Monday, October 13, 2025

Install debian on encrypted volume

See https://www.blakecarpenter.dev/installing-debian-on-existing-encrypted-lvm/ The main points:
- expert install
- "Load installer components from CD. From here, you want to select crypto-dm-modules and rescue-mode."
- ctrl+alt+f2 to jump into a shell
- depmod -a
- cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 debian-crypt
- vgchange -ay
- ls /dev/mapper
control debian-crypt debian-home debian-root debian-swap
- "Hit ctrl+alt+f1 to return to the Debian installer and continue to Partition disks. Select Manual."
- setup partitions/mount points
- stop before Install the GRUB bootloader to a hard disk. ctrl+alt+f2 to jump into a terminal.
- blkid
- nano /target/etc/crypttab
debian-crypt UUID=98...eaa none luks
- "Continue to the end of the installation. When the generating initramfs step appears, the image will be built using the crypttab file you just modified."  

Saturday, October 11, 2025

USB Audio not detected after resume. Edifier M60.

Sometimes USB audio device (e.g. Edifier M60 speakers via usb-c connection) is not detected after resume, or after repluging, although
aplay -l
lists the device, the pipewire server does not add it. Restart pipewire:
systemctl --user restart pipewire
If the former does not help, try the following instead:
systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber