Questions tagged [linux]
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How to use BASH variables with "local", but less bloated?
I have a lot of code with lines like the following:
local -r foo="$(bar)"
Just recently I discovered shellcheck and that warns about those assignments, because local hides the actual error ...
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How to enable Target Display Mode on an iMac in Linux?
How to enable Target Display Mode on an iMac in Linux?
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Is there a way to empty all of the trash via Trash CLI or a similar command in Linux?
I have installed Trash-CLI, I use it and wrote a script using it. Works well.
Here's the rub.
If an external drive is attached, it apparently has it's own .Trash and only using the GUI 'empty trash' ...
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Node Docker containers lack permission to access their mounted volumes…?
I’m doing my absolute best to run a dockerized Node server app on OpenSUSE Leap 16.0, but I’m having mighty mysterious problems with permissions to access mounted volumes…
How to reproduce
Using ...
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What can I do to debug this issue I am having with an external USB SSD drive?
I installed Debian 13 on an external SSD USB disk: it works perfectly.The partitions are as follow:
~# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% ...
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ls: cannot access '/home/mehdi/MM_PLAY_TIME.ini': Input/output error
i install ubuntu on VMware to learn it so i was trying to move some file from windows to ubuntu with my USB and i flow [this](How to access USB stick content from VMWare running Ubuntu 10.10?) answer ...
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Arrow key repeat is not working in Google Chrome under Wayland
This problem differs from the Left arrow and right arrow keys not working in google chrome search bar issue.
Google Chrome will not repeat any arrow key when held down in any text field while running ...
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Login loop Fedora 43 KDE Plasma w/ nvidia gpu
I've been having issues with nvidia drivers for months, even before Fedora 43. I removed and reinstalled the drivers, installed cuda, blacklisted nouveau, etc, etc. No luck. The nvidia graphics wouldn'...
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Mount a virtual/abstract filesystem, accessed through my own program
Like the title says...
When a request is made to the system on where my filesystem is mounted, the system will ask my program for the contents of a directory, file's contents, metadata, to create a ...
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Why am I getting an error “mount.nfs: Operation not permitted” when attempting to mount a network share?
I am trying to mount a network share and I am getting the error
mount.nfs: mount(2): Operation not permitted
On the server (Debian 13) there is an export configured:
/home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(...
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MDADM reshaping process over 20 days
I’m growing an existing Linux mdadm RAID-5 array from 4 to 5 disks and the reshape speed is extremely slow (~1-3 MB/s), with an estimated completion time of ~20–30 days. I’m trying to understand ...
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Is there any way to know if my ISP (or government) momentarily blocking the VPN connection?
Is there any way to know if my ISP (or government) momentarily blocking the VPN connection?
I believe momentarily blocking the VPN causes the tunnel to disconnect, after that the VPN reconnects, maybe ...
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How do I force discord to not update?
I recently reinstalled arch and I'm trying to install discord now.
I ran sudo pacman -S discord as any normal person would, ran discord from the KDE menu, and it got stuck on updating. I tried forcing
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Can I create free public FTP server free? [closed]
I want to create free personal FTP server ..
In which I can access any network through IP. And it will be a free server. Is it possible to do this?
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Windows NFS Client set different permissions for files and directories
I have a NFS share on a Debian (trixie) box on my local network. I can connect to the share and use it from my Windows 11 machine, but all the files that are created from the windows machine have the +...