shim boot-loader problem

2023-03-24 Thread KCB Leigh
I have an ACER ASPIRE 5.14 laptop with an internal hard disk, with both Windows 10, & Ubuntu v.20.04 on separate partitions (which I use only occasionally), but have been running the machine primarily from a USB stick with Debian 11.6: Linux cpe-67-241-65-193 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162

Culling old versions of Kernel from /usr/lib/modules/

2023-03-24 Thread KCB Leigh
This message is related to the 'Re: solution to / full' thread. I am running my computer from a Debian 11.6 OS on a 25GB partition on a USB stick.  The root partition is now 70% full, with over 4GB (16%) of the volume occupied by /usr/lib/modules/ (3.5GB) & /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (1.4GB) - as f

Re: Installation fails to recognize SSD

2022-05-13 Thread KCB Leigh
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Re: Re: Cannot login to my user?

2022-03-02 Thread KCB Leigh
I experienced this same problem with Debian 11 with GNOME 3.38.5: I had tried to change the Settings > Accessibility > Zoom Options > Magnifier Position from 'Magnifier cursor moves with contents'.  The moment I selected  the option 'Keep Magnifier Cursor centred', I was logged out & the login s

Re: Re: systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-03-02 Thread KCB Leigh
The problem occurred after I installed the ufw firewall package.  I finally figured out (as Mr Richard Hector wrote me) that the problem was caused by ufw blocking the network connection on the loopback interface.  Removing the ufw package resolved the problem.

systemd user@###.service failure causing 90 sec delays during boot, login

2022-02-28 Thread KCB Leigh
I installed Debian 11 (Bullseye) with GNOME 3.38.5 (Wayland), LINUX kernel Linux version 5.10.0-11-amd64 (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) on a USB stick, and am using it with an ACER Aspire 514 laptop. This operating system has worke