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7:57 AM

@Zanna oh.. ok

@karel oh.. ok

@karel true

Thanks for the info people!

8:56 AM

Is it worthful asking feature request for chat in this chat room: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2/chat-feedback?

Zanna

9:15 AM

@technastic_tc I was not aware of that room!

9:26 AM

@Zanna oh..

I got to know about that chatroom from the Chat FAQ

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Zanna

cool :)

Is that room official? or was official?

Q: Can not install samba client on Ubuntu 20.04

9:48 AM

I just upgrade my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04. Now I lost my access to my NAS and I am trying to re-install it. I read several posts about the issue that others had when upgrading including the fact that the new samba, doesn't support SMB V 1.0 and how to fix it. I found that samba client is not i...

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Terrance

1:01 PM

Never mind on my installing the driver into the Kernel. 2 times now, once with a clean install on my system and the other upgrade that I just performed last night, going to 20.04 it installed the 5.4.0-1025.gcp kernel that does not like my hardware and is missing all sorts of drivers. I don't know why it installed that Kernel on the clean install other than I might have selected the update software during the installation that might have had it download that GCP Kernel. Oh well!

Mystery solved....

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Q: How to install a software on a USB stick to be used on another computer?

3:01 PM

Hey people. I've a small doubt..

This question:

I want to install a software on a USB stick, to be used on another Linux computer. The second Linux computer doesn't have internet access. On Windows, I can simply install the software normally with the install wizard and when asked where to install it, install it on my usb stick and most of the ...

software-installation usb usb-drive

The above question doesn't have connection with Ubuntu particularly, but it's about Linux in general.

Does it come under the scope of Ask Ubuntu or Unix and Linux?

Q: Granting SFTP access to existing directory on server - Ubuntu 18.04

3:43 PM

I want to give SFTP access to the following directory /var/www/html - which is an existing directory containing all my Wordpress installation. In order to do so, I created a user and I added the following lines to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file: Match User site_maintenance ForceCommand internal-sf...

ubuntu security sftp access-control

Q: Copying files from Ubuntu Server to WSL Bash Directory

4:09 PM

Can't find any other solutions hence this question. I am running Ubuntu Server (20) on my Raspberry Pi which I SSH'd into via WSL Bash on Windows 10. How do I copy a text file from Raspberry Pi to my local WSL bash directory running on my PC? scp ubuntu@192.168.0.20:/home/ubuntu/hello.txt noel@N...

linux bash ubuntu raspberry-pi windows-subsystem-for-linux

Q: problems with grub_install when installing ubuntu

4:59 PM

I have been trying to install ubuntu 20.04 on some computers but when I try to install it from the liveUSB. The error I receive is "error grub-install /dev/nume0n/ failed". From what I can tell its set up the partitions but not managed to install the grub, looking online it seems like this can so...

ubuntu system-installation

Q: How to create a NAS in parallel with Ubuntu Server

5:25 PM

I currently have a pc that I built to be a home server for experimentation. It’s running Ubuntu Server. I have been interested in creating a NAS to upload movies and tv shows so my friends and I can watch them without a streaming service. My first attempt at this was to create a nfs and use Kodi ...

ubuntu nfs nas

Kulfy

6:08 PM

@technastic_tc Is there a software or something built in Ubuntu that could allow me to do this?

U&L and AU has an overlap of topicality in shell scripting and Ubuntu (ofcourse). The question is perfectly on-topic on AU as well as U&L and even Super User.

Q: Are "not only Ubuntu-specific" questions on-topic?

I know this question has been asked and answered already here: How do we tell if a question belongs here, or rather at stackoverflow/superuser? However this topic came up recently again in a discussion in the comments of a question about sudo, where an user claimed the question be off-topic bec...

discussion

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7:21 PM

I've been having a really annoying time trying to install a 32-bit 8.04.4 LTS guest on a 64-bit 18.04.5 LTS host using KVM with virt-manager. After I create and start the VM, I get the initial menu just fine.

However, when I attempt to boot or install Ubuntu, it gives me the logo and a progress bar for a few minutes, and then just sits at a blinking cursor for all eternity. If I use Ctrl+Alt+F1 from this state, I get a PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 000:00:01.0, followed by a Loading, please wait... for all eternity. If I change the boot options to use text, then it just gives me the module startup messages and nothing else.

Note that this can't be a virtualization issue, since I've installed 20.04 on another VM with no issues.

Wait, what am I doing trying to ask here, I should probably create an actual question

7:46 PM

Dang it, the question would be off-topic due to the version being EOL

8:01 PM

Okay, turns out that 8.04 does not support SPICE, changing the display to VNC fixed it

Videonauth

@LegionMammal978 The problem youre facing is the Kernel version of 8.04 which is not really suited to run on modern day Hypervisors

Q: Ubuntu 16.04 /etc/network/interfaces vs GUI locations

8:48 PM

I can edit /etc/network/interfaces on Ubuntu 16.04 to manually set IP information. I can also use the lightdm/unity/GUI to set it via the "Network" application. I started with a headed/GUI build and set my network information. Now I am headless with systemctl disable lightdm. I need to make netwo...

ubuntu networking headless

@Videonauth Actually, it seems that it really was only the display issue; after I set it to VNC, it installs just fine, and the network adapter even works

Q: Plugging in a second monitor causing strange errors

9:14 PM

I have a laptop running 16.04 LTS (kernel 4.4.0-190-generic). I have a CableCreation USB-C to HDMI adapter that I'm using to try and plug the second monitor into (there is no HDMI port on the laptop). When I plug the monitor into the adapter, a whole mess of strange errors occur. The second monit...

ubuntu display

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