the act of stopping & starting a process, or rebooting an entire PC.
Questions tagged [restart]
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How do I change the hostname without a restart?
I want to change the OS hostname but I do not want to restart.
I have edited /etc/hostname but it requires a restart to get implemented. How to avoid this?
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How to fix "sudo: unable to open ... Read-only file system"?
The title might not be as descriptive as I would like it to be but couldn't come up with a better one.
My server's file system went into Read-only. And I don't understand why it does so and how to solve it.
I can SSH into the server and when trying…
John
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Should I always restart the system when I see "System restart required"?
These two nice SE posts (1, 2) comment on restarting one's ubuntu machine but they leave me with a few questions:
How do you actually do the restart (I'm a beginner and using 12.04.1 LTS)?
Should I always restart the system when prompted to?
Does…
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Why do we need to be root in terminal for shutdown and restart?
When we install/remove/update packages or make any changes which require administrative privileges we are prompted for the password of admin user who has the sudo privileges - this happens both via GUI and terminal.
However, if we try to shutdown…
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I need to restart from the root command line
I need help restarting/shutting down from the root command line, any commands I could use?
I don't like hard resetting
user392681
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Why does apt-get not require restarts, where the update manager does?
Oftentimes I try to ‘beat’ the update manager by opening a console and entering the sequence
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
which, to the best of my knowledge, should update all packages to their newest stable releases. The update manager…
Jan
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Ubuntu 20.04 interface font too small after restart, even with high scaling factor
So I was configuring VS code on my Notebook when suddenly I noticed that my interface font got really small on my desktop, terminal and files.
I use Gnome Tweaks Tool to increase my scaling factor to 1,15 , but, even though it was active, the font…
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How do I restart a Unity session from the terminal?
The command for restarting Gnome2 is:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
What is the equivalent for Unity?
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Restart Only GUI Session Or Restart Only Operating System?
Is It possible In Linux to restart only gui session or os ( i m not talking about restarting pc )
back in windows 98 if u want to restart the gui session or only os u just need to hold down shift key and it will restart the your gui session or…
One Zero
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How to completely restart script from inside the script itself
I'm setting up a shell script with menues and sub menues, options, etc. But on each menu/submenu/etc, i need a "Go back to main menu" choice.
I've already got the menu set up and it works fine, but i need a way to simply restart the script from…
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Laptop USB ports stop working: how to restart them without restarting the PC?
Possible Duplicate:
USB slots stop working suddenly from time to time
The usb ports of my laptop fail for some reason from time to time. This concerns apparently mainly the external mouse and keyboard connected by usb, while connecting an…
user47206
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How can I reload dhclient without restarting network?
I am using ubuntu 14.04 on ec2 instance, I am changing dhcp settings as part of the provisioning process, and I cant find a way to reload the dhclient. Infact, theres no way to restart network on 14.04 cloud instances. Any suggestions?
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When will Wayland support restarting the shell by command?
On Xorg I found that doing ALT + F2 and then doing r would work in order to restart gnome-shell after an update, however with Wayland on Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 and GNOME 3.24 I have found that I get a message saying:
Restart is not available on…
user364819
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How to avoid "Assuming drive cache: write through" message during restart?
Does anyone know how to avoid getting this message:
Assuming drive cache: write through
Which is showing up after performing sudo shutdown -r now.
I restarted remotely but the computer did not restart. And I can't restore my remote connection to…
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Did they forget about the 'Restart' button, or was it just not important?
Seriously, from the top-right corner button, I have Logout, Suspend, Hibernate & Shutdown but shockingly no Restart.
What happened to the Restart button?
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