General Questions • Re: [Software] newgrp creates a subshell!
As far as I know an unprivileged process cannot change its GID. You can see the logic at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ ... sys.c#L447 . You would need to have the CAP_SETGID capability which...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Re: [Software] enterprise backup solutions???
Backup programs have been reinvented a hundred times over. Exactly...so writing my own is the least preferred path.Statistics: Posted by kent_dorfman766 — 2025-01-15 23:18
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Re: [Software] Bad exit status 2
@mcdaniels @arzgi Thank you both for the replies. I was able to reboot the machine this morning and it came right up and I ran the update and upgrade commands again and everything appears to be AOK,...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • Re: [HowTo] Driver of Nvidia
Major update:I finally installed Arch Linux https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=302645 https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/ like Valve, I believed Debian is the universal OS...
View ArticleInstallation • Secure Boot - Installer works flawlessly, but a reboot into...
Hello,I have a machine with Secure Boot enabled which I cannot disable. I cannot even enter this machine's BIOS menu [1].This has severely impacted my choices of OSes that I can run in it, with Ubuntu...
View ArticleHardware • Re: MB MSI X870-P WIFI - problem with rtl8126
Hello,According to [1], the chipset of your wireless network adapter should be named WCN785x:Code: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc WCN785x Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800] [17cb:1107] (rev...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] What is the best way to install Ghidra (sw...
What is the best way to install Ghidra a Software Reverse Engineering Framework on Debian? There is no official package of this software in the Debian repository.Originally I thought that the Ghidra...
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General Questions • [Software] glx gears error on iMac G5 nVidia NV34M...
Good Evening,Firstly apologies if this is posted in the wrong area however there are a few strands to the thread. I am running Sid installed from the PPC64 Debian port (https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64)...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] BTRFS migration (from ext4) of root filesystem
Not fully sure if this is the right place to share some conclusions of a day of migration experiments, saving others some time. Happy to be redirected to a more appropriate place.I needed to migrate...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Re: [O/S] I2C bus not finding any i2c device on debian...
@arzgi Unfortunately, i cant say the device. I modified the kernel config and and added CONFIG_...=y and recompiled the kernel, then i was able to load the module using modprobe. I have done this same...
View ArticleDebian Development Discussion • Re: [Discussion] What about making apt...
Endless OS, based on Debian, is an "immutable" distribution that does what this post is about. The transactional magic is done through OSTree, apt is just disabled, flatpak is used to install...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Re: [Testing - Trixie] System Sometimes Unable to...
Important update! I just had this happen while I was shutting the laptop down! So, this problem isn't limited to just suspending.Statistics: Posted by Cosmonaut_ — 2025-01-17 23:00
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Off-Topic • Re: [Off-Topic]Is this web site maintained?
thx its just i dont know how to crate a page on this site. Statistics: Posted by i386 ibm T4x — 2025-01-17 23:54
View ArticleHardware • Problems Switching Between Graphics Card and Integrated Graphics
Hi Everyone, My computer has both an Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU, and I had always been able to switch between the two on the fly without having to change any settings. After a...
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Off-Topic • Re: [Off-Topic]appreciation
thx you for your understanding im only 10years old.i want to learn more about computers thats why i want microsoft edge on my 32bit T42 ibm think pad [very old] soo i can use things like scratch...
View ArticleInstallation • Re: Secure Boot - Installer works flawlessly, but a reboot...
Do you think I can do this without further enrolling other MOK keys?I know to a certainty that MOK keys aren't needed to disable validation. Indeed, the purpose of the latter procedure is to eliminate...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Re: Install Debian without a DE (in...
sure. just uncheck what you don't want and go for it.you will load to a tty to login and do whatever you intend to do.Nothing at all wrong with this response but I'm gonna expand on it a little bit...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • Re: [HowTo] Install and configure Debian...
@Best_ThreadsStatistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-01-18 18:16
View ArticleInstallation • Re: Is Secure Boot a prereqquisite for the Debian 12 installer?
What is the Web Installer? Use netinstall, CD or DVD image, no live, secure boot off and it works.I'm sorry, I meant the netinstall (the one I've been advised to use after finding the Debian KDE...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Scrivener in Lutris disappears on...
I have a persistent issue with Scrivener running in Lutris (ie, Wine). Every time I use a touchpad swipe gesture to either switch workspaces or reveal the dash/app grid, the Scrivener windows...
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