I messed up here. I had an old Sony Vaio that I wanted to give to a friend. Replaced the HDD with an SDD and was using a USB boot of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The USB boot looked great but even after going thru the install I could not get this older laptop (2009 or so) to automatically boot. I eventually installed grub 2.2 and (apologies here) I believe it was installed in the MBR as it always comes up first. The configuration I used at the start had the linux partition set at ro (readonly) and now that is all that ever comes up. I understand that during boot the root partition is RO but it is also supposed to switch to RW and it never does. I did boot into recovery and do a fsck -y but that did not change anything. the only way I get this installation to work is if during boot I edit the GRUB boot settings from RO to RW and then things work well. I have checked /boot/grub, I have mounted /dev/sda1 (everything else is on sda2) but none of those files appear to show this boot setting. When I am in grub 2.2 during startup I can see the "ro" on the linux line. I have to change it to "rw" to make things work. Guidance is appreciated. I feel so stupid here. Thanks in advance.

Intenté instalar ubuntu tras fracasar rotundamente por archinstall y al instalar mediante el instalador de ubuntu me arroja un error y me dejó mi disco duro sin archivos ya que borró todo pero no instalo ubuntu. Por favor ayuda

Es mi primera vez usando Linux, siempre quise ocuparlo y hace 5 días lo hice; me compré un notebook para hacer esto y vendí mi Pc.

Me entregaron el notebook que es un Acer a514-52k y actualice la bios, instalé mediante archinstall - kde plasma. El problema ocurrió cuando no me reconoció el touchpad. Hice todo lo posible y dichos en foros y nada funciona, a lo más reconoció el touchpad pero sin funcionar. Intente instalar ubuntu y no me deja instalar tampoco. Por favor necesito su ayuda. No me dejen solo en esto. Siempre quise ser usuario de Linux pero me siento solo en esto.

The gdm is failing to run on tty1, but when I go to any other tty it fails to logs in, and then immediately kicks me out to the login prompt again.

Running on Ubuntu 24.04, I saw the post about the gdm failing but was wondering if anybody know why I can’t login to tty2 to fix it.

Ubuntu 24.04
PipeWire 1.0.5

PipeWire / WirePlumber is causing my audio to sound like there's water in my speakers when the microphone is active.

I'm looking for either fix to issue or different audio microphone software that does not have this problem.

My company's SOC has tagged my Ubuntu 24.04 default python3 3.12.3 with CVE https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4517

According to cve.org, to remediate the CVE I must upgrade python3 to at least 3.12.12. From what I've seen online I should only update the default Python with 'apt update' and 'apt upgrade.' But when I do so, the python3 version remains 3.12.3. How do I safely upgrade the default python3?

Thank you,

David

I just ran into a scenario where on one computer I can print no problem, and on another computer, it prints very oddly. Both computers have the same driver. That particular document is a pdf that is from handwriting things on notability on an ipad. The computer with printing issues has an older version of ubuntu, and I just upgraded it to 20.04 thinking that might make the difference but it has the same issues

I'm not even sure what info I should provide to differentiate the two computers and try to track it down?

The snap download kate command downloads snap applications without installing, but how to download similar applications from the Discover (community.kde.org) and Flatpak stores (Original:

, но как скачать подобные приложения из магазинов "Discover" (community.kde.org) и FlatPak).

The snap download kate command downloads snap applications without installing, but how to download similar applications from the Discover (community.kde.org) and Flatpak (GNOME project) stores

I simply installed applications from two foreign Ubuntu stores, under the * * * name FlatPak and "Discover," I want to separately download applications without installation, similar to your snap download kate command, and then install these applications.

(Original: Команда snap download kate скачивает приложения snap без установки, а как скачать аналогичные приложения из магазинов "Discover" (community.kde.org) и FlatPak (Проект GNOME)

Я попросту установил приложения от двух магазинов чужеродных Ubuntu, под ***наименованием FlatPak и "Discover", хочется в отдельности скачать приложения без установки, аналогичные вашей команде snap download kate, а потом установить эти приложения.)

Discover:

GNOME Software:

Because I encrypted the drive and I'm already asked to enter a password at system boot, I wondered what downsides could arise if I check the 'automatic login' option for my user, as this would streamline accessing the computer, having to enter just 1 instead of 2 passwords every single time. Thank you.

The USB-C ports on Asus NUC 14 Pro (BTW...Asus says Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11 are 2 supported OS on the NUC 14). Searching and diving into a possible fix I see others with the same configuration have the same problem. I've tried many supposed remedies with no luck. I even sent NUC back (bare bones) for testing and it tested fine. I put my NvMe and memory back in and it still doesn't work on C ports?

Any points to consider and to resolve this pesky problem are appreciated! Thanks

A recent auto-upgrade from 6.14.0-37 to 6.17.0-14 yields a kernel panic at boot: Unable to mount root fs Unknown Block (0,0)

To get the machine up I have to select 6.14.0-37 from the GRUB boot menu. I can no longer do a normal boot/reboot because GRUB auto boots the newest (bad) kernel. I want to remove 6.17.0-14 from the GRUB menu.

All the help articles I've found instruct how to remove old kernel versions. How do I remove the NEWEST kernel version and retain the oldest in GRUB?

In reply to @heynnema:

ls -al /boot | grep init
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       28 Feb 22 08:04 initrd.img -> initrd.img-6.17.0-14-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 75369010 Feb 22 08:00 initrd.img-6.14.0-37-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       28 Feb 22 06:24 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-6.14.0-37-generic

In reply to guiverc:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Release:    24.04
Codename:   noble

In reply to david, looks like a DKMS build issue: etting up linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic (6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1) ... Setting up linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic (6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1) ... /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:

• dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.17.0-14-generic Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der

Building module: Cleaning build area... make -j24 KERNELRELEASE=6.17.0-14-generic -C /lib/modules/6.17.0-14-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build...(bad exit status: 2) ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash' Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build/make.log for more information. dkms autoinstall on 6.17.0-14-generic/x86_64 failed for virtualbox(10) Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall. Refer to previous errors for more information.

• dkms: autoinstall for kernel 6.17.0-14-generic ...fail! run-parts: /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 11 dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic (--configure): installed linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 11 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04: linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 depends on linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic; however: Package linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic-hwe-24.04: linux-generic-hwe-24.04 depends on linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 (= 6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1); however: Package linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package linux-generic-hwe-24.04 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic (6.17.0-14.14~24.04.1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:

• dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.17.0-14-generic Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der Building module: Cleaning build area... make -j24 KERNELRELEASE=6.17.0-14-generic -C /lib/modules/6.17.0-14-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build...(bad exit status: 2) ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/virtualbox-dkms.0.crash' Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.17.0-14-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build/make.log for more information. dkms autoinstall on 6.17.0-14-generic/x86_64 failed for virtualbox(10) Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall. Refer to previous errors for more information.
• dkms: autoinstall for kernel 6.17.0-14-generic ...fail! run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 11 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic (--configure): installed linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 11 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-headers-6.17.0-14-generic linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04 linux-generic-hwe-24.04 linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic

DKMS issue relates to building the VirtulBox 7.0.16 kernel module

I'm running Wireguard to manage my VPN. I need to be able to use a VPN to access our staging server periodically. Most of the time, by default, I don't want to use the VPN.

Even if I disable the VPN (by toggling the button in the "Network" box), if my machine goes to sleep, when I wake it the VPN is re-enabled.

Is there any way to store the settings, so they're there when I want to turn on my VPN, but not default to keeping the VPN always on.

I don't see any settings options that look like they would let you manage auto connecting.

What seemed like it worked was to check the "Use this connection only for routes on its network." box in the IPv6 settings (that toggled it for IPv4 as well).

That stopped working after a few days.

I have a file name.ppk. I'm want to login ssh with .ppk file on Ubuntu Terminal.

I have try this post Login SSH with .ppk file on Ubuntu Terminal but getting this error "puttygen: error loading `name.ppk': PuTTY key format too new" when using this command line "puttygen name.ppk -O private-openssh -o name.pem"

Puttygen version: 0.73

Ubuntu version: 20.04

I've tried a few different adapters to get display output from my USB-C port. None of them have worked on Ubuntu. This is what I get (or similar) from lsusb for every USB-C to HDMI adapter that I bought:

Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:2172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. BillBoard Device

From what I can gather 'Billboard' just means that switching to alternate mode failed because of some issue.

In monitor settings, I only see the built-in monitor. Similarly, I installed ARandR and no other outputs appear.

Adapter

I have tried a few adapters. The one I'm trying currently is 'plugable USB-C to HDMI adapter'. It is stated to support Linux and any USB-C port that supports DisplayPort Alternate Mode.

Laptop

I have the ASUS C523N. It is stated to support driving a display from usb-c, but nothing more specific: spec sheet.

This is a Chromebook. When I boot into Chrome OS, the display works through the same USB-C port.

Other details

Kernel: 5.15.0-50-generic

jasper@crbook1:~$ cat /boot/config-$(uname -r) | grep TYPEC_DP
CONFIG_TYPEC_DP_ALTMODE=m

Ubuntu: 22.04.1 LTS

dmesg:

[80603.451223] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[80603.610532] usb 1-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[80603.628180] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=2172, bcdDevice= 1.00
[80603.628202] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=17, Product=18, SerialNumber=19
[80603.628210] usb 1-2: Product: BillBoard Device
[80603.628217] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Realtek
[80603.628223] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 00000000000000000

Related issue

The only issue that I can find matching is this: USB-C to HDMI not working on Dell XPS 13 9370

The solution there was just to try another adapter. I'm on my third purchase and I can't always get returns. This one explicitly says it supports Linux. I will try to contact their support and report back here. I really can't keep buying cables and hoping that it works. I'm looking to at least get a handle on what the problem is here.

I need to use an intranet app which relies on locally installed fonts for its look, but snap version of Firefox by default doesn't look into user's ~/.fonts. Is there a workaround for that? If not, are there plans to address this specific use case?

I am new to netplan and advanced linux networking in general so I am hoping someone might be able to help me figure out my problem.

I have two machines, an unraid nas and an ubuntu 18.04 server. Each machine has two ethernet network interfaces. I'm trying to use one interface on each machine to connect them to my LAN while using the other interfaces to connect them directly to each other with a crossover cable.

My machines are setup as follows

Unraid

• eth0 > LAN, DHCP, 192.168.1.x
• eth1 > Direct, Static, 10.0.0.1/24

Ubuntu

• enp2s0 > LAN , DHCP , 192.168.1.x
• enp3s5 > Direct, Static, 10.0.0.2/24

I managed to get the machine to connect to each other using this netplan config on the Ubuntu server.

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enp2s0:
      dhcp4: yes
    enp3s5:
      dhcp4: no
      addresses:
        - 10.0.0.2/24
      gateway4: 10.0.0.2

This seemed to work until I tried to ssh into my ubuntu server from the internet. I have port forwarding set up on my LAN's router and have been successfully using this setup for months. With this now failing, I went and did some research and ran route -n on my ubuntu server which gave me the following output.

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
0.0.0.0         10.0.0.2        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 enp3s5
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 enp2s0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 enp3s5
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 enp2s0
192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    100    0        0 enp2s0

From what little I've learned, it seems my machine will use the gateway 10.0.0.2 to try and answer requests outside the LAN's subnet because it has a lower metric value. This would explain why I could not ssh into this machine from outside my network as only my LAN has internet access.

My first thought is to define a larger metric value to enp3s5. Is this the right way to do this? Or do I have this wrong?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Today I decided I would install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside my Windows 10 in a dual boot system. After installing everything, I decided to install Discord to talk with some friends, then I noticed that my microphone wasn't working. I thought that there may be a problem with my Discord install, but there isn't after I checked that my microphone wasn't working in many more programs (including System Settings -> Sound where no sound was showing up).

I also have to mention that my sound is working completely fine. It's just the mic that's not working. The microphone is part of my headset (CREATIVE Sound BlasterX H7).

I checked all the forums and tried many different solutions. Some of them were:

• Checking that the microphone isn't muted (it isn't);

• Checking my settings in the pavucontrol panel. Trying to split the channels and lowering each channel at a time to check if the mic will work after that.

• Looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex

• Looking at the alsamixer and checking that the mic isn't muted (look at the pictures below) [I may have overlooked this step]

• Trying to install a new vivid alsa dkms driver

• Restarting the audio drivers

I am 100% sure my microphone is functioning, since I can use it without any problems on Windows 10 or on any other machine.

Imporant specs [since there may be a problem with my computer's drivers]:

i7-6700k Skylake / z170x gaming 7 Gigabyte / 2 monitors each having its own speakers

Here you can see all the audio devices:

➜  ~ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: CA0132 Digital [CA0132 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I am following the instructions on RunningKVM.

My host runs Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 (64 bit)

I downloaded the Ubuntu Server ISO file:

wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.2/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso

And then I ran:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 10G
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda vdisk.img -cdrom ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso -boot d  -m 384

Error:

Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting

From what I understand, this is because I am not running it from X windows machine.

Then, after googling, I added -vga none and I ran:

qemu-system-x86_64 -vga none -hda vdisk.img -cdrom ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso -boot d  -m 384

And again I got the same error.

Then I ran with -nographic:

qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic  -hda vdisk.img -cdrom ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso -boot d  -m 384

And this was stuck without any error (I waited over 10 minutes). So I had to kill this process from a different machine.

What is the correct way to install when the host does not have x windows with this setup?

I have windows 10 on my laptop and I run Oracle VirtualBox with ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS 64 bit on it. I bought tp-link usb to wifi adapter - TL-WN821N v5.

I am try to connect the usb to the vm so it have wifi and wireless functionality in it. in vbox there is option to connect the usb direcly to the machine so the the windows 10 dont detect the usb.

lsusb detect the adapter:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2357:0107
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

but lshw -C network

 network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 08:00:27:bc:0d:35
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm pcix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.21-k8-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.0.0.13 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:19 memory:f0000000-f001ffff ioport:d010(size=8)

and iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wont seem to identify the new hardware:

I thought the problem is that need some driver - so I tried to install the driver: http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/TL-WN821N.html#Driver but make give me syntax errors (and i think there easier way)

I followed this link DLink DWA 131 wireless adapter not working on ubuntu 15.10 and when i run apt-get install rtl8192eu-dkms I get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
rtl8192eu-dkms is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  culmus linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

and it still dont work.

The laptop (and vm) connected to ethernet directly.

kernal version- 4.4.0-45-generic

thank you for help!

How can i set intel idle max cstate to 1 and how can i check when it will done. i have a freeze problem because of bay trail cores.

i tried kernel 4.5 4.1.12 4.4 but freeze problem still continue. at the moment 4.4 is my kernel version.

This is a problem I recently encountered when I was trying to upload a model to Sketchfab. It shown that WebGL in not supported. I opened chrome://flags and enabled override rendering list. However, even doing that didn't resolve much. I was able to see primitive preview of model in sketchfab(but not original) and 3D settings still weren't aviable. So here are some screenshots.

Version 43.0.2357.81 Ubuntu 15.04 (64-bit)

WebGL report:

^{Click image to enlarge it.}

chrome://gpu:

^{Click image to enlarge it.}

Nvidia information:

^{Click image to enlarge it.}

I've been looking around for hours to find a driver or a solution to get my wifi working on my new laptop (Acer Aspire V 17 nitro).

But without success.

I have a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 Installed,

This is the result i get from lspci -vnn | grep Network

Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20)

I have been googling for hours, is there no solution ?

Will I have to get a usb wifi adaptor and get a wifi connection like that ?

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 droplet with PubkeyAuthentication set to yes and PermitRootLogin set to no. Since I created it, my pubkey has worked fine. For some unknown reason today it's not accepting my pubkey.

So I login via the droplet console to see what's going on (which worked fine with my root password).

I re-generated my pubkey first in hopes that I could just ssh-copy-id up to the server but I kept just getting permission denied (publickey).

When that didn't work I set /etc/ssh/sshd_config values PubkeyAuthentication set to no and PermitRootLogin to yes so I can get a prompt again on my client MacbookPro.

[Partial] Output of ssh jeitnier@[ip] -v:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: 
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/jeitnier/.ssh/jeitnier_aws
debug1: Authentications that can continue: 
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jeitnier/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/jeitnier/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug1: Authentications that can continue: 
debug1: Next authentication method: password
jeitnier@[ip]'s password: 

So I enter the exact same password that I did to enter the console and I get Permission denied, please try again.

I've checked that I'm not locked out with grep ^jeitnier /etc/shadow.

I've never run into this before. What can I try next?

I was using xrdp to remotely connect from my Windows laptop to Ubuntu server. It was doing OK, but it failed all out of sudden after a weekend. I did a >#service xrdp status and it returned:

* Checking status of Remote Desktop Protocol server xrdp                [ OK ]  
* Checking status of RDP Session Manager sesman                         [Fail] 

I have a problem when I'm trying to restart Apache2 on my Ubuntu Server 14.04. I'm getting this error:

Restarting web server apache2
[Fri May 23 18:50:56.662042 2014] [alias:warn] 
[pid 8635] AH00671: The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/phpmyadmin.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.


[fail]
The apache2 instance did not start within 20 seconds. Please read the log files to discover problems

Can somebody help me to fix this error?

I installed apache server (this story). I cannot connect with remote (I tried local too) mysql server. After a long loading page I get error MySQL database connect failure. Mysql server is far from me. On same page which locate in Internet with same settings is good work. How to solve this?

When I typed in terminal:

mysql -u username -h x.xx.xx.x -p

After a minute I get:

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xxxxxxxxx' (110)

I cannot visit localhost/phpadmin/, because I get 403 error. I doubt the correctness of the phpadmin settings...

I know, I just can hit Super+A to see all installed apps in Ubuntu, but I need a command to list their names. The command

dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}'

is also not an option because it shows all installed packages and it contains drivers, kernels and libraries.

I would like to ask if i could run the normal pc ubuntu version on one of the new windows 8.1 tablets with the intel atom z3770 or z3740?

It is possible?

Would be nice, because the hardware and the price sounds great but windows 8 isn't it for me because i'm a open-source and diy guy.

Or

Are they cheapie convertible? I searched the web but didn't found a list with products working with ubuntu.

As the title suggests, I need a live distro that has GParted included to work on some hard drive partitions.

For some reason, I've got some graphical issues sometimes. Mostly with AbiWord, LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org), and Wine applications. I've added some screenshots below to clarify a bit. This is not a problem that recently popped up. As a matter of fact, I've always had it since Ubuntu 8.10, and there was never an update to fix it.

I'm currently using Linux Mint 10 (based upon Ubuntu 10.10), but as I already said, that doesn't really say much as I've also had this problem with Linux Mint 8, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.

It was never a big problem, as I rarely used any text processing programs, but recently, I'm starting to use them more and more, and it's really annoying being unable to work because of this problem. When I first open an application, everything looks normal, then after a while (when I highlight, click, an item) they'll suddenly screw up. This also happens when I move or resize the window. Sometimes when this happens, I can just minimize the window, and when I restore it, sometimes it will be gone (for a few seconds at least) or it will have changed positions.

I'm using the nvidia-current graphics card driver, but I have also always had this problem on my old computer, which used, I think nvidia-96.

Screenshots:

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Photoshop (Wine):

I've done the blur myself, so that's not the issue. The problem is that blue crap.

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