| jarnos | What to do when upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 seems to fail. At least the dialog showing progress of upgrade is corrupted. | 09:39 |
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| jarnos | Actually, before that I restarted upgrade that failed after this: It complained about running xscreensaver. I exited xscreensaver and disabled a systemd scrvice I had for suspending. | 09:41 |
| pmjdebruijn | what's the exact error? | 09:42 |
| jarnos | The restarted upgrade continued as partial upgrade and seemed to work for a while. | 09:42 |
| jarnos | I don't know. The dialog is corrupted and I don't know what it is doing. | 09:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | what does "corrupted" mean? | 09:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | but if so, run the upgrade on a terminal as opposed the GUI | 09:43 |
| pmjdebruijn | though, personally I prefer reinstalls as opposed to upgrades for desktop systems | 09:44 |
| jarnos | It does not draw its content. If I e.g. use alt-tab to switch the app on foreground and switch back, it has the content of the other app. | 09:44 |
| pmjdebruijn | like I said, do the upgade on the console | 09:45 |
| jarnos | Well, I think package management is corrupted. dpkg is in interuptable sleep. I guess it is holding back the dialog. | 09:52 |
| pmjdebruijn | that does not happen easily | 09:53 |
| pmjdebruijn | jarnos: reinstalling may very well be faster, and you end up with a clean system, as opposed trying to fix your current situation | 09:54 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Hello, I'm going to buy a computer and run Xubuntu on it. The CPU is Intel Pentium E5400, an old one as you see. The question is… how can I find out if Xubuntu (and Steam especially) is supported on this CPU? I googled and found out it's 64-bit, that's fine. Then I found out it (highely-likely) supports SSE. So that's also fine. The thing I | 17:33 |
| hereiamsorryandh | struggle is I can't or don't know how to find out if it supports CMPXCHG16B instruction (also called cx16). It is required for Steam (and maybe Chrome I guess and such things) | 17:33 |
| hereiamsorryandh | SSE3* | 17:34 |
| diogenes_ | hereiamsorryandh, the best way is to boot Xubuntu live and see what works. | 17:37 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Hmm I hope the owner will let me do that. But I can't install Steam on Xubuntu live just to launch it to see if it works at all. | 17:38 |
| diogenes_ | hereiamsorryandh, yes you can. | 17:38 |
| hereiamsorryandh | How? Without changing the files on the owner's HDD? Can I? Will 'cat /proc/cpuinfo/' work on any machine? | 17:40 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Without a slash in the end | 17:41 |
| kryten | hereiamsorryandh: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43539/what-do-the-flags-in-proc-cpuinfo-mean - definitely could just do this on a Live system though. | 17:41 |
| kryten | ..Oh, yeah! XD | 17:41 |
| diogenes_ | hereiamsorryandh, it will install steam on live system and you will also check if wifi works and GPU and if it boots at all. | 17:43 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Peeeeerfect! I always thought that /proc/cpuinfo is just a file on an ALREADY INSTALLED os :D Then I was wrong | 17:43 |
| diogenes_ | and also check the temperature. | 17:43 |
| hereiamsorryandh | I wonder, if I install something on live system, where will the files be stored? It's interesting… | 17:45 |
| diogenes_ | on temporary space within USB drive. | 17:45 |
| diogenes_ | it won't affect HDD. | 17:46 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Wow, just wow. It's gonna be slow tho. But it's worth it. | 17:46 |
| kryten | Actually, unless the medium is set up with persistency, just in RAM. | 17:46 |
| diogenes_ | if you boot the machine and after a minute or two the temperature goes high and fans make noise, i won't buy it. | 17:49 |
| hereiamsorryandh | Thanks for the answers and the pieces of advice, I appreciate | 17:52 |
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