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by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?
Replies: 6
Views: 123

Re: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?

Secure boot is SUPPORTED on Linux. Bitlocker is not. Yes, Secure Boot is below the operating system level. Bitlocker is in the O/S. Ive never bothered with either. In fact, When I see it activated on windows boxes I work on and I have the time I turn it off. It just makes things more difficult when...
by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?
Replies: 6
Views: 123

Re: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?

@ coffee412 Thanks for your reply. I continued also searching last night and at the end I found an interesting document from Lenovo: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/Enable_Secure_Boot_for_Linux_Secured-core_PCs.pdf I also found an article (sorry lost the link) which says that with tu...
by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:04 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: USB Wireless Network Adapters
Replies: 1
Views: 56

Re: USB Wireless Network Adapters

With the usb nic installed and booted up can you list your hardware profile? Then I can comment more on things. In my footer below is the command for listing your hardware profile. Simply copy it and paste it into your next post. Then highlight the pasted text and click the </> button above to make ...
by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:47 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?
Replies: 6
Views: 123

Re: BitLocker for Linux Mint needed?

If your dual booting then first go into windows and turn off bitlocker. Then in bios turn off 'secure boot' and then install LM.

If just putting LM on the system then turning off secure boot should do it.
by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:44 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: LM 21.3 locked the PC when shutting down
Replies: 2
Views: 57

Re: LM 21.3 locked the PC when shutting down

Boot up and start the program 'disks' . Then in the right upper corner you will see the menu. Choose smart data and tests. Take a look at how many bad sectors there are. To me it sounds like your drive has hardware issues.
by coffee412
Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:26 am
Forum: Virtual Machines
Topic: VirtualBox 6.1 VM start error "Failed to create server socket"
Replies: 3
Views: 70

Re: VirtualBox 6.1 VM start error "Failed to create server socket"

You might get more traction in the Virtualbox forums or OpenVMS if they have one.

I used to work on Dec boxes many,many years ago. I have forgotten all of it now.

Sorry I cannot help more. :(
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Replies: 11
Views: 142

Re: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

I also tried this...  sudo fsck.exfat /dev/sda exfatprogs version : 1.1.3 checksum of boot region is not correct. 0xac52ffc7, but expected 0xea52ffd8 boot region is corrupted. try to restore the region from backup. Fix (y/N)? n Pick 'Y' and see. Cant really hurt as its the boot region. I would lau...
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Replies: 11
Views: 142

Re: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

I think the short answer is: I hope you have a backup. I think that the partition on it is royally screwed up. fsck.exfat will not fix that. At this point I would hook it up to a windows box and see if windows will recognize it. If it does then grab what you can off of it and then wipe it and put on...
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Replies: 11
Views: 142

Re: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

I bet something is wrong with the filesystem on the drive. What is odd is that /dev/sda1 does not exist. According to your hardware profile the drive is discovered as /dev/sda . However, The drive has a exfat partition on it and that should be /dev/sda1 unless it was improperly partitioned/formatted...
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Replies: 11
Views: 142

Re: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

So, The reason smart tests are greyed out is probably because you have the drive attached to the computer with USB2. I do believe that USB3.x has the ability to run smart tests. Lets see if we can manually mount the drive. sudo mkdir /mnt/test sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/test Does it mount? l...
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Mint user says he has issues with my Jam Prep Page
Replies: 5
Views: 142

Re: Mint user says he has issues with my Jam Prep Page

I do not seem to have any problems with the page. Im running LM 21.3 and firefox 124.

Happy Easter
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Replies: 11
Views: 142

Re: Error mounting - wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

We need to know more about this drive. If you open up the program 'disks' and look at the drive - Do a screen shot of what the partitions look like on the drive. While you are in there run a smart test on the drive. In the right menu of the 'disks' program you will see the option for smart tests. It...
by coffee412
Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:39 am
Forum: Virtual Machines
Topic: VirtualBox 6.1 VM start error "Failed to create server socket"
Replies: 3
Views: 70

Re: VirtualBox 6..1 VM start error "Failedto create server socket"

Man, VMS. I havent seen that around for a very long time. I see openvms is available and there are some steps for setting it up in Virtualbox. I noticed that OpenVMS 9.2 is available with a lot of bug fixes. Didnt see a 9.1 . Perhaps you have seen this but here is a link to the install guide for VMS...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: Call the next release - Mint 24
Replies: 19
Views: 522

Re: Call the next release - Mint 24

To find out what version you are using you can go look in ... the System Reports app at the first section in System Information: System: Kernel: 5.4.0-174-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 foc...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Where do I get version information for included software?
Replies: 19
Views: 414

Re: Where do I get version information for included software?

A lot of software can be checked for versioning by issuing the command with a '-v' or '--version' This is again missing the point (and not anything I didn't already know). The goal is to have some organized manifest of the contents for a distro, that can be checked before installing. Something that...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Where do I get version information for included software?
Replies: 19
Views: 414

Re: Where do I get version information for included software?

A lot of software can be checked for versioning by issuing the command with a '-v' or '--version' GCC? coffee@max:/etc$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: Call the next release - Mint 24
Replies: 19
Views: 522

Re: Call the next release - Mint 24

I have no problems with the versioning of Mint. I do not compare it to windows or anything else. I do not need them to match the year either. What happens if a new release is released in the middle of the year? To find out what version you are using you can go look in $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Escaping major Win virus. It nearly got into Linux Mint via Update
Replies: 8
Views: 298

Re: Escaping major Win virus. It nearly got into Linux Mint via Update

I have to kinda doubt that a virus that ran on windows would also run on linux. If I understand this right, You got "some unknown" software installed (i.e. this virus) when doing updates? If you post your hardware profile we can all see what repos you have active. That would be somewhere t...
by coffee412
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Where do I get version information for included software?
Replies: 19
Views: 414

Re: Where do I get version information for included software?

You can go here:
http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=virginia

or here:
http://packages.linuxmint.com/
My thinking is that anything else is upstream at ubuntu and there should be a similar page. I just did a search for "Mint 23.3 repos"
by coffee412
Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: Suggestions & Feedback
Topic: Signature font sizes
Replies: 3
Views: 73

Re: Signature font sizes

Hey Peter :)
In one of your other threads you mentioned "See my signiture at the bottom" for info on your laptop. I sat there and thought to myself "What signature???" lol. Took me a minute to realize how darn small it was.

Hope you get it fixed :)

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