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Even when the machine is idle, there is activity to the disk. What's the best way to figure out what's doing it? Once I know that I can try to reduce or stop it. I've attached htop output Code:...

Published at LXer: Jonathan White announced the general availability of KeePassXC 2.6, a new major release of this powerful, open-source and multi-platform password manager for the Linux desktop. ...

I need help installing nvidia drivers in Debian 10. Before I start typing in sudo commands, I'd like know where to start, and whats the best way to go about this. I did watch a couple YouTube...

Hi, I don't know why but I always find myself getting tangled up with google and the other stuff it owns. Passwords and changes get thrust at me and I find it all damned annoying. I still have a...

Greetings, Does anyone know how (best way) to install Kmymoney in CentOS 8. I've tried a number of different web sites to get some reliable information on how to do this be nothing works. Any help...

Greetings, the current version of the TAR command on my CentOS 8 system doesn't support the '.XA' extention and I can't find any information on how to install this. Any help will be appreciated. ...

Today was supposed to be "Get Certbot Up And Running Day" but it's turned into yet another systemd headache. [sigh] The topic is a good summary: When I boot an RPi on our network, the nginx service...

hi, I am interested to install Debian 10 on my laptop as a desktop operating system. Currently, I am using windows 10. Well when I try to install Debian in disk partitioning, I use "Guided -...

Hi, I'm trying to connect a MFB drum machine via serial on an USB port (putty on /dev/tty/ACM0) to check and maybe update the firmware. My user is in the dialout group but even with sudo, I can't...

Published at LXer: Nexcom’s Linux-ready “ICES 675” is a COM Express Basic Type 6 module with an 8th Gen Coffee Lake-H CPU and Intel CM246 chipset, triple display support, multiple PCIe connections,...

Hi I'm having issues with custom keyboard shortcuts all the other ones I can modify and they work fine but not custom ones. I originally thought it might be an issue with the command but i tried it...

I just finished up a LFS systemd build. It all works great except the kernel console messages overwriting the console prompt. I can stop it by typing dmesg -n 1 but I'm looking for a solution to...

Hi all. I recently did a LFS Systemd build on a Raspberry Pi 3B following the Development LFS systemd book. The system built beautifully (although I had to make a patch for glibc with gcc-10.1.0) and...

As tried to set keyboard remapping in auto startup in a line of shell command inside one shell script file, I found it so extremely weird, the first line preceding it is working, but it is, the second...

Published at LXer: Git is very useful for helping small teams manage their software development processes, but there are ways you can make it even more effective. I've found a number of best...

Because offlineimap relies on Python 2.7 it is going to be deprecated by the end of the year. Have you replaced offlineimap with something else? Btw, I have bad experience with mbsync. I lost the...

Hi guys Linux Mint 19.3 to 20 on ASUS laptop I did an upgrade on my laptop and it seemed that everything went fine and after reboot I ended up with (initramfs) and a blinking marker. Using...

Hello. Newbie here. recently I tried to install open nebula and for some reason,the eno1 network interface is disappeared from my ubuntu 20.04 network configuration and I would like to restore...

I am using the following command Code: --------- zmv -n -Q '(**/)(*[[:upper:]]*)(/)' '${1}${(L)${2//(#b)([[:upper:]])/-$match[1]}#-}' --------- to transform

I have a laptop that runs AntiX and it has conky on the desktop. One of the things that conky shows is the cpu frequency, which seems to vary a lot. The maximum figure is 1600 (I assume MHz), but it...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will update the deployment with the default Rolling update strategy and rollback the deployment. To rollback the deployment, we will use the incorrect image...

Published at LXer: Ah Osmos, what an absolute gem that was back when it released for Linux in 2010. Looking back, it's one of the first set of new-wave indie games to kick-start Linux gaming. ...

I have noticed that my -current installation has some .new files for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow. I can see that there are some differences between the two, in particular...

I am head admin for one of our servers running Ubuntu. Browsing through logs Ive found strange entries, supposedly made by sysstat software. Well, ok, but I have not installed this. Only I have...

Hello, I am testing taprio scheduling on linux system with the following gate schedules. S 0E 44600 S 00 13000 S 01 800 S 0E 126200 S 00 13000 S 01 800

A friend of mine noticed me of this: Changelog files: 32-bit extra/sendmail/sendmail-8.16.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. extra/sendmail/sendmail-cf-8.16.1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. 64-bit...

Hi All, I just want to check that I have this correct.... Say Server 1 is where I primarily download a file from. Server 2 is a backup location Server 3 is the final location If server 1...

Hi, I am trying to run "ssh root@x.x.x.x reboot" from one of my primary blade to reboot secondary blade. I am executing this command from a perl script using system function. I see ssh client...

Published at LXer: In a somewhat confusing move, Google is placing three of its open-source projects[he]#039[/he] trademarks under its new Open Usage Commons. Read More......

Hey guys, first time post... I'm trying to get a script to check if a route exists after I connect a VPN... First time trying to get this done and need some help... This is what I have so...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project announced today the July 2020 Apps update for their KDE Applications open-source software suite, versioned 20.04.3. Read More......

Hello. I'm trying to boot Windows 10 (builder hvm) with the xen-hypervisor on Ubuntu 20.04. This is what I did in order to be able to do this : 1) before to create the vm,I run this script : ...

Here's something I've been noticing: If a spambot bumps an old thread and the bot post is removed, then that thread continues to be listed as a current one at...

Config: Tumbleweed (up-to-date as of 2020-07-05), systemd logging redirected to syslog-ng (i.e., systemd-logger not installed) Situation: most log files in /var/log are being appended to using very...

I have this weird issue that I have internet via wifi but cannot do any diagnostics on it. *This is because my box doesn't know it has wifi.* Slackware64-Current as of 03-2020, wifi is Qualcomm...

Having a hard time getting a guest VM to join the local network. Config is Debian 10.4 with all the required KVM packages and I can create a VM (also running Debian) and access it through VNC just...

i've only seen this happen on firefox. the severity of it seems to vary among different websites. if i roll the mouse roller continuously, it keeps working. if i pause for a very short time, it...

Published at LXer: Software is increasingly being distributed as container images. Container images include the many software components needed to support the featured software in the container. We...

If I start Firefox on -current from the console I see this: Code: --------- failed to find gam_server failed to find gam_server failed to find gam_server failed to find gam_server Failed to...

Published at LXer: Nvidia released today the Nvidia 450.57 graphics driver for UNIX platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, a major update that brings numerous improvements, new features...

My laptop is HP Elitebook 8560w with Linx Mint Cinnamon, and its native resolution is 1920x1080, but i find this resolution inconvenient, because the laptop have to be close to me, otherwise i can't...

Good evening Let me try to keep this simple. First I tell you what I want, then I tell you what I did and describe the results which, so far, are unsatisfactory. Chances are, you do not understand...

Hi all! Hopefully an easy question to answer: SSH between my Ubuntu Linux machines works like a charm, even passwordless, with one exception: when connecting, I get this message: ...

Published at LXer: The Linux desktop is a beautiful thing, but if you[he]#039[/he]re tired of boring wallpaper, then you should try wallset, a command-line utility allowing you to set a video as...

Hello all, I have a problem with Debian 10 that has lead me to format and re-install it three times now, I'd kindly appreciate some help. My system: CPU: ryzen 5 2600 mother board: gigabyte...

hi, i am using the *tune-in* app on my essential running lieage-os. i would like to use something like *arecord* to save part of a radio show so i can listen to it later. is there a way i can...

On slackware-current (kernel 5.4.48) using the slackware version 78 of firefox and alienBob's version of openjdk(8u252_b09) and icedtea-web, I am able to join Cisco WebEx meetings, but there is no...

Published at LXer: You can only upgrade from Linux Mint 19.3 64-bit version to Linux Mint 20. The following upgrade process will not work for Linux Mint 19.3 32-bit version. If you are running...

Hi, I have files with dates only in them 08/10/2020 09/10/2020 10/10/2020 11/10/2020 12/10/2020 need to change them to DD/MM/YYYY

Published at LXer: It’s official! You can now upgrade your Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” installations to the latest release, Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana,” as the Linux Mint project just opened the upgrade...