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Re: [LUG] Daughter's computer
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Daughter's computer
- From: Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:03:14 +0000
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On 06/11/2019 12:28, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, 12:17 Neil, <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
My daughter has just arrived with her laptop. She cannot log in as
normal. When she tries the screen simply starts flashing on and off. At
the moment I am running a memory test.
I can upgrade her to a new distro easily enough and set up her email
again. However there are some photos on the current distro which she
would like to save. No backup of course, and yes I have told her, many
times.
Any suggestions please?
Neil
At what point does it start to flash? Can you/she press ALT+F1 (or F2,
etc) to get to a console login? If the flashing is something wrong with
X then you may need to do CTRL+ALT+F1 instead.
Grant
As soon as I try to log in. The screen is flashing quickly. I have a USB
with the latest version of MX Linux on it which opens up just fine. So I
could replace the current distro (Linux Lite) with the new one, but that
will lose all the old version. Or perhaps gparted will let me do
something. I do not use gparted very much.
Neil
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