Just did an upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 and my home screen hard freezes, nothing works and I have to use the power switch to shut down. Any ideas?
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Just did an upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 and my home screen hard freezes, nothing works and I have to use the power switch to shut down. Any ideas?
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Ok will do. Thank you. I'll mark this solved for now untill I get that info and then I'll repost.
Hope this helps.
riffraff@stupid1:~$ top
top - 09:54:11 up 1 day, 16:45, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.40, 0.52
Tasks: 182 total, 2 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie...
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
This installation gives a very basic CLI which you then install what ever packages you want over the net.
I think WHAT you should have done is make your /data folder your /home folder. This what I have done and there are many HOWTO's out there that can show you how to do so.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/wizardpen/+bug/604492
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