I've just updated the OS and now I can't login. Tried repeating the password up to 6 times without getting in.

This is an osboxes.org installation. Have used it for year and never had this issue.

Could this be the Ubuntu login loop? Xauthority and /tmp are correctly owned.

Any help appreciated.

SO my SSD gave up recently and I had to restore a complete backup for the first time in my life.

Fed up with available backup programs where I'm never sure what they do and not sure how they restore files, I did my own backup of the entire file system with tar. (Basically tar -cvz -g backup.snar -f backup-000.tar.gz / with a bunch of excluded directories.) This way, I at least know where my files are and how they will be restored (i.e. manually by me).

The basic principle was that if I had a problem, I could always load LL again and then blindly unzip my backup over it to regain my system. Easy.

My problem arise when upgrading from series 4.X to 5.X. In such a case, I know that I cannot blindly overwrite a fresh install of the new series with files from the old series. Some files will be obsolete and clutter my SSD, some old files would overwrite the new ones and missing new features, maybe even broke some programs.

What I did was that I installed LL 5.0, then reinstalled all programs I had (based on my memory and looking at my backup files in /bin), then unzip my backed up home directory (even partly, because some programs like Pinta are not included in LL 5.0). But there are a lot of personal files which are not in the home directory. For example, mysql stores the databases in /var/lib/mysql. Emails are in /var/mail and cronjobs are in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/. I even found a VirtualBox folder in /opt.

The worst thing I found was a theme for Notepadqq. After reinstalling Notepadqq, I lost my setting for the appearance theme. We only have a choice between a selection of themes. I remember I did something special when I configured it, but couldn't remember it. By looking at the .ini file of the program, I finally realized that - 2 years ago - I build my own .css file (which is how the themes are stored) and put it with the other themes (after looking all around for them) in /usr/share/notepadqq/editor/libs/codemirror/theme/.

Are there other forgotten files like that? I don't know. I'm keeping my old backup for a while, just in case new problems arise.

So my question is: How do you keep track of all the files that you need to restore when upgrading from one series to another? Because it seems to be a very tedious job to upgrade from one series to another, certainly not one for an inexperienced user.

Hardware = HP EliteDesk 800 G1 DM, 2 GHz i5, 12 GB RAMemory, 1TB Sata, intel HD Graphics 4600

Fully Updated X64 bit Linux-Lite 5

I've Navigated 2 the Location of platform-tools ie. /home/linux-lite/platform-tools Checked that adb iz Running, Confirmed that it Detects the Pixel 2 Phone, I've Copied All the GrapheneOS image Files to inside the platform-tools Directory & Clicked on flash-all.bat it Opens MousePad & when I Click on flash-all.sh Nutthing happens.

From the Linux-Lite Terminal, I cd /home/linux-lite/platform-tools/flash-all it Returns command not found same w/ .bat & .sh eXtensions. Also in All cases I there's a Maroon Red Flag w/ 127 inside I don't know what this means.

Please Help!

;-)K

Hola amigos: de nuevo tengo una pregunta que quiero resolver, me explico.
Desde que instale el sistema Linux Lite no he actualizado el mismo hasta hace unos dias que he pasado de la version 4.6 a la 4.8 y cual ha sido mi sorpresa que he notado un aumento importante en el numero de archivos instalados en el sistema que es aprox un 20% mas que en la version anterior.
Mi pregunta es: es esto normal?.....cosa que me parece un poco excesiva pues el upgrade es practicamente el mismo que el sistema anterior.
¿Puede que los archivos anteriores no se hayan borrado y convivan con los nuevos?
Agradezco cualquier opinion y respuesta que me anime a seguir con tranquilidad en esta nueva actualizacion, que por lo demás no me da ningun problema.
Mi preocupacion viene dada porque el espacio reservado que tengo para la paticion raiz es escaso, y esto ma ha llevado a una ocupacion del 75% y tengo poco margen de maniobra.
Nada mas; Un saludo y estaré a la escucha.
SALUD!! 8)

I have 2 PC's running Windows 7 and both have Firefox as the default browser.  I have created an account with Firefox and can log into my account on either PC with the same credentials.  I have also ser up sync and was hoping to use this to update all of my Firefox settings in LLOS 5.  I seem to recall being able to do this in LLOS 4.8.  However when I try to login to my Firefox account using the same credentials, I get "unknown account".  I have tried this many times and continue to get the error.

Before installing for the first time I tried to take a look at the the live version from a bootable usb.
Why does this happen?

I wonder if LL can be set by default to stick with what works and refuse kernel updates, sticking to the stable LTS kernels. It might prevent some of the "broken after updating" issues that happen with older hardware.

Hola tengo un problema con el menu de whisker llegue a desinstalar el libre office 5 y lo actualice al 6.2 y todo genial, el problema es que los iconos de la versión antigua no desaparecieron y no veo formas de quitarlo, alguien que me pueda ayudar en ese inconveniente?.

Hello All

I tried following

I cleaned  LL with Tweaks, then I instlled updtes and after that I opened Tweaks again at there are 223MB of package cache
so my suggestion is, if there was an updtae and iinstallation =  OKAY then the package cache should be cleaned direkt after installation process.



Greetings

Nanayaw

Hi

I'm running LL 5.0 on a Packard Bell EasyNote laptop. I installed it about 2 months ago and have been running it without issues since then. There are no other OSs installed on this machine.

This morning the system notified me of available updates, which I installed immediately. I don't have a record of the updates in question. Once the update was completed, the system suggested I restart the laptop to complete the installation, which I did.

After restart, the laptop keyboard stopped working and I was unable to type my password to login. None of the keys worked. The touchpad was functional.

Eventually, I connected an external USB keyboard and was able to login using that. However, I've been unable to get the keyboard to work (restarted the laptop several times). The keyboard seems to work in grub/bios but never after that.

The keyboard is listed when running xinput list. Enabling/disabling the device in xinput makes no difference. The touchpad clicking mechanism works, but the cursor movement doesn't.

I'm at a loss as to what the problem might be. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.