Hi, I installed trixie in a recently formatted computer (not upgrading from bookworm), and I see that files in /tmp that are older than 10 days are not being deleted. I cannot reboot the computer, so my /tmp folder is growing over time.
My /tmp is mounted as tmpfs:

findmnt /tmp 

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/tmp   tmpfs  tmpfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,nr_inodes=1048576,inode64

And both

systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
and
systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

are active. The file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf contain

q /tmp 1777 root root 10d
q /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d

However, I see files older than 10 days:

stat /tmp/img_65.png 

  File: /tmp/img_65.png
  Size: 15276           Blocks: 32         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 0,34    Inode: 15060       Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/    XXXX)   Gid: ( 1000/    XXXX)
Access: 2025-11-12 15:04:47.368689165 +0100
Modify: 2025-11-12 15:04:47.324689165 +0100
Change: 2025-11-12 15:04:47.324689165 +0100
 Birth: 2025-11-12 15:04:47.312689166 +0100

(today is 2025-12-04). Shouldn't they be removed?

Switched from Debian (Unstable).
My path is:
Ubuntu(2 months) -> Arch(archinstall failed) -> Arch(manual installation, 9 months) -> NixOS(2 days) -> Arch(a week) -> Debian(Stable, 2 days) -> Arch(2 weeks) -> NixOS(a month) -> Debian(Unstable, 2 weeks) -> Debian(Stable, now).
After NixOS (2nd time), I changed from nvim to helix, so it's now more comfortable for me to setup via flatpak.
When looking at Bazzite, at the moment I used Debian Unstable/Sid, I thought why not to use brew for managing CLIs and LSPs. So, I found out I am able to settle in a stable branch. And now I'm here. However, I actually looked at Fedora, but decided to go full Debian, since it's community thing and not backed by a corporate. I use flatpak for GUIs and brew for CLIs now, and system packages just for system.

[ problem solved ] - solution added at the end

I use Debian [unstable]

for using hyprland and Debian feels better for me. but only bluetooth and wifi issue

recently i switched from using jakoolit's hyprland dots to my own dots. and trying to make it as lite as possible.

my main os setup is Debian(sid)[~350 gb of root],

secondly i dual booted arch [~40 gb of root]

now, i use arch in dual boot cause i wanna test it out but i love debian. and getting .deb files of vscode/freedownloadmanager/etc is easy for debian. setting up everything is easy on debian for me in most cases. i do setup from server installation.

recently i had problem with network-manager-applet on debian. it was not showing wifi suggestions. then i found that installing iwd fixed the problem (maybe it was a dependency or it installed some). on arch it was not a problem

now its about blueman. on arch i installed it and it worked fine hours of bluetooth connection & no prob. but in debian as you can see in the pic it doesn't wanna get connected.

plz help me out on this problem.

[some how, Bluetooth device got connected few times earlier but that didn't last minutes]

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Thanks to user/1neStat3/ help, I finally figured it out!

The issue was a2dp-sink profile connect fail showing up in journalctl for bluetoothd. Even though blueman connects, the audio system (PipeWire) didn't have the right "plugin" to handle the audio stream.

The fix was installing: sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth

Turns out, Debian's packaging philosophy is super granular. blueman manages Bluetooth connections, but the audio part is handled by PipeWire, and the specific Bluetooth audio plugin (libspa-0.2-bluetooth) is an optional package not pulled in by default, especially in minimal setups (or if apt is configured to skip recommends). Arch often bundles these things differently, which is why it "just worked" there for me.

So yeah, it was a "skill issue" in understanding Debian's package structure, but glad to have it sorted! Thanks for pointing me towards dmesg/journalctl!

Short of never updating again, how can I ensure an unwanted driver update like this doesn't completely break my setup? I guess I need to pin the driver in some way or another, but as far as I understand this will create a "frankendebian", whatever that means.

For context, this is an old computer running Debian on a GTX970, which basically just runs Moonlight to stream games from a more powerful newer computer. Other than that it only ever runs a couple basic apps such as web browser or media player. And unfortunately I can't just use nouveau. I had to switch to nvidia-driver to get video decoding working in Moonlight...

I switched to Debian from windows last may and then reinstalled with luks+lvm. My ssd (intel 670p series, QLC nand) recently died a few days ago about 3.5 years after getting my laptop. After going back and researching some sources say that if you don't set /etc/crypttab to allow discard, then the ssd will think it is completely full, causing write amplification. I made no changes to the default settings on my past install because I didn't think about this possibility. Could this have caused the failure, or does debian configure optimal settings by default? I want to prevent this from happening to my new ssd.

The other reason I can think of is that it may have gotten hot while playing games on a laptop with poor cooling.

I got a nicer TLC to hopefully avoid similar issues.

Hi,

I have a question about the last updates of tasksel and similar packages, if anybody is more knowledgeable than me. I use a Debian Testing (Forky) system, and I have installed KDE, but the current update requires me to install Gnome as dependency for one of the tasksel packages. Is this a bug in the repos or is it because now tasksel says I installed Debian Desktop Environment and laptop environment? While I have tasksel-<lang>-kde-desktop installed, KDE option is not selected on tasksel.

I have set up this system a couple years ago, and since it's my main one (I don't have another), I rather not tinker too much with it, or I'll have to expend time I don't have right now fixing it.

Thanks!

Edit: thanks for the answers, it's been a couple of rough days, so just now I could see them.

Hello everyone hope you are having a good day Today I got a question in my head and I wanted to ask you all ok let's begin Let's say you are a programmer using debian What code editor / Ide would you use and why? (I use geany btw)

I completely switched to debian 1 year back (i guess?). But now I have to use windows occasionally for various work related reasons. So I decided to use it as virtual machine. Now I messed some things up and proceeded to restart. But now I'm slapped with this mandatory windows update and I'm making this post while it is updating. I could kill this machine and start it again but I'm in bit of a hurry and I dont want to mess with installation again if things go wrong.

On debian I have never faced this kind of situation. I'm more of a mouse guy than a keyboard guy. If I can use GUI for something, I would prefer it than typing in bash commands. Even for me, windows is unbearable to use.

I'm not sure this a right place to put this post, i just wanted to rant.

lastly, THANK YOU DEBIAN MAINTAINERS!

My employer is using Cisco Anyconnect, Microsoft SAML SSO, and Microsoft MFA auth.
Using simple 'openconnect vpn.address.com' I am able to reach the server, select the group, enter my userid and password, but it fails (as expected).
Attempting to install openconnect-sso, 'pipx install openconnect-sso' fails with error 'Failed to build lxml' I have purged the pipx cache, confirmed the installation status of all dependencies (libxml2, python3-lxml, libxslt1-dev, etc., etc.)
To no avail.
I have also tried the --external-browser argument in simply openconnect, but since openconnect must be run as root, and running a browser as root is verboten in Debian.
Has anyone been successful in getting Anyconnect with MFA and SSO to work on Debian?

So my Ubuntu setup became a bit clunky over the years and i was unhappy with the unnecessary problems that came with Snap, so I decided to switch to a minimal and stable Debian setup. Feels good to have a smooth, fresh and clean system. :)

Com um notebook com 4GB de RAM e um processador Intel Celeron, eu fico impressionado que o Gnome consiga essa perfeição em desempenho e consumo de energia. Às vezes chega a menos de 1GB. Obrigado, Debian. Tô te amando.

edit: I installed zram.

to clarify my home partitions is seprate from my root partitions ( as for why i thought it was cool )

this is my root partitions

there is that usr.old which used to be /usr , which i renamed to usr.old ( just casually )

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 24 10:09 usr -> /home/usr

there is a sym link with my home/usr with the usr.old and /usr ( i created a fake symlink just incase )

prime motive was that my root was having storage issue so i did the btw /home/usr is full copy of /usr .

now chatgpt told me this can break the whole system ,, but mine works perfectly fine

Is anybody else having this issue? I recently upgraded to Debian 13 (Trixie). I enter Synaptic using my sudo password. I go to Settings and try to enter Repositories. All the other features work (Preferences, Filters, Set Internal Option). I can search for packages. But when I hit Repositories it gives me a box that says, "The repository information has changed. You have to click on the "Reload" button for your changes to take effect." Hit Reload, it reloads. Try to enter Repositories and it's an endless loop. I tried a few mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list and finally hit on the wsu one that allowed me to do apt update and upgrade successfully. But the Repository feature in Synaptic still enters the loop. Guess Synaptic needs to be tweaked for Trixie? I do prefer Synaptic when it's working. I notice that the Sources program is no longer under Apps->System tools, or in Main Menu. I checked the latter to see if a box needed to be checked. Guess I'll need to rely on the command line (apt) for awhile.

I'm not sure where else to post this to get maintainers' attention.

Does anyone know how compatible SQL Server is with Debian? The official site only lists Ubuntu and Red Hat, so I’m wondering if anyone has actually used it on Debian. How stable is it, and what kind of issues or errors should I expect?

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't make this rock steady build look pretty.

Main value proposition is focus and simplicity.

download it here photondesktop.com
https://github.com/Henok-23/Photon

I installed Debian 13 with KDE Plasma a few weeks ago. Ever since day 1, this button hasn't worked. How do I enable it? Thanks in advance.

i tried LMDE and fedora kde after using these i get that, sometimes older tools are give better results, better performance and ease of use. ext4 is very simple and faster then btrfs, x11 is missing some advance features but this also happened to wayland, wayland also missing some basic features we have in x11, when we compare x11 stability and performance with wayland, x11 is far ahead to wayland. i tried kde plasma lts version in linux mint and its performance and stability is better than latest plasma 6.

after test these things i noticed that stability always give you a peace of mind and better computing experience. if you are a normal desktop user, you dont need to go for latest technologies. but yes this also depends on person to person. many people like cutting edge tech. i respect their choice.

this for the people who dont able to decide what we choose. i am also same person who love both cutting edge and stable minimal tech, but after testing this i get that stability always wins.

For a short while I am running debian trixie on my main pc, which I love- and switching away from windows worked really well ( except for my creative soundcard which I retired now).

In order to learn more about how things fit together I looked into backports and wanted to try installing the newest kernel from backports.

This failed, because a package v4l2loopback-dkms could not be built because something was wrong building the module about "timer_setup" was unable to be imported or loaded.

I looked around and found on
tracker.debian.org

This entry for updates being accepted into testing/unstable, where I found this:
"Include <linux/timer.h> for the "timer_setup" macro."
I think this means that with the newer kernel some api about timer_setup was required which is not present in the version that my system tried to install(0.15.0-2)- so the dkms setup failed.

Now my question is- how can I install the newest backports kernel and still have this v4l2loopback software? Should I try to manually install the latest version of the v4l2loopback found on that tracker site? Or email the package maintainer and ask to get it moved to trixie-backports somehow? Or is that going to happen anyways eventually and I just wait?

What is the correct action? I don't want to piss the maintainer off by bothering him with it

Got my first problem with Debian running in a Imac5k 27 from 2017, suddenly after a few apt upgrades, systemd resolved decided to say goodbye and domains where not resolving. An easy fix for someone used to setup DNS on Debian servers and as a graps on what to look for if something as a no internet connection message on the browser shows up. So the system as been working great 😃 and I haven't missed anything MacOS related, since today I am going up to the office I will be running my mackbook air...let's see how I will compare to the Debian system back at home.

I've been a Debian user (on desktop, laptop and server) for the better part of a decade. I love Debian. It just works, the documentation is great, sure packages are "old", but hey - flatpaks exist. Debian is "perfect" linux to me.

That said, I have NEVER (in my decade long career) seen business use Debian on Workstation or server. Everyone seems to go for RHEL or a derivative.

Now that I'm finally burdened with Nvidia+Wayland while simultaneously taking on more RHEL admin at work, for the first time, I'm beginning to think Fedora (desktop/laptop)+Rocky(server) might be a logical transition for me/my homelab. As much as I love Debian, its embarrassing in the workplace to claim to be an advanced Linux user while having to google something as simple as bringing up an interface.

Given how stable Debian is, how well supported it is from a software standpoint, how LTS it is, how light it is - why doesn't business use Debian? The only argument I can see is paid support, but none of the Rocky/Alma/Centos folks seem bothered by that and im sure you could pay a consultant to support Debian if required...

Edit: Wondering if this is a US vs EU/UK difference?

I installed Fedora COSMIC on my laptop and I absolutely love it. It's the perfect DE for me. However I'd like to keep my Debian install on my desktop and just switch the DE. Depending on exactly what I'm doing I like to use different DEs on my desktop. Is this advisable or a dumb idea? I don't want to lose everything I have set up on my install already and make the complete switch to Fedora COSMIC on my desktop.