Questions tagged [linux]
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Partially shared home: dual boot, same /home partition, one user per OS, same UIDs for perms, but different home dirs
Here is a general outline of what I want to achieve, given that I am the only user of my computer:
Dual boot with 2 Linux OS
Easily share (read/write, probably no execute) some of the data accessed ...
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Torrenting unbearably slow in Deluge
My Deluge client is consistently getting less than 1.0K/s on all torrents it is downloading
There aren't very many peers on each torrent even though the website says >100 on every torrent... Why is ...
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mininet: Cannot find required executable (ref) controller
sudo mn --version
2.2.2
sudo mn --help
Usage: mn [options]
(type mn -h for details)
The mn utility creates Mininet network from the command line. It can create
parametrized topologies, invoke the ...
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Booting issues on the Raspberry Pi 4B
My Raspberry Pi 4B running Pi OS Lite 64-bit is having issues booting. I've watched videos on how to fix it, but none have worked since all only work on the desktop version.
I have installed the OS ...
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What is the default tunnel 'mode' when creating with `ip`
I'm trying to convert this ip tunnel creation process:
sudo ip tuntap add tun0 mode tun
sudo ip addr add 192.168.7.2/25 dev tun0
sudo ip link set dev tun0 up
sudo ip addr show tun0
to a netplan ...
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How can I add a new Flatpak app to the LXDE menu?
I have downloaded a couple of flatpaks after installing and launch them from CLI, for example
flatpak run com.spotify.Client
works fine.
However flatpaks don't seem to add icons to the LXDE app menu ...
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how to force the choice of which OS to boot from in BIOS
I have been dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows 7 on an HP Pavilion dv6 notebook for some time. The Windows installation has seen very little use, while the Linux installation has accumulated more and ...
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Are there any ways to wake up Linux laptops with the closed lid from suspend?
Any suggestions for this question will be fairly appreciated.
We are trying to make an 'update date': scheduled wake-up and some commands (such as apt update && apt dist-upgrade) execution. ...
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Can one identify the uses of Function keys *before* needing them?
Recently I encountered this phrase: "try the usual keys to bring this up on boot such as F1, F2, F10,(be aware that some manufacturers use F10 for system recovery!) Esc, or Del?"
I have run ...
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Can't install Debian because of LiveOS dropping to initramfs prompt
I have a problem with the LiveOS on Debian. I had a problem before this one: the mouse and keyboard do not work (they flicker for a bit and then stop) and they drop me into the Gnome DE. I found a ...
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Rocky Linux Install Python Packages for all users
I am trying to install python3.11 and some packages for all users in system using Rocky Linux.
I was able to install python3.11 and its accessible by all users in the system. However when trying to ...
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Issue with Intel’s AX210 Wi-Fi 6E card and Linux
I just bought an AX210NGW and installed it in my laptop motherboard, however I am having some issues with it: the OS simply does not recognize it. Beforehand, I attach the description of my machine ...
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Minecraft server using ngrok for port forwarding stopped working
So I built a PC using pieces I had laying around to make into a Minecraft server. I installed Ubuntu on it (I think it's the latest version because I installed it like a week ago. I didn't manage to ...
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Webcam pure black in all apps except for webcamoid on Manjaro
I am on Manjaro linux 24 and recently got a Poly Studio P5 webcam for cheap. It worked flawlessly out of the box in webcamoid but when I try to use it in firefox, chromium, zoom or cameractrls I get ...
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FFMPEG HEVC NVENC (yuv420)p10le at 800Mbps not encoding
I'm working on a large immersive project where the clients have requested H.265 media at 800Mbps (requires level 6.2). Due to the hardware used (I believe it's AvoLites based) for playback media ...
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Crontab doesn't apply the changes after editing it with crontab -e
In summary: I ran crontab -e, added a line, saved, said: crontab: installing new crontab, but running crontab -e just shows an old version of the file.
Full explaination:
Yesterday I added a line to ...
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dhcp6 server config problems when match if option dhcp6.vendor-class
The complete content of the client's Vendor Class data is as follows:
Vendor Class
Option: Vendor Class (16)
Length: 38
Value: 000001570020505845436c69656e743a417263683a303030...
Enterprise ID: Intel ...
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How to perform windows 10 installation on a nested VM?
I am currently developing a proof of concept for academic purposes that involves a fully unattended installation of Windows 10 within a nested L2 VM. The architecture is as follows:
L0: Linux ...
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Problems with Ubuntu 23.10 on Asus Vivobook 16(X1605VA-MB957WS) [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10 on Asus Vivobook 16(X1605VA-MB957WS) and have the following problem:
The wifi card in the laptop Mediatek wifi card whose driver doesn't support the kernel of Ubuntu. So I don't ...
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Mount SFTP directory in NFS Share
Here's my issue :
I have setup an SFTP with chroot directory is /sftp/usersftp In this chroot directory i have two subdirectory IN/OUT
On the same serveur i had created a user with $HOME=/data/...
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Packages libssl, libc, libcrypto error installing MongoDB on CentOS
I've tried to install MongoDB 7.0 on my instance, but got a following error:
Error: Package: mongodb-org-mongos-7.0.11-1.el9.x86_64 (mongodb-org-7.0)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.34)(64bit)
Error: ...
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My SSD is disconecting and reconecting imediatly on USB-C
I'm using Linux Mint on a HP Pavilion 17-cd1119nf.
Recently, i bought a SSD T7 of samsung.
When i plug it on USB-C, it get disconect then imediatly reconect when i'm using it. It can be when i ...
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Is there a way to reserve bandwidth for ssh on linux / debian?
I ssh into my dev machine, and then start a download, for instance "ollama pull llama3"
This uses all of the available bandwidth for the network interface, which makes ssh unresponsive until ...
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Why doesn't less -N display all empty lines like other editors?
In order to understand the syntax of egrep -v ^'(#|$)' command, which only shows uncommented lines and doesn't display the blank lines I get using grep -v '^#', I created a test file with blank lines.
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Creating a shell script to automate tasks
Everytime I log into my VM I need to:
sudo openvpn file.ovpn
python3 file.py
ifconfig
sudo docker-compose up
I want to create a shell script to automate this. I don't mind having to type the sudo ...
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Systemd-resolved and ping
The question
Systemd-networkd succesfully requests an IP address for my computer and routes its traffic to and from the gateway as expected.
Systemd-resolved can correctly resolve FQDNs and IP ...
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same exact samba code on two different pcs not working
First time using samba, i tried to set it up on a vm where i crated a super simple config but it wont run, unix user has permissions.
I tried that same config on 3 different virtual machines, 2 out of ...
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Using stdin for tar files content
Is it possible to use tar to create a archive completely in memory?
I mean, you can pipe file names into tar's stdin, which are then used to create the archive. But i want to also pipe the file ...
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How to confirm ready state for an external USB disk before attempting other actions
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Before I plug in my external USB backup drive, my computer is fully booted-up, and I am in my session as root. Because of its location, my USB cord is already plugged in, but I ...
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I cannot send e-mail to any GMail address, I always get "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender". All other addresses work OK
This has been happening to me for several years now.
I am running a Fedora Linux system at home (currently Fedora 37) and am using Evolution as my e-mail client. The current version of Evolution I ...
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Electric noise when changing power governer [closed]
I use arch linux on IdeaPad L3 15IML05 laptop
the cpu driver in use is intel_pstate as stated here:
~ λ cpupower frequency-info
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware ...
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LXQt shuts down instead of suspend
I've installed Debian Bookworm with LXQt on my old ASUS X205TA notebook. Almost everything works fine except when I press the Fn+Zz button (X86Sleep) bound to "/powermanager/keysuspend", the ...
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Installing Debian Bookworm - from ISO on Hard disk partition (NO CD/DVD, NO USB drive)
I would like to install Debian Bookworm onto an old laptop (Compaq Evo N1020v).
The CD/DVD -drive of the laptop is unusable (as old laptop drives often are).
Unfortunately, the laptop, although it has ...
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mDNS Discovery with Panasonic TV
TV Model: Panasonic 77LZ2000
tldr:
I want to get the name an IP of my panasonic TV using mDNS discovery. I can see other smart devices and my phone (when wireless debugging is switched on) with things ...
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How to disable the middle click paste functionality in Linux across the whole system?
In Linux, clicking with the middle mouse button copies the currently selected text or pastes what was copied previously. It's a separate "slot" than the normal copy and paste. What's worse, ...
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Unpack tar made with tape-length option gives Illegal byte sequence
I had some big MP4 files that I wanted to backup to Amazon S3. Uploading them in the web interface gave me some timeouts so I created 4GB tar files using:
tar -cv --tape-length=4G --file=backup-{000.....
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How to output lines with ex command that is vi not vim?
I am using ArchLinux and I want to run some ex commands. The following outputs nothing on my system:
$ ex -s -c %p -c q /etc/hosts
The ex command is a part of vi package on my system:
$ pacman -Ql vi
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I want to change the track and title of mp3 files using their ID3 Tag data in all sub directories too not just the folder I am in
I want to change the track and title of mp3 files using their ID3 Tag data in all sub directories too not just the folder I am in.
To change track and title in a single folder sometimes kid3-cli or ...
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How to set Linux directory permission for writers?
I have an directory called Videos , and its permission is 3775, owned by triplez:writers.
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxrwxrwx root root usbhdd
drwxrwsr-t triplez writers Videos
When the ...
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WIFI works, but wired connection does not on Linux
I have a simple network consisting of a internet modem/router supplied by my internet provider (Ziggo). This gives me WIFI and wired connections.
I also have a website (hosted somewhere else) that's ...
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Unable to mount SSD after computer froze - Zorin OS
While I was watching a popout Youtube video in Firefox while moving about 81GB of files from my secondary SSD, which was a backup from when I had Windows 11, to my main drive into the documents folder,...
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Squid proxy not caching anything
I can't see any difference between "squid is enabled" and "squid is disabled": the download time for any page seems to be the same. To set up a cache I simply added this line to /...
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How can a network card driver cause issues with just one wifi network?
I recently came across a question on Unix & Linux where the OP couldn't use one specific WiFi network, but had no issues connecting to others. Apparently, the system would connect and get an IP ...
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When I use four drives, one operates very slowly
I’m experiencing unusual behavior with my system. When I attempt to write to four disks concurrently. In fact, the last disk (/dev/sdd) consistently operates at a speed ranging from 40MB/s to 5MB/s.
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ZFS I/O error after rebooting
I have a dual boot system with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. The latter is a separate SSD from Windows, which is marked as Offline in Windows so that it can't be touched, and uses the ZFS filesystem.
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Kali linux does not update and does not upgrade
Kali Linux has some problems, can you help me in detail to solve these problems? I am using Kali Linux version 2020.2.
I write sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, it doesn't update and doesn't ...
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Trying to create a simple DOS boot USB stick [closed]
Pretty simple request. I'd like to make a bootable USB stick that contains DOS files to let me update the BIOS on an old motherboard.
I know about DOS boot disks from AllBootDisks - https://www....
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Install newest FFmpeg version on Ubuntu?
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get a non-depreciated version of FFmpeg on an Ubuntu installed.
(Side note: I'm using crostini)
I tried following FFmpeg's docs on getting all the ...
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How to properly create a useable disk image for Virtual box?
I can create the disk image of a bootable Linux HDD by using sudo, but then it fails to boot in VirtualBox. My steps are as follows:
dd if=/dev/sde of=sda.img bs=1024 conv=noerror,sync
VBoxManage ...
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My compiled version of Vim keeps getting replaced by a system standard version
This is a weird problem, looks impossible to me.
I'm running WSL2 (Ubuntu 22.04) on Windows 11. I want to use Vim and because of some plugins I need Vim compiled with Python support and it must be ...
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