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What are possible states of remote computer after power outage?

I have remote computer to whos LAN I have full access. After a power outage, I can only ping this computer, but can't ssh to it. Nmap shows the following picture: Host is up (0.00055s latency). Not ...
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PopOS (Ubuntu) crashed and booted into emergency mode

I'm new to Linux but I'm going to try my best to describe the problem, please bare with me, if you need more information tell me what I can do to provide more information and I'll get it for you. ...
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Dual boot system failed, ubuntu file system missing during hard disk data recovery

I had a dual boot system with windows 10 and ubuntu 18. Recently the system failed, the motherboard probably got fried by lightning during a thunder storm and its not booting anymore, no fan, no ...
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Integration Rear with bacula

I am trying to integrate bacula community with Rear to have complete disaster recovery solution. But I don't really know how to configure bacula File Deamon nad local.conf file for Rear to be able to ...
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ubuntu 20.04 only boots from recovery mode

After a power outage, my ubuntu 20.04 boots from the normal option in grub to a black screen and hangs there. However, if I go to Advanced Options and select recovery mode and then "resume", ...
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Recover broken ubuntu image

I created a .gz archive of a disk image (Ubuntu 18.04) of one of my virtual servers with the following command: dd if=/dev/sdb | gzip -1 - | pv | ssh user@ip dd of=/home/user/sdb.gz While unpacking ...
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Linux Ubuntu crash & errors during boot

Ubuntu 16.04LTS, system crashes during boot with multiple errors. How to fix and recover system? (in details) Info: pic1 pic2 pic3
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Is it possible to switch to active Linux installation from Recovery mode?

Noob here. I have Pop OS 20.04 installed on my laptop. I've been getting these sudden freeze-outs where I get dialogues like "disk is read-only" when I'm doing something. Then I restart, and ...
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Ubuntu stops at booting

My laptop came with ubuntu lts preinstalled, i installed kde desktop&co via neon package sources. I've been using it for couple of months well-working. I left my laptop for acouple of minutes, and ...
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Got stuck in Emergency mode with ACPI Error

I am using ubuntu 16.04. I probably have done sth which damaged the system file. After reboot, I am stucked in emergency mode. The error is about ACPI like below. I am not sure what is wrong here. ...
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Is it possible to recover overwritten files from another operating System on the current operating system?

On my PC I had 2 operating sytems (ubuntu and windows) and for about 5 days I wanted to reinstall my Windows OS because of some bugs but instead of installing it on the partition where my old version ...
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Ubuntu 18.4.2 failsafex running in low graphics mode

Ubuntu fail safex running in low graphics mode I changed my theme from unity to gnome from ubuntu login and forgot to change the display manager to gdm3. And then I restarted low graphics mode. So ...
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What command is run when the dpkg option is selected in recovery mode?

I recently ran into the following situation: I could not boot my computer normally. (I was shown a blinking cursor after the boot-loader and Ubunutu load screen but before the login page while never ...
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How to regain access to the lost user , linux3 , of two side by side Ubuntu 16.04 instances?

Three days ago, I tried installing the second of two Ubuntu Linux 16.04 versions side by side on the same Lenovo Thinkstation desktop using the procedure described in this URL, https://askubuntu.com/...
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problem when booting linux server : Too many levels of symbolic links

By mistake, I executed these commands : sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh sudo ln -sf bash /bin/bash When I rebooted the Linux server in recovery mode I got this message: init : Failed to spawn friendly-...
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Can we use Linux Mint ISO to repair Ubuntu's Grub?

A friend of mine is running Ubuntu and got GRUB RESCUE. Can they use Mint ISO to repair their Grub? As I don't have Ubuntu ISO?
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Removed apt-get from Ubuntu; how to recover?

Well my fingers did manage to do sudo apt-get remove libstdc++6 and write, yes. That removed a lot of system files. Is there any way to bring it up working again? I have connected to terminal, and ...
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