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I have a Lenovo X13 (AMD Renoir) which has LUKS/LVM on the nvme When using elilo on boot I can see the vmlinuz and initrd load and then the screen seems to "hang" however I know from experience the...

I have a VANTEC NexStar 2-disk raid enclosure with 2x 2T WD Green disk drives in it. The enclosure is connected via USB3 and is set to "individual mode", so that each disk presents itself as a...

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to change KVM libvirt default storage pool location using Virsh program, Virt-manager and Cockpit in Linux. Read More......

Hello all, I am running on Hefftor Linux an Arch derivative on a Lenovo X250. A few weeks ago I disabled bluetooth in XFCE, now I wanted to turn it on again for an external nouse. Turns out,...

Hi all, I'm creating a game called Monsters 'n' Aliens which I'm hoping to use with a class to teach procedural programming. I've hit a bug on my system (Linux Mint 20.1) which means the random...

I just reinstalled Slackware from scratch. I'm running -current. I have a built in sound card which doesn't work - never has. I also have a Creative Labs sound card. For some reason my installation...

Published at LXer: Many people consider tuning database queries to be some mysterious "dark art" out of a Harry Potter novel; with the wrong incantation, your data turns from a valuable resource...

I just reinstalled Slackware from scratch. I'm running -current. I have a built in sound card which doesn't work - never has. I also have a Creative Labs sound card. For some reason my installation...

Using openSUSE Tumbleweed, although this may apply to other distros as well. Relevant hardware information is an nVidia video card with an HDMI connection to a monitor with integrated speakers. This...

So when I tried to login my Debian laptop the session part on the top left was blank instead of KDE plasma and when I try to login by typing my password and pressing enter nothing happens.

I just reinstalled Slackware from scratch. I'm running -current. I have a built in sound card which doesn't work - never has. I also have a Creative Labs sound card. For some reason my...

while I adapted (https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/slackbuild/-/tree/master/a/mkinitramfs) the mkinitramfs (https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html) creation script, I decided to...

Hi I am using Deepin with Arch Linux. In the taskbar the time and date info is, for example, 19:05 21/6/13 and I would like it to also show the day of the week, according to the long...

Published at LXer: The Apache web server has the ability to serve multiple websites from the same IP address, using virtual hosts. Each Virtual Host can be configured in the main server...

Well I can't explain this, and this is rather annoying, it's an emptied 1TB drive, that is 5 years old, it's not about to die per diagnostics...which I can do once I boot in a live session, that drive...

Ok, I am trying to set up a VNC connection to my server so I can use a GUI for those times when I might need one. I am also trying to get this VNC connection to travel over SSH as well so it's secure....

Hi, My OpenSuse 15.1 server running LAMP configuration and samba spat me an error this morning. On closer inspection Code: --------- df -h --------- it seems SDA2 is full.

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With the text-mode console font size set to 8x12, there is a single-pixel gap between 8-pixel-wide characters. Is there a way to make the console display in actual 8x12 cells instead of 9x12 cells...

I have recently noticed that my local firewall (which also plays the role of DNS) is behaving strangely and I got the following output: Code: --------- user@laptop:~> dig +noall +answer...

My OS disk uses LVM and is encrypted. I've recently had an issue with it and want to reinstall Ubuntu without formatting my /home. In the installer partitioner it shows 2x partitions, a 767MB...

Published at LXer: This guide will help you understand some of rsync’s most popular and powerful features. In the following examples, you’ll see 10 of the most useful rsync commands that every...

Hi, Can't wait to go to beach. sadly laptop is not for beaches, else i would have bring it along.. :-)

Code: --------- sudo pacman -Syu error: duplicated database entry 'something' --------- I can't update my system (endeavorous Gnome) or install any packages, everything i tried to, it prompt...

Apologies in advance if this has already been posted, or if this is a KDE bug rather than a Slackware issue. The Font Management section of System Settings (systemsettings5) has an error "The...

I don't even know where to begin, so I'll just list the issues I was able to glean, myself. (Can't really scroll the tty without a working keyboard after all) Edit:I am booting using 'legacy bios'...

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Published at LXer: Users of the Kubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system can now update their installations to the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.22 desktop environment. Read More......

I have a Linux server, and a NAS device from Synology, with matching sets of user names. From the server, I create a mount through the following command: Code: --------- sudo mount.cifs...

Loaded up cairo-dock onto Mint. Looked good. Next log-on lost the task-bar and CD. Don't know how to get either the task-bar or CD back. Have to attach the original USB to get on-line. And because...

I love minimal distros but I have not yet found a site with a well populated and searchable database and instead I have to rely on personal knowledge. So I want to make a list of distros that I know...

Published at LXer: Nmap is a free and open-source network discovery and security audit tool. Nmap stands for “Network Mapper“. This article is aimed towards users who aren’t familiar with Nmap, and...

I was having problems with sound only coming from one speaker on the laptop. This was running Bullseye on a Dell G5S Ryzen7, there were seemingly no problems except sound only from one speaker, even...

Published at LXer: In this guide, we’ll go over all the tar commands you’ll need to know in order to create tar archives and extract files from tar archives. Read More......

Hi everybody I've been using mechanical hard drives for years and learn many commands to do on them. I know the cryptsetup commands support HDD and SATA SSD drives, but what about PCIe NVM drives? ...

Published at LXer: KDE Plasma 5.22 is out and it’s making its way into the software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distribution, but work already started for the next major release, KDE...

What if I my fingers slipped and I accidentally hit twice during configuring drives, formatted a drive I didn't want to? Shouldn't the default option be DON'T format a drive? When I...

Running Mint 18.2, Cinnamon 3.4.3, Brave browser (Chromium-based), on a Dell i7 laptop. I download lessons from an on-line course, as multi-page pdf's, using the provided "Print" function in...

Published at LXer: The KDE team enabled the backports PPA which you can use to install and upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.22 in Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo. Here's how. Read More......

It only shows blank screen. Tried different ISO to check if my xorg got busted - they all do the same. It's not the video card, because I am writing this from the same computer using Windows. What...

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just got following today ---Quote--- slackpkg update Updating the package lists... Downloading... Downloading...

Hello everyone, I have printer connected to another computer which is using Linux Mint. I am personally using Arch Linux. I have enabled and started cups.socket service which seems to work in...

For lack of good documentation I need to ask another BIT question. On the left side of the backintime panel is a list if snapshots. On the right side of the panel is a list of shortcuts. There are...

Published at LXer: The TODO Group, together with Linux Foundation Research and The New Stack, is conducting a survey as part of a research project on the prevalence and outcomes of open source...

Hi, Is linking /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3 instead of 2.7 going to break anything that might not be immediately apparent? EDIT: I'm on current

I attempt install of a .deb file whic states it has unmet-dependencies. It then states what dependencies are required. It then says it has dealt with the dependencies but ask if remove the program! ...

Recently I changes my os from windows 8.1 to Linux mint 20.1 After doing that, my wifi speed decreased and download rate is much low. It took almost 15 minutes to download chrome(80 mb).All my other...

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I'd like to try the development version of nemo [version 5.0] in a LMDE4 VM. Is this possible and if so, how should I go about doing this?