How to clean up old images and grub - trying to clean up no shut down and bad reboots

[urdrwho5]

I also allowed Muon to have its way and remove the unnecessary files which were the other kernel. I'd rather have two but I thought that maybe having two was somehow mucking something up. Plus the partition that Linux is on is rather full and that would free up space.

I haven't tried a reboot.

Hope that gets you going OK, time will tell, huh?



Windows does have various reset/restore modes; e.g., on laptops, too. Some can take time. Linux, in a sense, has a quick restore mode: simply reinstall it! Piece of cake, and relatively quick. Reconfiguring takes time, but that is a sunk cost in both Win and Linux.

[urdrwho5]

So I am not back to being able to reboot without the 2 inch line from top to bottom. It takes a few reboots until I get a clean boot and right now i have a good desktop.

I ran Muon update and found some updates, because of the problems I am having, I chose cautious upgrade. This is what I got on a cautious upgrade. I notice it does say 14.04 and that begs the question --- why doesn't grub say 14.04? Should grub say 14.04?

Start-Date: 2015-01-22  13:15:12
Upgrade: mysql-server-core-5.5:amd64 (5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), python-samba:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), mysql-client-core-5.5:amd64 (5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), winbind:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), samba:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), flashplugin-installer:amd64 (11.2.202.429ubuntu0.14.04.1, 11.2.202.438ubuntu0.14.04.1), samba-dsdb-modules:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), samba-common-bin:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), samba-libs:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), mysql-common:amd64 (5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), libmysqlclient18:amd64 (5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), libwbclient0:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), samba-vfs-modules:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-
1ubuntu2.14.04.4), samba-common:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4), libsmbclient:amd64 (4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3, 4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4)
End-Date: 2015-01-22  13:17:59

Hope that gets you going OK, time will tell, huh?



Windows does have various reset/restore modes; e.g., on laptops, too. Some can take time. Linux, in a sense, has a quick restore mode: simply reinstall it! Piece of cake, and relatively quick. Reconfiguring takes time, but that is a sunk cost in both Win and Linux.