Great news On 28 Jun 2016 8:50 am, "Richard Carter" <carter.r....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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