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A: How do I restore the default repositories?

4:59 AM

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You can use this trick. Open a terminal ( Pressing Ctrl+Alt+T ) and do these Move the corrupted one to the safe place sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list ~/ and recreate it sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list Open Software & Updates software-properties-gtk This will open software-properties-gtk ...

OT - more abandoned questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6

5:24 AM

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1245571

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elpiel

@karel
Deleted: https://askubuntu.com/questions/716443/keyboard-and-mouse-unresponsive-after-suspend-ubuntu-14-04-nvidia

5:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username, blacklisted user (161): How to sync/upload lossless music to iOS/iPod devices using Ubuntu? by SSSUUU on askubuntu.com

6:40 AM

dupe

6:59 AM

dupe

7:14 AM

@elpiel FREE +10 reputation on Ask Ubuntu. I already posted the answer to this abandoned question in a comment here. If you post an answer to that question I will upvote it.

8:25 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers rtl8822be wifi driver ubuntu 20.04 hp 15-da1009ne By: Marcel 4.0;

Zanna

is the tag image-viewer for questions about any image viewing software, or does it refer to a specific application?

I am really hoping to get to that tag wiki project that @EliahKagan suggested...

[ Natty | Sentinel ] root How to configure SFTP to login in the "/" directory? By: alexboot22 4.0;

Zanna

@Natty not really an answer and I'm unable to verify it... but that question could probably use an answer elaborating Rinzwind's comment on the question to the effect that what you are asking for is a bad idea

@Natty tp

9:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in body (69): boot stuck issue 20.04 lts by Sajid Mahmood on askubuntu.com

dupe

9:43 AM

dupe confirmed by the OP in his self-answer.

10:49 AM

LO, I don't think it's a dupe (another bullcrap self-serving dupe suggestion by this user)

dupe

sounds opinion-based

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line How to lock a file for administrator (su/sudo password-protected) access only from command line / terminal? By: ingeva 4.5;

@pomsky the question also has a couple of deletable answers:

- https://askubuntu.com/a/1231858/480481
- https://askubuntu.com/a/1231444/480481

12:06 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] glibc /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by ./domoticz) By: hccya 4.0;

12:36 PM

@Natty tp

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1231858/22949

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@Natty fp

@Natty tp

@pomsky Thanks.

@Natty fp

@Natty tp

unclear

1:21 PM

not actually unclear

[ Natty | Sentinel ] printing Ubuntu printing problem By: ciampix 4.0;

1:45 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] server Can Ubuntu Server 20.04 installer use existing partitions By: Shinu P Thambi 3.5;

@Natty tp

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer, potentially problematic ns configuration in answer (80): Why does cURL think I am downloading something? by vayare Lord Come on askubuntu.com

vandalism The question does not mention or contain information suggesting a connection to Windows, it is explicitly about a specific release of Ubuntu, and adding the word "windows" does not make something "suitable for windows. This is almost certainly a troll edit.

Rejected.

Thanks.

2:01 PM

Rejectable. libtinfo5 is not a dependency of MySQL

no repro

Rejected.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] lenovo Yoga 3 hangs randomly By: Danilo Lessa Bernardineli 4.0;

@EliahKagan CV'd and rolled back the edit and added "The problem has fixed itself."

Thanks.

2:22 PM

seems unclear

[ Natty | Sentinel ] package-management Error while installing "linux-headers-5.4.0-33-generic" and "linux-image-5.4.0-33-generic" By: PrakashS 3.5;

2:36 PM

@Kulfy You there?

@pomsky Yeah

@Kulfy A couple of questions needs to be closed as dupes, I can hammer them if the gnome-shell tag is added

1. askubuntu.com/questions/1245368/… (target: askubuntu.com/questions/979072/…)

2. askubuntu.com/questions/1243305/cannot-find-workspaces (target: askubuntu.com/questions/1081251/…) (based on the fact that OP found the answer useful)

Done.

@Kulfy thanks :)

The second one had comments which were not really needed. As soon I edited the question, they disappeared. I assume someone have already flagged the comments and the flags got handled.

2:51 PM

@Kulfy I did not flag them, but if I remember correctly there were a couple of comments asking to accept the answer. If I'm not mistaken "accept" is a word that triggers auto-removal of a comment in many cases (same with "thanks").

May be not. This comment wasn't auto-removed when I flagged.

@Kulfy It vanished as soon as I flagged! Probably there are other factors too (e.g. number of flags, length of the comment, other key-words in the comment etc.). It's probably still a secret.

3:08 PM

The SE let the cert lapse for data.stackexchange.com? Or is it some weird problem on my end?

*Did SE

3:23 PM

NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

@pomsky Yeah number of flags matter too.

Q: Certificate Expired on SEDE

3:40 PM

Thanks for confirming.

Looks like it's being looked into now (status-review):

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It looks like the SSL certificate for data.stackexchange.com just expired. If you were in the middle of running queries you would be greeted with: Something unexpected went wrong while running your query. Don't worry, blame is already being assigned. Can you please put CertBot to work, t...

[ Natty | Sentinel ] mount Unable to mount CIFS share from /etc/fstab By: Singh Ashong 4.5;

@Natty tp

4:09 PM

It is fixed for me. — rene 8 mins ago

A: Certificate Expired on SEDE

Excellent.

2

Thanks for reporting this. We've gone ahead and fixed the certificate.

4:25 PM

dupe

Should I take down this comment considering Ubuntu now has python-is-python3 package?

4:41 PM

dupe

seems unclear and very poorly written.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 E: Malformed entry 52 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component) By: Sony Lim 4.0;

@Natty tp

@Kulfy Is that a duplicate? I think the linked question and its answers are about WSL1, but the new question is on Windows 10 2004 which adds WSL2 support. I don't know the details and I have not yet tried doing so, but I've heard--including in the form of a brief demonstration in an official video that was part of the recent Microsoft Build (virtual) conference--that WSL2 has new functionality to support running graphical programs.

4:58 PM

@EliahKagan By default Windows provide WSL 1. I assumed that OP haven't really installed WSL2 (since it requires another setup from MS to configure the kernel). Regarding WSL2, I tried installing xorg and firefox and got "Could not connect to display". So, I think WSL 2 doesn't support xorg natively.

Well, they mentioned that they're using Windows 10 version 2004. I wish people mentioned their Windows 10 version when asking WSL questions but I think this might be the first time I've ever seen that.

(unrelated) unclear

deletable along with answers. Answer by OP is very poorly written.

Deleted.

@EliahKagan Some people do mention Windows version as well. Example: 1, 2

I wonder why I missed the comment on example 1. Since OP has reinstalled Ubuntu app, I think it no-repro now.

Or may be a dupe of something, for example, Do I need to run apt update and upgrade after new installation?`.

5:15 PM

@Kulfy I'm not sure why you wouldn't have been notified about that comment.

@Kulfy That seems like a separate question. I voted to close it as no repro.

Yeah but IMO both close reason would have been fine.

Yes.

(unrelated) Why was this question heavily downvoted? Any new user may assume that allowing sudo without password may eliminate the use of sudo. Seems like an acceptable question. Am I missing something?

I've noticed an number of suggested edits, over time, that add code fences incorrectly, causing the first line of text they meant to format as code to be hidden (because when it appears on the line that opens the code fence, it is taken to be the name of a programming language for syntax highlighting, which the SE parser accepts without complaint even for long lines with whitespace and punctuation that clearly aren't intended to identify a programming language).

Most recently, this one. I'm not sure what to do about this. Should I reject edits like this with a custom message even when they are otherwise good and I can easily fix them? Should I approve them and ping the editor in a comment (thereby generating comment noise). Should I post a PSA on meta? A feature request for SE to prevent such edits from being submitted in the first place?

I expect this problem to happen much more often once SE switches over to CommonMark because, then, code fences will be the only way (or at least the only way other than HTML markup) to make a code block.

@Kulfy I don't think you're missing anything. I do think it could use another answer, explaining what putting lines in visudo actually does. I don't think the existing answer really explains that, and I suspect that the OP would be fine with continuing to type sudo but not being prompted for a password (or perhaps even with being prompted for a password, but less often). Do you want to post an answer?

I'm tempted to comment about the downvotes, but I think the question needs less nonessential comment noise rather than more. Also, the misconception behind the question does not in any way depend on what version of Ubuntu the OP is running, and I've flagged that comment as no longer needed.

5:30 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt Package 'libwxgtk3.0-dev' has no installation candidate on Ubuntu 20.04 By: lostamusement86 3.5;

@Natty fp

@EliahKagan I didn't see that. SE by default shows rendered output and I didn't realise that the editor added triple backticks in front of the first line. IMO such edits must be rejected if they are being suggested by same user. Pinging them in comment after approval is also a good solution to educate them about this. I'm not sure SE would prevent these edits since first line is reserved for language.

@EliahKagan I believe steeldriver's comment already explains that. I have pinged steeldriver in comments.

Thanks.

@Kulfy Regarding SE preventing it, I was thinking that language specifications containing non-terminal whitespace could result in the code editor refusing to submit the edit (much as it refuses to submit edits with features such as excessive length). I definitely don't want to ban text on the line that opens a code fence; really, I think all code fences should have a language specification (though in many cases it should be none).

In review, there's a "tab" for viewing the Markdown code of an edit. I often find that more useful than viewing the rendered edit.

In the future if I click Improve on such an edit then I'll ping the editor unless there's a specific reason not to. This time, I may skip doing so, as there's another comment already, requesting information from the OP, which I don't want to distract from. (I expect such a comment may be confusing to the OP, since it's about something not related to the topic of the question itself.)

The editor does not appear to have other edit suggestions with this mistake.

@EliahKagan Yeah. I'll try to use markdown more often.

5:45 PM

The thing is, it can be hard to spot even when viewing it that way. At at least one case, some time ago (and assuming I am recalling correctly), I clicked Improve on such an edit for unrelated reasons, submitted it without fixing that, and then only later noticed (and fixed) it when editing the same post again.

Indeed.

@Kulfy Maybe, if you want to replace it with an updated comment then you could. It's only starting on Ubuntu 20.04 that python-is-python3 is available, so if that's the main evidence that it is considered safe to have a global python command that runs a Python 3, interpreter, then it doesn't speak to the situation in previous releases (including 18.04 LTS, which that answer mentions).

(unrelated) We have software-uninstall whose excerpt says: for questions about uninstalling software on Ubuntu. and uninstall for which excerpt is: Questions about uninstalling software in Ubuntu, or uninstalling Ubuntu from a computer.. IMO uninstall is very much vague. And for uninstalling some software which tag should be preferred?

@EliahKagan A lot of people aren't on 20.04 LTS. Even Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will remain supported for another 10 months. (I am reminded of the situation with gksu. Eventually information specific to gksu and advice to use gksu will become primarily of historical interest, but posts that show commands with gksu are still usable on an officially supported release, which I believe is still run by many users. Yet I saw efforts to edit out gksu even back when 14.04 LTS was still supported.)

@Kulfy I think the situation parallels that of tags about installation. I'll take a look now.

The current tag wiki for installation says:

> **DO NOT USE THIS TAG**. Use either the [system-installation] tag (for system installs) or the [software-installation] tag (for installing software on a running system). Questions about installing Ubuntu, or installing programs from within Ubuntu.

I think questions about uninstalling software from Ubuntu should use the software-uninstall tag. If there are many questions about uninstalling Ubuntu, then there should be a tag for that, too. I don't think there should be a uninstall tag, though since it has over two thousand questions, a mass retagging effort should start with a meta post to ask what people think should be done, especially considering that the uninstall tag is currently an order of magnitude less used.

Relatedly, the install tag is still on almost seven thousand questions. IMO it should be on none and the the bumping involved to remove it would be justified, at least so long as any other glaring problems in the questions are addressed at the same time. I'd post on meta before doing a mass retagging effort for that, too.

Zanna

6:14 PM

occasionally, I make some efforts to edit posts tagged installation

that tag is blacklisted

you cannot save an edit to a question tagged with it, without removing the tag

I hope to finally get rid of it one day :D

@EliahKagan That makes sense. Should there be system-uninstallation then?

I remember once Rinzwind said that they don't want the homepage to be flooded by old-questions just because of retagging. And that actually makes sense even for other users.

@Zanna Noice.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Unable to install Cisco Packet Tracer 7.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 by Yacyn CHERRADI on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] nvidia Nvidia works until I try to activate second monitor - Ubuntu 19.10 By: minecraft3r217 4.5;

6:29 PM

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@Kulfy If there are more than a handful of questions to which that tag would apply, then I'd say yes, but I'm not sure there really are.

@Natty fp

Should this be considered as OT/unclear? Do we have something for this?

I would consider that unclear.

the situation for filesystem is very unclear. And neither OP has mentioned what tthey have tried so far.

Q: How should we make tag blacklist requests?

6:48 PM

unclear

jokerdino

7:12 PM

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A Stack Exchange site I use has identified a tag that should be blacklisted, discussed it on Meta and come to an agreement that it should go (our request is here). We and the site moderators understand that only SE devs can blacklist a tag. What we're not clear on, though, is how they expect us ...

support tag-blacklist

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A: When to burninate

Before you start doing anything, put a little bit of thought into the request: Does this tag even need to be burninated? There are a lot of burninate-requests posted to various meta sites that are... To put it gently... A complete and utter waste of everyone's time. Some folks will seemingly p...

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Q: What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?

For context on how this process came to be, please see our initial commitment to responding to Meta and Mods, our guidelines for the testing period, and the results of the initial test and next steps. This post contains guidance to ensure moderators understand when to escalate issues that th...

discussion featured stack-exchange community announcements

For things regarding mass removal of tags from the many posts in the site, we can request the staff to have it removed.

But that requires consensus from the community in the form of meta post. The current post regarding support might not be phrased in the required way I feel.

People in here can help me with that part hopefully.

Anyway, I can kick it up to the staff by retagging it as status-review when all things are done.

7:40 PM

@jokerdino feel free to edit that meta post :)

[ Natty | Sentinel ] dell Dell Latitude 5590 - How to scroll with central button By: Diego Quintero 3.5;

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-center Two Software Centers in Ubuntu 20.04 By: user1086913 4.0;

@Natty tp

8:08 PM

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1245873/22949

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@Natty fp This is an answer.

Invalidated the previous feedback on askubuntu.com/a/1245888

In hindsight the interpretation in the recent edit here was possible to infer from the way the question was titled. I've voted to reopen the question.

8:28 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Kazam microphone Unknown By: Keith Rainz 3.5;

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] email Installing Protonmail on Ubuntu 18.04 By: user1086913 3.5;

unclear or POB, dupe would also be okay