Keyboard had problems read article said remove xkb data package. Figured out how to do that in synaptic rebooted no Gnome just linux version of dos. I would like to install Kde or kbe desk top have more than enough ram and disk space. How do I get my gui back?
View 9 RepliesI'm not sure if this is the right spot for this pst or not, first on this forum. I just removed Fedora Core 4 from my system and installed Debian Sarge with the 2.6 kernel. I'm a newbie. The install seemed to go fine, after it was done I actually logged in and looked around some. I then restarted to check to make sure that my boot process went ok and I could still get to windows. Worked fine. Then I tried to boot back into Debian. It hung. I rebooted and tried again. Hung again in the same spot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed SLiM and wanted to give it a try. I found out that XDM actually loads a bit faster on my machine, so I'm going to stick with it. I uninstalled SLiM, leaving XDM the only login manager on my system, but how can I change it back to the default? When my system boots up, I get the default console login.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWith my windows pc, system restore made regular back up points. i could revert to a point in time or restore the whole system from scratch. the only prob was if thoes files got a virus you lost everything anyway. Not so good ill admit.With linux, ive spent several hours setting up wireless, sound and games. i dont want to loose all that time if something happens. being new to linux i dont see a back up feature or a way to save the current configuration i have. id hate as a new user to make a stupid mistake and blow the system and loose all my hard work any suggestions? id like to back up the system as it is so i can restore /copy back this set up if possible. whats the tool to use? does it exist in linux?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI try to update my squeeze using apt-get upgrade and get the following problem:
Code:
root@squeeze:~# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
[code]...
Recentrly my servers mysql has updated and now i have problems with my phpbb database. I cannot access some of the tables or back-up them. I did some research and founded that becouse of the update, my old my.cnf has been replaced and lost setiings for innodb. I founded the file, but i don't know how to make it work.
I do not have a back-up of the old my.cnf
I am going to upgrade from debian 5.0 to 6.0 today. I have backedup my home directory by copying it to a external harddrive. There is no other files placed anywhere except for the home directory. Is there anything else i should upgrade that everyone does? Like back up the programs i have installed?
the OS has a partition size of 20GB and the home directory has 9GB of that.
Running Debian Squeeze and when I try to switch between gnome and a system terminal ctrl-alt-f1(etc) I just get a black screen. Any thoughts? I'm using the radeonhd xorg driver but don't think that should affect it.
View 14 Replies View Relatedhow to increase the scroll-back buffer? In LXTerminal, I can only scroll back about three screens.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI did a bunch of updates, in sid, no issues. But when I rebooted the next day the log in had chanded. No problems logging in, the appearance had changed, and you now have to use the mouse to click on your name to open the password box, where before you could hit enter and get the same results. It is not much, but I have been trying to to restore it back with out much luck. I've played with gdm and gdm3 and a couple of other things but no luck. I did see a update for log in but have not been able to figure out the next step.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have made two partitions / and /home . / is where all the packages and other stuff lives and /home is where user i.e. my data lives. I am sure everybody knows the 'disk space is less' warning dialog box when either we install too many packages or when we download many things. Now the last time it happened by mistake I clicked on do not show more warnings. Now I want to have that warning dialog box back. looked at System > Preferences submenu as well as System > Administration but have not been able to find any info. on the same.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI installed Debian 5 hours ago, and I am fighting with it since then. I'll pass on the tons of issues I am encountering (wrong desktop environment (I asked for debian's, I got Gnome), shitload of various errors when doing basic things, resolution of a minitel).
The biggest issue I am having is that Grub is not listing Windows and I can't boot into it. I've tried os-prober and update-grub, the boot info script detects Windows 7 (it's windows 10 but, whatever), I've tried to boot into a windows repair USB stick and fix the mbr and boot through the cmd (which both returned success). I am currently trying to create boot-repair USB stick, but I keep getting errors about file systems not handling symbolic links...
How can I repair Windows boot (which seems to have been messed up by Debian's setup)..
Also, I am quite used to linux and unix systems, as I am dev and use Mac OS at work and used Ubuntu/Fedora for years, and I never had such a bad and messy experience with any of those OS...
Here is the boot-info generated with Boot-Repair-Disk [URL] .....
Now that I've [url="http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=48745"]destroyed[/url] the installation on my notebook, and a fresh install of Lenny with upgrade to Squeeze (to try out smxi) didn't work, I wanted to install Squeeze fresh.But not from a CD. That's too tired, and I've never actually installed from a USB stick.So I set out to do this, for it doesn't seem hard at all:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en. ... 04s03.html
I even get to use cool-sounding commands like zcat, so this is way hipper than burning CDs, of which I have far too many lying around. Now here's the thing, it boots up and gets started, but the versions of don't match. I got both of them from the [url="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/"]Debian-Installer page[/url] from netinst , both amd64, specifically: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd6 ... oot.img.gz (30 MB, don't click)
and http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily ... etinst.iso (139 MB, don't click)
How on man's green web,then,do I make sure that I match up the correct versions of the netinstall image and the installer files?hangs head and slooowly reaches for CD spindle...
I want to back up my data on my MacBook Air using time machine. I have a desktop with Debian gnome installed where I want to store my back up data. But I can't manage to find a hard drive to start time machine on.
I have four hard drives installed in my Debian computer and I also want to share them over my home network. I am very new to Debian ...
I want to make a rescue disc for debian such that if anything goes wrong everything can be restored to its original condition. whatever extra packages are installed they should also be put back. most importantly zimbra and its dependencies.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn my laptop, squeeze has /, /boot, /usr, /home and I think /tmp /var on separate partitions. I want more space for apps and to not have to be so frugal with /home. Earlier this week I shrank sda1, freeing up 40 GB. I wanted to start moving the squeeze partitions, but GParted logically enough denied it since they were mounted, duh. I'm glad for that, because I was getting overeager and hadn't made even a full system backup.
This is one of those situations where choice, while good, makes it hard to get started. I wouldn't mind using dump, but doesn't it inefficiently copy the whole partition regardless of empty space? I figure tar could do as well, but is it a problem that it doesn't preserve all the meta info? As a starting point, I'd like to have an "quick" and safe way to make sure that if something happens while moving partitions, I can do a restore. I can progress to more optimal solutions later on, like semi- or fully automated incremental backup.
So what is a sure-fire way to do this while preserving all info? Should I stick with something like clonezilla, can I manage it from within Debian (CLI, ready-made script, GUI), is there a still better way?
I added a PPA repository to my sources list in order to install a package. After a day, i decided i didn't like the software, so i uninstalled it & removed the PPA from my sources list. Everything is still working just fine.
However, Synaptic is telling me that there is a "local or obsolete" package left over from the software i had originally installed. I can't remove the package because it is something that my entire desktop depends on (in Synaptic Package Manager, when i mark it for "Complete Removal," or even just "Removal," it says that pretty much everything else will be removed with it).The package i would like to "roll back" is libgtk2.0-common (2.24.0-1.1). although i had originally got this from a PPA, a very close version is available on Debian experimental here, which is version (2.24.0-1).
I've updated to the backported kernel image, and lo and behold new problem:
mount:special device /dev/cdrom1 does not exist
I've looked in fstab and indeed the writer is there and /dev/ only has my other 2 drives cdrom1 and cdrom. i can trace them back to sr0 and sr1 but, there is no sr2, or anything else to find out what my drive is called. what can i do to find out?
Edit: booting under the old kernel image see's them recognized as hda, hdc, hdd. image 2.6.26, the backport is 2.6.32
I upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s kdm.service, but stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails to launch it. How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop computer?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI installed Debain onto my computer onto my second harddrive. every thing worked well until i ran windows and saw that second harddrive disapeared from My Computer. i tryed using a short cut on the desktop to link to it but it said it could not be found. How to uninsall debain or at least help get the files on the drive back.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been able to connect through a wired connection for a while, I have checked through many previous threads but I cannot seem to get the wireless to even pick up a signal, which this computer right next to it can pick up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe clock keeps changing back to UTC which is not so good. My local timezone is about UTC +7. It appears to be good until I reboot. I can change manually in the bios or enter the following command hwclock --systohc --localtime No matter what it goes back to UTC. I checked the timezone data is correctly recorded and it is...
The command hwclock returns Wed 23 Feb 2011 08:18:05 PM ICT The command date returns Wed Feb 23 20:19:25 ICT 2011 so this shows the system time and the hardware time are the same but they use the 12 and 24 hour clock which is strange since the bios supports only the 24 hour clock. I wonder if the time / date syntax has to be presented in the same way on both the system and the hardware? The time ICT zone appears to be correct.
somehow in the process of trying to get wireless connection, gdm on start-up now fails. i'm stuck in commandline and i have to manually specify startx everytime.
how to i restore debian back to default starting up in gdm?
i've lost my shutdown button, it just disappeared!
how do i restore it?
After squeeze update using aptitude full-upgrade on my Toshiba notebook ALL Gnome Desktop Icons are gone. code...
View 2 Replies View RelatedXpdf is gone from our repos. It was the only app that could kick away the password of PDF files. Could it be again in our Debian Distro?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded my squeeze to wheezy only to have a bunch of problems. Now I want to downgrade back to squeeze. To upgrade I changed everything in my /etc/apt/sources.list from 'squeeze' to 'wheezy' and ran 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. Is it possible to go back without reinstalling?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI use growisofs to burn image or data files into DVDs. In its manpage it refered that it's a combined genisoimage frontend/DVD recording program. while in genisoimage's manpage
Note that genisoimage is not designed to communicate with the writer directly. Most writers have proprietary command sets which vary from one manufacturer to another, and you need a specialized tool to actually burn the disc. wodim is one such tool. The latest version of wodim is available from [URL]
So,genisoimage still is a front end program. so when my using growisfo to burn something, which bin was used to actually do the burning job? wodim? I am using debian 5.0.4
I'm trying to run 'grub-install /dev/sda', it stays stuck on 'Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub' after leaving it for an hour, nothing happens. I have tried removing all Grub related packages and installing grub-legacy several times, to no avail.
The machine is quite an old one and is an offline sandbox for a friends kid who likes to tinker with older OSes. The hard disk has failed in it so I have donated an old drive to get the machine back up and running for him, as the menu.lst is a lot easier to modify than the newer grub.cfg, he would like the older grub back.
I've done a few searches particular for Debian 8, but the closest I can find is for Ubuntu here, [URL] ....
I have tried to use both the grub rescue disk and the command line listed in the link above.
I'm currently running Debian Wheezy (upgrading to Jessie is not possible since I'm using OpenMediaVault which only supports Wheezy) but ever since I installed Deluge BitTorrent client that I've had this python-libtorrent package as "kept back". I'd like to fix this system state but how...
A few things I've tried:
Code: Select all$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
python-libtorrent
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Code: Select all~$ sudo apt-get install python-libtorrent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
[Code] .....
I have the following APT repositories on my sources which I believe are causing my problem:
Code: Select alldeb http://dh2k.omv-extras.org/debian/ stoneburner-miller main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu precise main
They were added through OpenMediaVault's interface when I enabled some checkboxes to be able to install Deluge.
Mainboard: ASUS A8N-SLI. X window manager:GNOME. When in wine application,such as starcraft or "Plants vs zombies",Sound is on for several seconds then mute several seconds then repeats......
Audio Controller info from Device Manager:
ALSA Capture
NVidia CK804 with ALC850
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
NVidia CK804 with ALC850
/dev/snd/pcmC0D1c
[Code].....