[nmglug] Weirdness

[Brian O'Keefe]

Thanks again,

Tried them all to no avail

On 4/15/19 6:33 PM, Harold Furbiter wrote:
> You could try:
> sudo /sbin/init 6   (see if it reboots)
reboots to a blank, colored screen, no log in
> sudo /sbin/init 1   (see if it give you a prompt)
Gives me a rescue mode prompt that I cannot use as I can't enter any of 
the options
> maybe su to root and try init
> sudo su - root  (you need '- root' to insure your path is root's)
> you might try booting from a older or oldest kernel:
Can't access the grub menu for older kernels. Using shift key during 
boot just gives me the blank colored screen
> dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{print$2}'
> Gives you a list of bootable kernels available on your system. Try 
> booting from the oldest version.
Is there a way to reboot from a terminal with an older kernel as I 
cannot access the grub menu. this is a recent issue, within the last 
couple of weeks.
> Cheers,
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8:32 AM
> *From:* "Harold Furbiter" <wwcorigan at mail.com>
> *To:* nmglug at lists.nmglug.org
> *Subject:* Re: [nmglug] Weirdness
> Then you have a corrupt kernel. On boot try booting to an older kernel.
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/82140/how-can-i-boot-with-an-older-kernel-version
> *Sent:* Friday, April 12, 2019 at 6:15 PM
> *From:* "Brian O'Keefe" <okeefe at cybermesa.com>
> *To:* nmglug at lists.nmglug.org
> *Subject:* Re: [nmglug] Weirdness
>
> 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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