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What is causing Ubuntu 18.10 to stop boot process at backlit black screen after latest OS updates?
Did latest OS updates on 4 Feb 2019 on HP Elitebook 2530P. Updates required restart. System restarted, but hung with backlit black screen. Could only get it to work by interrupting boot and ...
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Applications requiring JRE not starting
When I first started my computer this morning, I started getting successive System program problem detected alerts. This is after a software update last night. Now my IDEs (Intellij, Android Studio) ...
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Experiencing Suspend/Resume Problem After Latest Kernel Update - Ubuntu 14.04
I am experiencing suspend/resume issues after updating my kernel to the latest versions viz. 3.13.0-149-generic. Since 2015, and until Kernel version 3.13.0-147-generic, everything was working fine. ...
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How do I get identical kernel release and kernel versions across multiple systems?
How do I get identical kernel versions across multiple machines?
I have 8 machines which I want to be on identical OS versions. They originally started out as Ubuntu 14.04 installs (at differing ...
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Why is APT suggesting upgrading kernel 3.13 from 4.4.0 on trusty?
APT has me stunned from time to time. Two weeks ago I did an apt update followed by apt upgrade and was offered the 3.13 kernel even though I'm on 4.4. I ignored that. A week later I re-ran update and ...
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No wifi after update to Kernel 4.10 / 4.11 - Ubuntu 14.04
My wifi is no longer working under kernel 4.10 / 4.11. Here is the output from dmesg | grep iwl under kernel 4.11
[ 2.307045] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode ...
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Upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 results in kernel panic
I've been upgrading my ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 through this guide.
This is what i did,
First,
I did sudo apt-get update and it updated successfully.
Then,
I did sudo apt-get upgrade and it downloaded ...
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Unable to update 3.13.0-36-generic Kernel in Ubuntu 14.04.5
I have a Ubuntu 14.04.5 droplet on digitalocean running 3.13.0-36-generic kernel. I read on digitalocean that my kernel version is vulnerable so I tried to update my kernel by running
sudo apt-get ...
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Can't use Updater due to automatic kernel upgrade
I've got Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop ed. w/ kernel ver. 3.16
About a month ago I allowed the system to upgrade the kernel to ver. 4.xx, but after that I couldn't boot my system, so I re-installed everything ...
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apt-get doesn't get latest kernel
One day I noticed that I have installed on my system the linux-headers packages until version 3.13.0-92. On the contrary, linux-image packages are only installed until version 3.13.0-39.
apt-get ...
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How to install a specific kernel version?
yesterday I updated the kernel version to 4.2.0-42-generic through update manager. This unlucky event caused nvidia drivers to stop working, resulting in the famous login loop issue, after rebooting.
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Software Updater wants to install two different versions of kernel
On 14.04.4, Software Updater popped up and showed me this:
I am very new to Ubuntu, and this seems odd to see both vervet and unicorn kernel headers, kernel image, etc. So what is going on? Should I ...
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Does kernel 4.4.6 come automatically with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS -> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS update?
Today I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS OS and kernel 3.13.0-83 in my 64 bit laptop. With this kernel version I have still same problem of ''Kernel panic ...'' announcements and required reboot actions as with ...
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Kernel Update from 4.2.0-30-generic to 4.4
I recently created a partition on my Macbook Pro (late 2013 release) to run Ubuntu, following this tutorial.
I managed to have it running smoothly, but I need to update the Kernel to 4.4. I've been ...
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Login Loop on Ubuntu 14.04 after latest update
It would appear I'm not the only one but I haven't seen any answers on similar posts that work. Wondering if anyone knows the issue. Latest kernel 79. Tried reinstalling lightdm and tried gdm, no luck....
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Any plans to update Ubuntu 140.04 Kernel beyond 3.16.0-34-generic
As per the title. I'm having issues with my wireless network, and from what I've read, these have been addressed in more recent releases.
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Did Canonical just downgrade the kernel?
I'm on 14.04 LTE and I just got a regular update. I ran "uname -r" and it seems the kernel is now "3.13.0-65-generic."
I'm very happy with this, because MTP now works with my Android phone (It didn't ...
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How can I avoid kernel updates?
I want to freeze the kernel-version of Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Trusty. Is it enough to comment line 5 and 6 of the /etc/apt/source.list (see below)?
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5 deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ...
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Updating kernel question
I'm running 14.04 and installed the 4.02 kernel several months ago because it supported my hardware better (ThinkPad T450s) than the 3.13 kernel.
When I run software update, however, it does not ...
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Ubuntu 14.04.02 downloads lts utopic kernel
So an update just came up for me asking to install kernel stuff, and I looked into it. It turns out it was going to install the 14.10 (utopic) lts kernel (linux-image-generic-lts-utopic) along with ...
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Why am I getting an error related to linux-image-3.13.0-53-generic (3.13.0-53.88)?
Every time I install or remove existing software I get the following error.
isuru@isuru-Inspiron-3420:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Black screen after grub menu since 3.16.0-36 kernel update
After updating Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (64 bit) from kernel version 3.16.0-34 to 3.16.0-36, when I boot the system I can see the grub menu correctly, but if I choose the 3.16.0-36 kernel a black screen ...
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Why do I see so many frequent updates to the kernel?
Is Ubuntu sending these unusually frequent updates or am I being "blessed" by the usual suspects ?
Why is now "unattended updates" installed when a cardinal reason for using Ubuntu was the wish to ...
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A question about the last security update for Ubuntu ("ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change...") [duplicate]
I'm subscribed to the Ubuntu Security Notes, so everytime that I receive an e-mail, a new update is avalable.
But in the last update, they wrote something in the end that I coudn't undertand much, so ...
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Black screen and call stack trace showing after kernel update
I ran an update today which included kernel updates. I left the screen for a while and when I came back all I see now is a black screen with white text containing call stack trace information ...
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