14.4.5 LTS upgrade problem on Fujitu SIEMENS Laptop

[Bruce Marshall]

You know, if you don't get an answer to your first TWO posts, I don't 
think you are going to get an answer.

And you annoy people with all the duplicate posts.  (just ask me)


On 08/20/2017 04:30 PM, Nino Novak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to automatically upgrade my daughter's ESPRIMO Mobile 
> U9200, which hasn't been used for about 2 years, to a recent Kubuntu 
> version. The old system offered upgrade to 14.4.5 LTS (IIRC).
>
> Download went smooth, but after automatic reboot the installation 
> hangs, screen stays black, load goes to 1.29, fan blows loudly.
>
> Changing to tty1 and login successful:
>
> top shows that NetworkManager consumes ~42% up to 97.8% of cpu.
> sometimes apport runs, sometimes plymouthd - no other active processes
>
> dmesg has hundreds of entries like this:
>
> network-manager main process killed b ABRT signal
> network-manager main process ended, respawning
>
> How to proceed?
>
> (I'm not skilled with kubuntu, but had been using openSUSE for several 
> years, so at least have some basic linux knowledge)
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Nino
>

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