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I'm playing around with the SoX, an audio conversion program. After installation I notice that it creates a symbolic link /usr/bin/play -> sox. I notice that I can play an audio file with play my_song.wav, but if I try sox my_song.wav I get an error about not having enough inputs specified.

I don't understand this behavior because I didn't think running a program through a symbolic link would be any different than running it through the target directly. What mechanism is allowing this difference in behavior?

While I'm running an instance of Vim (version 7.4, in the terminal) I can copy text into the + (Primary Selection) and * (Clipboard Selection) registers. If I switch to another program in a new window/terminal I can paste from these buffers without issue.

i.e.

• in terminal one I'm running vim and yank into +,* buffers
• in terminal two I'm in bash and xclip -o pastes the content of the * buffer
• in my firefox instance ctrl-v pastes the contents of the + buffer

If I quit vim then the clipboard is purged.

• xclip -o will output Error: target STRING not available
• ctrl-v does nothing in Firefox

If I suspend the vim process (ctrl-z) I get the same result as if I had quit vim. Resuming the process (fg) does not return access to the x11 clipboards, I have to yank to the registers again. This sort of usage is especially bothersome for me.

Is there anything I can do to change this? I'm a novice vim/linux user.

I have a moto G4 and am trying to access files on it from my Ubuntu 16.04 system. If I simply connect it via usb I get a window pop up with MOTO G (4) on the top of the window. Hovering the cursor over the Moto G (4) on the sidebar tells me it sees it as mtp://[usb:001,006]/ However the file explorer is empty.

The properties in this window says

Name: Moto G (4)
Type: Folder (inode/directory)

Contents: nothing

Location:
Volume: mtp

I am able to connect over bluetooth, but the only option I have from the bluetooth toolbar is to send files. I might be able to send files by operating from my phone, but I'd like to be able to browse from my computer to decide what I want to pull.

Help that I've seen online has been mixed, and it seems like the proper methods have changed through the different ubuntu releases. I'm using 16.04 lts.

I'm attempting to install emacs 25.1 on my ubuntu 16.04 system from a PPA. When attempting to install the build dependencies I got the error

>sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

So apt-get can't find the dependencies, right? I thought adding the PPA to my system would solve this but it doesn't. Also, uncommenting the deb and deb-src pairs (individually and everything at once) in /etc/apt/sources.list didn't help.

What does help is checking the source box in the software & updates utility, as suggested in this post: https://askubuntu.com/a/795694/524588 does work. What exactly is this doing, and how can I replicate it without the gui?

It seems to be the same three errors repeated:

$ tail -n15 /var/log/syslog
Apr  5 23:32:01 detoo kernel: [ 6042.078785] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150619/psargs-359)
Apr  5 23:32:01 detoo kernel: [ 6042.078787] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808554d42d0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150619/psparse-536)
Apr  5 23:32:01 detoo kernel: [ 6042.078788] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150619/evgpe-592)

I noticed something was wrong when I was getting low disk space warnings. I've flashed to the latest UEFI available, I've tried enabling/disabling the C states in my UEFI.

I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64-bit with kernel 4.2.0-34-generic. I have a skylake processor and z170 motherboard.

I'm quite new to linux and am at a lost as what I should do next.

EDIT: I have the same problem when booting from a USB with Ubuntu 16.04, and nearly identical error logs being constantly spammed:

Apr  6 01:01:48 ubuntu kernel: [  152.594053] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L6F] (20150930/evgpe-592)
Apr  6 01:01:48 ubuntu kernel: [  152.594994] ACPI Error: [PGRT] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psargs-359)
Apr  6 01:01:48 ubuntu kernel: [  152.594996] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L6F] (Node ffff8808554e02d0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20150930/psparse-542)