On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > Ideas? > > If this were my problem the first thing I'd do is separate hardware from > software issues. You wrote that you have a live USB drive with some > distribution on it. Try booting the problem host with that, or even another > distribution. > > If the system boots and works normally you know it's the OS software and > not the hardware. Otherwise, you know it's a hardware issue. > > HTH, > > Rich Has the hardware messed up the software? Sometimes it boots fine, esp. after I run the recovery mode. The "sometimes" nature points to hardware, but the repair of dpkg errors points to messed up sw. I will try your suggestion after running a memory check for a few hour--maybe overnight. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
