Upgrade from LM19 to LM19.3

[slinger1953]

How do I upgrade from LM19 to LM19.3 please?

I have had an issue for months with mounting my SD cards, which I thought had been resolved, if I upgrade from LM19 to 19.3, will this clear any existing glitches in my system, I would be happy to go from LM19.3 to 20.
or would it be best to do a clean upgrade to LM20.
Thank you.

[axrusar]

Why not just give it a test with the latest live Mint and see if the SD cards are detected?
Also it will help if you post your inxi report so the guys here may tell you whats wrong with the card reader.

[Cosmo.]

As you live with the problems since months (that are to my understanding at least 2, possibly more), I would wait another month or so and then install Mint 21.

You can prepare the switch by preparing for a proper backup of your user data.

[slinger1953]

Is this what you mean axrusar?

Cosmo, thanks , that may be something to think about.

[slinger1953]

I should have added - how do I get the latest live disk please?

[SMG]

Is this what you mean axrusar?

Not quite. Displaying terminal output in a post has a graphic on using code tags. You will want to provide the output of inxi -Fxxxrz.

[all41]

I should have added - how do I get the latest live disk please?

here:
https://www.linuxmint.com/
is that what you need?

[slinger1953]

SMG, is this correct, and thank you.

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pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$  inxi -Fxxxrz
System:    Host: pete-Aspire-TC-280 Kernel: 4.15.0-180-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.5.0
           Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu4) info: mate-panel dm: lightdm
           Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: Acer model: Aspire TC-280 serial: N/A
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: P11-A4 date: 04/26/2016
CPU:       Quad core AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G (-MCP-) 
           arch: Steamroller rev.1 cache: 8192 KB
           
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 27948
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1900 MHz 2: 2398 MHz
           3: 1951 MHz 4: 1482 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:130f
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@74.97hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0, 4.15.0-180-generic, LLVM 10.0.0)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.8 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri HDMI/DP Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:1308
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-180-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: rtl8821ae port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8821
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2500.5GB (23.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB serial: <filter>
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: External_USB_3.0 size: 500.1GB
           serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 325G used: 53G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
RAID:      System: supported: N/A
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.4C mobo: N/A gpu: 12.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dhor-myway-bionic.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu bionic main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu bionic main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gezakovacs-ppa-bionic.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list
           deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb https://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/linuxmint.com/packages tara main upstream import backport
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/strukturag-libheif-bionic.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libheif/ubuntu bionic main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/strukturag/libheif/ubuntu bionic main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
           deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
Info:      Processes: 224 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 2035.9/6953.8MB
           Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.5.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.201 running in mate-terminal) inxi: 2.3.56

pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$

[pdc_2]

SMG, is this correct,

not quite; no gold stars yet; you get extra points for posting inside code marks: 5 from the left on the top line of this EDIT POST section

[Cosmo.]

You have 2 choices to use the code-tags correctly:

Either you click the button (which you obviously did) and place the cursor between the 2 tags before you paste The info.

Or you paste the info, mark the complete info (not the starting text) and click then the button; then the tags get automatically placed correctly.

[SMG]

SMG, is this correct, and thank you.

That is the correct information and you were very close to getting the codes tag correct. If you click the Edit button for the post (has a pencil icon on it), you will see you added the code tags and have a space between them for the results, but somehow the results ended up just after the close code tag. You would want your end result to be [code]Results[/code].

Looking at the output, I do not see the card reader mentioned, but that may be because LM19 is using an older version of inxi and not showing the usb hubs.

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Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2500.5GB (23.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB serial: <filter>
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: External_USB_3.0 size: 500.1GB
           serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 325G used: 53G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

What is the output of

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lsusb

[slinger1953]

Is this better SMG, and thank you.

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pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:0153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 13d3:3461 IMC Networks 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0480:0904 Toshiba America Inc 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 04ca:006d Lite-On Technology Corp. 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
pete@pete-Aspire-TC-280:~${/code]

[SMG]

Is this better SMG

It looks great.
It also looks like we found the card reader.

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Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:0153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device

You indicated in your original post:

I have had an issue for months with mounting my SD cards, which I thought had been resolved...

What specifically is/was the issue? Were they only mounting some of the time? Or were only some cards mounting? Or were they showing up only in certain places (such as in Disks, but not in Files)?

[SMG]

I just booted to a live session of LM20.3 on my laptop which has an SD card reader (just a single slot reader). That reader does not show up in lsusb, but as soon as I popped a card into the reader, I had a pop-up window which asked me how I wanted to read the card. I also had an icon on the desktop and it was showing in File Manager.

I don't know if that means yours will show up in LM20.3, but mine did.

[slinger1953]

Hello SMG,
this was my original Topic (I hope this link works) viewtopic.php?f=49&t=372583

I thought the issue was solved after following the advice, but when I needed to use one SD card out of four I was back to square one. no SD cards would open again.

Thanks

[SMG]

this was my original Topic (I hope this link works) viewtopic.php?f=49&t=372583

The link worked just fine. I did my check with Cinnamon. (I do not have a copy of MATE available.)

There have been many bug fixes to kernels over the time period where you mentioned it worked and then stopped working. Additionally, I would presume there have been changes to MATE which could affect mounting of an external media in the upgrades between LM19 to LM19.3 (or an LM20 version).

Without really knowing why the problem is happening, it's really a total guess to tell you yes or no that upgrading will help.

Looking at the investigation, did you ever check in System Reports to see if there were any crashes listed? Or check in syslog or dmesg after you insert the SD card to see if there are any messages about what is happening?