On 11/06/16 10:22, Chris Walker wrote: {SNIP}
I have a couple of other problems now though. One is the Windows partition. It says it's not been cleanly dismounted and won't mount it. I've switched off the fast-start that Windows seems to like but that hasn't helped. The Windows partition is on a 480GB SSD with the rest of the drive being a data partition. The data partition mounts fine as do all the other drives. So I can't see a reason why linux won't mount it. It doesn't appear to have any errors under Windows chkdsk and if I run fdisk -l here, it doesn't show any errors. What does though is the linux disc itself. That declares 'The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.' What should I do about that? And how might I overcome the Windows disc problem?
b Alternatively, and perhaps better, run gparted on it. On each Windows partition, right click and chose check (of fsck, or similar, I can't exactly remember). This will check and fix problems, and it sometimes shows problems that fsck alone might not*
[* Aside: After copying from one sd card to another slightly smaller one, running gparted on the sd card gave me a "partition outside physical disk that nothing else had reported. Having been told, I could google how to fix it.]
Another one is get_iplayer. The conversion to mp3 fails with libmp3lame not found. If I look at ffmpeg, that doesn't appear to have been compiled with that option whereas on my old machine it does. That has v2.4 whereas this machine has v2.8. Do I really need to compile ffmpeg from source to fix that?
I know you're not using ubunutu, but in ubuntu, there's a PPA for get_iplayer. This contains the latest version of the software. Installing it from this often cures problems. I suggest downloading a ersion from the get_iplayer home page and see if that helps. It often does. Also, see if there's a newer version of ffmpeg, and see if libmp3lame (or similar), or if it's available inside another package.
The final one is the keyboard response. It seems to halt for a few second at a time. Just as I'm typing this, the display stops and after a few seconds, the words will appear. Any ideas what's going on there and where I should start investigating?
USB keyboard? Something hogging the USB bus? Unplug any other USB devices and see if there's a change. Check log files. Check DMESG.
Good luck.