boot problem

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Mon, 23 Aug 2021
11:11:46 +0200

> On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 20:36, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> >
> > No.  I have run a live CD and a live USB without any problems,  I have also
> > installed another partition with Ubuntu in it and it does not have a problem.
> > From all of that I do not think it is a hardware problem.
> 
> Fair. I have seen problems where one version of Ubuntu can drive a
> monitor successfully over (in my case, VGA -> 3 x BNC) connections,
> but a later version of the same distro could not. It's rare but not
> impossible.
> 
> With VGA -> VGA it got EDID information, with BNC connectors it didn't
> and fell back to 640*480. The _only_ difference was the cable. I had
> to replace the cable; there was no way to force X.org to particular
> settings without info being received from the screen.
> 
> > Whatever is the default desktop that comes with Ubuntu.
> 
> GNOME, then.
> 
> If you do not know then I guess you do not know if you were running
> X.org or Wayland? :-(
> 
> > Would removing the packages (if someone can tell me what the names are) for the
> > desktop and reindtalling them maybe work?
> 
> I really doubt it.
> 
> You can try starting with Wayland instead:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31213773/how-to-start-gnome-wayland-session-from-command-line-tty

That web site seems to be a bit old.  Every command I tried either could not be
found or the parameters were bad.


> Also...
> 
> If you manually bring up your Ethernet connection, then you can
> manually do a full upgrade as follows:
> 
> sudo -s
> apt update

> apt full-upgrade -y
> apt autoremove -y
> apt purge
> apt clean

Did that, it only removed an old kernal.


> If you do not have the HWE stack installed, you can install it:
> 
> sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04

Installed.

Now what?  I searched for it to see some information on what to do now but my
search did not find anything useful.

-- 
Robert Blair


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