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Spinrite on a Dual Boot, Error: not a regular file
Hello ! My wife and I are overseas looking at a humanitarian organization and there's a pile of external drives which need help. I've heard good things about Spinrite and would like to get...
CENTOS 8 : Unable to connect to internet
Hi Team, i have installed centos 8 in vmaware 15 and curent network setting in vmware is bridged. my local system has internet connection, In centos i have done the static IP configuration. ...
HOWDY !!!
Hello everybody ! Retired military, living overseas in Thailand and looking at a humanitarian organization. LM, just seems to get better and better since last I saw it. Thanks for letting me hang...
LXer: Transmission 3.0 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Major Improvements
Published at LXer: After more than two years in the works, the Transmission 3.0 open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client has been released as a major version with many new features and...
How do I round to the nearest hundred?
I have this code: Code: --------- someFunction() { if(someVar > 2000){return 2;} if(someVar > 1900){return 1.9;} if(someVar > 1800){return 1.8;} if(someVar > 1700){return 1.7;}
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inputting keyboard actions a mouse movements from software to an X server
is there a way to programmaticly provide input to X (as opposed to a specific window) controlling the mouse and keyboard to fake the input other than running Xvnc an making my software pretend to be a...
LXer: Ubuntu MATE 20.04 Is More Polished, Beautiful & Stable Than Ever
Published at LXer: We’ll take you today in a tour in Ubuntu MATE 20.04 to see together how more polished and stable it became, what newly-introduced features are there and whether you should...
FreeBSD versus OpenBSD...?
Hello folks, Is there a good summary of the differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? If not, could someone give me a synopsis here? I'm looking for a distro to use as my primary work and...
Difference between Debian and Ubuntu...?
Hello folks, I used Debian about 15 years ago. I'm not looking for a good distro to act as my professional and personal primary system. I recently installed Ubuntu but I'm not really happy...
[SOLVED] Terminal using bashrc settings under root but not user in LXDE
Hi, When I use the linux terminal under root I get all the bashrc settings - colour - aliases etc but when logged in under User I don't. The .bashrc file in in the root directory but no in my home...
No output audio devices after upgrading in slackware current for one user
It is been a few months since I upgraded my Slackware 14+Current installation, maybe 5 months, until then everything was working correctly. Recently, I upgraded the system and now, I do not have...
LXer: Is it possible to run a conference using only free software?
Published at LXer: The Free Software Foundation[he]#039[/he]s (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In our last...
Fedora 32 upgrade via dnf resulted in functioning half-upgrade
I made the upgrade from Fedora 31 to 32 using 'dnf system-upgrade'. I've done successful upgrades with this before. Download and installation appeared to work fine. The system rebooted without...
LXer: Xubuntu Moved to GitHub from Launchpad
Published at LXer: The Xubuntu project announced that they have moved the development activities to GitHub from Launchpad. Read More... (https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/05/xubuntu-now-in-github/)
module configuration
Hello, I am looking for some advise before taking the proverbial fork in the road and writing hundreds of redundant lines of code. I am writing a kernel module that requires read only access to a...
Not enough free disk space on upgrade
So spent the afternoon simply trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 using the following command Code: --------- sudo update-manager -c -d --------- But repeatedly get the following...
Attempts to clear space in /var/cache/apt/archives failed when installing kali-linux-everything
So to preface this: I know there are other threads on other sites that covered this, however their methods did not work....
Free up space- /home directory confusion
Hi Some confusion about my home directory. If I issue Code: --------- du -chd 1 | sort -h --------- I get
xscreensaver unable to find alternatives to fonts
Since the current update this past Wednesday xscreensaver on my 32-bit host gives me error messages of the form Code: --------- xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "{some font}"...
LXer: Windows Package Manager: Linux Users Will Love It
Published at LXer: Microsoft used this year’s edition of the Build developer conference to announce the Windows Package Manager, a concept that Linux users will find very familiar and which is...
[current] setup: lilo&elilo&kernel-generic
Hi. At post-install time, setup does generate an initrd automatically using setup.01.mkinitrd Then if you use an efi system setup.ll.eliloconfig try to copy the kernel-generic Code: ---------...
Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 authentication issue
Following this guide to update to 20.04 https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-18-04-lts-to-20-04-lts-today Specifically Alternative options to upgrade Code: --------- sudo...
Trouble installing Centos 8
I'm trying to install Centos 8 on my old laptop and it sees the HDD but says there is no space but there definitely is space. Is there something I need to do on Windows to make the drive available?...
Is it a security problem if I can can't remove terminal history?
I can and did remove an accidental piece of sensitive info from my history but I couldn't do it via CLI. I had to open bash_history in a text editor. Before that I tried Code: ---------...
LXer: TUXEDO Computers Unveils Their First AMD-Only Linux Laptop
Published at LXer: German computer manufacturer TUXEDO Computers has unveiled TUXEDO Book BA15 as their first AMD-only laptop with a Linux OS pre-installed. Read More......
Realtek ALC5672 not working on Dell Venue 10 Pro tablet
Dear Community, I've recently switched from Windows 10 i386 to Xubuntu 20.04 LTS amd64 on my Dell Venue 10 Pro 5055 tablet. The device has 32-bit EFI so it was a bit of a struggle to install 64-bit...
LFS 9.1 i386 no-systemd 6.9 Glibc-2.31 'No module named msvcrt'
Hi All, I am building LFS 9.1 i386 on a Lenovo x61s using MX Linux 18 i386 as the host. Chapter 5 built fine, no errors. I am near the beginning of chapter 6, building Glibc from section 6.9. I...
How to install firmware from a file ?
I installed debian to my PC but it did not install the WiFi or Nic firmware so USB modem won`t connect. I have 2 different file types but the specific one for the Wifi modem is in a regular folder...
Something wrong with Brave browser and I've stopped using it
On multiple machines, Brave has started adding cookies that I can't delete. I've deleted and purged the installs and re-installed, but a few days later there are cookies for google, microsoft,...
Why is everyone ignoring Cloudfare's MITM that affects 13% of sites worldwide and maybe 30% of English-language sites?
What on earth is going on with Cloudfare? It is almost ignored by everybody, including security and privacy experts, including the Tor Browser devs! ...
LXer: How to create and manipulate tar archives using Python
Published at LXer: On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities; it let us create archives, often called “tarballs”, we can use for...
Linux Mint Internal webcam works on limited apps
Hi all, I am having an issue with my internal Webcam not being found by some apps. Skype, guvcview, MS teams finds it and lists it as a USB device. Cheese and vokoscreen doesn't. Realtek I think...
Fortran error reading line
On trying to read a molecular volumetric (cube) file with MOLDEN, error ---Quote--- At line 923 of file rdgaus.f (unit = 21, file = 'mep.cube') Fortran runtime error: Bad value during floating...
role of intermediate host user when mapping users (user namespaces)
Hi, I'm trying to understand the role of the user created on the host for docker (this is ultimately just an example, but I'm guessing the principle should be the same everywhere). When I...
Hello Everybody
Greetings everyone, I am new to this forum and excited to learn about Linux System! I am a total newbie to Linux and this is my first time joining a community. :-)
HP Laserjet M1005 Printer does not print in Fedora 29, even it is detected.
Dear Friends, My printer "HP Laserjet M1005" is detected in Fedora 29 in my Laptop. Its status is showing as " ready to print". But, if I issue a print command, the printer never print or it gives an...
How to execute a multiple string command non-interactively?
By executing this command... Code: --------- sed -n '8,24p' isolinux/README.TXT --------- ... I get the following multiple-line command:
libnetcdf.so.13 error after python3-Cython update
Hello People, I messed up with some sbopkg update...openshot-qt stoped working, after update on netcdf-4.7.4-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz. After run openshot-qt in terminal, I see those error's: Code:...
LXer: How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04
Published at LXer: How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Docker is a open-source platform that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Read More......
Proprietary binary broke after an update in Slackware64-14.2
Just to avoid any confusion due to an eventual unfortunate wording: the topic means the update of said proprietary binary rather than Slackware update. I've been using a proprietary binary for some...
Run QGis as efficient as possible on a Virtual System?
Hi Currently QGis run on my Virtual Win7 who I do my normal office Work on. Sure that is not so good because the AntiVirus slow down the Output. I must do just 3 Steps: 1) Backup the "old" Data...
Accidentally deleted all logs, how can I get them back ?
I wanted to delete the excess logs that accumulated over time, so I ran Code: --------- rm *log* --------- . It deleted all the logs and now new ones wont start. This is what my /var/log looks...
LXer: Good News! EA To Open Source Command and Conquer’s Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert
Published at LXer: Here’s some good news. EA recently announced that they will be making two of the popular titles of the franchise (Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert) open source. Read More......
Slackware on lvm+luks - unavailable for unlocking
Hey, folks. I've just installed Slackware according to this notes (http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/README_CRYPT.TXT). My setup is elilo + full disk encryption (lvm on luks)....
.iso Installer for a Webserver and so one?
Hi I want install Matomo Analytics on my Server at Home for some special Analytics stuff. Since the will hang on the Public Internet the must be secure. Especially when the run on my ESXi who other...
[Seagate] USB SSD SERIOUS issues!
This Seagate 1.82TiB USB SSD, is somewhy untouchable at all (any partitions touched are going to be I/O error), unmountable (ext4 partitions), even though uncheckable (e2fsck), and always disconnects...
is PAM replacing Shadow
I was trialing out creating a minimal install of Slackware this weekend and unfortunate timing of Pam release in latest updates resulted in a situation where when I upgraded Slackware for the first...
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