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How to get a copy of libdevmapper 1.02.34 or later?
I am trying to update GRUB 2.06 to 2.12 on an Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS machine, following the instructions in the INSTALL textfile included in the tarball (and at the bottom of the post). Reading through ...
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How can i move Flatpak installed apps to another disk?
I'm using Debian 12 Bookworm. I recently started receiving a message from the system saying my root partition (30GB) was almost out of space. Analyzing it, I realized the /var/lib/flatpak/app occupied ...
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client disconnects when transferring larger files
[This is mostly a cross-post from Rasp Pi Forum. To be self-contained, let me also include the descriptions.]
My setup:
Ubuntu 22.04 [Also tried on Ubuntu 24.04, same thing happens]
Rasp Pi 4B
I have ...
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What is the difference between `ssid` and `ssid2` in hostapd config file?
In a hostapd configuration file, sometimes I see the key ssid to specify the SSID, and sometimes I see the key ssid2. What is the difference between these? I'm having trouble finding documentation ...
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On a Linux machine with JDK 11 that is used for development, how should I satisfy OpenOffice's requirement for JRE?
On a Linux machine that has JDK 11 installed, what should I do to allow OpenOffice to run?
As it stands right now, it throws this error:
/opt/openoffice4/program/soffice: line 121: 18205 Segmentation ...
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Can an xrdp server be configured to connect to an existing desktop session?
I'm running an xrdp server with its default Debian configuration. Once logged in, it maintains a virtual session to which I can reconnect. But it'd be much more convenient if I could connect to the ...
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macos/bash: read "hangs" when executing script second time as another user with stdout redirected before
Hello! My second file descriptors question.
Context: Still new at this, I certainly don't get file descriptors. Magic. Unpredictable magic at that, that sometimes works. (joke, but you probably get my ...
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Looping ssh command with `while` stopped at first iteration but not `for` [duplicate]
The following didn't work:
cat /etc/hosts | grep -vE '(^(#|$)|127.0.0.1|ff|::|node)' | awk '{print $1}' | while read -r host; do
echo "Looking at $host"
ssh "$host" ...
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How to show logs when running systemd service interactively?
Debugging a systemd service failing to run to completion is fiddly and has a slow feedback cycle when using standard commands. That is, running commands_to_install_service && systemctl start --...
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Linux Freezes randomly after waking up from suspend
Hello linux fellas.
I'm currently using Fedora 40 with SwayFX as a compositor, swayidle as an idle manager and gtklock as a screen locker, on my Lenovo ThinkPad T460. I also use TLP.
This issue ...
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Is there an equivalent of caniuse for commands on posix systems?
I'm thinking about using a callout to the jq in a utility script I'm writing, rather than parsing JSON manually.
In order to make the script as portable as possible, I want to know which flavors of ...
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Format date output with spaces into awk
I want to make the date command with nice formatting like this:
awk -F, '{system("date -d " $1 " +%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")}' file.log
However it does not work
Try 'date --help' for more ...
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SLURM_* variables causing syntax errors in multi-node HPC environment
My set up is as follows:
A bash script that accepts a number of parameter (like how many nodes to use, which model to train, etc.). This is the job that I submit to the SLURM job queue
This bash ...
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Why did the root file system become RO?
Approximately once every 2 months, the remote dedicated server stops working.
The logs show that all logs stop being written at the same time.
Can't connect via ssh. The server responds, but ...
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PTP4L Not working as expected after changing domainNumber
PTP Not working as expected after changing domainNumber
I am trying to send ptp frames from ptp4l (version 4.3) using the following command
sudo ptp4l -i eth0 -m -2 -S -P --logSyncInterval=-1 --...
