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UNtil I installed udates on Dec. 24 my Bluetooth speaker worked fine. I am running Suse Tumbleweed 15.2 on a Dell, System settings for Audio now wont find my bluetooth and goes into an endless...

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critical error can someone tell me how to rectify this error please.

Hi all im 56 years young and we my parents and my gorgeous wife are traveling around Australia living the dream and doing the grey nomad adventure.I am fairly new to linux i did dabble a little with...

I'm trying to write a script to backup my desktop. I have two problems - first I had a local business setup my desktop after a mother board crash, there's a directory /media in the ~/Desktop directory...

I am trying to do a search on the forum, even so much as a basic search but either way randomly I am coming into this error: Attachment 35025...

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I've upgraded from Ubuntu 18.02 to 20.10. Emacs was upgraded to 26.3. I'm setting my frame-size in .emacs using Code: --------- (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 1) (left . 1) (width . 80)...

I want to set CD flags to boot, lba. I use GParted in Linux, and Windows 10. GParted doesn't count my CD as a partition/volume.

I'm messing with a lighter session manager; and seems XDM is obviously the lightest. I like it as it is simple and I do not care for really customizing a theme; but after digging through the man...

Published at LXer: Looking back through Opensource.com[he]#039[/he]s articles about*DevOps in 2020, there was a bit of something for everyone—from people starting the DevOps journey to seasoned...

I recently suffered through a minor database disaster. The query I meant to run was something like this Code: --------- delete from table_a where x_id in (select x_id from table_b where field_a =...

After the latest updates in Slackware64 --curent (the latest kernel change), my system became a bit unstable. Occasionally, while browsing in Firefox, I first hear the fan start spinning fast and then...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will create an inventory configuration to store object metadata in CSV format. We can store reports in the same bucket as the source bucket, but we will use a...

Hello all, on my recently upgrade Fedora 33 I switched from XFCE to Gnome Shell in order to change the my system language (not locales, I did that on the commmand line, rather the desktop...

I have configured the drive for "gpt" and it fails to add partition at > approximately 2.5 TB points and up. Funny - it complains about some "DOS" (!) value being to large. (What's "DOS" ?? ...

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I am interested in finding a live distro that supports: a. "Thin"... limited size b. Limited services ssh Scp dd Fisk File systems (mkfs.msdos, ext, etc) Networking

*Merry Christmas ARMed Slackers!* Felicitations and best wishes to you all over the festive season. :thumbsup: The sarpi installers (and relevant pkgs) for Slackware ARM current now runs kernel...

Hello, i have a linux server that apache web server is installed on it. there is a "test" directory on apache root directory. (/var/www/html/test) i want to create a new user with limited access so...

Published at LXer: Beautiful open source text editors are pretty common these days, between Adobe’s Brackets, Microsoft’s*VSCode, and GitHub’s*Atom. Each of these seem to offer similar experiences:...

Hello, I have a external SCSI drive in an enclosure. It has several EXT4 partitions and a JFS partition that I use for a personal DVR. All of a sudden today, the JFS partition is refusing to mount....

I'm trying to repartition an old 1Tb drive from an old windows machine I want a single partition, currently it has: /dev/sdc1 ext4 97GiB /dev/sdc2 extended 833.86GiB unallocated 1.65MiB...

My "show applications (nine dots) shows my app icons but the wording description is cut off. For example my FireFox icons says "Firef" my Settings icon says "setti", etc. Many others are...

Hello and Merry Christmas, I have a centos 7 that suddenly stopped working. no idea why. it just showed bios screen the other day. I tried to reboot normally, but goes nowhere. No start splash...

Hello, a Linux noob here, I only started using it a few months ago but made the transaction from DE to WM pretty fast. I can't get used to tilling plus I have a smaller screen on my laptop so I opted...

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I have block device working as raid 1 device (/dev/sda2) which is a /boot partition and I created it using the command: Code: --------- mdadm --create /dev/md2 --name=2 --level 1 --raid-devices...

Getting this error every time I run my java program from command line: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key This has to do with displays and xservers of which I am totally in the dark. Can someone...

Hello to everyone, I am 43 years old. I have been using Linux since 2008. It's time to become a member of the forum:) Happy New Year to all...

I had previously installed Windows, Linux Mint and many other systems on my laptop with T4400 processor and used it for a long time without any problems. I installed Lubuntu 18.04 32 bit to be light...

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Want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and happy new year. May Covid get lost with 2020 ;)

I have my backup drive causing me issue. Its an external usb drive 4TB encrypted with Luks. I have no issue per se, but my password not being recognized when trying to decrytpe the drive. To be...

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Hello Please could you add Veracrypt + GTK Hash to 4M linux in the next release :) ? thanks a lot :)

Hi all, I am using a GTK C program in my embedded linux device. I need to backup a folder from my internal memory to pendrive when a button is clicked on the UI. While this, the pendrive is getting...

There it is in the title. And here's another recent victim (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/user/petersschiltz%40gmail-com-1209178/). When you register you get presented with this text: ...

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I'm new to linux. When I try to create a directory in /dev folder it's happening smoothly but after rebooting all created folders are disappearing. I tried in other folder like /etc.... Everywhere...

Published at LXer: Here are the 5 best distros for beginners.They are all Debian-based distros, so they all use the apt package manager by default, unlike Ubuntu that ships with the snap package...

Hi, Because you did something who makes me happy every time I use it And every time I really enjoy using it I've been using Linux for a while now, without getting involved more than that until...

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After the latest updates, which include blueman & harfbuzz blueman-applet won't start anymore when I tried to launch it w/ CLI, i've got this error message : Code: --------- slackware :: ~ »...

This drive was Secure Erased in a Windows laptop that had been booted with Parted Magic. I'm told the Erase mode chosen was supposed to have written zeros to the drive. However,now, when trying to...

When I upload large files, the internet goes offline. I can't connect anymore and have to restart. It's not the ISP, because I can upload big files with Windows (with the same computer). Thus it's...

Hi! Doing experiments with Slackware, I noticed that when trying to boot the system from the install media, as described here: Code: --------- In a pinch, you can boot your system from here...

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