Installation went perfect as far as i can tell. (MATE Desktop Environment 1.16.1) 32bit.
*Note; to get around the install windows being too long for a 1024x600 Netbook screen to press the 'forward' button, i just had the Monitor Preferences window open and changed the Rotation to Left.. was kind of fun trying to beat the 30 second timeout and i did win in the end.
First thing i did was run the Update Manager, that went ok, although during the updates, it did mention one broken app.
The Update Manager is set to level 3 - all updates are installed.
There are currently two security updates at level 5 - these are not installed - grub2 and kernel 3.16.39-1
After update i decided to reboot and saw two warnings on the shutdown screen:
'Virtualbox additions disabled, not in a virtualbox machine?'
'Startpar: Service(s) returned failure: plymouth failed. FAIL'
After rebooting i went to Package Manager, searched Virtualbox and removed the three virtualbox installs, rebooted and noticed that the virtualbox reference has gone in the shutdown screen, so that was great. Don't think it was affecting the system but you never know if you don't know what a virtualbox is in the first place.
1. Had a look at plymouth in the Package Manager and it's dependencies look messy and it looks a bit harder then virtualbox, so need help with that one.
2. Probably my main cause for concern though is that some of the Administration / Tools fail to start after entering password. This started happening shortly after install and update manager. I remember having a quick look around after install at the menu's and was opening Services, Shared Folders, Users an Groups, Network and they were working fine. Now i click on those mentioned and Authentication box opens, put my password in and nothing happens. Some work though, Login Window asks for Admin Password and i have the option to save the password for this session and Login Window works, Software Manager works, Software sources works, Synaptic works, Time and Date does not work as it asks for the Authenticate password, not the Admin password.
So in summary, if i have to Authenticate an app to start, after putting in the password, it doesnt start the app.
If it's a app that asks for the Administrator password, all those apps work. Weird. Obviously Authenticate and Administrate are two different things?
So my next logical step was to log into root and sure enough it's doing exactly the same thing.
All other apps in the system seem to work fine, it's only the 'Authenticate' ones that don't start.
Any idea's help would be much appreciated.
Oh, before i forget.. should i update to grub2 and the new kernel, yet?
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~ $ inxi -Fz
System: Host: debian Kernel: 3.16.0-4-586 i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: MATE 1.16.1 Distro: LinuxMint 2 betsy
Machine: Mobo: Intel model: CAPELL VALLEY(NAPA) CRB
Bios: Phoenix v: NAPA0001.86C.0056.D.0904031019 date: 04/03/09
CPU: Single core Intel Atom N270 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
clocked at 1600 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1024x600@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.0-4-586
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter driver: rt2800usb
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 640.1GB (1.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST640LM001_HN size: 640.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 29G used: 5.6G (21%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /home size: 481G used: 652M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 26.8C mobo: 26.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 127 Uptime: 37 min Memory: 330.7/2014.4MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28
