Comments on: General Troubleshooting in Linux

By: Kojle

Kojle — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:46:01 +0000

Very useful!
Happy New Year

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:56:43 +0000

how to do check for no sound

By: robb

robb — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:47:28 +0000

nice tips for linux beginners.
now add some bash stuff for a little advance topic.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:50:02 +0000

Ubuntu/Debian based systems use dpkg.

Elitist snobbish bastards like me use “emerge -vpe world|less” on our systems.

But the rest was good.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Spuffler – Why pipe into a file? That sounds like a gross and, even worse, unneeded way to use space. Just pipe it through less like a good boy. No wasted space and one can scroll up and down and review.

Also, I see very little practical purpose in peeking at strings in memory.

By: Spuffler

Spuffler — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:50:08 +0000

For Ubuntu Netbook Remix v9.04, as installed and running on my EeePC 900A, the correct CPU temperature value is found using:

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00/temperature

and FWIW, the memory strings trick produces several screens full of fairly raw output; noobs might want to pipe the output into a txt file if they do not understand how to get a terminal to scroll back by several screens….

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:41:53 +0000

One issue with the “installed packages” section is that those programs only exist on distributions built on the Debian package system. I use Arch, it has its own packages and methods. And none of my tools are Debian-based. And of course, there’s the direct “competitor” to the Debian package system, the Red Hat packaging system, which also uses its own tools and is incompatible with the Debian system.

I don’t know the RPM commands, but here’s the pacman commands for Arch:

Find all installed packages
pacman -Q (I recommend piping this to less or more.)

Find out where the package stores all of its files
pacman -Ql packagename

Unfortunately, I don’t think pacman or it’s EXCELLENT frontend wrapper (yaourt) has an aptitde why equivalent.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:59:45 +0000

@Yang

Actually I think it is there but the font makes it appear to be a single dash. I will see what I can do to make them separate.

By: Yang

Yang — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:55:48 +0000

Mark, here’s maybe a typo: dpkg –get-selections | less

It should be: dpkg -–get-selections | less

You missed a slash.

By: Slacker 12.2

Slacker 12.2 — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:38:24 +0000

Nice nice nice!! Keep it coming