kg0012
August 31st, 2017, 03:40 PM
I am trying to resurrect a Dell mini-1012 net book (useless running windows).
I have loaded Lubuntu 17.04 & the live CD worked flawlessly except for the lack of WIFI drivers. & so did the installed version. All went well until I decided to check for updates. There was a huge backlog of updates > 50 MB. which I installed. Only to find that the computer would not boot after that. It was hanging as soon as it tried to load Lubunu.
A new core core version came with the update so I tried booting with the old core version... & it still hung. Next I reinstalled lubuntu 17.04 & only loaded the security updates & a few others that looked necessary. Once more the updates killed the machine.
Investigating further I found it was throwing up three error messages about the lack of firmware for the Wireless adapter but figured that should not have caused the hang. Next step was to try and boot with "nomodeset" in grub. Now able to see the startup splash I found the hang took place immediately after the message "Listening on Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status /dev/rfkill/watch. Starting Load/Save RFKill Switch Status". I then disabled WiFi & Bluetooth in the Bios. The boot process now went 3 lines further & ended with "Created slice system-systemd\x2 backlight slice Starting Load/Save Backlight..es of leds:dell::kbd_backlight..." at this stage I decided to drop back to the 16.04.2 LTS version as a safer option.
It was the wrong move as nothing changed .... Live DVD excellent Freshly installed version also Excellent. after updating black screen of death same place same errors. #-o
I've given it my best shot.. has any one any ideas please?
Lubuntu runs like a charm unupdated & I would like to keep it, and while there are other light distros out there The family is used to LDXE from the fleet of raspberry pi's around the house so lubuntu is a very good fit.
I have loaded Lubuntu 17.04 & the live CD worked flawlessly except for the lack of WIFI drivers. & so did the installed version. All went well until I decided to check for updates. There was a huge backlog of updates > 50 MB. which I installed. Only to find that the computer would not boot after that. It was hanging as soon as it tried to load Lubunu.
A new core core version came with the update so I tried booting with the old core version... & it still hung. Next I reinstalled lubuntu 17.04 & only loaded the security updates & a few others that looked necessary. Once more the updates killed the machine.
Investigating further I found it was throwing up three error messages about the lack of firmware for the Wireless adapter but figured that should not have caused the hang. Next step was to try and boot with "nomodeset" in grub. Now able to see the startup splash I found the hang took place immediately after the message "Listening on Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status /dev/rfkill/watch. Starting Load/Save RFKill Switch Status". I then disabled WiFi & Bluetooth in the Bios. The boot process now went 3 lines further & ended with "Created slice system-systemd\x2 backlight slice Starting Load/Save Backlight..es of leds:dell::kbd_backlight..." at this stage I decided to drop back to the 16.04.2 LTS version as a safer option.
It was the wrong move as nothing changed .... Live DVD excellent Freshly installed version also Excellent. after updating black screen of death same place same errors. #-o
I've given it my best shot.. has any one any ideas please?
Lubuntu runs like a charm unupdated & I would like to keep it, and while there are other light distros out there The family is used to LDXE from the fleet of raspberry pi's around the house so lubuntu is a very good fit.