Questions tagged [16.10]
Questions about 16.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was a non-LTS version released on October 13, 2016. It became End Of Life (EOL) on July 20, 2017.
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Nautilus + Deja Dup: no menu item for "File -> Restore Missing Files..."
I'm trying to explore my files that have been backed-up with Duplicity/Deja Dup. My understanding is that the "File -> Restore Missing Files" menu item comes from the ubuntuone-client ...
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How to update chromium-browser to 57 on ubuntu 16.10?
How can I upgrade/ update my current Chromium from 56 to 57 on Ubuntu 16.10 using the terminal?
I can get Chrome 57 from their official site - download the .deb file then install it but Chromium is ...
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How do I remap my CAPS Lock key to Hyper?
I tried this guy's solution, but I got the following error:
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 118 (...
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udev rules scripts has only read-only access to /, ubuntu16.10
I use udev rules to run shell-scripts when certain devices show up, after upgrading to ubuntu 16.10 the root filesystem is only available read-only from those scripts. In other words: a shell-script ...
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Kubuntu 16.10 Ethernet connection not working after version upgrade
After upgrading from Kubuntu 16.04 LTS to 16.10 the wired connection doesn't work.
The wired connection is displayed in the Network Manager but is not possible to select the relative "Connect" button.
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Black screen when waking up from suspend when using 960M GTX graphics card
My laptop is UX510UW Asus. It has 960M GTX and Intel® HD Graphics 520. When I use Intel GPU then everything goes fine; I have no problem when I wake up from suspend. But when I switch to 960M GTX then ...
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How can Nautilus dropdown and popup notifications be disabled?
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 and am using Nautilus 3.20.3. I find that Nautilus has changed such that actions like deletions and moves result in dropdown and popup notifications that obscure ...
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Headphones output mono audio
I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu GNOME(16.10). The pair of headphones was working fine until few days ago. I am now getting noise and distortion. This doesn't happen to the speaker of my ...
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Why is e2fsck just filling my screen with numbers?
I ran e2fsck with an alternate superblock because my superblock was missing. I couldn't actually boot ubuntu, so I ran this from recovery mode.
At the beginning it asked me if I wanted to narrow ...
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Update Manager terminal output tiny after upgrade to 16.10
When I use the update manager to update packages after upgrading to 16.10, if I show details during the updates, the area of the window that displays the terminal output is so small I can only see one ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 NVIDIA OpenCL?
I have a brand new install of Ubuntu 16.10. I want to test against the NVIDIA version of OpenCL (I need portability across devices). So, I installed the CUDA toolkit via
sudo apt-get install ...
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xpra ubuntu html5 server problems
I have installed xpra from the ubuntu repos (16.10). I also have installed websockify. When I try to use it to set up an html5 session with the following:
xpra start --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:14500 --html=...
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How do I pair a Nintendo Joycon?
Was thinking of using a joycon as a presenter's clicker. A quick test on my Android phone shows it paired just fine via Bluetooth, though the input is a bit slow and laggy.
However, in 16.10 the ...
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How to install Ubuntu on Intel RST fake raid?
I have got myself a new laptop with two 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD disks. It supports Intel RST, so I have set it up as a RAID 0 Array from Intel RST tool on Windows 10. Everything works good on Windows, but ...
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Corebird "Request Pin" buton not working
I'm trying to make Corebird work but when I press the Request Pin button nothing happens, please help me!
I'm using Ubuntu 16.10
Thanks!!
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xrandr --dpi doesn't work
I recently made the switch from Debian Jessie to Ubuntu 16.10 (mostly because I bought a new laptop and needed a little more recent kernel for that). I'm using i3 and had a little script that if I had ...
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Nautilus and gedit crash after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10
Recently I upgraded my computer (ASUS laptop, AMD86) from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to the latest Ubuntu 16.10. I encountered the following issue: when I tried to launch "Files" (Nautilus) from the launch bar, ...
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Mysterious minutes-long system freeze
I'm currently experiencing very long periods of time (~5 minutes at a time) during which my laptop freezes. I've taken an image of the situation to point out a few symptoms (couldn't take a screenshot ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 will not play audio
It clearly detects my sound card, as well as plugging my headphones in and out of the front panel. (The Sound Settings shows the headphones when they're plugged in., and removes the option when they'...
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Nvida Persistence Daemon fails to load Ubuntu GNOME 16.10
The laptop I am using is a Lenovo Yoga 710 15' (with GTX 940MX). The computer can boot, however, I always get the nvidia persistence daemon load failure when I boot up.
And advice would be ...
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Problems with display
I've been a Linux user for many years, but I've never taken a close look into the display/windowing system, with which I seem to have an issue at the moment.
Let me describe the various issues that I ...
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logging problem with eclipse Neon.1a Release (4.6.1) on Ubuntu 16.10 works fine on Ubuntu 16.04
When starting eclipse Neon.1a Release (4.6.1) on Ubuntu 16.10 I get the assertion messages below, same binary works fine on Ubuntu 16.04. I'm running the OS on latest version of virtual box under ...
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No Low Battery Notifications or Low Battery Action on 16.10/17.04/17.10/18.04.4
When upgrading to 16.10 and during installation the installer seemed to turn off battery notifications and actions - I know this because I set the critical action threshold to be 15% and during ...
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Black Screen after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10
What i have done:
Downloaded Ubuntu GNOME 16.10
Installed it as dualboot
Became black screen
Added "no splash" to start commands
Installed newest nvidia drivers
Reinstalled xorg-server & ubuntu-...
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pip3 crashing with ImportError
I used Python v3.5 to code in with the tensorflow package.
Now I tried to upgrade to the newest version and pip3 crashed all the time with following error when I just run pip3:
Traceback (most recent ...
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Cannot upgrade from Ubuntu 16.10 to 18.04 LTS
I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 and getting this error everytime:
An upgrade from 'yakkety' to 'bionic' is not supported with this tool.
How do I resolve this?
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'Network Manager' does not detect any wifi network
Using Intel NUC (NUC5CPYH) with Ubuntu 16.10, I am trying to configure my WiFi to connect it to my home wireless network.
However, when I start the 'Network Manager', it does not scan any of the wifi ...
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External screen recognized, but black
I have a brand new computer (i5-7200U, so Kabylake with a Intel HD Grpahics 620) running Ubuntu 16.10.
And I use an external HDMI screen.
For some reasons, this one is detected (I see it in the ...
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No headphone sound in HP Spectre x360 13-w030ca Ubuntu 16.10
I've been struggling for several days with this issue. According to many posts the HP Spectre x360 works great with 16.10 and it does but this is the only problem i have (although a big one). Plugging ...
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getting Serror { Commwake devExch } error at boot time
click here to see the error code
i am using ubuntu gnome 16.10 on a laptop and on boot it shows a series of
ata6: Serror { CommWake DevExch }
ata6: irq_stat 0x00000040 connection status ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 not detect sound card
My sound card was working great and after a reboot it stopped working. Now, if I try aplay -l, it says "no sound card detected". I use the front headphone jack on my crosshair v formula motherboard. I ...
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How to fix Qt5 unmet dependencies
I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 with Qt4.8.7 and I'd like to install Qt5 in order to compile a package. I installed qt5-qmake from the repo, and set the default to qt5:
export QT_SELECT=qt5
./configure &...
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ssh connects but fails to complete unless I pass the -t option
I upgraded a headless system from 16.04 to 16.10 a few days ago. Now when I try to ssh to the system, it connects, logs me partially in, but then hangs before I get a command prompt. For example:
&...
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"Unknown stepping info, firmware loading failed"
During boot up of Ubuntu 16.10, my Acer Aspire F5 (Intel i5-7200u) has a firmware loading error. 16.04 had the same problem.
It looks like it first tried to load i915_bpo 2.0, which fails, and then ...
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How can I install OpenCV 3.2.0 in Ubuntu 16.10 when it says sys/videoio.h is missing?
I'm following this tutorial http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/10/24/ubuntu-16-04-how-to-install-opencv/ to install OpenCV. I'm trying to install OpenCV 3.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.10.
After I enter
$ cmake -...
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open a file with alternative programs using enter and cmd / super / alt based shortcuts
I have the following need that can be generalized to (I think) several users.
60% of the time I open a certain file type (e.g., .pdf) with the default application (say evince), 35% with an other one (...
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Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab not working in any Application
I have Ubuntu 16.10 running Gnome DE. No application will let me switch tabs using Ctrl + Tab. I've tried it in Google Chrome, Webstorm, Sublime etc.
Nothing seems to be helping and it's so annoying....
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Android 6.0 mtp device not showing in Nautilus
My Android devices - Xioami Mi 5s, Google Nexus 4 running Android 6.0.1 and Google Nexus 7 LTE running Android 4.4.2 - are not accessible from Nautilus 3.20 in Ubuntu 16.10. At least two of them ...
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How can I disable the "Extraction completed successfully" popup in File Roller Ubuntu 16.10
When selecting a large number of archives to extract, this popup message appears as each one is extracted. After a certain number are displayed, the result is a screen full of pop-ups and the ...
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Can i use HDMI audio only without video?
I am using ubuntu 16.10 and sometimes i just need better speakers .
At the office i have a huge lcd display which is too bright for such close distance but i still would like to use it as audio device....
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High CPU usage by Clementine and Amarok
My high-end gaming PC with vanilla Ubuntu 16.10 has some issues with Amarok and Clementine. They are both using around 20 % of cpu time without any visualizations active etc. Amarok is currently using ...
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How to make the Ubuntu login screen "controls" bigger?
I am using Ubuntu 16.10 on a laptop carrying out a HDPI screen and I managed to have a decent experience until now (Large Text enabled in the universal access, and the Scale for menu and title bars ...
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Error while adding repository in Ubuntu 16.10 (keyserver recieve failed)
Whenever I try adding a repository in my Ubuntu 16.10 I am getting keyserver recieve failed error.
For example on adding pycharm repo I am getting this error:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystic-...
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gnome super button doesn't search files
In Unity, the key combination "Super+F" finds files by name (even partial name) with no trouble, but in gnome, pressing "super" and then searching works for applications and folders (among other ...
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How can I remove time in other locations from the Unity date indicator menu?
I un-ticked "Time in auto-detected location" as well as "Time in other locations". However, the time of my current (I assume auto-detected location) is still being shown in the time & date ...
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How can I integrate Thunderbird Lightning calendar into the Unity message indicator menu?
Thunderbird provides Lightning, a proper calendar solution. In analogy to its "Contacts" solution, how can I integrate "Calendar" into the message indicator menu of Ubuntu 16.10 Unity?
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How to connect to FTP server in nautilus in Ubuntu 16.10
I want to connect to an FTP server on my Ubuntu desktop 16.10 but the option to do that from nautilus is not available as it was in Ubuntu 16.04.
What is the way to do that in Ubuntu 16.10?
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Why XnViewMP not working in 16.10?
I installed XnViewMP deb package by using GDebi, as have done it dozens of times before in previous Ubuntu versions. The installation finishes successfully, yet XnViewMP won't start, not even after ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 doesn't work in virtual machine (VMware)
Ubuntu 16.10 doesn't work in Virtual Machine. It gets installed though, but when powered on, it gives an error "Guest OS has disabled the CPU, Please power down or restart"
Even though I upgrade a VM ...
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Change “power-button-action” comand for “interactive” option in GNOME 3.20
I have a question that is very similar to
Change "power-button-action" comand for "hibernate" option in GNOME 3.18
, however the fix that is proposed there does not solve my issue....