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System won't boot after do-release-upgrade from Server 12.04 to 14.04
I just inherited a Hyper-V VM that's stuck on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'm trying to get it up to the current version, bit by bit. I ran a do-release-upgrade but now it won't start up.
Here's some output ...
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Broken grub after duplicate root repartition
My root partition (sda5) became to tight for me and I decided to expand it. Unfortunately, after I resize /home (sda6 partition), I understood I cannot expand sda5, because of fragmentation.
So I ...
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can anyone help me with this error?
./trimmomatic-0.36.jar: line 1: $'PK\003\004': command not found
./trimmomatic-0.36.jar: line 2: $'\bi\203uH': command not found
./trimmomatic-0.36.jar: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `$'\...
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how to install test disk on ubuntu 16.04 ? or any way to recovery
I need to recover my missing thing cause I loss all my data when installing Ubuntu 16.04 ...try to install it from Ubuntu software but I didn't find the source
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Will Not Boot After 14.04 Upgrade
After upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04, I am receiving the error listed below. I would rather not reinstall if possible. I've tried boot repair and several manual methods to fix it with no success. I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 is the only operating system that boots my Macbook Pro 2011
I have something that I am trying to figure out and would like your assistance. I have a Macbook Pro Late 2011. Great Machine but it has a notorious graphics card issue. Got the machine reflowed and ...
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I am not booting to the gnome desktop since upgrading to 16.04
I have just finished a rather long problem on my dual-boot Ubuntu PC. During that issue I upgraded to 16.04. I am now getting the graphic login and during the login I got, briefly, the information ...
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Booting with USB modem without Internet
I have ubuntu 12.04 mini without desktop. This is ATM machine.
I have USB modem, that start with system. This modem don't have connection to Internet( but modem get IP, I use it to connect ot server)....
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Booting system without full network configuration without internet
I have an ubuntu 12.04 LTS, that is not connected to internet.
When I'm booting my system I have "Booting system without full network configuration" and it takes about 15 min to boot.
Are there any ...
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How to add boot folder into "root.disc" of ubuntu 12.04
Accidentally i have deleted my "boot" folder which is resides within the "root.disc" (I have installed ubuntu with wubi-installer). How can i add boot folder into root.disc file from a "Backup_root....
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Monitor goes into permanent sleep after boot up
My monitor goes into permanent sleep after boot up. The only thing that works is when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, it works but only as the terminal. Please help.
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How to set noapic and pnpbios=off parameters for boot
I have a weird laptop, that, long story short, must have these 2 parameters set for it to boot:
pnpbios=off
noapic
How to I tell grub to utilize these every time it boots?
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fsck at boot - Ubuntu 12.04LTS
My Dell Inspiron 3542 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS runs fsck every time it boots and therefore i cannot get past the boot splash screen - anything to do ? can i remove 12.04 completely and install 14.04LTS ?
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How to get to the GRUB menu at boot-time ?
how do we get grub menu when boot up process?
tried by using both shift and E s c keys
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System boot up issue
My ubuntu 12.04 freezes at login screen when starts for the first time. But after hard power off there is no problem. This bug occurs only on first boot up. This is a newly installed system. So each ...
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Why SanDisk Cruzer Glide 8GB can't be made bootable by StartupDiskCreator?
I am trying to setup some USB drives to boot Ubuntu 14.04.4 or 15.10 from on my VAIO (Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz × 2) using the Startup Disk Creator utility. After copying files from the ....
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Booting to initramfs
I ran apt-get upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and it did not finish due to an error (run out of free inodes). After reboot the GRUB menu appeared and when tried to boot my OS it displayed:
/dev/disk/by-...
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Ubuntu 12.04 cannot boot after running update to 3.2.0-97
I ran updates from the update manager today on my ASUS notebook and when it asked for reboot, it hung at the splash screen. Every time I try to reboot, it hangs at the splash screen.
I tried ...
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Cannot boot after changing locale
After I changed my locale and rebooted, now I get this error:
[ 1.863178] init: mountall main process (223) terminated with status 2
Filesystem check or mount failed.
A maintenance shell will now ...
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First installation - Waiting for network configuration
I´ve tried installing Ubuntu for the past week. I was given an "old" Win7 HP ProBook 455 G2, but only if I deleted all of the old user´s files. Since I wish to run Ubuntu on it, I said it was no ...
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Is there any way to install a bootable version of Ubuntu 12.04 to a usb?
My laptop was having issues, so I had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu onto my usb (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and now Steam is having issues opening. Is there any way that I can boot up Ubuntu 12.04 from a ...
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unknown file system, grub rescue
I have a problem with my Ubuntu 12.04. I installed SVN on ubuntu. it worked fine (I never shut down, as it was server). Last night Ubuntu crashed, and upon restarting, I got the following error:
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New kernel installed but loaded older kernel
I installed new kernel linux-image-3.8.0-44-generic and linux-image-3.13.0-73-generic manually and linux-image-3.2.0-96-generic by update. But grub still loads linux-image-3.2.0-89-generic. Grub ...
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How to get Ubuntu 12.04 on iMac G5 ALS version?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my iMac G5 ALS version, and I can't get my install CD to boot. I burned a DVD-R using disk utility at the lowest speed with the Ubuntu 12.04 ISO and verified it ...
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How to view bootups extending 1 month
I am trying to view a log of previous bootups. The following command does exactly what I want it to do
last -x | grep shutdown
with the only limitation being that it only displays events within the ...
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USB ports not working - how diagnose problem?
USB ports suddenly not working after computer wouldn't boot properly, for hours.
Could only turn off by unplugging. I left it off overnight, but when I turned back on, it can't see USB thumb drives.
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Installation of libglew1.6-dev causes next reboot to result in black screen with blinking cursor.
I'm just beginning to use Ubuntu and I don't understand a problem I've been having. It seems incredibly specific as I haven't been able to find anyone else with a similar issue so I was wondering if ...
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Added one extra drive, old dual boot stopped working
After some search, I didn't found exactly what my problem is, or at least I sould not relate it to any past questions I found.
Old setup
HDD with 2 partitions, grub booting ubuntu on one and win7 on ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS screen blank after regular system update - NOMODESET boot option doesn't resolve?
I had the blank screen / screen flicker issue today when running a usual system update on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS amd64. My PC is a Dell Latitude D620 with Nvidia Quadro NVS 110M graphics. Reading existing ...
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Lubuntu not booting without USB used to install it [duplicate]
My Lubuntu v12.04 (I'm not using the newest one because my Laptop doesn't support PAE) doesn't boot when the USB I used to install it isn't plugged in. I've overwritten my Windows XP with Lubuntu and ...
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Boot in failed. Shows Fontconfig error
After an unsuccessful upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04, I am not allowed to login as it shows a black screen with message beginning with
Fontconfig error:"etc/fonts/conf.d/65-khmer.conf", line 14: out ...
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restart my app server automatically through upstart script
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 machine in which I am running my C++ app server which I am controlling through upstart script. Meaning whenever my app server crashes my upstart script will restart them back ...
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FATAL error and non functional keyboard & mouse> modprobe: FATAL: modules.dep: No such file or directory
I'm Trying to do a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 from a live USB made with unetbootin. However after installing, on the first boot, the system encounters some errors and the keyboard and mouse do not ...
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Need live cd or usb of original 12.04
I need a copy of original desktop Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit live CD (or live USB). Not the alternative copy.
Can I buy one or can someone give me step by step directions to make one. I have issues with an ...
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(initramfs) Terminal - Instead of Ubuntu login screen
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS normally, but today when I turned my laptop on, and selected Ubuntu out of two options: Windows and Ubuntu, the following screen appeared:
Here's snapshot of the ...
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How to make bootable ubuntu from installed pc?
I already posted to this question in stack exchange but this is suitable to Ubuntu . That's why I asking here again. I don't know this is a right question . But I want to know whether can I make a ...
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ubuntu 12 not loading after reboot
I rebooted my computer that has ubuntu 12.04 installed, but the operating system is not loading any more.
The screen is completely blank and the computer is turned on.
Why could this happen?
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Home folder does not open and "Continue to wait" message
After I upgraded almost everything in my system (it took a long time and I executed only one command from the terminal, probably sudo upgrade or update), my Ubuntu 12.04 became a mess.
It sounds like ...
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error: ELF header smaller than expected
So I had updated ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and while computer was rebooting I turned it down and automaticly this showed:
error : ELF header smaller than expected .
Grub rescue>
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When I installed Ubuntu my windows 8.1 does not load? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop with win 8.1,but now when I start the power only Ubuntu is come in DOS and the win 8.1 does not load.
how I fix it?
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Is it safe to remove old vmlinuz.* files from /boot
In /boot there are a lot of vmlinuz.* files going back 4 years. Is it safe to remove some of these?
Edit: Most seem to have congig-3.* and System.map.* files to go with them. I would probably want to ...
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How to PXE network boot a Ubuntu Server 12.04 using HTTP
I have a task to PXE install Ubuntu servers by HTTP,
so I find the tutor in PXEInstallServer and KickstartCompatibility and set my PXE server as it said.
Then I open a test client and which can get a ...
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Intel iMac Ubuntu Installation Troubleshooting
I'm having terrible luck trying to install any flavor of Ubuntu on my 2006 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. I've downloaded the 32-bit and 64-bit current and past version, as well as tried torrent ...
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repeating error: nouveau 0000:00:12.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-D-1
I've been trying to get Lubuntu to install on a machine which seems like it should take Lubuntu with no problems. It already has Vista and boots fine into Windows. I have created a live-usb using ...
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UEFI bootable USB with Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (amd64). (this is not duplicated question:)
I downloaded official ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (64bit) ISO file and using my desktop Ubuntu (latest 14.10) and Startup Disk Creator I created bootable USB installation media. It all worked fine installing ...
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Delete all Ubuntu partitions and reinstall again
I have messes up ubuntu twice, and reinstalled it again after that. THis has created two ubuntu partions on my drive. Is it safe to remove all these partitions from windows, and then reinstall using a ...
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Black screen with message
Whenever I start my laptop there comes a black screen with message as shown in the image below.
After shutting down and restarting again and again 10-20 times (sometimes more than 20 times) it gets ...
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My computer wont Shutdown? [duplicate]
Okay... So I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 (Upgraded from 12.04.3 ) I've been using Ubuntu for about two years now and I know myself around the system pretty well...
Every time I attempt to shut down ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 & 12.04 on Asus EeeBox PC EB1037 hangs at boot, EB1033 works fine
We're having issues with Asus EeeBox PCs, specifically the EB1037.
We also have the EB1033, but those seem to work without issue.
I believe the main difference is BIOS vs UEFI and better GPU on the ...
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No HDD in boot order in BIOS in Asus x555LA
Today I bought a brand new ASUS X555LA laptop with Window 8 pre-installed. So I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 64bit using a USB flash drive. My first boot was USB (not UEFI) and I was successfully ...
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