upgrade and dist-upgrade caused terminal to stop working and Wifi to drop
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:49 pm
After a bit more than a month of not using my Mint install, today I did an
After that my wifi has been dropping randomly and i cannot connect unless i restart my PC.
Wifi will just randomly disconnect, if i try to view all possible connections only my wifi shows up in the list, if i click it, it tries to connect, strength percentage drops to 0% and it will not connect, after a while it says its unavailable and my PCs wifi key light turns orange, as if i had clicked the key, and i cannot turn it back on.
this last time it happened, i was going to try to restart the service via terminal, how ever the terminal would not open, neither via the menu, or with crtl+alt+t. I restarted the PC and it still wont open. I tried running gnome-terminal via XTerm and got this.
inxi -Fxz returns
sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
.After that my wifi has been dropping randomly and i cannot connect unless i restart my PC.
Wifi will just randomly disconnect, if i try to view all possible connections only my wifi shows up in the list, if i click it, it tries to connect, strength percentage drops to 0% and it will not connect, after a while it says its unavailable and my PCs wifi key light turns orange, as if i had clicked the key, and i cannot turn it back on.
this last time it happened, i was going to try to restart the service via terminal, how ever the terminal would not open, neither via the menu, or with crtl+alt+t. I restarted the PC and it still wont open. I tried running gnome-terminal via XTerm and got this.
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gtk-warning ** locale not supported by c library. using the fallback 'c' locale error constructing proxy for org.nome.terminal:/org/gnome/terminal/Factory0: error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 9
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System: Host: kevin-Mint Kernel: 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP 15 Notebook PC v: 0973110002405F00000620180
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 8014 v: 10.13
Bios: Insyde v: F.11 date: 09/25/2014
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-4030U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 7582
clock speeds: max: 1900 MHz 1: 1799 MHz 2: 1800 MHz 3: 1799 MHz
4: 1471 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1366x768@60.02hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 8 Series HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-21-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtl8188ee port: 4000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 09:00.0
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (48.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0 size: 750.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 71G used: 28G (42%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
ID-2: /boot size: 453M used: 60M (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-3: /home size: 513G used: 303G (63%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
ID-4: swap-1 size: 6.14GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 253 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 1955.5/5901.9MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35