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Finally I gave up and made a clean install of mint 21.2 XFCE after saving my home from a USB mint live to a storage USB.

thanks for your details explanations. unfortunetelly i have no back up. so i must copied my home to an usb storage and reinstall linux. i'm currently on hollyday so i must wait to come back home where i have several usb storage devices available. and after i will reinstalled mint and replace the hom...

gittiest personITW wrote: ⤴Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:18 am No, I was suggesting you backup your present /home to an external drive before re-installing if the Timeshift restore (which you haven't got) didn't go well.

ah OK, so the /home must be copied from a USB live session to another USB storage ?

Boot into Live Mint. Run Timeshift. Restore to previous snapshot - before you started playing with Bleachbit. If you are lucky, you'll be ok. If not, you are probably looking at a re-install. I trust your data is backed up to external drives - if not, you'll have to try to recover your files in Liv...

nobody to help ?

Not a good idea! Maybe you can start GUI from tty, for instance: ctrl+alt+f2, logging in, and then startx . startx from recovery mode terminal returns no screens found unable to connect to x server server error i can't access to a tty in normal mode, black screen with a blinking cursor at the top l...

Hi, Since yesterday, mint 20.3 XFCE is stuck at the logo screen during start up. Laptop Lenovo X240. When I hit esc, there is a red line with says lightdm failed to start. Thinks has been messed up i think after I run bleachbit as root and software manager made several updates. I tried with no suces...

What is the "connection screen"? issue solved, there was no more space left on my SSD, I managed to erase time shift folder with took lot of space with rm and -rf commands in a terminal. I'm back to mint 20.3. Thanks for your help. Upgrade way with timeshift is a pain, better do a fresh i...

You was right, I enter recovery mode and hit clean, 5 G were recovered on the ssd on now I can boot on the linux interface. Have a nice day, thanks. :D I saw this post only now. When you posted it, I was concentrated on my previous post. What do you have now? 1. The proof for what I told you: Your ...

So how can I update to 21 has there are no more space on my ssd for a system snapshot ?
And no way to skip this stage ?
Is a fresh install the only way ? I have no external DD with linux format partition.

Linux reserves 5 % of the drive size for its own usage. Depending from the size of your drive 18 GB can be far too few. 5 % for a today not so uncommon 1 TB drive would mean 50 GB. So once more: Your drive is (very likely) full and you must make room free. You was right, I enter recovery mode and h...

Cosmo. wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:43 am Linux reserves 5 % of the drive size for its own usage. Depending from the size of your drive 18 GB can be far too few. 5 % for a today not so uncommon 1 TB drive would mean 50 GB. So once more:
Your drive is (very likely) full and you must make room free.

this is a 128 Go SSD

I can now enter the pass word but I got a black screen with mu suer name and tty1, I can't access linux user screen.

Are you really sure, that your password does not get accepted? Or can it be, that you get thrown back to the login screen after entering the password? In the latter case it would a symptom, that your drive is full, possibly because Timeshift used all available space. Boot with a live system and mak...

Now I managed to recover my pass word, I forgot to enter my username before but I now I stil can't boot to linux start screen

When I wanted to update to 21.1 from 20,3, mint asked for a snapshot. I try to make one with time shift but I did not manage to do it, I don't understand how to do. SO I stopped the 21.1 upgrade process but now linux won't boot, I get a black screen with ask my password after my user name login in t...

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hello i disable the network connection with network applet. i have struggled for 2 hours with no success to get my network and wifi back. the network applet says unmanadged device ! i tried for 2 hours to go in preference menus, use the terminal but no way to make the network work again ! i can't be...

Hello,
When I play a vid from youtube, the audio stutters every few seconds.
It seems a frequent issue in linux, I tried several solution but nothing works.
Can you help ?

My laptop : lenovo X240, speaker JBL party 110

Hi, I can't put my lenovo laptop screen in sleep mode i tried this settings, laptop is plugged in blank after 1 mn put to sleep after 2 mn switch off after 3 mn but after 5 mn the screen is not in sleep mode. Why 3 modes for the screen power management why not only mode to put screen in sleep mode a...