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I tried, out of curiosity, to set my keyboard layout on my Arch Linux tablet* with Gnome to one that appeared with a name like "A custom user-defined layout," which showed as being all blank ...
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SystemRescueCD has the option to locate existing operating systems on a system and give you the option to boot one of your choice. It lists them in the boot options as findroot. Is there a command to ...
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This is my first post so if I do something wrong I would appreciate it if you correct me so I am able to resolve the issues for future posts. I was in the middle of an upgrade when I accidentally ...
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Looking for WRITTABLE resque/recovery type LINUX distro for USB flash drive under 8GB installed. Current primary usage scenario: write and troubleshoot initramfs script for non-standard boot process (...
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I was originally using windows 10 when I had formatted my system twice to use ubuntu and now i have installed linux mint. Is there any chance I will be able to recover those old files? I am currently ...
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I have an encrypted hard drive. The hard drive, root user, and primary user all share the same password. I have successfully logged in but seem to have forgotten the password. I'm looking to limit the ...
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I strongly despise any kinds of automatic OOM killers, and would like to resolve such situations manually. So for a long time I have vm.overcommit_memory=1 vm.overcommit_ratio=200 But this way, when ...
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I'm on Arch Linux, and I intended to run "sudo rm ./*" to clear out one of old dirs, and I accidentally omitted the dot and ran "sudo rm /*". How could I recover at least some of ...
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Unfortunatelly I made mistake somewhere but can't get where. I had issues with ssh and github, tried different things and they didn't work. Later I decided .. i think.. moved file i balieve it was ...
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I have a head node and 4 worker nodes for high-performance computing (HPC). Recently, I had to turn it off for maintenance at our data center. I tried to turn the system back on, but I encountered an ...
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I'm currently testing a backup/restore of RHEL 6.4 OS via the "dump" and "restore" on testing environment, and I do know that RHEL 6.4 seemed too outdated in nowadays. Butsome ...
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I upgraded Debian stable from 11 to 12 today by sudo apt-get upgrade. Thousands of packages were downloaded. However while packages were being upgraded the system froze. I manually shutdown by ...
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My root partition had no space to the point that couldn't login. So invoked Ctrl+Alt+F2 and ran to free disk space: find / -xdev -name core -ls -o -path "/lib*" -delete Now can't even ...
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I cannot boot into my installed Fedora 37 after moving around partitions. I have spent a week trying to fix the issue so have decided to cut my losses and assume I'll never get back into it. I have ...
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A newcomer to linux here, I was trying to set a custom display resolution and make the changes permanent but looks like I've forgotten something and the login screen won't come up (the only thing I'm ...
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