MX 19 x64 Updated Respin

[mjtux]

MX 19-x64 with support for some newer hardware, such as Intel tenth generation graphics, that won't boot to a GUI with standard MX 19/Buster packages. Includes backported 5.3 kernel, and the Mesa 19.2.1 that is now in the MX AHS section.

https://archive.org/details/mx19x64updated

I installed Stevo's MX19-x-64 Updated respin a couple of days ago, and so far it's been good.
I added the buster ahs repository and all updates have been applied.
I have not added anything from the Test Repo.
This is the first MX install where I have not needed to activate Use Intel driver instead of "modsetting" driver to get rid of screen tearing.

I have been losing internet connectivity periodically with MX19.
I found that, at least with this respin, clicking the Network Manager applet in the system tray and then clicking Wired Connection 1, the connection is restored.
So far, this happened only once with the respin, but several times with the official release.
This never happened with previous installations of 18.x.

Is there some change in the network configuration that would cause it to disconnect or drop the connection?

[JayM]

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[mjtux]

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System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 5.3.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-2-amd64 
           root=UUID=4776a085-72ca-4139-8fd6-f5fd7a36c79d ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: H370M Pro4 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: P3.40 date: 10/25/2018 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-8600K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 
           model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: CA L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 43200 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 
           6: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:3e92 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.1 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 
           bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15bc 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.28 TiB used: 94.22 GiB (7.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX8200NP size: 223.57 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: SVN139B scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 120GB size: 111.79 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: DB6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 
           scheme: GPT 
           ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: A-Data model: USB Flash Drive size: 28.91 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           ID-5: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Transcend model: JetFlash Transcend 16GB size: 14.60 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 14.00 GiB size: 13.72 GiB (97.98%) used: 5.82 GiB (42.4%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 10.00 GiB size: 9.78 GiB (97.81%) used: 659.5 MiB (6.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p10 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 37.2 MiB (0.9%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test
           3: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test
           4: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test
           5: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 232 Uptime: 5h 03m Memory: 7.51 GiB used: 1.94 GiB (25.9%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

The CPU temperature looks too high.
It seems to match the Sensor Viewer pch_cannonlake-0 value.
The coretemp-0 values for all six cores are much lower at idle - between 28 and 32 celsius.

[SwampRabbit]

I have been losing internet connectivity periodically with MX19.
I found that, at least with this respin, clicking the Network Manager applet in the system tray and then clicking Wired Connection 1, the connection is restored.
So far, this happened only once with the respin, but several times with the official release.
This never happened with previous installations of 18.x.

Is there some change in the network configuration that would cause it to disconnect or drop the connection?

I don't think you're system specs warrant really using the AHS respin, but it shouldn't hurt using it either.

Doing some interwebs hunting lead me across a bunch of bug threads about this NIC:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=237141
Look half way down the 2nd post, I219-V [8086:15b8] is addressed there.

But this Bug report is about the same issue and mentions the above fix as well (see post #17, 29, 32, 62).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1785171

May turning off Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), or Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) may or may not fix your issue, but it's worth a shot.
Some attempted and recommended shutting off Compatibility Support Module (CSM) in the UEFI firmware as well.

By chance are you dual booting Windows 10 with this system too?

[mjtux]

Thanks, SwampRabbit !
That's some serious searching. :)

I don't think you're system specs warrant really using the AHS respin, but it shouldn't hurt using it either.

Doing some interwebs hunting lead me across a bunch of bug threads about this NIC:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=237141
Look half way down the 2nd post, I219-V [8086:15b8] is addressed there.

I tried the code from the first link:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 0#p1262790
I may have done something wrong here, since I don't understand what this is.
I also read the other posts that you listed.

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sudo ethtool --set-eee enp11s0 eee off
Cannot get EEE settings: No such device


sudo ethtool --set-eee enp0s31f6 eee off
Cannot get EEE settings: No such device

The device shown in that post is not an exact match.
The one listed is Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V 8086:15b8 (rev 31)
The one shown in my system specs is chip ID: 8086:15bc
Don't know if that matters.

I never got anything useful from ethtool :

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ethtool -k
ethtool: bad command line argument(s)
For more information run ethtool -h

ethtool -k --show-features
Cannot get device feature names: No such device

ethtool -K
ethtool: bad command line argument(s)
For more information run ethtool -h

ethtool -K --Features
Cannot get device feature names: No such device

man ethtool

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ethtool -k|--show-features|--show-offload devname

ethtool -K|--features|--offload devname feature on|off …

May turning off Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), or Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) may or may not fix your issue, but it's worth a shot.
Some attempted and recommended shutting off Compatibility Support Module (CSM) in the UEFI firmware as well.

By chance are you dual booting Windows 10 with this system too?

CSM in the UEFI is Disabled.
No Windows on this machine.
I have Mint 19.1 and MX 18.3 on the SATA SSD.
Mint 19.3, MX 18.3 and MX 19 on the NVME.


I don't know how to turn that stuff OFF other than what was listed.
I looked at the XFCE Power Manager but didn't see anything there that appeared to apply.
MX Network Assistant -> Linux drivers DOES show e1000e as the loaded driver.
Advanced Network Configuration applet for editing Wired Connection 1 on the Ethernet tab has a Wake on LAN setting which is set to Default.

Same issue occurred today. Clicking on Wired Connection 1 in the system tray restored the connection.

[mjtux]

Selecting Reload in Synaptic Package Manager produces this error message:

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[Stevo]

Selecting Reload in Synaptic Package Manager produces this error message:

synaptic-reload-mx19-01.png

Hmmm...can you run in a terminal:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list

and then copy-paste the output of the command into a code block here? That should expose why you're getting complaints about the file.

[figueroa]

There is the test repo active on three lines - a bug in the iso.

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Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test
           3: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test
           4: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test

Take those lines beginning with 2:, 3:, and 4:

[mjtux]

Hmmm...can you run in a terminal:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list

and then copy-paste the output of the command into a code block here? That should expose why you're getting complaints about the file.

Here are the contents of that file copied from FeatherPad

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# MX Community Main and Test Repos
deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free 
deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test 


deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test 

deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/ buster test 

#ahs hardware stack repo
deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs