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Cannot Increase open file limit past 4096 (Ubuntu)

I'm on Ubuntu 17.04. Trying to increase the open file limit, and none of the instructions I've found online are working. I can go up to 4096, but can't go past that. $ ulimit -n 1024 $ ulimit -n 4096 $ ulimit -n 4096 That works. This doesn't: $…
mkasberg
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SSH jumphost error: channel 0: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed

I'm trying to open an ssh connection with following command: ssh -J user@X.X.X.X user@10.10.1.1 with following error: channel 0: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed stdio forwarding failed ssh_exchange_identification: Connection…
andi-g
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Attribute “partition” not found - error when formatting USB flash drive

I have a USB flash drive that's become unrecognisable in Windows 7, as detailed in my question on SuperUser here. I was advised to try using Ubuntu, and was able to see the flash drive using it, although using Disks to zero-wipe, format it and…
Hashim Aziz
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Gnome hangs up after wake up

Every time I press "login" when my laptop wakes up from the sleep state, Gnome GUI hang up for 30 secs to 5 minutes. No keyboard shortcuts are effective and the mouse pointer can still move, but I'm unable to click. I'm running Ubuntu 17.04 with…
Taz8du29
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How to apt install imagemagick version 7 instead of 6?

I'm trying to install the latest imagemagick on an Ubuntu 17.10 server. Imagemagick version 7 has been out for ages, but to my surprise, this: sudo apt install imagemagick Installs version 6.9.7 instead of 7.x I already did sudo apt update and sudo…
RocketNuts
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Did I kill my flashdrive?

I have a SanDisk Ultra 64GB (SDDD3-064G-G46) flash drive, which I haven't used in a while. Today I plugged it into my computer (I use Ubuntu Linux 17.04, but dual boot into Windows 10) and found it unable to load the drive. It even crashed the disks…
brndn2k
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Deny non-root users to mount devices?

I don't like the idea of a non-root user being able to mount partitions on my system (or mount them with write-privileges to be more specific). Even though mount only works for root users, my file manager dolphin can mount partitions without root…
Cubi73
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Ubuntu alt + shift in Eclipse change language and cannot use any other shortcut

When pressing alt+shift in Eclipse it changes the layout as (alt+shift) is the shortcut to change the language, any other shortcut start with alt+shift cannot be used. Is there anyway to solve this conflict so I can use alt+shift for change language…
Mohammad Karmi
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MX Master mouse too sensitive in Ubuntu

I have a Logitech MX Master mouse (bluetooth) and Ubuntu 17.04. The mouse is fine with Windows but I find it too jumpy in Ubuntu, and can be trick clicking on into the right place in text and links. I tried changing the pointer speed in the mouse &…
Zac Tolley
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how to solve (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED) , VM player for Ubuntu 17.04

I have a 64 bit pc and i downloaded ubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64 and then I tried to make a Ubuntu VM using Ubuntu 17.04 but is is giving me an error it says failed to open disk image here is the trace back. Could not get the storage format of the…
P.hunter
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Managing networks in VirtualBox

So I have recently started making a router and other things that I haven't decided yet out of an old computer I had lying around. It has 2 NIC's. It is running Ubuntu 17.04 and VirtualBox. Currently my only VM is PfSense. I want to know what network…
Owen Chiu
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Ethernet connection drops for 10-20 seconds every 20 minutes

Once or twice an hour, my Ubuntu machine's ethernet connection will drop: $ ping google.com (nothing happens) After 10-20s (though sometimes longer) it will magically come back. During the outages, I'm unable to ping google.com or an IP, so I…
danvk
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UDF Partition is readonly and has no size in windows but Read/Write in Linux

I am having the following issue. I have an UDF partition for interoperability between Linux and windows on a dual boot system (having some VM hard disks images there). All was okay, I could read from and write to the partition on windows and Linux.…
Wilko van der Veen
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KDE on CentOS steals Alt-Shift from applications?

I'm using KDE on CentOS 7 on one machine and KDE on Kubuntu 16.04 on another. In both cases I've set Alt-Shift to switch keyboard layout. However, in Kubuntu Alt-Shift-XXX is still free: I can make use of Alt-Shift-5 [aka Alt-%] in Emacs and…
Adobe
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Upgrade from ubuntu 17.04 to some new supported version

As you can tell, I'm a bit of a Linux noob. I haven't upgraded my ubuntu 17.04 and this is causing me a painful headache. I can't use apt-get at all. I imagine the reason behind this is the lack of support of my version. I tried following some…
Heitor M.
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