Where Is Root Terminal In Debian 8

When working with a virtual terminal, I find it often easier to edit a file to execute than to construct a regular-expression etc. to inject the right UUID etc. into the command. I have run into an error while doing this. I suspect it is stems from quote mishandling, or improper escape sequences. (I ran directly from the command line earlier, forgot a quotation mark, and it gave a similar bad result.)
The program in question was efibootmgr. I had a file vaguely similar to this one, named efiboot.Hz:
Code:

efibootmgr -c -g -L "Debian (EFI stub)" -l '\EFI\debian\vmlinuz' -u 'root=UUID=$UUID ro quiet rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap initrd=\\EFI\\debian\\initrd.img'
efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb -L "Debian Linux" -l '\EFI\debian\vmlinuz' -u 'root=UUID=1234-ffff-789 ro quiet rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap initrd=\\EFI\\debian\\initrd.img'

Then I executed:
Code:

`tail -n 1 efiboot.Hz`

efibootmgr -v revealed the previous command produced a garbled name and boot options, and most importantly it didn't boot. Manually writing the last line on the terminal did produce the desired effect. I thought I checked the output from tail before putting the back-ticks.
What did I do wrong?

Apologies. I've been out of Unix for 14 years, and the gears have rusted. Also, Unix has changed - enough similarities to memory that I'm pretty comfy though.

Glad to see lots of info available via google. However changes are going to take getting used to. Have set up a testbed of 3 nearly identical machines, hoping to make an (at home) private network where I can automate installs and set-ups using NIS and NFS (Similar to work I once did).

Have found useful scripts interspersed with comments, would like to copy and paste them to a bash script that:

Reads the line.
Echos the line.
Reads the reply.
Executes what is typed.

Essentially, by making myself type (or copy & paste) the commands I think I'll become familiar.

Figured I'd use a spreadsheet, select the file, and paste into column B of the spreadsheet. In column A I'd paste:

echo "

and in column C I'd paste:

"

Then I'd cut and paste into a text document, insert the lines:

read A
$A

behind every command necessary to the actual task.

Figured I'd have to escape the ' and ".

Ran a test (test.bash):

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 10`;
do
echo "Enter a command:"
read A
echo "Trying $A"
$A
done

works fine when I type

ls -alg

but not so when I type

ls -alg | grep dwrx

so I'm wondering if someone has a suggestion?

Thanks for any ideas.

I am using debian 7.7 stable and when I open the root terminal it asks for the password.

But if I open it again, I get the message: 'Granted permissions without asking for password. The /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator program was started with the privileges of the root user without the need to ask for a password, due to your system's authentication mechanism setup'.

Oh, really? Because I don't remember setting up any 'authentication mechanism setup'.
How can I change this so the root terminal always asks for the password?
Do I have a trojan already? Because I installed the OS just a few days ago.

Thanks very much.

I previously installed kdenlive in previous Debian versions with the suggested command:

apt-get install kdenlive frei0r-plugins dvgrab recordmydesktop dvdauthor genisoimage

but it gives error messages in debian 8 saying packages not available

maybe my sources.list is wrong?

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20150425-12:54]/ jessie contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib

deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org jessie main

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#
# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib

What should I do?

I was trying to do an update using Update Manager and I got the error message:

No space left on device), E:IO Error saving source cache, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I have attached a copy of my disk usage and it shows root as 100%. I thought that I had put the Home folder on it's own partition but I guess not.

I have also included the results of the ls -l command but fail to see what is using the space.

I am using LinuxMint Linux version 3.11-2-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.1 (Debian 4.8.1-10) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13)

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hello,

My mysql is restarting every minute.
I don't know what causing that

error.log: http://paste.debian.net/174335/
my.cnf: http://paste.debian.net/174336/

Thanks for any help

sudo apt-get remove dropbox give me this

sudo apt-get remove dropbox
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
cliffm@debian:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up nautilus-dropbox (1.4.0-3) ...

Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/

Downloading Dropbox... 100

the terminal is not released.
How else can I get a clean uninstall of dropbox?

cliffm@debian:~$ sudo apt-get remove dropbox
[sudo] password for cliffm:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
cliffm@debian:~$ top

top - 10:51:47 up 53 min, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.21, 1.25
Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 46.5 us, 4.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 49.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1930056 total, 1431412 used, 498644 free, 41064 buffers
KiB Swap: 3929084 total, 0 used, 3929084 free, 593656 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4142 root 20 0 115m 73m 4032 R 100.0 3.9 39:44.15 dropbox
644 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.02 usb-storage
4076 cliffm 20 0 376m 17m 10m S 0.3 0.9 0:03.69 gnome-terminal
4145 cliffm 20 0 1654m 478m 47m S 0.3 25.4 4:12.97 firefox
4464 cliffm 20 0 23172 1600 1140 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.04 top
1 root 20 0 10648 800 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 kworker/0:0
6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 kworker/1:0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 ksoftirqd/1
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 watchdog/1
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
cliffm@debian:~$ kill 4142
bash: kill: (4142) - Operation not permitted
cliffm@debian:~$ sudo kill 4142
cliffm@debian:~$ top

top - 10:52:53 up 54 min, 3 users, load average: 0.87, 1.13, 1.22
Tasks: 145 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.0 us, 0.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1930056 total, 1356856 used, 573200 free, 41172 buffers
KiB Swap: 3929084 total, 0 used, 3929084 free, 593712 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3733 cliffm 20 0 947m 100m 41m S 0.7 5.3 0:39.55 gnome-shell
4076 cliffm 20 0 376m 17m 10m S 0.7 0.9 0:04.02 gnome-terminal
4145 cliffm 20 0 1655m 481m 47m S 0.7 25.5 4:13.72 firefox
4468 cliffm 20 0 23172 1596 1144 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.04 top
644 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.04 usb-storage
2842 root 20 0 132m 18m 6368 S 0.3 1.0 0:36.38 Xorg
1 root 20 0 10648 800 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.44 kworker/0:0
6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 kworker/1:0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.29 ksoftirqd/1
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 watchdog/1
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
cliffm@debian:~$

How to select more than 1 line,copy those selected more than 1 line(multiple lines) ,and paste them.In NANO

Would anyone be willing to share their knowledge on: How to compile and install Linux Kernel 3.19 in Debian jessie?

So the new kernel is out and I've been patiently waiting for its release for the support of Microsoft Surface peripherals. I recently switched over to Debian because I'm not fond of some of the moves Ubuntu is making. So thats the short story, and fundamentally unimportant to the question.

Considering my lack of experience with Linux, or should I say others extensive experience, please be as detailed as you care to be. I did end up finding instructions containing 4 or so lines with 3 or so words in each line, buried in some website, but the information wasn't sufficient for me to follow. Needless to say those instructions were for someone who didn't need the specific terminal commands which I certainly do.

amd64

Thank You.

Hi I am new to linux kernel programming.

To debugging kernel I am using Debian-Squeeze.

Actually "apt-get install gcc" occur some errors in Debian

When I use ifconfig there is no ethernet so that I guess Internet is

unavailable even if there is internet connection

Below is my screenshot from terminal.

Please somebody help me.

Thanks.