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I have 4 bad sectors on my hard disk, should I be worried?

I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Here are some screenshots that depict the condition of my hard drive. It shows that my hard drive has 4 bad sectors. Is this somet...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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xfce windows are missing toolbar, focus is broken

It's subtle, but as you can see in the screenshot: there are no min, max or close buttons on the windows. The edges of windows can be resized, but it...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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How do I restart dnsmasq?

I can't figure out how to restart dnsmasq. service dnsmasq restart dnsmasq: unrecognized service SOLUTION Restart the network manager (his parent) su...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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How to set up a root cron job properly

I tried to set up a root cron job to run a Bash script as root, to run at minute 7,37, every hour, every day of month, every month. This script is located...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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How to reinstall a package

I am getting this while installing libebml3: Errors were encountered while processing: libebml3:i386 Error in function: dpkg: error processing libebml3:i3...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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How to copy or sync music on iphone 3gs on ubuntu 14.04?

I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 and want to copy music to/on my iPhone 3gs. I already installed the actual mobile device, but neither Rhythmbox nor gmusicbrowser s...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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Black background on Ubuntu 20.04

After I 'reset to defaults' on tweak, my desktop background looks like this Do you know how to fix it?

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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filename is distorted with '$/r' appended to filename [duplicate]

I am trying to learn linux commands so please bear with any ignorance. I am creating a file with cut command which is written in Script.sh file. But when ...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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LibreOffice "automatic file name extension" box missing

I often create TSV files in LibreOffice Calc. The "automatic file name extension" box required for this process used to be an option when you File > Sa...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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Annoying KDE Wallet Service popup: The application 'kded5' has requested to open the wallet 'kdewallet'

On my Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver LTS, the following popup appears often when working with Docker and I'm not purposely doing anything that would requ...

Published: Jul 19, 2026

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