After having installed upstart according to www.meowtech.com/switching-from-systemd-to-upstart-on-ubuntu's instructions. I rebooted through the GUI and not [tt]sudo reboot[/tt]. Could this have been the cause for booting to the terminal? How does one fix this from a live CD/DVD? Does LL have to be reinstalled?

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!  ;D Since I've installed Lite 3.6 I've been facing a frustrating issue; time resets after every boot/reboot. I can fix it manually with the time and date app on settings but whenever I reboot the pc time resets all over again meaning the current time displayed is wrong, delayed by hours! I googled it and tried almost any single solution I found; using a ntp server, hwclock, tzdata, timedatectl, and another one I don’t remember, each one seemed to work until I restarted the OS to find time reset again. So, I ask for your assistance in this matter, any advice is really appreciated. Thanks! By the way, I'm dual booting Windows/Linux Lite and this only happens in Lite, so not a bios issue. 

I am reading the manual on using KeePassX, which I have installed through LL.

I would like to use it but the following article gives me pause to re-consider before I place all my logins in it.

I know the article refers to Kee Pass, and that that is not the same as KeePassX, but presumably the same organization.
https://lifehacker.com/keepass-vulnerabi...1781486764 

There is a link  https://bogner.sh/2016/03/mitm-attack-ag...ate-check/    in the article to a discussion on potential mitm etc. attacks. The gist is to check update downloads manually, but in the case of LL the updates are done by LL, so hopefully they're all via https?

I tend to trust Electronic Frontier Foundation recommendations, and LL, but the fact that KeePass were using http for updates not so long ago makes me a bit wary.
But maybe all this has been addressed?

I'm fairly new to Linux, so not well versed in the tech side of all this.

Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to update my bios in my Dell XPS 1210. I am surprised there is no automatic program that I can find that does this. Is there one I'm missing. I am a neophyte?

The other day, while using LL3.6, I needed to convert a *.png image file to an *.jpg one, before I could upload it to a website. I found the solution and thought I would share it with you - it's dead easy, which is what I like ... 

It works in the terminal, through the imagemagick application (which is pre-installed on LL3.6), as far as I'm aware.

1. Open terminal
2. Type:

• it will keep the original file you started with, i.e. it won't be deleted during conversion
  
• other image file types can be converted (e.g. *.gif, *.bmp, *.tif), and in any direction, e.g. bmp to jpg or jpg to bmp, etc
  
• for batch files (those which contain commands), replace convert with mogrify
  
• the convert command can be used to rotate or resize images - for further details see https://www.lifewire.com/convert-linux-c...nd-4097060
  

Being recently retired, my pension is a bit short for paying the bills...  :'(

I thought maybe I could capitalise on the knowledge I've gained about Linux, over the last 3 years, and earn myself a bob/buck or two.
I'm no expert, but in general I now appear to be able to convert a range of different PCs from Windows to Linux (old and modern) relatively easily.

What I wanted to know was whether it's legal to use Linux's open-source materials (e.g. the Linux Lite logo) on business cards or adverts for my
own meagre profit?

Many thanks in advance for your replies
Mike

After making new partitions and mounting them I restarted and was brought to the emergency mode screen, but it wouldn't accept my password. I assume it need my super user password? Why wouldn't work?

I would like to recover my info and all my work, but if it's a lost cause I'd like to know how I can install the newest version of Linux Lite if I already has Lite 3.0 installed. I tried using a usb stick with 3.6 burned on it but I get the 3.0 screen and no option to install 3.6.

Linux is the only OS installed in my machine and I'm Currently using Puppy Linux to solve this problem. Thanks for any help.

I want to e-mail a friend with a Screenshot attachment showing what LL looks like when the Menu is open, i.e. showing the list of the applications.

However after opening the Menu, when I click on Screenshot the Menu closes... ???
How can I keep it open so that I can screenshot its contents, like you see in many places in the Help Manual?

Thanks in advance for any help with this..

HP Desktop dc7700p 4GB Ram LL3.4 64bit up to date wired LAN to router.  While deleting a large folder in an external usb drive, the desktop froze with much Desktop drive activity.  a box appeared  stating writing to external  hard drive please do not switch off.  The external usb drive (1 TB) was about half full.
After a couple of hours the Desktop was still frozen and its hard drive was still active. 
So foolishly i decided to switch off via the on/off button.

RESULT, The EXternal Hard drive appears to be unaffected, the large folder having been removed.  HOWEVER The Hard Drive on the desktop has been left with a very basic presence of linuxlite ( No feather, no xcfe menu  etc. All folders  ( desktop, documents, downloads etc) are empty and  the contents appear to have been deleted.  NO thunderbird, etc.  The Desktop drive now shows  circa 130 GB free as to 30GB free beforehand.

It would appear therefore that all that has been deleted??  However the user name for the desktop still shows. 

The question therefore, A) How did this happen? and B) Is the  original data still on that drive somehow but not "registered"  . I know this might be wishful thinking on my part, but loaqthe to reset the drive if there is any possibility of recovering.

AS it is a few months since I backed up, there is a lot od recent data that it looks as if I may have lost - very embarrassing to say the least!!

Hope the above account makes some sense.  Not in the best frame of mind at the moment as you may appreciate

Thoughts appreciated.  Thanks
Written from another PC

Update. Gpart states no recoverable files found.

Update Notifier said I had 18 updates waiting, so I installed them. Now none of my flash based games will load.