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by doronba
Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:51 am
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink
Replies: 6
Views: 582

Re: BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink

i have tried both methods... first, using the brother installer, and when it didn't improve anything, i have installed both individual packages... i am actually making a backup of all the 450gb of data, and planing on installing mint 20.3, and start everything from the beginning. and i will document...
by doronba
Sat Oct 29, 2022 5:48 am
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink
Replies: 6
Views: 582

Re: BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink

i did try to delete printer, install again according to that page's instructions but the same happens.
the printer is shown in Printers app, but it is unavailable.
by doronba
Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:56 am
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink
Replies: 6
Views: 582

BROTHER MFC-J480DW printer - is not available after replacing ink

Hi, Linux mint cinnamon 19.1 is installed on my parents pc. the printer was installed a year ago, after i have installed the OS, I don't remember exactly what i did, but i did use the instructions in BROTHER site, and it worked. the page with those instructions and links is now unavailable (weird!!!...
by doronba
Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:09 am
Forum: Programming & Development
Topic: nodemon doesn't work
Replies: 0
Views: 1782

nodemon doesn't work

i am new to developing, currently in a bootcamp. i am trying to run nodemon but it soesn't work, and i don't really understand the warnings that npm throws to me. i did try : npm install -g nodemon npm install -g --save--dev (or domething very similar) i do see nodemon written inside my json.pckge u...
by doronba
Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:00 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: [SOLVED] Root partition becomes full too fast... what is goin' on here ?
Replies: 4
Views: 460

Re: Root partition becomes full too fast... what is goin' on here ?

Man, You saved my life. LOL. The first command cleaned 430 mb of root partition. The second command cleaned 4 gb of root system. Now I have space again. So you know what you are talking. great. Now, would you explain shortly what is the flatpak and why it saves all this junk, do I need to run these ...
by doronba
Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:35 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: [SOLVED] Root partition becomes full too fast... what is goin' on here ?
Replies: 4
Views: 460

[SOLVED] Root partition becomes full too fast... what is goin' on here ?

I have Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon on a 1000gb ssd hd. I recently get a message similar to this : filesystem root is almost full, examine / ignore I have flatpak, snap and timeshift. I have uninstalled Timeshift and deleted all its files, so I have more space in my Home partition, but the root partitio...
by doronba
Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: Other topics
Topic: Display is black after boot. need to press the external screen button.
Replies: 1
Views: 308

Display is black after boot. need to press the external screen button.

Hi, I have Linux mint Cinnamon 19.1 installed on a desktop machine. The display is on a monitor, that has an on/off button. Normally : When the PC is off, the monitor stays asleep, and the led next to its button is red. When the PC is on, the monitor is awake, and the led next to its button is green...
by doronba
Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:13 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

Re: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

cool, thnx
REI SUO - also means 'your king' in a mixture between spanish and portuguese, so it will be easier to remember...
YOU'RE THE KING
by doronba
Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:14 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

Re: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

First, Thanks for your concise answer and tips.
Second, what is 'REISUO' ?
Third, post was edited as solved.
by doronba
Fri Feb 28, 2020 2:00 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

Re: boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

AndyMH, I have the feeling that you are right, as after 90 seconds or so... the system did boot to normal system. and indeed there are mismatching in the UUID's of the SWAP partition. ------- here is the blkid results : $ blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="2150adf3-0607-41ff-9c31-a548813d027a" TYPE=&q...
by doronba
Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:52 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

Re: boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

I do have a current backup, and i know that all the contents of /home partition are there, as i am currently watching them, but from recovery mode. thank you for your advice :-) I am capable of using the command line to run commands. It just that i am now in recovery mode, and i do not really unders...
by doronba
Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:31 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

Re: boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

deck_luck, Here are your questions with my answers : 1. When you created the new SWAP partition did you use the 82 (LINUX_SWAP) for the partition type? yes 2. Did you update the /etc/fstab to reflect the new SWAP partition? i don't know what it means nor how to do it. 3. Did you run the "mkswap...
by doronba
Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:56 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: [solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons
Replies: 10
Views: 2000

[solved] boot screen hanging on after resizing partitons

Hi guys, i had out of space in my root partition, so i wanted to resize it. the order of the partitions before i started messing with it was : 17gb root - 8 gb swap - 900 gb home what i did was using gparted to : 1. resize the home from it's end by 9 gb, i than rebooted and the os booted narmally. 2...
by doronba
Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:48 am
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: [SOLVED] Can't write into a new 4 Tb external HD after formatting it as GPT
Replies: 1
Views: 307

[SOLVED] Can't write into a new 4 Tb external HD after formatting it as GPT

[SOLVED] The solution that I came with, was to open the hd folder as root, change the permissions to the user and voila. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bought a new external hard drive, it's 4 Tb, Transcend 2.5". I understood that the...
by doronba
Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:23 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: [SOLVED] External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)
Replies: 5
Views: 457

Re: External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)

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by doronba
Wed Sep 11, 2019 3:24 am
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: [SOLVED] External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)
Replies: 5
Views: 457

Re: External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)

Here are the replies of the commands that you gave me : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- thedog@thedog-ThinkPad-T550:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 di...
by doronba
Wed Sep 11, 2019 3:09 am
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: [SOLVED] External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)
Replies: 5
Views: 457

Re: External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)

Hey catweazel, I have added the message that i got when re-connecting the drive, so would you please read it and tell me whether your answer is still actual before i try anything ? and mentioning again : I see the external hd in the location column on the side of the windows manager, so do i need to...
by doronba
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:52 am
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: [SOLVED] External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)
Replies: 5
Views: 457

[SOLVED] External HD won't mount (the laptop battery went off while copying)

Hi mates, [Linux mint 18.3, Transcend external HD] The problem : I was copying files from the laptop to the external hd, after some minutes, while i was in another room the battery of the laptop went off, I didn't notice that, and now the external HD is recognized by the OS (i mean that in the windo...

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