Re: [tlug] Cinnamon has crashed

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Thanks for many and various help and suggestions. Cinnamon has still 
crashed, and I have to get this mended, but I seem to be doing about two 
full-time jobs at the same time, which makes it tricky.
The green light is on; actually there are two bootable partitions on the 
disk, the other being the "update" to Ubuntu that caused the fuss in the 
first place, back in June. And I booted this successfully: it's 
unstable, because of the Ubuntu update snafu, but suggests the problem 
is not hardware.
The problem is that while I understand in principle stuff like 
partitions, I have no idea where to start sorting it out. (I do need to 
get at the files in my Mint home directory, asap.) I suppose I could do 
either:
Reinstall Mint in place. How? Is it reasonably likely to be ok, without 
copying all the files to some backup? How would I access the 
unmounted(?) partition to copy all the files anyway?
Or should I copy all the files somewhere, and reinstall clean?

I don't need someone to tell me the Answer, but I do need help knowing 
what commands etc to read up on. Thanks!
Brian Chandler







On 2014-09-17 18:47, Jens Oliver John wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:23:20PM +0900, Brian Chandler wrote:
> > (...)
> > connect: network unreachable
> First: is the green led around the network port on? If yes, hardware link is ok.