Forum: Debian Linux

I have this bug (bad vlan interface name) on several ubuntu dapper : # vconfig add eth0 100 Added VLAN with VID == 100 to IF -:eth0:- # cat...

Okay, I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 and I have this program I'm trying to install, archivist, when I try to run the included binary, I get ./archivist:...

Hello I'm not even sure that this has been addressed in the linux community. It seems nearly everything has at least been attempted. I did some...

Hi all. I was stupid and delete the nobody account from my system. How can i recreate the "nobody" account? Thank for all help. have fun!

hey i finally got debian installed and i installed gnome desktop,when i am at the log in screen the screen flickers and a message pops up saying that...

Hello everyone, I have installed Ubuntu on my computer. So far I like it, but I can't figure out if it's got the driver for my video card yet. In...

hey everyone,ive been trying forever to install debian and i finallly got the disks and everything i need however,when i install it says "no...

I am new to Debian, I installed Hylafax on Ubuntu via Synaptic. How can I configure it? It looks like there is no GUI for configuration, is that...

I made a stupid mkswap mistake. I typed mkswap /dev/hda7 instead of mkswap /dev/hda6 and of course hda7 is where my important data is. Now...

Hello folks, I recently installed Debian (and am very impressed with it), but I have a couple of issues remaining. My largest problem is with my...

Hi. I recently installed Debian on my Dell Precision M70 with a NVidia FX Go1400, and when I finished installing, I found that I did not have any...

sarge 3.1 - standard packages laptop dell c400, bios A12 acpi modules + i8kutils Is it possible that gnome hangs because of too high temperature...

I cannot play mp3 or anything similar in any program. Amarok 1.3 specificaly is what im trying to use but nothing else works comp does however...

I know it says kernel 2.4 but I've since upgrades to 2.6.8. I'm can't get my computer to see my keyboard thats pluged into my KVM. couild someone...

Hi everyone, im using Debian Sarge 3.1 with 2.6 kernel, a few days ago, i updated from sarge(texting) to Sarge(stable), and udev was installed, now i...

Hi folks. I'm getting less n00bish as time passes. Funny how that works. FYIs: This Linux box is pretty new, too -- and when I say new, I mean...

I'm new to linux and I want to place an old computer in between my cable modem and 4-port router to act as a proxy server. I have 2 NICs installed on...

I want to switch to using suse but I don't know how to get rid of kubuntu.

Hey all, I just installed the base of debian, then apt-getting x-window-system-core kde... and I tried installing amsn, it says I was missing GCC, so...