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Worked nicely yesterday. Today I get "Please switch to another mirror. http://fastly.linuxmint.io is unreachable" Failed to fetch http://fastly.linuxmint.io/dists/virginia/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 146.112.61.110 80]The repository 'http://fastly.linuxmint.io virginia InRelease' is no l...

Worked nicely yesterday. Today I get "Please switch to another mirror. http://fastly.linuxmint.io is unreachable" Failed to fetch http://fastly.linuxmint.io/dists/virginia/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 146.112.61.110 80]The repository 'http://fastly.linuxmint.io virginia InRelease' is no lo...

Embarrassingly, plugging the external hard drive out and in again (in a new usb port) seems to have solved the problem.

Thank you, Karl and Joe(?), for your help.

I'll mark this as solved and open a new thread if the problem reappears.

Feodor

Hi Karl, Thank you for the effort. And the suggestions; I will definitely try most if not all of them. Having located the problem to most likely being related to the external hard drive, I am not as worried as I was yesterday. I think first thing to try is to unplug it, see what happens, plug it in ...

Hi Karl, feodor:~/>lsblk -o +FSTYPE,UUID NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT FSTYPE UUID sda 8:0 0 477G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi vfat 5D1D-C07C ├─sda2 8:2 0 460.6G 0 part / ext4 f9c8a5d6-a02a-4574-9cea-53a5cd5a4dcd └─sda3 8:3 0 15.9G 0 part swap 7938979d-ecab-4ed0-bd13-8b6891b2f...

Hi Karl, I get feodor:~/>cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file ...

I left my machine on all night and this morning dpkg had stopped running: feodor:~/>sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for feodor: Setting up linux-image-5.4.0-88-generic (5.4.0-88.99) ... Processing triggers for linux-image-5.4.0-88-generic (5.4.0-88.99) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms: * dkm...

One of many fun aspects of linux is always learning new things :-) feodor:~/>df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 2.5M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda2 453G 119G 312G 28% / tmpfs 7.8G 464M 7.4G 6% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /...

Thanks for the suggestions (and for agreeing that turning the power off is a really stupid solution - knowing it beforehand just makes it worse). It really is most appreciated. Removing old kernels is something I will try; I only have 4 right now, so I imagine that it is not those filling up my root...

I am on Linux Mint 20.2 cinnamon and have tried to install a new kernel (5.4.0-88, updating from 5.4.0-86). Installation seems to run smoothly until it updates grub when is gets stuck with the oldest kernel I have (5.4.0-74): feodor:~/> sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for feodor: Setting up...

Thank you for your answer. I have been online for the last two days without any problems. So my problem is gone for now but it has not been solved and that bugs me. It also means that there will be little use in trying the things you suggested at this point. I will keep them in mind if the problem r...

I hope somebody will be able to help me with this problem. I am running Mint KDE 9 (Isadora) on a triple boot desktop with Windows XP and Mint KDE 8 (that I do not use anymore). I am connected to the internet through cable at my work. This week I haven't been able to get onto the the net on Monday, ...

I am not sure if this solves the problem for you, as I am running Mint-KDE. But I have in the Advanced-tab in the system settings a File associations icon; in there I have successfully changed default file associations (in particular for text-files)

Feodor

I've managed to do a little hunting since my original posting. The "printer icon" is the printer-applet which I can quite easily start by sudo printer-applet & This brings back the icon but it does not respond as it used to: It used to only appear in the system tray whenever something ...

I used to have a printer icon appearing in my system tray whenever I printed something; somehow it has gone missing. Can someone help me get it back, please? If I right-click the system tray and select "system tray settings" the printer icon is not mentioned anywhere (in particular the pro...

Saving private Ryan?

Thank you 442; absolutely right.

Not "The spy who came in from the cold". Excellent movie, even better book. And much higer quality than the books underlying this particular agent. Am I really the only Mint user who likes spy stories? Another picture: quiz-image3.png This is the bad guy; an evil neo-nazi. Played by a Swed...

Another image: The agent (left) being briefed by his contact quiz-image2.png A bit more info: The agent is played by an American, his contact by an Englishman (already knighted at the time of this film) The American actor has also starred with Elizabeth Burton in a classic based on a play. Feodor

Neither Dr No, nor from Russia with love. In fact the agent in this film, though British, is not James Bond.

But the time period is the same and John Barry also wrote music scores for Bond films.

Feodor