Squashfs error at initial reboot

[fab161]

Hello everyone,

today I installed Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon and everything went fine. I gave LM the entire disk and followed the default partition options. However, I had some problems with the initial reboot afterwards -- and actually, this is not the first time I experienced those after a Mint installation: When the system prompted me to do so, I removed the installation medium (an USB flash drive) and pressed enter. Then the reboot stopped and the fans of the laptop spun up. Because of that, I pressed 'esc' to review the shutdown messages. The following squashfs errors were displayed:

Code: Select all

SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data

and

Code: Select all

SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page

At the beginning and end of those messages, some numbers/data were given. However, I couldn't read those, as the text kept scrolling.

Do you know, where those errors could have come from? After I hold down the power button on the laptop, Mint booted fine and seems to work now as it should. As I mentioned, this is not the first time I experienced those errors on this particular laptop. Past installations with this error worked fine as well. Is this something I should worry about?

Before I installed, I verified the installation media with the sha256sum.txt and sha256sum.txt.gpg files. To flash the image, I mounted the USB stick and the run the following command:

Code: Select all

sudo dd bs=4M if=IMAGE of=/dev/sdb

Afterwards, I synced with the 'sync' utility and ejected the USB flash drive. Everytime I install a GNU/Linux distro nowadays, I follow this flashing procedure. In a nutshell: The image was valid and the flashing went fine.

System information:

lspci:

Code: Select all

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev f1)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-V (rev 21)
01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)

Mint system info:

Code: Select all

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 820 G3 v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 807C v: KBC Version 85.79 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: HP
    v: N75 Ver. 01.57 date: 07/28/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.1 Wh (98.9%) condition: 45.6/45.6 Wh (100.0%) volts: 11.4 min: 11.4
    model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter> status: N/A
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech ERGO M575 Trackball serial: <filter> charge: 100%
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-6500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake rev: 3 cache:
    L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 611 high: 752 min/max: 400/3100 cores: 1: 600 2: 752 3: 561 4: 533
    bogomips: 20799
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
    ports: active: DP-2 off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 05c8:0383
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Lenovo L24e-30 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 93 diag: 604mm (23.8")
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:1570
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-3: HP HP lt4120 Snapdragon X5 LTE type: USB driver: cdc_ether bus-ID: 1-3:73
    chip-ID: 03f0:9d1d
  IF: enx72721cc897de state: up speed: 425 Mbps duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
    sub-v: 100
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 22.67 GiB (9.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: L8H-256V2G-HP size: 238.47 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 22.66 GiB (9.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 12.1 MiB (2.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C pch: 40.5 C mobo: 0.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2297 apt: 2290 flatpak: 7
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https: //ftp.fau.de/mint/packages vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 263 Uptime: 39m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (17.1%) Init: systemd v: 249
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.6.8 inxi: 3.3.13

Best regards,
Fabian

Edit: It seems as if I am not the only one with that problem: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions ... se_remove/

[fab161]

Mh, kinda sad that there are still no replies on this thread. I wonder if nobody else encountered this issue before...
Probably I should try out the new release to see if something changed in that regard.