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some ubuntu apps won't start, fails with error message
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)partial upgradeUbuntu Desktop Problem - Org.gtk.vfs.Daemon ErrorGedit opens only when opened twice after every fresh loginI get Gtk-Warining when I do $ sudo nautilusCustom key mappings visible in dconf don't workAutomatically starting a quad-split byobu terminal18.04 Software Updater returns Package operation failedSoftware Updater is not working properlyHow to solve the error “Failed to launch Terminal” after upgrading python?18.04 to 18.10 upgrade failure
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whenever i try to open software updater, terminal, or IDLE i get a message saying "failed to launch 'whatever program' then under that it says " failed to execute child process /usr/bin/'whatever program' (no such file or directory). I do have terminator so i am able to run terminal commands if you need any info please let me know. thanks, also feel free to edit the tags.
unity updates gnome-terminal
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whenever i try to open software updater, terminal, or IDLE i get a message saying "failed to launch 'whatever program' then under that it says " failed to execute child process /usr/bin/'whatever program' (no such file or directory). I do have terminator so i am able to run terminal commands if you need any info please let me know. thanks, also feel free to edit the tags.
unity updates gnome-terminal
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What doesecho $PATHshow? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?
– waltinator
1 hour ago
/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago
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whenever i try to open software updater, terminal, or IDLE i get a message saying "failed to launch 'whatever program' then under that it says " failed to execute child process /usr/bin/'whatever program' (no such file or directory). I do have terminator so i am able to run terminal commands if you need any info please let me know. thanks, also feel free to edit the tags.
unity updates gnome-terminal
asked 3 hours ago
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whenever i try to open software updater, terminal, or IDLE i get a message saying "failed to launch 'whatever program' then under that it says " failed to execute child process /usr/bin/'whatever program' (no such file or directory). I do have terminator so i am able to run terminal commands if you need any info please let me know. thanks, also feel free to edit the tags.
unity updates gnome-terminal
unity updates gnome-terminal
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What doesecho $PATHshow? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?
– waltinator
1 hour ago
/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago
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What doesecho $PATHshow? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?
– waltinator
1 hour ago
/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago
What does
echo $PATH show? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?– waltinator
1 hour ago
What does
echo $PATH show? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?– waltinator
1 hour ago
/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago
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echo $PATHshow? How are you trying to "open" them? Are you using Ubuntu?– waltinator
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/home/isaac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin this what it spits out, i am using Ubuntu 18.04, i go to the "start menu" and just click on them, that how i am trying to open them
– triplex
36 mins ago
also when ever i try to download some thing via the terminal i get this message at the end: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
– triplex
29 mins ago