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I run a dinky Pi 4 with Ubuntu 20.04, mostly as a Plex Server. It's hooked up to a rickety 1TB external HDD (with its own power source), which I'm trying to replace with a new 2TB with...

Thanks so much for all your replies folks, it's been super helpful.

I've sorted both problems and I'm genuinely embarrassed by what the underlying issue was for one of them!

@MAFoElffen -...

So, real humdinger here, hopefully someone will have some pointers.

I have a Pi4 running Ubuntu LTS

Currently, I'm unable to do anything substantive on the system as I've lost write access
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I've just installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Macbook air 2013 and had the same problem - it's a common issue with Ubuntu and broadcom wifi drivers (I speak from bitter experience!).

I'm in no way...

Hoping someone can help me with a relatively straightforward solution to a niggling problem

After installing Ubuntu 16.04 on my 2013 Macbook Air I find I'm unable to switch to virtual terminals....

Thanks, but I'm not sure that's my issue.

I've had that bug ('waiting for network connection' on boot)for a while now, but previously my wireless / networking would be up and running once I've...

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Well this is a strange one.

Seemingly out of the blue, my desktop doesn't start networking on boot, presents me with a 'Ubuntu experienced an internal error' message.

It's easily resolved with...

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Ahah! Spot on - the ln command had got scrambled. I've just linked the files line by line, and am back to the error I was getting before I issued the $sudo rm -r /etc/apache2 command.

Which...

Just upgraded to 11.10 - mostly a smooth ride.

But my contact list - which is synced from Google - has vanished. I've tried deleting the list ('cannot delete address book'), and making a new...

mikejonesey: Sorry, I should have been more clear. The random permissions problem was just a surprising error that apt-get splurged out at the time (no other instances were running); the original...

Alas - same ol' error.

For completeness' sake, here is the output from the purge and re-install you originally suggested. I noticed some errors when I performed it yesterday but copy/pasting and scrolling was not an option...

Thanks again for the reply - sorry I haven't got back to you sooner, I was playing about on the sly yesterday from work.

Tried your first suggestion to no avail; here's the output you requested:...

Bah, thought you might have been on to something there! Thanks v much for the reply, anyways.

Sadly the same error message. I got the following warning:

dpkg: warning: while removing...

Yes, this is all my own fault, but sometimes the temptation to write


sudo rm

is just too much.

My apache config has been broken a while (I don't seriously employ a webserver, but I...

Anyone come across this before / have any tips?

I just re-installed Rhythmbox; now clicking on 'Edit > Preferences' leads to a segmentation fault.

Running from a terminal, the relevant messages...

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OK, so I have two wireless interfaces. The Gutsy upgrade borked my internal card (Broadcom b43 - wlan0) and after much faffing around I gave in and got a USB stick which works fine.

However, I'm...

Fixed it - found exactly the solution here.

Haha, I borked my 10.10 upgrade less than an hour after installing it! Love it.

Was following the tips here and installing Nautilus-elementary. After a reboot panel failed to initialize, no...

Thanks - that should get me started if nothing else. Doesn't seem too tricky. Hoping it's a fairly straightforward problem.

OK, was trying to make a live-usb boot partition on my 1.5TB HD; in doing so clicked a 'wipe disk' button.

A second later I realised what I'd done, clicked cancel (frantically), tried to unmount...

I noticed a while back that the .bashrc file seemed to have vanished from my home file, and when I re-created one it wasn't automatically sourced.

Is this an NBR thing or a me thing? And any ideas...