I performed the upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. It failed. It also said that it was restoring the 16.04 system to the way it was. But in fact, it damaged the configuration so that Software Updater and...
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I performed the upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. It failed. It also said that it was restoring the 16.04 system to the way it was. But in fact, it damaged the configuration so that Software Updater and...
Bionic Beaver (18.04) Hardware Requirements
Hardware requirements: I read a recommendation that a processor newer than eight years is needed for Ubuntu 18.04 . 16.04 runs fine on my 12-year-old Core2 Duo processor. Do I need to fear an...
There were two other odd symptoms : my USB ports no longer could charge my iPhone, and, booting with the "upstart" option (in the GRUB advanced-options submenu) worked successfully, while the default...
Harddrive timeouts after power failure
Would u replace the hard drive in this situation?
- We had a power failure
- my dual-boot machine booted into Windows
- so I did a few reboots to install Win updates. No problems (well, the...
Re: How many of you completely switched to Linux?
I used to use Windows when I couldn't do what I wanted in Linux ... but that hasn't happened for a very long time.
I still do maintain Windows in a dual-boot setup, against the day that some job...
I know this was asked in 2010, but some files mentioned in that answer do not appear on my system, and anyway, many changes have occurred since then.
I need to be sure I can recover my Rhythmbox,...
Just thought I'd add my own experience to this thread. I too added a Seagate 4TB Backup Plus drive to my Ubuntu 16.04 system (running on a creaky old Dell with USB 2.0).
Nautilus immediately...
Thanks, this worked well. It took a few minutes, and it complained about being unable to verify a digital signature, but the printer works correctly now.
I have CUPS 1.5.3 and I used it to define my HP 2600n Color LaserJet printer-queue as type "HP Color LaserJet 2600n Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended)".
When it prints, the first character of each...
If I read correctly you should use
lp -d HP-LaserJet-200-color-M251nw
as the command.
I must say, i am no expert . I am trying to do the same with my HP 2600n ; if I learn more I will...
Comcast Customers - Router Security Warning!
It is lucky I have speakerphone, so I could wait interminably for Comcast tech support, in order to learn how to administer the router they supplied.
It's a good thing I did! They had delivered...
Close! Thank you. In case others have this problem, in my case the following cleared things up:
I rebooted.
I printed a test file in medit. The problem remained.
Browsed to...
This printer was working on 12.04 as well as on 11.x previously. I have it at a fixed IP address. I set that address (192.168.1.64) in its properties and I am pretty sure it was working after that....
I just installed sqlite from source on my Ubuntu 11.10 box. I never typed "bash" or any other shell's name during the session, but, apparently the "make" or the sqlite3 program shelled out a few...