MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[Eadwine Rose]

Just a bump to push this back up after yours truly made a booboo

[Magister]

1 - Use better error message, more descriptive
2 - find the UUID using blkid instead of mounting the old root and checking its fstab

1. - I wish I could provide more info but all the info the program gets is that the mount command failed...
2. - I can use blkid to to get UUIDs but then how do I know which UUID corresponds to the partition that you are looking for?

1 - I understand :-/
2 - it was not mounting the efi partition, but I specified /dev/sda1, and blkid will report the UID "XXXX-XXXX" format and the PARTLABEL is "EFI System Partition" so it could be guessed from that maybe? Especially since the UUID from fstab was different than the one in blkid. Maybe just display in a popup that there is a UUID discrepancy and ask if we want to use the other one to mount efi ? This implies modifying the root partition mounted in /tmp to modify the etc/fstab

Dual booting may be important for a lot of people, especially people new to Linux, and after they re-install windows it would be nice that the repair works fine

[AK-47]

1 - Use better error message, more descriptive
2 - find the UUID using blkid instead of mounting the old root and checking its fstab

1. - I wish I could provide more info but all the info the program gets is that the mount command failed...
2. - I can use blkid to to get UUIDs but then how do I know which UUID corresponds to the partition that you are looking for?

1. I wonder if the mount exit status would help. Mount command manual (Fedora) states:

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EXIT STATUS
       mount has the following exit status values (the bits can be ORed):

       0      success

       1      incorrect invocation or permissions

       2      system error (out of memory, cannot fork, no more loop devices)

       4      internal mount bug

       8      user interrupt

       16     problems writing or locking /etc/mtab

       32     mount failure

       64     some mount succeeded

              The command mount -a returns 0 (all succeeded), 32 (all failed), or 64 (some failed, some succeeded).

2. Invoking lsblk/blkid with /dev/disk/by-uuid/(UUID) may be an option. Finding designated mount points requires searching fstab.

[fehlix]

Dual booting may be important for a lot of people, especially people new to Linux, and after they re-install windows it would be nice that the repair works fine

IIRC, removing EFI System partition and create a new one, might not be really needed for installing an additonal OS. I'm not sure Windows is requiring to create a new ESP when re-installing. Even as ESP is a system partition, removing all files and folder on the ESP would be ok. MX Boot Repair would just work fine and re-populate the existing ESP.

[Adrian]

AK-47, I will probably get only 32. Fehlix makes a good point that you don't need to recreate ESP.
I will try to implement some UUID validation and prompts if they don't match, maybe a project for the weekend...

[Sigi]

Dear all

Try to install on HP EliteBook 8540w, but at the end, GRUB cannot install. First try with disk encryption, next w/o. Both the same. Before was MX 19.4 AHS installed in UEFI mode, works fine. Thank you all for new MX 21 :-) Booting is very fast..

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_beta1_x64 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 8540w v: N/A 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1521 v: KBC Version 32.36 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: 68CVD Ver. F.60 date: 11/11/2015 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 61.6 Wh condition: 64.8/64.8 Wh (100%) volts: 16.8/14.4 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 Q 720 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem 
           family: 6 model-id: 1E (30) stepping: 5 microcode: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 25538 
           Speed: 931 MHz min/max: 933/1600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 931 2: 931 
           3: 931 4: 931 5: 931 6: 931 7: 931 8: 931 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds 
           status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0a3c 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVA5 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GT216 HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0be2 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e 
           v: kernel port: 4020 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:10ea 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 
           bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:4239 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 144.23 GiB used: 5.98 GiB (4.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: OCZ model: VERTEX2 size: 107.13 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1.37 scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Transcend model: JetFlash Transcend 32GB 
           size: 29.44 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 
           scheme: MBR 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Buffalo model: USB Flash Disk size: 7.66 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 4000 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 6.10 GiB used: 333.6 MiB (5.3%) fs: overlay 
           source: ERR-102 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 59 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 265 Uptime: 12m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 1.59 GiB (20.7%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[j.kemp]

I have not encountered this.

what kind of stick do you have?

I have a Kingston Data Traveler 64GB

I think you're right. I tried an old PNY 64GB and it worked.

[j.kemp]

The Popular Applications tab, in the MX Package Installer, list a LAMP package under server. When installing, it cannot find php7.3. I search the repository and can only find php7.4 which is good (version wise) but the installation fails due to that.

[dolphin_oracle]

The Popular Applications tab, in the MX Package Installer, list a LAMP package under server. When installing, it cannot find php7.3. I search the repository and can only find php7.4 which is good (version wise) but the installation fails due to that.

THANKS!

[Stevo]

Can anyone else confirm that xscreensaver can not find the rss-glx fancy screensavers, per this bug report? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=979490

Since the bug report includes a patch to fix rss-glx, we can rebuild an MX version that works with xscreensaver 5.45