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3 Minutes Ago

vanadium replied to a thread [ubuntu] I can't get "Character Map" in gedit to work in General Help

I can only confirm what you observe, on Ubuntu 20.10. Newer versions of gedit seem to have broken the plugin, although it is still shipped.

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ActionParsnip replied to a thread [ubuntu] Ubuntu 18.04.4 - how to properly undelete files in General Help

Use your backups. Dead dimple. You do make backups......right?

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ActionParsnip replied to a thread Cannot connect to network in New to Ubuntu

What happened before the issue? update? power outage? Have you rebooted your router?

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TheFu replied to a thread [all variants] * no longer a wild card in apt? in Installation & Upgrades

There are multiple ways to have APT tell us things. My most common things are: What package is this file in? $ dpkg -S /bin/ls What packages...

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11 Minutes Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread [ubuntu] Ubuntu 18.04.4 - how to properly undelete files in General Help

Well, testdisk is what you need to use. Your mileage may vary, depending on what you did with the system since deleting the files. Unfortunately,...

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23 Minutes Ago

Autodave replied to a thread 12s till login, after login 45/60s to get environment ready to use in General Help

Can you give us some specs on your equipmentr or at least a model?

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24 Minutes Ago

TheFu replied to a thread [ubuntu] Python - should I upgrade packages? in Installation & Upgrades

If you need a module/library for python for a specific tool, then the Canonical packager may packaged up a system version of that module. That's how...

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Autodave replied to a thread Cannot connect to network in New to Ubuntu

Sounds like a hardware problem, but do you know what kernel you are using? This desktop would not connect to the internet when it was running any...

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johnlbergqvist started a thread Pulseaudio says everything's working yet I can't hear audio out of front panel jack in Hardware

I have a motherboard with a standard Intel ALC1220 chip, plus a graphics card which has HDMI audio. All of a sudden, the audio has stopped coming...

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SirTheSurfer replied to a thread Corrupted/removed Grub, can't boot into Linux. Partition not visible from Gparted. in General Help

Hi! No luck getting there through liveusb but I did manage to open it using grub cmd, below few last commands: sudo dpkg --configure -a...

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LHammonds replied to a thread [server] setting up acl with samba in Server Platforms

What are the permissions on /var and /var/www look like? If /var/www does not have at least read permissions for said user (as in "other" group...

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56 Minutes Ago

CelticWarrior replied to a thread [ubuntu] Bootable live cd issue in General Help

"nomodeset" isn't for such cases and the "system" doesn't split it anyway, users typing it incorrectly do that. Please do not make things worse. ...

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webheadjunky2 replied to a thread [Deepin] Nvidia-xconfig update booting to blank screen new install 20.04 in Ubuntu/Debian BASED

Many thanks for those comprehensive replies. I can rule out hardware as I am presently dual booting into Windows and everything works as it should ...

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mIk3_08 replied to a thread Eye pain using Ubuntu in General Help

I am happy enough using mono dark theme and with the service of my O.S, I don't demand any since it has given to me free of use as in Free Open...

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alain.roger started a thread 12s till login, after login 45/60s to get environment ready to use in General Help

Hi, i'm trying to improve the time computer needs to be ready to work. For some people it can funny, but when you start/shutdown computer several...

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ajgreeny replied to a thread Corrupted/removed Grub, can't boot into Linux. Partition not visible from Gparted. in General Help

Removal of grub from the system should not stop gparted or the live system from still seeing the hard disk. When running the live USB do any...

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mIk3_08 replied to a thread Google Chrome No Longer Opening 24 January 2021 . . . in General Help

Yeah CelticWarrior is right this could be permissions. Try to change it.

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danielbernardograset started a thread unable to delete correctly in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Am quite new to Ubuntu so this may sound to you like a bit silly question but... :confused: Imagine you would like to delete this word: eXamPle ...

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jorgemarmo replied to a thread [lubuntu] install alongside Win 10 in Installation & Upgrades

I don't get this.... or I'm not able to do this with my BIOS...

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Norman_Price replied to a thread [ubuntu] Python - should I upgrade packages? in Installation & Upgrades

Thanks very much TheFu - I'll certainly follow your advice! The only reason I was messing with python modules/packages at all is that I had to...

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Impavidus replied to a thread [lubuntu] install alongside Win 10 in Installation & Upgrades

Keep both systems on UEFI and GPT. Using UEFI, there will be two bootloaders installed, one for Windows and one for Linux (grub). The Windows...

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SirTheSurfer started a thread Corrupted/removed Grub, can't boot into Linux. Partition not visible from Gparted. in General Help

To make long story short yesterday I typed some commands that resulted in me being unable to boot into my system. I think that grub might have been...

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rory4ever replied to a thread [ubuntu] Ubuntu 18.04.4 - how to properly undelete files in General Help

Thanks for the info. It is not helping me at the moment though. I know I need to make backups but right now I only need to retrieve some text files I...

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1 Hour Ago

ajgreeny replied to a thread [SOLVED] CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability -- sudo upgrade in Installation & Upgrades

There was an upgrade of sudo yesterday, 2021-01-26 21:44:05 upgrade sudo:amd64 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.1 1.8.31-1ubuntu1.2 so I wonder if it was a patch to...

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P-I H replied to a thread Why I'm still using Unity in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Add on functionality in Gnome is provided by extensions. I'm using some to customize my system. Alternate Tab, Application menu, Dash to Panel, Open...

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sebastian-malin replied to a thread [SOLVED] CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability -- sudo upgrade in Installation & Upgrades

Great, thanks a lot for the fast and helpful answers and the link. EDIT: This seems to explain how such upgrades are deployed...

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savant1919 started a thread [ubuntu] end kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0 0) in General Help

Ubuntu 20.10 I've got a dual boot system where have Windows in one partition and Ubuntu 20.10 in other.I'm not sure what started to cause it but...

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shyam1287 replied to a thread [ubuntu] Bootable live cd issue in General Help

The actual problem that I face is Im unable to boot. I had tried the nomodeset option by manually editing the grub config. Once I do that change,...

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Holger_Gehrke replied to a thread [SOLVED] CVE-2021-3156 vulnerability -- sudo upgrade in Installation & Upgrades

There's an example of what happens on unpatched systems in the blog entry you link to: sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'` should lead to...

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jorgemarmo started a thread [lubuntu] install alongside Win 10 in Installation & Upgrades

Hi, I'm trying to install Lubuntu 20.04LTS on a HP Pavilion dm1. The BIOS let me enable Legacy support but it states that if UEFI is available it...

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