Questions tagged [debian]
Debian GNU/Linux is a widespread Linux distribution focusing on stability, security, and the free software philosophy.
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How to stop Bluetooth from waking my monitors from sleep every 15 minutes with Debian/KDE?
My monitors keep turning on without me touching anything every 15 minutes when my computer is signed into but locked and I can't figure out a fix.
Logs are showing Bluetooth related activity during ...
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Access IPv4 sites through IPv6 only server
I have a VPS hosting Wireguard that only has IPv6 addresses.
When I connect from my local machine, I can access google.com in Chrome, which prefers IPv6, but not in Firefox, which prefers IPv4.
Sites ...
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Why is my external HDD constantly accessing the disk? [duplicate]
One of my external hard drives is never going go sleep: It always rotates and I can hear the read/write head constantly doing something.
My operating system is Ubuntu. I could not find a process ...
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FLATHUB installation Command Line not responding
Chrome OS Linux Dev.Enviro Debian 12 adding Flathub. I see the question has been asked in 2022,a popular Google enquiry. but I cannot see an answer that works.. Have followed Google instructions and ...
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pw-record in debian 13
I have a condenser mic device on a GetAC 800 tablet; shows as this:
Source #99
State: SUSPENDED
Name: alsa_input.platform-cht-bsw-rt5672.HiFi__Mic1__source
Description: Built-in Audio ...
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Debian shows “Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty” on boot
debian version: 13
After installing Debian, I encounter the error message Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty every time I boot up. As a result, I have to wait for a while before I can ...
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Debian /boot partition is full, causing update‑initramfs to fail — how to safely restore initrd.img to regain use of plymouth themes?
When I was using the Debian system (version: Debian 13), I encountered the following error while trying to restore plymouth-themes:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.48+deb13-amd64
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How to access files created from VirtualBox in thunar (or any file explorer) in Debian Linux?
Operating System: Debian 13
I created a virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox in my Debian 13 Linux to run Windows 10. I made it use this file path: /media/earthly/HotStorage/Virtual_Machines/...
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How to alias vi to vim without full vim package in WSL?
I am using Windows 11 with Debian on WSL.
When I am in a Windows terminal session, I often do wsl vi (filename) to quickly edit a file. This opens vim.tiny (as I don't have full vim installed and don'...
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How do I resolve the errors in updating Debian Bullseye system on WSL2?
I have a Windows 11 system with WSL2 installed in it. And, within WSL2, Debian Bullseye (v11) is installed.
Following is the WSL version on my system.
WSL version: 2.5.10.0
Kernel version: 6.6.87.2-1
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How do I check if gpsd is using the u-box driver and will handle leap seconds?
I have gpsd running on a Raspberry Pi, with Raspberry Pi OS (Debian based). I have a U-Blox GNSS receiver attached to it and working. Gpsd reads data from the receiver after configuring it for binary ...
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Syn flood detection from log files (Raspberry Pi 5/Debian)
I'm following a hardening guide (https://ohyaan.github.io/tips/raspberry_pi_security_hardening_complete_guide/) for the initial setup of a Raspberry Pi-based product (Pi 5, Debian Bookworm). I'm ...
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Watch blu-ray files which were streamed by self hosted server directly in browser without VLC
I have recently set up a Debian 12 server.
I mainly use it to stream videos so I can watch it with low latency. It can stream .mp4 or .webm fine but when asked to stream blu-ray files, it just ...
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Application Menu button in titlebar gone in debian 13 / gnome 48
On debian versions up to debian 12, there was a application dropdown in the titlebar.
This was very useful to switch between tabs of a specific program based on window title.
It looked like this:
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Why am I seeing a weird font in my Chrome/Brave?
I didn't remember doing something fishy, but suddenly I noticed all text in my browser and even in some webpages(not all) was in this weird font style. I don’t know if it's a font issue or something ...
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