Since a few days or weeks ago, when I am editing a post and somebody else submits an edit (directly, no review needed), I see a banner above my editor:
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(it's probably not literally that, forgive me not remembering the text correctly)
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No, arguments and stdin are completely different things. Both are ways to give the command information, but each command has its own way to handle each. They are normally not interchangeable. @Sinoosh
stdin is like keyboard input once the process is running.
But arguments get passed to the command directly while it starts.
Normally arguments are used for setting options on and off or passing static information or filenames, while stdin is used to receive data (often only if no file is specified via arguments)
@Sinoosh it's important to understand how arguments are expected by a command. If you want a command to work on a list of files piped to it as arguments, the filenames must be split into arguments, not just one long string which includes spaces.
All links in the HTTPS Ask Ubuntu, except for the navbar, are HTTP. Even if I specifically open https://askubuntu.com, navigating anywhere returns me to HTTP. Neither do I want it, nor it is an expected behavior for HTTPS site. And since it's supported why is HTTP even active anyway? Everything s...
@Sinoosh Kind of. The basic thing you need to understand is that commands like ls don't return files. They return a simple stream of text. That text happens to be the names of files, but a "file" is a specific object for the file system. While you, a human, can understand that foo.txt is actually a file when reading the output of ls, the computer has no way of doing that. All the computer sees is the characters f,o,o,.,t,x,t
I've been studying about the command line and learned that | (pipeline) is meant to redirect the output from a command to the input of another one.
So why does the command ls | file doesn't work?
file input is one of more filenames, like file filename1 filename2
ls output is a list of directori...
@terdon wow i got it, i should say thank you to everybody answers our questions, i live in a country and have a strange situation.only i can self study and use this website for learning.
Okay, I am out of ideas. There was a power failure during an upgrade, and now the system boots to the terminal, tty1, and the GUI does not load automatically. I have lightdm as my login manager. I can login and use startx to make Cinnamon load, but networking is still shot. I can not get lightdm ...
I just installed Elementary OS and almost everything is working great.
The only problem is that the touchpad isn't working. I can not move the cursor with the touchpad. But if I use a mouse it is working fine.
Results when I run xinput:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [mast...
Am I wrong about this? askubuntu.com/questions/831549/… It is a bug but OP wants a work around, not a fix. I am sure these still get closed though, right?
@MarkKirby Personally, I would leave it open. The OP has already reported the bug, there's no benefit in closing it and directing them to launchpad, they've been there. If the community does end up closing it, please let me know and I'll pass it over to U&L.
@MarkKirby Note that this is just my personal take though. I find we're a bit too excessive with the whole "close bugs" things. You might want to ask another mod as well.
I know we don't fix bugs but to me it seems quite resalable to ask for a work around while the bug is fixed, I might ask what people think about it in meta later.
I recently came across this question How to workaround "update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!"? and at a first glance I assumed it was off-topic because it would serve better as a bug report on Launchpad, however when I read it through more properly I found that the person...
I get why it is important to report the bugs but I also think it would be good for us to have fixes (even if it is just dist-upgrade) or work arounds in the meantime.
I am lucky too, Ubuntu runs almost perfect OoTB on my PC. @terdon If enough of us vote for that question, will it make a difference? What does it take to change a policy?
@MarkKirby if I see a bug on AU and find a bug report I will post the bug number as a comment and if there is a fix/workaround/something in the bug report that can help Ill post that as an answer. But we can't answer bugs that have not been fixed ... those should be closed.
@terdon depends. if there is no fix (yet) for that bug are we suppose to hack into the system to reproduce the bug and then try to find a fix? That would make us do the same thing as the bugtracker peepz do. Yes if there is a fix we can post is as an answer. If there is none ... I doubt we can answer it
@MarkKirby IF there is an answer for it I would post an answer. If there is not we can't answer it.
Getting an upvote checkmark trumps closing ;-) But if we can't get the upvote checkmark ... closing trumps the question.
@Rinzwind Then we can leave it unanswered. But what if we can fix it? Or at least provide a workaround? I just don't see any benefit in blindly closing bugs.
@MarkKirby Yes, it should. Policy changes if there's a clear consensus on meta.
If it was my error.... I'd search google for the binairy, and the lib. It might reveal it is obsolete. Or installing `libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd` might fix it.
Am I wrong about this? http://askubuntu.com/questions/831549/bug-359861-kdeinit-could-not-launch-ksystraycmd?noredirect=1#comment1267430_831549 It is a bug but OP wants a work around, not a fix. I am sure these still get closed though, right?
You know, there is some confusion about the bug reports thing getting closed in the site. From what I understand, people were at some point of time asking "questions" which they know were bugs. They wanted to use AU as a bug tracker of sorts.
After doing some investigation on issues brought up doing these questions I've found something that I'm embarrassed that we have let get out of control, see these questions for some background.
What are Ask Ubuntu's current problems, if any, as of early 2012?
Do we need a linked report to close...
So far the general method has been to comment on the question informing everyone this is a known bug then close the question as off-topic if you know the bug report that the person is asking about.
This site isn't designed to handle bugs - Launchpad, or the respective software's bug tracker is, ...
Jorge Castro recently commented on one of my questions that it should be filed as a bug instead. And I've seen here that the general view is that questions about bugs should be considered off-topic here and handled on Launchpad instead.
My question is whether that stance should be modified somew...
The Question: How does a novice distinguish a bug report from a question?
I approach this as a highly relevant practical question, since it will determine the venue of a pending query I have, but I would rather have this clarified for others as well.
That's the skinny. The rest is just justifi...
Inspired by this question
Would creating a Q&A question to cover specific 14.04 sound issues be okay here?
we may want to better define which bug reports merit being a close reason for a question as off topic. We should not close questions as bug report only because a similar report exists on...
Background: Just recently my Ubuntu Software Center stopped working, and after a considerable amount of searching, I found the answer here. I thought that this is very good knowledge, so I'm considering posting it here Q&A, except that I know that this site has a strict policy about bug-related p...
@jokerdino Hmmm That was a hotly debated topic back than, explains why the policy is enforced the way it is. The the site and community is a lot more mature though now, I think, perhaps it is time to open debate on how hard we should enforce this.
According to Ability to close a question as a bug report, its speculated that closing as a bug better serves the community's users.
I'm finding the exact opposite in practice. That is, the bug reporting and triaging sucks for getting help, and the best help is provided the Ask Ubuntu community. ...
It has an answer and the answer points to a user configuration problem. This is likely not a bug. How to tell if it's a bug in the future? If comments suggest it's a duplicate of a Launchpad bug, if the expected default behavior isn't working (and it's likely not a configuration issue), or it jus...
OK, that should be most of the discussions that will be relevant when bringing it up again.
I just found this in the review queue: Does it matter that wlan0 has changed its name to eth1 after I upgraded to 12.04? It has a couple of votes to close as off-topic, I assume because somebody posted a link to this bug report and they thought:
I can see the word Launchpad on the page!
It ...
> Well over 90% of all our questions here are in some way related to a bug of some sort. A design flaw, missing drivers, PEBCAK-through-poor-design-or-documentation. If we followed this and closed everything that fell into the gaping chasm of suspected bugs, we'd have twelve questions left and half as many users.
@Rinzwind thanks, I will take that tip, I am rubbish at finding dupes and need practice... I think it was unclear because we didn't know their hardware, so hard to dupe accurately
"... During the hundreds of years of stalemate above the planet Trenzalore, where the Doctor refused to give his name lest he unleash the full horrors of a renewed Time War on the universe, the Papal Mainframe became known as the Church of the Silence, making the Doctor's continued silence its primary mission."
so... that's when they became enemies probably? :P
So they were friendly until the church of the Papal Mainframe converted into the church of silence, ordering the Silence aliens to shut the Doctor, travelling back to his past?
"Their first attempt to stop the Doctor's arrival there is revealed to be the destruction of his TARDIS in Series 5. Ironically, this action leads to the appearance of the cracks in the universe which brought the Church to Trenzalore in the first place. When the stalemate ends and Trenzalore is plunged into battle, the remaining Silence (who are loyal to the Papal Mainframe) fight alongside the Doctor to protect the planet's inhabitants from invading Daleks."
At an unknown point in time, the Weeping Angels travelled to Trenzalore along with many other races in response to a mysterious message broadcast through time and space. Unlike the other species, they managed to make it onto the planet, where they were discovered by the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald. The Weeping Angels surrounded them, but the Doctor summoned the TARDIS to them and they escaped.
I had Windows 10 dual booted with Ubuntu, so I deleted a partition which I was sure Ubuntu was on from Disk Management. I then extended the Windows 10 Partition to fill in the space that the old partition took up. Now when I boot up my laptop, it goes to grub. I can still get to Windows 10, it ju...
Hi I wanted to install a package via cpan, but I get the following error:
cpan[1]> install Log::Log4perl
Reading '/home/paulzierep/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:29:02 GMT
Running install for module 'Log::Log4perl'
Checksum for /home/paulzierep/.cpan/sources/author...
During the later Siege of Trenzalore, a Weeping Angel tried to invade the town but was trapped by the Doctor using a mirror on which he wrote "with love from the Doctor!". The remaining Angels eventually retreated, as with all the invaders except the Daleks. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Capaldi really grew on me by the end, I look forward to the Christmas special now, Matt Smith was unbeatable though IMO. He is funny but it is a big contrast to the 11th doctor.
I think when he gets his own companion next year he will hit his stride.
@jokerdino in any case, it helped a lot, I feel like I understand why folks feel it's important to have this close reason and the points of contention around it to some degree
This command on ubuntu is giving no such file or directory error:
/# mv mongodb-linux-x86_64-$VERSION mongodb
mv: cannot stat 'mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.6.7': No such file or directory
even though both file and directory exist.
Any idea why? Thanks
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/# ls mongodb-linux-x86_64-* mongodb
mo...