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Q: ubuntu mate broken after uninstalling python

I'm using ubuntu mate 16.04. while debugging a python program, I found out that somehow I had two different installations of python2.7, so I accidentally uninstalled the version that my OS uses along with some important files. I rebooted and now I'm stuck in xfce, what would be the best way for m...

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2:39 AM

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Q: CIFS VFS warning when transferring between NFS and CIFS

I have a script running on Ubuntu 16 that is used to move text files from an NFS share to a CIFS share. As part of the process the CR/LF translation is undertaken to support consumption by a windows service that accesses the CIFS share. The Ubuntu console logs the following for each transfer: ...

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Nathan Osman

4:46 AM

Samsung - they design their tablets so well that they stop charging when CPU usage reaches 100% because they get too hot. eyeroll

I mean... that's still better than catching fire. But still.

Nathan Osman

5:58 AM

I've been trying all evening to flash LineageOS to a Samsung tablet. :|

I am this close to succeeding.

Seth

@NathanOsman throttle seems like the right choice here.

Nathan Osman

6:20 AM

Managed to get TWRP up and running...

Flashing LineageOS and Open GApps...

Rebooting...

Splash screen is displayed. That's a good sign.

Signed into my Google account...

Nathan Osman

6:51 AM

Good grief.

What the heck is this?

That's copyright infringement.

>:(

How do I report that to Google?

This form looks kinda scary: support.google.com/legal/contact/…

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman bottom left of the page

Link: support.google.com/googleplay/answer/…

Zanna

7:46 AM

@Seth haha sorry!

Amith KK

8:07 AM

@NathanOsman WHAT

Oh they seem to have a bunch of apps they pulled from various open source places with the package name changed (and their ads inserted)

And they didn't even optimize the proguard config right

Zanna

@DavidFoerster LOL (sorry for the delayed reaction)

Amith KK

9:04 AM

What

Zanna

forget databases... all you need is a giant stack of blue disks?

Rinzwind

9:41 AM

https://askubuntu.com/questions/941415/how-to-execute-a-script-from-a-browser/941419#941419

tgat might become a reversal :X

David Foerster

VTC no-repro: askubuntu.com/q/1056372/175814

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Q: Not able to connect to session dbus from systemd service

I have an application which has to communicate with session dbus. If I start my application manually or start using Init.d, it is connecting to session d-bus. But if I start my application through systemd, it is failing to start.

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Q: How to shrink a partition below the minimum size reported by resize2fs?

I want to shrink a 250GB ext4 partition down to 200GB with resize2fs. "df" tool says the partition is about 40% filled up. So I guess I can at least shrink the partition to that level. Yet, when I try to shrink the partition with resize2fs, it fails. it says that the shrunk partition size is "s...

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blade19899

10:00 AM

> "

Put on your tux! It's time to get fancy with our new Linux book bundle from No Starch Press. Get How Linux Works, The Linux Programming Interface, Think Like a Programmer, and lots more. (Penguin suit not actually required.)

" - Humble Book Bundle: Linux Geek by No Starch Press

> $571 worth of digital books - Pay what you want - DRM-free - Multi-format - 4,925 Bundles Sold

David Foerster

@terdon: Can you please review this edit suggestion to your own answer?

Zanna

why do I have no .inputrc?

I assume terdon would get a notification about the suggested edit

but maybe not - like, we don't get notified when users with edit privileges make tiny edits to our posts (I consider this a terrible bug, but I'm sure it's by design)

solsTiCe

10:20 AM

You got me on this one @Zanna. I just answered a 5 yers old question. :-(((

Zanna

why is that bad?

solsTiCe

I answered with some systemd stuff not applicable to 2013. well my be it could be usefull to someone one never know

Zanna

definitely

thanks for answering :)

solsTiCe

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A: Can startup applications be run on the login screen stack without logging in?

User systemd service can run without the user to login. What is your ubuntu version ? Does it run systemd ? So the feature is called lingering and is enabled by running loginctl enable-linger yourusername Then you place your systemd .service file in ~/.config/systemd/user You could make a sh...

Zanna

old questions are important. Every time I talk to people about Ask Ubuntu, they tell me they never need to ask a question because they find the information they need. Writing up-to-date answers to old questions is very valuable work.

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that's a good question too. And TIL about lingering haha

solsTiCe

10:39 AM

:-)

I just installed emoji-keyboard and I can't use it here. Either doe snot work or froze the tab in browser :-(

@Zanna thanks to upvote me but there was no need ;-)

terdon

11:09 AM

@DavidFoerster That's weird. I'm sure I had tested this since there is no way I would know what the keycode is without testing, so presumably it was a ? back then. Now, on my Arch, I got an H as the editor suggested.

Thanks!

@Zanna It isn't created by default. You have /etc/inputrc` instead

blade19899

12:05 PM

Does anyone know how to add Raid1 as mount point to /var/lib/mysql/

Rinzwind

@blade19899 type in /var/lib/mysql in the Mount Point field :=)

Zanna

2:41 PM

@terdon oh I see :) Thanks!

RobotHumans

3:34 PM

To chime in with @Zanna on the old questions are important part - it's a frequent complaint I hear from new users trying to boost their rep. That there are no unasked good questions, so people that were here in the first 2 years are automatically 20k+ rep and new people have a harder time getting started. So, yes. Old questions are important.

@solsTiCe ^^

Rinzwind

4:55 PM

@RobotHumans I am living proof that aint true :=D

what a users needs to do is get into a flow of 200 rep a day: get to 200 rep a day and then keep up with answering such you can guess you will reach 200 rep that day.

RobotHumans

5:27 PM

@Rinzwind I didn't say it was true, just that the complaint speaks to the fact that a LOT of good questions are still relevant even though they're old.

I have a few answers that continue to pay dividends. My top 3 answers are all from 2012 or so.

Seth

whoa they're streaming AWS launchpad on twitch

this is awesome. more cons should do this

Rinzwind

6:02 PM

@RobotHumans I am getting on 928 with one from 2014 :-D almost 1000 <3

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6:57 PM

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Q: Installation: which swap partition to use to install ArchLinux on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop (without USB)?

I'm following this guide, which advises to run the following command: swapoff /dev/sdaX . I want to make sure I don't overwrite the wrong swap partition (please forgive any wrong terminology; I don't know what I'm doing). So basically, my question is: ==========================================...

ubuntu arch-linux

Byte Commander

7:18 PM

Ooof, Discord outage...

Seth

so there is

Byte Commander

7:36 PM

status.discordapp.com It's dead, Jim

Apparently Google Cloud Platform is responsible

Seth

it's back

Byte Commander

7:53 PM

Saw it

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8:36 PM

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Q: Get and use server ip address on bash

First of all i am sorry if this is a noob question because i don't do sysadmin much and pretty new to this. I have this bash file that perfectly runs fine on each system i deploy but it needs to have server ip put in the command so it would work and i do enter it manually on each server but i was...

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TheWanderer

9:03 PM

@NathanOsman i needs halp

Seth

yes you do ;p

TheWanderer

oh

ok

@Seth how much NodeJS do you know?

Seth

@TheWanderer None, really. I try not to use javascript as a backend if I can help it.

TheWanderer

do you know PHP?

Seth

a little

TheWanderer

9:06 PM

do you know enough to help me set something up that reads all the files in a certain path and adds elements to some HTML?

RobotHumans

Node - grr. I had to use it some, and the extent of the php I worked with was simply javascript with promises inside php

Seth

@TheWanderer Not off the top of my head. Doesn't sound too hard to figure out.

TheWanderer

alright

Seth

Although it is PHP so maybe that is a case of famous last words.

TheWanderer

this is true

I need to actually get it set up first

Seth

9:07 PM

However I'm running out here in just a second.

TheWanderer

I'll do some Googling

Seth

Make a room if you want with all the details then you can point people to it

Byte Commander

Use Python

Django or Flask come to mind

TheWanderer

Python?

RobotHumans

You only need these two things to get it working: teamtreehouse.com/community/… and php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

Seth

9:08 PM

@ByteCommander The right answer, as always.

Byte Commander

Always use Python

RobotHumans

I prefer the reactjs/sanic/nginx stack

TheWanderer

how do I use Python?

Byte Commander

especially when the other options are PHP or Node

TheWanderer

guys, I just want to read a damn directory

RobotHumans

9:09 PM

So, backend is python. UI is client side.

Seth

@RobotHumans +1 for scandir. That looks good.

RobotHumans

@TheWanderer see the two links

TheWanderer

what is the easiest way to do that and append the contents to HTML?

Byte Commander

Can't browsers show folders by default?

Seth

@TheWanderer and you picked PHP. I wasn't going to say anything but since Byte brought it up :P

TheWanderer

9:09 PM

not client-side

@Seth idk what's available

I was using JS because I can't remember PHP syntax for more than 3 days

Seth

@TheWanderer technically you could use anything you want.

Byte Commander

Seth

e.g. for python flask is pretty easy to setup (as Byte said). Go would be 1 binary. C# is possible. Java is possible. (although both waaay over the top)

Fabby

Close Votes needed. OP trying to contact users here privately

Seth

The one benefit PHP might have is that you could put most of your logic inside your HTML file

RobotHumans

9:14 PM

Depending on the way you set it up, you can do that in flask/django/sanic also. You just use jinja templates and code escapes.

Fabby

Thanks!

RobotHumans

Someone needs to make an account apertif. That way, when dessert votes to close, apertif can come in right after.

dessert

nice idea

Fabby

Apéritif...

Sounds like a good user name!

RobotHumans

I was just imagining how funny it would be to have a list of close voters, appetizer, soup and salad, main, dessert, aperitif. I think I'ld pee a little if I saw that.

Fabby

9:25 PM

I should change both my user name and my avatar like @TheWanderer and then look hof long it takes people to recognize me again...

RobotHumans

Didn't you used to be flabricorn?

Fabby

10:06 PM

Delete votes needed

dessert

@Fabby how in the world…? oO

Fabby

@RobotHumans I used to be dnʞɔɐq ˙ɹW

@dessert Spammer testing out the waters?

Drunk?

Bored?

Just a kid playing a prank?

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Q: Mount one hard drive from Raid1

I'm trying to mount a single hard drive from a NAS Raid System. Although I found many solutions e.g. this one from synology, I was not successful so far. Here some commands and outputs which I think are necessary to show: >:sudo fdisk -l "[here are some loop0 - loop5]" Gerät Boot Anfang ...

ubuntu raid mdadm

Fabby

Who cares? It's gone

And I'm gone too!

Good night

TheWanderer

10:28 PM

wow, Java

even PHP has overloads

get with the times

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Q: need some help on tmux command

I want to login to multiple servers using tmux with a single line command. But I could find any exact method to do so. But what iam looking for is to run like tmux IP1 IP2 IP3 IP4 IP5 etc.. I have gone through several tutorials but i couldn't find anything. Need some urgent help.

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