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Why is USB not working in Linux when it works in UEFI/BIOS?
For background I have just built a new machine with modern hardware including:
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard
16GB RAM
NVidia GTX 650 Ti
Kingston SSD
Given that, I tried to install ...
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Diagnose unplanned shutdowns
I have a problem with a server that is shutting down for some unknown reason. I check the logs each time it happens and cannot find anything of particular interest which would suggest why its going ...
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Accidentally set /lib permissions to 644
Long story short, I've got an Ubuntu server box that was recently compromised (I believe through a known exploit of an older version of Tomcat, which has already been updated). Part of the exploit ...
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Linux network troubleshooting and debugging
From time to time Linux and Unix users faced with various network problems. Many of these problems are presented here and at some others troubleshooting forums, but the are very concrete and contains ...
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non-distro specific, linux tweaking, hacking and learning support irc
distro specific support channels are good only if you run their clean stable versions out of the box and basically don't install anything other than what you get out of the box.... but what about ...
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Where should I look for error messages after a freeze-up and reboot in Linux?
I was forced to shutdown (using the power button) and reboot after my laptop froze with just a black screen.
After such an incident, where should I look for error messages etc. that might indicate ...
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Suggestions needed to debug why ps -ef gets stuck
A few of my processes consume 100% cpu. I'm trying to figure out which scripts are causing it
I tried running strace ps -ef:
open("/proc/PID/status", O_RDONLY) = 6
read(6, "Name:\textract\nState:\tR ...
