Root Access

I am frustrated but reason is problem where I am stuck, nothing else, I have cloned my pcs hundreds of times, this is just 1st time I can't make this specific scenario work

tool is there, disk2VHD, but how to make it work with UEFI boot seems like a big chanllenge to me

Bob

@Developer Then the question you should be asking yourself is "what did I do differently this time?"

Developer

1:54 PM

and google is not on my side either

@Bob in past I have used softwares like V Clone, which is not available anymore to me

Bob

87

Q: How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader?

I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in EFI mode on a hard disk some days ago. Today, the bootloader got missing/corrupted. I currently have the Windows 8 installer on a flash drive and tried using the Automatic Repair option to repair the bootloader but it didn't do anything. The Startup Repair ...

Developer

@Bob I believe I was following same steps without any luck

Journeyman Geek

@Developer that's why you ask a question

but posting it on chat when you want attention is not the right way

Developer

I was stuck at rebuilding bcd

Bob

Eh. Reinstall from scratch inside the VM would be the easier way. Especially if you've spent weeks on it.

Developer

2:04 PM

I want to get cached domain passwords out of vhd

Bob

And that is what we call an XY problem...

Developer

it's more like an alternative

Bob

labs.neohapsis.com/2014/07/01/…

Developer

I know how to get them out of a machine, but not vhd

Bob

onlinehashcrack.com/…

@JourneymanGeek Just finished watching. Sounds like something I might try at some point :P

allquixotic

2:16 PM

hi O_O

Štěpán Bartoš

Hi!

Bob

@allquixotic 'lo

How's things?

Štěpán Bartoš

I - as a newbie - need a little bit of help. On Debian 3.2.73 I've created an Apache server (school purposes), and I have a task to "resurrect cgi's". In cgi-bin there are two cgis: printenv and test-cgi. Both with 777 permissions. I need to make them work.

Bob

Ow. CGI.

Back to the 90s, eh?

Štěpán Bartoš

"-bash: ./test-cgi: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory" is the answer I get when trying to run them.

Learning the basics.

Bob

2:20 PM

What's your shebang?

@ŠtěpánBartoš Technically, these 'basics' have been outdated since about a decade ago :P

But, sure.

What's the shebang line?

And what does which perl say?

Štěpán Bartoš

Errrrm, I'm learning how to CGI, but I haven't learnt what "shebang" means yet (at least as a termin).

usr/bin/perl <- which perl

Bob

!!tell 29358646 wiki shebang

ChatBot John Cavil

Shebang

Shebang may refer to: Shebang (Unix), the #! syntax used in computer programs to indicate an interpreter for execution The Shebang, an Australian radio show shebang!, a Canadian breakdance crew She-Bang, a character from the cartoon Static Shock The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, a book by Timothy Ferris Shebang, a mid 1960s dance show hosted by Casey Kasem shebang, a matter, affair, situation, usually in the phrase the whole shebang. shebang, a hut, shed or shelter; a primitive shack where liquor is sold illegally. Shebang, a Swedish pop-rock band (2000-2008) See also She Bangs...

Štěpán Bartoš

Well I'm sorry, could've googled that on my own. Gimme a while to read through.

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš shebang shebang....

Bob

2:24 PM

@ŠtěpánBartoš Also, run which -a perl

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš sounds like they're missing out a lot of things you need to know as a linux newbie.

wait.

3.2?

whaaaaat?

Štěpán Bartoš

Journeyman Geek: Yeah, it's a weirdly tutored subject. We aren't really learning to linux, it's just basics of stuff.

Bob

Wait. 3.2... I totally missed that.

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš I think your debian version might be old enough to drink in some countries

5

Štěpán Bartoš

You just made me laugh at least. ^^

Journeyman Geek

2:25 PM

try... er...

Bob

Y'know when I said outdated since about a decade ago?

That applies to your Debian version too.

Štěpán Bartoš

School server, school rules.

Journeyman Geek

I know there's a command line to explicitly run a perl command

Bob

Your school server is probably ridiculously easy to hack.

Ell

speaking of school servers, I've been trying to set up a gentoo "subsystem" on mine

Bob

2:26 PM

@JourneymanGeek /usr/bin/env perl typically but I want to see his current shebang line.

(silly me, forgot the path to env -_-)

Journeyman Geek

speaking of being old enough to drink... you might want to bribe a senior to ask what he did ;p

Bob

@ŠtěpánBartoš Basically, I want to know what your current shebang line is, and where you got it from. Was it supplied by your teacher?

Cause in a school assignment it's generally best to deviate as little as possible from supplied materials, lest you be accused of copying code from other sources :P

Journeyman Geek

(also, this sort of question is ok. Its horrifying enough to be cool. In case someone else wants to complain)

Bob

(Unless you happen to be able to explain all of it.)

Štěpán Bartoš

Well I'm still not sure if I understand that shebang wiki page correctly. And it ain't in my lang. So don't laugh at me too much.

Ell

2:28 PM

I've used fakechroot but when trying to chroot into .gentoo I get

/bin/bash: relocation error: ~/.gentoo//lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_find_dso_for_object, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with link time reference

Štěpán Bartoš

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

First line of cgi.

Bob

@ŠtěpánBartoš Basically, the very first line of a script that tells the OS which interpreter to use, and starts with #!.

Ell

@ŠtěpánBartoš you could try #!/usr/bin/env perl

Štěpán Bartoš

I got it right! Yay.

Bob

@ŠtěpánBartoš Ok. And about that which -a perl?

Štěpán Bartoš

2:29 PM

/usr/bin/perl

Bob

@ŠtěpánBartoš That's with the -a option? o.O

Štěpán Bartoš

Yeah.

Ell

you could just try #!/usr/bin/perl then

Bob

Where did you get your current shebang from? Was it a script supplied by your teacher?

Štěpán Bartoš

Also thank you guys very much for being this helpful.

Bob: yup.

Ell

2:29 PM

because if there is no such /usr/bin/local/perl then your script will not execute

@ŠtěpánBartoš such a shame :/

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš is this a intentionally broken script that needs to be fixed?

Štěpán Bartoš

Yup.

Bob

The suggestions from @Ell should work, but I'm trying to make sure you don't accidentally break it in such a way that it doesn't work at marking time :P

@ŠtěpánBartoš What kind of course is this?

Ell

^this is a good point

Bob

General Linux intro, web programming, etc.?

Štěpán Bartoš

2:30 PM

Information and communication technologies.

Bob

O_O

Ell

ahh if it's meant to be broken then that's okay :P

Štěpán Bartoš

Like, global introduction into everything and nothing.

Bob

Odd. Do you know if the teacher talked about shebangs? :P

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš might be handy to open with "this script is supposed to be broken" ;p

Bob

2:31 PM

Maybe that's one of the things you were supposed to fix. Maybe.

Or maybe the teacher made a mistake.

Štěpán Bartoš

@JourneymanGeek I'm sorry. I'm really confused from it all. :/

Bob

Or maybe the server they mark on is configured differently (ouch).

Are you currently testing this on the same server it will be marked on?

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš meh, not a complaint. Just handy, since its confusing otherwise.

Štěpán Bartoš

It's possible that he talked about shebangs, although none of my co-pupils were able to help me.

Bob

#!/usr/bin/env perl is probably your safest option, but no guarantees...

Štěpán Bartoš

2:32 PM

I missed 3 lessons :/

I'll try then

Bob

Ah... yea that could be a problem.

It helps if you know exactly what your goal in this assignment is, y'know :P

(And I used to have problems with going outside the scope of assignments, since the lecturers tended to just go over crap I already knew :P)

Štěpán Bartoš

I know right, that's why I'm here for help instead of just asking a question. Here we can figure out not only solution, but even an assignment. :P

Bob

If they're marking it on the same server you're currently using, fine. Get it working and you're probably good to go. If not, ... I don't know.

Ell

Can I ask for help next? :P xD

I'll form an orderly queue

Bob

As before... no guarantees of a response.

Journeyman Geek

2:35 PM

@Ell well, we do know who you actually are...

Štěpán Bartoš

Okay everyone, thank you very much. <3

Journeyman Geek

and you do know we might suddenly start talking about random crap...

so. Meh, hit us with your best shot

Ell

@JourneymanGeek that's fair, but my question is much more mundane

Bob

Hm. I need to figure out why Acronis thinks my user profile is >250 GB. Total disk usage is < 150 GB...

Weird.

Ell

okay so basically

7 mins ago, by Ell

I've used fakechroot but when trying to chroot into .gentoo I get

/bin/bash: relocation error: ~/.gentoo//lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_find_dso_for_object, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with link time reference

Journeyman Geek

2:36 PM

@Bob ~~caching~~ symlinks?

@Ell that's not mundane.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Possibly? I hope Acronis isn't that dumb!

Grabbing WinDirStat now.

Journeyman Geek

that's probably pretty deep

Ell

^I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve what I want with fakechroot or if I need the actual chroot :/

Bob

@Ell *sees gentoo*

*nopes out*

Ell

haha

Journeyman Geek

2:37 PM

Actually

Ell

I'm not sure why it says GLIBC_PRIVATE is not defined because I've looked at the symbols with readelf

Journeyman Geek

I'd encourage you to ask that as a question

Bob

On a scale of "I know this" to "over my head", you're about ISS-level.

Ell

Okay, I'll write up a question on the site propper :)

Bob

You might get a better response at Unix & Linux

Ell

2:38 PM

@Bob possibly. I'm never sure which to ask on

I'll try unix & linux for today

Bob

@Ell Technically, either, but I usually prefer unix.se for the more in-depth questions.

Journeyman Geek

Its on topic for SU

but this is such wierd and esoteric stuff, yeah, U&L

Štěpán Bartoš

I'd like to help too, but ... I guess everything here is over my knowledge.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Štěpán Bartoš

If you need help with czech lang. or music, I'm your man.

Journeyman Geek

2:41 PM

you learn by going a little over your head

Štěpán Bartoš

It's gonna get better and better, as I've said, I have just begun.

Maybe I'll help someone here in 5 years =)

Bob

Heh. Feel free to stick around!

Journeyman Geek

Quite frankly the single most useful skill I've learnt is how to use google properly ;)

Ell

@ŠtěpánBartoš you'll be helping here sooner than that for sure :)

Journeyman Geek

And for everything else ~~there's mastercard~~ stack exchange

Ell

2:43 PM

but yeah - google is your best friend

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Oh yea, I found that xkcd cheat sheet on the wall of one of the manager's offices :P

!!xkcd tech support cheat sheet

ChatBot John Cavil

'Hey Megan, it's your father. How do I print out a flowchart?'

Journeyman Geek

Too damned true.

Bob

Hm. I only have 15 GB of music.

I swear that's gotten smaller o.O

Štěpán Bartoš

@Bob Well this applies to me as well, at least in topics I know al a bit. ^^

Journeyman Geek

2:44 PM

0_0

Štěpán Bartoš

It's just that when google advices ain't simple enough, you need someone to translate them ^^ :)

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš that's when you google iteratively

Štěpán Bartoš

Well I went a bit wrong path overally, ended up somewhere in sudo apt-get install perl, and while not being in sudoers, I just bashed my head against a wall a few times and ran for your help.

Journeyman Geek

I'm not sure apt-get install perl would work

Pretty sure the repos are gone

Bob

lol

Journeyman Geek

2:48 PM

and most linux systems rely on some flavour of perl anyway

IIRC debian tends to have 'active' repositories for the last 3 versions or so.

We're at debian 8 at the moment

Štěpán Bartoš

Ugh.

Well that's why my PuTTy has grew a beard when I connected there.

Journeyman Geek

"Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (a.k.a. sarge) was released on 6th of June, 2005. The new release includes many major changes, described in our press release and the Release Notes."

etch was released in 08

so, not quite old enough to drink but...

Štěpán Bartoš

Hey, I loved 2005. I was 10 years old, and NHL 2006 got released.

Um, I really like staying here, you seem to be nice people, but 1) everyone here knows much more about the topic than me (feels bad) and 2) I kinda gotta go, got two gigs in the evening.

Bob

@ŠtěpánBartoš Heh. Have fun, and good luck.

Journeyman Geek

@ŠtěpánBartoš we don't talk deep complex stuff most of the time

Hang out a bit when you can anyway ;p

jokerdino

2:54 PM

did he say he likes staying here because we are nice people?

Štěpán Bartoš

So, thank you very much for help and have a nice weekend. I'll definitely come back, as 1) I'll get better in this, and 2) even only for the chat, I like it here.

jokerdino

Gotta flag him off!

Štěpán Bartoš

Goodbye, and thank you. ^^

@jokerdino Love you too. :P see ya all!

jokerdino

@stepan love ya buddy.

Ell

@JourneymanGeek I think I've found the answer to my question

it was right in the man fakechroot >.<

I've yet to test though

hm. doesn't work.

Rahul Basu

3:33 PM

lol questionablecontent.net/mp3/Wakeupmartenfinal.mp3

^ That is not a comic, this is: questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2127

Psycogeek

5:11 PM

is @DavidPostill here?

Wake the f-- up :-)

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek You called? was having a break and afk

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill i am going to add some garbage to your post, then will want you to fix if needed . BRB

DavidPostill

Hmm. Which post?

Psycogeek

superuser.com/questions/1071566/… this one

DavidPostill

ok ...

Psycogeek

5:22 PM

there

Rahul Basu

@Psycogeek what did you add??

Ben N

The screenshot

jokerdino

what colour is that, exactly?

Rahul Basu

ah.... freehand circles

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Hmm. And what's that screen shot have to do with the 4 event ids I mentioned?

Rahul Basu

5:28 PM

why... does my windows 10 PC have a GNU sleep command??

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill nothing. the user asked for event logging of both operational and failed. the symptoms are of a unsaved regitry a Fail.

Rahul Basu

I got the linux command on windows thing...

It's... pretty neat

sudo doesn't work however :(

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Sorry, I don't think the image adds anything to the answer :/

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill that is why i wanted to warn you, there is rollback.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek I know ;) Thanks for the warning (which was unnecessary)

Psycogeek

5:33 PM

do people actually look at that :-)

jokerdino

I have to.

But I ignore it later.

Rahul Basu

I look at it... considering the fact that I get about one notification a month

Psycogeek

I still dont know how to Clear the whole Inbox.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek I do. I want to know when people vandalise my answers ;)

@Psycogeek You can't

Rahul Basu

Psycogeek

5:36 PM

feature request

DavidPostill

6

A: Clearing inbox messages

No, there is no direct way to clean those "messages" because they're not standalone - they represent some real content that exist somewhere else and only linked in the message. The only way to have messages removed from your Stack Exchange Inbox is to delete the related posts/comments. For exam...

Psycogeek

why would you want that anyway? friggen 4 year old obsolete junk ? Yea why :-)

DavidPostill

I have 352 pages * 20 messages of inbox messages

Ooer. Bug. Click on 352 -> "No inbox items"

Psycogeek

we got PETAbytes, relevency isnt an option.

DavidPostill

earliest message "welcome" from programmers.se ;)

Rahul Basu

5:41 PM

?

DavidPostill

@RahulBasu When I signed up.

Rahul Basu

Oh...

When did you sign up?

DavidPostill

Apr 24 '14

Rahul Basu

oh... not that long ago...

DavidPostill

Super User was Jun 22 '14

Rahul Basu

5:56 PM

I've successfully switched to duckduckgo.... which, btw, is pretty damn good

Psycogeek

@RahulBasu arent you going to miss being redirected and delayed , and traced, and . . . nevermind :-)

Rahul Basu

lol, no.

Psycogeek

I am really surprised that there was not a huge public outcry when google changed it to everything being redirected. If it wasnt for the cache , i would have quit using it then.

Rahul Basu

Why did the do it anyways?

Psycogeek

IF people had a fit about it all over the web like they do about the most mundane stuff, google would have thought they should cange it back.

@RahulBasu to control the world , why else .

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

6:01 PM

Meaow.

Someone mentioned me.

Rahul Basu

You can control the world with 302? What has the world come to?

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Last month.

Rahul Basu

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface hey!

Bob

lol

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Oh well.

Bob

6:02 PM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface I actually thought about it a couple hours ago.

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

Hey @Bob, hey @RahulBasu

Bob

Because I rediscovered that the S7 DAC's manufacturer. Then searched chat. And realised you told me about a month ago.

jokerdino

is it May already?

Rahul Basu

ARRRGH... Why did microsoft even create hlp files if their operating systems were never to support it anyways?

Ben N

I remember in Windows 95, the help was actually kind of helpful

Bob

6:03 PM

@RahulBasu hlp was designed in 1990...

Rahul Basu

Then why do apps still ship with it?

Bob

It hasn't been supported for about a decade. And hasn't been recommended for about two decades.

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

@Bob heh, Wolfson?

Bob

@RahulBasu Because you're using shitty apps.

Rahul Basu

@Bob :/

Bob

6:04 PM

@Caterina'Catty'McCatface Yea. Or Cirrus Logic.

Psycogeek

hey ! i use a lot of sh. . . Older apps , it is the new ones that seem to suck most.

Bob

@jokerdino Oh shit. It is.

Psycogeek

@BenN "help was actually kind of helpful" now they have "the Web" for that :-)

"I have tried about 12 video joiner program wich I have found on Google Search. Each of them have on of the following issues: - a virus - an intallation problem - crash
. . ." http://superuser.com/questions/1071628/an-issue-of-merging-multiple-mp4-video Now who was it that said "did you use Google Search First" ;-)

bwDraco

6:28 PM

@bwDraco what are you smoking? This question was asked on April 5th, that question was asked yesterday (BY YOU) so if anything YOUR question is a duplicate of mine, not the other way around (How can I make a duplicate question of a question that didn't exist when mine was asked?). Also, the issues were not exactly the same as yours either, even if the cause was the same. But if you must insist... I guess I'll mark your question as a duplicate of mine, which is the more accurate assumption. — Cestarian 2 hours ago

...and I think I was downvoted in spite.

Well, I stand by my word. The whole point of my question is that it's meant to be canonical.

11

Q: "One question to rule them all" questions on SuperUser

SuperUser is haunted by repeated questions on topics as: Antivirus suggestions Virus/Spyware removing Best practices for troubleshooting common problems Best buy guides for hardware and software In contrast to StackOverflow and ServerFault, SuperUser visitors aren't always as computer savvy o...

discussion exact-duplicates canonical-answer

Psycogeek

in this case all of them would become obsolete wouldn't they?
Or has Nvidea no intention of ever fixing it again?

(even though many people now have no intention of testing another one)

bwDraco

@Cestarian That's not how this site works. We don't purely close duplicates by question age. The more general question tends to be the duplicate target. If a question (or very closely related category of questions) has been asked often enough, largely with the exact same answers, we create what's known as a canonical question to serve as a duplicate close target. See, for example, superuser.com/questions/100360/… — Bob 1 min ago

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

6:45 PM

@Bob Yeah, them guys who bought Wolfson

bwDraco

7:42 PM

We have the cure: http://www.anker.com #BatteryLife https://t.co/bYRPaqbvsu

Tweeted by AnkerOfficial on April 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM

rotfl

Huge fan of Anker.

JABFreeware

11:09 PM

hi @ThatBrazilianGuy

That Brazilian Guy

11:24 PM

Hi @JABFreeware

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco i tend to post a question on meta before I post canonical questions for that reason.

bwDraco

Will bear this in mind for the future.

Very busy, so may be slow to respond to inquiries.

StackExchange

11:41 PM

1

Q: Corrupted graphics, crashes, and noisy GPU fan after updating NVIDIA GeForce drivers to 364.72

I recently updated the drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce video card to version 364.72 and I'm now experiencing issues such as the following: Games or other graphically intensive applications crash or hang I get BSODs that are associated with the graphics driver, e.g. nvlddmkm.sys or dxgkrnl.sys Gra...

drivers bsod nvidia-graphics-card nvidia-geforce community-faq-proposed

bwDraco

Speak of the Devil...

Caterina 'Catty' McCatface

FML

ChatBot John Cavil

11:57 PM

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

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