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Hello, I'm on current Debian with almost no experience in VMs, and since I abandoned MacOSX long ago I used to consider virtualizing my old mac just wasn't an option. (that would have been to...

I am not sure what's happening here. In my user crontab, I have this line: *00 2 * * * sudo rsync -aAv --delete /var/lib/automysqlbackup /mnt/Z/Backups/mediawiki* At 2AM daily, I want to copy the...

Published at LXer: Aligning to the release schedule, the Ubuntu team announced the release of the Ubuntu 21.04 Beta code-named 'Hirsute Hippo'. The beta images are immediately available for...

Hi all, I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 on a Dell optiplex 7010 and generally pleased. With painstaking accuracy, I've followed the procedures described for creating a specific macro and ascribe it to...

10 YO Gateway (Intel Core i5, 2 large HDs---only one of which seems to be recognized by the Manjaro or Mint "Live CD" installers, configured with Linux Mint---many whiles ago (2018?). Owner /...

Greetings I am having an issue with default keyring with network manager. I went through this thread forward and backwards, still had issues....

Hi. I have ntp installed. Default configuration changed with new, regional servers. My hardware setup is basically eth0 to internet. eth1 private lan. This server should serving private lan. ...

I was watching a video about the C getopt() function yesterday and the guy in it was apparently using Debian as his OS to demonstrate getopt(). But he pronounced "Debian" in a very different way to...

Published at LXer: Here is my method for installing Arch Linux. This can be a bit fiddly, but is a really great learning curve, especially if you are installing it on physical hardware. There are...

How can I do to install Windows 10 for free in my laptop? I mean, without having to enter a serial number. I thought it was easy but now I see it rather difficult. I saw a youtube video where it says...

speech-dispatcher doesn't build anymore on -current,see errors below: ------------------------- In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:31, from...

Using a Linux Debian desktop. Used to be able to open PDF email attachments in Opera and Firefox-esr browsers without downloading them. Suddenly no longer able to open this type of attachment in...

pan doesn't nuild anymore on -current, here are the errors below: ----------------------------- /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/type_traits:2925:3: error: template with C linkage 2925 | ...

Published at LXer: Rare diseases kill millions, but because they don[he]#039[/he]t make the headlines that coronavirus does, they[he]#039[/he]re often ignored. Now, the Linux Foundation and the...

libblockdev doesn't build anymore on -current, need small adjustment to SlackBuild: ---------------------------------------- # add sed line to avoid vdo.c:84:5: error: 'g_memdup' is deprecated: Use...

Published at LXer: The gdu tool is created for SSD drives where parallel processing can be utilized. This tool can also work with HDD with less performance compared to SSD drives. You can also...

Since the Mar 31 upgrade of vte to 0.64.0 an underscore (_) on the bottom line of xfce4-terminal 0.8.10 or mate-terminal 1.24.1 is no longer visible. It looks like 1 or 2 pixel lines are missing....

As per numerous guides I tried kquitapp5 plasmashell kstart5 plasmashell >/dev/null 2>&1 & and it works but with annoying after-effect: the space used by auto-hiding panel to appear becomes...

fcitx and fcitx-configtool don't build anymore on -current, they don' understand the "-fPIC" option, it builds fine by removing it. SLKCFLAGS="-O2" rather than SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"

Loaded Mageia 8. Yeah. Actually have a 4K monitor. Wow. Problem: We can't reduce the resolution without the entire OS going to the 'No irq handler for vector' screen after reboot and staying there....

I want to install a Fedora 10 distribution on a system with a new motherboard that has only onboard SATA (it has no IDE connector, and in the BIOS it has no option for SATA - legacy IDE). ...

qt5-webkit doesn't build anymore on -current, see the errors bellow: ----------------------- /tmp/qtwebkit-5.212.0-alpha4/Source/WTF/wtf/glib/GRefPtr.h:33:21: error: expected ')' before 'typename' ...

i used Funtoo for many years then i switched to Gentoo when Funtoo got rid of multilib. I used Gentoo for many years too i still do, but im starting to like Slackware more, i cant believe this could...

Published at LXer: Its creator, CloudLinux, built the distribution at warp speed, racing to fill the void left by Red Hat's EOL announcement for CentOS. Read More......

currently have an NVME SSD that I had Slack -current running on with a complete dd backup for the partition in case of any serious system issues that I could easily recover from. that day was earlier...

Published at LXer: Manjaro Linux is one of those Linux distributions which is slowly evolving to reach great heights of Linux desktops. Manjaro 21.0 was released a while back and hence it's time...

The system runs Linux extremely slow .. seconds between keystrokes. I have tried Ubuntu 20.04, Mint, MX Linux, Fedora and Debian (all latest releases) to no avail. They either run extremely slow or...

So I'm back, Currently dual booting windows 10 and debian 10. Soooo, My sound works perfect on windows 10 so I know its not a hardware port issue. When I open pavucontrol I can see the firefox...

Using one of my parity disks as a temp holding just in case. Something is off though. I did an rsync from my /snapraid/pool (mergerfs directory) > this mountpoint. Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: Learn how one sysadmin backs up data from one virtual machine to another in a different geographic zone. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/creating-backup-data)

I have written a bash script to perform backup to a removable hard disk drive, which contains an encrypted ext4 partition (LUKS). The core of the script is a duplicity-incremental command -...

Published at LXer: Vagrant is an automation software used for building and managing virtual machines easily. Vagrant gives a developer a disposable consistent environment for developing and...

Ubuntu 18.04 Hi: I went to Settings>Power but haven't seen anything related to the lid.

I needed to re-authenticate for Twitter on Choqok. When I tried to do it on Twitter, I got a error that said: "Whoa there! The request token for this page is invalid. It may have already been...

I had my gnome working. I uninstall gsm by error and no I can't repair gnome and unable t load other desktops but life( he only one) I have broken files in gnome core but would like to uninstall all...

Ubuntu 18.04 Firefox Quantum 59.0.2 Hi: I am at https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/skypeforlinux/. I click 'skypeforlinux.tar.gz'. A window opens with the title 'Opening...

Hello guys, Nice to join this forum. I'm not new to Linux but I didn't do anything complicated with iptables until now. What I want to accomplish is to use one server as a load balancer and...

Published at LXer: RMS has been kicked off the GCC Steering Committee while FSF management team members are resigning Read More......

Hi I am installing CentOS minimal in virt-install with serial ttyS0 console. I get the text-based install screen which is very small like 24x80 at the top-left corner. Is there any way I can...

Environment: OpenSUSE, KDE. Everything patched as of this morning. My normal setup has multiple KDE activities with several of them running separate Firefox windows (with, of course, multiple...

Right. I have called time on pulse audio. The final straw was a bout today, when I couldn't even hear a Zoom meeting, never mind contribute to it. I finished that meeting on my mobile phone! If...

Hello, I configure my clustering labs with three nodes. One of my nodes is iSCSI Shared Storage. Everything was OK until I restarted my iSCSI Shared Storage. On node1 I checked the status of my...

Published at LXer: PyQt5 is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for Qt v5. It is implemented as more than 35 extension modules and enables Python to be used as an alternative application...

Hi community, I've a strange news every two seconds, I got a message which is rc_kthread_mem_user_copy: 8 I'm running OpenSuse Tumbleweed with latest updates and Kernel Linux lnx...

Hello everyone, I'm Rob. :) I've used Linux off and on over the last 20 years, beginning with Caldera OpenLinux. Who remembers that?! I enjoy the tortures of Slackware, mainly because it forces...

Hi: I have just written the MBR in a new machine of mine using lilo. The lilo menu is a red rectangle with two entries: one for each one of two OSes. Now I remember once I had the lilo menu in black...

Published at LXer: Finding your way around a version control system can be tricky. It can be massively overwhelming for a newbie, but being well-versed with the terminology and the basics of a...

Yesterday I tried to download the ZX Spectrum emulator "fuse" I typed in the following in the terminal. sudo apt-get install fuse-emulator-gtk The terminal screen expanded and a whole lot of writing...

Allo all, I use Kubuntu 20.10 I run it on 2 PCs. 1 PC runs Kubuntu 18.04. The hardware is different in each case. Some sites recommend doing sudo apt-get install numlockx and reboot PC That...

Preamble - I'm using Slack 14.2 x86-64 upgraded by slackpkg. Hi! I've got some problem by K3b, it does not write dvd data disk; only eraser function works if I selecte force option. If I try to...