Debian Installation :: Servers "dead" After Installing 6?
Sep 11, 2011
Today I tried installing 4 known working servers (which were running CentOS) with Debian 6 (x86 and x64). They are all of the same brand.After installing (which went fine) I rebooted the first server: the BIOS POST hangs at 78% and was not going any further. Powercycle again, CMOS wipe by removing the battery of the motherboard, replacing cables, reseating components, and so on. After rebooting the second server: same issue. POST hangs at 78%. As I can't get into the BIOS setup or PXE boot/USB boot I'm really wondering whats going on. All 4 servers are now "wrecked" in this way. I used the Debian netinstall image, and installed from various sources, like the surfnet and leaseweb mirror.Anybody any ideas about this? Does Debian 6 do anything firmware related during install?
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Feb 18, 2010
I downloaded one of the businesscard isos and booted up, but have run into the problem that my usb keyboard is dead in the installer. It works in setting up my bios, and has always worked before, but I cannot choose any items on the installation menu. I found a bug report that seems to be this issue, but it said that this would be fixed when debian moves to the 2.6.32 kernel on the installer.
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Feb 8, 2011
My Dell Latitude D820 had lenny installed and working fine. I did not have anything exotic installed (other than perhaps nividia drivers). I went about upgrading to squeeze following the notes/documentation on the debian web site. During this process it mentioned that the following firmware was not going to be installed (as it is not freeware; BTW I had non-free in my sources.list):
tigon/tg3_tso5.bin
tigon/tg3_tso.bin
tigon/tg3.bin
On reboot it was clear that the new kernel was not in a healthy state. Even when booting with older kernels I had serious stability issues. After about half a dozen reboots trying to resolve problems I was experiencing the laptop would not even load the Dell splash screen on power up. I could not even navigate into the BIOS. Nothing appeared on the monitor (or external monitor).
I put an ISO disk in the DVD drive to see if it would boot from the DVD; it seems to load but absolutely nothing appeared on the screen. I tried navigating the grub menu (not displayed) and load my windows partition. When it booted to the point where windows would normally display the GUI it flashed several times and displayed a 'BSOD' with the following message:
*** Hardware Malfunction.
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***
It looks like my laptop is now FUBAR. It is out of warranty so any fix is likely to be DIY. Any ideas on how to resolve this?
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While I was installing 5.4, the keyboard did not response any more when the test CD media screen appeared. I have switched keyboard but the same happened again.
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Apr 12, 2010
i just installed Fedora 12, clean without anything change in it. I opened services dialog, and the openvpn service have status:dead, however it shows that it is enabled.when i try to run it as:/sbin/service openvpn start.It write OK. However if check it:/sbin/service openvpn status it write that service not running. What is a point of a problem? I have opened openvpn in FireWall,however without success, may be some additionsl services for openvpn are not running?
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Mar 11, 2009
After booting I noticed that sometimes nmb was not running. The command # service nmb status gives nmbd dead but pid file exists The timestamp of the pid file suggests that at the last shutdown the pid file was not removed, and I guess this prevented nmb to start properly during booting (Although during booting the messages is [OK]).
If I shut down nmb manually, everything is fine. I checked the log in /var/log/samba/log.nmbd and it doesn't show any error. As mentioned, this occurs only occasionally, and I have no idea what may be causing this.
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Jun 2, 2015
I thought it was just the usb printer, but now I've found my mp3 player and my usb floppy drive aren't working, either. All of these items used to work fine a few months back; now when I plug them into a usb port, the computer doesn't recognize the player, the drive or the printer. The hp website says my printer, an HP Deskjet 1010, is fully functional under Debian 8. I just did a re-install of debian Jessie stable a few days ago, but that didn't work either. I'm running Windowmaker,with pcmanfm, and a few dockapps.
blkid:/dev/sdb1: UUID="d35a1464-a3b5-4127-92ce-d7e81591c1ce" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="47461dbf-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="0a4a91b1-95bd-458e-92c1-1c56baf66e31" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="47461dbf-02"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="44985baa-57eb-4723-8d41-ed08bd3e5d79" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="47461dbf-03"
/dev/sda1: UUID="14523cb1-b988-4493-9ae9-e466fef315eb" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="f3917890-01"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="/stuff" UUID="b2494909-9882-47e4-8fe9-6329e920b413" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="25c4b10b-01"
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When I ran the program usb-view, I got this error message:
Can not open the file /sys/kernel/debug/usb/device. Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
Shouldn't usb already be installed? I used jessie netinstal;I've used netinstall before and had no problem accessing any usb devices. When I installed a few days ago, I noticed xorg did load the wacom driver for my wacom tablet plugged in, and the mp3 player says its connected, even though it doesn't show up in pcmanfm. Plus a usb external fan runs fine.
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Dec 17, 2010
In the process of trying to get the softmodem working, I finally attached speakers to this laptop and tried to play some sounds. Nothing but silence. Both the KDE system sounds and a stand-alone player (noatun) produce nothing. No error messages that I can find, either. (That might explain why the softmodem is dead, too...) I've run alsaconf several times, and even uninstalled and reinstalled ALSA. It thinks it is working, but is not. What sorts of things do I need to check to find where it isn't working?
Info: The motherboard is a FIC 3500W with the VIA P4M800 integrated chipset. This includes the VIA 8237 sound system, which is what ALSA detects and tries to use. The machine also has a Realtek ALC655 but I don't see any drivers for that in the lsmod output, so this is a possible source of the trouble.
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Jul 6, 2011
After the unsolved problems i had with the 2.6.39 kernel update a few weeks ago, reported here, now, I've installed the updates released today, and now, on the old Kernel, my X SERVER is dead..The boot on the new kernel is still completely dead.The boot with the old kernel goes directly do command line..
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May 31, 2010
I have a dead system that was running Debian Linux (lenny). I can boot into emergency mode, but nothing else. I will likely have to reinstall Debian. I've read lots of things online about how to get a list of currently installed packages. Which is fine and dandy if the system is working and I can log into it. I'm basically wanting to extract such a list from a hard drive containing an installation I can't log into normally. I can access the filesystem just fine, and nothing related to aptitude has been damaged.
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Jan 19, 2011
This is my first time on a forum and the first time I tried to set up a web server.I am following a tutorial on how to set up a web server here: [URL]We get to a part were I have to install a firewall. The tutorial suggests shorewall. The command I am told to use is sudo aptitude install shorewall. However is returned is could not find package shorewall. I have searched the net and could not find anything on my issue. I then attempted to search aptitude but no luck. I found shorewall online but how do I download it without a GUI.
This is also my first time having an OS that is only command line. I have done other things from the command line only before. Things such as computer science homework on the computer science servers.For simplicity, how do you install software off the internet on to ubuntu server without creating a CD or using a flash drive
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Nov 28, 2014
I'm using debian testing with cinnamon. After upgrading the kernel to version 3.17.2 (but I've also tried the 3.17.3 and 4) the synaptics touchpad died, as if it doesn't exist. I can't go back to the old kernel because the new one has solved a problem about freeze during the shutdown process, so I need it. Note that even with Mint 17, after upgrading the kernel, the touchpad stopped working in the same way.I believe that the touchpad is not seen , rather than loaded .xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and multitouch are installed.$ synclient
Code: Select allCouldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
$ xinput list
Code: Select all⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SIGMACHIP USB Keyboard id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MLK Trust Mouse 15313 id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
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...no signs of life from the terminal, it immediately waits for the next command.
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Sep 18, 2010
I want to install Debian 5.06 64 bit on squeeze repo. Where can I find its netinstall ISO?
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Oct 19, 2010
i am trying to get starting installing debian on my virtual server what is supported for IA64 and i have try'd this few different version(se bellow) and the img fail isin't boting?
debian-503-ia64-businesscard(notice diffrent version tryed to)
debian-503-ia64-CD-1(notice diffrent version tryed to)
debian-503-ia64-netinst(notice diffrent version tryed to)
I have used before virutal server and booted successfully a img file and installed a operating system sow what is wrong?
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Jun 10, 2011
I've just installed the Nvidia drivers on my Debian, however, after i do it, the laptop brightness control doesn't work anymore... When i press the keys, i see the brightness bar, however, the brightness stays at maximum. I've used the following commands to install the drivers.
apt-get update
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
m-a a-i nvidia-kernel-source
apt-get install nvidia-glx
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The Laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-FE21B with a Nvidia Geforce 7400
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Jan 16, 2009
I have enabled desktop effects in KDE on Fedora 10.
I clicked "everything is OK", and accepted the settings and then everything went black ...
Then I have restarted X, logged again, still nothin' ... all black .... windows and action is present, but I can't see anything ...
How can I recover this ? I am using gnome now, ...
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Jul 17, 2010
I have downloaded Debian/PowerPC_lenny from http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst. The netinst CD or the minimal CD for some reason doesn't boot. When I put it in the CD-ROM it doesn't begin whatever it has to do. Do I need to do anything? I restart my iBook G4 (1.33 GHz PowerPC G4) several times and held the "c" button (for CD-ROM) but nothing has happened. I wonder if someone can help me begin the installation process.
FYI, I have partitioned my hard drive into two volumes. I would like to install Debian in one of them. I *do not* want my Mac OS X to get disappeared in the Debian installation process. So please help me if you would as to how I can (1) boot Debian minimal CD and (2) install Debian on one of the two volumes I have on my iBook.
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May 15, 2011
The package manager is scrambled in my Ubuntu 11.04. It started with the repositories list being scrambled with multiple entries. Now when the Package Manager is launched it just accesses the hard drive forever. I did give it a half an hour just in case so it clearly stuck in a loop of some kind.
What I'd like to know is: Is there some way to reset, clear, turn off or de-select the added Repositories list from the command line (terminal.) This seems to be the only way since the Package Manager gets stuck. Keep in mind that I'm only slightly competent with Linux and have no idea where the Debian Package Manager data is located or how it works. If I go poking around without at least some guidance I may make things worse.
The problem seems to be spreading. Got stuck again while saving this message. Turned off the system, rebooted to recovery mode and did a file system check. Okay for now. Switching to clean OS on other partition.
I'll check for answers there but it's only Ubuntu 10.04 and I'd very much prefer to have 11.04 working and not have an effectively dead partition and don't want to loose everything on it with a re-format and 2 day re-install process (no installation disk.)
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Jan 8, 2010
Did an upgrade today from 9.04 to 9.10. As far as I can tell, everything is working, with the exception of Firefox 3.5.6 with new install. I've attempted an uninstall and install. Tried the following with 3.5.6:URL...I finally found that if I use sudo (or gksudo) I can run firefox at the command prompt. Any other time I run it, it just shows an icon on the lower bar and then it disappears, but within the system monitor it shows Firefox and will show as many as you run the icon with.
I've deleted the entire .mozilla directory, and manually removed all the firefox info fro /usr/bin also before a reinstall. I assume it is either a strange permission issue or some link related issue."which firefox" shows:/usr/bin/firefox and the 3.5.6 files are located /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.6 . Any help would be great, I'm at a loss at this point. I'm sure it's something simple, but it's a royal PITA.I have nxserver on the machine, if that means anything and there was a session locally as well as one remote during the upgrade (using the same account).
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Jan 12, 2010
I've got a toshiba A135 series. I installed 9.10 from a live cd, and the installation process went fine.
When I rebooted the computer, it loaded up giving me the option to select one of the following:
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
Memory text (memtest86+)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
I chose the first one, hit enter and the computer went to a black screen with the cursor up in the top left corner blinking away. Then nothing. I've read that this distribution is giving folks a lot of trouble. Has anyone had this same thing happen to them after a clean install?
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Mar 14, 2010
I recently had ubuntu as my main operating system on my computer, but that wasn't working out because iTunes just does not work on ubuntu. So I started to try to dual boot windows XP, but when I tried to create the partition, all of them crapped out on me, so now I'm left with a computer boot anything, it just goes straight to error loading operating system. Now I can't get the one folder that I need off of the ubuntu installation because I don't have permission too.
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Mar 27, 2010
I just installed Windows 7, so my grub is gone. I was wondering if there is a way to use a live cd to boot into my ubuntu partition. I'm likely going to scrap my ubuntu partition soon, so I don't want to mess with installing grub.
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Feb 1, 2009
Since I started using Fedora 10 I can't login as root. Even though the system recognizes the root password when it requires it for certain administrative tasks it refuses to let me login as root.
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Mar 9, 2009
I find myself in the strange position of having an old P4 system that I want to throw Fedora 10 on - it's a considerable upgrade from the old 866Mhz P3 that I've been using to do some number crunching on. (It's a personal project, but it's CPU intensive, so the P4 is a welcome upgrade.) My problem with it is that the motherboard's AGP socket is dead, and I can't find a PCI graphics card, so I'm trying to do a totally headless install - I have no idea what errors may be shown, if any. All I know is that whatever I've tried up till now hasn't worked.
1. Remove the hard drive from the P4, stick it into a spare, semi working system (AMD Athlon, RAM isn't working too well), install F10 on the hard drive, remove the drive, put it back into the P4, and let it boot. Results: Nothing. No DHCP announcement, so I don't know if it's done anything.
2. Try a variation of a PXE boot using the vnc parameter. I've copied the instructions here with no luck. Tried it using a nearby mirror (mirror.nus.edu.sg) as well as method=cdrom, with no luck on either. Results: Also nothing.Should I give up on this, or is there anything else I should try?
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May 24, 2010
/dev/sda1 * 63 35166284 17583111 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 35166285 80228609 22531162+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 80228671 234440703 77106016+ 5 Extended
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Jun 8, 2009
I have a dell inspiron 530 desktop with core 2 quad and 4GB memory, running 32bit vista and 64 bit fedora 10. I searched on the web with "can I install 8GB memory on dell inspiron 530", and got couple of articles that says I only needed a bios upgrade.I downloaded bios version 1.0.18 from dell and run that in Windows to replace bios 1.0.12.After it said upgrade successful and asked me whether I wanted to reboot to have the new bios taking effect, and I said yes. And it shutdown the computer, and never came up Now, when power up, I see nothing, not even the "F2 to setup, F12 to boot menu" message, much less the grub selection. Is there a way to revive the computer?
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Feb 17, 2010
I've been searching these forums for about 2 hours now, trying nearly everything I've come across to make these two things work... all I want to do is watch some damn ..... videos and maybe some videos off [URL].
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May 4, 2010
I'm having trouble with dead keys in Emacs on Ubuntu Lucid and I'm at my wits' end. Using a standard Norwegian keyboard layout, and dead keys work fine in all Gnome applications. But Emacs just spits out messages about undefined keybindings when I use dead key combinations, for instance for tilde (~): "<dead_tilde> is undefined". This is super-annoying, since I use Emacs a lot, and I need some way to fix this.
What I've tried so far: Loading the 'iso-transl' library in Emacs seemingly makes the dead keys work, but it's not consistent across modes (works for plain text, though), and I didn't need to do this before. Also, loading this breaks Emacs' latin-1-prefix input method, for some reason. Fiddling with keyboard-preferences, iBus, im-switch xim/none/ibus, etc. Removing ~/.xinput.d directory. Fiddling with various environment variables: GTK_IM_METHOD, GTK_IM_MODULES, XMODIFIERS
Of course, I'm testing this in Emacs started with '-Q' to elminiate problems that might be caused by my own rather extensive set of initialization files. Using dead keys in Emacs has never been a problem until I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid.
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Nov 22, 2010
I have a problem with the openoffice 3.1, install it and I worked fine in Fedora 14, but I restart the system and no longer works. nothing happens with any file.
to download from the official site and install it manually.
I can not fix
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Feb 8, 2010
I am trying to run Ubuntu 9.10 from a USB drive on an old laptop with a dead hard disk.An added complication is that it does not support USB boot, only CD boot.So with the help of URL..., I am running grub from a cd and then booting the kernel from the USB (or something like that).
The problem is that after I do this, I get about 6 minutes of error messages as the kernel tries unsuccessfully to read my dead hard disk ("buffer I/O error on /dev/fd0" or something like that). I can post again if the specific error message would be useful. (But it takes so long to reboot that i'd rather not). I can tell it is trying to access my hard disk as I hear the disk occasionally spinning (it intermittently spins and does not spin). After many failures, the system successfully boots and runs from the USB drive.I tried removing the hard disk from the machine entirely, but this triggers an ASPI error and the kernel hangs.So ideally I would like to modify the kernel command line above to instruct it to ignore the hard disk. I read some kernel documentation but it proved a little bit too advanced for me.
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