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How to enable Unattended Access in anydesk, debian 10, openbox, lightdm
One possible reason is that the password is too weak. In this case, AnyDesk rejects your password without prompting any warning. So the password is still not set, therefore the unattended access is ...
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Virtual Machine Manager - Automate Repetitive Launch Steps
You need to tell libvirt that the "default" network should be automatically started when libvirtd is started.
sudo virsh net-autostart default
If "default" hasn't already been ...
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Different behavior between SSH into VM and running SSH commands from script
When you ssh into a machine, you start an interactive login shell. When you run ssh ip command, you are starting a non-interactive, non-login shell:
$ ssh localhost 'echo $- $0; shopt login_shell'
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Rename ether interface with systemd-networkd without reboot
Thanks to @telcoM who put me on the right track finding an answer.
By restarting the systemd-udev-trigger service the interface will be renamed according the .link file.
Full command: systemctl ...
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Different behavior between SSH into VM and running SSH commands from script
Your diagnosis is probably correct.
To circumvent the problem, you need to verify which rcfile is not executed at startup (it will likely be the one where PATH is set up), among the scripts in the ...
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Negative disk used space after shrinking RAID1 in Debian 11
Run the following command with the file system unmounted:
debugfs -w -R "set_super_value overhead_blocks 0" /dev/sdXX
Then the next time you mount the file system, the correct value for &...
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0bda:c811 Realtek not recognized
The first thing to do (in Debian):
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install dkms
Update repository in file /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
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Rename ether interface with systemd-networkd without reboot
I can't test this right now and haven't tried this exact procedure before, so take this with a grain of salt.
The .link files are not processed by systemd-networkd, but by systemd-udevd (see man 5 ...
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Automatic rollback to files copied with the backup argument
If you have space to have two parallel filesystem trees, you could possibly have something like /bin and /bin.old. Repeat for all top-level directories.
Installation would be a case of creating /bin....
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Erasing the boot disk on an external hard drive
my recommendation:
alias lsblk2='lsblk -o type,name,label,partlabel,size,fstype,model,serial,wwn,uuid'
then run lsblk2 and identify the correct device... i.e./dev/sdb in your case... so you don't ...
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Erasing the boot disk on an external hard drive
The sdb device isn't a folder or file to be erased, it is the representation of the actual disk device. You cannot use rm to erase partitions on this device.
If you want to remove the partitions, you ...
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Cannot login after enabling pam_faillock module
I've uncommented your lines and put them in what I think is now the right place. I've also moved one or two of the other lines around to fix the authentication flow.
# here are the per-package modules ...
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Setting up debian archive keys on risc64: new key but contains no user ID
Packages authentication
If you want apt to verify the downloaded packages, you can either
install the debian-ports-archive-keyring package or manually import
the Debian ports archive key into apt [...]...
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Setting up debian archive keys on risc64: new key but contains no user ID
If you can't import the gpg key, you can install the debian-ports-archive-keyring manually.
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-...
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While installing Debian KDE on i386 computer, Locks me out unexpectedly
You could try using the passwd command before beginning the install to set a password, so that when you get locked out you can log back in. Most live and install disks dont have passwords set for any ...
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openfortivpn can't connect to fortigate
It seems that POST method on dem-hq.fortidyndns.com:443/remote/logincheck isn't allowed, and you can't authenticate because of that !
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Debian: "dpkg -l" name field sometimes includes arch/abi, sometimes not. Why?
Adding one more line would reveal the relevant field:
$ grep -A7 "Package: bind9-libs" /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: bind9-libs
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: libs
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How to solve NO_PUBKEY 8C718D3B5072E1F5
Copy this gpg key into mysql_pubkey.asc file then run:
gpg --import mysql_pubkey.asc
gpg --fingerprint 5072E1F5
See MySQL documentation: 2.1.4.2 Signature Checking Using GnuPG
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How to solve NO_PUBKEY 8C718D3B5072E1F5
apt-key is deprecated. Normally apt-get would warn that you still have a key stored in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg. Your screenshots show that MySQL key is the only one stored there. I don't see the warning ...
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mkfs.ext4 command not found in Debian (Jessie)
I just ran into a similar issue on Ubuntu server 20.04.4 LTS arm. The solution was to install exfat-utils.
Here was my error message.
$ sudo mkfs.exfat /dev/sdb1
sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found
I ...
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on reboot, Debian 11 always open /run/systemd folder
In the comments, you indicated this happens with your regular user account only, not on a new account created for testing. So whatever triggers opening of that folder is part of the settings of your ...
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How do I update R CRAN packages when updating from Debian buster to bullseye?
Keeping the Third party repository enable during the distribution upgrade is possible under Ubuntu Bionic and higher through the Ubuntu's release upgrades, see Keep PPAs Enabled when Upgrading ...
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Debian: Can't Install Anything (Package Cannot Be Installed)
Try sudo apt update as you might have not refreshed it for a while!
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Change default xorg.conf video driver
A little confusion by my side, so I have to make the appropriate corrections to get in, I think, a somewhat good explanation.
I'm working on several machines trying to make that driver change, and I ...
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How to mount an NTFS partition writable for a non-root user?
Asked 4 years, 10 months ago
currently 2022-05-11
I use RHEL/CentOS 7.9, and using ntfs-3g-2021.8.22-2.el7.x86_64.rpm and ntfs-3g-libs-2021.8.22-2.el7.x86_64.rpm which I believe come from the EPEL ...
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NetworkManager not auto creating profiles for wired connections
The following command:
sudo nmcli c add type ethernet ifname ens36 con-name Wired2
will create a new connection (on Debian) under:
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
It is called Wired2....
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What files set the default PATH
There are many places in a Linux system where the PATH variable may be set or updated. This depends on the mode of accessing the system and the software involved (the SSH daemon, sshd, for example, ...
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Debian: is there a shortcut for switching from Ubuntu to Debian?
I think going to debian 11 would be easier. Also, everything depends on how basic your system is. If you don't have much more than a debootstrap, small upgrades should work.
I am currently in the ...
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remove bottom panel in xfce
Just click control + right click on the panel then go to panel then click panel preferences.At the top of the window choose panel 2 then click 🚫 symbol which is in the right end of panel 2
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Debian 11, the resolv.conf does not save nameserver settings permanently
Since all your DNS configuration information apparently comes from NetworkManager, the next step is to investigate the NetworkManager settings.
First, use the nmcli c (c is the shorthand for "...
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`docker run --rm debian:jessie apt update` does not work on Fedora host
After hours of more trial and error, another image which worked on a different host brought me on the right track. There seems to be a problem with the default ulimits on fedora [1][2].
The following ...
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Copying large files to WebDAV share lets overflow the file system
According to your df -h output, /media/dav didn't get mounted...It was actually your rootfs / that got filled up (because /media/dav is just a sub-dir of / unless you mount another fs on it).
You ...
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Where is "hddtemp" error logged after login?
If your init system is systemd, which is the default init system for Debian 8 and later, then the error is likely logged in the systemd journal. That's accessed using journalctl. See man journalctl ...
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How to lock a Linux/Debian/KDE system to one program (a password-protected kiosk mode for Kodi)?
The solution is to use cage.
It's not yet available in Debian 11 and also can't be built on it.
However, it's already in "Debian 12 testing".
I will update this once it's in Debian 11 stable ...
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My RAID 1 always renames itself to /dev/md127 after rebooting | DEBIAN 10
This can happen if mdadm detects the array is a "foreign" array, rather than a "local" one. Foreign arrays will be assigned device nodes starting from md127 (and working down). ...
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`docker run --rm debian:jessie apt update` does not work on Fedora host
Edited based on @jsbillings's comment below -- please note that based on @felher's feedback, this particular answer did not solve their issue, but it can be applied to users having the same issue ...
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WordPress site broke when updating to php 8.0
This could be a memory issue. Could your php.ini file have been reset during your upgrade.
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Is DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive redundant with apt-get -yqq?
DEBIAN_FRONTEND is read by debconf, which is used to prompt for input in many packages’ maintainer scripts. apt does not take this environment variable into account, so DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ...
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Debian - Execute a python script with modules import
xmlrpc.client is a Python 3 library (it was xmlrpclib in Python 2), so you need to specify a Python 3 interpreter:
/usr/bin/python3 /home/debian/api_odoo_contact.py
In Debian 10, /usr/bin/python is a ...
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Move /var and /home directory on a separate NVME partition
I was able to fix it. I was not mounting the NVME at startup
here's the revised script that I used to solve. Posting in case if anyone needs it.
lsblk
sudo -s
cd /
sudo fdisk /dev/nvme1n1
sudo mkfs....
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How to ensure user processes are killed on logout?
Reboot or sudo systemctl daemon-reexec. daemon-reload only reloads units, thus it won't work.
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How do I download libappindicator1?
I finally ended up finding Discord Beta in the chrome web store, because nothing that you guys suggested was working. Thanks for helping though!
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Finding the cause: WiFi almost unusable on up-to-date Debian, works fine on old Ubuntu
Ubuntu 18 uses gvfs-fuse to mount SMB shares into the local directory tree (/run/user/<uid>/gvfs/...) making access snappy and transparent for applications like VLC. Debian 11, by default, doesn'...
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How to properly update Mesa drivers?
In the event Mesa & co. aren't in backports you can build from source:
Schroot Setup
Host setup:
sudo apt install --yes schroot debootstrap
Make directories for schroots:
sudo mkdir -p /srv/...
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How to overcome libc resolver limitation of maximum 3 nameservers?
I would suggest to test changes in DNS zones using dig instead of the local resolver. You can specify the DNS server to query using
$ dig @8.8.8.8 name.to.resolve
(to send the query to 8.8.8.8). This ...
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What do '+b#' packages versions mean in Debian?
All that @derobert posted above is right. Here are the commands to follow this steps:
Download the package e.g.
apt download <package> # e.g. $ apt download bash
Extract
dpkg -X <...
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How do I download libappindicator1?
The authors of the Discord app seem to have chosen to depend on the libappindicator1 package, which was removed from Debian in September 2021:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1257945/removed-0492-8-...
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"Move folders only if they exist" not working
Your test does the opposite of what you want it to.
[ ! -f $item ] || mv -v $item $project_dir/public/$item
The ! in combination with || make this effectively the same as [ -f $item ] && ....
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How do I download libappindicator1?
How do I download libappindicator1?
Your package manager will download libappindicator1 by itself, but the problem is a different one: If you downloaded a deb file from somewhere, it will likely have ...
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service start automatically on debian 10
A service can be started in several ways. They are shown when you run the command
sudo systemctl status servicname
under the heading 'TriggeredBy'.
These can all be stopped, started, enabled, ...
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