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25 second delay: "No skeleton to export"

Stuck for quite a while with the problem that launching GNOME apps causes a delay of exactly 25 seconds. I hope someone can read this syslog excerpt better than I can; what a "background monitor&...
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gnome apps very slow to start on on remote X server, other apps ok

I'm using meld to compare some files, on a machine running SLES 15 SP 1, and with the X server running on a Windows desktop; it's MobaXTerm's embedded X server, which I believe is Cygwin'ish. For some ...
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Unclear delays pinging over IPsec VPN

What could be the cause if every second ping is delayed for a second when pinging through the host-to-network VPN while at the same time pinging the security gateway outside the VPN takes 13 ms on ...
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Unmount user home directory in a delayed background process after logging out

The home directory of user bob is mounted by a superuser from elsewhere. bob himself is a sudoer, he is logged in and is happily using his mounted home directory. He finishes his work and wants to run ...
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Delayed boot on 'Reading all physical volumes. This may take awhile'

I recently installed MX Linux on an NVMe drive. I've never used an NVMe drive before. I imaged the OS using snapshot, then using the live creator I installed (I have had about 4 install attempts) as ...
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bash script, check port response with bash's built-in /dev/tcp, time delay | hangs | speed up

With this scripts i check if a host is response on a given port with the bash's built-in /dev/tcp. I can use ip address or domains(hostnames). Script 1 #!/bin/bash HOST_NAME="127.1" ...
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Huge delay in ps output from systemd in Azure Linux

I'm getting huge a delay in ps output -- when it outputs the first line (systemd-networkd), there is a huge delay about 20 to 25 seconds, then the rest are displayed instantly. $ ps -eaf . . . systemd+...
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is there a way to delay `systemctl reboot` using only `systemctl`?

I understand that there is a multitude of options to shutdown or reboot a linux system. Normally I would just use shutdown with the appropriate option. However, I find myself having no control of the ...
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How to pipeline sleep? sleep pipeline doesn't work

I wanted to simulate execution time of certain scripts for which I found sleep NUMBER does exactly what I want. In my scenario I needed something like sleep 5 | command | sleep 5 ... But it behaved ...
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How to handle this delay on boot time?

friends! Happy New 2021 Year here! I use Devuan with SysVinit, because I want to speedup my system and get unnecessary non-free stuff away as possible, but also I need Debian-like distribution cause ...
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Add a delay in git post-merge

My scenario is as follows: After updating files on my Git repository, I have a Git hook that calls an API from my web server. This API performs a Git pull and then I have a Git hook post-merge that ...
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Excessively slow boot after normal shutdown, but not after forced power off

Note: I had posted this on Ask Ubuntu, but was told that forum is for questions related to real Ubuntu, only. I was advised to post here, so I'm moving the question over here. I have installed Zorin-...
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sox command is automatically adding delay in the begining of mp3

I have a few video files which have "humm" sound in the audio. So, I created the following script for batch processing. I am using ffmpeg, to extract audio to .mp3, and sox to denoise, which ...
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Delay in loading webpages

Since a couple of days, my machine experiences a delay when loading webpages. Rather than starting loading, the browser sits there for several seconds (around 5 or 10 seconds), seemingly doing nothing....
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Using Tail on a process causes character input delay & disruption [duplicate]

I was referring to this question to see if it is possible to spy on another running process' stdout. One answer suggests using tail -f /proc/<PID>/fd/1 to do so. So I opened two terminal ...
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Netem does not show the correct parameter inserted

I'm issuing the following tc command tc qdisc in order to configure different queues in a computer. The problem is that when I configure two different queues (htb configuration) and I insert ...
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How can I delay/queue all disk activity on a certain directory/disk until a certain point?

I would like to be able to issue a command in a script that would stop disk activity to a certain directory (or disk) and queue it until I issue another command that would 'resume' the disk and all ...
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Bash Prompt takes a lot of time at the end of .bashrc

At the very end of .bashrc I do echo "The END". But even after this statement gets printed, there is a huge delay sometimes more than 5 seconds, to get the PS1 prompt. How can I diagnose this? Any ...
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how to start a script with root privilege on boot?

I tried with systemctl and with crontab without success. here is the script: #!/bin/bash cyberghostvpn --country-code AU --city Brisbane --connect rights : -rwxr-xr-x 1 pat pat 71 nov 28 13:04 ...
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Tc qdisc delay not seen in tcpdump recording

I have two linux containers connected with a veth-pair. At veth-interface of one container I set up tc qdisc netem delay and send traffic from it to the other container. If I watch traffic on both ...
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delayed bash script execution after boot

My Fedora Linux (presently 30) system hosts several virtual machines (VMs) configured to start up when host system boots. These are isolated servers supposed to be visible from the internet containing ...
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Running command on each line of output immediately [duplicate]

I found out that when I run a command which executes a software that has continuous output lines e.g. traffic monitor like tcpdump or tshark the command keeps counting numbers on screen like 4, 8, 12 ....
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Weird I/O stalls affecting a whole desktop

After a recent hardware migration I started experiencing weird I/O stalls affecting my desktop Debian Stretch system. Typical symptoms, all happening during each stall: I stop being able to interact ...
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Boot delay due to systemd device start job timeout

Problem description I've taken to finally address the issue of my system booting slower than it should. My first step was to have a look at the boot log, which showed the start job for a device ...
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Debian NFS wait too long when the other Debian is turned off

I have a home network with two Debian 9 PCs. I'm using NFS to share a folder from each PC with the other, both read-only. The config files are: /etc/exports on Machine1: /path/on/machine1/share ...
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Does we need a delay time between command in Linux ?

I have a script process.csh for processing many files through many steps which the above output is the input of below command. Do I need to insert a delay between commands to be sure there is no ...
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Why does a high IO rate on an external disk degrade performance of the whole system?

I'm running a variant of Debian (Proxmox Virtual Environment) on my HP server, and I've noticed a strange quirk: while performing a backup to a USB drive (usually around 20 gigabytes worth of data, so ...
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at some time from now do something (and maybe also show result in console)

I use Ubuntu server 16.04 and I desire to use the utility at in my current session to do something 1 minute from now (say, an echo), without giving a specific date and time - just 1 minute ahead from ...
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start new script if last script is not execute with in minute

I have too many entry in cron tab to run script at every half hour (more than 50 script). At every half hour all script will executed simultaneously so that server load will increase due to starting ...
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error: ‘TCP_NODELAY’ was not declared in this scope [closed]

I am trying to compile ChatScipt v7.55 in Ubuntu 16.04. But when I use make server command, I get this error: evserver.cpp: In function ‘int settcpnodelay(int)’: evserver.cpp:263:40: error: ‘...
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wireshark packet capture point [closed]

I am using tc qdisc to add delay to packets on my interface eth2 as follows sudo tc qdisc add dev eth2 root netem delay 100ms 10ms 25% Then I pinged a host and got some result. The results on the ...
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Delay some localhost traffic

How to delay some localhost traffic? (the computer is a VM, but hopefully that won't matter) The following creates a new interface and tries to apply tc to it: ifconfig lo:1 127.0.10.10 netmask 255....
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Add delay to network interface at boot

I'm currently working on a Raspberry Pi project, running Ubuntu Mate 32 bit, The RPi is going to be at sea and connects to the internet via a 4G router. Via the VPN network, it sends data to another ...
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OpenVPN connection delay, server logs PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST' multiple times

I'm troubleshooting a connection delay to my OpenVPN server, occurring when my client connects and disconnects a couple of times (2-3 times usually result in the described behaviour). Server/Client-...
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Delayed script to boot exagear and skype using RPI3 on debian

I'm using Exagear desktop to run Skype on RPI3 (Raspbian/Debian). I have some naive users also using the system because of which I want to load both of them on boot (maybe delayed startup service). I ...
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How to make modsecurity to punish users by adding a delay when some sql injection are detected

Actually we have a webfirewall (modsecurity) blocking common sql injections on our server. I want to know if there is a way to punish users when they try sql injections on the server, by making ...
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Giving maximum priority to some traffic

I have all my interfaces configured as follows: tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 20 tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 10.0Mbit burst 15k tc class add dev eth0 ...
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How do I remove delay in dhclient after DHCPNAK?

After moving to new AP, I restart dhclient to switch to the new network: DHCPREQUEST on <interface> to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPNAK from <new router IP> <delay> DHCPDISCOVER on &...
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Run command after a certain length of time has elapsed?

If I'm executing a long process, is there any way I can execute some time-based commands? For example, I'm running a really long process which runs for roughly 10 minutes. After 5 minutes, I would ...
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High time until SSH asks for password

I've been noting recently that any host that I ssh to in LAN, waits like 5 seconds before asking for password. ping sometimes also waits, but less(like 2 seconds), but it shows it has resolved the ...
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reminder script to remove string from file

I have debian squeeze installed on my box. I have BIRD daemon to route traffic of particular IP. We add IP to bird-route.conf automatically from ruby script if traffic spikes up to specific range. I ...
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Mysterious 8 second delay in boot after grub

I have installed Fedora 23 (KDE spin) on an HP Prodesk mini 600 G2. There is one problem I can't quite figure out, though: after grub comes up, and I press enter on any kernel to boot, the screen goes ...
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Limit access/transmit rights on NIC to a single user application

I currently have a RT patched linux machine and I need to have full and undelayed access to my Wired interface card. I am running a realtime non-preemtable user application which sends a couple of ...
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Adjusting keyboard delay in a TTY?

When using a TTY login shell by entering e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1 on Debian Jessie. There is an inhuman fast delay, specifically, these values are set (250ms): root@VB-NB-Debian:~# kbdrate Typematic Rate set ...
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Sending email out at a specific time

I'd like to write emails now and have them go out at some specific time in the future, eg. when the office opens in the morning. What would be a good way to do that ? Most user agents don't support ...
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Relationship between Interface Speed and Processing times

I have a question regarding processing time delays. I want to know: is there a relationship between the rate of data packets received and their processing time at the receiving host, or is the ...
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Password fail delay is too long - Linux Mint 17

The delay after a failed password is very long. In /etc/pam.d/login, FAIL_DELAY is configured as auth optional pam_faildelay.so delay=3000000 however, actual delay is about 12s. This ...
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Minimize game server delay with iptables

I have a debian 7 server hosted by Google Cloud running a game server and a rails server. The rails server run on port 80 and the game server on port 8000. I want to apply a network rule that allow ...
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I WANT procmail to delay one user's e-mail 10 seconds then continue processing

I use procmail. I wrote my own spam filter in procmail (along with many many recipes). I know this is sounds counter-intuitive but I want to intentionally delay one user's e-Mail about 5 or 10 ...
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delay to get password prompt when ssh'ing to a public server

i have a server (debian 7) setup in my university with public ip. when I ssh into the system (from outside the campus), I get a weird delay of 5-10 seconds before I get the password prompt. Why is ...
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