Dell Inspiron 1525 Auto Reboots

[Hardcoretexan]

First off I just installed linux lite and have no experience with linux.
My original post was about not being able to connect wirelessly but after multiple updates the problem has fixed itself.

Now the problem I have is everytime I reboot I get stuck in an auto reboot cycle.
I get to the instruction page telling me to do updates first but before I can update the computer shuts down and restarts.

I have to turn it off mid boot to get to a repair screen and I use the repair features to rewrite everything and then it boots up with no problems.
I use advanced options then recovery mode and then update boot loader.
It runs through the scans and I can barely make out a fail on starting smb(but it restarts too fast to write down the rest.

but once it reboots now I am fine.

[Hardcoretexan]

Oh btw do I need anti virus, anti malware or spyware cleaners

[altman]

I would install ufw , if it s not installed in LL already , to enable it at startup , just do this in Terminal ;

sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install ufw ; sudo ufw enable

[avj]

For people who are coming from windows or people who are uncomfortable with the command line, gufw is a gui for "ufw" The Uncomplicated FireWall. Gufw is described as:  gufw is an easy and intuitive way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports
common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or
individual port(s), and many others!

It can be found in Main>System>Install/Remove Software.

[altman]

You have better explanations than I have mate . Thanx for clarifications .

[avj]

No problem just trying to help 

[altman]

lol , way to go .

[Hardcoretexan]

Thanks for the info still having the rebooting problem if anyone has any ideas.

[rokytnji]

You might want to look in dmesg maybe for a clue as to the reboots.

I am on my Slackware netbook so just a example of what and where I am talking about.

Code:

harry[~]$ cd /var
harry[var]$ ls
adm    db     lib   log   man  rwho      spool  tmp
cache  empty  lock  mail  run  slapt-get  state
harry[var]$ cd log
harry[log]$ ls
ConsoleKit    cups     lastlog   pm-powersave.log  samba     spooler
Xorg.0.log    debug     maillog   pm-suspend.log    scripts   syslog
Xorg.0.log.old    dmesg     messages  removed_packages  secure    wicd
btmp        faillog  nfsd       removed_scripts   setup     wtmp
cron        gdm     packages  sa             sourcery

Then to read

Code:

harry[log]$ sudo cat dmesg
Password:
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
<snip>
[   11.369035] XFS (sda3): Mounting Filesystem
[   11.522279] XFS (sda3): Ending clean mount

There is a lot of stuff one can check in /var/log for weird situations like a reboot loop situation.
HTH

[rokytnji]

Also. Does the computer shut down or reboot if in terminal you use

Code:

sudo shutdown -h now

Edit: Not sure if systemd made that command irrelevant or not anymore but it won't hurt to try it out.