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Current best practice suggestions for data recovery after complete data loss...
Hi there!A friend lost all his data after performing what he says was a regular system update, prompted by the update mechanism. He is currently running debian 11 "bullseye" (oldstable) with the...
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Network Help
Recently my network has slowed down a lot, i mainly use ping to understand network and ping rates are very high and sometimes alot of packets have times of more than around 20000ms. I installed...
View ArticleInstaller trap: No root file system defined
Preferred:no LVMencryption for "/"no encryption for "/boot""/swap" is a concern for laterThis did not work with the Debian 12 installer. It does not seem possible to proceed with the installation...
View ArticleAuto block sleep and screen locking not working
I have Debian 12 with kde plasma and Wayland, and am facing an issue with automatic blocking of sleep and screen lock when a media is playing.When a media is playing, it is recognised by the system...
View Articlelid close suspends console, but breaks xfce
I have a Thinkpad T480s running bookworm. When I'm using a text console and I close the lid, the system suspends. So far so good. But when I'm using XFCE, if I close the lid, then when I reopen the...
View Article[Software] Any way to use mesa-amber on Debian Stable?
Hello all! I've got an older Core2 laptop as secondary, with a GM945 (GMA 950), running Debian 12 stable. Modern Mesa sometimes renders apps with red boxes on this iGPU; sometimes only visual issues,...
View Article[SID - Unstable] [Solved] Can't upgrade to SID. Error:...
[Installation] Can't upgrade to Sid. Error: pkgProblem Resolver::Resolve generated breaks.I'm new to Linux and I have basically no knowledge about it, so please be patient.I've been using Debian on...
View Article[Security] A new Linux Malware - WolfsBane - allegedly from China is out in...
This article went live a few days ago. The people behind these are suspected to be Gelsemium a Chinese APT group. This impacts both systemd based linux as well as non-systemd based linux. ESET...
View ArticleNo network with kernel >= 6.11.9
Hello,I'm using Debian version 11.11 with Mate Desktop Environment.On friday, november 22 I "apt update && apt upgrade" the system, and the kernel went from version 6.10.9 to 6.11.9, and now I...
View Articlecan't update system and all
Just found out the deb12 didn't update at all last months.Get this errorCode: E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release' does not have a Release file.N: Updating from...
View Article[Software] Intermittent disk IO write stuck
Hi,we have seen the issue of intermittent disk IO write stuck a few times per day, and would like to get some help here.Issue: the metric shows there is zero disk write IO for a period of time.Other...
View ArticleSoundcard not detected on Minisforum Z83-F
Hello everybody,I installed Debian Main in september on a Minisforum Z83-F, and everything works except for the sound (earphones).The soundcard is not usable. The HDMI output is the only one. The...
View Article[Off-Topic] What Linux Podcasts do you like?
Curious to hear what others are digesting.Statistics: Posted by m4c-attack — 2024-11-26 23:49 — Replies 2 — Views 86
View ArticleHas anyone had /etc/default/grub mysteriously disappear?
Because I've had it happen on two machines. The first one I noticed was originally installed a Neptune OS https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11892 install from Summer 2023 that I upgraded to Debian...
View ArticleDual Monitor Issue
Greetings,I'm new to the Linux environment so am a tad green but I've got a pretty good grasp on computer hardware having almost 25 years experience building and diagnosing computer systems with...
View Article[Software] How would you back up a mobile phone?
Recently I discovered one of my accounts through my cell phone was compromised which seemed to allow another application to be compromised. My attack was financial, none of the applications were...
View Article[Software] How to display a video game at its native resolution ?
Without zooming if the native resolution of the video game is lower than the resolution of the screen ?E.g. if Half-Life 2 is set to 1280x720 , it's zoomed to 1920x1080 , the resolution of my screen...
View Article[Software] System not booting correctly
Hi,Since my last full install of Debian Bookworm, I have had a small problem with accessing /dev/sda7 which is my /usr partition. Somehow, this partition was mounted on /media/stuart/_usr instead of...
View ArticleGDM
After running the below command I cannot make debian boot GM anymore.Code: sudo systemctl disable gdm I've tried various solutions such as.Code: sudo systemctl enable gdmsystemctl set-default...
View Article[Solved] How To Configure Exim4 For External Email
I spent a few days attempting to get this to work. I finally got it successfully working today. I am posting this to help anyone else struggling to get exim4 working with an external email server...
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