[nmglug] Meeting? Website down? No GUI

[Ted Pomeroy]

Brian, I am curious about the hardware. What is the make and model? And 2
drives, right? Is have a laptop with root on ssd and home on hdd. I have
not had any issues like yours with startup and shutdown. Thank you, Ted P.

On Mon, May 13, 2019, 6:58 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the help. Since I wrote this I have done a clean install to
> 18.04 and things are mostly fine. I do have some weird shutdown, boot and
> reboot issues but am working around them. Essentially the laptop never
> shuts down but just shows a splash screen until I hard power it off, boots
> into the newest kernel which does not work graphically so I boot and choose
> a kernel that works. Not much older but older enough to work. No reboot at
> all as there is no clean shutdown to restart from and in any case it would
> boot into the kernel that is graphically an issue. I've gotten some good
> advice from the GLUGgers up here but haven't implemented them yet. Oh, the
> Bios shows the drives, including my SSD, but also a choice that is my user
> name only. It pops up to the top even after I change the order to boot from
> the SSD first. I've never seen a user name as a boot device.
>
> I will hopefully get around to this soon, with the advice I've gotten.
> Just don't want to gum up the works!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Brian
> On 5/13/19 9:23 AM, ABQLUG wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I don't mind trying to take a stab at the laptop, if you wanted to bring
> it to the ABQLUG meeting. Just make sure to bring the charger.
>
> I typically run this command to fix broken updates.
>
> sudo apt -f install
>
> Have you tried that already?
>
> Ultimately I would rather move that laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 if possible.
> Supporting 16.10 doesn't seem like a very good idea.
>
> Also, your computer's time is wrong. (I think this is how you would fix it
> on Ubuntu 16.10)
>
> sudo timedatectl set-ntp on
>
> Then run this to see if it actually updated the time.
>
> timedatectl
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared
>
>
> On 3/15/18 2:49 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I ask about a meeting as I could bring my laptop and perhaps get help in
> resolving the problem of having no dm after updating normally with update
> manager. Just security updates. Ubuntu 16.10 AMD64. Have tried everything
> that I can find on web to no avail. In text mode I run "startx" and get a
> quick splash and returned to text mode and "waiting for xserver to shut
> down (II) server terminated successfully (0), Closing log file.esetting
> enabled.xinit: connection to X server lost"
> Any help? Most certainly appreciated!
> Brian
>
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