Questions tagged [14.10]
This non-LTS version of Ubuntu, code-named "Utopic Unicorn", was released on Oct. 23, 2014. It reached End-of-Life on July 23, 2015. Newer questions should be considered off-topic.
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Can't enable the proprietary drivers for Broadcom BCM43142 wireless after installing Ubuntu 14.10? Offline package required?
I have installed the new Ubuntu 14.10 on my Dell Inspiron 3521.
I was able to use my wifi in the Boot Live Stage and during the Installation phase by enabling the BroadCom BCM 43142 proprietary ...
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Mscorefonts problems
I tried installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer from the terminal, because I want to use Wine.
It looked kind of like it failed on the Comic Sans part. Viewing it just displays the text in another font.
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OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems. (steam) AMD DRIVER
When I start steam in a terminal, I get the following error messages
charlie@SteamMPL:~$ steam
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/charlie/.steam/steam»: Es un directorio
rm: no se puede borrar «/home/...
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L2TP IPsec VPN client on Ubuntu 14.10
I need to connect to a L2TP IPsec VPN using Ubuntu 14.10. I previously used L2TP IPsec VPN Manager 1.0.9 from Werner Jaeger in Ubuntu 14.04, and it worked great, but that no longer appears to be ...
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Unable to upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 "Cannot Calculate Upgrades"
I just finished backing up my system and when I try to upgrade to Utopic Unicorn, I get the error "Cannot Calculate the upgrades." I ran the upgrade by sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, sudo do-release-...
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How to Upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 [closed]
I'm looking for a way to upgrade 14.10 to 15.04 - from the internet only (i.e. without using external media).
I've already tried apt-get dist-upgrade
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How can I install Broadcom Wireless Adapter BCM4352 802.11ac PCID [14e4:43b1] (rev 03) on fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)?
I have a brand new Dell XPS 15. I dual boot it with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 The Wireless Network Adapter is Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac with PCID [14e4:43b1] (rev 03).
The 4352 is not included ...
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14.10 wine and fglrx conflict
I've just updated to 14.10 from 14.04, and have come across a problem having both wine and fglrx installed
The wine dependencies that are causing the problem go like this
wine > wine1.6 > wine1.6-...
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Ubuntu 14.10 Aero snap in two screen horizontal setup?
I managed to get Aero snap left and right working in metacity Ubuntu 14.10 and now I would like to come up with the correct winctrl commands so that I can mimic the same effect on a two screen setup, ...
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kidle_inject causing very high load
Whenever kidle_inject starts running on my system the load shoots up. In general it only gets to a load of around this 5.23, 3.65, 2.54 but a lot of the time it jumps up past the 15 mark on each of ...
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14.10: VirtualBox "No suitable module for running kernel found", Cannot Find Kernel Source
After the 14.10 update to VirtualBox, I can no longer run my boxes. Of note, running sudo service virtualbox status returns VirtualBox kernel module is not loaded and running sudo service virtualbox ...
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"Distribution not supported" when trying to install Intel Graphics Installer in Ubuntu
My Ubuntu version is new, and Intel Graphics Installer doesn't allow me to install the Intel video drivers. It says "Distribution not supported"
How can I resolve this problem?
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Ubuntu 14.10 does not install in virtualbox
I'm currently running Windows 8.1 x64 (a problem in itself that I can't change sadly ;-P) with the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.18 r96516). I managed to get the server version up and running with ...
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Lenovo X1 Carbon 2015 3rd gen 20 BS - trackpoint, clickpad and wifi
I have got a brand new Lenovo X1 Carbon 2015 with IPS Display which is really a great laptop. But when installing ubuntu there are some problems I have already solved and some I have not. I put this ...
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How to resume the interrupted upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04?
Previous the upgrade, my bashrc file was modified in order to add some Path configuration.
While executing do-release-upgrade everything was fine until a message prompted about the status of the ...
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`indicator-cpufreq` doesn't seem to work on 14.10
I have a Dell XPS 12 and just installed Ubuntu 14.10 (by completely wiping out the old 14.04 installation).
The indicator menu has 2 options, Performance and Powersave, from which I choose ...
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Wubi with 14.10 doesn't work - failed to partition the selected disk
I tried to install Ubuntu 14.10 on my computer with Wubi. The installation appeared to work in Windows, and told me to reboot.
After rebooting the Ubuntu installer continued the installation, until ...
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What is the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub
I'm troubleshooting a fn-key brightness control problem on my laptop, so I'm wading through a lot of config options in /etc/default/grub, as you can imagine. However, it's raised a question for me:
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Why are missing the frequency options on cpufreq-utils indicator?
I just upgraded to utopic and the indicator for cpufreq-utils just show two cpu frequency options: Power save and Performance.
Before in trusty:
Now in utopic:
Regards.
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Wifi slows down if I connect with Bluetooth device on Ubuntu 14.10
I have a 75 Mbit/s Wifi connection and the Wifi generally works great and fast. Although if I connect to any bluetooth device (e.g. some Audio device) the Wifi suddenly slows down significantly, but I ...
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Enable full performance on Sandy Bridge laptop
I have 2nd gen Intel i7 laptop. I use Thermald and tlp for managing battery life (they are great!). However, sometimes I don't care about noise and power consumption, and want the CPU to run at full 3....
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CUPS service not working, can't find any logs
I am running Ubuntu 14.10 and when I open up the Printers dialog, I get an error message "Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or connect to another server".
The start ...
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nouveau "unknown chipset" On Installer
I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.10, however when I boot, a nouveau "unknown chipset", "failed to create" error is all that is on the screen (just black with white text). The computer then freezes ...
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Upgraded to 14.10, brightness control quit working - Intel HD 4400
After upgrading, I can no longer control the brightness of my monitor with Fn+⇐ and Fn+⇒.
I followed the instructions here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2144815 - but it still isn't ...
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404 failed to fetch package [duplicate]
Okay, so I'm pretty new at this so I may not be giving you the right amount of infomation but I hope this is suffecent in helping me.
I am running Ubuntu 14.10LTS (even thought my /etc/apt/source....
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404 error with apt-get update, Don't have any PPA's
When running sudo apt-get update I get 404 errors, I don't have any PPA's.
jeggy@Jeggy-XPS:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jeggy:
Ign http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com utopic InRelease
Ign ...
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Immediate wake up from suspend caused by USB 3.0 devices
My computer usually suspends and wakes normally. But when I connect a USB3.0 hard disk, even after it has been unmounted and disconnected, the machine immediately wakes every time I try to suspend.
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CS:GO mini stutters
My pc:
i7-4770k @3.5 GHz
16GB of RAM
NVIDIA GTX 780
Ubuntu Gnome 14.10
I get steady 290+ FPS on Windows when playing CS:GO
I've recently moved to Ubuntu since I don't have to use Adobe for work ...
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Difference between update servers
If you go into the "Software & Updates" in "System Settings", it gives you the option for the "Main Server" or "Server for your country" ("your country" replaced by the name of your country), what ...
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Netflix on chromium [duplicate]
After reading an article about Ubuntu's netflix support I decided to try running netflix through chromium but I got this error code: M7063-1913 I assumed that it was a problem with html5 but in the ...
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RTL8812AE cannot connect to 5ghz networks
I recently purchased a PEX867WAC22 PCI-E wifi card from StarTech (RTL8812AE), and have not been able to connect to any 5 ghz network due to authentication timing out. The driver it comes with is only ...
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apt-get stopped working because of dependancy issue - libegl1-mesa
tl;dr: Every apt-get command fails because of this:
Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri (= 10.5~git1411191810.9460cd~gd~u) but 10.4~git1411171930.920f87~gd~u is to be installed
I cannot remove or install ...
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Right click on Synaptic Touchpad not working on Ubuntu 14.10
I have successfully installed Ubuntu on my Aspire E3 112 and after a bit of fannying around with setting a System Password in the BIOS and trusting the Grub2 EFI settings, I have a stable system that ...
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MAAS 1.7 How to Deploy utopic images
Installed MAAS 1.7 and successfully deployed several Trusty images; however, cannot deploy any utopic images. Added utopic repository by following http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/bootsources.html, and my ...
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Overheating and battery draining
About a month ago, I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on Lenovo T430 removing the current OS Windows 7. First two - three weeks everything was working smoothly. After then, my laptop started to overheat and ...
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Can I get a package from a ppa that my distro doesn't support?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pwr22/tomighty
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomighty
I want this. This guy made a deb package out of the java original. Problem is I have 14.10 and a lot of ...
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NVIDIA Dual Screens - Second Monitor Blank
Recently installed a clean version of Ubuntu 14.10 on my system. Previous to that, I'd been running Windows 7 with no problems.
My system has two screens, one of which is a LG Electronics 24EN43 ...
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How do I configure the search domain correctly?
I recently installed Ubuntu GNOME on my work computer, replacing Windows 7, because I will be doing a lot of Linux development work.
Many of our configuration and development scripts use shortened ...
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WinUSB gives a exit code: 256
I have Ubuntu 14.10 with WinUSB and I have a Windows 8.1 Pro ISO with a 4GB SD Card with an empty FAT32 partition. Everytime I try to use it, it says "Installation failed, exit code: 256". How do I ...
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Where to add the Pre-Shared Key for the Server Authentication with Network Manager for L2TP/IPSEC?
Previously, I was trying to figure out how to install the L2TP/IPSEC manager code. I guess Ubuntu/Canonical switched away from OpenSwan to StrongSwan, but didn't really announce it. So that was ...
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VLC Media Player Green Line
I am using Ubuntu 14.10 64bit and the latest version of VLC media player, when I play a video (MP4, MKV AVI etc... it doesn't matter) at the bottom of the screen there is a green line
It isn't an ...
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Mount Flashdrive: Not Authorized to perform operation
At first this issue seemed to be related solely to usb's. When I insert a USB i get "Unable to mount xGb volume
Not Authorized to perform operation"
Previously it would prompt for root password to ...
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No audio in rendered video files
After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.10 I now have no audio in any video file I render. I've tried both Kdenlive and Openshot and get the same results. All other audio works. All other digital movie files ...
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Why did my lock screen change?
My lock screen changed one day from the default:
to this different one:
I am running Ubuntu 14.10. The install was originally a 14.04 that I upgraded to 14.10. The lock screen did not change at ...
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alfa AWUS036AC USB WIFI adapter
I am running Xubuntu 14.10 amd64. I have the latest USB adapter from alfa, model AWUS036AC. I downloaded linux drivers for it, they are not packaged to easily install. I do not know how to install the ...
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Gedit and Filezilla Input Problem
I upgraded 14.04 to 14.10. I installed my apps(lamp, nodejs, filezilla, phpstorm, git etc.). I have some input problems in some apps.
In Filezilla,
I can't use tab and delete keys
Some UI problems, ...
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14.10 - Swap not available
My swap doesn't seem to be working. I tried to fix it but nothing I tried worked.
Here is some relevant information to troubleshoot the problem:
During install I chose to encrypt my home folder. Seems ...
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How can i find the current password in ubuntu without booting up into recovery mode?
My current ubuntu Administrator account has Automatic login ON.I was wondering if there was a way to recover the current password with my account logged in without recovering it from GRUB.
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Lost Swap Partition
I set up a new Ubuntu Partition a few days ago. Yesterday I installed the Kubuntu-Desktop to replace the Unity thing.
Since I installed the new desktop the Linux-Swap partition won't work anymore and ...
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how to install mencoder in ubuntu 14.10?
the subject say it all. I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.10 and for some reason, they took mencoder out of the repos...I need it for a program called universal media server to encode videos to play on my ps3 ...