Debian

I'm having some trouble with suspend not working properly on my laptop, which has one of those Nvidia/Intel hybrid graphics systems. I run Debian 12 on it, with Gnome under Wayland.

Sometimes, my laptop will not go to sleep properly and just stay turned on. However, the screen will be black, and it won't respond to anything. The only thing I can do in this situation is a hard reset.

I say sometimes, because most of the time it works correctly and I just can't reproduce this bug. It might happen twice a day, but sometimes it won't happen for a week. I have a feeling Nvidia is the culprit here, but I was wondering if anyone else ran into this and knows a bit more about what's going on here?

Following on the Debian 12.3/12.4 kerfuffle, what is the kernel version included in package linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64? It appears kernel versions prior to 6.1.67 have some nasty regressions that got through testing. Does this latest package address the regressions, or should we wait for package 6.1.0-16-amd64 to drop?

Hi, I do rarely posting things on lemmy or frankly speaking this is my first time. I hope this meet this sub rules, despite it's a Spirallinux (it's still debian right?) problem or possible a framework system problem.

A strange problem appears when I install a steam game and try to start it. When the game tries to launch, the screen just freezes for a moment with the logo of the game start screen. After a few seconds the screen went black and the cursor poped up without the possibillity getting to the tty.

At first I had an system with an encrypted disk. When I installed Baldur's Gate on my system and started the game, the system crashes and the only thing I could do was pushing the power button. After reboot trying to enter my passphrase, the encryption manager always reported me that I entered the wrong phrase. I gave up since I couldn't even manage my snaps to rollback. I thought it was a critical bug from the game.

When I deleted my drive and tried to set up a new system I gave another game a chance. This time it was The Talos principle 2. Same problem. The system crashed with the only option pushing the power button. But this time I installed my system without encryption so I could enter my snaps on boot. The problem here is that several of the latest snaps were corrupted. Only the older ones were still working (snaps from 2 or 3 days ago).

The newer ones reports shows failing to start some podman-restart.service, podman-auto-update.service and networking.service.

Steam is from the debian repository.

My system: OS: Spirallinux (Debian 12) Kernel: Backport 6.5.0

Laptop: Framework 13 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Ram: 64GB Firmware: 3.03

I don't know how to troubleshoot this problem. I hope I can find some help here. Thanks for any tips and help!

So, I'm currently on Sid, because I needed several packages, including Gnome, in newer versions than what was in Stable.
When I tried upgrading from Stable to Testing, apt asked to remove half the system, including Gnome. That's why I went directly to Sid instead, which didn't have that issue and worked beautifully.

Now that everything works, I eventually want to get back on a stable system.
Would it work to point sources.list to Trixie, wait till it catches up to my installed package versions, then just stay on Trixie till it's Stable? I already checked that when I point sources.list to Trixie and run dist-upgrade, apt doesn't want to remove anything, it just says my system is up to date.

I have a debian box physically in another location, and would like it to stay online. I put a fresh install on it, including gnome, then rebooted it without a display attached, with the plan to ssh into it later. After about 20 minutes, it disappears from my router page (via vpn, all other devices are still connected) I turned off all sleep settings, so the 20 minute timeout should be never, as is the idle setting and what "closing the lid" does in gnome tweaks.

Any way to make it stay online?

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Hi,

I do believe from time to time there are important updates that need you to reboot your server, but how often? I'm thinking about kernel updates, let's say every month... What are you practices and recommendations?

As the title states whenever I try to login and start the desktop environment (xfce4 and dwm) I get kicked back to the login screen with no error message. Beforehand I was messing around with configuring dwm. I've tried updating through the tty and deleting dwmblocks (which is what I was messing with before all this)

Here's the Xorg log: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/2936c842/

Here's the output when running startxfce4:

usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
                if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the X.org foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
(EE)
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to C server: Resource temporarily unavailable
xinit: server error

So, not so long ago I have made a switch from Win 10 to Linux Mint on my older laptop. I like it, and I have decided to switch to Linux also on my main desktop (to be honest, I've realized I don't actually do anything Windows-specific I can't do on Linux). I am thinking of trying Debian. I know it's not the best for total newbies, but I am willing to commit time to learn a thing or two to make it work to my needs (which are not many). I am just worried - would I be able to setup up my two monitors to work? From what I read, it's not that easy, so that worries me a bit (although, it's nothing which would stop me from the switch). Can anyone provide an opinion about it, please? Many thanks in advance.

Any immutable OS with xfce/cinnamon de available.

Hey guys, I have been using manjaro KDE Plasma for a while and netspeed widget has been a huge part of how I manage my limited data. I recently moved to debian 12 KDE Plasma and everything has been working smoothly but i can't get the Netspeed widget to work. it just shows zeros, no incoming traffic, and outgoing traffic values. Is there a way to fix this ?

I have this Debian server that won't stop crashing. It crashes once every 2 or 3 days. Everything's up to date, the cpu is good and prime 95 never finds any problems. The ram is good and I've run every ram test there is and never found anything wrong. I just can't get it to stop crashing and it's driving me insane.

I used to have an arduino connected to the motherboard's reset jumper and then set up a bash script as a systemctl service that sent a signal to the arduino every 10 seconds and if the arduino didn't receive a signal after 30 seconds it forces a reboot. This doesn't even automate the process of restarting after a crash because too often, the server will crash just lightly enough that everything except that autorestart bash script service stops working so it won't reboot. It does double amount the time the server works without manual intervention though which is better than nothing but not good enough.

Other than just randomly installing different distros until I find one that doesn't do this (reinstalling an os and then setting all the server stuff back up is very time consuming), what can I do to troubleshoot/solve/stop or otherwise do anything about these crashes?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/647174

Woo Hoo! No need for snap anymore. We pure Debian users are no longer limited to just LXC anymore (https://wiki.debian.org/LXD). Thanks to all the dev's (especially Mathias Gibbens) for all the hard work on this.

Now... time for me to explore pure Debian servers to displace Proxmox/LXC for some use cases.

Why use a server-oriented distro for desktop? If the goal is stability, wouldn't something like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, etc. be a better option for desktop?

One of the notable comments made in that Debian release team update is that while RISCV64 (RISC-V 64-bit) isn't yet on the official architecture list, the port is making good progress. For the Debian 13 release in a year and a half to two years out, it's expected to ship RISC-V 64-bit support. The architecture qualification will need to happen later in the Debian Trixie cycle