso January 9th, 2008, 09:47 PM What am I doing wrong? This is how I do it from my notes. How to read and write to osx patrition from debian (and probably ubuntu) The way I did this was create a user on my Debian system with the same user name and password as the user on my osx partition. I can now read all that user data. I can also write to the osx partition. If your osx partition is formatted as hfs you can read and write to it. The standard mac file system is hfs+(plus) To change your mac file system to hfs from hfsplus (journaled) Start your computer from a install disk or another mac partition and using the disk utility change the file system with cmd- j Note: If using a disk as soon as the install disk has started select top left icon - disk utilities then change file system with cmd-j its easy to miss this. Exit out and restart osx, in osx I select the hd icon and select cmd-i, this will give you imformation on the drive. goto ownership and permissions the sections are: you can - owner - access and group - access and others. change these setting, put read & write to the users and groups you require then click applly to enclosed items. Back in debian/ubuntu open a terminal create a mount point. code: mkdir /media/emac1 to mount that partition manually code: mount /dev/hda9 /media/emac1 -t hfsplus code: mkdir /media/emac2 to mount that partition manually code: mount /dev/hda10 /media/emac2 -t hfsplus NOTE: I have 2 mac partitions called emac1 and emac2 change the names to the names of your partitions. Also my partitions are mounted at hda9 and hda10 to find out where your partitions are in a terminal type. CODE: $ df -h this is what was shown on my system g5@debian1333:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda17 6.5G 4.3G 1.9G 71% / tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda19 20G 19G 705M 97% /home /dev/hda10 30G 22M 30G 1% /media/emac2 /dev/hda9 101G 72G 30G 71% /media/emac1 /dev/hdc 4.4G 4.4G 0 100% /media/cdrom0 .................................................. .................................................. .................... to list the file systems as root # fdisk -l be careful with fdisk as you can deleat your system with it. read man fdisk this is what was shown on my system you can see my partition names for hfs at dev/hda9 and dev/hda10 debian1333:/home/g5# fdisk -l fdisk: Symbol `sys_errlist' has different size in shared object, onsider re-linking /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda9 Apple_HFS mac1 210682256 @ 1824 (100.5G) HFS /dev/hda10 Apple_HFS mac2 62914560 @ 210684080 ( 30.0G) HFS /dev/hda11 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 331180673 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 etchr1 13671876 @ 331182627 ( 6.5G) Linux native /dev/hda13 Apple_HFS untitled 1954 @ 273598640 (977.0k) HFS /dev/hda14 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2337891 @ 344854503 ( 1.1G) Linux swap /dev/hda15 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 etchh1 51104694 @ 347192394 ( 24.4G) Linux native /dev/hda16 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 273600594 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda17 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root2 13671876 @ 273602548 ( 6.5G) Linux native /dev/hda18 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1951172 @ 287274424 (952.7M) Linux swap /dev/hda19 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home2 41955077 @ 289225596 ( 20.0G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=398297088 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1 2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff 3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701 4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff /dev/hdc # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hdc2 Apple_HFS DiscRecording 3.1.3f2 9064484 @ 1160 ( 4.3G) HFS Block size=2048, Number of Blocks=2266121 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................................... Then i added them to my fstab file (the last 2 lines) so they were there on boot. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda17 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda19 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda18 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda9 /media/emac1 hfsplus user,noauto,rw 0 0 /dev/hda10 /media/emac2 hfsplus user,noauto,rw 0 0 .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .............................. Note : even though I changed from hfsplus to hfs I have not changed my fstab file as "if it aint broke dont fix it" i.e. its been working fine so I left it. Done. EDIT: I just noticed an Error in my notes the command is df -h not du -h I 'll go change my notes!!! g5@debian1333:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda17 6.5G 4.8G 1.4G 79% / tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda19 20G 11G 7.9G 58% /home /dev/sda1 110M 110M 0 100% /media/sda1 /dev/hda9 101G 85G 16G 85% /media/emac1 /dev/hda10 30G 29G 1.1G 97% /media/emac2 g5@debian1333:~$ __________________ |
Hi, all! I've heard a lot of talk about people running 'Testing' as a rolling release version of Debian. As I have a spare box to play with, I wanted to see what this was like. I've done a minimal install of Squeeze and had a look at /etc/apt/sources.list. As I would expect, the file refers to Squeeze and not 'testing' (I think Woody used to go for stable/ testing etc, but this then got changed). In order to run 'Testing', can I just replace the Squeeze references and do: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade? Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Chris. | Yes, just replace all instances of 'Squeeze' with 'Testing'. Nothing will change at present, because Squeeze = Testing, but when Squeeze goes stable you will stay on Testing. That's what I've been doing for years, and I do a full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade) every day. |
hi I tried to upgrade and install the linux sources but get the following error messages. Any suggestions?? thanks apt-get install linux-source-2.6.26 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-source-2.6.26 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/48.8MB of archives. After this operation, 48.9MB of additional disk space will be used. E: Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-24lenny1_all.deb - open (62 Timer expired) E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9 Bad file descriptor) E: Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-24lenny1_all.deb debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor dpkg-split: unable to read part file `/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-24lenny1_all.deb': Timer expired dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-24lenny1_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-24lenny1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | Does /var/cache/apt/archives exist? Are the permissions correct? It could also be a filesystem problem. Maybe you need to run fsck on it... Whilst you're there, check df as well to make sure that you have enough free space... James |
Hi, all! Had a bit of a partition nightmare during an install, involving my home directory. My partitioning looks like this and my install is still completing: sda1=/boot sda2=/ sda3=swap sda4=/home My old home partition and data is located in a partition that I preserved, called /homebak and is on sdb. Once my install is complete, what is the best way to move the data from /sdb1 (homebak) to my newly created /home? For the record, I tried to copy the partition during set-up, but something wasn't happy. Any help appreciated. I've got my important files backed-up, but would prefer not to lose about 5 gigs of music and video. Cheers, Chris. | You say "Once the install is complete". So do we assume it is complete and everything works? So the problem is that you need to transfer a large volume of personal files from sdb to sda? Question: Is sdb a permanent second HD or is it a plug-in USB device? Can we assume that sdb is in a file format that a Linux distro such as Debian can read? If sdb is a permanent HD then you should be able to mount it to your sda4 /home partition. In fact I regularly do this because I run several Linux distros. My "home" partition in each case is small because it contains only the configuration files for that distribution. My personal files sit on their own partition. This works very well for me and it might work very well for you. If sdb is a USB HD that might or might not be mounted, then you probably do need to copy over those files. If you have the room think about creating a data partition such as I suggest above.. Copy over to the data partition and then mount the data partition to your home directory. Whatever you decide something like rsync ought to do it and it works with several different GUI front-ends if you prefer that. A search in the repos ought to turn up some good candidates for this task. Here is a site I have found useful on this question: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/backup.htm It goes without saying that here are some very bright people on this forum so wait a bit and compare answers! |
Hello. I set up an FTP server with two separate directories. One of them is mine, and the other one is shared (for anonymous ftp). The layout is like this. /home/hallvor <---- this is my ftp directory where I keep my private files. I am the only user. /home/ftp <---- this is the shared ftp directory with anonymous login. Whenever I transfer files from my ftp directory to the public /home/ftp, I would like to: prevent anonymous users from deleting files in /home/ftp or uploading their own files to that directory (read only) What permissions must I set? I think this is all a bit confusing. I tried to chmod /home/ftp to 644 and change ownership to root, but that made it impossible to even log on anonymously. Sorry to bother you, but the tutorials on this issue on the web are a bit over my head. | Thanks. I use proftpd on a lenny server. The anonymous users are already "jailed" in /home/ftp and have no access to other directories. All I need is to prevent them from uploading or deleting files on /home/ftp I`m off to bed, but I`ll try your suggestion tomorrow. |
Hey guys, I got debian testing and I want to upgrade to sid. So far this is how my source list looks. Code: Select all### Official Debian Sid Repository ### deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ experimental main deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ experimental main ## Multimedia deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main Am I missing any repos that I should have? | looks good. You may want to add non-free to the DMM line You must be close, York U is just up the street from me. |
I was just trying to get the now playing for banshee to show on conky but the way I was going to do it required me to make a wrapper for banshee.sh but I can't seem to find it or it doesn't exist. Help please. Ignore this thread I'm an idiot. | Well said. |
No matter what I try I just cant get cron working for me on my Squeeze setup I can type /usr/bin/soffice and openoffice will fire up no problem but put into a crontab and nothing for instance just to test if crontab is working I have this */5 * * * * /usr/bin/soffice In my user crontab but nothing happens I have run as root crontab -u djt crontab And after editing the crontab with crontab -e it says it is installing crontab but it just does nothing Unfortunately I am connected to my works network so unable to receive internal mail from cron so cant find any reason for it not working Any help would be appreciated | What are you trying to do? Cron and Crontab usage and examples http://www.pantz.org/software/cron/croninfo.html Command scheduling with cron http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/56 |
I followed this guide for my Acer Aspire One A150, and got wireless and suspend working fine: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne#SuspendtoRAM The only problem is that wireless is dead after resuming from suspend. I have to type: Code: Select all/etc/init.d/networking restart and after that everything works just fine and I get internet again. Is there a way to automate that process on resuming from suspend, so that I won`t have to type it manually each time? | I run Debian Lenny, so I`ll try grabbing it from backports and let you know how it goes. By the way, typing /etc/init.d/networking restart dows not always work. The LED stops blinking after resume from suspend and I am unable to connect to anything. Edit: Installed Wicd, got a connection, put it on suspend and back on. This time it still couldn`t get a new connection. But by disconnecting and connecting again from the Wicd GUI it got back up. It is not optimal, but it is faster than rebooting. |
Hey, whenever me, or someone I'm calling accept a call, the window that shows sound inputs and is for call closes. Then I can see a message in chat window: The call has been terminated. What should I do? Your help would be greatly appreciated. | Hey AMLJ! I do not really understand what your problem is! Which protocoll are you using? Skype? I think pidgin can not really handle the phone-application of that protocol. You can just chat with it. Maybe start pidgin in the terminal and check for error-messages. Or do you meant, that you can not choose an input device for mic? That would be no problem with pidgin! Pidgin uses the standard device of your system. Maybe your sound-card is not recognized correctly or some options (mic) are switched off.... Please give more detailed descriptions of your problem to get help. Otherwise most people would not answer! wkr Iorek |
I recently installed SLiM and wanted to give it a try. I found out that XDM actually loads a bit faster on my machine, so I'm going to stick with it. I uninstalled SLiM, leaving XDM the only login manager on my system, but how can I change it back to the default? When my system boots up, I get the default console login. | xdm is limited but I think is the faster you can get. First, just in case, purge the slim files (if you only removed and not purged it - you can purge them by searching for files with residual config in Synaptic's filters). Then maybe you could try to reinstall xdm to see if it gets automatically detected again. There may be a more technical solution for this but I don't know. |
Upon booting, I am receiving a message about a driver, I am not sure what it is and it runs perfectly fine the way it is, but I would like to investigate the reason. Code: Select allThis (id 10ec :8319 rev 10) is not an 8139c+ compatible chip Try the 8139too driver instead It's something along those lines. It happens at the very beginning of boot, before bootlogd kicks in, or else I would have the entire lines. I had to Ctl+F1 to see that. I do not believe it is anything harmful, but I have no idea what it is and would like to find out more. Anyone have any suggestions? | I think the issue is that some 8139 chips require the 8139cp module and some require the 8139too module....but they do not do a good job of identifying which they really need. So it is probably just a hint to use the other one if the one that is being loaded doesn't work....or something similar. I cannot imagine it to be anything harmful |
I am trying to reset the root password of Squeeze so that I may be able to update. Unfortunately, I forgot it. I have followed the howto Reset Root Password without success. I am getting a root prompt but for some weird reason the root commands are not found. When I type passwd, I get, "command not found". Moreover, If I try reboot and shutdown -h now, both fail. | That looks like you're still logged as an unprivileged user. There's someone with a similar problem in antiX's forum and he has received some advice: http://antix.freeforums.org/no-root-pas ... t2589.html |
I previously made a question about this and there was an Ubuntu deb package that you could download from Truecrypt's website. But there's no longer any deb packages there's only a .tar package containing a .sh script. When I run the script and install it says that I'm missing these two things. How can I download these two packages using aptitude? Requirements Truecrypt - FUSE library and tools - device mapper tools | Code: Select allaptitude install fuse-utils libdevmapper I'm sure about the first package, but the second one is a guess, based on the output of "aptitude search mapper". You may or may not need to specify the version. In Squeeze, the actual package name that is installed on my system is libdevmapper1.02.1, but if you're running Lenny, use the version you see listed in the search results. |
I had to boot into my Windows 7 install on my laptop for the first time in a few months and I noticed that the Windows clock was 4 hours ahead. Windows sync'd its time with the internet, then I booted back into Debian (Lenny) and my clock was now 4 hours behind. Both OS's are set to the same time zone (EDT). The minutes were correct in both systems. Could the fact that EDT is UTC-0400 be relevant? Any ideas as to what could explain this sort of behavior? Thanks in advance. | This probably has to do with whether the hardware clock is set to UTC or not. Linux allows you to set the software for either hardware setting. I am not sure but I think Windows assumes it is set to local time. For dual boot they have to agree, so if you can not tell Windows that the clock is set to UTC you will need to configure Debian to use the clock set to local time. |
I've an old HP Deskjet 672c that has worked for years. Some time ago, more then a year, it started mysteriously printing every Sunday morning early in the am. Luckey for me the paper feeder has not worked properly for years, otherwise on these Sunday morning printing events it would just print a whole ream of nothing. To stop this nonsense, a reboot would fix it. Round 'bout a month ago, rebooting on Sundays stopped fixing this mysterious printing event. Every time I start the prinnter, it just wants to print off a whole ream of paper with nothing on it. On a test install, I added cups & configured the printer, and it works fine. So I thought, remove cups & purge every thing and start again on my daily ride. No joy, even without a printer set up, w/ cups installed, when I boot my daily ride, the printer starts this mysterious printing event. I've concluded, and probably incorrectly, that this is not a cups issue but rather something else is sending something to my printer. How can I find out if something else is sending print jobs? Or, any other thoughs on what might be causing this mysteriously printing? Cheers ps - both my daily ride & the test install are running minimum sid installs, diferent kernerl's though. | Just a wild Idea: Since it was doing it's thing on Sunday mornings, I wondered if it could be a cron thing? |
I am used to setting up users and groups on my daughters computers with Ubuntu installed. user: magz (dauther) user: nigel (me) group: nima We each have our own folder for files i.e. magz and nige. This has always worked well and it didn't matter which user is logged in we could create and access files in the other users folder with full permissions. Code: Select allroot@nbsq: /media/2xfi/files# ls -l total 8 drwxrwxr-x 9 nigel nima 4096 Jul 13 09:45 magz drwxrwxr-x 3 nigel nima 4096 Jul 13 09:45 nige I have finally got around to getting her to try Debian which I always use, however I have never had to set up users, groups etc in Debian (squeeze) so I just did what I'm used to with Ubuntu. What I've found is that if I create a folder while I am logged in then that folder cannot be acessed by my daughter when she is logged in and the same applies if she creates a folder then I cannot access it when I am logged in, unless of course I use terminal to change the owners. In each case with the new folder the owner will be: root and the group will be: root I would have thought what works for Ubuntu would work for Debian, however there must be differences. Can someone explain where I may have gone wrong. I hope I have supplied enough imfomation. | You need to set the umask somewhere, but I'm not certain what the best way to do that is right now. Here's an older discussion about it - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40886 I think you'd want umask=002 |
Is it possible to be an active participant in, say http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/, without having you mailbox bombarded with 60-plus messages a day? EDIT: Answer is yes - just post via e-mail to debain-user@lists.debian.org. It is possible to read the lists using a newsgroup reader in the group linux.debian.user, but it is not possible to post to that group. Just would like to to understand how these Debian Mailing Lists are meant to be used, in particular how they differ from a forum such as forums,debian.net. Are the Mailing Lists for more hard-core Debian developement than this forum? They seem extremely active and contain some interesting dicussions - some clearly for develpoer only, but finding 60 messages in my inbox after being subscribed for less than a day on the user list, I had to un-subscribe in a hurry | You can join the Groups on Google and post to the various lists from there, and set it so you get 1 digest email a day. You can probably do the same for the normal mailing lists. |
Here I have the output of the lintian command for one of my packages. I'm trying to understand what the errors mean. I have already fixed about three or four. The errors that I am focusing on at the moment are the "md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file" and "file-missing-in-md5sums" errors. My guess is that my md5sums file is not formatted correctly. All of the files exist, and the packages appears to install fine. Does someone know how to fix this? debreate_lintian.log: Code: Select allE: debreate: debian-changelog-file-missing-or-wrong-name W: debreate: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 1 "badly formatted heading line" W: debreate: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 2 "found blank line where expected first heading" W: debreate: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 3 "found change data where expected first heading" W: debreate: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 8 "badly formatted heading line" W: debreate: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 10 "found change data where expected next heading or eof" Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 291. Use of uninitialized value $first_upstream in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 315. Use of uninitialized value $first_upstream in string eq at /usr/share/lintian/checks/changelog-file line 318. E: debreate: no-copyright-file W: debreate: extended-description-line-too-long W: debreate: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description W: debreate: essential-no-not-needed W: debreate: unknown-section Development W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/_md5.py 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/add32.png 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/del32.png 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/icon.png 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/icon16.png 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/building.wav 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/db.py 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/db/dbabout.py 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm usr/share/debreate/debreate.py 0666 != 0644 W: debreate: non-standard-file-perm 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file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/panfiles.py W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/icon.png W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/pancontrol.py W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/clear32.png W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/preview64.png W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/launch.py W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/save64.png W: debreate: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/share/debreate/bitmaps/browse32.png W: debreate: desktop-command-not-in-package /usr/share/applications/Debreate.desktop debreate E: debreate: python-script-but-no-python-dep ./usr/share/debreate/launch.py W: debreate: maintainer-script-ignores-errors postrm W: debreate: maintainer-script-ignores-errors postinst W: debreate: maintainer-script-ignores-errors prerm I say that I am focusing on certain errors, but if you have advice on any others I would much appreciate it. | Have you looked at the manual, http://lintian.debian.org/manual/ch2.html |
Hi. I have an alias set for "sudo aptitude install" that I would like to use completion with. It turns out that by typing "sudo aptitude install" and part of a package name it returns the candidates that match with the pattern when I press TAB. For example if I sudo aptitude install gtk TAB TAB returns a list as described before. I would like to make aliases have the same behavior given the fact that my alias "ins" and a pattern doesn't look for the matching names. Thank you in advance. | Completions are set up with the 'complete' command, and the definitions can be either under /etc/bash_completion and /etc/bash_completion.d/* or in your BASH shell startup files ( ~/.bashrc ). They can be fairly simple like this example to complete for PDF files: Code: Select allcomplete -f -o default -X '!*.pdf' acroread pdf2ps xpdf kpdf or get quite complex. Try looking for the entry for aptitude in /etc/bash_completion and adding this to your ~/.bashrc file with 'aptitude' changed to your alias... Note some of the more complex ones have both a complete command and a function definition. |
Ok so this all started when I tried to upgrade my computer from Lenny to Squeeze and it downloaded everything but it's stuck at installing udev which it said it couldn't do on the 2.6.26 kernel. I then did update-grub and Squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel was seen (on grub). I have grub-legacy chainloading (if I'm not mistaken) but I don't have grub2 installed. When I try to boot through the 2.6.32 kernel so that I can complete the upgrade (that is to install udev and have everything working fine), instead of reaching the OS, it says something along the lines of "kernel panick not syncing vfs" and something about "root(hd1,0)". I've tried to solve this on the Debian IRC channel but haven't been able to so it would be greatly appreciated if someone helps me get through this! Thanks in advance! | Debian User Forums • View topic - lenny to squeeze upgrade - udev/kernel issue - viewtopic.php?f=16&t=48996 Actually the answer is in the error message. "AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of udev WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH YOUR RUNNING KERNEL AND WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM AT THE NEXT REBOOT by creating the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file. There is always a safer way to upgrade, do not try this unless you understand what you are doing" Just create that file as root : touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade or use your favorite file manager navigate to /etc/udev right-click Create New txt file named kernel-upgrade |
Hey, I installed GRUB 2 for someone, and I made a mistake, and did not specify the right place (/dev/sda3 for me) when it asked. Now I can't do anything. I can't boot GRUB, can't do nothing. Help please! | Oh good God, the problem was solved. I used the Squeeze DVD rescue mode, and it solved the problem. (For anyone who might make the same mistake like me!) |
I'm using Debian 5.0.4 Lenny with shell access only. I've recently set up logwatch. I received an e-mail from 'Cron Daemon' stating: subject: Cron <root@**********> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch: Can't exec "/bin/sh": Argument list too long at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 853. system 'cat /var/log/samba/log.0.0.0.0 /var/log/samba/log.7100s-eab3b1090 /var/log/samba/log So I took a look into /var/log/samba/ and it contains 5782 files! - 5194 are 0 bytes named with an IP at the end, for example: log.__ffff_123.456.789 - 248 are log.__ffff_* containing the same error over and over again [2009/07/01 00:47:50, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr_internal(1676) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected read_socket_with_timeout: client 0.0.0.0 read error = Connection reset by peer. I read up on this error and it seems to have been related only to XP users connecting to the site (client's program by default trying a different port first). I read to add smb ports=139 to samba conf to fix this. I haven't done this since there hasn't been any new error files created (I'm presuming this has been fixed in some upgrade I did, no idea). - 78 are various logs, all 0 bytes, each having unique, mostly strange names such as log._0xbade5dee_ log.administrador log.Ð_Ð_Ð_Ð_-Ð_Ð_Ð_Ð_ log.horizon log.hotel-1a4dc9750 log.leonardo log.moron log.shrek log.xiongzhi - The balance of logs again are various unique names. Containing either the error above, or log.momerdadd for example: [2009/07/13 12:57:28, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(1288) make_connection: refusing to connect with no session setup - The largest files are 1MB. - The only compressed files are 7: log.nmbd.1.gz - 7. - The latest date on any of these files in July 19 2009. - There has not been any new files created in this directory since then. (There is also a sub directory /cores/smbd & /cores/nmbd both empty) - So my questions are: 1. Should I be concerned with those strange names (log.Ð_Ð_Ð_Ð_-Ð_Ð_Ð_Ð_, log.shrek etc)? 2. How do I, or even should I, try to set those log.__ffff_* files to one log so it doesn't create a new one for every IP? 3. If I do logrotate with settings for example: /var/log/samba/log.__ffff_* { It is still going to leave those 1000's of 0 byte logs and if this were to happen again, endless amounts I imagine. I imagine I could create a cron job to rm /var/log/samba/*log* I don't know if this would be optimal tho and miss some important notifications. 4. Any idea why there hasn't been any new log files created since July 2009 - could it be because there are already over stuffed in there? Or I'm just fortunate that there are no errors to log? Or it could be because, if I recall correctly, I moved SSH port off of 22, and closed webmin around that time. So I'm thinking is OK to just delete all. Thank you for taking the time to read this. | the amount of log files you are getting, wow. must have a fairly funky config anyway a program you will want to have a look at is logrotate to cycle your logs through.. just make sure you get a backup of the logfiles periodically becuase you never know when you are going to need them |
I have console only on my machine and I have two problems with it: 1) I can't find how to enable programmer dvorak keyboard layout. 2) All the console settings don't stay after reboot, I have to do dpkg-reconfigure console-setup again. But after I do that I loose russian layout that I normally can switch to with Alt+Shift. I've googled both questions but I don't seem to find any meaningful info on this topic. I would appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction. | debian version? |
Hey! I don't know why this happened, but now I can barely hear any sounds using my headphone. I haven't changed any of the alsa settings. Speakers work fine, very fine! Your help would be appreciated! | Oh, even better now, actually there is absolutely no sound when I use headphone now. Someone help me please! And I don't have an /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file!! |
I am trying to launch the perl config, but when I do so I can an weird error. It seems to be that it does not regonize perl ? Code: Select allconf.pl: line 11: =: command not found conf.pl: line 19: my: command not found conf.pl: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `{' conf.pl: line 20: `if ( eval q{require "File/Basename.pm"} ) {' Opening the config.pl file gives this for the top 20-25 lines. Code: Select all 1 #!/usr/bin/env perl 2 # conf.pl 3 # 4 # Copyright (c) 1999-2007 The SquirrelMail Project Team 5 # Licensed under the GNU GPL. For full terms see COPYING. 6 # 7 # A simple configure script to configure SquirrelMail 8 # 9 # $Id: conf.pl 12949 2008-02-20 19:11:41Z pdontthink $ 10 ############################################################ 11 $conf_pl_version = "1.4.0"; 12 13 ############################################################ 14 # Check what directory we're supposed to be running in, and 15 # change there if necessary. File::Basename has been in 16 # Perl since at least 5.003_7, and nobody sane runs anything 17 # before that, but just in case. 18 ############################################################ 19 my $dir; 20 if ( eval q{require "File/Basename.pm"} ) { 21 $dir = File::Basename::dirname($0); 22 chdir($dir); 23 } | How are you launching the script exactly? What happens if you enter this command (note the space between bin and perl): Code: Select all/usr/bin/env perl -v |
Hi! I'm having one of those days, and managed to delete some virtualbox disk images. But the virtual machines are still up and running just fine. So the deleted disk images still exist somewhere. Is it possible to recover these files? Since they are in use and locked by Virtualbox I guess they still are completely intact and fine on the disk, but that they will be permanently deleted once VirtualBox stops. | You might make a backup of the Vbox-installations on the hard-disk (whichever one is possible). Something like rsync -e ssh / user@host-ip:/home/user/tmp If all goes south boot a live in VBox and rsync the whole shebang back. I said: something like . I'm spare on time. |
I am currently running Debian Lenny on one of my external HDDs and Debian Squeeze on the other one. I found a package I like in lenny but it seems it has not been added to squeeze (yet). The package is ksirc and i like it because it looks and feels like mIRC that I used in windows. My question is can I install the lenny version on squeeze with out it having an adverse effect? My other question is what do I put into the /etc/apt/sources.list to do this? i now see that ksirc is also available in a sid (unstable) version. Is it safe to install this one to my squeeze distro? and again what do I need to add to my sources.list to do this? Or could I just download the deb package and install it using dpkg? New to this and just looking for the best way to get a favorite software package. Thank you in advance. | It is only in Lenny. Which probably means it has been orphaned and won't be in future Debian releases. Package ksirc * etch (oldstable) (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.5-5: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * etch-m68k (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.5-5: m68k * etch-backports (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.7-4~bpo40+1 [backports]: alpha amd64 hppa i386 ia64 mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * lenny (stable) (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.10-2: alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc * sid (unstable) (net): IRC client for KDE 4:3.5.10-3 [debports]: m68k There are tons of other GUI irc clients, xchat, konversation, quassel, lostirc, Opera has a built-in irc client, chatzilla in iceweasel/Firefox, ekg2, sirc, pidgin, instantbird, smuxi, etc. or you can use a ncurses irc client like irssi , weechat, pork, tinyirc, sic, finch, etc. |
Has anyone else experienced a failure of cups? My printer is a HP laserjet 4 Plus. It used to work with the gutenprint drivers pretty much since always. I don't know when it broke, because I don't use it that often. I have tried with the generic postscript driver, with the gutenprint driver, with the j4dith driver and with the hplib driver. Basically, what happens is that all jobs never finish processing in the queue. On the other hand cups-pdf still works. Anybody has any clues? Thanks by advance. | I have a HP 5L and my printer has stopped working last week. I haven't had a chance to figure it out,but it's CUPS related. I'm not at home but it's something with the backend. CUPS doesn't see the parallel port when I try to install the printer again. |
I need a confirmation as i never did that before. I think i did it right, but am not sure. I need pacpl, an audio-converter which is in the testing repos, for Debian-Lenny. I followed SoulSinging's "How-to build a package the smart way" 1) I added Code: Select alldeb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free Is that correct? Seems so, but i am not so sure. 2) I ran Code: Select all# apt-get build-dep pacpl and got an error about missing libaudio-musepack-perl. So i ran Code: Select all# apt-get build-dep libaudio-musepack-perl and build it like described by SoulSinging. Next error was about libaudio-wma-perl I did just the same Code: Select all# apt-get build-dep libaudio-wma-perl and followed the how-to (which, in short, was: $ apt-get source <package-name> $ debchange -b -v <version>~bpo50+1 $ dpkg-buildpackage rfakeroot -us -uc # cd .. && dpkg -i <package-name>.deb check the how-to, this is just to make sure its clear what i am doing) That is correct too? If "apt-get build-dep <package>" fails i just install the missing package in the same manner? 3)And the last question: If i wanna move the whole pacpl to my other Lenny installation, what do i need to move? The resulting pacpl.deb, all the three debs, or do i need to compile the whole shebang once again? Is it possible to pack the whole stuff together somehow? Thanks for a short: "yes, that's how it is done" or "no, thats wrong (a why would be nice in that case...)" Btw: The resulting pacpl doesn't convert to mp3. To wav works fine (should be easy but i barely know anything about audio. I guess its something with lame-whatever). | The reason why i ask: If i run Lenny i run it for stability. I don't wanna make it less stable. I did the test in VirtualBox, where it doesn't matter. If the above is ok i will do it on my installation (cause i really miss pacpl and am quite lost without it. I reboot to Sid, cp the music and convert it from there. Bit much of trouble. I tried other converters but don't understand them). Another link i used is this one: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/ ... ding_Guide to understand it, but it is quite a lot at once (cause there are other links to be found ... and so on) ############################################# Another problem: I tried to build flac123, but there is no debianized source, so i did it with dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage. I first did it in VBox with Mepis, and it worked without any problems. Then i tried it on Debian-Sid, and had one error after the other. I found this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=51479 But still no luck (with adding "-f ../<package>tar.gz). The following dpkg-buildpackage gave me errors. Finally i gave up and ran "./configure". That command told me 'bout missing dependencies ( libflac-dev and libpopt-dev), i installed them and ran dpkg-reconfigure and this time it worked. Not so smooth. Is there no better way? |
Hey, as the title says, I wanted to know if it's installed while installing Squeeze. I've forgotten... Your help would be appreciated guys! | yup |
On my Sid laptop with iwlagn as the wireless driver, I use gnome with network manager. I lost all wireless capability when laptop failed to come out of suspend. I have the power manager set up to suspend when the lid is closed. This morning when I opened the lid I got a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Without thinking, I forced shutdown with the power button. I know, don't say it. When I booted up I had no wireless at all. lspci doesn't recognize wlan0 lsmod shows iwlagn is still there I performed the following: Code: Select all# modprobe -r iwlagn # modprobe iwlagn Now I have two drives on this laptop and Squeeze is on the other drive. When I boot into squeeze I have wireless activated. Any thoughts? | There are several old bugs about wireless broken by suspend. Most of the time network-manager is the culprit. Try using wpa_supplicant directly. |
I usually install chromium from the frickelpatz repo. On one previous update I noticed that other packages that had not been installed from frickelpatz were updated with packages from there (i guess frickel had a higher version number - k3b i think the package was). So I would like to see what other packages it offers so I am aware of which packages are at risk. failing that is there a way to tell apt that i only want to use the repo for chromium and its dependencies? | /var/lib/apt/lists/ contains lists of available packages in the repos that you're following. Code: Select allgrep ^Package /var/lib/apt/lists/*frickelpatz*Packages or something similar should do it. |
I can't seem to get the options halt and reboot working in my openbox right-click menu. I've tried following the guide here from post #11, where the code he says to use in the /etc/sudoers file is: Code: Select all%users john=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -h now, /sbin/shutdown -r now ...but I can't seem to get it to work on my end. In obmenu, I have for halt, to run "sudo halt" and for reboot, "sudo reboot" but they only work after I've already entered my sudo password, such as when I work with terminal to edit a config file. | Just add /sbin/halt and /sbin/reboot. My setup (just ignore the alias stuff): Code: Select all# Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias SHUT = /sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot,/sbin/shutdown # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SHUT |
Hello! I got Debian Squeeze. I've installed the package freedesktop-sound-theme - libcanberra0, libcanberra-gtk0, gnome-session-canbera but have only got one option in "Sound Settings" in the Sound Theme tab - about the notify sound. I've provided a screenshot (sorry it's in Bulgarian, but you got the idea) I've tried to install the package gnome-audio too (which is obsolete already), but this didn't change anything either. GNOME Login Sound is enabled in Startup Programs, but executing its command: Code: Select all/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login" returns Code: Select allFailed to play sound: File or data not found Running gnome-volume-control in the terminal returns the following output: Code: Select all** (gnome-volume-control.gstreamer:3822): DEBUG: deleted the custom theme dir ** (gnome-volume-control.gstreamer:3822): DEBUG: deleted the custom theme dir ** (gnome-volume-control.gstreamer:3822): DEBUG: deleted the custom theme dir Any ideas? Thanks in advance. | A lot of the sounds were stripped out due to uncertain copyrights. Try this one instead: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/852410/freedesk ... ds_all.deb I built this one a while ago based on some web searches. |
Hi, I have recently installed Squeeze on my 2009 Acer Aspire laptop and updated the wifi firmware and still do not have wifi connection, I wasn't too concerned as I thought I would just use a usb wifi adapter however it doesn't work with that either, yet that same adpater works with Squeeze on my 2007 Desktop computer. Any suggestions how I can get either version of wifi to work? | If you don't post useful references to the device, don't bother posting. Execute lspci -vv and lsusb -v and paste the relevant lines. |
Recently I encounter some disk failures. Since that time, when I launch Aptitude I've got some I/O errors. For example: Code: Select all# aptitude clean Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Błąd! Inicjalizacja stanów pakietów... Błąd! E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Błąd! Inicjalizacja stanów pakietów... Błąd! E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Code: Select all# aptitude update E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Ignorowane file: unstable/main Translation-pl Ignorowane file: experimental/main Translation-pl Pobieranie:1 file: unstable Release.gpg [198B] Pobieranie:2 file: experimental Release.gpg [198B] Pobieranie:3 file: unstable Release [2651B] Pobieranie:4 file: experimental Release [2668B] Ignorowane file: unstable/main Sources Ignorowane file: unstable/main Sources Ignorowane file: experimental/main Sources Ignorowane file: experimental/main Sources Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable Release.gpg Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid Release.gpg Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/main Translation-pl Stary http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release.gpg Ignorowane http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Translation-pl Stary http://www.lamaresh.net sid Release.gpg Ignorowane http://www.lamaresh.net sid/main Translation-pl Stary http://packages.kirya.net sid Release.gpg Ignorowane http://packages.kirya.net sid/main Translation-pl Ignorowane http://packages.kirya.net sid/contrib Translation-pl Pobieranie:5 http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable/main Translation-pl [14B] Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing Release.gpg Pobieranie:6 http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing/main Translation-pl [14B] Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental Release.gpg Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/contrib Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/non-free Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/firmware Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.main Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.contrib Translation-pl Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.non-free Translation-pl Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid Release Stary http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release Ignorowane http://packages.kirya.net sid/non-free Translation-pl Stary http://www.lamaresh.net sid Release Stary http://packages.kirya.net sid Release Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/contrib Translation-pl Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/non-free Translation-pl Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable Release.gpg Pobieranie:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Translation-pl [261kB] Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable Release Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing Release Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/main Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://www.lamaresh.net sid/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://packages.kirya.net sid/main Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/firmware Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.main Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.contrib Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages Ignorowane http://www.lamaresh.net sid/main Packages Ignorowane http://packages.kirya.net sid/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://packages.kirya.net sid/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.non-free Packages/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/main Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/non-free Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/firmware Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.main Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.contrib Sources/DiffIndex Ignorowane http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.non-free Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/main Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/contrib Packages Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing/main Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://packages.kirya.net sid/contrib Packages Ignorowane http://www.lamaresh.net sid/main Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/non-free Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/firmware Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.main Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.contrib Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.non-free Packages Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de unstable/main Sources Stary http://packages.kirya.net sid/non-free Packages Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/main Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/contrib Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/non-free Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/firmware Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.main Sources Stary http://www.lamaresh.net sid/main Packages Stary http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de testing/main Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.contrib Sources Stary http://debian.tu-bs.de sid/fix.non-free Sources Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-pl Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-pl Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing Release.gpg Pobieranie:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Translation-pl [255kB] Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-pl Ignorowane http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-pl Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental Release Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable Release Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing Release Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/non-free Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Stary http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex Pobrano 515kB w 4s (117kB/s) Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Code: Select all# aptitude -f install Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Błąd! Inicjalizacja stanów pakietów... Błąd! E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe Budowanie drzewa zależności Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Błąd! Inicjalizacja stanów pakietów... Błąd! E: Błąd odczytu - read (5: Błąd wejścia/wyjścia) Whichever command I type, disk usage goes to 100%. Apt is working fine, without any issue, but I prefer Aptitude. I have no idea how to make it to work again :/ | Just made sudo apt-get purge aptitude and install aptitude again and it's working fine (: |
Hello! I've done the ordinary sources.list update (lenny to squeeze) and Code: Select allsudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dpkg apt aptitude sudo aptitude full-upgrade However, udev failed to install, and I used Code: Select all touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade and did full-upgrade again. Everything was going fine, I went through several package configurations and suddenly, after 30-40 minutes of "Unpacking... Setting up..." I just heard two system beeps and got an error similar to a kernel panic. The SYSRQs did nothing. Did a hard reboot. I got two kernels in GRUB now. + the GRUB2 chainloading option. Used this one and got Code: Select allKernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block It's all the same with the 2.6.32-5-686 kernel - kernel panic. Using the older kernel didn't fail on the boot up, but showed many UDEV related errors and logging in was impossible - all I get were segmentation faults. Forgot to mention it - my FS is Reiserfs The only thing I could use now is a Knoppix LiveCD to eventually recompile the kernel if needed. What do you suggest? EDIT: I seemed to get it working using the old kernel and single user mode. How should I proceed next? | http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=52360 try what craigevil suggests. |
I never been able to connect to some websites with DEBIAN, but with same computer different LINUX and Windows, I can, wonder what is the problem, any one can help? As an example Monash University in Australia is one of them. | Can you ping these sites? If so that tells you that you can connect to them, but something in the way your browser is set up is causing your problem. |
Hello, all Over the past month my windows PC has been playing up, I therefore am using Debian on LiveCD to get used to Linux (before I wipe Windows completly). Ever since I downloaded Debian I havent been able to get the internet (wireless) working, well recently i have, but not for long... After 2 weeks or so of me pratting about, I found out sort of what the problem is, or how i can sort of solve it temporarly. My USB wireless card is Realtek RTL8187 and it recognizes it and works by default, Im sure its nothing to do with that, although KNetworkManager will never connect me, says Failed to decrpy WEP (in dmesg), even tho it's the correct HEX key, so I use Wireless Assistant 0.5.7 which does connect me, with the same key network-manager wont. Other than this I would manually set it and 'dhclient wlan0'. So, to sort of get internet I will first connect to the network (obviously) and once connected, I will ping google.com, which usually will come back unknown host after a few secs, UNLESS I ping google, and quickly set the access point again, manually. So after i ping google i type "iwconfig wlan0 ap [ACCESSPOINT]" and google will reply, for roughly 3-5 seconds, and it dies again. After a few more frustrated days I decided I will test this to the max, so I simply spammed "iwconfig wlan0 ap [AP]; sleep 3; ect ect (over 50 times) and tried to update aptitude, epic fail. It took 3 attempts and over 20 mins to get 11% on packages (after i deleted the default sources.list and just added ftp server). I personally think it's to do with the new Mac80211 drivers as the old ieee80211 stack drivers seemed fine for others and on BT3. Yesterday I downloaded Ubuntu to see if it would connect, it also uses Mac80211 drivers, but it DID connect with network-manager, but is very poor and dies after abt 20 secs max. Im not a big fan of Ubuntu but if worst came to worst I would have to install it (because crap net is better than none at all). My Windows PC is on the verge of death so I really could do with solving this. Also, what older versions of debian, pref LiveCD's (if any) come with the old ieee drivers? If none what other Linux distro's (old or new) use the ieee drivers? (except BT3). Im quite new to linux so please dont mention compiling stuff, as the LiveCD doesnt have make by default. Also please note I can only access internet wireless so I cannot download extra stuff on wired net to see (although i could on Windows). Thanks for reading, hopefully someone can help. PS: I typed all this up and right at the end my PC died, resulting in me needing a new case for the tower, after I typed it all up again in Debian and saved to USB, I came back to find firefox saved it all... | I've never used Debian on a live-cd before, but given Debian's view of restricted drivers you might have a better general Linux experience using Ubuntu, a Debian derivative and find that it's wireless works much better "out of the box", or "live" than Debian. There are other choices as well, most of which will work better from a live cd than Debian. Otherwise, nothing really useful to say about your problem. Sorry. |
I hope this does not expose me to ridicule over a lack of understanding and foolhardy attempt to get myself into something way over my head: AfterCode: Select all# apt-get -d source python-uno I get 550MB worth of files, it looks like source code for the entire openoffice package:Code: Select all# dir -alt total 539412 drwxr-xr-x 2 nick nick 4096 2010-06-08 20:21 . drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4096 2010-06-08 20:21 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 105004167 2010-06-06 01:17 openoffice.org_3.2.0-11~bpo50+1.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 10999 2010-06-06 01:17 openoffice.org_3.2.0-11~bpo50+1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 446777138 2010-03-25 10:47 openoffice.org_3.2.0.orig.tar.gz # which unpack into a folder called openoffice.org-3.2.0 Maybe I have been horribly misled by this obsolete documentation and the following statement therein:To download a source package, you would use the following command: $ apt-get source packagename This will download three files: a .orig.tar.gz, a .dsc and a .diff.gz. In the case of packages made specifically for Debian, the last of these is not downloaded and the first usually won't have "orig" in the name. The .dsc file is used by dpkg-source for unpacking the source package into the directory packagename-version.(my highlight) . . .from which I would have expected files/folders named something like python-uno_3.2.0, all of a size more comparable to the python-uno binary package's 2MB, not a 550MB behemoth . . . Assuming that this is really not how source code must be packaged/organized and all source code in the python-uno binary package is in fact tightly bundled with the entire openoffice source code, how does one easily find, say, just the source code for the key python-uno modules pyuno.so and libpyuno.so in the unpacked 628MB openoffice.org-3.2.0 folder? EDIT: Aside from discussing the specific question regarding python-uno, any general pointers on how to find the actual source code for any given binary packages would be very much appreciated. | Yup, that little package is generated during the build of Openoffice, along with a zillion other packages. You can browse packages.debian.org first to see where the original source of a package came from, or even download it. Don't know much about python-uno---and building it from its source folder in isolation from the rest of the OO build is unlikely to work... |
I am using firefox over iceweasel because my schools website gives me an error message stating I must either use firefox, safari, or internet explorer to use it. FIrefox is working fine but I am having problems getting flash to work. I am using debian squeeze. When I visit a webpage with flash content, the flash player is just a black square and I am unable to do anything with it. I have tried this guide http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer. I have also tried using the install_flash_player_10_linux.deb and simply downloading libflashplayer.so and moving it to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins. When I go to about:plugins in firefox, It says: Shockwave Flash File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53 What else can I do to enable flash in firefox? | Just install flashplugin-nonfree. Anyway, you can just modify User Agent field in Iceweasel's about:config instead of using FF. But YMMV etc. |
I just set up a Squeeze server for a friend of mine using my exact apache2 settings. He has been playing around, having a bit of fun learning HTML, but he ran into a problem where one of his images would not display. I at first figured his HTML was incorrect, but after a very long time of trying to figure out the problem, I still do not know what is going on, so I think it must be an apache2 problem? Lenny server: http://campassi.com/jacobelrod.com/ Squeeze server: http://jacobelrod.com/ | When I right-clcik on the image place-holder and select "view image" I get a message "The image http://jacobelrod.com/images/work.png cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." So it's possible that the image file got corrupted somehow. Try replacing it with a new copy. Run an md5sum, or whatever, to make sure that the files are identical. What happens if you try to open the existing file in an image viewer, or via gimp? |
Hi Chaps, I recently upgraded to Squeeze and in general I'm loving it. One problem I'm having is that I can no longer open remote files via SCP/SSH using GVFS from Geany. This functionality still works in gedit. I've checked the syslog and can see no clues, and I also can't find any references on Google. Anybody else having the same issue? Thanks! | Try checking on the Debian bug tracking system - http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ |
for the life of me I am unable to get this module not to load root@milomak-mac:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Code: Select all# This file lists modules which will not be loaded as the result of # alias expansion, with the purpose of preventing the hotplug subsystem # to load them. It does not affect autoloading of modules by the kernel. # This file is provided by the udev package. # evbug is a debug tool and should be loaded explicitly blacklist evbug # these drivers are very simple, the HID drivers are usually preferred blacklist usbmouse blacklist usbkbd # replaced by e100 blacklist eepro100 # replaced by tulip blacklist de4x5 # replaced by tmscsim blacklist am53c974 # these watchdog drivers break some systems blacklist iTCO_wdt blacklist ssb blacklist b43 root@milomak-mac:~# modprobe -rv ssb Code: Select allFATAL: Module ssb is in use. root@milomak-mac:~# rmmod ssb Code: Select allERROR: Module ssb is in use by ohci_hcd I even tried running update-initramfs -u. How can I prevent it from loading? | Get it out of your kernel? |
netstat -a Code: Select allActive Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 ::1%3214634968:ipp [::]:* LISTEN udp 0 0 *:ipp *:* udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:* # netstat -atu Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 ::1%3216079512:ipp [::]:* LISTEN udp 0 0 *:ipp *:* udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:* is that rather strange or am I missing something. Firefox is obviously open and connected. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100513 Firefox/3.6.4 $ uname -a Linux craigevil 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat May 1 04:16:37 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux | You need to add -p to show all PID & program names. Code: Select allnetstat -pt |
I would like to delete some files stored in the personal directory, say .adobe, .macromedia, .xsession-errors, on every start-up or shutting down. I can do it with cron but I would like to learn different (simpler) options. The thing is, I haven't been able to input the proper terms in a search engine. Note that these files must exist in their default location during the session. This is, I don't want to make them links to /dev/null or move them to /tmp. There's no need to set the rules for me, just point me in the right direction and I'll read. | I am not sane....so take that as a warning.... I use rc.local to delete a few things at startup |
I am running Sid. After a dist-upgrade, when I boot into a DE, trying to run applications doesn't work. If I click on an icon, I see a "Starting <Application>" icon on the task bar and then it dies. If I try running Alt-F2 and then typing the name of the application, nothing happens. Any ideas? | What DE? No problems here fully updated system using LXDE. System: Host craigevil Kernel 2.6.33-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (UP) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) bmips 5586.13 Clock Speeds: (1) 2793.068 MHz (2) 2793.068 MHz Graphics: Card nVidia G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1280x1024@50.0hz GLX Renderer GeForce 9400 GT/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.2.0 NVIDIA 195.36.24 Direct Rendering Yes Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21 Network: Card Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port dcc0 BusID: 03:08.0 Disks: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (17.8% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1600JS 160.0GB Partition: ID:/ size: 103G used: 27G (27%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 5.25GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap Info: Processes 112 Uptime 1 day Memory 236.7/2016.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9 |
Hi all! I use Linux for my everyday work but lately I've been faced with a trouble when I send out file printouts from my browser from my Debian system to (normally) window$ systems, where they are not readable. Is there a way for me to convert the postscript files into pdf format? Most window$ users will have some sort of pdf reader installed but I am still to find one user that has Ghostscript and Ghostview installed. A little off topic: where can I find the TTF fonts that are shipped with every standard installation of Debian? I'm sometimes forced to print files through a windows system and because the fonts loaded in that system are not the ones I use in Debian (URW Gothic L, as an example) I end up having my official documents disfigured. If I can carry around with me a ready-to-install fonts package I can get over this obstacle. Thanks in advance, Q | There's a tool called ps2pdf which will do the conversion. And I think there's an msfonts package for Debian. |
So I have recently installed java on sid. installed as such Code: Select allaptitude install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin I then setup java through update-alternatives Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display java java - manual mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java /usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63 slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java'. Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display javac javac - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javac - priority 63 slave javac.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/man/man1/javac.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javac' Code: Select all. root@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display javah javah - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javah /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javah - priority 63 slave javah.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/man/man1/javah.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javah'. Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display javap javap - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javap /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javap - priority 63 slave javap.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/man/man1/javap.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/javap'. Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display javaws javaws - manual mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/javaws - priority 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws - priority 63 slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/javaws'. Code: Select allroot@MBP-Debian:~# update-alternatives --display java_vm java_vm - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm - priority 63 Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm'. However both on Chrome and Firefox there is no java. | Check about:plugins on Iceweasel Should say something like: Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_20 Filename /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so what does java -version show? Mine looks like: $ java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode, sharing) Also take a look at update-java-alternatives -l To set automatic priorities, do this # update-java-alternatives --auto To select the Sun Java JDK, do this # update-java-alternatives --set java-1.6.0-sun or #update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun never can remember which one works. |
I'm trying to write a Perl script that will convert text to ASCII. I'm particularly interested in converting files created with MS Windows, so I used Notepad to create a few test files. I have had some success with the following script: Code: Select all [[ Script Deleted -- see subsequent posts ]] After coming back /home/ to Debian, I used file to examine the file types: Code: Select all$ file ansi.txt unicode_big-endian.txt unicode.txt utf8.txt ansi.txt: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators unicode_big-endian.txt: Big-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CRLF line terminators unicode.txt: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CRLF, CR line terminators utf8.txt: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators After running: Code: Select all$ uni2ascii.pl -i ansi.txt -c ASCII -o new_ansi.txt $ uni2ascii.pl -i unicode_big-endian.txt -c utf16 -o new_unicode_big-endian.txt $ uni2ascii.pl -i unicode.txt -c utf16 -o new_unicode.txt $ uni2ascii.pl -i utf8.txt -c utf8 -o new_utf8.txt everything appears good: Code: Select all$ file new_ansi.txt new_unicode_big-endian.txt new_unicode.txt new_utf8.txt new_ansi.txt: ASCII text new_unicode_big-endian.txt: ASCII text new_unicode.txt: ASCII text new_utf8.txt: ASCII text but the "little-endian file" does not convert properly: Code: Select all$ md5sum new_ansi.txt new_unicode_big-endian.txt new_unicode.txt new_utf8.txt c4def7932bc151b9e786b6ca1299162c new_ansi.txt c4def7932bc151b9e786b6ca1299162c new_unicode_big-endian.txt 5b62a013dced4f2c2c0af45ea6388c1e new_unicode.txt c4def7932bc151b9e786b6ca1299162c new_utf8.txt When I use cat to print the new_unicode.txt file in an Emacs terminal, a ^@ appears on the last (empty) line. When I open the new_unicode.txt with KWrite, a warning message tells me that the file is a "binary" and "saving it will result in a corrupt file." Why is this happening and how can I fix it? Thanks, - Soul Singin' . | I can't say what's causing that corruption at the end. What appears at the end of the file before conversion? Maybe as a temporary work-around, you could perform a trivial substitution on that line to get rid of it-- i.e. Code: Select alls/^\^@$//; If those characters aren't actually showing up in the file, but Emacs is just printing them as a result of corrupt data, I would ask whoever maintains the module you're using. |
My old Netgear G router is locking up like crazy. I bought a new Belkin N+ router. I configured it using windows7 (sorry cannot do it in debian) wireless N, WPA2 encryption. and all my windows computers can connect to it, including my laptop running debian tesing. Now my desktop connect ok with win7, but I cannot do it in debian testing or lenny (I have 2 desktops one with lenny, and one with testing) Would appreciate your help please. Here is what I have done. In Debian testing, there seems to be a driver for my wireless usb (Belkin F5D8053, which is Ralink RT2870STA). I plug it in, and the led light flashes showing that it is working. iwconfig gives this Code: Select alllo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. pan0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 RTxx70 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT3070STA" Mode:Auto Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality=62/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 iwlist wlan0 scan gives this: Code: Select all Cell 09 - Address: 00:22:75:D4:EA:A0 Protocol:802.11b/g/n ESSID:"Belkin_N+" Mode:Managed Channel:11 Quality:76/100 Signal level:-60 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:54 Mb/s IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Using wicd scan, it shows Belkin_N+ 76% WPA2 Channel11 In Properties, I choose WPA 1/2 (Preshared Key) and typed in Preshared Key (a password). After I click connect, it came back and said bad password. WPA Passphrase has the same response: Connection Failed: Bad password. I use the terminal and try these commands: ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid "Belkin_N+" iwconfig wlan0 key s:"mypassword" dhclient wlan0 After a few tries, dhcp cannot get a lease, so no connection. My /etc/network interfaces is like this: Code: Select all# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface wlan0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 This scenery happens in my lenny desktop as well. Here are the inconsistencies: 1. laptop running debian testing connects with no problem 2. If I configure the Belkin N+ router to WEP, it will work (but it is also configures as b/g/n), so I suspect it is working in G mode. Any suggestions are welcome. | here is dmesg and it seems to have a problem with requesting rt2870 and keeps referring to error in /etc/wireless/RT3070STA/RT3070STRA.dat which does not exist in my system: Code: Select all<==== RTMPInitialize, Status=0 [ 5486.696551] 0x1300 = 000a4200 [ 5496.844005] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 5500.872090] # [ 5503.102579] Terminate the TimerQThr_pid=6105! [ 5503.102601] Terminate the MLMEThr_pid=6103! [ 5503.102608] Terminate the RTUSBCmdThr_pid=6104! [ 5503.108906] ---> RTMPFreeTxRxRingMemory [ 5503.109179] <--- ReleaseAdapter [ 5503.113452] usb 1-6: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin [ 5503.387005] <-- RTMPAllocTxRxRingMemory, Status=0 [ 5503.388702] -->RTUSBVenderReset [ 5503.388826] <--RTUSBVenderReset [ 5503.667098] --> Error 2 opening /etc/Wireless/RT3070STA/RT3070STA.dat [ 5503.667101] 1. Phy Mode = 0 [ 5503.667102] 2. Phy Mode = 0 [ 5503.695340] 3. Phy Mode = 0 [ 5503.699592] MCS Set = 00 00 00 00 00 [ 5503.708584] <==== RTMPInitialize, Status=0 [ 5503.710090] 0x1300 = 000a4200 [ 5514.112004] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present There is no /etc/Wireless/RT3070SRA/3070STA.dat in my system. |
Code: Select allUnpacking replacement ffmpeg ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ffmpeg_5%3a0.5.1+svn20100411-0.0_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ffmpeg/libx264-ipod640.ffpreset', which is also in package libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ffmpeg_5%3a0.5.1+svn20100411-0.0_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ffmpeg/libx264-ipod640.ffpreset', which is also in package libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 There is your problem. You either have some incompatible repositories or you are trying to install some external packages. Be careful in these cases, you might break your dependency system. I did a test and libavcodec52 has many dependencies, all media players, codecs and more depend on it: Code: Select allsudo aptitude purge libavcodec52 [sudo] password for laca: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: hplip-cups{u} libavcodec52{p} libdirectfb-dev{u} libdirectfb-extra{u} libmpeg3-dev{u} libsysfs-dev{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.7MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: xvidcap: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5+svn20100208) but it is not going to be installed. libavformat52: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5.1+svn20100411) but it is not going to be installed. aqualung: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) which is a virtual package. gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) which is a virtual package. linphone: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) which is a virtual package. vlc-nox: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) which is a virtual package. ffmpeg: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5.1+svn20100411) but it is not going to be installed. libavfilter1: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5.1+svn20100411) but it is not going to be installed. zoiper-communicator-free-alsa: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) which is a virtual package. libmediastreamer0: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) which is a virtual package. libquicktime1: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5+svn20100208) but it is not going to be installed. qutecom: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) which is a virtual package. kino: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) but it is not going to be installed. or libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090706-3) which is a virtual package. libavdevice52: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.5.1+svn20100411) but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) aqualung 2) ffmpeg 3) gnome 4) gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 5) kino 6) libavdevice52 7) libavfilter1 8) libavformat52 9) liblinphone3 10) libmediastreamer0 11) libquicktime1 12) linphone 13) linphone-nox 14) mozilla-plugin-vlc 15) qutecom 16) vlc 17) vlc-nox 18) vlc-plugin-pulse 19) xvidcap 20) zoiper-communicator-free-alsa Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 21) audacity recommends libavcodec52 | libavcodec-extra-52 22) audacity recommends libavformat52 | libavformat-extra-52 23) gnash-common-opengl recommends gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 24) qutecom-data recommends qutecom (>= 2.2~rc3.hg396~dfsg1-5) 25) totem recommends gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 26) vlc recommends vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.0.5-2) Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000) Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. So you cannot remove it without nuking your codecs. You must remove the problematic repository. |
First off, I come from an Ubuntu background where things are "already done and ready to go for you" kind of thing. I decided to give Debian a try because I understand it's solid and light, and it's the parent of Ubuntu as well. So I jumped into it. Anyway, I just finished installing Debian squeeze from the net-iso on my Eee PC 1000HA about five minutes ago. Once I booted up, I did an "aptitude install xfce4", and then an "aptitude install xfce4-goodies". Once those packages downloaded and installed, I rebooted, and was given the text-based login. I logged in, and ran "startx". (I realized that I did not have xdm or something installed at that point, and that's why I was given the text login.) Once I logged in, I was presented with the Xfce desktop, but it seems things are missing. The default icons on the bottom toolbar (terminal, thunar, etc.) are missing. They're just blank buttons. Also, when I go to the Xfce menu, there are red x's as icons in the menu. Did I miss an icon package or something? And one final thing, when I try to run "sudo" in the terminal, it tells me the command is not installed. EDIT: When it asked what type of install I wanted, I unchecked "Graphical desktop environment" and kept "Basic system utilities" or whatever it was called. Then I proceeded with the install of Xfce. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it. Thanks | The way you installed is a good choice, but as you've noticed, some packages you want might not be installed. All you have to do is figure out their names. Try 'aptitude search xfce' to see what else you might want. I'm not sure how you'd add extra icon themes, but that might be what you need. Go through the desktop settings - under Menus, there's a checkbox called "Show application icons in menu". You got two panels on the desktop when you installed xfce in squeeze? I only got the upper panel, and I created the lower one myself. Right-click on those buttons to edit them. Don't worry about sudo. To become root, type 'su' in a terminal and give your root password. Then 'exit' to become normal user again (or just close the terminal.) Or do 'gksu program-name' to start a graphical program as root. |
I've tried to search for how to install the dev builds of Chromium on Debian Squeeze, but the only information I find is on the google-chrome-unstable package. I tried to install the deb file with "dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_i386.deb" but it told me there was an error and aborted. Is there any way to install the latest nightly builds of Chromium on Squeeze? On Ubuntu it was as easy as adding the lines: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main to the /etc/apt/sources.list file and then importing the PGP key. For OpenOffice, I'm not sure if I would be installing version 2.4 or the latest 3.2. What version is in the repos for Squeeze? Thanks | Debian -- Packages - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Squeeze has OpenOffice3.2 For Chrome or Chromium you need to use a third party repo. # Google Chrome, Picasa, Google-Desktop http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html #(wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - ) # or (gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv A040830F7FAC5991 && gpg --export --armor A040830F7FAC5991 | sudo apt-key add - ) # deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main non-free # Google testing repository #deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing main non-free #Chromium Open-source Chrome # Secure apt apt-get install frickelplatz-archive-keyring frickelplatz-keyring frickelplatz-keyrings # apt-get install chromium-browser #deb http://frickelplatz.de/debian/ sid main non-free contrib |
I have an EeePC 1000HA with Debian squeeze, and I can't seem to find the option to enable touchpad tapping. Is there a certain config file for the synaptics-touchpad driver I need to edit? | Kind of. It's actually an easy fix, but a big topic. Check out the debian wiki article: http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad There are some good eeepc specific articles on the wiki too. |
Are there any "oxford dictionary of the English language"-type of programs that can be used directly from the hard drive, meaning, not an on-line service? | It's much quicker to use Debian's tools for this kind of question i.e. Code: Select allapt-cache search dictionary That gives a long list of results. You can then get more info on interesting looking packages i.e. Code: Select allapt-cache show dictd You can of course run the same search and query in aptitude or Synaptic or whatever package manager you prefer. dictd is pretty good and afaik all the main desktop environments include a graphical client for using it. You can also just use the command line client dict. You could even try searching this board because most general queries have been asked, answered, and resolved numerous times already. I made a post about dictd a year ago in the Bash Tips and Tricks Thread, showing how easy it is to use aliases for dictionary lookups http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=179080#p179080 |
Hi, Some of the extensions I am using have more recent versions available, but require Firefox 3.5 (I am using Iceweasel 3.0). There are also some extensions that are ONLY available for Firefox 3.5 and later. For extensions not available through the Debian repositories I only can imagine the following options: 1. Download Firefox from its official site 2. Keep using Iceweasel with out of date extensions. 3. Install Iceweasel from the Testing repositories or Backports. I would like to know how more veteran users handle this situation: which is the better option from a security/ease of administration point of view? | If you want to stick with iceweasel, installing it from backports is your best bet. If you want to use Firefox instead it is simple enough to do. |
I can't remember if branch is the correct term but I am talking stable, testing or unstable. i have looked through the dpkg and aptitude man pages but can't seem to find if there is a way to search which packages on the system are installed from a specific branch. Is there a way to do this? | like that?: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ry-801417/ |
I have an exe-File called 'pas'. The file run wihtout problem when I call it from the same folder . For example: $ ./pas But when I call it from another folder, it does not run. For example: $ software/pas Thanks for your answers. Jorge. | Either put the script/executable in your path, or do it this way Code: Select all$ bash software/pas /usr/local/bin should be in your path but you need to be root to write to it. It can be useful to create a ~/bin directory and add it to your path so you can put your scripts in there and execute them the same way as anything else. |
When I run an exe-File, I become the message: -bash: ./a.out: Keine Berechtigung (No rights) I have all Rights on the Folder and on the file. I suppose that the problem is that my group "Benutzer" has no rights to execute files. Where can I change the rights of my group? Thanks. Jorge. | What's ls -l a.out look like? Maybe the file just doesn't have the execute bit set and you need to chmod 750 a.out before running it. If you need to be part of a particular group, you can edit /etc/group or run usermod -aG groupname username. |
Hello everyone, this is my first post... I'm trying to use one of my favorite themes in my new Debian install - Slateman-Clearlooks. It's one, that needs to have the root applications themed separately, and in Ubuntu, I would just use... Code: Select allsudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts to accomplish that. Unfortunately, it's a no go in Lenny. Could one of you kind folks, tell me how to adapt this to Debian? Thanks | Hey Ya OrangeCrate! Welcome, been out on the scooter lately? OrangeCrate wrote:Hello everyone, this is my first post... I'm trying to use one of my favorite themes in my new Debian install - Slateman-Clearlooks. It's one, that needs to have the root applications themed separately, and in Ubuntu, I would just use... Code: Select allsudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts to accomplish that. Unfortunately, it's a no go in Lenny. Could one of you kind folks, tell me how to adapt this to Debian? Thanks Have ya tryed just dropping to root with "su" and then making your links? Cheers |
hello to all, I use network-manager-gnome to connect to my wireless networks, but I can only use it with a graphical environment, and it doesn't even work that well since it will drop the connection after a few minutes and I have to reconnect it manually, that means I cannot leave my computer downloading a big file all night since it will only download for a few minutes, does anyone know what package can I use to connect to my wireless without the need of network-manager, even if it's through command line??? thanks. | have you tried wicd ? or via the commandline,using the ifup/down commands ? one or the other may help. If the device is dropping the connection after a short period,try changing the channel on the router,or it could be interference.Maybe a bad driver, Andy |
I am experiencing the slow transfer speed from my Lenny to Windows 7. Both of my NIC's are oboard Nvidia nForce 1GBPs. For example 200MB transfer from Win to Lenny (default samba shares) takes about a minute, while the other way around takes an hour!!!. I get similar transfer behavior through sFTP. Can somebody clarify if the problem is in NIC drivers, MTU (I can't set it up higher than 1500), or smb.conf settings - tried several suggestions but no luck. I read similar threads but there were no final solutions. Any help would be much appreciated. THX | Try pinging in both directions. You can do it with samba turned off. That should enable you to eliminate or implicate smb.conf. |
I use lenny but when I use the example time -f "%E real,%U user,%S sys" ls -Fs Code: Select all-bash: -f: command not found real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Is this a bug or what is wrong use the example from "man time" | man time wrote:Users of the bash shell need to use an explicit path in order to run the external time command and not the shell builtin variant. On system where time is installed in /usr/bin, the first example would become Code: Select all/usr/bin/time wc /etc/hosts So, you might want to try: Code: Select all/usr/bin/time -f "%E real,%U user,%S sys" ls -Fs |
i'm trying to setup google calendar on spicebird but i dont know which url to put in the Location field | In Google Calendar click Settings -> Calendars -> Name of calendar -> Private Address -> XML that's the string that IceWeasel wants Here's in images http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/add-inse ... n-webpage/ but in point 5 you click on the XML instead |
For some reason, neither the Firefox 3.6 precompiled binary nor 3.5.6 in the Debian repos likes the libflashplayerplugin.so needed for Flash. Whenever I visit a page with embedded flash, Firefox immediately crashes. I am on a fairly fresh system -- just re-installed Debian today -- and I didn't have this problem before which was from a Lenny / 5.03 installation. | How did you obtain Flash? Just via the flashplugin-nonfree package from Debian (contrib) repos? |
Hello! I have some rkhunter warning, and I am wondering what should I do. First one is like here And this is in email message. Code: Select allWarning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8g', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'sshd', version '5.1p1', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. One or more warnings have been found while checking the system. Please check the log file (/var/log/rkhunter.log Another one is just in email message, it is appeared only a few days ago. As I remember there wasn't any rkhunter package updates. Code: Select allPlease inspect this machine, because it may be infected. I tried to run chkrootkit - but it didn't found anything. | rkhunter looks at upstream versions and if they are newer than the Debian version gives that warning. Nothing to be concerned about. |
i got an asdl-modem and a router behind that. before that i just had the asdl-modem and connected with pppoeconf. i start the OS and run apt-get update. all is fine. i open iceweasel and it takes very long till a site is loaded. now and then it can't find the site at all. i rerun apt-get update and it hangs. ---------- that way it has been the day before yesterday. before that all was fine. i tried this: disabled the port-forwarding for torrent. stopped ssh. disabled java and javascript in iceweasel. tried kazehakase and epiphany. restarted /etc/init.d/networking some times. changed the dns from set addresses to "let the ISP offer them" i checked from the second OS, same PC i checked from a live-cd. that did work. odd. ----------- yesterday it worked, without any changes. today it completely crashed: the sites don't open at all ("...time out...") i ran from a live and it didn't work neither. i wanted to open the routers interface, it says: "done", but the site is empty. i connected the PC directly to the modem and ran pppoeconf. it seems to work fine. ----------- my question: what is the general path of troubleshooting this, first steps, last steps? especially what man-pages/commands do i got to check to check if my router is getting abused? might that be? might be the router is borked? thanks. ps: i think that fits, and it should be said in each thread at minimum once: "that sucks" Siemens ADSL C2-010-l ; the modem Netgear RP614 ; the router Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E | i have replaced the dns-namservers (in the routers interface), and it worked like a charme for some time. a moment ago i booted and it has stopped working. iceweasel is very bad, epiphany seems to be better (from which i post). anyone has got an idea or similar problems? ps: upgrading the firmware? : http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12456 |
Hey All, So my install is 3 days old and moving right along! I've got an issue I can't figure out with using mutt, or maybe it's icedove, with sending emails locally from scripts. The emails are being sent and received ok but I'm getting the below popup in icedove. I've tried every domain name permutation I can think of and this issue persists. Is there a way to issue a certificate or is this blindly obvious and I'm missing it??? Ideally I'ld like to be able to send mail to barrie@localhost without any issues. Maybe I need to delete the one being presented??? Popup in icedove: domainError.jpg (39.91 KiB) Viewed 424 times TIA, Barrie | Solved by generating a self signed certificate for localhost using this link. Barrie |
after an upgrade i got an american keyboard-layout in the login-terminal. i ran dpkg-reconfigure console-data: its said keyboard layout would be german. i ran dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-layout: same thing. i checked the bugs for console-data and keyboard-layout: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepor ... nsole-data http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepor ... figuration and the best i could find is this (console unusable after upgrade): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564611 but it doesnt seem to be exactly the same problem. its since about a week.main problem is the password, else its a little annoyance, not more. anyone else experienced this (and has got a solution)? | Might be worth searching the sidux forum to see if anyone is having the same issue. Since a lot of the sidux ppl use german. Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure console-setup? |
I've just installed Lenny (i386) and have also installed flash-plugin-nonfree from debian backports. I can't access the flashplayer settings. Could someone else with the same flash installed tell me if their settings option is also greyed out, so I can know whether there's something wrong with my installation or whether this is just how the package installs? Thanks. | http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... ger02.html |
My wireless works without issue with network manager. However I notice that it seems to be a gui only app. That is, when i stop the display manager my laptop loses internet connectivity. The NetworkManager service is still running. is there a commandline method of using the NetworkManager settings to start the wireless connetion? | http://code.google.com/p/network-manager-cli/ http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ |
I am learning to build my own virtualhost server, and has somehow succeeded in building a test host server using dyn.dns.org as dns server. Now I want to host my photos on my server. I found that debian lenny has this package "libapache-gallery-perl". I also found gallery2, but it not a package in lenny. I cannot find much documentation on libapache-gallery-perl. I found one for gallery2. Please advise me which is a better package to use. I know I can upload my pictures to photo hosting websites, but I prefer to have it on my own. TIA. | Hi, Maybe this site helps for Gallery2: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Inst ... _on_Debian There is more info about Gallery2 for Debian, and according to this site it is available in the repositories. If you can't find it in apt you can also just upload and install on your server, more on this is here : http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_ ... l_Gallery2 Since it is a php-program installation (except creating the mysql-database) can be done by putting the programs in an apache directory and pointing your webbrowser to the right location. You can also try Coppermine, install is similar: http://coppermine-gallery.net/ I hope this helps. Which of those ( or any other) is better is hard to say, it depends on what you want. I would advice you to install and try both and then make your choice. Alex. oldboy wrote:I am learning to build my own virtualhost server, and has somehow succeeded in building a test host server using dyn.dns.org as dns server. Now I want to host my photos on my server. I found that debian lenny has this package "libapache-gallery-perl". I also found gallery2, but it not a package in lenny. I cannot find much documentation on libapache-gallery-perl. I found one for gallery2. Please advise me which is a better package to use. I know I can upload my pictures to photo hosting websites, but I prefer to have it on my own. TIA. |
i installed debian in virtualbox. ran: Code: Select allrsync -e ssh -auv --exclude="/proc/*" ... --exclude="/lost+found/*" / root@desktop-sid:/media/stick/backup i mounted the stick on the other installation (on another PC) and rsynced it to partition 3 Code: Select allmount /dev/sda1 /media/stick mount /dev/hda3 /media/restore rsync -ahv /media/stick/backup/ /media/restore edited fstab of /media/restore/etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst of hda1 when i boot i get an error2: wrong file or directory (root /boot/vmlinuz/2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hda3 ro) i may mount /dev/hda3 from /dev/hda1 and chroot into it. all i may find about error2 is ubuntu-babel ("i got an error" "uhh, wow, i got the same error" "perhaps try a tea" "oh, thanks guys, that helped me so much" "might be that is related to an error in my sources.list?" "not sure"...) ps: about the why i do it that way: don't ask. its a very long and confuseling story. there are different ways to reach my goal, but all are non-standard. butnut in all its shining glory: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=151682 update: i wanted to add /dev/hda3 as by-id, and it wasnt mentioned in /dev/disk/* at all. i reformatted the whole thing and am rsyncing again (with 64MB that takes a while...so i have to report back later) | i have just read that on PC's more old than 10 years some stuff needs to be at the first <insert size> MB of the hard-disk. might that be the problem? if so i could try it again (now that i restored and reconfigured the whole stuff all afternoon... ) |
I bought a netbook (Acer Aspire One A150) and tried setting up a dual boot with Windows and Debian Lenny. Shrinked the Windows partition to 20 GB after defrag and used the rest for Lenny. The Linux partition boots just fine, but not Windows. Here is what I get: Code: Select allBooting 'windows' rootnoverify (hd0,1) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart I did not test if Windows worked after I shrinked it, but I was able to run a system recovery with no errors just in case there was any corruption. Here is the output of fdisk -l: Code: Select allDisk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x11a8ba38 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 764 6136798+ 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/sdb2 765 3240 19888470 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb3 3241 19457 130263052+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 3241 3514 2200873+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb6 3515 6112 20868403+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 6113 19457 107193681 83 Linux sdb1 is probably the recovery partition, sdb2 is the Windows partition I am trying to boot into. Any ideas what to do? | Sorry for the confusion. sda was just my usb memstick. I`ll give you the new data: [root@localhost hallvor]# /sbin/fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x11a8ba38 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/sda2 765 3240 19888470 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 3241 19457 130263052+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 3241 3514 2200873+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 3515 6112 20868403+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 6113 19457 107193681 83 Linux [root@localhost hallvor]# Grub is installed on /dev/sda I think. Here is the output of menu.lst: [root@localhost hallvor]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=9c67842c-d28c-4cfc-80ec-65b6df5746e4 acpi=on resume=UUID=2f230b89-7587-4654-8d08-3de676d34398 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=9c67842c-d28c-4cfc-80ec-65b6df5746e4 failsafe acpi=on initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img title windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 title windows1 root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 [root@localhost hallvor]# Edit: I changed the entry for Windows XP in /boot/grub/menu.lst to title Microsoft Windows root (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!! )))))) Thanks a lot! |
I signed up to ipredator but I can't seem to get it to work in Debian. i followed the directions for Ubuntu which I assumed would work in Debian - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1189343 Unfortunately after creating and configuring my VPN connection there was no way to connect to it. The option to connect to it is greyed out. Anybody have any idea why this might be? I'm using Xfce btw. Thanks PS - network manager claims that for my Wired network (i connect through ethernet), "device not managed"? Is this relevant? Edit - I've managed to crack this nut. As i suspected it had something to with the "device not managed" I mentioned in the postcript. To solve this you have to change the line "managed=false" to "managed=true" in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf. VPN works fine now! More info avaliable here - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517194 | I'm grateful that you made this post. I've got somewhat the same situation as you do, but am coming at it from a different direction. In my case I did a clean installation of Squeeze (with Xfce) on my system. I was kind of happy to see that WICD was installed as the new network manager application. I've been in the habit of installing it in place of network-manager in earlier releases of Ubuntu because earlier versions of network-manager didn't work for me. (laptop, moving around a lot with fixed IP here, dhcp there, wired here, wireless there, etc.) Anyway, I decided to try out UltraVPN. The only information I can find on getting it to work involves use of network-manager. I installed the openvpn and network-manager packages from the repositories and get all the way through the process of creating the client configuration, but network-manager in the notification area is shown as being inactive and the UltraVPN session I created is present but grayed out in the context menu, though the "Enable Networking" checkbox is checked. The thing is that both WICD and Network Manager are being started. I seem to remember that network-manager used to get removed when WICD got installed under Ubuntu (well over a year ago). I kind of expected installation of Network Manager to cause WICD to be tossed. But they are both sitting there in the notification area. Is it dumb of me to wonder what happens when you have two network management applications trying to manage an interface? I'd rather not just toss out WICD if it isn't necessary because a) I like it, and b) it's probably been chosen as the new standard applet for some reason. I'd rather not be breaking something else while I'm trying to get UltraVPN to work. Ideas? Just go ahead and tell network-manager to manage the interface? Remove WICD? Try to find a way to make WICD support VPN? |
Hi, I've build a package using dpkg-buildpackage but whenever I run aptitude safe-upgrade it upgrades the package I compiled as well even though it's the same version is there a way to tell it to leave it alone? Thanks | You can also try Code: Select allaptitude hold <package> |
How do I remove all of kde in one command except for the kde packages that I have installed before doing apt-get install kde? Any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! | Code: Select allaptitude purge kde just a guess You may need to reinstall some things |
Debian, lenny, last release, downloaded on 5 DVD and installed from! Iceweasel, on Plaxo.com, freezes all the computer, damn it. It wouldn't even turn off. unplug, restart, iceweasel, plaxo, same. 4 times in a row. Nex day, regular, no problem, leaved Iceweasel open while grabbing a bite in the kitchen, at my return computer frozen on scereensaver., mouse blocked, nothing moves again, unplug, restart. Afer a couple of weeks, Iceweasel starts disapearing from the desktop while working. Like a program crush. Only no crush mesage! Restart Iceweasel, message from the system, Icweasel alredy runing, cannot start another session before turning off this one, please restart your computer. (wierd, previously I had various Iceweasel sessions open in paralel with multiple folders open each, never had problems opening another session) Got to third desktop, and try there, same message. I gave up, now I work on Epiphany, but is not that fancy, what should I do, maybe installing Opera? Anybody who knows what's beneath the surface, I need some imput, my brain is toasting towards getting in flames.... Emil. | I suspect that your computer is freezing because the DVDs had errors on them. If the problem persists, you can download the netinstall ios and install from the net. My advice is to use a CD as an installation medium because the tend to be more reliable - at least, this is what I heard. |
Hello all, I just installed Maple, a computer algebra system. I used to have version 12 and now I installed 13. From the moment I installed 13, I had problems running both versions. I guess I shouldn't install them both together. So I deleted the installation folders (/opt/maple12 and /opt/maple13) as well as any configuration files (~/.maple). I couldn't find anything else containing the word 'maple' so I assume I completely removed anything (and there was no uninstallation script, so I assume the only way to do it is to manually delete everything). Now no matter what version of maple I install, or what command I give, I get this: and after about a minute, this: The only thing I found was this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Maple#Troubleshooting which doesn't apply to me as it states that this problem is caused when you install maple in a fat32 partition - not my case. Also the second error message talks about conflicts with firewalls. To my knowledge, I have nothing installed. I even went on and removed wicd, which I thing was dumb, but nevertheless gave it a try. Still the same problem. Can anybody guide me to the right direction about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. | Keep in mind that i know exactly NOTHING about this software. I did however find this: http://www.mapleprimes.com/blog/optimus ... abledlinux Seems applicable. |
today i installed windows xp in virtualbox. problem is: i can't connect to the internet. i remember it to be done automatically. whatever i do, it tells me the device (modem or whatever) is not getting recognized. if i recall correct the internet-connection with win-xp is getting done just like in linux, you install the OS, and after that its getting done with dhcp. 1)can anyone who has got windows installed in vbox confirm that (its a while ago)? 2)might be its related to the router i added short ago? i wouldn't say so. 3) someone has got a reliable dns-nameserver for resolv.conf to offer? thanks, no biggie, worst case is removing it again. | I've never tried Windows in vbox but I'll nose in anyway. In your vbox settings, you do have the network adaptor enabled, don't you? |
Hi all, I need some advice about vim. I have set vim to automatically wrap the line after some certain length by putting something like Code: Select allset textwidth=110 in my .vimrc file. The thing is that sometimes I will go back and correct some text, adding a few things in the beginning of the line maybe, so the wrapping will be messed up. Is there a way to run some kind of wrapping to the whole text file? That is, you finish editing and you have some long lines here and there, and you want to make them wrap automatically, not by hand, by running some command. Or maybe there is a plugin or something that could do that? Thanks a lot in advance.. | * Edit the text in whatever way. * Select your text using <shift>-v (visual line) selection, select the portion of the file or complete file where you want to do indent * assume that you already set textwidth accordingly, now press "gq" without going to command mode, immediately after the selection. This does formatting the text again. For more details in vim, use help :help textwidth :help ins-textwidth :help gq |
hi, i got this situation after watching a movie for approx 2 hrs, browsing, and in the middle of downloading a file with 3 iceweasel windows active. my system uses more than 1 gig of RAM. is it normal ? FYI, i've never had this on ubuntu. | whats the ouput of free -m |
Hi, I tried to post this first to virtualbox forums, but apparently nobody there has any clue, and it might have nothing to do with vbox per se, after all is said and done. It might be another problem altogether. so here goes: The thing is, I have Smoothwall (3, with latest patches) running in VirtualBox 3 atop a Debian 5 install. Everything runs a-ok with 100% working rate when I connect to the smoothwall (via web browser interface) with the host machine (debian). If, however, I connect to the smoothwall from ANYWHERE else from the network, it works only in "read-only mode". meaning I can see every setting in the smoothwall's web interface, but I can't infact affect it in any way. If I try to add a setting and click "apply" (or somesuch) the page only reloads. I can't restart the smoothwall via the web interface, can't update, can't do anything. (Same with ssh really, I can't even issue a simple reboot command via ssh to the smoothwall.) smoothwall's virtual hd image resides in /home/user/.VirtualBox/... whatever is the default location, I didn't change that. user is logged in. I tried changing permissions on the file/directory to quite a few different settings, but even 777 didn't work. I think the problem is with some permissions, but I just don't have any idea where to look and what to change? What permissions do I need to change so VirtualBox pretty much has all permissions it needs so external access can change guest settings? | have you tried different network adapters. i can`t remember exactly what is for what, but not each of them is capable of being accessed from everywhere (its to be found in virtualbox`s help under network-settings). might be the source of your problem? i`m good of with the host-only-adapter as the second one, besides the NAT one for internet. i would leave away all the smoothwall-stuff and ask for that on the vbox-forum (like: "how am i able to access vbox-guest from my network", add how the network is setup, which network-adapter, interfaces file of the guest, etc). perhaps try the smoothwall forum too... good luck. ps: i`m happy to be corrected. |
Firstly - hi all Ok, now that the formalities are over (eh ), I'm really stumped on this on. I consider myself, while not exactly expert, but "well-known" amongst the linux world. (I've had a debian www/dns server for what, ten years? and my first linux desktop was RH3...) Anyways, I recently had a few hardware failures and had to build two servers from the ground up. Both are installed from netinst images, with a day or two between (and are kept up to date). One of the is a www/dns server, the other is a more general-purpose server, currently running router in virtualized form. Sorry, I keep getting side-tracked. ANYWAYS. both of them have a spare 100G or so that I shared via samba for ease of access to certain transfers. one of the shares (#1) is a directory /opt/share, the other (#2) is a directory in /mnt/stuff/share. That's practically all the difference there is. #1 works, #2 doesn't. I even copied the smb.conf from #2's machine to #1's machine so now the ONLY difference between the two configs are the share paths and comments. both machines have my user account (with same password on both machines, and even same uid/gid). I can access the #1 share from my Win7 desktop just fine, without any problems. BUT when accessing #2, I only get a password dialog that doesn't accept any user/password combinations I can come up with. where can I look? What more places are there to look for the culprit? more info: both machines have 2 NICs both have eth0 lan-only and access the net via eth1 /etc/network/interfaces are identical save IPs. oh, and both machines of course have the same samba version. I'm out of ideas, can anyone give ANY pointers? | Uh, is #1 and #2 on the same computer or are you saying #1 is on one computer and #2 is on another computer? Kinda lost me there.... might be a good idea to post your smb.conf files also, what are the permissions on the share folders |
Hello all, I am about to do a format on my laptop (now having debian squeeze) and I would like my amarok1 back, so I was thinking about doing a small sacrifice, that is, forget about bleeding edge software and going back to lenny so that I'll get to use amarok1 again. I was wondering, is amarok2 ever going to be in Lenny? Please let me know. If so I think I will use arch and kdemod3, but I would like to avoid it.. Thanks a lot! | No Lenny is stable and will not get new versions. Stable only receives bug and security fixes. |
! After daily update,now the problem suddenly disappeared, I suspect it's a package bug. How to remove partition label under places>>removable media Hello, After I upgrade debian(squeeze) in one day,I found some partition labels are duplicated ,and the old one can't let me access this partition,just show a error messageCode: Select all"Unable to mount debian_root timeout waiting for mount appear",but from system monitor I find it is mounted after I click it ,but only not open the partition automatically,if I click this label again ,then it showsCode: Select all"mount: /dev/sda6 already mounted or /media/debian_root busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda6 is already mounted on /media/debian_root" if I click the above one which recognized by the system ,then it will open the folder of this partition.it is ok the 160G is a IDE hard disk and 320G is a SATA hard disk,but I don't think it's a critical case for this issue so how to remove this ineffective label? | As root, issue the command "fdisk -l". Also, rell us the contents of /etc/fstab. This is not removeable media, Just a hard disk, right? |
I need to extract the contents of a zip file contained in a .exe windows file without using Windows because I don't have it installed anymore. Is it possible? | I guess it depends on the .exe. Some are executable binaries and others are just shells for files. I downloaded winrar.exe to check. I can open it with gnomes archive tool. If you think a zip file is inside, maybe its just a wrapper. I run sid and have non free rar and unrar and I can open some .exe. I hope I helped, good luck. |
I use debian sid. Connect to mysql (5.1) through connector j (jdbc) v 5.1 . It had been working fine before yesterday until I receive the following error message: "Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from server". I tried different versions of jre (even openjdk6), and also previous version of connnector (5.0.. In case of connector 5.0.8 I receive the following error message box: Alternatively, I am able to connect with MySQL native connector but only if "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" is used under Socket field. I even tried reinstalling openoffice.org (v 3.1.1) and mysql, but same result. What else could be misconfigured in here? | try this: http://groups.google.com/group/linux...d099cf65123551 edit /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf change 'net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1' to 'net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0' |
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