Latest Ubuntu related questions

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Kamafeather avatar
How to trigger `Fn` key when CTRL, ALT or SHIFT are pressed?
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I want to avoid pressing the Fn key as much as possible. It's fine pressing only Fn + F.. but it's annoying when is a combination involving 3 or more keys.

E.g.
I want to press Alt + F2 instead of Alt + Fn + F2; otherwise gives me cramps.

I still want the buttons for volume and display-brightness working by default; if simply pressed.
But it should automatically imply pressing Fn, when other modifier keys ...

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Edwin avatar
Dual Boot Ubuntu 20.04/Windows, Gettiing GNU Grub 2.06 Terminal when booting Ubuntu
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I installed Ubuntu 20.04 with Windows dual boot capabilities. So anyway, last night when I installed everything it appeared to be working very well, I rebooted several times and switched back and forth between windows and Ubuntu. Today when I booted my computer, I get the GNU Grub 2.06 Terminal window.

Fortunately, I am still able to access the windows when I reboot, but if I try to get to Ubuntu ...

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Suleman avatar
Ubuntu 20.04 - brightness of all apps get dimmed after login
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My issue is similar to Screen Brightness 0% at login, dims at boot except it is on desktop. Screen brightness is full on login prompt screen.

Next I hear a beep sound.

Click here to listen beep

After login, all apps & background get dimmed except for the mouse cursor.

Playing a video in VLC automatically sets brightness to max.

Unfocusing from VLC player dims everything again.

This type of behavior s ...

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Dan G avatar
Black Screen after installing NVIDIA drivers on ubuntu 22.04
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I have a dual boot system with an NVIDIA RTX 3070. I've had no problems in the past working on ubuntu and using windows for gaming. I tried to install Nvidia Drivers on ubuntu to get my GPU working on the OS.

Ubuntu 22.04 AMD Ryzen 3700X RTX 3070

I went into settings -> additional drivers, and it used to be "X" something and I switched to NVIDIA 505 or 525 and restarted my PC.

After turning off and  ...

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Senior Systems Engineer avatar
Mounting iSCSI LUN to Ubuntu using open-iscsi
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It would be helpful if anyone can share some step-by-step guides using Ubuntu Linux Server minimal edition without GUI, to mount the iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI so it is mapped to /dev/sdb.

I would appreciate any assistance you can provide.

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Dean Franz avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 root folder claims to have run out of disk space but it is not full
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I am running ubuntu 22.04 and gparted claims that my disk is out of space. Gparted claims that the whole drive is full, while sudo du command says on 23GB is being used. I have tried everything to figure out what is taking up the space. Please help.

gparted image

ubuntu@ubuntu-alienware:/$ sudo du -chax --max-depth=1 / | grep -E "M|G"
12G /var
16M /etc
96M /root
2.0G    /opt
4.0K    /PKGBUILD
9.6G   ...
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Socob avatar
How to stop automatic candidate insertion with ibus-table?
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I’m using ibus-table (specifically, ibus-table-latex) and would like to disable the following behavior: When I start typing something that triggers ibus-table’s candidate list (e. g. any part of \rightarrow, such as \rightar), the candidate list opens and the best-matching candidate is already “pre-selected” for insertion. See the following screenshot:

ibus-table-latex input example

My problem is that even when I press ...

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Thomas avatar
errno 5 While installing Ubuntu on an Acer laptop
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I just got a new Acer Aspire 5 A515-56 laptop. I'm trying to install Ubuntu on it, however while installing, I keep getting an error message that says [Errno 5] Input/output error.

Error Message

After reading through similar questions, here are some things I have tried.

  • I tried installing Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 (I downloaded both iso files from the official website).
  • I tried using a different bootable ...
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Numerical Disintegration avatar
Network unclaimed on ubuntu 22.04.1 acer swift sf314-512
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I have recently bought a new Acer Swift SF314-512 Laptop and installed ubuntu 22.04.1 desktop. The wifi works fine on windows, but on the ubuntu install it does not work.

lshw -C network

outputs:

*-network UNCLAIMED
    description: Network controller
    product: Alder Lake-P PCH CNVI WiFi
    vendor: Intel corporation
    physical id: 14.3
    bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
    version: 01
    widt ...
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sketch54 avatar
How can I remove Cinnamon panel without being able to right click on it?
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I wanted to move my bottom panel on my main monitor to the side, but I can't right click in the empty space and anywhere else I right click just gives me a menu for the specific thing that runs in the panel. I created a left panel on the same monitor and now I can't right click it at all and therefore can't delete it. I can right click and delete panels on my second monitor. However when I set my second ...

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Ubuntu 22.04 puts login on secondary monitor. How can I change this to my primary, permanently
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If I log out, when I go to log back in I'm faced with a black screen because the login is on my secondary screen, my television, even when I'm not using that input. I assume this is a bug or I've changed an obscure setting somewhere accidentally. It is very annoying. How can I change this behavior to always logging in on primary monitor?

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Johno avatar
Convert mp4 to iso
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I want to convert an mp4 file from YouTube,to an iso file, so I can burn the file to a dvd. I have searched, but cannot find any software that works with Ubuntu.

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user2113228 avatar
I cannot compile my wifi adapter drivers (Lenovo, rtl8852be)
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Kernel version : 6.1.7.060107-generic, Ubuntu 22.04

I have followed the instructions off of this thread, and I have had luck before. But recently it broke, and after a fresh new install, after I pull from git and make, this is the result. I was told its a compiler issue, how can I fix this? Thanks!

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Prexa Neupane avatar
Need to remove Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10
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But the problem I'm facing is: Installed the Ubuntu in UEFI but the windows BIOS was in legacy, now I can't access windows " says it can't find file" and cannot download anything meaning in Ubuntu again same issue. I want to remove everything and start from beginning and install Dual-boot again.

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phil avatar
How do I allocate free disk space to my Ubuntu 22.04 partition?
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I have read and tried the mentioned methods of allocating free space to my Ubuntu partition and have been unable to succeed. I have tried both gparted and the Disk Utility application provided with Ubuntu 22.04. I believe that I may need to move the Free Space to the right of Partition 6 prior to increasing the size of Partition 6 but and again, cannot do so. I might add that all of my efforts were d ...

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estebarb avatar
How to force Nautilus/Files explorer to show file extensions
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I want to see the file extensions, unfortunatelly, I don't find any configuration to enable it.

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vkGunasekaran avatar
p7zip-desktop: How to specify temporary path for compression?
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Anyone help me to supply the temporary path that is used during compressing the files using p7zip-desktop?

I have installed p7zip-desktop as snap install, and I guess "/tmp" is default temporary path. I want to change it to some other directory.

I tried setting "-w [PATH]" in the parameter input (see below image), but I am not sure whether it's working or not.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

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A. Fendt avatar
ASUS Vivobook Flip 14 TP412 touchpad and keyboard does not work
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On my ASUS Vivobook Flip 14 TP412, the touchpad and keyboard do not work.

I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 with libinput (1.20.0-1ubuntu0.1).

What makes the whole thing so strange is that the keyboard and touchpad work with an old Windows (e.g. Windows XP) or an old Ubuntu (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04).

I have already asked for help on the libinput project: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/iss ...

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Jmaniac55 avatar
I keep getting a rendering error when trying to play Minecraft
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Every time I log onto the server and it tries to load the resource pack, I get the rendering error seen in this log:

https://paste.ee/p/H1XjV

and here (since it happens with or without the mods and forge):

https://paste.ee/p/v9jS5

Ubuntu 22.10
Linux Kernel 5.19, 6.1 and 6.2 (released today) I tried all three

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DNS and/or routing broken on one machine after subnet change in LAN
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I reconfigured my home router to use 192.168.39.0 as the subnet. Previously it was 192.168.0.0

I have one Ubuntu 22.04 machine which now has broken DNS and/or routing. I have eliminated hardware problems (no problem booting it from an ubuntu 22.04 on external drive). Everything else on the network is fine, including this ubuntu 22.10 laptop.

This problem machine has two wired interfaces and wifi. Al ...

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parliament avatar
Wifi suddenly stopped working in Ubuntu 22.10. Question mark for wifi
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I'm running Ubuntu 22.10 with an Intel Wifi AX210 chip. It's a fresh install and I've been using Wifi all day until suddenly it stopped working and I see a question mark where the Wifi symbol should be. The internet definitely works, something is up with my machine.

Here's outputs from various commands in solutions I've tried

hakuna@hakuna-desktop:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blo ...
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makkreker avatar
Cannot upgrade Ubuntu due to unmet dependencies: unixodbc : Depends: odbcinst1debian2 (>= 2.3.11) but it is not installed
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Starting yesterday, I cannot upgrade my Ubuntu installation. When running sudo apt-get upgrade I got an error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 unixodbc : Depends: odbcinst1debian2 (>= 2.3.11) but it is not installed
        ...
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me-- avatar
VNC behaving weirdly
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I have an Ubuntu-based Docker container (using this image, which is based on this Ubuntu 22.04 image) that I'm VNC'ing into from a Windows machine. I've used a couple of different VNC clients (VNC Viewer and TightVNC) and both exhibit the same behavior. The client area is huge, mostly black, with a low resolution terminal at the top-left:

Screenshot of VNC client

(note the scroll bar on the right. Scrolling down just shows a ...

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Sergio Pantano avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 stops in kworker
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After running Ubuntu 22.04 for a few hours, it crashes. It crashes completely and requires a physical reboot. When this happens, the first process on top is kworker, as shown in the image:

enter image description here

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Aelanna avatar
Document Viewer not using printer settings
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I have two HP laserjet P2035 printers on my system running Ubuntu 22.04. Each printer has two different kinds of paper loaded in different paper trays. Instead of manually selecting which printer and which paper settings to use each time I print, I tried to set up some printer instances for each type and have default settings for each one. This works fine except for document viewer. No matter which prin ...

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pluta avatar
made a typo doing a command and it gave me weird warnings
id flag

so I wrote 'sudo snap-store quit' but it should have been 'sudo snap-store --quit' instead, and it gave me a lot of weird warnings like '/system/ folder is predicated' 'mkdir: couldn't create new directory'. should I format my laptop? is it dangerous?

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Becki True avatar
Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 4 Install Configuration Too Fast
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu Core 22 (and I tried 20 as well) on a Raspberry Pi 4, but am being faced with a super fast reset on the install configuration console. I have about 5 seconds after the first time I hit the enter key until it returns me back to the original prompt to "Press enter to configure". It's way faster than shown in this video.

I'm using image ubuntu-core-22-armhf+raspi.img.xz, ...

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Darwin von Corax avatar
Blank Launcher in Menu Bar in 22.04
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I recently upgraded my desktop from 16.04 to 22.04. Under Gnome 3 (Metacity) I now have a blank Launcher on the right end of my menu bar, to the left of the Indicator applet, as shown:

enter image description here

The Properties dialog for this launcher is blank, and the mouseover text reads Failed to load key file "/home/<userid>/.config/gnome-panel/launchers/firefox-2.desktop": No such file or directory.

How can I get rid of ...

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Bob Reed avatar
No audio after upgrading kernel to 5.15.0-60
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After upgrading to new kernel all audio in/out was lost. Reverting back to previous kernel restores audio. While booted into the new kernel, I found that if I run "alsamixer" on the command line, I get:

alpha@Gaia2:~$ alsamixer ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:5178:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or direct ...

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Avogadro avatar
Why does docker run helloworld on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 fail with `unable to apply apparmor profile`?
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I've tried a fresh install of Ubuntu (release 20.04) on my cloud server and then tried to install docker and run the setup based on information from Ubuntu's Official Page.

When I reach the step for testing with "Hello World"by running:

sudo docker run hello-world

I would get the following error:

docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc creat ...

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