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General Questions • Re: [Software] initramfs failed after resizing/shrinking root partition

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

Possibly the addition of rd.hostonly=0 and/or rd.auto=1 to your Grub's linu line may get you going. I needed at least one of them after cloning to a larger SSD. To test, simply strike the E key at the Grub menu and append before proceeding with boot.

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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Re: Debian 12 Xfce - new installation - thunar file manager preferences not usable

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

Thank you all for your comments. Just thunar.

It is just that 'stupid' large scaling of thunar preference windows on the fresh installation.

This is OK, but why so large on the now installed? I normally search first in the Xfce forum for Xfce issues like that, but all I could find >> https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15496

I found a solution, so it is 'somehow' solved for me and it's good to hear that I am not alone, who stumbled over this feature.

br Karl

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Beginners Questions • Re: Debian on an old Macbook Pro?

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

I've been running Linux on a 2007 iMac 24" for about 7 years. A Mac BIOS can at times be frustrating, but not a stopper. Set up to boot both Linux and MacOS via the Mac UEFI BIOS may take a little extra work in Linux setup to be able to access files on the Mac's own filesystem(s). I just got a 2012 iMac 27" with which I'll be setting up similarly with the fresh Catalina it came with.

Statistics: Posted by mrmazda — 2025-04-07 07:15

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Off-Topic • Re: [Discussion] What do you do with 10+ years old laptops that still work fine?

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April • 1 minute

Any computer with a working network connection to the server can be made to run a virtual machine full screen that is executing on the server.

Hm, we can't run everything on our server. People are often out and despite running a VPN they are not always connected to our internal network when they need to do work. Also they want to use higher resolution screens on lighter devices. ... I guess I argued myself into a stupid corner here. From what I am writing there can truly be no good use case for our dated laptops in our organisation. At least not as normal working devices. So I guess my question was truly more about other possible sensible use cases somewhere else. Or do you think such old hardware should be retired for good?

That non-profit wouldn't be the FSF by any chance, would it?

No it is a national animal welfare organisation in Austria/Europe.

I treat devices completely inversely, if it is older than 10 years (more like 15 years, these days) I consider it to be gold. Gold from the days before UEFI and TPMs and "secure" boot, Intel ME, AMD platform "security" processor and the likes.

My Librebooted T400s is serving me well privately too. I'm typing on its great keyboard right now. But as mentioned earlier: I can't use many devices at once. Most people obviously don't care about backdoors and similar things as long as they can do what they intend to do without the need to consider anything else.

I have a stack of such laptops sitting behind me as I type away. Do I know what to do with them? Not really. They make good staging environments, I guess.

For a while I had that too. But my wife started complaining about all the devices I had collected over the years and I let go of them. But now other devices pile up in a cupboard in the office. They seem to find me ... no matter where I try to hide.

Statistics: Posted by Onsemeliot — 2025-04-07 05:38

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Installation • Re: Install with two encrypted disks

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

This sounds like you have forgotten to assign the mount point. Especially if you navigate back and forth (and to gparted in between), the mount point can get lost. Doesn't matter, if you want LVM, Calamares is not the right tool anyway.

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Hardware • ASUS X550LA doesn't load Bluetooth

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April • 1 minute

I've been at this for two days and I'm going around in circles.

inxi -E
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.

But dmesg finds Bluetooth after I run modproble btusb
dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[ 222.734241] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 222.734281] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[ 222.734282] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 222.734287] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 222.734290] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 222.734295] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 259.298178] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 259.298183] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 259.298187] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

lsmod | grep -i bluetooth
bluetooth 970752 14 btrtl,btmtk,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb
ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth
rfkill 36864 7 rt2x00lib,asus_wmi,bluetooth,cfg80211
crc16 16384 2 bluetooth,ext4

But lsusb finds nothing

Service is started
systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-04-06 23:42:59 EDT; 12s ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 2920 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9286)
Memory: 808.0K
CPU: 34ms
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─2920 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Apr 06 23:42:59 hostname systemd[1]: Starting bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service...
Apr 06 23:42:59 hostname bluetoothd[2920]: Bluetooth daemon 5.66
Apr 06 23:42:59 hostname systemd[1]: Started bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service.

But the /sys/class/bluetooth directory is empty and the Bluetooth Manager won't start

This laptop is shipped with a Bluetooth adapter according to the specs.

Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550LA v: 1.0 serial: EBN0CV05026045G
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550LA v: 1.0 serial: BSN12345678901234567 UEFI: American Megatrends
v: X550LA.509 date: 06/26/2014
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-4210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 799 min/max: 800/2700 cores: 1: 798 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800

Something is missing or something is blocking the driver from loading?

Statistics: Posted by lintek214 — 2025-04-07 03:57

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Off-Topic • Re: [Discussion] What do you do with 10+ years old laptops that still work fine?

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

That non-profit wouldn't be the FSF by any chance, would it?

I treat devices completely inversely, if it is older than 10 years (more like 15 years, these days) I consider it to be gold. Gold from the days before UEFI and TPMs and "secure" boot, Intel ME, AMD platform "security" processor and the likes.

I have a stack of such laptops sitting behind me as I type away. Do I know what to do with them? Not really. They make good staging environments, I guess.

And nobody seems to want to return to desktop systems

Statistics: Posted by Uptorn — 2025-04-07 03:03

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General Questions • Re: [Software] Debian 12 place app-launcher *.desktop files

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

'Applications' is not a valid choice for Categories. I don't know the app, so the rest may or may not be right. The comment mentions start/stop, sounds like a button candidate not a menu item? Do you need it in a terminal? The execute name sounds more like an installer than the program itself...?

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ ... istry.html

Unfortunately after restarting the system I did not see a xampp shortcut icon in the start menu - much to my dismay. Any thoughts?

And then I did mention menu, a reboot does not regenerate menus.

This may not provide a menu entry for the newly created *.desktop until an upgrade cycle invokes a refresh. Manually you can invoke 'update-menus' if the 'menu' package is installed, which will require root.

Statistics: Posted by CwF — 2025-04-07 01:53

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General Questions • Re: [Software] Debian 12 place app-launcher *.desktop files

news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 7 April

Hey there CwF, thank you for elaborating. From the regular user account (vas@debian) as per your advice in the /.local/share/applications directory I saved a desktop entry file called xampp.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XAMPP Control Panel
Comment=Start and Stop XAMPP
Exec= /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run
Icon=/opt/lampp/htdocs/favicon.ico
Categories=Application
Type=Application
Terminal=true

Unfortunately after restarting the system I did not see a xampp shortcut icon in the start menu - much to my dismay. Any thoughts?

Statistics: Posted by vastzor — 2025-04-07 01:21