Installation • Is it worth changing vfs_cache_pressure
I do have an older all in one with a 500 gb spinner and 4 g of RAM. I already have swappiness set on that one. Maybe I'll give the tuning at 1000 a try.Statistics: Posted by urdrwho10 — 2023-12-23...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Cannot use Cisco AnyConnect VPN with MFA...
I discovered that I can successfully connect to the VPN as root, so that gives me an easy workaround. When trying to connect without root privileges, I continue to get the error The certificate on the...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] All files in folder deleted when moving single...
Why are you using winSCP at all? Maybe just install an SSH server to the Windows system or use Samba?Partly because it works by default with Linux, so I've always used it with my RPis and Linux PCs to...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Debian 12 init jumping into emergency mode
Is memtest86+ in your Grub menu's advanced options, and if yes, does it run?Is Bookworm your only installed OS. If not, what happens booting something else?Can you successfully boot any live media,...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Recover/Reinstall In Emergency Mode? Unable to...
It quite strange that fsck runs for such a long time without output: can you record a video of how do issue the command and what appears on the screen ?Apparently, "fsckd-cancel-msg:Press Ctrl+C"...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Firefox gets killed by OOM killer
Sounds like a memory link, but no way to tell without knowing what else is running. OTOH, very easy to increase the size of a swap file. Take it up to 12 GB and see what happens.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Software] Can't install steam
Did you follow the Debian guide for installing Steam? If not, you may be in a tough spot. Do you have a Timeshift snapshot or other recent backup? That might be the only way to get a do-over without...
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Testing And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] Sid Moves to the 6.x Kernal
As shown in the attached screenshot, Sid has moved to the 6.6.8 kernal:However, gnome still stays at version 44, most likely because some of the more popular gnome extensions have not caught up with...
View ArticleHardware • Wifi Loss After Sleep Mode
Using the two commands above results in these errors.su: user update does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fieldssu: user dist-upgrade does not exist or the user entry...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • [Solved] NM created hotspot not showing...
@Aki Ok,,after much wrangling,,The fix was to change the channel (default) in the NM hotspot settings to 'channel1' ,, wich was the only channl showing to choose from. Never had to do this previously...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • [Best-Of] Threads for the week.
Cannot use Cisco AnyConnect VPN with MFA after upgrade to bookworm“I'm guessing this is a problem without a solution, but maybe someone will surprise me!”so what is run-user-1000 ??“Well that was a...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • [Solved] Systemd and Wayland
You should not hardcode DISPLAY to :0. Your system can hvae multiple users. Starting gui applications from system service sounds very wrong to me. Why don't you make it a user service?Statistics:...
View ArticleInstallation • Bad shim signature - you need to load the kernel first
Hello,update-grub in Kubuntu works and adds Debian, but bad shim signature.... With Secure Boot disabled, Debian boots without problems, which means the problem is not Grub.I don't know if it is the...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Installation] Debian cloud qcow2 image with QEMU/KVM
Well, it worked. Kind of. But after having followed the instructions on this page:https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/lat ... /qemu.htmlI was able to get the debian cloud instance up and running. And...
View ArticleHardware • Debian 12.4 | No ethernet detected
I would try booting debian 11 live usb and debian 12 live usb. This should make it easy to figure out if this is a regression.Statistics: Posted by lindi — 2023-12-24 20:47 — Replies 5 — Views 164
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • [Software] Debian 12 Sleep Issues
Make sure to study the output of "sudo dmesg" after waking up, as that gave me the clue to my issues. I was effing and blinding Debian 12, but the true problem was with Intel...Best of...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Is there an RSS feed for seeding Debian ISOs?
Hi,I'm setting up qBittorrent client to help seed ISOs. I see that Debian has a list of torrent files[1], but I haven't been able to locate an RSS feed to automatically add them. I see that...
View ArticleProgramming • [Python] : pipx library installation and adding path
I run Debian stable on my box and I want to install the binance connector libraryhttps://github.com/binance/binance-connector-pythonto query binance.I use pipx and everything seems to be OK (see...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Networking] My Debian 12.4 Live ISO does not have Wi-Fi.
Another way to check your wifi adapter is inxi -SMN. inxi is a neat app (already installed in a Debian live ISO) for system info of all sorts.In most of these cases, it turns out your wifi adapter...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] Update issue : 403 Access denied - broken...
I think the sources you are using are corrupted on the server you're connected to. I changed the server from which I was retrieving sources earlier and now it got updated instantly and is working...
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