Unstable system after installing 18.04 LTS

[Jay Ridgley]

On 5/23/20 3:01 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 21:52, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>>    Several days ago I installed 18.04 LTS as a replacement for 16.04 LTS
> Because it's quite old now, 18.04 has had a bunch of updates. How did
> you do the upgrade? Do you know if you have the latest HWE installed?
>
> The latest release is 18.04.4:
> https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.4/
>
>
Thanks Liam and Colin

The system reports that it is up to date (18.04.4 LTS).

I have generally used older, stable releases and always LTS. So in my 
mind 18.04 is not old but well seasoned. I was running 16.904 LTS, when 
I moved to 18.04 (I normally do dist upgrades but missed the window and 
20.04 got released). I used a downloaded usb drive that has been used 
for 2 other systems in my network.

They are both running fine.

FYI...

dpkg -l |grep linux- |awk '{print $2"               "$3}'
binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu               2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3
linux-base               4.5ubuntu1.1
linux-firmware               1.173.18
linux-generic-hwe-18.04               5.3.0.53.109
linux-headers-5.3.0-51               5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
linux-headers-5.3.0-51-generic               5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
linux-headers-5.3.0-53               5.3.0-53.47~18.04.1
linux-headers-5.3.0-53-generic               5.3.0-53.47~18.04.1
linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04               5.3.0.53.109
linux-image-5.0.0-23-generic               5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1
linux-image-5.3.0-51-generic               5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
linux-image-5.3.0-53-generic               5.3.0-53.47~18.04.1
linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04               5.3.0.53.109
linux-modules-5.0.0-23-generic               5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1
linux-modules-5.3.0-51-generic               5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
linux-modules-5.3.0-53-generic               5.3.0-53.47~18.04.1
linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-23-generic 5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1
linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-51-generic 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2
linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-53-generic 5.3.0-53.47~18.04.1
linux-sound-base               1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5
syslinux-common               3:6.03+dfsg1-2
syslinux-legacy               2:3.63+dfsg-2ubuntu9


WRTO Colin's question:

Not sure if that is helpful, namely because I have no idea when it 
"crashed", the proper term, I guess is become unusable, there was no 
response from the system when I tried to use the system after several 
hours. when I moved the mouse several times it failed to display the 
background image and the mouse appeared unresponsive. In order to get 
back into operation I was forced to power cycle the system.

Regards,

Jay

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Jay Ridgley
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