[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (61): Unable to upgrade 18.04 to 20.04/20.10 due to kept packages by Stuart Anderson on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt Unable to upgrade 18.04 to 20.04/20.10 due to kept packages By: Stuart Anderson 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] grub-efi How to access Advanced Options in GRUB? By: Stuart Anderson 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line open a hidden code in a file By: elulcao 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 fingerprint not working after upgrade to 20.10 By: DCLXVIIVXLCD 3.5;

OT 14.04

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Installing proprietary AMD drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 By: Gabriel Contreras 7.0;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (33): Suspend not working in Ubuntu 20.04 by Johan Palych on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] suspend Suspend not working in Ubuntu 20.04 By: Johan Palych 4.5;

As of now this question has 4 unclear votes but it's not unclear and can be considered as dupe. If I vote to close, it would be closed as unclear which would be unfair. @Zanna can you please dupe hammer that question? The target is mentioned in my comment.

the linked post is baaad

you can delete files in a directory where you have write permission, even if you don't have write permissions on the file

it's unclear whether the suggested target describes the situation in the new question

the new question is, if anything, clearer

@Zanna Yes. But that's the closest thing I could find. I'm trying to fix the accepted answer.

this answer talks about using the root account, but then uses sudo, which is confusing

@Zanna IIRC without sudo you can't at least from terminal.

@Kulfy the new question should get answered

sapien@leo:~$ touch a
sapien@leo:~$ ls -l a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sapien sapien 0 Oct 23 12:34 a
sapien@leo:~$ chmod -rw a
sapien@leo:~$ ls -l a
---------- 1 sapien sapien 0 Oct 23 12:34 a
sapien@leo:~$ rm a
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file 'a'?
sapien@leo:~$ ls -l a
---------- 1 sapien sapien 0 Oct 23 12:34 a

file wasn't deleted without sudo.

zanna@peach:~/playground$ mkdir perm
zanna@peach:~/playground$ stat -c "%a" perm
775
zanna@peach:~/playground$ touch perm/file
zanna@peach:~/playground$ chmod 000 perm/file
zanna@peach:~/playground$ rm perm/file
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file 'perm/file'? y
zanna@peach:~/playground$ ls perm
zanna@peach:~/playground$

My fault. I didn't write y.

@Kulfy I'd just downvote it and write a better one

learned it when this happened :)

> Also be aware that Linux is case sensitive so you do have to use a capital -R in the line and if your directory has caps you have to use caps the exact same way it show or it will fail

That's not what R do.

just don't ever use the -R flag to chmod

the man page should say

-R --destroy-things
     Do not use this flag.

There are many things wrong with the accepted answer.

too many things

hope there's a better target for both

@Zanna -R is destructive with rm too.

anyway I guess one of us can write an answer for the new question

@Kulfy it's the same as -r apparently?

-r, -R, --recursive
          remove directories and their contents recursively

Yes.

people use -rf very unnecessarily

actually I think the question might be unclear

I'm not sure, but I think that OP probably wants to selectively delete files with no permissions

it's a job for find

but it's not really easy to tell what they want, and if they already ran chmod -R 777 on it (hey casual readers, do not execute that dangerous command) then they can't find files based on the permissions

Hmm.. I'll leave that post for now then.

I'll comment

@Zanna I also think that find is the proper tool if the OP does indeed want to delete files with no permissions. I recently answered a similar question. If they hadn't run chmod -R 777, the answer would be pretty straight forward: find . -type f -perm 000 -delete. Now it seems impossible to select the desired files.

but maybe they just wanted to delete "them all" which presents no difficulty at all

@user3140225 indeed :/

The question does seem pretty unclear to me and I'm really tempted to VTC it.

I think voting to close is good

it's a poor quality question as it is

I was planning to VTC and don't know why I didn't

@Zanna OK. Closed.

thanks :)

they can just edit and fix it

and we'll reopen

:)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): What are u doing with Ubuntu server? ✏️ by ektarabel47 on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 10.10 Remove Shutdown, Suspend, Restart, and Hibernate from the user switcher menu By: user1140717 7.5;

Autoflagging disabled until restart

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body (99): Open CastleDB on Ubuntu ✏️ by Felipe Monte on askubuntu.com

OT Mint

[ Natty | Sentinel ] multiple-monitors Ubuntu 20.04 does not detect my laptop screen By: Anupam Patil 4.5;

dupe

vote to reopen

cv-pls multiple-monitors seems duplicate Ubuntu 20.04 does not detect my laptop screen‭ - Paulo Brás‭ 2020-07-10 17:38:05Z

^^^ Has a link only answer which plagiarised the target Q&A without attribution. I'm not sure if the link is spam.

OT Zorin

OT Debian

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (61): how do I turn off tap-to-click for logitech k400r wireless keyboard with touchpad? by jalani on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 problem with lantern when run it By: fuqianya 3.5;

Hi friends, could you review this comment seems harsh askubuntu.com/posts/comments/2182928

Also the other comment which trigger it, which not sure if still in tolerance of guide lines.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot Why Luks only asks for password once at boot for 2 devices? By: Goncatin 6.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Droidcam Ubuntu 18.04 Error By: ArManzoli 4.0;

I think the other comment is ok

@user.dz deleted the comment and edited the question

Thank you @Zanna

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body (1): /etc/hosts is ignored on 16.04 and no previous solution helps ✏️ by right2clicky on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] encryption Multiple disks in crypttab. Xubuntu 20.04 By: Goncatin 6.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] upgrade message during upgrade process out of date By: Brian Stroehlein 4.0;

@Natty tp

@user.dz no problem!

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot Upgrade to 20.04 from 18.04 GRUB menu hidden By: Marek 4.0;

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] microphone No sound input device By: kumaswan 4.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Help: Unable to connect to 5G Wifi on raspberry pi 4 using ubuntu server 18.04 By: RNK 5.0;

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] printing Neither Gimp not Inkscape see my printer; working fine from other applications By: Rob Brookes 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] default-programs Set default application by extension not mimetype By: Fahad Butt 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] postfix postfix nothing send email port 25 By: vidarlo 4.0;

@Natty fp

dupe

@Natty tp

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially problematic ns configuration in body (1): conky seamod is not working properly ✏️ by pier on askubuntu.com