[nmglug] Weirdness

[Brian O'Keefe]

Thanks for the input Harold,

Same result, just hangs on the splash screen. Can't logout, esc. key 
does nothing, can't switch to a console. Just have to do a hard shutdown.

On 4/11/19 8:59 PM, Harold Furbiter wrote:
> Out of curiousity have you tried init 0 ?
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:26 AM
> *From:* "Brian O'Keefe" <okeefe at cybermesa.com>
> *To:* "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug at nmglug.org>
> *Subject:* [nmglug] Weirdness
>
> Hi All,
>
> Since I may not make meeting (niece visiting and Thurs. is her last 
> day) I'm putting my issue out for comment and hopefully answers. As 
> many of you know I used to updgrade instead of clean installs and did 
> that since Ubuntu 6.04. I had also added many apps from third parties 
> and also modified many, many conf files to keep things working. I had 
> a meltdown and lost much of my data but following a partial recovery, 
> thanks to a certain group member, I installed a clean version of 18.04 
> onto a new 1TB SSD. I have ot tinkered at all with 3rd party software 
> nor modified any conf files or been a bad boy in any way!
>
> My issue ids that I cannot shut down my box in anyway other than a 
> hard shutdown. I also cannot restart it. I have tried the GUI option 
> as well as switching to text mode and using "sudo shutdown now" or 
> "sudo restart now". In those cases I get the splash screen with the 
> "traveling lights" and Unutu but it hangs there. The traveling dots 
> hang on the first dot of the splash screen and nothing happens. I had 
> hoped that text mode would give give me an indication of the issues 
> but I can't stay in that mode for some reason.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Brian
>
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