"How bizarre, how bizarre...."
Okay, maybe this is bizarre, maybe not. I had done the MX Snapshot in the MX Live USB setting, where I noticed that it seems to say it's a personal snapshot -- there's no checkbox or anything to make any different "kind" of snapshot. I also noticed that the Help file that is displayed when you click the Help button seems to be out of sync with the actual app; in particular, the second screen in the Help file shows and discusses a button to "Edit Configuration File" but that button does
not exist in the app itself. Dunno what needs to be done about that. Bug report?
Prior to the snapshot, I had edited the .fluxbox/startup command in the Live USB environment to see if it carried over from boot to boot of same. So I shutdown the computer and proceeded to boot up. The new targeted USB-connected portable SSD also was connected and powered on.
Now, instead of booting into the Live USB environment, I was presented with a grub menu with the new portable SSD's MX 23.4 (at that time), as well as the other bootable OSes on my laptop's SSD (MX 23.5 Xfce, Q4OS, and another MX 23.5 Fluxbox). Dang if the external drive's MX didn't come up!!! I'm updating/upgrading that right now, setting up the stuff to shut off the Nvidia GPU and do the xrandr before firing up Fluxbox itself, but still mystified by it all.
I'm sort of wondering what happens if I don't have the external SSD available when I next boot, or if the Live USB stick isn't also inserted. I'm going to have to check out those things, as well as what happens without either being available at boot (vanilla laptop internal SSD only).
Anyway, success! Not sure about how the external drive will do on another laptop, but I'll check that out, too. (Really not sure what it will do when the USB stick is disconnected, but will check it out also.)
Crazy! New QSI:
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-25-amd64 [6.1.106-3] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_fluxbox_x64
Libretto September 15 2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: RF511/RF411/RF711 v: 10HX serial: <superuser required>
Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: SAMSUNG model: RF511/RF411/RF711 v: 10HX serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 10HX.M034.20110426.SSH date: 04/26/2011
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 35.1 Wh (79.1%) condition: 44.4/48.8 Wh (90.9%) volts: 10.8 min: 11.1
model: SAMSUNG Electronics type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: not charging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech ERGO M575 Trackball serial: <filter> charge: 100%
rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-2630QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge gen: core 2 level: v2
built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1496 high: 1766 min/max: 800/2900 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1439 2: 1624 3: 1591 4: 1436 5: 1333 6: 1472 7: 1766 8: 1308
bogomips: 31926
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Samsung Co
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:
active: LVDS-1,VGA-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] vendor: Samsung Co driver: N/A alternate: nouveau
non-free: series: 390.xx+ status: legacy-active (EOL~late 2022) arch: Fermi code: GF1xx
process: 40/28nm built: 2010-16 pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0df4 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Silicon Motion WebCam SCB-1100N type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.1:3
chip-ID: 2232:1008 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x2877 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 422x759mm (16.61x29.88") s-diag: 868mm (34.19")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 pos: primary,bottom-l model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1733 built: 2012 res: 1600x900
hz: 60 dpi: 106 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 448mm (17.6") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1600x900
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: top-right model: Dell P2214H serial: <filter> built: 2015 res: 1080x1920
hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 size: 268x477mm (10.55x18.78") diag: 547mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: Samsung Co 6
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2-1:2 bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 1130:1620 class-ID: 0300
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: Unknown lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0bea
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Tenx USB AUDIO type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Device-4: AKAI MPKmini2 type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 2-2.2:4
chip-ID: 2011:0715 class-ID: 0103 serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-25-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Askey driver: wl v: kernel
modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4727
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Samsung Co
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: b000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM2070 Bluetooth Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-1.3:4
chip-ID: 0a5c:219c class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.0 lmp-v: 3.0
sub-v: 4203 hci-v: 3.0 rev: 274
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.98 TiB used: 8.42 GiB (0.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 14.59 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: BUP Slim BK size: 1.82 TiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0109 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Sabrent model: SABRENT size: 238.47 GiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0204 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 6.73 GiB (6.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd3
maj-min: 8:51
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 428 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdd4
maj-min: 8:52
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1890 libs: 907 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
Processes: 262 Uptime: 1h 1m wakeups: 16 Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (27.5%) Init: SysVinit
v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI