Hi Terry, > However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down.
That's surprising. Did it look like an orderly shutdown or did the power just cut? My only guess at a cause is overheating though I'd normally expect that to just cause the CPU to be throttled in speed. Is this a laptop on a hot lap or something with adequate cooling? > Normally, I have found that restarting the system brought it back after > a bit of disc checking within the boot process Is that ‘normally’ because the system has shut itself down before? > my wired connection seems to have lost its configuration. Has the machine booted such that it understands there is a wired network interface, i.e. it has loaded the drivers? ‘ip l’ should like the known network ‘links’, i.e. interfaces. ‘ip a’ will show any addresses assigned to them. A wired network interface can be configured at the command line but that may be a bit long winded. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
