Questions tagged [infinite-loop]
An infinite loop occurs when a system repeats a set of steps ad infinitum. Generally, the system must be halted in an adverse way to stop the infinite loop.
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How can I perform a ping every X minutes and check the response time?
I am currently working in a big company and we have serious latency issues.
This is happening in a process control system, and is unacceptable (Open a valve sometimes take 2 minutes before command ...
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How to infinite loop every video I play as defaut on MPV player without having to press shift+L hotkey every single time?
I think the title is clear without filling the body.
Every time I play new video the inf loop is gone and I need to press shift+L again each time. How to just make this my default setting. As far as I ...
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How can I break a symbolic link loop?
While I was trying to compile a C shared object library, I accidentally created two symbolic links which point to each other. Is there a way to get rid of them without nuking the whole directory? I ...
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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions
Is there a native|portable tool that can give me a unicode or a system local-compatible list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or links, in ...
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I've trapped myself outside my Mac. Help
A dreaful mistake lead to the following situation: Each and every one of my mouse buttons loads the Dashboard. I can't change the settings, not without using the mouse. It's a Catch 22.
How can I ...
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How do I abort a long-running regex replace?
Edit: While I refer to RegEx in my background, I'm not looking for you to fix my RegExp (thanks for trying though) - rather I want to know "how do I abort a search/replace in NotePad++".
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Teamviewer to a computer that is Teamviewered to you [closed]
What happens when I Teamviewer to a computer that is Teamviewered back to me? Will it create an Infinite loop?
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Windows 8 reboot causes an infinite loop
I have installed Windows 8 Professional 64-bit in a VHD that dual boots with Windows 7. The VHD is dynamically expanding with a 128 GB capacity.
When windows 8 reboots, it seems to get stuck in an ...
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Windows 10 recovery/restore infinite loop without login access
my asus laptop TP300L is stuck in an infinite loop, I cannot access windows as the computer reboots before I can do anything.
Situation
here is the sequence of screens I get:
asus logo
a spinner ...
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CMD keep running program
This isn't very googleable, and other than writing prog.exe -params several times in a batch file (which would obviously only work as many times as I wrote it) I can't think how to repeatedly do this.
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out
for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell
starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I want)...
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Windows 10: How to access the advanced boot menu before booting (which fails) in order to discard hibernation state and instead boot normally?
I am currently stuck in a never-ending boot sequence in Windows 10 after failing to properly shutdown due to a misbehaving USB thumb drive. How can I escape? I will explain step-by-step what happened:
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Terminal command for infinite execution of application
I tried almost every keyword on Google and still didn't came up with an answer. So hopefully one of you knows.
What is the terminal command keep a application running after it fails or stopped ...
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How to break out of a program in an infinite loop?
When running a program that goes into an infinite loop in the terminal, how would I bring back the command prompt?
(I'm using Fedora core 5)
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Ctrl+C to break an infinite loop and then do something outside the loop in a bash script without exiting?
I have read so many answers and they all just suggest to kill the script or send it to the background etc. What I want is
while true
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if(ctrl+c is pressed break)
done
echo "Out of ...
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Mimikatz infinite loop
When I'm trying to run mimikatz in powershell, it goes into an infinite loop everytime. I searched a lot but I couldn't find a solution.
PS C:\Temp> .\mimikatz.exe
.#####. mimikatz 2.2.0 (x64)...
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Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586 occur boot restart loop (reboot loop)
After successful update from Windows 10 Pro Build 10240 to Build 10586 (november upgrade) pc just start rebooting constantly on boot logo.
I can't choose "Safe Mode" option on boot.
With Windows 10 ...
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How to listen to a file by looping regions?
I need to listen to audio files in short looped fragments (useful for transcribing). I have found a few apps that let me define regions (VLC, Audacity) and that let me play these regions in a loop, ...
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Stuck in a while-loop in GNU/SU (seismic unix)
I'm new to programming. I have this loop (it's part of a data processing script) and I have it all good until this section cause I can't figure out why it stay looping in the second 'while'
Take a ...
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Win7 System folder contains infinitely looping SYSTEM(!) directory
My Windows 7 Enterprise computer has been crashing fairly frequently recently, so I decided to boot up in safe mode and run the TrendMicro client I have installed. It froze about 10 minutes into the ...
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A site getting 'too many redirects' response on curl but works fine in a browser (chrome)
I have a case when a URL opens fine in a browser but generates 'too many redirects' in curl.
As an example below, a request using curl from my WSL2 instance which was taken from a bash script:
curl -...
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How to exit from infinite loop in parent terminal?
To test trap command I created the following loop in terminal:
while true ; do echo BEGIN ; bash -e ; echo "exit code = $?" ; echo END ; done
How to exit this loop and turn back to the parent shell?
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How to create auto-reply loop rule in Outlook
My company is still using Outlook 2003. For the second day in a row we have 60,000+ email auto replies in our inbox.
Our IT department aren't able to figure out how to stem the tide so my question ...
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I'm having an issue with windows 10 boot times
I'm having a problem with windows 10 boot times.
I usually had around 5-7 seconds boot (including bios time) but now it takes around 4 minutes while showing me the windows loading screen with the ...
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Windows 8.1 repair loop
I have a gateway with Windows 8.1 and it's stuck in the repair loop I don't have a repair disk and I don't have admin set up, I've tryed all the options it gives and it's still a no go please help
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What did I break?
To preface here are my original specs:
Intel Core i7-4790K
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 OC
ASRock Z97 Pro4 LGA 1150 motherboard
16 GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Today I got a cooler master evo 212 and installed ...
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Windows 7 hung during installation -- why and what can I do?
I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7, and the installation process has gone into a loop during the "Expanding Windows Files" step. It is 17% through that step, and just alternates between a ...
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Linux grep command getting stuck in infinite loop while doing recurring search
When trying to search for a pattern in files of current and subfolders, the grep command is stuck in an infinite loop.
The following illustrates the problem:
/results/log/check_log: if ($f1 eq '...
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Seamless audio track / music loop - Auto / Automatic / AI / Script
I always loop audio tracks for my daily vlog.
It's like audio track is 3 minutes but I make this audio like 20 minutes.
I just find one point near the beginning that also appears near the end.
Then ...
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Windows 10 Lenovo U410 Reset boot loop
I have a Lenovo U410 that was running slowly so I decided to do a full system reset using the built in application in Windows 10. I started it and left, when I returned there was an error message with ...
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Infinite loop of cron jobs with intermediate output from each job
I have a program that outputs stuff to standard output. I am using cron to schedule it which is fine because I am collecting the stuff that it prints outs via email and do some statistical work on ...
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How to run an infinite loop program on startup on a Raspberry Pi without halting boot up
I have a shell script which runs a program in an infinite loop:
#!/bin/bash
while sudo /home/pi/MyCode; do :; done
echo Error with MyCode
I want to set up the shell script to run at start-up (which I'...
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When installing Windows 2000 on Virtualbox I get a boot loop
How come when installing Windows 2000 guest on VirtualBox I get a boot loop returning me to the setup? I can't break out of it. I've tried to install multiple times.
I'm using the version of ...
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How to make a timer and a loop in a batch file?
I need some help completing my .bat file.
So what I wanna do is that after the program has started I wanna leave it running for like 1min then I want it to close the program and then run it agian for ...
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"bootloop of death" in a samsung Phoenix securecore tiano (USB and Uefi and Bootscreen and Setup screen are off!)
Technically it is "almost" a bootloop, since I can boot ubuntu on the hard drive, and I could boot from the DVD (breaking ubuntu grub on the hard drive or trying to chainload to the dvd).
Still, it ...
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Powershell script with infinite loop and sleep - good or bad? [closed]
So I have been trying to run robocopy in silent mode with task scheduler, however the powershell or bat script would always pop up whenever a new instance is launched with task scheduler. I found a ...
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"We couldn't complete the updates" Loop - Impossible to stop Windows updating
Windows 10
I have tried the solution listed here without success:
"We couldn’t complete the updates. Undoing changes" endless loop
Every 7 days, Windows forces an update which is never ...
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showing error when use loop in vba
I have a code that's first job is to find "Qty" and "Fty" word in P column. Then it will get the row number of that row. The code was running smoothly.
But now when I added a loop ...
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Linux - how to break an infinite loop that occurs in a startup script
I've made a shell script and configured it so it'll run at startup.
It seems that it causes an infinite loop since it waits for something that hasn't brought up yet.
I'm aware of the fact that it's a ...
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Windows 10 stuck in a loop on Restarting screen everytime, clicking goes all black with cursor
After a Windows 10 update, my computer, every time I restart, will stay in a restarting loop. It will never change. It will stay like this for days, animating.
Restarting Screen
Oddly, if I ever ...
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bash .sh script looping instead of ending/exiting
I'm writing my very first bash script. Everytime I've run it to make sure it works, everything works exactly as I'd like it to with the exception of the done command at the very end. Instead it ...
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FFMPEG Crop video and insert gif same time
$command = 'ffmpeg -ss 6 -i input.mp4 -ignore_loop 0 -i logo.gif -filter_complex \ "crop=in_w-2*28:in_h-2*25;[0:v][1:v]overlay=15:H-h-25:shortest=1" -codec:v libx264 out.mp4';
i can't manage both gif ...
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How do I stop a CHKDSK infinite loop?
I started up my Windows XP box last weekend after it had been off for quiet a while, at least a few months. At first, when I started it up I received a blue screen with no message, and it restarted. I ...
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Syntax error trying to run batch files in loop
I want to run these 3 .bat files in loop. Tried these 2 codes and got invalid syntax error from both
@echo off
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start "c:\1.bat" && "c:\2.bat" && "c:\3....
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Acer aspire m5 stuck in a restart loop that turns on and off in 5 seconds without any display
Hello my acer aspire m5 is stuck in a restart loop. Each time i switch it on it starts for 2 seconds then switsches off and on again. When it switches on you can feel the fan and drive running then ...
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MacBook Pro - Why does the keyboard/trackpad being plugged in cause reboot loop?
I came here because I wasn't sure if this is a question for StackOverflow.
My friend's MacBook Pro was/is stuck in an infinite reboot loop. We would see the apple logo and the loading bar for a good ...
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Win 7 BSOD STOP: 0x0000007B
Stuck in a bootloop. Can't enter Safe-mode. The error I'm getting is a fraction of a second BSOD that I had to record with a phone and play back frame by frame to read, which is...
STOP: 0x0000007B (...
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How can I permenantally disable one of my integrated graphic cards (ATI)?
In windows, I would go to Device Manager and disable it. In Ubuntu (Linux), I have no idea.
I want to disable it because it's causing my computer to freeze a few minutes after booting into Linux Live ...
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MSI GT60 laptop stuck in endless BIOS Setup loop
My MSI GT60 gaming laptop is doing something very weird. I turned it off to relocate it on top of a 25U server rack and when I turned it on the Aptio setup screen appeared. No matter what I do, it ...
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Boot loop after Avast reinstall
After creating a Linux bootable USB, I noticed that at start up I got an error message from avastui.exe "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005) Click Ok to close the ...
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