Updating -- maybe upgrading - Grandpas Linux Lite breaks UI desktop on reboot

[gdlinux]

I went from work over to grandpas house since he can't get the desktop up anymore after a Sunday night update and/or upgrade.

We installed 3.6 a month or 2 ago.  It was working great for him.  He's got an old AMD64 HP tower.  We can get to a terminal prompt if we Cntrl + Alt + F1 and login and do ls and see files etc.

We are still unclear if the 3.6 update was in fact a 3.8 Upgrade instead, or not.

Monday we didn't get anywhere, eventually fired another update...went home called back... he got a different UI (with fat mouse in wallpaper) ... but network (hard wired wouldn't connect).

Tuesday I went to his house thinking, oh well, new desktop widgets, I'll just get network working.  It wouldn't work.  Couldn't go direct to router in browser and ipconfig only had loopback in there.  Got to a frustrated point so started all over from scratch with the 3.6 disk he still had.  Installed it... did updates which took forever to download on his slow connection so maybe it was again an upgrade to 3.8 or something.  Finished it finally... go to do the final reboot and lo-and-behold...back to the broken state he was in on Sunday night.  Can only get to terminal if Cntrl + Alt + F1.    If I try to type firefox after logging in inside the terminal it complains about no DISPLAY.  I try to export various DISPLAY values like localhost:0.0 and other variants... no luck.

I'm guessing we need to be more careful so we STAY on 3.6 instead of ugrade to 3.8 (if in fact that is what has been happening).  Not sure when I can get over there again to help him but hoping someone either 1) knows what is likey the problem and/or 2) can give me some options regarding work arounds to get any UI to work.  Thanks.

[TheDead]

Hi!

Turn off the PC. When turning it on again, Hold the SHIFT key when booting to get the advenced menu.
From there choose a previous version of the Kernel (for me I had to select 4.10 standard generic to get things running again).
From what I can gather, I think maybe the video drivers or somethig get broken with the Kernel update.

My updates were broken afterwards so check that also.

Hope this helps!

[gdlinux]

Thanks for the tip.  I tried it last night (3/23) and it didn't work.  There were only 2 kernel options since this was a fresh install on 3/20, after failed attempts to fix it for him on 03/19.  I determined last night that we've been at version 3.6 the whole time (not 3.8 yet) and we tried kernel 4.4.0-93-generic x86-64 without any luck.

Tomorrow (03/25), we will try a Linux Lite 3.8 install I downloaded.  If that doesn't work, I also downloaded the latest Bodhi flavor but wondering if it will have similar kernel,video issues too.  We'll find out.

[firenice03]

[member=7449]gdlinux[/member]
Give this thread a look.. https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/other.../#msg39875


Maybe xorg releated??? Curious

[gdlinux]

Today we tried full clean install of Linux Lite 3.8.  It seemed ok...until we applied all the updates and did the final reboot.  Doing so brought us back to square 1.  Had to eventually do Cntrl + Alt + F1 to get command prompt.

Since I had also downloaded Bodhi 4.5.0-64 the other night, we tried that instead.  It is working for him (for now) but is slightly odd / different user desktop and didn't automatically set up his HP Envy 5530 printer and scanner so we had to go hunting around for drivers etc.  Finally got that working too on the Bodhi installation.

Linux Lite was good for him and we wouldn't mind going back to it someday if we figure out how / what to do in the way of the graphical user interface.

[ralphy]

Today we tried full clean install of Linux Lite 3.8.  It seemed ok...until we applied all the updates and did the final reboot.  Doing so brought us back to square 1. 

Did you exclude virtualbox updates? Those are breaking Linux Lite! See https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/other.../#msg39885