Hi Mel, Thanks for the tips. I have taken the NUC in to Memory Express to get the hardware checked so I won't be able to try your suggestions for a few days.
Robin On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Mel Walters <titusmwalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thinking of this from the fundamental troubleshooting techniques could > save a lot of effort. > > BIOS is at a lower level and I have seen systems go from misbehaving and > intermittent to straight forward easy Linux installs. (with the latest > bios version) > > Another example of low level would be checking the power supply for ripple > or noise. Digital meter does not show that. Changing other components will > not help. > > Not saying this is your case, but worth thinking about the basics. You can > see a lot of time wasted once in a while when basics ignored. > > Mel > > over 15 years experience in electronics maintenance and repair > > On 17/06/16 01:17 AM, Zander Robertson wrote: > > > http://www.howtogeek.com/196740/how-to-fix-an-ubuntu-system-when-it-wont-boot/ > > I hope this may help. There's a few things to try for sure. > > Alex > On 15 Jun 2016 2:10 am, "Richard Carter" <carter.r....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm having a lot of trouble with ubuntu 16.04 on my Intel NUC. It >> started with the number 5 being inserted an indefinite number of times in >> the place where a password should go in an application. I was able to stop >> this infinite loop by restarting. >> >> A few days later booting would proceed to the point where I had to enter >> my password to access the desktop. Instead of there being a space for my >> password the word "Retry" appeared and the message "System is booting up. >> See pam_nologin (8)" in red letters appeared. This appeared for Ubuntu, >> Gnome, Gnome Flashback (Compiz) and Gnome Flashback (Metacity). Here too >> rebooting solved the problem----for a few days. >> >> Now after a few more days, when I turn on the computer I get the Intel >> slogan as usual and instruction regarding f2, f7, f10 etc followed by a >> black screen with a pulsing short white bar in the top left corner. That's >> as far as booting goes! >> >> I would appreciate advice on how to solve this (last) problem. >> >> Robin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing > listclug-talk@clug.cahttp://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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