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Network block after restart
I'm running wheezy and I don't want to install network-manager.
I have a problem with network interfaces. When I restart the interfaces I cannot use any connection anymore.
I cannot reach internet ...
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Installing Firefox add-on globally without extracting the .xpi archive
Since the great -install-global-extension option was removed in Gecko 1.9.2 (for no obvious reason, as usual), copying the extension (as root) to /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/<appid> is now the ...
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Adding multiple gateways for separate physical interfaces with various metrics/priorities
My system has 3 interfaces. These are eth0, eth1 and usb0.
eth0 is linked to my router and is the line I want to be used by default.
eth1 is un used.
usb0 is a 3G phone that's tethered.
My issue is ...
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How can I mount a dm_crypt device during boot, it fails all the time
EDIT: Problem solved, i updated from Debian 6.0.6 to 7.0.0, everything works now!
I have a complex problem at booting. Basically, I have a debian apache box, as a music server in my home network. The ...
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How to set ssh access for user on debian?
I set groups:
usermod -G ssh username
and then I've checked account info:
id username
the result is:
uid=1000(username) gid=1001(username) groups=100(username)
Anyway if I try to login using ...
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Debian Squeeze: connect to A2DP (bluetooth) through command line
I would like to turn my Lacie NAS into a A2DP bluetooth source, in order to stream audio to a bluetooth audio sink. The NAS runs Debian Squeeze in a chroot environment, and is connected to a Bluetooth ...
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Missing Firmware for Wired NIC on Debian
I'm trying to install debian 64bit from a debian live image using YUMI on my usb drive. I'm installing it on an Inspiron 6400, and there is missing firmware. I can't connect to the internet ...
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Linux boots sometimes into kernel instead of Openbox
I have a Solid-Run Cubox and installed Debian Netboot on it.
Now I want to configure it as webserver/kiosk PC to run a self made webapp.
I installed xorg, openbox, apache/php libs and wrote my own ...
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Any way for Unix to ignore lpoptions and let Java do it's job?
I'm using the javax.print API to print a Jasper Report on Debian Linux. For some reason the saved lpoptions (CUPS settings) always override settings chosen on the Java Print dialog. At this point the ...
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SSH Failing to fork with sshpass
I've a problem with port forwarding command using sshpass.
Problem is that it's working on one server and does not work on another.
Both are Debian 7 x64 boxes.
sshpass -p password ssh -f -D ...
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Bluetooth Device not working debian wheezy
i just installed debian wheezy on msi cx640dx. my bluetooth device not working.
here is some information.
Kernel version:
$uname -r
3.2.0-4-amd64
when i use hcitool dev it don't show any device.
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Debian: pulseaudio sink volumes syncing?
Running Debian jessie with pulseaudio, sometimes I would use pavucontrol to adjust volumes of different applications at varying levels. Then when I would forget about it and adjust the volume using ...
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How do I manually install the XPM library?
I'm wanting to install SWI-Prolog, however my linux box (more like a tuna can; it's a RasPi) isn't connected to the internet, so I can't just do
sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev
How can I do this ...
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6.0.7 Debian timeout if more connections at once
We are a some devs working on a Debian server.
We are all connecting from one IP.
So basically the server handles a lot of requests from the same IP.
Now what happens from time to time, is that we ...
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Compose key works on console/TTY, but not in X session
My compose key does not work in my X session anymore if I change a certain line in my /etc/default/keyboard that (if I am not mistaken) should only affect the keymap of the TTY.
I'll try to elaborate ...
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Unable to see Fedora 20, when triple booting it with Debian 7, and openSuSe 13.1
I just don't understand why I cannot see my Fedora 20 having it planned to triple boot it with Debian 7 and openSuSe 13.1.
Initially I partitioned my system to:
/dev/sda1 for openSuSe 13.1
/dev/sda2 ...
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Simulating a middle-button click on my touchpad often scrolls up the view
At times, when I simulate the mouse middle-button with my touchpad, my view auto-scrolls towards the top. I've seen this on my browser and my X terminal.
Here's my touchpad settings:
$ synclient -l
...
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s3fs complains about SSH key or SSL cert - how to fix?
I downloaded and installed s3fs 1.73 on my Debian Wheezy system. The specific steps I took were, all as root:
apt-get -u install build-essential libfuse-dev fuse-utils libcurl4-openssl-dev ...
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Debian 6: Can ping default gateway, but not the IP address of any server on the Internet. Routes appear OK
I can't connect to the Internet from our server.
I'm able to ping the default gateway, LAN connectivity works fine but I can't ping any public IP (say, 4.2.2.1, an open DNS server which I know replies ...
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Debian segfault in libc2.7
I am running a test on my machine in which I assigned a lot of IPs to some tap interfaces (created by me before the test) on my debian machine and tried to run curl commands with the source being ...
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/home partition recovery
Unhappy with Gnome 3 in Ubuntu I tried Mint 14. Had a backup of my home partition. During the Mint installation I designated my old home partition, and when it booted everything was fine.
There ...
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What chunk size for KVM under Debian linux is optimal with RAID 5?
I would like to know, how to set optimal chunk size for my debian squeeze in future.
I Work with 3x WD RE4 500Gb 7200RPM in SW-RAID 5, under debian squeeze. (in the future maybe under wheezy)
I Saw ...
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Debian Console Font with Nvidia Drivers?
On my Debian Squeeze (6.x) installation my system had a nice small login shell font (terminus??) but after installing the nvidia drivers for my machine it boots up using a very chunky font (on a 24 ...
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Creating and updating the packages for many Debian systems
I'm using a Lenny (Debian 5) for remotely controlled PC's (around 100 PC's) which will be pinging to my apache server. I'm developing a patch twice in a week to keep updated with the latest versions ...
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Trouble getting iwlwifi driver working
I just installed Debian and I am having issues getting my wireless working.
I installed Squeeze and also the nonfree firmware for iwlwifi.
I thought I did everything right but I am still not getting ...
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Debian: Upgraded to php 5.3 and lost phpcli, php-pear, etc
I upgraded to PHP5.3 using this tutorial: http://www.debiantutorials.com/how-to-install-upgrade-to-php-5-3-on-debian-lenny/
It removed the following packages:
Removing php-pear ...
Removing ...
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Directory/file naming conventions when storing media collection on Linux
I am building a NAS/HTPC that will operate under Debian (Wheezy, probably). I am trying to design the directory schema for what will be stored on the server so that everything is nice and uniform for ...
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Asus G53S keyboard backlight
I have troubles enabling keyboard backlight in Asus G53SW-XR1 (2.6.39-2 kernel) with modules:
$ lsmod | grep asus
asus_nb_wmi 12393 0
asus_wmi 18488 1 asus_nb_wmi
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Debian installation fails due to CDROM not being detected
This is a problem many users have, but there doesn't seem to be an effective solution that works for everybody.
When trying to install Debian 7.6 (problem exists for other versions as well) from a ...
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raspberry pi pulseaudio server connection failure
I purchased a raspberry pi model b , after installing image, the first thing I do is I installed vlc and copy a mp4 video in raspberry pi. Now from command prompt I tried to run my video using vlc. ...
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Disable CPU scaling with U 1404
I know there are a lot of things about this topic but I couldn't find anything not older than 4 years. As the stuff develops so fast I hope it is fine to ask again a few years later.
What is ...
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Creating multiple proxies on a single VPS
I am trying to create SOCKS Proxies on my Debian Linux VPS. I was just wondering what is the best way to go about doing this? I have tried things like Dante and it doesn't support multiple Proxies.
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Debian wheezy FN key inverted after resume from suspend
I have debian wheezy installed on my new laptop (Toshiba Satellite L70), with Kernel 3.14 from backports.
After I resume from suspend, all function keys (F1 - F12) behaviour is inverted, for example, ...
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Nvidia Update Problem On Debian 7 Stable
New User Here Guys bear with me!
Specs:
Debian Stable Weezy Gnome 3 edition 64 bit
Video Card: Nvidia GTS 250,
CPU: AMD Phenon X4 Quad core
History:
All was going so well, back-ports was added, ...
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top/ps/mpstat showing different output
When my top shows a load of 19/20 and my ps shows
root@server:/home/nohup# ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -5
%CPU PID USER COMMAND
122131 18695 mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld xxxxx
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PHP mail() and Debian Wheezy Not Working
I am currently running my on debian wheezy with php5 installed. I was trying use the mail() function, and I realised that I will require a MTA/exim installed before it will be possible because the ...
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Help with Setting up network connection in Debian 7.5.0
I'm a beginner using Debian. I've just installed Debian 7.5.0 amd netinst. When I execute apt-get update I get errors like:
Could not resolve 'http.debian.org'
Thus I changed the mirrors several ...
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Persistent folder missing from home folder, despite correct password and no errors
Tails 1.0 on stick 1. Password entered correctly on login screen for persistent storage (otherwise it would complain.) Booting from another (older) Tails stick, stick 2, can unlock and mount stick ...
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udev set kdbrate settings on linux with console users issue
I have a kbdrate setting as a udev rule for usb devices(keyboards and scanners that re repluggd in). kdbrate needs to be set by someone with /dev/port access which is the console user. The udev rule ...
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How can I enable framebuffer in Debian
How can I enable framebuffer in Debian console?
This is what I've already tried:
Add the following lines to the "/etc/default/grub" file:
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1024x768
...
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org.gnome.desktop.background defaults?
I seem to have the following settings in my gnome-fallback/flashback session.
The following is via running
gsettings list-recursively
on the console.
org.gnome.desktop.background ...
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Configure Debian VPS network to work under an another Debian
I have a very big problem.
Our VPS is under DDoS every day and now i bought a DDoS protected second vps temporary (until the main VPS get the DDoS protection).
My question is how can i setup the ...
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IPTables “iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)”
I'm trying to get iptables working for my embedded Debian system, kernel version 2.6.35.3-571-gcca29a0.
I've tried to enable iptables support in the kernel by selecting these options (this is a diff ...
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cannot access vmware
I have linux server Debian ,i have vmware running on it,but the server is not accessing the vm ware installed,it show's running but when i ssh it's not log in into the vmware,it's logging to main ...
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How to fix boot failure after update
I did a apt-get update on Debian. After reboot the system lost its mount point and failed to boot.
How could be accomplished to fix the boot failure?
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Install firefox and Mozrepl on Server
I used the following guide
To Install firefox.
I then used the following guide
and cpan install Mozrepl
To install mozrepl.
However when I run /usr/bin/firefox
I get bash: No Such file or ...
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running a command as a less privileged user: `sudo -u` vs `su` being run as root
in an startup-script that is typically being run as user root, i would like to start a program (actually, a server) as a less-privileged user.
the script originally used
su -s /bin/sh -c ...
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filter cron emails through procmail?
I'm using postfix/mutt/procmail on a Linux/Debian and I've some trouble filtering cron emails with procmail, I just want to move them to the cron/ maildir directory, but no lucky till now. I've ...
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Smarter log rotation
I want to reduce the amount of logs in my system, but reduce them smartly.
The general idea is, each time you rotate, look for any warning/error/critical level logs, and keep 2 minutes of log context ...
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Use CloneZilla to backup disk2image (Primary Boot) without CD or USB Drive?
Since I won't be near the physical machine, I need to find a way to disk2image backup/restore the Primary Boot HDD in case I mess it up somehow.
How do you use CloneZilla to backup disk2image ...
