[PLUG] more desktop issues

[Tom]

Hi Denis,

I hope that I did not miss this obvious suggestion in your past posts.
If so, I regret pointing the obvious.

Did you check the file system on the drives?

If you did not, here is how to do this safely:
1. check what filesystems you have at what partitions, in case that you
you need it later
2. boot into recovery mode or life distribution using CD/DVD/USB, so
that you are not using your hard drive(s) or SSD(s) in the machine.
3. run fsck on all partitions excluding swap. Example:
fsck /dev/sda1
4. If you encounter errors, follow the instructions on how to fix them.

I hope things get better soon ...
Tomas

On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 09:28 -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Rich Shepard <
> rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> 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
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