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I use 'find' (with 'xargs' and 'grep') quite a lot if I look for something unfamiliar, so maybe I'll get rid of the 'mlocate'. My last addition (last posting) was probably 'TimeShift' doing backup (once a month). That, too, seems to ignore the idle-level setting. But that's only once a month. I thin...

My computer becomes pretty much non-responsive. It takes minutes to get terminal to open, or browser to switch tabs. BTW, I still have rotating rust, not an SSD. [edit] It looks like the I/O scheduler doesn't really understand best effort / idle-level. 22482 be/4 root 215.80 K/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 75.3...

Is there a good way of stop updatedb.mlocate stalling my machine? Renice it or something? I understand, it keeps checking for possible stuff to update, but I think it shouldn't be more important than actual use of the system. iotop: 21691 idle root 1721.29 K/s 123.86 K/s 0.00 % 97.71 % updatedb.mloc...

The jam seemed to appear again. Not as bad as it used to be, though. The disk still runs non-stop, but it doesn't seem to jam everything else that badly.
I guess I'll try to upgrade the kernel next.

Looks promising. No jams this far...

Upgraded to 19.3.(kernel 5.4.0-48-generic). Let's see...

sudo inxi -Fxpmrz [sudo] password for jaa: System: Host: ThinkPad-L430 Kernel: 4.15.0-118-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.10 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 24665G5 v: ThinkPad L430 serial: <f...

Does anyone know what the heck is going on? A couple of times a day the system jams. Something somewhere does something with the hard disk so hard that pretty much nothing else happens, and that lasts about 5 to 10 minutes. I tried to trace that, but I found out that the it's a kernel worker thread ...

My suggestions on that HW would be Slackware or Lubuntu.
Slackware probably fits fine and is still a full distro.
Maybe even Debian runs with some lighter DE.

If Slackware doesn't run, I suspect faulty HW.

I think there's a small bug in the installer. I installed Debian on another machine with exactly similar disk. Debian didn't need the gap between the extended partition and the primary partition before that. Maybe it confuses offset to last block of partition and partition size (offset to the beginn...

Finally! For some reason, the installer wants a gap between the extended partition and a primary partition before that. Fdisk doesn't suggest that. And the installer adds 2047-sector gap that pisses fdisk off. If there's a gap fdisk thinks the next partition should start at 1MiB boundary. This seeme...

Is there a way to install Mint (in my case 19.1) on a preformatted disk? Yes. Just select the 'something else' option then tell the installer what partitions to use for /, and /home if you set one up. That's what I did. I wonder if the "catch" is the "format"-checkbox? Maybe &qu...

My formatting is: sda1 = root, sda2 = swap, sda3 = extended, sda5 = home, sda6 = backup stuff (not normally mounted).

Is there a way to install Mint (in my case 19.1) on a preformatted disk? It looks like the installer just reads the partition info and calculates a rough sizes of partitions, and then partitions the disk again by those rough sizes. I even partitioned the disk with fdisk using block counts, but after...

A-ha. That happened when I removed tons of far&middle east fonts, and the default font went with them.
In system settings/fonts default font, desktop font, etc became undefined. When I selected an existing font for them, the menu entries show as not truncated again.

I don't know how this happened, but I'd like to get the menu entry names not truncated, but how?

Funny, that dpkg couldn't install either of the package.
Apt could install the host, but not the full program, but gdebi could install the full program.

Also weird that I can log in remotely with my credentials, but with my moms credentials there is no way to log in anymore, not even locally.

Aha. With apt TeamViewer host installs... But the client(?) (teamviewer_13.2.13582_amd64.deb) didn't. The error log didn't fit the terminal buffer, not even close... ... Looks like gdebi could install the client... Teamviewer seems to work partially. I can connect and log in with my credentials, but...

Probably the easiest way to do it is install Teamviewer. It's not open source, but it is free for private use, and I have seen many others here on the forums recommend it. I messed with something else a few years ago to connect to my Raspberry Pi. I think it was xtightvnc, but I could be rememberin...

Has anyone got some VNC server working on Mint 19 / Cinnamon? What I need is crypted traffic (connecting over public network) and get hold on the current session. The idea is to help my mom that lives 150 km away. I need to see what she sees on the screen. I've tried x11vnc that works fine in LAN wi...