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Linux Mint is an operating system based on the Linux distribution Ubuntu.

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Zpool scrub won't resume after reboot

Linux Mint 21.3 Linux version 6.5.0-26-generic zfs-2.2.3-0ofthesun1 zfs-kmod-2.2.0-0ubuntu1~23.10.2 I've set up the zpool just fine, put some data on it and started a scrub. While this was in ...
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403 Forbidden warning after installing/enabling usermod

I'd like to have per-user web directories on my Linux Mint workstation in the same general way I have had on OS X. In order to do this, I created a public_html directory in ~/. and chmod'd it to 755 ...
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Laravel: Logging messages generated by "error_log(...)" to terminal, while running app in Apache server

The issue is this one: When I run a Laravel app from PHP server, that's it, with php artisan serve, I could see every message generated by "error_log(...)" printed in the terminal, like this:...
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VPN with Network Connections GUI - unable to access Internet

I am trying to setup VPN connection using Network Connections GUI. To do so I pick an option to import vpn configuration and manually enter VPN credentials. So far so good, I can get connected. The ...
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RAID arrays failed, now will not restart; mdadm --examine shows drive healthy but --assemble fails missing two disks

This is a Mint 21.1 x64 Linux system, which has over the years had disks added to RAID arrays until we now have one array of 10 3TB and one array of 5 6TB. Four HDs dropped out of the arrays, two from ...
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Nginx returning 404 on new installation

On Linux Mint 20.3 I had working setup for my local development of website: server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name cbp.local; root /home/gacek/html/cbp/public; index ...
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How to repair zsysctl after manually deleting snapshots with `zfs destroy`?

I am running Linux Mint 20.3 with ZFS (including for /). Up until very recently, whenever I installed or removed packages, it would also create a snapshot so that I could select it when booting to ...
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Zabbix sensor 'no data'

I'm having problems with monitoring my GPU temperature. There's list of my sensors: sensors -u acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: temp1_input: 65.500 temp1_crit: 99.000 ... ...
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Unable to Install Linux Mint on RAID

Second week now than I'm trying to setup Linux Mint on software RAID5 without success. I'm able to setup the software RAID5 on the live CD with three 240GB SSD, then the installation setup fails to ...
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linux mint xrdp xfce : X server already running on display :10.0

I'm on Linux Mint 21, xfce version. I setup xrdp with basic command : apt install xrdp I have an /etc/xrdp/startvm.sh configuration like that : #/bin/sh startxfce4 >> ~/xrdp.log When I connect ...
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PHP5 package on Linux Mint Debian wont install properly

I"m running Mint Debian 64 bit and trying to install the PHP5 package to run on apache2. After running the following apache installs and I can get to http://localhost/ sudo aptitude install apache2 ...
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Cannot get kernel to ask for LUKS password at boot after migrating the system from LVM to LVM on LUKS

I am running Linux Mint 18.3 on desktop system. I have migrated my workstation to LVM over LUKS, from plain LVM. The system does not boot and does not ask for LUKS password at boot. I can boot the ...
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Nginx failed to start on boot: "Cannot assign requested address"

When I reboot my server (not nginx, the whole server), Nginx fails to start automatically. After I logged into the server, I can start nginx manually (service nginx start). It works. But if I restart ...
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What's the simplest way of "resetting" multiple linux clients to restore the default state of a fresh install?

We have 6 linux clients (mint) which are used for training. Courses might run anywhere from a few days to multiple weeks. They want a "one button press", as in very quick and easy, way of ...
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linux system slowdown debugging, high sys usage

I have a remote linux system that became super slow yesterday. Since the remote luks unlocking I've setup doesn't seem to work reliable and I won't be able to physically access the machine within the ...
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Unbound - domains cached only for short time

I recently set up Unbound for DNS caching, along with DNScrypt on Linux Mint 18.1. It works, but I noticed the pages are cached only for short time: First query to google.com - 48ms (domain not ...
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Can't get origin/request IP address in php from KVM apache website in bridge mode

I have a apache webserver running on ubuntu 18.04 hosted on KVM This KVM is running on Linux Mint 20.1 host OS The networking is setup using bridge in KVM <network connections="1"> &...
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Add users, permissions of folders, etc on ZFS pool

First of all, I'm still learning Unix basics :) so sorry in advance. I had created on my home server ZFS pool by Proxmox as "root". After that I created Linux Mint virtual machine ( with &...
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Running script as user with root permissions

Due to conflicting and constantly changing permissions on mounted drives (which cannot easily be solved due to the development structure of programs), there is a script that must be run with root ...
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Linux Mint 19 through WDS PXE does not boot

I find myself stuck trying to make linux mint 19 available from my wds. I can boot windows, ubuntu, centos, debian, kali linux AND linux mint 18 with minimal problems but linux mint 19 just won't boot....
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networkmanager-strongswan vpn - routing specific ip through VPN

I'm trying to setting a VPN on Linux Mint 19.2. I'm using the network-manager-strongswan so I added this file named VPN under /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ [connection] id=VPN uuid=...
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Keep losing sshfs connection on Linux Mint 19

Edit: I set the dev up with a brand new laptop with a fresh OS install. Connection was still lost. Moved her to a different desk (which would be a different port on the switch in the closet), and the ...
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Why does mongodb install require removal of VirtualBox and php-curl?

I was about to install mongodb on Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) via .deb file but when I checked the packages to be removed, I found this: To install the following changes are required: To be removed: ...
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Why is index.cgi displayed as content instead of being executed?

I am trying to make a site with index.cgi, if available, served up as the content. In /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default, I have: DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.html DocumentRoot /home/...
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Allow ssh/sftp file up-/download, but disallow changing existing files

I have a linux mint machine which provides a kind of file dump which gets provided via a nginx. My problem is, that a single user (upload_usr) should be able to place new files/directorys inside one ...
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LAMPs w/Wordpress with 3 domains. Two work as expected. One redirects to one of the others

I have Mint 19.1; Apache 2.4; PHP 7.2; phpmyadmin, Wordpress 5.1.1 successfully installed and functioning. Site 1 Works as expected Site 2 Redirects to Site 1 without warning Site 3 Works as ...
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Postfix issue: Email not showing up

I'm being taught to use PostFix to make a personal, cross-domain mail service. I've been stuck on this for a while, but... here's what happens. In this case, the DNS and mail servers, as well as ...
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Nginx: Wordpress: Blank Page

When I try to access my webserver, I get a blank page. It is set up to work with wordpress, but it doesn't. This is my wordpress.conf (located in conf.d): server { listen 80; #listen 443 default ...
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Hard drive not visible during Linux Mint installation

I had successfully installed Linux Mint 19 on my new Dell laptop at work. It was working fine, in general, though it did not shut down properly. I'd seen somewhere a video driver might be responsible, ...
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Apache cannot access external drive on Linux Mint

I have a Linux server and a Windows server with a external drive for my website files. The problem only exists in Linux Apache configuration, where I cannot access the files for the sites located on ...
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Ubuntu define correct virtual host on :81 port [closed]

I'm trying to install processmaker on my local machine, i create /opt directory and paste this php script into that, not i should defin virtual host on my ubuntu os, for doing this action i have this ...
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F5 bigip network access application failed to run on Linux Mint 19 (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS based) distro

We are using F5 VPN, and I found a bug and work around: F5 network access client failed to run with error: ~ $ /opt/f5/vpn/f5vpn %u qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve OPENSSL_init_ssl qt....
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File system keeps becoming read-only

After working for a while, my filesystem (EXT4) becomes read-only. I then use my live USB to boot into live mode and I run fsck on the corrupted partition (and others too, to be safe). I run fsck -y ...
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Linux Mint Startup error due to insufficient disk space

Can you help me please to solve this issue? I am on Linux Mint 18.3. I use it for java script development. I have just Chrome, node and Visual Studio Code. Just couple days ago disk analyzer told me,...
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start sevices after boot complete in linux mint

I am using linux mint 18.3 Sylvia. My system is taking a long time to boot, as I found a lot of services are running at start up. What I am asking is there any way I could start those services after ...
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NGINX installation error

Using Linux Mint 18.3 when I had nginx installed which was running well. I needed to uninstall it for some reason, and I uninstall it using command: sudo apt purge nginx -y sudo rm -rf /etc/nginx ...
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Is it OK to prepare drives in mdadm RAID in LinuxMint live and then run CentOS7 installer?

I am planning to setup a CentOS7 server with software RAID. Since the CentOS7 installer isn't particularly good at preparing the disks, I wonder if it would be OK to boot up a LinuxMint 18 live, do ...
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Trying to install pdo_oci via PECL fails asking for PDO extension

I'm using Linux Mint 11 (based on Ubuntu 11.04) and I need to use PHP with Oracle through PDO, a requirement of the framework we will work with. I've installed various PDO extensions using the normal ...
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likewise-open issue

I've been struggling non-stop for two days on this issue and it is driving me insane. I am trying to get my Linux-Mint machine to connect to the Windows Domain so that I can gain access to the ...
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how to check linux mint or ubuntu debian version

How can you check which Debian version Linux Mint or Ubuntu installation is based on using terminal commands? Or I need to make a script.
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Fedora 23 and 24 surprisingly slow with Numpy dot and other functions

This question was initially asked on stackoverflow byt was found to be off-topic, the text below has been updated from the initial post with new details. I recently acquired a new PC with an i7 ...
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zfs mountpoint not using the dataset

I am currently building a media server based on Linux Mint. The OS is installed on a small SSD and the intention is to store the media files on two HDDs (2TB + 4TB). To this end I have created a zfs ...
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Connected to router but without internet [closed]

My Linux Mint 17 box is connected to a router via eth0, of which is connected to the internet. However, my box cannot access websites or ping google.com etc. I am sure the problem is with the DNS ...
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Sendmail will not accept user ID / pass in SMTPAUTH

To cut down on the possibility of spam, I'm trying to set up SMTPAUTH on my Sendmail (8.14.4 on Mint MATE 17.1 x64) installation. Users can retrieve mail from the server with IMAP or POP (using ...
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Linux Mint Stuck at "nm-dispatcher.action: Disconnected from the system bus, exiting." when shutting down

As the title implies, whenever I try and shutdown my Linux Mint Aspire-ES1-111M 3.13.0-37-generic laptop it hangs at "nm-dispatcher.action: Disconnected from the system bus, exiting." I never get the ...
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OpenVPN won't start on Ubuntu

I was trying to setup an OpenVPN server on LinuxMint 17.1 using the following guide: Click me. I followed up to the part where you start up OpenVPN with the following command: service openvpn start ...
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Unable to install Fedora 23 in VM using KVM on Linux Mint 17.2

I'm unable to install Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso into a QEMU virtual machine using virt-manager on Linux Mint 17.2. I've verified that the SHA256 checksum on the ISO is correct. I can ...
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Cannot access Apache 2 virtual host on localhost

I originally set my web root in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf to point to /home/me/www. Due to the requirements of a new project, I need to be able to set /home/me/www/vendor/www as ...
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Where does it specify that you need 000-default.conf in apache2.4.x

I deleted this file 000-default.conf and put my own in instead. In the default apache2.conf line 219 IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf however when I restart apache apache2: Syntax error on ...
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Docker service with upstart

On linux mint 17 docker gives the following error when trying to start it via service docker start: start: Unknown job: docker I tried 2 versions already, the old 1.1 docker.io which is in the mint ...