Unanswered Questions
35,183 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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git-upload-pack hangs indefinitely
I have the following call structure:
Jenkins runs fab -Huser@host set_repository_commit_hash:123abc.
set_repository_commit_hash runs git fetch with pty = False.
The child process ssh git@github.com ...
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Where is the input method configuration file?
My ibus input method was broken after an update. So I switched to fcitx.
Actually, there are a handful IMs (Input Methods) installed in my Fedora 19 system, e.g. fcitx, ibus, yong, etc.
However, I ...
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Best practice to customize date/time format system-wide?
I'd like to customize exclusively the date and time format for my system, while sticking to the rest of the locale as is. I know that environment variable LC_TIME will make it possible to customize ...
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Enable external display on FreeBSD console
tl;dr, I'd like to use the external display with FreeBSD 10.0 on an HP Pavilion g7-2270us. Don't care if it's mirrored or I have to select one or the other.
Here's the symptoms:
When a display is ...
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Zsh tab completions not working as desired for partial paths
I want case-insensitive fuzzy completion for files and directories in zsh. After reading the manual for a few hours, this is what I came up with:
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:globbed-files' matcher 'r:...
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GLX extension not working properly with xvfb
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system with the following packages installed:
libegl1-mesa:amd64
libegl1-mesa-drivers:amd64
libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64
libgl1-mesa-glx:...
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Is this how linux paging should behave? (because it seems awful…)
When my linux system gets close to paging (i.e., in my case, 16GB ram almost full, 16GB swap completely empty) if a new process X tries to allocate some memory the system completely locks. That is, ...
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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
I'd like to identify which process a window belongs to in Wayland. Is there anything like xprop for X that allows user to pick window by clicking and outputs all window details including PID?
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Is it wrong to think of “memfd”s as accounted “to the process that owns the file”?
https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/memfd_create2/
Theoretically, you could achieve [memfd_create()] behavior without introducing new syscalls, like this:
int fd = open("/tmp", O_RDWR | ...
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Kernel modesetting hangs my boot, but the ATI driver requires it
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro. It has an integrated Intel video card and a discrete ATI video card. Ideally, I'd like my Xorg to use the ATI card with the free driver (no Catalyst).
Here's the ...
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Mutt: Automatically subscribe to IMAP mailboxes
I'm using a bunch of mailboxes in mutt which are populated by imapfilter. To avoid manual reconfiguration (by going to the folder list and pressing s at every new entry), I'd like to configure mutt to ...
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How to change the keyboard layout for a single application in Awesome WM?
I've added keyboard shortcuts to set the global keyboard layout, but how do I set it for a single application? The reason I'd like to do this is that I'm used to QWERTY for gaming, and I'd rather not ...
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Why can't the kernel run init?
I've downloaded the Raspbian image on this page. I'm trying to compile a kernel that can be used to boot the image within qemu.
I downloaded the Linux kernel source from kernel.org and ran:
make ...
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Bluetoothctl: No default controller available
I'm having issues connecting my Logitech K810 Bluetooth keyboard in Debian Jessie with BlueZ version 5.23-1, kernel 3.16.0-4.
The keyboard works fine most of the time but sometimes it doesn't work at ...
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Attempting to compile any kernel yields a certification error
I'm currently attempting to follow this guide in order to install the 4.5.7 kernel with Grsecurity on my Kali Linux desktop. I am following that list of instructions verbatim, except for the fact ...
