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I've been trying to format a Drobo to use with linux. While I was doing this ubuntu suddenly stopped resolving .local domains, breaking big parts of my configuration. I could fix this by just using the ips, but I'd really like to learn what the problem is, since I actually did not really change anything on the system configuration, especially nothing network related, most if it is rather mint.

Possibly unrelated: the only thing I tried was a .deb archive for drobo-utils, which i downloaded from their sourceforge repo. Being an abandoned project that install failed without an error. I then installed drobo-utils via apt-get install, which was an outdated version, so I uninstalled via apt-get remove and dowloaded the plain version which I ran manually. All my attempts to format the drobo failed likely to the drobo not supporting linux (don't by this overpriced crap, I regret it).

So while i was running all sorts of commands (fdisk, parted, mke2fs, as I said nothing remotely network related) I noticed my homebridge installation reporting it could not resolve a .local domain. This however is not consistent, sometimes restarting homebridge helps and it can resolve .local again, then it stops again.

I am completely clueless about what to check. Everything I find when looking for not being able to resolve .local seems either outdated or completely unrelated to my problem, I I'd like to understand what kind of commands I am pasting into my terminal, so I also did not change any configuration yet.

I'm hoping to find somebody helpful who could try figure it out with me step by step.

I've had Ubuntu running on an old PC for a while (Core2Duo and Asus P5Q Pro motherboard). The PCs power supply is dead and I wanted to migrate the system to an unused HP EliteBook 8570p laptop.

When I try to boot I get greeted by an Intel Boot Agent message and on the next screen it says

Boot Device not found

An Ubuntu installation usb stick boots fine, I have also managed to install Ubuntu from this stick on a spare hard drive and it boots fine.

Since the Ubuntu of the old system contains tons of configuration which would take a significant amount of time to redo I'd really like to just get that drive booted. I'm hoping somebody would be able to help me out what the problem is and how I could solve this.

thanks!

I'm running ubuntu cosmic and have tried searching for a solution, but all solutions are regarding pip: command not found

pip seems to work fine (freshly installed via sudo apt-get install python-pip). After this I ran pip install modulename which also worked fine, but once I try running the module, I receive a command not found.

I did check echo $PATH which does not contain the directory the modules are installed to (~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages), but I have not found a single post that seemed to have the same problem as mine, and I already learned that wildly running commands in the hope to find a solution is more likely to break things.

In case it helps, I'm trying to run keen and keenmqtt.

I hope somebody is able to help :) Thanks!