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Tinis is a small script to suppport sharing of some data among few hosts of a small network. It is designed to be as simple as possible to avoid the management overload of the widely used network information systems such as NIS, DNS, LDAP, that are also sometime a bit tricky to setup.
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Sometime, when upgrading your debian linux disto, a new kernal is installed and after reboot, the X server no more starts. This is because, now using a new kernel, the nvidia kernel module is not properly recompiled to fit the new kernel. To solve this you can manually remove and reinstall the related package to force a fresh install that will fit your new kernel.
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Just open shell as root and enter the two following commands :
# aptitude update # aptitude upgrade
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Use this procedure to repair a broken boot of a system disk boot or to make a new restored system disk bootable. To run the procedure you need an already running linux. If not available, use a live CD or USB key. The disk to make bootable must already contain a partition with almost complete linux system: in particular drub binaries and /boot directory with kernel and grub configuration.