Latest Ubuntu related questions

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Alnitak avatar
LibreOffice Writer: Automatic Interpretation of Hyperlink Text from URL
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One of the features I really like in Google Docs and some text editors (like MarkText) is their automatic interpretation of the text for a hyperlink.

You paste a URL into the document, and the editor automatically interprets a suitable hyperlink text from the url.

For example, if I paste this link into Google docs: https://github.com/garrettj403/SciencePlots

Google Docs allows you to replace the hyp ...

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Abhilash avatar
Auto-suspend not working in xubuntu 20.04
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Since past few days, the auto-suspend doesn't work on my machine. The screen just stays on even when I am away for a long time. I checked that systemctl suspend works, so the issue seems to be the triggering of the suspend after a period of inactivity.

Here are my power manager settings : Power manager settings

The display does not turn off either even though I have configured it : Display settin ...

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Bypass Space avatar
Error message while initializing Anaconda
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I'm having the following error message while trying to initialize the Anaconda Application. Would appreciate if you anyone guide me to solve the issues and explain the cause of the error message. Thanks in advance. And appreciate for your time and energy. :)

Ubuntu Version: 22.04

anaconda_initialization_error

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Don avatar
How to change the log in keyboard layout in Ubuntu 22.04?
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Don

I'm a former windows user and completly new to linux and ubuntu (I had no idea what kernel, or booted, or distro was until a day ago). I just installed it to try it out. I am however not able to change the keyboard layout in the log in screen (I had to click on many keys to finally be able to get the password that I wanted). It was not obvious for me which keyboard to choose during the installation proc ...

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rugby2312 avatar
nameservers in netplan vs nameservers in resolv.conf
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What's the difference between the nameservers specified in the netplan configuration file and the nameservers listed under the resolv.conf ?

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magenta avatar
How do I install Ubuntu 22.10 on a Linux Mint 20.3 system?
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I'm a Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon user. I have a spare SSD and want to install Ubuntu 22.10 on it.

What do I need to do?

This will be a Clean Install and I don't want to save any files.

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SoapierGlobe421 avatar
Login to local session via remote desktop
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(Ubuntu 22.10) I was unable to find any useful answers online, I've seen people doing it with VNC, but i couldn't get that working.

I'm aware of the gnome remote desktop, but by the look of it, I cannot even connect if the machine has a local session running. I found GRD to be annoying since the keyboard layout never matched correctly no matter what I did on the host or client machine

(Edit) If it's ...

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anon123 avatar
Ubuntu lts 22.04.01 does not resolve for lan devices
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I'm testing a new server for my organization that has NAT and pppoe conection from my provider. The problem is that I can ping from server to any domains but I cannot ping from lan devices to any domains, but I can ping to ip like 8.8.8.8 from lan devices.

So here some output syslog

Nov  9 09:51:59 ubuntu pppd[4187]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Nov  9 09:51:59 ubuntu pppd[4188]: pppd 2.4.9 started by admi ...
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Saki Osive avatar
How to remove extra kernels from Ubuntu22.04?
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I have so many GRUB entries, how can I get rid of all but one? enter image description here

I want to use only one bootloader entry.

Also, there is a bootloader of a Windows installation when it is actually installed on another disk. How to go about this?

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Reza Zarei avatar
Peer failed to perform TLS handshake when adding Google account to online accounts
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I have Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. When I try to connect the Google account to the online account, I encounter the following error:

Peer failed to perform TLS handshake: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.

How can I solve this problem?

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ns767 avatar
Struck on Grub menu
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I used fdisk to partition a drive and after reboot, I am stuck at the grub menu. I tried a few things but got stuck at need to load kernal. Any help is much appreciated.

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Ubuntu 20.04

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risingfish avatar
Ubuntu Server 22.04 can only see one IronWolf 4TB drive, after installing a second
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My 6 disk ZFS array had a drive go out the other day. It was built on all HGST 2TB DeskStar HDDs. I decided I would slowly double the size of the all drives after replacing the first one, and eventually rebuild the array once I had replaced all the 2TB HGSTS drives with 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives.

I replaced the bad HGST drive with a 4TB IronWolf CMR drive and the pool rebuilt itself fine (Yes I ...

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mickhull avatar
Wayland Display - Scaling Down Instead of Up
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I have Ubuntu installed on my 15-year-old laptop which has a maximum native display of 1366x768. With the default Ubuntu (or any other linux distro) install, objects on the screen are too large for comfortable use so I've scaled the display down by:

  1. Changing the display setting to "Ubuntu on Xorg" at login and;
  2. Getting the system to automatically execute the command "xrandr --output LVDS --scale-from  ...
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O Ocalhoun avatar
How can I find the files that Filelight isn't showing? DiskFree shows 227GB used; Filelight shows only 89GB used
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Ubuntu 20.04, with KDE installed on top.

I'm running low on space on my root drive. Which isn't that big of a deal because I can always just move things to the other drives on my system.

Normally, I'd use a tool like Dirstat or Filelight to show me where the biggest space hogs are, so I can easily and effectively free up space. But Dirstat always crashes on launch for me, so it's useless. And Filelig ...

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Jarrett avatar
Bluetooth Media control application target
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My BT headset (Bose QC35) has media keys - play/pause, and volume controls. When I press the play button, it controls the last-selected application that was playing sound.

So, for example, if I have a music player running, the key controls the music player. However, if browse to a webpage on Firefox, and there is a tab that has a youtube window open, the key will now only play the youtube video,  ...

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smitty92 avatar
Dual Boot Ubuntu Problem/WIn 11 have to reinstall grub everytime
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I recently installed Ubuntu 20.4.3 alongside Win 11. My hardware is a MSI GP66 HX, I7, NVIDIA 3070. After the install everything appeared fine however, after rebooting and selecting ubuntu in the GRUB the screen goes blank. I have found that if i select advacned boot mode and reinstall grub i can then logon. I would hate to have to do this every time. Any ideas??

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alien.on.earth avatar
Ubuntu Server 22.10 - Failed to start session
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I installed Ubuntu Server 22.10 successfully.

Post installation, at the tty1 console, I installed the following packages:

lxqt-core lightdm gparted openvpn resolvconf libdbus-glib-1-2 bind9-dnsutils numlockx

I rebooted my computer and was presented with a graphical login screen. An error message appeared after I typed my login password. It is:

Failed to start session.

Thank you for your solution.

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ljushu avatar
This add on could not be installed because it is not verified error
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I cannot install the Send Later add-on which schedules an email to be sent later.

When clicking on the send_later-9.0.11-tb.xpi file, I receive the following error in Firefox:

This add on could not be installed because it is not verified.

I tried opening about:config page, setting xpinstall.signatures.required and extensions.langpacks.signatures.required to false and restarting Firefox, according to th ...

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Muhammad Rizqi Juniyanto avatar
Clear or Set up Boot Menu on old laptop Fujitsu A572/e
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i want to clear the boot menu. There is no other OSes on this machine except Kubuntu. But the boot menu shown previously installed OSes. I tried installed grub, but i cant boot into Kubuntu after that, it just showing terminal like. And i have no idea afterwards. And just start installing new Kubuntu.

The first OS installed on this device is Windows 7. Then Win10 and Android x86. Then Ubuntu, and ...

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Abubakar Sohail avatar
Windows won't boot up
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My Dell computer has both a SSD and a HDD.

On the SSD, I have been running Windows 10 in legacy boot mode

I installed Ubuntu on my HDD. Afterwards, Ubuntu GNU GRUB for dual boot configuration was not showing up because Windows was in legacy mode, so I followed a youtube tutorial to convert Windows 10 from legacy to UEFI mode using "Paragon Partition Manager"

When my system rebooted I turned on the UEFI ...

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Paul Jurczak avatar
What is the recommended way to use a GUI editor to view system files?
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Gnome enforces barriers to viewing files requiring root privileges. Trying to open /var/log/boot.log file with gedit fails, with no visible option to perform this action as root from the GUI file manager. What is the Gnome doctrine for dealing with situations like this? I know that I can use sudo gedit, but that makes it more cumbersome than launching an application from Nautilus, pardon me, Files ...

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Leotrim Behrami avatar
BASH-like... problem version 2.04
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I have the BASH-like... problem version 2.04.

I don't have access to do anything. I can only write on this black screen. I tried some commands, but it doesn't work. I can not do this with a USB Stick because I can not open terminal. I can't do anything.

How do I continue from here?

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jason12085 avatar
Help Dependency errors when trying to update, upgrade or install
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Using ZFS and had initial trouble with not enough space on /boot partition

user@dell:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade && sudo apt -y autoremove && sudo snap refresh
    [sudo] password for user: 
    Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
    Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [114 kB]     
    Get:3 http://security ...
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dennis0406 avatar
Open vscode as superuser ubuntu 22.04
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I have tried sudo code --user-data-dir="~/.vscode-root" but then I got the black screen when vscode was opened. It's any other way to open vscode as superuser?

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Mário Alves avatar
Unable to disable password authentication over SSH
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I configured login by SSH key which is working but I can still login by password, which I don't want.

I used sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config to make the following changes:

PasswordAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication yes

I disabled the root login because my user can log in.

It should refuse login with password but it still allows it.

My version of ssh is OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 M ...

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גיל ברידזה avatar
How to fix black screen(background) by RDP remote(Remmina) From 20.04.4 LTS to windows server 2016
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I am getting this error on the Windows 2016 server: "Your background is currently turned off by the remote desktop connection. How can I fix it?"

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Igor-Potapov avatar
LUKS: Decrypt home directory
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I have Ubuntu with encrypted home directory. Today I worked with Ubuntu but free space was running out. After reboot laptop, on the half progress of encryption I start see balck screen with steady cursor. Now I booted from liveUSB.

UPD: How to decrypt home directory from liveUSB?

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tiberhockey avatar
Can't scp from linux ubuntu server to local windows machine
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I want to transfer a file from my remote linux ubuntu server to my local windows machine but it give me this error

ssh: Could not resolve hostname c: Temporary failure in name resolution

here is the command that I enter into my linux server command line

scp -r root@MY.LINUX.IP:/var/www/test.py C:/Users/test/Desktop/
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kss7735 avatar
Displaylink not detecting monitor
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The machine I'm using runs Ubuntu 22.04. The screenshot below shows the details of the machine itself.

I want to connect it to the Dell 3100 docking station. I have installed and tested both DisplayLink drivers: the driver from the Dell site that has support for Ubuntu 22.04 (5.6.0-59.176, A01) and the driver from synaptics.com (Release: 5.6.1) for Ubuntu specifically.

When executing the .run file i ...

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Rohan Jha avatar
Unable to view the contents of the /etc/environment file
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Unable to see the contents of my '/etc/environment' file. I have tried using Vi and vim but still unable to see the contents . I wanted to add some commands in /environment file to $PATH for which I needed to see the contents of the file. Actually I was attempting to add the path variable using

export $PATH=$PATH:/sbin

but it shows the following error:

/sbin : not a valid identifier

Can anyone tell  ...

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