Questions tagged [debian]
Debian GNU/Linux is a widespread Linux distribution focusing on stability, security, and the free software philosophy.
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Can't ping IPv6 server on internet from Debian running on VirtualBox
I cannot ping6 out from my Debian machine (Jessie) running in VirtualBox using ping6 ipv6.google.com command. I am, however, able to ping IPv6 addresses on my LAN with ping6.
My ISP has IPv6 and my ...
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Trap on DEBUG signal for the dash shell?
With the bash shell, you can install a trap on the synthetic DEBUG signal. This is useful and will execute your function or bit of code on every shell command. For example:
$ trap 'logger -t shell "${...
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Can not setup wireless connection on debian - Intel Corporation Device 3166
With lspci I get the name of my network controller:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 3166 (rev 99)
With modinfo iwlwifi | grep 3166 I get no results which means that iwlwifi does ...
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SSD in RAID trouble
My Debian system suddenly stopped working. When I rebooted, I saw errors before entering crypt password failed to IDENTIFY after ACPI commands
mdadm: device 1 in /dev/md/1 has wrong state superblock, ...
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Debian server stops booting with Unknown symbol error
After a reboot my Debian Server don't want to boot anymore.
Loding the Kernel Modules nfsd and ext4 fails with the following errors (in dmesg):
nfsd: Unknown symbol setattr_prepare (err 0)
nfsd: ...
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Debian Stretch - manage AMD gpu without aticonfig
I recently upgraded to Debian Testing, currently Stretch. In Jessie, the cli tool to manage the fan control was
# aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 50"`
However, in Stretch, this tool was ...
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How do HDD's periodically refresh data?
I was reading/over-hearing some discussions which said that due to possibility of 'bit rot', hdd's periodically refresh data ? I have seen the hdd indicator giving a steady glow at times which means ...
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How to find the least used or longest unused packages in Debian based Linux distributions [duplicate]
I would like to get rid of some packages that I have seldom used or not used in a very long time. I am particularly interested in how to list such packages via command-line tools like dpkg, apt-get or ...
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Deluge refuses every non-localhost connection despite remote connections being enabled
I installed Deluge today on my Debian 8.0 VPS. Everything is working, except for remote connections. I explicitly enabled remote connections with config -s allow_remote true and after checking the ...
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How to persist selection of GTK_THEME in running applications in Xfce?
I'm running Xfce on Debian. The menu labels in many windows look crowded and some dialogue controls are missing. The work-around I have found (I cannot remember how) is to prefix a application's ...
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Linux: How to reinstall all stdlib
I have tried to install the latest version of Clang and LLVM (3.9) (http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#3.9.1) because the version of LLVM in Debian with apt-get is the 3.5...
But as a noob, I don'...
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Reinstall mesa from repos
I tried to make & install mesa, but things went wrong and my system doesn't found its drivers anymore. How can I reinstall mesa from Debian's repo, to revert to the version used by the installer ?
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BIND9 cannot resolve local domain
I've been struggling for a few days to configure bind9 to resolve my local domain so I can access it from inside my LAN.
Details:
DNS SERVER: 192.168.178.46
WEBSERVER (apache2): (A virtualbox ...
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Debian hybrid graphics, multi monitor nightmare
So I have this old POS HP Pavilion dv7 laptop that was collecting dust and I thought why not fool around with Debian and get some linux experience under my belt. It's become a nightmare to say the ...
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sources list-synaptic package manager
I am having some trouble and i need a kind/patient individual to assist me. I am new to the world of computers. When i got the computer i had trouble installing bitmessage so a friend suggested i ...
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Change nodejs command to node on debian
Please don't down vote, newbie here...
I'm new to node js. I installed it using apt utility. But I cannot run the interpreter using node command. Instead I have to use nodejs app.js to run. Is this ...
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postgresql 9.4 installation on GNURoot Debian v0.6.7_armhf
postgresql 9.4 installation on GNURoot Debian v0.6.7_armhf
#service postgresql start
[warn] No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster" ... (warning).
Tried to resolve using dpkg-...
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How to customize the call to configure in override_dh_auto_configure for debuild?
In my Debian package build, I have 3 packages: A, B, C to build with debuild. So far all the packages are called with the same configure pattern. How could I customize the call to .configure for all ...
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Debian preseeding and UEFI
I have the following preseed snippet for installing a Debian (Jessie) system on a single partition:
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/...
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LXC libvirt memory cgroup out of memory
i am using LXC with virt-manager (libvirt) to host a Bind DNS server, with 512MB RAM allocated.
The VM is on a ZFS filesystem (ZFS on Linux)
Recently i got out of memory situation but i cannot find ...
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Connecting Pioneer Bluray/DVD burner via USB/SATA bridge in Debian
I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'm trying to connect my Pioneer BDR-209DBK to a Linux Mint (Debian Edition) box using a SATA to USB adapter.
The adapter is detected and
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libnpjp2.so Does Not Exist
I have successfully installed the official Oracle Java JDK on my computer running Debian 8.7.0. However, I am unable to install the Java plugin for FireFox. To install the plugin, I must create a ...
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Program SIGNIFICANTLY slower when used from the TTY
So I have a program written in C++.
It can tell me how long it took to do all the calculations and it does a lot of quite heavy, multi-threaded calculation.
I've just noticed that if I run the ...
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Iptables port forwarding chain on VPN network on Debian
I have problem with setup of my network. It almost works... but not totally:)
I want to have access to the camera in the building on the countryside. I have access to the Internet with no public IP, ...
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EFI settings set via efibootmgr are ignored after reboot
I have 2 disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) on UEFI laptop. Both GPT.
sda1 - NTFS - Windows,
sda2 - FAT32 - EFI partition where is Windows Boot Manager and GRUB
sdb1 - NTFS - another windows
sdb2 - ...
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Eight-disk RAID-Z2 array has less capacity available than expected
I have a problem to explain the missing capacity in my raidz2
# zpool status -v nas
pool: nas
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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Configuring crosstool-NG for ReadyNAS Duo v2
I would like to create a toolchain for my NAS, which is not supported any more by Netgear. It has a Debian "squeeze" operating system, which doesn't allow me to install stuff any more (no apt-get ...
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How to get audio working on Debian
I'm running debian linux in dual-boot with windows 10 and everything works properly but the audio. These are my audio devices:
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U ...
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New versions of TeamSpeak on ARM (Raspberry Pi) using QEMU user mode crash
With a help of a friend we have successfully run TeamSpeak server which has no source code and no binary for armhf on raspberry pi 3 using QEMU in user mode. We followed partially this guide:
https://...
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'who' doesn't always print hostnames
I'm having a hard time parsing this output from who on my debian sid:
user1 pts/1 2016-12-31 00:32 (:pts/2:S.0)
user2 pts/3 2016-12-31 10:19 (c-76-103-173-249.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
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Date --set not permitted to user www-data
I'm running a lighttpd server on Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) and want to use a php webpage to change the system time (I know I can just change the page's time, but that's not what I need for this ...
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Where to find iwlwifi-8000-8.ucode
I've got the latest Debian version, 8.6 from the official website and when I'm installing it I get an error saying iwlwifi-8000-8.ucode is missing.
After reading Debian 8 iwlwifi-8000-8.ucode ...
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sshfs with multiple clients
I have a server running under Debian 8. It has an SSH and an SFTP server running properly and I use them without any problem.
I installed win-sshfs on my computer so I can access to my SFTP ...
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I am having trouble setting up a personal Murmur server
I recently set up a small Debian VM (no GUI, command line only) and installed mumble-server on it. I went into dpkg-reconfigure and set the following:
Autostart : Yes
High Priority : Yes
Super User : ...
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gparted refuses to resize partition
gparted refuses to resize a partition, reporting the error:
<i>dumpe2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
dumpe2fs: Invalid argument while reading journal super block</i>
<i>Unable to read the ...
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Cannot install/find/use e2fsprogs
I need this executable:
e2fsprogs
I cannot find it on my system; from the console (even with sudo) I get "bash: e2fsprogs: command not found".
With a search, all I get is its documentation (in /usr/...
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Add static route for SSH SOCKS on Debian
I'm able to proxy requests via SSH SOCKS, when doing:
ssh -fqN -D 127.0.0.1:8080 [email protected]
curl --proxy socks5h://127.0.0.1:8080 -d '{my: parameter}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http:/...
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debug misbehaving printer on Linux
I run debian testing and all of a sudden my Brother HL-1250 (connected via parallel port) stopped working properly.
What happens is that whenever I print something, all the printer does is to produce ...
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Automatic mount in zfsonlinux on Debian jessie
I just upgraded from Debian wheezy (and the old zfsonlinux packages) to Debian jessie (and the new jessie-backports packages). Now on system start, the ZFS pools are neither imported nor mounted. I ...
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Software Raid not available after reboot
We're running a small server over here on a raspberry pi, debian jessie, to host both our owncloud and - more important - our repo and build server.
To be sure that data will not get corrupted, I ...
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How does one start VirtualBox guest machines automatically at host boot?
There used to be a SystemV/init-compatible setup in Debian and Ubuntu, which made autostarting guests as easy as starting / stopping any other daemon. Old pages, including https://askubuntu.com/...
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How to force ranger to edit html files?
I am using ranger and every time I try to edit an HTML file ranger will open that file with the browser instead of editing it with Vim.
How can I force ranger to edit HTML instead of loading them in ...
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Segmentation Fault on GPU tests for new MSI GeForce GTX 1060
I purchased a new MSI 6GB GeForce GTX 1060 recently, and I am running Debian Linux (8.0 - stable). I installed the proprietary nVidia drivers (version 367 from jessie-backports) and the nvidia-cuda-...
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How to install gcc-6 on Debian Jessie next to default gcc? ("standalone installation")
I'm running Debian Jessie which uses gcc v4.9.2. As I'm running into the limitations of the c++14 support in this version I'd like to upgrade it to a newer version.
gcc-6 is available in the Debian ...
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VPS with multiple ip and iptables
Is it so that when i have a VPS with Debian 8 (or whatever) and i order some extra ip's for it that that's not the same as adding networkinterfaces that can be treated that way by iptables?
eg.
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apt-get update reports GPG errors
This is what happens when I do apt-get update:
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [68.2 kB]
Ign:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease ...
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Debian freezes when not used. Suspend failure?
When I leave my Debian/Xfce laptop alone for a while the screen turns black and then it is stuck there.
Nothing happens when I press a key or move the mouse, the screen stays black. I can however ...
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How to make tun0 not be the default route
I'd like to use openVPN client, but only have 1 application use the VPN, keeping the rest of the traffic going via eth0.
My client is debian.
How do I do this?
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Openssl decode of encrypted file does not work anymore
I recently updated my computer to 64 bit Debian testing. Since then, decryption of files that were encrypted with openssl on 32 bit Debian does not work anymore.
I used to encrypt files like so:
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Linux IPv6 RA Route Information (24) behavior
I've noticed strange behavior on one of my machines with Linux 4.8.0 (Debian Sid)
My ISPs router is sending IPv6 RAs as following:
IP6 (hlim 255, next-header ICMPv6 (58) payload length: 128) ...
