Posts tagged "Debian"
Linux Live-boot Fails after Debian/Devuan Update
Problem: after updating from Debian 8 to Devuan 2 the overlay live-boot failes with "no such device" Discussion: I use a bootable USB stick combined with live-boot. In this case the USB stick partition 3 is a normal ext4 file system used as read only "plainroot" filesystem. Live-boot overlays this with an ramfs. As ...
APT sources list
Problem: when debian goes from "testing" to "stable" to "oldstable" the package sources change. eg. jessie-updates are remove, same happened to jessie-backports The current file /etc/apt/sources.list for jessie (currently oldstable) could look like this deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free ...
Configure WLAN Statically in Debian/Linux
If you want to configure WLAN settings on a Linux machine statically you can use the normal /etc/network/interfaces configuration method of Debian. For WPA-PSK you can use this 3 steps: Install the "wpasupplicant" package Generate a psk line with "wpa_passphrase" and copy the hex string after "psk=" root@server:~# w...
Huawei Mate Book Pro X
I bought a new notebook, and installed a minimal Linux distribution on it. While setting everything up, I put together a collection of configuration files and scripts, and compiled them in this github repository: https://github.com/alexte/mate-book-pro-x-linux-config
Multi Seat Linux Workstation
Current computers are fast enough to handle more than one user at a time. So I started the project to setup my workstation to support two seats, one for me and one for my gf. Tasks: Two concurrent Xorg sessions both with one keyboard, one mouse, and two monitors Separate audio for both seats Auto mounting of USB sto...
NVidia Driver on Linux-4.11.1
Problem: after installing linux kernel 4.11.1, the dkms package of the nvidia driver does not compile. You find some cryptic error message about ./Kbuild in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/375.39/build/make.log Solution: I uninstalled the debian nvidia package and installed the newer driver from the NVidia homepage: ap...
Check Raid Status for Dell Raids on Linux
Linux support from dell is still very poor. They still support only RedHat$ and SuSE$. But there are ways to check the Raid status of Dell server on debian. http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ is doing a good job in collecting information and building Debian style packages. Example: A Dell server "PowerEdge T130" with "LSI L...
Compiling Sendmail on Debian7
Problem: after compiling sendmail on Debian7 with "./Build" sendmail does not recognize hash .db files. You see the following error message: readcf: map access: class hash not available Discussion: ./Build should detect the berkley DB automatically. When devtools/bin/configure.sh finds libdb.so it adds -DNEWDB as co...
Debian 8 Uses only One Core of a Multi Core CPU
Problem: A fresh installed Debian 8 (Jessie) 32bit 686 uses only one core of a 6 core Xeon CPU. amd64 kernels don't have this problem. Solution: The HP Proliant DL360 Gen9 has a BIOS option called "Processor x2APIC Support". When you set this option to "Disabled" the Linux kernel uses all 6 cores. x2APIC is a new co...