[04:02] <SomeDude56> Hi, I am having an issue with my Lubuntu wifi, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me
[04:02] <SomeDude56> Lubuntu cant seem to find the wifi adapter on the computer I installed it on
[04:18] <guiverc> SomeDude56, what release of Lubuntu, have you tried using the Ubuntu wifi troubleshooting (the base of Lubuntu is of course Ubuntu so it applies; the device recognition section the most useful as it lets to work out what chipset your wifi needs & thus you can search for details..)
[04:21] <SomeDude56> 16:04 i believe
[04:21] <SomeDude56> i am having issues getting it to recognize the wifi card / adapter in the computer
[04:26] <guiverc> The oldest supported release of Lubuntu is Lubuntu 20.04 LTS.   All supported releases of Lubuntu use LXQt, you're no doubt not; 16.04 reached EOSS back in April 2021 so your machine should be kept offline, no-wifi is actually a good thing I suspect
[04:26] <guiverc> You can pay for 16.04 ESM support; but it's not worth it with Lubuntu in my opinion, I'd suggest using a supported release.
[04:28] <guiverc> fyi.  16.04 tells you it was the 2016-April release (year.month format; add 2000 to year) which had 5 years standard support for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud etc & 3 years for flavors like Lubuntu.
[09:22] <FatPhil> having a spot of bother with a live usb - looks like I got some fs corruption, and I can't do a normal boot. I've got into recovery mode, and it told be there were errors, unsure how to proceed...
[09:26] <FatPhil> it did let me resume a normal boot from there, but the gui's different from how it last looked, it doesn't fit neatly in my QEMU window any more
[09:26] <FatPhil> I'll just do a restart without going through recovery mode
[09:28] <FatPhil> Oh, it's a "persistent live" image, for reference
[09:29] <FatPhil> ah, yes, normal boot restored the desktop to the high-viz mode I'm used to.
[09:30] <FatPhil> can I check all packages are correctly installed and not corrupted?
[09:37] <FatPhil> debsums isn't installed, and muon package manager won't run: "The package system could not be initialised, your configuration may be broken"
[09:39] <FatPhil> apt install debsums also fails "Reading package list... Error!" plus some other error lines
[09:43] <FatPhil> even apt list fails
[09:58] <FatPhil> ugh, now firefox fails too, which is the only reason I run the image
[09:59] <FatPhil> booting straight from the usb stick rather than in a QEMU is also failing with a kernel panic.
[10:00] <FatPhil> trying recovery mode again
[10:03] <FatPhil> ......./casper/filesystem.squashfs: mismatch
[10:04] <FatPhil> CHeck finished: errors found in 1 files! You might encounter errors.
[10:05] <FatPhil> fsck option says "/lib/recovery-mode/recovery-menu: line 80: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory" and then does nothing
[10:06] <FatPhil> root shell lets me see that indeed, that file doesn't exist
[10:23] <FatPhil> I can't bring up networking, but can't see how it's failing
[10:24] <FatPhil> nothing in /var/log
[17:56] <arraybolt3> FatPhil: OK so what happened? This is a normal live USB?
[17:56] <arraybolt3> Or one with persistence?
[17:56] <arraybolt3> If this is a USB, I'd back up my data, reflash the USB, and restore data.
[18:14] <dragon_> has anyone installed Ubuntu lately?
[18:14] <dragon_> I am wondering if I should go for lubuntu or Ubuntu this time
[18:14] <dragon_> I have grown to like the lubuntu desktop interface, easy and simple 
[18:14] <dragon_> It is a while since I had Ubuntu