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Thank you for all your efforts! The output to the command above is as expected. Browsing through the syslogs, I came upon the following line:


Feb 27 21:23:08 <host> org.gnome.ScreenSaver[1513]:...

Doesn't work either...

Thanks for the hint, but I'm afraid it didn't work. Tried resetting, rebooted, tried resetting with sudo, rebooted again, still nothing :-(

I don't think I would do that. On a server, you don't want anything running that you don't *really* need - both for performance and security reasons. x2go really is the best option here, like TheFu...

Hi everyone,

booting my laptop (Thinkpad T420) last night, Unity failed to start after login. I rebooted via commandline and everything seemed to start normally, except that several keyboard...

If you're not afraid of the commandline, Ubuntu Server 16.04 is the one to go for. It has a long support life and comes preinstalled with many of the components a typical server is going to need. At...

Hm, I should have thought about those log files earlier. Here's what I found:


*user*@*host*:~$ grep "WARNING" /var/log/fail2ban.log
2017-09-03 23:45:17,030 fail2ban.transmitter [8485]:...

No, I didn't change the filter. f2b is at version 0.9.3.

On closer inspection, I'm pretty sure fail2ban is not the problem. I just had a look at iptables:


*user*@*host*:~$ tail -n 200...

Hm, I don't understand this. I had set the bantime to 86400 seconds (= 24h) in the [default] section of /etc/fail2ban/jail.local, yet
fail2ban-client get sshd bantime returns 600. Even when I...

Hello all,

I recently set up my first virtual private server, administrating it via SSH. Very soon I found that there were constant brute force attacks on the service with massed attempts to log...

Hi everyone,

I've just learnt that Ubuntu Budgie is an official flavour now. As I am not a fan of the GNOME shell, I've been thinking about what DE to switch to when Canonical dumps Unity. (I know...

Fascinating how many people around here have dabbled with Arch! I'm another one of them...

I jumped into Linux with Ubuntu 12.04. About a year later, when I had gotten comfortable with the...

Hi Dave,

what you are reporting sounds like a VLC bug to me... As far as I can see, VLC 3.0.0 is still a development version (their website says that 2.2.5 is the current one). I therefore suggest...

Wow, that news came as a shock! I must say I am very disappointed.

I know people have been ranting about Unity ever since it came out, but from humble beginnings it has morphed into a solid,...

Hello Vaclav,

I seem to remember I have experienced that behaviour myself when I was still running Trusty. I'm pretty sure it's a bug. Could you do the community a favour and report it?...

Ah, great, I hadn't seen the unofficial forums yet. The style of the question didn't really seem appropriate for stack exchange.

Thanks for moving it, I wasn't aware of that subforum. Unfortunately, elementaryOS doesn't have it's own support forum that I could have posted to, and as it's very similar to Ubuntu under the hood,...

Hey everyone,

I am currently facing the weirdest problem I have so far encountered on Linux. Some time ago I set up my sister's laptop with elementaryOS 0.3 (basically Ubuntu 14.04 with a...

Hi Ron,



Could you elaborate on that please? Do you remember what it was that couldn't be installed? Oh, and you haven't told us yet how your computer is set up partition-wise.

1) How many...

Well, that sounds like a bucketful! (And welcome to the forums, by the way.) Let's see if we can help.

So, first things first: have you ever gotten an error message, either while installing...

1. Sorry, don't know what might cause that. My only advice would be to reinstall from scratch, if that is a viable option. You might want to post this again as a separate question. (In general, each...

In general, Thinkpads have a reputation for being great Linux laptops (writing this from a T420 myself), so I wouldn't expect any major issues.

(Although, having just done a quick DDG turned up...

Hi everyone,

I recently installed Xenial on a used Thinkpad T420 I bought. On the whole I'm quite pleased with it, but I have noticed one thing that I find very annoying: occasionally, when...

Hi there,

"mounting" means inserting a file system into the Linux file tree, ready for use - "opening" simply means using it. You'll find more details here.

Concerning your question I found an...

Looks like I asked too soon - a bit more googling turned up these two pages:

http://superuser.com/questions/567819/switching-from-pop3-to-imap...