Installation • Debian 12 on USB stick will not boot
Bear in mind, the issue might be a bug in your firmware, rather than a flaw in Grub or Debian. Anyhoo, I know of two workarounds. 1. Use rEFInd as boot manager on the USB drive. Rod Smith created a...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] non-root user authentication issue
Authorization requires authentication but no agent is availableok, for a shortcut to a solution I would establish the user's rights with polkit. skim over this;viewtopic.php?p=795066#p795066This will...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Error when trying to use apt update
Hello, I installed Debian Bookworm 12.9 last night on a Dell Precision 7740 laptop. I am trying to set up a Plex server using docker. When I tried to run sudo apt update I got a lot of error messages....
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Installation] Installation on a laptop
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View ArticleHardware • Cherry keyboards and device descriptor read/64, error -71
For some time now I'm struggling with my old but good Cherry G85 keyboards. 2 of them are well-used, the 3rd one is unused. All behave the same, they stop working about 10 minutes after boot, no...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Installing missing firmware
I need newer firmware for my AX210. I've downloaded it and it works when placed in /lib/firmwareI've run update-initramfs and it loads after a reboot, but the firmware file is missing from...
View ArticleHardware • [Solved] intel n150 quicksync woes
You're running on hardware that's newer than Bookworm. I answered your question on Debian discord but you need to enable backports, update kernel, firmware and Mesa stack and install...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • bluetooth passkey-agent cannot find most devices
Hello!Install package inxi, and run in terminalCode: inxi -FxxxmprzThose options hide any sensitive data, post the result, preferably in code tags.Statistics: Posted by arzgi — 2025-02-26 17:58 —...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] Dkms fails to build anything with the...
As written above installing the pahole package fixed the issue for me.Statistics: Posted by @ttila — 2025-02-26 18:02 — Replies 6 — Views 1277
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Networking] [Solved] Command line mode, an IPv6...
That behavior (i.e., NetworkManager ignoring devices set in /etc/network/interfaces) is what I see for my install.That is why my interfaces file is empty. I'm leaving all the network configuration to...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • SMB share automount troubles
Hello,Was ok for 3/4 days and then, yesterday and today, back from work, switched on the computer, logged in debian, bang! No shares.sudo mount -a helped to fix it.dmesg says:Code: [ 15.158988] CIFS:...
View ArticleHardware • game audio crap
If I play a song, a movie, or use Google Meet, Zoom or similar, the audio is OK.If I play a game or use TeamSpeak as voice connection, the audio is crap and incomprehensibleDebian 12Code: $ inxi...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] LibreWolf repo changed. How to update
If you didn't use extrepo to set up the new repo, the key won't be in /var/lib/extrepo/keys/librewolf.ascI'm no expert on this, but try downloading the keyring from https://repo.librewolf.net/ , save...
View ArticleHardware • Hard freeze on Lenovo E585
Hello,[…] On heavy duty in the VM (compiling something, or copying files), applications on the host was buggy (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) as if the windows host's memory got corrupted by the Debian...
View ArticleHardware • Anyone made RTX 4060 running on Debian 12?
HiI have the same problem on my build. I cant even get it to boot on my built Gigabyte board graphics.BTW Windows 11 works with no problems at all and even installs an up to date Nvidia driver and...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • help with setting an alias for editing .zshrc
Hi!$EDITOR is correctly set?It was not! I forgot that I only set it for the current session. Right now I added `EDITOR=vim` to /etc/environment` and it works with sudo at the front. How to allow for...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • [Forum] Slow and Timing out
I put in a request for more memory on this instance, in the meantime I'm going to try to slim down the massive number of IPs currently banned and try another approach to dealing with the bot net...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Unable to boot up the machine after...
Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-F4 after waiting for a short while? Does it provide a shell prompt? All is good in Trixie here (without Gnome or GDM):Code: # inxi -CGMSzSystem: Kernel: 6.12.12-amd64 arch:...
View ArticleInstallation • /home partition on separate drive using zfs
I'm not sure what the joke is about the 128 bit cpu will love it - maybe I'm just not technical enough to understand it.zfs was designed with the future in mindStatistics: Posted by 4D696B65 —...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] System backup with rsync
I would rather use a tool that is old and time tested than something new and overly complicated, when concerning data backups. I've only ever used Clonezilla when replicating systems to a replacement...
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