How to copy fonts into system? My document that use specific font didnt seem to view correctly. How to copy fonts into file system?

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a laptop which has been using it without any problems until recently. When I log in I am prompted for my password but then I never get to the desktop, only the login screen. Rather, I receive a black screen but can still move around the mouse.

So far I have tried:

Rebooting several times Press Ctrl+Alt+F3 (this will work to switch to a TTY). If you have the time, you can run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade.If you have the time, you can run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. Reinstalling display manager: Disk space check (there is still plenty of disk space available)

No major changes prior to the onset of the issue but there were some system updates a few days ago.

This has happened to anyone else? What would you do, if you were to suspect it was a graphics driver, display manager or something else to find out?

It would be greatly appreciated if anyone would provide some assistance.

hey there just started experimenting in ubuntu overall really good experience but there some military grade stasic that keeps messing me up. Had long sessions with claude and gemini they cant figure this out as well.

Dell Inspiron 13 5310, Ubuntu 26.04, Kernel 7.0.0-22, Tiger Lake SOF ABI mismatch (3:22:1 vs 3:23:1), static burst triggered specifically when pausing browser audio and switching apps, persists on both SOF and legacy HDA drivers. Hardware: Dell Inspiron 13 5310, Intel Tiger Lake-LP, sof-hda-dsp (SOF firmware ABI 3:22:1, kernel ABI 3:23:1 - mismatch noted) OS: Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon), kernel 7.0.0-22-generic BIOS: 2.37.0 (09/04/2025)

Issue: Every ~2 minutes, all audio outputs (internal speakers AND USB DAC) produce a ~7-10 second full-volume static burst. Most reliably triggered by: pause audio in browser (e.g. YouTube) -> switch to another window (VSCode, file manager) -> static.

Tried so far (all unsuccessful):

• WirePlumber session.suspend-timeout / pause-on-idle overrides (0.5.13 syntax, both user and system conf.d)
• PipeWire clock.force-quantum changes
• Full purge/reinstall of pipewire/wireplumber/pipewire-pulse
• Switching from SOF to legacy snd-hda-intel driver via snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1
• snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N
• ALSA auto-mute disabling via amixer
• GRUB kernel params (snd_usb_audio.power_save=0, ignored - unknown parameter on SOF)
• Booting kernel 7.0.0-15 vs 7.0.0-22 (same ABI mismatch on both)

The ABI mismatch (3:22:1 vs 3:23:1) persists even with firmware-sof-signed 2025.12.2 installed.

dmesg snippet: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:23:1

Any guidance on resolving the ABI mismatch, or other known fixes for this specific Dell model, would be hugely appreciated.

So claude told me to post here maybe could get some answers.

Help Kudasai. ;)

I have been trying to validate the email address "<redacted>" in my Ubuntu One profile.

In Outlook, no validation message ever arrives.

The Ubuntu One web page says "Still nothing? Contact Ubuntu One Support", so here I am :)

I installed Ubuntu 26.04 recently on a new device and enabled full disk encryption.

When I enter the password, sometimes the system does not recognise it and prompts me to enter it again. When I do that, it gets stuck on the loading screen and never boots. Pressing ESC showed me some error messages about the crypt library.

How can I solve this problem? I am forced to do a force restart at least once a day because of that. The keyboard layout is shown to be de So I don't think it is related to a layout mismatch.

Is it possble to make the login UI visible by default when I click Menu>Lock instead of having to shake my mouse?....For now When I click lock, I only see the background till I shake my mouse

For now I tried editing the UI QML:

/usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/lockscreen/LockScreenUi.qml

and setting property bool uiVisible: true

Also tried setting the timer OnTriggered to have lockScreenRoot.uiVisible = true instead of false

But all of this ended up in a faulty behaviour where it would work the first time, the other wont and I wont be able to login because of lost focus till I press Esc and try... luckily I restored the file to its original state.

What can I do so the UI of lockscreen shows all time without shaking mouse?

Although Sogou changelog stopped in 2022, I hoped I could still make it work for Ubuntu 26.04 since it worked for Ubuntu 24.04. No luck so far.

1. fcitx/fcitx5, this seems to be an easy one, following the guide can resolve it.
2. Wayland/X11, that is painful. Ubuntu 26.04 uses GNOME Wayland by default. Sogou Linux input method is built for the older X11 stack. it crashes many times.

Things I have tried:

1. GNOME extension;
2. Switch to X11 -> I cannot even log in

The furthest I have been was the input candidate screen flickering a lot.

I know Ubuntu has build-in input methods for many languages, ibus-rime is also an option but, honestly, none of them allows me to type Chinese fast enough - input method application has to bring a good user experience and productivity as it takes all the keyboard inputs -. If it doesn't, it's useless. On Ubuntu, I haven't found my choice; I will need to fall back to Ubuntu 24.04 because of this, sadly.

A friend said he uses the Debian Linux program "Brassero" to turn the DVD into an ISO file (for a 1:1 copy) and then watch it with VLC on my (large screen) computer. My Ubuntu 26.04 won't load Brassero.

I sometimes realise that Ubuntu is adjusting screen brightness slightly when switching between windows and apps. I have disabled Dim Screen option on power settings but it is still doing it. Is there any other setting to disable it? My laptop is a Thinkpad T495.

I use Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS with Gnome 42.9. I have been using Variety Wallpaper changer for years which I always install from the Ubuntu repository. I have it set to start at startup and my backgrounds to change every 15 mins. It normally works incredibly well but last night, I noticed my wallpaper seemed to have been stuck on a certain image for a while. On further investigation, I found that the app indicator for Variety was missing.

Thinking the app had crashed, I went to re-start it manually from the menus and discovered I couldn't because its icon was not in the Gnome menu. Variety Slideshow's icon is still there and it functions fine. I opened the Ubuntu repository and found that according to the ubuntu package manager, it was still installed on my system. Nonetheless, I uninstalled and re-installed.

Nothing. No change. The icon is missing from the menus even after a system reboot and the program will not run at startup. I checked. The .desktopfile is still there.

I noticed in the forum, someone was having trouble using Variety on my version of ubuntu in dark mode. I use light mode, however.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

My system always restart after I do a poweroff.

I have a Nvidia rtx gpu, msi mag motherboard with the latest bios

I tried with two kernels: 6.12.0-061200, 7.0.0-14, 7.0.0-22

What I tried

• BIOS set to "Power Off" on AC loss
• ErP Ready enabled
• Wake-on-LAN disabled
• nvidia-powerd disabled
• GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=force reboot=acpi apm=power_off nomodeset"

I see this question asked various ways, but I'm asking it anyway.

I'll close the lid on my laptop and it goes into suspend. Then it will wake up at different times. I have looked at power management. Google just tells me how to prevent suspending at all.

Please tell me how I can diagnose and eliminate this quirk. I am running the latest version of Ubuntu with KDE Plasma.

When trying to upgrade from 25.10 to 26.04 LTS I get a message cannot calculate the upgrade. I am told to look in: /var/log/dist-upgrade but /log/dist-upgrade seems not to exist.

Where do I look?

I installed Ubuntu 26.04 on VirtualBox (on Windows 11 25H2 (build 26200.8655)) and started to download files. It runs for a while at maximum speed, then at a certain point it immediately drops to zero. After pausing and resuming the download, the speed returns to maximum, but it drops again soon.

Network adapter configurations are network bridge and Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop. I tried virt-io as well, but it showed the same issues.

Without any warning sign when I last cleanly shut down my laptop running Ubuntu 26.04, it simply won't start again: the screen stays off, all lights are on (power button, ESC key, Shift Lock and Num Lock) and it stays non responsive

Hitting ESC repeatedly does nothing, and I can't boot on a USB stick (Fn+F12 is unresponsive). Other known keys (Fn+F2, Fn+F8) do nothing.

Anything else to try?

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15ABR8

GNOME Activities Overview workspace thumbnails begin flickering after several hours of uptime on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with GNOME Shell 50.1 running on Wayland and Intel Alder Lake-N integrated graphics (i915 driver).

System:

• Ubuntu 26.04 (upgraded from 24.04)
• GNOME Shell 50.1 / Mutter 50.1
• Wayland session (no Xorg session available)
• Intel Alder Lake-N UHD Graphics (i915 driver)
• Three displays (all 1920×1080 @ 60Hz)

Symptoms:

• After several hours of uptime, GNOME Activities Overview becomes visually corrupted.
• Specifically, workspace thumbnails flicker immediately upon entering Overview (Super key or hot corner).
• The flickering is limited to Overview workspace thumbnails and GNOME top bar. Normal desktop, application windows remain stable and unaffected.
• Exiting Overview immediately returns the desktop to normal. Logging out and back in resolves the issue temporarily, but it returns in minutes, rebooting it returns after several hours. No GPU resets, hangs, or DRM errors appear in journalctl.

I’ve tried:

• Kernel parameter: intel_idle.max_cstate=1 Appears to delay or partially change the symptoms, but the issue still occurs.
• Kernel parameter: i915.enable_dc=0 Initially seemed to reduce symptoms, but the issue still returned.
• Tested different kernels (including older kernel) No change in long-term behavior.
• Disabled a couple of third-party GNOME extensions (still using default Ubuntu extensions).

Observations:

• The issue does not affect application rendering or the desktop outside of Activities Overview.
• It appears only after extended uptime (hours), not immediately after login.
• The issue is reproducible across reboots and kernel versions.
• No relevant errors in journalctl related to i915, DRM, or GPU resets.

Question:

Has anyone seen GNOME Activities Overview workspace thumbnail flickering or corruption on GNOME Shell 50 / Mutter 50 under Wayland, particularly on Intel integrated graphics? Are there known issues, workarounds, or logs that I should investigate further?

Update:

I performed additional testing and found a significant correlation with monitor configuration.

With my original multi-monitor setup (2 ASUS monitors + 1 TCL TV), GNOME Shell produced thousands of repeated errors:

gbm_surface_lock_front_buffer failed Failed to query buffer age, got error 3003

These sessions also exhibited Activities Overview flickering, top-panel flickering, and occasional window-edge artifacts.

I have now tested the system with a single display only (different display: Sony TV over HDMI) and the issue has not reproduced. There is no visible flickering, no rendering corruption, and:

journalctl -b | grep -c "gbm_surface_lock_front_buffer failed" 0

journalctl -b | grep -c "Failed to query buffer age" 0

The issue also reproduced across multiple kernels, including a newer mainline kernel Linux 7.0.12-070012-generic, which makes a pure kernel/i915 explanation seem less likely. Using this mainline kernel the symptoms also started appearing after roughly 10 minutes rather than a few hours.

At this point, the strongest lead appears to be a GNOME Shell/Mutter multi-monitor rendering issue, or an interaction involving multiple outputs.

I just installed Ubuntu 26.04. I am new to all this. I have tried two different tablets, and both had the same issue. When I tried it shows the pointer moving, but I can't click on icons or draw. This is for both Krita and Open Toonz. I hadedownloaded the driver for my Huion Kamvas pro 16. (I also tried my Wacom Intuos pro too). I searched and people blamed a new xwayland update, a few people said it broke it, they rolled back the update. I only have the newest edition. Is there something I can do? Or just wait until they do a new update to resolve the issue?

When I test the tablet and pen in the test area on Ubuntu desktop tablet area properties, it works, the pressure sensitive also works.

I used to use VNC in x11 but it does not work with Wayland.

How can I connect to my Kubuntu 26.04 (Wayland) computer from another computer in another network so that I can access its GUI, just like in VNC?

Being able to access Wayland with VNC is important because KDE's support for X.Org is going away in 1 year.

I have Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS installed. I have a Windows 11 Pro virtual machine built and controlled using libvirt/virsh. I setup a network bridge with Netplan.

Ubuntu is using its regular static IP (10.0.0.2), but Ubuntu is also now using the bridge (10.0.0.3), and the Windows VM is NOT using the static IP from the bridge (which was my intent). The Windows VM does get a lease from the DHCP, but it’s not 10.0.0.3. Ubuntu is also sending some of its own traffic through 10.0.0.3.

In my DHCP server it shows three devices (when the Windows VM is on): Screenshot of DHCP server

Netplan has a bridge (br0) configured: Screenshot of Netplan config

The XML config for the Windows VM is “using” br0 and breaks without it. Windows can get onto the internet and I can RDP to it from another device on the network. But only using the other IP address from DHCP (10.0.0.4): Screenshot of interface in QEMU XML config

How do I get Windows to use the 10.0.0.3 bridge exclusively and keep Ubuntu on 10.0.0.2?

Thanks for your help!

I am working inside an Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS VM having two physical NICs, enp1s0 and enp6s0. I want to create a bridge with netplan that includes only one of these interfaces. I am using this netplan:

DEV2=enp6s0
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/netplan/bridge.yaml
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    ${DEV2}:
      dhcp4: false
  bridges:
    br0:
      dhcp4: true
      interfaces:
        - ${DEV2}
EOF
sudo chmod og-r /etc/netplan/bridge.yaml
sudo netplan apply

However, the bridge never receives an IPv4 address from the DHCP server, as shown with ip a:

2: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 56:6f:94:0a:00:0f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 172.20.28.115/24 metric 100 brd 172.20.28.255 scope global dynamic enp1s0
       valid_lft 7198sec preferred_lft 7198sec
    inet6 fe80::546f:94ff:fe0a:f/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp6s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br0 state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 56:6f:94:0a:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 46:f8:7f:dc:43:0a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::44f8:7fff:fedc:430a/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

If I try to get the IP address manually with dhcpcd --debug br0, but I only get a link-local address (169.254.107.157/16):

dhcpcd-10.0.6 starting
chrooting as dhcpcd to /usr/lib/dhcpcd
sandbox: seccomp
spawned manager process on PID 1830
spawned privileged proxy on PID 1831
spawned network proxy on PID 1832
spawned controller proxy on PID 1833
br0: spawned DHCP6 proxy fe80::44f8:7fff:fedc:430a on PID 1834
br0: executing: /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks PREINIT
br0: executing: /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks CARRIER
DUID 00:01:00:01:2f:47:11:66:46:f8:7f:dc:43:0a
br0: IAID 7f:dc:43:0a
br0: delaying IPv6 router solicitation for 1.0 seconds
br0: delaying IPv4 for 0.2 seconds
br0: reading lease: /var/lib/dhcpcd/br0.lease
br0: soliciting a DHCP lease
br0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x7ac5566c), next in 4.4 seconds
br0: spawned BPF BOOTP on PID 1838
br0: soliciting an IPv6 router
br0: sending Router Solicitation
br0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x7ac5566c), next in 7.3 seconds
br0: process BPF BOOTP already started on pid 1838
br0: sending Router Solicitation
br0: probing for an IPv4LL address
br0: spawned BPF ARP 169.254.107.157 on PID 1839
br0: probing for 169.254.107.157
br0: ARP probing 169.254.107.157 (1 of 3), next in 1.4 seconds
br0: ARP probing 169.254.107.157 (2 of 3), next in 1.1 seconds
br0: ARP probing 169.254.107.157 (3 of 3), next in 2.0 seconds
br0: sending Router Solicitation
br0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.107.157
br0: adding IP address 169.254.107.157/16 broadcast 169.254.255.255
br0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16
br0: adding default route
br0: ARP announcing 169.254.107.157 (1 of 2), next in 2.0 seconds
br0: executing: /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks IPV4LL
Dropped protocol specifier '.ipv4ll' from 'br0.ipv4ll'. Using 'br0' (ifindex=4).
forked to background

This are the logs from journalctl:

systemd-networkd[895]: br0: netdev ready
systemd-networkd[895]: enp6s0: Reconfiguring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-enp6s0.network.
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: Reconfiguring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-enp1s0.network.
kernel: br0: port 1(enp6s0) entered blocking state
kernel: br0: port 1(enp6s0) entered disabled state
kernel: virtio_net virtio5 enp6s0: entered allmulticast mode
kernel: virtio_net virtio5 enp6s0: entered promiscuous mode
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: DHCP lease lost
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: DHCPv6 lease lost
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: Configuring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-br0.network.
kernel: br0: port 1(enp6s0) entered blocking state
kernel: br0: port 1(enp6s0) entered forwarding state
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: Link UP
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: Gained carrier
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: Configuring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-enp1s0.network.
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: DHCPv6 lease lost
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: Configuring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-br0.network.
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: DHCPv6 lease lost
systemd-networkd[895]: enp6s0: Configuring with /run/systemd/network/10-netplan-enp6s0.network.
systemd[1]: Starting netplan-ovs-cleanup.service - OpenVSwitch configuration for cleanup...
systemd[1]: netplan-ovs-cleanup.service: Deactivated successfully.
systemd[1]: Finished netplan-ovs-cleanup.service - OpenVSwitch configuration for cleanup.
sudo[2276]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
systemd-networkd[895]: br0: Gained IPv6LL
systemd-networkd[895]: enp1s0: DHCPv4 address 172.20.28.115/24, gateway 172.20.28.1 acquired from 172.20.28.1

Using Openvswitch, by specifying openvswitch: {} option in the netplan, makes no difference. Why does not br0 get an IPv4 address? I explored different paths, like setting the same MAC address for both the bridge and the interface, but with no success (EDIT: turned out I may have misconfigured the netplan, see my answer). I have also enabled IP forwarding and ARP proxying, but they have not changed the situation:

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.${DEV2}.proxy_arp=1
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.${BRIDGE}.proxy_arp=1

Does the VM need additional configurations?

I installed Wordpress on Ubuntu 20.04 using the following link:

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-wordpress#1-overview

Then, I created a website on localhost. Now I need to migrate it to a web hosting to make it live. I did not find the database in var/lib/mysql/my_database_name. Could you tell me where I can find the database of Wordpress? I do not have installed phpmyadmin

I have two MPV media players installed of different versions. One is via apt and another via flatpak. I need them both for different purposes. But they have exactly same name and icon. So, whenever I want to play a file by right clicking on it, I can't tell which one is which. Only if there was a way to differentiate then that would be awesome. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.

As per the title, I get no sound following a fresh install of 22.04. In another partition I have Zorin OS 16 and it works just fine. I followed the instructions in this post HDMI Audio Issue Ubuntu 22.04 but it didn't work. Any help would be much appreciated. Also I am most definitely a noob. I have enough knowledge to move away from Windows & install the os, follow instructions etc. but am at loss when it comes to troubleshooting.

I am using the Wireguard VPN client on Ubuntu 20.04 through the network-manager plug-in. The plug-in reads the configuration file I got from the sys admin, which is below (network-manager also handles the startup and shutdown of the wg client):

[Interface]
PrivateKey = removed
Address = 10.200.85.2/32
MTU = 1412
DNS = 10.200.85.1

[Peer]
PublicKey = removed
Endpoint = removed
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0

The computers I am trying to reach on the other side of the VPN are in the 10.0.15.xxx range.

This works, except that ALL traffic on my client is routed through the WireGuard VPN. I only want traffic for 10.0.15.xxx routed through the WireGuard VPN.

I have tried changing AllowedIPs to addresses containing various permutations of 10.200.85.x/x and 10.0.15.x/x, It seems that changing AllowedIPs to anything but 0.0.0.0/0 prevents anything from getting routed over the VPN, and "ip route get" shows the route for all addresses going through the primary network connection.

The WireGuard setup in Network Manager also has a "Use this connection only for resources on its network", but checking that with AllowedIps = 0.0.0.0/0 still sends all traffic over the VPN.

I found a post on here Configuring routes so that vpn is only used for local resources showing how to add some routes for a PPP VPN to accomplish what I am trying to do. It basically assigned a route for the desired remote network to the PPP adapter, and then added a route for 0.0.0.0 with a high metric. I added routes as suggested in that article to the Network Manager WireGuard setup, but everything is still routed over the WireGuard VPN. I could see that the routes were added with "route -n", but the high WireGuard metric for 0.0.0.0 didn't encourage traffic to be routed over the primary network connection.

Any suggestions on how to send only traffic for 10.x.x.x over the WireGuard VPN? Probably something simple I am missing. Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Also, it seems odd to me that when the WireGuard VPN is running, there is no route in the route table...

jhuber@t5610:~$ ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 34:17:eb:ad:40:72 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: vboxnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
47: APC-Wireguard: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1412 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/none 

jhuber@t5610:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref       Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 enp0s25
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 enp0s25
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 enp0s25

jhuber@t5610:~$ ip route get 1.1.1.1
1.1.1.1 dev APC-Wireguard table 51820 src 10.200.85.2 uid 1000 
cache 

I have old Linux kernel versions that I don't use so I was trying to remove them.

List of installed kernels from dpkg --list | grep linux-image

linux-image-5.4.0-26-generic (5.4.0-26.30)   
linux-image-5.4.0-33-generic (5.4.0-33.37)
linux-image-5.4.0-37-generic (5.4.0-37.41)

Sometimes, when I log in, a window pops up marked "Web authentication from Google", saying "GNOME Evolution would like to:" followed by a list of things (view and manage mail, view email address etc.

When I enter my login details, the window disappears, then pops up again, and again, and again... Clicking on "Allow" or "Deny" makes no difference, it just keeps coming back. This seems to happen at random occasions on login, and Online Accounts seems to show everything OK.

Why is this happening?

A little discussions alike this what is a fame of Askubuntu hints me to ask for community opinion due to this is a "multipolar" theme and adequate answer written normal English at the normal user guide nonexistent and what is presumably deliberately situate the crowd.

Though obviously the answer resides extant taxon of the well meaning.
What I wait from community it is all about ubuntuuser-idgroup-idgid

Question: What is normal reason for changing user ID?

My system is auto-mounting as read only and I have no idea why.

Output of fstab:

cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=28db2489-f60e-456c-9efd-7a961f3e970a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=106e4470-d734-4cec-98a6-c7859aaedf18 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

Output of mount:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

I have searched all night including: Ubuntu 12.04 SSD root frequent random read only file system

I have no idea why this is going on. I did run fsck at boot and it didn't find errors.

The disk is fine (500GB, user 38GB)

I know of How to remove an uninstalled package's dependencies? and I tried

apt-get autoremove

but that does not remove dependencies that are recommended/suggested by other packages.

That is, if I install a package X that recommends Y, but I do not install Y, and then I install package Z that depends on Y. and later I do

apt-get remove --auto-remove Z

then Y is not automatically removed even though nothing depends on it. (X "picked up" Y, even though it does not depend on it).

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo x61s Thinkpad. As the screen's rather small and I want to do some video editing, I thought I'd plug in a monitor and use that. The monitor is Relisys JM777 (quite old).

When I plug it into my other computer, which is running Windows 7, it immediately mirrors the display; but when plugged into the Lenovo the monitor screen remains blank. The graphics card on the Lenovo is a "VGA compatible controller" according to SysInfo.

Anybody got any suggestions for getting this monitor to work? I'm quite new to Linux.