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When I press Ctl-D I get:

Reloading system manager configuration
Stating default target
[then in red]
Failed to start default target: Transaction for graphical.target/start is destructive...

Full disclosure: this is on PopOS 21.10.

Had a power outage this morning; once I saw the lights go out and heard the backup battery unit kick in, I shut down the (Gigabtye/Ryzen) desktop.

Now I...

Doesn't happen with the Nouveau driver. Nvidia can go attempt something anatomically impossible, I am regretting this stupid choice.

Possibly related to this issue: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2450863

Installed 20.04 into a new motherboard and Nvidia graphics card a month or so ago -- retaining my /home directory...

I wound up just resetting with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/

especially since I was (happily) using Unity. what I'm hoping is that there's a simple dconf (gconf?) setting I can disable, because after two days customizing to where I like things, I sure don't...

Installed 20.04 last week, and been experiencing strangeness with the display -- most notably now, that my screenlock times out seconds after I stop typing/mousing, whatever I set the timeout to....

Thanks all, nice to see familiar faces.

After giving it some thought, think I'll just back up 16.04 & then reformat and start 20.04 from scratch. On reflection, fact is when I've installed new...

Getting ready to install 20.04 & need to be sure I plot everything correctly.

Here is the partition info of my SSD:


Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
...

always mark the thread... waiting till midweek. thanks again.

I believe cat worked just fine -- however, per your suggestion, I booted from USB, rsync'd the contents of the new SSD drive to an internal HD, repartitioned the SSD using gdisk, rsync'd back,...

Much obliged for the detailed and very helpful response, which I've archived.

Predictably, however, the fallacy of my reasoning was only compounded by my ignorance: the "bad superblock" error came...

Desktop refused to boot up a week ago -- the only clue was /dev/sda5 completing fsck before the emergency command prompt popped up, so it made sense to replace the five-year old 240GB Crucial SSD...

thanks, guys. all I needed to do was purge that PPA.


raphael@Swann-Ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l python3
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|...

thanks for the thoughtful and helpful responses.

I'm on the road at the moment (using a nice little Asus 302 Chromebook running GalliumOS on which Pythons are nicely tamed) but will remove that...

tbh, I have only a dim understanding of what we are trying to do here, but -- apologies for the earlier confusion: what I meant to say was that there might be version conflict since I think this...

raphael@Swann-Ubuntu:~$ apt policy python3-aptdaemon
python3-aptdaemon:
Installed: 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14
Candidate: 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu16
Version table:
1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu16 500
...

raphael@Swann-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-cache policy gir1.2-vte-2.90
[sudo] password for raphael:
gir1.2-vte-2.90:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:


so, tried installing:

quite a few -- in fact a candidate for the cause of this is Jonathon F's Python 3.6 at https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/python-3.6

I can't remember why I installed it, think maybe...

Been having assorted Python issues am trying to debug -- squashed one this morning, another one remains: neither Synaptic nor Software Updater can deal with python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets at the...

good idea, emailed him yesterday.

I've found a theme I like, except for one thing: the active window title font is not bright enough, it's a shade of gray too close to the inactive window title font.

following the guidance at ...

There seems to be something else involved with the Xduoo X3 player recognizing the card. I tried a dozen times using the card formatted under Linux without success -- finally, I used the method...

thanks. the man page usually does the trick for me, the problem here was I don't really understand cluster size (and it's one of those things I really don't want to). I believe your answer is...

I'm trying to flash Rockbox onto an xDuoo digital music player, and the micro SD card has to be formatted FAT32 with 4096 bytes per sector. I've come across conflicting reports for mkdosfs...