Latest Ubuntu related questions

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Marvin Budd avatar
uBuntu 22.04.2 suddenly requires no password to login
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I've been logging in with my password for years. Within the last month the password is no longer required - it logs me on with no other input when I click on my username. After that, it asks for my password to unlock the secure directory. I checked in Settings for my user and under Authentication & Login Automatic Login is off. I'm in the adm group. I have not changed the login or display manager, I ...

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Paul Lynch avatar
Trouble modifying initrd for custom live iso
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I am trying to customize an LUbuntu Live CD (22.04.2), following the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization. Some of the things I would like to do, such as removing the "Install LUbuntu" desktop icon, require modifying scripts that are packed inside initrd. If I don't touch initrd, I am able to unpack the iso files, unpack filesystem.squashfs, repack filesystem.squashfs, ...

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Keith Plunske avatar
How can I create a live usb bootable device (ie: Clonezilla) so files can be edited and saved
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Hi I've looked all over for this answer and find very little if anything on the subject. I'm trying to create an ubuntu customizable clonezilla bootable usb live device so I can update some files but can't seem to figure out how to do that.

If I create a live usb device from a clonezilla.iso file the entire live usb boot device is read only so I can't update files like syslinux.cfg, grub files,  ...

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Lautaro Vergara avatar
High CPU used and battery drain First tracker and now Isolate+. What is happening?
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I have an HP Elitebook. Few weeks ago I started to hear the fan working often. Using top I noticed that "tracker" was using almost all of the CPU. I fixed with a solution someone posted here: "sudo chmod -x /usr/libexec/tracker-extract-3". My OS was Ubuntu 20.04. Then I upgrade to 22.04, also de BIOS. Now I hear the fan working often again and as previously, draining the battery. With top I see now that ...

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LCer avatar
Epson Print Admin
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At my work place, printing is managed through the Epson Print Admin system. All documents are sent to one big queue and can then be printed at whichever printer is closer to you, after authentication with your personal badge (every printer has a card reader). Is there a way to install and set up Epson Print Admin (or an equivalent system) on Ubuntu 22.04?

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Geropellicer avatar
Stuck in login loop, but only for one user
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I was working on my Lenovo Idea Pad with Ubuntu when suddenly the screen froze, I could move the mouse and see the cursor moving, but clicking or pressing the keyboard keys had no effect, so I decided to reboot the computer holding the physical power button.

When the computer turned on again, I was presented with the login screen as usual, I choose my user and entered my password. The screen then ...

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suwo rt avatar
apache2 webserver on ubuntu server 22.04: I always get message "bad gateway"
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with the help of this board, I managed to install an apache2 webserver on an ubuntu vps-server. But now, when I type in the ip of the server into the webbrowser, I cannot see the apache2 standard site, but only a message "502 - bad gateway".

Just for your information: I used a dns-server on this system and maybe something was not deinstalled correctly. Or maybe a port/port 80 is blocked?

Well - to m ...

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user3303019 avatar
Constant SIGSEGV or SIGILL errors in chrome 111 + apps crashing randomly
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Here's one of the var/logs/syslog's during a chrome crash https://justpaste.it/55bs3

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.2 using Kernel 6.1.1 (have to use this newer one to fix snap packages crashing)

I also got the following log when Google Earth crashed: https://justpaste.it/de3vc

Is there something I can do to fix these?

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Pier-Alexis Carvalho avatar
Unable to find the partition intended for Linux on my computer
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The Ubuntu Studio installer cannot find the disk for it. I can't see it in "KDE Disk". The manager finds only the USB key. When I do the sudo fdisks command in the terminal, it gives me all the disks on my computer, yet it doesn't see the partitions, it and the installer. A partition is however in ext4, but he does not see it. Help me please !

I'm French, but I didn't dare to put my question in F ...

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hellyeahhell avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 blackscreen instead of log in
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I am a newbie. Installed Ubuntu 22.04. after installation I got black screen instead of login screen Read some and found out about NVIDIA drivers. I have GEFORCE 920m. I loaded Ubuntu, went to recovery mode, root, used "sudo apt purge nvidia*". it worked out and I could login but every time I try to change graphic drivers to NVIDIA (recommended, any) I got black screen and could not login. How can I ins ...

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Jonathan Sills avatar
Ubuntu loading but not opening applications
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I am running a dual boot of Ubuntu 18.04 with windows and occasionally when I open an application it'll load in the top left corner but when it stops loading it doesn't open. When it starts doing this it will do the same for every application including things like settings, terminal, text editor, ECT... It usually requires either sitting idle for 15+ minutes or a restart to fix temporarily.

Does  ...

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Leah Waymire avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 not recognizing connected Bluetooth headphones as audio device
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My JBL Tour One Bluetooth headphones connect to my laptop but are not recognized as an audio device. I have reinstalled all audio packages, tried pulseaudio and blueman and sudo systemctl restart bluetooth. The output of sudo dmesg | grep -i bluetooth is

[    4.514396] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    4.514420] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[    4.514422] Bluetooth: HCI device and con ...
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dylanhu avatar
Zoom not launching Ubuntu 22.10
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I am trying to install the Zoom desktop client on Ubuntu 22.10.

Ubuntu is up-to-date, and I have an RTX 4090 with proprietary drivers version 525.

Installing Zoom with sudo apt install zoom_amd64.deb succeeds, but upon opening the application, it fails to start and displays a transparent window.

I suspect it's related to my GPU since it's fairly new. Has anyone else faced this issue and found a way  ...

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Pouria Sh avatar
How to check if ip forwarding is enabled
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i have 2 vps services from 2 diffrent providers and i want to use iptables for prerouting . i can do it easily on one but cant do it on the other one , i almost read all articles and tried them but nothing worked for me . any idea where to check? another thing there is a diffrence between two servers , the one which wont do ip forward , has an additional startup service call networking.service .

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Mushfiqur Rahman Shaon avatar
remote: Permission to userA/blogger.git denied to userB
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I am new at ubuntu. After installing I configured my git for userB. But maximum project created & uploaded to userA git account. after realization that if I use everything different from OS to OS it's very difficult to maintain all the projects. After that I tried to config git global with userA credential.

When I check git config --list it shows userA but when I gave the command git push origin mast ...

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Thomas Gebetsberger avatar
Dragon RTL8125BG C-states
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Has anyone had success with C-states in powertop on the RTL8125? I try to use it with Unraid 6.11.5/Ubuntu 22.04 but only on the Realtek NIC I can't get past C3.

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dmathews avatar
Want to format an Unknown Disk
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Have a disk attached to ubuntu linux computer. It is reported as unknown. I have been trying to format it. So far everything I have tried has failed. Is there any hope of formatting this disk?

Additional information posted as an answer:

First of all. From the GUI specs of the drive.

Model: ST3500418AS (CC44)
S/N: SVM3QFD7
Assessment: Disk is OK, 1000 bad Sectors
Size: 500 GB
below Volumes
Size: 500 GB
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SuperHexBot avatar
cpu max frequency is actually the base frequency
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analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 10.0 us
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.50 GHz
  available frequency steps:  2.50 GHz, 2.50 GHz, 2.40 GHz, 2.30 GHz, 2.10 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.90 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.50 GHz, 1.40 GHz, 1.30 GHz, 1.20 GHz, 1000 MHz, 90 ...
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tbreimer avatar
Certain apps not launching in 22.04
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I'm having an issue where most apps will launch (Files, Terminal, Google Chrome), will launch and work fine. However, some, including Ubuntu Software and most 3rd party apps (except Chrome for some reason) will not start. When I try to launch, nothing happens, except for Ubuntu Software which at least provides evidence of something on the top bar but ultimately goes away. Any help would be much apprec ...

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error installing php dependencies on ubuntu
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I have a vps with linux ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed, I also installed the lamp stack to upload my web projects, php with version 7.4, now I need to install some more php libraries for example: php-gd so run the command:

sudo apt-get install php7.4-gd

but when installing I get the following error: php7.4-cli : Depends: php7.4-common (= 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.18) but 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.17 is to be installed

an ...

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Sam avatar
Boot error due to missing files and interface not showing well on "try ubuntu"
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Sam

How do I solve this error when trying to turn on Ubuntu 22.04?

Gave up waiting for root file system device.Common problems:
-Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
-check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
-Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
UUID does not exist

I also tried using Try Ubuntu and the system was blank.

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Dojo avatar
Fingerprint login option sometimes not available on login screen
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I have a strange problem on my Ubuntu 22.04 installation. The fingerprint login sometimes does not work. When it does not work I don't see the (or place finger on reader) message under password box.

Is this a feature or a bug? If it is a feature, on what basis does it decide whether to allow fingerprint login or not? If it is a bug, is there a resolution or workaround?

I have seen other threads rela ...

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VirajS avatar
Key is invalid. You must supply a key in OpenSSH public key format
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when i tried generating SSH key by following the steps given in the github documentation page after the first command it has asked to run

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

this gives me the key and asks to enter pass phrase when i copy the key and paste into github > settings > SSH keys > new ssh key it shows me this error

Key is invalid. You must supply a key in OpenSSH  ...

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useful avatar
Upgrade to 20.04 broke from 18.04
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Although some diag tool (boot-repair: report here) run from 22.04 live USB (probably EFI) states the system is 20.04 and maybe missing an EFS partition, it never had (upgrade was run from 18.04 just after a reboot).

Only booting in recovery mode (replacing recovery with rescue in grub's linux command line) gives a ~running~ system root console. This is because I meet some race condition in the recover ...

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MaikyDev avatar
Can`t mount drive on ubuntu 20.04
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yesterday I changed the permissions (0440) of an ubuntu server, on all of the files, and now I cant do anything with that, so I took the drive out and now I am trying to mount that drive on another machine running ubuntu server 20.04, but the dribe is not mounting and its giving me this error:

root@romania1:~# mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/old
mount: /mnt/old: special device /dev/sdb3 does not exist.

This is t ...

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Tons of software disappeared after 20-04 dist-upgrade
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I'm on 20.04, procrastinating on updating to 22.04 (older system, need to research performance implications first).

I kept getting "partial upgrade" messages, and wanted them to go away, so I just did an apt update + dist-upgrade.

This morning, I noticed a lot of software was missing. Gimp, Kdenlive, even ffmpeg!

When I try to reinstall ffmpeg, I get:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package li ...
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user1686148 avatar
MX Master 3 for Mac on Linux (ubuntu 22.04) drop connection
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Please help me solve the problem. Connecting a mouse via bluetooth, after a few seconds the mouse stops working. I attached some logs:

systemctl status bluetooth.service

     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-04-03 17:03:28 MSK; 12s ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 46723 (bluetoothd)
     Sta ...
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joni avatar
Samba shares don't work
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Ubuntu 20:04LTS It have being a very strange error with my samba shares, after an update yesterday. First I can not sambashare a folder home/Downloads/TDL. Nautilus give an error (fig1)

Fist I can not share a file in my home directory any more. I get this error when I try to share from nautilus: When i try to share folder TDL i get this error message

Why can i not share folders with Nautilus share? Nautilus says:

''net usershare' returned error 255: [ ...

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Mehran avatar
ocserv failed to handshake
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I deployed ocserv 1.1.3 and when try to connwct I got following error:

Attempting to connect to server X.Y.Z.W:443 Connected to X.Y.Z.W:443 SSL negotiation with domain.xyz SSL connection failure: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. Failed to open HTTPS connection to domain.xyz Failed to complete authentication

how can resolve the issue??

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Francesco Urdih avatar
error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.3 ubuntu 20.04
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I'm trying to run a binary file but I get:

./binary: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I already tried resolving it by installing libssl-dev as said here, or installing openssl (my version is 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020) as said here.

Both solutions didn't work. Which other solutions I could try to fix it?

Thanks for you help!

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