I changed my hostname. Upon reboot, neither Brave or Chrome will open. There is no obvious change to my /home directory. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
After browsing on my laptop, I found the problem (that others have had). After deleting the lockfile in my .config directory that was pointing to the old hostname, they fired right up (Brave uses the Chrome codebase).
Yes, buy another machine, install linux. This is your screw around with Linux machine. Your other machine is for work, never upgrade or change anything. Sorry but you seem to be the source of your Linux problems.
And regarding the hostname issue, roll back to your last working snap shot and follow my advice in the earlier post.
Or just buy a Mac.
Since OS X Macs are really NEXTstep Mach/BSD Unix derivatives inside, starting with Darwin…. In OS-X it was possible to drop into a Bourne shell and issue classic Unix commands. Can’t speak for the more modern versions, but I assume it is still possible.
It was fun back in the day writing code for Macs running classic MacOS like System 7. Think-C provided an integrated IDE for writing MAC code. Even got to try my hand at writing an “init”, a servlet that starts at boot time and allowed for remote application operation over the AppleTalk network that used RJ-11 wiring and jacks.
A fun pre-emptive multi-tasking application environment that had very generous resident system calls stemming from the days when it was all in ROM. Except for the servlet. It couldn’t be pre-empted and had to hand time back to the OS, or else…
Well, now that this thread has passed on to page 2 I could have probably skipped this next part, but my dedication to accuracy in blog threads necessitates my correction.
Classic MacOS was NOT pre-emptive multitasking, but co-operative multitasking. Meaning every app MUST yield processing time back to the OS, else it will hang the system. Most Mac apps were written using a construct called an “event-loop”. Which basically awaited a call from the OS because it had registered for an event (like a key-press or mouse click). When the Switcher (a primitive form of scheduler for the Mac) was running your app in the foreground your app would receive the “event”. You would then process it in as timely a fashion as possible to get back to the event loop to yield time back to the OS and await the next event. This was accomplished IIRC by a subroutine call into the OS. If you returned from the subroutine, it was because you were given an “event” to process. If you didn’t it was because the OS gave the event to a different program, or because your program was shut down, i.e. your program’s window got ‘X’ed out. There may have been mechanics there to allow you to gracefully exit on a ‘X’ event, I don’t remember.
Inits were special in that, although they were considered background programs, could always receive events they registered with the OS for, because they were independent of the Switcher. They also typically IIRC had full run of the address space. You had to be wary, wary careful when writing an init…
Rand, thank you for your update.
I follow your Linux travails with great interest. I’m still running Win7 on a desktop tower system I built over a decade ago, plus my laptops. The forced updates, privacy-security issues, etc, with Win 10 & 11 make them unacceptable to me, so Linux is my preferred option when “upgrade” is no longer avoidable to me.
What scares me is the learning curve. You’re a lot more tech savvy than me, but even you have issues. Your posts, and updates, on the matter make me feel less anxious.
AZCJ,
Been running Linux Mint on older laptops for near a decade, no windows here. Runs flawless without any of the troubles my wife has with Win10 on her laptop. Rand’s problem is that he is screwing with things for unknown reasons. If you just install Linux mint you will be very pleased, you can even turn off the updates because they really don’t add any features that the average user needs. Linux does not have the security issues that windows has, so no need to worry about security updates.
If you have disk space on your win7 tower, you might want to install Linux Mint as a dual boot option and check it out.
I didn’t “screw with things for unknown reasons.” I changed my hostname because I didn’t like the default hostname. When doing so caused a problem with chrome-based browsers, I fixed the problem.
Of course you did 😯
Thanks! I’m planning on giving Mint a try on one of my laptops.
I’ll definitely turn off updates. I don’t tolerate software that won’t let you turn off updates, I despise it.
I might try dual-boot on the laptop I put Mint on, it’s got the disk space. My main reason for going dual boot there is as a practice run for my tower.