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I can't get the system to stay awake when idle at the login screen.
All the power/sleep settings I can find are disabled.
But still it sleeps...

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I have a laptop running Debian Testing. Upon hibernation the computer does not shut off and instead the screen turns blank with the...

i have no idea when it happened.
i actually recently fixed it .

anyway, i've checked this article and, when i run egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan'...

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I just installed Debian and after installation I had to install the wireless firmware. The wireless seems working normally but when I run a proxy...

I upgrade to the new kernel (5.10.0-21 amd64) on Sunday(Jan. 22, 2023) and have encountered an issue when trying to terminate Kodi (19). Normally I...

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I am using bookworm on my dell xps 15, which has nvidia 3050 ti (I know nvidia's problems, i inherited this laptop had no choice on the matter)....

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I run debian 11 and nextcloud. It uses php, and I see that PHP 7.4 is end of life.

But inn the default repositorys is not php8.
Is it safe...

Hello everyone,
I have a pretty new laptop Asus Vivobook and I want to install Debian testing nonfree on it. Everything works well after...

Just learned, that it can be necessary in 'sid' to add besides 'main, contrib and non-free' now 'non-free-firmware' in the sources.list.

Any...

I've discovered I have an issue with systemd on my Debian server. I've seen that some logging service don't want to start through systemd but the...

While using Firefox or Chrome to do Khan Academy I see boxes with hex numbers inside them in place of math symbols etc.
Debian GNU/Linux 11...

Thank you for taking the time to look at this issue. I'm new to Debian and want to install it on a desktop machine with two Samsung SSDs, each 2T,...

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I played lot of hours to compile mesa and I got success for my native AMD64 CPU.
I tried also cross compilation and I am almost done,...

I have been having this issue for a around 3 weeks, it happens once in around 5 boots or reboot. I get stucked in the debian logo loading forever,...

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I'm having a problem with installing debian onto emmc on my rockpro64 device. I can only get so far and the process fails.

First of all I'm...

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Using Debian 11 fully updated as of today.

OS Type 64-bit
GNOME Version 3.38.5
Windowing System Wayland

When I right click on a...

When my system boots, I see the grub menu, then I press enter, then a black screen until the lightdm login prompt a few minutes later.

This...

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Here very strange situation.

Fresh install Debian Sid, XFCE4, nvidia proprietary driver 340.108 from Sid repo(maybe this...

Unable to change a default browser:
loc@debian:~$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop
loc@debian:~$
loc@debian:~$ xdg-settings...

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I was wondering if it's possible to copy a complete Linux system?
Have all my settings and such available on another machine?
I'm a bit...

Debian Stable, 11.6, Secure Boot setup and working
Background info:
I pop into this every few months and last time , I had learned that when...

I have a new 10th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon which uses the 12th gen Intel CPU i7-1260P with integrated graphics. I'm running Debian Testing....

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I have a Debian 10 server running on the GCE (Google Cloud Engine) that runs an Apache web server. I created a snapshot of the...

For some time I have trouble using emacs in my normal user account. Running emacs as root is no problem, but when I'm in my user account, upon...

How do I get busybox on the DVD .iso image. this is the larger 3.6 Gb file?

The installation fails because it cannot find busybox files. Is it...

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it is possible to have at grub Booting menu more then 2 version to select.
i had Kernel:
6.1.0-1
Kernel: 6.x
i had Problem with 6.1 so i...

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doing a upgrade to Kernel 6.1 my 3 Monitor do not work any more, the dockingstation over USB-C is ok, because Mouse and keyboard and USB Stick...

Hello everyone, this is the first time i need to ask a question at a forum since i switched to debian a lots of years ago, i have being googling a...

I have a Raspberry Pi model B running Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian, sort of) Bullseye.
I use the sysfs interface to operate a...

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After successful installation of debian (one of the latest releases) and successful ethernet connection, i tried to connect wirelessly to my...

I've had Quad9 private DNS configured on my Android phone - for several months
and it seems to work fine.
Yesterday i installed Netguard firewall and...

I need to test my system's memory and have installed memtest86+. However, I can't find any documentation on basic usage. Specifically, I need to...

I'm using wayland so it is not a real problem for me. But if I start X11 i3/icewm/KDE with X11 I do not get any cursor. (It is not only not shown. I...

OpenJDK 11.0.17 was released on 10/18. This is the quarterly critical patch update. When can we see it included in Debian bullseye?

Thanks.

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I am saving PDF files on a Samba share that I mount from /etc/fstab with lines like the following:

//192.168.2.2/share /mnt/share cifs...

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My OS is Debian11 Gnome3 Wayland.
I am used to press the Menu key for the context-menu

Unfortunately, my keyboard lacks a Menu key.
How can I map...

EDIT - Usually I/O Errors on HDDs/SSDs are signs of the drive failing, but I have the case where it doesn't seem to be hardware related at all, (at...

Apparently I'm not the only one to notice it, based on my web search. There is a noticable slowdown of vnc client response in debian 11 compared to...

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Hoping this is the right topic...

I got a new Asus prime z790m-plus d4 MoBo (i5-13500 CPU). Trying install (latest 11.6 Live USB).
I ran...

I try to make bluetooth work but I haven't managed to. The machine state is as follows:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11
KDE Plasma Version:...

Crossposted from r/Debian because I think it's important to pay attention to what your package manager wants to do. I told y'all I was gonna sound...

This is a duplicate of this:
I want to use OpenCL on the Radeon RX 7900 XT.

But I get errors like this:
=== CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG ===
fatal error:...

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My laptop has a new-ish wireless card, an RTL8852BE. Firmware for this card was merged into upstream linux-firmware in October and is...

aidecheck.service calls aide.wrapper, but aide.wrapper is not included in aide-common as documented and I can't find a fix documented anywhere. Any...

So, I have my disks set up.
sda: 1 EFI, 2 RAID 0 for ROOT, 3 LVM for HOME & SWAP
sdb: 1 RAID 0 for ROOT, 2 LVM for HOME & SWAP

But I keep getting:...