Questions tagged [linuxmint]
Linux Mint is an operating system based on the Linux distribution Ubuntu.
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Networking doesn't initialize properly when pxebooting Linux Mint (live CD) using cifs, but works with nfs
I have a TFTP/DHCP/NFS/SMB server (Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS) on 192.168.26.1. I use pxelinux to display a menu containing startup and installation options for Windows, an Ubuntu network installer, and ...
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Cannot find upstart logs in syslog despite a log-priority of debug (ubuntu 13.04 & mint 16)
I've set upstart log level to "debug"
sudo initctl log-priority debug
But I still cannot see anything in /var/log/syslog.
sudo initctl emit hello # no log
sudo initctl start my-broken-service # ...
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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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How can I force all internet traffic over a PPTP VPN but still allow local lan access?
I have a server running Linux Mint 12 that I want to keep connected to a PPTP VPN all the time. The VPN server is pretty reliable, but it drops on occasion so I just want to make it so all internet ...
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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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ubuntu 12.10/linux mint 14 ssh-copy-id doesn't work and returns Ambiguous output redirect
I recently got a new computer and I'm trying to use ssh-copy-id to put my keys on another server so I can login without password. but when I try
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server
and ...
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How should I handle Mint instances with Puppet?
I use Puppet to set up VMs from time to time. Sometimes I run Linux Mint on these VMs. I have a lot of Puppet modules I like to use, but when they check the LSB facts they recoil from the strange ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You don't have permission to access / on this server - changing default www to NTFS drive
i have been struggling for a couple of days about this problem.
I am trying to change the default www directory for Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) web-server under LinuxMint16 and making it point to a NTFS ...
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"getent passwd" enumerates users, "su <username>" fails
I have an LDAP server with two BDB backends. The user accounts are split between the two backends. Backend A has a referral object to Backend B.
I have tried to setup LDAP client authentication on ...
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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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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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Recurring "agent admitted failure to sign using the key" error with passwordless SSH
One of the machines on my network (Mint 12 workstation, up to date) periodically gets into a bad state wherein all outgoing SSH connections fall back to password authentication with the error "agent ...
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The cache is getting at full level so fast [duplicate]
Please, the memory and the cache are getting to the full level quite quickly under my linux mint 9 - isadora system. I used Ubuntu and Debian before, and it was not causing this issue at all. At the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Proxy is not getting disabled on my Linux Mint Server?
I have unset all the proxy environment variables and also changed the proxy to None under Network Proxy. Despite doing this whenever I am running sudo apt-get update it tries to connect to the proxy ...
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Apache webserver not starting - Not sure what's wrong
I had installed apache webserver on my local machine (Linux Mint 15) and everything was working fine until I tried to install npm/nodejs.
I'm getting this error whenever I try starting apache -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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nmap configuration file [closed]
I'm running Linux mint and I need to modify my nmap configuration's default service enumeration by making a new service list. I think I do this in the config file (I'm not positive), but I can't seem ...
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php mysql on mint 12?
I am trying to install PHP MySQL on Mint 12. I downloaded and installed XAMPP. According to the tutorial, when I go to localhost in a browser I should see this:
Instead, I see:
It works!
This is the ...
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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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Installing MySQL+Smarty
I'd like to start learning WWW-programming in my Linux Mint. I have installed PHP and now I'd like to install MySQL. I tried to follow instructions on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/install-mysql-server-...
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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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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 ...