Mike Miller writes: > > I recently bought one of these, just before the $100 discount started: > > https://www.costco.com/Dell-Inspiron-Desktop---Intel-Core- i7---2GB-NVIDIA-Graphics.product.100344519.html > Sweet. > I think they'll give me the $100. But, anyway, the reason I'm writing > to the list is that I've had some peculiar problems and I'm wondering > if I have a bad computer or one that has some kind of incompatibility > with Ubuntu. > > Installation of Ubuntu 17.04 was a breeze. I kept the Windows 10 in a > 100 GB partition. I started copying files from a USB 3.0 external > drive, but sometime after the screen blanked I tried to enter my > password at the login window and the system just hung -- it never > accepted the password, the screen froze, it seemed to take no input > from the keyboard and while the mouse cursor moved on the screen, > clicking had no effect. I had something similar happen yesterday on my 2 year old laptop. I had recently installed openSuse on it. > Often when I press the power button, it comes on for about a second > and then turns off. I saw that happen once after powering off -- it > turned on for a second, then off again. That seems odd. > I had to start in recovery mode. That seemed to fix it, but the next > time I used it, it got stuck again and I had to use the power button > to shut it off. Recovery mode didn't work for me. I reinstalled openSuse and this is what I get from uname -a: Linux 4.11.8-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 29 14:37:33 UTC 2017 (42bd7a0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I don't know if you use suspend/hibernate, but I had been doing some of that prior to this happening. My guess is that using those had something to do with it. On the previous install I picked the KDE desktop. For this latest install I chose Gnone. I noticed Gnome doesn't mention (at least that I've seen) anything about suspend and hibernate like KDE did. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Adios amigo, Ricky Rubio. http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170705/f67ac28f/attachment.html>