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Sure, will mark it as solved, but just one question more pls.
How do I backup/note down the necessary passphrase(s) so if I ever need to access my encrypted home folder externally, I can easily do so?

Ok, so seeing that accessing my encrypted home folder was not an option, I went ahead and restored the latest timeshift backup. Process took a few min and successfully completed. Rebooted my system and it successfully booted OK. I could log in to my user a/c and first impression, all seems fine. I w...

Thanks SMG. I tried following the instructions in the link you've provided, and I get stuck at step 2.6 Instead of getting the Mount Passphrase as in the HowTo guide, I end up getting the error: Error: Unwrapping passphrase failed [-2] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs...

It's not that im referring to multiple problems, but when I tried to restore from timeshift and I saw that the home folder had not been backed up, plus the dry run showed be about 6k+ files would be deleted, I feared files from my home folder were set to be deleted, thus I looked at the option of tr...

I do have time shift restore points, however I can see that time shift has not backed up any of the home folders. I can access my home folders from a liveUSB, but one of the home folders is an encrypted home folder and I can't access the private data. sudo encryptfs-recover-private . encryptfs/myhom...

Hi,
Have been using my Linux Mint 20.3 perfectly, however this morning when I put on my PC, it just comes with the grub screen. Would really appreciate some help with this, please.

So I wnet to upgrade my Linux Mint 20.3 installation to Vanessa, unfortunately at the finalisation of the installation the internet went down and suddenly the upgrade window closed by itself. Next step, I restored the timeshift backup that was done during the upgrade. All seems to be OK, just that n...

Moderator note: This post was split from SOLVED - How to create an ISO of system partition which is a solved thread and this is a new question. _____________________________________________ I just installed it on my test virtual machine of mint 20 to verify it still works. Copy and paste, and run th...

Unfortunately I don't have timeshift, and, I can't even boot into grub. From the time I boot up, I see nothing on the screen till I get the error message. I've even tried esc or shift but no luck. I booted the system using a Linux Mint Live USB and came to Disks to see if I can reach the boot partit...

Hello, I was running one of the regular updates on my Linux Mint 19.1 and the update didn't complete, so I rebooted the system only to get the Kernel panic - not syncing error. https://i.ibb.co/2drxTPk/image-2021-07-18-113942.png I've tried booting with a live medium and using FSCK but no luck. I ha...

Hello,

This is my partition setup as per gparted ]

Can I setup my Linux Mint 19 installation to hibernate using this guide?

Thanks.

I'm getting a feeling it's to do with cinnamon, so I thought I should set a cron to restart cinnamon @hourly with the command $ cinnamon --replace So before setting a cron, I just ran the command to see what happens, and while cinnamon successfully restarted, this was the output Cjs-Message: JS LOG:...

And yet another freeze.

The latest log file:
http://tny.cz/5b4c2e1e (Xorg.0.log)

As usual the system continues to freeze. However, the last time it froze, I have now booted the PC with a LiveCD and am pulling out the log latest log files from /var/log (syslog & kern.log) from my Linux Mint 17.1 installation on the HDD and am posting the output: http://tny.cz/6bb0d021 http://...

Therefore it might be helpful if we could inspect these files. As kern.log and syslog overlap in what is being logged, I suggest to concentrate on syslog and syslog.1. You might upload them to Pastebin using these commands: pastebin /var/log/syslog pastebin /var/log/syslog.1 Each pastebin commandli...

Hello, fkasmani. It might be helpful to inspect the system logfiles like e.g. /var/log/syslog. It might also be interesting to check the sizes of the system logfiles, because if there is a serious problem then one or more of the system logfiles might grow enormously large in no time at all. Would y...

Partition: ID: / size: 57G used: 54G ( 100% ) fs: ext4 Can you move some of your files to the other drive? or empty the trash from your file manager ? I had about 10GB free untill 2 days back, but I was loading some files from a compressed file - and because of the usual system hangs, the system fr...

Please copy/paste back here the output from this terminal command: inxi -Fxz Thanks, here's the output $ inxi -Fxz System: Host: mint-Lenovo-H520 Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Machine: System: LENOVO product: 10094 version: Leno...

Hello, As I've explained in http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=190428 the way my system hangs, yesterday I had opened a compressed (RAR) file. Looking at the contents of the file, I double-clicked on one of the files in there to view it (a 4 GB file) I did not extract it - I just d...

Hello, I've been a user of Linux Mint sice version 12 and have recently migrated (not upgraded) to 17.1 Since doing so, my system hangs left-right & center. I could have as many as 8-9 system hangs in a single day and each hang is sudden. I did have them when I was on ver14 but harldy ever. Now ...