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I just installed 14.04 on my wifes laptop; fresh install, not an upgrade. Previously she had been using 13.10 with no issues. Now, for some unknown reason, when you wake the laptop back up from...

I noticed this behavior on a friends computer and didn't want to bother looking into it, but I just noticed that the same thing happens on my computer at home. I don't use Ubuntu much these days but...

Edit: Solved. As I wrote below, I ran "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source" and it installed with no errors, but didn't work. After doing this with a Live CD, it still didn't work. But then...

I've been trying to help a friend who has XP and Ubuntu installed on his source hard drive that is about 300GB in size and he would like to clone it to a new 1TB hard drive. He doesn't save much...

Oh of course! Why didn't I think of that. :confused: I'm pretty certain that will do the trick, thanks for your helpful reminder :)

That partition is screwed, however, since your laptop is likely new enough to still be covered under warranty you can request a free set of reinstall discs from Dell here:
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I have an old IBM Laptop I put Ubuntu on for someone else which has a failing hard drive (it's just started to throw out SMART alerts). When attempting to boot normally it goes to a black screen...

This did the trick. I believe the key difference here in these instructions as opposed to other solutions I came across on AskUbuntu is the inclusion of the dkms package, which I don't recall seeing...

Edit for people finding this thread from Google/Search:

Here's what worked for me:


sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms


Then:

This is something I've never been able to figure out in the last 4 or 5 years since I started using Ubuntu.

Within Nautilus, there is now a search box at the top you can type things into to try...

Diskpart should thoug. Still waiting for it to zero the whole drive right now. I'll post again if it doesnt work. Thanks again!

I decided to start from scratch, beginning with using diskpart from a DOS terminal on the the windows 7 disk, using the clean all option. That should fix it. Already had a backup so... figured this...

Forgot to add this output for the second command mentioned in the first reply above:


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print
Warning: /dev/sda contains GPT signatures, indicating...

Here is the output for fdisk -lu:


WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes...

I have a computer I just finished reformatting and re-installing Windows 7 on and during the install I left a good chunk of space unallocated with the intent of later installing Ubuntu into it via...

So I've done something rather stupid, apparently. I was trying to setup a dual boot configuration along side a Windows 7 partition and in the process got an alert that told me I needed to specify a...

I was recently asked by someone if I knew whether Ubuntu works with touchscreens. They're looking to purchase one and put Ubuntu on it and would like the touchscreen to work. So I'm doing him a...

I believe what he's trying to do is make a copy of a commercial DVD or some form of video DVD where the source is larger than your standard ~4GB sized blank disk. I don't think Brasero does any sort...

I'm trying to help a friend by remote troubleshoot a problem with k9copy. To get some verbose output I had him run k9copy from a terminal window and then copy/paste the whole terminal windows...

I think I figured out the problem with this laptop. I booted into the RAM testing utility from a Live CD and discovered that the RAM is faulty. But here's the kicker. This laptop's factory RAM is...

EDIT: Nevermind, I've found the problem. I booted into the memory tester app on the Live CD and discovered that the RAM is faulty. Mystery solved for now. Please ignore this post.

I have an...

When you say "chroot into the installed system" could you tell me exactly what that means/how to do that please? This is a unique first for me I think.

I have an ASUS X54C that client has asked me to take a look at.

When I turn the system on I get the following message:



I am able to access the grub menu itself by holding shift, but...

I have a friend who did some experimenting with having two different copies of Ubuntu installed on his system where they shared a home partition. The idea was to have one as a backup in case he...

I would have done that were it actually an option. Try lubuntu in a vm sometime and you'll see ;)