Why don’t I have a swap partition in my installation? $ lsblk nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk └─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 238.5G 0 part / Did I install Ubuntu/ Kubuntu wrong? I thought it should be like this: nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p5 259:3 0 15.9G 0 part [SWAP] ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 222.6G … Read more
My notebook with Intel+Nvidia card can’t resume after suspend. I have Kubuntu 17.04 installed with 4.10.0-19 kernel. I’m using Intel GPU (Nvidia driver is not even installed). This issue has been existing with 16.10, too. When I try to resume after suspend, everything freezes at the half visible login screen. Even keyboard doesn’t work (when … Read more
I’m running VirtualBox with 2 network adapters: standard NAT (enp0s3) and a Host-only Adapter (enp0s8). I use the NAT to access the internet and the Host-only Adapter to SSH in from my local machine. The box boots up with both adapters enabled, both have IP addresses, everything looking good. I can SSH into this box … Read more
When I start my Unity desktop the CPU indicator shows only one bar and it is set to Powersave. When I switch to Performance I have to enter an admin users password. But after system restart my CPU is back in Powersave. How to set Performance as the default, so I don’t have to switch … Read more
I need to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu 16.10/17.04 with offline Scratch 2. Air is many years unsupported on Linux, so there are several workarounds. One which worked for me up to Ubuntu 16.04 (using Air binary installer): # install i386 necessary libraries $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386 … Read more
I am using Ubuntu 17.04 but I don’t know why my Ethernet interface was disabled. I tried lshw -C network and it shows this: WARNING: you should run this program as super-user. *-network DISABLED description: Ethernet interface product: 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 19 bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0 logical name: enp0s25 version: … Read more
I reinstalled Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop 64-bit UEFI on my Laptop on a harddisk. Laptop: Intel Core i5-5200U, Intel HD Graphics 5500, 16 GB Ram. Booting takes ~120 seconds (from pressing the powerswitch to loginscreen, with Ubuntu 16.04.2 on a ssd it takes less than 20 seconds). syslog $ systemd-analyze blame 5.187s dev-sdb2.device 4.268s ModemManager.service 3.138s … Read more
I could not find any information on this anywhere (and I don’t want to set up a new 17.04 installation just for that), what is the default location of the swap file in 17.04? Answer 2 commands: ~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 2097148 0 -1 and $ grep swap /etc/fstab … Read more
When I use Google Chrome (currently 61, but the error exists before), I constantly get ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED. Often, the webpage reloads and works a second later, but often things simply don’t work. For example, I’m not able to download files from Google Drive at all, because a XHR call fails with this error (this is an … Read more
I have a Dell XPS 15 9550. I’ve been running Ubuntu 16.10 on it for four months with no dramas. Two days ago, I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04. About an hour after upgrading, my hard-drive remounted into read-only mode. When I jumped to a tty screen, this appeared: [ 746.341551] EXT4-fs error (device nvme0n1p7): ext4_find_entry:1463: … Read more
