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Why is it necessary to run 'dpkg-reconfigure' on bodged installs?
The postfix package uses debconf for its configuration. You can think of this as a kind of registry in Debian; it’s used by most packages which need configuration during installation. You can see the ...
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Mount point and folder on second nvme is not mounting on startup
Replacing the nvme resolved the problem.
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How to set single key for customization keyboard shortcuts in gnome
I've found the solution for the problem which I mentioned in the comment under Pixelbog's answer.
If you want to change any behavior(key-binding shortcut) that belongs to gnome shell and also if it ...
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25 second delay: "No skeleton to export"
Had exactly the same issue with Manjaro after the last updates (2023-11-28 and 2023-12-1).
I copied the /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/gtk-portals.conf file to ~/.config and renamed it into xfce-...
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Where do I extract and install the .txz file of the Shotcut Video editor?
Your .txz files are packed archives, similar to .zip files that you extract using tar -xJf file.txz. Typically, such archives contain shell scripts that automatically download an update. if it is ...
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Does Nix solve the DLL hell problem differently from other more popular package managers for Debian or Arch?
Yes, of course, that's kind of the whole point of Nix, and it's explained in detail in Eelco Dolstra's thesis which I recommend you read.
Other package managers in typical Linux distributions do not ...
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Why does "pgrep -O 600" fail in an LXC? procps bug?
LXC mounts a fake /proc/uptime to simulate the uptime of the container rather than the host's uptime, since this property is not namespaced. Here on a (root) LXC container:
# findmnt /proc/uptime
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Too many boot devices to choose from
A bit of background
Since you see named boot entries like Windows Boot Manager and debian, you clearly have a system with UEFI firmware, booting the named OSs in UEFI native mode. Since one of the ...
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Mount point and folder on second nvme is not mounting on startup
The option you are trying to use is called "defaults" not "default". That would make the correct /etc/fstab entry:
UUID=4dae6d7c-f5bd-4ee9-b412-9ca648984e5d /mnt ext4 defaults,auto ...
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Too many boot devices to choose from
On my system (details irrelevant to this issue) what the BIOS/UEFI calls "boot devices" are actually bootloaders not physical devices or partitions. From the efibootmgr -v it seems like you ...
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Too many boot devices to choose from
what you see is a function of UEFI and your motherboard. I see something similar with My ASROCK at home and my Dell optiplex at work.
First go into your BIOS/EFI by hitting F2 or DEL or whatever, go ...
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Switch tabs in Debian installer over serial console with PuTTy
In addition to @telcoM answer:
For those running the Debian installer through screen itself, like a UART connection to some monitor-less device, you can't use Ctrl+a directly. That would be picked up ...
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shell .sh script does not execute all tasks within, except when run manually
This is more of a comment than an answer but there are only so many lines available in a comment
It's not at all clear what you're trying to achieve with your situation. You've explained that it's ...
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Cannot extend virtual disk with `cfdisk`: Failed to resize partition
cfdisk may not let you resize the partition because it contains other partitions in use. Instead you can use a tool that can do things at low level: parted
Warning: Take a VM snapshot in advance as ...
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How to set single key for customization keyboard shortcuts in gnome
Just follow these steps:
Create your custom-keybinding (just use any shortcut keys, you are going to change it in the next step anyways)
Open the dconf editor
Go to /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/...
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raise network interfaces - debian 12
There is only one default gateway: the default gateway used in the default route, which is what gateway controls. The second time the network configuration tools attempt to add a default route with ...
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MySQL doesn't work with libmysqlclient
The way I was able to resolve the issue:
apt install libmysqlclient21
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Anacron doesn't appear to run anything on Debian, but why?
OK, I just discovered (thanks to this) that run-parts ignores files/links that have an extension; it doesn't match the . character. No idea why. Changed my symlinks in /etc/cron.daily not to have ...
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When switching users in Debian 11 audio is blocked by one of them
I had the same problem, and the solution turned out to be somewhat counterintuitive: it requires reducing access to audio devices. To get audio to reliably follow users when switching, you have to ...
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What's the difference between Ubuntu's man and macOS's man?
The default version of man on most Linux distributions is man-db, which is quite different from the default version of man on macOS. The macOS version is probably based on a BSD version.
You can ...
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UEFI-support for Debian Live-build
This is my approach to achieve this.
Add common grub related package in config/package-lists/pkgs.list.chroot file. eg:
grub-common
grub2-common
Add file config/package-lists/grub-pc.list.binary ...
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Failing to install PyPi package gdown via py2dsp
This is a known bug in py2dsp, unfortunately with no fix for now.
Pointing py2dsp at the source repository doesn’t work either, so I suspect the only way forward is to write a source package from ...
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Why doesn't NTP increase polling interval when using a GPS/PPS receiver and internet servers?
The polling interval has three "components":
Short polling intervals will cause the offset to be adjusted quickly, but due to random jitter, the frequency may not be very stable
Long ...
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DWM launching applications incorrectly
Although I didn't run into this exact error, I did have a similar question regarding why the commands needed to end with NULL. While the original answer does solve the question of "how to make ...
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How to check the installed Linux kernel version on Debian?
Best way to do this in a generic way is explained in this comment.
Copy and paste this script, make is executable and run it will give you expected result.
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Apache Server: HTTP/2 issues
You've hit a bug in the http2 module for Apache. I reported it 2023-11-22 and it was fixed the day after, see Broken date in case of h2c w/ curl --http2 · Issue #272 · icing/mod_h2
According to the ...
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Debian - `apt` showing out-of-date package for `stable` release
Based on @Chris Davies' answer, I ensured that all packages were included for stable, stable-security, and stable-updates, but still had this issue. I realize now that Debian treats each of these as ...
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Debian - `apt` showing out-of-date package for `stable` release
The stable version as released was (presumably) 102. The version in the stable security repository is 115. That this is the current supported version is identified on the packages page for stable ...
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Making USB to SATA DVD drive show up as sr0 in Debian
Just solved my issue, turns out I had USBGUARD running on the host. Allowing the USB enclosure on the host allowed the passthrough to operate and the VM now sees the DVD drive.
Saw Device is not ...
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How to upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12?
The release notes for every release of Debian explain how to upgrade from the previous release; here are the instruction for upgrading for Debian 11 to 12 on amd64.
The short version, assuming you ...
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Debian unlock multiple Luks encrypted disks with passphrase AFTER boot
This doesn’t answer your titular question, but it will allow you to unlock your LUKS devices via SSH before the system has finished booting. If you install dropbear-initramfs, you’ll get a lightweight ...
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Easy command line method to determine specific ARM architecture string?
In case dpkg is not installed in your system (for example in lean docker container), this command will helps you
$ arch
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Setting up disk quotas for every new user account
pam_setquota.so
You can use pam_setquota(8). It's meant for exactly this.
You probably already have it installed (under /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_setquota.so) but if not first install it ...
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Change boot drive interface?
If the system does not currently boot on its own, you will need to boot from external media, mount the filesystems of the old system and chroot into the old system.
If you boot from a Debian ...
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Deploying private CA certs to debian devices
For this to work, I need to ensure sim.local/atlas.crt is in /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Unfortunately there is no /etc/ca-certificates.conf.d/ which could allow me to drop-in another file with that ...
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Deploying private CA certs to debian devices
From the same man page:
Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below /usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.
That means you do not need to run ...
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How to have R 4.1 on Debian 11? Debian 11 won't update
You may try requesting an explicit installation of the newer version with this command:
apt install r-base=4.3.2-1~bullseyecran.0
The part after the equals sign denotes the version string.
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Load iptables or nftables rules as fast as possible during boot and before the network interfaces be put online
In Debian 12, iptables is by default a wrapper for the new nftables subsystem. The iptables-persistent package depends on package netfilter-persistent, which creates a service named netfilter-...
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Load iptables or nftables rules as fast as possible during boot and before the network interfaces be put online
Depends on your distro, e.g. Fedora Linux does that for you. It's weird your distro doesn't - that's a security vulnerability absolutely worth reporting and fixing. Systemd has dependencies for ...
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Where should I add contrib and non-free in Debian Bookworm?
You need to change the “Components” entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:
sed -i 's/^Components: main$/& contrib non-free/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
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Undo SSH Key-Based Authentication
I found the following solution for my problem:
Create a new folder ~/.ssh/backup and copy the relevant key (public and private) from ~/.ssh into this new folder
Use Gnome (or run seahorse from cli) ...
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Grub with UEFI: Local Debian doesn't boot after another installation on external SSD
What happened exactly?
The analysis in the comments looks correct: the existing debian entry in efibootmgr does not match any ESPs on the system, and the only matching Fedora entry, Boot0004, refers ...
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Bluetooth Not Working on Debian: "No default controller available"
Ensured that the necessary Bluetooth kernel modules are loaded using lsmod | grep bluetooth.
Did the result include btusb?
Is the Atheros 3k series-specific firmware download driver (ath3k) loaded?
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SpeedCrunch is Providing Slow Math Calculations
I found this, after launching speedcrunch from the command line:
Clearing the history solved the immediate problem:
Menu > Edit > Clear History
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nfs unmount on shutdown
x-systemd.requires=network-online.target value was suggested in a forum as to inform systemd that the mount requires networking to be alive, the second one was suggested by @ipor-sircer as a comment ...
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redirect traffic of wlan0 through v2ray http proxy
I could solve this by modifying the answer to this question. I removed the parts for eth2 and changed eth1 to wlan0.
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How to make Chinese characters display properly on Chromium
Yes, If you using Linux (Like Debian/Ubuntu), 3 steps as Following:
Step 1: install Asia font;
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic ...
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File is automatically recreated after I remove/edit it
Your own browser is installing this as content from any Joomla site you visit.
The Joomla! documentation (base page docs.joomla.org/Main_Page has a search option - try index.php) states:
The index....
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Samsung monitor which was advertised to support 4K and 240Hz does not do both at the same time
The newest NVIDIA driver 535.x adds support for DSC (Display Stream Compression). See here the full issue and discussion.
Upgrading to nvidia-driver-535 or later should solve the issue.
That being ...
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