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Well I think I got to the bottom of this annoying issue...

The monitor hardware was beginning to fail (12yr old 28" LED screen),... and as it kept resetting itself (on-off),.. it would send random...

I have to confess to not really knowing what is going here, other than to say the screen can start blanking, ( going completely black ), then coming back,.. and this can then continue every few...

I have some Bluetooth sennheiser headphones and running the latest Ubuntu 18.04, on an intel nuc.
Linux mhnuc 4.15.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 16 12:15:17 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64...

Sorry, folks My miss-understanding.. I actually have two problems which I assumed were one and the same...
Problem 1,.. trying to play mythtv media in browser,.. which causes browser to complain...

Hi tx for getting back,.. If I try and run/view channel4-OD content,.. I can can login to the CH4-OD web page,.. select the video to play,.. but then instead of playing the video stream I get is the...

I have a clean install of 16.04 desktop,. with chrome running. I have installed and successfully run the 'test' video with video.js

I have set, what I think are the correct settings,.. but I am...

Failed again,.. this time it only took 3 days,.
Have now removed passwds from the screenlock to see if that does anything... and cpu usage did not seem to go up,.. ( well at least for now)
Hummm

well after just over 5 days,.. it failed,..
I checked the logs in /var/logs.. and a trawled all recent log files,.. and nothing,.. the only thing in syslog was the tty login I had just done.
Any...

Ahh,.. yes,... I am using VBox,...
trying to run system with running guest m/c or VBox is not really practical,... as it is, m/c has been running for 4.5 days so far,.. and has not died,... so hence...

Intel nuc i7,.. with 16gig RAM...
Guest OS's I have running, would be Win10 Pro,.. mythbuntu, and maybe a win10Home... and maybe a mint
Although guests running does not seem to be a factor... but I...

I am running basic Ubuntu 16.04 install ( plus latest VirtualBox with guest editions installed) as a host OS for several other guests,. including other ubuntus, (mint, Xbuntu) and another Windows 10...

As a matter of closure on the thread,.. I did eventually get my system remote to fly.... however, I had to concede I had to run ir-keytable to load and setup some tables,... for use by lirc.....
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Have played some more,.. I can use irrecord to create a new remote file,... store this in the lirc folder,.. and point to it from the lircd.conf file....

Then running the lircd of the command...

OK,.. I have trawled various forums and wiki's,.. but I am now beginning to struggle as to where next,...

I have a base mythtbuntu 16 system installed.... using TBS tuner cards,.. all installed...

I need some help please,.. I have a mixed Msoft windows Linux environment,.. and I have tweaked the config files on my Raspberry Pi with Bind9 and isc-DHCP server for a while now,.. but my tweaks...

Thank you so much for your pointer,.... took me a while to get it working,.. but then noticed I had missed the trailing "." from ....arpa.
...but have been running things now for about a week...

Yes,.. Thanks for that,.. some useful thoughts,... some of my linux m/cs have fixed I/P addresses... and they are not privileged to know about the DNS change,... Yet.... But PCs which get their IP...

I have scanned forms a posts,.. and I am still missing the last pieces of the jigsaw,...

I have configured myself a Bind9 DNS server,.. as well as a ISC-DHCP_server,.... on the same machine,.. (...

So will the system know that I have come from root,. and NOT prompt me for a passwd if I run this within a cron job.........



To clarify this a bit for folks,... this is a media centre...

Ok,.. my dilemma is this,..

I am running a ubuntu apt-get update, followed by a apt-get -y upgrade. this works fine.

But then I need to run some additional commands within a script as a user,.....

That's great,.. I was not aware that running sudo within a script worked as though one was typing in at the command line,.. ( I assumed it would prompt for the password at each sudo command ).
Many...

Trying to automate the install of a tuner card driver,.... the problem is some of the script is run as root,.. some as user.

How can I run the different parts of the build process within the...

Unless anyone can tell me otherwise,.. following further research,. I am led to believe that a complete disk backup is not possible with the likes of dump and dd,...

Each partition must be backed...

Further developments here are that I finally managed to created a cloned disk,.. although loading grub did prove to be a challenge.

So with new cloned disk,.. tried to image entire disk with...

As a point of closure on this question I have found that the following should sort my problem out,.. although I must confess I have not got round to trying it out yet as I have other issues to work...