On Ubuntu Unity 26.04, the touchpad moves, however it does not click or right click. Touchpad model is "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad", and the laptop is a lenovo 100e gen 1. It is using the synaptic driver, and switching to libinput has no effect. Libinput list-devices reports 'click method: none' for the touchpad. Have tried unloading and reloading the psmouse kernel module, however that only led to it left clicking once then holding regardless of input. Issue also effects external usb mouse.

Has any one tried installing GPIB drivers using kernel config? The Linux GPIB project states that we can install GPIB for newer kernels using kernel config. But when I tried my system broke. I tried it Ubuntu 24LTS and 26LTS.

im a noob on Ubuntu, I dont understand and know how it works but I searched a lot and found nothing to help me.

Ps: When in the command line it's written in itallics It's me.

I want to return to the graphic screen, I think my data is dead but I would prefer to keep it if possible.

Ok let's go Im stuck on the console or tty screen. So I tried many commands to exit:

• CTRL + ALT + Fx

  (where x is between 1 to 12) it should work but no, I just change of screen but I don't quit.

• startx

  but I just had a flashbang that told me that "Oh shoot ! Something went wrong. A problem has occurred and the system cannot recover. Log out and try again." It doesnt work. Then:

  X.Org X Server 1.21.1.11

  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0

  Current Operating System: Linux [PC characteristics, huge numbers and hour]

  Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.17.0-23-generic root=UUID=8badbb6b-ce79-499b-adc6-9c18032b1f7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7

  xorg-server 2.21.1.12-1ubuntu1.5 (For tecjnical support please see https://www.ubuntu.com/support)

  Current version of pixman: 0.42.2

  Markers: (--) probeb, (**) from config files, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (==) default setting, this is an explanation for what follows, I don't wrote everything.

  (==) Log files: "/home/scrat/.local/share/worg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jun 26 00:55:06 2026

  (==) Using system co.fig directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

  waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log.file.Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X serverxinit: connection to X server

I didn't find their contact. I have an Ubuntu account.

• CTRL + ALT + FN + F3

  there is just a black screen now. I shut down with the button and it says

  [ 73.838956] snd_soc_avs 0000:00:0e.0: invalid firmware data: -22

  [ 73.838970] snd_soc_avs 0000:00:0e.0: firmware boot failed: -22

  [ 73.838975] snd_soc_avs 0000:00:0e.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_resume returns -22

  [ 73.838990] snd_soc_avs 0000:00:0e.0: PM: failed to resume: error -22

  [ 73.890626] ish-hid {33AECD58-B679-4E54-9BD9-AO4D34FORD34FOC226}: wait for resume timed out

Thank you

My laptop is new hp Omnibook 3. I just installed Ubuntu 26.04 and noticed that after sleep mode, it cannot see any wifi networks at all. I have to reboot the laptop to be able to connect again.

I have tried to disable wifi.powersave using this post without luck.

Here's the thing, I recently replace my phone and somehow termius can't run on background. So can I ssh to my router and send command via ssh to my laptop so my phone can disconnect and my computer still running the command and using my router as an anchor?

I would like to install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on a SSD using full disk encryption and using the following partitions. How would I accomplish this?

Partition 1
Size    Format  Mount Point     Description
1.0 GB  FAT     /boot/efi       EFI System

Partition 2
Size    Format  Mount Point     Description
2.0 GB  Ext4        /boot           Extended Boot Partition

Partition 3
Size    Format  Mount Point     Description
100 GB  Ext4/       /           Filesystem Root
        LVM

Partition 4
Size    Format  Mount Point     Description
126 GB  Ext4/       /home           Personal User Home Directories
        LVM

Free Space
16 GB   free space

this is the only info i can give

zig met uitpakken van ssh-import-id (5.11-0ubuntu3) over (5.11-0ubuntu2.24.04.1) ...
Voorheen niet geselecteerd pakket sysbench wordt geselecteerd.
Uitpakken van .../1354-sysbench_1.0.20+ds-7build1_amd64.deb wordt voorbereid...
Bezig met uitpakken van sysbench (1.0.20+ds-7build1) ...
Uitpakken van .../1355-xbrlapi_6.7-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb wordt voorbereid...
Bezig met uitpakken van xbrlapi (6.7-1ubuntu3) over (6.6-4ubuntu5) ...
Fouten gevonden tijdens verwerken van:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-NCP10T/1094-linux-modules-6.17.0-35-generic_6.17.0-35.35\_amd64.deb
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-NCP10T/1106-linux-modules-6.17.0-29-generic_6.17.0-29.29\_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

luuk@luuk-750XGK:\~$ sudo apt upgrade -y

bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Bestand of map bestaat niet

luuk@luuk-750XGK:\~$ ls -l /usr/bin/sud

ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/sud': No such file or directory

luuk@luuk-750XGK:\~$ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo

ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/sudo': No such file or directory

so uhm yeah sudo is gone how do i fix this

EDIT: This is a straightup misintepretation of what nomodeset does (see comments). I'm leaving it up for reference, but mods, do what you will.

This is a follow-on to this question. I discovered in the course of that investigation that on a machine with an Nvidia Quadro K1100M GPU running a fresh install of 26.04 (no relevant testing yet to expand that case to other hardware/Ubuntu versions), running the following to turn off the grub splash screen and instead display full startup output, which should have nothing to do with the startup process beyond output display, actually breaks the chain of logic that allows hardware display drivers to load correctly:

# make sure grub shows the full startup sequence
sudo sed -i 's/quiet splash/nomodeset/' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

Some relevant output from glxinfo (available from mesa-utils) demonstrates this. On a fresh ("working") installation:

> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)

On a broken install (after turning off startup splash):

> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.8, 256 bits)

I can switch between "broken" and "working" at will by updating /etc/default/grub as above and restarting.

So in the broken state we're using only the software renderer and not any hardware (onboard graphics being the renderer used on the fresh install). Per the referenced question, this is not our ideal state, but that isn't relevant to this question, which is specifically about why configuring grub's display properties would break hardware display driver functionality.

Also, the differing lines plus context from sudo lshw -c video output from the referenced question. Working:

  *-display
       ...
       product: GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M]
       ...
       logical name: /dev/fb1
       ...
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: irq:47 memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f5000000-f507ffff
  *-display
       ...
       product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       ...
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: irq:48 memory:f5400000-f57fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

Broken:

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       ...
       product: GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M]
       ...
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f5000000-f507ffff
  *-display
       ...
       product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       ...
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb
       configuration: depth=32 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: memory:f5400000-f57fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

I am having a horrible time looking for a terminal program with both of the desiderata in the title.

It doesn't have to be packaged, I know my way with compiling programs from source. But it has to work inside Gnome - which already excludes some obvious candidates like xterm (when I run xterm my Super key stops showing the Gnome Shell overview).

Here's my journey so far:

I started with gnome-terminal inside tmux. But I don't know if tmux supports direct color, and even if it does when I ssh to a different host, that's already 3 levels of pty translation. What are the odds of that working correctly?

Then I got alacritty and I was really happy with it for a long time. At least it does have its own keyboard select/copy/paste, fully accessible from the keyboard, and ostensibly it also has direct color. But ... today I tried to customize the tig program, which can use the 256 color indexed palette but not direct color, and I realized alacritty can't do both at the same time. If I have direct color enabled with TERM=alacritty-direct and COLORTERM=truecolor, references to the 256 palette all fetch some shade of dark blue. If I had to guess, alacritty uses the same escape sequence for both and misinterprets the palette reference as a reference to some narrow band of direct colors.

Now I'm looking at gnome-terminal again, and I see it doesn't have this problem. But it has apparently no way to select text from the keyboard, and that's a must for me. What can I do?

It this possible? I’d prefer not to change for sshd_config file, but it doesn’t appear to pick-up the Daemon.conf file Port 333 configuration statement.

johnl@Johns-HP-15a~$ sudo systemctl status sshd
• ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-06-22 12:40:23 EDT; 4min 43s ago
 Invocation: d98ba72a0db14550b296f065c9b58967
TriggeredBy: • ssh.socket
       Docs: man:sshd(8)
             man:sshd_config(5)
    Process: 9642 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd -t (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 9645 (sshd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19067)
     Memory: 2.8M (peak: 3.7M)
        CPU: 64ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/ssh.service
             └─9645 "sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups"

Jun 22 12:40:23 Johns-HP-15a systemd[1]: Starting ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server...
Jun 22 12:40:23 Johns-HP-15a sshd[9645]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun 22 12:40:23 Johns-HP-15a sshd[9645]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Jun 22 12:40:23 Johns-HP-15a systemd[1]: Started ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
johnl@Johns-HP-15a~$ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/Daemon.conf
Protocol 2
Port 333
PermitEmptyPasswords no
X11Forwarding no
MaxAuthTries 3
PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
johnl@Johns-HP-15a~$

I’m having an issue where Ubuntu refuses to boot up. I’m not exactly sure why this is happening, but I did some research and I do remember installing FUSE the previous night. I’m not exactly sure if that’s part of the issue, but even then trying to boot to recovery mode fails since I’m dual booting from a MacBook Pro 2015 and the window between the Apple logo closing and the Ubuntu splash window appearing is very short.

[  OK  ] Started NetworkManager-dispatcher.. Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
[  OK  ] Started bolt.service - Thunderbolt system service.
[  OK  ] Started ModemManager.service - Modem Manager.
[  OK  ] Started udisks2.service - Disk Manager.
[  OK  ] Finished apport.service - automatic crash report generation.
[  OK  ] Started snapd.service - Snap Daemon.
         Starting systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service...
[  OK  ] Started NetworkManager.service - Network Manager.
[  OK  ] Reached target network.target - Network.
         Starting NetworkManager-wait-onlin.ce - Network Manager Wait Online...
         Starting cups.service - CUPS Scheduler...
         Starting openvpn.service - OpenVPN service...
[  OK  ] Started snap.cups.cups-browsed.ser.snap application cups.cups-browsed.
[  OK  ] Started snap.cups.cupsd.service - .ce for snap application cups.cupsd.
         Starting systemd-user-sessions.service - Permit User Sessions...
[  OK  ] Started unattended-upgrades.service - Unattended Upgrades Shutdown.
[  OK  ] Finished openvpn.service - OpenVPN service.
[  OK  ] Started systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service.
[  OK  ] Finished systemd-user-sessions.service - Permit User Sessions.
         Starting gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager...
         Starting plymouth-quit-wait.servic.d until boot process finishes up...
[  OK  ] Finished snapd.seeded.service - Wait until snapd is fully seeded.
[  OK  ] Started cups.service - CUPS Scheduler.
[  OK  ] Started gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager.

It was working perfectly yesterday. I just can’t figure out what it is. I’m running Ubuntu 26.04, and I installed FUSE via the sudo apt-get install fuse libfuse2 command in the terminal.

My laptop has sound, when I play a song from Windows it does, but there is no sound from Ubuntu, and today I reinstalled Ubuntu from scratch and uninstalled Windows.

Specs:

• Firmware version: X13ATE.E.L3B256.2Z9.12D.XMC.R2S1E2P0S0T0W6F0.BC.Int
• OS Name: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
• Kernel Version: Linux 7.0.0-22-generic
• Gnome version: 50
• Memory: 12 GB
• Disk Capacity: 256.1 GB
• Processor: Intel Pentium N4200 × 4
• OS Type: 64-bit

TL;DR: Yes.

After lot of wrapping my head around things and discovering my blunder with nomodeset, it seems that what's actually happening is everything works out of the box after all. The only missing piece is actually selecting the Quadro for use. This can be done by setting DRI_PRIME=1 in an application's environment. See this answer.

However, I'm still not quite satisfied, because I want the Quadro in use for most everything. I can export the variable in my shell rc file easily enough, but editing all of my application shortcuts is a pain. So I guess one last update: Does anyone know of a way to make the nouveau driver the default? Note that prime-select provided by the nvidia-prime package functions, but has no actual effect.

I am setting up an older machine with an Nvidia Quadro K1100M. After installing 26.04, one of the first things I confirmed was that I could connect multiple monitors, and sure enough, it worked out of the box with no issues.

Fast-forward to me doing a bunch of installation and configuration (i.e. running my clunky install script and taking a few manual steps), when I notice that I can no longer connect multiple monitors. Here's some relevant output:

> xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
None-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 508mm x 285mm
   1920x1080     59.96*+
   1440x1080     59.99  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     59.89  
   1280x960      59.94  
   1152x864      59.96  
   1024x768      59.92  
   800x600       59.86  
   640x480       59.38  
   320x240       59.29  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1152x720      59.97  
   960x600       59.63  
   928x580       59.88  
   800x500       59.50  
   768x480       59.90  
   720x480       59.71  
   640x400       59.95  
   320x200       58.14  
   1600x900      59.95  
   1368x768      59.88  
   1280x720      59.86  
   1024x576      59.90  
   864x486       59.92  
   720x400       59.27  
   640x350       59.28  

> sudo lshw -c video
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f5000000-f507ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 06
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb
       configuration: depth=32 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: memory:f5400000-f57fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

The xrandr output is when external monitor(s) are connected. Any configuration of how many monitors/which ports they connect to makes no difference. Unfortunately, I did not record this output after a fresh installation, so I don't have that for comparison. UPDATE: I realized I can easily boot from USB to gather this output. I've added it at the end of the post.

So there's no driver installed for the GPU, and the OS doesn't see any displays that I connect to the machine. Can anyone shed any light on what might have changed? I really don't want to start over from a fresh installation, and even if I do, there's no guarantee I won't end right back here.

Some more details about drivers:

• ubuntu-drivers list produces no output.

• Nvidia recommends 418.113. but if I try to run the installer, it fails to build with a bunch of errors about missing header files, e.g. nv-misc.h. I had previously tried using the Additional Drivers dialog on a 24.10 installation to install I believe it was 390.x, but the result was the same.

• The nvidia-legacy PPA doesn't appear to have 390 past mantic. When I was trying this on 24.10, I had pretty much concluded that I was going to need to downgrade to an earlier LTS to get it to work, until I tried 26.04 and it magically worked out of the box (until it magically didn't, hence this post).

• Nouveau supports my GPU. My theory is that it claimed the GPU out of the box, which is why multiple monitors were briefly working, but then later dropped it for unknown reasons. Here is the output of lsmod | grep nouveau:

nouveau              3178496  0
gpu_sched              69632  1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm              57344  1 nouveau
mxm_wmi                12288  1 nouveau
drm_ttm_helper         20480  1 nouveau
drm_exec               12288  2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
ttm                   135168  2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
drm_display_helper    303104  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 nouveau
video                  77824  3 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,nouveau
wmi                    36864  8 video,dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smm_hwmon,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi,nouveau

UPDATE: As mentioned above, we can gather output from a working setup on the same machine by booting the installation materials from USB. Here's more lshw output demonstrating that the GPU is correctly using nouveau. I've elided the xrandr output, but it's what you'd expect.

> sudo lshw -c video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb1
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: irq:47 memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f5000000-f507ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 06
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
       resources: irq:48 memory:f5400000-f57fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

UPDATE 2: Okay, so started over and ran my install script only. After a restart, the problem was still there.

Then I ran it section by section with a restart in-between, and I found the culprit:

# make sure grub shows the full startup sequence
sudo sed -i 's/quiet splash/nomodeset/' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

So apparently turning off the startup splash screen breaks something in the chain of logic that allows hardware display drivers to load correctly. This is wildly unexpected but nonetheless true. I'll probably ask separately why that might be.

I should probably note that I hadn't inspected glxinfo (available from mesa-utils) output before asking the question. There's actually a key nugget to be found there. Fresh install:

> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)

Broken install (after turning off startup splash):

> glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.8, 256 bits)

So in the broken state we're actually using the software renderer and not the onboard graphics as I had previously assumed.

However, we also find that it still isn't using the Quadro in the "working" (multiple monitors-supported) state. I know prime-select is the tool to use to switch renderers when one has the Nvidia drivers installed, but it's as yet unclear if I can find and use a standalone version of it, or if I need to find another method.

UPDATE 3: nomodeset is doing what it's supposed to do, so that's entirely user error. Getting the Quadro selected is still pending.

My Lenovo ThinkPad x1 Carbon Gen 9, is connected to the ThinkPad docking station (https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/PD500180) via USB-C. I've installed Synaptic repository and installed Displaylink driver, this is confirmed at the newest version.

I have 2 Full HD monitors connected to the docking station via HDMI cable and this set up works on a Windows 11 device used for work, an old HP Elitebook running Mint (I can't remember version of the top of my head).

I've gone through a lot of suggested fixes online, including:

• Changing boot settings
• Disabling PCIe tunneling
• Locked boot order (Ubuntu first, NVMe, USB listed in the order (should these be excluded)
• Turned off UEFI BIOS updates
• Used the ThinkPad emergency reset hole
• Turned of IPV4 and IPV6 network stack
• Intel AMT off
• memory protection off
• kernel DMA protection off
• Secure boot off
• USB docking station (40AF) firmware up to date
• updated all firmware with 'fwupdmgr'

The next thing I am trying is another wipe of the device + new Ubuntu 24.04 boot - edit this did not fix the issue.

Edit 25/0 - fwupdmgr reveals no available firmware updates.

Output from xrandr when docking station connected:

Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 300mm x 190mm
   1920x1200     59.88*+
   1600x1200     59.87
   1440x1080     59.99
   1400x1050     59.98
   1280x1024     59.89
   1280x960      59.94
   1152x864      59.96
   1024x768      59.92
   800x600       59.86
   640x480       59.38
   320x240       59.52
   1680x1050     59.95
   1440x900      59.89
   1280x800      59.81
   1152x720      59.97
   960x600       59.63
   928x580       59.88
   800x500       59.50
   768x480       59.90
   720x480       59.71
   640x400       59.95
   320x200       58.96
   1920x1080     59.96
   1600x900      59.95
   1368x768      59.88
   1280x720      59.86
   1024x576      59.90
   864x486       59.92
   720x400       59.55
   640x350       59.77

System details:

I can also provide clearer information if needed.

This app called Software Install, named gnome-software-local-file-flatpak (also sometimes shows up as just Software, named org.gnome.Software) autostarts at login and keeps running in the background.

It is different from App Center snap-store which comes preinstalled. I had to download Software Install from apt (probably came as gnome-software or something), and I used it to install flatpaks (also supports snaps after I turned that setting on) keeps running in the background

How do I stop Software Install / Software from running in the background? I'm using Ubuntu LTS 26.04 with GNOME 50.

Things I've already tried to no avail:

1. Turned off automatic updates, show search results from application settings
2. Turned off startup at login from System Settings > App Permissions
3. "masked" some service from Terminal following some online results, but it shows that "such a service doesn't exist, creating one". If it is worthwhile to detail this step, let me know as a comment and I'll do it.
4. Following this answer, could not delete NoDisplay=True from /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-software-service.desktop because no such file exists.

I am having a HP laptop with AMD ryzen 3 3250u processor and I installed ubuntu 26 LTS and I tried to add a hibernation device in the laptop using a swap file but what I am experiencing is that when I run the command sudo systemctl hibernate my screen goes blank for sometime and return back to the lockscreen, sometime it work for the first time and subsequent hibernate fails, I am pasting my configuration files

/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>
# / was on /dev/nvme0n1p8 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4c859583-daba-499b-9918-8bc642b14b80 / ext4 defaults 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during curtin installation
/dev/disk/by-uuid/D6BC-8F6E /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

/etc/default/grub

# If you change this file or any /etc/default/grub.d/*.cfg file,
# run 'update-grub' afterwards to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in these files, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release && echo ${NAME} )`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=4c859583-daba-499b-9918-8bc642b14b80 resume_offset=169984"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
# probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
# for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
# os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
# filesystems to look for things.
#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE/GOP/UGA
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `videoinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

findmnt -no UUID -T /swapfile
4c859583-daba-499b-9918-8bc642b14b80

sudo filefrag -v /swapfile | awk '$1=="0:" {print substr($4,1,length($4)-2)}'
169984

here is the result for the kernel command

journalctl --since today -p emerg..err
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20251212>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:44:22 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:25 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap swapfile.swap - /swapfile.
Jun 22 17:44:26 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: No handler for Region [RCM0] (000000002bbd688e) [S>
Jun 22 17:44:26 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Region SystemCMOS (ID=5) has no handler (20251212/>
Jun 22 17:44:26 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.ESDT due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:26 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.LPC0.EC0._Q42 due to pre>
Jun 22 17:44:28 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap swapfile.swap - /swapfile.
Jun 22 17:44:29 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap swapfile.swap - /swapfile.
Jun 22 17:44:35 Zenbook kernel: 
Jun 22 17:44:35 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 17:44:35 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBC due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:35 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 17:44:35 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBE due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:44:41 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:41 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:42 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:42 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:42 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:42 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:43 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:44 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:45 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:46 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:46 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:46 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:47 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:47 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:47 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:47 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:49 Zenbook gdm-password][2992]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 22 17:44:53 Zenbook systemd[3231]: Failed to start app-gnome-snap\x2duserd\x2dautostart-37>
Jun 22 17:44:56 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:56 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:57 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:44:58 Zenbook systemd[3231]: Failed to start snap.prompting-client.daemon.service - >
Jun 22 17:45:00 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:45:00 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:45:10 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:45:11 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:45:27 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:45:27 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:48:00 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:48:01 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:48:49 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:48:49 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:49:21 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:49:21 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:49:24 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:49:25 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:49:40 Zenbook gdm3[1640]: Gdm: Failed to list cached users: GDBus.Error:org.freedesk>
-- Boot 6222b8fdb133452c9a58e6ee5f5c0f39 --
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20251212>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:01 Zenbook kernel: Failed to create device parport0
Jun 22 17:50:05 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: No handler for Region [RCM0] (00000000d3275a16) [S>
Jun 22 17:50:05 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Region SystemCMOS (ID=5) has no handler (20251212/>
Jun 22 17:50:05 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.ESDT due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:05 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.LPC0.EC0._Q42 due to pre>
Jun 22 17:50:14 Zenbook kernel: 
Jun 22 17:50:14 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 17:50:14 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBC due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:14 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 17:50:14 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBE due to previous err>
Jun 22 17:50:20 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:20 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:21 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:21 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:21 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:22 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:22 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:24 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:24 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:25 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:25 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:25 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:25 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:45 Zenbook gdm-password][3131]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 22 17:50:51 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:51 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:52 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:52 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:54 Zenbook systemd[3204]: Failed to start snap.prompting-client.daemon.service - >
Jun 22 17:50:56 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:50:56 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:51:15 Zenbook systemd-sleep[5143]: Failed to put system to sleep. System resumed aga>
Jun 22 17:51:15 Zenbook kernel: PM: hibernation: Image allocation is 79836 pages short
Jun 22 17:51:15 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-hibernate.service - System Hiberna>
Jun 22 17:51:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:51:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:51:34 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:51:35 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 17:51:51 Zenbook chronyd[1427]: Could not connect to [2620:2d:4002:1::3123]:4460 (4.ntp>
Jun 22 17:51:52 Zenbook chronyd[1427]: Could not connect to [2620:2d:4000:1::2123]:4460 (1.ntp>
Jun 22 12:28:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 12:28:26 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 12:28:31 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 12:28:32 Zenbook kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
Jun 22 12:43:13 Zenbook systemd-sleep[9679]: Failed to put system to sleep. System resumed aga>
Jun 22 12:43:13 Zenbook kernel: PM: hibernation: Image allocation is 116000 pages short
Jun 22 12:43:13 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-hibernate.service - System Hiberna>
-- Boot f38d6bb7801c425387f1a8e9dbed4398 --
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20251212>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._ST>
Jun 22 12:55:39 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:43 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: No handler for Region [RCM0] (000000003573ea84) [S>
Jun 22 12:55:43 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Region SystemCMOS (ID=5) has no handler (20251212/>
Jun 22 12:55:43 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.ESDT due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:43 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.LPC0.EC0._Q42 due to pre>
Jun 22 12:55:51 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 12:55:51 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBC due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:55:51 Zenbook kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Attempt to CreateField of length zero (>
Jun 22 12:55:51 Zenbook kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WMID.WQBE due to previous err>
Jun 22 12:56:00 Zenbook chronyd[1458]: Could not connect to [2620:2d:4002:1::3123]:4460 (4.ntp>
Jun 22 12:57:43 Zenbook gdm-password][3020]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 22 12:57:51 Zenbook systemd[3095]: Failed to start snap.prompting-client.daemon.service - >
Jun 22 12:58:16 Zenbook kernel: PM: hibernation: Image allocation is 83357 pages short
Jun 22 12:58:16 Zenbook systemd-sleep[4989]: Failed to put system to sleep. System resumed aga>
Jun 22 12:58:17 Zenbook systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-hibernate.service - System Hiberna>

free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         5479732     3315900      944936      138456     1614868     2163832
Swap:       16777212       42820    16734392

sudo swapon --show
NAME      TYPE SIZE   USED PRIO
/swapfile file  16G 925.1M   -1

I followed the same steps on 26.04 for overlayroot that I used on 24.04 and it doesn't work.

sudo apt-get install overlayroot  
sudo nano /etc/overlayroot.conf  

set overlayroot="" to overlayroot="tmpfs"

write out

df -h shows /dev/sda2 is still being mounted on / when it should be mounted in a write protected state. Any changes made do persist between restarts.

How can I get this to work properly?

I am running Ubuntu 24.04.4 on a ThinkPad T14s. I am having trouble connecting to the Eduroam WiFi network at my school on Ubuntu. When I try to connect, it takes a long time and usually only connects after multiple attempts. Sometimes it fails several times before finally connecting.

I do not have this issue with other WiFi networks. They connect quickly and work normally. The problem only happens with eduroam.

Here is the Eduroam security configuration that shows the security configuration I am using for Eduroam.

Has anyone experienced this issue before or knows what might be causing the slow connection and repeated connection attempts?

I am doing a study to see how time is being synchronized in Ubuntu 22.04. As any systemd controled system, the service is using systemd-timesyncd.

According to the documentation, when starting, systemd-timesyncd will read the configuration file from /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.

It can't be /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf because all the values in it are commented:

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
#  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
#  any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. Local configuration
# should be created by either modifying this file, or by creating "drop-ins" in
# the timesyncd.conf.d/ subdirectory. The latter is generally recommended.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file and all drop-ins.
#
# See timesyncd.conf(5) for details.

[Time]
#NTP=
#FallbackNTP=ntp.ubuntu.com
#RootDistanceMaxSec=5
#PollIntervalMinSec=32
#PollIntervalMaxSec=2048

Everything is commented out, but when i interogate timedatectl i can see values for npt an such. For For the love of god i can't understand how timesync is geting it's values.

># timedatectl show-timesync
FallbackNTPServers=ntp.ubuntu.com
ServerName=ntp.ubuntu.com
ServerAddress=185.125.190.56
RootDistanceMaxUSec=5s
PollIntervalMinUSec=32s
PollIntervalMaxUSec=34min 8s
PollIntervalUSec=32s
NTPMessage={ Leap=0, Version=4, Mode=4, Stratum=2, Precision=-25, RootDelay=1.129ms, RootDispersion=213us, Reference=11FD1CFD, OriginateTimestamp=Fri 2024-11-29 21:22:30 GMT, ReceiveTimestamp=Fri 2024-11-29 21:22:33 GMT, TransmitTimestamp=Fri 2024-11-29 21:22:33 GMT, DestinationTimestamp=Fri 2024-11-29 21:22:30 GMT, Ignored=no PacketCount=656, Jitter=252.712ms }

The rest of the mentioned conf files do not exist as far as i can tell.
Any idea before I go crazy?

Folks, I have recently purchased this laptop: https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/Yoga/Yoga_Pro_9_14IRP8

And I can only get the front speakers working on Ubuntu 22.04 which results in the sound being not great to say the least.

From reading around I found out that the laptop comes with two sets of speakers like many new Yoga laptops and both of them are supposed to be playing at the same time: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1926165

Same issue on Fedora: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/problem-with-sound-on-new-lenovo-laptops/72456

I was not able to get the speakers running with the tricks above, does anyone have an idea? Thank you in advance.

I am currently running the kernel: 6.2.0-33-generic.

I try to customize storage layout in user-data for autoinstall here is part of my user-data

  storage:
    #layout:
    #  name: direct
    config:
      - type: disk
        match:
          size: largest
          #ssd: true
        id: ssd0
        ptable: gpt
        wipe: superblock
      - type: partition # create partitions on ssd0
        number: 1
        id: efi-partition
        device: ssd0
        size: 256M
        flag: boot        # uefi partition needs boot flag
        grub_device: true # and must be the grub device?
      - type: partition
        number: 2
        id: boot-partition
        device: ssd0
        size: 768M
      - type: partition
        number: 3
        id: root-partition
        device: ssd0
        size: -1
      - type: format # format partitions on ssd0
        id: efi-format
        volume: efi-partition
        fstype: fat32 # ESP gets FAT32
        label: ESP
      - type: format
        id: boot-format
        volume: boot-partition
        fstype: ext4
        label: BOOT
      - type: format
        id: root-format
        volume: root-partition
        fstype: ext4 # / (root) gets ext4, xfs, btrfs
        label: ROOT
      - type: mount # mount formatted partitions on ssd0
        id: root-mount # / (root) gets mounted first
        device: root-format
        path: /
      - type: mount
        id: boot-mount # /boot gets mounted next
        device: boot-format
        path: /boot
      - type: mount
        id: efi-mount # /boot/efi gets mounted next
        device: efi-format
        path: /boot/efi

then I got this error during the installation

"autoinstall config did not create needed bootloader partition"

I am really frustrated with this "autoinstller" ...

my USB detected by PC but PC doesn't show it.
other USBs work well, but this one no. This USB works, but I do not know what I did wrong that the PC did not show it anymore. I was trying to make it bootable in water to install Windows.

The result of lsblk for USB is (7.2G):

loop0      7:0    0  10.2M  1 loop /snap/canonical-livepatch/10
loop1      7:1    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop2      7:2    0  10.2M  1 loop /snap/canonical-livepatch/10
loop3      7:3    0 142.7M  1 loop /snap/chromium/1732
loop4      7:4    0 142.8M  1 loop /snap/chromium/1753
loop5      7:5    0 208.4M  1 loop /snap/code/74
loop6      7:6    0  99.4M  1 loop /snap/core/11420
loop7      7:7    0  99.4M  1 loop /snap/core/11606
loop8      7:8    0  55.5M  1 loop /snap/core18/2074
loop9      7:9    0  55.4M  1 loop /snap/core18/2128
loop10     7:10   0  61.8M  1 loop /snap/core20/1081
loop11     7:11   0 208.4M  1 loop /snap/code/75
loop12     7:12   0   219M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72
loop13     7:13   0 164.8M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
loop14     7:14   0   219M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/66
loop15     7:15   0   319M  1 loop /snap/kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-
loop16     7:16   0 207.1M  1 loop /snap/pinta/12
loop17     7:17   0 204.5M  1 loop /snap/pinta/11
loop18     7:18   0  65.1M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
loop19     7:19   0 362.3M  1 loop /snap/qt513/24
loop20     7:20   0  65.2M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
loop21     7:21   0 251.6M  1 loop /snap/qt513/23
loop22     7:22   0 295.6M  1 loop /snap/vlc/2288
loop23     7:23   0 295.7M  1 loop /snap/vlc/2344
loop24     7:24   0 162.9M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/145
loop25     7:25   0    51M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/547
loop26     7:26   0   319M  1 loop /snap/kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-
loop27     7:27   0  32.3M  1 loop /snap/snapd/12883
loop28     7:28   0  32.3M  1 loop /snap/snapd/13170
loop29     7:29   0  17.6M  1 loop /snap/whatsie/48
loop30     7:30   0  14.3M  1 loop /snap/whatsie/46
loop31     7:31   0    51M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/542
sda        8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1     8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2     8:2    0   931G  0 part /
sdb        8:16   1   7.2G  0 disk 
sr0       11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

I think this link also had a problem with me, but I can't edit the mount option. I tried to format the USB, but it doesn't allow me to format it:

How to disable the shortcut keys for "Keybindings for desktop switching" for Lubuntu 20.04 as described in https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/F/keyboard_shortcuts.html?

I need to use some of the keys there in Emacs, but Lubuntu 20.04 seems to intercept those keys before they even reach Emacs.

I rent a VPS from Contabo for about half a year now. It worked fine until now, because it started producing "Temporary failure in name resolution" errors. I read that this is a DNS error. I tried nameserver 8.8.8.8 and nameserver 1.1.1.1 but the problems are still here.

Yesterday I completely reinstalled the VPS, but it didn't work.

Results of /etc/resolv.conf:

# This file is managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit.
#
# This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients to the
# internal DNS stub resolver of systemd-resolved. This file lists all
# configured search domains.
#
# Run "resolvectl status" to see details about the uplink DNS servers
# currently in use.
#
# Third party programs must not access this file directly, but only through the
# symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a different way,
# replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
#
# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.

nameserver 127.0.0.53
options edns0
search invalid

Results of resolvectl status:

Global
       LLMNR setting: no                  
MulticastDNS setting: no                  
  DNSOverTLS setting: no                  
      DNSSEC setting: no                  
    DNSSEC supported: no                  
          DNSSEC NTA: 10.in-addr.arpa     
                      16.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      168.192.in-addr.arpa
                      17.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      18.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      19.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      20.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      21.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      22.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      23.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      24.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      25.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      26.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      27.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      28.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      29.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      30.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      31.172.in-addr.arpa 
                      corp                
                      d.f.ip6.arpa        
                      home                
                      internal            
                      intranet            
                      lan                 
                      local               
                      private             
                      test                

Link 2 (eth0)
      Current Scopes: DNS          
DefaultRoute setting: yes          
       LLMNR setting: yes          
MulticastDNS setting: no           
  DNSOverTLS setting: no           
      DNSSEC setting: no           
    DNSSEC supported: no           
  Current DNS Server: 213.136.95.11
         DNS Servers: 213.136.95.10
                      213.136.95.11
          DNS Domain: invalid 

Results of sudo systemctl status systemd-resolved.service:

● systemd-resolved.service - Network Name Resolution
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-05-21 21:45:08 CEST; 1 day 14h ago
       Docs: man:systemd-resolved.service(8)
             https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/resolved
             https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-network-configuration-managers
             https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-resolver-clients
   Main PID: 460 (systemd-resolve)
     Status: "Processing requests..."
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9487)
     Memory: 7.5M
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-resolved.service
             └─460 /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved

May 23 11:59:44 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:00:18 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:00:20 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:00:31 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:00:48 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:01:05 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:01:15 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:01:29 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:01:55 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.
May 23 12:02:21 vmi329703.contaboserver.net systemd-resolved[460]: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001, retrying transaction with reduced feature level UDP.

I have a Discord bot, and usually the problem comes up there.

It's an interesting problem I never saw before. The hard disk of this laptop has a harware problem (on a specific sector it got some problems).

That's why if I let Ubuntu installation to create the partitions, using the whole space, that fails.

However, if I create the partitions, without using the entire space, that passes (the partitions are created and it goes forward to installation).

I created the following partitions, on the 500GB hard drive:

• 100GB ext4, mount: /
• 2GB swap
• 1GB EFI

If I don't create the EFI partition, Grub fails to be installed. So, I saw that Ubuntu was going to create the EFI partition, by default, and I created it manually when selecting the Something else option.

The installation went well. It even displayed the alert saying that everything was successful.

But, when restarting the laptop, it doesn't boot from the HDD. I don't see the HDD option in the BIOS.

I tried to add it, but it asks me about the path for boot––which I have no idea what it is.

How to solve this? How can I get Ubuntu running on this laptop?

It doesn't have Secure Boot or anything similar in BIOS.

I have a live usb drive which I can use to access the hard drive, which works nicely.

Just trying to get a basic setup of openSSH going on an Ubuntu box to work remotely. Main issue: RSA keys fail auth. ssh DOES work using the password for auth, but I would much rather limit it to only allow ssh keys for auth.

Note that I refer to desktop and laptop. Desktop: machine acting as server. Laptop: machine acting as client.

Things that I have tried:

• verifying permissions
• regenerating keys
• transferring public keys using ssh-copy-id and directly via copy and paste
• different client machines
• running restorecon -Rv ~/.ssh (even though most posts say this applies mainly to CentOS, may as well try everything)
• and a whole lot of googling that has led to here

The relevant things I can think to include are the -vvv when attempting to connect on the laptop, the permissions of ~/.ssh on both machines, sshd_config on desktop, relevant entries in var/log/auth.log on the desktop. Obviously, if there is anything else that I can include that could help anyone resolve this issue, I will gladly provide relevant info.

Here is the -vvv when trying to auth:

➜  /home/troy 
≫  ssh -vvv -i .ssh/id_rsa lenny@xxx.xxx.xxx.229 -p xxx40
OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: resolving "xxx.xxx.xxx.229" port xxx40
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.229 [xxx.xxx.xxx.229] port xxx40.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file .ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file .ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/troy/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /home/troy/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.4
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Authenticating to xxx.xxx.xxx.229:xxx40 as 'lenny'
debug3: put_host_port: [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts"
debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ECDSA in file /home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts:5
debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys from [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug3: order_hostkeyalgs: prefer hostkeyalgs: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
debug3: send packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug3: receive packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug2: local client KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,ext-info-c
debug2: host key algorithms: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa
debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc
debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc
debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib@openssh.com,zlib
debug2: languages ctos: 
debug2: languages stoc: 
debug2: first_kex_follows 0 
debug2: reserved 0 
debug2: peer server KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519
debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com
debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib@openssh.com
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib@openssh.com
debug2: languages ctos: 
debug2: languages stoc: 
debug2: first_kex_follows 0 
debug2: reserved 0 
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug3: send packet: type 30
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug3: receive packet: type 31
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:M57GEOh/5elIh2RU446bRCamJ21QosRFOYaYx8u5Za4
debug3: put_host_port: [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug3: put_host_port: [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts"
debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ECDSA in file /home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts:5
debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys from [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts"
debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ECDSA in file /home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts:5
debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys from [xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40
debug1: Host '[xxx.xxx.xxx.229]:xxx40' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/troy/.ssh/known_hosts:5
debug3: send packet: type 21
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug3: receive packet: type 21
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug2: key: .ssh/id_rsa (0x55a0c58221f0), explicit, agent
debug2: key: /home/troy/.ssh/id_rsa (0x55a0c582fe00), agent
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: .ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/troy/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

And here is ~/.ssh on the desktop:

lenny@Timubukuntu:~/.ssh$ ls -la
total 12
drwx------.  2 lenny lenny 4096 Feb 27 21:49 .
drwxr-x---. 21 lenny lenny 4096 Feb 27 22:16 ..
-rw-------.  1 lenny lenny 1146 Feb 27 20:35 authorized_keys

And the ~/.ssh on the laptop:

➜  /home/troy/.ssh 
≫  ls -la
total 20
drwx------  2 troy users 4096 Feb 27 21:53 .
drwx------ 30 troy users 4096 Feb 27 23:03 ..
-rw-------  1 troy users 1679 Feb 27 20:32 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--  1 troy users  394 Feb 27 20:32 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 troy users 1416 Feb 27 15:13 known_hosts

And the sshd_config on the desktop:

lenny@Timubukuntu:/etc/ssh$ cat sshd_config
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd_config(5) manpage for details

# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port xxx40 
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Protocol 2
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
#Privilege Separation is turned on for security
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 1024

# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
StrictModes yes

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile  home/lenny/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
IgnoreRhosts yes
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
HostbasedAuthentication no
# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes

# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
# some PAM modules and threads)
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication no

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosGetAFSToken no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes

# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog yes
TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no

#MaxStartups 10:30:60
#Banner /etc/issue.net

# Allow client to pass locale environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
# PasswordAuthentication.  Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
UsePAM yes

And here is the relevant info in /var/log/auth.log on the desktop:

Feb 27 22:52:31 Timubukuntu sshd[1901]: Connection closed by 67.20.206.135 port 36566 [preauth]

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