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  1. Re: intermittent Grub bash-like line editing message instead of grub

    Oldfred: here are the outputs of those commands:


    udisksctl status

    MODEL REVISION SERIAL DEVICE...
  2. Re: intermittant Grub bash-like line editing message instead of grub

    Thank you oldfred and tea for one for confirmation that the grub configuration at least looks like it's okay.

    The strange thing is this computer worked for about 18 months with this exact setup...
  3. intermittant Grub bash-like line editing message instead of grub

    Hello,

    On my Dell Inspiron 3793 I've started getting a "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completion. Anywhere else TAB lists possible...
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    Re: Grub dev does not exist

    Thank you for your advice, oldfred. Sorry for the delayed reply.

    I'm not sure why fsck didn't work the first time. After a reboot it did:


    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda8...
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    Re: Grub dev does not exist

    sorry oldfred I didn't as that command was missing a sudo, and I was a bit confused about.it! I will try your commands now.

    Edit, I get these error messages:


    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -C0...
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    Re: Grub dev does not exist

    yancek, guiverc

    Thank you so much for your responses

    The windows partitions are 8.1 and recovery partitions, they've never been used.

    Here is my output of a sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda ...
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    Grub dev does not exist

    This is a supplementary thread to one I posted in General Help: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2437790

    I hope this is reasonable etiquette, posting about it here, the sub-forum where...
  8. Re: Ubuntu no longer works (dev does not exist in recovery mode)

    Thank you. I shall take a look tomorrow. I think that my stuff should be backed up to an external drive as of a few months ago. My wife may have emailed her recent document to herself.

    I don't...
  9. Re: Ubuntu no longer works (dev does not exist in recovery mode)

    Sorry, it's a typo - I copied out the recovery mode entry by hand! I've not fiddled with grub or fstab at all.

    I'm usually good at backups - a hospital stay has knocked my rhythm.
  10. Re: Ubuntu no longer works (dev does not exist in recovery mode)

    I'm in a livecd session now with 16.04, this thread https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2327903 suggested I look at:

    sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list

    here's the output:



    the missing...
  11. Re: Ubuntu no longer works (dev does not exist in recovery mode)

    Thank you all for your responses. I've found a livecd for 16.04. Is there any way I can fix my system with that? I was due to upgrade my os, but an unforseen illness prevented that.

    Is there any...
  12. Ubuntu no longer works (dev does not exist in recovery mode)

    Hello,

    I have an old Samsung laptop running 14.04, which I was planning on upgrading to a newer LTS soon. Since earlier today it has stopped loading Ubuntu. I get the Samsung boot screen and then...
  13. Ubuntu installation on a Dell Inspiron 17 3780 hybrid drive

    Hello,

    I am considering buying a new laptop to dual boot Windows 10 and a Ubuntu LTS release. On my shortlist is the Dell Inspiron 17 3780 Intel Core i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD,...
  14. Re: HP Photosmart 5515 will not print out full page

    Yes, the problem occurs with a direct usb connection as well.
  15. HP Photosmart 5515 will not print out full page

    Hello,

    I've been attempting to show my friend that Linux is now easier than ever to use and works "out of the box"! Unfortunately, I decided to help them try to get their HP Photosmart 5515 and I...
  16. [all variants] Re: [Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

    Hello,

    I'm just writing to let you know that I have fixed my Windows 8 issues by manually restoring the backup copy of bootmgfw.efi and then running


    sudo modprobe efivars
    sudo update-grub
    ...
  17. [all variants] Re: [Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

    I'll try a camera and report back later.

    I do not have a Windows repair flash drive, I think. I have a Samsung recovery tool that I can access by pressing F4 when booting up the computer, will...
  18. [all variants] Re: [Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

    oldfred - I haven't run the 'buggy' UEFI fix from Boot-Repair. On both occasions that I have run it (once previously for my 12.10 installation and yesterday for my 14.04 installation), I have clicked...
  19. [all variants] Re: [Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

    Thank you for your response.

    Windows was not hibernated and fast boot is off. The BIOS options have not been altered since my successful Ubuntu 12.10 installation 18 months ago. I believe that my...
  20. [all variants] Re: [Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

    Hello,

    I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 from a DVD. I previously duel booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10, and had to use Boot-Repair to get things working. For my installation today, Ubuntu appears to...
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    [ubuntu] python packages not upgraded in 12.10

    Hello,

    For the past few weeks I have noticed with aptitude that 2 packages are not being upgraded with my Ubuntu 12.10 installation. These packages are: python3 and python3-minimal. If I run...
  22. [ubuntu] Re: Network-Manager applet no longer showing signal strength

    Hello,

    I reported this as a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1035590 . Progress is being made on fixing it.
  23. [ubuntu] Re: Network-Manager applet no longer showing signal strength

    I now believe this to be a bug associated with last night's kernel update. If I reboot and select a previous linux kernel, I do not get this problem.
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Network-Manager applet no longer showing signal strength

    Thanks for your help anyway.

    I've searched for similar issues, but so far, everything that I'm finding is 2 or more years old. I've now noticed that a list of wireless APs is slowly generated by...
  25. [ubuntu] Re: Network-Manager applet no longer showing signal strength

    Hi,

    I ran
    sudo aptitude purge nm-applet && sudo aptitude install nm-applet
    but this gave me an error about there being no package called nm-applet. I instead replaced nm-applet with...
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