I just built a router and installed it with Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. It has two NICs in it, one for the internal network and one for the external (p3p1) network. I'd like to monitor external interface usage, but the ifconfig counters are always 0. "ip -s link ls p3p1" shows zero for all counters ...

I was looking at the numerous cases in a search of people having sound issues, especially with 14.04, and I was wondering if I could create a little Q&A FAQ (community wiki) about it? Many of these questions happens to be variations of a common complaint about an ALSA bug I've filed, where these...

This question was closed as not reproducible, but actually confirms this bug perfectly. Should it be re-opened and closed for the right reason (as a bug)?

I cannot login my Ubuntu12.04 (which is VM running on OSX using VMWARE FUSION 6) because I have changed permission of /tmp for some purpose before rebooting the machine. Thus I tried to boot Ubuntu in recovery mode by pressing shift key while booting the machine (in order to change the permissio...

Installed ubuntu 14.04 server with guided full disk encryption LVM and after boot network is not starting. Has anybody else faced this issue earlier ? Please help

I have a GUI application written in Qt and I wanted to run tests by ssh (or Jenkins). There is only one user account, which allows to run it in display mode (ofc when I previously do "export $DISPLAY=:0". On other user, jenkins, I see a nerror: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0 A...

I have an ubuntu 10.04 server setup remotely that I setup a while back. While I recorded the username and password, I seem to have been clever and chnaged the usual 22 port to... something else. How do i find out what that port might be? I do have access to the server via the hosting company's...

Not sure how this amassed 4 close votes (which means at least 4 people reviewed this): How do I get a ZTE MF667 USB modem working? But we should be more careful when people recommend reinstalling with no information on to whether or not that would fix the person's problem. Voting to close due t...

I read this: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year? If the question is more than 365 days old, and ... has a score of 0 *or* a score of 1 with a deleted owner has no answers is not locked has a viewcount <= the age of the question in days times 1.5 ha...

So I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.1 from 12.04 the other day. Easy upgrade process. Everything worked fine except for my mail server stopped receiving mail. The logs show the mail arrives and is handled up until this: Connect to MAILSERVER[private/dovecot-lmtp]: No such file or directory) Simi...

I have a dual-boot Ubuntu/Debian (GNOME) machine: My mouse touchpad does not work correctly (right-click not recognized, cannot do 2 finger drag and drop/highlight) on Debian, but it does work properly in Ubuntu. I have so far overwritten .conf files in Debian with .conf files from Ubuntu in /...