i just installed debian on my neighbors computer and all the installation processes went A okay until i booted into the desktop, for some strange reason there are no menus (the bars at the top and bottom) whats going on here how do i get the menus up
View 4 RepliesI have just upgraded my Xen system from squeeze to wheezy. Things seem to have worked except for one very important problem: I'm getting two grub menus. I get one white-on-blue that comes up first. It says GNU GRUB version 1.99-27+deb7u2 at the top. (It defaults to the wrong image... but that is an issue to address later.) I choose "Xen 4.1-amd64".Then I get a second grub menu that is white on black: GNU GRUB version 1.99-27+deb7u2 at the top. I have two options "Debian GNU Linux with Xen 4.4-amd64 and Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64" and the other "Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.1-amd64 and Linux 3.2.04-amd64 (recovery m->"
This is reminiscent of the cascade option from upgrading from legacy grub to grub2... but both menus say 1.99-27... so I don't know what the heck is going on here. I have tried running upgrade-from-grub-legacy and grub-install and grub-updater etc. etc... but it always comes up the same. I cannot have that. This is a server, I need it to boot to the appropriate kernel image -- and preferably with only one grub menu!Here are the grub-related packages I have installed:
Code: Select all# aptitude search grub
i grub - GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy package)
p grub-choose-default - Control Grub Default through a GUI
i A grub-common - GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
p grub-coreboot - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot versi
p grub-coreboot-bin - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot binar
p grub-disk - GRUB bootable disk image (dummy package)
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The default menus in XFCE don't include many things that I want to use from KDE. How can I get those on the XFCE menus? There is a so-called "menu editor" in the settings menu, but it has no documentation
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently changed from Ubuntu 11.04 to Debian 6.0 and I'm having some trouble editing the applications menu. If I use alacarte to add sub-menus to the Games menu they appear in Applications>Debian>Games rather than Applications>Games. So I tried to do it the manual way. I created .desktop files for all my games and put them in ~/.local/share/applications here is an example:
bone1.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
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But none of my new sub-menus or menu entries in sub-menus appear in my menus or alacarte. I also tried using just categories in gnome-applications.menu but that didn't work either.So what I have at the moment is all my games in one long list, what am I doing wrong?
URl...how wide are the spaces between these entries. A quick research shows that this affects only certain apps such as gnome-terminal or Anjuta, but doesn't affect for example Synaptic - my first thought was that it's related to these using GTK3, but now I can see it's not that. This is not theme-related as it appears no matter what theme I choose. No results by googling.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe applications menu editor allows the editing of the menu though not it's settings so how do I remove the menu delay? I want instant menus.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am using Wheezy 7.9, Gnome Classic, gdm3 . I have two menu instances of Master PDF Editor, one instance in the Graphics menu and the other in the Office category. I have tried using Alacarte to remove one of the instances. Alacarte shows that the item has been removed but in fact it still shows up in the menu. The procedure I used was to open Alacarte as root user, delete the item, close Alacarte and re-start the computer.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThere is a plethora of apps in the Debian distro -great stuff! Problem is, there is too much to display efficiently in the menus system as currently deployed. I'm thinking particularly of the Science section. Is there a way to rearrange the menus, so that there are sub-menus, such as Astronomy,Biology, Chemistry, Physics etc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using XFCE on Debian Squeeze.
Last night, when I logged in, I only got the desktop with whatever icons I have set on the desktop. The menu bar and the taskbars have disappeared completely.
Is there a way to recover this? Is this a common behaviour? I used to get this problem when I tried out QIMO.
I installed Firestarter firewall on debian Squeeze.Now i note there is a gui available in System->Administration which apparently does not need to be running all the time - its not set up to start on boot.When I boot I notice the boot message has a line saying "Starting Firestarter firewall .... failed"When I am logged in and type "/etc/init.d/firestarter status" as the Firestarter FAQs say, I get"Firestarter is running... ... (warning)"I can run the gui manually and still same message.
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to delete or disable kickoff menu items? I need to disable or delete the SLEEP and HIBERNATE menus as they don't function properly causing the system to crash.
I searched the internet and local configuration files without success.
how many gig should i put for debian for fresh installed one?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with one a server installed with Debian 3.1, that is restarting almost every day at the same hour, 6,25 AM. Here are the messages obtained with #cerberus:/etc# grep -C 5 restart /var/log/messages
.....missing displays....
.....missing displays....
.....missing displays....
As I said, there are days when the system is not restarting, but more often it does. For example, on 6th and 8th October it didn't restart, but on 7th it did, and the messages are the same.
I recently installed Firefox 3.6 on Debian Squeeze. Everything went smoothly, but Firefox looks weird. The interface reminds me of Windows 98 and anytime I scroll through the menus the highlighter is grey and it makes things awfully hard to read. I'm not sure what could be wrong but I'm hoping someone here I'm not sure how to insert small images as url links so I'll just post links to screenshots I took for reference.[URL]Oh, and one other problem I recently discovered, flash doesn't seem to work. It works just fine in Iceweasel but I am told I have to install it in Firefox. I installed libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins but that doesn't seem to have helped. Come to think of it, it probably wouldn't since it's probably the 32-bit version I got from their site, I run on 64 bit.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI just switched over from ubuntu/mint and debian is a little bit tougher for me. I installed the debian cd net iso onto my hard drive with the graphical installer. then I restarted the machine and debian began loading, but only a command prompt came up that ask me to login so I did and still no gui interface.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have multi media on my sources list. Apt-get updates it. the sig is not confirmed because I can't get the key (the .deb is on my Desktop) to install.I used the directions on the website to no avail.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi just installed debian (or atleast i think i did) and when i start the computer up it will ask for my username and password but when i log in there is not gui desktop, how do i get it, or do i have to install it seperatelyi know there isn't an xwin server installed on it, is that the problemi hate verbose installation, freebsd is giving me the same thing, whenever i finish installing everything, and i went through the on screen instruction carefully, there isn't any desktop showing just a command prompt,
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Blender to learn to do some 3D modeling for jewelery designs. I installed the Slackbuild and it installed just fine with no errors. Start the program, opens fine. Only problem is there are no drop down menus at all, just empty space. Doesn't matter what drop down menu or pop up menu, they are all blank, just white space. Everything else about the program seems to run just fine.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice, same result after the reinstall. I don't have a clue what to investigate since running from the command line shows no errors.
I have just installed Debian Lenny and was trying to upgrade the installed packages from the packages.debian.org site. when i asked synaptic to add the downloaded packages the would not appear, but when i checked the .xsessions file there are entries saying that the packages were being ingnored because they were either different versions, the MD5 did not match or even "can't find pkg". i have to use the local library to download the packages because i dont have an internet connection at home.
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I run apache on a non standard port(82).I just installed unity to play around with it and while I was playing with it I installed prixfixe through software center to edit the menus.While prixfixe was installing my computer was acting very slow which was odd, but not completely unusual.During this time I ran ps aux which showed that my apache server was taking up most of the processing power.I was about to stop my web server,but I waited just in case the web server was updating a few things (I run ampache).
My computer finished installing the software and then I ran some command with sudo (I can't remember what the command was), but it threw back some message saying "setid blabla". I restarted my computer and when I got to my gdm my normal user account did not show up. There were no accounts and the restart/shutdown buttons didn't work.Now I'm running on a livecd and checking out my apache access logs, apache error logs,and kernel logs,but nothing looks out of place..
Both start a process that says "decompressing Linux Parsin ELF" and then a lot of processes that are shown in "terminal style" lots of lines appearing... Then it asks for the username and password, which I enter and it recognizes correctly, but then I'm in the terminal,logged with my user but there's no Graphic interface!!! ONLY A TERMINAL!how do I activate something more user friendly?? I don't know any debian command and don't know if this is the way it is supposed to be, but I think not...
View 14 Replies View Relatedi can't get java installed and its starting to drive me nuts, i really hate bin files why cant they make it a deb file, but back to the question i follow the instructions [URL] and i still don't get it
o and if it matters I'm using Google Chrome so there isn't a plugin like Mozilla Firefox
How do I know that if I used a command apt-get install vim-full which packages it downloaded and which packages were instlled on Debian.
View 6 Replies View Relatedthis is my sources.list :
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#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 kde-CD Binary-1 20110205-18:14]/ squeeze main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-7 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main
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code-saturne:
Depends: ecs but it is not going to be installed
Depends: code-saturne-bin but it is not going to be installed
Is this method the correct one if I want to forbid a foo package from being installed, even if this foo package is a dependency of another package? For example, geoclue is a dependency of Steam. However, I still want to install Steam, but not geoclue.
The method:
nano /etc/apt/preferences
Package: geoclue
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
I wanted to know if it's installed while installing Squeeze. I've forgotten...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering how can I re-download only all currently installed packages. I would like to save them to removable media, because I use netinst disc to install, and on slow connection it's hell to download 1GB of packages with console-only.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've tried with the help of some older topics about Dropbox to install Dropbox. But for some reason Dropbox can't be installed no longer?? Or am I searching on the wrong place?? See screenshot.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just did a fresh net-install of debian squeeze after a failed upgrade from lenny. Everything works fine and seems great except that kpackage doesn't seem to be installed. I checked in /usr/bin/ and there is no kpackage.Package kpackage is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.However the following packages replace it:kdelibs-data
E: Package 'kpackage' has no installation candidate
So I installed that package and some others that looked like it and still I dont have kpackage. I now use synaptic and although I love it, I miss being able to install from the notification that there are updates (I do get those).
I Installed Debian on my laptop using a USB-stick. After the installation, everything seemed ok, though it didn't boot anything, it was just waiting with a flashing marker. I put in the USB-stick and rebooted the system and it worked for some reason, GRUB started this time. Now i've had the system like this for a couple of weeks, I have to put in my USB-stick in order to be able to get GRUB to start, but can remove the USB-stick when the OS has started.
The only thing I could think of, was that GRUB was installed into the USB-stick. So I removed the USB-stick when Debian was started and and reinstalled GRUB using aptitude. Still didn't work. What could be wrong?