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General Questions • Frozen gnome-calculator
The calculator is frozen, totally blocked, the forced close is the only possible action.Possibly due to recent updates?ps: we have the problem on all our laptops !Suggestions / advices ?Thank you...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • phpmyadmin - not loading - error 500
Hi.I have been working at this for a bit. I am just not sure what I should try next. When in Chrome I try url: localhost/phpmyadminAll I get is:This page isn’t workinglocalhost is currently unable to...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Do I need a swap partition/file?
I am new to Debian but have experience with Unix/Linux for a couple of decades.For the past almost a decade other distributions automatic disk configurations seem to no longer install swap partition.I...
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Installation • How to safely compile kernel myself install and use it.
Hi I am Rupesh from India and I have brought a new system with AMD Ryzen zen3 5500GT and Asus prime b450 motherboard. I installed Linux Operating System five months back updating, and using it without...
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General Questions • [Software] Debian won't shutdown
My system hangs on shut down.In Gnome, I go to the shut-down button, the system starts the shutdown process but it never finishes. The system must be then force shut down from the...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Collabora repo in unattended-upgrades?
Hi everyone,I'm trying to add Collabora repository to the authorised sources in Code: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/52unattended-upgrades-local but the way it is written puzzles me.Code: Types: debURIs:...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Problem in get inside sources.list
Hello, I have installed Trixie on another machine a Thinkpad Intel already some years old ... everything works correctly I have updated the system although the repos do not appear, neither in Synaptic...
View ArticleInstallation • Why not budgie desktop as a choice from installer
Hi. I am wondering why also in debian 13 there is not a choice of budgie desktop from the installer .. or at least in the netinstall media.. ThanksStatistics: Posted by giorsat — 2025-02-22 07:47 —...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] Removing droopy from the repo
Hello everyone. Droopy, a package I have been using since the days of python2, has unfortunately reached its end of life. As seen below, the reason is the cgi module which is not available on python...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • easytether working with ubuntu but not...
I've used ubuntu (from 16.04 to 24.04) together with an usb tethering application called easytether. Easytether allows you to use your phone's internet connection for your computer without using your...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Why isn't /usr/sbin included in my path by default?
I have a fairly fresh install of Debian 12 x64. I looked up what the default firewall tool was for Debian and found it is nftables. which nft returned nothing. I tried nft -v and bash returned nft:...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Gnome Remote Desktop login problem
So I have a remote machine running Debian 12.9.0 (by remote I mean a machine in another room on the same local network) with Gnome Remote Desktop enabled. It seems it doesn't remember the...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • [Solved] Cinnamon keyboard shorcuts
I'm playing around w/Cinnamon for the Mrs. Once I set up some keyboard shortcuts within Cinny, is there a way to export/save them?I suppose as an alternative, I could just have Cinny just run sxhkd at...
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Beginners Questions • [Networking] Command line mode, an IPv6 question or two...
OK, y'all had to know there would be follow-up questions once I discovered how to do command-line mode installs. Here's my first ....My ISP (Comcast) provides an excellent IPv6 service, with a /60...
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Beginners Questions • [Networking] [Solved] Command line mode, an IPv6...
OK, y'all had to know there would be follow-up questions once I discovered how to do command-line mode installs. Here's my first ....My ISP (Comcast) provides an excellent IPv6 service, with a /60...
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General Questions • [Software] Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration File
HI,I’ve just installed ServPXE. The machine looks up DHCP, receives an IP address and a path to TFTP. Then it proceeds to download the installer, the installer runs on the machine, the installation...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] Dkms fails to build anything with the...
Today's upgrade to kernel 6.12.16 in unstable fails because dkms fails to build anything! I have no idea what could it be, I just wanted to mention it early so that others can check. Right now, I only...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] non-root user authentication issue
Hi,I've found numerous posts over the years related to this, but none solves my issue. I've been using Debian for a long time, and a couple of years ago I copied my installation to a laptop. Recently...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Mouse problem
Hi everyone, I have Debian Trixie with GNOME and sometimes the mouse pointer doesn't respond well to commands, it moves in small jerks (especially when moving diagonally), It moves in a sawtooth...
View ArticleInstallation • install updated distro while running previous version
I'm not sure of the terminology but I'm currently running 11 on a beefy workstation. I have a blank 109G partition on my SSD and I want to install 12 on it, but while running 11. I don't want to go...
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