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The 24th major version of Ubuntu, codenamed Xenial Xerus.

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Google chrome logs out from every webpage after system user has logged out

So I've got a really annoying problem and Google Chrome isn't providing me any information on what's causing it. Every time I log into my account I have to again, and again, and again log into every ...
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How to get dhclient and/or NetworkManager to remove old client lease files?

My company produces IoT devices attached via USB, which contain a cell modem module, which contains a DHCP server. We have a production testing server running Ubuntu 14.04 and another server running ...
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VM got 10.0.x.x address instead of 192.168.x.x address?

I've searched the similar question (and prepared to be downvoted too). I'm new to virtualbox, and I have Ubuntu-server-VM (with guest addition installed) run on my Windows-10-Host using VirtualBox-5.2....
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Verbose output for apt-get

A while ago apt-get autoclean printed to the console each package it was deleting with the size. Example: Del gpm 1.19.6-11 [145kB] It no longer prints these lines, but files still disappear from /...
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Disc burner no longer detected in Ubuntu 16.04.04 kernel 4.4.0-130

So back a while I experienced that my Blu-ray burner suddenly wasn't detected anymore. From kernel 4.4.0-98 and up it just wasn't there. So I just booted kernel 4.4.0-97 every time I needed to burn ...
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Failed to create kernel channel: installing Ubuntu (ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso) onto System76 laptop

I created a bootable USB for I burned to USB with https://etcher.io/ on my Mac OSX machine (just like Disk Utility) as stated in this guide. Then I inserted into laptop, held F7, got to boot ...
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How to change number of cpu cores in VirtualBox virtual machine?

I have changed number of cpu cores with following command: VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu_16_04" --cpus 4 When I check with vboxmanage showvminfo Ubuntu_16_04 --details I get: Number of CPUs: 4 ...
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How can I use macvtap for bridging to home wifi network?

I have Ubuntu 16 host machine with kvm/libvirt virtual machines. How can I bridge the virtual machines to my host's connected wifi network (my home wifi network)? I see people say something about ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Wi-Fi network disconnected

I'm having a problem with wifi in my ubuntu 16.04. Just suddenly after opening laptop after sleep it stopped working. I couldn't connect to wifi. I'm helpless. I tried several things. Restarting ...
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UBUTU 16.04 Dual boot error [busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sdb]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7567 with windows 10 installed. I've been trying to make a partition (via windows disk management) and installing ubuntu 16.04. After the installation is finished and I reboot ...
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Passive mode for vsftpd without SSL inside a VM

this is my scenario: someone needs to push some files from a really old mainframe that only works with plain FTP (no SSH, no SSL). In my environment, I have a VM with Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4....
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Why does following lots of symlinks get slow quick?

I have a directory with ~2 million symlinks that point to real files on the same drive, which is a real local hard disk (it's not a network mount). The file names are all unique and the files they ...
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Weird keyboard behavior (Ubuntu only)

I have the G-LAB Keyz 200 N keyboard connected to a notebook with a dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 / Windows 10 Pro. It has a weird behavior when used in Ubuntu: Both left and right CTRL, Windows and ALT ...
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Hot CPU in ubuntu 18.04

I have problem in ubuntu 18.04 which was not occurred in ubuntu 16.04. My CPU got so hot nearly 70 degree Celsius and fan is running at maximum speed while there is no process running. I wonder if the ...
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Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to a backup of sudo does not work

I've accidentally removed the contents of the /usr folder, but I have a backup of it in /mnt/usr. To fix it I need sudo, but it was in /usr/bin. So I tried to use /mnt/usr/bin/sudo, but it throws a ...
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Laptop crashes all time

Ever since I got my laptop, it crashes all the time: The screen starts to become 'colourful' (small colourful squares instead of of the normal screen); The speakers start to buzz; I have no control ...
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Can't save from some programs to non-Ubuntu drive

I have a MacBook Pro dual booting Ubuntu 16.04 and Mac. When running some programs in Ubuntu, I can only save files to my Ubuntu partition. This includes IDLE3. I want to save files to a different ...
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How can I make a systemd --user timer stay enabled after reboot?

System is: Ubuntu 16.04. ~/.config/systemd/user/mpd.timer [Unit] Description=mpd timer [Timer] OnCalendar=minutely Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=default.target ~/.config/systemd/user/mpd....
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Possible to convert Ubuntu 16.04 in place to Linux Mint?

Since Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, would it be possible to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Linux Mint 18 (or whatever) by tweaking some files and running apt dist-upgrade or something similar? Or does ...
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vagrant up Freezing

I have vagrant installed in my Ubuntu 16.04 computer. And I have added the Laravel/Homestead box. It worked great for a long time. But suddenly when I run the 'vagrant up' command, it proceed all the ...
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Cannot boot into Grub2 menu (dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10)

I have a an HP envy dv6 notebook on which was installed Windows 8 (later on upgraded to Windows 10). I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop in dual-boot mode with Windows 10. I have struggled to ...
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Have different graphics drivers for different computers with different GPUs?

EDIT: The hard drive/usb stick in question is supposed to have the graphics drivers beforehand so it can take advantage of the in-system graphics solution. I'm trying to make a Linux stick running ...
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Resolving names of LXC containers on the host

On Ubuntu 16.04 server edition, after launching an LXC container, it can only be referred to by its IP address. Enabling the .lxc domain in dnsmasq doesn't seem to help, and tutorials available only ...
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Netatalk Permissions Issues

I've been having issues with Netatalk related to permissions. Background: I am currently running Lubuntu 16.04 on an iBook G3 with 256mb of RAM. So far I haven't had any problems with the machine's ...
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VirtualBox 5.1 installation issues Ubuntu 16.04

I am using new to Vagrant. And stuck with VirtualBox installation with Ubuntu 16.04. Executing vagrant up command, gives the following error The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is ...
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E: Unable to locate package gnome-schedule

I tried to install crontab but it is showing E: I am unable to locate package gnome-schedule even though i wrote 'sudo apt-get update' and pressed enter it is not working. I mean the cron tab is not ...
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Docker Swarm: Failing to join in swarm cluster as manager node

I created a swarm manager node on a VM instance of Ubuntu server 16.04 on google cloud with a static ip address. I want to join another VM instance of ubuntu having a static ip address. I'm unable to ...
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Why do the same files show as different sizes on a USB and the hard drive?

I copied the folder on the right (which is on a flash drive) to my desktop (the folder on the left). Both have the same number of items, and there were no errors during the copy so I'm assuming that ...
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Chromium: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED on Ubuntu 16.04

For some reason, whenever I try connecting to certain webpages (ex. YouTube), Chromium always returns an error that says "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED". I've tried switching over to other browsers (Tor, ...
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Dependency issues with Ubuntu16.04 setting up honeypot

I am working on a project for an educational course. I am trying to set up a Cowrie honeypot on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM. I have followed the instructions from this site https://cowrie.readthedocs.io/en/...
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Update WSL from 16.04 to 18.04

I tried to follow Can I upgrade my existing Ubuntu installation in WSL from 16.04 to 18.04? by sudo do-release-upgrade -d (I managed to update from ubuntu 14 to 16 by the above command) I got ...
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Trouble setting up Hamachi Gateway in Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

I've been trying to setup a Hamachi Gateway network using a linux VM running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the gateway computer for the office network I want remote access too. Right now, I have created the ...
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on the password prompt, the shell automatically adds a return after entering a character and displays authentication failed

logging in to an ubuntu 16.04 server via ssh. This has never happened before. The other user I asked seems unaffected by this. What could have happened? Also, when I try to enter my git credentials ...
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XPS 15-7590 with heavy GPU load crashes on Ubuntu 16.04

The problem in short: My XPS 15-7590 crashes on Ubuntu 16.04 under a heavy GPU load. I suspect this is caused by the GPU overheating (thermal throttling not working) as the GPU seems to crash as soon ...
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AWS ec2 instance with Multi user login with ssh key not work

I have a server(ubuntu16.04) in aws ec2. And I have a private key to access the server. The origin user I used called ubuntu which is generated by aws. Now my client B wants to login server to ...
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unable to execute VBoxManage command in python executable (created with pyinstaller)

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS make an install.py file executable: pyinstaller -w install.py --onefile install.py script: import os VM = os.system('VBoxManage startvm win10 --type headless') if VM == 0: ...
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Target display mode on mid 2011 iMac

I have an old 21.5" iMac (mid 2011) sitting around that's running OS X 10.7.5 (Lion)¹. It is listed by apple as one of the machines supporting Target Display Mode through Thunderbolt. I also have a ...
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Audio switched: headphones instead of speakers and vice versa

It's been a couple of months that I started to have a problem: when I plug my headphones sound is played from the speakers, and when I plug them out there's no sound at all because I can see "...
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Network manager is not listing available wifi networks in Ubuntu 16.04

Not able to connect with the wireless network. I have a healthy wireless driver but don't know what is the problem ~$ lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros ...
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Low validation accuracy using TF Keras when training on ImageNet from scratch

Has anyone ever trained a deep model on ImageNet from scratch using keras (Tensorflow backend)? I have tried several deep nets, including ResNet50. The top-1 accuracy I got is way lower than the ...
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Anyone know how to install NVidia drivers on fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install on laptop with NVidia gcard and AMD processor?

I install ubuntu I see the resolution is totally messed up and also the laptop begins to heat up a lot. I investigate and I determine that I must install gcard drivers. Ok, simple enough. I look up ...
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tesseract can not process *.bmp files

Tesseract can not process *.bmp files. It gives this error. Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.00.00alpha with Leptonica Error in pixReadMemBmp: size incommensurate with image data Error in ...
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Anaconda directory in $PATH - origin obscure

Running Ubuntu 16.04, Cuda 8.0, OpenMPI4 I have the anaconda directory showing up in my $PATH although is not supposed to be there. echo $PATH | grep anaconda /opts/relion3/:/opts/pymol/:/opts/...
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Jenkins plugins installation giving SHA-256 mismatch error

I started a fresh container from jenkinsci/blueocean docker image in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server. Container started fine and I am able to see Jenkins console perfectly. When I am trying to install any ...
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How can we install Docker-CE on Ubuntu 16.04 in Windows and get it to work properly?

Not sure if anyone had ran into this issue and solved it. I had tried to research this and didn't find an answer. So I get this warning after installing and trying to run docker run hello-world. ...
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Failed to create virtual server: A virtual server with the same name and port already exists - but this is not visible

(I have spent much time Googling and searching the Internet - including this forum - to no avail. After trying to create a new vhost in webadmin I get back following: Failed to create virtual ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 field separator / column separator / delimiter setting

in Windows there is "list separator" settings in regional settings. As far as I know, that is a setting to change field/column separator. But I can't find a similar setting in Ubuntu 16.04. Please ...
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System freezes, hard disk reports "LPM support broken, forcing max_power"

A few minutes after starting my laptop running on a battery, usually when launching Firefox, the computer often freezes for a few minutes, while the system indicator shows full hard disk activity. ...
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while doing kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16 master

when i run kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16, i get stuck at [wait-control-plane] Waiting for the kubelet to boot up the control plane as static Pods from directory "/etc/kubernetes/...
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How can I update OpenGL on my Linux machine?

I am trying to run a game called "Unturned" and I get an error saying that OpenGL version needs to be 3.2 or higher. Unable to find a supported OpenGL core profile Failed to create valid graphics ...
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