Unanswered Questions
59,630 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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wpa_supplicant end process if wrong password detected
Normally when I run wpa_supplicant I'll get some output like this:
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[...
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zsh can't input to terminal when piping stdin and stdout with variable command that has tty output
System info:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0)
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)
Scroll to the EXAMPLES at the bottom if you just want to dig in ...
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Microphone volume on USB soundcard very low, snd_usb_audio options?
I have a C-Media USB soundcard installed on my Raspberry Pi: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:0008 C-Media Electronics, Inc.. It is a USB cable with an XLR end on the other side, to which I have an XLR ...
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Benefiting of sched_autogroup_enabled on the desktop
I am running a 2.6.37 kernel with sched_autogroup_enabled set to 1. I am not certain that I am seeing the benefits of this patch since:
I am launching my applications from the desktop;
applications ...
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How to deal with freezes caused by autofs after network disconnect
I mount four servers (3 via cifs, 1 via sshfs) using autofs.
auto.master
/- /etc/auto.all --timeout=60 --ghost
auto.all
/mnt \
/server1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials....
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How can I make a device available inside a systemd-nspawn container with user namespacing?
I would like to mount an encrypted image file using cryptsetup inside a systemd-nspawn container. However, I get this error message:
[root@container ~]# echo $key | cryptsetup -d - open luks.img luks
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State of LVM raid compared to mdadm
LVM and mdadm/dmraid both offer software RAID functionality on Linux. This is essentially a follow-up to a question from 2014. Back then, @derobert recommended using mdadm over LVM RAID due to its ...
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Disabling system modal behaviour of GNOME 3 password prompts
When GNOME Keyring, needs a password to add an SSH key to the agent, it pops up a system modal prompt to get the password from you. I use KeePass, so this means that if I forgot to copy the password ...
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Devilspie on Wayland
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 and I'm now using Gnome 3 native over Wayland. My problem is that I have been using devilspie to place windows on the screen in the desired position. I also use ...
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How to increase sound volume on eMac P69 running FreeBSD 10.3?
I've got FreeBSD 10.3 (PowerPC) installed on eMac P69.
I'm using MPlayer to test loudness. I already use -af volume=10:1-like options but they tend to distort sound pretty quickly + it is not really ...
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Emacs slow loading time with AUCTeX on TeX files
I installed the auctex and emacs packages on two Xubuntu 14.04 computers, both of which have been working fine. Emacs itself works fine on both, but now with the auctex package installed, when I load ...
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What network connections are not seen by netstat/lsof/ss?
Network monitoring tools ss, lsof -i, netstat -ltupw and similar have limitations like namespace and thus they don't show the whole machine connections. (for namespace created with ip we can see other ...
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Smartcard "sharing violation" when using OpenSC and GnuPG
On my Linux machine (Arch Linux, up to date as of this post) I am having trouble using both the OpenSC PKCS11 module and GnuPG.
It seems like while an app using the PKCS11 module is started (in my ...
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So, what do I do with the output of yum check?
When I run yum check (or try to use yum to update my system generally), I get the following:
# yum check
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit
krb5-devel-1.10.2-12.fc17....
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Stackable file system that works like a cache
I am looking for a stackable file system (Like UnionFS, aufs, and OverlayFS) that works similar to bcache or lvmcache but on file level - not on block level:
Reads will be done from top-layer. If the ...
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