System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 2018-06-21 15:18, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 22/06/2018, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 
> "
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# grep -A8  usb /var/log/dmesg*
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# man grep
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# grep -A8  usb /var/log/dmesg*
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret#
> "

zgrep -A8 -i usb /var/log/dmesg*

> I can not determine what dmesg.N.gz files exist, as I apparently have
> no file management tools.

“File management”:
ls -l /var/log/dmesg*

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

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