I came across this once before and thought I'd toss this out to the community and those installing where a USB drive is not found or unreadable at boot even when in Legacy mode and SecureBoot disabled.


I noticed this on a couple HP's where I had a bootable flash drive for backup purposes (using Redo backup) that would not be read let alone listed in boot options.
I tried several USB/boot tools; Rufus, Yumi and Win32diskimage with the mounted redo iso (assuming same results for any LL iso)
Not until Storage was enabled as in the below screenshot, then the USB drives would be selectable in boot order/option (F9)


A few generic screenshots for example...
Secure Boot and Legacy



Storage needs enabled for Removable Media Boot

Today I wanted to try a new appearance for XFCE Desktop.
Downloaded it through:

Have just changed from Ipvanish to AirVpn.


Airvpn has a Gui for linux.


Have taken out a months subscription....Will see how it goes.


Looking good so far 


https://airvpn.org/

As Firefox keeps getting slower and slower I decided to have a look at Chromium. With LL v2.8 repos you get Chromium v64.0.3282.167. It starts and loads web pages much faster than FF but seems to be a bit heavier on memory.

One basic functionality that is missing is the bookmarks pane, which is standard in Firefox, Opera, IE and many other browsers. As it turns out this can be easily resolved by installing a bookmarks extension. After trying out a few of them I have settled on vBookmarks. It is based on NeatBookmarks but offers more features. Keyboard navigation in the bookmark tree works perfectly, scroll position and open folders are preserved after the pane is closed.

http://windviki.github.io/vBookmarks/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...kmdmklpihb

There is one bug, inherited from NeatBookmarks: search function doesn't work. To solve this I decided to install another extension specifically designed for bookmarks search, Bookmark Manager Plus:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...jomfkejibg

An alternative to those two extensions is Bookmarks Manager and Viewer. The search function works ok but keyboard navigation is not as quick as with vBookmarks, you sometimes need to get the focus with the mouse. The extension also uses a little more memory.

https://add0n.com/bookmarks-manager.html

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...mghmmdhlfg

Another useful bookmark extension is Bookmark Scanner, used to delete duplicates and bookmarks with bad links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...pdogjlejko

Another interesting extension is Popup my Bookmarks. It has good search function and nice GUI but unfortunately no keyboard navigation:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...bdjdbeifni

In Chromium Ctrl+B hotkey seems to be unassigned, so it can be safely assigned to the bookmarks extension. It is done from the Extension page (Alt+FLE), look for Keyboard Shortcuts at the bottom of that page.

X.org has some serious security flaws.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/a-l...rom-x-org/
"For those that don't know, X was originally designed and released in 1985 and X11 in 1987. X.org replaced X11 and was originally released April 6, 2004. X.org lack a few very important security features that are critical for modern era usage and hardware:

• All X applications have access to everything on your screen
  
• All X applications can register to receive every keystroke, regardless of which window said keystrokes are typed within
  
• Applications such as browsers can be remotely controlled such that keystrokes can be forged as if the user were typing them
  
• The xhost + option can completely disable any security on the display
  

Source - https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2018-...inux-lite/

I have Linux Lite 3.8 32-bit, 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB hard drive.  The account I am logged in on has "sudo" checked in the user rights list.

I am unable to see a shared network drive from my Linux Lite computer.  Specifically, I am sharing one of the hard drives in my other computer, so that that drive is the network drive for all computers in the house.  That computer is running Linux Mint 18.2 64-bit, and is running Samba to share the drive.  When Linux Mint 32-bit was installed on this computer, I could see and access the shared drive.  But since installing Linux Lite, I can no longer see that drive.

A couple of other issues, which may be related:
* I can't mount a USB flash drive.  (plugdev is checked)
* When I click the icon for "Install Updates", it tells me, "Your computer is not connected to the internet.  Linux Lite cannot check for updates.  Please check your internet connection and try again."

I can print to a network printer, and I can surf the web, on this computer.  (I am surfing the web right now, typing this in from the computer in question.)

Perhaps there is a setting change I need to make.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Jim

What drive do I use for the GeForce 8200M G on Linux Lite 3.8?

Hi, newbie here....

Without NVIDIA installed, my laptop will not view videos with VLC. I install the NVIDIA ver.340 driver, then I can view videos but have hashsum errors whenever I do updates and A LOT of system crashes... So I go back to the original driver.
This last time I installed the NVIDIA driver, things seemed better (after the latest config file update), but now when I do a "Install Updates" I get the following

* * * * * * * *

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:3 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [684 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [548 kB]
Fetched 1,437 kB in 2s (708 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing libsqlite3-mod-rasterlite2 (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca_ubuntu_dists_xenial_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Hi everyone. HELP - I'm in trouble again. About 6 months ago I installed LL 3.4 64bit onto a notebook from fleabay. The model was stated as HP 15-R125NA (intel N3540 quad) but the model No has been (deliberately?) scratched off the lable. So who knows what it is for sure. It's been fine until now. On pressing 'on' button i get CLI straight away with GNU GRUB & 4 options. if i try to load LL from there I get the usual Feather screen which stays for ages then another CLI - Busybox vi.22.1 ....... built-in shell (ash) - and - (initramfs) - with an invitation to type help for a list of commands - most of which i don't know. If i enter exit I get;
/dev/sda1 contains a file with errors

then a long list of stuff ending;
ERROR reading block 28311966 ( attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan
/dev/sda1 : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY ; RUN fsck MANUALLY
fsck exited with status code 4
the root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires manual fsck

- then the Busybox again

Can anyone tell me what the fsck is going on, how much trouble I'm in & how I get out of it. If some one can tell me how, I can put some pics of the screen if needed. I'm now using my (now back up) Toshy laptop to write this. (LL 3.4 32bit).
Thanks in advance.

update.
After many hours trawling the web over the last few days I've learned very little but, one article states about initramfs & busybox that 'This can occur when you have installed Ubuntu on an NTFS Windows partition and Windows was incorrectly shutdown' . My laptop isn't dual boot. At least that's not what i thought i set it up as & I've never had an option to boot to windows. I've also learned that running fsck on a mounted partition will most likely screw things up.  I also have no idea what that means other than if i go poking about here without knowing what I'm doing will cause more problems. All the articles talk about how fsck can fix this stuff but don't tell me what to do with it. I don't know what to do here can i please have some help...

update;
this is for anyone else who has the same problem or has been following this. I tried booting to an earlier kernel at the grub 2 stage. (selecting advanced option & highlighting previous kernel - generic & hitting return). No boot & but got the busybox bit again. Having spent yet another evening trying to find a solution on other sites i came across this - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1002047/...ia-busybox
I took a deep breath and ran  - fsck /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
from the (initramfs) prompt not knowing what i was doing...
i got some sort of error return about file not found does not exist. i ran it again with various spacings on the -'s with the same result. i typed exit at the same prompt & nothing happened... at first. while i was trying to think if i should be using /dev/sda1 instead of the ubuntu bit i got the return 'fsck exited with code 1' (which I've checked means with errors fixed) then things started happening & it booted. I shut down & restarted & it booted again to the previous kernel I'd picked in grub. so it looks fixed. i have no idea how i got the problem or how i fixed it... & i'm disappointed with the lack of help from this support forum which has been so helpful previously. the only thing i can think of is that no one knew how to help.