spandey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:53 am
Do you have a SWAP partition enabled?
chrispop99 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:25 am
Please report anything you find
Memtest showed no problems, but launching gParted showed that I had the 6GB partition which I had intended as the swap but it was not marked 'linux-swap' and so obviously was not enabled.
I now have an enabled swap partition and this I guess was the problem.
Thanks for the help and I will mark this topic solved in a few days after I have had time to give the laptop some prolonged use
"There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that."
Marking this as solved now
Interestingly the swapon setting did not persist over reboots until I edited etc/fstab
"There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that."
If xkill does not work then another way preferable to hitting the power button would be to press and hold Alt and SysRq buttons then press the following characters ‘r’ ‘e’ ‘i’ ‘s’ ‘u’ ‘b’. The computer should then reboot safely.
