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#11
Newbie questions / Re: Intermittent internet afte...
Last post by kanliot - November 30, 2025, 03:17:11 AMwelp 30% packet loss is quite serious.
I'm also unfamiliar with dhclient, is that standard on sparkylinux? I use 'network manager' which is administrated by network work manager applet.
It sounds like DNS is going down for a few minutes for whatever reason. This is usually the problem when you can successfully ping the internet, but not load any website where the name is not cached.
I recently returned my router a week ago, it was expensive... and old. I should have done it earlier, spectrum internet here in the USA is quite overpriced.
Please write down your ip address on the working devices, then after reconnecting with your pc, you can check if you are actually connected to the router by opening a new shell and running
you can also check your current ip address and check that you are on the same network as the other devices.
I'm also unfamiliar with dhclient, is that standard on sparkylinux? I use 'network manager' which is administrated by network work manager applet.
It sounds like DNS is going down for a few minutes for whatever reason. This is usually the problem when you can successfully ping the internet, but not load any website where the name is not cached.
I recently returned my router a week ago, it was expensive... and old. I should have done it earlier, spectrum internet here in the USA is quite overpriced.
Please write down your ip address on the working devices, then after reconnecting with your pc, you can check if you are actually connected to the router by opening a new shell and running
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fping -r0 [your router ip address] you can also check your current ip address and check that you are on the same network as the other devices.
#12
Sparky applications / sparky-backlight's icon is mis...
Last post by oliveit - November 30, 2025, 01:21:05 AMThe package sparky-backlight uses an icon called `preferences-desktop-display-color` for the tray. It isn't on my system in any installed icon packs which are Adwaita, GNOME, HighConstrast and Tango. With the exception of Tango they do all have `preferences-desktop-display`.
IMO the icon without `-color` is better anyway:
. Vs `-color` variant: 
. This little tool doesn't modify the color of the screen so that's not the right icon.
Not sure best way to resolve. Include a fallback icon to use if theme doesn't have one?
I am not sure if there is any generic/default icon set that can be relied upon.
Gnome Adwaita has this one that might be a good candidate: `video-display.svg`:
https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/sparky_backlight
https://github.com/sparkylinux/sparky-backlight/blob/master/bin/sparky-backlight
IMO the icon without `-color` is better anyway:
. Vs `-color` variant: . This little tool doesn't modify the color of the screen so that's not the right icon.Not sure best way to resolve. Include a fallback icon to use if theme doesn't have one?
I am not sure if there is any generic/default icon set that can be relied upon.
Gnome Adwaita has this one that might be a good candidate: `video-display.svg`:
https://wiki.sparkylinux.org/doku.php/sparky_backlight
https://github.com/sparkylinux/sparky-backlight/blob/master/bin/sparky-backlight
#13
Newbie questions / Intermittent internet after po...
Last post by Jinseta - November 28, 2025, 10:00:31 PMOS: Sparky 8.1
Kernel: 6.12.57+deb13-amd64
Problem: I've had a few brief power outages for various reasons which, of course, knocks out the router. Once the router powers back on, every device reconnects and uses internet without issue except this one. For example, a youtube video might load a few minutes of content, then nothing. There is absolutely no internet available as far as I can tell. After a few minutes, more video time loads in and I can use internet normally. Then repeat. Its hard to narrow down the behavior any more than that.
The GUI reports a connection to the router the entire time. The wlan con strength reads between 76% to 90%. Everything looks to be in order for the ip. My router does not have any physical ports, so I can't test ethernet. I can say before the power outages, internet usage was fine.
Troubleshooting steps taken:
Disconnect/Reconnect has no effect.
Restart/Shutdown has no effect.
install systemd-resolved (and enabled it)
resolvectl flush-caches
dhclient -r wlan0
dhclient wlan0
Edit: I have since run several traceroute and pings during this issue. When the connection goes down, traceroute fails to reach local dns. Pings seem to work, but the statistics report 50% - 75% packet loss. When the connection works, pings float around 30% or less packet loss.
Kernel: 6.12.57+deb13-amd64
Problem: I've had a few brief power outages for various reasons which, of course, knocks out the router. Once the router powers back on, every device reconnects and uses internet without issue except this one. For example, a youtube video might load a few minutes of content, then nothing. There is absolutely no internet available as far as I can tell. After a few minutes, more video time loads in and I can use internet normally. Then repeat. Its hard to narrow down the behavior any more than that.
The GUI reports a connection to the router the entire time. The wlan con strength reads between 76% to 90%. Everything looks to be in order for the ip. My router does not have any physical ports, so I can't test ethernet. I can say before the power outages, internet usage was fine.
Troubleshooting steps taken:
Disconnect/Reconnect has no effect.
Restart/Shutdown has no effect.
install systemd-resolved (and enabled it)
resolvectl flush-caches
dhclient -r wlan0
dhclient wlan0
Edit: I have since run several traceroute and pings during this issue. When the connection goes down, traceroute fails to reach local dns. Pings seem to work, but the statistics report 50% - 75% packet loss. When the connection works, pings float around 30% or less packet loss.
#14
Deutsch / Re: Fehlermeldung bei apt-upda...
Last post by pavroo - November 28, 2025, 12:09:31 PMAs I mentioned before, the repo is moved to other vps, so forums too.
Hope the migration made no problem for all of you.
Next one is wiki and the main site/blog.
Hope the migration made no problem for all of you.
Next one is wiki and the main site/blog.
#15
Deutsch / Re: Fehlermeldung bei apt-upda...
Last post by Dietmar - November 26, 2025, 05:25:04 PMyes - it works...thanks a lot pavroo....
#16
System upgrading / Re: As checking updating, spar...
Last post by AxL - November 26, 2025, 12:44:26 PMQuote from: mdre808 on November 26, 2025, 08:11:06 AMThe sources list is OK I am sure, and I also looked up wiki, everything seemed no wrong too. However, it failed.
Please review this thread about.Cheers !!
#17
Deutsch / Re: Fehlermeldung bei apt-upda...
Last post by AxL - November 26, 2025, 12:40:33 PMQuote from: pavroo on November 26, 2025, 10:21:46 AMThe repo has been move to other vps, no changes in your configuration.
It needs a few hours to promote the new IP over the network.
In my case, as of today (at 12:30 this morning), it works perfectly well:
Thanks a lot, pavroo !!!
Cheers !!
#18
System upgrading / Re: As checking updating, spar...
Last post by kanliot - November 26, 2025, 12:33:02 PMQuote from: mdre808 on November 26, 2025, 08:11:06 AMsources list is OK
I believe that the private server hosting went down unexpectedly yesterday. Please recheck now, or post the results of this command:
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$ nslookup repo.sparkylinux.org #19
Deutsch / Re: Fehlermeldung bei apt-upda...
Last post by kanliot - November 26, 2025, 12:31:01 PMworking 100% here. Good job Pavroo.
#20
Deutsch / Re: Fehlermeldung bei apt-upda...
Last post by pavroo - November 26, 2025, 10:21:46 AMThe repo has been move to other vps, no changes in your configuration.
It needs a few hours to promote the new IP over the network.
It needs a few hours to promote the new IP over the network.