Unanswered Questions
60,139 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why does ZFS scrub not complete?
First off let's start with what I'm running. This is a home media server running Ubuntu 16.10. I have one pool of mirrored 6 terabyte drives that are about half full. I built the system about a month ...
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Chrome crashes with subprocess module and missing CPU frequency files on Ubuntu 21.10
When I open Chrome with a Python module named subprocess, it crashes and gives me these errors:
[1103/163807.480539:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/...
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How to exit from videotest in the grub?
I am checking different video resolutions in the grub menu by using videotest and vbetest programs and can't go back to the grub command line, after using this programs. System doesn't respond - like ...
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zsh can't input to terminal when piping stdin and stdout with variable command that has tty output
System info:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
Scroll to the EXAMPLES at the bottom if you just want to dig in ...
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wpa_supplicant end process if wrong password detected
Normally when I run wpa_supplicant I'll get some output like this:
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[...
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Microphone volume on USB soundcard very low, snd_usb_audio options?
I have a C-Media USB soundcard installed on my Raspberry Pi: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:0008 C-Media Electronics, Inc.. It is a USB cable with an XLR end on the other side, to which I have an XLR ...
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Fractional scaling in GNOME + Wayland above 200%
I've successfully enabled fractional scaling on my GNOME 3.38 + Wayland in Arch as stated here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Wayland
However, in gnome control center it now only shows ...
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Are there any color filters for color vision deficiencies? (Deuteranomaly, Protanomaly)
I have red-green-weakness (a bit of both, deuteranomaly and protanomaly) and on Windows there was a very helpful feature to convert the for me difficult-to-distinguish colors to nearby ones on the ...
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How can I make a device available inside a systemd-nspawn container with user namespacing?
I would like to mount an encrypted image file using cryptsetup inside a systemd-nspawn container. However, I get this error message:
[root@container ~]# echo $key | cryptsetup -d - open luks.img luks
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Disabling system modal behaviour of GNOME 3 password prompts
When GNOME Keyring, needs a password to add an SSH key to the agent, it pops up a system modal prompt to get the password from you. I use KeePass, so this means that if I forgot to copy the password ...
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Benefiting of sched_autogroup_enabled on the desktop
I am running a 2.6.37 kernel with sched_autogroup_enabled set to 1. I am not certain that I am seeing the benefits of this patch since:
I am launching my applications from the desktop;
applications ...
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How to deal with freezes caused by autofs after network disconnect
I mount four servers (3 via cifs, 1 via sshfs) using autofs.
auto.master
/- /etc/auto.all --timeout=60 --ghost
auto.all
/mnt \
/server1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials....
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State of LVM raid compared to mdadm
LVM and mdadm / dmraid are both offering software RAID functionality on Linux. This is pretty much a follow-up post to this question from 2014. Back then, @derobert recommends to prefer mdadm over LVM ...
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Is it possible to change systemd private tmp directory?
I am running some programs on both Debian and Fedora. When I ls the /tmp directory, I see many directories with extremely long name like
systemd-private-d85027...-bluetooth.service-qxzMGm
systemd-...
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Devilspie on Wayland
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 and I'm now using Gnome 3 native over Wayland. My problem is that I have been using devilspie to place windows on the screen in the desired position. I also use ...