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I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on a Lenovo Z400 touch laptop. I've been having this weird issue lately where when I open the laptop (after it goes to sleep when I shut the lid), the login password box is unresponsive. Typing the password does nothing. I've found a workaround where I can select "change user" from the available menu which will then let me type in the password box to log in. Well, I just found out today that the laptop is still accepting input, but in an odd way. After trying to type the password a bunch of times, I did my workaround, and then got back to my main desktop. I saw I had Chromium open, on Facebook, and that I had repeatedly typed my login password into a chat window over and over. Weird. So, not sure what's going on our how to fix it, but yeah that's happening.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:35
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What's the easiest way to move a user account from one linux machine to another? Specifically from Mint 15 to 16? Can I just recreate the user manually on the new system, copy across the home folder and use chown to make sure the ownership is set correctly?
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Jul 27, 2014 20:29
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Experto Crede posted:What's the easiest way to move a user account from one linux machine to another? Specifically from Mint 15 to 16? Can I just recreate the user manually on the new system, copy across the home folder and use chown to make sure the ownership is set correctly? Pretty much yeah.
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Jul 27, 2014 20:33
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I have a /etc/init.d script that's loving up when I type "service php-fastcgi restart". The script looks like this: code:I've gotten it to work now by putting a "sleep 1" after the kill command but something tells me this might not be a good solution if the server was busy. Is there a way to wait for the kill process to finish before continuing with the script?
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Jul 28, 2014 05:21
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The answer is to poll to see when the PID is gone.code:
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Jul 28, 2014 05:40
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the posted:I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on a Lenovo Z400 touch laptop. Not actually in an odd way. Typical Ubuntu development. What app is logging the screen? Open it up, ssh in, and ps
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Jul 28, 2014 06:00
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Megaman posted:Ok, so the problem looks to be the initrd.gz I've used the one for stable hd-media and it now progresses past preseed, but errors out on finding the image. The image I'm using is stable mini.iso, is there a way I can get it to detect this particular image? The reason I'm using mini.iso is to be able to install testing, you cannot do this with regular netinstall. If your goal is testing, have you tried to use testing's installer directly? The erratas for the Jessie Alpha 1 installer look tolerable... unless of course you have some essential hardware that needs to have firmware loaded before installation can proceed. Apparently the Debian organization recommends using the Jessie Alpha 1 installer now: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ And here are the kernel and initrd images for the testing installer: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
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Jul 28, 2014 11:55
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minato posted:The answer is to poll to see when the PID is gone. Great, thanks!
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Jul 28, 2014 13:45
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I wonder why that after two decades Debian still can't get the installer right.
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Jul 28, 2014 14:42
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Because they don't give a poo poo.
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Jul 28, 2014 15:09
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evol262 posted:What app is logging the screen? Open it up, ssh in, and ps What do you mean what app is logging the screen? Do you mean what app is taking input when I am supposed to be at the login prompt?
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Jul 28, 2014 18:13
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the posted:What do you mean what app is logging the screen? Do you mean what app is taking input when I am supposed to be at the login prompt? Sorry, that was phone autocorrect. What app is locking the screen. kscreenlock? gdm? gnome-screensaver? xscreensaver? Something built into Unity?
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Jul 28, 2014 19:22
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spankmeister posted:I wonder why that after two decades Debian still can't get the installer right. In this case, it's because those sneaky kernel developers went and changed some firmware-loading related things, and the udev component of the installer could no longer get the info that a particular firmware file is needed. The relevant bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725714 Debian being Debian, the installer must have the user answer one question before downloading the appropriate firmware or whatever: "Your <computer part> needs <firmware> to work. This means using a piece of code that is not 100% Free Software. Are you OK with this?" Answer choices: "Hell yes, I want my computer to work." / "I am RMS, enable sperg mode."
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Jul 28, 2014 20:39
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Suspicious Dish posted:~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers it seems I put my whatever.desktop file in there but it didn't create the launcher. Apparently there is another folder it needs to register in? But I also copied my whatever.desktop there and it's still not working. Any ideas?
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Jul 28, 2014 21:07
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fletcher posted:I put my whatever.desktop file in there but it didn't create the launcher. Apparently there is another folder it needs to register in? But I also copied my whatever.desktop there and it's still not working. Any ideas? I don't have an answer for you because I gave up trying to understand how gnome does this a long time ago, but I just wanted to say I always found what Gnome was doing here hilariously un-understandable. I mean, on one hand I can see saying the user shouldn't care about the filesystem and just use whatever tools Gnome provides to do this poo poo, but I was never able to figure out what Gnome wanted you to do either. Queue someone jumping in and telling me how simple it actually is...
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Jul 28, 2014 22:52
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telcoM posted:If your goal is testing, have you tried to use testing's installer directly? The erratas for the Jessie Alpha 1 installer look tolerable... unless of course you have some essential hardware that needs to have firmware loaded before installation can proceed. This is all well and good, except that the installer seems to be totally busted as far as wireless goes. Connecting to my home network on WPA2 with the same key I've always used for every device fails, and passes with stable mini.iso using testing or stable, or SID. Also, many preseed options have either changed or are broken as well, I'm guessing broken. This is why I would like to use stable mini.iso, so I can have a working installer that I can select testing from, and preseed it. Does absolutely no one do the same thing I'm trying to do? I find this hard to believe. Stable mini.iso selecting testing works perfectly fine, and the installer is fine as well, but I just can't preseed it due to initrd.gz. Can anyone test this exact same mini.iso setup? Megaman fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 00:18
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Thermopyle posted:I don't have an answer for you because I gave up trying to understand how gnome does this a long time ago, but I just wanted to say I always found what Gnome was doing here hilariously un-understandable. Gnome 3 was my cue to abandon Gnome altogether, so it's been years since I dealt with it at all. I switched initially to using XFCE mostly, but at this point I run almost entirely KDE.
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Jul 29, 2014 01:15
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Thermopyle posted:I don't have an answer for you because I gave up trying to understand how gnome does this a long time ago, but I just wanted to say I always found what Gnome was doing here hilariously un-understandable. drat, I thought it was gonna be something super easy  Unfortunately I am stuck with this CentOS 5.10 box running GNOME 2 for awhile. I really want the environment to be fully setup after a vagrant up but dumb crap like this just has to be a pain in the butt.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:13
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fletcher posted:drat, I thought it was gonna be something super easy You probably have to wedge something in gconf. Suspicious Dish?
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Jul 29, 2014 20:17
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Ubuntu has a server guide that explains the distro approved way to do a bunch of things. Does CentOS have anything similar? Their wiki is a mess and the documentation is for CentOS 5.
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Jul 29, 2014 22:12
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thebigcow posted:Ubuntu has a server guide that explains the distro approved way to do a bunch of things. Does CentOS have anything similar? Their wiki is a mess and the documentation is for CentOS 5. Just use the RHEL documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/
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Jul 29, 2014 22:26
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evol262 posted:You probably have to wedge something in gconf. I'm in France right now and am on lovely hotel Wi-Fi, and I don't want to spend time I could be getting drunk on debugging a version of GNOME I've never hacked on or used. I'll look at it when I get home.
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Jul 29, 2014 22:30
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Suspicious Dish posted:I'm in France right now and am on lovely hotel Wi-Fi, and I don't want to spend time I could be getting drunk on debugging a version of GNOME I've never hacked on or used. I'll look at it when I get home. Haha totally understandable, I appreciate the reply nonetheless. I'll poke around on irc.gnome.org and see if I can find an answer. 
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Jul 29, 2014 22:41
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spankmeister posted:Just use the RHEL documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ Thank You
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Jul 30, 2014 01:52
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I'm trying to get a bigger root volume on an EC2 instance (12GB to 30GB). I made a snapshot of it, then created a new volume that was bigger from the snapshot, and attached it to my instance @ /dev/sda, just like the previous one was attached. Now I get this: code:code:
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Jul 30, 2014 11:42
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fletcher posted:I'm trying to get a bigger root volume on an EC2 instance (12GB to 30GB). I made a snapshot of it, then created a new volume that was bigger from the snapshot, and attached it to my instance @ /dev/sda, just like the previous one was attached. Could you post the output of "parted /dev/sda p" or "fdisk -l" The problem might be that although the underlying block device is bigger the partition is still 12G
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Jul 30, 2014 12:24
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You might need to poke the device with partprobe to detect the size change, but it can very well be that you chagned the size of sda and not the size of the partition sda1. In that case you need to fire up parted or fdisk to resize the partition, then run resize2fs. caveat: I only do this on vmware, no idea on ec2.
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Jul 30, 2014 21:05
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evol262 posted:Sorry, that was phone autocorrect. Uh, I have no idea. I have ubuntu 14.04 lts. When I shut my laptop lid the screen locks. I assumed that was built into Unity.
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Jul 30, 2014 21:29
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the posted:Uh, I have no idea. I have ubuntu 14.04 lts. When I shut my laptop lid the screen locks. I assumed that was built into Unity. If you're using unity, then it's probably some thing Canonical built half-assed. File a bug. This is a Unity problem that Canonical needs to fix.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:07
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It's probably lightdm, no? Is it similar to the screen you get logging in after boot-up?
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Jul 30, 2014 22:28
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SurgicalOntologist posted:It's probably lightdm, no? Is it similar to the screen you get logging in after boot-up? Judging from another bug filed against unity, no. I don't use Ubuntu, so I couldn't say directly, but trivial Googling of other reported problems leads me to believe that LightDM is a fallback method which is only used for changing sessions/users, not locking/unlocking.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:43
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jre posted:Could you post the output of "parted /dev/sda p" or "fdisk -l" US-WEST-2 is finally back up so I can look at this again code:luminalflux posted:You might need to poke the device with partprobe to detect the size change, but it can very well be that you chagned the size of sda and not the size of the partition sda1. In that case you need to fire up parted or fdisk to resize the partition, then run resize2fs. Hmmm how do I do that?
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Jul 31, 2014 01:34
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fletcher posted:Hmmm how do I do that? You can't in this case since the partition you want to grow isn't the last, but if it is you can just delete the last partition and re-add it using the new free space. This also is hard to do live. I end up in most cases just using LVM, adding a new partition in the free space on the datastore, adding that to the VG with vgextend and extending the LV with lvextend, then running resize2fs. All that can be done live.
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Jul 31, 2014 05:22
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fletcher posted:US-WEST-2 is finally back up so I can look at this again Are you sure you've expanded the EBS volume properly ? I would expect /dev/sda to report 30G yet its still showing as 12.8G what does lsblk show?
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Jul 31, 2014 10:53
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You may also need to partprobe if you didn't restart the instance
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Jul 31, 2014 14:57
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luminalflux posted:You can't in this case since the partition you want to grow isn't the last, but if it is you can just delete the last partition and re-add it using the new free space. This also is hard to do live. Sounds tricky jre posted:Are you sure you've expanded the EBS volume properly ? I would expect /dev/sda to report 30G yet its still showing as 12.8G I thought so, from the Amazon Docs it seemed pretty straightforward. Maybe I screwed it up though, I'm gonna try again from scratch. lsblk doesn't appear to be in any CentOS 5 repos, not sure how to get it on this machine evol262 posted:You may also need to partprobe if you didn't restart the instance The instance has since been restarted, still reports the same output for those comands as before. I wonder if any of my problems have to do with this janky CentOS 5.10 image I'm using? It didn't even have an /etc/hosts file... fletcher fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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Jul 31, 2014 18:18
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fletcher posted:Sounds tricky I don't have any EL5 boxes around to actually check if it's available. fletcher posted:The instance has since been restarted, still reports the same output for those comands as before. Cloud images/AMIs are intentionally stripped, and a lot of things which look "janky" are intentional. Missing /etc/hosts probably isn't, but it's extremely likely that whatever AMI you're using expects you to configure it with cloud-init. Disk isn't, though. Is this ephemeral disk or EBS?
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Jul 31, 2014 19:37
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evol262 posted:yum whatprovides "*/somefile" Nice, never used whatprovides before. code:
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Jul 31, 2014 19:50
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fletcher posted:Nice, never used whatprovides before. It's normally in util-linux-ng, I think. Ephemeral disk is almost always faster than EBS. But it's probably a non-issue. It does look like the volume hasn't been resized correctly, though. Have you considered creating a new EBS volume, attaching it, mounting it, moving everything over, and just using that?
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evol262 posted:It's normally in util-linux-ng, I think. Ah ok. Doesn't look like that package is available in the CentOS 5 repos. That's the path I'm going down now. Thanks for all the help guys.
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