uAdBlockNG doesn't work with 24.04-1.x stable

muskist

Ever since upgrading to 24.04:

When enabling the app it gives the message "Error".

The last lines of the log read:

25.02.26 10:25] Cannot write to ‘/etc/hosts.blocklist’ (Success).
[25.02.26 10:25] pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
[25.02.26 10:25] file:///opt/click.ubuntu.com/uadblockng.liohmoeller/1.1/share/qml/uAdBlockNG/Main.qml:146:13: QML Column: Cannot specify top, bottom, verticalCenter, fill or centerIn anchors for items inside Column. Column will not function.

Same issue is reported on OpenStore but on https://github.com/LiohMoeller/uAdBlockNG/issues there is no issues mentioned.

Am I missing something? Is there a workaround?

TIA!

gpatel-fr

@muskist

probably the app is missing this PR

maybe create an issue to point to the maintainer that it is an active problem ?

muskist

@gpatel-fr
Even creating an issue is impossible:

Error
Unable to create issue.

gpatel-fr

@muskist

what kind of browser do you use ? is it the old Morph Browser or the new QT6 Beta ?

muskist

@gpatel-fr

Mozilla Firefox 148.0 on my Linux PC.

gpatel-fr

@muskist

yes, the repo owner has disabled the issues

muskist

@gpatel-fr

Too bad. I consider it a PITA on the small display of my device.

Thanks for your replies anyway.

mihael

It was my problem too and it was because there was not enough space in /etc partition. What I did was to create a symlink /etc/hosts.blocklist -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts.blocklist (maybe I had to create first the /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts.blocklist file and then the symlink but I don't remember) and then uAdBlockNG worked.

muskist

@mihael
Thanks for that tip. Unfortunately it didn't work out.

Logs read:

[...]
100% 5,90M=21s
[25.02.26 23:17] 2026-02-25 23:17:43 (1,90 MB/s) - ‘/etc/hosts.blocklist’ saved [41546183/41546183]
[25.02.26 23:17] pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
[25.02.26 23:17] qml: next cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.without-adblock
[25.02.26 23:17]  phablet : PWD=/opt/click.ubuntu.com/uadblockng.liohmoeller/1.1 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.without-adblock
[25.02.26 23:17] pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by phablet(uid=32011)
[25.02.26 23:17] pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
[25.02.26 23:17] qml: next cp /etc/hosts.blocklist /etc/hosts
[25.02.26 23:17]  phablet : PWD=/opt/click.ubuntu.com/uadblockng.liohmoeller/1.1 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/cp /etc/hosts.blocklist /etc/hosts
[25.02.26 23:17] pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by phablet(uid=32011)
[25.02.26 23:17] cp: error writing '/etc/hosts': No space left on device
[25.02.26 23:17] pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
[...]

I even added two symlinks for /etc/hosts
and /etc/hosts.without-adblock targeting /home/phablet/Downloads. No success, however.

mihael

@muskist If you ls -l /etc what do you get? - I checked on my phone and I get (among many other lines):
hosts -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts
hosts.blocklist -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts.blocklist

muskist

@mihael

I had another try after uninstalling and reinstalling uAdBlockNG and creating symlinks like this:

root@ubuntu-phablet:/etc# ls -l hosts*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  29 Feb 26 16:49 hosts -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  39 Feb 26 16:07 hosts.blocklist -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts.blocklist
[...]

and it worked out fine! I must have made a mistake before when creating the symlinks.

Thanks for your help!