Unanswered Questions
26,225 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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sshfs: cannot set file timestamp
Using sshfs with autofs on Ubuntu, I cannot set timestamps on remote files:
$ touch /sshfs/server/some/file
touch: setting times of `/sshfs/sshfs/server/some/file': Permission denied
I do have write ...
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How can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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Convert Linux symlinks to Windows symlinks
I've noticed that Linux symlinks don't work in Windows, and vice-versa. Is there any way to convert Linux symlinks to Windows symlinks? Specifically, I want to convert relative Linux symlinks to ...
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How to prevent gnu screen capturing the mouse?
I want to use local scrollback on my terminal, whilst using gnu screen. That's because my network connection is incredibly slow, so using screen's scrollback is very slow. Local scrollback is much ...
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Windows 7 hosted network not allowing internet access
I have a Windows 7 laptop and I am trying to set it up to broadcast Wi-Fi so that my mobile can connect to it when in the office (no mobile signal).
I've found plenty of tutorials, and while all of ...
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Docker: "failed to get console mode for stdout: The handle is invalid."
When running docker-compose up in Windows PowerShell using Docker Desktop on WSL2, I get
Creating network "test_default" with the default driver
Building master
failed to get console mode ...
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ssh randomly can connect, and sometimes "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
Connecting to my server has never been a problem. But now I've added a mesh router in bridge mode to my regular router, and when I try to ssh to my server, sometimes it works fine, and other times ...
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OSX: gpg command error, dyld: Library not loaded:
After I migrating my MacBook, I found out I miss the command gpg.
And it threw this error when I wanted to install rvm
⋊> ~ gpg 15:...
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Key remapping using xmodmap does not work for some gtk applications
I tried to remap some keys using xmodmap. For example,
xmodmap -e "keycode 118 = Next"
maps Insert key of my laptop (XPS 13 9360) to PgDn. It works for some applications such as firefox and visual ...
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Moving mouse in iTerm causes characters to be to printed to prompt
I am having an issue with iTerm that happens to me intermittently. When I am using iTerm and I move the mouse up and down, or click a bunch of random characters are printed to the prompt:
I am in a ...
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Simulate two root windows on single monitor with use of RANDR extension
This question might seen similar to Emulating extra displays but it's different in the important detail.
Suppose I'd like to test a feature for certain window manager with multi monitor support using ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 with Fedora 25
I'm trying to make my Magic Trackpad 2 work on Fedora with all it's features (or at least some basics). The current (default) state is moving the mouse and left-clicking works out of the box, but ...
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Linux UI frequently freezes for <1 second
The Linux Desktop (Xubuntu 16.04) freezes frequently (multiple times a minute) for less than 1-2 seconds and then returns operating normally.
During the freeze only the mouse cursor is movable.
The ...
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dd always fails to write one partition on first try; succeeds on second
For a robotics project, I've assembled a make target that uses dd (actually dcfldd) to write a Raspbian Jessie image to SD card. This way, I can be assured that my environment is reproducible from ...
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Samba execute permission is always set
I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server that exposes a samba share to Windows machine.
When I connect to the share and create files with notepad, permissions are respected and files don't become executable. ...
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