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Can’t assign password to user with ansible user module

When I run this it does what it’s supposed to do. It creates the user and the home directory that I specify. It also prints out a password and the hash but I can’t log change to this user no matter what I do. Any suggestions on how I can get a password assigned to this user correctly would be

SDL audio randomly becomes distorted on Linux

I have a strange issue with SDL audio. It will randomly become distorted. It’s completely random, I can’t reliably reproduce it at all. Sometime it starts being distorted seconds after the program starts, other times I’ve played with the software, let it run over night and it’ll still …

zipping all files specified in a text file and then deleting them

I’m trying to add each file, specified one per line, into a file named files.zip. The directory structure of each file specified should remain as is. After the file listed in files.txt is added to files.zip it should be deleted, but never the directories. The structure of the text file is one file per l…

LWJGL – OpenGL not rendering

The following LWJGL code is expected to render a blueish square in the center of the screen. Instead, I get a blank white screen. It’s like the rendering is not working at all, or that I am rendering outside of the screen. I’m a complete noob in OpenGL and LWJGL, so I’m out of my depth. I we…

Terminal hangs when executing yum commands

During a patch window, the yum update command stopped running with a Bus Error. Now when I try to execute a yum command my terminal hangs and I need to kill the process. I have tried to kill all the yum commands running that showed with the ps -aef | grep yum, this did not help. I have tried to