Case: LibreCalc (any OS) displaying formulas instead of their output, without any prior changes to settings and for any document.
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Category: Software
phpMyAdmin error on Google Chrome: “Failed to set session cookie. Maybe you are using HTTP instead of HTTPS to access phpMyAdmin.”
Case: When trying to log in to phpMyAdmin on a localhost, via https, with Chrome, a “Failed to set session cookie” is displayed, although cookies are being set successfully.
“Support for cores revisions 0x17 and 0x18 disabled by module param allhwsupport=0. Try b43.allhwsupport=1” when booting Ubuntu
Case: Error received when installing Lubuntu 16.04 from an Alternate Image (for low-RAM pc’s) on an Asus EEE-PC 1015PW.
Correct Gmail Password Fails in Thunderbird and MS Outlook
Case: Thunderbird fails to connect to Gmail through IMAP for an existing or newly created account with an ‘incorrect password’ message. Same case for MS Outlook. The email address and password are correct. Using the same credentials on gmail.com works.
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Cannot edit invalid sudoers file, getting parse error
Case: After creating a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ and adding command aliases and a user privilege specification, the file became inaccessible and sudo-ing no longer worked on Ubuntu.
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Newly Created Googleads Campaign Not Showing Any Activity but Getting Billed
case: No data displayed for a recently created Ad Campaign, but it got billed and ads are displaying.
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GRUB error on boot: “disk ‘lvmid/xxxxxx-xxxxxx-…’ not found. Entering rescue mode…”
Case: Moving an SSD/HDD drive from one machine to another produces the error and interrupts the boot process.
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KDE Discover doesn’t return search results
Case: Searching for app on Discover, it returns results while “checking for updates” is running, but once the check is complete it no longer returns search results.
baloo_file error: KDE Baloo File Indexer has reached the inotify folder watch limit. File changes will be ignored.
Case: Ubuntu 18.04 (KDE), Baloo search index reached max inotify watchers: search in Dolphin (Ctrl+F) doesn’t return search results for new files and so does KRunner (Alt+F2).