OT 19.10

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): How to decode play Blu Ray .mkv video format file? ✏️ by peen on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] power-management Shutdown does not power off computer By: Carlos Maestre 4.0;

I think the answer is in this comment somewhere :/

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Toxic answer detected (80): High CPU load with Compiz on Ubuntu 14 by astzls213 on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector haha it's just the violent language we use for dealing with unruly processes

looks like a bad idea though, I mean, surely stuff will break

bug report?

OT Mint

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] graphics nvidia-settings fails on 20.04 By: Emvo 5.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Unable to hibernate Ubuntu 18.04 By: kFly 6.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Ubuntu 20.04 graphics problems with AMD R9 380 By: user1107097 4.5;

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I don't think the changed wording in this edit is clearer or better.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] unity Applications won't run after reinstallation of 16.04 (64 bit) By: Oghtai 5.5;

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dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] symbolic-link How Do I Link to /usr/lib or /opt From /usr/bin? By: Andy Hardwick 4.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] system-installation Installation stuck at "Retrieving file 43 of 93" By: Eiz 5.5;

this answer is correct, but it was automatically downvoted when I edited it due to its being flagged as Very Low Quality (grr)

an advantage of this answer is that it does not require one to use Windows

The Arch wiki has a post about this

@Zanna Actually, that was my fault - I could have declined the flag before editing, which would have prevented that annoying thing from happening

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in username (1): How to clone only some directories from a git repository? by CryptoGeek on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] git How to clone only some directories from a git repository? By: Shubham Kumar Gupta Ggps 4.0;

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seems no repro

or, maybe (I'm tired and my brain is not working well) the explanation is somehow there in the comments?

fixed somehow = would totally close it as no-repro

yeah... just not sure if they followed the suggestions in the other comments maybe

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ip for hostname in body (1): Windows/Ubuntu Dual Install Issue with Intel RST by Robin Goodfellow on askubuntu.com

answer in question

[ Natty | Sentinel ] dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu Dual Install Issue with Intel RST By: Mattia 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] thinkpad Headphone Mic not working in Ubuntu 18.04 By: Kaya Eristi 7.0;

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line How can I import a database using command line? By: Codevn 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking DNSMasq unknown interface wifi0 - failed to start By: pfalek 4.5;

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no longer needed, wrong canned comment

Do we have a canonical question for this?

@EliahKagan I declined your last flag by mistake :|

looking for a way to revert it. (don't know if it's possible)

I don't think there's a way to change how a specific flag was handled. I'm not totally sure (SE is super complicated and constantly changing, after all). It would be interesting to know.

But I wouldn't worry about it. A small number of declined flags is no big deal, and I am not currently at any risk of having my ratio of helpful to declined flags drop too low. :)

I do recommend removing that comment, though, since it's a wrong canned comment -- and also I've since edited the post so that it's even more clearly an answer, so the comment is now obsolete as well.

Try and see if it's possible to flag it again...

(The system permits me to flag the comment again, but only with a different flag type, and I don't think any of the other flag types than "no longer needed" is appropriate there.)

[ Natty | Sentinel ] usb Webcam issue: Logitech Quickcam Chat By: Colin M Roach 5.0;

Sorry, I didn't see your last message. :)

@Ravexina Should I raise a custom flag?

I cannot raise another "no longer needed" flag.

@EliahKagan Yeah, that's a good idea ;)

Okay, will do.

Thanks...

No problem. Sorry about the delay. I had to step away for a moment. I've raised the custom flag.

Done. Thanks again. And sorry for the mistake.

No problem!

@EliahKagan (unrelated) I didn't find anything that seemed ideal, since most questions about the topic seems to focus mainly on quoting whitespace (to prevent text from being broken up into multiple words) rather than shell metacharacters (to prevent parts of text from being recognized as shell operators). I strongly suspect there's a perfect dupe target I didn't find. I've posted a CW answer. Depending on what is found it can be kept, merged elsewhere, or (though I might not prefer it) deleted.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] login Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Login Screen Crashes By: Partho Prothim Das 3.5;

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Not a dupe of the proposed target. 19.10 has not yet been moved to the old-releases server. Upgrading normally should work. In particular, I upgraded such a system earlier today. (See the existing comment for details. I think that covers it well enough that I don't need to post one too, but perhaps I should.)

seems like a specific answerable question

not no repro

not no repro, the OP posted a self-answer

This question understandably has a no repro close vote, but it seems to me that the problem is reproducible and that the OP should just post their solution as an answer. If they'd rebooted, I'd be inclined to close it; what they actually did that solved it is a far narrower change than rebooting, and directly related to the problem as described.

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Ubuntu 18.04: No wifi adapter found By: mapfl 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot Rapsberry Pi 4 with RTC and Ubuntu 20.04 By: WU-TANG 4.0;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in title (1): Ubuntu Compatibilty ASUS UM462DA-AB71, Zenbook FLip 14 Ultra Slim Convertible by mapfl on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] dual-boot grub rescue, can't boot from usb By: Frank 5.5;

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@Natty tp Though it may be better to expand it than delete it.