Installation • Backup with complete reinstall - gnome help
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1091844Tried this. Didn't work.Statistics: Posted by torran_serra — 2025-02-21 00:40 — Replies 14 — Views 683
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Do I need a swap partition/file?
Swap is needed if you want to use hibernation.Nice catch - I missed that in OP.If you intend to hibernate then yeah, physical swap is needed.Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-02-21 01:00 —...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Very few programs opening - consistent error...
No, they are the only games that are launching correctly. The ones that aren't launching were installed from Debian repositories - AisleRiot being the most prominent example.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Install Debian in command mode, no window manager
<https://universodigital.org/en/installa ... etinstall/>Statistics: Posted by kent_dorfman766 — 2025-02-21 03:27 — Replies 5 — Views 172
View ArticleProgramming • linux error codes with errno with -fsanitize=address...
Thanks for the detailed analysis why the address sanitizer can't find an error. One addition, the original question was why the combination, compiling with address sanitizer and running with valgrind...
View ArticleHardware • Nvidia GPU: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device...
Hello,I am not sure what you mean by that. There is a battery reset pinhole at the back. Is that what you mean?My guess is that your internal Nvidia card is in a low-power state from which the kernel...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Shrink data partition and create encrypted SWAP...
In the future you might consider using LVM and disk encryption. That makes resizing quite easy.Statistics: Posted by lindi — 2025-02-21 17:49 — Replies 3 — Views 430
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • BCM57810 fails to load
Sorry to revive a really old thread, but since this regards a nic I just purchased off Amazon in 2025, I wanted to update the thread in case others come across it (like I did).After installing the...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Problem in get inside sources.list
Hello, I have installed Trixie on another machine a Thinkpad Intel already some years old ... everything works correctly I have updated the system although the repos do not appear, neither in Synaptic...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Solved] sda1 Full - how to safely clear it?
I did try sunrat's suggestion but it didn't work.The command I wrote needs to be run as root or sudo, which I must have assumed was obvious. Probably you didn't do that so maybe it wasn't obvious...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Debian won't shutdown
As I use neither virtualization nor device-mapper devices, what you find in yours that is not in mine may point you to a culprit to investigate:Code: # dmesg | egrep 'kvm|dm' | grep -v dma[ 0.569561]...
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Beginners Questions • [Solved] Install Debian in command mode, no window manager
"Debian desktop environment" should also be unchecked.That was the part I had missed.I had unchecked all the window managers, but I did not uncheck the "Debian desktop environment" option.OK, to...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Gnome Remote Desktop login problem
So I have a remote machine running Debian 12.9.0 (by remote I mean a machine in another room on the same local network) with Gnome Remote Desktop enabled. It seems it doesn't remember the...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Why isn't /usr/sbin included in my path by default?
I have a fairly fresh install of Debian 12 x64. I looked up what the default firewall tool was for Debian and found it is nftables. which nft returned nothing. I tried nft -v and bash returned nft:...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Keep networking active/connected
It seems I am not looking this properly.The network does not disconnect. When my user goes to the login screen after a period of inactivity, my user seems to disconnect from the network. I'd like to...
View ArticleHardware • [Solved] Display brightness cannot be fully adjusted on HP laptop...
@Best_ThreadsStatistics: Posted by cds60601 — 2025-02-23 01:17 — Replies 5 — Views 3116
View ArticleGeneral Questions • how can shutdown hang in md_notify_reboot?
many things come to mind. The first of which is misuse of software raid-1 inside a non-peristent VM. Do you really need mirroring in the VM virtual disks? Why not do it in the underlying host devices...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Minimal Debian Desktop
If you want minimal and willing to do the work, dwm.Statistics: Posted by cds60601 — 2025-02-23 01:31 — Replies 10 — Views 3318
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • [Solved] Cinnamon keyboard shorcuts
Per another siteSave:dconf dump /org/cinnamon/desktop/keybindings/ > mykeybindingsReload:dconf load /org/cinnamon/desktop/keybindings/ < mykeybindingsStatistics: Posted by cds60601 — 2025-02-23...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Very few programs opening - consistent error...
So, some good news - I switched to Plasma X11, and games seem to work now. Must be a specifically Wayland issue.No need to do the fresh install after all, but I might purge GNOME from the system -...
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