Ubuntu-mate 1504 incompatibility with Celeron CPU

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 01:33:52 +0200, silver.bullet at zoho.com wrote:
>The issues unlikely are related to the CPU, since the OP is able to
>boot.
>
>The OP on Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:38:24 +0800 wrote:
>
>>I printed the web page, followed the instructions on it, and it
>>worked.
>
>And on Wed, 5 Aug 2015 02:20:40 +0800, the OP wrote:
>
>>I managed to install an extra couple of packages, before I stupidly
>>tried to do a system update.
>>
>>Part of the system update (from the iso version of the installation)
>>involved a new kernel version, which, without the PAE patch being
>>inbuilt into the new kernel, broke the update and broke the Ubuntu
>>Software Centre.
>
>The OP still should be able to boot the old kernel, it most likely is
>still installed and provided by the GRUB menu or perhaps available in
>the cache. However, the kernel unlikely is the issue, there's
>moste likely something fishy with the package dependencies.
>
>Perhaps caused by third party repositories, perhaps ...,
>perhaps ..., ;).
>
>Hopefully nobody will give advices how to "force fixes" and to install
>a replacement for Software Centre. The OP missed to provide
>information. It's for sure that the OP's guesses are wrong.
>
>The OP should follow my advices:
>
>>>> sudo -i
>>>> apt-get update
>>>>
>>>> then run
>>>>
>>>> apt-get upgrade
>>>>
>>>> and post the output of apt-get upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> Also post the output of
>>>>
>>>> grep -v "#" /etc/apt/sources.list | grep [[:blank:]]
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
>
>If this shouldn't lead to the culprit, we continue troubleshooting.
>
>For the future the OP should consider to backup the complete install,
>before performing an upgrade, so assumed something should went terribly
>wrong, the old install could be restored from the backup. But we
>shouldn't give hints how to backup at the moment, were to buy and how
>to replace the CPU, instead let's start troubleshooting, based on
>information provided by command line output and if need be by log
>files, but not by information given by fogged crystal balls or by
>guesses.

PS:

Ok, there is a patch regarding the forcepae option, my bad, but IIUC
Bret still can boot into the install, just Software Centre doesn't work
anymore. Or can't you boot into the install anymore? There are always
ways to fix it, but we need to know what exactly happens.

Btw. it would be good not to break the thread. Regarding broken threads
it's no fun to search earlier replies of this thread.