@pomsky I thought we had something for that, prominently showing apt-get clean or apt clean as a solution (or part of a solution, along with what the OP already had done), but I'm not finding it now.

I've fixed that problem, multiple times, by adding apt-get clean in addition to a command similar to sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* (which the OP ran and was not by itself sufficient) or similar. So I probably knew a good target at one time. (The context in which I've repeatedly produced this problem is when switching to a local mirror set up with apt-mirror or debmirror.)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body (99): How would I stop this from happening? by sulaiman1073 on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] android Can I use Guymager tool to create image of Android Phone? By: Kuiper 3.5;

I wonder if we have something for this already

@EliahKagan could it be a comment?

@Zanna Yes.

@Natty tp

@EliahKagan hmm yes, potential for such answers so I personally prefer it not get closed

@EliahKagan converted to comment. Then I upvoted the comment as it seems good. But maybe it will turn out to be the answer...

@Zanna I've replaced my comment with a better one that does not call for closure. But I haven't (at this point) retracted my close vote.

OT Debian

OT KDE Neon

@EliahKagan thanks :)

Should that closed off-topic question have the messages from the linked paste added to it and get migrated to Unix & Linux?

[ Natty | Sentinel ] keyboard How to disable Bluetooth power saving? By: airax86 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Not able to download wifi driver because lwfinger/rtlwifi_new is not available teel me new repo and new steps By: Qammar Bhat 7.0;

Autoflagging disabled until restart

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Scangear driver for Canon TS3150 at Ubuntu 20.04 not working By: Federico 4.0;

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

I like this comment.

@EliahKagan was thinking same earlier... done

[ Natty | Sentinel ] grub2 How do I apt-get -y dist-upgrade without a grub config prompt? By: apple4ever 4.0;

@Natty fp

something seems wrong with the question... shouldn't that last block have more options?

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Scangear driver for Canon TS3150 at Ubuntu 20.04 not working By: Federico 5.0;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] server How to Install XAMPP on my ubuntu 16.04 32bit By: CodeTheBlank 5.0;

@EliahKagan I just did that

@Natty tp

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound How to enable startup sound on Ubuntu 20.04? By: Orkhan Oder 4.5;

@Zanna Relatedly (though it was much earlier), thanks for improving that post.

thanks for your help with that! I should have mentioned that I had done it

I saw that you had at the time, I just didn't get around to mentioning it.

@Natty fp

@Zanna Which ones?

@Natty ne

unclear

[ Natty | Sentinel ] software-center 18.04 LTS Ubuntu Software Center: Cannot resolve hostname By: Jayantilal Chauhan 5.5;

@Natty ne

no longer needed - probably wrong canned comment, but in any case obsolete

Should I remove my comment on that answer? It's not a reply to that one. But perhaps my close vote on the question is sufficient.

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

your comment seems fine

not off-topic, it's a tooling question that includes C code because the OP is actually attempting to ask a high-quality question, it's not a question about how to write C code (also, I'm not sure where we draw the line, but if it were asking about a problem in the code of the OP's kernel module, it is not obvious to me that this would be viewed as outside "Development on Ubuntu" as we usually understand it).

maybe that is not the dialog the other question is referring to

@EliahKagan Like, even if it were about how to make a simple kernel module compile, it is very much not obvious to me that we would consider that question, which while about programming obviously is not OS-neutral, to be off-topic.

@Zanna Oh, sorry. I wasn't paying good enough attention to what you were saying. I thought you were talking about the commands in the answer, even though clearly you were not.

@EliahKagan no worries :)

anyway, presumably the dialog appearing is itself the problem, so the full dialog is not really needed

if I'm understanding the question at all correctly, of which I am not confident

@Natty tp

This question is out of the queue, but how did that get close votes? Isn't it asking about a problem that started when they OP moved from an unsupported release to a supported one?

unclear

not unclear - not relating to any of the information requested so far, anyway. When people say they have another OS, it's reasonable to ask them to try something on that other OS. When people don't say they have another OS, it's still reasonable to ask that, but it's rarely if ever reasonable to close a question as unclear if they don't.

Are both these screenshots needed to show what's going on in the networking menu on the upper right? Or just one?

Am I wrong about this question being opinion based? askubuntu.com/questions/1265744

@EliahKagan They both seems same to me.

They are actually the same image (md5)

@Ravexina Oh, haha. I don't know why they looked subtly different to me -- thanks for editing!

@EliahKagan unclear - someone voted to close, commented that it was off topic, then deleted their comment and retracted their vote. The next person who voted to close arrived after both of those events, and their vote wasn't cast in the queue

;)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): my package manager is not working E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) by joel on askubuntu.com

OT Kali

seems not off-topic

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot How to make grub menu appear instead grub minimal bash-like in booting? By: sdeibert 9.0;

Autoflagging disabled until restart

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound 5.1 sound on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with 3 3,5mm jacks allows stereo onlly By: schlomy 4.5;

@Natty tp