On 14/11/2023 07:55, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
I was attempting capture the outputs from htop and dstat -tcdngmy after
Chromium started eating CPU and RAM as detailed in the previous thread.
However, before I could complete that, the system shut itself down. Normally,
I have found that restarting the system brought it back after a bit of disc
checking within the boot process, but this time my system was trashed.
It boots up, but hardly any of my Activities have any Widgets left. More
seriously, my wired connection seems to have lost its configuration. According
to the Internet this config should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, but I
don't have a sysconfig directory so no network-scripts! I have no idea what
else has happened under the bonnet.
The WiFi connection works when I plug in a USB dongle.
Normally I am able to restore everything using the most recent backup, (last
Thursday), but I don't normally backup the root directory because that can
always be restored with a clean installation. However, a clean installation
necessitates several days reinstalling and reconfiguring my favourite packages,
so before I do that, I'd like to work out exactly what has been broken.
Any ideas?
No Ideas about how to find out what broke it, but a week or so ago I
Reinstalled kubuntu 22.04 and in the disk formatting I did it manually and
kept my /Home partition as it was, and that worked without loss of data
(AFAIK). And it also kept the configuration of programs that had configurations
in the Home partition, like Thunderbird.
So maybe do that, completely Uninstall suspect programs and go from there?
Peter
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