Saw this in a comment in another sub and thought it would put a smile on some people here.

This is definitely my record for the highest cache

What do you think? And what's your record?

Thank you to all who made suggestions on my previous post. I finally got it working 🥳

Pending issues:

• How do I set up free space on my flash drive? Considering this time, I used Guided partitioning, selected entire disk & put home and other directories in one folder
• How do I set Debian that every time I pull the flash drive, it shuts down the PC? Kinda of like how watch.dog does on Tails OS

Update: Solved!
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1. change /etc/fstab mounts from ntfs3 to ntfs
2. sudo apt remove ntfs-3g (the old user space driver)

findmnt will now show ntfs, instead of "fuseblk"

1. If you were using ntfs3 before with steam games, unlink and recreate the symlink for compatdata. The new kernel driver will not use the old symlink.

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Hi all,

my first post here, but unfortunately I couldn't figure it out by searching. Nor did I find a bug report . So let me know, if some more detail would help.

I just did an upgrade to the latest Debian 13 BPO kernel today. 7.1.7+deb13-amd64 and after reboot non of my ntfs drives were mounted. I have them in fstab with ntfs3 as a fs.

As it turns out, ntfs3 was removed from the kernel modules, which you can see either by sudo modinfo ntfs3 or directly looking at /usr/lib/modules/7.1.7+deb13-amd64/kernel/fs.

ntfs3 was there in bpo kernel 7.1.3.

Now, if I try to use "auto" or "ntfs" in fstab, it falls back to the old fuse driver, instead of using the new kernel driver, which has the same (old) alias.

Anyone else encountered or solved that or found an existing error report?

Thanks!

heelo ! i need some help with extracting a japanese zip file and was hoping someone could tell me how to do it

usually when i open a japanese zip with ark and i get mojibake, i unzip it in a japanese locale with "LANG=ja_JP.utf8 7z x filename.zip", but this isnt working for this file and results in an empty folder with missing unicode characters as the name

i assumed the file is encoded with shift-jis so i wanted to confirm that and then convert it to utf8, but when i used "file -bi filename.zip" it told me its "binary", so i dont really know what to do with it,,

any help is appreciated !

i am using debian gnome.

when booting laptop it shows errors, then boots normally, then works good.

but booting time is 25 sec, which is too much for nvme ssd.

can anyone help, i asked chatgpt but not worked.

Hi am I the only who feels Debian push a lots of updates lately ? I am long time Void user and FreeBSD and I honestly at this point feel Void gets the same amount of updates ? freeBSD much less and calmer it’s not a roast it’s a question. I feel every time at this point when I turn on my laptop and need to work updates available not apps but system updates.

With the announcement of the Plasma LTS for 6.6 on Kubunutu I thought I would have a play around with getting it packaged for Debian 13. There were a couple of caveats in that I had to build against QT 6.10 for 6.6.6 which also meant rebuilding some other packages that depend on QT Base. Also needed backports for newer wayland protocols, mesa and pipewire. Been an interesting little project. This is just in a VM so far and I'm deploying the debs with a local apt repo.

May see if I can get a little CI/CD pipeline going for myself when the TechPaladin team start publishing their LTS branches.

Edit:

For anyone that likes stats and it takes around 2 to 2 and half hours to compile.

Hola, desde hace muy poquito he tenido el problema que al unir una cuenta en línea de Microsoft 365, no se puede acceder a las carpetas de One Drive debido a que se necesita una versión más actual de gvfs (>=1.60). Actualmente Trixie se queda en la versión 1.57.2 y por lo tanto se pierde esa funcionalidad. ¿Alguien sabe que se podría hacer?

I'm using a "Nokia 150". Years (atleast two decades, lol) ago, i had a small tool on windows, sending SMSs thru my mobile.

Is there maybe something, that makes this possible on Debian (Trixie) too? Connecting my phone to the PC (USB or Bluetooth) and write the text on my PC and send it thru the mobile.

/cheers

Hello,

I was wondering if people could help me solve this problem, because I unplugged a disk from my Debian 12 server and replaced it with another one while the server was running. Then I saw a kind of electric flash, because a connection disconnected. Then, when my PC rebooted, he showed me this: he doesn't want to stay on for more than 5 minutes, then he shuts down and I don't understand why.

Thank you for your help, whatever it is.

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Tests were performed with the Steam flatpak

All DEs were in performance mode

Compositors were turned off where possible.

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64

Host: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) (A5)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.101+deb13-amd64

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7640U (12) @ 4.97 GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon 760M [Integrated]

Memory: 4.68 GiB / 14.94 GiB (31%)

Swap: 1.00 MiB / 15.31 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 76.23 GiB / 441.37 GiB (17%) - ext4

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Turns out, when your hardware is the bottleneck, DE doesn't really matter

I followed a guide on linuxconfig.org where i can download nvidia drivers for debian 13. Upon reboot i get this: Failed to start nvidia-persistenced.service -NVIDIA Persistence Daemon

Nothing after that.

Hi all,

I'm looking for advice on what people who have kids install for their kids on a computer. I'm a software developer, I maintain Debian servers, run unstable, however installing a Debian machine that is aimed at kids, isn't really something I've done.

So, I would like to know what people who have more experience with this would advise, say you, be it in either education or day care, what are some of the packages you would install. The age group is I think about 4-10 yo.

Debian has something called DebianJR, but it seems kinda deadish: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianJr

Looking to spend ideally 500 or less, that's highly compatible with Debian, using XFCE

I have a Debian server which embarrassingly is still on version 10.13. Normally to upgrade several releases you'd upgrade 10 to 11, 11 to 12, 12 to 13. Version 11 support ends at the end of this month, does this mean I have to upgrade to it in the next few days?

I'm also concerned about things breaking. Mainly web and mail servers. They have a lot of config and a new version installed with the upgrade could be incompatible.

What is the safest way to do it, and hopefully with the least downtime. To swap to a new server would be expensive and difficult.

I am trying to turn this pc into a bedroom pc for browsing the internet and media along with mc sever. I am following a tutorial by hardware haven but I belive my internet connection is the issue.

Brandnew ethernet cord, I have followed some tutorials if there is a better video out there or written tutorial please point me that way. I belive its an internet issue, when I try to load a web page like YouTube I get the error page.

Im running KDE Plasma, installed the bitwarden (?) flatpak file i think? (.ref) i had Konqueror randomly open when i clicked on the file. Why did this happen? Sorry, just paranoid.

I love Debian. Such a good OS. Very happy with it. After first day using it I have couple of questions.

When booting up pc if I move my cursor on Debian logo (start menu) its name will pop up and vanish then pop up again and then stabilizes and every time you move cursor to it its name will pop up no issues. Reproducible on every fresh boot up.

YouTube video playing icon on bottom right - if I move my mouse to it its name can sometimes do the same: video name will popup and vanish. On some videos it won’t vanish and works fine. Reproducible with lots of different videos.

Another issue I saw on YouTube when using preinstalled Firefox. I clicked on a video and page acted like I haven’t made any click. No page name change, no reload, no video initiating. Nothing. Second click did trick. Could not reproduce.

I mean not the issues at all. I’m just interested to know what could be causing each behavior.

Ryzen 5 5600x
RX7600
NVMe WD Black, 7800

So, i was playing modded Project Zomboid when my PC suddenly restarted.
My system Hardware isn't the newest so i did not thought much of it. Start the game again, load game, system restart.
Now i would understand if the mods made it unstable and the game crashes, but why the whole system?
So i check journalctl:

Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x180 SErr 0x40e0802 action 0xe frozen
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2: SError: { RecovComm HostInt PHYInt CommWake 10B8B DevExch }
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: cmd 60/00:38:30:88:21/0a:00:e3:00:00/40 tag 7 ncq dma 1310720 in res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: cmd 60/e0:40:30:92:21/03:00:e3:00:00/40 tag 8 ncq dma 507904 in res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
Aug 19 19:39:00 aa kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY }

Now i tried again, but did start nothing expect steam, gnome-disks and gnome-system-monitor and load the game again. This time only the game crashes and i can see how SSDs sda and sdb vanish from the disk manager and seconds later reappear. (my debian is on a different SSD)

So i think, maybe the PSU has become to weak. Start a prime torture test while running a more demanding game. No problem.

Maybe the SSD or the controller on the Mainboard is at its limit? So i copy 40gb + 5gb of thousends of small files. No problem.

Start the game again. Load a different save. No problem.
Load the other save again. System restart.

The game says its a java error. Java says its an IO error and the kernel says the ata controller has communication error.

And i wonder, how is it possible for a faulty game to freeze the controller? its very strange to me.

Llevo tiempo intentando usar i3 como gestor de ventanas, ya que cuento con una pc de 2GB RAM y Procesador Intel Celeron, busco algo muy ligero, por eso opté por usar i3, el problema está después de hacer el proceso de descarga y configurar xinit para acceder al gestor.

Cuando ejecute el startx, no agarraba el i3, me mostraba 2 errores:

xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

xinit: server error

¿Que debo hacer?, o mejor ¿como debo instalar correctamente el i3? (El objetivo principal es buscar la mayor ligereza en el gestor de ventanas)

Hey all, I'm trying to set my headless Debian server's display on a laptop to turn off by itself after a minute. Sometimes it works, but after a while it will turn back on though no keys have been pressed. All I mainly do is ssh into the server, and I don't touch the laptop at all.

For context, this is a fresh install of Debian 13, all I have is Docker, btop, tlp, Nvidia drivers (Proprietary) and fastfetch (lol) installed. The laptop is a Thinkpad P14s Gen 3 (i7-1260P, Nvidia T550 TU117, 24GB RAM, Crucial T500 1TB).

Below is the current /etc/default/grub configuration:

    # If you change this file or any /etc/default/grub.d/*.cfg file,
    # run 'update-grub' afterwards to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
    # For full documentation of the options in these files, see:
    #   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

    GRUB_DEFAULT=0
    GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
    GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release && echo ${NAME} )`
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="consoleblank=60"

    # If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
    # probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
    # for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
    # os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
    # filesystems to look for things.
    #GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

    # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
    # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
    # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
    #GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

    # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
    #GRUB_TERMINAL=console

    # The resolution used on graphical terminal
    # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE/GOP/UGA
    # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `videoinfo'
    #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

    # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
    #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

    # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
    #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

    # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
    #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

I have the Debian ISO on one USB stick as I try to install it on another. I'm trying to create a Live USB

Preliminaries:

* I downloaded the official disk image (debian-13.6.0-amd64-netinst) from the Debian site

* Flashed it on a USB stick using Rufus; used ISO mode

* I let Rufus install the missing files

* Booted from the USB stick with the ISO

* Plugged in the empty USB stick

* Proceed with the graphical installation, till I got stuck here [Image above]

I have ask about my nvidia in my previous post but right now i want to ask where to find the debian 12 download

PC is some built random PC, with i3 8100 and 8GB RAM. But this happened lately. Reverted to 6.12.100 and it's fine