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Q: How to add second linux distro (xubuntu) to grub?

I installed Xubuntu on a pcie ssd to use side-by-side with Mint. But, I still want to use Mint on its current SATA ssd drive. Ideally, I'd like to make sure that the Xubuntu installation is bootable (I haven't been able to yet), and then have an entry for each in Grub. I have a boot-repair USB fo...

Manas Ranjan Pati

01:58

Hello please someone help me with my problem...I stuck during restarting my laptop

dessert

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Q: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?

I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer. When I boot Ubuntu, it boots to a black screen. How can I fix this? Table of Contents: If you are trying to install Ubuntu If you have a dual boot system If an update or something else caused your problem

boot

@ManasRanjanPati work your way through this ^ and you’ll be fine in 99 % of the cases

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to protect my OS against any process consuming all resources?

I have a modern computer (7th gen i7, 16GB RAM, SDD) with up-to-date Ubuntu (18.04.2 LTS), yet I constantly run into the issue that certain processes completely freeze the computer. These are mostly related to I/O and CPU, but in principle, could be anything. Is there a generic way to defend aga...

ubuntu performance resources

damadam

14:30

dangerous spam, really need to be remove

terdon

@damadam dangerous?

damadam

@terdon really well hidden, probably not as dangerous as I think, sorry, I do some mistake today

and i can't edit the message :(

terdon

@damadam Actually, I don't even think it's spam. I opened the link (in a VM since you scared me! ;) ) and found this in the comments of that irrelevant article:

Looks like a very, very confused OP, not really spam. And not dangerous at all as far as I can tell.

Eliah Kagan

I also thought it was spam, but you are right. I've retracted my spam flag and voted to close it as unclear.

damadam

wtf, the link seems like a spam, i use lynx to verify it (to try to block JS hidden script); i definitively see a spam

Kulfy

14:44

@terdon Just out of curiosity, did you dismiss all spam flags as helpful or were they automatically dismissed as helpful after the edit?

terdon

I dismissed them as helpful manually. I am not actually sure that did what I wanted it to do. I wanted to mark the flags as helpful because I can understand why people would call that spam, but at the same time not apply the spam penalty to the OP who I think is just confused and not spamming.

So I closed the question, removed the link because why not, and dismissed the flags as helpful. That may or may not have done what I wanted it to do. We'll see...

damadam

@terdon just a question : where did you take this picture from? Is it from a previous deleted post?

Thomas Ward

yawns

terdon

@damadam No, it's from the link in the post here. If you open the link, then scroll down to the comments, you'll see that.

Eliah Kagan

@damadam I am able to find that picture if I open the scary link in the Tor browser and scroll way, way down in the comments. (I used the Tor browser for that not to stay anonymous, but because its default security settings are quite good and it throws out accumulated state on exit.)

Kulfy

14:49

@terdon You back to moderation?

Or just for urgent things?

Thomas Ward

terdon never left moderation

they're taking a break from regular day to day modding

but are available when needed

such as for pings done here, or in certain urgent cases :)

damadam

ahh okay, so i'm totally faulty, sorry to have scared you :/

terdon

@damadam No worries. Better safe than sorry!

damadam

i can't even removed my message ... argh !

Kulfy

@ThomasWard Oh yeah!!!

Eliah Kagan

14:52

@damadam If you mean your chat message, I don't think that's causing any harm. The context that immediately follows it clarifies for any future readers that it might not be accurate.

terdon

@Kulfy Neither. I am actually going to be stepping down. I've asked SE to remove my diamond, but they haven't done so yet. I'll be posting on meta at some point but the summary is: I don't feel like I can do this any more. I have too many diamonds (3) so I am putting down two and staying on only on U&L which was my first diamond.

I'll still be around, but I just don't feel up to moderating 3 sites in the current situation.

Thomas Ward

@terdon Bleh i'll need to ask for a mod election then for 2 more people.

@terdon sorry to see you leaving :/

Kulfy

OK am I dreaming or is this for real?

Thomas Ward

... i mean, unless we want to turn this into a bureaucratic dictatorship under my thumb... whistles nonchalantly

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Kulfy

I guess Mitch and Oli lurks around oftenly.

So I think dictatorship isn't near

terdon

14:56

@Kulfy Byte and fossy too!

@ThomasWard Dunno, maybe I'll come back at some point, but it's just become too draining.

Kulfy

@terdon Yeah the latter one closed a question today :D

terdon

And somehow I feel that being a multi-site mod sends a message of support for SE that I don't want to send. I now feel this is a morally bankrupt company, and I just don't want to be involved with them so much.

(Not because of the CoC changes or pronouns, by the way, but because they've refused to do anything to ameliorate the harm they caused by dealing with things publicly instead of privately).

blade19899

> "

As Destiny 2 is moving to steam, it would be a logical next step to support Steam Play / Proton Wine for running Destiny 2 on Linux.

" - Allow Linux users to play Destiny 2

terdon

Has there ever been a change.org petition that actually accomplished anything?

Thomas Ward

@terdon nope

blade19899

15:06

@ThomasWard That's too bad!

I really liked Destiny 2

damadam

@blade19899 even if i never played a Destiny game, I got a Windows dual-boot just for that (that helps a lot when you try some fangames)

terdon

@ThomasWard Actually, wikipedia lists a few that did seem to have an effect.

E.g.:

> On the morning of February 2, 2012, Stef Gray, a 23-year-old graduate in New York, held a news conference at the Washington offices of Sallie Mae where she presented the results of her Change.org, Sallie Mae, the "nation's largest private student-loan provider" petition, which had received about 77,000 signers. That afternoon the company changed its forbearance fee policy.[26]

blade19899

@damadam I'm a Linux only user. No Windows. On my Work and personal laptop. So, I guess I'm not playing Destiny anymore.

damadam

@blade19899 I cry with you : youtube.com/watch?v=eJuvKn5j_kE

That seems utopic to be able to run each Windows software on Ubuntu, with current OS market place

Thomas Ward

15:24

@blade19899 unless it's able to be used via Steam Play?

if possible that MAY give you the ability to run it :p

(also don't swear, even if you are blocking it out, as we ALL know what you mean)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Cannot use apt to install gcc-9-base

I am running ubuntu 19.04 (disco) in the latest VirtualBox and all was running fine until I tried to upgrade LBLIBCXX_3.4.21 to fix the error below. I used dpkg to force install lib64stdc++6_9.1.0-2ubuntu2_19.04_i386.deb. Then after reading it complain about gcc-9-base being out of date, I tried ...

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Q: Need help installing Modoboa Mail Server

this is my first job as IT. I don't have much knowledge about Servers, but I'm trying to learn really hard. Having said that, please, I really need help trying to deploy a mail server. I have this server, and I've installed Modoboa (modoboa.org) in a LXD container, I've used the installer provi...

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Videonauth

15:54

@blade19899 Do not try to run DEstiny or DEstiny2 on linux or you risk your account getting a life long ban, Bungee is actively banning everything whats not running on windows, for them using linux is like youre using a cheatbot

blade19899

@damadam That needs to change soon

@Videonauth cheatbot? Sigh am just gonna walk away

Good night folks!

Rinzwind

@blade19899 virtualbox ftw :=)

Justice for Monica

17:13

@terdon Well, even the FAQ on pronouns and the faux apologies indicate a certain arrogance. I don't know if they've been this way earlier: I've only started visiting MSE recently.

dessert

19:15

@Kulfy any information on when this will become effective?

Kulfy

@dessert The reputation was awarded on the same day. I got 400. Oli got 15k and Rinzwind is now 22k behind Oli

dessert

@Kulfy interesting, I didn’t receive anything so far

Kulfy

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Q: All of a sudden reputation changed from ~7000 to ~7300. How is this possible?

Today morning when I logged in to Ask Ubuntu, all of a sudden my reputation points changed from ~7000 to ~7300 but there are no traces. How is this possible? How can I trace these reputation changes? Also I was getting reputation +5 for a Question up voted to me. But I am getting +10 roughly aft...

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A: All of a sudden reputation changed from ~7000 to ~7300. How is this possible?

Global Rep Adjustment. Read "We're rewarding the question askers" on the StackOverflow blog for details. They started implementation yesterday. (Upvotes on questions that were +5 are now +10 so you gain rep from this recalc) Mods have more details on this than end users do, though, so I'll in...

Evil powers can check that for you :D

Videonauth

@dessert You answered more questions as you asked i guess i did not recieve much either as I have not asked many questions :)

dessert

@Videonauth well I have ~100 upvotes on question, this should at least be noticeable, but there’s just nothing: stackexchange.com/users/7456917/dessert?tab=reputation

Videonauth

19:28

:shrug:

Kulfy

@dessert It is to be noted that reputation was awarded retroactively, i.e. as if it was always 10

dessert

even in the rep chart?

Kulfy

Yeah

No sharp curve will be there

askubuntu.com/users/507051/…

See your reputation on Jan 21, '18

Rinzwind

19:49

@Kulfy grrrrrrrrrrrr

@dessert already has. The rep was awarded to the day it was supposed to be awarded.

dessert

@Rinzwind except to me :(

Rinzwind

so you might see some extra numbers for the 200 rep a day award

dessert

ok, whatever

Rinzwind

@dessert how do you know? You got 114 upvotes from questions. Thats not a lot of rep ;)

so about 114*5 = 570 rep extra

dessert

I had expected a peak in the graph – I’m not used to data from the past being altered, this is wrong in so many ways oO

Rinzwind

19:54

well the whole idea is stupid :=)

dessert

it is indeed

Rinzwind

fine if you start doing it from today omwards but retroactive is just wrong

well we got zero influence on it so ...

jrg

20:05

@ThomasWard ~~~"Ward for Dictator!" -- _Endorsed by jrg_~~~

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Thomas Ward

20:24

hah

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Help converting gconftool-2 settings in gsettings or dconf

I have a handful of bash scripts our implementation department uses to perform various functions. One part of a majority of them automatically updates in the background while launching a new terminal to continue operating. To achieve this the updating terminal runs the following and traps the ex...

ubuntu dconf gsettings

Zanna

@dessert most unsatisfying rep increase ever

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to erase and format a Ubuntu USB from Mac OS Catalina?

I was told that this is the correct forum for this question after posting it on Ask Ubuntu. I am on Mac OS Catalina however I have other machines that I'd like to turn into Ubuntu machines. The USB I'm using also currently has Ubuntu on it, but it's an older version, so I need to wipe it. I sho...

ubuntu live-usb macos

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Fix current dir in ZSH prompt with correct case

I've got to following config for case/completion in the .zshrc on a Ubuntu server : autoload -Uz compinit compinit autoload colors zsh/terminfo colors unsetopt menu_complete unsetopt flowcontrol setopt correct setopt auto_menu setopt always_to_end zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _comple...

ubuntu zsh macos

Terrance

22:54

Has anyone else been experiencing issues with connecting to ppa.launchpad.net when running apt update?

Videonauth

23:16

@Terrance works like a breeze here

Terrance

Hmmmmm, it's been very flaky on two different home units, then when I tried at work I realized that I had no 3rd party PPAs setup. :(

Videonauth

I just did a complete apt update && apt dist-upgrade with a lot of ppa's enabled and it did not have one hitch

Terrance

I've been trying different DNS servers, but still the same results. It was not working much through yesterday, but then last night it worked fine. But today, same results, not connecting and timing out.

Videonauth

but then im in europe

Terrance

ppa.launchpad.net is in GB

Videonauth

23:18

you could try a tracert

Terrance

At least resolves to there.

I think I will try that.

Videonauth

i suggest this because it sounds maybe like a routing issue

Terrance

That's what I am thinking as well.

Looks like it dies off at SOURCE-MANA.ear2.London1.Level3.net (212.113.8.154). Or at least that was the last place that responded.

Yep, I get nothing after that address.

Videonauth

$ whois 212.113.8.154
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '212.113.8.0 - 212.113.9.255'

% Abuse contact for '212.113.8.0 - 212.113.9.255' is '[email protected]'

inetnum: 212.113.8.0 - 212.113.9.255

well thats the europe backbone for UK

Terrance

Maybe they don't like us out here. :(

Videonauth

23:23

maybe the cleaning staff stumbled over some cables :D

Terrance

LOL!

OK, good, it is not my side then. Something else is going on.

Videonauth

NOOOOOOOOO my game crashed -.-

Terrance

Oh no!!!!

Videonauth

mental note do not tab out so often

Terrance

Funny thing is, I can ping ppa.launchpad.net without any issues.

Videonauth

23:24

well pings are not affected by routing

Terrance

Good point!

Videonauth

Phew I'm a lucker, the game had autosaved just before the crash

Terrance

Nice!

Videonauth

pure luck tho the autosave cycle is set on 45 minutes

Terrance

Must have killed out right after the save! :)

Videonauth

23:38

probably, some games in the past had that too

Terrance

Could be. :)

Videonauth

beware of X4 Foundations, if you like those kind of games it has a total addictive tendency :D I've spend already nearly 500 hours on it

in about 1,5 months

Terrance

I'm not really a gamer, but my sons are.

Videonauth

:)

Terrance

I like simulator type games like FSX or I am sure that the new Flight Sim 2020 will be my going broke type.

Videonauth

23:44

Ah well Flight Sim lately is a big big money sink after they decided that you need to buy every plane on its own

and you cant play offline with all glory as you would need about 20 petabytes HDD space for all the data

Terrance

Good point! FSX seems to be working fine for me still though

Videonauth

Yeah I never grown old tho :D Gamer at heart here for everything simulation or 4X games

Terrance

Hmmm, the plot gets thicker about launchpad.net. Some of my 3rd party PPAs work fine that are hosted here.

ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic' Works fine

But ppa.launchpad.net/polychromatic/stable/ubuntu bionic does not

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