It seems that I have a left over lockfile for lftp somewhere in my Ubuntu 22.04. I need help to locate it.
Since Firefox in Ubuntu 21.10 became a snap app it does not see files in /tmp. I could of course remove the snap version and install an "ordinary" version, but this seems as a bad work around as I suspect that more and more apps will use snap. How can I give snap apps access to files outside /home? In this specific case, can I have a temporary directory in a dierctory available to a snap app?
When starting Thunderbird in Ubuntu 20.10 an error message is displayed
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml
Line Number 905, Column 3:
<key id="openLightningKey"
--^
and nothing more happens. However Thunderbird can be started in "safe mode" with the command line command
thunderbird -safe-mode
I have a number of language packs installed, German, English (CA), English (GB), French and Swedish.
How can I make Thunderbird start OK from the apllications menu?
Running Ubuntu 19.10 with MediaWiki 1.31.1 installed. I have a wiki that worked well under Ubuntu 19.04 but says MediaWiki 1.31 internal error
Installing some PHP extensions is required. Required components
You are missing a required extension to PHP that MediaWiki requires to run. Please install:
xml (more information)
though xml is loaded for PHP 7.3. But for 7.2 which also is installed xml is not loaded. I guess that MediaWiki uses 7.2. How can I determine the version used? And if it is the wrong, how is it changed?
Is there a logfile for the upgrade process of Ubuntu available? My upgrade from Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 failed for MySQL but I did not manage to see what went wrong in the terminal window. Therefore I want to browse a possible log file.
After updating from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 under Xfce, the terminal can not be started from the Panel.
Failed to launch preferred application for category TerminalEmulator. Failed to execute child process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/exo-helper-1 (No such file or directory).) Directory exo-1 does not exist.
The same error messages occurs when trying to start other preferred applications from the application list.
How can this problem be solved?
When I encrypt or decrypt a file I get *** WARNING : deprecated key derivation used.
Using -iter or -pbkdf2 would be better.
I do not understand what this means, how i should change the my procedures. Could you help me?
I encrypt with openssl des3 <input >output.des3 and decrypt with openssl des3 -d <input.des3 >output
About the environment
Ubuntu 18.10
~$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018
After updating from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 my Wiki stopped working.
My system looks like:
~$ ls /var/www/html/mediawiki-1.30.0/
api.php img_auth.php phpcs.xml
autoload.php includes profileinfo.php
cache index.php README
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md INSTALL RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
composer.json jsduck.json resources
composer.local.json-sample languages serialized
COPYING load.php skins
CREDITS LocalSettings.php StartProfiler.sample
docs LocalSettings.php~ tests
extensions maintenance thumb_handler.php
FAQ mediawiki-1.30.0 thumb.php
Gruntfile.js mediawiki-1.30.0.tar.gz UPGRADE
HISTORY mw-config vendor
images opensearch_desc.php
and directing Firefox to http://localhost/mediawiki-1.30.0/ makes it display run(); whereas Chromium displays:
<?php
/**
* This is the main web entry point for MediaWiki.
*
* If you are reading this in your web browser, your server is probably
* not configured correctly to run PHP applications!
*
* See the README, INSTALL, and UPGRADE files for basic setup instructions
* and pointers to the online documentation.
*
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki
*
* ----------
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
* http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
*
* @file
*/
// Bail on old versions of PHP, or if composer has not been run yet to install
// dependencies. Using dirname( __FILE__ ) here because __DIR__ is PHP5.3+.
// @codingStandardsIgnoreStart MediaWiki.Usage.DirUsage.FunctionFound
require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/includes/PHPVersionCheck.php';
// @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
wfEntryPointCheck( 'index.php' );
require __DIR__ . '/includes/WebStart.php';
$mediaWiki = new MediaWiki();
$mediaWiki->run();
I had this happen before and I got an answer that solved the problem. However, I can not find the answer any longer, thus I must ask the question again.
I think the answer was a configuration item but which? Configuration of apache2, php7.2 or mediawiki?
I have created an ISO image of Ubuntu 18.04 on an USB stick with the burner of Ubuntu 17.10. When I use the USB stick to boot on a new HP Pavilion G7 running Windows 10 it loads Ubuntu 18.04 and shows a desktop. I can move the cursor but nothing happens when I click on any of the icons. I have changed the boot options to use legacy and disabled secure boot. My old Dell can boot from the USB stick without problems.
My daily incremental duplicity job crashes:
duplicity-
inc.20160210T210502Z.to.20160211T210503Z.vol4.difftar.gpg]
Last full backup date: Sun Oct 2 20:04:33 2016
Error accessing possibly locked file /run/user/1000/gvfs
/home/tpollak/bin/backup_duplicity_incr_exclude_media: line 65: 3826 Killed duplicity -v4 --log-file /home/tpollak/backupIncrLog --volsize 1000 --exclude /boot --exclude /cdrom --exclude /dev --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /tmp --exclude /home/tpollak/.gvfs --exclude /home/tpollak/Downloads --exclude /home/tpollak/Trash --exclude /media / ftp://[email protected]/Tommy/for_duplicity
Error in call or known bug?
cron starts a duplicity job to do an incremental backup of my system, desktop. A partition is NTFS, /media/OS/Program Files ... Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 (from 16.04) the job cries Can not access file /media/OS/Program Files ... possibly locked.
The permissions for the NTFS directories and files can not be set.
So what can I do (if I do not want to downgrade to 16.04)?
For mediawiki to work on apache2 a file /etc/apache2/conf/mediawiki is required. Where can I find it?