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by bjornmu
Sun May 22, 2022 4:54 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Simple HTML editor suggestions?
Replies: 6
Views: 1248

Re: Simple HTML editor suggestions?

Thanks, that was much better than Libreoffice. There were some minor issues though. I wanted to center some paragraphs of text but it just wasn't possible. And it refused to enable a Norwegian dictionary until I installed a combined dictionary. 🤨 I also see that it added some unnecessarily duplicate...
by bjornmu
Sun May 22, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Simple HTML editor suggestions?
Replies: 6
Views: 1248

Simple HTML editor suggestions?

I have suddenly become webmaster for the local stamp club after the previous webmaster passed away last month :( (he was only 60). After some back and forth I finally got access to update the web pages. I could download the whole shebang with rsync and then I can edit locally before rsync'ing change...
by bjornmu
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:39 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: How to install MinGW and cross-compile for Windows?
Replies: 2
Views: 275

Re: How to install MinGW and cross-compile for Windows?

Cygwin "pollutes" the environment for everything else that are being built on the same Windows hosts, and which we also need to ensure can build *without* Cygwin.
by bjornmu
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:13 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: How to install MinGW and cross-compile for Windows?
Replies: 2
Views: 275

How to install MinGW and cross-compile for Windows?

I have a task at work to build a third party software package for Windows. Unlike others we use, this one appears to require Cygwin and gcc. But installing Cygwin on our Windows build hosts is a big no-no :!: so I need to find some other way. Apparently it should also be possible to cross-compile us...
by bjornmu
Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:46 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: process won't die?
Replies: 18
Views: 1451

Re: process won't die?

The zoom "process" is marked Z for zombie, that means it's not a process any longer, just an empty shell so to speak. The reason it still shows up is that its parent process has not picked up its remains. It will not be doing anything or using any resources apart from that entry in the pro...
by bjornmu
Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:56 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Count files in certain nested directories
Replies: 2
Views: 665

Re: Count files in certain nested directories

To count the files, you can try this command in a terminal (after cd to the photos folder): find . -type f | grep -c .thumbs The find command simply prints the names of all files at all levels inside the current directory, one per line. The grep -c then counts how many of those have .thumbs in the f...
by bjornmu
Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:33 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved, kind of] Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42
Replies: 6
Views: 616

Re: Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42

Update: it's not the kernel's fault and it's not firefox. I have a memory fault. :( I rebooted after getting a kernel upgrade, and after that, I started my two firefoxes first and then the VirtualBox VM, which is opposite of what I did last time. This time FF was OK but inside the VM, both FF and Vi...
by bjornmu
Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:06 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: 'kill' command has broken my plank
Replies: 3
Views: 594

Re: 'kill' command has broken my plank

But the OP said it still did not work after a reboot, so this can't be caused by any lingering processes. I agree it's most likely some config file left in an inconsistent state.
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:24 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved, kind of] Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42
Replies: 6
Views: 616

Re: Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42

I did reboot after that upgrade, but I did not reboot after the upgrade before that. Could that have somehow caused some internal corruption: not rebooting after a kernel upgrade and then getting another upgrade? If so then I can always hope it'll go away if I make sure to reboot after the next one....
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:57 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved, kind of] Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42
Replies: 6
Views: 616

Re: Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42

Thanks for the tip. My previous kernel was 5.3.0.40.97 so there's something with the latest update. BTW before that update, firefox was eating up memory so fast (with youtube) that I had to restart it every day, that problem has gone away now. Maybe I can hope for a fix soon, but otherwise I may try...
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:01 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved, kind of] Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42
Replies: 6
Views: 616

[Solved, kind of] Firefox keeps crashing after kernel upgrade 5.3.0-42

Recently I've had issues with firefox which I first attributed to other causes but I've since eliminated those and also looked closer at when it happened. I now find it started happening within an hour after I had updated the kernel to 5.3.0-42.99 (package linux-generic-hwe-18.04) last Tuesday. This...
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:24 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Files Won't Delete From Directory
Replies: 10
Views: 2663

Re: Files Won't Delete From Directory

Or just do

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rm -rf /path/to/directory
if you're sure it does not contain any files you want to keep.
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:20 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Timeshift - Not Enough Disk Space
Replies: 5
Views: 3232

Re: Timeshift - Not Enough Disk Space

I had a related issue with my new Mint 19.3 desktop. Not long after everything was set up and running fine, all of a sudden the 412G /home partition was full. :shock: It turned out Timeshift had started to backup the HDD on my other desktop, which I had NFS mounted as /dstore but neglected to put on...
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:54 pm
Forum: Other topics
Topic: Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?
Replies: 3
Views: 719

Re: Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?

After some time I was again able to start firefox. But now all files and dirs belonging to one of the two users were wiped, and around that time I see this in the syslog: Mar 18 22:41:39 moog systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of bjorn. Mar 18 22:41:39 moog systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UI...
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:09 pm
Forum: Other topics
Topic: Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?
Replies: 3
Views: 719

Re: Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?

OK here are details: System: Host: moog Kernel: 5.3.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Console: tty 7 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B360M-A v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2602 dat...
by bjornmu
Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:51 pm
Forum: Other topics
Topic: Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?
Replies: 3
Views: 719

Has something just started emptying /dev/shm?

I use directories under /dev/shm for caches to save on writes to the SSD. E.g. I have made .cache/mozilla/firefox into a softlink to /dev/shm/cache/firefox. Of course I have to remember re-creating those after boot but I reboot very seldom. Yesterday morning I had a very mysterious crash of Firefox ...
by bjornmu
Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:54 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Firefox is suddenly completely dead
Replies: 4
Views: 779

Re: Firefox is suddenly completely dead

Gaaaah, so simple and yet so hard to spot: I have moved some cache directories, including those for firefox, to ramdisk to save on disk usage. So e.g. ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox is a softlink to /dev/shm/cache/firefox. Of course I have to recreate those directories after a boot and this is what I hadn...
by bjornmu
Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:03 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Firefox is suddenly completely dead
Replies: 4
Views: 779

Re: Firefox is suddenly completely dead

There is more... If I run firefox -P foo where foo is a profile that does not exist, it does in fact open the Profile Wizard. If I try to start an existing profile, it just exits (exit code 1) but if instead I try to create a new profile, enter a name and click Finish, I get a window with this crypt...
by bjornmu
Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:05 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Firefox is suddenly completely dead
Replies: 4
Views: 779

Re: Firefox is suddenly completely dead

More info. I can run firefox -g and when I say 'run' I get this: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". [New Thread 0x7ffff69ff700 (LWP 8291)] [Thread 0x7ffff69ff700 (LWP 8291) exited] warning: Corrupted shar...
by bjornmu
Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:34 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Firefox is suddenly completely dead
Replies: 4
Views: 779

[Solved] Firefox is suddenly completely dead

I hit the reload on a page right now and FF crashed. So it did when I tried to restart. And the same happens for two different users on the same box. I run Linux Mint 19.3 Mate. When I tried to start firefox from the command line, it said something about not being able to load curl from the binary. ...

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