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3:40 AM

$ blender
X server found. dri2 connection failed!
DRM_IOCTL_I915_GEM_APERTURE failed: No such file or directory
Assuming 131072kB available aperture size.
May lead to reduced performance or incorrect rendering.
get chip id failed: -1 [13]
param: 4, val: 0
mesa: CommandLine Error: Option 'enable-value-profiling' registered more than once!
LLVM ERROR: inconsistency in registered CommandLine options

Weirdest error I've seen in a while.

I hardly know where to begin in debugging that.

I'm so buying an Nvidia card next time around.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: SSH prompt for password on Ubuntu 18.04, but password unknown because it was never set

I have been having a perplexing problem when I have been trying to use the SSH protocol to login in to a remote host. Here is an image of my problem: I am perplexed because no matter what password I put in (I would assume it would be my normal root password or something like that) I can not g...

ubuntu ssh command-line windows remote

4:11 AM

Hmm... maybe it's because I'm using Wayland...

4:39 AM

I thought wayland was gutted - like removed from mainline. I can't find the story right now, but I could swear I read it.

4:54 AM

Fedora ships with it on by default.

(Yes, you read that right. I'm running Fedora now.)

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6:27 AM

@NathanOsman That's an easy one. You have more than one vendor's .icd.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:43 AM

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Q: definning scheduled jobs with cron

The output of crontab -l and crontab are different. root@ce:~# crontab -l 0-59 * * * * curl http://ce.scu.ac.ir/courses/admin/cron.php?password=mypass * * * * * ntpdate –s ir.pool.ntp.org * * * * * php /var/www/html/shub/ow_cron/run.php root@ce:~# cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/...

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7:46 AM

I have a trivial question, what does OP means?(on forums like this)

7:58 AM

@PavelSayekat original poster

@PavelSayekat usually that’s the questioner

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Q: I saw something in chat I don't understand

What are some of the common chat items? I want to understand what people who are more familiar with other chat clients are trying to say to me.

discussion chat

I found this meta question very helpful more than once… ;)

8:34 AM

@dessert aha, tyvm

@PavelSayekat you’re welcome (no, I won’t abbreviate that) :)

8:52 AM

hahaha

9:37 AM

eh ->

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Q: 강남오피걸 강남유흥≒ 【사이트www≡┠jj┨bbu.com】 강남휴게텔ꉺ 강남건마ᐷ 강남op 강남오피 강남스파 강남kissᐵ 제이제이 강남오피ꅷ 강남안마

If you are trying to install Ubuntu If you have a dual boot system If an update or something else caused your problem

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:01 AM

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Q: Ubuntu 18.04 taking too long to boot

Clear Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (not the live one) install (shell only). Software RAID 1 has been configured during the installation (swap and ext4 partitions). Boot up (time before login query) takes about 1min 30 seconds, which seems too long. I'm far from Linux-savvy person, so I'm kind of at ...

10:17 AM

argh

seriously why do people want to close everything as a dupe >____<

It only has a single close vote.

sure. I'm not talking about everyone :) It definitely had 2 close votes earlier. But what's bothering me now is OP being pushed to edit their question (to show it's not a dupe)

… and actually changes the question by doing that.

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10:32 AM

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Q: md5 sum (fdupes) vs sha256sum - why different results - ubuntu server

I have a directory structure that I know contains a LOT of duplicate files. (the dir tree has 67K files with around 8K duplicates). Naturally, the duplicates are all same size in bytes and the same content but filenames are all completely different. When using fdupes /dir/path -rm I get only 125 ...

ubuntu hashsum fdupes

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Q: How to deal with 404 error questions? (repository/installation related)

As 18.04 is relatively new, not all repositories (including PPAs) are releasing their packages for Bionic. Still, there are constantly questions regarding 404 error while trying to install package(s) from PPAs. In short, I want to discuss: What to do with questions regarding 404 error on reposit...

discussion new-users

@dessert exactly >_<

11:09 AM

Heh, posted a perl one liner.

:)

I don't understand this comment... before I ask dumb questions, does anyone else understand it...?

There should be if the OP can't wait for some reason. I experienced that I almost break my system because of that way of package installation. Probably, flagging that kind of question (as a duplicate) works, but it will take a lot of time to collate data of which installations are success and which aren't. — Aryo Adhi 13 mins ago

11:37 AM

Trying to convince my manager(non tech guy) to push our servers to full compliance with PCI DSS requirements, HIPAA guidance and NIST guidelines, but I cant seem to write a non technical indepth explanation on why to upgrade our server to that area. Anybody got a simple way of explaning that?

My personal server is in compliance with PCI DSS requirements, HIPAA guidance and NIST guidelines: SSLScan of eurobytes.nl :D

12:11 PM

@Zanna ~~is it~~ would you rather say “a -ls option” or “an -ls option”?

I have an interview tomorrow thru webex

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Q: To run webex - firefox error

After following the steps mentioned here, I see below errors after launching 32 bit firefox. /opt/webex/jre/bin$ file java java: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, BuildID[sha1]=c5e580c49759f72b674a6b...

16.04 firefox gtk webex

Trying to resolve these errors

@dessert I prefer "an". I am not even sure what is correct in writing. In speaking, if the next sound is a vowel sound, folk will say "an", like "an LTS release", and if the next sound is a consonant sound, folk will say "a", like "a UFO". The reason for "an" is euphony. I usually write what is spoken in this regard. But I assume it is acceptable to write "a LTS release" "an UFO". Maybe we should ask ELU ^_^

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A: When should I use "a" vs "an"?

There is a bizarre urban legend of sorts that you're "supposed to" use "an" if the head noun in the noun phrase it determines begins with a vowel sound, rather than the first word in the noun phrase, giving rise to claims that "an green apple" is somehow "technically" correct. Here is a blog post...

12:30 PM

@Zanna so you pronounce the characters one after one instead of speaking them as a word (/ləz/, /lɪz/ or something like that)?

@Zanna thanks btw! :)

12:55 PM

@dessert sorry, switched devices... yeah I say /'el'es/, I guess because it would be really awkward and sound like somebody's name if pronounced as a word. But I prnounce mv /mu:v/ haha and I call the - for options "minus" so ls -l in my head is /'el'es'maɪnəs'el/ XD

@Zanna Really? Huh, I always thought of it as em-vee

yeah, that makes way more sense

I think it's just me

I don't think calling that hyphen "minus" is at all sane or helpful either

I do the same

@Zanna I do the same

Probably because in German, "hyphen" would be "Bindestrich", which is waaaaay too long. Minus simply stays minus.

1:02 PM

haha el es Binestrich el XD

*d

How do you guys “speak” rm?

arr em

/'rəm/

~~like a pirate~~

1:04 PM

/'a:'rem/

@ByteCommander lol

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Wake on Lan

How to configure Wake on Lan on Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS? My /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: eno1: wakeonlan: true dhcp4: no dhcp6: no addresses: [192.168.0.15/24] gateway4: 192.168.0.1 nameservers: addresse...

ubuntu networking

@dessert makes sense. But in English sounds like a child's impression of a car

Wow, one could easily write a paper about that, especially how the mother tongue affects it. You usually only see command lines written, so there’s no “bad” influence – that’s a wonderful topic!

haha yeah!

@Zanna in German too, especially if iterated

1:08 PM

haha yeah

talking about iteration…

;)

wow I'm a social disaster

@Zanna Ah, that seems relatively common, actually. I think there was a U&L post on that

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Q: Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?

A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk on Git by someone who seemed to be from a Windows background. I say "seemed to be" because he kept saying "dash" when referring to command-line options. I then recalled something that I found curious in my early days of learning Linux; that is, when refer...

I say minus too. As in "el ess minus el"

isn’t dash rather – (endash) or — (emdash) as opposed to hyphen/minus -?

Yes. Hence people calling it minus and not dash.

1:15 PM

oh, yeah – I should read answers.

@terdon that is interesting... can't think of anyone I heard saying it or reading it anywhere. I think it just sort of looked like a minus to me

oh, the + argument is quite good: xterm +hold vs. xterm -hold – plus vs. ~~hyphen~~ minus

set -x / set +x

although set -x in my head means "add some stuff" so I have to remember it's the opposite of what it "sounds" like

-x is the "normal" option, which enables things. +x is inverted and disables.

I always confuse them as well, I like --something, -s and --no-something more.

1:55 PM

@terdon "min teken" :=)

From the link in the link: % grapes. wtf?

@Rinzwind ???

@terdon commennt in that topic points to blog.codinghorror.com/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers

2:10 PM

@Rinzwind that’s actually quite good, I think I’ll use that from now on :>

@Rinzwind Aaaah

funny German words there: @ strudel and & pretzel

@dessert - thanks for the tip of the hat there. right when I posted it, there was some discussion as to whether or not it was a valid community wiki style list question.

related to that meta with terms

2:35 PM

@RobotHumans it was? well, you can imagine as a linguistist I value lingo

2:59 PM

@dessert Klammeraffe

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4:51 PM

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Q: Failing to run Webex in Firefox

After following the steps mentioned here, I see below errors after launching script(/opt/webex/firefox.sh). $ /opt/webex/firefox.sh Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-modu...

16.04 firefox gtk webex

I have an interview tomorrow thru webex

So I've installed FFMPG via dpkg -i ffmpeg.deb

and need to install the dependencies using apt-get -f install

but instead of installing the dependencies

apt-get wants to remove ffmpeg

how can I fix this? :l

hey @Takkat ....can you help me out? I am not able to set up a default input device on my Ubuntu 16.04

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Q: Default mic not recognized from a python harness. What can I do to fix it?

I'm making a speech recognition code in python and I get an error saying "no default input device". On a forum it was suggested that I re-install all my audio drivers. But I don't know how to do that. So, how do I re-install all my audio drivers? PS- My mic works well with applications like Aud...

16.04 drivers sound

refer to this question pls....I have put screenshots of the pavucontrol as well

@AmagicalFishy Why? It’s in the repos, just do sudo apt install ffmpeg.

@dessert I'm working from a docker container and in my case it is not in the repos

@AmagicalFishy if you want to install a .deb file including the dependencies, rather use apt instead of dpkg: sudo apt install /absolute/path/to/package.deb

5:05 PM

although, maybe this is a better way to go about it: which repo is it? i'll just add the repo to souces.list from within the Dockerfile

@AmagicalFishy universe

excellent, lemme try that (tyty)

5:25 PM

@dessert That worked! thank you. i've been dealing w/ trying to get ffmpeg onto docker foreeeeeeever

@RishiC sorry I am of little help when it comes to sound inputs - I usually don't have a mic attached to my boxes and if I do it just works after been plugged in the mic input jack.

5:51 PM

"The low cost is achieved by cutting out the middleman. We buy directly from the manufacturer and sell directly to you" err, think about that for a moment..

yeah making them... a middleman

"the middleman" should be "some middlemen"

6:12 PM

@AmagicalFishy you’re welcome, now that was an easy one. ;)

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6:36 PM

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Q: How to lodge disagreement with certain Review Test fails?

In Review, I usually pass the tests when they occur. The most common cause of failing is that I add a comment to a first-timer's question asking for clarification about what their goal was, or some such. So then after the fail, there is no way to lodge my disagreement with the test. Why d...

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9:17 PM

@Zanna Really? That's impressive! :D

10:54 PM

Anybody hungry for some tasty, tasty SPAM?

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