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I have a very similar issue. It may be the same "sometimes blank screen after suspend" that you have. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2392448
Mine was more serious though - it caused a...

I use a Synology DS214 with one drive in it.
It is compatible with Ubuntu, especially the later versions 14 and above. Before that it could be flaky and one would have to repeatedly login or fail...

Two of my laptops (Asus and HP) with 14.06 and 16.04 respectively have had this potentially serious problem.
It seems like a similar issue to https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2366965

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I've noticed a lot of posts about various random freezing of Ubuntu (intrepid, karmic..) Many talk about Flash player in Firefox.

Some have spoken of a memory leak in Firefox.
So I switched to...

Anything anyone?

If you had a separate /home, then the reinstall would not wipe the connection. Is that so?

In which case my only suggestion is that the network connection is no longer "appropriate" for the...

Jl2035,
I may be missing something in your help request, but why not use Open Office? Does it not do all that Office 2007 does?

Scot

Dear all,
Karmic amd64. I am installing the printer epson aculaser c1100.
I CAN do it with a force-architecture fix.

Only thing is, synaptic then tells me I have a broken package and requires...

Thanks for that, but it made NO difference.

I have also added through recovery mode a new user.
Unfortunately, it had no admin privs.
I then tried to add another, with admin privs, but it would...

I have considered upgrading, but the last time I did, my system was unusable for a year (8.04 LTS).
I have looked at the "known issues" etc for Karmic, Jaunty and so on. I can't see any reason to...

Dear Ubuntu people

I wanted to change the name of my login user and thus the name of it's home directory. (It is "scot")

What I did:
Using system/admin/users and groups/properties/advanced, I...

Dear all, I recovered the system so here it is for those who follow in my footsteps into the wilderness.

The Fstab was hosed, probably by removing the windows Sda1 drive, which according to...

Dear all, I recovered the system so here it is for those who follow in my footsteps into the wilderness.

The Fstab was hosed, probably by removing the windows Sda1 drive, which according to...

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Tried that Sisco,
gparted found no errors.
Ubuntu still won't boot
Scot

Dear Ubuntu lads and lasses,
in trying to move my /home to a separate partition I find that I can't boot Ubuntu.
I think I damaged the fstab.

I have tried both live CD and Recovery Mode boot,...

I'm going to move this discussion to a new thread because I now need help to recover the system

Thanks David for the above. I wish I'd known that before I did it.

I don't fully understand your answer (newbie). I couldn't copy / write to my sda3 ext drive with a live CD because I don't have...

Thanks to Tom and Dakra for help.
It didn't go so well.
Ubuntu is not booting now (I am posting via winxp dualboot)

I copied the old /home folder to the new location using rsync, as I believe...

Thanks to Tom and Dakra for help.
It didn't go so well.
Ubuntu is not booting now (I am posting via winxp dualboot)

I copied the old /home folder to the new location using rsync, as I believe...

Dear Ubuntu lads and lasses,
I am trying to move my home folder to another logical drive and I have tried all the "how to"s over the last three days, including Psychocats.

My situation is a...

hello tvtech
I'm on vbox 2.2.4
E: uses ext3, with the file conversion utility whose name I forget.

Update: I find that it is not all files that won't write.

The problem file is MS Access. ...

I have Ubuntu 8.04 64bit host and XP guest inside Vbox that has lost permissions.

The harddrive has 3 partitions:
- XP,
- Ubuntu (with vbox hosting XP),
- E: for documents, shared.
...

I think that's what I'm going to have to do. I have spent about 3 hours per day for a month reading posts to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working, with some successes. Thanks to all the community. The...

Wireless working in just 2 days!

Thanks paper diesel.

I got the wireless working for my Vostro 1500 system using mostly your post, plus a few alterations specific to the broadcom 4310 usb...