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Can't get the centos-gnome.vdi. I have extracted the exe file. My system is Windows 10. I didn't have any issue getting virtualbox to be installed and run. I said I already have virtualbox installed...

Hi After reading the docs regarding slackpkg and it's relationship with the changelogs.txt file I went through some newbie steps to upgrade packages and the kernel in current. I was going to...

KDE PIM export stops at 80% and will not completely install my kmail data. It worked on Suse Leap 15.1 but does not work on 15.2. The HD light flashes as long as I will let it but the unpacking never...

I have been given an old HP Z420 server with 4 SAS disks and its LSI9412-4i card, it's not very powerful (twice the time to build a kernel than my i7-6700 machine) but an interesting machine to play...

Hi, I have installed Fedora 33 Server, and everything is working except for the Audio. When I use kdm, I see the speaker icon (at the upper right) that the sound is active, but no sound comes out...

Published at LXer: Up until a late 2020 announcement from Red Hat, CentOS Linux had a longstanding reputation as a dependable and enterprise-class Linux distribution. And now, the main purpose of...

Good afternoon! The sar tool collects load values every 10 minutes on my Oracle Linux 8.3 via the service *sysstat-collect.service*. It fills /var/log/messages with ---Quote--- systemd[1]:...

I have got a full and updated Slackware64-Current system. Almost "vanilla", except for some packages from AlienBob (libreoffice, calibre, chromium). After one of the latest upgrades, I guess from...

I've gone through all the online fixes I've found, and nothing is working....again! (edit: I can get them to stay "mute", but I still have them visible and running - a huge visual distraction for...

Hello, I have just migrated from CentOS 7.6 to Oracle Linux 8.3. I'm running a Windows NT 4 virtual machine with KVM. It had a drive mapped to a Samba share on the KVM host. Everything was fine...

hi, can i use smartctl and badblocks within a VM to check the disk in host?

Published at LXer: For 2021, Pi Day has come and gone, leaving fond memories and plenty of Raspberry Pi projects to try out. The days after any holiday can be hard when returning to work after high...

Published at LXer: How does PostgreSQL support science, research, industry, GIS, and web tech? Find out how to get started with this powerful database service. Read More......

Published at LXer: Telegram Desktop 2.7 has been released today as a major update to this open-source and cross-platform instant messaging software for Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. ...

Hello, I think, that today, we must rethink why all schools do oblige kids very early, even below 10 years old, to use Apple ipads (touchpads). Why kids must learn on Google Classrom and Ipads,...

Published at LXer: Foreman is a data center automation tool to deploy, configure, and patch hosts. It relies on Katello for content management, which in turn relies on Pulp to manage repositories....

Published at LXer: Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning. Evan Sultanik, a computer security researcher with Trail of Bits and an adjunct computer science...

Published at LXer: Writing data to text files in Linux is easy to do. Learn the art of redirection. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/scripting-writing-text-file)

Hi all I boot Linux (Ubuntu to be more specific) off a Portable SSD. I have heard its a good idea to encrypt my drive contents, I think particularly as I use the SSD on multiple computers and...

Published at LXer: Endlessh is an SSH tarpit that very slowly sends an endless, random SSH banner. It keeps SSH clients locked up for hours or even days at a time. Read More......

Hello. I'm David and am getting back into Linux after a several-year hiatus. Now what was that command...?

Published at LXer: In this guide, we will discuss what is SysMonTask, how to install it in Linux and finally how to monitor Linux system resource usage with SysMonTask utility. Read More......

Published at LXer: AMD and Intel recently started changing how the x86 chip architecture will handle exceptions. Linus Torvalds, in turn, gave his take on their new approach for forthcoming...

NAME="Amazon Linux AMI" VERSION="2018.03" ID="amzn" ID_LIKE="rhel fedora" VERSION_ID="2018.03" I've listed my current linux distribution above as i'm looking for assistance with this specific...

I have already posted this on reddit, link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/m8shj3/recommendations_for_using_arch_without_a_desktop/ As a new user of Arch and Linux in general, I...

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Published at LXer: There’s no question that cloud computing skills are in demand, and knowing cloud can help you secure a lucrative career. In fact, the 2020 Open Source Jobs Report from The Linux...

Hi there, I hope I'm posting in the right section. when booting my system goes into grub rescue mode with the message Code: --------- error: symbol ‘grub_is_lockdown’ not found

I had sound working very nicely on openSUSE Leap 15.2 until a set of recent patches not too long ago required a reboot. None of the patches seemd to involve sound software. (I do recognize that an...

:(hello there, i can't install vscode.deb on ma os please help. I tried this but never worked. I downloaded the deb file for vs code web but can't install it please help Code: ---------...

Hi Everyone I have this scanner. I am running Debian and trying to use the "document scanner" application. The scanner is found but no matter what settings I try, I always get this error:...

Published at LXer: COPR is a*collection*of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet...

Hello, i had eventual problem with breaching to linux, but i am not network professional, Start of the story was, that my network meter showed big upload while i was downloading, So i run...

How can I just get the first IP address without the 'IPv4 address:' and the other two IP address lines? Code: --------- hammer host info --name 'hostname.corp.com' | grep 'IPv4 address' ...

Published at LXer: CloudPanel is a free, open-source, and powerful server Control panel used for managing several web components. With Cloud panel, you can manage MySQL, NGINX, PHP-FPM, Redis,...

Since I want it to happen whilst I'm asleep I'd rather not have to sign into Gnome keyring. So I guess Deja Dup is out of the picture

I need some help regarding the NTP daemon. I have problem to make ntpd sync with any external NTP servers. Linux eth0 IP is 192.168.10. To simplify troubleshooting I am using the default...

Hi All, I’ve installed Debian, using the gnome desktop, and have come up against a brick wall. Any action after logging-in returns me to the initial activities screen whereby I have to log-in...

Published at LXer: Good news! As of today, the upcoming Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system release is now powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.11 kernel series. Read More......

Can someone briefly explain what goes wrong it a powered usb hub sends regulated 5V power back into the Pi 4? /Background. It's actually quite hard to get a separately powered usb hub here in...

I switched from windows 10 to linux (debian) a few days ago. I installed discord, but when I try to use it the mic is not working. Im using a laptop, and discord only detects the internal microphone....

Published at LXer: Throughout this article, We will install Android Studio on Ubuntu 20.04. I believe this article will help for other Ubuntu versions, too, such as 18.04, 20.10 as well as other...

Dears, Hello all! I have some questiones for you. I'm comparing energy consumption of DSDV vs AODV in TCP traffic's and I have got less energy consumption in DSDV than AODV in TCP...

My friend's grandfather is in his mid-90s and suffered a stroke about a month ago. It left him with a semi-paralyzed right arm and is unable to type like he used to. He is a very active computer user...

Published at LXer: Major upgrade for sound editor – as long as you don't need FAT32 support. Open-source audio editor Audacity was upgraded to version 3.0 this week with a new single-file project...

If you use conv=noerror instead of conv=noerror,sync when copying a windoze OS disk, and there's a read error, the output will then be "shifted" because no nuls were written for the read errors? ...

What is this file? ~/.local/share/keyrings/user.keystore What is it for?

Published at LXer: OBS stands for “Open Broadcast Software which is a screen recording and streaming tool”. This tutorial shows two alternative ways of installing OBS Studio, one using Debian...

I'm trying to determine what process controls the file mode applied to a newly created audit.log file (CentOS 7.9)? I would think it should be 600, but on many of our systems it is 650 for some odd...