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Dual boot machine, windows 11 and Ubuntu 18.04. Ran sudo apt update, then sudo apt upgrade. Update returned "9 packages upgradeable", upgrade gives an error: grub-install: error: cannot find EFI...

Windows 10 on a desktop. Booted to USB stick with 20.04. I can see the files on the (Windows) C drive (in the graphical interface and in a terminal window). No trouble moving around. But I need...

Ubuntu 18.04
64 bit desktop machine
freeNAS successfully installed on old desktop box, NFS dataset created

I can mount the NFS dataset after boot, with this command (in a script file):

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Running dual boot Gigabyte motherboard (AORUS X570), AMD Ryzen 5 3600x, RADEON graphics card, 64 Gbyte ram. Sound works fine in Windows 10. Booting to Ubuntu 18.04 there is no sound. If I open...

New desktop just installed Ubuntu 18.04, have access to internet, and printers, but cannot see windows 10 box on the same network (separate machine). Here is the output of command
sudo lshw -C...

16.04 on dual boot setup (Windows 10), has worked very well for months and months. Windows upgraded last night, now Ubuntu fails to boot. Tried recovery mode -> failsafe graphics, then screen asks...

Not sure if I did or not. I just update every time the app sez there is an update available. could be that I did. How did you fix things? I can't get any sound at all now. If I open settings>...

Fixed it! Found this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202860 and the last entry suggested starting pulseaudio with "pulseaudio --start", so I tried that and everything works.
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Thanks for the tip, I tried re-installing pulseaudio. After reboot, the greyed out image of a muted speaker went away. Went to "sound" and a window opens, "volume control" with a message...

HP laptop, running Ubuntu 16.04. No problems with sound until today, for reasons unknown I have no sound. Rhythmbox doesn't work, and the sound icon under settings cannot be used to change the...

Many thanks, Dennis N!

Finally got it to work. Marking this solved.

This one:



It might have been instructions for Ubuntu 12.10, not sure.

Ubuntu 14.04, Radeon graphics and audio, installed audacity, worked fine for playing back .flac , .mp3, etc. Then I decided to try and record audio output. Wanted to use Audacity to slow the tempo...

Ubuntu 14.04, Radeon graphics and sound, wish to record audio when I play certain short videos posted on facebook. Tried installing Audacity and pavucontrol to no avail. Is there a straightforward...

Now it is working correctly. Somehow ipv6 settings had the box checked "require ipv6 for this connection..." and I cleared the check box and all seems to be well, marking this thread solved. Thanks...

Don't see that option. The machine no longer has wifi capabilities. Formerly I used a wifi adapter that plugged into a USB port, now that's no longer present, so neither the Ubuntu Network app nor...

Ubuntu 14.04 desktop, used wifi for several months, no problem, then moved to location convenient to FIOS router, so hooked up ethernet cable. At startup, machine connects to internet via ethernet,...

Solved, sort of. Booted to windows, used "manage" on file explorer, initialized partition (GPT type), then re-booted to Ubuntu and Gparted could see the drive and do its thing. But running hdparm...

Ubuntu 14.04, new Sandisk 120 Gbyte ssd. If I boot to windows the drive doesn't even show up.

Open Gparted in Ubuntu, select /dev/sdd, of course "partition" and "File system" columns show...

Yes, of course, and after doing so all is well, I can see both folders from the windows machine, and even from the app "ES File Explorer" on android phone, a big plus. Thanks ever so much for your...

Magic! Can see both shares from windows computer, but I have to remember to manually mount the hard drive containing folder 4android.

Tried to add a line to fstab so that this drive would mount...

O. K., here goes:







Have to go to work, may not get back to this for a few hours, but many many thanks for your expertise!

Windows sees the folder but says I need permission to copy a file into it.

Do I use the samba GUI (Samba Server Configuration tool) to add a user? It asks for windows user name and password.
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May have solved it. After reboot, things are much better.

Created a 2nd folder "pixbucket" to be shared on local network, this one is in my home folder (/home/daddy/pixbucket) and at least it is...

added "force user = daddy" to smb.conf

testparm doesn't say anything is wrong

But I am confused, if I browse the network from nautilus, the windows network icon (in nautilus, on the Ubuntu...