Error message on start up...no idea what it means or what to do

[Jerry]

You're welcome

[Alex]

Done all the above and the patient is cured , thank you very much

[Jerry]

yes it appears to be there ( hey! I actually found it! )

Thanks

Open a terminal and do:

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sudo leafpad /etc/default/apport
change enabled=1 to enabled=0

save and close.

[gold_finger]

Again, I'm not sure if this is causing your problem, but the output from two of the commands I requested shows that two files got changed by an update and you need to change them back to their original forms.  Carry out following instructions to change the files, then reboot and see if your problem disappears.

You're going to open each file with your text editor as root, then make changes to the files and save the files with the corrections made to them.

Open a terminal to carry out these instructions.

First, from terminal enter this command to open the /etc/issue file as root with the leafpad text editor.

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gksu leafpad /etc/issue
The file will now open in the text editor.  Below is what the file should show with the parts you need to change shown in red.

Linux Lite 2.0 LTS \n \l

Make the change, save the file, close the text editor, then enter next command below to fix the next file.

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gksu leafpad /etc/lsb-release
Below in red is the part you need to change in the lsb-release file:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Lite 2.0"

Make change, save file, close text editor, close terminal.

Go ahead and reboot to see if it solved problem.


P.s.  Whether or not this is/was the cause of your problem, you should know that whenever you perform a system update and are asked during the update if you want to keep an existing configuration file or replace with the update version, always choose to KEEP the existing one.  Most of the time, the instructions will tell you the default answer is "N" ("No") -- meaning don't replace the file, keep the original and that is what you should do.

[Alex]

yes it appears to be there ( hey! I actually found it! )



Thanks

[Jerry]

Do you have a file in: /etc/default/ called apport ?

[Alex]

Yes here we are:



and:




They mean nothing to me lol

thanks

alex

[gold_finger]

Not really sure what would cause that.  Can you open a terminal and post back the output from these three commands please:

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cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf
cat /etc/issue
cat /etc/lsb-release

[Alex]

On start-up I get the following messages, they repeat if i restart:



and, it stayed at this a long time without further progress:



and.




I don't remember modifying anything...but who knows? Why doesn't the OS just fix the problem? If not what do I do?

Being used to Windows i ran a virus check:




They all seem to be associated with Wine:




I am really not sure if they have anything to do with the error message.

Thanks for your help

Alex