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Hi! I'm using Debian Sid on a Sony VGN-CR11S laptop. In my daily use, I often need to work without power cord and always fear to see my laptop go down. Do you have any tips or resources that could help me to save some power and continue my work? Thanks! | Combining the utilities in acpid, laptop-mode and powersaved can help, and there are additional utilities for Gnome, KDE and other desktop environments (gnome-power-manager and... others, I'm sure). Refer to the docs for those utilities, and hopefully you'll find a good setup. |
i am having a problem and i don't know how to fix it I cant apt-get because it keeps giving me this error dpkg: status database area is locked by another process How can i fix this? | Are you running another package management application like Synaptic or aptitude? If so, close them. If you are absolutely sure you're not running any other instances of apt (you might want to reboot to be 100%sure) you can do, as root: Code: Select allrm /var/lib/dpkg/lock Tina |
Up until about a week ago, my Nikon D-50 camera was properly recognized and mounted when attached to my Debian/Lenny installation running on a Dell XPS410, E6600 2.3 GHz DuoCore, 2 GB RAM using the stock 2.6.21-2-686 kernel. Now, the system refuses to mount the camera. Here's what I find in /var/log/messages when the camera's attached and turned on; Code: Select allAug 25 15:50:57 debian kernel: usb 6-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Aug 25 15:50:57 debian kernel: usb 6-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Aug 25 15:50:57 debian kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access NIKON D50 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: SCSI device sdd: 3920897 512-byte hdwr sectors (2007 MB) Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: SCSI device sdd: 3920897 512-byte hdwr sectors (2007 MB) Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: sdd: sdd1 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 3920896 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian last message repeated 6 times Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 40 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 41 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 40 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 41 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 40 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 41 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 40 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 41 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 40 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 41 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian last message repeated 2 times Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 263 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 264 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 255 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 256 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0 Aug 25 15:51:02 debian kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1 Now the interesting part is, my wife's Windows XP box mounts the camera just fine as does my Fedorea7 installation running on the same hardware as my Debian install with the 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 kernel. Any ideas how I might fix this, preferably without a kernel upgrade? BTW, the problem persists regardless of the USB port used, and thumb drives mount just fine. Thanks, Bert | It looks like the file system on the flash has been corrupted. I guess you could try reformat it. dosfsutils should be able to it, I think... |
Is there any software to deresolutionize pictures for linux? I have a bunch of pictures from my camera that I want to put online, but first I have to take the resolution down to 1024x768 or smaller. I have software to do this bulk on mac, but it is annoying having to keep switching to my mac. | Code: Select allapt-cache policy nautilus-image-converter nautilus-image-converter: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.0.9-1 Version table: 0.0.9-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Looks like there is no nautilus-image-converter in stable. |
I have PHP 4 with phpinfo: phpinfo(); wrote: Code: Select allPHP Version 4.4.4-9+lenny1 Whenever I go to phpmyadmin.php, cleverly disguised as a directory, I get the following error: phpMyAdmin.php directory wrote: Code: Select allphpMyAdmin - Error Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. - Documentation | I would really like some advice, this is my only problem so far. Apache says I use php5, but phpinfo(); contradicts with php4. Apache2 is installed and telnet, ssh and apache2 mysteriously autostarts after apt-get installing Apache2, Telnet, SSH and finally MySQL. A suggestion to this solution, whether it be right or wrong, would be great |
I used to use Windows, and in that time I was using Apache. The httpd.conf was preconfigured with everything necessary. In Debian, I noticed the httpd.conf was blank, rather apache2.conf held the configuration. My httpd.conf was edited as follows: Code: Select all DirectoryIndex index.php index.html ServerRoot "/var/www" Listen 80 ServerAdmin hidden ServerAdmin contains my actual email. And /var/www, symbolically linked to /www, has permission denied. To set apache up, I su'd and apt-get install apache, phpmyadmin, apache2 and mysql-server. I then, still root, ran "apache2". Now, every time I access localhost/test.php, (/var)/www/test.php, I get 403 access denied. My local ip address, behind a belkins router which already is set up for port 80 configuration, doesn't work. Typing 192.168.2.5 says cannot find server. This is my private ip address. Localhost, strangely works. If I run localhost/nonexistantfile.php I get 403. If I go straight to localhost, I get redirected to http://localhost/apache2-default/! Not quite what I expected, especially after configuring ServerRoot. apache2.conf has no serverroot specified, so I used httpd.conf. In short, I have two problems: One, 192.168.2.5 does not work. localhost does Two, most importantly: I get 403 when trying to access a nonexistant file. I believe this is due to ServerRoot being pointed to /var/wwwold, where I moved the old www directory before placing the link! Can anybody please offer me some help? | I think my ServerRoot isn't being configured properly. Where is ServerRoot located? I think I did get ServerRoot configured properly, but everything returns 403. ?? |
Recently I reinstalled Etch (I played a while with Lenny and got tired a bit). Everything works fine. However, I cannot suspend my laptop to ram (and disc). I know, that suspend works on my machine as can put it to sleep by coding echo "mem" > /sys/power/state Moreover, I managed to enable suspend after my first install of Etch some months ago. The problem is that I forgot what I did that time. Can anybody give some hints about the issue? [/code] | Nice! I found the solution of the problem. It was pretty simple. I just installed powersaved package and that's it. It works like charm now. Etch is great! |
I forgot what version (32bit or 64bit) I installed. Code: Select alluname -a doesn't help me much either? Any quick solution? Thanks | use uname -a look for the bit "2.6.##-#-!!!" the !'s are the processor architecture if its amd64 then your running a 64bit system. |
Like many other people we had a problem that on halting the system our sata drive wasn't spun down correctly so I started digging around in the system and ended up removing the -h flag from /etc/init.d/halt and now our drive is shutdown the way it should be with kernel 2.6.22-1-k7. I'm not sure if this will fix for for anyone else but you can give it a shot | Just to make sure I understand correctly, you edited the file so that it now looks like this?Code: Select allhddown="" if grep etc. |
Only the root account will do lookups from the "etc/hosts" file. A sample of the problem: don@debian1:~$ ping debian1 ping: unknown host debian1 don@debian1:~$ su Password: debian1:/home/don# ping debian1 PING debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms 64 bytes from debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms 64 bytes from debian1.dsanderson.local (10.0.0.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.019 ms Any ideas? I'm sure it's a simple problem, probably my tired brain. TIA Don | what are the permissions on /etc/hosts ? |
A recent switcher from Ubuntu, and have managed to get everything working swimmingly so far - except for one irritating thing - I can't set IceWeasel as my default browser for opening saved html files. Selecting it in the preferred apps box does nothing. Instead, the default seems to be the last browser installed (was Opera, now Epiphany after a removal and reinstall). Any thoughts on this? | Try looking in the Configuration Editor ( gconf ) and drill downto desktop/gnome/applications/browser. Change 'exec' to read mozilla. |
Hello, I just moved to Debian several days ago. On the distro I moved From, I used Thunderbird for email. I just installed Icedove. I have my TB email and address book backed up on my external drive. Does anyone know where or if I can copy my TB backup /stuff/ so Icedove will see it? I looked for a /home/mike/.icedove directory, but didn't see one. Thank you. | The icecritters store preferences exactly like the officially branded products do. Icedove stores that(and email, etc) in the ~/.thunderbird folder. |
Hi! Is it possible to have UTF-8 or at least iso8859-2 encoding in aterm? I know, rxvt is another option, but I'd like to keep it as slim as possible... TNX in advance! | Sure it is. I have. Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and generate as many ones as you want. An X -terminal without options uses the default locale. There are also keys to toggle locales like LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R aterm, but I am quite satisfied by UTF-8 and xterm. |
Mmmm...I'm thirsty. I'll skip my daily dose of coffee this morning and go on about some wine. What!? I need libc6? Fine, I'll get that if that's what it takes to get my glorious wine. Conflicts with tzdata?? What the hell? I need my time. Hehe, no really. I can't install my wine. If I try to install libwine: Error: dependency not satisfiable: libc6 *Sigh*...Ok, I'll do that. Conflicts with installed package "tzdata" And I'm not ready to trash my system clock. On to installing the main wine package: Error: dependency not satisfiable: wine-bin Fine, on to that: Error: conflicts with installed libc6 Bummer Ok, I know I can't install that but just to make sure: Conflicts with installed package "tzdata" Great. Thanks for the tip Finally, I'll try: apt-get install wine Bastard terminal wrote: apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package wine 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 wine has no installation candidate I'd better stick to coffee Why, oh why, is my wine inaccessible? | What's your sources.list file look like? You might also want to use Wine's repo instead of the version from Debian. |
How can I configure sudo to run without root access? Thank you if can help me | I THINK this might be itCode: Select allALL NOPASSWD /etc/init.d/configWireless.shI'm not really sure about it, though. EDIT: Make sure to use visudo. It'll tell you if I got it wrong. |
Hey I was trying to play world of warcraft under Cedega 6.0 (I couldn't get it to work with wine and cedega has achieved better results, as it was made to run games). The game runs, but there are some annoying glitches, and my FPS go down to about 2, 3. I've googled this problem, and I found nothing that could help me. This makes the game very hard to play, both in PVE and in PVP. Things that trigger these glitches: Killing Casting Jumping sometimes just walking does the trick I have nothing running in the background, besides emule through wine(I cannot use amule, I need emule) What do you think I should do? Thanks | My graphics card is an nvidia geforce fx5200. |
Hi I have a dedicated server and a backup server. I can only connect to my backup server within servers-network. Sadly I have transfered a whole directory and not a compressed file.... Do I really have to delete every content from every (sub)-directory manually? What else can I do? Thanks for any help! | Do you have shell access? Can't you just ssh into it and do Code: Select allrm /some/dir -r |
I just upgraded to the 2.6.21 kernel, as it just arrived in Debian Testing, and I have no sound. Code: Select all lsmod |grep snd shows all of the modules are loaded. I ran alsaconf but amixer complains about no device Code: Select allLoading driver... Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume} Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device KDE sopund sytem won't start for Alsa either There is no /dev/dsp or /dev/snd/................ Output of alsa Code: Select allmatt-debian:init.d# ./alsa reload Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). Loading ALSA sound driver modules: (none to reload). output of alsa-utils restart Code: Select allmatt-debian:init.d# ./alsa-utils restart Shutting down ALSA...done (none loaded). Setting up ALSA...done (none loaded). Dmseg Code: Select allmatt-debian:init.d# dmesg |grep alsa ALSA /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/pci/emu10k1/../../alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1x.c:949: Model 1003 Rev 00000000 Serial 10031102 I am stuck. | Ok, the easy solution is to just reinstall the earlier kernel, or if it is still there just boot back into it. It will still work. If you really want the newest kernel, you might need to recompile it yourself to get the sound sorted out. Edit - I should say that between versions of the kernel, options move around some and that can "break" a formerly happy installation. Two good commands to check what happened or changed are Code: Select alllsmod less /boot/config-`uname -r` If you compare the results of those two in both kernels, you should be able to see what changed between the two kernels. After that, it's usually not too hard to fix things again. You can save the files to compare by doing this - Code: Select all lsmod > nameforfile cat /boot/config-`uname -r` > nameforfile The config files say clearly which is which, but make sure to name the modules files so you can remember which is which, eg. 2.6.18-modules. |
This is a very strange problem. Ive just upgraded to the 2.6.21 kernel in Debian Testing. Due to some paravirtualtion problem, I used this script http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.03-pkg1-patched.run to install the Nvidia Driver for 7600 GS Video Card I found the link on the Nvidia forums, and other people reported it working without this problem However I am having a few problems When I switch to the Virtual terminal from X, the monitor goes into a sleep state. I checked htop and tty's are running (getty) I am almost positive this has to do with X because: VT is fine booting up VT was not displaying text shutting down 1st time VT was pink with white text shutting down 2nd time To check if it was X, logged off, then login screen had pinkish tint, still no visible VT's however Below is xorg.0.log and xorg.conf, respectively. Code: Select allmatt@matt-debian:X11$ cat xorg.conf # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Apr 5 02:10:21 PDT 2007 # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Feb 26 23:39:38 PST 2007 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "DELL E773c" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7600 GS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "1" Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" Option "RenderAccel" "True" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "NoLogo" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection Link to xorg log http://mattd7591.blogspot.com/ | When I switch to the Virtual terminal from X, the monitor goes into a sleep state. Does it "wake up"? What happens if you switch back to X? What happens if you switch to another text VT? |
hello, Thanks to all for helping to solve my space disk problem. I get the package APTITUDE and search for packages could be removed. Then It starts to remove all unnecessary packages and got lot of free space. Now, I read under this forum, for NVIDIA Card we need to install and update the driver. I have VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2). I downloaded from NVIDIA Server the driver for LINUX , nvidia-installer-1.0.7.tar.gz, which gave a .run file. When I execute it I got NO PRECOMPILED KERNEL was found….. Then I checked the KERNEL version under uname –r command, as result I have : 2.6.18.4-486 Now it seems that I need also KERNEL-HEADER, but I can’t find it and do not how to proceed now!!!! Many thanks in advance for your help. Regards | You shouldn't use the installer from the nvidia website. Follow this guide instead: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers It also explains why you shouldn't use nvidia's installer. |
I'm running Etch, upgraded from Sarge, and now tty 1-6 think the screen is wider than it is -- text is getting run off the edge of the screen. The characters also look a bit wide. How can I fix this? | lecaro wrote:I'm running Etch, upgraded from Sarge, and now tty 1-6 think the screen is wider than it is -- text is getting run off the edge of the screen. The characters also look a bit wide. How can I fix this? I always boot w/ vga=791 (for 1024x768 framebuffer resolution). You can use whatever resolution you prefer. Google found this post by rickh on just this topic. |
I do not remember doing anything, just that man whatever worked and then once of a sudden it didn't. Now it justs says it's formating the man page and then nothing happens, meaning the man page is not displayed. Piping it through less or into a file also results in an empty view or file, respectivelly. Reinstalling or purging man didn't help either... :/ Any ideas? TNX | Did you re-install using dselect, to ensure all dependencies are met? Cheers, Chris. |
Howto erase a string in about:config ? I can't erase a string in Iceweasel's about:config, why is that ? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1) Debian 4.0 (Etch) | Firefox is the same silly. Open the config file and delete the line. The config file name is user.js |
Hello all, We are running a testing repository debian server, with apache prefork 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.38, and PHP 5. We've been troubled by spontaneous high loads, that cause the server to be very very slow, with a load rising above 100, sometimes not to be responsive at all. I've tried to disable some sites, but that doesn't resolve the problem. Quite frankly I don't know what to do or how to check it anymore. When this happens, the page 'server-status' shows that a lot of threads have been opened, and every request has the status "W": Sending reply. Where would this be? Apache2 misconfiguration, some weird error between apache2 and mysql.... a buggy script.... we're unable to locate the problem, and so I'm asking you to please offer suggestions. Thanks a lot | I discovered a bit of delay with php: Code: Select all# time php -v PHP 5.2.0-10+lenny1 (cli) (built: May 26 2007 08:23:53) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies real 0m54.293s user 0m53.659s sys 0m0.336s |
Hi everyone, i'm using Etch, i'm planning on compiling Ratpoison 1.4.1 which at this time only exists in Sid. I got installed zip, unzip, and bzip2. I'm planning on installing: build-essential, checkinstall, libc6-dev, and build-dep ratpoison. Then download, cd to download file, and then ./configure, make, and checkinstall -D . Am i leaving something out? Compiling is not my area of expertise | That should be enough. If you get any errors, post here and I'll give you a hand. |
Coming from FreeBSD, to install an app and all of its dependencies from source all you have to do is cd to the port/app directory, configure the makefile to your liking, and run 'make install clean'. FreeBSD would fetch the source, build it based on the settings in your make.conf file, then install the resulting binaries. Is it possible to do this with Debian? If so, could you give me an example of the commands for an app, such as 'gaim' or something like that? Does Debian use a make.conf file (gcc)? TIA | You can grab the source code to any given package via apt-get source packagename then cd packagename/src to get at the configure/makefiles, but I don't think there's any built-in way to automate what you want to do... Debian is about binaries anyways... if you want to waste time "optimizing" your machine, you're better off here: http://gentoo.org (and some good commentary on why here) |
Let's say I have three partitions: / /home /partition-images What would the commands be (using dd and gzip) to make an exact replica of the / partition and store it on the /partition-images partition? What would the commands be to restore the image? Thanks much! BTW, I checked the man pages, but before I break something I thought I'd ask here first. | Say your partitions are as follows: /dev/hda1 - / /dev/hda2 - /home/ /dev/hda3 - /partitionimages/ You would do something like this: Code: Select alldd if=/dev/hda1 |gzip > /partitionimages/hda1.img.gzAnd repeat for /dev/hda2. |
ive wanted to try linux, and have gone over a few distros since the beginning of the year. i liked xubuntu, switched to debian etch(testing) + xfce and had a weird text problem, and recently installed debian etch(stable/xfce install) which doesnt auto-mount optical media when i use my cd/dvd drive it also doesnt auto-mount my usb drive/mp3 player i can manually mount them, but i want it done properly, by without my intervention. here is my fstab: Code: Select all# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 / xfs defaults 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /home xfs defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 i know the formatting looks fooked up, thats just from this tiny little editing box :/ after some googling and searching, it appears that this should allow my optical media to auto mount when i put it in the drive, but it doesnt :/ to mount it i do Code: Select allmount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom and it works fine, but its a PITA to wait for it to stop before i can eject it. what can i do? | I do not use XFCE, but Gnome automount features are linked with HAL package: http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/hal Package: hal (0.5.8.1-9) Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL provides an abstract view on hardware. This abstraction layer is simply an interface that makes it possible to add support for new devices and new ways of connecting devices to the computer, without modifying every application that uses the device. It maintains a list of devices that currently exist, and can provide information about those upon request. Probably Thunar uses HAL too, as you can read here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30207. So, first be sure that HAL is installed in your system and then tell us if it works. |
I am new to Debian but I have used Gentoo for almost 3 years. I have grown tired of all of the compiles. I would like to install Flash 9. I have tried but I have not succeeded. Apt-get does not find any version of Flash. I have downloaded Flash 9 from Adobe but their installer will not install it because Flash only runs on 32 bit systems. I have also tried copying the plugin files to likely locations but that has also failed. In order to use Flash on my Gentoo AMD_64 system I could either install a Firefox 32 bit binary or using the 64 bit version of Firefox install nspluginwrapper which converted the 64 bit calls to 32bit calls. At various times I have had both methods working. I am not sure if Iceweasel (firefox) for AMD_64 is the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version. Is there a way to tell? Does anyone know how to install flash 9 for Iceweasel on a Debian Etch AMD_64 system? Is it possible to install a 32 bit version of Iceweasel? (I don't know how, I may even have a 32 bit version as far as I know) Thank-you, Garbara. | You would either need to install it using the 'chroot' way or you may try installing gnash, the open source version of flash. There is no flash plugin or java plugin for 64 bit version. There are other topics here about the chroot way, try searching. Thnx. |
I upgraded to Etch 4.0r0 from Sarge 3.1r1 with a set of Etch DVDs. Something minor went wrong during the upgrade, and whenever I install a package, it gives me large warnings saying "the packages come from an untrusted source." The source is the Etch DVDs. How can I make it trust the DVDs? | Install "debian-archive-keyring". You might have to run "aptitude update" for the untrusted things to disappear. |
Where would I get the source code to the Debian-versions of various binaries such as ls, mv, etc. that are part of the base system? | Optional wrote:Where would I get the source code to the Debian-versions of various binaries such as ls, mv, etc. that are part of the base system? mv & ls are bash builtins. If you want Debian source packages you get them from a Debian repo of course! For example: Code: Select alldeb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Then just apt-get source <pkg> |
I installed Debian 4.0 from the DVDs. System is running fine, but I can't mount any other partition! When I double-click a partition in Computer is says : libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set. process 22442: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application. error: device /dev/sda1 is not removable error: could not execute pmount It's same for all partitions on my HDD but partitions on an USB drive and CD/DVDs mount OK. I have : 1 MiB empty at begining of HDD /dev/sda1 NTFS with Vi$ta primary 97.66 GiB /dev/sda2 FAT32 for miscellaneous files primary 4.88 GiB 1.97 MiB empty /dev/sda3 extended primary 76.42 GiB /dev/sda5 swap logical 1.00 GiB /dev/sda6 ext3 with kubuntu logical 9.77 GiB /dev/sda7 reiserfs with freespire logical 9.77 GiB /dev/sda8 ext3 with debian logical 55.88 GiB 53.92 GiB empty at end | I'm also a noob, but I've mounted some partitions before... have you tried going to the terminal to mount these partitions? Open terminal and make a folder you want to use for the partition you want to mount. For example, you'll make a folder /home/username/misc which will become the root of your /dev/sda2 partition. In terminal, type Code: Select allmount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /home/username/misc After the -t you have to specify the type of filesystem (I think there's an auto option) and for ntfs, you have to make sure you have the ntfs-3g driver installed (if you want to be able to write to your ntfs partitions). I'm still trying to figure out how to install ntfs-3g on my debian system... |
This is what I get from the Debian site deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free Also tried deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main but when I put either in my source.list I get Code: Select allW: Couldn't stat source package list http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/volatile.debian.org_debian-volatile_dists_etch_volatile_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/volatile.debian.org_debian-volatile_dists_etch_volatile_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/volatile.debian.org_debian-volatile_dists_etch_volatile_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) from synaptic. I am wondering, has the site been changed? And if so what is the new one? Thank you. | More questions, sorry. Looking at the mirrors list went in to the ftp site and looked at the readme file Welcome to volatile.debian.org Please just use sarge/volatile or etch/volatile with deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main contrib non-free or deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free The -proposed-distributions are _not_ for real usage. Uploaded packages enter them without further checks, and they may subsequently be rejected (and removed from the archive). So, if you use them, you risk to end up with unrecommended packages. Andreas Barth, 2007-03-28 Looks like it's not a recommended practice to use these repos. So again what site should one use to update the critical programs or is updating these part of the stable security repos. I ma just a little confused here. |
When I try too install Beryl I get an authentication error. How to I get rid of that. I thought I installed the gpg key with wget -O - http://debian.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg. Thanks in advance | Code: Select allwget http://debian.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - |
After many hours of trying to add a folder to the System Media folder I am totally confused and frustrated. Should not be as hard as I may be making it. I go to the media:/ folder > Edit menu > Create new folder name the folder click Ok and I get a message Could not make folder media:/New Folder. or whatever I want to name it, none worked. Tried as root, get the same exact message. So I thought Oh must have to create a link although none of the others are links, well would not allow that either. Could some one please share the magic words to do this task, please Thanks in advance. | from a terminal ( like gnome terminal or konsole or xterm......) type: Code: Select allsu ( hit enter) type roots password now we see root@yourcomputername# type: root@your computername# mkdir /media/your new folder name [quote][/quote] |
Here's my repos # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070317-20:46]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070317-20:46]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux etch _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 CD Binary-1 20070317-21:45]/ etch contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux etch _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 CD Binary-1 20070317-21:45]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib Just started getting the error about pavkages can't be autheticated. The packages all look OK. So is it something from my repos list or just and error on the repos side? Thanks in advance, did google and checked site but no specific answers to this.[/code] | This problem is pretty new/recent, so I doubt you will find it on Google just yet. There seems to be something wrong with the Debian "testing" key. That makes sense, since "testing" is switching from being "Etch" to being "Lenny". The consensus in posts here seems to be that it will work itself out soon enough. Also, you may want to decide whether to stay at Etch or to continue testing with Lenny. In other words, I think that your sources list should be either all "Etch" or all "Testing" since Etch is now stable not testing. |
So, I have had Debian Etch on this box since December (after trying Ubuntu), and now that testing is Lenny, I have this question: if I switch my sources list so that every appearance of "Etch" becomes "Testing", do I need to do a "dist-upgrade" after that? Part of me thinks yes, since I am going from Etch to Lenny (in theory). But part of me thinks no, since I have been on "Testing" all along. Not a major worry, obviously, but I am curious. Thanks in advance, Nemo | nemonullus wrote:...I have this question: if I switch my sources list so that every appearance of "Etch" becomes "Testing", do I need to do a "dist-upgrade" after that? Part of me thinks yes, since I am going from Etch to Lenny (in theory). But part of me thinks no, since I have been on "Testing" all along. If you use Etch, and want update some packages, you don't need to do "dist-upgrade", only "apt-get update". Did I understand you correctly? |
Installed Etch, but can not access it. My partition table with fdisk -l shows Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 12840 6471328+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 * 12841 45180 16299360 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 45183 158802 57263692+ b W95 FAT32 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. and hda3 should be ext3. My gparted shows it correctly as an ext3. But grub sees it as in fdisk so I can't boot into etch. Any suggestions? PS to make it more confusing: (parted) print hda Model: Maxtor 4R080L0 (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 82.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 6627MB 6627MB primary fat32 2 6627MB 23.3GB 16.7GB primary ntfs boot 3 23.3GB 82.0GB 58.6GB primary ext3 | What did you partition your disk with in the first place? Seems that it was not done properly. If this were my box I'd probably repartition the drive correctly (with fdisk or cfdisk) and reinstall. |
I inadvertently damaged my /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.xxxxx file. The kernel will no longer load it at boot up: Kernel panic - nor syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) The stupid manner that I messed up the initrd of course did not leave a backup of the original. Is there any way I can get the system booted and repair the initrd or should I start reinstalling from CD? | You've marked this as solved, so tell us how you fixed it! I was going to say you could try using a live cd, then chroot into the /boot folder on the hard drive install Then rebuild the initrd. I think it's something like this: # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.xxxxx 2.6.18.xxxxx |
I made an account for a different user and there is no sound there. Volume Control says: "No volume control GSstreamer plugins and/or devices found". I guess, this is the issue of permissions. But how to fix? | Is the user an audio member? |
I need to install java, and I am told I have to set up multiverse in synaptic, question is How do I do that Thanks | Open /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor and add "multiverse" to each line, after main, separated only by a space. Edit: "multiverse" is for *buntu. You're probably looking for "contrib" or "non-free" in Debian. So deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main would become deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free |
Hello! So I just plugged my Vista partition to this PC, reboot and try to mount it, but then I get an error like this in dmesg | tail: Code: Select allNTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide3... sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 NTFS-fs warning (device hdf): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum. NTFS-fs error (device hdf): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. NTFS-fs error (device hdf): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. NTFS-fs error (device hdf): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. The command I used to mount the partition was mount -t ntfs /dev/hdf ~/Desktop/Vista/ I am sure that it is /dev/hdf: description: ATA Disk product: Maxtor 4D040H2 vendor: Maxtor physical id: 1 bus info: ide@2.1 logical name: /dev/hdf version: DAH017K0 serial: D232770E size: 38GB capacity: 38GB capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:dos I dont' have any clues to solve this... Oh and yes I do know about ntfs-3g, but can't the NTFS support of my kernel handle this? Thanks in advance! | Question 1: why is it saying there is a SCSI disk being plugged in? Question 2: did you try "mount -t ntfs /dev/mountpoint /mountpoint -o error=recover" this is possibly DANGEROUS since it may trash the vista partition horribly. and from your code paste, it also looks like you are trying to mount a DISK you need to mount a partition E.G. /dev/hdf1 hope this helped, i would try to mount the partition and see where that get you before you try anything else. |
As everyone knows, when SpamAssassin checks emails, it labels them, if they are possible spam. Like this:X-Spam-Level: ********** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=10.1 I have the hole bunch of such emails in my "Inbox" folder. Is there a way to scan emails, and, if they are marked by SpamAssassin as possible spam to send them to the folder named "Spam"? | I use postfix to do that. in main.cf Code: Select allheader_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks in header_checks Code: Select all/^X-Spam-Flag: YES$/i REDIRECT spam@YOURDOMAIN.COM |
When I try to open Azureus from the terminal I get: :~$ cd /usr/bin :/usr/bin$ ./azureus ./azureus: line 3: /usr/share/java-config/libswt-3.2-java: No such file or directory When I try to find 'libswt-3.2-java' after running 'apt-get update' I get: No file is found to install. How can I get Azureus to open??? | I installed azureus and sun-java6-bin [which automatically installs sun-java6-jre] with Synaptic. Some java information from the terminal: :~# java -version -su: java: command not found :~# update-alternatives --config java There are 4 alternatives which provide `java'. Selection Alternative ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0/bin/java 2 /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.1 + 3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java * 4 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 4 Using `/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java' to provide `java'. :~# ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/java :~# nano /etc/profile In '/etc/profile' I edited the lines: export PATH umask 022 To read: export PATH JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/java" export JAVA_HOME umask 022 And then again: :~# java -version -su: java: command not found Because this method had worked previously for me. But now it's not. Do I have the link correct??? ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java /usr/lib/java I also tried: ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun /usr/lib/java and that didn't work either. What to do? |
I've looked everywhere and can't find how to mount an ext2 volume as non-root. Basically, I want to mount a drive as a normal user so I'll have r/w permissions on the drive. The obvious workaround is to either chmod 777 the entire drive after mounting it or chown it to the user. There has to be an option I can put in fstab to get it to do this w/o manual intervention. Using vfat, its dead easy, but I'm having trouble finding it in ext2. TIA Stine /etc/fstab (i want to set up /dev/sdb1 the same as /dev/sda1): # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/video vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0133,dmask=0022 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/audio ext2 defaults,user,noexec 0 0 | Did you try to change /dev/sdb1 /media/audio ext2 defaults,user,noexec 0 0 into /dev/sdb1 /media/audio ext2 rw,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,user 0 0 or similar? Why do you need ext2? Ext3 works fine. |
I'm running rxvt-unicode-lite on etch. After a brief sojurn into ion3 my terminal window leaves behind screen artifacts when text scrolls. To be clear. It worked before I switched into ion3. It worked in ion3. Now that I have switched back to openbox I have screen artifacts. I tried a dpkg-reconfigure and when that didn't work I reinstalled it. No help. Here's my .Xdefaults if people are curious. Code: Select allxterm*font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 rxvt*font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 urxvt*font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 Rxvt*reverseVideo: true Rxvt*scrollBar: false Rxvt*inheritPixmap: true Rxvt*tintColor: black Rxvt*shading: 65 Rxvt*transparent: true Rxvt*fading: 10 Rxvt.font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 URxvt*reverseVideo: true URxvt*scrollBar: false URxvt*inheritPixmap: true URxvt*transparent: true URxvt*tintColor: white URxvt*shading: 65 URxvt*fading: 10 URxvt.font: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1 I've tried calling urxvt with command line arguments but I get the same issue shown in the screen shots. Google reveals others asking the same question, but no one answering them. urxvt's website politely tells you to go to the community if you're running debian. Thoughts? | i was setting up a friend's laptop, he wanted openbox too, and for some reason i could never get rvxt-unicode-lite to cooperate, it worked initially, but as soon as you left the mouse from the terminal (another window got focus) the previously focused terminal got its background colours up in the way of the transparent background i never did figure out a way to solve it, i didn't even understand the problem |
I dist-upgraded my Etch install and now the fonts in Firefox is really looking bad. In every other app, including other browsers, it's just fine so it's a FF spesific problem. Any ideas? By the way... didn't there use to be an anti-aliasing checkbox in the fonts setup? Tina Edit: Typos | Thanks bluesdog, but that didn't fix it. Just for fun I upgraded firefox to the unstable version (1.5.0.6) but that didn't help either. This is strange... bluesdog wrote:The anti-aliasing checkbox is still there in Kcontrol > Appearance & Themes > Fonts Yes, I know. I meant in the Firefox preferences Tina |
Hi all ! I've had to shoot down my Debian, (it was suffering to much), to reinstall it all. It's now healthy and works fine. Prevevioulsy, I've backed up /home/user_name, since I thought that firefox et icedove profiles were stored in, I mean, at least mails and bookmarks. I'd like now to get them back on the new install., but I'm not sure I saved the proper directories : I keep browsing files, I can't find the desired datas. Any idea ? | You want the hidden directories /.mozilla and /.mozilla-thunderbird Afaik Icedove still uses the old Thunderbird directory names. When I restored my system after a crash I managed to salvage the above directories and copied them into my fresh install. Icedove worked flawlessly and all my mail, addresses etc was intact. Firefox suffered some problems (fonts and plugins) but I exported the bookmarks and adblock list and simply reinstalled it, then imported the data. Tina |
hi all...i have a problem in updating my MSN live space.. here it is the layout of the page where adding the new message: instead of the one displayed in IE, on my vmware!!!!! btw i tried to insert a new message without using the buttons tools, but the fact is that i cant publish the intervent, because of the link for doing it, is a dead one..the only running is the preview (on IE everything is OK) have you got any idea of that problem?? M@ | Dunno... but a wild guess would be that a Windows service require Windows..? |
I'm sorry if this seem like a terribly stupid question but I haven't been able to get it through man and google. I need to add a directory(/sbin) to my main users PATH. I tried adding, according to a howto, this in .bash_profile: Code: Select allPATH=$PATH:/sbin export PATH but to no good. I also tried, according to another howto, to edit .bashrc, where one would simply add directories to the existing definition of the users path, seperating them with : but that didn't work either. The command I want my normal user account to be able to use is "shutdown" and I gave the account privileges to shutdown the computer without a password and once I got it in the path I intend to add it to my fluxbox menu, hopefully enabling me to shutdown the computer in a gnomeish way. Note, when I punch this into xterm: Code: Select allPATH=$PATH:/sbin I can use the command for the duration of that xterm session. Also, I can invoke shutdown by punching in /sbin/shutdown. So, I managed to give the account permission to shutdown the computer. I just need to put /sbin permanently in my path. I'm using xterm on Etch. Can anyone provide me with what I suspect is a fairly easy answer? Best regards. Mojoman | mojoman wrote:...I also tried, according to another howto, to edit .bashrc, where one would simply add directories to the existing definition of the users path, seperating them with : but that didn't work either... You have to log out and back in for those changes to take effect. |
Hi folks, I just installed xbindkeys (along with xvkbd as per the instructions located here: http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page ... dia+Remote I just can't get it to work. I need some help to get past my stumbling block. After a couple hours reading up on these two apps, I've figured out that xbindkeys isn't reading the .xbindkeysrc file I created. I say this because xbindkeys -s returns the default values of: "xbindkeys_show" Control+Shift + q "xterm" m:0x4 + c:41 Control + f "xterm" m:0x4 + b:2 (mouse) "xterm" m:0xc + c:41 Control+Alt + f Some depreciated features have been used. Set the environmental variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECIATED to "detailed" and rerun the program to get more information. Set it to "no" to suppress this message. instead of my configuration. None of my configuration works despite making it with xbindkeys-config Testing, I find that using those default keypress combinations actually works (I get xterm to pop up) I created the .xbindkeysrc file with this user, so permissions should not be a problem. I can read the file, and it exists in my home directory with all the changes I made to it. I have killed the xbindkeys daemon, and also tried sending it a HUP signal to reread the configuration... all to no avail. What am I missing? | Ok, almost all the documentation I have found on this topic refers to editing your .xbindkeysrc file. I still have not managed to get this to work (and would love for someone to educate me on what I've done wrong) I did find a workaround though: I edited my .xbindkeysrc.scm file directly. The format is different, and xbindkeys-config does not make a compatible file, but with a little attention to the syntax I managed to get my custom keys working! |
The subject says all.. With the hostname command, I can set up the hostname temporarily, but I would like to change it permanently.. Thanks! | With the hostname command Is this any different from editing the /etc/hostname file? |
Yeah, stupid question, but I can´t write some special characters with my (Spanish) keyboard, like the famous " | ". On Winduh I can use the ASCII code with the numeric keyboard to write special caracters pressing Alt + (ASCII code), how do I do this on Debian? | This is the matter of setxkbmap In order to have the Spanish layout firstly you need to install Spanish fonts, if they are not installed yet. And then run in the terminal something like setxkbmap -layout es http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Debian_keyboards Optionally you can configure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to switching layouts with keys. That will be something like Code: Select allSection "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XKbVariant" ",phonetic" Option "XkbLayout" "se,us" Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle" EndSection Check setxkbmap manual for a better understanding: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11 ... map.1.html |
Hello! I did upgrades to my server PC last night and today morning, its PC speaker started to beep like a horse and everything lagged badly! I wasn't able to reach the internet, I couldn't use my harddrive and the X Server was lagging. dhclient and ifup/down didn't work; they just freezed, but they did work last night after the upgrades. dmesg had good and useful information to solve this, but I don't know how to save dmesg in a file.. for example, this does it, but without line feeds: echo `dmesg` > dmesg-output So, how can I get the output of dmesg with the line feeds? Thanks! | You don't need to save the output of dmesg since it's already a file... /var/log/dmesg Tina Edit: Or see this post by Grifter |
Hello! I usually boot to a command line and then execute startx to get to KDE; I also have Gnome installed for testing purposes, but I don't know how can I start Gnome WITHOUT modifying .xinitrc. Also, I don't want a Display Manager like GDM or KDM; and startkde doesn't seem to work to get KDE up Is it possible? Something like this would be cool: startx kde Thanks! | startkde only starts KDE on an existing X server. I suppose you could clear .xinitrc, then create two scripts like: Code: Select all#!/bin/bash startx & DISPLAY=:0 startkde & and a similar one for GNOME. |
Hello, Please help! I am completely new to Linux and know no Unix at all, and I cannot get Debian to list my USB ports or the files in my keys. When i click Home -> devices, i see only 2 CD-Rom drives, a floppy, and a Hard disk. In Windows i just click "My Computer", that shows C:, D:, E:, H:, I:, J:. Then i can click on I: and see all the files on my USB key. Please tell me how to do the equivalent in Debian. Thank you. | nemo wrote:Hello, Mine is a Kde and I did like this: #su #<passwd> #fdisk -l # no output at all, just a # returned right away. It is -l as in like, not 1. Very confused. Plug in your USB key and see if it is even recognized. Code: Select alllsusb If so, try passing the specific device name to fdisk like: Code: Select allfdisk -l /dev/sda OR Code: Select allfdisk -l /dev/sdb Post your output please. |
hello all! I have a problem,im new to linux mayby using linux for 3-4weeks i was using ubuntu for 3 weeks but everytime there was updates the system would crash and freeze.So from what i have read Debian is the most stable.So i installed Debian. Anyways all seems good but when i try to minus any app or game or even mozilla down it disapears? Now with being new to linux is this normal ? Is there a way to bring the process back up. I installed the latest stable release net install My sytem is mother board- asus a8v-uayz Processor-amd 3500+ ram-corsair 1gig video card-ati | What desktop environment do you have? Gnome, KDE, XFCE? The problem could be in the desktop environment, not Debian.. |
Hello! Yeah, that "neat trick" doesn't work for me Here's my /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "etch"; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; Acquire::http::Proxy "false"; And my /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free Hmm... after an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade it sees a lot of packages to get updated, but how's that? I pressed Y and continued and what do I see? All packages are pulled from Sid | I had the same strange problem on another box, but using "testing" instead of "etch" solved it... might be worth trying... Code: Select allAPT::Default-Release "testing"; Tina |
EDIT: The command I used to solve the mystery was: Code: Select allmkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sdb Hello! I bought today morning a 256Mb Maxell USB Drive.. I tested the drive and it worked fine on both Debian and Windows XP. But after I copied some files and wanted to copy them to my Windows XP computer, it did read the USB Drive, but not the files! I was afraid that my files were deleted, but the Windows XP "Properties" dialog for the drive showed that there were files. I thought that this was an issue with Windows XP, but in Debian happens the same! When I plug the USB Drive in, Debian does mount it correctly and it reads it too, but I can't see any files there! The "Meta Info" thingy in Konqueror's Properties dialog showed that the drive had files... So to make it clear, my USB Drive has files, but Debian and Windows XP can't see the files. And I am unable to copy files to my drive I also checked that the drive was not "locked"... Any help would be very appreciated! | Hmmm, what file format are the data files? What format is the usb drive? Did you copy the files using Debian the first time and which program to create the files? |
I installed apache2. when I type localhost the apache go to the folder apache2-default but I want that the the localhost open the file /var/www/, not the folder apache2-default. How can I do this? | This is the defaults set in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default see apache2 documentation for further information on how to configure apache to your needs http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ |
I installed phpmyadmin but when I try to do login (I use login=root password= root_password) the I get this: #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) How can I login in phpmyadmin? | Enter root as username and leave the password field empty. Then phpMyAdmin will complain about a security hole because of no password set for root and to get around this you need to execute this: Code: Select allmysqladmin -u root password <password> (Replace <password> with your password.) |
Can anyone tell me if its possible to install internet explorer on debian,or configure firefox because some pages are rendered badly or are inaccesible with the open-source browsers (for example the local movie theather site www.cinepolis.com.mx doesn't display the letters, and the russian embassy site doesnt display the letters in the menu either www.embrumex.com.mx) | Dear adrian_mx, if you need 100% IE compatibility try the following site, it working for me : http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page Best Regards, Mike Kranidis |
Hi all, just got started and I have apache installed and running, I then tried to write a php script and when I view it, it opens in a text editor window. I looked around and see that I need to enable php on apache. I found some info that says to open httpd.conf and add this AddType application/x-httpd-php .php LoadModule php4_module /php/sapi/php4apache.dll AddModule mod_php4.c <IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </IfModule> when I open httpd.conf I see this message This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support # installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than # through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism. # #LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so I tried this and Apache doesn't start I get a syntax error in the httpd.conf file and it says it cannot load the module /php/sapi/php4apache.dll no such file exists Is there a different way I should be doiing this? Thanks Ron | Well, first of; the php4apache.dll is a Windows library so assuming you're working in Linux I don't know why you would try to use that file. What Debian version are you running? Assumin Sarge you can install php4 via apt-get: Code: Select allapt-get install php4 Tina |
Hello! I am going to sell 4 of my computers (I have 5 now, so I will only have my main computer which is my server ). My current server has Etch installed with LAMP (which was a real pain to install btw..) And with the money, I am going to buy a newer, better computer for a new server. Here are the specs: Processor: Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU Fan: Zalman CNPS7700-Cu Motherboard: Asus P5LD2/C ATX Case: CoolerMaster Cavalier T01 Power Supply: Antec 550W TruePower 2.0 RAM Memory: 2 * Kingston 2048Mb HyperX 900Mhz (= 4096Mb) Hard Disk(s): 5 * Hitachi Deskstar YK500 500Gb (= 2500Gb) Optical Drive: LG GSA-H10NSBB DVD+-RW Dual Layer Graphic Card: Asus GeForce 7950 GX2 Price: 2500 € So my questions are the following: 1. Would it be a good idea to use the Ubuntu Server Edition instead of installing LAMP manually on Etch? 2. Will my recompiled kernels (which I compiled in Debian) work in Ubuntu? 3. Is it possible to install a desktop later on if you installed the Server Edition? And if yes, with what applications can I control Apache? Please don't reply with Ubuntu is sh*t or something else; I think Ubuntu is actually quite good; after all, if it wouldn't be Ubuntu, I would never have discovered Debian Thanks! Every help is highly appreciated! | Ubuntu is... *oops* pros: Setup is real easy, and everything will probably just work. cons: If past ubuntu systems are anything to go by, customization/updating will be a PITA Cannot comment on your custom kernels, but I wouldn't be surprised if some things just wouldn't work. Best to compile anew, imo Possible to install a desktop, but you could just as easily control the whole shebang with ssh, vnc, or webmin. I would probably just install etch, then setup LAMP, if only because then I'd know what/where/who etc. Last year I installed ubuntu server on an ancient hp server, mainly because it was extremely easy to do so. I never fool around with it much, because it is noisy and not terribly energy-efficient. If I knew then what I know now, I'd probably go the Etch/manual LAMP/ssh/vnc/webmin route... Sounds like fun, anyway. Keep us posted! |
Hi Using Debian testing. I noticed that when I open my home folder (or any folder for that matter) and further click in that folder, new windows appear. I prefer when clicking on a folder or file within a folder, the window change and allow me to move back via a back button. Is there a way to get the behavior I'm looking for? Thanks in advance. | If you are using Gnome as your Desktop Environment, you probably use Nautilus as your file manager. Then see the Gnome Desktop User Guide for instructions how to enable Browser Mode |
I got the kernel working! I used the guide found here: http://taliesin.wordpress.com/linux-ker ... ebian-way/ Now I have full pre-emption, as well low-latency, full realtime and 1000Hz timer frequency, and the nvidia module compiled along with the kernel works wonderfully =D Oh I love Debian more and more when I get something done =D | thamarok wrote:The mission is to take the latest kernel source and change the system resolution timer from 250Hz to 1000Hz. EDIT: Woops, forgot to actually post anything; Why? What does that do? What's the benefit to having it at 1k instead of 250? apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev cd /usr/src/ get a kernel from kernel.org or some place tar jxvf it ln -s linux-x.x.x linux cd linux make menuconfig set it up, exit and save make-kpkg kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i linux-image-x.x.x.deb then optionally edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add vga=791 to the kernel loading line of your new kernel, save and reboot EDIT2: That particular option is in "Processor features and types" |
Hello! I did a apt-get dist-upgrade a little time ago, but after a reboot, I wasn't able to get to the internet and ifup and ifdown freezed when I opened them. And everytime I tried to open zsnes (the SNES emulator) X shuts down and says: xinit - connection to the X server lost. EDIT: I got internet back by using dhclient, but ifup and ifdown are still freezing when I open them. I'll make a bug report. EDIT2: I got the SNES emulator working after reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. Thanks! | I also experience a dodgy network after this mornings dist-upgrade. For some reason my networkd don't always come up after reboot... some times it do, sometimes it don't. I did have a problem with the new openbsd-inetd package not being configured during the upgrade but doing it manually seemed to fix it. When the network don't come up I see the same thing; 'ifup eth0' just hangs there doing nothing. I'll do some more research next time it fails... Tina |
Anybody knows an equivalent or howto for making a local repository? I have seen this and tried it in rpms but was wondering if there was a way for debian to create a local repo so that I do not have to install using dpkg -i *.deb for a whole whack load of updates? | Someone (I think Harold) posted this nice little script (I've modified it slightly, directory names and all) a while ago: Code: Select allalias debcrunch='cd ~/pkgrepo/ && apt-ftparchive packages . | gzip > Packages.gz && sudo apt-get update' Put that in your .bashrc, put packages in ~/pkgrepo, add: Code: Select alldeb file:/home/USERNAME/pkgrepo/ ./ to /etc/apt/sources.list, then run debcrunch and see what happens... |
Hey, I just installed Etch(beta 3, netinstall) on an extern HD, but it's maent for use on my laptop (IBM ThinkPad R52) only. During the installation you can choose for several pre-selected software-packages. The installer advised me the DE, Laptop and StandardSystem. I assume that if I did some research (google/here) I'd discover what I needed to install for my needs (crappy sentence ) so I deselected the installers choices. However I did choose to select the laptop-suite, since I don't exactly know what I would need for my trackpoint/battery-management. That selection gave 111 packages that needed to be downloaded and installed. I don't think I need all of those (since 'laptop' doesn't specify which brand). But I also don't know how to figure out which packages I AM using, and which are redundant (and thus markable for removal through APT). Thanks, --Johan On a sidenote: This is my first 'real-life' linux experience (we had some introductionary at college) and I'm definetly liking the optimisations possible and the great part of learning and understanding my machine I already did. But much still has to be done... | I don't really know what gets installed by selecting the laptop mode in tasksel, but as for identifying packages which you use and which you don't, it's really hard to know in the beginning, and there really is no substitute for experience, you just have to learn as you go; it might have been easier to select nothing at all there, and then _do_ install the packages that you wanted yourself, after the base install was over and done with, the package laptop-mode-tools is prolly a good idea to have, if you use a 2.6 kernel you should have pcmciautils and can apt-get remove --purge pcmcia-cs, if you're using a 2.4 kernel pcmcia-cs is used |
greeting forum new to debian 3.1 sarge and looking to shut down the x-server so i can change the screen resolution [now locked @ 800 x], and install a nviidia card. i got this from the "guide" debian:/home/dave# /etc/init/d/gdm stop bash: /etc/init/d/gdm: No such file or directory debian:/home/dave# also have tried cntl/alt/F1 # init 1,2,3,4,5,6 with no response please advise the correct code best regards dave | It's 'init.d', not 'init/d'. |
I've been trying to mount my Win XP drive on my Debian Etch for some time now. I have done Code: Select allapt-get install samba and it installed. I have tried Code: Select allmount "//192.168.1.47/C - winxp" /mnt/ldb88 and Code: Select allmount -t smbfs "//192.168.1.47/C - winxp" /mnt/ldb88but both sayCode: Select allwrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.47/C - winxp, missing codepage or other error. I typed Code: Select alldmesg | tail and it says Code: Select allsmbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported. It says some other stuff, but I don't think its relevant. If you think it would help, just ask and I'll get it to you. I tried Code: Select allmount -t ntfs "//192.168.1.47/C - winxp" /mnt/ldb88 and I got Code: Select allmount: special device //192.168.1.47/C - winxp does not exist. However, I am positive it does. I can ping 192.168.1.47 and I get replies, and I have a shared drive on it called C - winxp. Does anyone know how to get this to work? I only need it to read. It can, but doesn't have to be able to write to the ntfs drive. | Try naming the shared folder something without spaces, I've always mounted windows shares with Code: Select all$ mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.1/C /media/share You could also run Code: Select all$ smbtree to see what shares are available to samba. Also, trying to mount a remote share as ntfs makes no sense. You could run a samba server to create windows shares on debian, and they would be ext2 (etc) but not ntfs. |
Now, I installed to hd damn small linux on a (quite) slow computer, and I would like to get a decent system by installing what's missing with apt-get or dselect or if possible synaptic. But my only "real" debian cd is actually a dvd. And my cd-rom drive is kind of reclutant to read that ^^ So I copied my dvd into 2 iso images (4.4 gigs was too big for my fat fs) onto an external hard disk. But apt-cdrom won't take it. Actually, it does, but aptitude won't detect the fake cdrom I stuffed into /cdrom/ (that's the mountpoint aptitude complains about). I would like to have automatic dependencies resolution using packages located on a hard disk (I have the right index files on the iso, so I would like to use them too) HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT ??? By the way, when i'll have finished installing synaptic, how can I do the same ??? | I think I hear you saying that the DVD contains 4.4 gig of files, that your internal hard drive will not allow you to create a partition that large, that your external hard drive does support a 4.4-gig partition, that you want to copy the contents of the DVD onto the external hard drive, and that you want to external drive to appear as a local Debian repository. Have I go that right? An iso image is not a valid Debian source. Apt-cdrom will not set up your external drive as a Debian source. You want to copy the contents of the DVD to the external hard drive without changing the file structure. Then you want to create a mount point in your DSL system and mount the external drive at that point, Finally, go into /etc/apt/sources.list, and add a line to make apt-get recognize the external hard drive as a Debian source. We'll talk about what that line looks like when we get to that point. It's not clear right now that we are talking about the same goal. |
Hello I've got problems with my filesystem. During the boot, I've read the line that: Wrong amount of used blocks, switching to the --fix-fixable mode ##### reiserfsck --fix-fixable mode started ##### Checking inernal tree... after that it I can't get into Gnome. It says that it couldn't find "screens" or found them, but neither has usable configuration. Reconfigurating the xserver did nothing. When I checked my drive with Simply Mepis, it said: Code: Select allChecking/repairing filesystem (e2fsck) on /dev/sda1. /sbin/e2fsck : Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: The super block could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem . If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the super block is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate super block : e2fsck -b 8193 < device > Check completed. Checking/repairing filesystem (e2fsck) on /dev/sda1. e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... /sbin/e2fsck : Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 The super block could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem . If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the super block is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate super block : e2fsck -b 8193 < device > Check completed. My xfree86 log gile says: Code: Select allXFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 20050901212727 fjp@localhost.localdomain) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 02 September 2005 This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any way. Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see <URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >. We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as possible. Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ: XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-2-k7 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 11:28:09 UTC 2005 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Aug 24 06:50:02 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) XKB: model: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "pl" (**) XKB: layout: "pl" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (++) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,0269 card 1043,8122 rev 80 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:00:1: chip 1106,1269 card 1043,8122 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:00:2: chip 1106,2269 card 1043,8122 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:00:3: chip 1106,3269 card 1043,8122 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:00:4: chip 1106,4269 card 1043,8122 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:00:7: chip 1106,7269 card 1043,8122 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b198 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 11ab,4320 card 1043,811a rev 13 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0e:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8067 rev 0a class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0e:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 0a class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 1106,3149 card 1043,80ed rev 80 class 01,04,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1043,80ed rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 81 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:10:1: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 81 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:10:2: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 81 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:10:3: chip 1106,3038 card 1106,3038 rev 81 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:10:4: chip 1106,3104 card 1106,3104 rev 86 class 0c,03,20 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3227 card 1043,80ed rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0253 card 16eb,0620 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:1), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:2), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:3), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:4), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:0:7), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000b (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xfc100000 - 0xfe2fffff (0x2200000) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x9fd00000 - 0xafefffff (0x10200000) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:17:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] rev 163, Mem @ 0xfd000000/24, 0xa0000000/27, 0xafe00000/19, BIOS @ 0xfe200000/17 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xe0000000 from 0xefffffff to 0xdfffffff (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xfea00000 - 0xfea000ff (0x100) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xfe900000 - 0xfe903fff (0x4000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [3] -1 0 0xfe200000 - 0xfe21ffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xafe00000 - 0xafe7ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0xa0000000 - 0xa7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000eec0 - 0x0000eedf (0x20) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000ef90 - 0x0000ef9f (0x10) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efab (0x4) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000efa0 - 0x0000efa7 (0x8) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000efac - 0x0000efaf (0x4) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe7 (0x8) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000ef88 - 0x0000ef8f (0x8) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000eea0 - 0x0000eebf (0x20) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xfea00000 - 0xfea000ff (0x100) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xfe900000 - 0xfe903fff (0x4000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [3] -1 0 0xfe200000 - 0xfe21ffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xafe00000 - 0xafe7ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0xa0000000 - 0xa7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000eec0 - 0x0000eedf (0x20) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000ef90 - 0x0000ef9f (0x10) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efab (0x4) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000efa0 - 0x0000efa7 (0x8) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000efac - 0x0000efaf (0x4) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe7 (0x8) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000ef88 - 0x0000ef8f (0x8) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000eea0 - 0x0000eebf (0x20) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfea00000 - 0xfea000ff (0x100) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xfe900000 - 0xfe903fff (0x4000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xfe200000 - 0xfe21ffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xafe00000 - 0xafe7ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xa0000000 - 0xa7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000eec0 - 0x0000eedf (0x20) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000ef90 - 0x0000ef9f (0x10) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efab (0x4) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000efa0 - 0x0000efa7 (0x8) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000efac - 0x0000efaf (0x4) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe7 (0x8) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000ef88 - 0x0000ef8f (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000eea0 - 0x0000eebf (0x20) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module GLcore (II) UnloadModule: "GLcore" (EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 2.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7174 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "record" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: "speedo" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Speedo (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "xtt" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a (II) Module xtt: vendor="X-TrueType Server Project & After X-TT Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.4.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font xtt (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7174 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-7174 Tue Mar 22 06:48:37 PST 2005 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfea00000 - 0xfea000ff (0x100) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xfe900000 - 0xfe903fff (0x4000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xfe200000 - 0xfe21ffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xafe00000 - 0xafe7ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xa0000000 - 0xa7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000eec0 - 0x0000eedf (0x20) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000ef90 - 0x0000ef9f (0x10) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efab (0x4) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000efa0 - 0x0000efa7 (0x8) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000efac - 0x0000efaf (0x4) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe7 (0x8) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000ef88 - 0x0000ef8f (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000eea0 - 0x0000eebf (0x20) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xfea00000 - 0xfea000ff (0x100) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xfe900000 - 0xfe903fff (0x4000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xfe200000 - 0xfe21ffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xafe00000 - 0xafe7ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xa0000000 - 0xa7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [12] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [13] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [14] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000eec0 - 0x0000eedf (0x20) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000ef90 - 0x0000ef9f (0x10) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efab (0x4) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000efa0 - 0x0000efa7 (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000efac - 0x0000efaf (0x4) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe7 (0x8) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000ef88 - 0x0000ef8f (0x8) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000eea0 - 0x0000eebf (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B] [31] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [32] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xA0000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFD000000 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org. Thanks for any help This is emergency, I have some deadlines with my thesis, and there's tons of important data on that machine. I'm on Puppy right now backing up and working, but I don't know what to do. | What filesystem do you have? My guess would be reiserfs of some sort. Mepis failed because it tried to access the filesystem as ext2, and the magic number didn't specify an ext2 filesystem, which is not surprising, if you have reiser. Anyway, probably the filesystem crashed and some of your data is lost. Among them is the nvidia module, which cannot be loaded due some corruption, or because it simply isn't there any more. Try reinstalling the nvidia kernel module, and then starting X. if you can't reinstall the nvidia module, you can try to reconfigure your X server, selecting "vesa" as the display driver. It is ugly and slow, but should allow you to start your graphic environment. |
Hi, I am trying to mount my USB thumb drive (Trascend JetFlash 128MB) but still could not mount it successfully. Below are the steps I took: Insterted the USB stick into the port. Logged into root. After that, Code: Select alldebian:/mnt/thumb# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetFlash 2.0 / Astone USB Drive Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 debian:/mnt/thumb#And, Code: Select allmount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb and got this error message: Code: Select allmount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device debian:/mnt/thumb# After that,Code: Select alldebian:/mnt/thumb# fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-d] debian:/mnt/thumb#Nothing came out! AndCode: Select alldebian:/dev# tail -f /var/log/messages Apr 29 01:14:12 localhost gconfd (nayoo-2279): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/nayoo/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0 Apr 29 01:19:06 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 Apr 29 01:22:26 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2 Apr 29 01:22:28 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 Apr 29 01:27:41 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 3 Apr 29 01:27:45 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Apr 29 01:28:00 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 4 Apr 29 01:28:08 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 Apr 29 01:29:24 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 5 Apr 29 01:29:28 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6by connecting and unconnecting the thumb drive. And I also tried thisCode: Select alldebian:/dev# lsmod | grep usb usbcore 114788 - debian:/dev# Something is not right. The kernel I am using is 2.6.15.1 which I reconfigured and recompiled. My Debian distribution is Etch. Thanks for any advice, N.O | Try plugging it in while the system is booting so it is seen as soon as udev loads. |
I am trying to extend my surce.list to get more packages, however synaptic doesn´t accept the new repositories (I am tunning debian etch) For exepmle I add deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main and when I open synaptic I get the error message: W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) This happens with all other repositories I want to add. In Kubuntu you could extend source.list very easily without complication. Probably it´s due to authentication (key). Is there something I schould have configured? | There's a reason: the debian-marillat repo has moved. Try this: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main |
Hi, I am a little bit newbie to linux. Since my upgrade to debian testing from debian sarge my computer doen´t shutdown correctly: The last message is acpi_power_off call and my keybord and mouse turn off whereas the rest stays "alive". Probably its due to acpi. I have read many threads about it but none described correctly how to turn off acpi (is uninstall sufficient?) and make apm rule my shutdown process. I hope someone can help me, because it makes me sad not having a solution of this (common) problem. | This did the trick on my two old Compaqs: Try to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst, the kernel parameters, to: Code: Select allkernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off apm=on apm=power-off I'm no expert on neither acpi nor apm but the above works. But maybe there are a more correct way to do it..? Tina |
During the installation, it asked me how do I want to get the packages. I selected CDROM thinking it was asking the packages I want to install during the installation. So I thought, "Why was bandwidth when I can use the CDROM's packages." Well, the packages I was looking for was not listed in manual select. So I went on thinking I could just grab it off the Net later. Was this suppose to be the universal question on how I can to get the packages? Because I thought it only applied to only during the installation. After installing Debian base, I tried 'apt-get install fluxbox' it gives me Code: Select allReading Package List... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package fluxbox So... What can I do now? | did you run this first... Code: Select allapt-get update If still no luck check your /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure your debian repos are enabled. BTW, fluxbox is great -- using it right now. |
I assume this is its official site?: http://search.debian.org/ Well, it has not been working for days. It has been giving me the Debian Search disabled The Debian search engine has been disabled for now. We're working on it. message. Where else can I use a search engine to look up the aviable packages (with details) available for Debian? | http://packages.debian.org is the one I use to search packages in different debian "branches" than the one I have installed. To search for packages in testing, I use aptitude search <package>. |
This might make more sense in the hardware section of the forums, but as I'm not asking how to install this and that and just want a general understanding of how things work... (well feel free to move this mods) Anyways, something that has confused me to a great extent when using Linux, is how dose it decide what to install in my pc to make it work. With windows, I have to get my audio, video and chipset drivers so that everything can work. With linux, after a basic instalation with a graaphical desktop, everything seems to run without the need of aditional programas, audio works, video etc The reason I want to know this is beacuse... for example, after instaling everything I need, say I want to install an ati driver to boost my 3d. If I do this, wouldn't I need to uninstall the previous driver so that I can proceed to intsall the new ati one? Am I just draging concepts from windows? Well, I hope I was cleer with my question. Comments answers etc are very welcome | mr wrote:Anyways, something that has confused me to a great extent when using Linux, is how dose it decide what to install in my pc to make it work. With windows, I have to get my audio, video and chipset drivers so that everything can work. With linux, after a basic instalation with a graaphical desktop, everything seems to run without the need of aditional programas, audio works, video etc Installation programs in Linux are usually very comprehensive in terms of hardware detection. I'd say that only very new hardware would pose some problems. mr wrote:The reason I want to know this is beacuse... for example, after instaling everything I need, say I want to install an ati driver to boost my 3d. If I do this, wouldn't I need to uninstall the previous driver so that I can proceed to intsall the new ati one? Am I just draging concepts from windows? No, you wouldn't need to uninstall a driver for 2 reasons: 1- it's size is irrelevant to worry about disk space, and 2 - perhaps the most important factor here, you modify the conf file in a way to tell what driver to use. And, yes, your question is based on concepts from Windows. |
Hi. I'm new to Debian (I've used Kubuntu for a few months and Ubuntu and DSL a bit before that) and have done a net-install of Sarge on an old K6. I want to upgrade it to Etch. My sources.list currently contains: deb http://debian.savoirfairelinux.net/debian/ stable main deb http://security-debian.org/ stable/updates main deb http://backports.org/debian sarge-backports main Should I add these lines to update it?: deb http://debian.savoirfairelinux.net/debian/ testing main deb http://security-debian.org/ testing/updates main If I add these, should I remove any or all of the old lines; and afterwards, which of these commands do I run: Code: Select allapt-get upgrade or Code: Select allapt-get dist-upgrade ? I've been trying to find information on these things myself but I would still appreciate any help. | The only think you have to do is to: 1) Change the stable word, with testing everywhere in your repositories and then: 2) Do an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade [both of them in order, to be a testing debian happy user] Good luck buddy! |
Dear All, May I know how to add Realplayer Plugin into Firefox and Konqueror? Can you listen to the BBC radios/news (which uses Realplayer) from this site? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/i/ This is the error message from Konqueror: "Your browser has not detected a RealPlayer plugin. It may be that you need to download RealPlayer or adjust your browser settings." This is the error message from Firefox: "Could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player." How shall I fix it? Thank you, N.O P.S. I have Realplayer in my computer and I could watch the videos from MIT OCW lectures and Berkeley Webcasts. I think it is because they don't embed the realplayer into the web browser as a plugin. Here in BBC news, the website tried to embed the Realplayer into the web browser as a plugin. The problem is that I don't know how to add Realplayer plugin into the webbrowsers. Please kindly help. | Go here Also, you may need to install mplayer, and fiddle about with the Mozilla mplayer plugin. Code: Select allapt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer You'll also need the w32 codecs, if you haven't already got 'em... which means you'll have to add the marillat repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sarge main (edited as per ajdlinux's post following) then Code: Select allapt-get install w32codecs I suggest you use synaptic, an excellent gui front-end to apt Code: Select allapt-get install synaptic If you need help configuring any of this stuff, just post here, or perhaps in the multimedia forum. Sometimes it can be a real pain getting media working in Fx. |
Dear All, May I know your choice of respositories or any default respositories to be put into the sources.list file for Etch? My respositories are : Code: Select all# Testing deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free restricted Currently, I'm having problem with "apt-get update" for "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main". The Error message is: Code: Select allW: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net etch/main Packages (/va r/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packag es) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I commented out that problematic respository and did "apt-get update" again. This time around it worked. So far, I have no idea why this happens. It would be great if someone of you could share your sources.list for Etch or could explain the cause of this problem? Thank you, N.O | deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib # multimedia deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main # amule # deb http://amule-debian.dyndns.org/ debian/ that's all |
Hi, Could anyone who has done skype installation successfully and made it work, kindly share your knowledge here? I still could not make it work. Thanks in advance, N.O | The following comes from Skype forum topic: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=37742 - page 1 garetho wrote:Hi Here's an update on ALSA support. Development is in progress. We've had lots of requests for this and appreciate everyone's patience. It has been a highly desired feature internally for a long time. We have now got some functionality working on some Linux distributions. But we're not happy with it yet. We want to release good stuff and it needs work. thanks garetho is identified as "Skype Staff" and this post was placed on Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:12 pm Looking at page 11 in the above mentioned topic, ppmotskula, also identifed in the forum as "Skype Staff", on Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:32 am, placed this post: ppmotskula wrote:The problem is -- and that's been mentioned here and elsewhere several times already -- that we use an externally developed voice engine that is otherwise really good (able to pack a lot of sound detail into not-too-wide datastream), but Linux version of which was originally designed to support OSS only. We are working with them to get the voice library updated, but things have been moving a lot slower than our users and developers had hoped. Of course, we've received repeated suggestions (mainly from the Linux user community) to drop this voice library, and adopt some open-source alternative. But you know we have tens of millions of Skype users running on Windows and Mac OS X and Pocket PC, so it's not that easy. As far as I can tell, a day will come when we will have proper ALSA support. Some of you will hopefully bear with us. Some will probably go looking for alternatives and come back when Skype finally speaks ALSA. And some will definitely leave and never look back. I cannot promise any immediate change. But comments like yours, Martin -- the ones with cool, rational reasoning -- will eventually reach the eyes and ears of our product managers, and help keep us pushing on. Thanks, and I hope you've not used up all your patience yet. 5 months, between those messages, and no news about ALSA. That makes one to think about Skype problems with ALSA as well as their approach towards improving its own product interface with Linux. I am looking for other alternatives of VoIP. I've started to try openwengo and, although it has a sound issue reported by several users, it's an open source software. I also experimented gizmo, which worked very well and it seems to be alsa-compliant. Last but not least, for the ones not happy with Skype and who would like to have their money back, you can find how to be refunded in these links: 1) To get a refund for skype in, follow these steps: http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=k ... ils&_i=264 2) To get a refund for skype out: http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=k ... ils&_i=297 Cheers, domecq |
I'm running the current Debian stable on one of my workstations, and krdc is unable to connect to any of the servers I need to talk to, complaining that there is "no server running at the given address and port" which is bogus, as I can connect directly to the address and port with telnet. On other machines I have used rdesktop successfully, but when I tried to install rdesktop on this machine, I discovered that the Debian package for rdesktop depends on versions of libc and libssl which stable doesn't have. I tried pulling down the tarball for rdesktop and building it myself, but ./configure complained that it couldn't find the development files for OpenSSL. So I tried installing libssl-dev and that bombed with dependency failures as well. Any clues on either getting rdesktop installed or krdc to know how to connect to an available port (the online help gives no clues about how to get a trace log out of krdc so I can figure out why it thinks a server is not listening on a port when it really is)? Many thanks! Bob Kline | Have you thought about using VNC? (e.g. rfb or vncserver or something like that?) |
First of all, hi everyone! I have Ubuntu Dapper installed in this PC, but want to give Etch a try. My problem is that when one of them upgrades the kernel, update-grub messes menu.lst. Both OSes seem to think that every kernel in the debian section is theirs, rendering the other system unusable until I manually fix them. Is there a clean way to have more than one debian or debian-based distribution in a PC? Thank you in advance. | Easy - just install them on separate partitions. Debian is smarter with grub than you would think. |
I am not a command line guy.... I just got 3.1r0a installed and all I get is a command prompt... how do I get KDE or GNOME? Peter | Do this: Code: Select allapt-get install x-window-system-core kde If you prefer gnome, you may install it instead of kde, or you can install both. The install procedure will as you the details of your video card, keyboard and mouse. Some hints: - PS/2 mice are attached to /dev/psaux. - USB mice are usually attached to /dev/input/mouse0 - Be sure to select the correct video driver. If you select an inappropriate one, X won't start. If you are not sure which driver to use, ask here. - If you are completely helpless, use the 'vesa' driver. It should work on any card. - Other than the things listed above, you can accept the default answers, but be sure to actually read what the installer ask; the default maybe isn't what you want. After you done, you have two options. The first one is to edit the ~/.xinitrc file, and write the 'exec startkde' or 'exec gnome-session' lines to it, depending on what you want to start. After this, if you issue the 'startx' command, a GUI will hopefully start. The second option is to install a login manager, which is probably the more convenient choice, and is good for most people. Simply install the kdm or the gdm package (the former is KDE's login manager, the latter is of Gnome). No matter which one you choose, you can always choose your GUI upon login, if you installed both KDE and Gnome. |
I have been using licq for a long time, I like it and wish to continue using it. I changed from Slackware to Debian/testing with the Desktop alternative. In Slack I used KDE, but now I am on Gnome, which is quite ok with me, because I rely on Evolution, but I need a few programs in KDE as well. Anyway, I got around to installing licq fine, but now I can't run it because at the same time it REMOVED pretty much all of KDE. What's up with that? | It probably is not a licq-specific problem, but rather an indication that there are conflicts in the packages installed on your computer that the package management system either hasn't been given the opportunity to resolve or is unable to resolve because of some change that was forced onto the system. Begin by doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. If you see that packages are being held back, then do apt-get dist-upgrade. If that does not bring your system back into equlibrium, then post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list (excluding, please, the lines that are hashed out). |
hello there i just re-entered the world of debian after ubuntu 5.10 (too "gloss" slow and unstable in comparisson with proper debian anyway) and since this is by far the best community ever just wanted to ask if there is a way of upgrading from sarge(3.1) to etch (testing), i reconfigured my /etc/apt/sources.list and did the aptitude configuration thing after apt-get update but some dependecy problem left the system into terminal. Now i got up and running but stil in sarge any help appreciated would love to get my hands on kde 3.4 gnome 2.10 and so forrth keep the open source spirit alive:))) | All you should need to do is change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to use the testing repositories instead of the stable, then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. You may want to simulate the upgrade first to see what all is going to be changed before commiting to the installation. In which case, run apt-get -s dist-upgrade in place of the second command. Also, after the upgrade, you will probably want to install a new kernel, as dist-upgrade most likely will leave you with your old kernel from Sarge. To see what precompiled kernels are available use apt-cache search linux-image -n. |
I am running Deb 3.1 r1 stable and would like to know how to mount my USB port so I can download my pics from camera. One person said use 'mountpy' but my system returned that there was no 'mountpy' program. Can I look in a repository other than CD binary 1&2 (which is all I have downloaded). Perhaps online and using synaptiic or in terminal using apt-get. Also a different repository might help me find 'libdvd?' Thank you very much. I am really enjoying Debian, thanks. Sorry for asking so many questions. pablo | pablodeb wrote:However, as far as the usb cam programs, I am sorry that I don't appear to have those. I only downloaded the first two binary CDs. Is there a general repository for debian where where I can go and download those programs using synaptic or apt-get? Again, thank you for you help. earnestly, pablo Hi pablo, You should have the debian repositories in your sources.list by default. So getting those packages is easy. As root do:Code: Select allapt-get update && apt-get install gtkam gthumb gphoto2 The 'apt-get update' is just to make sure you have the latest packages list. If it's already updated you can skip that part. Tina |
could someone please help me fix this problem in sarge. the folder is vissable but i cannot open it or get its properties. i am new to DEBIAN. i have tried a few things I read in the posts but so far no luck. thanks for the help I love Linux but I love the people more ken | waterwally wrote:could someone please help me fix this problem in sarge. the folder is vissable but i cannot open it or get its properties. i am new to DEBIAN. i have tried a few things I read in the posts but so far no luck. thanks for the help I love Linux but I love the people more ken Do you mean the entire Gnome applications droplist is inaccessible, or just the "Debian" sublist? |
If I try to switch between unprivileged users using Code: Select allsu -s /bin/bash userfoo nothing happens after entering the correct password for userfoo -- I remain the original user. The only way I can do this is by su'ing to root, and then to the user I actually want to be. Cumbersome, and gives me the creeps having to become root each time for this otherwise common procedure. Is this a Debian-specific behaviour? This is on a remote Sarge box. Thanks | What happens when you try $ su userfoo? |
Code: An error occurred while accessing 'flash1', the system responded: Cannot request authentication for this action. The PolicyKit authentication system appears to be not available.: Not authorized to perform operation WTF??? No /etc/init.d/polkit - also how to access the user group list for my daily user to check if I did add to USB | Based on the topic title you seem to have solved this issue. Can you share the solution? |
Hi there, since a few weeks I noticed the file dialog in Plasma 6 takes a long time (about 10 seconds) to read the directory content. Sometimes the dialog freezes and shows an error box: "Application not responding". If I select a file to open in the file dialog, it loads without problems. GTK applications work perfectly. It's only an issue with Plasma. Today I upgraded to Plasma-6.2.5-r1. The problem remains. Anyone with the same problem? | Update: Found the error. I had some Automounts in /etc/fstab, which weren't accessible. And always when I opened the file dialog, Plasma tried access the Automounts. |
I'm running a freshly set up gentoo install with gnome on openrc and decided to follow this guide to set up a steam os style gamescope session and add it to gdm. I am able to log in but running through the setup I end up in an endless loop where selecting a network just brings me back to the same screen. Here are the logs from running it from the gnome desktop as well as emerge inffo for gamescope and mangohud: https://gist.github.com/Renkin42/02f96bf8a56754bb62cb75109cd1ceba I don't see any specific errors ffrom the network select screen but the timezone screen just before it does complain that timedatectl wasn't found. Possibly relevant? Any suggestions? Do i need to give up on openrc and just redo thee system with systemd possibly?[/url] | And also : Quote: /bin/sh: line 1: steamos-select-branch: command not found Did you do instructions at step 9 ? |
Hi, I'm installing a system, and have wayfire running, using qtgreet as my greeter. Wayland apps work fine. I can also get X apps to work by manually starting Xwayland with a root window. But I can't seem to figure out how to get an X app to work with rootless XWayland. I set the DISPLAY variable and the app starts, but now window/surface appears. From reading around, I gather I need to have an X window manager running, and that I need to provide a file descriptor for the WM client to to. I'm launching Xwayland like so Code: $ Xwayland :0 -rootless -dpms -nolock -tst -xinerama +extension GLX +extension XVideo +extension COMPOSITE +extension RENDER -glamor gl -verbose I think I need pass an extra '-wm <FD>' but I don't know what to put for FD. Has anyone figured this out? EDIT: I had xwayland=false in my user's ~/.config/wayfire.ini; changing it to true fixed everything | sirlark wrote: I can't seem to figure out how to get an X app to work with rootless XWayland. Hi. I also run Wayfire, but haven't had this problem. What does happen if you just run a X program? Does it spit out any errors if you run it in terminal (wayland native terminal)? |
Hi all. I have a whitebox machine with a radeon 7900 series graphics card (It's really more of a brick ) I recently reinstalled gentoo on it, and I can't get X to work. When I startx, it says (EE) No screens found. When I dig a bit deeper in /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see Code: [ 26.299] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 25.2 [ 26.299] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory [ 26.300] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. [ 26.300] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting" [ 26.300] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. I do have FB support enabled in my kernel: Code: # # Frame buffer Devices # CONFIG_FB=y # CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set # CONFIG_FB_ARC is not set # CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set # CONFIG_FB_UVESA is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_FB_EFI=y # CONFIG_FB_N411 is not set # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set # CONFIG_FB_OPENCORES is not set # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set # CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set # CONFIG_FB_I740 is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG=y CONFIG_FB_ATY128=y CONFIG_FB_ATY128_BACKLIGHT=y CONFIG_FB_ATY=y # CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT is not set # CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX is not set CONFIG_FB_ATY_BACKLIGHT=y # CONFIG_FB_S3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIA is not set # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set # CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set # CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VT8623 is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_FB_ARK is not set # CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set # CONFIG_FB_CARMINE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SMSCUFX is not set # CONFIG_FB_IBM_GXT4500 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # CONFIG_FB_METRONOME is not set # CONFIG_FB_MB862XX is not set # CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is not set # CONFIG_FB_SSD1307 is not set # CONFIG_FB_SM712 is not set CONFIG_FB_CORE=y CONFIG_FB_NOTIFY=y # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set # CONFIG_FB_DEVICE is not set CONFIG_FB_DDC=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=y # CONFIG_FB_FOREIGN_ENDIAN is not set CONFIG_FB_SYSMEM_FOPS=y CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y CONFIG_FB_IOMEM_FOPS=y CONFIG_FB_IOMEM_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_SYSMEM_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_SYSMEM_HELPERS_DEFERRED=y CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT=y CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y # end of Frame buffer Devices Kernel 6.12.21. All packages up to date as of this morning. I bought this machine about 1.5 years ago for a project. That ended, and it sat idle for almost a year. When I went to update it, it was to old, and I couldn't emerge, so I just reinstalled everything. But when I had it running over a year ago, it worked. I'm pretty sure that was a 5 series kernel, and I didn't keep any records of what I configured. But I'm confident that the hardware can do it What else should I try? What other information would be helpful? I think the best smoking gun I have is that /dev/fb0 not found, but I don't know what causes that. Any hints appreciated. Thanks in advance. I've tried a distribution kernel, and one I configured by hand, and I get the same result either way. | Ok. I'll give those a try. Thanks! |
I wanted to emerge lxde. But it looks like that every package is masked with ~amd64. Is there a way to unmask lxde-meta as a whole; with every package inside it? Because right now it is each time a run with "emerge --pretend lxde-meta" and then adding a file to /etc/portage/package.accept.keywords. There has to be a simpler way. | Yes, don't set it temporarily on the command line. It'll introduce very confusing conflicts later. |
booting the system with an initramfs generated by dracut then: After boot a cursor appears on the lesft upper corner of a blank screen. Can ssh to system when gdm is restarted, logon screen appears. Logon is possible and for the rest the system behaves normal. booting the same system with the the same kernel and an initramfs generated by genkernel then system behaves normal. kernel: vmlinuz-6.11.6-gentoo-x86_64 https://bpa.st/CHQQ | uncommented Code: #options nvidia-drm fbdev=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf Now gdm works with both initramfs's. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-550.144.03 |
Hi, I migrated to a new machine, new hostname, new user password. $HOME was copied. I'm using Gnome keyring only for Evolution. After login I can't see any keyring anymore in seahorse, so Evolution doesn't have passwords. Usually I had 3 keyrings and all have been opened automatically via pam_gnome_keyring.so on user login. I can still see the keyring files: Code: ls ~/.local/share/keyrings/*keyring /home/mo/.local/share/keyrings/Default_keyring_gentoo-mo-backup.keyring /home/mo/.local/share/keyrings/Default_keyring.keyring /home/mo/.local/share/keyrings/login.keyring How can I add them or import again in seahorse? Why do they have disappeared? | -> SOLVED. My fault, I dropped the global USE flag Code: /etc/portage/package.use/global:*/* gnome-keyring and gnome-keyring was not installed. I wonder why gnome-keyring is not also a USE flag of evolution and seahorse. But anyway, I'm going to add the gnome-keyring to my worldfile. While the main question is still not answered, how would I import or merge a keyring taken from some backup? Just copying to the directory? |
I have been using Libreoffice on Xfce for many years to display and write Japanese documents. Libreoffice 24.2.7.2 does not display Japanese characters anymore. Both old and new documents are affected. Previous versions 7.xxxx where OK. This is happened on 3 different systems. I am using app-i18n/ibus app-i18n/ibus-anthy for input. This seems to work because characters after conversion are displayed ad boxes. 30 different Japanese fonts are installed. Libreoffice -> Languages and Locals -> General -> Asian (ticked) -> Japanese is and was always set. I also can NOT enter and display Japanese characters in qBittorrent, VLC, Virtualbox. I can enter and display Japanese characters in Xfce Terminal, Mousepad, Firefox, Thunderbird, Thunar, Gedit, Filezilla, Codeblocks. Not possible in qBittorrent, VLC, Virtualbox. 川崎 山は Appears to have something to do with Qt5 or Qt6? emerge --info Code: Portage 3.0.67 (python 3.12.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib, gcc-14, glibc-2.40-r8, 6.12.16-gentoo-x86_64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.12.16-gentoo-x86_64-x86_64-AMD_Ryzen_9_3950X_16-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.40 KiB Mem: 65772972 total, 62069096 free KiB Swap: 69138428 total, 69138428 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:45:00 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: c066806fb25c67e8f8bed9ef46df76d8922184f0 sh bash 5.2_p37 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.44 p1) 2.44.0 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.8::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.2_p37::gentoo dev-build/autoconf: 2.13-r8::gentoo, 2.72-r1::gentoo dev-build/automake: 1.17-r1::gentoo dev-build/cmake: 3.31.5::gentoo dev-build/libtool: 2.5.4::gentoo dev-build/make: 4.4.1-r100::gentoo dev-build/meson: 1.7.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.40.0-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18_p16-r2::gentoo, 3.12.9::gentoo, 3.13.2::gentoo dev-lang/rust: 1.84.1-r1::gentoo llvm-core/clang: 19.1.7::gentoo llvm-core/lld: 19.1.7::gentoo llvm-core/llvm: 19.1.7::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.17::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.56::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.39::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.44::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5.2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 14.2.1_p20241221::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.12.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.40-r8::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync2.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 volatile: False sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=znver2 -mtune=znver2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=znver2 -mtune=znver2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=znver2 -mtune=znver2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=znver2 -mtune=znver2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_AU.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs" LEX="flex" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j32" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" SHELL="/bin/bash" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cet crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gdbm gif gpm gtk gui iconv icu jpeg kf6compat lcms libnotify libtirpc lm_sensors mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds qml readline sdl seccomp sound spell ssl startup-notification svg test-rust tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vaapi vdpau vorbis vulkan wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xft xml xv xvid zlib zlib-wayland" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gcc_14" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 pclmul popcnt rdrand sha sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" GUILE_TARGETS="3-0" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres16" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_12" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_12" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby32" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS | fcitx5 (requires tons of KDE stuff) and mozc did not work. The solution was: Totally wipe ibus, ibus-anthy, libreoffice and their config and cache files. Poweroff emerge --depclean emerge --sync Poweroff and install, configure and test ibus-anthy. Poweroff and then install, configure and test libreoffice-25.2.1.2. Poweroff and restart. Result: I can now type and view Japanese characters in new documents. Old documents show only boxes. The fonts used are installed but not recognized. I believe the cause was the changes related to split-usr to combined usr profile. This is another problem and subject to a different post. I believe the cause was the changes related to split-usr to combined usr profile. |
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