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After enabling hibernate grub menu appears on start-up with 30s timeout

My system is not dual boot just single OS UBUNTU 16.04. Prior to making the following changes, the Grub screen would not appear at start-up (OK). After following these steps from How can I hibernate ...
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How do I pause for the specific time between two commands in a script?

I want to do something like following: #!/bin/bash command1 <pause for 30 seconds> command2 exit How can I do it?
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Why does mariadb keep dying? How do I stop it?

I am running MariaDB 10.0.23-0 on Ubuntu 15.10 as a LAMP server. Running sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start results in: Job for mariadb.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status ...
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Is it possible to completely disable Grub timeout?

I am setting up a dual boot install for my wife's computer. I would like to disable the timeout for selecting OS that defaults to Ubuntu so the computer wont boot without making a selection. (IE. ...
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Stop an application in bash after a certain amount of time [duplicate]

I am interested in running a bash script which starts an application (in this case VLC), run it for a certain amount of time and then stop it. I can get this application to start just fine, but it ...
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update-grub ignoring some options in /etc/default/grub

Just installed another hard drive and noticed that grub automatically added the necessary menu entries to boot off it. I wanted to adjust these new entries by editing /etc/default/grub, but it seems ...
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gdm3 display manager hangs after booting with Ubuntu 18.10

I want to use gdm3 but unfortunately, it does not work. After booting it just completely hangs. boot process stopped after Started GNOME Display Manager It just does not do anything. Installing ...
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How can I change the "timeout" duration for Nautilus "find the filename as you type" feature?

I often get stalled by the long timeout while typing the first few letters of a file name in Nautilus... The current timeout seems to be 5 seconds. I'd prefer 1 second ...(as per item 2 on this ...
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How to run a program for a fixed period of time?

I am looking for a method built-in to ubuntu that will allow me to run a script or program or whatever for a fixed period of time. I found a program that does this in a way I like, but the package is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 server: turn off screen until I press a key

Installed Ubuntu server on a tablet. But the screen always stays on. Can do a command: echo -ne "\033[9;5]" > /dev/tty1 It does turn it off or at least it then goes to black. If I press ...
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GRUB alternating between configurations [duplicate]

I've been trying to configure Grub to give a hidden 3 second countdown, and then boot into the default option. What appears to happen is that Grub will alternate randomly between doing just that, and ...
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Timeout in a connection to a DHCP server

I want to configure my eth0 interface using an external DHCP server (resident in my subnet), so I edited /etc/network/configure with the lines auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp but I also want to use ...
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How do I stop the screen from fading out and powering off, on lock-screen?

In the office, when I leave my computer, ie. to fetch some coffee, I press Super+L and activate the lock-screen. This results in the screens fading to black, and subsequently turning off. While this ...
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How can I set a different screen timeout time when on battery than if I am plugged in?

Currently, Ubuntu 14.04 only provides a single option: "Turn screen off when inactive for: x minutes" that applies regardless of whether my laptop is plugged in or not. I want to change this setting ...
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Apt-get Error: Timeout was reached [duplicate]

Yesterday, I noticed that whenever I run the command apt-get update, everything seems to work until the last step. I get the usual output: Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Ign:...
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How to disable the feature of automatic system shutdown in 60 seconds?

After pressing the physical power button on computer it's shown a 60 second countdown dialogue box: "This system will be automatically shutdown in 60 seconds" How can I disable this feature? The ...
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Unable to NFS mount from Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS against QNAP NAS

Note, this is a cross posting question in the QNAP NAS community here: http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=96526&p=427018#p427018 Any comments and suggestions, as well as pointers to ...
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grub not honoring timeout value

I have grub working the way I want it on my ubuntu 18.04. I coppied over /etc/default/grub to my new ubuntu 20.04 box. Here is the config: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=countdown GRUB_TIMEOUT=3 ...
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Extremely slow boot, with kernel error

I am new at the forum, sorry for the orthography. I have Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 because my previous OS was getting freezed after login, however this Ubuntu is ridicously slow since I select between linux ...
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