Many thanks for all the assistance!
My apologies for hitting the panic button over
dc waiting for me to type in some numbers, which is,
of course, what it is supposed to do.
There were several other questions from my
would-be helpers, but for now:
Output from df -h
Filesystem
I think I'm running out of space on my
laptop. The last time I got an "updates
available" message, I got a further warning,
during the update, that I was low on space.
The update did seem to complete, though.
However, when I tried to use the calculator
program dc afterwards, the computer
I have been recently noticing that the find
command is taking a long time, and my /usr (see df
output below) is 73% full. Should I do something?
libreoffice seems to be using a lot of space, and
I only use it to read .doc files other people send me.
I don't use the spreadsheet or database
Problem solved(?) Many thanks!
It seems that putting the correct permissions
and usergroup on that one file fixed things all
by itself. I was astonished when I got my usual
graphics screen this morning, even before I tried
apt-get update.
For the future, I will only become super-user
Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/
After numerous mistakes, I finally have:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus 298544 Dec 3 15:03 dbus-daemon-launch-helper
Here's some edited output from my laptop, ~60 lines. They're
most of the files where the permissions mean that ownership
is
Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/
The permissions should be
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper
Have they changed, and to what?
After logging in, becoming superuser, and a little trial-
and-error with chmod, ls -l now gives
-rwSr-xr-- 1 root root 298544
Well, the idea outlined above depended on adding a new user to
take over the role of running things that shouldn't be run as
root. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough in the previous
post to that quoted, not knowing that you were going to attempt
to merge things with a preexisting user.
Personally, I would chown -R user.user the files and directory
tree-tops I was going to move. That sorts out the permissions
change. Then I would mv -i ... /home/user (the -i is habit, like
with rm -i). Because of the directory recursion, it might take a
while, so mv -iv will give a screaming
I tinkered with Preferences/Applications. Did not
do anything about a special kind of Preference. If
this message gets posted, the thing worked :)
If so, thanks!
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Thanks for all previous suggestions.
An updates available message resulted in an update that
stopped in the middle because of insufficient space. This has
left me with a system in which character-based programs are working,
but any attempt to use a program that tries to open an X-window
I use claws-mail for e-mail. When I am running iceweasel/mozilla
and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened.
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Clearing all the
interactive-application droppings out of /root *might* give you enough
room to solve your problem without rearranging your filesystems.
Thank you for your help.
Is there something simple and safe that I can do to
try clearing the droppings? Unfortunately, neither
Thank you for your help.
if you have a lot of packages in /var/cache/apt/archives
then you can clean them out and then apt-get will download
any new ones you need when you install, update or reinstall.
There are a lot of *.deb files for packages that I
have installed. Do I risk
I have been running a dual-boot linux / windows system on a
Toshiba laptop for several years. According to
/etc/apt/sources.list, the system is
wheezy, installed with binary 20140209-16:42.
When I turn the machine on, I get the usual GRUB
multi-boot display. The windows boot seems to be
I type
xboard -variations true
and the board display pops up. In edit game
mode, I make the
moves 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 and it waits for Black's move.
Then I use the button to go back one move.
I hold the shift key while moving a pawn from
f2 to f4. Then I save the file. It shows
2 f4 as a second
I'm sorry, I don't see anything in the documentation about this.
If aptitude cannot be used, what am I supposed to do?
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On a new computer, I have tried to burn the files in
a directory to a dvd with
genisoimage -R ./mntpoint | wodim -v fs=6m speed=2 -
(something like this [based on the wodim documentation]
worked on a previous machine when I was burning CD's.
I've also tried specifying dev=/dev/dvdrw, which
A great big THANK YOU for all the help with my
python upgrade mistakes.
(1) When plugged into a nearby ethernet connection
(of course very lucky that there is one), I got
connected immediately. From /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network
I am running debian 6.0.6 on a Toshiba laptop that is
approximately two years old. The command python --version
reported 2.6.x. I wanted to upgrade to 3.3.2, so I
did the following things, some of which were apparently
mistakes.
(1) I downloaded the .tgz for 3.3.2. from python.org,
typed
I am running a dual-boot debian (wheezy/sid)/windows 8 on
a 3-months-old Toshiba desktop. Sometimes my wireless
connection (from Debian) stops working after an hour or so,
at other times the connection is not established at all.
When running windows, the desired connection with a LAN
using the
I have been using TeX/LaTeX on a debian distribution
installed about two years ago. Tex and LaTeX themselves
are working, as is xdvi. I just noticed that dvipdfm
is not working. Even when run on a simple input, I get
the errors:
** WARNING ** Failed to load AGL file pdfglyphlist.txt...
**
Is there a safe way to write, from linux to the windows
part of a dual-boot system?
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I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy.
The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions,
presumably for windows7.
I have been able to resize to create freespace.
As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems
to mean it must be a primary partition. However,
when I
I have just tried to use the netinst installer for wheezy
beta 3 to create a dual boot of debian and windows 7.
The problem arises at the partitioning stage. The
installer begins by showing me windows 7 using 3 primary
partitions, one of which is bootable. I resized (this
worked) to get
I am trying to install squeeze on a 64-bit Toshiba.
It asks me to specify an ethernet card. I think what
I have (for wireless) is
Atheros AR9485WB-EG
I tried selecting what looked like the closest approximation,
something like ath9x, but the screen flickered briefly, then
returned
I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual-
boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to
be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on
the windows side.
Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that
will deal with the bad windows
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I tried to set up a dual boot of windows and linux from
the installer. The linux part works, but windows 7 starts to boot
and then takes me back to grub.
I am sufficiently happy with linux that I was planning to get
rid of windows. I would like to use the space to give openBSD a
try.
** THE MESS *
I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7
and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays
/dev/sda1 Windows 7
/dev/sda2 also Windows 7
/dev/sda3 Windows 7 recovery
/dev/sda4 Debian
/dev/sda5 Debian recovery
I am relieved that
I recently installed squeeze on a laptop with an ethernet
connection. When I run iceweasel from root terminal, it
works sometimes, and seems to refuse to connect to the outside
world other times.
This may be connected to the message I see when I do successfully
use and exit from iceweasel:
I did some unsuccessful searching.
The site for this browser claims to have a download for
linux. Is it safe to try that?
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Somewhere I read that this should be done by modifying
the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I tried changing this to:
deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny main
deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny non-free
but I'm still only seeing the stuff in main.
The thing I'm
[Sorry, I'm using claws-mail and it doesn't seem to let
me post follow-ups]
Thanks to everyone for the prompt responses, but I still have
a problem. My /etc/apt/sources.list includes
deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
I tried typing aptitude update.
Pressing F2 at the beginning gives me a menu, but I didn't
see anything for booting from the CD/DVD drive.
Bonus question: I should be using AMD-64 netinst, right?
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I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a
system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign
next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then
remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc. I definitely
did NOT want that to happen and exited from
I have been unable to get squeeze to work on a machine
that previously was running lenny (details sketched below).
Is a lenny version of the netinst CD image still
available?
I have been trying to install squeeze on an i386
I recently upgraded from etch to lenny, and most features
of the system seemed to be working.
After a day or two with the new system, I am getting a
character-based screen to log in, instead of the X display.
Below, I give the output from typing startx, and the
xorg.conf file.
I tried to upgrade to lenny using an ethernet connection. The
process stopped when the monitor displayed trying to update portmap 5-26
After a few minutes, I pressed control-C and the upgrade seemed to
continue. The resulting system seems to work, but when I try to use
aptitude to get new
I have a lenny installation that is pretty close to default,
with emacs22.
On previous emacs versions, control-H-i gave me access to
an impressive collection of emacs documentation as info files.
When I try that now, all I have been able to get is an emacs faq.
Is there a separate
I recently got an HP desktop with a Celeron processor. I
downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso, burnt it to a cd with
Microsoft's cdburn, and booted.
The debian logo and some introductory messages were displayed, but
then things froze. The last few lines were:
ACPI:
Thank you. The bare cd trick was what I needed.
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After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to Accessories
and root terminal. I have several shell variable setting and
some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the
system up, I had a file that did these things for me. However,
I want to change a few things and I've
My monitor is supposed to have an optimal resolution of
1080 by 1240 (or something like that).
I have installed the testing (etch) distribution with the default
gnome interface. I have tried clicking on Preferences and
monitor resolution, which brings up what looks like a suitable
screen.
My monitor is supposed to have an optimal resolution of
1080 by 1240 (or something like that).
I have installed the testing distribution with the default
gnome interface. I have tried clicking on Preferences and
monitor resolution, which brings up what looks like a suitable
screen.
I have installed tetex-base and other packages, but a simple
test file beginning
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
gives an error message (I have been able to process TeX and LaTeX
files that do not use amsmath).
Is this package contained in tetex-extras, or does
With a lot of help from people on this list, I have a dual-boot
system with /dev/sda1 as a windows partition (etch install).
After mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 ./mntpoint
I can use ls to see files in the windows partition and copy files
to debian. However, I cannot send files in the other
I thought I had installed maxima sucessfully from the
etch (testing) distribution, but typing maxima from an xterm gave:
error while loading shared libraries:
libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Can this be fixed by downloading libgmp.deb (or similar
Thanks for your continuing help. In response to aptitude keep-all
and to
aptitude install -fsD I got a long list of packages that have been
kept back.
No single item in the list seemed enlightening.
The second command also gave as response:
*
0 upgraded 0
This is an attempt to supply more detail on a problem reported in
another recent post.
I have installed a dual-boot of etch and Windows XP on a recently
purchased HP machine that has a SATA hard disk (i386).
Recently I have installed gcc-4.1 and emacs-21 using downloads
of the weekly
I am sorry that I have not yet figured out how to set up an e-mail
connection from my beginning
debian system, so I am copying things off the screen.
apt-cache showpkg libc6-dev shows in part:
***
Versions:
2.3.6.ds1-13(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
I recently installed the testing (etch) incarnation of debian,
and have added emacs (emacs21). I would like to add gnumeric
and a number of other packages, but aptitude warns me that, to
do so, I have to downgrade some things (libc6 is one), and that
this will delete emacs21.
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Even using jigdo, it's taking me a long time to download the
.iso images. Is there a list that tells me which image contains
which package, so that (I hope) I only have to download some of the
images?
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I am trying to install debian (testing) on a machine that
has Windows XP. I downloaded and booted the first .iso image
(weekly build as of Feb 28). Partitoning and other steps
seem to have worked properly.
When I started the install the base system, things seemed
ok until just after I
I did not mean to include a read receipt in my recent post.
Apologies for cluttering the system.
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[This is a follow-up to previous post, attempting to supply
more details.]
I am trying to install debian on a recently purchased HP machine,
with Windows XP pre-installed. An unsucessful attempt to install the
stable distribution leads me to believe this has a SATA hard-disk.
I
I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a
recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk
that the sarge installer doesn't recognize).
I downloaded the first CD image and booted the installer.
The partitioning and other steps seemed to be all right. During
the base
Thanks to several people, in particular Andrew Sackville-
West and Chris Lale, for their detailed advice with several
previous installation problems.
I am installing Debian on an HP Pavillion machine that
does not have a network connection. I was planning to use
an official 15-CD set that
I am trying to install debian on a machine that does not have
network access.
I booted from the first disk of a 15-CD set and was told it could
not find my hard disk. I downloaded (using a different machine)
a netinst version of etch, and was able to do a hard disk partition
and basic
I think I made some basic mistake configuring my debian 3.0 system.
The problem seems to be with the way the system calls the gnome interface
for default logging in.
When I start the machine, I get what seems to be the usual linux
display (Mounting local file system, etc), ending with a
In the unstable distribution, libc6 and libdb1-compat depend
on each other. Is there any way to install them using dpkg?
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I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without
version 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a
directory branden with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and
also a v24.2.deb. After using dpkg --intsall on these,
it still seems to be trying to run 4.1
unsucessfully.
I tried downloading the current version of tcl (8.3.4)
from their web site and compiling it on my year-old
potato debian. I typed ./configure and make, and
at some point got this error:
/ceblair/incoming/tcl8.3.4/unix/libtcl8.3.so: undefined reference to `atexit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit
I have version 2.2 of Debian, running on a laptop. I recenty
tried using dpkg to install the version of xlibs in testing and
got the messages:
dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favour of xlibs ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib6g (--auto-deconfigure will help):
aalib1 depends on xlib6g
I have version 2.2 of Debian, running on a laptop. I recenty
tried using dpkg to install the version of xlibs in testing and
got the messages:
dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favour of xlibs ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib6g (--auto-deconfigure will help):
aalib1 depends on xlib6g
I have installed debian on an IBM Thinkpad (model 310ED--- this
seems to be a little-used model, I'm beginning to understand why).
I used the CD's that came with Dale Scheetz's DEBIAN LINUX USER'S GUIDE.
Most of the system worked as I expected. However, I have recently
been experiencing
I have been using Debian linux on an IBM Thinkpad for about a month.
The machine only has one serial port. I am using a modem and kermit
on that port, with device name /dev/ttyS0. I have been able to make
remote connections with other machines, but there have been occasional
crashes and other
I am trying to upgrade from debian 1.1. I installed ldso, libc5,
dpkg, and dpkg-ftp without problems. However, I am running into trouble
with
dpkg --install xlib6(etc).deb
I am getting the errors:
ldconfig: warning:
can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
able to get on. Even though I
installed
the system without X a year ago. This again leads to a blank screen.
At this point, I am mainly concerned with just getting back the
non-X functionality of the machine. Thanks for any help!
Charles Blair ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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I am trying to use gs to view postscript files. I don't have X, and have
tried the command
gs -sDEVICE=linux try.ps
I get a message that the clocks have not been set, and an offer to set
them for me. After I have the machine do that and run gs again, I get
illegal instruction (core
I am trying to use gs to view postscript files. I don't have X, and have
tried the command
gs -sDEVICE=linux try.ps
I get a message that the clocks have not been set, and an offer to set
them for me. After I have the machine do that and run gs again, I get
illegal instruction (core
I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS
partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows:
Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda111 356
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