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Old Kernel was a good idea, but there was a problem with that Kernel and an app called timekpr, which I accidently set to Zero, which means I automatically get logged out as soon as I log in.

Have...

Just formatting the USB bootable ubunut drive.

Wondering how to use this chroot command to complete the upgrade?

Dear forums,
I'm running an old 16.04 LTS on an ancient Lenovo notebook S205 that is mostly used by my 8 year old. Today I was running an update process after not having done so for a year or more,...

Hi, this morning I've been trying to set up a new printer at work on my small Lenovo S205 (32bit) notebook running 16.04. It's a pretty recent install of 16.04, so it maybe that I missing something...

Thanks Roger, I just saw this now, very interesting. Seems very strange and some sort of bug. 9 months later I'm still getting the same problem so will give this a try, although a bit concerned that...

Just by way of a quick update, my problem seems to have been resolved after making the above changes.

@mastarblaster - thanks for the idea, I had previously been using the newer releases of...

So seems I'm to answer my own question.

Since my system crashed again a couple of days ago, I have been looking around and found this thread LibreOffice 5.1.6.2 crashes ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)
...

Just happened again
Couldn't see anything in the crash log, but got this from var/log/kern.log at the time it happened.





Any ideas?

I'm working with a simple word document and a simple impress document in libre office, and for some reason it keeps crashing, logging out of the system and taking me to a login page. I looked around...

Using Ubuntu 16.04 running Libreoffice 5.3.3.2.

When i try to look at a sheet that contains export of quickbooks data saved on a Windows machine using excel, it takes a full minute or more to open...

I installed the visualisation plugin for rhythmbox using the following command.

glenn@Glenn-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-visualizer

And it seemed to install correctly, I...

Quick update.

after sudo apt-get autoremove, was able to restart and everything fixed!

Thanks Bucky Ball

Hi Bucky Ball,

Don't have a LAN cable at the moment, but might be able to get one later. Just to let you know, typed in

sudo apt-get autoremove and got this response

E: dpkg was...

Yesterday I was conducting a general update of Ubuntu 12.04 using synaptic and then it crashed and I had to force restart. Now there are multiple problems, trackpad doesn't work, I can log into the...

Old Fred,

Thanks those commands did the trick. Everything running smooth now, no errors.

Much thanks to you and especially to bashing-om for all the help getting things back online! Now I've...

Hi Old Fred,

Got stuck on the first command

glenn@glenn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
[sudo] password for glenn:
Reading package lists... Done
glenn@glenn-desktop:~$ e... 0%

It just...

Hi Bashing-om and Old Fred,

Just to let you know after cleaning some connections I retried the commands from post 40 and it all worked. Following the boot I ran

sudo grub-install --recheck...

Restarted and low and behold there is my harfd drive again. The Block thing has gone from my disk utility. Following is readout of two prior commands.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu

Disk...

Yet i can load up Grub? How am I doing that?

Looks like it is a SATA drive.

See the screen shot

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Oldfred;

Yes, you're right. Actually my hard drive and or motherboard sometimes give me problems by disappearing. I've never been able to work out what it is from. Often I just adjust the...

Bashing-om;

No worries, will catch you in the morning, in the meantime, here is the readout


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 4063 MB, 4063232000 bytes
125 heads, 62...

Hey Bashing-om,

Alas, was going so well, but came back with error on 3rd last command (which looks like the key one)

grub> linux (hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
error: attempt to read...

there is no have_grubenv


prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/grub
is different to what you have


root=hd0,msdos1
is the same as you

typing boot returned the same kernel error as before

error: you need to load the kernel first