Hi VastOne.

just dropped in to let you know that all is well.

LibreOffice had stopped working so I went to package manager and told it to upgrade LibreOffice which it did and is now running fine again but I then went and ran smxi again to make sure that LibreOffice was OK and it has fixed inxi as well.I obviously have no idea how or why just thought I had better let you know though

Cheers
Gordon

Hi VastOne

Thanks for that, It is something that smxi does and nothing to do with me. I just use smxi to do all the updates that you post and that's all.
I don't know if that's the best way or not. I just seem to have landed on on it some time ago and have used it ever since.

Thanks for your time and effort much appreciated. I'll just ignore it in future.

Cheers
Gordon

Hi VastOne
OK here@s what happens at the start of running smxi

Updating inxi to latest version
the file inxi did not download correctly Retrying
Download error smxi component inxi is incomplete or corrupted. it appears the file failed to fully download for some reason.
continue without inxi
smxi version 8.42.04

That's what i get at the start of running smxi

Hi VastOne

Yep i am running VSIDO Its the only version that I use. I like the friendly atmosphere that their is
hope I got this right
apt-cache policy inxi gave me this

inxi:
  Installed: 2.3.45-1
  Candidate: 2.3.45-1
  Version table:
*** 2.3.45-1 500
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


and running inxi gave me this

CPU~Dual core AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (-MCP-) speed/max~2200/2800 MHz Kernel~4.14.0-3-amd64 x86_64 Up~56 min Mem~519.3/7980.0MB HDD~1200.3GB(1.1% used) Procs~140 Client~Shell inxi~2.3.43 


Don.t know if that's what you want or if you want to see what happens when i run smxi and it say their is an error with inxi.
it says something about not downloading correctly but seem unable to sort it out.

Hi folks

not been on for a long time as had no major problems until now
inxi seems to have a problem when it start up when running smxi I have tried to reinstall it without success.
Question
how do i force it to update reinstall itself
cheers
Gordon

Hi PackRat

Happy to say I am now back up and running again. Thanks for all your help and time.

Hi hakerdefo

Thanks for the link. I didn't find it when I did a search, perhaps I used the wrong terminology.
I Will be making a copy of your instruction for future use if I need it. Most likely knowing me 

Again thanks to all for your very valuable time and assistance.

shattered now of to bed, will check it out tomorrow night night

Yep, I think that is where it needs to be, at least thats where I am trying to put it

Hi PackRat

Windows is first on the disk then Linux starts sda3, sda4 and a swap spot

Hi Folks

I'm back again with a problem.
Problem caused by that rhubarb program windows. Yep it crashed,  it was on windows 10 and for some reason or other it went down. It's own fix it would not work so I had to do a reinstall using windows 8.1 which of course screwed up grub. I have spent ages on Google reading how to recover it and have managed to get so far but now am lost. If not too much trouble I would appreciate some help.
Here is what I have managed to come up with using a live dvd running version 4.0.0.1 which is the latest one that I have.


root@vsido:/home/vsido# mount /dev/sdax /mnt
root@vsido:/home/vsido# grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdax
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
root@vsido:/home/vsido# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `overlay'.
root@vsido:/home/vsido# grub-update
bash: grub-update: command not found
root@vsido:/home/vsido# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `overlay'.
root@vsido:/home/vsido#


I have no idea how to go any further. Help Please

Hi  jedi

Sorry for the late reply but been away for a couple of days

Thanks for the info all is working now.

Cheers

Thanks Folks

I have got the web speeds showing now but wicd still not working

Hi

@ PackRat

As Requested the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a


enp2s15: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.7  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::21f:d0ff:fe57:a5e9  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:1f:d0:57:a5:e9  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1340  bytes 1154441 (1.1 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1137  bytes 124602 (121.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 92  bytes 38956 (38.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 92  bytes 38956 (38.0 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


@ hakerdefo

Thanks for that and as you can see from PackRat's request the answer is " enp2s15 "

Hope that is usefull chaps and thanks

Hi all,

I haven't bothered with this or worried about it but it is not working on my machine and I was wondering why. I am only asking now as  I have been trying to display my download and upload speed in conky  and have been struggling with it. I have managed to actually display them now although I am not convinced that that are correct as they differ from what is shown when I us a speed test over the Internet. I have tried several commands to try and find eth0 but they all say that I don't have it but never the less I am using a wired connection to a router. I am connected via Virgin if that makes a difference. Any ideas as to why it doesn't appear to work ?

Wishing One and All A VERY Merry Christmas and a Successful and Prosperous NEW YEAR

All the best everyone