| === brainwash_ is now known as brainwash | ||
| hans_ | on the login screen i write the password and press Log In, then for a second i get this screen https://i.imgur.com/2qNRBCc.png then it's a completely black screen for a second, then it's back to the login screen as if i never wrote the password nor pressed "Log In" .. how do i debug that? | 21:18 |
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| hans_ | ah nvm i think i know what it is | 21:19 |
| brainwash | hans_: and you won't tell us? | 21:31 |
| hans_ | brainwash, there's something wrong with my /home/username folder, cus root can login without problems, and when i made a new account just to test that theory, the new account can also login without problems, it's specific to my main user account - but i take it back, i still don't know *exactly* what the problem is, but i'm pretty sure it's something in /home/hans | 21:42 |
| hans_ | and where have i seen you before... | 21:43 |
| brainwash | it does sound like this is caused by a recent change you made | 21:44 |
| Spass | hans_, someone before had a similar problem and there was something with .Xauthority file iirc | 21:45 |
| krytarik | (That is, might be owned by root rather than the user.) | 21:46 |
| hans_ | well whatever, i'm just reinstalling xubuntu - was used for testing a bunch of stuff without storing anything important anyway | 21:47 |
| Spass | hans_, try renaming .Xauthority and .ICEauthority | 21:48 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | So, I can't remember how to tell synaptic to update my os to the current version | 21:49 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | How might I go about doing this? | 21:49 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | On xenial right now, trying to get the current LTS | 21:49 |
| hans_ | those files probably didn't exist - what happened was that i tried to log in to the main user account once while the /home/ folder did not exist - that apparently broke *something*, because when i restored /home/ and rebooted, i couldn't log in to that specific user that had previously attempted to login without /home/ .. | 21:50 |
| Spass | Wayward_Vagabond, use update-manager | 21:50 |
| hans_ | (i did some stuff with /home/ and forgot to restore /home/ when i was done, then tried to log in >.>) | 21:52 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | Udate manager wants to update firefox (an update that hung on synaptic, files couldn't download for some reason), and remove some unused kernel update files | 21:52 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | It's not mentioning a new ubuntu release- is LTS-LTS updating not supported on 18.04lts yet? | 21:53 |
| Spass | you need to have fully upgraded system then it should show you that the newer LTS version is available, also, see here: https://itsfoss.com/upgrade-ubuntu-version/ | 21:53 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | Hmm, this firefox update may be troublesome then | 21:54 |
| hans_ | Wayward_Vagabond, i'm no expert but lts-to-lts is supported now in normal Ubuntu at least.. i'd try just: apt update; apt dist-upgrade; apt autoremove --purge; reboot; do-lts-upgrade; | 21:54 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | I seem to recall that when xenial was released, it wasn't supported for a while | 21:55 |
| hans_ | correct, but it is now. | 21:55 |
| Spass | Wayward_Vagabond, what error message you got after sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade? | 21:55 |
| hans_ | (for Ubuntu. idk about Xubuntu) | 21:55 |
| Wayward_Vagabond | Ahh, update manager wants me to restart | 21:56 |
| * Wayward_Vagabond rolls eyes | 21:56 | |
| Wayward_Vagabond | Closing some stuff, then I'll be back directly.. | 21:57 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | What do I have to hit during boot to make that screen where I can select kernel versions or memtest pop up? | 22:41 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | went to restart, it hung with some FS errors, did an fsck and fixed em, now it just flat out stops after they finish | 22:42 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | and isn't showing the ubuntu boot options screen | 22:42 |
| brainwash | CrazyLikeAFox: tried to press the Shift key? | 22:44 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | shift didn't seem to have any effect | 22:47 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | aha, it did flash up this time | 22:48 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | wonder what broke.. | 22:48 |
| CrazyLikeAFox | in recovery mode, it hangs trying to start networking... | 22:53 |
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