reinstall 18.04

[John R. Sowden]

toshiba satelite laptop a135-s4527 graphics card-uk, hd 20% used brand 
model uk

xubuntu 18.04

/var/log/boot.log  640 mb head 50 lines:

   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Volume group "xubuntu-vg" not found
   Cannot process volume group xubuntu-vg
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   Found volume group "xubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "xubuntu-vg" now active
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root: recovering journal
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root: clean, 158302/7217152 files, 
1556087/28865536 blocks
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Volume group "xubuntu-vg" not found
   Cannot process volume group xubuntu-vg
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   Found volume group "xubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "xubuntu-vg" now active
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root: clean, 194284/7217152 files, 
1660243/28865536 blocks
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Volume group "xubuntu-vg" not found
   Cannot process volume group xubuntu-vg
No key available with this passphrase.
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   Found volume group "xubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "xubuntu-vg" now active
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root: clean, 201688/7217152 files, 
1704311/28865536 blocks
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Volume group "xubuntu-vg" not found
   Cannot process volume group xubuntu-vg
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
   Found volume group "xubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "xubuntu-vg" now active
/dev/mapper/xubuntu--vg-root: clean, 201798/7217152 files, 
1683814/28865536 blocks
[*     ] (1 of 8) A start job is running for Monitoring 
of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling (8s / 
no limit)
[**    ] (1 of 8) A start job is running for 
Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress 
polling (8s / no limit)
[***   ] (1 of 8) A start job is 
running for Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or 
progress polling (9s / no limit)
[ ***  ] (2 of 8) A start job is 
running for Load Kernel Modules (9s / 1min 30s)
[  *** ] (2 of 8) A start job is 
running for Load Kernel Modules (10s / 1min 30s)
[   ***] (2 of 8) A start job is 
running for Load Kernel Modules (10s / 1min 30s)
[    **] (3 of 8) A start job is running for 
dev-mapper-xubuntu\x2d\x2dvg\x2dswap_1.device (11s / 1min 30s)
[  OK  ] Started Load Kernel Modules.
          Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
          Mounting Kernel Configuration File System...
          Mounting FUSE Control File System...
[  OK  ] Mounted Kernel Configuration File System.
[  OK  ] Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[  OK  ] Started Apply Kernel Variables.
[  OK  ] Started udev Kernel Device Manager.
[  OK  ] Started Set the console keyboard layout.
          Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen...
[  OK  ] Started LVM2 metadata daemon.
[  OK  ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.

On 8/30/20 5:49 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 10:19, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> My box is locking up for up to an hour with the head seek light on
>> solid, mouse locks up
> What box? Make/model, disk, graphics card, etc?
>
>> in a /var/log file I found about 900mb of error texts with no date or
>> time, saying that
>>
>> it could not find something and another error.
> What error?
>
> Please copy a few of the lines *verbatim* so we know what is going
> wrong. "Could not find something" contains no information at all that
> we can use.
>
>>    I want to "reinstall the
>> operating system"
> What operating system? You did not say.
>
>> in ms language,
> MS language? Does that mean Microsoft? Do you mean it's Windows?
>