Where can I find the log file of my system temperature?
So, I have the lm-sensors package installed, and I can run sensors and get details of my system temperature, like this: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual ...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
My external hard drive keeps unmounting and remounting itself
I have a Seagate 500 GB desktop external drive. When I plug the drive in through USB 2.0, it immediately auto-mounts and functions for about 1 minute befo...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
Resize partition by 1 or 3 MiB is not possible
I'm trying to resize the partition in such a way that exactly fits for a 4 MiB Physical Extents. This means that the partition sectors must add up to...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
permission error when installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer/Can't drop privileges as file couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'
I wanted to install the Microsoft fonts on 16.04 and ran the command below, but there are many errors (or only warnings?) about that the user _apt has no ...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
Upgrade to 16.04 breaks Wifi on Dell XPS 13 (9343)
Ubuntu 15.x was working great on my Dell XPS 13. After upgrading to 16.04 it appears the drivers for the Broadcom BCM4352 Wireless Network Adapter are not...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
How to add Wanda (the fish) to the GNOME Shell panel?
How do you add Wanda (the fish) to the GNOME Shell panel, or to the launcher, and have it display fortune? I want my fish back. I already have fortune; I ...
03 Apr 2026 0 READS
AMD Radeon RX 640 not recognized on freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04
Initially, I was running into the problem of black screen on boot up after a fresh installation and after seeing a solution which told me to add nomodeset...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
What does linux-headers-`uname -r` do?
What does the following command do? sudo apt-get --reinstall install linux-headers-`uname -r` sudo executes the statement with elevated priviledges. apt-g...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
dropbox configuration
I've dropbox v1.4.17 installed and I want to change the path from (...)/Dropbox to (...)/dropbox. I think until v1.2 this was done by changing dropbo...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
Remember what files are opened in a session of gedit
Is it possible to remember what files are opened in a session of gedit, by gedit itself or its plug-ins, just similar to what the session manager of Firef...
03 Apr 2026 1 READS
