On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Don Buchholz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/22/2016 10:56 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > The latest in this saga is that the machine appears to be functioning > > normally. Two possible reasons: > > > > 1. I opened the case, cleaned out some dust, and reseated the sata cable > > to the hard drive. The dust in my opinion was not bad. Checks of > > temperatures and voltages never looked suspect. So if this was > responsible > > for the fix (assuming it stays fixed!) it was likely the sata connection. > > > > 2. During most of the boots into recovery mode I chose dpkg (repair > broken > > packages). After rebooting the last time I checked the "updater". It > > reported "security updates for current hardware enablement stack ended on > > 2016-08-04: *http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1404_HWE_EOL";. I chose install. > Then > > restart. Every time I have run the dpkg option during the recovery > there > > were errors reported, but the text flew by so fast that I could not > capture > > them. I will be studying the logs to see if I can get any clues, but it > > would likely take a more knowledgeable brain than mine to decipher the > > messages. > > > > Thanks for the many suggestions. > > > > Until the next failure-- > > > > -Denis > > Denis, > > To capture all the text (and control characters, etc. ...) > > # script <optional_filename> > # run_command > # run_another_command > # ... > # exit (.... or just [Ctrl-D]) > > If you run script(1) w/o a filename option, it will create a file > named "typescript" in the current directory. After exiting that > shell, you can view, grep, .... on the log/script file and never > have to worry that so many lines have passed by that you've > overrun your screen/terminal's line buffer. > > - Don > I booted the current kernel in recovery mode. I was presented with a window with a number of options. One of the options is dpkg: repair packages. Choosing this option is what generates the screens of data. How do I apply your suggestion to this situation? What is the current directory? How do I get to a terminal from this window? Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
