dupe The OP commented Thank you. Yes, that link does answer my question. I did not find that thread on an earlier search.

OT The OP edited his own question and wrote Sorry, this question doesn't belong here!

OT no-repro, OP wrote: After restart things went back to normal ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

OT 14.04

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] display-resolution How can I modify the screen resolution for AnyDesk? By: Some Admin 3.5;

@Natty ne

[ Natty | Sentinel ] grub2 Recovering a borked GRUB with a Ubuntu 19.10 ZFS root filesystem By: Sub-ZeroXXX 3.5;

OT 19.04

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-recommendation Is there a lightweight tool to crop images quickly? By: Rituraj Kalita 5.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 MULTIPASS yields dnsmasq error at launch. What can I do? By: YANNO 5.0;

this, this and this are no longer needed (I added the installation instructions in the answer).

seems deletable Answer was also unlikely to work since 14.10 reached EOL back then.

the answer seems to recommend what the OP tried

then, seemingly, it recommends installing the build dependencies of git, which seems... wrong unless one is going to build it, which the answer does not seem to recommend

so why did that answer get 4 upvotes?

it goes on to mention that one need not use git to download repositories because there is another way of doing it

but, that is not the only use of git

that answer got 9 invisible low-rep/unregistered user upvotes too

it also got 12 invisible downvotes, but that is not surprising

the question itself has 6 such upvotes

I am really curious about what situation this Q&A can be helping people in

I assume visitors got there by searching "Not found" error message and didn't see the Ubuntu version. The answer may work on currently supported releases since apt update would refresh the available package cache.

that's possible

I think 9k views pretty explains that. But still answer is wrong considering the Ubuntu version OP was using

there seems nothing good about the page

better to delete it and prevent people wasting their time landing there

Yup.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer (86): I have installed my printer but it prints symbols continuously by kenzerxii on askubuntu.com

Is this question off topic?

Probably unclear but seems possibly on topic

Also the formatting looks wrong

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound How do I make Ubuntu select my headset mic as default input automatically? By: Maxwell s.c 4.0;

OT Pop!_OS

[ Natty | Sentinel ] server do-release-upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 - no development version By: Hugh 5.5;

OT Pop!_OS

this answer is intended as a comment confirming OP's fix which only exists in comments

Perhaps it should be edited, since it is apparently the answer.

dupe

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 Shutdown/Reboot Hangs At "Waiting for process: crond" And amdgpu process By: ramnivas kushvaha 5.0;

@Natty tp

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (42): Can not boot to Windows 10 after install dual boot ubuntu by LE THANH TUNG on askubuntu.com

@Zanna Halp!!!

Nevermind, I flagged the post for mod attention. I hope some other mod would look into.

Sorry for the ping.

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1266606/816190

@Kulfy Post already reported

@Kulfy please feel free to ping :)

@Kulfy the one that was flagged as spam?

I wasn't happy about that

I left a comment, then it got blown up before the author had a chance to even read

but decided to wait and see if they edited their other posts

since they've shown good faith I cleared the flag :)

@Zanna Yes. Was the spam flag handled by mod? I thought you flagged as spam which caused the post to get deleted.

I did not

I left a comment and someone else flagged it as spam

They didn't get any notification for your comment. Weird.

that's good to know

I asked jokerdino if they would get a notification and he said he would expect so

Yeah. Till now I believed that authors of deleted posts do get notifications.

Related to that situation, that reviewer is back and they're upvoting every post they review again. Err...

^^^ Example post

that seems to be the only review they have actually done so far

I assume their suspension was revoked couple of days ago. They have done 9 reviews so far.

only in LA, right?

idk why I didn't see that where I was looking

In LA, they did 7/9

this answer doesn't seem to be recommending anything much

changed link to the review^

bbl

passed audit

me too

[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-recommendation How to combine/merge pages in pdf file (GUI)? By: Sarin Samuel 4.0;

@Natty fp This is an answer but for Windows. I don't think it's worth reporting to Natty

@Zanna Hmm. Were they really paying attention? Or they passed audit because of links and length?

@Zanna I can't figure out what they mean by "when you download lightdm from gdk3 it will change your gnome setting"

@Kulfy I actually suspect this person is not reviewing in good faith at all, so I think they just want to pass audits so they can continue to cause havoc

@Kulfy it's like step 1 do nothing in particular, step 2 do not much of anything, step 3 do something that can't possibly make any difference...

Maybe they have different criteria for a post to qualify as an answer.

@Zanna Does it look deletable?

@Kulfy to me yes

@Kulfy I didn't get you?

I mean that reviewer might have some other criteria for answers

(unrelated) This might be the first time ever FP=2*CV

I mean review items waiting to be reviewed.

@Kulfy I think many years ago it was like that

must review FPs...

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Rhythmbox does not work with .wma on Focal 20.04 By: Lin Wayne 4.5;

@Natty tp

Considering the size of FP queue, does it look alarming?

Rejectable

@Kulfy I suspect they submitted the suggestion while I was doing my edit :(

@Kulfy tbh, I think I am biased w/r/t/ that person because they left an inappropriate comment on my nomination, and another one on this meta answer.

(unrelated) seems to be a hardware issue

@Zanna The time difference between the edit submission and suggestion is ~2 mins. So maybe they were thinking what to change while you submitted the edit.

@Zanna I can't find those comments.

they were deleted, sorry

Oh. No problem.

the nomination page doesn't have a way to see deleted comments. But I recall the comment said "@ terdon this is not a dating site". It made me laugh

a mod deleted that

Ah. I remember that.

the other comment was self-deleted, so I suppose they thought better of it

anyway since I am biased I will need some help on what to do about their bad reviewing

@Kulfy the question also seems unclear... like, where is the context for the title?

o.O

am I on a hiding to nothing trying to get people to review FP properly, I wonder

@Zanna That's the error message they're getting on extensions.gnome.org. See first screenshot. They don't seem to have GNOME as well.

Yeah "GNOME shell is not running". See last screenshot

Seems abandoned

thanks :)

@Zanna If you don't mind, what was that?

Oh I read that too. :P

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Making 1080p webcam running at 60 fps using UVC 1.5 By: Leandro Mendes 4.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] nvidia Ubuntu 15.04 unsolvable graphic tearing By: Konstantin tino Gjorgievski 5.5;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body (99): installing old version of java ✏️ by eilon toledano on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 14.04 Mouse wheel scrolls in reversed direction By: Anonymous 4.0;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, phone number detected in title, potentially bad ip for hostname in body, +3 more (429): Whatsapp+1-6575292372 Purchase Verified IELTS PMP TestDAF without exams in Asia-Pacific by buypmpexams on askubuntu.com

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty fp but rightly deleted.

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Zanna The problem appears to be on the host side (in VirtualBox on the host, not in the guest system) and the host strongly appears to be Windows bases on "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso" in the error message. So it's probably off-topic.

@Natty tp

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1266980/22949

[ Natty | Sentinel ] Link to Post Low Length; No Code Block; Low Rep; 3.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] virtualbox Installing Ubuntu in VM - stuck on 'Who are you?' By: Shiva K 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 16.04 System setting that control trackpads By: youssof hesham 5.5;