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Jarkko Linnanvirta avatar
Xubuntu: How to prevent Thunar from auto-opening a specific usb thumb drive?
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I have one specific usb thumb drive that I use to store a git repository. When I plug it in, I'd like it to mount automatically, but without opening a Thunar window showing the content of the thumb drive. I only use git push and git pull commands to access the contents of the drive, so a popping up Thunar window just blocks my workflow.

Just to emphasize: I do want Thunar to open up every time I st ...

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creatldd1 creatldd1 avatar
where is subiquity's snap gone?
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I was playing with snap subiquity and installed it with following command :

snap download --channel edge subiquity

Then I did a snap list

$snap list
Name                             Version                     Rev    Tracking         Publisher   Notes
autoinstall-generator            0.1.0                       64     latest/stable    dbungert    -
core18                           20210611            ...
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Rad avatar
New ubuntu installation removed old grub configuration, cannot set up dual boot
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Rad

I have previously had Windows 10 and Ubuntu installed with grub being able to dual boot to Windows and to Ubuntu. I have decided to reinstall Ubuntu due to reasons and unfortunately, it installed wrong grub configuration. Now I am not able to boot to Windows, it is not seen from grub (or os-prober).

I have multiple disks, Windows is installed on one SSD (sdc) and Linux has its own HDD (sda).

I th ...

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Chan Jacky avatar
Can't install vscode arm64
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when i use sudo dpkg -i code_1.58.2-1626300392_arm64.deb

then

(Reading database ... 99048 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack code_1.58.2-1626300392_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking code:arm64 (1.58.2-1626300392) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of code:arm64:
 code:arm64 depends on libnss3 (>= 2:3.26).
 code:arm64 depends on apt.
 code:arm64 depends on lib ...
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how to Identify which process is causing computer to freeze?
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EDIT 2
While it didn't answer my original question, since increasing the swap to 4G I don't experience any more computer freezes, so I accepted the answer

EDIT

As @heyynema suggested, I ran the following operations enter image description here

I'll report back in a few days whether this has solved/improved the issue

OP

I'm running multiple dev related processes on my machine in the background, i.e. vscode, dev servers, etc

every  ...

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CallMyName avatar
Issue installing Brother printer, Device URI "unable to locate printer"
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Installing Brother printer for the first time following the instructions found at this link, Brother - Driver Install Tool:

...

  1. Get superuser authorization with the "su" command or "sudo su" command.

  2. Run the tool:

    Command: bash linux-brprinter-installer-*.*.*-* Brother <machine name>

    e.g. bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 MFC-J880DW

  3. The driver installation will start. Follow the installa ...

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Satyajit Roy avatar
How to use shift+alt+arrow-down for copy the selected lines just under the selected lines in Visual Studio Code
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Previously I used Windows 10 operating system. I am a beginner and I am learning HTML, CSS. I used Visual Studio Code on Windows 10. There I used the shift + alt + arrow-down key to duplicate some selected lines just under the selected lines. I recently shifted to Ubuntu and the shift + alt + arrow-down key is not working like windows. It is not duplicating the selected lines.

How can I make these ke ...

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Rushi Kaneria avatar
How do I hibernate in Ubuntu 20.04?
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I have used Windows a couple years. Sometimes I had to shutdown laptop because of power loss or travel and the hibernate feature helped me. Now after switching to Ubuntu I found there is no hibernate feature. I have read some questions specifically this one. How to enable hibernate option in Ubuntu 20.04? Now after reading this guy's answer as he told I should have swap partition not swap file.  ...

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Sam avatar
how to install Ubuntu desktop/server on Android phone (flash)
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Sam

I've got a few old Android phones (MI and Huawei), I had their bootloader unlocked and I am thinking about repurpose them. To make them useable, i would like to install Ubuntu desktop (preferred) or Ubuntu server.
I am willing to spare some time on the project.

  1. can i use the iso to install?
  2. what modifications to make to the Ubuntu code?
  3. how to find drivers?
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Install Ubuntu in different SSD
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I have a HP Omen laptop with 512 GB SSD but I am planning to get a new SSD of 512 GB to insert in other empty slot . I want to keep windows in existing SSD and install Ubuntu in the new one. Please let know if it is possible to do that and if yes, how should I do that. I am new to this and don't know much.

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Ashiq Tasdid avatar
How to turn my Live USB to Persistence Live USB?
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I don't have another computer to use rufus and create a persistent USB. For that reason I used my android to make my USB bootable. Yeah, I've created a ext4 partition. I just want to use that as a persistence drive. I have 2 partitions on my usb. 1 is fat 32 which is /dev/sda1. The second one is ext4 which is /dev/sda2. I want to use my /dev/sda2 as a persistence partition. How can I do that?

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ImOverThis avatar
Having Issues booting After Update
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I tried to update to 20.04.2.0, I think not 100% sure, bootup became

/dev/sda2: unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually

I ran fsck -yf /dev/sda1, because I am a plug and play idiot. Now i am getting a no boot error as follows

/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd-shared-245.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file kernel panic - not sybcing: Attempted to kill init! exit ...

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Garrett avatar
Cannot write to Linux HDD: read-only file system
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I noticed that I don't have any write access to my entire HDD when my backups started failing.

I understand that I need to change read-only privalges so my user can write to the Disk. However, no matter what I try nothing changes the privalges.

garrett@garrett-desktop:/media/garrett$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-x---+ 3 root    root    4096 Aug  1 20:17  .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root    4096 Apr  6 09:13  ..
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brad avatar
ERROR: Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs!
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Following an update, I can no long boot any of my VMs.

xl create lv-vm-debian01.cfg

gives the error

ERROR:  Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs!

I tried

mv /etc/grub.d/10_linux /etc/grub.d/50_linux

and then

update-grub2

That runs error free but still cannot boot VMs. Yes I rebooted.

Ubuntu 20.04

How do I get past this error?

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Nona avatar
Why is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS saying my secondary drive requires mbr?
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Reading this post Ubuntu won't boot after clean install, I realized I might be experiencing a similar issue with my fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 on a new hard drive. My primary drive that I installed Ubuntu 20.04 to is /dev/sdb.

But after running boot-repair and the associated boot info, I see a similar log as in the post:

=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
 => Grub2 (v2.00) is  ...
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Having stuttering on Ubuntu 20.04 while gaming with Windows dual boot
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I recently decided to dual boot Ubuntu to give it a try as my main platform, as I like the look and feel of it and I'd really like to get away from Windows. But for whatever reason, whatever game I'm playing will freeze/drop fps for a bit before going back to normal. I know it isn't a hardware issue, as on the same exact games run perfecy fine on Windows. I've tested it with Tomb Raider (on proton, not  ...

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