Ubuntu 20.04.3 desktop (Cinnamon) - SSH disconnects when user logs off the desktop!

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 16:16, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:47:37 +0000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 15:22, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:17:56 -0600, Randy Griggs <rgriggs1 at cox.net> wrote:
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> >> > This is what I did to bypass the no monitor issue on one of my machines.
> >> >
> >> > https://rumorscity.com/2013/12/06/how-to-create-dummy-plugs-for-your-graphics-cards/
> >> >
> >> > Randy
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> So if I use a DisplayPort to VGA adapter (which seem to be available too) then I
> >> could use this trick..
> >> I will immediately try it out, have to get the adapter first of course.
> >
> >Can't you just run Ubuntu Server? Then you definitely don't need a display.
> >
> >Colin
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> I tried to install it but it totally wrecked the disk and made it unbootable.
> So I had to use one of the desktop ISOs and get a bootable system on it.
> Right now there is LinuxMint-Cinnamon and I will check that out before I do some
> other installs.
>
> I am very uncomfortable with the way UbuntuServer wrecked the disk and did not
> even put a valid EFI partition on it...

You did something wrong.  I imagine thousands of server systems are
installed every day and I don't recollect hearing of any instances of
discs being wrecked.
Though by wrecked I presume you mean overwrote, not broke the disc.


Colin