Latest Ubuntu related questions

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fierslug avatar
Ubuntu 22.04.1 Freezes Randomly
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So I have Ubuntu 22.04.1 running on a fairly new desktop (specs below). Since installation there always have been some minor freezes here and there, but nothing that couldn't be fixed by rebooting or reinstalling the Nvidia driver. The issue has, however, escalated a few days ago when I shut it down after it had been running smoothly for over a week. Currently it has become next to unusable; the desktop ...

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EcceGratum avatar
Correct way to tune CPU governor's parameters?
br flag

Looking for explanation on how to change the parameters of the CPU governor on 22.04 and that they stick after a reboot.

I am talking about the governor's parameters like "sampling_rate", "up_threshold", "sampling_down_factor" and so on.

Thanks

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ToughMind avatar
Ubuntu 20.04, SSD utilization is too high with iostat. But the read speed is low
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I am training deep learning models with pytorch, Ubuntu 20.04. But the io performance with the ssd is strange. When I start training, the training speed is full in whole day. But it sometime slows down the next day and won't speed up no matter how many times I have restarted my program.

I found the io performance maybe the key. Because the size of single item of my data is 76Mb, and each batch ha ...

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Ubuntu Software only shows apps installed in the current session NOT ALL installed apps
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Don't know how this has happened but I have just noticed that Ubuntu Software is only showing apps installed in the current session NOT ALL installed apps...

I have literally just done a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04 48hrs ago so, it really shouldn't be broken.

Is there a way to fix this issue? I don't want to have to reinstall my whole system again.

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Powerkey avatar
What is the behavior of a UFW rule that does not specify a protocol?
km flag

This is such a basic question I was surprised I couldn't find the answer, but here we are.

With the following rule:

22 ALLOW 192.168.1.0/24

Are all protocols allowed or is TCP assumed?

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Adding Online Account crashes with Wayland, Ubuntu 22.04
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Specs

Ubuntu 22.04 with all latest updates via sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade.

Problem

  1. Open Settings -> Online Accounts
  2. Click on Google enter image description here
  3. Pop-up appears, supposed to show web-view with user authentication, instead, pop-up is empty, does not show web-view at all: enter image description here
  4. Pop-up and Settings disappear after 1-2 seconds.
  5. If I switch off Wayland (log in using Ubuntu instead of Ubuntu with Wayland), Pop-up w ...
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Salai Robin avatar
Mounting Share Folder on desktop in linux
br flag

When I mount the share folder, why appear 3 folder.What is wrong I setting.

enter image description here

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Burlen Loring avatar
lvm volume group issues w/ ubuntu 22.04
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I have triple boot system, bios raid 0, with windows, fedora 33 and ubuntu 20.04. the fedora and ubuntu are on lvms. Everything was working. Then I upgraded the ubuntu install to 22.04. Booting into ubuntu now fails:

Volume group "fedora_vive" not found
Cannot process volume group fedora_vive
...
Gave up waiting for root file system device.
...
(initramfs)

I've tried booting into a 22.04 live usb, a ...

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kzhe avatar
Disabling vSync and vivaldi glitch
kp flag

I thought nobara - > ubuntu would fix this, but it really, really didn't. Vivaldi tabs are glitching the heck out. image

Their forum told me to disable vSync, but I've looked all over the internet and can't find how. They said it was a GPU problem with rendering and my Nvidia GPU. Please help me.

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Brandon OFTO avatar
Can’t change SSH port
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I can’t change the port from 22 for openssh. I’m using /etc/ssh/sshd_config. The line hasn’t been commented out. I’ve restarted the service. But no matter what I do when I check with service ssh status or lsof, it still uses port 22. I’m on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Nick Muise avatar
How do I install a clean version of Python in addition to my system Python? (i.e., doesn't come with a bunch of unremovable packages)
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For background: my end goal is to add a clean install of Python 3.11 onto my Ubuntu 20.04 machine so that I can test some code I wrote that uses some of Python 3.11's new features. I'm not trying to replace my system Python or anything like that, I just want Python 3.11 for testing purposes.

What I've tried: First, I tried installing Python 3.11 directly through apt, but when I did apt-get instal ...

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mathma avatar
Google Drive filename issues in Ubuntu 22.04
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This may not be an issue particular to Ubuntu 22.04 but rather simply the way Google Drive works, but I would like to find a workaround somehow. I am new to Ubuntu, so apologies if I cannot give more particular details or message errors.

I have linked my Google Drive files to my Ubuntu desktop and found that it is impossible to open them with certain programs. The issue seems to be coming from th ...

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Mark Galeck avatar
Ubuntu Software Updater just exits, does nothing
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I have Ubuntu 20.04, desktop, and wish to upgrade to 22.04.

I already updated, upgraded, all packages and restarted.

I launch Software Updater, it tells me all packages are up to date but 22.04 is available, do I wish to upgrade.

I hit "Upgrade", after a while the Software Updater exits silently, and that's it. Nothing happens.

I try again, same thing, nothing.

What to do?

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Rino Bino avatar
Error while using private Apt repos during autoinstall installation
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Overview / Scenario

I already have a fully working autoinstall configuration that is using the default apt configuration (no apt config in cloud-init user data). The source image is using the Ubuntu 20.04 cloud image.

My goal is to edit the autoinstall config to use private Apt repos (the repos already exist). I must ensure the installer never reaches out to Ubuntu servers for Apt packages and only

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Jake avatar
How can I remove the "Microsoft Surface Type Cover Mouse" option from my Keyboard and Mouse Settings?
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I recently installed Lubuntu on my Microsoft Surface. The laptop has a detachable keyboard/touchpad that is compatible with Lubuntu. There are two options in the Keyboard and Mouse > Mouse and Touchpad > Device dropdown menu: Microsoft Surface Type Cover Mouse and Microsoft Surface Type Cover Touchpad. Even though I enable the latter option, Lubuntu sometimes defaults to the former which is annoyin ...

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How would one craft a dsc that builds a package from multiple upstream source repositories
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This is a complex one releated specifically to Debian/Ubuntu packaging (i.e. making .debs).

I've got a set of projects that are all currently separate. Using my real project (Jellyfin) here for simplicity.

There's a server component, a web component, and an ffmpeg component. Each has its own upstream source repository.

What I would like to do is build a single debian/ config, i.e. control, changel ...

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SKK avatar
gedit error - "Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused"
au flag
SKK

when I type gedit ~/.bashrc I get this error:

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(gedit:204): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:03:28.442: cannot open display

can anyone tell me what the problem is please

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John avatar
Can't update linux-modules-5.15.0-56-generic
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I can't update linux-modules-5.15.0-56-generic.

When I tried from command line I get:

sudo apt install linux-modules-5.15.0-56-generic:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.15.0-52 linux-headers-5.15.0-52-generic linux-image-5.15.0-52-generic
  l ...
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Justin Kachele avatar
Weird Youtube Rendering on Google Chrome
mp flag

I am getting this weird rendering on YouTube videos in google chrome when running at 1080p (Image Here). The problem goes away if I switch to 720p and returns when I switch back to 1080p. This only happens in the player, the rest of the web page renders fine. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 in cinnamon desktop environment on an HP Pavilion 14.

Graphics: Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics driver:  ...

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st0n3r avatar
How do I simulate a mouse click by applying pressure on the touchpad?
vg flag

I was wondering if it was possible to click the mouse without really clicking by applying a certain amount of pressure on the touchpad. I understand that we can detect the pressure of a touch with libinput or evdev but how do I use these to trigger a mouse event? I suppose a very naive approach would be to run a loop that detects the touch pressure and if it crosses a certain level, use xdotool to creat ...

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Md. Hasanul Kabir avatar
WPS OFFICE ICONS LIBRARY
sk flag

I just faced an issue after installing wps on my machine. I am unable to see icons library button on wps office. AN error msg showing that my wps's some formula might not displayed due to missing somthing. Can anyone help me how to get rid of this problem. Thanks in advanced

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CalvinCopyright avatar
Made mistake with update-alternatives
pr flag

I'm trying to run Amidst. That's a mapping tool for Minecraft worlds, for those that don't know. That got me fiddling with java versions and JDKs and JREs and I don't quite know what I'm doing.

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04. In trying to get it to use Java 19 and not "Open With OpenJDK Java 11 Runtime" that's the only thing in the right-click 'Open With Other Application' menu (which is probably going t ...

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jni avatar
How to solve GNOME screencast crashing with "pipeline is undefined" error?
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jni

GNOME screencast crashes when stopping the recording, with stack trace:

gjs[7730]: JS ERROR: TypeError: this._pipeline is undefined
    stopRecording@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Screencast/js/screencastService.js:185:9
    StopScreencastAsync@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Screencast/js/screencastService.js:472:18
    _handleMethodCall@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:354:35
    ...
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Jeremy DiBattista avatar
Ubuntu 22.04 Nvidia driver 520 error trying to sleep
cn flag

The error message is as follows:

pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend+0x0/0x30 [nvidia] returns -5
dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x190 returns -5
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5

I have tried the steps outlined here https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/laptop-unable-to-suspend/16290/14 but this seems to be a solution for fedora and my system does not seem to contain nvidi ...

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recovering journal / Failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED / COMRESET failed errno=-16 / fsck gives bad superblock
in flag

I'm running (or rather, was running) Ubuntu

  • The machine seemed fine yesterday; This morning, it was unresponsive
  • It's a tower, so there were no mechanical disturbances in the meantime (the only plausible disturbances would be atmospheric temperature/humidity cycles or faults/irregularity of the building electrical supply). This is relevant because several similar questions are about laptops, where thes ...
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Hamou Ouyaba avatar
How to install and run a "sh" file?
cg flag

This is my first time using Ubuntu, i tried to run install.sh file by clicking right button and then run as program, a terminal screen popped up and closed but nothing happened. can anyone explain to me what happened (should i worry about that!!?) and how to install a sh file. thanx!!.

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יהונתן וישנה avatar
fn key crashing external usb keyboard
bl flag

I have a cheap external keyboard(Marvo cmv407). Every time I press fn key combination, the keyboard somehow crashes and can't send keys anymore. It doesn't happen with this keyboard on windows. version: Ubuntu 22.10

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Daniel Strahs avatar
missing menubars in all applications Ubuntu 22.04
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Recently, all the top menubars in all applications have disappeared. Below are examples from Konsole and Libreoffice; the same absence of the top menubar appears in all applications without any exceptions yet discovered.

Konsole screenshot

Libreoffice screenshot

This behavior started after I had used a HDMI adapter to project in a room; the projection required a lower resolution than I normally use on the laptop. When I disconnected and re ...

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thekevinscott avatar
After formatting USB drive, "Failed to take ownership"
cd flag

I've used the GUI Disks to format a USB drive just purchased as ext4. After formatting, I get the message:

Failed to take ownership of newly created filesystem: Cannot mount /dev/sda1 at /run/udisks2/temp-mount-BXBBW1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (udisks-error-quark, 0).

I've also tried using gparted to format it. Ther ...

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casperso avatar
After Live USB boot on system with broken grub, how do I gain permission to read/write files from old Ubuntu OS?
gf flag

When trying to format a USB key in the Disks tool I broke grub on a dual-boot system by accidentally formatting partition 1 of the HDD instead.

I haven't had any luck fixing it because I'm quite new to Ubuntu/Linux. Boot repair doesn't work because I'm on a UEFI system with no legacy bios. I get warnings to boot into legacy mode but can't.

I can boot using a Ubuntu Live CD. In the Disks tool I can ...

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