General Questions • [Software] QEMU VM in docker cannot ping other devices
I have a docker container running QEMU that I need to give access to 2 interfaces. 1 a macvlan so that it can send/receive messages through a broadcast address as well as communicating with other...
View ArticleInstallation • deb12 installation failure: grub-install dummy fatal error
hey folks, I'm attempting to set up a new headless deb12 minimal installation with software raid1 and keep receiving the above error during the boot loader installation.this is a bare metal...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Graphics issues after reinstalling...
> Laptop: LG Gram 14" - Intel Alder Lake i7-1260P - uses integrated graphics> Beforehand I had Debian 12.6, now it's 12.7Yesterday I've reinstalled Debian only with 'standard system utilities'...
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Off-Topic • The system freezes, I'm on a debian fork, specifically loc-os, in...
Hi guys, I am experiencing random system freezes, the forks are based on debian 12, in both fork forums they tried to help me, but it seems to be something deeper, those forks use sysv, the freezes...
View ArticleProgramming • C Language , What are these extra useless zeros ?
This is the code :Code: #include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>#include <string.h>#include <stdint.h>#include <gmp.h>int main(void){FILE * fr, * fw;char...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • [Solved] Unwanted Secondary IPv6 Address...
Hi,I have a Debian 12 server connected to my router via LAN.After booting, I can ping external IPv6 addresses, a few minutes later I cannot. It turns out that my server "receives" a second IPv6...
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General Questions • Wifi to Wifi Hotspot
Howdy all,I have Debian 11 on my laptop, I want to add my spare Netgear NB111v2 usb wifi dongle to the laptop and share the public wifi connection over the netgear to my headless raspberry pi zero...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • KDE: Keyboard lagging only in...
I made a new thread about it because I have somewhat isolated the bug.I have a weird issue where the keyboard is lagging and repeating characters (including control keys and arrows) but only when I am...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Removing i386 architecture
I have no use to i386 programs anymore. I tried to remove all i386 packages but can't remove all.Code: root@ic2:~# apt-get remove --purge `dpkg --get-selections | awk '/i386/{print $1}'`Reading...
View ArticleInstallation • debian installation in virtualbox on apple silicon M1
Dear forum,I have installed virtualbox 7.1.2 on a apple silicon M1 macbook pro with macos 14.6.1. I would like to install debian 12.7.0-arm64.I tried the virtualbox unattended install and multiple...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Aptitude stopped working
Aptitude has stopped working on one of my debian boxes:Code: frank@chunky:/var/log$ aptitude search footerminate called after throwing an instance of 'Xapian::DatabaseNotFoundError'terminate called...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • "Firefox is already running, but...
> AwesomeWM (with no other DE installed)Say, I try to open a URL link from software like Zathura PDF viewer or Discord: While Firefox is already running: I get an error pop-up: "Firefox is already...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • I need to install linux-headers every time...
Hello all and welcome to myself and my first post!I have two AMD workstations with nvidia graphics cards. Whenever i do a apt upgrade, and it installs a new kernel version for me, the next time i...
View ArticleHardware • *-usb:0 UNCLAIMED bluetooth device
hi i am running debian bookworm with kde-full installed... installed a new network card 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)which has a bluetooth...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Multiple Fonts and Locales being installed...
I found multiple, as in hundreds, of unwanted fonts, locales help files etc being install extremely tedious.Finally someone has addressed this to purge all unwanted things out in one quick bash script...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] systemd-tmpfiles doesn't seem to be...
I've currently got systemd 256.6-1installed and it was my understanding that the data in /tmp was cleaned according to the conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf, which contains:q /tmp 1777 root root...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Sway WM stopped working
Hello I've recently had Sway WM stop working on my Lenovo ThinkPad T490 with Debian 12 Bookworm.I suspect the issue was my having done an apt upgrade which may have moved some low-level packages...
View ArticleHardware • Wifi no longer works after kernel update
hello,Since my wifi doesn't work with kernel 1.0.26, I booted my laptop with kernel 1.0.25. I thought that maybe dkms-1.0.26 couldn't build the driver for my Tp-Link AC600 adapter, I was therefore...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Debian issues
Hi all.I faced with 2 problems while using my Debian 12.1) I installed Debian 12 with KDE to laptop and it works fine except one thing. Sometimes, (sometimes, but not always) when I try to put my...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Why apt purge '~o' removes manually installed packages?...
I have noticed that on the Debian 12 the apt command plans to remove packages which I have manually installed using dpkg and which i want to preserve (for example proton-mail and several others):$...
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