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Published at LXer: Since early 2020, when I wrote about some fun Raspberry Pi projects and our Raspberry Pi eBook, I (like almost everyone) have been living and working from home.read more Read...

Hi, I am having a problem during the last stage of my PXE boot process. I am using docker containers for my dhcpd, tftp, and httpd servers. I have all of my config/compose files setup and am using...

Tried using Eric's audacity.SlackBuild for current. I'm running current, last updated three days ago. Ran into two problems. 1) When I look through the configure-audacity.log file, I see that ...

Hello dear community, I run Debian 9.13 on my laptop since October 2018. I would like to upgrade system. What is a best way to do it? Regards, Andrey

https://keybase.io/ A friend pointed this out to me. I like the idea of the secure encrypted communication that is cross platform support (desktop, phone, tablet, etc...) as well as secure file...

Published at LXer: You may already be versed in debugging Bash scripts (see How to Debug Bash Scripts if you are not familiar with debugging Bash yet), yet how to debug C or C++? Let’s explore. GDB...

I’m working with the SPI interface and using the SPIDEV driver to talk to an ADC device. This device requires a one-byte write and a two-byte read. It can handle a clock speed of 1.8 MHz and a...

I have this line in my .dwm/autostart script Code: --------- xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- lock --no-fork & --------- and this is the lock file

Our office switched to Exchange Online a few months ago. But some email is still sent locally from our webserver and production system. These include "group email" which can be sent to 1000-ish people...

Im a total absolute noob at linux, i got pop os, and now all that starts after ive logged in to the OS is mattermost app. There is no way to shut it down through the interface. Usually mattermost do...

Hello, One of my computers sometimes drops off the network and then takes a while to reconnect. I think it might be that the powerline adapter that its connected to doesn't get a very good...

Linux needs to become like Microsoft Windows, it Reminds me of Dos and Windows, don't you think so? I don't like using Dos at all having to remember commands so I didn't enjoy using linux that much...

This is totally weird and I hope someone can help me. Using current with latest vtown and gcc10 save for kernel 5.4.79 which I had to downgrade due to umount segfaulting on shutdown. I use a Dell...

*: I am brain damaged, and my short term memory is {crap} About a year ago, I successfully wrote a 1 or 2 line script to crawl through a specific directory tree and run the command mp3gain on each...

Published at LXer: How to Install PHP 8 on Debian. Read More... (https://www.cloudbooklet.com/how-to-install-php-8-on-debian/)

This is the error I get with sboinstall when install brave-browser in slackware 14.2 stable: "/opt/brave.com/brave/brave: error while loading shared libraries: libxkbcommon.so.0: cannot open shared...

Hello, If a Linux administrator wants to select another operating system to work then what is his\her choose? Thank you.

When I run systemctl suspend, the screen goes black but the keyboard backlight stays on with the CapsLock keylight blinking. Press the power button and the system will not wake. This issue has...

Hi all, I have found that somehow I missed a command to give me total ownership. I can open backup drives when I login as root and all of my shutdown and reboot icons are not greyed out. Have no...

After most recent -current update (kernel *.80 et al. and reinstalled nvidia), I'm seeing 2 strange behaviors: 1) alt-f1 used to open the popup apps menu, now it doesn't do anything 2) some...

This is a new one for me, so please bare with me on this one. I am running Slackware64 Current on my HP Thin Client. Yesterday I ran slackpkg to update everything and as usual, got anxiety when I...

Hi All, I was running a dual boot system with Linux Mint Cinammon 18.3 and Windows 10 on an Acer ES1-132 laptop for a couple of years now. I use Linux 99% of the time and switch to Windows only...

Published at LXer: Some people follow the tradition of creating New Year's resolutions. A year is a long time, though, so I plan with a seasonal theme or trajectory. Each quarter, I sit down and...

I have a computer setup with Slackware on my computer. I want to install Windows 10, so I downloaded the installer from microsoft's website and burned it to a usb using dd. When I tried to boot it, my...

Hello! For serveral months now i have had the message Code: --------- The following packages have been kept back: linux-image-amd64 --------- when running apt-get upgrade in debian buster.

Published at LXer: Minder is a tool that lets you create, develop and visualize your ideas. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license. Read More......

I've had problems with getting my HP 1020 printer to communicate with my computers in the past. So, I went back to my earlier posts, and retrieved the instructions there. I installed my printer,...

We are preseeding physical servers that contain 2 x SSD, 6 x NVMe, and 24 x HDD. The aim is to create software RAID1 (/boot) and RAID10 (lvm) with custom recipe on the SSDs (always /dev/sda and...

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I have a problem. The biggest part of the problem is that I'm not a system administrator, but I'm trying to get beyond that. I'm living deep in Siberia and my friend and I thought we would start a...

Greetz Title says it all... well almost ;) I'd also like to know how long (through how many updates), how many systems may possibly share the same /home, and any "gotchas" encountered. For my own...

I have a zfs disk since earlier. And I have a fresh installed Ubuntu 2020.10. Each time I boot my Ubuntu PC, there will be a zpool import of this zfs disk. So my zpool history shows 300 lines. Why is...

Hi I'm an old IT geek that has finally gotten my dream job. My first linux experience was back in 1993 at my college. I downloaded 34 floppy disks and installed SLS linux. Since then I have been...

Basically, i want to copy all files from one hdd to another and have the 2 hdd's exactly the same. But on the target hdd, i do NOT want an image file. Reason for this: when using "cp" not all of...

Hi everybody. Can somebody answer me please: Can i unban more than one ip address via fail2ban. The next command unban only the first ip. Code: --------- fail2ban-client set dovecot-pop3imap...

Hello, I haven't posted here in forever, but I have a problem that someone here may be able to at least point me in the right direction. I don't know what information may be relevant, so please...

Hi All, I have a project at work and I am new to Ubuntu 14 and in need of some assistance I hope someone can assist me. I am trying to get Ipv6 Routing working in a way that Server 1 can talk to...

Hi there, I signed up here a while back but never posted and it asked me if I wanted to do my first post, so I'm doing this now. My name is Matthew Evan. I'm into programming, web development and...

I have a PC that I built in 2010 that had 3 different old-style mechanical rotating hard drives for the last 10 years. A few months ago I thought it would be wise to replace the main drive (which my...

ext4/ubuntu I can not use “chown” command to unlock b/c the title of the directory has spaces between each word: “word word word.odt”. When I try it I get ‘read only filesystem’.

as the title says, I had Google Chrome stuck at deleting history, so I did Code: --------- sudo apt-get purge google-chrome** && sudo apt-get autoremove -y --------- but when reinstalling...

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Hi! And thanks for reading. I've recently started using GNU-Linux, with Debian Buster being my OS in a dualboot setup (Win7 on the side). _The touchpad has never worked on Debian. _ I used a...

Published at LXer: "I'd absolutely love to have [an M1 laptop] if it just ran Linux," Torvalds said. Read More... (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/__trashed-6/)

Hi, When i try to set a shortcut for *Flameshot* screenshot in Settings/Shortcuts on KDE Plasma 5.20.3 it accepts the shortcut but doesnt give any action in use. Flameshot Screenshot shortcut...

Just installed the Forecast 2.0 in my Bodhi, which is working with the wttr API, but now I cannot find any information on how to set up the wanted town? Adding the town's name to the settings of...

From https://www.virtualbox.org I downloaded virtualbox-6.1_6.1.16-140961~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb and I just double click, click on the “Install Package” button. Then open VirtualBox and I...

Akregator worked excellent for months with zero issues. I installed Kontact about a week back, it worked fine for a few days, but then both started freezing, and I lost my RSS feed. Tried...

In MENU > Desktop, Conky can be toggled to off, but I want it be hidden permanently. For this I edited "desktop-session.conf" ~~ with LOAD_CONKY="true" But without any success. So what can I do to...

Really recently, I had Akregator freeze and not be able to load anything even after reinstall [months with no problem], the same that Spotify has been left running even after I close it. Kontact...