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Debian 12 Install Hangs at Installation Menu without messages Alienware M18 r1 “Switched back the SSD to the old laptop, [... ...] switched back the SSD to the Alienware, and voila !” PowerMac G4 PPC - debian netinstall woes “the issue arises when the installer tries to activate the NIC. Apparently...

[Discussion] Help me understand root and sudo “it seems that sudo or the doas alternative cancel out the security benefit of privilege-hierarchy.” (Thanks to donald for pointing this one out) [HowTo] How do I install Qtile on Bookworm “Since Bookworm and later don't accept installing Python stuff u...

[Off-Topic] Help wanted: Writing a beginner's book to Debian “I could do it alone, but a small team would be even better. That's why I'm reaching out to you for advice and/or help.” [HowTo] Get Wi-FI working on host and guest if you're using LXQT/connman/Virt Manager “as soon as the guest OSes boot...

[HowTo] Automatically run scripts on a desktop/laptop with Anacron “Automation saves time and effort by getting repetitive tasks out of the way.” :linked: testing an USB-flash-stick 32 GB with the command "badblocks" “13.3 days for a 32 GB USB-Flash-Stick? Can this be true?” (Thanks to do...

[Solved] Bluetooth sound unstable “I have a Bluetooth headphones and its sound interrupts with total silence every few minutes for a several seconds.” [Software] [Solved] Samba doesn't work on ExFAT, but drives make noise when using Ext4 “Did you notice this right after installation (and formatting...

[Solved] LUKS+TPM2 unattended boot on Debian 12 “the threats I'm trying to defend against are an attacker removing a hard drive from the server and mounting its filesystem elsewhere, as well as an attacker altering kernel parameters passed from Grub” :linked: [Solved] Disable Administrator Password...

Crashes and freezes in Linux with (some) Ryzen CPUs “What I'm kind of hoping here is that others with the same problem might chime in with their experiences and we can build a little knowledge base here” [SID - Unstable] update stuck at resolving dependencies “Sid is in the middle of a big time_t t...

[Solved] Apt invalid signatures “What does the command ls -l /bin/sh print?” [O/S] [SOLVED] Resize ESP partition with gparted “I am trying to shrink down ESP so that I can make some room to increase boot partition size.” [Discussion] What change, if implemented, would cause you to leave Debian? “Bi...

Make bootable external hard drive system work on most machines “What packages do I need and what, if any, config changes do I need to make, to give it this kind of hardware agnosticism?” [Discussion] Basic Project/work management software “I run a small business [...] by myself and looking to see i...

Install Debian 12 "Network autoconfiguration failed" “to cut a long story short, for whatever reason, the setup and fresh installation uses the wrong network interface!” [Discussion] Why are severely broken point releases being released for Bookworm “what is the logic behind knowing there...

High-Pitched Squeals, Crackles and Pops in Debian 12 with Nahimic Audio Chipset “it seems that these sound problems occur whenever I click restart in Windows 11 and then boot into Debian (without powering down).” :linked: [Solved] Not detecting Nvme drives during install “Found 2 remapped NVMe devi...

How to enable BTRFS compression after installing Debian “is it just a simple matter of adding "compress=lzo" to the /etc/fstab mount options?” [O/S] Why, God, why can I not upgrade my OS? “We have an older computer that had Debian 9 installed on it [...] but I can not seem to get it to up...

[Solved] zram: Can't change algorithm for initialized device (device or resource busy) “may have accidentally installed both the zram-tools and systemd-zram-generator packages. I think this is the source of the conflict.” :linked: [HowTo] Bookworm: Set up a headless torrentserver with Web/App contr...

Sad news: Alan Rochester @arochester has passed away. “let us celebrate and acknowledge the true movers of the community.” [Solved] Installing Debian on NVMe disks connected to a PCIe NVMe adapter unsupported by the BIOS “I have added a PCIe NVMe adapter with 2 x M.2 drives. The BIOS does not suppo...

[Solved] After upgrade: No link for wifi :linked: “I suspect this has something to do with bug#1057260 iwlwifi: `N' invalid for parameter `enable_ini'.” [Solved] It seems I can get a systemd service running right before I have to login, but not right before shutting down. :linked: “You can actually...

Debian 12 XFCE terminal font line height (line spacing). “Is there a way to reduce line height without reducing font size?” [Solved] No sound on the in-build speaker but headphones work “Kernel 6.5 seems to have added some "quirks", and would seem to be a must for recent Asus laptops with...

Cannot use Cisco AnyConnect VPN with MFA after upgrade to bookworm “I'm guessing this is a problem without a solution, but maybe someone will surprise me!” so what is run-user-1000 ?? :linked: “Well that was a voyage of discovery ...” [SOLVED] It switched from Wayland to X11 and I'd like to revert ...

[Sound] Sound stops working in Bookworm “This topic is to collate links to topics where this issue has occurred, with a summary of symptoms, diagnosis and resolution” [Software] ffmpeg nvidia hardware encoding “ffmpeg with working hardware encoding. Problem solved.” [Solved] Backports Kernel 6.5 “l...

[HowTo] Installing AMOR from source on Debian 12 (bookworm) https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=773877 Staying with Debian 11 https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154663 [Discussion] A suggestion to help newcommers. Add WiFi. https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154038 [Hardware] Blu...

Bookworm repos [Solved] https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154948 [Solved] Disable autostart of services post install https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154809 [Solved] Black screen after log in https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=154885 Same fonts look different after upgrade fr...