I have been experiencing strange font rendering in Firefox on Ubuntu for the last couple of months. The letters in certain texts have very wide spacing (see the screenshot). It started on 21.10 a couple of months ago and continued after I have recently upgraded to 22.04. In Chrome font rendering is fine. So it looks like a Firefox issue.
I'm trying to fix a remote laptop to which I do not have any physical access. The person who uses this laptop has no technical knowledge so she can only do what I tell her to do over the phone.
There is a problem with one or two volumes (sda7 and sda8) so when she boots the laptop, she's got a message "Use Ctrl+D to continue or Press Enter to get into recovery mode" or something like that. Ctrl+D does not do anything. Pressing Enter takes her into root prompt. So I was trying to run fsck from there but it fails with a message like "fsck error while loading: cannot open shared library" or something (Sorry I do not see these messages and have to rely on what is read over phone but someone who doesn't speak English).
I tried to navigate her into Recovery Mode through the GRUB menu but running the kernel in recovery mode fails for some reason. She can see the Recovery Mode but the options are not active.
So I am a bit lost here. I have not got any idea what try next. Because of the COVID (and she's elderly) there no way for her to ask someone to come and try to fix it for her or even to buy a new laptop (someone will have to set it up for her).
So I wonder if there is any other way to run fsck on the system (LiveCD is also out of question, unfortunately)?
She's got dual Windows 7/Ubuntu 16.04 boot but she's never used Windows before. Also, there's no TeamViewer on Windows so it's difficult for me to set it up for her.
In any case, any help is really appreciated.
Basically is it possible at all and if it is, how to do it. I need to access a remote machine in case of boot errors to fix them using for example fsck when all partitions should be unmounted etc.
My mother has an old Lenovo laptop (bought I think in 2010) with Ubuntu 16.04 installed. It was 14.04 but I upgraded it the last time I was at her place. Her laptop has become very sluggish recently and it's painful to talk over Skype and I tried Duo web and it's still slow and sound stutters and so on.
I am thinking to update her system to more recent one and probably switch her from Ubuntu to Lubuntu or something lightweight. However, she lives far away and I can now for many reasons to go to her now.
I wonder if there is a good way to upgrade her remotely. One of the problems is that she doesn't have a smartphone so if something goes wrong I won't be able to see it. So I wonder if there is a way to keep connected to her laptop to see what is going on and fix it if something breaks during the upgrade? I currently can connect to her laptop through Teamviewer.
I suspect the answer but still want to try. I have a relative who's got a laptop with Ubuntu. She just uses it for Internet browsing and she's not technical at all. Her laptop stopped loading. She's got a black screen and because she does not have a camera phone, I am not sure what is happening. I have been with her on the phone and it looks like GRUB works and we managed to get into Windows 7. However, she doesn't know how to use it and to get there every time looks too complex for her to do it on her own. I'd rather connect to her laptop remotely to try to fix it. Usually, I use TeamViewer but it's not an option now. I doubt she will be able to install it on Win7 and even if she does, I don't think it will help. I wonder if there is any default fallback way to connect to her laptop if it doesn't load Ubuntu. I have a feeling it might be some problem with a sys or boot drive being full or something. But to fix it,, I need to get connected.
Any help will be appreciated. Even if it's not possible without setting something, please mention it so I could have a fallback option in the future in case I manage to restore the laptop.
Does anyone know if it works at all? I think it used to be an extension for that but I cannot see it anymore.
I want to restrict Deja Dup backup of my laptop to only my home network. It's not a big deal as it just fails if I'm working somewhere else but I wonder if it still possible to do?
I did the most stupid thing. I was resizing the home partition with GParted and decided to cancel the process after a few minutes. Now the whole partition is in the Lost+Found folder. All folders and files are completely jumbled. It looks like the files and names are mixed up. Like you have a files under one name but when you open it, it's a completely different file or different format. I don't think I can do much about it rather than going manually through the whole bunch and see what can be still salvaged. But would appreciate any advice!
I'm trying to install libfprint 0.99.0 from here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/releases The version available in Ubuntu repos do not support my fingerprint scanner (Elan). There is an instruction in here http://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html how to use meson. Basically, I run all commands but at the end, after running ninja and building it I've no idea how to install it. Also running ninja-test gives me this:
$ ninja test [0/1] Running all tests. No tests defined.
So I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.
I've got a Synology NAS at home and I auto-mount the NFS shared folders from it on my laptop. However, when I am using the laptop outside my house, it takes it too long to boot up and I suspect that it is because it tries to mount the NFS shares. I wonder if it is possible to set it up in a way when the laptop does not try to mount the shares if the home network is not present. Or that it would give up attempts to mount the shares quicker?
I've got /var mounted as a separate partition and although it's 2Gb it keeps filling up quite often. Using something like apt clean only frees 100m at best. So I would like to move it to the root partition. I wonder what is the easiest method to do it? I know that I can boot from a USB and do it (although not sure how) but I wonder if it is possible to avoid it and do it just from the current installation?
I am looking a sort of a day organiser for my Ubuntu laptop with Google calendar integration and preferably cross-platform so I could use it on my Android phone. Basically I need a to-do-list with an option to track the progress, a nice visualisation of the day, ability to see my Google calendar events and appointments. I wonder if anything like this exists. Any recommendations are welcome!
Basically tried to search for all avi files and could not find the way to do it in Unity. I know that it is possible to do it with locate command in terminal and in Nautilus but I wonder if it is possible through Dash.
Amazon webapp launches the US site. How can I change it to the UK version of the website?