General Questions • Random order of disks
When you say: "cold boot", power off / power on?Yes, that means booting from a powered off state. However, when I wrote this I was on a single disk machine so I couldn't check. On my multi-disk system...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • ALSA do not init correctly after kernel...
My ATI Oland is nominally different, and I have disabled the motherboard's Intel 8086:284b audio device, expecting the ATI digital sound device to be the only sound device found by the Debian audio...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Feature] Python2 on Debian Bookworm
Note that installing packages from foreign releases is not supported officially and is classed as creating a Frankendebian.Of course it may work fine but if it doesn't you are on your own. Python 2...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Freshclam/libclamav.so.9 Problem
I finally noted that the header information on an email received by my active Slackware email server and it indicated that email was being scanned by clamav-milter 0.104.1. The version I installed...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Displays different messages at boot...
What can I do?What do you think you should do? What's the actual problem? Trixie is a development version. Bugs are expected.Code: # inxi -CMSzSystem: Kernel: 6.5.0-5-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • Sad news: Alan Rochester...
Very sad news indeed.The team were informed of this privately yesterday and I can only repeat what I wrote there:RIP. With thanks for you presence here arochester, and deepest condolences and best...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • cant select quick links since today
@sunrat I have all of tomorrow and can dedicate some time to this. Most likely I'll impose the logo atop the banner. Easiest fix.Perhaps you could change the mouse hover text to "RIP arochester" or...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Error messages at boot after I installed another OS in...
How can I disable suspend to disk in both distros? I don't think it may ever come in handy. By the way, why is it not recommended to use the same swap partition if one plans to use suspend to disk?...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Hardware] Memory usage
If your installation is older than recent, your freespace might be lower than it could be, because you've accumulated obsolete .debs in the /var/cache/ tree. An older installation may have more space...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Looking for on old icewm theme pack
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppyrus/pet/icepak.pet is that it?Seems to be, thanks! I had checked the /puppylinux section of that site but must've missed the /puppyrus section.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleInstallation • Unattended Debian installation with preseed: no disk detected
Hello,I have the VM on VMware, the disk type appears to be a SCSI disk. I have tried to plug a USB through VMware Remote Console, the installer detected the USB and apparently used it to carry on the...
View ArticleHardware • Hard drive activity light continues to run on Debian 12
I've run: btrfs device stats /dmesgsmartctland saw one error from brtfs [/dev/sda2].write_io_errs 1Have I missed anything? Maybe I should go back to ext4?I'm stuck at this point...Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Off-Topic] Privacy Tips and Tricks
Never use your real name online for anything that isn't positively necessary. It is distressing how much this has been normalized. And the more people that cave and do it, the more it "legitimizes"...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • clamscan 1.0.3 slower than clamscan 0.103.1
The scan duration is consistent each time. I'm thinking of moving the job over to clamdscan, but then it won't be so easy to distinguish processes relating to clam-on-access from those of scheduled...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • Purple and Black bars on...
It is due to this:viewtopic.php?p=791213#p791213Statistics: Posted by dlu2021 — 2024-01-20 20:16 — Replies 1 — Views 49
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • How to diagnose system "freezes"?
@techsavvy: Did you make any progress ?Negative.Years ago I had a faulty mother board that caused random system freezes. I found it by searching the Internet for that particular mother board looking...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Installation] Package clevis-initramfs not found on...
Hello, welcome to the forums. For future reference, please post the output of commands in code tags for the benefit of others. Does running the following before you try to install help, the # sign in...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Software] cps - a useful addition to the cp command?
Compared it with rsync meself as well - consumes as "much" resources as rsync does (1% processor usage (Ryzen 7 5700G), 2,5MB of RAM used), performance is similiar to that of rsync. Both tested by...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] External monitor
Hello can anyone please offer any suggestions on a problem I have with Debian.I am running the latest Debian on an HP laptop.I am running it with an external monitor plugged into the USB C port. My...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Install Node.js over Tor
This is something that I hope people updating their Debian machines over tor (which is a must if you care for your privacy and security) could find courious and useful.But only if also they need...
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