Debian is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution first announced 1993. It is well known for its package management system APT and large number of packages. Many other distributions are influenced or originate from it, like Ubuntu or Knoppix.
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Unpredictable memory explosions
The main server at my company has recently been having a lot of downtime. For reasons that neither I nor the other admins can determine, it has random (VERY sudden) explosions in memory. It becomes ...
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USB storage devices aren't automatically mounted when inserted on a fresh install of Debian 6.0
I installed Debian 6.0 (squeeze) a few days ago on my machine. I installed the default GNOME desktop, standard settings. Unfortunately, I just noticed that when I plug in USB storage devices (external ...
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How to make a distro be fullscreen on VirtualBox?
I'm running Debian as host and I fail to get Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora guests to be fullscreen. Changing video memory didn't help.
NOTES:
I haven't tried any other distro
I didn't create WinXP ...
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Debian PXE Preseeding: Can I clone my existing Debian system instead of using the Internet?
I'm currently working on PXE booting 10 or so machines to install Debian on them over the network from a centralized DHCP + TFTP server. I'm using the TFTP server to serve the Debian netboot image to ...
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Uninstalling default VBoxGuestAdditions on Debian
When I ran sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run I got the following warning message:
You appear to have a version of the VBoxGuestAdditions software
on your system which was installed from a ...
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Debian 6.0 system with 2.6.39 kernel dropping packets, sandy bridge hardware
I recently migrated an existing Debian system to new hardware, a core i3 chip running on an intel sandy bridge motherboard. I’m experiencing a very strange problem; when I ping my router, about 50% of ...
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/etc/hosts for Debian
I was trying to get a perl script that contacts a PostgreSQL database to work on a server. This script was mysteriously failing. I then realised that localhost was not in the /etc/hosts file.
The ...
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NetworkManager: disabled network when sending system to sleep
When I suspend my notebook, NetworkManager disables the wireless network (in nm-manager.c:do_sleep_wake).
However, I'd love to still use the network for a very short time (to unmount cifs mounts, ...
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Purpose and typical usage of /etc/rc.local
The header looks like this:
#!/bin/sh -e
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# rc.local - executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel
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# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
What is ...
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Trouble understanding the Debian bug reporting system
I am currently experiencing this bug, except that I'm using the Wheezy/testing netinstaller. Strangely, I used the netinst .iso a few months ago, and everything was fine. So it almost seems as if the ...
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How to get my bluetooth keyboard to be recognized before log in?
Because I need to use my keyboard to log in, I would like my keyboard pair automatically, pre-log in.
I am using Debian squeeze, and am new to linux. All tutorials I have found seem to require the ...
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What's up with this 'gnome' package?
I have recently grown tired of the way Rhythmbox starts up every time I plug in my MP3 player. I know I could simply disable this, but I've decided to uninstall Rhythmbox instead. It's such a ...
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Debian + KVM: Which version to use? Stable or “new”?
I have Debian 6.0.4 (Squeeze) x64. Nowadays I use KVM stable package from apt-get.
Could you recommend me using a compiled newest or newer version instead of using the old one KVM package from Debian ...
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Swap usage too high?
I have a debian sid box, freshly installed about a month ago, with no desktop apps running at the moment.
Any command I try to run (via ssh) makes the hard disk work very hard. The system worked ...
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Recovering overwritten LVM metadata
Yesterday I was trying using the Debian install in rescue mode in order to fix my Grub (The menu-item for Debian was suddenly gone).
Now I wasn't able to fix it and didn't have a lot of time, so I ...
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Enabling apt repository priority in LMDE
I want to set up apt repository priority ordering in Linux Mint Debian Edition 2012.04. In /etc/apt/preferences the order should be: LMDE -> Debian testing -> Debian unstable. In other words, I almost ...
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changing the names of network interfaces, debian wheezy
I'm trying to set a name for an interface, "ethLan" instead of eth0. Doing so also ensures that the if's name will remain consistent at every reboot and kernel.
I did find some articles in the ...
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Debian GNOME 2.30, desktop does not respond anymore
I have Debian Wheezy with GNOME (2.30.2) installed on my computer and my problem is that my desktop does not work anymore.
I can't right click on the desktop (to change wallpaper, etc...). Moreover, ...
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Missing init.d/apache2 file
I am new to linux and just recently messed up my first apache/tomcat configuration. After trying to delete apache and tomcat, and now trying to reinstall apache 2, I am missing the init.d/apache2 file ...
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How to fix mpt2sas “port enable: FAILED with timeout (timeout=300s)”?
Since having set the drives attached to an LSI SAS 2008 controller to "Power up in standby", these drives are no longer being detected. Power up in standby is also known as PUIS, POIS or "ATA6 power ...
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Optimal SSD configuration
I am thinking about buying an SSD for my Debian system. However, because I don't know what is the optimal arrangement (i.e. what goes on the SSD), I am not sure what is the optimal size. Obviously I ...
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How do I access a USB serial port without an entry in /dev?
I have a USB to serial adapter based on the SiLabs CP2101 chipset. I'm trying to use it with Debian 5.0 Lenny (armel architecture).
I seem to be able to get the proper kernel module to recognize the ...
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debian wireless networking through terminal
I'm starting to use the wmii windows manager and I want certain pieces of information to display on a status bar. If I were to want to display the ESSID for the network, I would have to find it ...
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Fixing broken packages in a Debian testing distribution
I'm playing around with Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) in a VirtualBox instance to try it out and see if it'd be good for a main operating system for me. I'm pretty competent with most system ...
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change colour depth
How do I change the colour depth? It says online to edit the xorg.conf file, but I don't have that. I am running Debian XFCE on a Powerbook G4
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Debian 6 Squeeze - installing build-essentials - gcc / g++
The first thing to say is: "I am noob", so please be patient and don't laugh.. too much on me. I need to install c / c++ compiler and I heard that the best thing to do is to install gcc/g++ for that ...
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Is there a standard way to configure what policy iptables loads on startup under Debian?
I've just started playing with Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) in a VPS environment, as a way to learn more about system administration.
One thing I'd like to configure is a default packet filtering policy. ...
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How to add self to sudoers list?
I've added myself into the sudoers users list by using the command
root@debian:/home/oshirowanen#adduser oshirowanen sudo
If I try to run that command again,
root@debian:/home/oshirowanen# ...
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How to install much newer mpt2sas driver version in debian squeeze?
Linux debian squeeze 6.0.6 (2.6.32-5-amd64) is supplied with quite an old 02.100.03.00 version of the mpt2sas driver.
I do wish to install a much newer mpt2sas driver version. In know there are ...
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Where is fsck startet for the root filesystem at boot?
I want to extend an existing Debian 6.0 system so that it is able to automatically fix a corrupt root file system by restoring a separate image. That process should start automatically instead of the ...
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undo rm -r, restore data
I was playing around with zip and accidentally deleted my /home/ folder (i wanted to delete home/ which got created by unzipping an archive).
I used rm -r /home/instead of rm -r home/ as root...
Is ...
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OpenSSH, chroot user: Root needs to own the user directory, is there any consequence?
I want to create an account for my friend on my computer, but I don't want my friend to be able to view all my files. I saw that with OpenSSH, there is an option for that.
Inside the SSHD ...
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Latest Debian wheezy/testing ISOs defaulting to KDE?
I've usually been using Debian Squeeze, as I've never really had any reason to go after the latest & greatest, and if I wanted to, I always had backported packages to rely on.
However, my new ...
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How do i fix the to address when forwarding with mail/exim?
I am using debian squeeze (i believe, the box doesnt really say)
i config exim4 to use gmail and put root: someuser in /etc/aliases then put my email address (name+box@gmail.com) in .forward
I ...
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Command to install linux headers fails
I need to install my linux headers for an Nvidia driver install. But I get an error when doing so:
peter@peter-deb:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
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Debian unstable chroot security issues
This page describes how you can use the debootstrap utility to install a base Debian unstable/sid system on an existing Linux machine. The new install is accessible using chroot.
When doing this, ...
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Dual boot debian/Win XP - hidden partitions and primary partition limit
I decided it's (finally) time to make my eee a debian/WinXP dual boot. I have Windows already installed and chose to sacrifice most of an existing data partition for debian. Here's how the partitions ...
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How to build all of Debian
Let's assume:
I have a mirror of the source repository locally.
I only want to build for the architecture I'm running, which is i386 in my case.
I'm not interested in customisation. In fact, I want ...
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The brightness on my Lenovo SL510 only moves between 100% and 0%?
I have a Lenovo SL510 laptop running Linux Mint Debian Edition (based on Debian Testing) using the Cinnamon DE, and the brightness appears to only have two settings: 100% and 0%. If I use the ...
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libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_has_show_text_glyphs error
I am using Debian Squeeze and I wanted to install Gimp 2.8. I installed a lot of packages dependencies for Gimp but I could not successfully complete the install of the Gimp package
When installing ...
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What can I use to monitor and log incoming/outgoing traffic to/from remote hosts?
I run a web server (Debian Squeeze on a VPS), and the graphs provided by the hosting company show consistently that around twice as much traffic is incoming to the server compared to the outgoing ...
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Debian squeeze post-installation automount problem, USB port confused for /dev/cdrom0
Usually when I install Linux on a laptop, I use the following command
$ dd if=installcdrom.iso of=/dev/sdX
where sdX is the inserted, unmounted USB stick (sdb usually), and installcdrom.iso is a ...
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“lsmod |grep audio” doesn't return anything?
I am running Debian Squeeze. I installed and removed Gnome3 and reinstalled Gnome2.x (epic fail and stupidity) and in the process I have lost audio, lspci returns following
# lspci | grep Audio
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Fixing debian installer
I have a VPS with Debian GNU/Linux on it. I'm trying to install a PHP file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory.
I don't have anything in my /bin about PHP so ...
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For deploying a public-facing webapp, which between Testing and Stable to use some weeks before release?
Which do you recommend? Some POVs to consider:
stability
available packages
life
kernels
or any other reasons?
[note] This question was originally a request for recommendation between Debian 5 ...
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Troubleshooting Bug: Soft Lockup
We're having some trouble here with "soft lockup"s in our /var/log/syslog. The system seems to freeze for 10-70 seconds, then comes back. This is affecting web serving and other key processes. It ...
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Linksys wusb600n support on Debian-6
I'm on my way from Windows 7 to Debian 6. The only problem... I'm not sure about my network adapter. Its Linksys wusb600n and without it - no internet access for me.
Does Debian 6 support it?
Will ...
