I've mistyped or misrecorded my main password in a relatively new installation. Previously when I have done this I have  been able to regain control of the system by entering the Recovery menu, selecting the 'root' option and creating a new password for my user.
This time though I have been prompted for the "root password for maintenance". This sounds like a move to improve the physical security of devices which is clearly worthwhile but I have never knowingly created or used such a password, except on a live disk. I have tried a plain [Enter] linuxlite and root but none has worked.
It looks like I might have to reinstall but how do I avoid this situation again (other than by complete accuracy of course, mea culpa without doubt on this).

Have just tried to play a DVD on my new desktop computer using VLC Media Player.
But VLC throws an error:

DVDRead could not read-1/4 blocks at 0x01

Could someone help me out here please.

Hello,

I received an email yesterday it was odd by date, 21 March.
I had checked email each day.
Received other emails, including from the source of the 21 March email.

I am curious about the email process/of the date, can the sender pause it on their server so it would have the date stamp, but not actually go outwards from their server ?

I did receive in a different email a form as attachment, inside this it has macros, I allowed the macros, in the document in Open Office, there were squares empty between a each section I was unable to view.
Other parts of the form I was to tick boxes, instead I had to type in the answer to the form inside the tick boxes, as the only way to complete it in Open Office. The rest of the form I had to type answers.
I sent it back on the 28 March, yesterday the reply came with the payment link, after payment the receipts came from them, and the payment processor.
Also arrived further up in the emails inbox the 21 March email, it wasn't dark/bold as unread it was marked light text colour as read emails are.
I read it then, inside it contains the security codes, or also reference numbers of advance request email (asking for the form reference, and processed reference) .

It confused me as to how the date was 21 March, and if maybe the final reference is decided in advance but not enabled until payments, if so how did they pause the email on their servers whilst passing the returned form to the specific staff member ?

Just odd to me I haven't seen it before in email.
I wondered if it can be because the form returned wasn't standard how they expected as it may have functioned differently on Linux, compared to how they are used to if from other OS.

I notice that with some Linux distros, some folk create a separate /boot partition, when installing on an MBR (MSdos) formatted drive.  Is there any reason or advantage gained in doing this? Personally, I can't see any (it's a bit of a waste of space), and prefer to install LL as either /root only, or with separate /root and /home partitions.

As ever, I'm looking forward to hearing your views & comments ...

I was running Linux Lite 3.6 but had to have an extended stay in bed to give these old bones a chance to recuporate lol. Well now i'm back and running Linux Lite 3.8 which in my old humble opinion is better than ever. 

Usually the updating of LL doesn't take more than 30 mins, however I had a computer that hadn't been updated since January that I updated yesterday.  It took about 2 hours to download and install the updates.

I will be meeting some youth today who have other computers running LL 3.4 that they have been using since January so haven't been updated recently thus I wanted to check (in case their updating takes long): 

1) At what point during the updating (downloading and installing) MIGHT I be able to stop the process and then resume it again?  Almost all of these computer require to be plugged in as the batteries are dead.

2) IF I can't "properly" interrupt the process WHAT HAPPENS if it is interrupted/stopped?  Will this play havoc with the OS/Computer and should I simply wait to update it when I know I have an uninterrupted period?

3) I thought there was a point between the downloading and installing where it asks "do you want to install these", however I didn't see it yesterday on the computer I updated.  I did leave it on it's own for a bit and wondered if perhaps I missed this question and then it went on to install after a countdown...Does anyone recall if it asks?

Thanks.

Is UEFI supported in Linux Lite? The short answer is no.

Why don't you support UEFI?

- It's an unnecessary technology. A replacement for a system that already performed a job. If BIOS was so bad, hardware vendors wouldn't still include it their devices. We follow the Unix Philosophy - "Write programs that do one thing and do it well." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

- UEFI is insecure. It claims to protect the computer, but it can't. We could link to dozens of articles, but it's easier to simply Google 'UEFI security' to find out more and debunk this myth forever.

- UEFI is not without it's headaches and requires significantly more Support than BIOS does. I'm not prepared to put our community through more Support threads when it's completely unnecessary to do so.

- We have test builds but they are officially unsupported and there is no guarantee that any more will be created in the future - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/linux...uild-test/

- The layman does not understand the technology and all its caveats. Since we are an OS that targets computer novices and migrating Windows users, providing UEFI would contradict our mission.

- 'UEFI will make your OS more popular' - we're not interested in popularity, we're only interested in making the transition to a linux based operating system for people as simple and uncomplicated as possible. UEFI doesn't translate to a smoother install if you are unfamiliar with partitioning.

Will you ever support UEFI in Linux Lite?

Not if we can help it. It's been said that one day UEFI will completely replace BIOS. If that day comes we'll re-evaluate, but even then, there will still be millions of computers in existence that Linux Lite can be installed to. Linux Lite will still provide a valuable service for those people. "But, but, but, but I can use my mouse in the BIOS now thanks to UEFI..."



In conclusion.

I want people to self-educate. Don't blindly accept a technology simply because it exists or is widely used, or because 'others' are using it. Ask questions. What is UEFI? How did it start? Who is behind it?

Knowledge is power. Use it.

Just tried to post, first time in a good few days... Got an error

I installed LL, but after the install should have been finished I restarted my computer and everything seemd normal. But after I had once shutdown and removed the usb I got LL from my laptop opened to the BIOS menu and the ssd I installed LL to was not detected.
When I am in the live version of LL it detects my laptops ssd as a sd card reader and when I look into it all the LL files are there, but I can't boot to it.
please, help!

I needed a pc for a project and decided to resurrect an old laptop that has run flawlessly on ubuntu for over a decade. I had tied Linux Lite last year when helping a friend get an old laptop going again by rebuilding it upon Linux Lite. Worked like a charm. So I decided to put it on my old Laptop too.  But this time around, my laptop seems to be too much of a challenge for Linux Lite. I'm guessing the age of the laptop is the real issue. I'm hoping for a lot when I try to get such an old (2005) laptop to run on an up-to-date OS. But I've been a linux user for about 10 years now (not an expert - just a user) and I like to think I can get linux to do anything! I've spent time in the past on dozens of pc's troubleshooting audio and video issues - seems to be something that you have to accept when using linux - but I usually resolve the problem within hours. Not this time.

I have spent about 3 days looking at everything there is about getting sound to work including this forum and many others. I have come to the conclusion that it's simply incompatible (but faintly hoping I am wrong). The reason I believe this is I rebooted with an old 12.04 Live CD (where the sound works perfectly) and noted the results of the following command line queries (among others but I found these to be the most revealing):

aplay -l
amixer -c0 scontents
amixer -c0 scontrols

and I only found one thing different: "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields a shorter list of controls in Linux Lite than in 12.04. Mostly 'Master Switch' controls are missing.

My sound card: "aplay -l yields"

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC880 Analog [ALC880 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC880 Digital [ALC880 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Under Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields

numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
numid=25,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch'
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Switch'
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Volume'
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Switch'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Volume'
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch',index=1
numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch',index=2
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume',index=1
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume',index=2
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Default PCM Playback Switch'
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Default'
numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch'
numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Switch'
numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Volume'
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source'
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=1
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=2
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'

But under Linux Lite "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Simple mixer control 'Capture',2
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',2
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0

Everything else I have looked at seems identically installed between the 12.04 Live CD and the Linux Lite I have installed.

"lsb_release -a" shows:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:  Ubuntu
Description:  Linux Lite 3.8
Release:  16.04
Codename:  xenial

I should point out that when playing a sound from any source if I look at "pavucontrol" everything looks fine: i get choices of speakers or headphones as usual, it's using analog stereo output as usual and the volume meter is showing the sound playing (blue bar bouncing around as it should. The conclusion I draw from that is the final connection to the speakers or headphones is not being made correctly. It's not a muting issue (or at least I've unmuted everything there is to unmute). I think it's the driver is simply not compatible.

So anyway, I thought I'd post this to the forum (sorry if I have not adhered to your conventions but forum posting is new to me) and see if someone could suggest a way forward. I'd put another version on the laptop if I could identify a version that would work. Or is there something I'm missing - not inconceivable. It seems to me I've tried just about everything anyone has ever suggested to troubleshoot this issue in the past three days.

Thanks.