What's in the logs?

Post #434,109 by pwhysall 5/22/20 11:24:13 AM 5/22/20 11:24:13 AM Reply	What's in the logs?
Post #434,113 by drook 5/22/20 5:31:26 PM 5/22/20 5:31:26 PM Reply	Wood. HAAAAAHAHAHA!!!! Actually I haven't had time to mess with it today. Might try tonight. -- Drew
Post #434,124 by drook 5/22/20 10:06:38 PM 5/22/20 10:06:38 PM Reply	Nothing useful I was about to start a clean install, but it indicates you need 2 Ghz dual-core and 4G RAM to run the default (Gnome) desktop. This box is far short of those specs, and I don't trust the installer not to brick it. Besides, I like the current desktop on this thing. Now I'm thinking I'll just keep it disconnected from the net, do the book updates I want, then wipe and get rid of it. My inner nerd is screaming at me to not let this hunk of metal beat me. My inner adult is telling my inner nerd to piss off. -- Drew
Post #434,125 by Another Scott 5/22/20 10:19:42 PM 5/22/20 10:19:42 PM Reply	OS/2!! ;-) Ok, maybe not. Maybe ChromeOS? https://www.howtogeek.com/217659/how-to-get-a-chrome-os-like-operating-system-on-any-pc/ ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #434,127 by Andrew Grygus 5/23/20 1:52:46 AM 5/23/20 1:52:46 AM Reply	OS/2 is Old! Dumped it (well - sort of) a couple of years ago. My two former OS/2 computers (my two main computers) now run ArcaOS - the 2017 update from OS/2. Only problem I have, the running version of Firefox is pretty long in the tooth, I couldn't get the Firefox beta to run (thought other people have). Firefox development has pretty much stopped, and the promised Falkon browser (in active development) isn't quite finished yet. Porting all the libraries from Linux has been the problem.
Post #434,128 by drook 5/23/20 2:28:01 AM 5/23/20 2:28:01 AM Reply	Progress! I think ... maybe I had tried all the Ubuntu graphical package tools, and the command line. On a whim I tried Synaptic. I watched it fail to pull the translation files - which is what kept stalling the command line update - but get everything else. I kicked off a dist-upgrade before heading to bed. -- Drew
Post #434,130 by pwhysall 5/23/20 5:12:11 AM 5/23/20 5:12:11 AM Reply	I have had some success with Aptitude for apparently-borked apt issues
Post #434,134 by scoenye 5/23/20 12:40:10 PM 5/23/20 12:40:10 PM Reply	2nd this The interface can be rather infuriating but you get a good view at what is broken/stuck. And it groups the packages so you can deal with one area at a time.

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