Hi Folks. My problem has been solved. The tech at Memory Express said that the hardware is all good but I was trying to boot to the wrong drive (I have 2). Thanks to all for your help.
Robin On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Richard Carter <carter.r....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for the tip: it looks promising. Yesterday I took the NUC in to > Memory Express to get the hardware checked to I won't be able to follow the > link you sent for a few days. > > Robin > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Zander Robertson < > zandervanrobert...@gmail.com> 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 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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