Debian is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution first announced 1993. It is well known for its package management system APT and large number of packages. Many other distributions are influenced or originate from it, like Ubuntu or Knoppix. Use this tag for questions only related to Debian (not ...
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Rsnapshot destination full - how to safely rerun?
I ran my Rsnapshot backup today but my external drive became full half-way through the incremental backup (I have about 20 incremental backups now).
"rsync: write failed on "": No space left on ...
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What values from debconf-get-selections should not be preseeded?
I want to replicate the Debian installation choices made for my system's current configuration in the installation of a new system.
Debian can be pre-configured through a "pre-configuration" (aka ...
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How do I keep my display output from toggling by itself?
It happens with a Vostro 3550, Debian, Gnome and Philips 1080p television.
As soon as I connect the HDMI it starts doing it and goes from mirror to just the laptop display to just the TV to ...
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Problems with printer page format in CUPS
I'm setting up print server for custom thermal printer on RaspberryPi running Linux Debian and I have a strange problem. If I print a test page it prints OK, same with web page from Firefox, but when ...
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How can I add additional resolution for my screen?
I tried to launch a game (GTA San Andreas) on wine.
GTA showed Cannot find 800x600x32 video mode and closed immediately.
The Computer I currently have is a Lenovo IdeaPad G510, with Intel HD ...
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How can I share a thunderbird profile between two computers?
I have two computer which run both debian sid. My problem is that I want to synchronize thunderbird(+lightning) (contacts+calendar+email) (icedove(+iceowl) in Debian) contents between these two ...
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Getty not starting in qemu
I'm trying to get running an ARM based Debian inside qemu.
As a rootfs I'm using structure from embeddedarm 2gb sdcard image with versatile 2.6.24 kernel downloaded from fedora qemu tutorial site. At ...
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Administratively spread several Thunderbird per-recipient rules for some users?
I administer several computers that have Thunderbird/Icedove installed and I want to spread Thunderbird per-recipient rules for some users. The rules are stored in a file - pgprules.xml in the user ...
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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PCI passthrough with Xen
I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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Realize a multiseat system with a polarized 3D-monitor
Besides playing 3D-material, modern 3D-TV-sets (using polarization technology) offer the possibility of dual-play.
While 3d-playback works with different polarization for the left and the right eye, ...
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Mounting a multi-partition (GPT/HFS+) USB 2.0 harddrive on Debian
I have a 3TB USB 2.0 hard-drive which has two HFS+ (Mac) partitions using GUID partition table for the partition records. It was partitioned with Mac OS Disk Utility. How can I mount these partitions ...
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How do I set up the SELinux sandbox in Debian?
I've installed SELinux in Debian sid in order to use the sandbox that locks down apps to a restricted enviroment, but I can't get it to work. If I try to use the sandbox command in permissive mode ...
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Slow system after running a KDE GUI application from a Debian Squeeze chroot
I have a PC with Ubuntu 11.04 and a Debian Squeeze chroot installed in it.
As soon as I start any KDE application from within chroot (and installed there), e.g. Kompare for viewing git diff output, ...
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Keyboard triggering mouse events on Debian on Macbook
I installed Debian 6 on my Macbook in a dualboot configuration. Everything is working fine, except for the keyboard.
As I'm typing, I see the mouse arrow moving a bit and strange things happen, such ...
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Debian won't shut down completely
My Debian wheezy (64-bit) won't fully shut down. What I mean by this is that when I select "Shut Down..." from the menu the screen goes blank but the power button remains lit and front fan keeps ...
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Some icons are broken in the application menu
I am using Xfce-4.10 on Debian 7. But I found some icons are missing (and only "x"'s appear) in the application menu. Take ipython3 as an example. Here's the ipython3.desktop:
# If you want ipython3 ...
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Chat application for monitoring with scripts
I am looking for a chat application, which would have the ability to interact with a shell script.
I need this for a home project.
An example of the usage would be:
A client sends a chat message to ...
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Some settings in 50-synaptics.conf have no effect
I am having trouble with editing the synaptics file for my touchpad, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf. I got Debian-based Linux with Gnome 3.4.2.
The relevant portion (I suppose) of said file ...
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debootstrap terminates partway through with “stdin: not in compressed format”
I'm on an Arch GNU/Linux system, fully up-to-date (both official repositories and from the AUR). I'm attempting to install a copy of Debian Wheezy so that I can chroot into it and work with the ...
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After enabling SELinux (permissive mode) on Debian Wheezy, gdm3 does not finish loading
I recently enabled SELinux on my Debian Wheezy system, in permissive mode (I have confirmed that it is indeed operating in permissive mode). However, after the file labelling double-reboot, gdm3 ...
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program for PC-to-phone using Gtalk?
I know I can configure empathy to voice chat between gmail users. But is it possible to make PC-to-phone voice calls with empathy or do I have to use Google's browser plugin?
Does any program support ...
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Bus Error when run php-cgi
This is what I got when I run command "strace /usr/bin/php-cgi -v"
execve("/usr/bin/php-cgi", ["/usr/bin/php-cgi", "-v"], [/* 39 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x11e4000
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Why sudo won't remember my password?
I use sudo in many systems, but I have one of them that makes me type my password each time I run sudo. All the others remember it for a while. This is debian 7.4 wheezy and sudo 1.8.5
I found this :
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Apache install on Debian: configuring CGI
I installed CGI via the package manager and enabled the mod, but two hours later I still cant get it to work.
My /etc/apache2/sites-available/default is:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin ...
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Media changed: please insert the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux
I installed Debian 7 using a USB flash drive "burned" from the first DVD ISO of the Debian installation CD/DVD.
I did a very minimal install without Debian desktop environment, Print server and ...
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fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component “/”
I used to be able to connect via ssh with the user I have created but now I keep getting: "Write Failed: Broken Pipe" and I can only connect as root
In the ssh auth.log I get the following:
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Debian 64-bit sees less than 4GB of RAM
I have a Debian wheezy (7.4) amd64 virtual machine running under VirtualBox 4.3.10 on a Win7 x64 host with AMD A10-5700 processor. The virtual machine is configured with 16GB of memory (the host has ...
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Debian - cannot find cdrom
Having a jessie/sid debian box on kernel 3.13 (had same issue on kernel 3.10) First thing I notices was that k3b didn't find any optical drives.
Then:
The optical drives (dvd-writers) are found in ...
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Switching from Nvidia proprietary driver to Nouveau driver for Nvidia card on Debian wheezy
I am running Debian wheezy. I have the following Nvidia graphics card installed: GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS.
I am currently using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers. I have the following packages ...
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How to install Metasploit Community on Debian?
After attempting to get Metasploit to work nice with my desktop box (with limited success), I've decided to instead set it up on on separate box. However, it seems like the Metasploit community ...
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DHCP lease acquired , yet no ping, not even to default gateway
I've just installed Debian Wheezy on my PC using netinstall.
I can only use its wifi. My interface has been recognize by the system, and I've used:
iwconfig wlan0 essid MY_HOME_AP
(I've switched ...
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Alternate keyboard inputs: dwm on Debian
Currently my laptop's keyboard has some broken keys (z, x, c). When using my Windows partition I know I can just use Alt-codes to enter the keys or use alternate hotkeys for the respective keys (Alt- ...
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Why is the Provides field in the local Debian package ignored (DepCompareOp)?
I'm running Debian sid and want to use TeX Live from CTAN. So I didn't install the Debian texlive-packages, but created a virtual local package with equivs. You can find the control file below:
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How to find out which package of libc6 I need?
I am running into following error:
version GLIBC_2.14 not found
version GLIBC_2.15 not found
when trying to install software I need.
Therefore, I decided to upgrade libc6 on my debian (Linux ...
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Use encrypted /home in fresh Debian created in Mint
I usually use my Linux Mint 15 installation on my PC. I have separate / and /home partitions. /home is encrypted with ecryptfs, which I did not configure myself, I just ticked the "encrypt home" when ...
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Disk Spin Down in Debian Wheezy
I'm using Debian Wheezy
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.3 (wheezy)
Release: 7.3
Codename: wheezy
$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-4-amd64 ...
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How to start aufs for two local directories
I'm trying to create a sandbox for testing an untrusted software. I'm using Debian, I have installed aufs-tools.
When I try to mount a minimal example with the following command:
mount -t aufs -o ...
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How to add EBCDIC support on debian/ubuntu
I have to add EBCSIC text support to deal with IBM OS text messages. I have succesfuly added EBCDIC support to a CentOS box by adding lang and encoding to /etc/i18n/sysconfig.
I searched in the docs ...
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Gnome 3 always on fallback upon login
I have a Debian Wheezy install, with Gnome 3 as the windows manager. I also have a NVidia video card for what it matters.
I autolog in gnome upon boot to my user account, but it always start gnome ...
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Could I add GPT BIOS Boot Partition after Debian installation?
I recently installed Debian Wheezy on a server with 24TB of storage (RAID 6). When I partitioned the big volume I selected Manual option and created the partition scheme.
When I was partitioning, I ...
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Can't download Debian's Two Blu-Ray Disk
I use this command:
$ jigdo-lite --noask debian-7.1.0-amd64-BD-1.jigdo
$ jigdo-lite --noask debian-7.1.0-amd64-BD-2.jigdo
I'm already download 41Gb. But It is stuck with next err:
--2013-10-15 ...
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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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NIS users can't use yppasswd on client machines
I'm administrating a system where users authenticate via NIS and things went wrong when a user tried to use yppasswd to change her password. She got the error:
yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS ...
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Webmin alternative that installs & runs on the client machine & communicate via SSH
Are there any Webmin alternatives that don't consume server resources but instead install on client machine & communicate via SSH client. So effectively all the actions made on that GUI are ...
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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 to set up control for case fans in Debian Wheezy?
We'll for some days now I've been trying to get the fancontrol for my Debian Wheezy up and running. Actually (after some problems with pwmconfig not accepting my chipset, which is a AMD 770 one) now ...
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OpenGL acceleration stopped working after upgrading to Wheezy
After upgrading recently from Squeeze to Wheezy, my 3D acceleration suddenly stopped working. I'm using IBM Thinkpad T60 with ATI M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300].
I found in Xorg.0.log:
[ 48286.173] ...
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Configure courier to forward certain mails to external addresses
I have a debian 6.0 server with courier/courier-mta set up and some local domains. Now I want to create some forwards for some email address that should go directly to external addresses as there are ...
