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<p>Thanks Ted. I'll get to a more detailed response later as I have
an exhibition all week and weekend that I need to be on.</p>
<p>But... I have an Acer Aspire. I only have one drive that I use
and that is the 1TB SSD onto which I installed 18.04 cleanly. I
then USB'd my old drive and pulled off the data I wanted, no
config files or anything that would effect the booting issues. It
booted, etc. fine and then would not boot. I had taken the package
manager's advice and deleted the extra kernels and only those that
apt showed. That's when I started having issues. At that point I
had two kernels and neither one worked well so I installed all the
kernels that synaptic listed. Still weird graphics so I booted in
Grub and chose an older kernel that the first but newer than my
former. This is $ uname -a "Linux ubuntu-Aspire-5560
4.15.0-48-generic #51-Ubuntu <br>
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<p>So I have no idea how my user name would end up in the boot order
in Bios. It sits right at the top "ubuntu", then the SSD, optical
and last, floppy. If I shut down then I need to change the boot
order with the SSD first, then go to the Grub menu and pick the
kernel shown</p>
<p>So boot and reboot are not using the kernel shown nor the boot
order. The order gives me a non-responsive splash screen and the
first kernel gives me the wrong monitor res. I did this, "sudo
gedit /etc/default/grub" and changed the screen resolution to
1366x768 and that's good. Whereas no displays were detected
before, now I have 7 resolution options. The OS has reverted to
the correct 1280 x 760 and I can choose the display I want and it
works. You know, I mentioned my box being tapped and bugged and I
think it was back at Standing Rock. Call me paranoid but if anyone
recalls, I couldn't access several Google apps, the one I use the
most, google/maps, would not load. I dug deep into some config
file (can't recall) and found a name (made up) and some garble in
that file. Once I commented it out Google returned. I am on lists
(Funky Bureau of Instigation, among others as I was arrested and
observed whole up there. I don't really know if that's an issue,
that "they" could keep bugging my OS.</p>
<p>Anyway, that's it for now and gotta run.</p>
<p>Many thanks. Perhaps I can make the next meeting if it's not this
Thursday<br>
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<p>On 5/13/19 8:41 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 13, 2019, 6:58 PM Brian O'Keefe <<a
href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" moz-do-not-send="true">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>I will hopefully get around to this soon, with the advice
I've gotten. Just don't want to gum up the works!</p>
<p>Many thanks,</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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<div class="m_5901685415913832817moz-cite-prefix">On 5/13/19
9:23 AM, ABQLUG wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Hi Brian,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I typically run this command to fix broken updates.<br>
<br>
sudo apt -f install<br>
<br>
Have you tried that already?<br>
<br>
Ultimately I would rather move that laptop to Ubuntu 18.04
if possible. Supporting 16.10 doesn't seem like a very
good idea.<br>
<br>
Also, your computer's time is wrong. (I think this is how
you would fix it on Ubuntu 16.10)<br>
<br>
sudo timedatectl set-ntp on<br>
<br>
Then run this to see if it actually updated the time. <br>
<br>
timedatectl<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jared<br>
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<div class="m_5901685415913832817moz-cite-prefix">On
3/15/18 2:49 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Hi All,<br>
<br>
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"<br>
Any help? Most certainly appreciated!<br>
Brian <br>
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