[EdLUG] Broken screen locker

Thu Feb 6 15:12:51 UTC 2020

Good to know it worked :-) Meme OS ...? oh dear....

For the old vista laptop - depends.

If you want to keep your life easy, I'd say try Xubuntu or Lubuntu first,
or even Linux Lite or BunsenLabs

https://xubuntu.org/
https://lubuntu.me/
https://www.linuxliteos.com/
https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

Last time I checked, Porteus is for kiosks, not for general use.

Puppy is meant to be kept on a live USB as an alternative boot - the
website specifically says the "proper" way to use it is through live
session. That being said, as you saw the other evening, having a USB with a
live session OS on it is pretty useful. Puppy might fit that need well -
always have a bootable USB for emergencies ;-)

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 13:57, emailontheweb <emailontheweb at protonmail.ch>
wrote:

> 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....?
>
>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
>
>
> I use LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/> , a free,
> Freedom-respecting replacement for MS Office
>
> *Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.*
> https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
>
>
> 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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>> hear them speak."  -- some bright spark
>>
>>
>> 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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