Questions tagged [linux]
A family of Unix-like operating systems using the Linux kernel. If your question is about a certain distribution only, use a more specific tag.
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No notification on a remote computer with notify-send
I can't send a notification with notify-send over ssh, even though I have no problem launching other GUI programs from the same ssh connection
The command I use is:
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Unified inbox shows twice on Thunderbird
I'm using Thunderbird 24. If I show folders in Unified mode, my inbox folder shows up twice. If I choose the "All" folders mode, I see only one inbox.
The issue started when I was using Ubuntu 12.04, ...
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Huge file input/output
My question is a bit general, but the application is very practical. I wonder, how does system (Linux in particular, but general mechanisms are interesting too) handles reading/writing of huge (larger ...
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Why does my USB Debian 7 "Wheezy" install keep freezing?
I am sort of at a lost to as what to do exactly. I have Debian Wheezy installed on a USB flash drive. I installed it by burning the Debian LiveCD and booting my PC to that, plugging in the flash drive ...
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Cannot remove nor reinstall Virtualbox on linux
I've have tried:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Also
apt-get clean
And I still get output below:
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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Can't set Xfce4 as default in SLiM (Simple Login Manager)
I'm running SLiM 1.3.4-2 on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian. I have Xfce4 and LXDE installed. When SLiM shows up it says Session: default and when I run that LXDE starts. I want Xfce4 as default.
I've ...
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Ncat throws errors while being run from crontab
I have a simple script set up on my OpenWrt box to check if one of the computers in a local network is streaming, and if it does, the script starts wget | madplay to play the stream. Script works ...
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Install latest vlc on centos 5.5
I am using Centos 5.5. When I try,
yum install vlc
I got vlc version 0.9.9a which is very old with lot of bugs.
Is there a way to get the latest version of VLC?
I have already tried
yum update vlc
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Power loss during mdadm RAID level change
As per the title, my mdadm RAID was in the process of migrating from level 6 to 5 when the power cut out momentarily. Unfortunately I am no longer able to reassemble the array - the assemble command ...
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What's the proper way to forward audio from i386 executables that use ALSA to an x64 pulse server?
I'm running Kubuntu Raring x64, and I had a program that I was unable to compile under my 64-bit environment but there was an already compiled version (32-bit) available for download (specifically ...
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Booting Kali Linux from USB from a MacBook Pro running on Windows 7
I wiped OS X from my computer a while ago and started using Windows 7 instead (for school and work reasons). I am trying to install Kali Linux on my computer on a separate partition. I have tried too ...
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SSH auth fail when connecting to Ubuntu 12.04 server edition
I've got problem with ssh login after fresh installment of ubuntu 12.04 server edition on a virtual machine (based on VM player).
The host machine is Win7.
Openssh server version 1.0.1
Every time I ...
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Define IPTABLES rule
I am working with a linux based UTM appliance and have some disagreement with the client on the operation. THere is a standard GUI to configure port forwards in the firewall but for some reason he ...
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Filtering out incomplete log entries
I'm trying to get some garbage collection logs into Splunk. However, when java starts garbage collection, it starts the log entry, then when it's done it puts in the end of the entry. Splunk treats ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 folder permissions (lost access to any folders after setting up sftp)
I have had an ubuntu 12.10 server running for a while with dlna and samba running successfully. On a previous build, I had an sftp server running and I wanted to do it again.
First, I updated all ...
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ifupdown: interface does not get properly configured
Since some days ago, I'm suffering a traumatic problem with Debian Wheezy.
Every time I boot the server, the only up interface is loopback. I have configured a static IP at /etc/network/interfaces
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Linux Wi-Fi disconnects instantly?
I've gotten NetworkManager installed on Arch, and it seemed to be working. But all of a sudden, when I boot, the Wi-Fi connects for all of 5 seconds, then stops working, then NetworkManager says it's ...
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How to make files created in a directory owned by directory owner?
Is there any method on Linux to effect all new files created in a directory to be owned by the directory's owner instead of the creating user's owner?
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Random freezes on Linux Mint 15 KDE under an UEFI Asus motherboard
I'm running Linux Mint 15 with KDE, fully updated.
For some reason, I'm experiencing seemly random lock ups.
The GUI doesn't respond to input from mouse & keyboard, plus the interface doesn't ...
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nc connection refused even on loopback
I'm working on an embedded linux system, which appears to be networked correctly and is running ssh (dropbear) and rpcbind. I'm setting up a server application on it, and every single thing I try ...
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Record the sound of a program to the microphone
I want to record the sound of a program and to direct it as an microphone entry on linux.
For instance, I'm listening a music on youtube, and I want that music to be send to my skype's conversation ...
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Call from GTalk to Pidgin gives error code 7
I have configured Pidgin to connect to my GTalk account. Video and audio are working. I can even make calls from Pidgin to a GTalk account, but not from GTalk to Pidgin.
Whenever I try calling Pidgin ...
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Allow access to OpenVPN only from linux systems?
I'd like to know if there's a way to check the OS of the client connecting to a client to site VPN tunnel ending in an OpenVPN Linux server.
I don't want Windows clients to connect to it due to ...
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linux + squashfs-tools for red-hat 5.3
I want to install the squashfs-tools-4.0-5.el6.i686.rpm
But I have the following dependencies ( after RPM installation )
please advice what the additional packages that I need to install on my linux ...
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linux computer blocks window os computers from accessing local wifi
I have been a linux user for the past one year.And I have noticed that all the distributions I have used so far have this trend of managing to block wifi access to windows computers on specific ...
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Set a dedicated 'emacs' key in Linux like OSX
I use emacs quite a lot, and on Mac OSX, most of the Control-keybindings from emacs are available in nearly all applications (e.g. Control-A goes to the beginning of the line) whilst the more common ...
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Trouble starting my Vagrant box after a Linux Mint Upgrade to 15
I recently upgraded my Linux Mint from 14 to 15 the apt way, and since then my vagrant box is not able to start up fully. Either the network interface or the /vagrant folder is not getting setup..
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How does YUM know of a software update of something I installed from a CD or download
Can YUM update software that I install from a CD? Let's say I install open office, run an installer. How is YUM aware of the location, updates for that software?
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Can't connect to the Internet even though I was able during installation(Debian)
As I said in the title i have difficulties connecting to the Internet. During installation of Debian 7.1 I provided wizard with htc_9271.fw file when it asked. After that I connected to the ftp server ...
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Trying to Narrow Down a Disk Error
I've been experiencing some weird errors from some hard drives, and I'm having trouble narrowing down the problem. It's part of a RAID array (Linux software RAID, budget hardware), so when it dropped ...
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How to start FatRat HTTP server daemon in console?
I'm new to Linux and I would like to setup a simple download server on my RaspberryPi.
I installed FatRat via:
apt-get update
apt-get install fatrat
Since I'm not using a GUI on RaspberryPi, I need ...
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How to merge 2 mp4 files with 1 atom?
I'm merging two mp4 files for video streaming. the problem is, the merged file contains two atoms, 1 atom from each file and that is a problem when it comes to streaming. the client needs to wait ...
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HyperVM Disk Issue
I have HyperVM installed on a server with a 250 GB SSD hard disk. Now, it is showing "Disk quota exceeded" error. On the same server I have a 6 TB SATA HDD. I want to move my HyperVM from SSD to SATA.
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nc -v -w 1 111.111.111.111 -z 22 returns port 22 (tcp) timed out: Operation now in progress
Encountering a strange problem on my Ubuntu machine, trying connecting to 111.111.111.111 (example ip)
via SSH fails.
When trying to connect from other win machine its works.
I don't have a ...
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Merge two partitions on one disk to a separate partition on another disk
Here is what I'm trying to do. I have a /home (sda1) and swap (sda2) partition on one disk that I want to merge into a larger swap partition and utilize all of the swap space. When I used the fdisk ...
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How can I call phones from my pc using a mobile phone connected to my pc?
I mean this question in abstract for usb/bluetooth connected featurephones and dumbphones.
But also specially for this mobile phone:
Motorola RAZR V3i
I have computers running debian and ubuntu, can ...
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Terminal Program To Save VI State
For a few years now at work I have been using the GNOME Terminal, and have gotten very used to that. I usually organize my work by categorizing each task on its own virtual desktop, then within each ...
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Weird start-stop-daemon behaviour?
I have the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
for s in sys.argv:
print(s)
Now I execute:
sudo start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/test.pid --make-pidfile /var/run/test....
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Pip installs on Archlinux fails to build egg
I was trying to install nltk on my Archlinux server but it repeatedly fails with the following error output
/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py:257: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: '...
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VMWare Tools fails to download and install in VM Player (64 bit) on Slackware 14 (64 bit)
I have installed VMWare Player from the website, and have an Ubuntu machine running. My main issue is with VMWare Tools, and whenever I try to install, it fails. First, VMPlayer asks me to download ...
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Running a symlink locally
I am running the same program multiple times over a linux platform. It is compiled at another server, and frequently updated, and it's uploaded over through rsync to all "hosting" servers, which do ...
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automount usb disk after pluged
from the man page of fstab
auto - file system will mount automatically at boot, or when the command 'mount -a' is issued.
noauto - the filesystem is mounted only when you tell it to.
However, what I ...
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CentOS 6, Webmin, Virtualmin
I have a VPS account running CentOS 6 with 3 IP addresses allocated to it for various SSL certificates.
When I do an NSLookup for the IP addresses they resolve and display the wrong name.
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Is there a way to permanently change the associations of NIC cards on a supermicro server?
There are 4 ports, eth0...eth3, and I want to reassign them so that eth0 is associated with the NIC currently listed as eth2, and eth1 to eth3. Basically swap them. It needs to be permanent and ...
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QEMU and the Raspberry Pi
[I re-titled this for posterity, since it does turn out to be somewhat raspberry-pi centric]
I'd like to try QEMU as an alternative to cross-compiling. I'm using v. 1.0.1 on fedora 17 [later: same ...
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Hotplugging on Ubuntu 12.04 does not function
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a HP box. Approximately two weeks ago for no apparent reason hotplugging ceased to function. No longer did an icon pop up on the sidebar announcing a USB flash memory or ...
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Why isn't my custom GNOME launcher showing
I'm trying to get a launcher to show up on Arch linux with Gnome 3.8 but for some reason it doesn't show up on the menu. I have to strip down the version of the original sublime_text.desktop file
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Partition suddenly not accessible
Okay, so I was working on my system, nothing fancy (and most definitely nothing that would have any reason to cause this issue) when I suddenly saw my primary data partition disappear from the list of ...
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Unable to find files downloaded in Ubuntu
I am using Uuntu 12.04. By Wubi.
I have faced two issues:
1) I downloaded .iso file of Ubuntu 12.04 from Mozilla and gave download path in Windows partition. But I cannot find the files downloaded. ...
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AbiWord not using GTK2 theme
I have a linux desktop that uses Openbox and GTK2. I installed abiword, because honestly, I don't use Libreoffice Impress, etc. at all. I just use a word processor. Anyway, I installed Abiword and ...
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