[GLLUG] Help with 17.10 update

Thu Mar 1 20:02:16 UTC 2018

Hi.

The upgrade probably failed half way through or something like that, so now
you have half 16.04 and half 17.10
The easiest way to resolve this is to plug an ethernet cable into the
laptop. Go to the command line. Install
apt-get install upgrade-system
If that installs, run
upgrade-system
It should fix most problems.

Kind regards

Jamed

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, 23:46 Marcus Harriott via GLLUG, <
gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Chaps
>
> Urgent help sought. I am a computer idiot. I have been running Ubuntu
> 16.04 successfully for 2 years and last week the computer upgraded me to
> Ubuntu 17.10.
> Then my troubles started.
> It boots up and goes to the password page, I enter it, it goes to  the
> desktop but when I click on any item in the launcher (eg Mozilla or
> Thunderbird) the spinning wheel spins forever and then the keyboard and
> mouse become useless after 30-40 seconds. Even if I do nothing the keyboard
> and mouse become useless...
> I have a Dell precision 390 core duo PC
>
> Any ideas what I can do
>
> most grateful
> Thanks
> M
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 20/2/18, Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [GLLUG] [OT]  Essex/Havering hack space
>  To: "Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org>, "The mailing list for
> the Greater London Linux User Group" <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>  Date: Tuesday, 20 February, 2018, 21:41
>
>  On 2018-02-14 17:24, Martin A. Brooks via
>  GLLUG wrote:
>  > Hello
>  >
>  > I have vague thoughts in my head
>  about attempting to start an
>  > Essex/Havering combined hackspace
>  and makerspace.  There are no such
>  > facilities within the area that I
>  can find, and there are bound to be
>  > at least some interested people
>  lurking.
>
>
>  Further to this...
>
>  https://forum.haveringhack.space/
>
>
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