Hi from cold winter

For some unknown reason Linux Lite 3.8 takes forever or never mounts my Maxtor external hard drive. I have tried different ports, rebooting and restarting with the drive on and off, connected and not connected. Have not tried uninstalling 3.8 and going back to 3.6 to see if that will work or try reinstalling 3.8. Does anyone have any ideas?

Got this error when installing updates;
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linrunner/tlp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:8 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed InRelease [253 kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:13 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:14 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful InRelease
Ign:15 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful Release
Ign:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Ign:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Ign:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
Get:20 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [687 kB]
Get:21 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [551 kB]
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Ign:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Ign:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Err:16 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found
Ign:17 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main all Packages
Ign:18 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en_US
Ign:19 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful/main Translation-en
Fetched 1,798 kB in 7s (235 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
W: The repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu Artful Release' does not have a Release file.
E: Failed to fetch https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu...6/Packages  404  Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Any ideas?
Thanks

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Hi forum.

I struggle to make use of rsync between two local directories. It always return the error message unless I use the --dry-run parameter.

This is all the commands tried so far, same results for all:

Hi,

Anyone can tell me if this all-in-one (HP AiO 24-e001) computer from HP gonna work with Linux Lite? I search the hardware database but couldn't find anything about it. My old HP Elitebook 8540p is very slow and the fan is on all the time. I get a new hair done every time I sit bay it  ;D

Thanks in advanced

//Tobbe

Just to add to my troubles i now have two laptops playing up. This toshiba is not opening any of my memory sticks. I decided to try running a  virus scan as given in the help tutorials here
( https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/tutor...#antivirus ) & have run into more problems. I've had this in the CLI:

Err:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libcurl3 amd64 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80]
Fetched 9,109 kB in 13s (664 kB/s)                                           
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool..._amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80]

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted)
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$ sudo freshclam
sudo: freshclam: command not found
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$ sudo freshclam
sudo: freshclam: command not found
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$ --fix-missing
--fix-missing: command not found
jpa@jpa-SATELLITE-C850D-11Q:~$

Clearly the tutorial is out of date with 404 ip address but why am i getting (1: Operation not permitted) & (13: Permission denied) as well as command not found? Anyone willing to help? Thanks.

update:
just before shutting down i tried my flash m/stick again - it was recognized this time but i got an authentication dialogue box wanting my admin password to mount. I cancelled until i know whats going on.

Hello

I don't have idea if this subforum is the right place to post this question. I work in a Technical School and we have a classroom with 16 PC's with Linux Lite Installed. The students are very "anxious" and modify the appearance of the desktop constantly. They modify panels, icons, backgrounds, shortcuts , etc.

I would like to know if is possible to reset this changes in every login to the original "modified by me"  configuration (our background, shortcuts on desktop, items on panels, etc) . I don't want that they lost her files (even if they are on the desktop). Can someone help me?

I'm looking for a large external hard drive for storage of my videos & TV programmes. It needs to have USB 3.0 connectivity and be around 8 to 10 TB (though can be more) and powered from a laptop (setup[1] in signature below). Do any of you have any personal recommendations?

Given its size, will it need its own independent power supply?  I know Seagate's recent 5TB external hard drive doesn't need one, as it's powered from the laptop through the USB 3.0 connection.

Also, I know many of the very large drives don't come with a single disk, but have more than one disk in a RAID configuration. Do such RAID drives have plug & play capability with LL or is there a bit of work to do to configure LL to use them?  Ideally I want an external USB drive that has just a single large disk - I would imagine with a single disk it's simpler and probably less likely that something will go wrong.

Many thanks in advance for any knowledge that you can share in this area.
Your help and advice is much appreciated as always  8)

Mike

PS. the laptop also has thunderbolt connectivity, but i have no idea if this will work readily with LL - any ideas?

Hello,
Just downloaded linux-lite-64bit for my Acer Aspire and I have been using Linux Mint 17.3 just fine. I was looking at the release notes for linux-lite 3.8 and I believe it says that you now provide your own version of my favorite choice of browser. Private browsing is why I use Mozilla Firefox, I have respect for those developers and I believe they have respect for me. Did I understand this correctly: Linux Lite chooses to monitor my searches on my favorite private browser?