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Please help to cd to /tmp. Am using PuTTY Release 0.74 Build platform: 64-bit x86 Window. Am copy a file to /tmp directory but it says no directory. I tried this code cd /tmp to get into it...

I upgraded a week or two ago from Mint 20, and have had no difficulties until now. Starting the laptop this evening, it opened to the log-in screen as usual, but on entering the password it simply...

Published at LXer: Over the years, I have read many articles and posts about how systemd is trying to replace everything and take over everything in Linux. I agree; it is taking over pretty much...

I installed wine 1.6 on my Mint 20 pc. It works beautifully. I then proceeded to install several older windows programs that I need for my graphics business. They all worked beautifully. Here's...

i would like to find out if this is possible and how to do it if so. i want to create (in C) a video filter that goes between Firefox or maybe even Mplayer and the library calls or kernel interface...

This is probably a dumb question but that never stopped me before. My computer currently is set up to dual boot Linux and/or Windows, and I am considering deleting windows altogether. My question is...

I have a shell script code that prints any new PDF generated to a Brother printer which is connected to a MACOS using the below command Code: --------- lp -d Brother_HL_L2350DW_series...

Published at LXer: It's tough to know how to get started with automation, but here are five ideas to get you rolling. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/5-tips-automate)

I'm going crazy with this one. For some unknown reason I've lost my sound card input on pulse. However the input works in Audacity if I select the any of these devices: HDA Intel PCH: ALC892 Analog...

Published at LXer: WireGuard is a popular, simple, fast and secure VPN for Linux. Use NetworkManager to configure a persistent WireGuard VPN on your Linux PC! Read More......

I saw a notice in the changelog that any issues with the 15-beta should be reported here. It is my understanding that the "a" series should provide a baseline standalone operating system. At least,...

On my arch/plasma install [running on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13], I get an error whenever I autoconnect to my wireless network after boot [from KDE's NetworkManager frontend]: wlp6s0: interface not...

I'm on the Slack64-Current iso of 2021-04-20, and stuck in the latest GE (version 7.3) because the previous one (about 10 months back) was segfaulting. I got the .deb, ran deb2targz, exploded that,...

fdupes worked great but with this one folder I get duplicates, example Music/Rock/Dobbie Bros/Minute by Minute/Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute - 03 - Minute by Minute.mp3 Music/Rock/Doobie...

Published at LXer: Setting up networking is quite a difficult task in VirtualBox compared to other operations. Configuring networking can be done in a few clicks but understanding what are...

Hello, I have a nxpBoard which has a 5GModem and an ethernet port. This nxpBoard can connect to the public network through the 5gModem. I connect a laptop to the ethernet port of the nxpBoard...

Can this be done? I want to point the "action" of an HTML form to a php script which does not have a URL. This script resides in a directory above the web root. I can access it via an "include"...

When I start Kontact on opensuse tumbleweed it tells me it can't start the Akonadi Server. More information: ---Quote--- me@PC:~> akonadictl start org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi...

i have installed ns2.35 in ubuntu 20.04 version. i am using xgraph 4.38 version. while executing .xgr files i am receiving an error (unkown xgraph command 'set' '$ns' 'proc' 'global' etc.... how can...

I just discovered through a link another member posted what looks like (yet) another attempt to lure Windows users to Linux using the "LinuxFX/Windowsfx" distribution. From what I can tell it seems to...

Experimenting with Plasma on a Dell Inspiron AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-core AMD Ellesmere Radeon 16 GB DIMM DDR4 Have tried Gecko Plasma, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio and all of them are too slow to...

I just did a -current upgrade from last 2 weeks and have inherited a number of strange glitches. (See attached screenshot). They're most noticable in Firefox in particular places on particular...

Published at LXer: April was full of exciting news in the world of open source. Keep reading for some of the more interesting tidbits, including Linux out of this world... on Mars.12,000*open...

In Slackware64 14.2, users could be given permission to mount and unmount NFS volumes by including the "user" or "users" option in the relevant entry in /etc/fstab. Under Slackware64 current, the...

I'm having a simple issue with this Bash-script I have, and I can't come up with an elegant solution for it. So, I have a script, which is working and all, no problem. Now, I need to run a similar...

Hi, I have Kernel Version: 4.19.50-ti-r20 running debian buster. The Console is UART0 port linked to /dev/ttyS0: crw------- 1 debian tty 4, 64 Jul 7 17:19 /dev/ttyS0 I try to accept user...

Hi. I'm on Debian 10 Stable. I recently did an update (about 3 weeks since the previous one). I was using a backported kernel. Perhaps the update went awry? The laptop (it's a secondary PC)...

Published at LXer: A motherboard is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial...

I have an Asus T100 that I am trying to get Debian up and running on. I have tried many different iso's with varying success. The ISO I use must be multiarch as this device has a 32bit EFI and 64bit...

Apparently this is now a thing. You upload a photograph of yourself and get back a digitally edited version wearing a fabulous outfit, which you can then post on Instagram for the envy of your...

Hello all, I'm facing very big issue - just upgraded to current and to MariaDB 10.6 aaand I'm having MariaDB processes using 100%. This is what I'have in processlist ...

Published at LXer: The thirty-first installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 2nd, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the...

Published at LXer: Apache NIFI is an open-source scalable tool to manage transformation, data routing, and system mediation logic. To put it in layman’s terms nifi simply automates the flow of data...

Dear Sir/Mrs. We want to use the from the STL library in GNU and CLANG C++ projects. Of course we inserted the include statement: #include We get a compilation error on the...

I tried over 35 times to edit yaml file(s) but again getting error in the syntax: Ubuntu 20.04.2 / ansible 2.9.6 book: Ubuntu-Linux-Bible 10e exercises page 632 / solutions page 696 - Chapter 28:...

Just a heads up that native compilation has been merged (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=commit;h=289000eee729689b0cf362a21baa40ac7f9506f6) into the main tree (project here...

I backed up Home folder and then did a restore. Now I get this message "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some...

For a system operating headless, the objective is, for each of several users, to maintain a desktop session, which may be accessed remotely, persists across client sessions, and is protected by user...

Guys, when one accesses the Font Name box in the toolbar of any LibreOffice product, one will see up to four (4) of the most recently used font names, followed by a light, horizontal line, then all...

I finally got off my duff and installed -current this weekend. I can't seem to connect to private internet access VPN using nm-openvpn which I had no problem with on 14.2 Am I missing something...

I've scoured the Internet and I've found a number of answers to the problem of trying to install a two cd game/program on the Internet however most of those posts across the Internet are seven or...

I've been having a lot of trouble getting media to play on my HP Elitebook 850 G6, which is running CentOS 8. A Google search got me playing videos, but no sound. I didn't get any missing codex...

I have already done "pacman -Su", because whenever you post a question on an ArchLinux forum, someone always tells you to do a "pacman -Su". (I hate doing it, because I always have to rebuild the ZFS...

Does anyone knows if I can create a bootable liveUSB (with persistence) from a qcow2 (or raw) image from qemu ? I tried to create a bootable pendrive using qemu-img convert, but the resulting pendrive...

Hello Fellow Slackers, Wanna say I appreciate the Slackware team and all those that frequent the LQ Slackware forum for all you have done and continue to do. I always learn something w/...

Published at LXer: The first pre-release of Rocky Linux is here. It is immediately available for download and for you to test. Read More......

Hy Everybody :) For a Week, i try to configure my custom kernel, to allow the usb mass storage. I am a newbie and i like to learn, looking for informations and by practicing. but even if i have...

Hello, so today I tried to install the extensions for Virtual Box and after running Code: --------- sudo VBoxManage list extpacks --------- I got a message saying that the vboxdrv kernel...

I want a different login screen for my KDE Plasma / Debian Buster machine. I'm not entirely certain what I want, other than something interesting (but still functional). In the past I've used...

I find news items like This_One (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56799069) funny, because that was specifically what I did. Back in the 1970s,1980s, & into the 1990s, the majority of Industrial...