"Updated" Senpai Respin MX-Cinnamon 23.6 for x32 and x64-AHS-LMK, with Cinnamon 6.4.8 of Mint LMDE

[DeepDayze]

Hey Senpai, I'm going to give your Cinnamon spin of MX a try as did a plain Debian setup with stock Cinnamon...but I broke it with a bad update lol.

[Senpai]

Hey Senpai, I'm going to give your Cinnamon spin of MX a try as did a plain Debian setup with stock Cinnamon...but I broke it with a bad update lol.

Tell me how it goes , so far I have not encountered any problems on my main PC, with the new PC this time I'm not using any kernel or AHS or Liquorix, I do not need, everything works with the 6.1 that brings MX by default.

Best regards

[DeepDayze]

Hey Senpai, I'm going to give your Cinnamon spin of MX a try as did a plain Debian setup with stock Cinnamon...but I broke it with a bad update lol.

Tell me how it goes , so far I have not encountered any problems on my main PC, with the new PC this time I'm not using any kernel or AHS or Liquorix, I do not need, everything works with the 6.1 that brings MX by default.

Best regards

Sure will do, once I have the time :-)

[Senpai]

Hi:
Until now it had not happened to me, that's why I had not implemented a “pining” files in “preferences.d” in the ISO of my Cinnamon respin with the Mint Debian repositories, but in the last system update it tries to update two Mint packages over the MX ones, so I have created and tested the “mx-mint-pinning” file that has to go in “/etc/apt/ preferences.d”, so that MX-Linux updates are kept in preference to Linux Mint or Debian ones.
The files you want to install are “debian-system-adjustments (2023.08.21-faye) and grub2-theme-mint (1.2.3), also if you install them it asks to remove ‘libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 (2.40.2-2) and libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (2.40.2-2)’, so don't update it and include the file ‘’mx-mint-pinning” in the reference directory.

File “mx-mint-pinning” for download.
I will upload it to my Sourceforge site and update the ISOs shortly.

Best regards

[Senpai]

Hi:
The ISOs are already updated by adding the “mx-mint-pinning” file to the “/etc/apt/preferences.d” path to give preference to MX-Linux packages, over Mint ones.

On my download site you can download the new ISOs or just the “mx-mint-pinning” file, if it is already a live installation.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/senpai ... mon/files/

Best regards

[Tony45]

Downloading now
install asap

[Senpai]

Downloading now
install asap

Hi @Tony45, if you already had Respin installed, you only need to download “mx-mint-pinning.zip” and place the file “mx-mint-pinning” in the path “/etc/apt/preferences.d”.

Greetings

[Tony45]

Hi
Yes , I read that, but......2 weeks ago I screwed up a few partitions, including CinnaMX-Joseph, Cinna-usergreen and cinna-senpai
so, I choose the new iso install
So, all is well again 1 ( till I ..... )
No worries !

[paul1149]

Ok, I've got some kind of partition problem going on.
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Senpai, thanks for this. I started outfitting an older Dell AIO for a boy I know, and I found mx-xfce too plain, and mx-kde a bit too heavy for the machine's and the boy's capabilities. So I tried Mint-cinnamon, and thought it struck a very nice balance between the two. But I missed some of the features and power of mx!

That's when I found this thread. I'm in the process of installing, and met a few problems.

• There was no way to enter root user credentials, they were grayed out.
• Grub was not installable on the ESP partition, so I opted for MBR.
• The installation is stuck at 93% and has gone nowhere for 20m now.

I'm installing on a 98gb ext4 partition, with an 8gb swap partition (~ size as the RAM).
Is there something that jumps out at you that I need to be doing? Thanks.

Here's the QSI:

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Snapshot created on: 20250312_2125
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-31-amd64 [6.1.128-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: quiet splash
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Senpai Respin
    MX-Cinnamon 23.5_x64 Libretto Jan 13 2025 base: LMDE 6 (faye)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Inspiron One 2020 v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0MTFWP v: A00 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A02 date: 03/19/2012
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Pentium G620T bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge level: v2 built: 2010-12
    process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x25
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB
    L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1798 high: 2000 min/max: 1600/2200 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1596 2: 2000 bogomips: 8779
  Flags: 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 disabled
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
  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 status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; 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: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:
    active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0102 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:4
    chip-ID: 0c45:6496 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: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.65x9.37") s-diag: 485mm (19.11")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: Dell 20 serial: <filter> built: 2011 res: 1600x900
    hz: 60 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2 size: 443x249mm (17.44x9.8") diag: 508mm (20") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1600x900 min: 800x600
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 24.2.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 2000 (SNB GT1)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 6
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-31-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: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell driver: ath9k v: kernel
    modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0032
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.2:5 chip-ID: 0cf3:e004 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 sub-v: 1
    hci-v: 4.0 rev: 102
  Info: acl-mtu: 1022:8 sco-mtu: 183:5 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff
    link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio,
    telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 480.8 GiB used: 8.89 GiB (1.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-753CA1 size: 465.76 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1H19
    scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Alcor Micro model: USB Disk size: 15.04 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1161
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2271 libs: 1114 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://debian.redimadrid.es/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://debian.redimadrid.es/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
    2: deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com faye main upstream import backport
    2: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    4: deb http://security.debian.org bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    5: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Info:
  Processes: 203 Uptime: 1h 20m wakeups: 6 Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 1.91 GiB (25.0%) 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: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

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[paul1149]

No, I rebooted (I had done partition work and thought maybe a reboot would be needed). Then everything went smoothly, except the installer would not pick up my keyboard layout changes - no big deal. But again it's stuck at 93%.