Questions tagged [bugs]
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Debugging high (near total) CPU/memory usage of "Web Content" application on Linux Mint
I have Linux Mint installed on 3 computers at home, and all of them are almost unusably slow whenever Firefox is open. Here is the output from top:
As you can see, "Web Content" and Firefox are collectively using up nearly all of my CPU, and more…
J. Taylor
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X applications warn "Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:" on stderr
It seems like every application from the terminal gives warnings and error messages, even though it appears to run fine.
Emacs:
** (emacs:5004): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-xxfluS2Izg:…
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Mouse left click stops working
On Xubuntu, for a long time I've had an issue where my Left mouse button stops working for some reason. It happens pretty much everyday. Everything else seems to work.
The only way I can get my mouse to work again is to logout and login, which…
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How was the Shellshock Bash vulnerability found?
Since this bug affects so many platforms, we might learn something from the process by which this vulnerability was found: was it an εὕρηκα (eureka) moment or the result of a security check?
Since we know Stéphane found the Shellshock bug, and…
Faheem Mitha
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Is this documented behavior for BSD Awk, or a bug?
Apparently, a bracket expression in BSD Awk which contains a character class will ignore any further characters after the character class:
MacOS $ cat file.txt
_
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.
a
B
8
:
;
@
~
,
MacOS $ awk '/[@~.[:alnum:]:;-]/' file.txt
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a
B
8
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MacOS $ awk…
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How to fix vulnerabilities related to Spectre and Meltdown bugs in Ubuntu?
I just learned about Meltdown and Spectre bugs. I read that:
There are patches against Meltdown for Linux (KPTI (formerly KAISER)), Windows, and OS X.
Following the link in the quote I get to an article which is too obscure for me to understand.…
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Warnings/Errors when running clamav/clamscan, scanning 3TB hard-drive
What I'm trying to do:
I'm trying to scan my File-Server for malware, and I'm using clamav/clamscan, where the man page say's it can scan files up to 4GB.
This man page states:
--max-filesize=#n
Extract and scan at most #n kilobytes from each…
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xmodmap problems and inconsistencies with more than 4 alternative symbols per key
I was trying to make my keyboard more useful and used xmodmap to map mathematical and greek symbols to mod3 modifier level. Where caps lock is mapped to mod3. As I understand, the 8-entry lines in .Xmodmap work as following:
[nothing], [shift],…
orion
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How do I usefully report a bug
I've used Linux Mint for a while now and I'm quite the fan. I'm not expert enough to go messing with the kernel or anything like that, but I've noticed small bugs in a couple of software packages that I feel I would be able to fix. However, I have…
Myridium
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device-mapper: reload ioctl on osprober-linux-nvme0n1p7 failed: Device or resource busy
I ran into the error
device-mapper: reload ioctl on osprober-linux-nvme0n1p7 failed: Device or resource busy
while compiling the kernel in Ubuntu Studio. I use ZFS for my main drive.
Apparently, this is a bug: [zfs-root] "device-mapper: reload…
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Fedora 16 strange /tmp permissions: mysqld will not start
I installed mysql on a brand-new Fedora 16 server and it would not start. This is the line from the log file (^G and all):
^G/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ibNPyIlu' (Errcode: 13)
I looked at /tmp/ and it has rather…
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pepperflashplugin-nonfree : ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs
I cannot install pepperflashplugin-nonfree on my Ubuntu :
$ sudo apt install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ttf-dejavu…
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How bug fixing exactly works in a distro ? upstream vs downstream
I'd like to know how bug fixing exactly works in Linux distributions.
I mean, after all a distro is made of opensource software made by external developers, and then packaged by the distro's maintainers. So why every distro has it own bug tracker?…
Luca D'Amico
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Why does Debian bug-squashing take this much time compared to that of Ubuntu?
Reportedly, Debian devs need to squash 54 bugs more. These are termed as 'release critical bugs'. My question is,
if this bug-squashing takes this much time, then how come Ubuntu releases each version in such a short time?
I mean, how do they…
user65580
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Should I file bugs upstream, to my distribution maintainers, or both?
I've recently filed a bug with gnome-shell to the GNOME maintainers, on their website (upstream).
However, I'm not sure whether I was maybe supposed to file it to the package maintainers of my distribution (Fedora).
In the future, which should I…
jcora
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