I was running 22.04.4 Desktop without problems. This morning, it asked if update to 24.04.1 Desktop and I unfortunately accepted... The update process blocked in the middle leaving the system in a not usable state: no GUI neither network. So, I tried to reinstall from scratch. I flashed 24.04.1 Desktop ISO on a USB stick with Ventoy. I have / /boot /home swap partitions. So, I went to manual partitioning to avoid formatting /home with my data. The install process stopped very soon, the error on the log is: verifying partition flag, expected swap, found none. By the way, the installer is very unstable, setting the laptop in airplane mode improves stability but still doesn't install. I am without a computer now, I only had Ubuntu, can somebody suggest how install a fresh 24.04.1 Desktop saving my /home partition, please?
I read the following article on a problem with TRIM and Samsumg.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04.1 and I have a Samsung PRO 850 of 250GB.
I am worried to get my file system damaged due to same firmware problem.
Does anybody have issues with same SSD and Ubuntu version?
Do you suggest to disable trim for safety?
If yes, it is enough to delete the file /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim ?
Thank you, Simone
I have a laptop Asus K53s with nVidia GeForce GT 540M. I (freshly) installed Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and set up nvidia-331 proprietary driver for the graphic card. I set prime option to run nVidia acceleration and it used to work fine.
On 25th Janaury 2015, there was an Ubuntu software update (from apt log I saw it was updated nvidia-settings, and other stuff) after which I see a black screen instead of the login screen.
I tried to switch to intel graphic card (sudo prime-switch intel) but it gives erros, it is not able to switch to intel.
I tried to purge nvidia* and then install nvidia-340, but it still shows black screen instead of login.
The only way to use my laptop is to install:
apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
which is the driver nvidia-304. But it uses the intel graphics card. It is not possible switch to nVidia neither with
sudo prime-switch nvidia
nor with
nvidia-setting graphic utility.
I need to use my nVidia card for graphic acceleration (OpenGL). At the moment the laptop is too slow for my activity (CAD).