Hardware • WiFi and Bluetooth not working
Hi,first off I have to say that I am not sure if it is not the onboard wifi chip that is just faulty, but would hope to find this out with your help. Also, I am pretty much a linux noob, but I'll try...
View ArticleInstallation • Failed to upgrade Debian 10 -> 11
Everything got messed up in the server, first I lost ssh access. Then I booted in rescue mode and saw that the sshd conf was overwritten but there was a backup file sshd_config.orig, I renamed the...
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Programming • perl email date restructing ?
I have a small Perl script, it tests that my email is working OK.I've moved to from Debian release to Release for about 15 years. I keep needing to make small mods.I recently moved from Debian 11 to...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Use virt-sysprep for the virtual machine
Hello,I have a Debian virtual machine and I use it as a web server. I need three more web servers and want to clone this virtual machine. I heard that I should use virt-sysprep, but I don't know what...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] KDE Plasma - can't launch
Maybe this is a silly question, but for some reason I can't seem to find how to launch into KDE Plasma.I could last year, but then I changed my apt sources to use the unstable version so I had a...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Can't unlock screen with i3lock
Hi,I'm using Debian testing, since one week ago (more or less) i3lock stopped unlocking (after an update).I'm using NIS to authenticate the user. The user can login without problems, it can also su to...
View ArticleInstallation • apt complains about linux-image-amd64 dependencies
I did an "apt upgrade" from Debian 12.0, which went on smoothly until I got a failed dependency for kernel 6.1.0-18-amd64. Manually doing grub-install works, but grub-probe and update-grub fail....
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • ALT+TAB does not work after glib2.0...
Hello!After Glib 2.0 security update, ALT+TAB stopped working. The system no longer recognizes these keys.The problem was reported in the following topic.viewtopic.php?p=799044#p799044The accents...
View ArticleGeneral Debian • Immutable Bkworm
Recently many of my friends have expressed an interest in Fedora Silverblue; however, it seems pretty easy and actually straightforward to extend Debian into a similarly "immutable" OS.There is...
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System and Network configuration • Tainted: P OE 6.1.0-21-amd64
Ever since I moved to 6.1.0-21 I have been having problem shutting down. I had NO problems with earlier kernels.The system slowly over about ten minutes closes everything and announces it is ready for...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Solved] [Software] turning off firefox captive portal
Hello, I followed the guide to turn off the captive portal of firefox that I found online, so I did it inside about:config. But on my pi-hole I still see DNS calls to detectportal.firefox.com. Is...
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General Questions • [Software] s-tui cpu monitoring does not show power...
Hi.I want to measure the power consumption of my cpu while running a stress test on my new (used) Lenovo T480s to see whether this issue:https://web.archive.org/web/20190926163 ... ttling.pdfstill...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Problem with RT5370 after 12.5 install
Hi,Since a clean install of 12.5 bookworm, on an HP Stream laptop, I have been having problems with the RT5370 USB wifi adapter (which worked fine under 12.1). I've had this machine for a few years...
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General Questions • [Software] Front audiojack: Connection of headphones are...
Hi folks,I have a little weird situation here (KDE), I can not figure out myself. I have woofers attachted to the back-side audiojack of my mainboard (recognized as Speakers USB Audio - Analog...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] apt-dist-upgrade removes LXQT??
So I read another thread about dist-upgrade removing "half the system" after I ran into a similar situation this morning . . . . I ran an apt dist-upgrade and it showed "11 packages to remove," that...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] System/Kernel? randomly resetting, can't find...
7Hello,I have a complicated one here. SYSTEM: ASUS ProArt StudioBook H5600QMMemory: 32.0 GiBProcessor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX with Radeon™ Graphics × 16Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3060 Laptop GPU / AMD...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Run console-setup service after kms resolution...
Hi there,My TTY fonts are properly setup by the console-setup service.However, when kernel modesetting (kms) kicks in during boot, they are once again set to the default small and unreadable fonts.Is...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Security Software
So. Recently I had to re install Debian. I'm using Debian 12. The reason for the re-installation was because I installed a program called rkhunter. It is a script used to find Rootkits, Hidden files,...
View ArticleInstallation • USB Debian iso image will not boot but USB Knoppix image does
Hello all.I recently bought an HP Elitebook 745 G4 and want to put Debian on it. The SSD hard drive is empty.I've put the debian-12.5.0-i386-DVD-1.iso image onto an HP memory stick (v150w 32GB) and...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Discussion] virt-sparsify return values?
virt-sparsify is a command used to shrink the size of virtual disk image files. It is essentially a trim operation performed on an inactive image.Code: $ virt-sparsify --in-place...
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