I'm going to publish a self-answer on how to properly fix the internal camera without breaking the audio stack.

In this guide I'll explain how to do it right because there are people out there that have suggested a solution either by the DKMS or by the development PPA from intel.

Both can work only under specific circumstances but will break sooner or later because do not take care of the root cause of the issue.

To give a bit of context Dell XPS 13 9315 with stock Ubuntu is at 20.04 LTS but during normal Ubuntu upgrades the camera breaks and upgrading to 22.04 did not fix it.

I don't have knowledge of this issue being addressed even in version 24.04 LTS. Moreover I don't recall a single Ubuntu upgrade issue-free in the last 10 years. So I can't recommend trying it to avoid following this procedure.

Image previews not showing in any of my file sections, including Pictures. They all suddenly disappeared. I only see the pink square with the pyramids, which do open the pix when clicked. I did not change any settings. How do I get the images back? I looked for some answers through AI but none work. Several mentioned opening Preferences in the three-bar top right file drop down menu but there is no Preferences there!

Unable to make fingerprint lock system in my HP Zbook 840 G5 (Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:00ab Validity Sensors, Inc.)

How to find the proper Driver for Ubuntu 24.04 lts.

the updates are too long to load, taking forever. Server issue is resolved, but I still have an issue with these super slow updates in the shell, keeps downloading icons and translation-en packages, don't know why? Any check is appreciated.

On my Ubuntu Server, I was using ssh to upgrade my server remotely, and the process got interrupted. When I connected directly with the server, I used ip addr command and the IP address in the interface was gone. After tinkering, it gave me an APIPA address.I used the following commands:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot

Then I tried to manually force a DHCP lease

sudo dhclient -r [interface_name]
sudo dhclient [interface_name]

But I didn't get an IP address.

Laptop model: Lenovo v15 g3 IAP CTO. Version: 24.04.4 LTS Noble Numbat (dualboot with Windows 11 23H2)

Description: After transition to seperate /home directory i have noticed that snap store isn't working well. The icons do not load, and pressing an app makes "unknown error". Here is an screenshot.

I am using Ubuntu 25.10 on a Dell laptop with 16GB of RAM, 512 GB NVme, Interl graphics and Intel VPro Processor (12 cores).

I had started an apt update.

Also using Teams on Firefox and as I was on a call when suddenly the OS froze.

I had to do a hard reboot.

How to check what really happened ?

Kind regards,

Koby

Is there a plan to solve issue with supporting multi monitor on Ubuntu 26.04 with Wayland using nVidia graphics?

Best,
Madzid

I came to many requests lately to install Ubuntu on older and newer laptops by our customers lately.

And althought i really like it and use it myself on my personal laptop i have a hard time installing it for end users.

Normal procedure we pick the language, type of install, drivers to pick and username + password at start. But many users do forget it (password) or want to handle different settings or languages by default.

Is there a way like it is on Windows where you install it and enter the key and then you shut down the pc, yet when user opens it it goes further and user defines all by himself with the next steps including, language, username etc.

This is so usefull for companies selling and repairing laptops, desktops etc.

Thank you in advance for your answers and wish you all a great day!

Matej

I have a new system with 24.04.4. When I copy my old documents folder from my old PC with 24.04.4 to a USB and try to paste, the new system can not read the USB. I have tried multiple USBs and methods. The failure shows in the pic.

I copy on one 24.04 system. I insert USB into the new 24.04 system and is sees it in the file manager. When I select it I get the warning. When I try to open with the system that made the copy, I get the same error.

I ran fsk. When I try to run chkdsk, the nterminal says it does not exist.

sudo ntfsfix --clear-dirty /dev/sda1 solved the problem. I think I'm supposed to mark this as solved but don't see how to do that.

How can I change the rights to a volume to solve below described problem?

I am not able to create a new map on this below mentioned volume. I have tried to take ownership of the volume by using the command

sudo chown $piet:$piet -R /media/piet/44954a9f-4062-40da-ac60-9c09c9885e44

but that just resulted in

chown: changing the group of '/media/piet/44954a9f-4062-40da-ac60-9c09c9885e44': Input/output error

Trying to create a map in that drive results in following message:

Suspend/hibernate not working - no usable answers were provided, the only proposed solution does not work.

This is NOT a duplicate of "Computer does not resume from suspend". The computer does not sleep or suspend at all and answers in this thread are not relevant. The question I had asked before had no functional solutions.

This is NOT a duplicate of 24.04 doesn't sleep as that has an "answer" that I cannot downvote or delete as the "answer" doesn't work.

I have a brand new Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G8 IRL running Ubuntu 24.04.3. The computer has 32gb of RAM and 2 physical SSDs, one for a Win11 installation and the other for a fresh Ubuntu installation.

Sleep/Suspend works perfectly in the W11 environment, but not in Ubuntu. I have tested using Ubuntu versions 18 to 24, Mint Cinamonn 22 and Pop!_OS 22 and 24. They have all exhibited the same behavior.

The screen goes black, it looks like the machine tries to sleep, but then wakes up again within 5 seconds. This makes it impossible to use as a true laptop as I have to save all work and shut down the computer whenever I will travel with it - which is quite often.

This is not a problem of the computer not restarting or restoring from suspend, the computer does not enter suspend in the first place.

I agree the suspend command should work out of the box, so I'm not understanding this. I ran the below command and had the same effect - black screen for 3-5 seconds, then back to a login screen.

Swap is on and has plenty of space (32gb of RAM)

I have followed several recommendations and followed several directions.

There are no external devices plugged in

I have attempted to disable USB devices, use Gnome Tweaks to enable suspend, changed USB wake properties, but I had no luck.

Updates: Computer updated to 24.04.4 New dmesg added at the end Kernel updated to 6.17.0-20-generic

Latest dmesg:

[ 0.960269] kernel: Low-power S0 idle used by default for system suspend

[ 1.325652] kernel: sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver [ 1.325655] kernel: sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman [ 1.329688] kernel: idma64 idma64.0: Found Intel integrated DMA 64-bit [ 1.330996] kernel: usb 3-6: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 1.335437] kernel: sdhci-pci 0000:45:00.0: SDHCI controller found [1217:8621] (rev 1) [ 1.335535] kernel: sdhci-pci 0000:45:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 1.342077] kernel: mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:45:00.0] using ADMA [ 1.343738] kernel: nvme 0000:01:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend [ 1.343745] kernel: nvme 0000:02:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend [ 1.343826] kernel: nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:02:00.0 [ 1.343836] kernel: nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:01:00.0 [ 1.345158] kernel: intel-lpss 0000:00:15.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 1.346161] kernel: idma64 idma64.1: Found Intel integrated DMA 64-bit [ 1.364019] kernel: nvme nvme0: D3 entry latency set to 10 seconds [ 1.374960] kernel: nvme nvme1: allocated 64 MiB host memory buffer (1 segment). [ 1.378281] kernel: nvme nvme0: allocated 64 MiB host memory buffer (1 segment). [ 1.387526] kernel: nvme nvme1: 12/0/0 default/read/poll queues [ 1.391873] kernel: nvme1n1: p1 p2 p3 p4 [ 1.410882] kernel: nvme nvme0: 12/0/0 default/read/poll queues [ 1.421148] kernel: nvme0n1: p1 p2 [ 1.495689] kernel: input: FTCS0038:00 2808:0106 Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-0/i2c-FTCS0038:00/0018:2808:0106.0001/input/input4 [ 1.495877] kernel: input: FTCS0038:00 2808:0106 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-0/i2c-FTCS0038:00/0018:2808:0106.0001/input/input5

[ 2.422232] systemd[1]: Started systemd-ask-password-wall.path - Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. [ 2.422343] systemd[1]: Set up automount proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount - Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point. [ 2.422354] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-E27F\x2d1009.device - /dev/disk/by-uuid/E27F-1009... [ 2.422367] systemd[1]: Reached target integritysetup.target - Local Integrity Protected Volumes. [ 2.422382] systemd[1]: Reached target nss-user-lookup.target - User and Group Name Lookups. [ 2.422389] systemd[1]: Reached target remote-fs.target - Remote File Systems. [ 2.422395] systemd[1]: Reached target slices.target - Slice Units. [ 2.422404] systemd[1]: Reached target snapd.mounts-pre.target - Mounting snaps. [ 2.422418] systemd[1]: Reached target veritysetup.target - Local Verity Protected Volumes. [ 2.422508] systemd[1]: Listening on syslog.socket - Syslog Socket. [ 2.422550] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-fsckd.socket - fsck to fsckd communication Socket. [ 2.422578] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-initctl.socket - initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. [ 2.422627] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-journald-dev-log.socket - Journal Socket (/dev/log). [ 2.422675] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-journald.socket - Journal Socket. [ 2.422743] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-oomd.socket - Userspace Out-Of-Memory (OOM) Killer Socket.

The last entry is:

[ 2.422743] systemd[1]: Listening on systemd-oomd.socket - Userspace Out-Of-Memory (OOM) Killer Socket.

I am on Ubuntu 24.04. After a recent update, some of my files, including:

1. png image generated by one of my codes

2. Screenshots taken

3. Clean pdf files downloaded

have no preview thumbnails that were downloaded after the update was installed.. Older ones are still being displayed correctly. I tried the following commands:

sudo rm -rf \~/.thumbnails/\* \~/.cache/thumbnails/\*

and

sudo dnf install glycin-thumbnailer

but they did not work, and the problem only got worse after executing the first of the above commands, where the remaining thumbnails were also gone. I also tried nautilus-q but it didn't work.

Is there a way in Ubuntu LTS 24 to not show the * 's whilst typing the LUKS crypto password and also not to show any messages regarding successful or unsuccessful password entry in Plymouth.

I want to enter the password but it not reflex any char entry with *'s nor do i want any feedback as to the password entry being successful or not, just boot if the password works or sit there is fails.

thanks

When I attempt to boot Ubuntu, I'm confronted with the following error message:

[    0.334098] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPPU.S
WUS], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/dsuloadi-162)
[    0.334913] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20210730/ps
object-220)
[    0.334925] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPPU.S
WUS.SWUS], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/dsuload2-162)
[    0.334935] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20210730/ps
object-220)
[    1.056870] tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover 
the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed40fff flags 0x200] vs 
fed037000 4000
[    1.056901] tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover 
the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed40fff flags 0x200] vs fed
03b000 4000
[    1.267402] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[    1.267453] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.0-113-generic #123~20.04.1-Ubuntu
[    1.267497] Hardware name: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF Gaming FX505DT_FX505DT/FX505DT, BIOS FX505DT.316 01/20/2021
[    1.267530] Call Trace:
[    1.267556]  <TASK>
[    1.267573]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x59
[    1.267602]  dump_stack+0x10/0x16
[    1.267622]  panic+0x15c/0x334
[    1.267643]  mount_block_root+0x14b/0x1f5
[    1.267668]  mount_root+0x112/0x122
[    1.267686]  prepare_namespace+0x13f/0x191
[    1.267706]  kernel_init_freeable+0x2c5/0x2f1
[    1.267730]  ? rest_init+0x100/0x100
[    1.267750]  kernel_init+0x1b/0x150
[    1.267771]  ? rest_init+0x100/0x100
[    1.267788]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[    1.267811]  </TASK>
[    1.267944] Kernel Offset: 0x21000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[    1.267997] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]---
_

I've already tried various troubleshooting steps like checking the boot order in the BIOS, and updating GRUB without success.

I am using Ubuntu Unity on a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 (14ARE05). When I go to the 'Brightness and Lock' settings there are only options to adjust lock, not the brightness. How do I fix this? I already tried the Fn keys, but they don't work.

Example:

^{Click image to enlarge it.}

I don't know if it is related to this particular problem, but as background, I am experiencing other issues, like PrtSc key not working, wallpaper missing, etc. I did run echo "c" > /proc/sysrq-trigger as a joke to trigger a kernel panic. It seems to modify the PrtSc/SysEq behavior, possibly creating these issues?

I'm trying to install 22.04 Server, the ISO I uploaded to my hosting provider successfully worked with 2 other instances, but this one is making problems:

[    1.764787] Run /bin/sh as init process
[    1.765141] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  
Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst 
for guidance.
[    1.766006] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.0-25-generic 
#25-Ubuntu
[    1.766568] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.
0-1~nc9+4 04/01/2014
[    1.767148] Call Trace:
[    1.767445]  <TASK>
[    1.767690]  show_stack+0x52/0x58
[    1.768072]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x5f
[    1.768438]  dump_stack+0x10/0x12
[    1.768731]  panic+0x149/0x321
[    1.769063]  ? putname+0x55/0x60
[    1.769359]  kernel_init+0x14c/0x150
[    1.769689]  ? rest_init+0x100/0x100
[    1.769969]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[    1.770314]  </TASK>
[    1.770645] Kernel Offset: 0x7400000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation rang
e: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[    1.771294] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try
passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guid\init.rst for
guidance. ]---
_

My OS crashed while I was using normally the navigator and a text editor, so I've decided to force the shutdown manually, when the screen turned on and is loading the OS it appeared that busybox screen where I am supposed to type something in initramfs, so I have typed:

<initramfs> fsck /dev/sda2/

And I typed yes in all questions during the process.

I get a black screen with these boot messages each time I turn on the PC:

VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
[    1.118911] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[    1.112093] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/sda2: clean, 781008/39043072 files, 14153173/156151552 blocks
/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libsc linux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[    4.211847] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00
[    4.211929] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.13.0-30-generic #33~20.04.1-Ubuntu
[    4.212007] Hardware name: Sony Corporation SVE14A15FBB/VAIO, BIOS R0300V4 12/17/2015
[    4.212082] Call Trace:
[    4.212113]  <TASK>
[    4.212141]  dump_stack+0x7d/0x9c
[    4.212188]  panic+0x101/0x2e3
[    4.212228]  do_exit.cold+0x60/0xb0
[    4.212268]  ? vfs_writev+0xa0/0x110
[    4.212315]  do_group_exit+0x43/0xb0
[    4.212358]  __x64_sys_exit_group+0x18/0x20
[    4.212403]  do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0
[    4.212450]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x3d/0x1c0
[    4.212506]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50
[    4.212559]  ? __x64_sys_writev+0x1c/0x20
[    4.212606]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6e/0xb0
[    4.212652]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20
[    4.212704]  ? irqentry_exit+0x19/0x30
[    4.212746]  ? exc_page_fault+0x8f/0x170
[    4.212790]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
[    4.212839]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[    4.212894] RIP: 0033:0x7f06b091b2ae
[    4.212936] Code: 89 fa 41 b8 e7 00 00 00 be 3c 00 00 00 eb 14 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 d7 89 f0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1a f4 89
d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 e2 f7 d8 89 05 82 fe 00 00 eb d8 f7 d8 89 05
[    4.213105] RSP: 002b:00007ffc80f4cc88 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
[    4.213182] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f06b08e5410 RCX: 00007f06b091b2ae
[    4.213251] RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 000000000000000f
[    4.213319] RBP: 00007ffc80f4d690 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: 0000000000000000
[    4.213387] R10: 00007f06b0922169 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007f06b09248b0
[    4.213455] R13: 00007f06b08e5440 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[    4.213526]  </TASK>
[    4.213600] Kernel Offset: 0x6400000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[    4.213705] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00 ]---
_

How could I proceed to deal and fix it? I have searched in the whole internet for any answer that could help me out, but it looks like there are no solutions for it. My Ubuntu version is Ubuntu 20.04.

I have tried to run these commands below from this post /sbin/init : no such file or directory | Not able to boot ubuntu desktop suggested by TopHat about update my kernel but when I did sudo mount -a I faced: sudo: error while shared libraries: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

I'm fairly novice when it comes to Linux and VM things, so excuse my ignorance, please :)

So I had a simple up-to-date Ubuntu VM that worked flawlessly, until one day past, I shut it down, and when the next day came, it wouldn't boot and came up with a "Failed to send host log message" error.

The suggested fix on the internet was to change the graphics controller in virtualbox from VMSVGA to VBoxSVGA, but doing brought up a whole different error message:

[...]
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Kernel Offset: 0x4600000 from 0xffffffff81000000 [etc]

And if that alone would not be weird enough, I found that if I change the Linux version using "Advanced options for Ubuntu" in GRUB to the oldest available there (Linux 5.4.0-58-generic), the VM can start up again just fine, regardless of graphics controller.

Grub boot menu:

I'm a bit lost as to what to do and where to find further logs, so I'm asking for your help here. Thanks a lot!

Exit code = 0x00000100

How can I fix this? I got it after changing my partitions. First Ubuntu 20.04 was still working, but then I got a error when I started the system. I don't remember what it exactly was, but I found a solutions for it on a forum. I had to type something in the terminal, typed yes a few hundred times to a few hundred questions, and after that typed reboot. But...the system wasn't responding to the reboot command, so I did a hard shutdown. Ever since then I have this message.

I saw at the internet that it could be that there was not enough space available, but I checked it and that isn’t the case.

I don’t know what to do, and I need to use my Ubuntu for my school.

Here is the complete error message:

U Ver. F.50 08/04/2014
[    2.878154] Call Trace:
[    2.878179]  dump_stack+0x6d/0x9a
[    2.878202]  panic+0x101/0x2e3
[    2.878222]  do_exit.cold+0x9b/0xb5
[    2.878243]  do_group_exit+0x47/0xb0
[    2.878264]  __x64_sys_exit_group+0x18/0x20
[    2.878286]  do_syscall_64+0x57/0x190
[    2.878308]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[    2.878331] RIP: 0033:0x7fc481b152c6
[    2.878352] Code: fa 41 b8 e7 00 00 00 be 3c 00 00 00 eb 15 66 0f 1f 44 00 00
89 d7 89 f0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 22 f4 89 d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0
ff ff 76 e2 f7 d8 64 41 89 01 eb da 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00
[    2.878394] RSP: 002b:00007ffe82cb1168 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000
000e7
[    2.878420] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055a88f1ca704 RCX: 00007fc481b152c6
[    2.878455] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000001
[    2.878490] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffff80
[    2.878525] R10: 000055a88eec58b8 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000003
[    2.878559] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[    2.878627] Kernel Offset: 0x2000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation rang
e: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[    2.878680] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exit
code=0x00000100 ]---

I can't get the keyboard shortcuts (or "mnemonics") to be permanently underlined in my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine.

• I've tried modifying the theme (even checking that yes, it was Ambiance), didn't work.
• Without undoing the previous change, I tried dconf-editor as well, which didn't work either. Even after a full reboot of the machine, the UI still waits for me to press Alt for one full second before showing the shortcuts.

Not only did they copy this misfeature from Windows, they actually made it worse! At least in Windows even when it's not disabled, it's instant.

How do I fix this?

Then how about we start with the basic text editor provided by Ubuntu? gedit, I think it's called. Making it work should make most default programs work as well, right?

I have Ubuntu 18.04 running on my desktop. It has been working fine for months, but crashed today while playing a video game.

Now when I try to boot it gets stuck at the purple screen before the ubuntu logo or the login screen. Indeed I can't even boot in recovery mode! When I try to do so it freezes, and there is nothing particularly revealing (as far as I can tell) in the output before it freezes.

I can give more hardware/software details if needed. I do have a Nvidia graphics card and running Nvidia drivers, but they have been working perfectly up to this point.

Any help greatly appreciated.

When I start Matlab (R2016b 64bit; Ubuntu 16.04), I only get a transparent window after the splash screen. The GUI just seems to be invisible though, as menues pop up when I rightclick at random places.

I launch it via the console, and I'm getting no errors (nor any output at all). If I launch Matlab without a GUI and execute "edit", a fully functioning editor opens.

I tried the guides but a window never popped up prompting me to sign in, so I continued with the command 'onedrive-pref'. That did nothing, so now I have a OneDrive folder and a .onedrive folder.

I checked my OneDrive account online; there was no new files/folders. I'm trying to get it to where I have a folder in my home folder that will sync with OneDrive online.

I am running vim 7.4:

andrew@athens:~$ vim --version | head -n 2
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jun 16 2016 10:50:38)
Included patches: 1-1689

And I need to routinely type in the Euro symbol. How do I do this easily and efficiently?

I've been using Arch Linux with a patched kernel on my Surface Pro 3.
I switched to Ubuntu now and want to use the kernel that includes all the patches from Arch with Ubuntu.
What is the best way to add the kernel?
Can I simply copy the vmlinuz and initramfs and update-grub?

I copied the files and updated grub, which worked fine, but when I boot the new kernel I get a kernel panic:

Unable to mount root filesystem.

[    0.515662] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[    0.515760] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.0.1-1-surfacepro3 #1
[    0.515839] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Surface Pro 3/Surface Pro 3, BIOS 3.11.0760 03/16/2015
[    0.515940]  0000000000000000 00000000069595c28 ffff88024620bdb8 ffffffff8156818a
[    0.516041]  0000000000000000 ffffffff81707070 ffff88024620be38 ffffffff81567357
[    0.516141]  ffff880200000010 ffff88024620be48 ffff88024620bde8 00000000069595c28
[    0.516240] Call Trace:
[    0.516279]  [<ffffffff8156818a>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
[    0.516340]  [<ffffffff81567357>] panic+0xd0/0x204
[    0.516401]  [<ffffffff818f85cf>] mount_block_root+0x296/0x2a5
[    0.516469]  [<ffffffff818f8632>] mount_root+0x54/0x58
[    0.516530]  [<ffffffff818f876e>] prepare_namespace+0x138/0x171
[    0.516599]  [<ffffffff818f8246>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1f6/0x21f
[    0.516672]  [<ffffffff8155ea30>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90
[    0.516733]  [<ffffffff8155ea3e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[    0.516795]  [<ffffffff8156d898>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[    0.516859]  [<ffffffff8155ea30>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90
[    0.516969] Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)
[    0.517078] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
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The kernel here was provided precompiled with with /usr and /lib as a .tar.gz archive. The kernel package I used does not provide that. It just contains the patches, so I can't just copy /usr and /lib from the archive.

I could copy them from my arch distribution running this Kernel, but what specific directories would I have to copy, the whole /usr and /lib?

I have looked at similar questions:

• Stuck at 0% [waiting for headers]
• apt-get update stuck on "Waiting for Headers" when using Windows XP ICS

However, neither one of them answer my problem.

I am running 12.04 AMD64 and have recently started getting an issue that when I update my repos from my connection at home through a terminal, using sudo apt-get update, it takes forever (literally after 2 hours it was at 28%), however when I run from a different location it takes less than 5 minutes to complete.

I have attempted changing which mirror I use, but that does not solve the issue. I have also cut down what is in my sources list, but this also makes no difference. There are no faults on my ADSL line, as I have already contacted my ISP to check this. It also makes no difference if I use a WiFi or network cable connection.

What could be my issue?

A speed test (www.speedtest.net) comes out at about 0.9 Mbps down and 0.42 Mbps up (which is a shade under the advertised line speed), I reside in South Africa and use the UCT LEG server. But I have also tried the other mirrors available in SA....none of them make a difference.

I'm following the upgrade instructions on Ubuntu's website, but on launching the upgrade tool I get this response:

Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround?

I have recently bought a new faster server and so I want to start migrating things over to the new server. Having my email server (Zimbra) installed in a virtual machine, I figured it should be a piece of cake, just move the .vdi, configure the new VM and enjoy the improved performance. Unfortunately I get a kernel panic on the new box when trying to boot:

3f44 c049f400
[    5.682942]       c044d395 c1fb2400 c021f782 00000001 00000000 00000000 0000
0000 00000000
[    5.683686] Call Trace:
[    5.683851]  [<c044d975>] setup_boot_APIC_clock+0x235/0x560
[    5.684095]  [<c044d395>] APIC_init_uniprocessor+0xf5/0x160
[    5.684338]  [<c021f782>] __next_cpu+0x12/0x30
[    5.684553]  [<c044bd9f>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x3af/0x5b0
[    5.684801]  [<c012cb05>] set_cpus_allowed+0x45/0xa0
[    5.685030]  [<c0440450>] kernel_init+0x0/0x320
[    5.685506]  [<c04404a2>] kernel_init+0x52/0x320
[    5.685908]  [<c012e147>] schedule_tail+0x17/0x60
[    5.686308]  [<c01082be>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
[    5.686707]  [<c0440450>] kernel_init+0x0/0x320
[    5.687103]  [<c0440450>] kernel_init+0x0/0x320
[    5.687499]  [<c0108ffb>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    5.687920]  =======================
[    5.688237] Code: 04 8b 42 14 8b 72 10 89 c1 31 c0 0f a5 fd d3 e7 f6 c1 20 0f
45 ef 0f 45 f8 89 f8 89 ea 89 d1 31 d2 85 c9 89 c3 74 08 89 c8 31 d2 <f7> f6 89
c1 89 d8 f7 f6 89 ca 83 fa 00 89 c1 76 1f b8 ff ff ff ff
[    5.692816] EIP: [<c014e350>] clockevent_delta2ns+0x40/0xa0 SS:ESP 0068:f7c53ed8
[    5.693520] ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]---
[    5.693865] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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Do you have any ideas on what could be causing this? Could it be related to new host being 64-bit?

Some info on server1 (working):

Virtualbox version: 3.2.12r68302

uname -a: `Linux server1 2.6.32-34-generic-pae #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 21:16:18 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux`

Some info on server2 (Not working):

VirtualBox version: 4.1.6r74727

$ uname -a: Linux server2 2.6.32-33-server #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:21:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is it possible to email attachments from the command line?

If possible, I'd like something as simple as:

mail -a myfile.txt -t me@example.com -s "Here's my file"