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Fedora 28: Enable NumLock on Login

I lost my primary drive on Friday, and I’m having to rebuild a bunch of stuff. I didn’t document minor things like this before, so I am this time around. Hopefully someone else finds this useful. numlockx There are plenty of different ways to enable NumLock on login, including a decent manual approach. An official X extension, numlockx, can handle it automatically for us. There’s an unofficial mirror available to build the package from source, or you can check for it in official channels.

  • CJ Harries
    CJ Harries
CJ Harries 21 May 2018 • 4 min read
Ubuntu Notes: Unlocking /var/lib/dpkg
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Ubuntu Notes: Unlocking /var/lib/dpkg

I ran into some issues this morning setting up a Xenial box via Vagrant. On boot, /var/lib/dpkg was totally locked with nothing I knew to link it to in ps aux. I’ve created a fairly novel solution; my point today was to learn about something new. You should have a basic familiarity with the Linux CLI. If you don’t know what systemd is, that’s not a big deal. Skip to my take on a full solution if you’d like, but make sure to read the disclaimer first.

  • CJ Harries
    CJ Harries
CJ Harries 26 November 2017 • 7 min read
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