Certain Apps Can't Access .local Files https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567563/certain-apps-cant-access-local-files

Some apps, notably the Libre Office suite and Firefox, seem to be unable to access files in my .local folder. Other apps, such as Image Viewer, Obsidian, and Vim are able to open them without issue.

This is particularly strange since, as of just over a month ago, I was able to access them without difficulty. I'm not sure when the changeover happened since I wasn't accessing the files in that time. I have also changed internet (provider, router, etc.) since then, but the files that I am looking at are stored on pCloud's servers (and then encrypted by Cryptomator) so I don't know if that factors in.

I wonder if it has something to do with permissions as the applications that I think of as more baked-in (e.g. Text Editor and Vim) seem to be capable of opening the files whereas my additions (e.g. Libre Writer) cannot (as tested on the same .txt file), but I really don't know enough to be confident.

Any ideas or suggestions are, of course, greatly appreciated.

Ubuntu keeps "rebooting" after loading as opposed to having setup complete https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567562/ubuntu-keeps-rebooting-after-loading-as-opposed-to-having-setup-complete

edited version

I tried to replace my windows system with Ubuntu. I booted a USB stick (using Rufus) to do it.

I go through the process to load Ubuntu, just Ubuntu, not a dual load. It "appears" to load, but when it tells me to restart the computer, I have to do the booting again.

It does allow me to "test" Ubuntu and play around, but once the computer resets or is shut down, I have to reboot.

Closest answer I've been able to find is that this is some kind of live version, but won't be saved on the computer.

Asking as a newbie, as I'm lost.

install problem https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567557/install-problem

During my install on a new dell machine I am getting to the point of install and it does not show the actual hard disk partition to install Ubuntu on but shows the usb drive. the drive i want to install it on has a 700 gb partition on the NVMe drive. I have tried Ubuntu versions 24.04.4 and 26.04. What am I doing wrong?

Failed while installing ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567556/failed-while-installing-ubuntu

I changed windows xp to lubuntu it's boots and turns on. On the language selection the mouse doesn't work. And it turns off immediately. No I/O devices turns on.

Unable to connect to Canonical name server https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567553/unable-to-connect-to-canonical-name-server

I am currently unable to connect to any Canonical name server from a server that has been running and regularly installing updates for over a year.

$ dig canonical.com
;; communications error to 127.0.0.1#53: timed out

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> canonical.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 63336
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: bf985d2b0d9a5dc2010000006a2561614f29acbfa3607ed5 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;canonical.com.         IN  A

;; Query time: 4992 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 07 05:17:37 PDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70

dig ubuntu.com
;; communications error to 127.0.0.1#53: timed out

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> ubuntu.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 50583
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: 84ddd6bff6324a85010000006a256152cb1a1628a3bb7127 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ubuntu.com.            IN  A

;; Query time: 4996 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 07 05:17:22 PDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 67

$ dig ppa.launchpad.net
;; communications error to 127.0.0.1#53: timed out

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> ppa.launchpad.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 22613
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: fb7e9b492b13c8f3010000006a2561fc0a1aadf66f6769da (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ppa.launchpad.net.     IN  A

;; Query time: 4996 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 07 05:20:12 PDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74

Just for reference:

dig askubuntu.com

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> askubuntu.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63171
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: c734f19287eea80a010000006a25613ef05f7ff9ad6a7c55 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;askubuntu.com.         IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
askubuntu.com.      277 IN  A   198.252.206.1

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 07 05:17:02 PDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 86

It seems to be specific to one server. The server does not exhibit any signs of having been compromised and is updated regularly, though currently it is impossible to update because, by all outward appearances, Canonical has blocked my IP address from accessing their name server.

$ dig ns1.canonical.com
;; communications error to 127.0.0.1#53: timed out

; <<>> DiG 9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3-Ubuntu <<>> ns1.canonical.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 44028
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
; COOKIE: 67b8ecec6a690c94010000006a2563010c14125b277b79a9 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.canonical.com.     IN  A

;; Query time: 4992 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 07 05:24:33 PDT 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74

$ ping -c 10 185.125.190.65
PING 185.125.190.65 (185.125.190.65) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 185.125.190.65 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9202ms

Are there any options for me here?

I have other Ubuntu Servers that do not have this problem.

Kubuntu 26.04 - Volume/sound level gets stuck into a short range upon connecting bluetooth devices https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567552/kubuntu-26-04-volume-sound-level-gets-stuck-into-a-short-range-upon-connecting

When connecting bluetooth speakers or earbuds in Kubuntu 26.04, the following bug happens: the sound level gets stuck into a short range (centered around the last sound level before connection, so for instance, if it was 60% before, after connection, it can only be changed within 57-63%). The volume changes are attempted with the keyboard media keys, which normally work fine without connecting bluetooth devices.

Running this:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber;sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

Usually fixes the problem, but at the expense of having to run that every time a bluetooth speaker/earbuds device is connected. How to fix this bug for good?

Canon MG3550 printer can not connect with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567548/canon-mg3550-printer-can-not-connect-with-ubuntu-26-04-lts

I try to connect my Canon MG3550 printer with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. But nothing works, Can someone help me?

Best regards, Gee

How can OpenVPN be set to autoconnect when the network connection comes up? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567546/how-can-openvpn-be-set-to-autoconnect-when-the-network-connection-comes-up

OpenVPN is supported in Ubuntu by simply installing the appropriate plugins.

sudo apt install network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Now a configuration file (e.g. my-connection.ovpn) can be imported from the network by clicking the add vpn (+ button) next to the VPN heading.

However, while OpenVPN supports autoconnect in the configuration file, there is no way to enable this from the GUI.

How can I enable an OpenVPN connection to automatically connect when the parent network comes up?

Having trouble with a Broadcom b43 driver in an old MacBook Air running Ubuntu 24.04 [duplicate] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567545/having-trouble-with-a-broadcom-b43-driver-in-an-old-macbook-air-running-ubuntu-2

I need the repository and the package for the the fix. I know there out there and common.

Windows 11 debugs Ubuntu (raucus subject line) https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567544/windows-11-debugs-ubuntu-raucus-subject-line

Two second power outage shut down the PC. Upon rebooting there was no audio output at PC's front headphone jack and rear panel audio out.

PC's 2.1 speakers are dead. The headphones are dead. After several reboots while debugging, they are still dead.

Dual booting into Windows 11 fixed it. Rebooting into Ubuntu.. now every little thing works. Question: Why?

Hardware:

  • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
  • Motherboard: X870 Pro RS with 8600G w 32GB
  • Audio: • 7.1 CH HD audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec)
    • Impedance sensing on rear out port
    • Individual PCB layers for R/L audio channel (who cares)
    • Nahimic audio
I am using Ubuntu 26.04 with Gnome 50. I am facing a screen freezing hard lock and I can't do anything https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567542/i-am-using-ubuntu-26-04-with-gnome-50-i-am-facing-a-screen-freezing-hard-lock-a

I am using Ubuntu 26.04 with Gnome 50. I am facing a screen freezing hard lock. I can't do anything except for restarting the computer.

I made a configuration for the Bluetooth to stop the power management from disconnecting the headset, but I don't think that this is the issue.

I installed like 10+ gnome extension and using hidamari for live wallpaper.

I didn't do anything else in the PC to be honest.

I checked what happened before the freeze and it was a bunch of Bluetooth and a wired SD. Although I don't have an SD card or plugged to USB drive I am using kernel 7.

I thought it's a touchpad issue, but I don't really this is the issue. I am using a Dell Latitude 5510, SSD, 8 GB RAM DDR4, integrated GPU, and CPU Core i5 10th gen.

Failure trying to install Waydroid https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567539/failure-trying-to-install-waydroid

I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to install Waydroid, but it only returns the following error:

/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/apt_hook_ubuntu_virt: not found  
Error: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt_hook_ubuntu_virt

Here's the link for the instructions I was following.

I have no idea what I'm doing. Should I just fresh install?

Remote Desktop Connection Windows to Ubuntu 24.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567535/remote-desktop-connection-windows-to-ubuntu-24-04

I am trying to RDC in Ubuntu 24.04 through a Windows 10 machine and a Windows 11 machine from the same home network, using Windows' RDC .

The strange thing I found is from Windows 11 pro machine to Ubuntu machine everything goes smoothly at beginning, but after some time, i.e. while I am writing this, the remote desktop connection (in desktop sharing mode) drops and trying to restore it gives a message of error STATE_RUN_FAILED (meanwhile the Ubuntu screen blanked but not logged off and if reactivated the screen again remote connection goes through well).

(Windows 11 remote desktop connection is mstsc.exe ver 10.0.26)

From Windows 10 home (build 1709 - not updated because of touchscreen drivers limitation or something - but still working fine) and mstsc.exe ver 10.0.16 the windows OS cannot neither retrieve the Ubuntu machine via the Computer Name /Host name BUT when pointed to the internal IP address it gets to the login credential screen but don't accept the login credential (which are the correct ones as in the other try) AND it neither receive the Gnome certificate as in the Windows 11 try. (I have tried to export from one pc to the other but it doesn't change a thing.)

Should I try to do something about fixing the Windows environments somehow, maybe installing a new version of mstsc.exe or else OR should I try to install XRDP (which I have read of in internet searches) on Ubuntu environment and try to configure it according to windows (BTW can you have in place either XRDP connection and gnome-remote-desktop in the same machine or is something not very advisable

I have output files from systemctl --user status gnome-remote-desktop, This from Windows 11 machine:

 ● gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-remote-desktop.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2026-06-06 14:48:02 CEST; 8min ago
   Main PID: 20579 (gnome-remote-de)
      Tasks: 21 (limit: 4461)
     Memory: 60.7M (peak: 61.2M)
        CPU: 1.605s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/gnome-remote-desktop.service
             └─20579 /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon

Jun 06 14:56:32 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:56:32:873] [20579:000054c0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [peer_recv_callback_internal]: CONNECTION_STATE_NEGO - rdp_server_accept_nego() fail
Jun 06 14:56:32 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:56:32:873] [20579:000054c0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]
Jun 06 14:56:32 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:56:32:873] [20579:00005063] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_default_write]: BIO_should_retry returned a system error 32: Broken pipe
Jun 06 14:56:32 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session
Jun 06 14:56:34 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:56:34:649] [20579:000054d2] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read retries exceeded
Jun 06 14:56:34 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:56:34:649] [20579:000054d2] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
Jun 06 14:56:34 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session
Jun 06 14:56:34 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP.CLIPRDR] Client capabilities: long format names, stream file clip, file clip no file paths, can lock clip data, huge file support
Jun 06 14:56:34 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP.AUDIO_PLAYBACK] Client Formats: [AAC: false, Opus: false, PCM: true]
Jun 06 14:56:35 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP.RDPGFX] CapsAdvertise: Accepting capability set with version RDPGFX_CAPVERSION_106, Client cap flags: H264 (AVC444): true, H264 (AVC420): true

This is from Windows 10 machine > ERRORS

    ● gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-remote-desktop.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2026-06-06 14:48:02 CEST; 7min ago
   Main PID: 20579 (gnome-remote-de)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 4461)
     Memory: 15.9M (peak: 19.2M)
        CPU: 402ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/gnome-remote-desktop.service
             └─20579 /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon

Jun 06 14:48:08 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: Cannot load libnvidia-encode.so.1
Jun 06 14:48:08 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: RDP server started
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.nla] - [nla_server_recv_stream]: nla_recv() error: -1
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_accept_nla]: client authentication failure
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [peer_recv_callback_internal]: CONNECTION_STATE_NEGO - rdp_server_accept_nego() fail
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:64] [20579:000053e0] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [14:49:21:65] [20579:00005063] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_default_write]: BIO_should_retry returned a system error 32: Broken pipe
Jun 06 14:49:21 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session

This is another attempt with Windows 7 machine > DIFFERENT Errors

● gnome-remote-desktop.service - GNOME Remote Desktop
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-remote-desktop.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2026-06-06 14:48:02 CEST; 1h 22min ago
   Main PID: 20579 (gnome-remote-de)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 4461)
     Memory: 59.6M (peak: 74.0M)
        CPU: 33.669s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/gnome-remote-desktop.service
             └─20579 /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon

Jun 06 16:09:12 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:12:350] [20579:0000594b] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]
Jun 06 16:09:12 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:549] [20579:00005951] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [peer_recv_callback_internal]: CONNECTION_STATE_NEGO - rdp_server_accept_nego() fail
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:549] [20579:00005951] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:566] [20579:00005957] [WARN][com.freerdp.core.connection] - [rdp_server_accept_nego]: server supports only NLA Security
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:566] [20579:00005957] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.connection] - [rdp_server_accept_nego]: Protocol security negotiation failure
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:568] [20579:00005957] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.peer] - [peer_recv_callback_internal]: CONNECTION_STATE_NEGO - rdp_server_accept_nego() fail
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-desktop-daemon[20579]: [16:09:37:568] [20579:00005957] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_check_fds]: transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - STATE_RUN_FAILED [-1]
Jun 06 16:09:37 ASUB46 gnome-remote-de[20579]: [RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping sessio

n

Thanks for suggesting one or the other way (gnome-remote-desktop or Xrdp).

I am very confident in potential of Ubuntu, but when it comes to talk about it I am always in the situation I didn't finish to configure it :( my fault indeed and I am trying to overcome it if I can.)

Default external media mount location seems to have changed in 26.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567532/default-external-media-mount-location-seems-to-have-changed-in-26-04

In Ubuntu versions previous to 26.04 the default mount point for automatically mounted removable media (by GNOME?), like USB drives, external HDDs, SD cards, etc., was something like /media/<username>/<disk_id>/. Now, after upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04, it seems that the location /run/media/<username>/<disk_id>/ is used instead.

The top-level /media/ directory still exists and it is still populated with user directories from past mounts.

There is a short explanation for the "why" this change has happened at the Release Notes for Ubuntu 26.04 and in some answers given below.

My question is: What will happen to the /media/ directory? Is the /media/ directory still created in fresh Ubuntu 26.04 installs? I had upgraded my system to 26.04 from 25.10 and I don't know whether it is still an essential directory or can be safely deleted.

Canon iP installing automatically when connected but didn't print https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567529/canon-ip-installing-automatically-when-connected-but-didnt-print

I use a Canon printer. It was detected and installed automatically, but when I tried to print it didn't work.

How can I share a Canon LBP2900 printer from Ubuntu 24.04 to Windows PCs? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567523/how-can-i-share-a-canon-lbp2900-printer-from-ubuntu-24-04-to-windows-pcs

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and have my Canon LBP2900 printer connected through a USB port. I first installed the driver after getting it from: https://printerdrivers.com/canon-lbp2900b-driver/ The printer performs well on my Ubuntu system. Now I want to share it with other computers in my local network, even those running Windows. What is the best approach to share a Canon LBP2900 from Ubuntu so that other devices can print to it?

How to run a .bat file? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567493/how-to-run-a-bat-file

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 and I have the 9.something version of Wine installed. I have a few games which require running a .bat file (since it wasn't made for Linux) in order to work. When I try to right-click -> Open with wine installer, nothing happens. Then I tried this:

~$ wine cmd.exe /c home/myself/Downloads/thegamefiles/Start—thegame.bat

I got this result:

007c:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\winebth": c0000135
Can't recognize '/home/myself/Downloads/thegamefiles/Start—thegame.bat' as 
an internal or external command, or batch script.

What is the problem and how can I get this to work?

I also tried to make a .sh copy of the file (with #!/bin/bash instead of @echo off), but the terminal tells me command not found for every line. edit: As asked I made this output on the terminal

~$ ls -l /home/myself/Downloads/thegamefiles/Start—thegame.bat

And I got this:

ls: cannot access '/home/myself/Downloads/thegamefiles/Start—thegame.bat': No such file or driectory

And I can also give the code inside the bat file :

@echo off
title title of the game
echo.
echo   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
echo          title of the game
echo         the game
echo   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
echo.
echo   Opening browser...
START http://127.0.0.1:29595/
echo   Starting server...
echo.
echo   Closing this window will stop the server
"server/miniweb.exe" -p 29595 -i 127.0.0.1 -r game/thegame >nul 2>&1
echo.
echo   Shutting down...
echo.

another edit: the game's folder is organised this way => there's the Start-thegame.bat file and two additional folders named "Server" (where there's just the "miniweb.exe file) and "Game" which contains another folder which in turn has a html file,and dozens of folders with pretty names such as "d5dc1e3202d89e15b3f5675fab7b1c86" with a binary file inside every single one of them.

new edit: I tried to do as told in here with this command:

wine cmd c/ /home/myself/.wine/drive_c/users/myself/Downloads/thegamefiles/Start-thegame.bat
0080:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\winebth": c0000135
Microsoft Windows 10.0.7601
Constant audio output changes lead to disruptive "Select Audio Device" OSD https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567297/constant-audio-output-changes-lead-to-disruptive-select-audio-device-osd

I'm on the latest Ubuntu 26.04 fully patched and having audio issues.

What I think is going on is:

  1. The snd_hda_intel driver seems to have a hard time reliably detecting my sound hardware

  2. This results in Linux thinking that my sound hardware keeps changing

  3. Which results in Ubuntu trying to keep up - with sometimes hundreds of changes per minute visible in the sound widget (top right corner of screen) and

  4. Frequent On Screen Display (OSD) asking me to "Select Audio Device", which are blocking and disrupt whatever else I'm doing.

Here is what I can see in dmesg:

$ sudo dmesg | grep snd_hda
[   22.065071] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[   22.065086] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[   22.282091] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: ALC3226: picked fixup  (pin match)
[   22.282665] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC3226: line_outs=1 (0x16/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[   22.282671] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:    speaker_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   22.282673] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   22.282675] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   22.282676] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:    inputs:
[   22.282677] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[   22.282679] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:      Front Mic=0x18
[   22.282681] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:      Dock Mic=0x19
[   22.282682] snd_hda_codec_alc269 hdaudioC0D0:      Headset Mic=0x1a
[   22.428525] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: bound 0000:01:00.0 (ops nv50_audio_component_bind_ops [nouveau])
[   37.254074] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x00270500
[   38.255078] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: No response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x00270500
[   38.519998] snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi hdaudioC2D0: HDMI: pin NID 0x6 not registered
[   39.256075] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x00270500
[   48.357998] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x270500
[   48.358038] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x370500
[   48.358079] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x670500
[   48.358121] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x870500
[   48.358163] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x970500
[   48.358205] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1270500
[   48.358246] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1370500
[   48.358287] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1470500
[   48.358329] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1570500
[   48.358372] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1670500
[   53.373626] snd_hdac_bus_update_rirb: 187 callbacks suppressed
[   53.373633] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x270500
[   53.373665] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x370500
[   53.373708] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x670500
[   53.373749] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x870500
[   53.373792] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x970500
[   53.373832] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1270500
[   53.373873] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1370500
[   53.373915] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1470500
[   53.373958] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1570500
[   53.373999] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x1670500
[   71.009964] snd_hdac_bus_update_rirb: 106 callbacks suppressed

dmesg is FULL of "spurious response" messages - hundreds and hundreds of them.

$ cat /proc/asound/card*/codec\#*|grep -i codec
Codec: Realtek ALC3226
Codec: Nvidia GPU 42 HDMI/DP

I have read How to disable 'Select Audio Device' popup when plugging in a device and installed the suggested GNOME plugin but it has made no difference. I am NOT plugging in a new device or changing anything when this behaviour happens. It happens when I'm reading my emails, or when the system is completely idle. I can't connect this behaviour to anything I do, as a user of the system.

Sometimes, this issue is not visible for an entire day - no OSD popup. Other times, it completely blocks my ability to use the system, as I get OSD popups every few seconds, making my system completely unusable.

Here is the start of dmesg that shows you the kind of hardware I'm on (an old Dell Precision M4800 laptop):

$ sudo dmesg | head -100
[    0.000000] Linux version 7.0.0-15-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-048) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 15.2.0-16ubuntu1) 15.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.46) #15-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 22 16:06:43 UTC 2026 (Ubuntu 7.0.0-15.15-generic 7.0.0)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-7.0.0-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ro quiet splash crashkernel=2G-4G:320M,4G-32G:512M,32G-64G:1024M,64G-128G:2048M,128G-:4096M
[    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
[    0.000000]   Intel GenuineIntel
[    0.000000]   AMD AuthenticAMD
[    0.000000]   Hygon HygonGenuine
[    0.000000]   Centaur CentaurHauls
[    0.000000]   zhaoxin   Shanghai  
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000000913ff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000091400-0x000000000009ffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000dffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000c1922fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c1923000-0x00000000c1929fff]  ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c192a000-0x00000000c2556fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c2557000-0x00000000c2a35fff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c2a36000-0x00000000cadb2fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cadb3000-0x00000000caffffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb000000-0x00000000cb756fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb757000-0x00000000cb7fffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb800000-0x00000000cbf92fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cbf93000-0x00000000cbffffff]  ACPI data
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cc000000-0x00000000cd6f5fff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cd6f6000-0x00000000cd7fffff]  ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cd800000-0x00000000cecdbfff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cecdc000-0x00000000ceffffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000cf000000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000fc000000-0x00000000febfffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000fec01000-0x00000000fecfffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed03fff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000fed04000-0x00000000fed1bfff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed1c000-0x00000000fed1ffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000fed20000-0x00000000fedfffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [gap 0x00000000fee01000-0x00000000feffffff]
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff]  device reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000042dffffff]  System RAM
[    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[    0.000000] APIC: Static calls initialized
[    0.000000] SMBIOS 2.7 present.
[    0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. Precision M4800/0J0DMW, BIOS A26 06/13/2019
[    0.000000] DMI: Memory slots populated: 2/4
[    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[    0.000000] tsc: Detected 2793.519 MHz processor
[    0.001064] e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] System RAM ==> device reserved
[    0.001066] e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] System RAM
[    0.001075] last_pfn = 0x42e000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[    0.001081] total RAM covered: 16352M
[    0.001224] Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
[    0.001224]  gran_size: 64K  chunk_size: 64M     num_reg: 8      lose cover RAM: 0G
[    0.001228] MTRR map: 8 entries (5 fixed + 3 variable; max 25), built from 10 variable MTRRs
[    0.001230] x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WP  UC- WT  
[    0.001614] e820: update [mem 0xd0000000-0xffffffff] System RAM ==> device reserved
[    0.001618] last_pfn = 0xcecdc max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[    0.008013] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fda90-0x000fda9f]
[    0.008027] Using GB pages for direct mapping
[    0.008887] RAMDISK: [mem 0x330cd000-0x3585dfff]
[    0.008891] ACPI: Early table checksum verification disabled
[    0.008894] ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000000EF120 000024 (v02 DELL  )
[    0.008897] ACPI: XSDT 0x00000000CBFD3090 00009C (v01 DELL   CBX3     01072009 AMI  00010013)
[    0.008903] ACPI: FACP 0x00000000CBFE5070 00010C (v05 DELL   CBX3     01072009 AMI  00010013)
[    0.008908] ACPI: DSDT 0x00000000CBFD31B8 011EB1 (v02 DELL   CBX3     00000014 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008911] ACPI: FACS 0x00000000CD7FE080 000040
[    0.008913] ACPI: APIC 0x00000000CBFE5180 000092 (v03 DELL   CBX3     01072009 AMI  00010013)
[    0.008916] ACPI: FPDT 0x00000000CBFE5218 000044 (v01 DELL   CBX3     01072009 AMI  00010013)
[    0.008918] ACPI: SLIC 0x00000000CBFE5260 000176 (v03 DELL   CBX3     01072009 MSFT 00010013)
[    0.008921] ACPI: LPIT 0x00000000CBFE53D8 00005C (v01 DELL   CBX3     00000000 AMI. 00000005)
[    0.008924] ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000CBFE5438 000228 (v01 INTEL  sensrhub 00000000 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008926] ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000CBFE5660 000160 (v01 Intel  zpodd    00001000 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008929] ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000CBFE57C0 000AD8 (v01 PmRef  CpuPm    00003000 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008932] ACPI: HPET 0x00000000CBFE6298 000038 (v01 DELL   CBX3     01072009 AMI. 00000005)
[    0.008934] ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000CBFE62D0 000447 (v01 SataRe SataTabl 00001000 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008937] ACPI: MCFG 0x00000000CBFE6718 00003C (v01 DELL   CBX3     01072009 MSFT 00000097)
[    0.008940] ACPI: ASF! 0x00000000CBFE6758 0000A5 (v32 INTEL   HCG     00000001 TFSM 000F4240)
[    0.008942] ACPI: MSDM 0x00000000CBFE6800 000055 (v03 DELL   CBX3     06222004 AMI  00010013)
[    0.008945] ACPI: DMAR 0x00000000CBFE6858 000080 (v01 INTEL  HSW      00000001 INTL 00000001)
[    0.008948] ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000CBFE68D8 001E79 (v01 NvdRef NvdTabl  00001000 INTL 20120711)
[    0.008950] ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0xcbfe5070-0xcbfe517b]
[    0.008951] ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0xcbfd31b8-0xcbfe5068]
[    0.008952] ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0xcd7fe080-0xcd7fe0bf]
[    0.008953] ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0xcbfe5180-0xcbfe5211]

Would very much appreciate any guidance on how to troubleshoot this, report this as a bug, or find workarounds that make my Ubuntu system reliably usable. If there is a way to disable the sound system completely when I don't need it, only to be re-enabled later, I'll happily use that as a short term workaround.

EDIT: A friend gave me the idea this may be a power management issue. It's true that this is an old laptop, and I do put it to sleep multiple times a day instead of powering off. So I thought let's explore the power management angle first. What I did was:

(1) Instruct the sound module to disable its power management features by creating this file: /etc/modprobe.d/audio-powersave.conf containing these instructions:

# Disable Intel HDA power management
options snd_hda_intel power_save=0
options snd_hda_intel power_save_controller=N
options snd_ac97_codec power_save=0

(2) Rebuilt the init ram filesystem to ensure these options are respected on boot:

sudo update-initramfs -u

(3) Reboot

(4) Check that power management of my sound driver is now off:

ubuntu:~$ cat /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
0

I am now keeping my fingers crossed, err I mean testing to see whether the bug will re-occur, and I'll report back.

EDIT2: It's now 10 days later. The logs are clean, and the OSD hasn't happened a single time. I consider the workaround successful. It was power management!

Updated Dell Inspiron 16 5625 to Ubuntu 26.04, now system freezes with kernel 7.0.0-15 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567174/updated-dell-inspiron-16-5625-to-ubuntu-26-04-now-system-freezes-with-kernel-7

I had updated Ubuntu from 25.10 to 26.04.

Now, when booting into kernel 7.0.0-15, the system freezes while on login screen, goes black, then login screen is displayed again. Keeps occurring in an endless loop. If I select kernel 6.17.0-29-generic instead, the laptop runs fine, and I can log in without issue.

I ran the command sudo journalctl -b -1 -p err, and "Kernel Out of Memory error"s were present.
Are there known issues with the 7.0.0-15 kernel?

System specifications on 2026-05-25 20:39:59:

Hardware Model: Dell Inc. Inspiron 16 5625
Memory: 8.0 GiB
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5625U with Radeon™ Graphics × 12
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
Disk Capacity: 512.1 GB
Firmware Version: 1.27.0
OS Name: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 50
Windowing System: Wayland

EDIT Jun 07 2026, 08:15 EDT

Currently running kernel 7.0.0-22, and I am seeing the same freezing issue as with kernel 7.0.0-15. Output of 'sudo journalctl -b -1 -p err' is below. Please let me know if more data is needed. Thank you.

$sudo journalctl -b -1 -p err
[sudo: authenticate] Password:         
Jun 07 08:02:52 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.LPC0.EC0], AE_NOT_FOUND (20251212/dswload2-162)
Jun 07 08:02:52 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20251212/psobject-220)
Jun 07 08:02:53 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:55 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:55 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:55 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:55 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:56 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:56 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
Jun 07 08:02:59 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:59 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: leds platform::micmute: Setting an LED's brightness failed (-5)
Jun 07 08:02:59 user-Inspiron-16-5625 bluetoothd[1791]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2665 (pipewire) total-vm:99844kB, anon-rss:12kB, file-rss:160kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:88kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2667 (pipewire-pulse) total-vm:108296kB, anon-rss:12kB, file-rss:96kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:104kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2711 (gnome-keyring-d) total-vm:185780kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:112kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2763 (gnome-session-s) total-vm:320132kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:12kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:128kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2713 (ssh-agent) total-vm:10480kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:64kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2710 (gcr-ssh-agent) total-vm:97552kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:84kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2666 (pipewire) total-vm:87932kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:80kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2664 (dbus-daemon) total-vm:8592kB, anon-rss:20kB, file-rss:36kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:60kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2712 (gnome-session-c) total-vm:89808kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:84kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2681 (mpris-proxy) total-vm:7560kB, anon-rss:8kB, file-rss:72kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:56kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2235 (systemd) total-vm:23832kB, anon-rss:8kB, file-rss:32kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:96kB oom_score_adj:100
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2244 ((sd-pam)) total-vm:23392kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60578 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:100
Jun 07 08:03:04 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 1801 (littlesnitch) total-vm:1892560kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:536kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:376kB oom_score_adj:0
Jun 07 08:03:13 user-Inspiron-16-5625 canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[2083]: refresh patch failed: livepatch check failed: POST request to "https://livepatch.canonical.com/v1/client/5047702a3e134442936e10fb8d830de2/upda>
Jun 07 08:03:13 user-Inspiron-16-5625 canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[2083]: Task "refresh" returned an error: livepatch check failed: POST request to "https://livepatch.canonical.com/v1/client/5047702a3e134442936e10fb8>
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4270 (xdg-desktop-por) total-vm:559032kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:180kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3540 (ibus-daemon) total-vm:388568kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:124kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3178 (pipewire) total-vm:105844kB, anon-rss:100kB, file-rss:388kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:100kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3180 (pipewire-pulse) total-vm:109092kB, anon-rss:56kB, file-rss:212kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:108kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3543 (gsd-media-keys) total-vm:546832kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:172kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3553 (gsd-sharing) total-vm:470256kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:148kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3550 (gsd-power) total-vm:478688kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:156kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4237 (ibus-engine-sim) total-vm:171772kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:764kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:92kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3709 (ibus-dconf) total-vm:245592kB, anon-rss:88kB, file-rss:820kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:108kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3713 (ibus-portal) total-vm:311096kB, anon-rss:68kB, file-rss:660kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:112kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3177 (dbus-daemon) total-vm:9192kB, anon-rss:180kB, file-rss:136kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:56kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3262 (gnome-session-s) total-vm:468284kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:148kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3541 (gsd-a11y-settin) total-vm:256652kB, anon-rss:16kB, file-rss:168kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:128kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3556 (gsd-smartcard) total-vm:388568kB, anon-rss:24kB, file-rss:236kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:124kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3221 (gnome-keyring-d) total-vm:185780kB, anon-rss:64kB, file-rss:332kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:116kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3558 (gsd-usb-protect) total-vm:540600kB, anon-rss:32kB, file-rss:184kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:148kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3551 (gsd-rfkill) total-vm:459524kB, anon-rss:68kB, file-rss:228kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:132kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3490 (at-spi2-registr) total-vm:168680kB, anon-rss:120kB, file-rss:504kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:88kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3512 (xdg-permission-) total-vm:309964kB, anon-rss:96kB, file-rss:544kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:112kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3480 (at-spi-bus-laun) total-vm:381384kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:500kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:104kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4282 (xdg-document-po) total-vm:542228kB, anon-rss:92kB, file-rss:496kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:144kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3542 (gsd-keyboard) total-vm:385992kB, anon-rss:56kB, file-rss:392kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:120kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3229 (ssh-agent) total-vm:10480kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:64kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4435 (dconf-service) total-vm:165220kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:324kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:80kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3220 (gcr-ssh-agent) total-vm:97552kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:84kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3179 (pipewire) total-vm:87932kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3487 (dbus-daemon) total-vm:8548kB, anon-rss:16kB, file-rss:64kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:68kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3222 (gnome-session-c) total-vm:89808kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:84kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4332 (fusermount3) total-vm:4416kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:48kB oom_score_adj:200
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3268 (gnome-shell) total-vm:9182312kB, anon-rss:20kB, file-rss:16kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:1676kB oom_score_adj:100
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 2970 (systemd) total-vm:23968kB, anon-rss:32kB, file-rss:80kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:84kB oom_score_adj:100
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3006 ((sd-pam)) total-vm:23388kB, anon-rss:24kB, file-rss:104kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:60579 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:100
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 4283 (littlesnitch) total-vm:1958096kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:536kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:388kB oom_score_adj:0
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 1806 (networkd-dispat) total-vm:55096kB, anon-rss:4kB, file-rss:8kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:140kB oom_score_adj:0
Jun 07 08:03:38 user-Inspiron-16-5625 kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data
Jun 07 08:03:39 user-Inspiron-16-5625 systemd-logind[1840]: Failed to start user service 'user-runtime-dir@60580.service': Transaction for user-runtime-dir@60580.service/start is destructive (nss-lookup.target has 'stop' job que>
Jun 07 08:03:39 user-Inspiron-16-5625 systemd-logind[1840]: Failed to start user service 'user@60580.service': Transaction for user@60580.service/start is destructive (systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-044F\x2d1AC7.service has 's>
Jun 07 08:03:39 user-Inspiron-16-5625 gdm-password][4678]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): conversation failed
Jun 07 08:03:39 user-Inspiron-16-5625 gdm-password][4678]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): auth could not identify password for [user]
Jun 07 08:03:39 user-Inspiron-16-5625 canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[2083]: daemon shutting down
Ubuntu update 25.10 to version 26.04 LTS; failure message: EFI Systempartition (ESP) not usable https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567063/ubuntu-update-25-10-to-version-26-04-lts-failure-message-efi-systempartition

enter image description hereI cannot update. Boot/efi is OK, can only disconnect.I try to avoid reinstallation...please see my Screenshot. Im̀ just a regular user. Thanks for your support!!!

Ralph

How to fix stuck snap package in Ubuntu 24.04? `error: snap "chromium" has "remove-snap" change in progress` https://askubuntu.com/questions/1560523/how-to-fix-stuck-snap-package-in-ubuntu-24-04-error-snap-chromium-has-remo

I want to reinstall Chromium for reasons I no longer recall. Two weeks ago, I tried and it completely broke, only outputting error: snap "chromium" has "remove-snap" change in progress. I have not been able to resolve since. I am running Ubuntu 24.04.

Short of reinstalling the entire operating system from scratch for one single application - which I already had to do once because for some incomprehensible reason, uninstalling Thunderbird bricks the entire system upon the next boot - is there a way to fix this?

This error is reproduced by:

sudo snap remove chromium or

sudo snap remove --purge chromium

I have tried:

  • Turning it [the PC] off and turning it on again, at least 20 times incidentally
  • snap abort ID (which does absolutely nothing)
  • snap enable chromium
  • snap refresh && snap abort ID
  • Uninstalling through the Ubuntu Software window
  • sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
  • rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
  • sudo fc-cache -r -v
  • rm -rf ~/snap/chromium/common/.cache/fontconfig/
  • setting system clock 1 year ahead
  • sudo snap revert chromium && sudo snap refresh chromium && sudo snap remove chromium

Here is the feedback I get from various commands, much of it contradictory:

  • snap changes outputs 11 Undo 14 days ago, at 12:41 CST - Remove "chromium" snap
  • snap list outputs chromium 142.0.7444.162 3307 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled
  • chromium-browser outputs Command '/usr/bin/chromium-browser' requires the chromium snap to be installed. Please install it with: snap install chromium
  • snap install chromium outputs snap "chromium" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'
  • sudo snap revert chromium outputs error: cannot revert "chromium": no revision to revert to
  • sudo snap refresh chromium outputs error: cannot refresh "chromium": refreshing disabled snap "chromium" not supported

Lastly, snap list 11 outputs:

Status  Spawn                      Ready                      Summary
Undo    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Stop snap "chromium" services
Undo    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Run remove hook of "chromium" snap if present
Done    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  today at 09:39 CST         Disconnect interfaces of snap "chromium"
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Save data of snap "chromium" in automatic snapshot set #1
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Remove aliases for snap "chromium"
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Make snap "chromium" unavailable to the system
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Remove security profile for snap "chromium" (3307)
Done    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  today at 09:39 CST         Remove data for snap "chromium" (3293)
Done    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  today at 09:39 CST         Remove snap "chromium" (3293) from the system
Error   14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Remove data for snap "chromium" (3307)
Hold    14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Remove snap "chromium" (3307) from the system
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:opengl from snapd:opengl
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:home from snapd:home
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:browser-sandbox from snapd:browser-support
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:camera from snapd:camera
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:desktop-legacy from snapd:desktop-legacy
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:gtk-3-themes from gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:hardware-observe from snapd:hardware-observe
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:upower-observe from snapd:upower-observe
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:audio-record from snapd:audio-record
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:dot-local-share-applications from snapd:personal-files
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:network-bind from snapd:network-bind
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:gsettings from snapd:gsettings
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:joystick from snapd:joystick
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:removable-media from snapd:removable-media
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:audio-playback from snapd:audio-playback
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:bluez from snapd:bluez
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:unity7 from snapd:unity7
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:wayland from snapd:wayland
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:chromium-config from snapd:personal-files
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:icon-themes from gtk-common-themes:icon-themes
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:dot-local-share-icons from snapd:personal-files
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:cups from cups:cups
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:u2f-devices from snapd:u2f-devices
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:system-packages-doc from snapd:system-packages-doc
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:sound-themes from gtk-common-themes:sound-themes
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:screen-inhibit-control from snapd:screen-inhibit-control
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:x11 from snapd:x11
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:desktop from snapd:desktop
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  Disconnect chromium:network from snapd:network
Undone  14 days ago, at 12:41 CST  14 days ago, at 12:42 CST  Disconnect chromium:etc-chromium-browser-policies from snapd:system-files

......................................................................
Make snap "chromium" unavailable to the system

2025-11-21T12:41:50-06:00 INFO cannot link snap "chromium" back, some of its data has already been removed

......................................................................
Remove data for snap "chromium" (3307)

2025-11-21T12:41:50-06:00 ERROR failed to remove snap "chromium" base directory: remove /home/sean/snap/chromium: directory not empty
Why is the lock-screen sometimes transparent/invisible and how can I fix it? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1551186/why-is-the-lock-screen-sometimes-transparent-invisible-and-how-can-i-fix-it

I use Xubuntu 24.04.02 LTS on a desktop computer with monitor connected with HDMI and I observe a very strange and confusing behavior with the lock-screen. I configured Xfce Screensaver in the Xfce Settings to activate after 5 minutes. In the same menu, in the next tab, I activated the Lock Screen to enable with the screensaver.

When the computer is idle for 5 minutes and the display is switched on, the screensaver starts. When I then press a key or move the mouse, I see a lock-screen, where I have to enter my password to unlock the session. Until here, everything is according to my expectation.

But often I switch off the display and go somewhere. When I come back, switch on the display and press a key or move the mouse, I see my desktop. It locks like there is no lock-screen. I can see the mouse cursor, but I can't click anything and it doesn't react to keyboard input. The first times I thought the system was frozen, but then I found out that I can blindly type in my password and the system is unlocked.

How can I fix or debug it?

Magnet links are automatically opened by stremio https://askubuntu.com/questions/1491794/magnet-links-are-automatically-opened-by-stremio

As soon as I had installed Stremio all the magnet links are opened in Stremio instead of qbittorrent or any other torrent program.

So far I have found a way out by copying the Magnet link (right-clicking the Magnet link and copying it). I am using Chrome as the default browser. I found some what Similar issue in Firefox. Firefox seems to not be affected and it did ask me to open which program I wanted to open but Firefox was unable to open qbittorent. Even though I had given it bqitorrent location /usr/bin/qbittorrent

ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED keeps appearing on ubuntu 20.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1382457/err-network-changed-keeps-appearing-on-ubuntu-20-04

I have dual boot installed in my machine. On windows the network interface works fine, however, in ubuntu, I cannot seem to get it to work. For starters, the wireless interface will only capture very dim signals. Unless my computer is standing directly next to the source, it is unusable. Even using ethernet, although the connection works, several times every minute I get a ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error. This is not only restricted to chrome, it also happens when I am downloading files via ssh. I am thinking this has to do with the network drivers, but I know nothing about this. Here is some information about my computer:

***lsb_release -a***

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal


***uname -a***
Linux Filipe-PC 5.4.0-91-generic #102-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 5 16:31:28 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


***rfkill list***
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

*** ífconfig***
docker0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        ether 02:42:f6:63:15:4c  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.104  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::8250:952a:2c8d:4cb3  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether b0:6e:bf:18:a1:43  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 386316  bytes 565360952 (565.3 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 141792  bytes 11451889 (11.4 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 127  base 0x5000  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 186  bytes 12031 (12.0 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 186  bytes 12031 (12.0 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.122.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.122.255
        ether 52:54:00:9f:e8:51  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

***sudo lshw -C network***
*-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: enp2s0
       version: 10
       serial: b0:6e:bf:18:a1:43
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.048.00-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:127 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:ef404000-ef404fff memory:ef400000-ef403fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlp3s0
       version: 31
       serial: 40:9f:38:41:7d:25
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=5.4.0-91-generic firmware=WLAN.TF.2.1-00021-QCARMSWP-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:131 memory:ef200000-ef3fffff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: virbr0-nic
       serial: 52:54:00:9f:e8:51
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=tun driverversion=1.6 duplex=full link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s

If you need more information, please let me know. This situation has been present for 2 years and I decided to sit down and fix it.

Edit

Here is the output requested:

***sudo cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state***

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
why fdisk doesn't show hard disk(/dev/sdf) while lsblk shows hard disk(/dev/sdf)? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1048105/why-fdisk-doesnt-show-hard-disk-dev-sdf-while-lsblk-shows-hard-disk-dev-sdf

I'm trying to mount additional hard disk.

lsblk shows /dev/sdf1..3. However, sudo fdisk -l doesn't show /dev/sdf1..3

What is the problem?

How do I display filetype with ls? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1028506/how-do-i-display-filetype-with-ls

I am ignorant as to whether ls is capable of displaying a filetype column.

Doing a quick online search and searching the man did not reveal such a capability. Is it capable of doing this?

Clarification: This is especially helpful if files do not have an extension.

Update

As of 2018-04-28 the answers have been quite interesting however they did not provide what I was looking for. More specifically,

  • file does give the actual filetypes but it doesn't integrate well with ls. Specifically, I use ls -lhtrpG --group-directories-first --color=always

  • ls -F is an ls solution however it provides symbols not a column of actual filetypes.

For this reason I have not marked any of the answers as the answer I am looking for.

Can't find my DVD drive in Ubuntu 16.04 https://askubuntu.com/questions/770016/cant-find-my-dvd-drive-in-ubuntu-16-04

I guess you could say that I'm a slightly educated noob (I know, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing).

My drive worked fine in Mint 17.3, but I am now running Lubuntu 16.04 and my DVD drive has not worked yet. I have tried multiple CDs and DVDs; music, data, and blanks.

lsblk -f returns:

NAME   FSTYPE LABEL    UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                         
├─sda1 ext4            69fe002a-8d2a-4297-ac0b-272c60c019ce /
├─sda2                                                      
└─sda5 swap            82575a1c-ca49-4060-b860-d078ad7b54d6 [SWAP]
sdb                                                         
└─sdb1 ext4   31GBEXT4 e19d4f79-0600-42c4-8159-77a844544c09 /media/greg/31GBEXT4
sr0

cat /dev/sr0 returns:

cat: /dev/sr0: No medium found

So I tried lshw and got this:

*-scsi
     physical id: 2
     logical name: scsi0
     capabilities: emulated
    *-cdrom
         description: DVD-RAM writer
         product: DVD RW AW-G540A
         vendor: SONY
         physical id: 0.0.0
         bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
         logical name: /dev/cdrom
         logical name: /dev/cdrw
         logical name: /dev/dvd
         logical name: /dev/dvdrw
         logical name: /dev/sr0
         version: 1.W0
         serial: [
         capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
         configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

And then there's this:

$ mkdir ~/dvd | sudo mount /dev/sr0 ~/dvd
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0

I'm pretty much grasping at straws at this point. So, what now?

Update on info: I can locate it in Disks with no problem, but it shows no media when I have a DVD in the drive. I have already cleaned the lens, but that was never an issue as it worked fine before I installed Lubuntu 16.04

Results of dmesg --level=err,warn

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000000F8060 000024 (v02 PTLTD )
[    0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 0x000000007F6D7E92 00008C (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  00000000)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0x000000007F6DFC04 0000F4 (v03 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 0x000000007F6D9217 006979 (v02 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0x000000007F6E2FC0 000040
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0x000000007F6E2FC0 000040
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 0x000000007F6DFCF8 000068 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  0000005A)
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET 0x000000007F6DFD60 000038 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  0000005A)
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 0x000000007F6DFD98 00003C (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  0000005A)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 0x000000007F6DFDD4 000176 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  01000000)
[    0.000000] ACPI: TMOR 0x000000007F6DFF4A 000026 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  00000003)
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 0x000000007F6DFF70 000068 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  00000000)
[    0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 0x000000007F6DFFD8 000028 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000007F6D90FA 00011D (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000007F6D8FD7 000123 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000007F6D8506 000287 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000007F6D8452 0000B4 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000007F6D7F1E 000534 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.000000] ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: If "acpi_apic_instance=2" works better, notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
[    0.016170] ACPI: 6 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded
[    0.084000] core: PEBS disabled due to CPU errata
[    0.104013] PCCT header not found.
[    0.119640] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[    0.119652] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFF88007C230800 00021D (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.120304] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[    0.120315] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFF88007C238000 0004B7 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.121286] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[    0.121296] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFF88007CBE2E00 0000E4 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.121854] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[    0.121863] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFF88007C0ED480 000092 (v01 Sony   VAIO     20070718 PTL  20050624)
[    0.332102] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State >[\_S1_] (20150930/hwxface-580)
[    0.332110] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State >[\_S2_] (20150930/hwxface-580)
[    0.409139] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge has subordinate 09 but max busn 0c
[    0.410509] ACPI: Enabled 4 GPEs in block 00 to 1F
[    0.463911] pci 0000:00:1f.0: BAR 13: [io  size 0x0080] has bogus alignment
[    1.568935] ACPI: Invalid active0 threshold
[    9.388844] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001028-0x000000000000102F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000000107F (\PMIO) (20150930/utaddress-254)
[    9.388865] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x00000000000011B0-0x00000000000011BF conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011BB (\GPIO) (20150930/utaddress-254)
[    9.388875] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011AF conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011BB (\GPIO) (20150930/utaddress-254)
[    9.388884] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[   10.293226]  excluding 0xfc200000-0xfc20ffff
[   11.188633] ath5k 0000:06:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[   82.003914] ath5k: ath5k_hw_get_isr: ISR: 0x00000400 IMR: 0x00000000
[  416.905530] perf interrupt took too long (2520 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
[  866.322544] perf interrupt took too long (5003 > 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000
[ 6254.003446] ath5k: ath5k_hw_get_isr: ISR: 0x00000080 IMR: 0x00000000
[ 8775.772141] ath5k: ath5k_hw_get_isr: ISR: 0x00040001 IMR: 0x00000000
[11894.003569] ath5k: ath5k_hw_get_isr: ISR: 0x00000400 IMR: 0x00000000

cdrecord --checkdrive Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive... Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identification : 'DVD RW AW-G540A ' Revision : '1.W0' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. wodim: Cannot load media with this drive! wodim: Try to load media by hand. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R

Did it again --> cdrecord --checkdrive

Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a06 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. No target specified, trying to find one... Using dev=0,0,0. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW AW-G540A ' Revision : '1.W0' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive! cdrecord: Try to load media by hand. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped.

...and cdrecord --toc

Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a06 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. No target specified, trying to find one... Using dev=0,0,0. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'SONY ' Identifikation : 'DVD RW AW-G540A ' Revision : '1.W0' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive! cdrecord: Try to load media by hand. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. cdrecord: Cannot load media with this drive! cdrecord: Try to load media by hand. cdrecord: Cannot load media.

How to start Thunderbird minimized on start-up? https://askubuntu.com/questions/169437/how-to-start-thunderbird-minimized-on-start-up

I followed this tutorial to set start Thunderbird in minimized mode at startup, but it wasn't helpful.

After following the instructions, I could not even start Thunderbird. So I was forced to start TB in safe mode to delete the "FireTray Plugin" and fix this issue. After that it started to work but it deleted all my email accounts and I had to do that chore all over again .

So is there any working way to start Thunderbird minimized on start-up?

Open mbox File? https://askubuntu.com/questions/114063/open-mbox-file

How to open a mbox file? Mutt displays no mails when calling mutt -f sent.mbox.

The mbox format is "From" without colon.

Is there any mbox viewer for Linux?

Thank you in advance.

How to open eml files? https://askubuntu.com/questions/28135/how-to-open-eml-files

I've got a mail with eml file attached. I'm using Thunderbird but it doesn't open it.

Could anybody suggest program to open eml files?

Update:

I don't want to import my mailbox I want only read the content of eml file.