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I took your advice; backed up and deleted config.dat but when I ran the update again, it threw up an error about passwords.dat and templates.dat being locked.
So, I backed up and deleted them too....

Fair point. In all my frustrations, I had completely overlooked that.

I'm sure it will happen again and then, I'll post the full details.


This is an interesting point. I wonder if this is...

I have not tried to delete the config.dat file before, I can give that a go next time this happens.

But as I have said, I usually take the aforementioned steps to kill the PID locking the process...

Hi all,

Hope everybody is keeping well.

Every time I run a system update, I get either this error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) or this
debconf: DbDriver "config":...

Thanks for the reply.

Okay, my current situation is this;
I need to have the full disk encryption enabled for my device i.e. XPS 13 Ubuntu (no other OS) and from what I've read, it has to be done...

I actually meant to ask you but completely forgot...

Suppose all things went kaput, I will be able to restore everything with this method except for the boot partition, right?

So, what's the...

Thank you. I've managed to restore it to factory setting through Dell's own recovery system (on factory-created recovery partition). Very sensitive though, had to press Esc exactly twice after seeing...

Thanks for the reply. It's Dell XPS 13 and it's quite new. No external GPU, just Intel UHD 620.
Ubuntu is the only OS on it so no recovery option but I can press ESC and that takes me to a blank...

I honestly don't know what happened. Randomly, I see this msg when I switched on the laptop and it seems to be in a boot loop now.


UBUNTU clean, 328311/30883840 files, 13460401/123516160

I'm...

I've already got a Kubuntu bootable USB and have previously installed and dual-booted it with W10; these aren't the problem. Neither is the UEFI.

Also, why would I take out the Windows SSD when...

I've got my Windows 10 Pro on an SSD and got another free SSD which I'm thinking of putting Kubuntu on. Also got a TPM on my motherboard which is holding the key for W10 wholedisk encryption.

How...

Okay, I've found out something else...

When I switched to Ubuntu Communitheme (which looks great btw), this problem goes away. I can now click on Lastpass icon (and the password field) in Firefox...

Oh right, I see what you mean...so logging in through the website switches on (so to speak) the add-on in browser. Good call.

You know, come to think of it, Lastpass and Firefox just don't play...

No probs. I dual-boot Windows and Kubuntu on my main rig...and on Kubuntu (with X11), Lastpass works fine with Firefox...
So, perhaps it's an Ubuntu thing :/

On the flip side, man..Kubuntu looks...

I hope I'm in the right place to post this. I'm not looking for a solution, just want to hear other people's thoughts and experience on the matter O:)

I'm on 18.04 and got a bit of a weird...

Yeah, this was the first thing I tried but didn't work. All it did was added a Windows boot entry lol.
Thanks for the reply.

That's done it!! Thank you so much :guitar:

Hi Guys/Girls,

Okay, amateur hour now...
I've got Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed on my Dell laptop with full-disk encryption. Everything was working as intended and I was really enjoying it...except...

My laptop is 1080p and the font size seems too small despite the adjustments with scale (1.5) and font size (increased by 1 on all).

It's hard to explain but the whole thing is a bit strange..it's...

That page is German which means un-readable. Could you please make sure, for next time, that everything you post here is in English? So all of us can read it. Thank you.

For now, I've used Google...

I've kind of come to terms with this issue and started to learn the default shortcuts :confused:
It's pretty whacky that you can't change the shortcuts like you used to be able to in 10.04. I don't...

So far, there is no fix for this (except to just use the G wireless like suggested above). I had to get a long cable for my PC to use LAN and disable the wireless. Either that or you're better off...

Alright then, ignore what I said above. In that case, I'll look into it a bit more to get Compiz installed on my machine, too.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't Compiz deprecated? I've heard a chatter about that. Ubuntu 10.04 has always been my favourite. So, when I first came onto 12.04, I was wondering where have all the...

My router is default O2 Thompson so doesn't have an editable option. But it works for you so it might be the same for others.
If anyone else has tried this out, please let us know.
Another thing...