Questions tagged [ubuntu]
Free, open-source operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu questions are on topic here, but if you prefer an Ubuntu-only audience there is Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/).
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Cannot ssh into host or access any hosted service, but WireGuard works
I'm having an extremely strange issue.
I have an Ubuntu server running a few docker containers (including a WireGuard server) on my home network. It has the IP 192.168.1.208. The WireGuard port 51820 ...
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Forwarding yubikey to Ubuntu Guest with Hyper-V causes Blue Screen
I am using Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 in a Hyper-V guest.
Version information:
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (x64)
10.0.22631 Build 22631
Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04
Kernel 6.5.0-44-generic
I am trying ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 - Mouse cursor changes to hand w/finger point
I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed on a laptop with a trackpad, but I have mouse, keyboard and monitors connected via docking station. I was typing and a gecko (small reptile) crossed the trackpad ...
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I already installed Ubuntu.sh file but when I am start Ubuntu permission denied comment is showing how can I resolve this issue
$ ./ubuntu.sh
skipping downloading
writing launch script
Setting up pulseaudio so you can have music in distro. pulseaudio is already the newest version (17.0-2).
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Upgrading: 0, ...
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How can one automatically check if a PDF contains a section with a specific title?
Task: I have several PDFs. How can one automatically check if a PDF contains a section with a specific title?
Environment: I can use Windows, or command line on Ubuntu.
Motivation: https://...
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WSL2 VPN connection intermittently fails but WSL2 internet still works
I'm having an issue which I find hard to debug. I researched different SU and Reddit topics, but none seem to match the issue that I am facing. I'll outline the issue that I'm facing and the steps ...
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How to configure XShell so that PgDn work properly in bash?
The key PageDown types a ~ in my bash session instead of showing next command. Why does this happen and which settings do I need to change?
In vi key works as expected.
I did as described in How to ...
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How to run gnome wayland inside schroot?
I would like to run Gnome using wayland inside a schroot. So far my experiements have been unsuccessful. Here is how I have set-up the schroot:
debootstrap --variant=minbase --include=sudo bookworm /...
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htpasswd refreshes the page when entering wrong password, and locking me out when entering the correct one
I got tasked with creating a phpipam server, and adding htpasswd authentication to it, as a test of skill during my internship. Yes, I am aware that this solution doesn't make sense, since phpipam ...
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Network interface created by SoftEther VPN works for a while and then goes down
I am using SoftEther VPN 5.01 Build 9674 in Ubuntu 22.04 to connect to a private network.
I have done the configurations in vpnclient and I am using the below script to establish the connection.
#!/...
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Gparted doesn't allow adding free space to partition at end of table
I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my ...
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FFmpeg high CPU usage Ubuntu Server
I have compiled FFmpeg to be able to stream Music Player Daemon (MPD) Digital Rights Management (DRM) streams, everything works but after about 1–2 hours the CPU starts to increase inhtop and my load ...
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How to apply Postfix milter *before* smtp_generic_maps for DKIM purposes?
My Postfix instance instance correctly signs outbound mail with DKIM when I set the myhostname parameter to be the domain I wish to send from, say domain1.com.
The issue I have is I have multiple ...
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Visual Studio Code very slow and crashing on Parallels Ubuntu VM
Today I created an Ubuntu virtual machine under Parallels on my Macintosh. I installed Visual Studio Code into it. It appeared to run normally, although I had no content to try it on yet.
I installed ...
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How to copy SSH private key from Ubuntu to Windows?
I needed Ubuntu on my Windows laptop to work with remote servers, so I installed VMware to run Ubuntu on the same machine.
Now I need to transfer the private key from Ubuntu on VMware to Windows to ...
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How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages of a PDF exceeds the page margin?
I have a PDF with 10 pages. How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages exceeds the page margin?
Example of a page that exceeds the page margin (I added the vertical black margin ...
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Ubuntu upgrade changed my home directory permissions - malicious or mistake?
My setup
I have a private server (Ubuntu 22.04.4) that I use as a test server for my web development code.
Every couple of weeks I update it (sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y). I don't usually ...
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Unable to Access Jupyter Server on WSL Ubuntu from Mac on the Same Network
I have installed a Jupyter server on WSL Ubuntu on my Windows PC. My goal is to access this Jupyter server from my Mac so that I can use the GPU on my PC for TensorFlow.
Here’s my setup:
Server: ...
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How to upgrade SSH / SSHD cve-2024-6387
I am using Ubuntu 20 and my ssh version is (1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.11).
I need to update it but I cannot find how to do it.
Setting the login grace time to 0 creates issues with scp call used to this ...
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How to fix Apache PHP rejecting post requests which are over 40MBs
My php Laravel API when put behind apache2 (with ssl) when making a post request which is roughly 40Mbs in size, it gives a 500 internal error with following log
[Wed Jul 10 21:08:51.397912 2024] [...
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Don't receive anything from my tayga in my aws vpc
I have a server at home with both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. However, my internet provider uses CGNAT, which makes direct connection via IPv4 impossible. To work around this, I created a VPC (with ...
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How do I add the ProjectM presets to VLC on Linux?
I know that you can put custom milkdrop visualization presets by placing them in the Windows directory, but where do I place the presets on Linux?
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10/Zorin OS to be exact.
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Restart graphics driver in Ubuntu
Windows has the Win + Ctrl + Shift + R keyboard shortcut. Is there anything equivalent for Ubuntu?
I have a Windows Desktop and Ubuntu laptop that I am using through a KVM on multiple monitors. When ...
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VirtualBox RDP Connection Not Working
I have 2 PC's, one running Windows 10 Home, the other running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. On the Ubuntu machine I have VirtualBox installed, and I am running a Kali Linux virtual machine. I cannot connect to ...
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What's the equivalent of python3 -m pip install on modern debian-alikes?
I'm currently trying to do an install of changedetection.io with playwright. I don't want to do the docker install since the rest of my environment is using incus.
The instructions given are for ...
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Pulseaudio wants to use HDMI upon wakeup instead of previous selected output
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Kernel: 6.4.11-060411-generic
I believe sound is managed by PulseAudio on these systems. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wish to use SPDIF as default sound output all the ...
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how can i list all the download files start with "a" using dpkg
I'm trying to use dpkg -l with grep to list all the download files starting with the letter "a":
dpkg -l | grep "a*"
However, it just printed the contents of the files instead of ...
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An error occurred during the signature verification. How can I fix this? [closed]
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://84.95.247.234/cpanelsync/repos/Ubuntu/22/EA4 ./ ...
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How to resolve issues migrating scripts from Vagrant (Ubuntu) to Docker (Alpine)?
I am trying to migrate my development environment from Windows to Linux, which is going fine. However, my setup in Windows was using Vagrant with VirtualBox as the provider to set up the development. ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: php lacking permissions to access /var/www/html
I'm trying to write contents to file, however I constantly receive error about lacking permission.
fopen(/var/www/html/files/l.log) Failed to open stream permission denied in /var/www/html/files/file....
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