Re: [Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed - was High CPU Usage When a News Pages Opened in Chromium
Writing this from an alternative computer. On 14/11/2023 09:30, Peter Merchant wrote: On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote: No Ideas about how to find out what broke it, but a week or so ago I Reinstalled kubuntu 22.04 and in the disk formatting I did it manually and kept my /Home partition as it was, and that worked without loss of data (AFAIK). And it also kept the configuration of programs that had configurations in the Home partition, like Thunderbird. I've actually fixed the Plasma Widgets (I remembered that the config for these is on a per user basis, so I restored the .config/ directory from my backup). I still can't get my wired Ethernet connection working; does anyone know where Network-Manager stores its settings, so that I can restore that file? I've tried to configure it using the System Settings/Connections/Wired Connection 1 but nothing seems to work. I then tried Peter's suggestion. | So maybe do that, completely Uninstall suspect programs and go from there? That would have been a good idea Peter, if I hadn't been so dumb. I should have done reinstall network-manager, but instead I did uninstall ;-( Now I have no network connection at all on that machine. Does anyone know how to get the original .deb file for Network Manager? I found reference to it at: /var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager_1.44.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb using locate, but it has clearly been removed subsequent to locate indexing it. I can recall downloading .deb packages from somewhere on the Internet, but I can no longer find the place. Does anyone know where the Kubuntu packages are stored? -- Terry Coles -- 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
Re: [Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed - was High CPU Usage When a News Pages Opened in Chromium
My suspicion would be a failed disk check on startup, and now you’re booted in a read only state… Can you get a full terminal output during boot? Sent from my iPhone On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 10:30, Peter Merchant wrote: > On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was attempting capture the outputs from htop and dstat -tcdngmy after > Chromium started eating CPU and RAM as detailed in the previous thread. > However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down. > Normally, I have found that restarting the system brought it back after a > bit of disc checking within the boot process, but this time my system was > trashed. > > > > It boots up, but hardly any of my Activities have any Widgets left. > More seriously, my wired connection seems to have lost its configuration. > According to the Internet this config should be in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, but I don't have a sysconfig directory so > no network-scripts! I have no idea what else has happened under the > bonnet. > > > > The WiFi connection works when I plug in a USB dongle. > > > > Normally I am able to restore everything using the most recent backup, > (last Thursday), but I don't normally backup the root directory because > that can always be restored with a clean installation. However, a clean > installation necessitates several days reinstalling and reconfiguring my > favourite packages, so before I do that, I'd like to work out exactly what > has been broken. > > > > Any ideas? > > > No Ideas about how to find out what broke it, but a week or so ago I > Reinstalled kubuntu 22.04 and in the disk formatting I did it manually and > kept my /Home partition as it was, and that worked without loss of data > (AFAIK). And it also kept the configuration of programs that had > configurations in the Home partition, like Thunderbird. > > > So maybe do that, completely Uninstall suspect programs and go from there? > > Peter > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
Re: [Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed - was High CPU Usage When a News Pages Opened in Chromium
On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I was attempting capture the outputs from htop and dstat -tcdngmy after Chromium started eating CPU and RAM as detailed in the previous thread. However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down. Normally, I have found that restarting the system brought it back after a bit of disc checking within the boot process, but this time my system was trashed. It boots up, but hardly any of my Activities have any Widgets left. More seriously, my wired connection seems to have lost its configuration. According to the Internet this config should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, but I don't have a sysconfig directory so no network-scripts! I have no idea what else has happened under the bonnet. The WiFi connection works when I plug in a USB dongle. Normally I am able to restore everything using the most recent backup, (last Thursday), but I don't normally backup the root directory because that can always be restored with a clean installation. However, a clean installation necessitates several days reinstalling and reconfiguring my favourite packages, so before I do that, I'd like to work out exactly what has been broken. Any ideas? No Ideas about how to find out what broke it, but a week or so ago I Reinstalled kubuntu 22.04 and in the disk formatting I did it manually and kept my /Home partition as it was, and that worked without loss of data (AFAIK). And it also kept the configuration of programs that had configurations in the Home partition, like Thunderbird. So maybe do that, completely Uninstall suspect programs and go from there? Peter -- 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
[Dorset] My Kubuntu Config is completely trashed - was High CPU Usage When a News Pages Opened in Chromium
Hi, I was attempting capture the outputs from htop and dstat -tcdngmy after Chromium started eating CPU and RAM as detailed in the previous thread. However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down. Normally, I have found that restarting the system brought it back after a bit of disc checking within the boot process, but this time my system was trashed. It boots up, but hardly any of my Activities have any Widgets left. More seriously, my wired connection seems to have lost its configuration. According to the Internet this config should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, but I don't have a sysconfig directory so no network-scripts! I have no idea what else has happened under the bonnet. The WiFi connection works when I plug in a USB dongle. Normally I am able to restore everything using the most recent backup, (last Thursday), but I don't normally backup the root directory because that can always be restored with a clean installation. However, a clean installation necessitates several days reinstalling and reconfiguring my favourite packages, so before I do that, I'd like to work out exactly what has been broken. Any ideas? -- Terry Coles -- 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
