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Hello, I am rather new to Linux and POP OS as a whole. Since today my Laptop gets stuck on a black screen with a flashing underscore on boot. The oldkern boot option still functions normally. I...

Hi, I have got problems while trying to install the graphical software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis (MEGA X) in Ubuntu/Debian system available at :https://www.megasoftware.net/ by...

Published at LXer: Using the APT package management utility in Ubuntu or some other Linux distros is straightforward for most users. It helps to install, remove and update packages. Sometimes...

I have been looking for a long time to find this without success. Can anyone please let me know how to adjust these settings in 5.0? Many thanks .... Sean

Hi all, I'm a newbie in WiFI security. I want to send only EAPOL message/key 1 to a client. It's that possible? I want to test client side connection and not AP devices. Thanks,

Published at LXer: Terminology is a best Linux Terminal because it comes with a whole bunch of cool features by default. It is based on EFL(Enlightenment Foundation Libraries), Read More......

Which Ubuntu version is suitable for ns-2.28? I have patches that only runs on ns-2.28. These are patches 1. ns2.28-span-gcc4.patch 2. ns2.28-gcc4-configure-scripts.patch for SPAN and PSM for...

Published at LXer: The Tails project released today the final version of the Tails 4.0 operating system, a major release that introduces numerous enhancements and updated components. Read...

So i have a Windows 10/ manjaro dual boot setup and i wanted to move space from Windows to Linux. After some research i found about gparted Live. But in the final transaction, to actually allocate the...

I have Windows 8.1 installed, and just finished putting Slackware 14.2 on same drive. I skipped ELILO on the drive, because it replaces Windows Boot Manager. I have ELILO USB boot disk since the...

Hi all, I would like to know if there is a way to define a default action for .new config files when updating packages with slackpkg? I would like that the old configuration is kept on a regular...

Published at LXer: Canonical released today a new Linux kernel security update for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system series to address several security vulnerabilities. ...

does anybody out there have experience in setting up Slackware current for a NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU with TensorFlow, CUDA, CUDNN, Python3, JDK, Nvidia_Kernel and whatever else is needed for TF2 ?...

Published at LXer: Sometimes you may not need to set up a full FTP server with authenticated users with upload and download privileges. If you are simply looking for a quick way to allow users to...

Hello, I am using a class compliant USB DAC with a raspberry pi running piCore, and want to run Pianoteq with Direct Hardware output, which I can do no problem on the same hardware with a Debian...

Code: --------- $ ns run-2Mb.tcl ******: no errormodel specified. couldn't read file...

Debian Buster Xfce aMule closes by itself after a while, I haven been able to find exactly when or after what event, a systemctl log didn't tell me very much

Published at LXer: The script command creates a typescript of everything you do in the Terminal. It doesn’t matter whether you install an application, create a directory/file, remove a folder....

Hi, I found a new laptop at a good price on taobao. It has an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX GPU. Will this work OK with Ubuntu? I know nvidia has some proprietary software.

Published at LXer: Learn how to display, format and set the date / time on the Linux command line. Also learn about epoch (UNIX time), hardware clocks and other interesting tidbits about time. ...

I am giving up on trying to figure out (for now anyways). How to add a double quote to each side of an already existing variable into another or same named variable to use it later on in a...

Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: This one-line script will alert you whenever a user logs in through SSH. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/setup-enable-ssh-login-email-alerts-root-user-linux/)

Hello fellow Linux bro's.. I've been using Ubuntu for about a month now. I absolutely love it! So much better than Window's, and I feel like I'm in more control over my system which I'm all about...

Due to work reasons, I've spent the last couple of years predominantly using other operating systems. I must say I rarely booted into linux. One of the laptops that still had an installation of...

attempting to use lynx to automate logging into site jpay.com but the site is suggesting that i am already in a session that is almost up. and wont let me navigate site what should i do ?

Published at LXer: Our push this year has been building privacy-centric features in our products that are on by default. With this move, we’re taking the guesswork out of how to give yourself …...

couldn't read file "tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl": no such file or directory while executing "source.orig tcl/lib/ns-mobilenode.tcl" ("uplevel" body line 1) invoked from within "uplevel...

My old desktop server/workstation died last Friday night. The replacement was about 95% ready; now it needs to be 100% ready. But, trying to print, or ping the printer, says it's not reachable. Both...

Hi. I run Telegram (Qt app) on MATE. I just recently installed Debian 10. I've noticed the text is tiny when I right click the Telegram system tray icon. The font on other programs seems fine. Has...

Hi all, This has been bothering me for a while, and I can't figure out where the problem is. I use ssh & rsync to do remote backups. On the machine I'm backing up, there is a "VirtualBox VMs"...

Published at LXer: Learn more with this short example on how to move container images from the docker.io registry to quay.io. Read More......

Hello -- I am running KDE on a CentOS 7 workstation. I am trying to set up a login window greeting or message when a user logs in at the desktop GUI screen. Do I need to simply modify the /etc/motd...

Hello, as a task for practicing I have to write a bash script, and 2 of the tasks sound like this: - I as an administrator must be able to tell if the install script did all the necessary steps -...

I don't find a stable GCC 3.2 release or a repository. what's the best way to install gcc 3.2. Is there any preferred OS and under which gcc version if need to be built? If there is no...

A little background first: a week or two ago I did a 'dnf upgrade' which, among other things, put me on kernel 5.3.xx (5.3.4, I think it was, but I'm not sure) and rebooted. As soon as it went past...

In the installer's archive, in bedrock/sbin/init, around line 371, this block of code Code: --------- if [ -n "${def_tuple}" ] && [ -d "/bedrock/strata/${def_stratum}" ]; then...

Published at LXer: While the Ubuntu community is still devouring the recently released Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system, Canonical kicked off a new development cycle, for Ubuntu 20.04...

In reading bedrock init's code, I found references to echo and cut, apparently to extract part of a string. Code: --------- # Around line 364 complete_upgrade init_timeout="$(cfg_values...

Major noob trying to shoot for a dualboot ubuntu/slack setup. Not even quite sure how to form this post, lol. As far as I can tell, I did my partitions correctly. I didn't choose lilo (or elilo) for...

Hi All, TL;DR: When a client requests its boot file, need to serve a boot file with the requesting clients hostname or IP or MAC appended to the end via dnsmasq. Hopefully easy question on using...

Researching a wifi card issue, thought I'd check the LQ HCL. I get an error page when I use any of the LQ links to the HCL including the one in the title bar. What's up with that? Cheers, ...

Dear all, for some reason my ethernet cable LAN connection failed but my WIFI USB connection works fine. I thought I had a bad ethernet port, until I tried to use USB-ethernet-LAN connection, it gave...

Hi, I am upgrading my custom board which uses a Cyclone V SoCFPGA from linux 3.10-ltsi to linux 4.14.73-ltsi and I am having difficulties in getting it connected to the internet. It seems to be...

Published at LXer: In this review, we’ll take a close look at the new release and what Canonical introduced so far in Ubuntu 19.10. Read More......

Published at LXer: Having looked at what SELinux is and the various modes it can be configured, let's now see how you can disable SELinux on CentOS 8 Read More......

Hi, I am working on a task ,internet sharing between two interfaces ppp0 and uap0 which is the hotspot interface . ppp0 gets internet connection . I am able to ping google. And the IP...

hi, ls -l /var/log/yum* -rw-------. 1 root root 53 Oct 22 05:12 /var/log/yum.log -rw-------. 1 root root 4208 Oct 18 10:29 /var/log/yum.log-20191022 why the new log was created after 4...

Published at LXer: A long time ago, a Linux distribution shipped an operating system along with all the software available for it. There was no concept of “third party” software because everything...

Hi, Below is a program for call back function. no compilation errors. But not entering into call back function (mcancallBack).I set variable reason to 0. I am trying to test the interrupt based...

hi to all, I've centos 6.4 in VM. I installed vlc using yum. but it is not playing displays only 1st frame. no motion. Code: --------- # rpm -ivh --force epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm #...