Das Werkstatt

I'm a happy Kodi/libreelec on RPi user for at least 10 years now. Awesome. Thanks to everyone making this possible! Still using it with a very old version, because that's /all I need/ - and it stays the way I like and know it. Even my 3y old daughter can navigate it using a handheld keyboard/mouse H...

Unfortunately, there's more. I've installed "common module", and then tried to install Sparql again, but get this error: Laminas\Router\Exception\RuntimeException Route with name "sparql" not found Seems I'm not the first one: https://forum.omeka.org/t/spaqrl-module-installation-...

When trying to install Daniel-KM's "Sparql" module for Omeka S: https://omeka.org/s/modules/Sparql/ ...I get the following error: Error Failed opening required '/home/.sites/1/site9786333/web/pha/omeka-s/modules/Common/TraitModule.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php://share/php/php:/usr/sha...

[PROBLEM] Trying to `pandoc test.html -o test.pdf`: :shock: :( [WARNING] Could not fetch resource : replacing image with description [WARNING] Could not convert image /tmp/tex2pdf.-b88a2ed6c68716a2/f83e1f09c250858dedf0cb5e1214b94760791e49.svg: check that rsvg-convert is in path. rsvg-convert: creat...

Thunar's bookmarks (shortcuts) are stored in: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks Custom actions are stored in: ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml Make sure to *close* all thunar instances, then copy (overwrite) those files from a backup - and then restart Thunar. (If you have Thunar windows open while copying those ...

In `/var/lib/locales/supported.d` there are textfiles for each language code. By default (on ubuntu) there's a file called "en". And it contains "English" locales: en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_IN UTF-8 en_IL UTF-8 en_ZM UTF-8 en_ZW.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_NZ.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_PH.UT...

Tried to mount a samba share, and got this error: mount error(2): No such file or directory dmesg said: kernel: CIFS VFS: BAD_NETWORK_NAME: \\servername\sharename [SOLUTION] It was actually so, that the wrong /etc/samba/smb.conf was loaded - so "sharename" was not present. Make sure that &...

yt-dlp supports extended file attributes (EAs) - aka "xattrs" on Linux/MacOS: --xattrs Write metadata to the video file's xattrs (using dublin core and xdg standards) This stores descriptive metadata *with* the downloaded object/file. For example, the following video "Vessel" (by...

[PROBLEM] sudo snap install btop [sudo] password for user: error: cannot install "btop": Post "https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:443: connect: connection refused [SOLUTION] I had the following lines in my "/etc/hosts": # Hack to disable aut...

For some reason (*) my /lib was suddenly empty. Very nasty. Long story short, here's how I fixed it: * boot a live distro (of similar OS version/flavor) * In my case: Xubuntu 20.04.6 (live) over 20.04.5 (=compatible, but slight library/version deviation) * Mount the broken OS system disk. * rsync -a...

The following parameter selects a maximum resolution of 720 pixels (height), avc1 (=h.264) as video codec and mp4 as container format:

Here's an error that MPV throws when trying to open a file from a network (Samba on Linux) share: Using netbios name HOSTNAME1 Using workgroup DVA-PROFESSION. gensec_spnego_client_negTokenTarg_step: SPNEGO(ntlmssp) login failed: NT_STATUS_WRONG_CREDENTIAL_HANDLE [smb] Could not open from LAN: smb://...

[PROBLEM] I have a known-to-be-working smb.conf which shares a local folder with write-access for certain logins, and read-only access for guests/anonymous. Authenticated login (using a smbpasswd-mapped account) works. The config is known to be stable and working on many hosts (in my setups), but o...

On Debian 10, I had "noatime" as argument in the fstab.
Removing it fixed the problem.

However, on Debian 12, "noatime" in the arguments in fstab for mounting cifs/smb share worked.

[PROBLEM] After adding new kernel parameters for full IOMMU separation of hardware devices (See Proxmox PVE: passthrough of non-GPU + split IOMMUs ). Seems like loading the kernel module (?) for `pcie_acs_override` support, triggers to load the mokmanager.efi boot image: proxmox_pve-mokmanager_boot...