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Known issues with educational resources

Common issues

Keyboard language

The keyboard is in QWERTY

  • open a console
  • enter the command setxkbmap fr

home dir on educational resources

The ~/shared folder is not accessible

  • open a console
  • run the command kinit
  • authenticate with your account to retrieve a Kerberos ticket
  • access your shared folder

Graphical session

A graphical session on one of the Linux educational servers Turing or Ada is impossible -> black screen

  • the graphical session is problematic
  • Connect to the machine via SSH ssh <my-login>@turing
  • Send the command kill -1 which kills all your own processes
  • Try the graphical access again

Docker

The docker command does not work after a docker-rootless-init.shared

  • open a console
  • run the command systemctl --user stop docker.service
  • run the command again docker-rootless-init.sh

The docker command still does not work after the previous step

  • Call an IT technician
  • open a console
  • run the command sudo modprobe nf_tables