This bug has been around since 14.04 and persists in 18.04
This bug causes unexpected filesystem corruption
- hit the power button to suspend the laptop and put it in your suitcase.
Take a flight and find it dead and corrupt on arrival.
This bug causes lost work
- Suspend the laptop, suspend
For those who just want a simple solution to this conundrum, write the
following to /usr/local/bin/update-smart-drivedb:
--- snip
#!/bin/bash
(( UID == 0 )) || exec sudo "$0";
wget
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/master/smartmontools/drivedb.h
--- snip
Then sudo
This bug is 5 years old, and really, it should be a release-blocking
bug.
How much more severe can a bug be than causing physical damage,
bypassing security, corrupting the filesystem, and causing users to lose
work?
It's difficult to believe that Canonical has a competent release manager
if they
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1600622 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1600622
This bug isn't Gnome or XFCe4-specific. This bug affects the entire
Ubuntu desktop ecosystem and should be a release-blocking bug because it
causes physical damage to people's hardware and has security
impl
Public bug reported:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/448702
When my laptop attempts to suspend itself to avoid powerfail, instead of
successfully suspending, I get a popup from xfce4-power-manager: "Are
you sure you want to hibernate the system? An application is currently
disabling the
There's a lot of reviews from Windows users saying this drive hangs if
connected to a USB 2.0 port, however I see you have it connected to a
USB 3.0 port (xhci_hcd).
The other issue could be that you are using an unpowered hub, or
plugging it into a regular USB 3.0 port (900mA) instead of a dedica
Anyone else out there brave enough to try running KDE on Ubuntu, just to see
whether Kate has been fixed?
I suggest using a stable editor instead: JEdit. It
has all of Kate's features and then some. Kate was the only thing which kept
me using KDE for the last 2 years. Now there's a stable ne
Sorry, I gave up trying to run Quetzal on that machine since it kept
trashing my home folder and ruining my desktop settings such that I
couldn't even keep a panel or usable desktop colours in place to be able
to see what I was doing, so I kept having to drop to a fbcon and log in
via shell, delete
Here's the contents of my version of skype-wrapper:
The reason Skype forgets the password is generally that the user clicks
the skype start icon more than once during a session. This makes skype
attempt to log in again. When it fails because it is already logged in,
it resets the stored password
Skype's gdk loader complaints about 64-bit arch are just a red herring.
The real problem is that Skype messed up its configuration file. To fix
it, simply delete it, or move it elsewhere.
mv ~/.Skype/shared.xml ~/.Skype/shared~.xml
Maybe there should be a bug filed against the gdk loader to make
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kdebase
To reproduce:
enter block-select mode (CTRL+SHIFT+B)
cursor 1 char pas the end of any line
enter CTRL-RIGHT to jump to the next word.
** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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You received this bug notifi
New version of Skype no longer uses skype-wrapper, so it deleted my
version and the link I copied from the gnome menu to the panel now
reports (unsurprisingly) 'Could not launch application Failed to execute
child process "skype-wrapper" (No such file or directory)'
New menu item does work, auto-l
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