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I am issuing a warning. You have been asked multiple times to provide the info that is required to be shared when you ask for help, as per the forum rules, which you agreed with as soon as you started posting.


some people say its strange that the QSI that you are so aggressively asking for ...

@samegold
I think that the fact that Linux uses GiB as a memory measurement unit rather than GB which is used by Microsoft and all the manufacturers may have confused you. Read this for a good explanation:
https://massive.io/file-transfer/gb-vs-gib-whats-the-difference/


no, it didnt "confuse ...

Don't thing changing the password of the root-account is the cause of the issue.
I guess rather somehow is related to the first issue mentioned with the other thread, where you suddenly have been forced
to enter into "Maintanaince mode", which you couldn't do without a root password .

sorry, i ...

Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 1.05 TiB (77.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP510 size: 447.13 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD ...

i tried to select other kernel in grub ofcourse, i get something like:
modprobe fatal module vmmon not found in directory /lib/modules/*kernelversion*
failure: tlpsysstat failed.

filesystem is btfrs

i think it must be something about the root user not being configured in the autologin of KDE, as i ...

@samegold When you get to a command line, enter

startx

and do you get error messages there or does the GUI start ?


no it doesnt.

i get this:

https://ibb.co/TMy5Qmws

so right now im concentrating on "unlocking" the homefolder of the broken install by accessing it from a different linux ...

@samegold When you get to a command line, enter

startx

and do you get error messages there or does the GUI start ?


no it doesnt.

i get this:

https://ibb.co/TMy5Qmws

so right now im concentrating on "unlocking" the homefolder of the broken install by accessing it from a different linux ...

if the QSI can read software infos from external SSD/system


"Yes. Here is my QSI showing my USB attached NVMe drive that I store data on. It is listed as SDC under Drives:"

that is not what i asked. it shows HARDWARE infos like vendor name, size, etc. which you can get probably in any OS by ...

if i access the home folder of the said installation from another linux PC i get this. its the locked home folder of the described system with the new root user that doesnt start KDE. it doesnt show the size of the folder.
i have the root passwort ofcourse, how can i unlock the home folder ...

OK.. it is in the forum rules, if you don't post them we can't help you.


i dont think you could either way, so dont bother. maybe someone else will :-)


@samegold No-ones going to help until you cooperate with the request. We aren't going to play 20 questions, when we can quickly look at ...