it's a basic question, but -3 is very low by U&L standards
This one, on the other hand…
no, I did not install any particular thing. My friend also had such problems connecting from his machine, but he could finally manage to establish an ssh connection to the server. I have this problem since "port knocking" has been applied by the company. — Saman1 min ago
so he has SSH troubles since port knocking was added, and he didn't think of mentioning that in his question‽
@Gilles That downvoting does seem rather aggressive. And the question is perfectly coherent, albeit elementary.
@Gilles I don't think I had previously registered that a filesystem is allocated a fixed number of inodes. ext4, at any rate. What happens if they run out?
@Gilles I found the question was poorly worded and too verbose. Because of some of the content and OPs reaction to other commentors on the post I did not feel that an outright improving edit would be received gracefully. I commented (and tried to keep it constructive) and voted down (I retracted that after the OP edited the post to fix most of the issues I had with it). The other one was closed before I did see it.
@Kryptonous If you think the solution is interesting, you could post a question and then self-answer it. Though I'm no judge whether shell questions are intereresting.
@FaheemMitha V="$1"; echo "< ${V%-} > and < ${V#-} >" would work. But the only interesting part is that (AFAIK) it's not possible to perform substitutions on numbered arguments
Suddenly, a message saying "A problem in the kernel package has been detected" started appearing after I login upon boot. A new message is shown every second, incessantly.
I haven't updated the kernel in the last 12 days (3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64). I have installed 5 new packages today: subversi...
I think it is good to have the linux tag for posts that are linux-specific. That is, the linux tag should be used when the answer applies to linux but not other unices such as Solaris.
Damn, sorry about the triple ping.
This whole site is about Linux and Unix. >70% of all questions are about Linux (closer to 90%, really), so adding the tag makes little sense unless the question is specifically about Linux and is not applicable to any other *nix.
Usually, the tag is used for things like kernel development or Linux history/standards.
Same goes for the distro-specific tags. The fact that the OP is using distroX is no reason to tag with distro-x. That should be used only of the question is specific to that distro and wouldn't be relevant to any other.
@roaima You're not supposed to defer, you're supposed to be convinced! :)
That's the community's take on these, by the way, not my own. I just happen to agree with it.
@roaima Oh. OK, in that case, you'll have to defer :P
The Linux tag is almost never appropriate, really. Only very rarely. We kinda know your question is about Linux (or, sometimes Unix) else you wouldn't be posting here in the first place.
The underlying issue may be with the hardware, but hibernation goes through the OS, so it's a combination of the Linux kernel and some userland power management layer.
It's unlikely to act like that in Windows because otherwise the machine wouldn't have passed Windows Compatible (or whatever it's called) so wouldn't be selling. But it is possible, I suppose.
@terdon Kernel development is off-topic. Kernel configuration is on-topic and specific to Linux. So are many other topics, such as just about anything that has to do with hardware other than via X, many storage topics (mounting, LVM, RAID, …), namespaces, networking setup, etc.
We do have a lot of questions that abuse linux and distribution tags. Please edit them away. This isn't one however.
I admit that ubuntu and linux are becoming red flags for me, they are being used way too much, but I won't argue the point. If both you and @roaima feel it should be tagged as linux, go for it.
> My question is: will booting in recovery mode use a default keyboard layout, so that in the event I mess up my xkb settings again I can just fix them?
Are you saying that different distros will behave differently at that level? He'd still be logging in as root so, presumably, his settings will be ignored.
@Gilles The question mentions the OP is running Ubuntu, I don't see why the tag is needed. I'm sure I may have removed some tags wrongly since any Q tagged with ubuntu is posted in the AU chat room and I tend to see them and remove them.
Some mistakes are bound to get through. I don't really think that's one of them though.
Suddenly, a message saying "A problem in the kernel package has been detected" started appearing after I login upon boot. A new message is shown every second, incessantly.
I haven't updated the kernel in the last 12 days (3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64). I have installed 5 new packages today: subversi...
I think it is good to have the linux tag for posts that are linux-specific. That is, the linux tag should be used when the answer applies to linux but not other unices such as Solaris.
