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I had to do a sudo alsa force-reload for it to work(reboot)....after another reboot, lost sound again????

Has anything changed with LM 20 and your above procedure? I followed your steps, using agent switcher w/ various OS/browser combos but still unable to access Xfinity Stream, says my system is incompatible. Using latest FF and Chrome...tested flashplugin on adobe website,reports ver 32....FF reports ...

no Firewall?..Lol ..thats the minimum

it can make it easier to use the Conky Manager Does it produce clean config code? I have Conky on all of my machines, have had it for years, and in my experience it's only then a reliable tool if you keep the config code "clean, mean and lean"..... clean,mean and lean (for me)! I use CM ,...

When I boot up the pc, I do not have network access, my conky shows twp local ip;192.168.1.100 and 192.168.8.100... When looking at the network connection info, it shows the default route as 192.168.8.1 which is not the correct IP. When I view the connection settings in Network Manager, that IP is n...

Good news. Now that the desktop is back, you can use the Network Connections tool from the menu to edit connection settings, you don't need to edit the files manually anymore. I do however suggest to mark this thread here as solved (edit OP and add [SOLVED] to the subject line) and to create a new ...

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ holds the connection profiles. nmcli would have told you what connection that IP was associated with, so you can edit the associated profile in case you manually configured it there. sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<ConnectionProfile> . Other...

Are you connected at all? What does nmcli say? You might be able to reinstall the required packages regardless of Internet connection if they are still cached from a recent update. Just try sudo apt-get install --reinstall mint-meta-cinnamon cinnamon cinnamon-common ok so running the nmcli command ...

had to run startx, now it’s a black screen with cursor only... That does actually sound like you don't have a desktop environment installed. Did you reinstall cinnamon yet as you had planned? If not, now is the time. ;) PS: you can kill your X-session with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, if so configured, or j...

^ that, and he means you should do that from the login screen that you get dropped back to, not from the live USB. After you did that, press Alt+F7 and see if you can log in. If you cannot, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 again, run startx, see what error messages you get. The issue is typically one of messed up...

still looking for help here.....

so I went back to the live cd, chroot the root partition, but when I try to run an update command from terminal, it fails to connect. Is there a way to change the source in the terminal and not in the software source app in desktop? I do have internet connection,able to ping while in terminal .... j...

I did a search on this prior to this post...I somehow hosed by desktop. I get the login page, enter password ,it goes black for about 10 seconds then it dumps me back to the login page. I do not have a guest account to log into..also my other desktop show cairo-dock gnome and kodi...I can choose kod...

When running the mintupgrade check, it aborts automatically as it answers itself with a "n"...unable to proceed.... Of course it does, because you are just running the check. As it tells you in that message that you need to confirm with Y, it is "Simulating an upgrade". Please c...

When running the mintupgrade check, it aborts automatically as it answers itself with a "n"...unable to proceed.... thxs Do you want to continue? (Y/n)? N Have you tried to press backspace and type Y followed by enter? I can press the Y key for the first two steps, but on the last step, i...

I am still looking for help here,,,,updated mintupgrade to latest , still receiving same error....I have never had problems upgrading in past...really stumped

thxs

When running the mintupgrade check, it aborts automatically as it answers itself with a "n"...unable to proceed....
thxs

why would it be a level 4 ? Most say not to install updates from this catergory...
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Plex is free and it works fine via my ps4 for both LM and Win 10...you just need to configure router for UPnP/Nat which plex clearly states in their troubleshooting guide
good luck

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I was reading some horror stories already about this update for dual boot linux machines....since the update is unavoidable I was a little nervous. Having to install LMDE on UEFI was a chore in itself so I was thinking the worse with this update... Surprisingly all went smooth and it took less than ...