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IN answer to the OPs question as he did not ask anything about backing up. Here are a couple factors to check on a drive that will give you better odds of how much life. Granted its not a 100% guarantee as some drives just fail and have no warning. I have found over the decades that their are a coup...

ROFLMAO, that sort of stuff happens to the best of us and shows reasons for backups. Glad you were able stop it in time and did not have to take time to get the backups.

You can do it with clonezilla. If you do it as a full sector by sector clone youll need do nothing else. If you do it the faster way the only thing youll need modify is fstab file in etc to reconize the UID changes to what partitions are where. Further no clue why anyone saying clonezilla difficult ...

You could check the /var/log kern.log and see if it gives a reason. Or in updater try kernel 5.8 and see if you have the same issue.

Thanks MrEen, you were correct. I done it several times in past where ive kept the boot on this os. I must of done something incorrectly this last time. Or maybe its the boot order on the EFI goofing it up as their separate drives. I'll have to look into it. I knew it had be something stupid that wo...

OH yeah I do have the beta on another install, but I never installed the boot for that one. I left it on this OS, but maybe it went over their anyways and I manually did not do it right. Good point I am going go check that right now.

Thanks

Mint 20 XFCE I install kernel 5.9 or 5.10 They show up installed, but do not propagate on the boot menu. I have never had this happen before. So baffled what would cause it. If I run sudo update-grup It does show up like its going to work, but i reboot and it does not show up. Has anyone ever ran in...

I installed the 5.8 kernel, but RealTek adapter was again knocked out. In fact I had previously written a script in "Startup Applications" to load the r8125 driver at startup, but this did not restore function with this or the prior kernel versions, either at system startup or when run ma...

With that modern of hardware I would try changing to kernel 5.8 instead. I have had issues with 5.4 myself and reverting back as you know is easy if it breaks anything as its all under the software updater. I actually on ryzen gen 3 have had issues with 5.4, but nothing recently with mint updates so...

IS their a reason you need it to have the login screen to begin with? You could just have it auto login everytime. Only asking as it sounds like this is being setup for a media situation on a tv. Otherwise going need the infomation prior post ask for so can see what all your running. I believe my re...

oops, my bad missing that. Wierd as i have hooked up USB floppy drives on linux mint when needed and not had an issue. Maybe something with IDE interface.

Sure the floppy is readable. It is possible with worn out drives to have a drive write a floppy that wont be read by another floppy drive as its a little off, but the offset works for that drive in the old computer. Try a floppy you know in the past has worked on that specific drive to confirm.

Atrexian wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:56 pm

When i am trying to install mint i am getting error for security violation. Can anybody help me please?

is it asking for a password or is the error coming up for the install. You might need to in the EFI turn off secure boot?

More then happy to help you. Are you needing to keep your home directory from Ubuntu I am assuming? Which flavor of mint 20 are you planning to install.

Paul

How are you trying to install the drivers? Generally you just goto the driver app and select the appropriate one.

Send us your hard specs and software etc with the command in terminal "inxi -Fxxxrz" without the quotes.

Paul

I use the .deb version as well on synatpic and it works fine. Just as buggy as the windows one ;). One other way to access zoom is through chrome they have a web app interface as well. (might work on firefox to.) It works well to just different bugs then the app one and other areas it works better s...

What kernels are planned to be supported in mint 20.1? thanks in advance and sorry if I Missed it the article, but don't believe its mentioned anywhere. I tried the IPTV app its pretty interesting, but would need DVR functionality to work for me. I love the default channels it has in it though. Incl...

Looks to me like you might have a memory leak. Open up task manager and keep eye on memory usage and when mouse starts t o lock up and release check it to see where memory is and sort to see whats using the most memory.

kukamuumuka wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:11 am

Try the next way. Run into tty (terminal)

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sudo -i
apt autoremove
apt clean
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy

.... choose only consoleusers

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reboot

Thanks I had a similar issue and this fix it for me as well.

Are you by chance using zoom with tons of people in the conference? As that eats up battery like crazy if that has changed due to circumstances.