[EdLUG] Broken screen locker

[emailontheweb]

The old "have you tried turning it off & on again" worked .My bad sorry , I should have guessed that :( and I realised it had nothing to do with Mint either.

This is where I tested without live USB https://distrotest.net/  Tux N Vape and Hannah Montana Linux are there,but not the Satanic distro ha ha. Although there is some guy on Reddit who wants to create a Meme OS who was looking for ridiculous suggestions.

Anybody know if Porteus is better than Puppy Linux for an old Vista laptop?

Thanks,
Marion

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On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:05 PM, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:

> .... tried holding down the power button to force turn it off, then turn it on again.....?
>
> It could be that the running system did not like the underlying changes brought in by the updates. Does not usually happen, not seen that in many years, but not impossible....?
>
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> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 14:21, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> If I recall correctly, zypper is the package manager for OpenSUSE, so those commands won't work on Kubuntu.
>>
>> It's still possible that something went wrong with an upgrade,  so it's worth trying the equivalent Ubuntu commands:
>>
>> sudo apt update
>> sudo apt upgrade
>>
>> (Older guides may say apt-get instead of apt - they're the same in newer versions of Ubuntu)
>>
>> If KDE isn't working, you may need to get into a terminal first - this used to be possible by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, but it's some time since I had to use it, so maybe it's changed on newer systems.
>>
>> If it's not possible to fix it with the updates, I think I'm out of my depth again. If you can make it to Techmeetup next Wednesday, someone can probably have a look.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, at 2:05 PM, azmodie wrote:
>>
>>> This thread suggest its a package issue.
>>>
>>> try :
>>>
>>>  zypper up
>>>  zypper dup
>>>
>>> and reboot.
>>>
>>> Kris
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>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 09:31, emailontheweb <emailontheweb at protonmail.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good morning,
>>>> Installed Kubuntu updates that wanted to restart the PC so restarted then Firefox wanted to restart also and then I came back to this delightful black screen error (see attached ).There's nothing more relaxing than seeing the word "broken" in an error message.
>>>>
>>>> Ctrl + Alt +F2 doesn't do anything.
>>>> From what I could see online KDE and Mint do not like each other https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1597719
>>>> That forum diacussion is from 2016-2017 btw.
>>>>
>>>> PC went to sleep I moved the mouse and get : "Could not start ksnserver.Check your installation." It's also 15mins behind the correct time for some reason.
>>>> Anybody know if this can be fixed at all?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marion
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