Re: USB On Xubuntu - UPDATE

I have created a Xubuntu Live USB drive & have pulled the information 
off of the drive.  The email is IMAP so if I have to recreate...fine.  I 
right-clicked on the drive from the live environment & that allowed me 
to mount the internal drive, but I am not sure if that is what Neil was 
talking about.  The usb kb/mouse do work in the live environment so that 
confirms to me that it is something stuck in the OS.

I am doing some reading online & found that i could boot from the USB & 
update it to a newer OS....is that something I would want to do or will 
it bork things?


On 1/5/2018 5:19 PM, TekBudda wrote:
> Hi all...recently my Dell OptiPlex 745 with Xubuntu on it won't allow 
> me to login after booting after doing a recent update that required a 
> restart of the machine.
>
> I can start the machine & use the USB keyboard to access the BIOS but 
> when it comes to the login area I cannot type anything. As well, USB 
> mouse doesn't work.  I have tried the following (and likely a few more 
> things as well):
> * Different keyboards & mice
> * Different USB ports
> * No PS/2 ports so could not check that.
> * Moved hard drive to different chassis.
> * Reset/change BIOS settings
> * Restarted multiple times
> * Tried accessing command line
>
> All of this still gets me back to the same spot.  It was recent build 
> (likely at 17.10 as I kept up with updates) & was done from scratch 
> (likely started as a 17.04 but can't be sure).  I am pretty sure it is 
> the OS based on swapping the hard drive, but not sure how to fix it.  
> With the limited browsing access (via phone) I couldn't find much that 
> pointed me in the right direction.  I know there was an issue recently 
> with some lenovo devices, but that doesn't seem to apply here.
>
> I am at the point now where I will try to spin up a USB drive to at 
> least try to access the data on the desktop, but would like to get it 
> running again with out having to format & start again; because the 
> massive pain in the arse that installing applications, setting up 
> emails, etc.  I am not sure if it is possible to run updates (that 
> will likely fix the issue) on the installed system from a Live USB or 
> not.
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
>


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