Questions tagged [troubleshooting]
Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes.
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Trackpad not working in Fedora 42 GNOME running on ASUS E410K laptop
I have an ASUS E410K laptop running F42 with GNOME. The trackpad seems to be working in the login screen, but stops working when the desktop is open. (It works fine in Windows, so the hardware seems ...
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"Information: Could not open the temporary file for saving" error in okular
I have an Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and I'm trying to save a pdf file on okular. Problem is that it shows the error "Could not open the temporary file for saving" whenever I try to save it. This ...
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After crash, Ubuntu boots into boot menu
After a crash (browser froze), I tried a hard reset, and on boot, this screen appeared, which I cannot bypass just by pressing Enter. This has happened before, and after several attempts and pressing ...
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Help diagnosing really obscure computer freezing issue
I have a Gigabyte Mini PC I bought back in 2017. Initially I ran Ubuntu Desktop on it, and it ran fine for a couple of years. Then all of a sudden, it started randomly freezing, and I could only ...
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Laptop sometimes hard reboots when scrolling in Twitter
This is one of the weirdest issues I have ever had: When scrolling in Twitter in a browser, the laptop suddenly does a hard restart. This can happen multiple times a day or it can take a few days ...
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Cause of abnormal laptop shutdown? Could ACPI Errors cause Overheating?
My well cooled laptop surprisingly shutdown at about 5 am local time, when I was sleeping. If anyone could help me decipher from logs or whatever below, what was the real cause, I would appreciate it ...
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GRUB fails to load Windows Boot Manager upon selection
I currently have Fedora 41 and Windows 11 installed on separate drives, but I'm having issues adding the Windows Boot Manager to the GRUB boot interface. Running sudo os-prober shows the Windows Boot ...
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Fedora 40 crash when booting
When I tried to boot Fedora, it stuck at here. I've waited for about 5 minutes . It only takes me 10 seconds to boot it in the past. What happend and how can I fix it?
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What is the scope of /var/log/user.log file?
/var/log/user.log What's the scope of this log file? Is it related only to currently logged in user or to multiple users and which ones? What this log file is about and when should I look into it?
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E: The repository 'http://archive.debian.org/debian bookworm Release' does not have a Release file. among other errors
When typing the following command, sudo apt update I get the following errors and warnings: Ign:1 http://archive.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/...
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bluetooth stopped working on CachyOS
I've always had problems with the Bluetooth in this distro , it ended up being half-assed by un mounting and re mounting btusb using modprobe. After that i could use it for a mouse. It wasn't perfect ...
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blank screen after ipv6.disable=1 removal from grub cmdline
I want to re-enable IPv6 on my system which is currently disabled in GRUB directly. But if I remove ipv6.disable=1, I then get a blank (backlit) screen. It took me tonight to figure out that I have a ...
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ansible-doc getting started?
Is there a vimtutor eqvivalent to ansible? I know I can read up on the syntax of a particular module using ansible-doc <module> - but what if I can't recall the module name? If I find myself ...
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Error code 2 from 'deb.debian.org' in apt update while GUI broken after Debian 12 extremely slow after upgrade from 11 to 12
I upgraded my Debian 11 to 12, after which Debian became extremely slow. I started to remove packages, but got GUI broken after running this (I did by accident Home Assistant installation on my Debian ...
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In a shell script, how do I print the input of every step of a pipe chain?
TL;DR: Is there a way to print the inputs and outputs of every step of a bash shell script, including the steps between pipe commands? Hopefully this is relatable: I wrote a script a while ago and ...
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