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Chrislamp avatar
Can't partition SD card
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I have two cards one partitioned in three parts as shown in the photo and another one that isn't. I tried to partition it using the disk utility, but I couldn't. I tried it with GParted and it shows me this exclamation point in a red circle as shown in the photo. It shows that on both cards.

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I'm just trying to clone one to another. If it helps the one I want to clone is an 8GB Sandisk and the other is so ...

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Mike avatar
Sound problems with Ubuntu 22.04
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I just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo T410 Thinkpad. Everything works great except sound. When using internal speakers, after a few moments, sound disappears. If I reboot or log user out and in again, sound comes back - again for just a few minutes until it disappears again. There are NO problems using headphone socket or bluetooth speakers - ONLY with the internal speakers on the laptop. I tried va ...

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How to add shell script and python scripts in ubuntu auto-install early-commands section
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I have a requirement to add multiple shell scripts and python scripts in the ubuntu autoinstall early-command section.

All documents tell about only the shell commands passing procedure inside early-commands and non of them are telling about the script passing procedure.

If anyone knows please let me know how to inject scripts inside early-commands, examples would be more helpful.

user-data file is : ...

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Umair Anwar avatar
Ubuntu login error in virtual box after removing python 3
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I have installed ubuntu in Virtual box and my machine was working correctly but when i have uninstalled or remove python3 i am getting this window and able to login again.

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Michał F avatar
Bluetooth Headphones Microphone priority in Gnome on Ubuntu 22.04?
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I'm using decent headphones with microphone (headset) and in general they're working find. No connectivity issues, sound is good. However,...

As they turn off themselves put away to conserve batteries I have recurring problem with microphone input settings. When I turn them on and they reconnect, the speaker output is set correctly, so I hear output straight away.

However, as I use the headset for w ...

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Ömer Melih Aksoy avatar
GRUB tries to boot Microsoft Reserved Partition after moving EFI partition
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Recently Ubuntu Studio gave me the warning that root filesystem has low disk space. So I shrank the major C: partition of Windows and moved all partitions to the left so that I can extend the size of my root partition.

I also moved the /boot/efi partition as well along doing this. I came to know that I have 2 EFI partitions (nvme0n1p1 and nvme0n1p6). One comes first which I had not moved at all (there w ...

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justchillin avatar
How do I use the output of "pgrep" with "ps -p"?
mn flag

I'm trying to display Conkys process uptime. If I type the following into the terminal one line at a time it all works and I get the result I'm after.

getPID=$(pgrep -f conky)

conkyPID=$(ps -p $getPID -o etime=)

echo $conkyPID

Naive me thought a bash script would look like this.

#!/bin/bash
getPID=$(pgrep -f conky)
conkyPID=$(ps -p "$getPID" -o etime=)
echo "$conkyPID"

I've asked a couple of frien ...

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Tyteck avatar
Is there a way to create shorcut that move an app on specific workspace AND specific screen
us flag

As many I'm using 2 screens on my desk. I have one laptop with its screen and an additional monitor.

I'm using 4 workspaces. Workspaces are used only on the main screen (the big one, not the laptop's one), they are not extended on the laptop. On the laptop I'm using slack. On the main/big monitor I'm using everything else.

Sometimes, laptop connection(usb-c) fail on startup and I need to unplug/plug ...

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Redirecting sound output in 22.10
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I am using Ubuntu 22.10 which uses Pipewire for sound rather than PulseAudio used in previous distros. My interest in ham radio has been awakened after I received SDR dongle and I have installed CubicSDR and am enjoying listening to shortwave AM broadcasts. I decided to install FLdigi to decode some of the new-fangled digital Ham station and this is where I have run into a problem:

The output of  ...

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Pieter D M avatar
Activation of network connection failed (wifi)
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I have a laptop which had ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed. Workerd perfectly fine for a couple of years. Last week this issue started:

  • when I startup the laptop, my wifi connects to my home network.
  • I can ping all devices in my network, I can reach my NAS and play movies.
  • the moment I start firefox my wifi connection drops, and my wifi adaptor isn't available anymore. I get the error: "Activation of network ...
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faust avatar
Can you highlight and add a tertiary color in Geany?
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Is it possible to add tertiary keywords and highlight them in Geany 1.38 on the latest version of Ubuntu? I've successfully added primary and secondary keywords but am unable to find a way to add tertiary keywords. Despite searching through documentation and online, I have yet to find any information on how to do this. Can anyone offer help or direct me to resources that can assist me in adding tertiary ...

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user2342558 avatar
prevent updates window from appearing in front of the other open windows
co flag

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 (I can't upgrade to the next version).

How to prevent the "available updates window" from appearing in front of other opened windows?

I would like it to open minimized completely (like it does in later versions of Ubuntu). I don't want to disable the check of updates.

This behavior is very much frustrating, because it appears in front of other open windows, causing the active win ...

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Concatenating separate commands that download m4a and converts it to mp3 all in one
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I can download the audio using the command below but how can I also convert it into a mp3 file at the same time.

Example: Download m4a file

yt-dlp -f 139 --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args '-d ./ -x 10' <url>

Convert the m4a file to mp3 using:

ffmpeg -i download_audio.m4a -codec:a libmp3lame -b:a 22050 -ac 1 -ar 22050 converted_audio.mp3

How can I convert these two comman ...

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joonho park avatar
How to run a command as root on login
bd flag

I want to run this command as root on login:

systemctl mask --now sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

I had some problems with the laptop randomly logging out, every 1 - 2 minutes before I applied this script. (This question is not asking to solve this problem)

I can make a code that allows me to unmask these on demand, and then logout, allowing me to save battery.

I h ...

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eaaldark avatar
Docker does not create bridge network by default
ua flag

I have two laptops both with Xubuntu, one has version 20.04 and the other has version 22.04.
The 20.04, when I create a dockerfile and add commands to download packages, they download without problem sudo apt-get update.
The 22.04, when I create a dockerfile and add commands to download packages, it is impossible to download the packages using sudo apt-get update, also none of the containers created i ...

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Interrupt avatar
Intel iGD and HDMI Secondary Display not Detected
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I am running into an issue where my second monitor, attached to HDMI, is not being detected by Ubuntu. The primary display plugged into the DP is working great. If I boot with the HDMI cable unplugged and then plug it in once booted the secondary display tends to flicker on/off. If I boot with the HDMI cable plugged in the display stays in standby mode. This makes me believe there is a signal being sent ...

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Jim_HiTek avatar
Grub customizer writes to Win10 drive
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Ubuntu 22.10, using Mate 1.26.0 as desktop Two OS's on two HDDs, Ubuntu & Win10. Typically boot to the Linux drive. I like to have Grub show Win10 in the boot list so I can boot to it when I wish, but...

Used the Grub Customizer in Mate to try to make Grub splash screen look better and doing that somehow loaded it over on the Windows 10 boot disk and made permanent changes that caused the Win10  ...

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Tms91 avatar
After uninstalling java 18 and installing java 11, running a program based on Java raise "Error: could not find libjava.so"
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I want to run a program based on Java 11 (Geoserver) in a Ubuntu 22.04 OS hosted on a virtualbox VM on a Windows 10 host OS.

Since I had Java 18 installed before (I installed it by following this procedure), I have

1 - uninstalled Java 18 by following this procedure

2 - restarted the VM

3- Installed JDK 11 by running

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

4 - restarted the VM

But as I try  ...

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SalvosMachina avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 not recognizing/using NVIDIA RTX 3050 GPU, black screen on boot (sometimes), external monitors not being recognized and/or used
mn flag

I'm running an Dell XPS 17 laptop. This is a dual boot with Windows 11. The graphics card is recognized on Windows but not Ubuntu.

More specific specs

In Ubuntu my Nvidia drivers are up to date.

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In the About -> Graphics tab, it says: "llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.1, 256 bits)" even though it is not my graphics card.

nvidia-smi gives no devices were found .

journalctl --catalog --boot | grep nvidia gives the following result ...

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M K avatar
Want to restrict a user changing admin password
sv flag
M K

I have two users on a device UserX and user admin using Ubuntu 20.04, both have admin rights, but I want UserX not to be able to change the password of user admin. However, I still need to be able to allow UserX to install packages\applications and be able to use sudo, etc

Is there a method of restricting UserX rights not to be able to change the useradmin password?

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O Gui Blindao avatar
Ubuntu setup stuck at "Preparing ubuntu-drivers" (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS)
ph flag

The title is the question, I cant install ubuntu because, at the 4th step, it gets stuck on "preparing ubuntu-drivers"

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Christopher Fischer avatar
When I download Google Chrome, it does not auto launch the installation startup
ng flag

When I download Google Chrome, it does not auto launch the installation startup. It just stops after the download is complete. The download looks to be complete but does not continue with the installation. Please advise.

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Isaac W avatar
Replace all identical files, ask for all non-identical
br flag

How can I replace all identical files when moving files to different folders, but summon a dialog when there are non identical files with the same name? I am using nautilus. If there is no way, I am willing to switch file managers.

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Aaron Kelly avatar
How do I prevent the onscreen keyboard from coming up in ubuntu
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I've recently installed ubuntu on an hp zbook studio g8. Mostly things are working well except this obnoxious onscreen keyboard that pops up every time I click on a text input (this form, terminal window, etc). It's a laptop with a physical keyboard. Fresh install of ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I did install all updates that were available after the install.

I've seen other posts with answers sugges ...

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Octavio Masomenos avatar
nmcli - all connections show "unmanaged"
pn flag

I searched for an answer to this and found a few different things but none of them have resolved my problem.

On a fresh install of 22.04.1 (server - no DE)...

nmcli con show returns an empty line. (likewise sudo nmcli con show)

nmcli -v returns "nmcli tool, version 1.36.6".

nmcli -o d returns:

DEVICE   TYPE      STATE      CONNECTION 
docker0  bridge    unmanaged  --         
enp1s0   ethernet  unm ...
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WickedAndrew1 avatar
Does IGN affect downloaded modules from occurring?
kp flag
sudo apt-get update

After inputting that command, the following occurs:

Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubu ...
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BenTyler avatar
Dual up - Ubuntu black screen after booting, even in recovery mode - can't access anything
gi flag

After a year in which I didn't boot Ubuntu and used only Windows on my laptop, I decided to return to Linux. Everything worked great.

I ran both sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, and updated lots of stuff, including the drivers. Then I rebooted, and suddenly the Advanced options for Ubuntu were duplicated for some reason.

grub boot menu:

my grub boot menu

I chose the first option, just Ubuntu as I alwa ...

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andres alvarez avatar
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth is not working after hibernate/sleep/suspend mode on HP14dq1004la. WLAN CHIP REALTEK rtl8723de. I tried a lot for my own. Help pls
ai flag

I have been having this problem since I started using Linux about 2 years ago. I've tried a lot of solutions.

  • About 1 year ago I try to solve it follow a forum, but the result was that I damaged the internet driver so I had to install the OS again (at the time I was using Ubuntu).

  • Then try in another distro to verify that it isn't the problem, so finally I ended up with Manjaro. I found a temporary s ...

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Quasicitizen avatar
Touchpad area size
gl flag

I'm using Ubuntu about a month (Budgie DE) and noticed that my touchpad area is smaller than my touchpad itself, about a centimeter around the edges. How do I increase it to mach full physical size? Driver - libinput. Wasn't able to find answer by googling.

EDIT

Synaptic driver covers all the area, but touchpad gets slow and touchpad settings are just gone from control center. Only mouse setting lef ...

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Sourav Dishri avatar
I have an usb to ethernet adapter, model no: VK-QF9700. can someone have driver for it
us flag

I tried to update and install net-tools,flex,eveusb also tried build essential but its show this error "E: The package eveusb needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.".

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0fe6:9702 ICS Advent USB 2.0 10/100M Ethernet Adaptor

I got this "E: The package eveusb needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it." while install some package ...

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