Debian Configuration :: Completely Removing Microsoft Bootloader From UEFI System

Jul 16, 2015

I have a Debian testing system on a laptop that used to have Windows 8 on it. I kept the EFI boatloader and its partition, but now every time the system boots, it first tries to boot into Windows (which isn't there anymore). Removing /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft just leads to an error message when booting, with some component of Windows still trying to load and not finding those files.

The workaround for now is to go into the UEFI boot menu on every boot and selecting the "debian" entry, which works but is a bit cumbersome.How can I get rid of the Microsoft loader completely? I find a lot about repairing or re-adding the Windows bootloader, but nothing about removing it.

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Debian Configuration :: Cannot Boot 8.0 Live USB From UEFI

Jun 18, 2015

On a new Lenovo Thinkpad T450s, I encounter the following issue: The USB drive containing live CD image ("burned" to the USB using mkusb tool --> which in turn uses dd) cannot be booted from the UEFI boot loader. I have to reconfigure the hardware (BIOS) setup to support both UEFI & legacy system, and with first boot priority given to legacy (BIOS-style) booting. But if I do this, I don't see the UEFI system in the /sys/firmware/uefi directory. I am using the 64-bit live CD image (debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso).

This is my goal: to boot the live USB from UEFI, so that I can install it in a form that is UEFI-bootable.

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Debian Configuration :: Encrypted LVM Disappears In UEFI

Sep 6, 2015

Debian encrypted LVM disappears every time on sda when I install any other also encrypted Linux distro on sdb.

How can I set up Debian that way that it wouldn't disappear or how can I recover it form UEFI?

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Debian :: Removing Open Office Completely?

Aug 21, 2011

Libre Office can be removed from Ubuntu 11.04 without making a mess of an installation but when I began ot attempt the same with Debian I was concerned it would take too much necessary stuff with it requiring a fresh install. I use Abiword and don't need Open Office. Can it be removed somehow cleanly? How would I do this? I partly want to do this as there seem to be a lot of Open Office-related Updates which is waste of my Mobile Broadband limit.I am using Debian 6.01, 64 bit Gnome edition.

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Debian :: Completely Removing Windows Partitions

Apr 18, 2011

When installing Debian, I had to left out 2 windows partition because I originally thought I could install Debian into Windows C: drive. Then I knew I had been wrong. After I moved the data of the 2 partitions out of the hard disk today, I want to merge these partitions into the linux file system.Is this possible without a reinstall? How can I do this?

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Debian Configuration :: XFCE Logout Doesn't Completely Logout Of System / Solution For This?

Oct 17, 2010

As a normal user I have activated the functions of the Quit applet, i.e. Logout, Shutdown and Restart are active buttons. I am able to restart or shutdown, no problems. But when I use the Logout button I don't get logged out, just returned to the login shell & I am still logged in as my user. I don't have a display manager installed and I do NOT want to use a display manager such as XDM or GDM. How do I get the Logout button to actually logout the user? It appears I am only getting logged out of the x-session, but I want complete logout.

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Debian :: Fix GRUB After Windows Installation On UEFI System

Jul 29, 2015

My computer's recent history in chronological order:

1. debian jessie is installed using netinstall iso to sda.
2. windows 8.1 is installed to sdc.

Now "lsblk" returns:

Code: Select allNAME                  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda                     8:0    0 111.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1                  8:1    0   512M  0 part  /boot/efi
├─sda2                  8:2    0   244M  0 part  /boot
└─sda3                  8:3    0 111.1G  0 part 
  └─sda3_crypt        254:0    0 111.1G  0 crypt
   
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Result: My computer boots directly to Windows 8.1. If I press F7 during first seconds of boot and choose "debian" as the boot device (via blue bios screen, not grub), debian boots.

My purpose:

1. To use debian grub screen to choose between debian and Windows. (To avoid pressing F7 during boot to use debian)
2. Set debian as default OS in grub and boot to debian unless I choose otherwise in for example 10 seconds.

I guess that I should update grub to fix this but I don't want to take risk.

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Debian Multimedia :: Removing Epiphany Without Removing Half The System?

May 31, 2011

I know a bunch of commands and I am comfortable using the terminal, I even set a powerpc server but I can't figure out how to remove epiphany on this new computer I'm setting up. I didn't install anything with tasksel. I installed gnome and xorg afterwards... I load it up and 'startx' just fine. then I check around for the programs that were installed. I lik'em gimp, lot's of utilities. gedit. anyway I find epiphany, which I have already established that I dislike, I immediately go to the root terminal (another nice program that comes with gnome) and type apt-get remove epiphany-browser-data the output says it will be deleting gnome... however I have researched and found these are simpy meta packages that don't really matter.... however under the section that states all the packages that will be removed by autoremove there is a huge list... I doubt these packages are safe to remove. how to remove epiphany without removing a huge amount of probably needed software

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Debian Installation :: No Operating System Found After Install UEFI?

Jan 30, 2015

I'm trying to install debian and when the installer starts it UEFI at the top, instlal completes however on reboot it says 'no operating system found' i've read it can be because of UEFI but I have tried different bios options but to no avail.

Bios options

Sata mode: AHCI/IDE (haven't tried IDE yet)
Tried various combinations of the below
CSM: enable/disable
Boot Priority: Auto/legancy first/uefi first
Quick Boot: enable/disable
Boot up Num-lock Status: on/off

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Debian Installation :: Jessie UEFI System Boot Menu Missing?

Feb 17, 2016

I have installed Debian Jessie 8.0.3 64-bit net install on an IBM ThinkCentre. I have earlier had a dual boot Win 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed on the computer. When I installed Debian Jessie, I deleted the Ubuntu partitions and created new partitions from the free space. The install went fine and the Debian EFI/UEFI version of Grub was installed, but clearly at some other place, as when I boot the system, the old Ubuntu Grub pops up and of course cannot find the necessary files that it is looking for.

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Debian Configuration :: How To Completely Disable Hibernation

Apr 4, 2011

How to completely disable hibernation in Debian Squeeze (with KDE). If it's impossible to disable it for whole system, I want to hide button in KDE menu.

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Debian Configuration :: /var Disk Space Is Completely Out?

Jul 11, 2011

I have deb6 installed in VMWARE ,i am posting my fstab config file

/dev/mapper/debian-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=0e7bc1e7-4f8c-4dee-a6e9-ae6d0669755e /boot ext2 defaults $
/dev/mapper/debian-home /home ext4 defaults 0 2

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Debian Configuration :: Aptitude Not Removing Dependencies?

Mar 25, 2011

I have had this problem repeatedly with aptitude recently. I run Debian Squeeze but in a somewhat unusual fashion - I create a custom live image using the builder on the Debian Live website and then run the live image in persistent mode off a flash drive. For all intents and purposes this has never behaved any differently from a standard Debian install and has given me a great deal of flexibility and power, for which I'm grateful.

However there's been one strange phenomenon that keeps occurring. After a certain point - not before - aptitude stops removing dependencies when I remove packages, though in the ncurses interface the option is shown as switched on (and my .aptitude/config file does not switch it off, nor does any other configuration file that I can find, though maybe I'm missing something). This occurs even in the case of dependencies which I know cannot be depended upon by any other package. e.g. the e17 package in unstable brings in libecore, libevas etc. which are depended on only by e17 as I have no other Enlightenment packages installed. But removing e17 removes only the e17 package and not the dependencies.

The other odd thing is that this does not occur at first. Aptitude works fine for a while on a clean system. At some point though it simply changes in behaviour.

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Ubuntu :: Removing Entries From Grub 2 Bootloader?

Jul 8, 2010

Since I've been using Ubuntu, I've noticed that new entries for Ubuntu (the same but with the final number changed) occasionally appear in the Grub 2 boot loader. I'm talking about the first two entries in this picture, compared with the third and fourth entries here:Two questions:1. What are these entries? They appear to simply be the same OS but different versions. Are they generated when Ubuntu updates?

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Debian Hardware :: Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Mouse System Hang When Pairing

Aug 1, 2015

Just picked up a Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Mouse.Whenever I try to pair it, my system hangs and I have to hard power it down. The mouse is Bluetooth 4.0, but my Bluetooth connectivity is provided by my Intel Wireless 3160 card which does support Bluetooth 4.0.I'm using Blueman as a front end, and one other thing of note is that it shows as "Unknown" after a scan.If I need to return it, I need to return it, but it seems like a good mouse and I'd like to keep it if I can make it work.

I've took this out of syslog:
Code: Select allAug  1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [  317.772054] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000398
Aug  1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [  317.772090] IP: [<ffffffff81569f7e>] mutex_lock+0xe/0x30
Aug  1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [  317.772113] PGD 0
Aug  1 14:58:04 Noah-LEMUR kernel: [  317.772123] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP

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Debian Configuration :: Printing From Windows After Upgrade To Jessie - Samba Seems To Crash Completely

Sep 22, 2015

I have just upgraded to Jessie and everything seems to be OK apart from printing from a windows machine to my print share. This was working previously under wheezy. I can print a test page from Cups without any problems, but when I try and print from windows, Samba seems to crash completely and is constantly writing these messages to the logs. Then I lose access to the other shares, presumably while it repeatedly crashes.

STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsPANIC: assert failed at ../source3/printing/printing.c(486): pjob->jobid == jobid
[2015/09/22 12:02:03.989596, 0] ../source3/lib/util.c:785(smb_panic_s3)
PANIC (pid 3704): assert failed: pjob->jobid == jobid
[2015/09/22 12:02:03.991930, 0] ../source3/lib/util.c:896(log_stack_trace)
BACKTRACE: 27 stack frames:

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Debian Configuration :: Safely Removing Mounted USB Device

Jan 7, 2011

I'm not sure if this is a bug in Squeeze beta 2 or if it's something I've overlooked. I have a Maxtor 250 GB external USB drive that I use for backups. It gets auto-mounted fine, always in the same place, and from my normal user account I can write to it, even delete directories on it if I want to. But when, from Gnome, I select the "Safely remove" option, I get an error to the effect that it can't stop the device. The weird thing is that the thing actually *is* unmounted. I've checked the mount point and it's no longer there.Is there some package I maybe should've installed but haven't? I'm not really worried about data loss, since I'm sure the drive wouldn't unmount unless it was properly synched; it's just the error message that bugs me.

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Debian Configuration :: Removing Libcups2 Tries To Uninstall Every Other Package?

Apr 26, 2011

In an attempt to minimize my system when I mark for removal libcups2 using synaptic it asks to install 7 not authenticated packages, however if I choose mark for complete removal it asks to install the same 7 packages and remove every single installed package from epiphany to gimp to zenmap. Any ideas as to whats going on with that?

Squeeze 6.0.1
kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
intel core i5

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Debian Configuration :: Removing List Of Unwanted Packages

May 5, 2011

I have a fresh Debian install, since this install was on a desktop, I had an internet connection and didn't notice (it was late, I was half asleep) I opted to download a whole load of packages I didn't really need. I thought all was doomed until I remembered that I have done another Debian install but a week ago on a laptop, which has a nice clean install without all the bloat.

So I ran dpkg --get-selections > selections
and had it sent to my new desktop installation.

Now if I run dpkg --set-selections < selections followed by dselect-upgrade nothing happens. I assume this is because the smaller list contains all the packages 'to be installed' which already are, and all the missing packages are not being purged. Do I need to explicitly add all the packages I want to purge to the 'selection' list or is there a better way of doing it?

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Debian Configuration :: Warning Removing Or Updating Kernel Without GDM

Jun 12, 2011

I am an old Debian user, ho just reinstalled it again to see how it evolved since my las version (3.2). I am sharing it with Arch Linux, And decided to let bot of them. I am using GDM compiled and configured in Arch, and removed GDM2 from Debian (i just like the easy menu.list from the old GDM). The problem is that when i update the kernel, it didn't fing GDM and drops an error message. I tried removing the distro-preconfigured Kernels, as i compiled my own 3.0.0-rc2 Kerenel, but i cant delete the previous ones. Now everytime i do an install or uptgrade, apt-get drops wastes some time, and drops an error message:

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What can i do? i googled some similar errors, but where just messed up mirror.lists, or similar, i know it isnt the cause of fail.

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Debian Installation :: Bootloader Doesn't Show After System Reboot

May 9, 2015

I wanted to switch to Linux from Windows so I decide to install Debian. The installation completed successfully but after that the bootloader doesn't show after the system reboot. So it is just black screen. I have an option for booting Debian (which will go to a black screen) and go to command line which looks like command prompt in Windows. I tried going to the command and it shows

grub>

I don't know which command to input since I'm a newbie and not familiar with Linux. I installed Debian from USB using unetbootin. What I should do to successfully install Debian?

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Debian Configuration :: Lost IPV4 After Removing Sendmail Base

Dec 28, 2015

Had an issue on one of my Debian stable servers the other day. After doing apt-get upgrade I was prompted to do autotoremove.

It wanted to autotremove

Code: Select allStart-Date: 2015-12-21  16:25:05
Commandline: apt-get autoremove
Remove: sendmail-cf:amd64 (8.14.4-8), exim4-config:amd64 (4.84-8), sendmail-base:amd64 (8.14.4-8)
End-Date: 2015-12-21  16:25:07

After doing this I rebooted my server (a few days later). After rebooting I had no ipv4. I tried statically assigning IP addresses to no avail. Ran ifconfig eth0 down/up which got me nowhere. Eventually decided to ask "Okay, what changed". Started installing packages that were autoremoved. Had to install from the apt cache using dpkg. First one I tried was sendmail-base. Then did ifconfig eth0 down/up, which gave me networking back.

I have checked the dependencies for sendmail-base and I see nothing that would relate to networking, so I'm really confused on why this happened. I had backups of the server so I went a week back and noticed sendmail-base was installed at that time. So I went a day back, where sendmail-base wasn't installed, and installed it. Sure enough it brought back networking. I'm just stating this because it is more proof that sendmail-base was the missing component.

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Debian Configuration :: Raid 5 Recovery After Mistakenly Removing Disk?

Aug 12, 2010

I've got an 8-disk raid-5 setup, and one of the disks failed. I shut the system down, replaced it, and powered the box back on again. Then, I made a catastrophic mistake; I 'failed' and removed the wrong disk (should have been sdj1, and I typed sdk1 by accident). I tried to re-add sdk1 back to the raid array, but it got listed as 'spare'. My raid array is off-line, since I now have 2 disks unavailable.

I know that the data still exists on sdk1, is there any way I can get the raid array to recognise the fact that it's a valid part of the array, and not a spare disk? At least if I can do that, I'll have a degraded but accessible array, and then I can rebuild the array on the properly replaced disk.

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Apr 7, 2011

I'm currently dual-booting Squeeze & Windows XP on a machine i use frequently.

In my experience on the desktop, i now see no reason to have Windows XP as a boot option, & wanted to try & avoid a full re-installation of Debian in order to remove XP (merging it's partition with / ).

I have a checklist that i put together, but wanted to be sure this was all correct before going forward.

1. Perform full back-up of all data.

2. Boot into Debian, through GUI -

System Tools > Disk Utility

- Select HDD (80GB Hard Disk)
- Select windows partition ( /dev/sda1 )
- Format /dev/sda1 to Ext4 Filsystem

3. Boot Live CD

- Use gParted to extend /dev/sda2 (was 38GB, will extend to 78GB)

4. Remove XP from the boot menu.

( Note: My ~ folder is on the same physical drive as / (same volume), but i actually store all Media on a separate physical drive which is formatted in NTFS. I plan on reinstalling XP using a virtual hard disk, & sharing that with the virtual machine.Here is a screenshot of my Disk Utility - [URL]

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Feb 13, 2011

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General :: Trouble In Removing Svn Repository Completely

Mar 19, 2011

I have googled it profusely but still am quite confused about how to remove an svn repository:I have accidentally imported the contents of a directory into the repo instead of the directory itself and now I need to remove everthing from the repo (in fact i would like to just delete the repo and re-create it)."you can svn delete directories, but if you want to get rid of the entire repo forever-ever, just delete the database file from your repo directory. since the project info is self-contained in its .svn directory, the correct way to delete a repository is actually to delete the directory. "

- what is this 'database file' being referring to?
- what is 'the directoy' being referred to?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Removing Windows Entry From Grub Bootloader?

Jan 26, 2010

I currently dual boot and wish to know how to remove the Windows partition/drive while still allowing Ubuntu 9.04 to load safely as my main OS. I know how to restore windows partition by;

If MBR gets damaged boot from MS Windows Xp disc, Select "R" for "recovery console", select main windows installation drive (admin password usually nothing, just press enter) and type "FIXMBR" this will allow you to boot windows again, but Ubuntu partition will be unbootable and require installing ubuntu again to dual boot.

But this leaves Ubuntu partition Un-bootable as it removes the grub menu, how would I do the same for Ubuntu and make window partition un-bootable so I can remove it?

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Jul 6, 2011

I'm building a Debian Live system, [URL], and I've pared it down to a very light distro. It is using the IceWM, has the basic linux commands, and very very little else.

When I run "top" and "ps aux", I see that I have multiple terminals and logins waiting to be used. It's a small amount, but I'd like to make that RAM usable elsewhere. The indicated commands are: "/bin/login -f" and "-bash", and I have one of each associated with each tty[1-7]. I may want to keep tty1 and tty2, just in case, but I can't imagine wanting 3-7.

So, what I'm looking for is a way to stop tty[3-7] from even starting in the first place.

I saw on one forum the suggestion of modifying the /etc/init/tty[1-7].conf files, but these files aren't present, I presume because it's a "Live" system.

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Debian :: Steam Repo Install Completely Wrecks System

Aug 20, 2015

I've been carefully installing and personalizing a Debian 8 "Jessie" 64-bit install on my laptop for the last few days. Played some games, did some downloading and stuff and decided to want to run steam again, as I have done on many Ubuntu installs in the past.

So I followed this guide: [URL] ....

and of course, I read the warnings: Only do this on Jessie or SID, not on Wheezy. So I was in the clear. I thought.

After giving 'aptitude install steam' all hell broke loose. The script starting demolishing/removing almost everything under the KDE shell. Wireless network, apps, even the ability to reboot the system from the GUI were utterly and completely destroyed. After the script ended I had to reboot the system through an alternate CLI shell only to discover X was complete gone.

So I don't think there is anything else I can do now except re-installing the complete system? Bye bye Wesnoth saved games, downloads, etcetera...

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Jan 12, 2010

Depending on whether I launched it with gnome do or the main menu I got a different 'version' of spotify, I could tell this because it had different searches remembered. I tried removing wine and spotify and gnome do via synaptic and completely remove and then the option to remove configuration files left over. I did a search and there were loads of wine files left so I just deleted. When I reinstalled wine, spotify and gnome do the same problem occurred.

Also Firefox started crashing ubuntu, just freezing it, so I tried to uninstall completely, but when I restarted it kept the same add ons and still crashed. So I uninstalled again and tried to delete all firefox folders but I can't work out how to do it as root.

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