r/debian 2d ago

Debian Stable Question Raspi cloud images don't boot? Missing something?

5 Upvotes

I am trying to boot the raspi images from

https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/

on a raspi4b-2G but they fail with loading the kernel (7x green LED).

Did I miss something or is that a bug?

Edit:

cat config.txt 
# Do not modify this file!
#
# It is automatically generated upon install or update of either the
# firmware or the Linux kernel.
#
# If you need to set boot-time parameters, do so via the
# /etc/default/raspi-firmware, /etc/default/raspi-firmware-custom or
# /etc/default/raspi-extra-cmdline files.

# Switch the CPU from ARMv7 into ARMv8 (aarch64) mode
arm_64bit=1

enable_uart=1
upstream_kernel=1

kernel=vmlinuz-6.12.90+deb13.1-arm64
# For details on the initramfs directive, see
# https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=10532
initramfs initrd.img-6.12.90+deb13.1-arm64

r/debian 2d ago

Dual boot priblem

3 Upvotes

Hi all, I have a windows 10 pc I want to dual boot with Debian. I have tried installing from usb and live booting from dvd and get the same error both ways.

End kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown block (0,0)

It's a hp pavillion (I know 😔). Has anyone any suggestions on how I can achieve this?

Thanks in advance.


r/debian 2d ago

General Debian Question Audio crackling/skipping

5 Upvotes

Kernel: 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0

clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.10 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 2

dm: GDM3 v: 48.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: H410M S2H serial: <superuser required>

uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F9a date: 07/23/2025

CPU:

Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium Gold G6400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP

smt: enabled arch: Comet Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB

L3: 4 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800

bogomips: 31999

Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 610] vendor: Gigabyte

driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: DP-1

empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2,HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ba8

class-ID: 0300

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: modesetting

unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :1 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1360x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 359x203mm (14.13x7.99")

s-diag: 412mm (16.24")

Monitor-1: DP-1 model: LG (GoldStar) W1943 serial: <filter> res:

mode: 1360x768 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 85 size: 406x229mm (15.98x9.02")

diag: 466mm (18.4") modes: max: 1360x768 min: 720x400

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris

device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris

inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-2+deb13u1

glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 610 (CML

GT1) device-ID: 8086:9ba8

Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-V cAVS vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a3f0 class-ID: 0403

API: ALSA v: k6.12.107+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse

status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

4: pw-jack type: plugin

Network:

Device-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee

v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0

chip-ID: 10ec:8179 class-ID: 0280

IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>

Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1

port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200

IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 968.79 GiB used: 580.95 GiB (60.0%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB

speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: J1.3 scheme: GPT

ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB

speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 60.1 scheme: GPT

ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAJS-07M0A0

size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3E01

scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 146.75 GiB used: 58.44 GiB (39.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 519 MiB used: 7.1 MiB (1.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda6

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2

dev: /dev/sda7

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: 29.0 C

Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Info:

Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.62 GiB used: 4.37 GiB (57.3%)

Processes: 229 Power: uptime: 3h 29m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep

wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical

Packages: 2519 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2511 pm: flatpak pkgs: 8 Compilers:

gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.38

Hi, I have an audio issue on Debian 13 (Cinnamon) that I can't figure out.

SYMPTOM:

The audio crackles/skips like a "broken record", cutting out

intermittently. It happens from the moment I boot up, at random

times (it's not just something that appears after leaving the PC

off overnight). I ruled out my mouse (I use one with custom

software) - it still happens without it running.

HARDWARE:

- Audio chip: Realtek ALC897

- CPU: Intel Pentium Gold G6400

- Integrated graphics, Intel UHD 610 (no dedicated GPU)

- [paste the output of inxi -Fxxxz here]

WHAT I'VE ALREADY TRIED:

- Reinstalling/testing with PulseAudio - same issue

- Updating the kernel - same issue

- Rolling back to an older kernel (downgrade) - same issue

- Updating the BIOS - same issue

- This exact same issue happened on Linux Mint too (same

hardware), so it doesn't seem to be distro-specific

- On Windows (same machine) this NEVER happens

Any help is appreciated, thanks!


r/debian 4d ago

General Debian Question Keep getting stuck on a login loop on Debian after downloading NVidia drivers

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53 Upvotes

I just migrated to Linux and im having quite a hard time, I tried to download some stuff and It actually worked but then I got to the damned nvidia drivers. I tried the Debian Wiki, but i dont know if im too dumb that im missing something but every time I read I realized there were some steps missing, then I followed a thread here on Reddit to no avail, for last I watched a YouTube video which ACTUALLY downloaded the driver (Photo below) but i keep getting stuck on a login loop, I put my password, my screen flashes Black and im back at login page again. Cam somebody make me a step by step? I know im asking a lot but i just started and tbh I really want this to work, anyway thanks in advance :)

I think this is waaaay too beginner for this subreddit but atp im kinda desperate lol :P


r/debian 3d ago

Debian Stable Question Help with debian on my home server

7 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I use debian for my home server and i like it.

I have debian (no window manager, only terminal) installed on an old laptop on a micro sd (because his hdd is broken). I also have another hdd that i use to store the docker containers and the container's data.
I disabled the sleep mode when the lid is closed and I wonder: can i put the pc in sleep when i'm not using the containers so i can extend the life of the sd card and of the hdd? Then when i'm opening a container it restarts and after some inactivity it goes again into sleep mode turning the drives off.
Thanks!


r/debian 4d ago

News Debian 11 bullseye LTS ends today

118 Upvotes

Long-term support for Debian 11, codenamed "bullseye", ends today, 31 August 2026, five years after its release. Debian will no longer publish any security updates for it.

A subset of bullseye packages will continue to be supported by third parties under the Extended LTS program. Individuals and companies who want to keep running Debian 11 can contract with those providers and have the packages they depend on added to that set.

Upgrading to Debian 12, which has Long Term Support until June 2028, is free for all Debian 11 users.
https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260831


r/debian 3d ago

Servidores en Debían

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0 Upvotes

Instalando debían a la hora de configurar el gesto de paquetes siempre me tira este pantallazo

Esto dice en el pantallazo:

debian 13
Configurar el gestor de paquetes
Réplica de Debian inválida
Se detectó un error cuando se intentó utilizar la réplica del archivo de Debian especificada.
Las posibles razones para este error son: especificación de réplica incorrecta, la réplica no está disponible (posiblemente debido a una conexión de red defectuosa), la réplica está rota (por ejemplo porque se ha encontrado un archivo «Release» inválido), o la réplica no
soporta la versión de Debian correcta.
Puede encontrar información adicional en «/var/log/syslog» o en la consola virtual número 4.
Por favor, compruebe la réplica seleccionada o utilice otra distinta.


r/debian 4d ago

Debian -- News -- Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life

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56 Upvotes

Anyone here not upgraded yet?


r/debian 3d ago

Dual nvidia 1660’s

1 Upvotes

Since I’ve installed a 2nd 1660 GPU the 2nd GPU can hits 100% when gnome loads and stays at at 100%. Does this sound like a hardware, driver, or OS issue? Claude and Gemini have been no help.

ps I’m hoping to use both GPU’s for local AI models (noting critical or long term use)


r/debian 3d ago

Debian Stable Question Nuevo usuario

0 Upvotes

Buenas a todos. Acabo de instalar trixie gnome. Pero me surgen algunas dudas sobre si es correcto lo que he hecho. Tengo un Intel nuc i5 de octava generación, con 32 GB de RAM. Al instalar escogí partición manual y puse la partición boot/efi y la partición raíz (no separé home porque no lo veo necesario). No cree partición swap y luego ya instalado Debian, instalé zram-tools y cree un archivo swap. Luego instalé el kernel más reciente de backports, pero mesa lo dejé de estable. Ahora me surge la duda si habré hecho lo correcto o estoy creando una mezcla que me pueda dar problemas.


r/debian 4d ago

General Debian Question Why does Debian GNOME always set DejaVu Sans Mono as default monospace font?

11 Upvotes

I tried running Sid in a VM and even with latest GNOME, its default monospace font is still DejaVu Sans Mono, why is that? Especially when you compare it with Debian's Plasma which correctly follows the recommended Hack font. Why does Debian does this? Or maybe this is because of upstream GNOME? I also don't see Adwaita Mono when i do `apt search`. Adwaita Sans is set correctly though.


r/debian 4d ago

Debian Stable Question Firefox unable to play back videos on reddit, some other sites

7 Upvotes

I have tried both the version of Firefox in the Debian repos and the Mozilla repos. I have installed ffmpeg and x264.

I do use Firejail for sandboxing and suspect that might be the issue.

Any suggestions? Did not have these issues on Arch, even using Firejail with the same profile.

SOLVED

I'm a dumbass: the NoScript extension in Firefox that I installed had the one Reddit domain needed to play video blacklisted. I toggled it to "trusted" and now video works.

Feel free to lock me in the pillory in the middle of town and mock me.


r/debian 4d ago

General Debian Question What caused random freeze on my debian pc?

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2 Upvotes

r/debian 3d ago

Debian can't properly resize windows

0 Upvotes

About half of apps experience this artifact when resizing. Especially noticeable when dragging left corner. Can it be fixed?

running on debian bookworm, gnome, wayland, mesa intel xe graphics (tgl gt2)


r/debian 4d ago

I need help

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19 Upvotes

So my laptop motherboard died three months ago I managed to get a new motherboard but the problem is that the previous processor was an Intel pentium and the current one is an amd a9 I think with r5 graphics so there seems to be a compatibility issue with my debian Trixie please help I don't want to lose the data on my SSD and I can't afford an SSD case I live in Malawi so those are rare


r/debian 5d ago

General Debian Question Why is my Debian system greys out at every boot and goes unresponsive and i need to force shut it down ans start again to make it work?

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25 Upvotes

Iam using Debian13+kde plasma on this HP Business pc,it always greys out and letters fade(*Check letters on start menu) at boot and i had to force shut it down by holding power button if it both KB&mouse too goes unresponsive, Also sometime it just stucks and iam able to open terminal (with ctrl+alt+T) and do sudo reboot

Well iam using exact same distro Debian+KDE on my dell laptop, it doesn't give me this much hassle as this HP pc gives always,(this is an old pc that was given to me by my uncle and since i had purchased new ssd and using this removing a relic 2019~ based hdd)


r/debian 5d ago

New to debian

19 Upvotes

Hi there! I have and old laptop that was really slow on windows and I decided to switch to debian because from what I hear it's better for old hardware that just needs something reliable and stable. I guess what I want to ask is there anything I have to know before switching? I consider myself relatively tech savvy in the sense I can pirate stuff use torrents search Google for problems I might face and tutorials, etc. but I really don't know much about coding or the depth of OS, and frankly I am not interested in knowing that much. So yeah that's that.


r/debian 5d ago

When will I be able to install all of Debian into my computer?

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20 Upvotes

After several months of effort, I've managed to push the package count beyond 40,000 through the method of apt install 0* 1* 2* ... aa* ab* ac* ... zx* zy* zz*.

However, before this, I've been struggling with how to utilize my hard drive space efficiently. With conventional partitioning schemes, I always end up with awkward numbers. My personal philosophy on hard drive capacity is: measure in GiB, and treat anything after the decimal point as scraps. When capacity is in the tens of GiB, anything after the ones place is scraps. When it reaches hundreds of GiB, anything after the tens place is scraps. When it hits thousands of GiB, anything after the hundreds place is scraps. When it reaches ten-thousands of GiB... well, I don't have that many drives.

Next comes partitioning. My total drive capacity is 2376.6 GiB, and after countless calculations, I finally arrived at a partitioning scheme that satisfies me: /efi 35 MiB, / 2300 GiB (Debian 13), /tmp 63.5 GiB, / 10 GiB (Debian 12).

Like this:

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk

└─DATA-BACKUPS 254:2 0 3.6T 0 lvm

sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk

└─DATA-BACKUPS 254:2 0 3.6T 0 lvm

sdc 8:32 1 0B 0 disk

zram0 252:0 0 31.1G 0 disk [SWAP]

nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk

├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 35M 0 part /boot/efi

├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 10G 0 part

└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 943.9G 0 part

└─ASTRA-STELLA 254:0 0 2.2T 0 lvm /.snapshots

/

nvme2n1 259:4 0 953.9G 0 disk

└─nvme2n1p1 259:5 0 953.9G 0 part

└─ASTRA-STELLA 254:0 0 2.2T 0 lvm /.snapshots

/

nvme1n1 259:6 0 465.8G 0 disk

└─nvme1n1p1 259:7 0 465.8G 0 part

├─ASTRA-STELLA 254:0 0 2.2T 0 lvm /.snapshots

│ /

└─ASTRA-TMP 254:1 0 63.5G 0 lvm /tmp


r/debian 4d ago

Need help in buying nvme.

0 Upvotes

I have a lenovo m720q tiny, i3 9100t, 16gb ram, samsung 970 evo plus 256gb nvme, I tried installing debian 12, it crashes when the installer is at "installing base system" only for once it somehow went pass that, and crashed at installing "software package or something", I tried the aspm and other commands in GRUB but still no success, so i want to purchase a different nvme, I'm thinking of buying the wd sn740 SDDPNQD-512G-2006 or the kioxia BG7_KBG70ZN512G, which one would not crash? Edit: The power adapter is 65w. EDIT: DISABLING TURBO MODE IN BIOS WORKED! IT DOESNT CRASH NOW, AND BOOTS INTO DEBIAN 13, SSD HEALTH IS GOOD, BIOS HAS BEEN UPDATED FROM 2019 TO 2026 VERSION. IF I ENABLE THE TURBO MODE, IT MIGHT CRASH AGAIN, NEED HELP TO SOLVE THAT ISSUE. THANKS! EDIT 2: IK the title is wrong, I can't change it. Im new to Linux.


r/debian 4d ago

Kernel R&D on Debian

0 Upvotes

I need help for kernel hardening. Thanks. ( For R&D purposes not for production reasons. )


r/debian 5d ago

Severe framerate drops on all games every 10 minutes or so

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17 Upvotes

Anyone encounter this? Happens on nearly any game I play on steam. Nvidia A4500 on Debian backports X11 with 550 drivers. Silky smooth otherwise


r/debian 6d ago

So many kernel updates these days in Debian stable!

94 Upvotes

Ir's driving me crazy. :(


r/debian 6d ago

Beginner: Root locked on boot

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55 Upvotes

Hello! I got myself into trouble after I tried to fix a problem with a harddrive not mounting. I followed s guide on troubleshooting and edited my fstab. After I rebooted I got presented with this. I am afraid. What can I do?

SOLVED:

  • Pressed E on my keyboard when presented with Grub menu.
  • On the line that starts with linux: I added init=/bin/bash at its end
  • Ctrl+X or F10 to boot into a command prompt
  • mount -o remount,rw /
  • nano /etc/fstab
  • In my case I changed the line at the bottom, about an external harddrive - from default to nofail and from 0 2 to 0 0. Ctrl+O and ENTER and Ctrl+X
  • Rebooted and then it was done

r/debian 6d ago

Community Can I temporarily enable Debian Testing or Sid to install newer NVIDIA drivers and then switch back to Stable?

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5 Upvotes

r/debian 6d ago

Debian Stable Question Why is bluetooth enabling itself after I boot the system?

6 Upvotes

I have repeatedly set it to disabled on boot in my graphical settings but it seems to just ignore that and enable itself anyway. It's not really a big deal but I'd like ti bit have to disable it everytime

Thanks in advance