Questions tagged [linux]
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Couldn't dual boot Vista and Centos 5.4
Today I have installed Centos 5.4 with dual boot with Vista. Everything was fine, but after testing Centos 5.4, when I tried to load Vista, it did not load. After selecting vista from grub menu, it ...
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How do I keep gnome-terminal width from changing when I use "reset"
When I use reset in gnome-terminal (bash, Ubuntu 9.04), the window width resets, though the height does not. On my personal computer, this does not happen in xterm or konsole. On my work computer (...
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Why does my screen turn black after installing ATI on Ubuntu 10.04?
I'm having a problem installing the drivers for my video card. I've just finished installing the driver, rebooted the OS, and the monitor starts up in energy saving mode and doesn't boot Ubuntu.
What ...
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downgrade the system
I have some business to downgrade the kernel in Ubuntu 9.10.
I downgraded from kernel 2.6.31-14 to 2.6.26.8. Then
I got the following error in my boot process :
warning: unable to find a suitable ...
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Recovering/Creating NewWorld Partition on Mac G4 (PPC) after botched Debian Install
I was trying to install Debian 5.04 on a Mac G4, and in typical geek tradition, I didn't RTFM. During installation, I nuked all existing partitions, creating new to my liking.
But as I learned ...
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How does one look at the 'kernel log' in fedora linux
I have just installed fedora 12 linux on my dell Gx2600 pc
every so often the pc hangs - screen goes blank & usb keyboard stops working.
Question:
is there a place were the kernel logs problems ...
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Proper way to set permissions on an external disk's ext3 partition
I have a new external disk and just made an ext3 partition on it. I'm wondering what's the best way to set permissions on it (so that it's rw for certain users). I guess I could chmod ... /dev/sdb1 ...
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mplayer audio desync
I have and avi file and an ac3 file that contains an alternate audio stream.
I run mplayer like:
mplayer -audiofile foo.ac3 bar.avi
mplayer takes the audio stream from the ac3 file as expected, but ...
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gparted won't boot from liveCD
Fedora 12
2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686
I downloaded the gparted iso and burnt it to a CD.
gparted-live-0.5.2-1
This GParted Live was created by:
create-gparted-live -l en -b u -e e -d sid -m http://free....
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SuSE always logs a user in TVM session
I recently installed Suse Linux enterprise Desktop 11 on my box. I created an user and logged in first time into a GNOME session without any problems. Last time I logged in I selected the session as ...
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Openmeetings: problem in running: "Address already in use "
i am trying to run openmeetings in my CentOS vps.
when i run
$ ./red5.sh
after a lot of lines it says:
Bootstrap Complete
and a few lines before it it says:
Caused by: java.net.BindException: ...
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Installed ASUS HD4670, now unable to install ANY Debian due to low memory corruption
I have a desktop PC which initially had the Intel D946gzis mobo, its chipset as video controller, some RAM and so.
There I installed Debian without a problem alongside WindowsXP.
I've bought an ASUS ...
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Is there a text-file, where I can edit the blacklist concerning suspend-to-ram (openSUSE)?
is there (openSUSE 11.2) a text-file, where I can edit the blacklisted programs, which prevent suspending to ram?
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Strange DNS problem [seems to be IPv6 issue]
I'm experiencing strange problems with my Kubuntu 9.10 when doing DNS requests from various applications. The requests are extremely slow, so loading any pages in Firefox or Konqueror, doing package ...
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Unable to build Python modules in Mandriva 2010
I am trying to build a Python module (pyfits) but I get the following error:
# python setup.py install
/home/steve/src/pyfits-2.2.2/stsci_distutils_hack.py:239: DeprecationWarning: os.popen3 is ...
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Scanning for digital cable on me-tv
I have a pinnacle pchd 800 USB tuner that I want to use with Me-TV. I can't figure how to get it to scan for digital clear cam channels though, I've tried the standard cable frequency option and it ...
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Fedora 9 not reconizing hard drive
I am installing Fedora 9 to a PC (specifications at the bottom) and have had a lot of trouble with it recognising the hard drive. To get the Fedora installer to recognize it in the first place I had ...
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Twitter client for Linux that doesn't break?
I used 2 programs:
Choqok
tircd
both of them fail every so often - either crashing and requiring re-launch (tircd), or they for some reason stop to authenticate properly (Choqok).
Is there any ...
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/etc/exports file not read on boot
I added some entries into my /etc/exports file. But when I boot my system, the file is not read. I check it by sudo exportfs — it returns nothing (also I can't mount the exported folders on other ...
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Get XMMS2 to call outside script on automatic playlist advance?
Is there a way to get XMMS2 to call an outside script when it advances in a playlist - either automatically or via manual intervention (e.g. xmms2 next)?
The goal is to have balloons pop up on my ...
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Old Sata / Sas Controller on Ubuntu 22.04.2
I have recently bought a new motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F GAMING WIFI + AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU) and moved over an old SATA controller from an old rig (Iocrest si-pex40097). It will work no ...
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How to identify and delete Linux Bootloader/GRUB from my HDD?
Im using win 10 in my principal HDD.
I needed a dual boot with linux mint, which should be in my SSD, so I installed it. The problem is that it installed the BOOTLOADER in the EFI of my HDD and not in ...
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Can't extend volume in Windows after deleting Ubuntu dual boot, and Ubuntu still shows up in boot options?
I installed Ubuntu to my second SSD (500 GB not main) as dual boot. I have now deleted it as I don't need it but whenever I try to extend the volume to the unallocated space it says there isn't enough ...
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How do I assign a mac to an ethernet port in DHCPCD
I am running a Raspberry Pi Zero with two usb connected ethernet ports (different models, different MACs). When I cold boot MAC A is assigned to eth0 and MAC B is assigned to eth1. after a reboot MAC ...
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I have 5 disk partitions from a disk imaged separatly, but did not image the partition table. How can I reassemble them into a coherent disk image?
Like the title says, I have 5 disk images, dev-sdc1.img, dev-sdc2.img, dev-sdc3.img, dev-sdc4.img, dev-sdc5.img. I did not save the partition table, and do not know which were primary partitions, etc. ...
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AntiX Linux how to install Java 8?
I am using the antiX 22 x64 version and I was able to install default Java (Java-11) and Java 17 with
$ sudo apt install default-jre
and
$ sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre
But when I try to install ...
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use PC simultaneously as Linux web-server while allowing Chrome Remote Desktop into Windows 11
I have an "alder lake" (ultra low power-consumption Intel chip) mini PC.
It comes with Windows 11. This is a "headless" PC, designed to be plugged into the internet, and accessed ...
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Router has internet, does assign IPs to clients, clients can not browse or wget
I am dealing with an extremely annoying problem that I do not have the know-how for to fix apparantly. The situation is as follows:
Received new router, fibre internet was installed
Connected router, ...
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How to mount .img file as read-only ext4, but give users read permissions to the whole fs?
I have a system.img android's image file that has ext4 filesystem in it.
I mount it as
sudo mount -o ro system.img /mnt
I have two questions:
Why do I need root access to mount the image file?
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Replace between brackets content sublime & regex
I've actually got lines like this:
[Sat Dec 31 18:24:18.700 2022] 0.017 sec 0.017 sec [all/2/rel 37 (0,700) @groupparentid] [post]keyword
How can I delete the whole line starting with bracket [ and ...
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Adding gpg-exported ssh key to ssh-agent
I exported one authentication key from gpg to a public ssh key (with the --export-ssh-key), now I'd like to add its privat key with ssh-add to be able to clone a repository on github through the ssh ...
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check if a file exist in windows server from linux server, copy if file exist
Is there a way to check if a file exist in windows server from a linux server, and copy to linux server if file exist without mounting the windows fs to linux. Perhaps a public key? but not sure how ...
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connecting to a vnc in aws ec2 from windows
example image
The image above is in 4 parts
my amzon-linux terminal. (everything seems fine...)
the putty window which i used to open a tunnel
the vnc failing to connect
a chunk of output from -...
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Windows inaccessible after NVMe ssd upgrade, but grub and Linux partition work fine
I have an Asus ROG Scar II Strix that had the stock 512gb NVMe ssd, which I have upgraded to a Crucial 4TB PCIe 3.0 M.2 ssd. On the original ssd, I five partitions, which I have cloned onto the new ...
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"Connection closed unexpectedly" VNC
I've been following NetworkChucks new video about setting up Kali linux on Linode and connecting through vnc viewer. When i try and actually connect to my server it says that the connection has closed ...
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Unable to access Oracle Cloud MC server despite following Stack/Google port setup advice
Ive been attempting to set up a Bedrock Minecraft server on a free Oracle VM. I have some experience as I have a server running on a Hetzner instance however a few weeks later after scouring the ...
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Chromebook linux shell premission to write on SD Card or USB Stick
I just both recently chromebook and I am super satisfied with it. All that I need (VS Code, Expo Go, NodeJS, Python etc.) working perfectly fine without single problem. Only problem that I can't sort ...
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Video created from ffmpeg can be played in desktop chrome but not mobile chrome?
I have a project that
generates a .jpg file with a caption (using imagemagick convert)
creates a .mp4 file by combining the .jpg file from step 1 and an .aac audio file
concatenates several videos ...
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How to Disable any MD5 or 96-bit HMAC algorithms within the SSH configuration
I received a vulnerability for one of the serverstoday as below:
Disable any MD5 or 96-bit HMAC algorithms within the SSH configuration
How can I check if these algorithms are present in other ...
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[SHELL SCRIPTING SMALL PROJECT]
I am currently trying to complete this shell script for a small project I have for my class. I'm lost as to how to go about this problem. Here is the prompt and what I have so far...
What I have so ...
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How can I trust to self-signed certificate?
Hy! I want to have a valid padlock when I am accessing to a website. This need to be working only for me. Can I add a cert.crt file somewhere to don't have something like on the image below? Is this ...
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How can I add cross references in an existing PDF file?
I have a PDF document that I am reading on my computer running Ubuntu 20.04. The document has over 200 references but, unfortunately, none of the citations of these references are clickable, e.g:
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Laptop boots to empty boot menu
I have a laptop that is dual booted with Windows and Linux. My laptop froze suddenly and I was forced to restart it. I was then taken straight to the bios menu which never happens. When I pressed F12 ...
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Applications launched in wine crash with GLXBadFBConfig
I try to use PlayOnLinux to run SAP Gui for Windows, MS Office and other programs on Ubuntu 20.04 on an older laptop (the relevant info is that it has Intel HDA3000 GPU)
I have been using Office 2016 ...
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Why does the "id" command in Linux show the same group twice?
For some reason as I was exploring Linux users and groups, the id command on a user I created in an Alpine container gives the following:
# id botmyaccount
uid=10001(botmyaccount) gid=10001(...
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SSH not working on windows bash?
I am using windows 10 Pro. Using bash shell there. When I type SSH command it says
MINGW64 ~
$ ssh
bash: ssh: command not found
My understanding bash will be able to execute all linux commands. Isn't ...
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nginx doesn't start in docker, unless manually exec'ing into it and starting
I am fairly new to docker. I have to build a docker file that will start node express server and Nginx as a reverse proxy. but the problem is node server starts but Nginx does not start. when I ...
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MDADM array rebuilding after every reboot
I have just grown my RAID-1 mirror in to a RAID-5.
After adding a 3rd disk, the array rebuilt successfully, but after restarting the array was showing as inactive, and the new disk (sde) had lost all ...
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Disable internet access but keep LAN access on Linux Distro
I have 4 ethernet interfaces and 1 Wifi interface that are part of a board that has internet access which runs a linux OS. I would like to remove access to the internet from the ethernet interfaces ...
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Elder Scrolls Online Glitch on the ground textures on Ubuntu
I recently installed and started playing ESO Greymoor on Ubuntu 18 bionic. However, I have a glitch on the ground in the beginning dungeon. I'm running the game on Steam Proton 5.13. I have added ...
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