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[all variants] Live cd from pxe server

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I need to set up a live cd to rum from a PXE server.

Tested Ubuntu, doesn't work. I trid SLItaz and it does work but i'd prefer some other debian based linux. Does anyone know another distros who works running from pxe server?

[ubuntu] Not booting from usb

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I am having a problem with getting my pc to boot into usb with Ubuntu 16.04.2 with it starting windows instead no matter which drives are were in the priority list.

My motherboard is a G41D3 with the SMBios version being 2.5.
My current OS is Windows Vista Home Premium (the reason i want to change)

I want to install it onto a partion of my main drive which I have already made to be able to dualboot between windows for gaming and ubuntu for other things that dont run on vista.

Any help would be rather nice Thank you

'Install Now' does nothing on Installation Type screen

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS for my first time, from my USB stick to my external USB hard drive, using Dell laptop released 2016. I don't want to touch my internal hard drive (Windows 10).

I choose 'something else', and wasted an hour learning how Ubuntu partitions should work when I stupidly thought should be smart enough to do it for me, get an error about 'minimum alignment', so I 'go back' and try and do what it suggested, continue to get error, cannot fix it, so 'continue' click 'Install Now', the cursor thinks for a split second and nothing happens.

Is this a feature of Ubuntu? I have put off using this for many years for reasons like this, I stupidly thought they'd have it together by now, but apparently it's still not designed for ordinary human beings.

So what am I doing wrong? Is there some secret I should apparently know about?

Can I also suggest:
- Make the computer do the work for the user. If there's a general standard to have '25GB for /(root)', '2x RAM for Swap', 'all other space for /home', then make the installer do that or at least suggest it for the user! Having to research all this for simply installing Ubuntu is a massive waste of time and pain in the ass.
- I'm nor sure if 'TO Exter nal' is meant to be code or English, but perhaps at least try testing your software before releasing it. See pictures.
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An os wasn't found

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I bought a dell dimension e510 from some guy last week. I put a new CPU (intel Pentium d 945 3.4GHz) and 4gb of ram along with a geforce 210. I tried to install windows 10 from a usb because the product key didn't work for windows 8.1. Once it got to a certain point the screen turns black and shows there is no single. So I tried to install linux 18, 17, puppy, ubuntu 14, and linux lite. All with the same error an os wasn't found remove devices that don't contain an os. I think its a firmware issue right now its running bios revision a05. If there is an distro that will run on A05 I would love to know.

My totally unresolved USB failure problem

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Hello everyone,


I've held off from posting on this kind of forum up until now and have searched high and low on the google for a resolution.
I used to run Ubuntu 14.04.2 on my old desktop (MSI MS-7250 motherboard) and then I tried to upgrade. There was a problem with the graphics card which I couldn't resolve to I installed Ubuntu Mate to work alongside it and managed to save all my data. However, on starting to use Mate none of my USB ports worked.


I now am keen to use my USB ports for all sorts of things and I've tried more or less everything that I could find to do on here. I've felt I've got pretty close on a number of occasions, however, no cigar.


Instead of listing all the things I've tried I'll wait for people to tell me what to do for them to try and diagnose this most troubling issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Best,


Steve

cant find atspi-2.12 for ubuntu

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Hello, I cant find atspi-2.12, as only atspi-2 is available through apt-get.

where can this package be found for uu 17.10?

[ubuntu] New install of 16.04 on dual boot PC

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Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a friend's PC where it lives side by side with Windows XP. There was an existing, though unused, version of Ubuntu, 10.04, already there and I chose to upgrade this rather than do a fresh install. Boot screen OK and can boot into either OS with no problem.

But: whenever 16.04 loads it always checks the hard drive (sda5) and seems to take a long time. Then it briefly goes into a command line login before, when no action is taken, going into the familiar Ubunutu opening screen. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong and how to fix it?

TIA

[ubuntu] Installation of ubuntu-16.04.desktop-amd64.iso hangs On HP 15-N0004 TX laptop

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Hi All,

I am trying to install the ubuntu 16.04 from the pre-build image but it won't be going ahead. I have been seeing 2 error messages on screen and

Code:

[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager
[*****] A start job is running for hold until boot process finishes up. ( time/ no limit)

I have tried the installation in both non-efi and efi model. Here is output from my dmesg logs.

Code:

# dmesg |grep EFI
[    0.000000] ACPI: UEFI 0x0000000092FFD000 000236 (v01 HPQOEM 2164    00000001 HP  00040000)
#

Even though I have tried to add "nomodeset" parameter at the installtion stage but that also didn't work.

Can you please advise on this.

Boot Issues, with Boot-Repair Reports

Can't install Ubuntu

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“Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda” still plagues Ubuntu and it's derivatives preventing installation on UEFI hardware.
I would think somebody caress about this?
Disabling UEFI on BIOS did nothing and I tried on 2 different Ubuntu flavors. Eventually I had to manually partition the hard drive to be able to setup Ubuntu.
Why can't Ubuntu setup add the needed FAT partition automatically (if needed) and why does GRUB installar ALWAYS crash during the setup?
The option to continue without GRUB setup never works.

Disappointing.

[ubuntu_studio] new to Ubuntu - multiple grub related issues on install [i guess it's complicated]

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Hello Ubuntuonians,

So i finally decided to check out Ubuntu, but not 100% committing [yet?] as i'm a gamer as well.

I spent countless hours the last 2 days trying to install and probably don't even remember all of the things i did.

I don't like registering at forums just to ask questions and am kind of a "let me fix it myself" person, but seriously i'm at the end of the do it without asking for help route.
From this point i really hope somebody here can take me to my goal of properly running Ubuntu Studio next to Windows 10.

Here's what we're working with [a pretty old machine and probably unusual combo]:

- Phenom 2 X4 955 BE, 8GB DDR 3 Ram, HD7870

- 1 x 500GB internal HDD [sda]
- 2 NTFS partitions --> Win10 & it's stuff

- 1 x 1TB external HDD [sdb ---> 3 partitions in total]
- 1 NTFS partition BIG
- 1 swap disk/drive(?) partition 16GB
- 1 Ubuntu partition 200GB


Current state:

After not being able to install the bootloader no matter how often i tried different locations for install etc, i decided to "continue without a bootloader and install manually"

I thought i actually came pretty far with it, basically looking at that "Configuring grub-pc" screen in the terminal - however there is no device to select to install to.. just an <Ok> symbol which i dont even know how to "click".

And i think here is where the bigger problems begin:

When opening gparted, all the symbols [path, folders, files] related to sdb [my ubuntu install] will disappear from the desktop, gparted will show only sda related partitions.

Closing down gparted, all the sdb related stuff re-appears on my desktop!

When selecting "install Ubuntu Studio" from the Live DVD and choosing "something else", i can clearly see that Ubuntu is installed on sdb as per my requirements, back in "try Ubuntu without installing" [because no bootloader for the sdb install], the issues as described above re-occur..



Thank you for reading and possibly giving me an idea on how to proceed.

Also, let me know if you need any more info, i read a lot about fstab being requested etc [mine looks pretty empty]

Ubuntu Installer not working Nouveau

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oldfred View Post
Help please :(


Ok guys. I am linux noob and i am already stuck for 2 days on instaling my Ubuntu 16.04 on my brand new hardware.

1. I bought new pc and i managed after some tries to finaly install my ubuntu 16.04.
2. After short time i decided to go for ubuntu server 14.04 to try some things for GPU Ethereum farming. It successfully instaled but it didnt rly work on server so i decide to go back to Ubuntu 16.04
3. I try to install Ubuntu 16.04 again, like i did first time, from Bootable USB-drive but i just cant get it to work...
4. I tried UEFI and "Other OS", that's how it's written in BIOS to boot and both times after i click on Install Ubuntu or Try Live i am bounced back to black screen and i see some "noveau E [ failed to create kernel channel, -22"




https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2319613 - This is what happens to me also.


There are 2 scenarios. Once i get purple screen with little keyboard on bottom, when i try to press anything it just bounces to black screen described in 4.
And other scenario is i have black screen with few options to select - Instal ubuntu or try live, check disc for errors OEM install and such, and as soon i select any of those i get bounced back to black screen already mentioned.


PLEASE HELP ! :(((((

[ubuntu] Problem after upgrade to 16.04

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Hi all,

Host - Ubuntu 16.04
VM - Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04
Oracle VirtualBox

Each time running "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade"

following warning will be display
Code:

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Reading package lists... Done
N: Ignoring file '50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
Reading package lists... Done

Ran
⟫ diff /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.ucf-old /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
Code:

diff: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.ucf-old: No such file or directory
Shall I run;
Code:

sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist
to remove it?

Thanks

Regards
satimis

/boot partition stuck in catch-22

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If I try to remove any old kernel, it fails because it reports unmet dependencies on that kernel. But if I try apt-get -f install to fix that I get an error that they can't be installed because the /boot partition is full. I don't know why old kernels can't just be purged whether there are unmet dependencies or not, but right now I'm stuck. Can anyone give me advice on how to break this impasse?

[ubuntu] Grub crashed during dual boot install, now Windows 10 won't load

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During my install of Ubuntu 16.04 grub crashed. I restarted my computer and finished the installation, but now when I select to load Windows Boot Manager (on/dev/sda1), from my boot menu, I get a message saying "error cant load image". I installed and ran boot repair, but this did not help. I don't have an install or recovery disk for windows either. I wish I could just abandon windows all together, but I need it for school. I can still see the windows disk on my Ubuntu desk top, and can still access all my files through it. Please Help

Missing dependencies in 16.04

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Hi, as 17.10 and 16.10 do not recognize a series of missing libraries for scientific programs, ubuntu 16.04 which worked previously is used. However, after upgrading and installing updates, the following appears:
upgrade and
sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
teamviewer:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.11) but it is not installed
Depends: libgcc1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libasound2:i386
Depends: libdbus-1-3:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libexpat1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libfreetype6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libjpeg62:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libsm6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxdamage1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxext6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxfixes3:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxinerama1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxrandr2:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxtst6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: zlib1g:i386 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


I cant find a page that solves this in ubuntu. What is the right sudo command to fix this?

Thanks

[ubuntu] No sound from speakers

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Recently I have installed Ubuntu MATE 14.04.2 on my windows 10 lap (Toshiba P-50).
Everything works fine but there's no sound on the speakers.
If I connect headphones I have sound but as soon as I remove them I get no sound again.

I already ran alsamixer in order to solve this but Im not able to find my sound card which I think its a realtek (check link please)
https://imgur.com/a/o2xhb

Already removed and re installl alsa-base + pulseaudio still doesnt work.


any ideia how to solve this ? thanks :)

HELP!!! boot bring up grub prompt !

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Hello,
I have installed ubuntu 16.04 alongside windows ( 8 or 10 - cant remember).


Windows came with OEM. I had installed ubuntu.


After ubuntu and windows upgrades - by grub got messed up and only windows was working.


I booted from a persistent ubuntu usb and tried fixing grub using chroot method. That messed up further. Even windows stopped booting.


I did a fresh install on top of existing ubuntu 16.04 on the hard disk from the same persistent usb stick.


A fresh ubuntu did not fix anything.


I am now left with grub menu at bootup time.


Ran bootinfo utility ( from persistent USB stick) and the report is at https://pastebin.com/bSdFX5Fx




Can anyone help in reviewing and suggesting a fix ?


thank you in advance,
Raj.

[ubuntu] Problems after upgrating from 16.10 to 17.04

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Hello , today i Upgrated to 17.04 and the error Broken count >0 appeared. I can't also install upgrades with the terminal or update the software with the software update manager (I don't know if it is called like that, I am translating from italian). The update manager tells me that some packages are broken and to try to run sudo apt-get install -f from terminal. I have tried that with no result, I also tried sudo apt-get install --fix-broken, but nothing. what i got was:
alejandro@alejandro-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install --fix-broken
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
Correzione delle dipendenze... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti sono stati installati automaticamente e non sono più richiesti:
account-plugin-tools account-plugin-ubuntuone cgmanager checkbox-gui
dns-root-data dnsmasq-base espeak-data fonts-stix hwdata imagemagick-common
libbluray1 libboost-date-time1.61.0 libboost-iostreams1.61.0
libboost-locale1.61.0 libboost-log1.61.0 libboost-program-options1.61.0
libboost-regex1.61.0 libboost-serialization1.62.0 libboost-thread1.61.0
libbsd0:i386 libchromaprint0 libcolamd2 libespeak1 libglew1.13
libjson-c3:i386 libjsoncpp1 libkf5gpgmepp5 liblircclient0 liblivemedia52
libllvm3.8 libllvm3.8:i386 liblouis10 libmimic0 libmircommon6
libmirplatform13 libmirserver41 libopencv-contrib2.4v5 libopencv-legacy2.4v5
libopencv-ml2.4v5 libopenjpeg5 liborcus-0.11-0 libpam-cgfs libpay2
libperl5.22 libpoppler61 libraw15 libschroedinger-1.0-0
libsuitesparseconfig4 libubuntu-app-launch3 libubuntuoneauth-2.0-0 libvpx3
libx265-79 libxapian22v5 libxcb-composite0 linux-headers-4.8.0-53
linux-headers-4.8.0-53-generic linux-image-4.8.0-53-generic
linux-image-extra-4.8.0-53-generic linux-signed-image-4.8.0-53-generic
lp-solve mir-platform-graphics-mesa-kms10 mir-platform-graphics-mesa-x10
mir-platform-input-evdev5 pay-service pay-ui perl-modules-5.22 pm-utils
pyotherside qml-module-ubuntuone qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-web-plugin
signon-plugin-password system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-push-client
ubuntuone-client-data ubuntuone-credentials-common unity-scope-click vbetool
vlc-nox
Usare "sudo apt autoremove" per rimuoverli.
The following additional packages will be installed:
click-apparmor ubuntu-app-launch url-dispatcher
I seguenti pacchetti saranno aggiornati:
click-apparmor ubuntu-app-launch url-dispatcher
3 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 2 non aggiornati.
30 non completamente installati o rimossi.
È necessario scaricare 0 B/71,9 kB di archivi.
Dopo quest'operazione, verranno liberati 80,9 kB di spazio su disco.
Continuare? [S/n] s
(Lettura del database... 260017 file e directory attualmente installati.)
Preparativi per estrarre .../ubuntu-app-launch_0.12+17.04.20170404.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb...
Cannot start click due to a conflict with a different locally-installed Python 'click' package. Remove it using Python packaging tools and try again.
dpkg: attenzione: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di pre-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
dpkg: viene provato lo script dal nuovo pacchetto...
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare l'archivio /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-app-launch_0.12+17.04.20170404.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
non c'è alcuno script nella nuova versione del pacchetto - saltato
Preparativi per estrarre .../url-dispatcher_0.1+17.04.20170328-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb...
Cannot start click due to a conflict with a different locally-installed Python 'click' package. Remove it using Python packaging tools and try again.
dpkg: attenzione: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di pre-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
dpkg: viene provato lo script dal nuovo pacchetto...
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare l'archivio /var/cache/apt/archives/url-dispatcher_0.1+17.04.20170328-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
non c'è alcuno script nella nuova versione del pacchetto - saltato
Preparativi per estrarre .../click-apparmor_0.3.18_amd64.deb...
Cannot start click due to a conflict with a different locally-installed Python 'click' package. Remove it using Python packaging tools and try again.
dpkg: attenzione: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di pre-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
dpkg: viene provato lo script dal nuovo pacchetto...
Cannot start click due to a conflict with a different locally-installed Python 'click' package. Remove it using Python packaging tools and try again.
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare l'archivio /var/cache/apt/archives/click-apparmor_0.3.18_amd64.deb (--unpack):
il sottoprocesso nuovo script pre-removal ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
Si sono verificati degli errori nell'elaborazione:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-app-launch_0.12+17.04.20170404.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/url-dispatcher_0.1+17.04.20170328-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/click-apparmor_0.3.18_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Has anyone got any idea?
Thanks

[Ubuntu 16.04] huge Problems with nvidia drivers

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Hello
Iam an old kubuntu user since 2008 exactly. Until Kubuntu 14.04 it was really perfect, for me at least. I decided to upgrade towards Ubuntu 16.04, and there is the big problem. Once I installed Ubuntu 16.04, as it is slow, I decided to switch from generic video driver, to Nvidia's driver, as I used to do before. It does not work.
I followed the script availlable here
https://askubuntu.com/questions/7609...vidia-graphics
Quote:

Now for the fix

  1. Log into your account in the TTY.
  2. Run sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
  3. Run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa and then sudo apt-get update.
  4. Run sudo apt-get install nvidia-375.
  5. Reboot and your graphics issue should be fixed.

If you run into problems afterward, you should ask a different question. (Refer to this question so that we know it isn't a duplicate.) However, there are a few other small fixes you can try out before you do.

  • Reinstall Xorg

    • Go back into the TTY and run sudo apt-get purge xorg-* xserver-xorg; sudo apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg; sudo dpkg-reconfigure xorg.

  • Reinstall your desktop environment

    • If on Unity, run sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-desktop; sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop.
    • If on GNOME run sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-gnome-desktop gnome-desktop-environment; sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop.
    • If on MATE run sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-mate-desktop mate-desktop-environment; sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop
    • Each Ubuntu DE has its own package name. If you have KDE or something else, the name should be similar to the ones above.

  • Fresh reinstall
    • It's not the most inviting option, but sometimes it's the best thing to do in cases like this.


But the big problem, I was unable to connect into my account. Is it a workaround ? Does it exist a solution please ? Why did Ubuntu's team change things that worked perfectly before ?
My computer's config:
Notice it works perfectly before, no problems with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 14.04. No problem with Win 7, or Win XP. The only problem I have met, is with Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04.
Quote:

CPU Type : DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, 1866 MHz (7 x 267)
Motherboard Name : Intel Lemont DP965LT (3 PCI, 3 PCIE x1, 1 PCIE x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset : Intel Broadwater P965
System Memory : DIMM1: Kingston 1 GB DDR2800 DDR2 SDRAM (55518 @ 400 MHz) (44412 @ 266 MHz) (3339 @ 200 MHz)


Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS (Microsoft Corporation WDDM) (256 MB)
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS (Microsoft Corporation WDDM) (256 MB) 3D
Accelerator : nVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
Monitor Acer G226HQL [22" LCD] (LYLEE0128524)

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