System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 2018-06-21 13:41, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 22/06/2018, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

>> ... If you're not sure what
>> sdb is, you can search dmesg messages for clues. For example
>>
>> dmesg | grep -A8 usb
>>
>> might show new USB device being initialized and then turned into sdb.

...

> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# dmesg | grep -A8 usb
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# dmesg | grep usb
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret#

You can grep /var/log/dmesg* similarly. Use zgrep for dmesg.N.gz ones.


-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator, Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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