01-14-2019, 09:51 PM
All, after receiving zero responses to this post, I started from scratch and re-installed linuxlite on the machine and chose a user name other than "linuxlite" and that solved the problem. With the only user name "linuxlite" I could boot up and login to the machine successfully but could not issue a sudo command or run Synaptic because it would not accept the same password used to login as user linuxlite. It still amazes me that this Gateway laptop comes up with NUMLOCK ON as default. To turn NUMLOCK off you have to hit SHIFT+FN+SCROLL. You should do this before giving a password for the user during install. After boot, start up the text editor (under Accessories) and type something to see if NUMLOCK is on or off. After insuring that NUMLOCK is off, then go to Settings/Keyboard and uncheck the box about remembering the keyboard configuration. This is a real "Gotcha."