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Fetching the html for some web sites sometimes results in large outputs that exceed what can be scrolled/accessed using the up/down features. How can I move up/back to access the entire output; i.e., to the beginning of the html? It's probably something simple, but even after reviewing the man bash page, I can't find the trick. Duh! | in console or terminal: Code: Select allshift+page up |
I have Debian Etch installed on 2.4 Ghtz P4 with 1GB of RAM. Everything is working great (even Compiz-Fusion). The only problem I have is with the system sounds enabled, I have no audio on videos in VLC or in Iceweasal flash (YouTube). When I disable system sounds the audio for the videos is fine. I know the system sounds are kinda lame but I'm a bit partial to them. Is there some way I can configure Debian so they both work simultaneously? Here is the output from "cat /dev/sndstat". > cat /dev/sndstat > Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code) > Kernel: Linux debiandesktop01 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 > Config options: 0 > > Installed drivers: > Type 10: ALSA emulation > > Card config: > Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981A at 0xf8500400, irq 209 > > Audio devices: > 0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (DUPLEX) > > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > Timers: > 7: system timer > > Mixers: > 0: Analog Devices AD1981A | Code: Select all find /dev -group audio This command shows all your audio-devices. ( ignore the errormessage ) Code: Select all lsof -w $( find /dev -group audio 2>/dev/null ) With this command you can see which apps uses which devices. If an app uses /dev/dsp* then that one might be the problem. All apps should use the alsa devices in /dev/snd/* to work simultaniously. --Japser. |
I downloaded a backup file from a web host using Plesk. Please don't ask about this host--they are TERRIBLE. Anyhow I see online that there is a tool called ripmime which I can use to unpack it. Problem is I apparently must compile the C code. I tried compiling the source from http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/downloads.php but I don't know how to compile and this failed miserably. I did find this page http://www.tarp.org.uk/djm/debian/ with a Debian package for ripmime so I tried that but I get Code: Select alldebian:~/Desktop# dpkg -i ripmime_1.4.0.7-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package ripmime. (Reading database ... 104294 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ripmime (from ripmime_1.4.0.7-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ripmime: ripmime depends on libc6 (>= 2.6-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5. dpkg: error processing ripmime (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: ripmime In synaptic I don't see any newer version of libc6. Can someone suggest some way I can either install this tool or unzip this crazy file? The file actually came with a .08 extension--I tried opening it with 7zip in Windows and it DID generate a much larger file with no extension. This large file is 1.3 G which is what Plesk reports is our file usage, so it seems that indeed it's not a zip but some sort of package, so I think that a MIME archive may indeed be what it is. Not really sure, however. Thanks | When you extract the tar.gz file you will see a file called "INSTALL". It's the install instructions... Code: Select alltar -xvzf ripmime-1.4.0.7.tar.gz to unpack under the current directory. |
Hi all!I have a strange problem which happens every time i open images with gimageview (gimv),or browsing the web(randominly) . When i use vesa i dont have problems but i really need accelerated graphics so i use the s3virge driver.Here is the problem: And here is my xorg file: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "vbe" Load "int10" Load "extmod" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "s3/virge" Driver "s3virge" BusID "PCI:0:8:0" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 28-38 VertRefresh 43-72 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "s3/virge" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Also i noticed that on older versions of xorg i had some further options for this graphic card(s3 virge) that doesnt show up on etch xorg version. This is an old laptop and debian etch performs really good on it but i have this annoying problem.Is there any way to fix this?? Thanks (and sorry for bad english ) | Hmm... will the vesa driver work? |
What's the difference between "debian-40r3-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent" and "debian-update-4.0r3-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent" from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0 ... 64/bt-dvd/ ? | about 2gigs different... one is to install a system and one is to update a system |
I feel completely stupid for asking this, but: I can log in with SSH with my user name. However, Gnome tells me that its an invalid user name/password. I even created a new user to test with, and the auth log shows: Code: Select allJul 22 12:31:31 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=test And the Syslog shows: Code: Select allJul 22 12:13:32 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: Couldn't authenticate user Jul 22 12:13:47 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: Couldn't authenticate user Jul 22 12:14:34 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: Couldn't authenticate user Jul 22 12:15:53 ATL3CLANDeb gdm[2878]: Couldn't authenticate user however, that user can log in via SSH without issue. I know its probably something stupid I did, but I am lost. Please help | I am thinking that maybe something got out of whack, or maybe I made a change some where? What sort of change would affect GDM, but not SSH? I thought they both goto the same place for user auth. Any suggestions would be helpful. |
I would like to slowly move over my files to Debian but I can't seem to get access to the partition in which Ubuntu is installed. With Ubuntu I had access to the Windows partition! Anyway; here is the output for the problem: Unable to mount the selected volume. libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set. process 12361: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application. error: device /dev/hde5 is not removable error: could not execute pmount __________________________________________________________________________ Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! | Open a terminal, su, mount. pmount only works with removable devices. |
i'm trying to get port forwarding working 3 interfaces eth1 192.168.2.0/24 internal net ppp0 external net -inet over eth0 192.168.1.0/24 i'm trying to forward 110 port on eth1 to 10.10.10.1:110 via ppp0 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.10.10.1:110 what should I do? | the solution is iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 110 -j DNAT --to-destination mailserverip:110 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -p tcp --dport 110 -j SNAT --to-source ipppp0 |
hey fellas, i'm new at linux. so, i got 192.168.1.0/24 local network 192.168.1.1 - mail server 192.168.1.2 - windows machine && mail client 192.168.1.3 - my machine so, the mail client 192.168.1.2 should send and receive mail through my machine (i know it's stupid so don't tell) and i have to forward smpt/pop ports to mail server iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.1.3 -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.1 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.1.3 -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.1 doesn't work | i dont know iptables very well but if my limited knowledge is right you are trying to: If traffic goes to 192.168.1.3 on eth1 to port 25 then forward it to 192.168.1.1 Doesnt it suppose to look like: If traffic goes to port 25 then forward it to 192.168.1.1 I might be misunderstanding iptables, i might be wrong. But i do use firehol and this is what i use to forward traffic: nat to-destination 192.168.1.233:80 proto "tcp" dport "81" src which translates to iptables like this: # CONF:INIT>>> nat to-destination 192.168.1.233:80 proto tcp dport 81 src "87.247.109.249" # INFO>>> Creating chain 'nat.5' under 'PREROUTING' in table 'nat' /sbin/iptables -t nat -N nat.5 /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 87.247.109.249 --dport 81 -j nat.5 # INFO>>> Taking the NAT action: 'dnat' /sbin/iptables -t nat -A nat.5 -p tcp -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.233:80 Dont know if it helps you, again i have very limited knowledge of iptables |
I have a bunch of files called Code: Select allimg_1001.jpg img_1006.jpg img_1007.jpg img_1008.jpg img_1013.jpg img_1015.jpg img_1021.jpg and I would like to have them renamed toCode: Select all1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg etc I assume there is an easy bash script to make this work. thanks | Code: Select all#!/bin/bash i=1 for l in `ls | grep img` ; do echo $l renamed to $i.jpg mv $l $i.jpg let i++ done I guess it should fit your needs, coded it for you in 1 minute or so. |
My system came to a halt, well almost anyway. It took several minutes to change workspace to where I have top running in a terminal. Mem: 451248k total Swap: 489972k total All swap was gone and a few kilos were left of the RAM. ld-linux.so.2 used it all. I figured it would finish it's task if I gave it more memory by killing Opera. But there was no response at all from the keyboard. After 35 minutes I used the big button to restart the computer. Is this a known issue? I have found references to ld-linux.so.2 in the forum and among the bugs, but nothing that resembles my problem. top doesn't show the whole truth. As it was, in time, updated, the combined usage of CPU of the processes didn't exceed 10% but the CPU was 0,0% idle. I'm runing Lenny and Gnome[/list] | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=754944 |
I'm having a problem with MLDonkey on a machine running Debian Etch. The problem is that I am always assigned a lowid and I'm being blocked from several servers as a result. Here are the details: OS: Debian Etch 2.6.18-4-686 MLDonkey version: 2.8.1-2etch1 The MLDonkey server is behind a router/firewall. It is assigned an internal IP address of 192.168.10.2 The public IP address of my router is 57.24.170.197 MLDonkey is configured to use TCP port 6432 and UDP port 6436. Both of these ports are open in the router and mapped to 192.168.10.2. I've done some extensive searching on Google and found this: http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/LowID I followed the instructions there. i.e., I set client_ip to my public router IP address (57.24.170.197) and set force_client_ip to true. That makes no difference. I'm at a bit of a loss here. I have no idea what the problem could be. When I try to use the connection test (found here: http://tdn.no-ip.org/connection_test ) I get this message: timeout : could not established connection. What could the problem possibly be? Does anyone else have this problem? | Problem solved. For some bizarre reason, I had to enable Overnet and open the port for that. Who'd have thunk? |
here's the situtation. I am creating some flow charts for work in open office draw (which is a breeze) but i am attempting to find a method to convert the resulting .odg files into a format that is above-all viewable using microsoft office or if at all possible editable in MS office. I have been attempting to use unoconv to convert it to practically anything that it can and i am getting slapped with Code: Select allmadsc13ntist@madhatter:~/Desktop$ unoconv flowchart\ template.odg --format=pdf unoconv: UnoException during conversion: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. unoconv: file `--format=pdf' does not exist. madsc13ntist@madhatter:~/Desktop$ unoconv flowchart\ template.odg --format=jpg unoconv: UnoException during conversion: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. unoconv: file `--format=jpg' does not exist. madsc13ntist@madhatter:~/Desktop$ unoconv flowchart\ template.odg --format=xls unoconv: UnoException during conversion: The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format. unoconv: file `--format=xls' does not exist. The question is simply this: has anyone every found a method for converting .odg files into something that is (at bare minimum) viewable in word, excel or visio? any help would be greatly appreciated as this is for work and it would make my life alot easier. the below is completely irrelevant but fun/interesting: This project involves creative flowcharts, my project manager has restricted expenditures and software that has not been approved... which includes OO.org (for reasons that are too ridiculous to share). so I asked for a copy of visio... but I am told that we would have to pay for a license which means no and Linux is not support in the enterprise network so I made the comment that eliminating open-source software as a whole and not being willing/able to pay for a license for visio I was left with MS paint and that would be prohibitively labor/time intensive. So I made the comment that I made OO.org flowcharts at home and that it would be 1,000 times easier for me to just do my work at home... so he said okay. the point: If I am able to convert .odg files to files that are viewable (hopefully editable) by an XP user that has office 2k3(or 7) installed then I can continue to work from home for quite some time.... I have never.. been able to work from home.... I would GREATLY appreciate any help that I can get to make this work. I have coding experience in a few langs and I'm a quick learner. I am prepared to reinvent the wheel to make this work, but if I don't have to I will be ecstatic! Many Many thanks to any/all who give me event he slightest advice. | If something that is viewable is enough, why don't you try to export from OpenOffice.org Draw to PDF? There are many PDF editors for Windows available and also converters to make PDF files into Word douments. Using converters is likely to have a 50% loss of the original data, but if you can export to functional PDF files directly from OpenOffice.org Draw then you have reached your bare minimum requirement. Welcome to the world of closed-source software. You use it or use alternatives and keep shooting your foot. |
there's on nagios web readme that tells: make sure the wwwrun user has read to all files and write access to your $nagios/etc directory but the apache user is www-data and there's only /etc/nagios and /etc/nagios2 what should a newbie do? | On debian system, apache process run as www-data and not wwwrun. So, do the same things but with www-data user. In your case, you have to read what nagios say as : Code: Select allmake sure the www-data user has read to all files and write access to your $nagios/etc directory |
Hey guys, I've been running a Debian system for awhile now and from the look of things it seems that there is a lot of clutter. I don't know if its too much but I have like 7 different debian versions when grub comes up. So I was wondered if there is a script or program that cleans up the clutter and frees some space up? Any help? Redbaron | localepurge apt-get clean deborphan check the forum data base. |
fsck is doing a disk scan every time I start my computer. Is there a way to reconfigure it? Do I need to reconfigure the package e2fsprogs? Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks. | this is probally something major wrong with the hd, i would be sure the drive was physically ok before trying to mess about with fcsk. hope this helps |
I was doing so spring cleaning as my root partition was bursting. I then did an upgrade and when I rebooted X was gone!! I thought dam I've broken something, never mind I was wanting more space in my root partition I'll just reinstall the root partition and kill two bird with one stone. No go it seems the new X is buggy: I have an emac 1ghz usb1 model with a ati radion 7500 running debian testing I tried using my back up xorg.conf file but still no go. This is a similar ppc but not identical. With the same problems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/153599 They seem to be able to fix things by down grading but I thought I'd better ask for advice before I embark on on such a venture, especially as I've be up for 27 hours ( first night shift ) I can hardly see let alone think know I need a to use the cli more so I'll not fret to much. | Jeumeu wrote:Hi, Did you install the ATI proprietary driver ? Had you an update of the kernel version ? In this case, you should re-install it with your new kernel... There is no ati driver for ppc, only the free one. I just tried a new kernel. No go. It's not really a major issue, all my data is safe and accessible and if needed an etch install is only half an hour away. I'll have a real try at sorting it tomorrow evening. |
I recently noticed that find no longer works. Code: Select all$ find grep find: grep: No such file or directory $ find gzip find: gzip: No such file or directory $ find cat find: cat: No such file or directory Anyone know what could cause this to happen? I don't know if it's related, but I recently used Knoppix to run e2fsck on the partition. I doubt that has anything to do with this problem, though, because I told e2fsck to check only and not make any changes. Phil | pcalvert wrote:I recently noticed that find no longer works. Code: Select all$ find grep find: grep: No such file or directory $ find gzip find: gzip: No such file or directory $ find cat find: cat: No such file or directory Anyone know what could cause this to happen? I don't know if it's related, but I recently used Knoppix to run e2fsck on the partition. I doubt that has anything to do with this problem, though, because I told e2fsck to check only and not make any changes. Phil Maybe you want which instead of find? Code: Select all# which grep /bin/grep # find / -name grep /usr/share/doc/grep /bin/grep |
Good morning/evening. I currently use cplay or moc but was looking at trying Sonata out. So I read that it's a front-end to mpd and you have to setup mpd manually. I'm having a hard time finding a real how-to for this however. Most of the information I can find is for users who want to access there music across different consoles/PC's. I simply want to try mpd+Sonata as a desktop music player ala amarok or audacious. My music is in home home folder. /home/omnicloud/media...how do i get sonata or mpd rather to pick up the music from that directory? In the mpd.conf file, I tried just changing the default directory of the music directory to match my home folder, but Sonata didn't respond. Can anyone offer me a step by step on how to do this? Or even a link with a How-to setting up mpd+Sonata as a Desktop player, and not a server player. any help in this regard is greatly appreciated. I've been trying to set it up for about days now...lol | Try this basic one: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15599 If that doesn't do the job, try this (more detailed) post: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration |
Hi.. i'm a linux newbie. I use Debian Etch. Today morning i updated Debian, using MARK ALL UPGRADES option in SYNAPTIC PACKAGE MANAGER. 1. Kernel was updated from 2.6.18-4-686 to 2.6.25-2-686 2. Iceweasel was updated to version 3.0 3. Gnome, synaptic & many others also got updated. Everything went smoothly. But after the updation completed, i noticed few things which i didn't like When i wanted to change the mouse pointer, main menu->system->preferences->mouse, i was surprised to find the POINTERS tab missing!! Only GENERAL & ACCESSIBILITY tabs are there. All the options except pointer themes are there. Now how do i change the mouse pointer theme?? GEDIT: I used to change the backgroud color, etc in FONT & COLORS tab in Edit->Preferences. But now, those options are missing in that tab. Instead something called color scheme is there. Though there is an option to create new color scheme files, i dont know how to create them. Can someone explain? ICEWEASEL: After this new version (3.0) installed, immediately it said "Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.0.20070525L could not be installed because it is not compatible with Iceweasel 3.0" I know this is not the right place to ask about google toolbar, but i just can't browse without this wonderful toolbar Somebody help me.. Plz.. | Those updates didn't come from the Etch repositories (or even from Lenny). It sounds as though you've got some Sid repos enabled, and it's something of a tribute to the Debian developers that the upgrade went so smoothly. |
I am trying to install Recorder in Debian xfce and I am getting the following. I am probably missing some libraries, but I cannot say which. Code: Select allinxsible@debian:~/recorder-1.3.2$ sudo make install install -m 755 -d /bin /share/applications /share/pixmaps install -m 644 recorder.png /share/pixmaps install -m 644 recorder.desktop /share/applications install -m 755 recorder /bin for lang in ar cs es fr pt_BR ru it; do \ install -m 755 -d /share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES;\ install -m 755 -d mo/$lang/LC_MESSAGES;\ msgfmt po/$lang.po -o mo/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo;\ install -m 644 mo/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo /share/locale/$l ang/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo;\ done /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/ar/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/cs/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/es/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/fr/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/ru/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 3: msgfmt: command not found install: cannot stat `mo/it/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 inxsible@debian:~/recorder-1.3.2$ Can someone help me out. The packages that are listed on the website are not found by aptitude search. How do I know if they are installed on my machine. "which", "locate" don't help. Maybe they haven't mentioned the version numbers of the packages or something. | Did youCode: Select all./configure makefirst? It may be referring to things that need to be built if you haven't. However, if you did, try using auto-apt - it will automagically get the needed packages. |
Hello! I would like to write a bash scrit that opens a window, waits for 2 secons, and then take a screenshot of the opened window, and finally close the window. Is there any way to do that? For example, if I want to take screenshots to a PDF, #!/bin/bash xpdf file.pdf (delay 2 seconds) import -window root file.png (close xpdf) I need to know the commands to delay 2 seconds, and to close xpdf. Can anybody help me, please?? Thank you! | I think "sleep" will work for this. |
Ok, this is a new one on me. On my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1405, Intel video card, Lenny, Openbox wm), I have (as of yesterday) some odd monitor (?) problems. (1) Twice the monitor has gone black, though I don't think the system failed. I couldn't get at a console, but if I held the power button for a second, I got a clean shutdown. (If the system had locked up, I should get the "dirty file system" message when I reboot, but I don't.) (2) Now today, my screen shakes from left to right occasionally. That's the best way I can describe it. After a few of those - when I became convinced the effect was real - I shut down the possessed monster. As comfortable as I feel messing with files and software, that's how uncomfortable I feel with hardware issues (which I'm guessing this is). Any thoughts or guesses would be welcome. Edit - I solved this for me, in a somewhat surprising way. On a lark, I decided to check if the problem related to gcc shipping a new version around that time. I recompiled my kernel, and boom - the problems disappeared and haven't reappeared since. Odd, but I won't knock success. | Definitely symptoms of a hardware failure, probably the video card failing. On a laptop, that's the kiss of death. Hopefully it's still under warranty. If not, hopefully it's just the monitor dying, which can be replaced. EDIT: Try connecting an external monitor, and use the function keys to keep toggling between internal and external display, to see if the problem follows the display. |
hey fellas, im kinda new at linux. got a quick question as i know if i would install the software from the sources (make, make install) that software wouldn't be registered in the system. so how to create a *.deb instead of doing "make install" thanks yall | You can use "checkinstall", install checkinstall and then instead of "make install" you type "checkinstall" follow the prompts and obtain a .deb This deb will not be a perfect deb package you can't share it with other people because it doesn't list dependencies, but it should serve the original purpose... To make a deb package that includes dependencies, install "dh-make", I wrote this short how-to here http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Packaging |
I upgraded from Etch to Lenny the other day and it seems pretty stable. However, the version of Wine that Lenny has doesn't seem to work with my app like Etch did. So can I just enable the etch repos and find the older version of wine that's already in etch to install? Also, I haven't found a decent compiz how to for lenny yet. Everything is compiz-fusion. my computer has a little over 1gb of ram, so I truly just want the basic functions of compiz or beryl. Anyone know a good how to? (btw--tried the compiz package in lenny didn't work, pluz it seems it's mixed with fusion packages as well) | oh, and I tried to get an older version of Wine from the official website, but my deb installer doesn't want to install it for some strange reason? I download it, then try to open the deb. file with the isntaller, and it just closes as soon as it opens... very strange... |
Hi, I updated linux-image-2.6.24-6 to linux-image-2.6.24-7 using Aptitude. However the ctalsa driver of my Creative X-Fi soundcard won't work anymore. I also tried to go back to 2.6.22-3 but I can't install the kernel headers (kbuild package is missing) needed for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers. Can I somehow undo the update or get the kernel headers? I use Lenny AMD64. Regards, Sladi | Did you remove the old one? If it's still there, Grub should still have it. Then it's simply a matter of booting to the old one. I always have two kernels: the previous one which worked flawlessly and the new one which I'm trying out. That way, I can always fall back. |
I've Googled this and done several aptitude searches, but this is what I get when trying to compile wine: Code: Select allconfigure: error: X development files not found. Wine will be built without X support, which probably isn't what you want. You will need to install development packages of Xlib/Xfree86 at the very least. I can't figure out what I need to install to get the development packages. Since I can't find the answer on the interweb, I thought I'd ask here. Thanks. | I've not tried to build WINE myself but try these two: Code: Select allxserver-xorg-dev libx11-dev In Debian you always need the -dev packages to build against. |
Hi everybody, I installed live-helper on a Debian Etch...I tried to create a simple image: Code: Select allmkdir DebianLive cd DebianLive (as root) lh_config lh_build but I obtain many errors like: Code: Select all tar: ./bin/umount: impossibile a cambiare il modo a rwsr-xr-x: Operation not permitted or Code: Select alltar: ./sbin/swapoff: impossibile creare un link simbolico a ’swapon’: Operation not permitted and, at the end: Code: Select alllh_chroot_proc missing what's the problem, according to you? Thank you | corra wrote:Hi everybody, I installed live-helper on a Debian Etch...I tried to create a simple image: Code: Select allmkdir DebianLive cd DebianLive (as root) lh_config lh_build but I obtain many errors like: Code: Select all tar: ./bin/umount: impossibile a cambiare il modo a rwsr-xr-x: Operation not permitted or Code: Select alltar: ./sbin/swapoff: impossibile creare un link simbolico a ’swapon’: Operation not permitted and, at the end: Code: Select alllh_chroot_proc missing what's the problem, according to you? Thank you Are you following the instructions in this post, live-helper create image and customize environment howto!? Cheers |
Hi again I decided to just try out other distro's with the free space that I had on my Hdd, so I installed PClinux minime. Everything seems ok so far, but PC linux only boots up it's own kernel by default. There's an option in the configuration to add new boot-up options but you have to specify the kernel image. I would've written them down if I new that! I'm looking for my Ubuntu 8.04 live CD now, to see if I can copy the kernel, but since I upgraded from Etch to testing with Debian--i don't really know where to look... Does anyone know how to do this like, of the top of there head? PC linux was just supposed to be something extra that I played around with later, now it's all I can boot into!! I want to go back to Debian already plz help... | If your Debian install is untouched just boot into PCLinuxOS, mount the partition with Debian on it, chroot into it and restore Debian's grub. It's easy enough and it takes just a few commands from a terminal. Code: Select all# mount /dev/whatever/ /media/where-ever Where /dev/whatever is your partition with Debian on it and /media/where-ever the directory where you want to mount it. Code: Select all# chroot /media/where-ever Code: Select all# grub-install /dev/sda Or whatever your harddrive is called. You could then add the PCLOS kernel to Debian's grub if you want to play with it some more. |
When I used Windows on a regular basis, a friend told me to reinstall Windows at least every six months. The reason he gave me was that data written on hard-disks gets corrupt with time. I would like hear from you what you think, especially, from those of you who know how hard-disks work. Thanks. | It may well be true of Windows, but it's not true of hard disks. |
Just installed testing on my desktop computer. Starts to boot, then I get this error: Code: Select allpadlock: VIA PadLock not Detected. modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting padlock_aes (/lib/modules/2.6.24-1-686/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.ko): No such device After about 5 min, it times out and continues booting. | Try adding the module to the blacklist at: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Make a backup first and then : Code: Select allecho "blacklist padlock_aes" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist or edit with your favorite editor |
I'd like to edit menu.lst so I have an option to boot straight to CLI. "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" gets me there. But there are times I don't want to boot a desktop environment just to enjoy the CLI. Anyone know of a way? TIA! | Ook wrote:I'd like to edit menu.lst so I have an option to boot straight to CLI. "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" gets me there. But there are times I don't want to boot a desktop environment just to enjoy the CLI. Anyone know of a way? TIA! Why not just select the cli from your gdm login? Or remove gdm all together & use startx from the cli when you want the gui. Cheers |
Experts, please. Sometimes, when I do my apt-get upgrade, after all download, setingup and install, I can see these lines: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Anyone knows how to fix my locales? Thanks | dpkg-reconfigure locales |
A couple of days ago initscripts, sysvinit, sysvinit-utils and sysv-rc were updated in testing and on shutdown I now get the message "killing all remaining prosesses failed". Is anyone experiencing the same thing? | ' |
I'm not sure if this is the right forum category. I am running Kubuntu 7.10 on AMD64. I made the mistake of trying to install VMware 2 beta 2 using the RPM package and converting it to DEB via "alien --scripts -d". That part worked. Then I installed it with "dpkg -i". That also seemed to work, but VMware didn't work. I thought I successfully uninstalled vmware-server via aptitude. I then installed VMware successfully using the tarball, like I should have done in the first place, apparently. However, later I ran synaptic to get the updates that are available, and it immediately failed with an error message and kicked me out of the program. So, I tried aptitude. It complained about a broken install of this version of VMware, and to try to reinstall it first. I did that. Now, when I try to uninstall via aptitude, I get this error: Removing vmware-server ... [: 62: remove: bad number shift: 62: can't shift that many dpkg: error processing vmware-server (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: vmware-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Press return to continue. I have no idea what to do. I've Googled on "can't shift that many", and haven't found any help there. I've searched these forums, the Ubuntu forums, and the Kubuntu forums. There has to be some way to tell apt to drop this package from it's database or force an uninstall. I've read the man page and still have not found anything to clear this up. Until I get this cleared up, I am unable to install any updates, or use synaptic/apt for anything. I would really hate to have to do a complete wipe and reinstall with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 8.04 when it hits full release just because I have a corrupt apt database. Any help would be greatly appreciated! | We just talked about a similar issue in this thread: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... highlight= |
I am using debian etch testing (amd64 edition). When using the stable version, wine worked without any problems. The problems started after I dist-upgraded to testing. When trying to execute wine, the script reports: Code: Select all/usr/bin/wine: line 394: /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin: No such file or directory The executable exists in /usr/lib/wine and has execution permissions. The oddest part of this issue, is that this works sometimes. I just ran: Code: Select allroey@pc-roey-linux:~$ wine Wine called with no arguments. Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin ... roey@pc-roey-linux:~$ winecfg /usr/bin/wine: line 394: /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin: No such file or directory Wine failed with return code 127 roey@pc-roey-linux:~$ When doing that 5 minutes ago resulted failure in the "wine" command. The root user also has the same problem. I tried installing the single deb package from the wine site (using 2 different versions), and still no luck. | upgrade to sid, wine works perfectly ! |
I'm trying to set up an SSH tunnel to allow myself to use an SMTP server which is behind a firewall. I have an SSH server also behind the firewall that has access to the SMTP server. So, I ran this command: ssh -C -f user@ssh_server_ip -L 25:mail_server_ip:25 It asks me for my ssh user's password. I enter it an it appears to work. Then, I do a telnet mail_server_ip 25 and I get this: 220 relay.wanderingwifi.com ESMTP (99ec4d3757fa03f4260acf938ff158fa) I'm at a Caribou and obviously behind a proxy. Am I not going to be able to get this to work? | You need to telnet to localhost:25 You are forwarding traffic to your local port 25 to the remote machine's 25. |
Hi Guys I have a Debain Linux 4.0 etch I used to connect it using ssh I need to configure ffmpeg and flvtool2 I am not able to do it as the CHMOD and UNAME commands are not working. Can any body help me in this issue how to resolve this | I presume that you are typing those commands correctly in lower case? |
Is it possible to use Synaptic with Debian KDE install? How do I d/l it? Does not appear to be in repos and link from Synaptic site is dead. Thanks! | As root: Code: Select allapt-get update apt-get install synaptic |
I don't find VirtualBox in the repos. Is there any similar program that could be used in Debian? I wonder why it is not available when the site specifically shows several different builds for the various Debian releases? | It is in the Lenny Repos as the OSE version. It also can be added by adding the vbox repo described on the Virtualbox site. |
I brought a set of blanks DVD+R, admittedly cheap but I just want to have temporary storage anyway. So yesterday I created a MPEG DVD by using this command: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/, it worked fine and I was able to watch the DVD. Well today I attempted to create another set of MPEG DVD but was stumped as the output below indicated: Code: Select all$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/ Executing 'genisoimage -dvd-video DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) :-( /dev/dvd: 2295104 blocks are free, 3188750 to be written! :-( write failed: No space left on device I checked with the K3B burner and it doesn't read the blank DVD+R as well. I did a test by placing a different blank, a DVD+RW (as this is the only blank I have at the moment) and K3B recognised this DVD+RW disc fine. So what could be the problem? I must have missed something. | Disregard this query! I just discovered what the problem was. It was so obvious and staring at my face: Code: Select all:-( write failed: No space left on device I was attempting to write more than 4.7GB of data to the DVD disc. I forget to check the total amount of space in the /DVD file. Anyway, I have reduced the amount of data to fit in the 4.7GB disc and burn process is working. |
Hi guys, I'm new to Debian. I just installed sid and I'm trying to install Opera. This is what I get Code: Select alldebian:/home/corneliu# apt-get install opera Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package opera is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package opera has no installation candidate debian:/home/corneliu# What gives? Thanks in advance, Corneliu | http://deb.opera.com/ |
Today, I tried to update my Debian installation. aptitude failed issuing the following message: Code: Select alledbarx-pc:/home/edbarx# aptitude update Get:1 http://ftp.it.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B] Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch Release Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [257kB] Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/main Packages Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/contrib Packages Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/main Sources Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org etch/contrib Sources Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources [38.1kB] Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources Fetched 4B in 1s (3B/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt /lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or direc tory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems edbarx-pc:/home/edbarx# aptitude install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt /lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or direc tory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files edbarx-pc:/home/edbarx# Thanks in advance. | Maybe try replacing the /'s with spaces like this: Code: Select allhttp://security.debian.org etch updates main I don't really know, but that might help. |
Hi All, can someone please point me to a good how-to inorder to get my midi files to play? At present my players say they are playing but I get no sound out of my sound card. Everything seems to be in order, all my drivers for my card seem to be installed. Do I need to manually install sound fonts? I am a little lost here and havent been able to find a good resource for configuring midi under Debian. Thank you, Michael | Should be something like: Code: Select allaptitude install timidity This'll allow you to play midi files through ALSA. |
I just installed deinan testing. I found out the update manager does not allow me to deselect all updates. Right now, It has a long list of updates totaling 300MB. I only want to install a few now, and I don't want to individually deselect every update. Is there any way to avoid this? | My suggestion, use the Synaptic, have it mark the updates, then you try to deselect what you don't want. |
I need the kernel headers for kernel 2.6.19. If you have it please reply to this thread and I'll PM you my E-Mail address so you can e-mail it to me. Package name:linux-headers-2.6.19 | The filename ('custom') indicates that this is a kernel you have compiled your self and hence no one has the header you need. I think you can make them your self though if you have the source from which you made the kernel. I'm not entirely sure but I think it should be something like this: Code: Select allfakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=Custom_i386 kernel_headers Feel free to correct me everyone. I have never made just the headers, I usually do it as I compile the kernel. |
hi, debian linuxers, I tried to install opera 9.26 but I failed at all. I wrote those commands as supeuser after I downloaded opera straight at the opera site, as follows: dpkg -i opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb apt-get -f install in order to chek which step I made a mistake I pasted the error down there below: "debian:/home/otto# dpkg -i opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb dpkg: erro processando opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb (--install): impossível acessar arquivo: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado Erros foram encontrados durante processamento de: opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb debian:/home/otto# apt-get -f install Lendo lista de pacotes... Pronto Construindo árvore de dependências... Pronto 0 pacotes atualizados, 0 pacotes novos instalados, 0 a serem removidos e 0 não atualizados." again I tried this way: 1 - I opened the terminal as rooter. 2 - inside the terminal I pasted and I attached with the right button of the mouse this code: wget -c http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id ... sub=marine that command above should download the opera 3- when the download had finished , I wrote this command: Code: dpkg -i opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb thus, I pasted down there below another error again : debian:/home/otto# wget -c http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id ... sub=marine [1] 8809 [2] 8810 [3] 8811 debian:/home/otto# --13:31:08-- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=30546 => `get.pl?id=30546' Resolvendo www.opera.com... 195.189.143.135 Connecting to www.opera.com|195.189.143.135|:80... conectado! HTTP requisição enviada, aguardando resposta... 302 Found Localização: http://www.datawiz.co.th/pub/opera/linu ... n_i386.deb [seguinte] --13:31:09-- http://www.datawiz.co.th/pub/opera/linu ... n_i386.deb => `opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb' Resolvendo www.datawiz.co.th... 202.142.220.248 Connecting to www.datawiz.co.th|202.142.220.248|:80... conectado! HTTP requisição enviada, aguardando resposta... 404 Not Found 13:31:19 ERRO 404: Not Found. debian:/home/otto# afterwards, someone else suggested me to open an editor and replace the source lists. so I did. but it didn't solve up again. I opened the archive /etc/apt/sources.list as superuser and I inserted at the end this code: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free save and closed it. later on I updated the system with this command aptitude update and I tried again to install opera with another command, such as: aptitude install opera over and over again I didn't manage to install opera. I'm very disappointed with it because I was used to navigate with opera. I would ask to if someone can get some solution with this big troubesome opera error. I'd appreciate your helpful hints. Best Regards. | When I did that, it was easy. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list like this: Code: Select alldeb http://deb.opera.com/opera stable non-free And run: Code: Select allapt-get install opera Only it was not qt, but a regular one from here: http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/841/ Sorry, I don't understand your Spanish errors. |
I have an Officejet All-In-One (6100 series) and I wanted to scan something with it using Xsane. But when I start it up Xsane it says that no scanning devices are detected. Is there a package I need to install to get this certain scanner to work? Could somebody help me set up my scanner or give me a link to a good walk-though of how to set up a scanner in Debian. | try sane−find−scanner |
Application Post Cleanup? Is it possible to make a program started by clicking on in with KDE's menu to run a command on exit? This is my problem. I am using Kradio, as my front end for WinTv-PVR 350 radio. The default command Kradio uses does not make a connection to /dev/radio0. So I had to modify it like this. aplay -f dat < /dev/video24 & kradio When I close kradio it does not close aplay. This is a problem because if you started a tv stream you will not hear the last television channel that was played. My solution then was to go to the terminal and type the following command. # killall -9 aplay This will kill the audio from playing. Is there a way to make the application execute this command upon exiting? Or is their another way to accomplish what I am trying to do? Thanks, Lex | you could put this in a script. Code: Select allaplay -f dat < /dev/video24 & kradio killall -9 aplay make it executable Code: Select allchmod +x ./nameofscript Then when you close kradio the last line of script would execute. edit:you might have to put the initial redirect outside of this script, even though you are starting in background the script may sit waiting for that to complete until proceeding. |
The root terminal fonts on my Lenny installation are very small. Not the border fonts but the text fonts. The fonts on the user terminal seem to be an appropriate size. Is there a way to adjust the terminal text fonts? | This works in Etch and hopefully in Lenny. Right click on the terminal window --> Edit current profile --> Fonts. Change the font size and close to apply the changes. I hope this helps |
Using the instructions found here: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sudo.htm I have problems left and right. I have sudo and emacs installed, but I receive Code: Select alled@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/ed# emacs /etc/sudoers Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. when trying to open the file. I then tried using nano, which worked...at least, i put in that line with user in it...i tried replacing the line already in thereCode: Select allroot ALL=(ALL) ALL with Code: Select alluser ALL=(ALL) ALLand also just putting the user line under it...either way i get Code: Select alled is not in the sudoers file. Ack, whats up with this? This confusion probably stems from the fact I just transfered from Kubuntu land, and am trying to adjust. | fleetadmiral73 wrote:ps. How do I mark this thread as solved now? Edit the subject line of your first post... |
This is what I get fromCode: Select allaptitude update in Sid Code: Select allW: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems What!!! aptitude says to run apt-get????????? How is this possible?????? I am shocked and appalled Oh ya BTW Please do not tell me thatCode: Select allif it breaks you get to keep both parts That is unacceptable and insulting. But please do not get me wrong: Code: Select allI absolutely adore the Debian devs | Please post the complete error message. That is the end of a lot of standard error messages. It hasn't been adjusted (as far as I can tell) to note whether you are actually using aptitude or apt-get. |
Using nano for a log / diary (text)file. When opening this file I want a date and time (a timestamp?) on the first line and then enter a text and typing it every time is .. well .... What is the easy way to do this .. command? or keybind? or .... Probebly easy but .. I don't know and can't find it in the nano manpage and googled but .. no succes Freek | There is a program but i can't remember it, the grml distro uses it, maybe the boys at #grml in the irc will tell you. |
If I add the unstable (sid) repositories to the sources.list file Synaptic crashes because of a segmention fault, if I take the unstable repositories away it works just fine. Does anyone know how to add the unstable repositories without causing Synaptic and apt-get to go haywire? | Please post the non-functioning sources.list |
I just updated Debian (there were about 500 packages that needed to be updated) and when the update was almost finished Debian froze forcing me to shut down the computer forcefully. When I turned the power back on xserver could not start properly. I figured out the problem, for some reason nvidia-glx had been uninstalled. I tried installing it again using the command "apt-get install nvidia-glx", but it said it could not find the dependency nvidia-kernel-169.09. What should I do? | Well, while doing that upgrade (to testing?) you also installed a new kernel that gets booted by default, for which there isn't yet an nvidia kernel module. Now, you can always boot the old kernel (for which there apparently was an nvidia kernel module), all you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to change the default from 0 to 2 (or some such). If you want to use the new kernel, then you must first compile the new module, to be followed by installing nvidia-glx. Look at the Nvidia sticky in the Howto section of this forum for inspiration on how to compile the module (look towards the end of the thread). |
I have compiled the 2.6.24.1 kernel because acpi is much more stable and my laptop sleeps and wakes in about 4 seconds instead of 20 or so in the 23 kernel, but.... there is a problem. I cannot make wireless work. With the new kernel the ipw3945 driver doesn't work, but the iwlwifi driver is included in the kernel. So I compiled that in, and since I am using lenny I installed the microrode for the wlan from apt. But its not working, I can scan and connect to the wlan network. And I know the network works because I can use it if I reboot back to the 23 kernel, and it works on all the other computers at my house. I get this error form dmesgCode: Select allADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not readyI renamed it from "wlan0_rename" to eth1, but I was getting the same error before I renamed it. Any idea what I can do to make this work? And I have checked for stupid things like having the wireless switch off. Because I have done that before... | You were using ipw3945 driver before? So check /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and if you got there something like: Code: Select all# PCI device 0x8086:0x4222 (ipw3945) SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:19:d2:59:88:a7", NAME="eth1" then delete it and reboot your machine. |
Whenever I leave X and go into a virtual terminal.. the terminal is garbled and is showing information about ethernet, my mac adress etc... I can login however so it's not a huge problem. I just don't understand why there's information popping up on my VT. Any ideas? | You could try Code: Select allmesg n see if that quiets the VT. |
Hi I'm very new to Debian (ie 2 days) and I'm a little confused about the permssions system. I have 2 users, one called lma and the other rjo. I have a directory called publique configured as follows : Code: Select all ls -lah /home/ total 36K drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:44 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:47 .. drwxr-xr-x 21 lma lma 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:49 lma drwx------ 2 root root 16K 2008-03-04 12:34 lost+found drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:53 publique drwxr-xr-x 2 rjo rjo 4.0K 2008-03-05 14:24 rjo I create a test file with the user lma - but I can delete the file with the user rjo! Is this normal, I'd like to prevent one user from deleting the other users files. Here is an example : Code: Select all ls -lah total 12K drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:52 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K 2008-03-05 15:44 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 lma lma 6 2008-03-05 15:52 essai1.txt rjo@pctransf01:/home/publique$ rm essai1.txt rm: remove write-protected regular file `essai1.txt'? y rjo@pctransf01:/home/publique$ Why doesn't it tell me that access is denied? Am I doing something stupid?? Cheers, Lee | edit- my post was wrong eyelids post below is the correct answere |
Hey there, I would like to ask a few questions, so here they are: [solved]1- I have to run umount before shutdown, on two remote shares, otherwise the computer takes ages to shutdown. Can I edit the shutdown script to do that automatically, or is there another work-around?(credits to eyelid) [solved]2-Is there any deamon to check for emails on a server like yahoo and then run a command if the there are some on the server, or if a new email has arrived? Because my laptop has a blinking light that can be activated by running "led mail on" and that would be quite usefull. (credits to me) [solved]3-How can activate kernel modules at boot time? (credits to izar) [solved]4-Is there any program to check the acess speed of files on a disk? (Credits to NeddySeagoon @ gentoo forums) Thanks | I can help with #s 1 and 3, which basically work in similar ways. Runlevel scripts are all initiated in the /etc/rc[x].d/ directories. The files that control the unmount process are /etc/rc0.d/S40umountfs (for shutdown) and /etc/rc6.d/S40umountfs (for reboot). You could edit these scripts, but frankly I think it would be easier to simply make an alias that runs your own script to manually unmount the attached devices and then shutdown/reboot. The scripts for the normal user runlevel are /etc/rc2.d/ . To disable these, simply replace the "S" in the filename with "D." Obviously, don't disable anything unless you're sure you don't need it. |
I have been searching for the deb menu program to use under Lenny and just can not find it. Would someone be able to tell me what I need to install to get my debmenu back? If I upgrade from Etch I get to keep it but some of my stuff stops finctioning so I did a reinstall with this last weeks Lenny version and cannot find debmenu anywhere. Thank you for any assistance, Michael | Is this what you're looking for? |
i have an item on my grub menu that i want removed or hidden so i won't hit it accidentally. anyone know how to edit this? debian 4.0 r3 GNU GRUB version 0.97 | As root edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and then erase or better comment out the lines you want to hide. You can use nano or your favourite text editor. You may want to make a backup copy or your menu.lst file so that you have something to fall back on if anything should go wrong with your editing. |
"gksudo gedit /var/www/file" doesn't work like in Ubuntu terminal. How do I do it? I even try to open up gedit as root but it gives these errors. (gksudo:3519): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: cannot open display: (null) Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. | Have a look at this thread for a similar problem to yours. |
The answer to my question is: I did not enable root to be able to login. As I was not familiar with this option while installing debian. (expertgui...) Anyway, sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help. "I've changed my root passwd and my user passwd the only way I can open firestarter and synaptic is if I make use of sudo first; then when I click the *.desktop file of each it opens without asking for password even though I've edited to call on 'gksu -g' http://img.flashtux.org/img132666152d9x8ba89643.jpg" | asdf |
Hello i have ghosted a debian machine to another machine problem is that the hardware is different , on the new machine the os boot fine but i have no network since i suppose it takes the config from the old machine , is there a way to redetect hardware in order to configure it properly or is it just impossible to try to run an image of one system on a different hardware ? Thank you | Any errors from log? Kernel may not support network card on the new machine. |
I tried to install Lenny (from Etch) last week, and it downloaded all the files for a few hours, used up a lot of my allocated bandwidth for this month, and then actually forgot all the files, and didn't use them for anything, even though it said it did. On the next occasion, I reinstalled Etch, then I did apt-get dist-upgrade, and then saved as a text file a list of all the packages needed. Then, I downloaded, one-by-one, all the packages needed, to my windows machine, and burnt them onto a CD (downloaded via packages.debian.org) Going back to Debian (Etch), I did apt-get dist-upgrade again, and the text file was the same as before. Then, I did dkpg -i *.deb in my big folder of downloads. The result was a dead system (won't boot into X11 or terminal). Now that I have all the files locally, is there a way to use apt-get to use a local repository of files in preference to the online one (while keeping the online one in reserve for any missing packages or anything?). Because I can't download the whole load of files at home again (the first attempt was apt-get dist-upgrade, which failed, the second attempt was when I downloaded and archived all the required files, but that didn't work due to using dpkg-i rather than apt-get to upgrade to Lenny...) Thanks for your help (I have looked around this forum, but can't find anything applicable to this situation) | APT Howto: How to use APT locally |
I'm playing tech support for a friend and I'm heading out of the country in a few days... I need to get him up and running (and it's over the phone too). He's running 32bit Etch and this is his MythTV system. Here is the issue. He did an update the other week then this morning restarted the system (not sure if the two are connected). Now the system will pause at boot to the terminal login, wait a few seconds then show the GUI debian login window. It pauses a few seconds then goes back to the terminal login. It just keeps jumping back and forth between the two. Even if he's fast enough to log in at one of the prompts (either GUI or terminal) it bounces to the other. Has anyone faced this before? Thanks!! | What DM is he using? Have him boot into single mode and check syslog log files and .xsession-errors file in his home directory for any interesting messages. |
Is anyone else having issues with bzip2 using Lenny AMD64? Several times now I've downloaded and tried to decompress the linux kernel (both 2.6.24.1 and 2.6.24.2) but decompression of this results in a "Data integrity error when decompressing". I'm able to decompress the exact same file on my 32 bit Lenny system (copied it from one system to the other). Could this be a bug in tar rather than bzip2? This is from listbugs: grave bugs of tar (1.19-1 -> ) <pending> #448598 - tar -C foo -c . | tar -C bar -x ends up with nothing on read errors Summary: tar(1 bug) Any suggestions? | Link to the file and I'll try to decompress it on my 64-bit Sidux machine. |
(first post ) I have a strange problem that only happens to one user. It started happening about a week ago. (I have been running Etch since it was 'testing') When I am logged in (KDE) and I rt-click the desktop to "lock session", I get logged out. If I am away and the screensaver kicks in, it logs me out. If I try to change the screensaver settings I get logged out. If I log in as another user, this problem does not occur. I regularly apt-get update and upgrade, so I am up to date. I know I could just delete the user and chown all the data files to a new user, but I am curious. What could have changed to make this happen to just one user? | Sometimes, if you use the Nvidia driver and an openGL screensaver X will crash after an Xorg update. Reinstalling the Nvidia driver fixes it. There might be a better solution that will avoid the problem but I've been too lazy to investigate |
When I compile a kernel on my core 2 duo machine its only using one core to compile, I can tell because I am using gnome-system-monitor and one core is sitting fairly inactive while one is at full usage. I know both cores work because if I run 2 single core tasks both cores will go to 100% usage. The command I use to compile my kernel isCode: Select allfakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headersSo how can I make that use both my cores for a much faster compile time? | You can use "export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2" before you issue the fakeroot command. (See man make-kpkg about not using -j flags directly.) |
Perhaps I am remembering something that is only in my mind, but wasn't there way of changing the browser id on the web so that it could be identified as Explorer, Opera,etc.? It would come in handy on sites that want Explorer as the browser. I did a number of searches with no result, but I'm not really sure of what it would be called. I thought it was in Firefox, but it doesn't seem to be in Iceweasle. | If you use Iceweasel: http://www.geticeweasel.org/useragent/ |
Has modprobe been superseded by something? I can't find it in any of the repos and need to load some sound moduals that alsa wont configure correctly. Any help would be appreciated. Michael | modprobe is in the module-init-tools package. |
Hi! I have just installed Debian, and set up the wireless networking. However, I can't seem to get apt-get to work. I have looked around the forums, and can't see what is wrong. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r2 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080102-13:35]/ etch contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r2 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080102-13:35]/ etch contrib main # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: # deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free # Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib ~ ~ ~ the commented-out lines also don't work. Here is what I get when trying to install things: daimyo:~# apt-get install vim-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done vim-common is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems daimyo:~# apt-get install kdebase Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package kdebase is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: gnome-icon-theme W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Package kdebase has no installation candidate daimyo:~# And I'm running as root when doing those installs - and it still doesn't work. It seems to fail looking at all the mirrors... Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Thanks for any advice! | jommoner wrote: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib You must place a backslash immediately after the final item in the actual address. Example: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib |
hi, i have debian with kernel 2.6.18-4-686, and i am trying to update to the latest version 2.6.18-6-686. when i try with synaptic it doesnt give any errors, but when booting, the grub menu only shows the old 2.6.18-4-686 version. Strange...because /boot/grub/menu.lst shows: Code: Select all title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686 root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hdc2 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686 (single-user mode) root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hdc2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hdc2 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 (single-user mode) root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hdc2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 savedefault then, when i try with apt-get, it shows the following: Code: Select all debian:~# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.18 The following NEW packages will be installed kernel-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2248B/16.3MB of archives. After unpacking 49.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get: 1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main kernel-image-2.6-686 1:2.6.1 8+6etch3 [2248B] Fetched 2248B in 0s (5637B/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.18-6-686. (Reading database ... 86372 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfs g.1-17etch1_i386.deb) ... Done. Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6-686. Unpacking linux-image-2.6-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6-686_2.6.18+6etch3_i386.d eb) ... Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6-686. Unpacking kernel-image-2.6-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.6-686_1%3a2.6.18+6etch3_ i386.deb) ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/source However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/source Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead! Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Setting up linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.18+6etch3) ... Setting up kernel-image-2.6-686 (2.6.18+6etch3) ... debian:~# can you help me ? | I don't see any errors here! From the menu.lst file you have four boot choices -- 2 with your old kernel and 2 with your new kernel. Boot into your new kernel and once you are satisfied that all is OK you can remove the old one. |
KDE screensaver is crashing KDE! I used to solve this problem by issuing this command. This time it didn't work. Code: Select alldpkg-reconfigure screensaver-package Thanks for any help. | Are you using the Nvidia driver? If so, reinstall it. I had that problem after an xorg update. The OpenGL screensavers crashed KDE. Just a shot in the dark |
I feel like a n00b having to ask this here, but I'm having problems with apt-get. Here's what happened: root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get -s install vim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim-common Suggested packages: gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim vim-common 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst libgpmg1 (1.19.6-19sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) Inst vim-common (1:6.3-071+1sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) [] Inst vim (1:6.3-071+1sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) Conf libgpmg1 (1.19.6-19sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) Conf vim (1:6.3-071+1sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) Conf vim-common (1:6.3-071+1sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable) root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get install vim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim-common Suggested packages: gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim vim-common 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4181kB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main libgpmg1 1.19.6-19sarge1 [49.4kB] Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main vim-common 1:6.3-071+1sarge1 404 Not Found Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main vim 1:6.3-071+1sarge1 404 Not Found Fetched 49.4kB in 0s (481kB/s) Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... e1_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... 1_i386.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get -s update Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages [5621kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages [298kB] Get:3 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Release [95B] Get:4 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/contrib Packages [72.2kB] Get:5 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/contrib Release [98B] Get:6 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Packages [102kB] Get:7 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Release [99B] Get:8 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release [110B] Get:9 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages [8934B] Get:10 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release [113B] Get:11 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages [3388B] Get:12 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release [114B] Fetched 6106kB in 1s (3885kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get update Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/contrib Release Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Hit http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get install vim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libgpmg1 libncurses5 locales tzdata vim-common vim-runtime Suggested packages: glibc-doc gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following packages will be REMOVED: base-config initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpmg1 tzdata vim vim-common vim-runtime The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libncurses5 locales 3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 4 to remove and 207 not upgraded. Need to get 17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 6500kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main tzdata 2007j-1etch1 [690kB] Get:2 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main locales 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 [4009kB] Get:3 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 [4700kB] Get:4 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main libncurses5 5.5-5 [300kB] Get:5 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main vim-common 1:7.0-122+1etch3 [181kB] Get:6 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main libgpmg1 1.19.6-25 [50.9kB] Get:7 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main vim-runtime 1:7.0-122+1etch3 [6362kB] Get:8 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main vim 1:7.0-122+1etch3 [745kB] Fetched 17.0MB in 1s (10.0MB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 17488 files and directories currently installed.) Removing base-config ... Removing kernel-image-2.4-386 ... Removing kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 ... The link /vmlinuz is a dangling link Removing symbolic link vmlinuz Unless you used the optional flag in lilo, you may need to re-run lilo The link /initrd.img is a dangling link Removing symbolic link initrd.img Unless you used the optional flag in lilo, you may need to re-run lilo Removing initrd-tools ... Selecting previously deselected package tzdata. (Reading database ... 16090 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tzdata (from .../tzdata_2007j-1etch1_all.deb) ... Replacing files in old package libc6 ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly Here I pressed CTRL-C because I noticed apt-get was removing things I didn't want to be removed. root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get install vim E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. root@usenet logrotate.d# dpkg --configure -a root@usenet logrotate.d# apt-get install vim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libgpmg1 libncurses5 locales tzdata vim-common vim-runtime Suggested packages: glibc-doc gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpmg1 vim vim-common vim-runtime The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libncurses5 locales tzdata 4 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 207 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 24.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `tzdata' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 16090 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tzdata 2007j-1etch1 (using .../tzdata_2007j-1etch1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tzdata ... Replacing files in old package libc6 ... Preparing to replace locales 2.3.2.ds1-22 (using .../locales_2.3.6.ds1-13etch4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 (using .../libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch4_i386.deb) ... Name Service Switch update in the C Library: pre-installation question. Running services and programs that are using NSS need to be restarted, otherwise they might not be able to do lookup or authentication any more. The installation process is able to restart some services (such as ssh or telnetd), but other programs cannot be restarted automatically. One such program that needs manual stopping and restart after the glibc upgrade by yourself is xdm - because automatic restart might disconnect your active X11 sessions. Known packages that need to be stopped before the glibc upgrade are: xdm kdm gdm postgresql xscreensaver This script did not detect any installed services which need to be stopped. If you want to interrupt the upgrade now and continue later, please answer No to the question below. Do you want to upgrade glibc now? [Y/n] n Stopped glibc upgrade. Please retry the upgrade after you have checked or stopped services by hand. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch4_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) here's my sources list: root@usenet logrotate.d# cat !$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information # source for everything #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free # sarge (stable) deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free # sarge (stable) updates (security updates) deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # testing (sarge) #deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free # unstable #deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free I'm not sure how to fix this. Probably I should be able to re-install the removed packages? Thanks for your help. | I think one problem is you're running Sarge and your apt sources are pointing to stable aka Etch. You should use "old-stable" for Sarge at this time. |
Hello all, I have a new server here and I am trying to figure out why the box keep freezing when its under somewhat heavy sata usage. It ran rock solid for 2 days with out issues, then when I tried to copy files over from the old server to this new one, it locks up completely after about 10 min. Tried again, same thing.... If anyone can help, i'll be very grateful, its driving me nuts. Motherboard: ASUS P5K-V LGA 775 Intel G33 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz Memory: G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) HD: Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s OS: Lenny AMD64 *** Please see logs pasted below... ** Just found this post here - > http://www.webservertalk.com/archive242 ... 24164.html and maybe try no acpic - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Asus_P5K-VM Thanks!! | Ok, I just got this msg when moving the files: Code: Select allMessage from syslogd@fileserver at Sun Jan 6 23:29:43 2008 ... fileserver kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: CPU 0 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Modules linked in: ppdev parport_pc lp parport button ac battery ipv6 acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_stats cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace freq_table dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod loop firewire_sbp2 bt878 bttv video_buf firmware_class snd_hda_intel ir_common compat_ioctl32 i2c_algo_bit btcx_risc tveeprom videodev v4l2_common snd_pcm_oss v4l1_compat snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd shpchp atl1 pci_hotplug psmouse i2c_i801 i2c_core soundcore intel_agp mii serio_raw snd_page_alloc pcspkr tsdev joydev evdev ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod usbhid hid generic jmicron ata_piix ide_core firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t ahci floppy ata_generic libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd uhci_hcd thermal processor fan Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Pid: 214, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.22-3-amd64 #1 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8813365e>] [<ffffffff8813365e>] :jbd:journal_grab_journal_head+0xd/0x3e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff81012904bbb8 EFLAGS: 00010207 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 66851db493352568 RCX: ffff81012c7274f8 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff81012c7274d0 RDI: 66851db493352568 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RBP: ffff81012c7274d0 R08: ffff810028d47e30 R09: ffff81012bd06f07 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: R10: ffff81012c707bc0 R11: ffffffff881448fd R12: ffff81012c7274d0 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff810028d47dc8 R15: ffff81012a6fa000 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff804e3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: CR2: 0000000000650b9c CR3: 000000011ea0b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 214, threadinfo ffff81012904a000, task ffff81012b553630) Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Stack: ffffffff8812efc4 ffff810028d47e30 0000000000000001 ffff81012c7274d0 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: ffff81004a298e40 ffff81000000e400 ffff81012904beb0 0000000000000001 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: ffffffff80267d1e 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 0000000000000000 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Call Trace: Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff8812efc4>] :jbd:journal_try_to_free_buffers+0x60/0x153 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff80267d1e>] shrink_inactive_list+0x4d5/0x810 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff803f1c77>] thread_return+0x0/0xea Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff8026814e>] shrink_zone+0xf5/0x11e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff80268b45>] kswapd+0x2d5/0x47e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff802439ae>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff80268870>] kswapd+0x0/0x47e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff80243893>] kthread+0x47/0x74 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff8020aba8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff8024384c>] kthread+0x0/0x74 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: [<ffffffff8020ab9e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: Code: f0 0f ba 2f 16 19 c0 85 c0 75 ec 8b 07 31 d2 66 85 c0 79 07 Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RIP [<ffffffff8813365e>] :jbd:journal_grab_journal_head+0xd/0x3e Jan 6 23:29:43 fileserver kernel: RSP <ffff81012904bbb8> |
Hey guys. I recently installed Debian on my HP Pavilion DV9000. Everything went smooth and I did a default install. I then went to boot, Grub started I selected the non single user and I get all that text on the screen. Then after that the screen just goes blank. I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and stuff. Anyone know what the problem might be? It's been bugging me for like a week now. I have a nVidia graphics card if anyone would like to know. Thanks, Clauds | Press Ctrl+Alt-Fn (where 'n' = 1 -6. Say F2) to enter a terminal. You'll get a login prompt where you can log in either as a user or as root. When you do "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" what driver do you choose? You should use "nv" unless you have installed the Nvidia proprietary driver. You can check the X log to see what goes wrong: Code: Select allcat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | less Just something to get you started... Tina |
Hello. I'm pretty new to using Linux. I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this post, but it certainly doesn't fit under some of the other categories. My computer is a 550MHz PIII, dual boot system. Debian Linux is the main boot, while Windows 98SE is the other operating system. History: When I first installed Linux (2.6.18-4-686), I had trouble getting my Belkin Wireless card to work. Thanks to some Linux users in my guild in the game Eternal Lands, I was able to get that resolved via ndiswrapper. Then I did an update to 2.6.18-5-686, and loss the use of the wireless. However, during the grub boot, it left me the option of loading either the -4- or -5- kernel. (The 2.6.18-*-686 is the kernel number, right?) So, I was lazy, and when I wanted to use the internet, I'd boot the -4- kernel, and when I wasn't going to use the internet, I'd boot the -5- kernel. Problem: Well, a couple days ago, I checked the internet for upgrades, and it downloaded and installed the 2.6.18-5-686 kernel. The problem became that it deleted both the -4- and -5- kernels, so I can now no longer access the internet through my wireless card. I figured that I had to "remake" the ndiswrapper module for the -6- kernel. I followed the same instructions as I had before (I had the foresight to save the web page instructions for off-line viewing). However, when I got to the (oh, great, I should have written that down, I think it was) "make install" command, it bombed out in error. The pertinent part of the error was: Code: Select allCan't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/build I searched through my filesystem, and found that I had /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686 and /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686, but not the -6- directory. I went to the Debian web site, but after looking around for a bit, I realized that I just don't know enough about Linux yet to figure out exactly what I need to download and install on my system. Question: Uh, my question, therefore, is just what exactly do I need to download and install on my system? I'll have to download it to my Windows 98 boot, then access that drive from Linux after rebooting. (My Eternal Lands guildies also helped me to be able to read my Windows hard drive via Linux.) Awaiting your replies, --Hungry Sponge | Does you wired connection work ok? This was not explicit, but you mentioned that you'd have to download things to your windows partition and install from there. Have you had a look at this:http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17719? Module-assistant (or m-a) should download all the right packages it needs, automagically. Also, you say that your older kernels became deleted. How do you infer this? IF the old kernels do exist, you can just change the version parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst, though, the updates in Etch/Stable are always security updates, so it is not a good practice to run old versions. |
I have a Canon XL1 and I am trying to copy tapes off of it to .dv files. I have it connected to my computer with firewire but when I click the "Capture" button in kino I get this errorCode: Select allWARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw/1394! modprobe raw1394 does not solve the problem and neither does running kino as root. Weather there is another program that I can use, or a way to fix kino I really don't care, I just want to be able to have the video on my computer. Oh, and I am on etch with 0.9.2. Thanks for any helpful input. | 987687 wrote:I have a Canon XL1 and I am trying to copy tapes off of it to .dv files. I have it connected to my computer with firewire but when I click the "Capture" button in kino I get this errorCode: Select allWARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw/1394! modprobe raw1394 does not solve the problem and neither does running kino as root. Weather there is another program that I can use, or a way to fix kino I really don't care, I just want to be able to have the video on my computer. Oh, and I am on etch with 0.9.2. Thanks for any helpful input. Just a few ideas. I haven't play with Firewire in ages. - Does your Kernel has Firewire enabled? Personally that's one of the 1st things I disable since I don't have any Firewire devices. - Do you have raw1394? Code: Select allls -l /dev/raw1394 If not then created by running this command as root: Code: Select allmknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 - Make sure you have libraw1394 Code: Select allapt-get install libraw1394-8 - run lsmod and check that you have ieee1394, ohci1394 and raw1394. Code: Select alllsmod | grep ieee1394 lsmod | grep ohci1394 lsmod | grep raw1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ They got all kind of info there. That's all I got. |
Today came to my updates> linux-image 2.6.18-5-686 exactly same I am using right now. I have no idea why...? Should I install it please? | it's probably security upgrade, you should probably upgrade. |
Hello . I am new to Debian ! and Linux for the most part . I am having trouble grasping the whole software handler in Debian . In Gentoo there is portage . I guess what I want to know is what is a good c compiler for debian and how to install it ? | anemul wrote:Hello . I am new to Debian ! and Linux for the most part . I am having trouble grasping the whole software handler in Debian . In Gentoo there is portage . I guess what I want to know is what is a good c compiler for debian and how to install it ? Debian use apt (or aptitude) to install pre-compiled binaries: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ You could still install packages from source. |
I'm running testing and very nice it is to but last night I tried to add an application and apt failed with lots of messages similar to the on here W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... owerpc.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) I have rerun apt-spy and all sources fail. so I removed apt-spy and retried, manually entering my sources.list. It still failed. I have had a google and found this link with reference ubuntu https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/6719 I can ping the machine from another computer and browse the internet ok just not add packages or update! The other computer is running testing also with the same sources.list and that is fine. The only thing I've done lately that's different is install KDE though I run XFCE and I'd rather not blitz it without trying other options first. If it looks like its more trouble than it's worth or beyond my ability's I'll just reinstall. Thanks | Thanks for your replies. The sources list is fine as I copied the one off the computer no 3 foot away and that works fine? they both go through the same router. I had a look at the anon-proxy link and searched my system so I could delete it as the post. If it failed I wouldn't be much worse off (well I hope not!) I'll leave it a while as its running fine and see if anyone else has any ideas. |
Hello, Could anyone help me with a little problem which I have been trying to solve for a few weeks. I've installed Band in a Box, which runs via Crossover, and all appears to work fine, until I try to actually play something, when there is no sound at all. This is the error message I get: There are no midi drivers installed I also have this problem with Rosegarden, where things are perhaps a little more revealing. On running it for the first time, I get this message: Sequencer startup failed: MIDI subsystem has failed to initialize. You may continue without the sequencer, but we suggest closing Rosegarden, running "modprobe snd-seq-midi" as root, and starting Rosegarden again. If you wish to run with no sequencer by design, then use "rosegarden --nosequencer" to avoid seeing this error in the future. Following this procedure results in Rosegarden starting, but like Band in a Box, there is no sound. I get the following error message: System timer resolution is too low Rosegarden was unable to find a high-resolution timing source for MIDI performance. This may mean you are using a Linux system with the kernel timer resolution set too low. Please contact your Linux distributor for more information. Googling around, I've found that the problem with Band in a Box also seems to come from this kernel timer issue. Apparently I need to manually configure this and recompile the kernel. Can anyone confirm this? It sounds a little heavy to me. If this really is the correct procedure, can anyone guide me through it? I'm really edgy about touching the kernel! I'd leave everthing be, but the trouble is that my wife is a musician and she really wants this thing working. Thanks in advance for any help. | You should be able to hear sound even if you dont have realtime and 1000hz timer frequency in your kernel, its more of a recommendation, since the lower latency you have the better. (There's a guide to compiling your own realtime kernel in the howto section of this forum) The first time i ran Rosegarden i had to configure my MIDI soundbanks to get any sound, and probably some other stuff too. I can recommend The Rosegarden Companion which helped me configure pretty much everything i needed. If thats not enough i can also recommend Dave Phillips' blogs over at Linuxjournal, look for the ones called "Troubleshooting Linux Audio" if thats all you are after, or read the others too if you want to learn about a lot of great audio software for linux. edit: Now when i looked at his blog entries i noticed that he had an article dedicated to Sound Applications under Wine where he reviews Band in a Box running with Wine. |
I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but if I open up a folder on my desktop (double-click), it opens into a single window, not a complete browser. Instead, I have to right click to browse in nautilus. How can I set up my management to use nautilus automatically? | I have no idea what you're asking. |
I have Windows, ubuntu and debian sid installed. I am new to debian and I have a problem. When starting debian it changes my clock 4 hours later. any ideeas? | Do you use UTC or local time in your clock? Changing to the other one might help. What timezone are you in, GMT +(-)4, by any chance? I've been thinking of starting to use NTP (=Net Time Protocol, IIRC) myself, but have never gotten around to do it. Should be very easy to set up, and it should keep your clocks in sync; google it for more info if you got interested. |
I am trying to get fusion-icon to run on the startup but so far no changes, not even to existing apps in the session startup are being saved. I haven't found anything like this on google or on these forums... it must be something on my end since no one else is experiencing this. What file would I edit to get fusion-icon to load on startup? | Well I for one do not even know what fusion-icon is. What is it? Getting something to run on login is specific to your particular desktop. Which desktop are you using? |
Hi there, still solving my sound trouble. I have collection of some mp3. In windows OS they are playin in all my speakers, using 6 speakers 5.1 Creative. And when I switch to Debian and play them, only 2 speakers + sub woofer playing. I unmuted all setting. I tried xmms so far. Any help? Thanks a lot ps. 5 channels WAV is working correctly | do you try with other player ? amarok ? helix banshe ? |
Please, my sources list looks like this: Code: Select all#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main That non-free source I need it, eg I wanted install java plugins. Is it fine like this? Can be mixed with other main sources, or I should comment something out? Thanks | change deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free |
** Edit - now solved - needed to change apt sources.list - had become borked with a non-working mirror ** So this is what happened: I was doing my usual updates in sid - but hadn't done any for a while and there was a few to get. The update started to say that it would take hours(!) so I pulled the plug on it (it was still in the 'getting' phase) to switch to a different mirror. In the 'software sources' GUI I changed to UK mirror - but the reload was taking an age - so I killed that too - and now I have an unusable apt and no software sources GUI, so can't even switch back to original mirror! Trying to run the sources gui from terminal does this... steve@debian:~$ gksu --desktop /usr/share/applications/software-properties.desktop /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 305, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 269, in main distinfo = get_distro_information() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 232, in get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 186, in guess_debian_release rinfo = guess_release_from_apt() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 160, in guess_release_from_apt version = RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP.get(unknown, rinfo.get('suite','')) NameError: global name 'unknown' is not defined Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 305, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 269, in main distinfo = get_distro_information() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 232, in get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 186, in guess_debian_release rinfo = guess_release_from_apt() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 160, in guess_release_from_apt version = RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP.get(unknown, rinfo.get('suite','')) NameError: global name 'unknown' is not defined Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 305, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 269, in main distinfo = get_distro_information() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 232, in get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 186, in guess_debian_release rinfo = guess_release_from_apt() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 160, in guess_release_from_apt version = RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP.get(unknown, rinfo.get('suite','')) NameError: global name 'unknown' is not defined Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 305, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 269, in main distinfo = get_distro_information() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 232, in get_distro_information distinfo = guess_debian_release() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 186, in guess_debian_release rinfo = guess_release_from_apt() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 160, in guess_release_from_apt version = RELEASE_CODENAME_LOOKUP.get(unknown, rinfo.get('suite','')) NameError: global name 'unknown' is not defined Error: could not find a distribution template Any thoughts? [/i] | ' |
Hi. I started to use ssh to remote control my server at home. In these 2 days I try to use rTorrent to download Ubuntu ISO images and be a seed (becoz I don't need the ISO image, I just want to donate some of my wasted bandwidth). So... I will ssh username@server, then screen rTorrent, and then add the torrent to start data transfer. I will press Ctrl+A then D (to detach rTorrent), finally exit to terminate the ssh connection, let the server do the download by itself. However, I found that when the download is completed, rTorrent will quit automatically. Do I need to do some settings for rTorrent? Thanks. | When you reconnect to your rtorrent screen, are you using 'screen -r'? Because if you use 'screen rtorrent' then it will fork a new instance of rtorrent and your previous activity will not be evident. |
Hi, I love to use nano (an editor) very much, but now I have a little problem. There are 2 shortcuts in nano: 1. Ctrl+D Delete the character under the cursor. 2. Ctrl+H Delete the character on left-hand side of cursor. By default, when I press Backspace on keyboard (or Delete on Mac keyboard), the default action should be same as Ctrl+H, but now it becomes Ctrl+D. I wonder if there is any method to restore the settings? Maybe reinstalling the program? Thanks for your kindful help!!! | Code: Select allnano /etc/nanorc Take a look at that file. I wander if this line has anything to do with your problem? You can test it out by deleting the '#'. ## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem. # set rebinddelete I don't know for sure, but I thought I would bring it up. Can't hurt to try. Theres also lots of neeto things in there to play with if you really like nano. |
Somehow I deleted Trash Icon from desktop, now please how can I put correctly icon back to desktop? All what can I do now it's just copy or link it from System Menu, but with icon like a folder and right click on that is also different. I am using KDE. Thanks | Copy this in a text editor Code: Select all[Desktop Entry] Comment=Contains removed files EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=trashcan_full Name=Trash NoDisplay=false OnlyShowIn=KDE Type=Link URL=trash:/ Save it as trash.desktop on Desktop |
I have one other thing that I cannot get to work. I can't get my sound going. It has the intel 82801H sound card. If I can get this and the wireless working this will be a great little machine! Thanks | I would need a bit more information to help diagnose the problem are there any error messages you are getting? Did you un-enable the sound in installation? Is the sound card integrated into the motherboard (I think it is, but I'm not sure), and most importantly have you run alsaconf yet? |
I though that ia64 and amd64 are the same thing, so on the debian website why is there the option to download a install disk for ia64 and one for amd64. This makes me really confused. | There are two different architectures, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 |
I got problem, when I start debian, log in screen appear. On the right hand side corner it's visible correct time. But when I log in to KDE, environment appear, there is time 2 Hrs more, compare current time. Any idea please, how to fix it? In Gnome, time is just fine. Thanks | Check the time zone: Control Center -> search for "time" -> time zone |
Hi, there's something wrong with my webserver. This morning, someone tried to hack it. The Authlog shows a lot of lines like these: Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: Invalid user oubiwann from 67.132.216.246 Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for gf-dsl-246.sdcomm.net failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown Oct 16 07:49:28 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=67.132.216.246 Oct 16 07:49:29 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3607]: Failed password for invalid user oubiwann from 67.132.216.246 port 33031 ssh2 Oct 16 07:49:31 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3609]: Invalid user heidi from 67.132.216.246 Oct 16 07:49:31 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3609]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for gf-dsl-246.sdcomm.net failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Oct 16 07:49:31 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3609]: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown Oct 16 07:49:31 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[3609]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=67.132.216.246 This lasts for an hour with no successfull login. When i tried to login to the server via ssh this afternoon, i get a "permission denied" every time i try. The only way to access the server is via webmin. In the auth log, my ssh login attemp is logged as follows: Oct 16 17:27:01 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[6985]: User root from [...].pools.arcor-ip.net not allowed because none of user's groups are listed in AllowGroups Oct 16 17:27:01 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[6985]: Failed none for invalid user root from 84.58.[...] port 14851 ssh2 Oct 16 17:27:04 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[6985]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=[...].pools.arcor-ip.net user=root Oct 16 17:27:06 Debian-40-etch-32-LAMP sshd[6985]: Failed password for invalid user root from 84.58.[...] port 14851 ssh2 The ssh login worked fine yesterday, so i think there might be a link to the hacking attemp this morning. I checked the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and it's the same as before. Any ideas how to fix this problem via webmin? Thx in advance, Thomas | look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config I think "root" is not allowed... |
I just installed new jabber client - PSI, but it is not running on the taskbar in system tray(righ hand side eg. to change status and so on...) How can I do that? I am using Kde 3.5 Thanks | demon wrote:I just installed new jabber client - PSI, but it is not running on the taskbar (righ hand side eg. to change status and so on...) How can I do that? I am using Kde 3.5 Thanks You mean the "system tray"? Where all the "hidden applications" show? I've never tried that client (http://psi-im.org/home, right?), but I'm reckon that it's not showing there because it's not a compatible KDE application. Again, I do not know for sure. I'm just guessing since I've seen stuff like that happen before. Since you're a KDE user you may want to try using Kopete. Kopete supports Jabber protocole. Another option is to upgrade to KDE 3.5.7, but that calls to install upgrade Etch to Lenny, so I don't know if that's even an option for you. Edit: I installed it for the hell of it. Psi is written with QT, so in theory is should be KDE compatible... But probably they focus more on the "multi plataform" part of QT. Oh! And no, it does not show in the System Tray here, either (I'm using KDE 3.5.7, so upgrading is not going to be the answer for you) |
I have used MEPIS (debain based) for years. I am accustomed to being able to mount new drives easily with kDiskFree, either as user or root. Or simply to login to KDM as root to do things that root must do. I've installed Etch and now can't do things at all that I'm used to doing easily. What is the KDE GUI method for mounting a drive as root? Why doesn't Code: Select all# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 work?........Apparently Etch isn't smart enough to detect that I installed another drive and fix fstab accordingly? (Hmmm, now I know why I've been using MEPIS all these years). Thanks, Lance | I don't have it in front of me, but it's something like; can't find mount point /mnt/hdd1 Do you actually have /mnt/hdd1? What's the output of Code: Select allls /mnt |
hi, i recently moved from ubuntu 7.04 to debian sid. but i'm having this wierd problem, xorg new updates (1.7.3) removes nvidia-glx (and dosent work with the nvidia drivers as well) and gnome-applets & gnome-about are trying to upgrade to 2.20 while gnome-core & gnome-panel are staying 2.18 and it removes them!! can someone explain to me why is this happening? is this a common thing is debian testing - releasing a not complete update? i allready understood i have to look into every update before i do one. but does anyone have a suggestion or a solution for this? easpcially the xorg nvidia problem? thanks[/b] | adamruss wrote:about gnome - i just dont understand why the repo has updates only to some packages of gnome to 2.20 and not all of them.. because it makes them conflicting. That's why it's called "unstable" and it's very common during big updates. Stuff is uploaded over time as it's getting ready or needs to be tested. It's basically for this kind of scenarios that Sid exists. Right now it's Gnome but it has happened with Xorg, KDE and even smaller (but important) stuff like libc6. The main thing to remember is that Sid is not intended to be used for other things than testing new stuff. So if an upgrade will kill your system just abort it and try again later. Tina |
I would like to know the best procedure to "install" (a big word) an application. I have downloaded the latest version of Eclipse which comes in a tar.gz and is already compiled for my platform. The questions are : - where do I put the files and which rights/owner/group should I apply to them ? - which file do I need to put in the /usr/bin directory in order to have the software directly accessible from the shell ? Thank you. | Eclipse is available in Debian. Code: Select allapt-cache search eclipse You can simply use apt-get to install eclipse. If you must install from source then read the source for the installation procedure. |
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