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Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes.

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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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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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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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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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/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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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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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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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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I've been having this issue lately where whenever I hit Caps Lock or Print Screen, it works normally but also acts like I hit the lower brightness key. This only happens with these keys specifically, ...
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Hello the option to connect to Wifi is not shown on the PureOS settings? Which firmware should I install ? Distro ID: PureOS Descrip: PureOS 10 Byzantium Releases: 10
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I apologize that this question has been asked before. I looked at the answers on those questions but am still struggling. I have recently switched to Linux after using Windows for decades. I've been ...
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TLDR: How do I troubleshoot a slow usb 3.1 device plugged into a laptop. ISSUE: When I copy (tried GUI and terminal) the first few .iso files copy almost instantly 300mb/s+, but then the 3rd/4th start ...
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I am very confused by the load on my i9-13900k. It's always the same 18th core and only that one specific core. I tried to kill every process running on that said core but the load still persists. Can ...
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I have a broken ext4 partition which I want to recover. The problem occurred because of a sudden power loss. The partition is an encrypted luks partition. Opening the luks container works. Say I open ...
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Discord on my computer crashes constantly at random intervals. Sometimes I can use it for hours without issues, other times it crashes just 10 minutes after starting. I thought that this had to do ...
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I have a server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I can connect to it via SSH from any other computer on my network no problem. I can also access the services it has running from my network. Unfortunately its ...
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I ran into some troubles doing do-release-upgrade and it killed my grub boot. Because I couldn't find the steps on how to fix this online I'll answer with my own notes below.
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I am having issues with SAR not populating daily logs from the 10 minute interval runs it is supposed to be doing. I have the same configuration on multiple servers, and they are running sar just fine....
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In system administration and software development on Linux, it is very common to come across errors that come from the system C library and/or kernel, which I will call "errnos" (short for &...
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Overview For around the last two years, my desktop computer has been crashing intermittently due to filesystem errors forcing the SSD to become read-only. It might go well over a week without anything ...
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I have voyage linux on a system. It is running an apache server and an sshd. For some reason, i cannot connect to those services from another machine. There are no error logs that i have been able to ...
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My keyboard locks up sometimes when I press CTRL related keyboard combinations, for example CTRL+C, CTRL+V etc. One behaviour is that the "C" key seems to be stuck so it writes "...
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WiFi on an up to date Debian 11.2 works very badly compared to an old Ubuntu 18.04 on the same hardware and same testing conditions. I'm wondering what would be a sensible way of isolating the cause? ...
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How would I go about determining why my Chromebook (Acer CB515-1HT using the SeaBIOS for boot provided by MrChromeBox.) running Linux Mint suspends successfully but does not resume? When it resumes, ...
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After a few weeks of not having time for games, today I am unable to launch Steam. I do not remember some bigger change in the system = Linux Mint 20 than upgrading my Mint today from version 20.2 to ...
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