Beginners Questions • [O/S] Questions about rootkit with chkrootkit and rkhunter
I'm trying out both applications above - but they don't seem to be very helpful in narrowing down where they are seeing their particular alerts. Because both are giving different locations for alerts,...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Bookworm update video choppy
Bullseye to Bookworm upgrade two days agoat almost the very end of the final upgrade process just couple percent left the upgrade exited with error 1. There was no actual message?Is there an upgrade...
View ArticleHardware • DEB12 (upg from Deb10) : NO SOUND AFTER UPGRADE
hi,i had install KDE plasma.i had sound on DEB10, but after upgrade to DEB12, i lost it. it seems to have a problem with intel chipset HD sound device. AMD graphical card take the sound at place. but...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • No sound on new laptop, please someone help me.
Greetings folks,Got a new laptop HP Envy x360 Model 15-fh0023dx running Debian testing and the sound isn't working.I went into alsa mixer and unmuted it but no joy. Looking at lsmod the sound modules...
View ArticleInstallation • Is it worth changing vfs_cache_pressure
I've been playing around with different vfs_cache_pressure settings. Online search shows people using settings from 50 up to 2000. I've tried many, 50;100;200;1000 and 2000. I have found no difference...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Debian 11 Postfix and SMTP Smuggling exploit
There's a new SMTP protocol exploit in the wild. Postfix supports a mitigation via a configuration parameter, but only starting in version 3.5.20. The version of Postfix in Debian 11 is 3.5.18, and I...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Can't resize the KDE Plasma...
I can't resize the KDE Plasma 5.27.5 application launcher menu.Trying to stretch it by mouse does nothing.I know it's not the expected behaviour and am trying to diagnose the problem.Statistics:...
View ArticleInstallation • where is nvidia-cg-toolkit on Bookworm??
I want to install lightworks on Bookworm deb 12.4.0 Apt is unable to find the nvidia-cg-tookkit.I have an older version of 12.1 or so on another box and it is presentWhere can I find...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Same DPI settings for DE and wine...
Both in KDE and in Cinnamon on my Debian 12 desktop the scaling is set up to 125% under the FullHD screen resolution.In winecfg the scaling value is set to 144dpi.However this setup provides totally...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Is there a better way to stop APT from making...
Currently This is how I'm keeping APT from modifying it.doas chmod a-w /etc/os-releasedoas chmod 444 /etc/os-release I was wondering if there was a better way.Thanks in advance.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] All files in folder deleted when moving single...
I've been copying files from my Windows PC to my Debian 11 server using WinSCP. The data drive on the server is a 16TB Western Digital Elements USB HDD, which is encrypted with Veracrypt.I'd created a...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Recover/Reinstall In Emergency Mode? Unable to...
Version: 11Computer: Lenovo Legion 5Good day,I am a relatively new Debian user, having installed 11 last year (?). I've had relatively few problems -- at least, none that I couldn't fix, until...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Question On Resetting Root Password
Hello,I forgot my root password and needed to find a way to reset it. I came across two methods. One was using the sudo -s command and then doing a password change for root and the other method was...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Firefox gets killed by OOM killer
Hello,My firefox gets killed by OOM killer.Code: Dez 22 19:45:06 tofu kwin_wayland_wrapper[1088]: kwin_screencast: Dropping a screencast frame because the compositor is slowDez 22 19:45:06 tofu...
View ArticleHardware • Switching to LightDM from GDM audio issues
I installed Debian 11 from an ISO and as part of the default things it installs is GDM. In GDM by default the audio doesn't work until I add Code: options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0to Code:...
View ArticleHardware • [Solved] Switching to LightDM from GDM audio issues
I installed Debian 11 from an ISO and as part of the default things it installs is GDM. In GDM by default the audio doesn't work until I add Code: options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0to Code:...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] Help! Something Borked my Hardware...
Recent dist-upgrade seems to have broken my hardware acceleration. It had been working fine for years. I have va-driver-all and libva2 installed. Nothing seems to have been removed. It seems like...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Debian 12 openvpn:amd64 2.6.3-1+deb12u2...
Hi, before I start trying to descend into the myriads of logs etc, is anyone else affected by an update to server component openvpn in Debian12.I recently ran an update which installed openvpn:amd64...
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General Questions • [Software] Debian 12.4 freezing/lockup
Hello all, First post here.I have been using Windows my whole life, and know it quite well, but I wanted to get into Linux, so I recently decided to dual boot Windows with Debian (with KDE Plasma)...
View ArticleHardware • Debian 12.4 | No ethernet detected
Hello, I have recently installed Debian 12.4 on my laptop Acer Aspire 7 (A717-75G-700J), everything is working fine, even Wi-Fi, except for ethernet. Debian can't detect my ethernet hardware, I...
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