Questions tagged [18.10]
Questions about 18.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) is a non-LTS version released on October 18, 2018. It became End Of Life (EOL) on July 18, 2019.
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X crashing after sleep, Dell 7490 laptop with Intel modesetting driver, xrandr weirdness too, Ubuntu 18.10
First I encountered various problems trying to use xrandr to set up external monitors after they had successfully configured then disconnected and reconnected, possibly after the laptop was put to ...
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Connection refused on Ubuntu 18.10
I'm new to Ubuntu and i just installed the 18.10 version as a dual boot with windows. My problem is that when i try to connect to certain websites likes my university's mail, i get a connection ...
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Ubuntu bold fonts disappeared
All of a sudden, bold fonts do not work at all.
As you can see I have selected Menlo Bold but that doesn't show up. Also fonts in the native text editor has also started to look crappy.
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Is there a prettier login screen for Ubuntu 18.10?
Not sure why but my Ubuntu 18.10 has installed with a rather visually ugly login screen.
I’ve seen people with older versions have nicer login pages, am I missing anything? Here is a screenshot:
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Ubuntu freezes/crashes with multiple hard drives
I have two SSDs in my system, one for Windows and one for Ubuntu (and one HDD for storage). Installation works fine, and I can use Ubuntu with no problems as long as my other drives aren't connected. ...
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resume from suspend causing disk errors on SSD Ubuntu 18.10 Mate
I've confirmed now that this only happens on resume from suspend. I've spent the last 2 weeks always powering off my machine and I never get any disk errors. If I let the machine suspend however, I ...
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Media Keys not working
I am having trouble enabling my media keys on my keyboard. Running Ubuntu 18.10 an I am using a Razor Huntsman elite keyboard which has the pause/play, skip, previous, mute buttons and a dial for the ...
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Ubuntu freezes on Surface Pro 5
I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my new surface pro 2017. To not change anythings on the internal storage, I put Linux on the Samsung micro SD card of 128GB class 10 U3, and to prevent any data leak, I ...
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Problem with two 4k monitors connected via DisplayPort on Lenovo ThinkPad t470p
I have Lenovo ThinkPad t470p with docking station Lenovo ThinkPad Ultra Dock 170W 40A20170EU.
This docking station has 2x DisplayPort 1.2.
I connected two 4k monitors (LG 27UK850-W) via DisplayPorts.
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Wifi became KO on Ubuntu 18.10
My WiFi stopped working after apt upgrade. No WiFi section appears in the network properties panel.
Here is the result of sudo lspci -v for my WiFi:
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor ...
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After upgrading to 18.10 why are files/nautilus bookmark icons in the sidebar traced in brown?
Can anyone tell me why in 18.10, using gnome under xorg,there is a brown colour around the bookmarks in nautilus? It's only the bookmark icons, other sidebar icons are fine.
It also doesn't matter ...
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Pressing PrintScreen to take a screenshot closes all open applications
On Ubuntu 18.10, when I use gnome-screenshot and press PrintScreen, the window log out automatically and close all apps. How to fix this problem?
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TP-Link Archer T2U wifi is not working
Still no luck to install the driver for TP-LINK Archer T2U on fresh installed Ubuntu 18.10. I checked and tried all other posts in here, but I had no luck.
The installation process was like this:
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Filesystem set to read only frequently Ubuntu 18.10
In the past few days my system repeats to set itself to read only.
I've done some searches and apparently my drive might have gone bad? After a reboot I've been running fsck and say yes to everything ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 slow boot after upgrading from 18.04 LTS
I have updated from 18.04 LTS to 18.10 and when booting, Ubuntu freezes nearly 30 second. It opens total like 2 minutes. I have tried nearly everything but I didnt find a solution. I looked apport.log ...
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ThinkPad battery recalibration having no effect
ThinkPad T420s, Ubuntu 18.10. Running TLP.
If I run the battery as long as it can last, it goes at least two hours. Yet, Ubuntu (and "Power Statistics" app) think the battery can only last about ten ...
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Internal WiFi card not working on Ubuntu 18.10
I have an HP Notebook 15-rb001ne laptop with Realtek RTL8723BE internal WiFi card and I have installed Ubuntu 18.10 on the laptop and I can say that everything looks good and the system is working ...
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Most of my files are being copied to the root of my home directory
The /home directory is on a 500GB SSD, with Documents, Pictures, etc. (currently residing on the 4TB HDD) symlinked to my /home. For some reason, right after I logged in, the files have been moved to ...
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18.10 booting black screen and white underscore freeze
When I boot up all I see is black screen with white underscore blinking. This is not fresh install since i have been using it for over 2months with no problems. I use 3 monitors if that may cause any ...
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Hotel Wifi problem on Ubuntu 18.10
On Dell Latitude I run Ubuntu 18.10. Originally the wifi symbol had a question mark which I got rid of by switching off connectivity check in privacy settings. This didn't fix the problem. Network ...
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How to migrate existing ext4 partitions to another drive with encrypted partitions
So i have an SSD with the following partitions:
1. fat32 - /boot/efi - 190MB boot,esp
2. ext4 / 65.19 GB
3. linux-swap 1.40Gb
4. ext4 /home 398.98 Gb
I bought a new SSD and would like to clone ...
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Systemd broken after upgrade 18.04 -> 18.10
I tried to upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 but the upgrade failed half way because of unmet dependencies. It's specifically:
python3-apt, apt-xapian-index, python3-newt:amd64, systemd, python3-gdbm:amd64, ...
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<Alt> + Middle Mouse Button
In Ubuntu 18.10's gnome dconf editor, is there a way to bind:
raise-or-lower
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['Alt MMB’]
where MMB is middle mouse button? I’ve been so used to that in Unity that I wish gnome would allow me to ...
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Where to find asm/unistd.h
When trying to build jonesforth, which is a 32-bit GNU Assembler program, on Ubuntu 18.10 64-bit, I get the following message:
~/src/jonesforth $ make
gcc -m32 -nostdlib -static -o jonesforth ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 Not Booting Correctly After Upgrade
I just upgraded from 18.04 to 18.10 and am having some issues. When I start Ubuntu I get stuck on "A start job is running..." with no limit and that never ends. However, I can switch to tty2 and login ...
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Screens turn off and keep turning back on with mouse cursor and black screen (Ubuntu 18.10)
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.10 and only have one issue with screen inactivity.
After setting blank screen time (15min) my dual screens turn off for about 5 seconds and then turn back on with a ...
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Secure Admin must be enabled to access the DAS remotely - access Glassfish config page
My environment is Ubuntu 18.10. It is a new installation, no firewall or processes that run on Glassfish ports.
I installed Glassfish 5 on the server. Java 8, because Glassfish doesn't support any ...
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Login after suspend taking an increasingly long time - 18.10
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (4th gen) that I recently updated to 18.10. Ever since the update, I've had issues with resume after suspend. The biggest is that it takes a long time for the login screen ...
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simple scan doesn't launch 18.10
Is this known that simple scan fails in 18.10?
It simply fails to come up.
I installed m1212nf mfp which isn't officially yet supported in18.10.
The fax/printer appears in the printer list.
The most ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 boot process occasionally hangs
When I am booting Ubuntu 18.10 on my desktop, most of the times it boots as it should. But occasionally it is getting stuck. When I open the text mode of booting, I'm getting this:
At that time, the ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 not locking before sleep
I have my lid-switch sleep-then-hibernate with logind, but upon waking the system is still logged in, but in a seemingly unusable state with nothing but the top bar clickable and even that is ...
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Problems trying to install Ubuntu 18.10 in Aspire A515-51
I just bought a new Aspire A515-51, and I tried to install Ubuntu 18.10 but I'm having trouble. When I have to select the partition where I want to install it, it doesn't show the /dev/sda: screen ...
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Can I upgrade to 18.10 from 18.04 with the same python packages installed?
Are all the python packages installed in 18.04 support on 18.10 ? because all my development packages are installed in 18.04.
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Ubuntu 18 unmutes itself when a sound is played
I used to have this issue on 18.04 and I fixed it with help of some thread I found and now that I updated to 18.10 I'm having the issue again but I just can't find the old thread that helped me figure ...
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Mirrored Volume of Windows to Ubuntu RAID 1
I am dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.10. The D:\ Drive has a mirrored volume on another hard disk. I am trying to use mdadm to setup similiar mirroring on Ubuntu so that, regardless which OS I ...
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Upgrade to 18.10 now I need recovery mode to boot
After upgrading from 18.04 to 18.10 everything went well and booted on first boot. On subsequent boots it will hang on the ubuntu splash (no movement of circles). If I hit escape and select recovery ...
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Keyboard Input Lag on new 18.10 Install
I recently purchased a new SSD after my old HDD died, and decided do go 100% Ubuntu on it. The install went smoothly and I love the system, save for the slight lag between typing on my keyboard and ...
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Syntax error when running make to install WiFi drivers
I have a TP Link WN823N (Version 3.0) USB WiFi adapter. Ubuntu 18.10 lets me attempt to connect to a wireless network but fails every time with the notification:
Connection Failed
Activation of ...
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'gnome-control-center' disappears on Ubuntu 18.10 after repostioning Ubuntu dock
When I change the position of the sidebar (dock), the 'Settings' window disappears from the screen and never shows up again.
The process starts to run when you click on the setting icon or run the ...
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Wired mouse not connecting on boot
I have a corsair m65 pro, I never unplug it, but when I boot into Ubuntu 18.10, from a shutdown the mouse isn't recognized until after I unplug it in, and reinsert it. Only then does the mouse work. ...
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ubuntu 18.10 screen flickering solved
example of the screen flickering in YT
I upgraded to ubuntu 18.10 a couple of days ago and noticed that my screen flickered with some YT videos. I changed to the proprietary nvidia drivers (1060 ...
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Intel AC8260 can't find any bluetooth device
I have installed Ubuntu 18.10 and I can't find any bluetooth devices (I havr tried with 5 different working bluetooth devices).
Laptop: Lenovo X1 Carbon gen.4
Useful info for debug:
uname:
$ uname -...
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How to fix Gnome Calculator missing +/- button?
did someone faced really weird (and maybe funny) problem with gnome Calculator 3.30.1 on Ubuntu 18.10? It is missing [+/-] button in all modes so there is no way to use negative numbers...
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Touchscreen unresponsive after reboot
Sometime in the last 3 days, I rebooted my laptop and found my touchscreen was no longer working. I Don't think the kernel has been updated, which means there's either a hardware problem, a recent ...
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Open folder in vscode - path bar is not showing correctly
I have recently upgraded Ubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10 and when I try and open a new folder in vscode, the open folder window doesn't show the path as it should.
It still lets me click on the folder ...
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Ubuntu 18 server console resolution problem
I don't use desktop, so no X-window is involved.
How do I change resolution of text console?
Things I tried:
Setting in GRUB: by either video=, or GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX, it works - GRUB is ...
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Do Ubuntu Qt5 maintainers know it ships with Vulkan disabled?
Ubuntu 18.10 ships with Qt 5.11 which should support Vulkan.
If Qt5 gets built on a host that doesn't support Vulkan its support will get disabled, to fix this issue it has to be built on a host with ...
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CPUs switching to very low speed in 18.10
Since updating to Ubuntu 18.10, CPU power management seems to be having problems. I think (not sure) it occurs when the laptop starts running a little hot, and the intel_pstate switches the CPUs to a ...
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How to save the system state during windows sleep on vmware Ubuntu 18.0.14 lts?
I have a ubuntu running on vmware setup on windows10. Whenever windows goes to sleep or i lock out the windows the programs that am running on ubuntu are not being saved.
Once i login after resuming ...
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Switch windows with alt + left and alt + right
I'm using Ubuntu 18.10, and I want to switch between the windows using the shortcut Alt-Left and Alt-Right, like on macOS.
Is this possible?
Alt-Tab didn't worked to me because it only switch between ...
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