Update: booted into recovery to older version; checked system summary; did dpkg repair. Lots of messages about issues. shut down; booted in recovery of current version; repeat dpkg repair. One pass memtest. shut down, booted normally. Everything looks OK now.
I expect my improper shut downs when the monitor was not working broke a bunch of stuff. Free Geek monitor seems nice. Both computers seem happy now. Me too. -Denis On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the machine that had the monitor quit. Now with a new monitor it > appeared to boot satisfactorily, but none of the icons launch anything, > attempting to shut down via the icon just blanks the menu bar then restores > it. I have had to shut down using the power switch (numerous times, some > when the monitor was dead.) > > I rebooted into recovery. Got a busybox msg and initramfs msgs. Kernel > panic. No idea what of the messages are useful; no idea where to go from > here. I just yesterday created a startup usb stick, so I can try to boot > from that. If successful, what then? > > Thanks for any ideas. (Cannot make it to the clinic tomorrow, > unfortunately.) > > -Denisw > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
