My suspicion would be a failed disk check on startup, and now you’re booted in a read only state…
Can you get a full terminal output during boot? Sent from my iPhone On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 10:30, Peter Merchant <petermerch...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
