Installation • Debian 10 -> 12 botched - trying to fix
Hi all,I made two silly mistakes that have resulted in broken dependencies and broken boot state:- tried to upgrade distros without ensuring all packages were up-to-date first- tried to go directly...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Clamav -freshclam fails
Greeting fellow Debian users and masters.When I try to run "clamav -freshcam" to force an update of the virus database I get the following error:"Error: Can't open file reshclam" (This is not a typo....
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Testing And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Flickering visual artifacts with...
I'm getting some weird flickering white lines on windows and around buttons on some apps with GNOME on a 2007 iMac. (See attached image.) It seems like it's only a problem with some of the...
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System and Network configuration • Debain 12 VM as router for private network
Hi there,I am trying a little network setup at home (just for learning for now):1. Router (Internet connectivity): 192.168.31.12. Virtual Machine 'VM HomeServer' (Debian 12):- IP Address:...
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General Questions • debian 12 - cinnamon , sound settings
Hi all debians.. i encountered a problem and would need some pro assistance.im running debian12 with cinnamon , everything else works like a charm .but noticed that sound settings will not get saved...
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General Questions • [Solved] debian 12 - cinnamon , sound settings
Hi all debians.. i encountered a problem and would need some pro assistance.im running debian12 with cinnamon , everything else works like a charm .but noticed that sound settings will not get saved...
View ArticleHardware • MT7921e: Wifi doesn't work anymore, tried
Hello, I have yet another issue with WiFi on Debian.For context, I got this new motherboard on my birthday, an MSI MAG Tomahawk Max WiFi. It worked fine until today, night, I even finished torrentingn...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Rescue system with RAID 0
Hello, Booting into my previously working system, it only boots into GRUB. I have tried to restore or fix it, but I may have no idea what I am doing or maybe it's not fixable. One point of data, my...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Keyboard issues (laptop) after updates
Debian user here, but by no means an expert. I can pretty much handle anything doable by "apt install" or sometimes flatpak or dpkg, but I get confused quickly beyond that. I use Debian 12 on my...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Strange rendering issue on...
Fresh install of Debian 12 today.I've tried different desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, and XFCE) but they all present the same issue. Heck, I even tried other distros for giggles and they all have...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Night light broken on Testing with Wayland
Hey all, I've seen this posted several times around the internet but I still can't get the night light working. It engages for a few seconds then defeats itself while remaining enabled. The most...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] RAID1 BOOTING
hello all,I don't understand how mdadm raid1 boot install works..I went through the installation of debian 12 on 2 Sata ssds raid1 mirrored. this is for a server i'm building and i want the redundancy...
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General Questions • [Software] Synaptic Package Manager missing 'download...
I broke my Synaptic Package Manager [pacman] (Debian 12) trying to resolve an issue with repositories, when I deleted the download from: "http://deb.debian.org/debian" within the "Software and...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] Frequent and random freezing
Experience doesn't seem tied to any specific application. Cursor stops moving and then laptop reboots after ~30 seconds of being frozen. Happens multiple times a day. Tried reinstalling OS with no...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] GRUB menu does not show up
Some days ago, I was traveling, and I needed to turn off the computer, I was taking long, so I did a hard power off. Then, the system does not show the GRUB menu when starting. Instead, it showed a...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Backup before shutting down
I have very, very limited knowledge of the command prompt, and would like a command to back up certain folders in my home directory to my server when I shutdown. I am sure this is possible, but have...
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Beginners Questions • [软件] housini20.5Start the crash
The newly installed debian12 cannot start the houdini20.5 version and keeps crashing on the startup interface. Both houdini20.0 and houdini19.5 can start smoothly. I don't know why, can you help me?...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] xfce-terminal -- some files greyed out
I often "cp -a" a file before making changes and I usually assign a suffix of ".bak" to those files. But later, when I want to display files with "ls", the ones with the ".bak" suffix are greyed and...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] When zooming with the accesibility feature,...
I installed debian 12 with xfce as the de. I enabled the accessibility settings and super + mouse wheel now zooms in and out. However, when I want to zoom into a particular detail that I see on google...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Do Wayland Programs Require a Wayland...
Hi, Main question: Do applications that use Wayland require a desktop environment that uses Wayland, in order to run?Sub-questions (i.e. related questions that may clarify) Do Linux applications use...
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