At a guess FDE stands for Full Disk Encryption. Which seems to match his description.

But we still need more details to have any chance of solving the problem.

Chris

Try sudo -i in a terminal window. Hopefully that should ask for your user password then take you into a root shell. Then you can use passwd root to change the root password (it sounds as if it's not what you think it is).

Chris

Hello bimon,

The staphylococcus poisoning was probably an accident. It's impossible to say exactly what effect it would have on any given individual. So it's not any use to control someone.

There's an old saying, "Never ascribe to malice anything adequately explained by stupidity". Which fits this case quite well.

But if you do need to keep secrets:
1: The safest option is to keep it all in your head. If you must share information talk face to face and make sure there are no listening devices around.

2: Use pencil (or pen) and paper. Mass surveilance of mail is too much work for the authorities (at least in civilised countries). If you must use a computer use one that's not connected to the internet (check for wireless adapters etc). This is standard for tax advisers etc (not illegal but laws can be changed to your disadvantage if they know what you are planning).

3: If you have to use the internet then use normal computer security procedures. And keep anything really sensitive off the system.

Chris

To ask the obvious question, how much RAM and swap space has your new laptop got? Run free -ht on it to find out (and on your old one to see the difference).

Chris

ps -e | grep DeleteService should tell you the PID in the first column of output. Try ps -p xxx where xxx is the PID. Then ps -fp xxx and ps -Fp xxx.

If the last two don't work look in /proc/xxx and see if you can find out what it is (compare with /proc/n for tasks that appear normal).

If you can't find the PID try ps -e | less and ps -ef | less etc.

But I don't have such a task running so I'm guessing if this will help.

Chris

Why use SAMBA between Linux and Mac? They are both UNIX variants so NFS or something similar is more likely to work.

The only situation I would want to use SAMBA is if I needed to share files between Windows and Linux systems.

Chris

Do you have a desktop or a laptop? In either case my first thought would be to clean dust etc out of it to stop it overheating. If that fails on a desktop I would think of improving case ventilation or fitting a better cooler.

I've had systems where clearing dust and fluff out reduced CPU temperature several degrees.

Chris

The config.log file should be in the same directory you ran ./configure in. Try less config.log to see what's in it.

If that fails ./configure is usually a script so you could look at it to see where it puts config.log. But it might be hard to follow if you don't know shell scripting.

And you may need to build a live CD with gcc on it to make this work.

Chris

I've got several systems I administer by ssh'ing from my main system so I had this problem too.

My main system sets the window title to match the prompt, eg to the following:

chris@rigel:~/bin

But most of the other systems don't set it. As a work around I created a directory named after each system on my main system, cd'ed  into it and ssh'ed from there onto the other system. So the window title says something like:

chris@rigel:~/vega

which tags the window as being the one ssh'ed onto vega. It's not ideal but it helps.

Also on all my systems the prompt says the hostname as well as the current directory. Train yourself to look at it before doing anything. You might be able to set the prompt to different colours on different systems (although I prefer green prompt most of the time, but red if I need to run as root).

Chris

I don't know anything about the order of processing initrd. Sorry.

I'd run lsinitramfs -l to get a long list of the contents. File sizes etc could be useful.

Chris

You probably need to run update-initramfs (or live-update-initramfs) to make the blacklist take effect. Without that the initial ramdisk will still tell the OS to load nouveau. Check the man page first though.

Chris

awk counts words separated by spaces. So as long as the number of pages printed is just a string of digits awk will total it correctly. I've run similar code to total multi digit numbers without problems.

You could make a copy of some of the log, edit the numbers, run awk against it and see what you get. That should find any problems in time to fix them

Chris