Current best practice suggestions for data recovery after complete data loss...
Hi there!A friend lost all his data after performing what he says was a regular system update, prompted by the update mechanism. He is currently running debian 11 "bullseye" (oldstable) with the...
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Recently my network has slowed down a lot, i mainly use ping to understand network and ping rates are very high and sometimes alot of packets have times of more than around 20000ms. I installed...
View ArticleInstaller trap: No root file system defined
Preferred:no LVMencryption for "/"no encryption for "/boot""/swap" is a concern for laterThis did not work with the Debian 12 installer. It does not seem possible to proceed with the installation...
View ArticleAuto block sleep and screen locking not working
I have Debian 12 with kde plasma and Wayland, and am facing an issue with automatic blocking of sleep and screen lock when a media is playing.When a media is playing, it is recognised by the system...
View Article[Security] A new Linux Malware - WolfsBane - allegedly from China is out in...
This article went live a few days ago. The people behind these are suspected to be Gelsemium a Chinese APT group. This impacts both systemd based linux as well as non-systemd based linux. ESET...
View ArticleNo network with kernel >= 6.11.9
Hello,I'm using Debian version 11.11 with Mate Desktop Environment.On friday, november 22 I "apt update && apt upgrade" the system, and the kernel went from version 6.10.9 to 6.11.9, and now I...
View Articlecan't update system and all
Just found out the deb12 didn't update at all last months.Get this errorCode: E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release' does not have a Release file.N: Updating from...
View ArticleNvidia Geforce GT 730
I have an NVIDIA Geforce GT 730 Graphics Card. The latest update broke my driver. Can you please advice me further?Statistics: Posted by user1213213 — 2024-11-26 14:49 — Replies 2 — Views 58
View Article[Software] [Solved] evemu-event works only in console
E.g.Code: evemu-event /dev/input/event2 --type EV_KEY --code 58 --value 1( Caps Lock ) works only in console , not as a .desktop file , as a .sh file , in KRunner ( Alt-F2 ) , why ? How to...
View ArticleKill Automatic Updates
Is there a way to Kill Automatic Updates?Statistics: Posted by user1213213 — 2024-11-26 16:20 — Replies 1 — Views 47
View ArticleRight Click Shred?
I've used shred at command line but want to be able to use Caja to right click on a file and then have the option of selecting "shred".Bleachbit works fine for that purpose but I can't figure out how...
View ArticleDebian XFCE
I cannot get OpenVPN to tunnel traffic using the connection. The traffic ends up outside the tunnel. The tunnel gets established but no traffic is going through it. The same goes for using XFCE's...
View Articledeja-dup installation errors
Code: BackendException: PyDrive backend requires PyDrive and Google API client installation.Please read the manpage for setup details.Exception: No module named 'apiclient'A little strange,...
View Article[Software] Intermittent disk IO write stuck
Hi,we have seen the issue of intermittent disk IO write stuck a few times per day, and would like to get some help here.Issue: the metric shows there is zero disk write IO for a period of time.Other...
View Article[Software] How to display a video game at its native resolution in full screen ?
Without zooming if the native resolution of the video game is lower than the resolution of the screen , the image centered at screen with black borders .On Windows 11 it's NVIDIA Control Panel ,...
View Article[Software] System not booting correctly
Hi,Since my last full install of Debian Bookworm, I have had a small problem with accessing /dev/sda7 which is my /usr partition. Somehow, this partition was mounted on /media/stuart/_usr instead of...
View ArticleGDM
After running the below command I cannot make debian boot GM anymore.Code: sudo systemctl disable gdm I've tried various solutions such as.Code: sudo systemctl enable gdmsystemctl set-default...
View Article[Solved] How To Configure Exim4 For External Email
I spent a few days attempting to get this to work. I finally got it successfully working today. I am posting this to help anyone else struggling to get exim4 working with an external email server...
View ArticleThis is no Evolution!
My uncle gave my an old Windows 8 computer, and I just installed Debian 12 on it I noticed that Evolution was running some processes in the background. I don't use Evolution, so I removed it using the...
View ArticleBleachbit- Shred- Fail?
I used Bleachbit (shred) to shred a series of files. They no longer appear in the directory where they were deleted.However- when using the following command in command line the file names appear!$...
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