Latest Ubuntu related questions

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How to setup a LAN Server only accessible inside for files and media?
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I used Ubuntu and Linux lot about 10 years ago for several years! I was fairly efficient at it.

Fast forward 10 years, I haven't used Linux much lately. At my church, I setup a OpenMediaVault server just for local access to files and storage. I'm discontented with OMV, and figure I can setup my own server easier with Ubuntu. I do have about 3 or 4 users. It would be installed on an old desktop to ...

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Paulo Cesar avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 got messed after some software upgrades
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Moments ago I upgraded some packages in my Ubuntu 22.04 (the software updater asked me to upgrade some packages and I said yes).

I noticed that oddly some of the packages in the software updater were unselected. Most of these packages were from NVIDIA. After the packages got upgraded, the updater window kept appearing asking for more upgrades. I tried to keep installing the upgrades, but the wind ...

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Computer suspended during upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 and now won't boot
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Min

I'm a new user who has been using Ubuntu for three months.

I accidentally suspended the system while updating from 20.04 to 22.04 when I closed the laptop. Now, I can't use the laptop -- It is freezing at boot time. How can I fix this without losing any data on my system?

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Sam avatar
snapd-desktop-integration syslog spam
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Sam

For the past three days we are getting log spammed with these messages every few seconds from almost all of our machines:

2 11:13:59 11:13:59 ZT1 user.5 snapd-desktop-i[2823704]:  Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.
2 11:14:00 11:14:00 ZT1 daemon.5 systemd[1207]:  snap.snapd-desktop-integration.snapd-desktop-integration.service: ...
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How to create a shortcut to a document on Lubuntu desktop?
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I am trying to create a shortcut for a word document (.docx) on Lubuntu desktop (22.04 LTS). I thought I could create a symlink as follows:

ln -s a.docx ~/Desktop/

The symlink does get created and show up as a shortcut on the desktop. But it seems that Lubuntu does not treat it as a shortcut. When I double-click a.docx on Desktop, Lubuntu asks me to choose a program to open the symlink as shown  ...

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Jedd Rixon Gibb avatar
Does anyone know why Ubuntu won't install on Virtual Box?
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I am trying to install ubtuntu-20.04.1 on virtualbox 6.1.40. I am following this guide - https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-a-virtual-machine-using-virtualbox#1-overview When I press start, instead of loading the installer for ubuntu image 1 pops up.

I have followed something to turn of HyperV but that hasn't changed anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

Also I am on a windo ...

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How to troubleshoot integrated webcam on Ubuntu 18.04
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I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 18.04 The integrated webcam was working fine...until it wasn't.

My computer suddenly stopped being able to detect the camera. For example, when I open Cheese, there's a black screen with "No device found" written on it.

What are the troubleshooting steps I should try to figure out what's wrong and fix it?

I've tried restarting the computer.

The output of ls ...

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Scorb avatar
Why does my microphone max out at 50% volume?
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EDIT: I believe the problem is that my mic is a mono input and it is being treated as stereo, so it is only 50% volume because of this.

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.

I have a Blue enCORE 100i plugged into a Presonus AudioBox USB.

My Microphone volume never exceeds 50% at the OS. In the following screenshot you can see this is the maximum that the volume of the mic will go. The screenshot was taken while s ...

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Alan avatar
RTC set to something weird
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Running 22.04.1, reinstalled tzdata (per Clock resets To UTC on Reboot) but still getting something really weird - I though the RTC was getting set to UTC, but it's almost the opposite, being 7 1/2 hrs the other direction:

# timedatectl
               Local time: Thu 2022-12-01 17:21:37 PST
           Universal time: Fri 2022-12-02 01:21:37 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri 2022-12-02 08:43:19
        ...
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ACTS 238 avatar
How do you add a vm as a hard drive?
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I was wonder how do you add a virtual machine (using virtual box) as if you added a hard drive? I am pretty sure you can do that in windows, I just do not know how to do that in Ubuntu.

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Alfred.37 avatar
What GUI-based, open-source software options are there for configuring ZFS?
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In Ubuntu, configuration of settings such as the following can be done via console as mentioned in this question, including:

  • Choice of compression algorithm
  • Choice of the compression strength
  • Enabling and disabling deduplication.

With which GUI based open source software, can one perform ZFS configurations such as the above?

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Daniel Dorado Talaverón avatar
I noticed that Startup Login-Screen have some to do with Bluetooth autoconnect issues
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This is not exactly a question but,

I was having problems with the auto-connection bluetooh featur between a keyboard (Keychron K8) and a generic BT dongle.

I've noticed that if I activate the auto-login, the system has no problem connecting with the keyboard, however, if I access using a password, it does not reconnect even if I log-in with other keyboard and wait.

My BT main.conf

/etc/bluetooth/main ...

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Sof avatar
Cannot change to 2K resolution in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (but I can in Xorg)
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Sof

I am currently running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS in my laptop with an integrated Intel HD 620 graphic card. I have connected via HDMI a 2K monitor with a 144 Hz refresh rate but I cannot change to the 2560x1440 resolution. I already tried it in Windows and had no problem.

I followed the answer to Can't set 2560x1440 resolution on Ubuntu 20.04 with Intel Graphics Card but got this error:

X Error of failed re ...
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lzilhao avatar
Disable laptop keyboard on demand in Wayland
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I have an HP ENVY 13-ay0000 x360 Convertible Laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U CPU running Ubuntu 22.10. The auto-rotation is not working, and the keyboard and touchpad are only disabled if the laptop is folded completetly backwards, but not in between. I believe it's due to this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212615.

As a workaround, I was trying to rotate the screen and disable th ...

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max avatar
How do I get the screen to shut down in xubuntu?
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max

I'm runnung xubuntu 22.04. I set all the parameters I can find to make the screen shut off after a timeout, but no luck. I have previously run Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Mint LXDE, and had no problems.

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LarryM avatar
Back up initial, unbooted drive
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I just ordered one of those nifty mini-PCs (Minisforum UM690) which comes pre-loaded with Windows 11. I will be loading Unbuntu 22.10 on it... but I'm a little nervous about just overwriting that Windows. I'd like to back it up before I boot it and go thru the initialization. I can boot Unbuntu from a USB stick, what would I use to back up that the built-in M2 drive?

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Zhehao Chen avatar
Mediatek Network Driver Unclaimed on 22.04
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 but the motherboard integrated wireless controller is listed as unclaimed

  *-network UNCLAIMED
   description: Network controller
   product: MEDIATEK Corp.
   vendor: MEDIATEK Corp.
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@0000:0d:00.0
   version: 00
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pciexpress msi pm cap_list
   configuration: latency=0
   resour ...
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Deepanshu avatar
Run Ubuntu on old windows laptop
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I have an HP Pavilion G6 laptop, which I bought in 2012. I have been using it since then till the end of 2018 and didn't use it for 3 years afterwards. Till 2018, I was using Win 8, which was working fine with minimal lag. Recently I opened the laptop, it took around 45 minutes to just boot and then it was really slow to use. So, I installed an ubuntu linux on it. But it still takes 35-40 minutes to jus ...

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Harry Dang avatar
Ubuntu service is inactivate (dead) on ubuntu 22.04
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I have restarted my bluetooth service also make sure that the bluetooth is not listed in the blacklist. But it still doesn't work after I restarted

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Rizlaw avatar
Unable to replace manually installed video driver with proprietary Nvidia driver in 22.04LTS
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My setup includes an EVGA Nvidia 1080 video card on an EVGA X99 Classified MB. When I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 it seems that the upgrade changed the proprietary Nvidia driver to the open source Nvidia driver. The open source driver doesn't work well in either the "Wayland" or "Ubuntu" Gnome desktop login options.

My perusal of similar questions here referring to earlier version of Ubuntu with ...

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Detect presence of software RAID while live-usb booting
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I'm preparing a live-usb key that needs to automatically examine the file systems on the disks attached to the machine. I'm looking for a way to determine the presence or absence of software RAID on the machine in order to execute the correct commands to activate it.

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Ubuntu 22.04 Primary Monitor Freezes after Login
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I have upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 a few months ago and I've been experiencing issues with my display ever since. Sometimes after unlocking (after successfully inputting the password), the primary monitor freezes. It either looks like I've only typed half of the password or is completely black, but the laptop behaves as if the monitor was fully functional. It usually comes back to life after adding/r ...

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Iurii Vadaturschii avatar
I have my Ubuntu installed on a 100GB partition in a 1TB SSD, I am running out of space
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I have created a 500GB partition and mounted it in my /home but I'm still getting from my OS low disk space.

Results of lsblk :

lsblk

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Loop Login Ubuntu 22.04
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Today, when I went to log into my pc, I just couldn't. The system returned to the user select page even with the password entered correctly. I found it strange that when entering the shell with the command alt + ctrl + F3, when I logged in as my user, I was logged out in a few seconds. I was only able to type commands when, after typing my username and password, I typed ctrl + C very quickly. I te ...

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Ubuntu doesn't boot from active RAID 5 array after failed OS update
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Some time ago I tried to upgrade Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 via ssh from a remote PC. The system is configured as a RAID 5 array (with 3 physical drives). After that, I lost the ssh connection and later I found that the PC no longer boots Ubuntu on the local hardware.

I mounted the RAID array via sudo mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 from a live USB. This worked, which suggests that RAID array has not been da ...

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marius avatar
How to create a symbolic link to certain files within a directory?
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I want to create a symbolic link from Dir1, but only for certain files. Let's say I have these files within Dir1:

file_1.a
file_2.a
file_2.a.b

Now I want to create a symbolic link, but only to those *.a files for which a *.a.b file exists. So in the end it should be a symbolic link only to file_2.a (for this example - I will have few thousands files like this). How should I do this?

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How to run Ubuntu RISC-V guest using qemu in Windows 10 host?
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I've run Ubuntu RISC-V using Qemu in Ubuntu 22.04 guest in VirtualBox that installed in a Windows 10 host. The Qemu command is a following.

qemu-system-riscv64 \
-machine virt -nographic -m 2048 -smp 4 \
-bios /usr/lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/opensbi/generic/fw_jump.elf \
-kernel /usr/lib/u-boot/qemu-riscv64_smode/uboot.elf \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=eth0 -netdev user,id=eth0 \
-drive file="ubunt ...
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Merlijn Sebrechts avatar
How to turn off all the AppArmor DENIED messages from snaps?
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I have a ton of AppArmor DENIED messages in my logs from the snap sandbox. How can I turn off these messages?

Nov 22 21:39:28 dima kernel: [19901.633595] audit: type=1400 audit(1669142368.829:4586): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="snap.skype.skype" name="/sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/speed" pid=4550 comm="skypeforlinux" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Nov 22 21:39:28  ...
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Gnome Tracker does not seem to work
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Jan

I have Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome Desktop - the one with "Search" popping out when you press the Windows key.

I checked if the tracker indexes my .flac files:

tracker3 info '/home/janbenes/Music/03. Spanish Tune.flac'

And yes, among the info there is for example:

'nfo:genre' = 'Progressive Rock'

So why does the Gnome search or search in file manager return nothing when I enter "progressive"? There must ...

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James Eads avatar
Unable to update anything using apt " Temporary failure resolving"
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Found many posts on this subject where its my /etc/resolv.conf. I tried all the various nameserver settings. -- IE: nameserver 8.8.8.8, 127.0.0.1, default, nameserver from wsl. But all result in error. I even tried different distro's all the same, guessing there's a setting on windows that's blocking. ''' sudo apt update [sudo]

Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InReleas ...

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