Calamity Jane's questions

I have the task to transfer apache settings from an old linux system to a new system (Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS). After copying the /etc/apache2 folders to the new server and restarting the apache I had some problems which were caused by missing libraries in the config files. I fixed those and

$ sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -t
Syntax OK

gives me the ok on my configuration files.

However when I try to start the apache again this happens:

$ sudo service apache2 start
Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

journalctl -xe has nothing and v goves me the following:

$ systemctl status apache2.service
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-10-13 16:05:54 UTC; 50s ago
       Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
    Process: 41669 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

So the informations basically "you have an error because you have an error"

How can I get the apache start more verbose to get hints what the problem might be?

I already had a look here

I use a tower for my Ubuntu 20.4. Today when I boot my PC I get the bios but beyond that I get no GUI only the message on the monitor that the video feed is missing or alternatively the message

Input Signal out of range 
Current settings H=94kHz V= 50 Hz 
Change Settings to 1920 x 1200 - 60 Hz

After trying out VGA Port with the old cable, digital port also with an old cable and then VGA Port with a brand new cable and always getting the same result apart for a few colourful lines in between I deduced that my graphic card might be broken, which is possible since it isn't a new PC.

So here comes the question. Finally....

If I buy a new graphic card, which one will work with Ubuntu 20.4? Is there a way to find out before I buy one?

I use kde, which shouldn't make any difference I guess. But it should be able to support 2 monitors.

I do my backups with rsync. Now rsync gets stuck transferring my email folders.

I use 20.04 and thunderbird 78.13.0 (64-Bit). I start my backup with this:

#!/bin/bash

rm -Rf /home/anja/.cache/*

for GERAET in /media/anja/* ; do
 if [[ "$GERAET" == /media/anja/INTENSO ]]; then 
    echo $GERAET
       rsync -va --delete --exclude={**/trash*,**/Cache*,**/cache*} /home/anja/.thunderbird $GERAET/anja/.thunderbird
    exit            
  fi
done

the backup is running and then gets stuck at a different file everytime I try this. I already tried repairing the thunderbird email folders, but I have loads of email accounts and loads of folders there so I doubt I caught all of them.

Adding the option --info=progess2 gives me the output:

    168,997,741   3%   28.99MB/s    0:00:05 (xfr#818, ir-chk=3506/4923)
.thunderbird/lunzq248.default/Mail/.inbox.directory/konsum.mdir/cur/1290027311.2286.qAc64:2,S

And there it just stops and waits until infinity or until I kill it with Ctrl + C

$ ll ~/.thunderbird/lunzq248.default/Mail/.inbox.directory/konsum.mdir/cur/1290027311.2286.qAc64:2,S
-rwxrwxr-x 1 anja anja 167069 Jul 18 16:49 /home/anja/.thunderbird/lunzq248.default/Mail/.inbox.directory/konsum.mdir/cur/1290027311.2286.qAc64:2,S*

It looks like the file contains an email with a part of an pdf attachement and ends on:

DQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCjAwMDAwMDAwMDAgNjU1MzUgZg0KMDAwMDAwMDAwMCA2NTUz
NSBmDQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCjAwMDAwMDAwMDAgNjU1MzUgZg0KMDAwMDAwMDAwMCA2
NTUzNSBmDQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCjAwMDAwMDAwMDAgNjU1MzUgZg0KMDAwMDAwMDAw
MCA2NTUzNSBmDQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCjAwMDAwMDAwMDAgNjU1MzUgZg0KMDAwMDAw
MDAwMCA2NTUzNSBmDQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCjAwMDAwMDAwMDAgNjU1MzUgZg0KMDAw
MDAwMDAwMCA2NTUzNSBmDQowMDAwMDAwMDAwIDY1NTM1IGYNCnRyYWlsZXINCjw8L1NpemUgOTcx
Pj4NCnN0YXJ0eHJlZg0KMTE2DQolJUVPRg0K
------=_Part_1306_1154394907.1290028505681--

How can I save my current selected music files in my Cantata playlist as mu3?

I discovered Cantata as new music player and so far I like it. Now I have selected several files for a zoom meeting tomorrow. How can I save this playlist as e.g. mu3 so I can reload it if I should accidentally destroy my current selection?

All I have found so far talks about generating dynamic playlists or loading already generated playlists.

I am using a Wacom Bamboo tablet CTL-470 with a kubuntu 18.04 and I want to rotate it 180° so that the USB input is on the right side, not on the left as it is now.

I installed the newest packages ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom/LatestDriver), but neither with them or the original ubuntu ones do I have a GUI in the settings to change the orientation of the tablet.

How can I achieve a changed orientations so I can use the tablet more comfortably? It has not to happen via the Gui, config settings are welcome as well.

I use xsane for scanning. Is there any solution for putting several photographs on the scanner and they are split up automatically into several files after the scan? Or loading the resulting file into a program, which can split it up in several files?

Like this software for windows is doing: https://autosplitter.com/

I have hundreds of photos to scan and would be happy, if at least I could just pack my scanner full with 2 up to 4 photographs at once. That should speed it up considerably I guess.

Has someone an idea to solve this?

I want to access the SD card of my mobile. So I removed it from my mobile and connected it via SD card reader /USB with my kubuntu 18.04 PC.

$sudo fdisk -l
/dev/sdc1        32768 249737215 249704448 119,1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

If I try to mount it I cannot get the matching type:

$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/anja/SD

complain about wrong type. What my kernel offers are the following types:

$ cat /proc/filesystems | awk '{print $NF}' | sed '/^$/d'
sysfs
rootfs
ramfs
bdev
proc
cpuset
cgroup
cgroup2
tmpfs
devtmpfs
configfs
debugfs
tracefs
securityfs
sockfs
dax
bpf
pipefs
hugetlbfs
devpts
ext3
ext2
ext4
squashfs
vfat
ecryptfs
fuseblk
fuse
fusectl
pstore
mqueue
autofs
rpc_pipefs
nfs
nfs4

What can I do to access my SD card?

Weird question... I have a new hardware using kubuntu 18.04

$ sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591c (rev 02)     (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Device 1bab:591c
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 125
    Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
    Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
    Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
    Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

gives me this output. Do I have a graphic card?

I am digging into that because of performance problems with a DisplayLink device.

Edit:

$ sudo lspci | grep VGA

gives me

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591c (rev 02)

I updated my kubuntu from 17.04 to 18.04 by updating to 17.10 and directly continuing to 18.04

After reboot Plasma didn't come up, but luckily via alt + F2 I get a bash.

I have a Dell Latitude E5450 with a Nvidia GeForce 840M, latter is a plain pain in the ass since I got this laptop. So I strongly suspect that it is the culprit this time, too.

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

gives me

• nvidia-390 as recommended
• nvidia-340
• nouveau as open source driver

I tried all of them and every time I get stuck with a black screen and a cursor, which doesn't even blink.

How can I check if the culprit is really the graphics card (again....) or something else? Which log do I have to check?

And if it is in fact the graphic card, has someone ideas how to solve this mess?

This question seems to solve the problem for Gnome, but I use kde: No GUI after Kubuntu 18.04 LTS upgrade from 17.10

sudo apt-get --reinstall install plasma-desktop

Hasn't got any effect.

I have kubuntu 16.04 running. I wanted to setup a permanent mount to my synology NAS and following their tutorial I adapted my userid to the one on the synology.

I created a new user on my machine with sudo rights and typed the following:

sudo usermod -u 1026 -g 100 myoldlogin

So my new user can login via Plasma, the new and old user can login via terminal, but my old user cannot login anymore via Plasma GUI.

My olduser now really has the userid 1026.

What went wrong, how can I fix this?