1. xemacs error: "Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion"
Set your .envrc or enter this code at the $ prompt
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2. Find command to locate/find files in linux
Use following syntax:
$ find /<directory-location> -user <username> -name
<file-name>
Where,
* directory-location : Try to find files in this directory path
* -user { group-name } : Find file belongs to username.
* -name {file-name} : Actual name of file to search
e.g.
$ find /home -user ashish -name myfile.txt
3. To synchronize system date/time
You need a program called ntpdate
installed on your linux system. If installed by default, you may
find it under /usr/sbin/. For eg. on a ubuntu machine, give the
following command:
$ ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
4. To set up X-window display environment if you get error message like "No X11 DISPLAY variable was set",
$ setenv DISPLAY $REMOTEHOST":0.0"
This will last till the current session, else modify the .bash_profile
5. Sound card error on linux server, when sound card is absent, various alsa error messages appear like "ALSA lib conf.c:3968:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device". To switch off such sound card related error messages:
Disable sound for your profile (use gksudo if your are root
administrator)
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Choose "root>>desktop>>gnome>>sound" and uncheck the event sound options.
6. Stata10 installation error for missing "libtiff.3.7.4.so":
First, try to locate if any libtiff libraries are there in
the system by locate command -
$locate libtiff.
This might probably list a set of libtiff versions on the
system. Check on Stata's website if that is the latest one
required at:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/dynamiclibs.html, you
may just need to create a symbolic link to the version on your
system or may need to download the latest one.
7. LANG and locale related error on linux/ubuntu system, like "Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged"
This is a patch related issue for debian based openssh. Please visit the package maintainer's webpage for this problem by clicking here.