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How to fix: “Error: /usr/sbin/lvectl destroy-and-recreate-all failed”

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Note: This may also be seen as error: “Ive_destroy: destroy operations are not allowed from LVE context” in kernel logs/on the hypervisor KVM.[/box] I came across this error on a couple of new CloudLinux 8 servers running Plesk encountering users with newly imported/backup restored users from entering cagefs, with this error

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How To: Set up an MTProto/MTProxy Telegram Proxy Server

[box type=”warning” align=”” class=”” width=””]Please note this guide now uses a fork of the official MTProxy software. The official version is unmaintained (no updates in 5 years), and there is a bug from 2019 that remains unfixed and makes using MTProxy on newer Ubuntu releases difficult. The fork used is the most popular on GitHub

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Hands-on with WSLg, the official WSL GUI

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound

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How To: APFS write support for Fedora

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=”100%”]Note: This guide is based on the guide made by the developer available at https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse, but that guide is for Ubuntu.[/box] Download dependencies: sudo dnf install fuse fuse-devel libicu-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel cmake clang git zlib-devel Clone from Github: git clone https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse.git cd apfs-fuse git submodule init git submodule update Then build:

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Enable RPM Fusion Repositories on Fedora 32,33, and 34

RPM Fusion is a repository project offering software the Fedora team does not want to include in their own repositories. There are two different repos (free and nonfree). They’re both free as in money, but nonfree includes proprietary software. To enable the repos, use the commands below (running both is fine, but it depends on

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5 Things to do after installing Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla

Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, while not much has changed over 20.04 it does bring us a handful of new things (namely GNOME 3.38.0, ZFS is no longer classified as experimental, and the Linux Kernel 5.8). 1. Install a new theme and icons 20.10 might have only just been released, but Ubuntu’s UI

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How to find the location of a command in Linux

You can find where the command lives with either the whereis or which commands. The whereis command gives you the location of the command as well as the manual page, whereas which just gives you the location of the command. which: [root@hostname ~]# which plesk /sbin/plesk [root@hostname ~]# whereis: [root@hostname ~]# whereis plesk plesk: /sbin/plesk

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