Debian :: Is Stable Supposed To Be Buggy?
Aug 8, 2010
I don't mean this to be in any way a critical post but I've recently switched to Debian from numerious other distros because of it elidged stability and speed. However I'm using the stable version and frequently have to reboot for certain things to work and frequently multimedia based programs crash on me. I've installed the repo from debian-multimedia.org so I don't know if that's causeing any problems. It crashes on me multiple times a day. Now it's not the OS itself which is the problem I'm sure but more the software in the repos. However it was my udnerstanding that this software was pretty darn well tested.
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Feb 3, 2011
Just updated, downloads and install complete. I closed laptop. Fan kept running. I rebooted. Black screen. Rebooted again. Screen resolution messed up (800x600 or whatever). Changed resolution in System/Prefs. Better, but the look is not the same as before update. The Gnome fonts and icons are too small, but the resolution is same as before update! My machine has been acting buggy lately...colored text in IceWeasel browser search field, where normally black. I have Firestarter running. How to tell if machine is hacked? I just logged out/in and all normal now. I still think the machine is acting weird.
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May 26, 2010
I've just install debian squeeze version, or the testing one, but I am not really happy with it. Is not listening me all the time. If I install the debian stable I don't have internet connection. Is it possible to update the kernel somehow using the testing version?
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Jun 6, 2011
I've been setting up a Lenovo Thinkpad T420i and have gotten most of the kinks worked out, except for the fact that the display has some annoying artifacts as you navigate around, I guess due to bad video support. A post [URL].. on the same machine said that upgrading all X packages to sid (unstable) fixed these problems, but those packages aren't available in stable.
I read another post (can't find the link now) that said Debian wasn't planning on backporting all the X packages, only related libraries and modules. And I don't know which ones specifically would fix the issues I'm having.
So I thought I'd ask what my options are. I could update all those to unstable, but that doesn't seem optimal (and in the future I don't want unstable bugs bringing down my whole X session). Is there a way to find out what I need and backport some myself. Or do I just need to wait until the appropriate packages filter down to stable (or at least backports)?
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May 23, 2010
Will Debian 6 stable have ext4 filesystem?
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Feb 28, 2011
Now that we are on Debian 6 it seems that Quanta Plus is not yet available because of it not running with KDE 4 ....?
I have blocked my main work horse on 5 that is ok, but I have upgraded my laptop to stable its nice and fast and very much more multimedia
But no quanta, I can use kate and have tried a bunch of other editors none manage projects like and are complete as Quanta I am totaly addicted to it!
I have tried having lenny and squeeze together in the source list but I get BIG dependencies problem and fear stability isuues as I am not sure what I am doing
I had an Idea of putting an Ubuntu 10.10 source in there as it works on that, any body tried this ?
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Jul 7, 2011
I currently have squeeze installed and was wondering how I upgrade to stable 6.0.1, 6.0.2 etc.Would I be correct in doing apt-get update then apt-get upgrade?
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Aug 10, 2011
When I open an .mkv video file with SMplayer or VLC in Debian Stable, there is no sound, only the motion pictures, and VLC returns an error about alsa. But mkv files play normally, with sound, in VLC and MPlayer on Debian Testing. How can I get the sound from .mkv to work in Stable as well ?
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Dec 27, 2015
I am struggling to get Debian 8 stable to boot on an apple powermac g5. I installed using guided partitioning, and chose the all on one partition scheme. I am able to select the Debian hard disk from the boot drive selector from mac. I get to the first stage bootstrap, press L for Linux, and then it simply redirects me back to the drive selection. However, after I'm redirected the colors are messed up.
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Mar 11, 2011
I have debian sid installed, but when run the command aptitude dist-ugrade there is 202 packages nearly all the kde desktop and when run the safe-upgrade there is every day some upgrades, so want to use the latest stable debian, i have look on the debian dists and there is debian 6.0, sid, squeeze, stable and wheezy. what is the name of latest stable debian dist?
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Mar 14, 2011
Any idea if there is a kernel 2.6.37 stable, for Squeeze? Packaged one preferably , if an address is given for download, if there is one.
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Jul 10, 2015
I have installed debian 8.8.1 stable and run updates. When I run the cat release command it shows stretch/sid. I made no changes to the apt/sources list.
What do i have to do so it only updates with the stable release I am planning to use it as a server and only want stable fixes.
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Jun 28, 2010
What is meant by "stable" and "conservative"? I hear these adjectives get used a lot in reference to Debian. Does it translate to less buggy, less crashes and lagging behind in out-of-the-box support of new hardware?I noticed of all the distros for example, that my Wacom Graphics Tablet couldn't plug and play with Debian.
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Feb 17, 2011
Is it wise to mix Squeeze stable with sid packages?Or is it better to install squeze testing and mix testing with sid?
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May 31, 2015
I want to install Debian Stable 8 Jessie. I've tried the main website, of course, first. But there are a lot of options there to download Debian 8: CD, DVD, Live etc. I downloaded debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso and I booted live in VirtualBox. It boots fine and the operating system looks in order.
Questions/problems:
1. The desktop icon for the installer says "Install Debian sid". But from what I know "sid" is unstable version. I do not want unstable, nor testing. I just want normal Stable. Did I got the wrong version? The website is a bit confusing about which version is which.
2. How do I check the md5 of the iso? I know how to do that with other distros, they usually specify it near the download link and I can execute in terminal the command 'md5sum' followed by the specific linux distro iso and then compare the numbers. But I can find no such thing for Debian. I searched the website but could not find any clear info.
3. After I install, what should I do in order to make Iceweasel work with Flash and multimedia codecs? I also need Skype and the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
And if I enable these non free, do I get automatic updates for them like for the rest of standard Debian software? Or, if not, what should I do?
The idea is that I want a system that is as stable and bug free as possible, but I won't use many apps beyond these ones. I don't need the latest and greatest software as long as these get security updates. Should I be ok with this configuration?
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Jul 28, 2011
Is there a way to get the newest version of firefox on debian stable? Also I downloaded google chrome and installed it but it won't show up in my menu or under installed programs in the software center.
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Feb 10, 2010
kernel with which most version number may be compiled in Debian 5 stable without updating to testing? 2.6.32.8 can't compile, if not turn off virtualization, since Documentation/least/least.c
contains
#include <sys/eventfd.h>
which is present in libc6-dev from testing, but is absent in stable.To drivers compiling kernel used own linux/eventfd.h.
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May 25, 2011
I am trying to keep a stable system (after a date with the unstable version which broke everything ) but a package (namely deluge) is horribly out-of-date. It is better in the unstable packages.I read the official documentation with the preferences file, pinning and the rest of the apt zoo but after a few tests I am still there with my old deluge in my stable environment.(in reality I managed to upgrade deluge by swapping the sources.list file with one with only the unstable repositories -- but this is not a particularly clever approach)I would be very grateful if someone could give me the right content for the preferences file which would allow to keep the system at stable level, except for the deluge package which should be updated to the newest, bleeding edge version.
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Feb 27, 2010
I recently bought a Dell 10v netbook and put Debian lenny on it. I got everything up and running, except that sound doesn't work. Two links I found said that the solution was to download alsa-drivers, alsa-lib, and alsa-util from the ALSA website and ./configure && make && make install:
[URL]
Another source says this can be fixed on Etch by recompiling alsa from source:
[URL]
However, I'm running stable lenny, and I'd rather do things the "right" way instead of doing a regular make install. Is there a way to grab the binary packages from testing/unstable and install those without problems? If that's not possible, can I grab the source package from testing/unstable and use that? If that's not possible, can I download the source from ALSA's website and build a package myself?
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Apr 11, 2010
I'm running home server on Debian stable with DHCP, DNS, Mail, VDR, Filesharing and my Weatherstation as main services. The filesharing is used to mount homes at clients.
The machine features an Athlon BE-2300, 3GB RAM, GB-LAN, 1TB and 1.5TB SATA HDD plus HDDs for backups. Mainboard has an NVIDIA chipset with
Code:
nVidia Corporation MCP65 SATA Controller (rev a3)
The primary disks are running in RAID1 + LVM.
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May 7, 2011
I've used K/Ubuntu and Opensuse. I'm testing out Debian on a virtual machine at the moment to see if i like it. I downloaded the first disc and no others and didn't do a net update since the download would have taken 24 hours lol. The default install installed gnome with no option to select Kde. I
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Jun 30, 2011
I have found some stable releases of packages I use which are included in Debian stable to be outdated.For example: I use Kdevelop. I absolutely love it. Checking Kdevelop.org says that latest stable release is 4.2.3.However on my system, the latest stable package found is 4.0.1 In my sources list I've selected to use only stable packages:
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
BTW, I assume this is how I only get stable packages ? Why is it that although there are newer stable releases of Kdevelop, the latest (stable) found on Debian is 4.0.1 ? Is there something I can do in order to include those newer stable releases, other than downloading the source from the wesbite and building/installing ? I really like the way Debian handles it's packages, and I understand that Debian has it's own ways of doing things.
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Mar 7, 2015
I installed Jessie with the RC1. URL...A2) The network install images for testing (jessie) can be found at URL...However, unless you want to test the installer for testing the better choice is to use the stable installer to install a minimal stable system and then upgrade to testing by changing your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
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May 19, 2011
can't use catalyst driver, virtualbox refuse to run, selinux problems,I want to know if its possible to install only this new kernel 2.6.38 without "contaminating" the rest of my installation with unstable packages?
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Mar 11, 2010
lxappearance won't let me change themes on Squeeze. It just doesn't do anything, neither preview, nor theme setting. Turns out this is a known bug, and allegedly fixed. Ppl are told to "upgrade" their package. However, in Squeeze it's still the old package, and it doesn't work. So I filed another new bug report, which they closed and told me to upgrade the package.
Upgrade? From Sid? What happened to fixing Testing so it can become the next stable? Not much stable if a major DE can't change themes. Not that it's a real problem, but it's
annoying. I purged lxappearance and manually installed its Sid counterpart, only to find out
the bug is still there.
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Jul 10, 2011
started using debian for the first time and I have a problem. I've installed Banshee from the stable repository (only stable main contrib and non-free are in my sources.list) but when i start the program it says:
Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-12-02 15:13:12 UTC]
error: line 3: bad flagvector
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Dec 28, 2015
After doing Debian's apt-get dist-upgrade from Wheezy/oldstable to Jessie/stable, I decided to try Kernel v4.2.0 instead of v3.16.0-4-amd64 to be even more updated. However, X doesn't work. /var/log/Xorg.0.log showed:
Code: Select allX.Org X Server 1.16.4
Release Date: 2014-12-20
[ 453.305] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 453.305] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian
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Apr 17, 2010
does Debian Lenny 5.0.4 stable supports SSD TRIM? If not, what package i need to add if i buy a new SSD and dont want to loose Hard Disk Performance over time?
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May 3, 2010
Ever since i found out that there was something called cinepaint i've tried to install it. On their website it says that the debian version currently isn't stable, and therefore not released. I've tried their own CVS file, and costum files. Nothing so far works.
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Aug 23, 2010
Does latest Debian64 stable work with ext4 filesystem?can its root partition be ext4?
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