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L. D. James

12:00 AM

@KazWolfe My upgrade will be completed within the hour. I can let you know about the fonts at that time.

Kaz Wolfe

Running it now. The ask ubuntu site looks... different

L. D. James

Looking forward to seeing the upgrade.

Kaz Wolfe

Might just be chrome going crazy

Thomas Ward

12:12 AM

@KazWolfe possibly? I don't know all the changes (read the release notes! :D)

Kaz Wolfe

12:29 AM

Aaand I have a slurm user.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: CAPTCHA box not shown

As annoying as CAPTCHAs are normally, it's super annoying when they are impossible. If y'all don't want me to post, just say so :( My account is basically useless now, I even logged out and back in.

andrew.46

12:47 AM

A small question: I feel uneasy that this question title was altered: askubuntu.com/q/966927/57576 so that this question: askubuntu.com/q/1028549/57576 fitted the dupe better?

Or put the last Dupe vote in place :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:14 AM

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Q: Why am I unable to set my drive as the default boot?

so when I'm in my UEFI menu, I clearly have two options, or my two drives. The problem is, when I try to set my default boot, the drive I'm trying to boot from doesn't show up in the selection menu. On the drive I'm trying to switch away from, I had grub installed, but the drive has since been ov...

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2:49 AM

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Q: GNOME Ubuntu - select file save prompt via keyboard

Is there a way to select a certain option in the GNOME desktop GUI prompts (as pictured below). I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 and there doesn't seem to be a clear way of selecting one of the options with the keyboard... from what I've learned: Enter = Right most option Esc = Cancel ??? = Left most opt...

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andrew.46

2:59 AM

Anyway I would be grateful for anybody who could take a look....

Eliah Kagan

@andrew.46 At those questions?

Eliah Kagan

3:10 AM

If you're asking about those questions, I'm not sure what your concern is. I'm one of the close voters, btw. I don't think the other (older) question was edited to make your question fit it as a duplicate. I think it was edited to address the same concerns you had about people being confused by the appearance that it was version specific. Editing it, rather than posting a new question, would even have been the appropriate course of action originally.

We don't add new questions for every question that mentions an Ubuntu release when a newer release comes out to which it the question still applies--that would make no sense, and it would be overwhelmingly inefficient! The ability to edit posts so they remain valuable for the future is a fundamental cornerstone of Stack Exchange! Also, if the other question had been edited so yours could be closed as a duplicate, that would still have been fine.

Anyway, people who would find your question will still find it; questions that are closed as duplicates are still indexed by search engines. This is one of the main purposes of duplicates in the Stack Exchange system--they send people to the questions they're closed as duplicates of.

For both that reason and because your answer is valuable (you presented the information quite well, I think), I recommend keeping your question, and not deleting it, whether or not we close it as a duplicate. I do very much hope we close it as a duplicate, though. It totally is a duplicate.

@andrew.46 So that's my view. You might want to post on meta if you want to solicit more, and potentially different, opinions (though, from where I'm standing, closing your question as a duplicate seems extremely ordinary and unobjectionable). Nothing wrong with asking in chat, btw, you just might reach more people if you also raised the issue on meta, if you're concerned about it.

@EliahKagan *to which it the question still applies

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:58 AM

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Q: How can read file in bash from last read location

I have log file which is updated contunuously. I want to run cron job every 5 mins which read that file and run awk command to send some metrics to cloudwatch. Now i want to only read file where i left in last read operation. How can i do that ?

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Nathan Osman

5:24 AM

So my credit union just added support for Apple Pay but not Google Pay.

LIKE WHAT EVEN?!?

Argh.

user9303970

7:19 AM

@ThomasWard please help.

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Q: Failed to implement Nginx caching - connection refused

I'm having trouble getting my site to work after trying to implement Nginx caching. I use Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial), Nginx (1.10.3), PHP-FPM (7.0) and WordPress. Port 9000 (for php-fpm) is unfiltered by UFW. Reproducing my environment 1 - setting confs: nginx.conf default conf virtual host /etc...

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Still stuck with this...

gansub

9:38 AM

well it looks like Ubuntu 18.04 lts still not available

says no new release found

terdon

10:01 AM

ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Takkat

As always it may need some time until it offers an auto-upgrade. Upgrades from 16.04 will have to wait until next point release.

L. D. James

This worked for me:
do-release-upgrade -d IIRC

11 hours ago, by Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe do-release-upgrade -d IIRC the d-r-u script doesn't get it until .1 release, but don't quote me on that.

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Q: How to fix Ubuntu upgrade?

Can`t upgrade ubuntu to newest version, get this errors: I tried to fix the errors through Synaptic, but the program did not see the broken packages. I also tried to fix errors using the terminal command, but it did not help $ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done ...

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L. D. James

10:16 AM

@KazWolfe My fonts appear to be the same. Chrome works ok also. I had other problems that I eventually was able to resolve.

Did you ever get Chrome and your fonts back the way you wanted them?

Thomas Ward

11:35 AM

@user9303970 the issue is PEBKAC because you didnt read the www.conf's listen config line to actually see where FPM is listening. I wrote an answer as such detailing what you need to fix. I will double check the config directives to update when I get to work (on my phone right now)

also good morning to everyone apologies for saltiness or irritability but I just woke up so...

Takkat

... time for coffee Thomas!

Thomas Ward

@Takkat all will be better once I get to work where my coffee maker is (at my desk no less heh)

until then, irritable. so avoiding moderating things until coffee :P

gansub

12:02 PM

@L.D.James yes I think I will wait till July to get the stable release

too soon to use 18.04 rather use 18.10

Android Dev

dessert

12:45 PM

The Bionic Release Announcement reads:

> If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug
but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

#ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
http://www.ubuntuforums.org
http://askubuntu.com

Isn't this a bit misleading considering that we regularly close questions containing bug reports?

terdon

@dessert Very. Please file a bug report about that (apparently, that's the way to correct this sort of thing).

Eliah Kagan

I think questions like "Is (such and such) a bug?" are not off-topic for Ask Ubuntu. It may be that the release announcement's wording is misleading to people though. If a question is effectively a bug report, even if it theoretically could be interpreted some other way, it's likely to be closed here.

Thomas Ward

1:16 PM

@dessert "may have found a bug but unsure" means that it might be a support question, and if it ends up being a bug we can close it as a bug report and say they need to file a bug

i've discussed this with the CC before long in the past

and lost on this matter. The compromise was "if you're unsure if it's a bug..."

dessert

@ThomasWard Oh, okay then.

Thomas Ward

... which for end users 95% of the time it isn't a bug and is just PEBKAC and misunderstanding/misconfiguration of things

@dessert the key part is "If you have a question", less so the "or if you think you may have found a bug" part.

namely, "Where can you get help to diagnose a problem and/or solve it"

dessert

@ThomasWard true that, AU can do important work to keep those cases away from the bugtrackers

Thomas Ward

which is how I interpreted that

@dessert which is why I'm not in hardcore war-path mode on trying to force them to remove that wording.

if ti had been along the lines of "If you think it's a bug, go ask on Ask Ubuntu" instead, then that'd be different

@user9303970 Just an FYI I confirmed the configuration directives I put in my answer, so that's Good To Go

Oli

Holy balls it's annoying to watch an Ubuntu system upgrade. It must have rebuild DKMS modules and run update-initramfs a dozen times now. Just save it for the end!

Argl, it just removed all the old kernels and ran it again >_<

Twice.

dessert

1:32 PM

@Oli better safe than sorry

Oli

Sure. Tell that to my 40" 1024×768 screen.

The cupcake in your avatar is actual size.

Zanna

don't eat dessert... we'll lose out on so many great answers

Journeyman Geek

@Oli o0

that's dire pixel pitch

Oli

Ooof that's better

user9303970

1:59 PM

Deep thanks @ThomasWard on it.

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Q: How to fix when Fedora 26 installation undetected/unlisted on Ubuntu-grub menu

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3:11 PM

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Q: program BOINC launches on Ubuntu startup. How to remove it from bash script directly?

I have installed BOINC platform. And now it launches on OS startup. Can't find Startup Applications Preferences here. Please help me to prevent it from start using command line. Thanks in advance.

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L. D. James

3:28 PM

@gansub My next change will be 20.04. I've never had any problems with an LTS version (before now). I did experience some problems initially this time. It took me a good minute to figure it out. Turns out my screen was quite distorted because of a self-created theme that wasn't compatible. Probably because the theme was using unity. I also had a lot of video problems. It turns out that was due to PPA drivers that didn't carry over.

vidarlo

I tried sending the signal 15 with kill and it don't do nothing.Know why? — PostMaloneM3m3r 1 min ago

is my answer really unclear?

L. D. James

Other than that, I believe the intermediate versions (in between LTS versions) has been the trials and testing that equal to the "testing for stability" that you wait for. My using the LTS early gives me opportunity to contribute to better testing and the "stable release".

L. D. James

4:07 PM

On 18.04, I'll miss many of the things that I initially didn't like about Ubuntu, when it changed to Unity. I'll miss the Global Menu. I'm sure I'll eventually get used to the difference. This is the first LTS version that I haven't rushed out and installed on the computers of all my friends and clients.

terdon

@vidarlo No

Thomas Ward

4:22 PM

was pinged, yawns, walks off

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Q: Shouldn't the system prevent accidental verbatim duplicates?

This question is a verbatim duplicate of that question. They had the same title and body (until one of them was edited), are by the same author, and appear to have been posted within the same second, i.e., both are shown as having been posted at 15:32:17Z. My belief that that one was the original...

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5:45 PM

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Q: ubuntu 18.04 systemd-udevd uses high cpu conflict with wifi

I recently upgraded from kubuntu 17.10 to kubuntu 18.04. The problem is the process systemd-udevd is constantly running and consuming 90-100% cpu load. After tinkering around with all devices i found out that it is because of wifi! One i turn on wifi the process starts running and cpu load goes t...

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TheWanderer

6:31 PM

Kaz Wolfe

18.04 first impressions: eh.

i still have my unity session somehow (woo!). i wonder if there's a way to port notifications from gnome 3 into it

Xorg is, as always, a complete clusterstorm and I'm completely missing the wayland option (!!). Fonts are back to normal (cc @L.D.James), was just a chrome issue. I actually preferred the fallback

Am happy PGP smartcard auth didn't break though. that was a welcome surprise.

vidarlo

6:55 PM

on the theme of smartcards. Anyone have expirience with Athena IDProtect V6 smartcards?

got a few blanks from them

dessert

7:17 PM

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