Fresh 24.04 install on my wife's MSI GP70 laptop. Previously running Windows 8.1 Pro. I installed a second drive in the laptop and installed 24.04 as a dual boot from a new ISO download. No issues. When I did the install, I used my username as the primary account. Once I had it up and running and added some software she needs, migrated her data files from Windows, etc., I added her using System Setting as a second admin user. This seemed to work as expected.
Then, logged in as her user, I needed to install Chrome because that's her default browser. I used this website: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome and attempted to install the "stable" version.
First, I was to run the "keyring" update used this command:
which I attempted to run as her user in Konsole. It did not work. It just sat there doing nothing. So I CRTL-CX'd kill the command and was then greeted by a SUDO password prompt, which was from the second command in the above string. So I killed that also, then ran just the first command alone - the "wget" command. Nothing again. Just a blank screen.
Next I logged out as her, logged back in as me and tried again and it worked as expected. The wget command ran, then I got the SUDO password prompt and it finished. The second command from the website to download and install the chrome stable deb file also worked as expected.
So clearly, the commands themselves were not the issue. The problem had to lie with her user account. FYI, her account works fine for everything else I've been doing - KDE partition manager, in Konsole to change file and folder permissions, etc. The only thing that hasn't behaved as expected was the command above.
Next, I checked the group memberships of both users. The differences are she is in the users group and I am not. Likewise, I am in the libvirt group and she is not. I can't imagine either of those differences would have caused this issue.
Seeking suggestions on where to look next...
EDIT: A reboot allowed the behavior to return to normal. Not sure why this happened and probably won't ever know.
Then, logged in as her user, I needed to install Chrome because that's her default browser. I used this website: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome and attempted to install the "stable" version.
First, I was to run the "keyring" update used this command:
Code:
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/google.asc >/dev/null
Next I logged out as her, logged back in as me and tried again and it worked as expected. The wget command ran, then I got the SUDO password prompt and it finished. The second command from the website to download and install the chrome stable deb file also worked as expected.
So clearly, the commands themselves were not the issue. The problem had to lie with her user account. FYI, her account works fine for everything else I've been doing - KDE partition manager, in Konsole to change file and folder permissions, etc. The only thing that hasn't behaved as expected was the command above.
Next, I checked the group memberships of both users. The differences are she is in the users group and I am not. Likewise, I am in the libvirt group and she is not. I can't imagine either of those differences would have caused this issue.
Seeking suggestions on where to look next...
EDIT: A reboot allowed the behavior to return to normal. Not sure why this happened and probably won't ever know.