Questions tagged [ubuntu-server]

Ubuntu Server is a flavour of the Ubuntu operating system. It is the same core product as the Desktop version, but with certain differences that make it more suitable as a server. Most notably, it's missing a GUI. is a free desktop and server operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Note that https://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Philosophy

The goal of the Ubuntu project is to provide a free computer environment, centered on a Linux distribution and complemented by online services.

Releases

Ubuntu includes a small amount of non-free software such as drivers. Ubuntu offers a large amount of packages directly taken from Debian's unstable distribution, in the form of the universe repository.

There is a release of Ubuntu every six months. One in four is a long-term support (LTS) release.

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Error response from daemon: join session keyring: create session key: disk quota exceeded

I tried installing docker on a server of mine using this tutorial. I want to run docker images remotely and use the portainer web-interface to administrate everything. However, when I get to the point where I need to test my installation and I enter…
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How to update Libzip to 1.2 on ubuntu 18.04 and PHP 7.2

I want to use ZipArchive::setEncryptionName on Ubuntu server 18.04.1 with PHP 7.2.7 Problem is that setEncryptionName need Libzip version at least 1.2 default configuration from PHP info: Zip version 1.15.2 Libzip version 1.1.2 I don't know how to…
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FFmpeg Live streaming Error: ffmpeg av_interleaved_write_frame broken pipe. Conversion Failed

I am trying to stream video live using ffmpeg. videos stream is coming from a camera over the network and there is bunch error that i got in initial part of doing this but here i am stacked with a error that is coming from ffmpeg where it says…
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AWS ec2 import-instance error-No valid partitions. Not a valid volume.[Client error]

I am trying to import a SO VMDK file(OVA/OVF) of Ubuntu server 14.04 to AWS ,But facing the below error , even though the machine seems to have proper partitioning and volumes . This happens only in case of Ubuntu server, while Windows server…
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python multiprocessing module: strange behaviour and processor load when using Pool

I'm using Python's multiprocessing lib to speed up some code (least squares fitting with scipy). It works fine on 3 different machines, but it shows a strange behaviour on a 4th machine. The code: import numpy as np from scipy.optimize import…
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Wordpress “Post name” permalinks not working

I have a Wordpress website running on Lamp Server on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I just tried to use the option for Post Name permalinks, and now my pages no longer load up. I turned on the mod_rewrite function of the Apache server, restarted it, but it…
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Building ubuntu server packages

I have developed some C++ apps on my Ubuntu desktop. I want to create installation packages so that I can install them on a Ubuntu server. Can anyone provide guidelines on how to create an Ubuntu server package?
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Owncloud not available after installation on Ubuntu server 14.04

With the goal to install owncloud (version 6.0.3-0) on my ubuntu server (14.04), I followed this guideline: http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/installation/installation_source.html After having this completed, the /var/www/owncloud…
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Nginx not displaying 404 page, instead serving index file in root

My Nginx server is not displaying my 404 page. Instead, whenever trying to access a non-existent page or directory, it merely serves my index(.php) in the root of my web folder (without the corresponding stylesheet). Here's my own 'default' file…
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lxc containers on another partition

I have created two containers(say TestOneContainer and TestTwoContainer) in ubuntu server using LXC. Now the lxc filesystem is in /home folder and two containers also use /home folder. I have created two partition(100 GB for TestOneContainer and 200…
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dpkg fails on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS

My Ubuntu 22.04 LTS seems to have problems with dpkg and I can't find anyone online that has the same issue as me. It makes me not able to install packages and I just don't know how to fix this. Setting up dpkg (1.21.1ubuntu2.1) ... head: error…
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what tasksel not showing ubunto-desktop

I am running UTA on mac M1 and I am installing ubuntu server 20*, it come into. point where I need to install UI for it, I have upgraded/ updated apt and installed taskesl, I don't know why I can't see the option to chose ubuntu-desktop when I type…
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"Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch" - is Ubuntu server auto-updating?

I just received this message on my Ubuntu server: Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch when typing watch nvidia-smi I am running ubuntu server (Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS), and everything was working correctly yesterday. So the…
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Error to install PM2 globally on Ubuntu Server 20.04LTS

I have a VM running Ubuntu Server 20.04LTS and I want to run a nodejs program using PM2. I'm having problems to install pm2 npm install -g pm2@latest and sudo npm install -g pm2@latest. npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall chmod npm ERR! path…
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