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      General Questions • Re: [Software] Can Hypnotix be installed on Bookworm ?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Sigh. There's no need to build anything. I told the OP where to find the only three deb files he (or she) needs to install the app on Stable. Or he can add the LMDE repo and get updates. The risk of conflicts is the same either way. Building from source has the most risk (because it's complicated), is something most Linux desktop users don't know how to do, and the OP has already declined that suggestion in this thread.

    Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2025-04-09 03:16

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      General Questions • Re: [Software] How to free VRAM used by a zombie?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Look for the process as root, all of this in a separate tty as root.

    Is this card used only for compute or does it serve as display gpu also?

    If it is the display, you will need to unload X, sorry.

    If it is not the primary display gpu then you can rescan or reset using the appropriate /sys/class/dont/get/lost/something/something/resan to echo in a 1 as root. If your not familiar with the process it is not the easiest thing to give concise directions for, and something I would only do with my own fingers on your keyboard.

    In my case it would be

    Code: 

     echo "1" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/rescan
    There is also a harsher reset option, and more.

    A DE on X won't survive if running on the device.

    You may want to rejigger your configuration.

    Statistics: Posted by CwF — 2025-04-09 02:58

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      General Questions • [Software] How to free VRAM used by a zombie?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    I was running some CUDA jobs that use a lot of both VRAM and RAM. At some point, I hit OOM and the oom killer killed one of these processes.

    ps now shows that process as defunct, the ppid as 1, and in the state "Zl".

    In the past, everyone has told me "zombies don't use any resources, you don't have to worry about them".

    Except for one small issue. The VRAM allocated by this process is still in use! The pid doesn't show up in nvidia-smi, but nvidia-smi does show the VRAM as in use. This is a big problem. I'm using this system for a lot of other tasks, so reboot would result in major downtime. The fact that a zombie is using system resources, blocking my work currently, seems to contradict everything I was taught about zombie processes.

    How can I manually free the VRAM so I can get back up and running without rebooting? I don't mind compiling and running some c code if it would fix this issue.

    Statistics: Posted by kerryhall — 2025-04-09 01:33

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      Installation • Re: dpkg --get/--set -selections for new install

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    I haven't found a solution for the error cause(s). Because I'm ultimately wanting a "clean" install, I'm not going to install all the previously installed packages, I'll add them back in as I need them.

    So far getting the hardware and peripherals back has been relatively painless. Getting the Asus USB bluetooth dongle took a bit of work, but was able to get it working last night.

    Thanks for everyone's input, I'm marking [CLOSED].

    Statistics: Posted by ramack — 2025-04-09 01:20

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      Forum information, requests, and feedback. • Re: [Forum] Slow and Timing out

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Quick update as we are still monitoring, guests are averaging around 400, we will see a slight spike this week as some of the older 1 week bans expired. However, when that bot/host returns with the same behaviour they get automatic 2 week bans and so on.

    Some numbers:
    BotsStrict botsCrawlersPermanent Bans
    175273131042949

    Statistics: Posted by donald — 2025-04-09 00:57

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      Installation • Re: Help needed: Can't re-install gnome?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Good news.

    Start a new thread for the sound issue.

    Statistics: Posted by dilberts_left_nut — 2025-04-09 00:39

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      System and Network configuration • Re: [Solved] Cannot resolve local hostnames

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Somehow an additional nameserver line got into /etc/resolv.conf. I did not manually edit the file, but something did insert an additional DNS server. I suspect either remmina or krdp, since I installed and did short trials of both, but I have no proof of either. In any case, removing all nameservers other than the local router solved the issue.
    I'm glad you sorted it out :-)

    It's improbable that remmina or krdp modified your /etc/resolv.conf .

    Something else was involved.

    Anything that ends well is a good thing anyway.

    Happy Debian.

    Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2025-04-08 23:45

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      Testing And Unstable • Re: Custom Kernel compilation failing to boot

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April

    Hello,
    Hey @aki good news, the new kernel is working, I can boot fine.

    I had to enable quite a few more options, but not as much as everything that is enabled by default. Thank you a lot.
    I'm glad you sorted it out. :)

    May you please share the .config file you used as compressed attachment to a follow-up post ?

    Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2025-04-08 23:36

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      Hardware • Re: [Solved] AMDGPU missing firmware

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 9 April edit

    after hours spent searching for a solution to this issue on the web I finally found your post and it worked.
    I made an account because I wanted to thank you!!

    Statistics: Posted by panhard88 — 2025-04-08 23:05