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      General Questions • [Software] Default system shell

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    Hello, the Debian wiki claims that Dash is the default non-interactive shell since Squeeze.

    However, in my Bookworm VM, if I enter into /bin/sh and query echo $SHELL, it returns /bin/bash.

    Am I missing something about how to find the default system shell, or is the wiki outdated?

    Statistics: Posted by gribble — 2025-03-23 19:01

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      Forum information, requests, and feedback. • Re: [Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, maintenance planned: 1800 UTC - March 27.

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    donald, thanks for the notice and all the work you do here.

    Statistics: Posted by Bulkley — 2025-03-23 18:19

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      General Questions • Re: [Solved] problem: zstd: segfaults after filename trim(?)

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    ... or convince Debian to pull in v1.5.6 ...
    By the Power of Greyskull... :lol:
    It's easy to install the latest zstd 1.5.7 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releas ... 5.7.tar.gz
    After extracting the archive run

    Code: 

    cd zstd-1.5.7makemake install
    ...and reboot. It will install zstd 1.5.7 in /usr/local/bin/

    Statistics: Posted by vng2022 — 2025-03-23 17:55

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      General Questions • [Software] Dropbox shows different files on web site from differnt machines?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March • 1 minute

    Not sure if this is something folks here can help with, but I noticed the other day that a file I was certain was in my Dropbox wasn’t accessible from the Android Dropbox app on my Pixel 7 – so I checked it from my laptop and found that file and several others (visible on my desktop computer either locally or on the web site) were also not showing on the laptop, either the local Dropbox file (as set in Settings for the installed Dropbox client), or on the web site. Files on the laptop’s local Dropbox folder are no newer than late October 2024.

    To be absolutely clear, the Dropbox web site shows different files on different devices when logged in with the same credentials.

    Both desktop and laptop machines are running Debian 12.10, kept updated, with KDE Plasma (selected during OS installation a few months ago) and KDE’s Dolphin file manager. Installing the ‘dolphin-plugins’ package (Git and Dropbox integration, among other added features) hasn’t changed anything that matters; all my local Dropbox-stored files now show the green checkmark indicating they’re up to date, but some recent files that are present on the desktop machine and the web site it views aren’t syncing to the laptop or the web site it sees.

    Suggestions on where to get useful tech support for Dropbox welcomed if this isn’t something folks here can help with.

    Statistics: Posted by Silent Observer — 2025-03-23 17:47

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      Testing And Unstable • Re: Does the Debian team support the testing branch?

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    Debian security team supports only stable, testing branch security is each package maintainers duty.

    Statistics: Posted by arzgi — 2025-03-23 17:19

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      Forum information, requests, and feedback. • [Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, maintenance planned: 1800 UTC - March 27.

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March • 1 minute

    Please take into consideration that the forums will undergo maintenance starting Thursday March 27 at 1800 UTC.


    Timing:
    This update addresses a few areas and will be done progressively starting on Thursday, March 27th at 18:00 UTC.

    The rain date for this maintenance plan will be Wednesday, April 2nd 2025.

    We plan to accomplish:
    • Networking:
      Cohesion fixes among the firewalls in place.
      Review bans set up for regions, it will be a week since the 1st bans so perhaps we can remove a ban on one region per week.
    • Administration:
      Checks on files of super super secret nature.
      Detailed log reviews.
    • Forum Software:
      Software update to newest version (Already current, may remove unused extensions).
    • System software
      Operating system update and upgrade.
      Database maintenance.
    • Hardware:
      Nothing planned
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    Notes:

    The database work will be focused on tweaking some memory settings and the clearing and cleaning of caches, no user accounts will be purged or affected. Some carefully audited older unanswered threads may be removed though that is rare and best left to a single dedicated task.

    The following week we may do a purge of inactive accounts.

    The system updates are very straight forward as they should be on any maintained system.

    Reclaiming my parking spot from my neighbour who is charging his Tesla in his spot and leaving his ICE car in my parking space. I feel while he is balancing out his carbon credits this dual use space is impacting my mental health. There is no city ordinance on burning tires, we will see how this escalates.

    - - - - -

    This thread will also be used to provide updates after the process has finished, or to give updates if anything goes awry.

    Statistics: Posted by donald — 2025-03-23 16:51

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      Beginners Questions • Re: [Installation] Resize LVM after installation

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    I don't use LVM but have dabbled out of curiosity. Arch Wiki is the most useful resource I've found.

    Frankly, I don't see any advantage to balkanizing the system volume, but that isn't the question you asked.

    Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2025-03-23 15:37

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      Installation • Re: two hard disk install over Windows 10

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March • 1 minute

    Despite adjusting the boot order in BIOS ...
    Does the change in boot order stick? There was a bug in early UEFI firmware, especially common with HPs, where it was hard coded to keep Windows at top of the boot list. Firmware would appear to accept a change, but the order would revert on reboot. If those are your symptoms, the solution is to use efibootmgr to deactivate the Windows firmware entry, leaving it first but ignored.

    If those aren't your symptoms, the issue might be that the system volume is too small. Looks like you did a default encrypted installation, then went in (presumably per a tutorial), shrank the system volume and added the home volume. If that's the scenario, the solution is to rebalance the split between system and home. With a TB drive, there's no reason to be stingy with system; I'd give it at least 30 GB (more is you want to install container apps). You could resize the swap volume (or not) at the same time. The default value is fine for most cases. It's true, though, the default won't support hibernation.

    As an aside, you're making this unnecessarily complicated by using system encryption. You can protect the stuff which needs protecting (passwords and sensitive files) by other means. Meanwhile, an encrypted system is more difficult to repair, multi-boot and/or reinstall. For what? If someone finds or steals your computer, they're not gonna install a keylogger and return the machine. That only happens in movies.

    Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2025-03-23 15:29

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      General Questions • Re: LibreOffice saved output is not compatable

      news.woodpeckersnest.space / forums-debian-net:0 • 23 March

    The answer given by ask.LibreOffice.org is a bit difficult to find, but is good;
    Go to Tools>Options, Load/Save>General. At bottom, you can choose which ODF variant to save documents: from 1.0 to 1.3 Extended.

    Statistics: Posted by Andrew Lohmann — 2025-03-23 14:54