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If you mean you want to do a fresh dirty install (re-use your current /home) Yes; I mean fresh dirty install You have an Optimus-style laptop (Intel and Nvidia) Yes; I've two display cards. Now, I did a fresh dirty install. May you please double check both logs for me. Is there anything wrong? Log ...

Aside from the issues of the Nvidia driver, it appears there may be a problem with Intel in your system right now. Intel is showing as the gpu. I didn't notice that! Everything had problem after installing that stupid driver :cry: Which Nvidia driver number did you install from the website? https:/...

This error occurs although NVIDIA is the active GPU OpenGL: renderer: N/A v: N/A direct render: N/A May you please help me to be able to fix this issue? IMPORTANT : I did a stupid thing before this issue occurred. I tried to install a newer NVIDIA driver from the official website but it doesn't work...

I could fix this issue successfully using Software Sources -> Downgrade foreign packages after disabling the stupid PPAs


Thank you guys for the quick responses.

I tried to apply ppa-purge ppa:savoury1/vlc3 but it suggested the following which made me stop because it will delete my system :evil: # ppa-purge ppa:savoury1/vlc3 Updating packages lists PPA to be removed: savoury1 vlc3 Package revert list generated: libdav1d6:amd64- libdvdnav4:amd64- libdvdread8:...

Which version of mint was successful and which version was unsuccessful? Sorry, it seems both of them failed Linux Mint 20.3. I'm even unable to install vlc too! # apt install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be ins...

I want to use recent ffmpeg but I failed to do it on one machine while the other installed without any problem! May you please help me to find out what's going on? I added the following PPA add-apt-repository -y ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 add-apt-repository -y ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5 then # apt update &&...

systemctl status ufw $ sudo systemctl status ufw ● ufw.service - Uncomplicated firewall Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: e> Active: active (exited) since Sat 2022-07-23 01:17:00 +03; 20h ago Docs: man:ufw(8) Main PID: 876 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks...

BTW, I no longer installed gufw until I get ufw to work fine.

Termy wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:02 pm You could try purging UFW with sudo apt-get purge ufw gufw, then installing them anew: sudo apt-get install ufw gufw

Didn't fix the issue

@ mbnoimi: you confused two different things - systemd service and firewall application. run these commands in such order: sudo ufw enable expected output: Firewall is active and enabled on system startup sudo systemctl start ufw.service sudo ufw status reboot run sudo ufw status I did it in the su...

sleeper12 wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:30 pm I dunno, but maybe reinstall it:

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sudo apt install --reinstall ufw

Thank you. Doesn't fix the issue it still the same

Hi, Without any reason UFW doesn't run automatically! May I get some help please? $ sudo systemctl status ufw ● ufw.service - Uncomplicated firewall Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Tue 2022-07-19 08:58:00 +03; 26min ago ...

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Hello, On startup randomly the appearance of some XFCE components doesn't appear correctly although I set the appearance to Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua for the desktop & Windows Manager as shown in the attachments. The most affected components are: panel, popup menu and logout window. PS. For fixing the pa...

Thanks @Flemur for the great suggestions: For the 1st suggestion: I get the same behavior (still show authentication showmessage without executing manager-linux-x64.run ) 1. Created /home/mbnoimi/Desktop/xampp.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=la...

Silly me; It's important to mention that I can see Authentication showmessage as shown below but after input the password it fails to launch the executable (it works if I input the same command in the terminal pkexec /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run)

So when you put that "/path/to/executable" to the right of "Exec=" in a terminal it works fine. Yes And when you double click on the .desktop it does nothing? Yes Have you gone into htop to confirm the application is not running? Yes After all that, when you put that "/path...

mikeflan wrote: ⤴Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:00 pm I suspect you know far more about this than I do, but since nobody else has responded I'll suggest this.

Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't work