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[ Natty | Sentinel ] dual-boot No GRUB after installing Ubuntu beside windows 10 By: Jith 4.5;

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OT 15.10

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound Ubuntu root sound problem By: Android Team 4.0;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: how Nitro Pump 250 is effective? by megsanarchy on askubuntu.com

@Zanna one of them is me, four of them are inactive, one is rarely active, and the other is the suggester of several of the edits...

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword in username, blacklisted website in body, +5 more: healthsupplementzone.com/activguard/ by Activguard on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot /dev/sda1: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found By: Orvar Lyckholm 4.5;

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OT Debian

Unclear

[ Natty | Sentinel ] windows-7 Xrdp login failed By: m4nu85 4.0;

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The OP of this question has not provided the information necessary to answer it. I hope they do, but I recommend closing it as unclear (one more vote needed). The most recent answer, while I do not think it qualifies for flagging or deletion, doesn't address the information about how an echo "TEST" command they add to .bashrc actually runs, which is understandable, as the OP hasn't added that or clarified when it happens.

I have already voted to close that question as unclear... has the review been completed I wonder...

no it has not...

I mention that answer to make the point that the usual bad effects of keeping unclear questions open seem to be happening there. No review/moderation action is required on the answer itself.

the review

yes, keeping bad questions open causes bad answers to proliferate :(

yes, I downvoted the new answer

Well, sometimes we should keep bad questions open because they don't qualify to be closed. Also, sometimes a question really is clear enough for a good answer to be posted that solves the problem, even if it is not ideally clear. But in this case, I don't think either of those pertains. It's just unclear.

@Zanna That review tells me, "This item is not reviewable."

But the timeline doesn't show it, so it has neither been completed nor invalidated, so it's still active.

Only because you have already voted I think. It's the same for me. I just thought you might be curious about how the review was going - had anyone voted Close/Leave Open via the queue

@EliahKagan yes, right, sorry for being unclear

(first I check the timeline to see if the review has completed. If I can't find it there, I look in the close votes history page)

[ Natty | Sentinel ] gnome System Settings won't open on Ubuntu 17.10 By: Oleg Kolmak 5.0;

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@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1024590/22949

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; No Code Block; Low Rep; 2.5;

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1024612/22949

@EliahKagan Post already registered as True Positive

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL-only title, bad NS for domain in body, bad NS for domain in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, +5 more: foreverhealthy786.com/vitax-extreme-fat-burn/ by clelandb on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] suspend Black screen after Hibernation By: Emmanuel Brandt 4.0;

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Should this question be marked as a duplicate of the older question by OP (see my comments below the question) or (more preferably) the other way around?

Unclear

@pomsky Why do you think the newer one is better? Because of the picture?

OT

Can this question have a better title?

It's possible to interpret that question as asking how to find out what options GCC supports so the can interpret their meaning in order to compile their code with a different compiler in the same way. That's the reverse of what I'm now almost completely sure they are asking, though (and I've deleted my answer that was based on what I'm pretty sure was my earlier total misreading).

what are they asking?

@EliahKagan No, in the new one they provided the exact model number ("hp laptop" vs "HP laptop-15-bs0xx").

@pomsky Ah, okay. Either way is probably fine but I agree. I've voted to close that one as a duplicate.

@Zanna They want to know what options are passed to gcc to produce the binaries provided in the libc6 package.

OT

@EliahKagan To an extent it's an XY problem; besides not having been clear about their actual goal, libc6 is also not produced by a single invocation of gcc, nor are all the commands to build it gcc commands! I might support closing it as unclear, but not without commenting to ask them for more information... and I don't really know how best to ask.

@pomsky Closed.

unclear?

Probably, but I'll wait a bit in case this is obvious to somebody. My guess is that, if you think it's unclear, then it probably is -- the main reason I haven't voted to close it is that I use Lubuntu (and, far less recently, Ubuntu Mate) so I'm not sure if perhaps that really is referring to some one thing in "vanilla" Ubuntu. So if you're familiar with the lock screen in multiple versions of regular Ubuntu and it's not clear to you then it's probably not clear.

I commented. If you (or anyone) can write a better comment than mine then I'll remove mine.

They reworded. I'm still not sure it's clear -- and I still suspect it is not clear -- but it's definitely better. I've removed my comment.

Ah, I see. You have commented. Excellent.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] package-management How to install an application that depends on libqca2-plugin-ossl which has been replaced by libqca2-plugins By: Alessandro Turano 6.5;

@EliahKagan It seems OP wants login screen from LightDM instead of GDM.

Can you just post an answer? It looks from the question, as it stands now, and your comment, that it can just be answered.

@EliahKagan I asked dobey.

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. Do subsequent releases have an/etc/rc.d directory? I think this answer is specific to Red Hat based distros (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, etc.).

@pomsky Ok.

@EliahKagan I'm pretty sure that answer is NAA, but I don't want to flag or vote to delete until someone using 17.10 (or 18.04) checks to make sure this isn't some weird change that I am totally unfamiliar with. RHEL having that directory and Debian and Ubuntu never having it accords with my memory but the Ubuntu, it is a-changing, so I want to be sure.

(But only before actually flagging or voting to delete. I've commented.)

The answer's author has commented to confirm. In cases where an answer is relevant to Ubuntu even though is more relevant to another OS, or even where an answer only differs from other answers by including information about other OSes as well as Ubuntu, I think it's potentially valuable and generally oppose deletion.

...In this case, however, it is only relevant to other OSes and it is, consequently, not an answer to the question that was actually asked, which was about rc.local in Ubuntu. So I've flagged it NAA and voted to delete. (I wouldn't report it to Natty, though, because -- as with many posts that are NAA because they completely misinterpret the question or otherwise answer a different question instead -- posts that look like it are probably not more likely to be judged NAA than other posts.)

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1024653/22949

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; No Code Block; One Line only; Low Rep; 3.0;

Instead of this edit, I think they should post their own answer.

OT irreproducible OP hasn't signed on to this site in >5 years

No improvement ("for projects developed using Git" is misleading at best)

@karel Yeah, we should close that. I already VTC'd, a couple days ago. (It needs one more.)

This edit adding pointless dashes to tar options needs a second rejection.

@Zanna Do you happen to recall why this answer was NAA? (I'm asking because you were one of the delete voters.) I think we might actually want to flag it for undeletion. I suspect that its author saw exactly the same messages the OP did.

Contrary to the comment (not by you), it's not reasonable to infer much of anything about what triggers a bug that manifests as an uncaught StopIteration. Furthermore, while the OP's own solution doesn't support that answer, it doesn't suggest it's wrong either.

If you don't recall, it's no problem -- I can ask David Foerster. He's not pingable here or in AUGR right now, though. (I can also ask Thomas Ward, of course, but I suspect his delete vote was based in substantial part on flags received.)

@Zanna (unrelated) I think we can close that question as a duplicate.

@EliahKagan Rejected.

Thanks.

@EliahKagan closed

[ Natty | Sentinel ] images How to convert .jpg or .png image to .raw By: user818086 4.5;

Isn't this just a comment?

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] images Batch Processing tif images? Converting .tif to .jpeg By: user818086 4.0;

Oh, they're a spammer.

@Natty tp

That one can be flagged as spam too.

@BhargavRao Am I right to reply tp when a post Natty detected as possibly NAA turns out to be spam?

Yep

Btw, I feel silly to say this but I still haven't gotten around to making an MS account and asking for Smokey privileges. Can someone who can report posts to SmokeDetector look at those two answers and (if not disagreeing with me) report them?

@pomsky Yeah. Also I'm not sure why they are suggesting JBOD for this. But yes. "Frame challenging" answers, as people call them on some other SE sites, are totally fine here, but I don't think that is an answer at all. (It's less of an answer than some of the comments currently posted on the question.)

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1024127/22949

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; No Code Block; One Line only; Low Rep; 3.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] shortcuts Putty-like copy/paste By: sasha-ch 4.5;

Could use a bit of expansion, but recommend a different terminal emulator here is not obviously unreasonable, and it does explain the recommendation. It's not really a link-only answer.

@Natty fp

(Also, it's a patch to GNOME Terminal, so it arguably also literally satisfies the OP's stated request.)

I hope this edit that I just did is reasonable.

@EliahKagan maybe the title could say something like that...

They might be asking, in part, what the compiler switches are that are used to compile gcc itself. I'm not sure how to retitle it.

ah... I don't know :(

If it is closed as a duplicate, and if the OP ends up being okay with that, then I guess it's okay.

ok

@EliahKagan looks very good

@EliahKagan no, I do not remember anything to indicate how that answer is less of an answer than it currently appears to be :(

@Zanna I can try to write a custom flag for it, read it over to see ensure my argument for undeletion makes enough sense, and cast raise the flag. But if you feel like doing so, go ahead. (I'm not saying you're obligated to or anything, just that I can't do it right now because I'm about to get a phone call and may be afk for a long time.)

Seems dupe:

(as per OP)

voted

I would leave this closed at least until they've provided this requested information (see the edit history).

Leave closed (see comment)

Unclear

Unclear

This does not seem unclear to me.

your vote on the last one completed the review :)

Oh. So it did!

Not unclear. (But it could use another answer, perhaps drawing from the comments.)

(I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't mention it anyway. On the contrary, I'm glad I am not the only one who thought it seemed not unclear)

Dupe (but a good question, I wish I weren't out of votes for the day)

@Zanna I wouldn't have mentioned it if I'd realized my review knocked it from the queue. Don't worry though, I don't feel bad about having mistakenly done so.

Why would this one be considered no-repro?

@EliahKagan edited, upvoted, and added the last close vote :)

@EliahKagan OP should update the question... they are hopefully not using 17.04 any more

[ Natty | Sentinel ] mount Create RAID array of image files By: user818127 7.0;

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@Zanna I've seen questions, in the past year or so, where the OP was using 7.04. :)

haha yeah I remember seeing one of those

I kind of feel like installing that right now.

isn't that question answerable somehow? or a dupe of something? Or are there really too many questions there?

maybe you'll be able to compile OOF on 7.04 :)

I don't think I have to go back nearly that far for that.

@Zanna I don't think there are too many questions, but I think the topic of how to make file transfers from external storage faster is a really big topic. I guess I could be wrong to have voted to close it, though. They provided a good bit of information and it's possible to guess about more. My guess is that the drive has the HFS+ filesystem and that HFS+ drivers in Ubuntu perform slowly compared to those in macOS... but also it's a slow drive, over USB...

I am not sure I know exactly what they're saying they did there but it suggests they may be able to give enough details to yield a solution. Maybe I should retract my close vote. Or maybe I should comment to request more information. (Both?)

I'm not sure what they did either, but they seem to have solved it and consider the question no longer needed. So I guess we can consider the question should it be so slow? to be too broad. If it gets closed as such, OP can edit it to be more specific about what they did if they still want an answer

so, VTC'd and my vote was the last one

I've commented.

I don't think it's a dupe of either of those

@EliahKagan great :)

@Zanna I am inclined to agree. Do you want to comment? Btw, setting exempt_group, as suggested on one of the proposed originals, seems overkill, both for the question in review and the question it's posted on, since it also exempts the user from ever having to enter a password for sudo.

...and that was my 20th CV review of the day!

yeah... I would not suggest that without explaining what it does

I can still VTC things that need closing though.

ok, if I find anything in need of closing, I will feel free to mention it :)

Well I am also not the only one here. :)

@Zanna I've commented on that answer.

@EliahKagan dobey posted an answer.

@EliahKagan true! this room has become very much more active lately

@pomsky Looks good. I'd vote it up but I am out of votes for the day.

I'm going afk again for a while. Does anyone want to post an answer explaining that the export command does not save anything to any file? (And perhaps also, ehem, which files are recommended for setting environment variables...)

TIL :)

@EliahKagan I will try to do that. If I don't manage it, I will let you know

I have written an answer to that question

Since Firefox became "fast" (ie, became an even more voracious RAM hog than it was before), it has several times ground to a halt and been slain by OOM killer on my poor toaster :(

I don't think even 18.04 will ship with 4.16.xx.

Also RTL8723DE doesn't work out of box with even supported kernels, questions usually get diverted towards the canonical question. But I don't think it's a good idea to do the same in this case.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 14.04 On Trusty: there are 19 packages shown as 'not to upgrade' By: i have none 6.0;