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I am fairly new when it comes to Linux. Not exactly Beginner but wouldn't classify myself as useful yet. I have a container that I set up from Turnkey Linux (I have posted there as well) for SAMBA and...

It's reported "No Data" for the last several days. What should I do? Is any action on my part required? Will it just "pop back" someday? I wish to address this issue. Please help!

Hi, After I installed Ubuntu 20.04, the scrolling function of my wireless mouse (Logitech M275) stopped working. The scroll function works fine when I use Logitech M705 mouse. Can you please help...

How do I set file association in Xfe to be the same as those in Files? A bit of a background, I just installed Ubuntu 20.04, whose default file manager is Files 3.36.3. But, I really prefer the...

Published at LXer: At the request of some of my readers, I decided to review the Raspup Linux distribution on the Raspberry Pi, a port of the lightweight Puppy Linux distro optimized for Raspberry...

I have problem with libre office impress. According to youtube guide video, there should be more of the toolbar "outside" of screen.. but how to access to it since there is no scrolling ? Attachment...

I am trying to simulate my home network with LXC containers my home network has this structure: INTERNET /\ | | \/ DSL MODEM

I bit the bullet and just redid big chunks of pinxi internally to enhanced BSD updates, I also managed to get more data working more reliably than ever before for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD [never...

Published at LXer: Jack Wallen has become nostalgic for the Linux desktop days of old. What does that say for the current state of the UI? Read More......

Published at LXer: Some families have a complex schedule: the kids have school and afterschool activities, you have important events you want to remember, everyone has multiple appointments, and so...

This is what I did, 1. Create an ipset create ephemeral hash:ip,port family inet hashsize 8192 maxelem 800000 2. Add all of the ports for udp and tcp from 1024-65535 (129024) entries add...

I've been using Firefox on my Xubuntu machine for quite a while - months at least - and it's been functioning as expected. However, a few days ago it starting crashing on start up. I just get the...

Running Linux Mint 20.1 (Cinnamon) on 9-year-old Samsung laptop. All updates applied. Heretofore, boot time was not an issue. Why now? Off to login screen: 1 minute, 31 seconds Login screen to...

Hello all - My question is: When Bionicpup32-8.0-UEFI.iso is updated, what is updated? I ask because: Bionicpup32-8.0-UEFI.iso = 280,576 kb

Hi. I recall I had this issue a long time ago - don't remember how it was resolved back then. I just noticed today that I'm no longer getting email notifications for replies to my subscribed...

sda1 luks1 encrypted Arch keyfile=/arch.arch sda2 luks1 encrypted Ubuntu keyfile=/etc/luks/ub.ub Arch grub is installed in sda. When I try to boot into Ubuntu, no matter which way I tried, it...

Hi, I'm on Slackware64-current vanilla. I launch firefox normally, I can browse e.g.: https://formation.ifsem.cnrs.fr I create another profile with firefox -p, I use this profile and got a...

Hello Herold here. hope all is good with you guys. decided to install ubuntu to better familiarize myself with the open source operating system. loving it so far. just need to install common...

hi folks, Background: running Linux Mint v20.x mounted 5 NAS (QNAP) shared folders through 'fstab' entries I have the following questions... I can access the majority of the mounted folders...

I want to make it as simple as possible. So I have downloaded Kali Linux 2021 latest version on my VirtualBox and my host machine runs Windows 10. I bought a USB wireless adapter which has a Ralink...

I'm on the 64bit Current iso of 2021-02-11 with kernel-5.10.15 VirtualBox is not able to building it's modules. Code: --------- In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:33:...

Hello first of sorry if my english isnt optimal, I just hope you understand me and can help me with my problem to solve. I have installed openvpn with killswitch with IPTables on my hostsystem and...

Older versions of RHEL allowed changing the color depth of the display. I am running RHEL 8.3 with a default depth at 24 bits. I have some apps that need 16 bits. How can I change to 16 bits?

Hi, I started studying Linux for our subject in graduate school. Our exercise involves disabling unused file system. I am trying to execute lines similar to this one : install cramfs /bin/true...

Hello I installed the latest version of ubuntu on my asus laptop . Dual boot with windows 10. Every thing was working for 1 day. Only thing I have to go in bios to boot ubuntu and settle Sata =...

I've had bluetooth issues in the past, so this was in some sense familiar territory. So I worked through the old posts,and found instructions that someone had posted on an earlier occasion. However,...

Published at LXer: The developers behind the Debian-based SparkyLinux distribution released today SparkyLinux 2021.03 as March 2021’s update of their semi-rolling line and the first to introduce a...

Published at LXer: This is quite common for Dual Boot users who use Windows and Linux simultaneously for their work. You can easily mount Windows partitions through File Manager. Read More......

So I've been playing with a docker image from vbatts mentioned here: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:misc:slackware_docker_image But I seem to have issues connecting to https urls. example:...

I'm not having much luck getting Linux (Mint in this case) to play nice with my Canon LiDE 700F scanner. Every attempt results in the first page scan attempt ending with "Error during device I/O" ...

Published at LXer: The second release candidate of Linux Kernel 5.12 is out early because of a nasty swap file bug. And do not use Linux Kernel 5.12 RC1 for testing, you may lose data. Read...

Published at LXer: The Arch Linux-based SystemRescue (formerly SystemRescueCd) live system for system rescue and recovery tasks has been updated today to version 8.00, a major release that...

I am reading in https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/11/7/13557134/nes-classic-nintendo-linux-emulator-rom-raspberry-pi that the Nintendo Nes Classic console runs some form of Linux. I...

Recently acquired a Surface Pro 3 from someone who was getting rid of it. Had 8GB of RAM, decent i5 CPU, 256GB SSD, with the typecover. I got the most current (as of this writing) version of...

Published at LXer: In this brief tutorial, we will learn how to restore or recover deleted commands in Linux using coreutils and busybox. Read More......

Any hints on how to stop the laptop from going into suspend(?) when the lid is closed? preferably via the command line. It stops responding to pings whenever the lid is closed, and the stuff I found...

No matter what I do can't get my drives working at USB3 speeds. Everything looks right, so I am hoping some other eyes can give me some hints. Code: --------- # lsusb Bus 004 Device...

Hi all, I did not experiment with the recent Slackware-current for a while. Today I tried to install a fresh copy of Slackware current and after the clean system booted my system tray in Plasma5...

Hello, I created two VMs in the VirtualBox. One of them is Reverse Proxy server and another one is Apache Web Server. The specifications of VM1 (Reverse Proxy) are as follows: NIC 1 is NAT and Its...

Hello all, i'm new to this forum; i used linux arch (EndeavourOS) on my personnal computer and MX-linux at school and i'm stuck with the following problem : i don't know how to use the "shutdown"...

After about 5 years of trusty service, my computer is getting slow. I'm suspecting the SSD might be in need of a wipe, and I'm not sure whether these things have a password in their SSDs, however...

This is a real head scratcher. I've been using Linux for a long time now and I've *never* seen this weird happen before. I ran zypper this afternoon and pulled down and installed the available...

I want to define some protocols (communication rules) between nodes in NS2 and generate warnings in cases that exceed these rules. But I need help writing the following rules in TCL for NS2. *#...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to fix "Implementation of the USB 2.0 controller not found!" error in VirtualBox in Linux. Read More......

Hi, all! New to the forum and it would be rude not to introduce myself. I will try to keep it short: I am fairly new to Linux (

The title is certainly clickbait but I copied it directly from the title of this very interesting video. The video is very wide in scope mainly that of back story, namely actual History. So it...

Can i send packet throught ARP without internet connection? Just found out that on LAN packets are send to MAC adress and are not routed. Does that mean that without wifi connection i can send...

I noticed that on old computers it's sometimes helpful to ad a boot flag to the boot partition. When selecting the flag function initially, there are quite a few options which could be used. So I'm...

I recently installed Buster on my machine to replace the Jessie I had been using. There is no trash icon on my desktop. I was able to add a trash applet to the top panel, but it doesn't work. When...

Hi all, my Ubuntu 20.04 Linux does not seem to recognize an Anker USB-C 2-in-1 Card Reader. I bought it assuming that an USB hub device like this would work out of the box. Is there a reason...