Category: Workarounds

Linux IPFS two node Setup with Mirroring (Easy Setup)

If you want to Mirror your Personal Files over the Internet to two or more Decentral Nodes (perhaps Private), you can do it with the well known Internet Planetary Filesystem called IPFS. The major problem was in History to SYNC the Nodes hourly by Cronjob. The very easy fast way is to Setup kubo-go-ipfs from […]

Ubuntu 24.04 fails to dim Acer Backlight

Solution: Open a terminal and create the following configuration file, if it does not exist: sudo touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Now we need to edit this file. You can use any editor be it a terminal one or graphical. sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Add the following lines to this file: Section "Device" Identifier "card0" Driver "intel" Option "Backlight" […]

IPFS on private Network Webui broken Workaround Fix

If you Setup IPFS on a private Linux Server and you wont share Files over Internet you must do this: Setup Debian Download and install https://dist.ipfs.tech/kubo/v0.32.1/kubo_v0.32.1_linux-amd64.tar.gz (inside the ipfs copy to /usr/local/bin) Create a new Linux User called Pluto and login on console to Pluto run “ipfs init” as User Pluto now start ipfs by […]

Linux Samba User Add Script

Problem: The User Password Sync on Standalone Samba Server like Debian & Ubuntu without LDAP is broken since years! So i wrote a small Script called add-user-smb.sh: #!/bin/bash # Prompt for username read -p "Username: " username # Prompt for password without echoing read -p "Password: " password # Add a new User to Linux […]

Bug: XDM Login Manager fails start on Boot

Seen on ubuntu 22.04 after do-release-upgrade the xdm Login Manager fails to start, cause a old xdm.pid file hangs from last shutdown on “/run/xdm.pid”. XDM prevent start on a old PID File!! Workaround edit Roots crontab to purge it: sudo crontab -e @reboot rm -rf /run/xdm.pid > /dev/null 2>&1 quit and save with “:wq!” ..reboot

Ubuntu Upgrade Bug: do-release-upgrade breaks cups wrapper filter files for Brother Laser Printers

If you upgrade ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 via “do-release-upgrade” and you have installed brother laser printer drivers, the whole “cups” printing system will FAIL on print and log missing “filters” at cups log. The “lp” printer output piped into nirvana! Check at  /usr/lib/cups/filter/ for the filter files Reinstalls cups by deinstall/reinstall with –purge config option […]

Install Cewe or Rossmann Photobook Software Linux

Problem: Cewe Fotobuch Software wurde für 32bit Linux geschrieben lässt sich daher nach der Installation wegen fehlender Libraries nicht starten. Lösung: Download der Software von http://www.cewe-fotobuch.de/download/ Konsole öffnen (ähnlich Windows Dos Fenster – keine Mausgesteuerte Installation) die Datei Namens setup_Mein_CEWE_Fotobuch.tgz nach /tmp kopieren entpacken des Archives (.tgz) starten des Perlscripts nachträgliche Installation der 32bit Framedateien […]