I have created a Xubuntu Live USB drive & have pulled the information
off of the drive. The email is IMAP so if I have to recreate...fine. I
right-clicked on the drive from the live environment & that allowed me
to mount the internal drive, but I am not sure if that is what Neil was
talking about. The usb kb/mouse do work in the live environment so that
confirms to me that it is something stuck in the OS.
I am doing some reading online & found that i could boot from the USB &
update it to a newer OS....is that something I would want to do or will
it bork things?
On 1/5/2018 5:19 PM, TekBudda wrote:
Hi all...recently my Dell OptiPlex 745 with Xubuntu on it won't allow
me to login after booting after doing a recent update that required a
restart of the machine.
I can start the machine & use the USB keyboard to access the BIOS but
when it comes to the login area I cannot type anything. As well, USB
mouse doesn't work. I have tried the following (and likely a few more
things as well):
* Different keyboards & mice
* Different USB ports
* No PS/2 ports so could not check that.
* Moved hard drive to different chassis.
* Reset/change BIOS settings
* Restarted multiple times
* Tried accessing command line
All of this still gets me back to the same spot. It was recent build
(likely at 17.10 as I kept up with updates) & was done from scratch
(likely started as a 17.04 but can't be sure). I am pretty sure it is
the OS based on swapping the hard drive, but not sure how to fix it.
With the limited browsing access (via phone) I couldn't find much that
pointed me in the right direction. I know there was an issue recently
with some lenovo devices, but that doesn't seem to apply here.
I am at the point now where I will try to spin up a USB drive to at
least try to access the data on the desktop, but would like to get it
running again with out having to format & start again; because the
massive pain in the arse that installing applications, setting up
emails, etc. I am not sure if it is possible to run updates (that
will likely fix the issue) on the installed system from a Live USB or
not.
Any ideas would be welcome.
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