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Published at LXer: After some delays the crowdfunded indie fighting game with characters designed by acclaimed cartoon producer Lauren Faust, Them's Fightin' Herds, will release for Linux on March...

Hello all, I am a new member around here and a recent Linux user - by all means a newbie, so forgive me if the following will seem like a silly issue to have. Basically, for the last few days,...

I want to get the ping working (for Battlefield 4). I use Kubuntu, Proton 5.13-5 and wine-devel from WineHQ systemwide. When I run: wine cmd.exe with my systemwide wine-devel, and in the CMD...

Published at LXer: In mid-February, the Linux Foundation announced it had signed a collaboration agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), enabling US Government...

Running Arch Linux, I have just added more memory from 16GB -> 32Gb. I added two more 8GB sticks into the free 2 slots I had. I have now have 4 of the same sticks in the 4 slots. On boot my BIOS (?)...

Hello All... I'm as new to Linux as it gets. Just booted the mac to Ubuntu and I'm going through setup. I'm a retired B-748 pilot whose "Captain Gadget" days now belong to history. Found this resource...

When I am surfing with qutebrowser, it couldn't display the videos with h.264. It seems like the Qt5 package comes with -current doesn't contain proprietary codecs support. If the speculation is...

Published at LXer: This guide shows the step by step instructions to install WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04 with Apache HTTP server, MySQL database, and an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt. Read...

I've recently purchased a very nice Chinese mechanical keyboard, a Durgod K-320 Corona, an excellent mechanical keyboard which works just fine with Linux. When used under Windows, a downloadable...

Whatever script i put in /etc/cron.hourly folder, or other cron folders, they are not working, and when i test the scripts i get this: Code: --------- run-parts --test /etc/cron.hourly/test ...

This is my first question : ) Is there a forum for ChromeOS users who have turned on the Linux environment and are now able to access what appears to be Debian Buster on ChromeOS ?

Published at LXer: Well, that was embarrassing. Linus Torvalds[he]#039[/he] first release candidate for the Linux kernel 5.12 included a show-stopping bug. After shutting down that release Torvalds...

Hi, We have 2 nfs servers in our environment with config as mentioned below : 1) OS : Rhel 7.4 Kernel : 3.10.0-693.1.1.el7.x86_64 Make : Dell Inc. PowerEdge R630 Storage: Dell array...

I downloaded Linuxmint 20.0 Cinnamon and followed instructions at Linux Mint to verfy - How to verify ISO images: $ gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-key "27DE B156 44C6 B3CF...

So the Princeton mirror is notoriously out of date and often throws md5 errors. If I switch from the auto-select mirror to literally any other mirror, things are fine. Is there a away to blacklist a...

Only noticed this in Linux Mint; I don't use them ever, and they "pop" loudly sometimes when I leave a site that has audio, even if the audio is also turned off. It's an Asus VG248 (*not* a very...

Published at LXer: Data integration and data loading efforts could get easier to execute, as open source DFDL project becomes a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. Read More......

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Hello, I am trying to build the latest stable kernel which is 5.12.0.rc2+ from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git I have followed the following steps: 1. ...

I looked at the -current version of sbopkg on github, and the sbopkg.SlackBuild included doesn't build correctly with the git version. Here enclosed a patch for it to build correctly. The -current...

Hello everybody! I have no wireless. Wired connection is OK. I'm using an Acer 3100 laptop. It seems I have a driver for the wireless called "b43-pci-bridge": lspci -vvnn 06:02.0 Network...

Published at LXer: When installing a content management system for your website, it's easy to get lazy and assume that it's going to do all the work for you. A CMS like Joomla certainly does make...

Published at LXer: Thanks to the Solarwinds security blunders, we[he]#039[/he]re all aware now of how vital it is to protect our software supply chain from unauthorized changes. Now, the Linux...

Sorry for bad English. I normally use this command to download files from urls saved in text files Code: --------- $wget -i textfile.txt -P [foldername] --------- I give folder name same...

Hello Everyone, I always get good advice here, so I thought I would try this. I want to run DaVinci Resolve for heavy duty video editing and my current laptops just won't handle it. It requires...

Whenever I edit my crontab I get this error ---Quote--- # is illegal during initialization reading /var/spool/cron/crontab.iYbP2T ---End Quote--- Even after...

Hi, Running Fedora 33 with Plasma. I've noticed these repeating errors in journalctl for yesterday. Mar 11 16:11:43 lap.localdomain kcheckpass[159270]: pam_unix(kde:auth): auth could not...

Hello, when rsync is running and and i copy some file manually into same place rsync will be writing to same file, what it will do? Overwrite the file, or it does a check and which are conditions? I...

Hello, I configured my Apache Reverse Proxy as a Load Balancer to handle Back-End servers. When a Back-End server stopped, then another one provide service: Code: --------- ...

Published at LXer: Suppose you want to have a bash script that sleeps in the background normally, and wakes up to perform some task only when you send a signal to the script. Once the script...

Last time I had yet another difficult discussion here - but finally it appeared to be fruitful to me - so first conclusion do not avoid difficult discussions. Well problem was about EOL of 5.10...

Hi All, I just started working with Tails. I have some questions about firewalls / internet configuration and whitelisting of websites and apps. However - I can't see Tails mentioned on this site....

Published at LXer: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the community-driven nonprofit organization that maintains and evaluates compliance with the Open Source Definition. Last year, I wrote a...

Published at LXer: German Linux computer manufacturer TUXEDO Computers launched today two Linux gaming laptops powered by the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 graphics card series. Read More......

Hi, first time posting so please excuse me if I am not in the correct forum. I was using nslookup to look up a URL and once searched, the next line outputted to the terminal is "quote> " and allows...

Published at LXer: Flatpak developer Alexander Larsson announced today the release of Flatpak 1.10.2 as the second maintenance update in the latest Flatpak 1.10 stable series and an important...

*enp2s0f0* uses *2 IP addresses*. I am using Ubuntu server 20.10 and *want to set a static IP* for enp2s0f0 and get rid of the DHCP's address. I also have docker installed. Code: ---------...

Published at LXer: Google Photos lets you store your images in the cloud for convenient access from anywhere. What are the best open source alternatives? Read More......

I have changed the inactive color of title bar; pressed "apply" but it the title bar color never change. After i reboot, then only i see the color change took place. I was recalling, all linux...

Hello, I've recently bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3-15IMH05 laptop (with the intel i7-10750H CPU and Nvidia gtx 1650ti GPU). I use Debian 11 (Bullseye) with the KDE Plasma desktop environment....

For maybe the last month the Nvidia driver prevents me from dropping into a terminal session (CLT+ALT+F2) without video. I can exit the blank window by pressing CTL+ALT+F1. When I quit a KDE...

I've been dealing with my hardened install, which I use as an Unbound/DNSCrypt server for the home office network, crashing every few days with no discernible core dump - even after it's already been...

I am on Debian testing, on a Lenovo P53 with an NVidia graphic card, on xfce. (I know I shoundn't be on testing given my level, but I did this last year because at the time it seemed the only way...

I am getting a config error after building gpm and I do not know how to fix it. It says "An unforeseen error took place in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S70gpm, which exited with a return value of 2." When I...

Published at LXer: These days high availability and database clustering are very important for highly loaded production applications. If your server is down for a fraction of time, you are losing...

Hi, I'm having a problem creating a logical volume. The command I'm running is Code: --------- lvcreate -v --size 8G --name swap vol0

So, I was playing around with my Slackware, which is installed on VirtualBox, testing some things (read: practicing commands and stuff) when one day after fiddling around with partitioning and file...

Hello, i was wondering which ZFS rec0rdsize (https://zfsonlinux.org/manpages/0.8.1/man8/zfs.8.html) to set if my average disk read size operation (zpool iostat -r) is from 512 up to 128k while the...

I used to have Ubuntu on my old Compaq computer but got rid of the computer due to broken keyboard. Last year a friend of mine gave me his Acer Aspire 7720-6569 Model ICK70. It uses Window Vista...

Published at LXer: These days high availability and database clustering are very important for highly loaded production applications. If your server is down for a fraction of time, you are losing...