Kernel Update Issue

[Stevo]

I did that for the first time, and boy did that make a massive difference! Should have done that a long time ago, so yeah, can recommend!

But...but....didn't you have to put in your password and push a couple buttons?

[Eadwine Rose]

I didn't even trust that the drivers that would be removed were unused. I have trust issues (gee).

[b3ta]

But...but....didn't you have to put in your password and push a couple buttons?

Having just suffered through a kernel update that took so long on our ancient Netflix laptop that my wife went to bed, I tried running mx-cleanup, but it failed, as it wouldn't accept my password for the privilege enhancement. Since I have more than one user on my system, I was presented with a choice of which user to run the actual Wi-Fi driver remove command as, but none was accepted (details below).

If anyone comes up against not being able to run a GUI program as root, here is the simplest solution I have found, which you have to run from an xterm:

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sudo XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY DISPLAY=$DISPLAY {PROGRAM}

That sets the two critical environment variables for the program to be allowed by X to handle GUI I/O.

As an aside, after the kernel update that machine once again sees and talks to its built-in Wi-Fi card. There were frayed nerves at having no Netflix and no Spotify for a few days, so now it's happy wife...

For those who can/want to look into the polkit issue, this is what I got:

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==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mxlinux.pkexec.mx-cleanup.helper-terminal ====
MX Cleanup
Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
 1.  user1
 2.  ,,, (user2)
 3.  user3,,, (user3)
 4.  user4,,, (user4)
Choose identity to authenticate as (1-4): 1
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ====
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
Press any key to close

It took me a while, but I did eventually find the "any key", but I shudder for when I log in again as root: all those emails...

For those building a data base:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.6.12-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.6-16~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.12-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro threadirqs resume=UUID=<filter> resume_offset=1466368 noapic nolapic
    init=/lib/systemd/systemd
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: AVL_MXE-23.2-20240405_x64 Enlightened April 5  2024 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6510 v: 0001 serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0N5KHN v: A03 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A17 date: 05/12/2017
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.1/86.6 Wh (48.6%) volts: 12.3 min: 11.1
    model: Samsung SDI DELL MP4949B type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7 Q 840 bits: 64 arch: Nehalem gen: core 1 level: v2 built: 2008-10
    process: Intel 45nm family: 6 model-id: 0x1E (30) stepping: 5 microcode: 0xA
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 1 smt: disabled cache: L1: 64 KiB desc: d-1x32 KiB; i-1x32 KiB
    L2: 256 KiB desc: 1x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): 1627 min/max: 1199/1867 boost: enabled scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: performance core: 1: 1627 bogomips: 3724
  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: 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, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS:
    Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218M [NVS 3100M] vendor: Dell Latitude E6510 driver: nvidia v: 340.108
    non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20
    arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm built: 2006-13 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a6c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Ricoh HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 05ca:1814
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1368x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 362x204mm (14.25x8.03") s-diag: 416mm (16.36")
  Monitor-1: DP-3 size-res: N/A modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: VGA-0 pos: primary res: 1368x768 hz: 60 modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 renderer: NVS 3100M/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell Latitude E6510
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Dell Latitude E6510 driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.12-1-liquorix-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: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell Latitude E6510 driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: 8040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10ea class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:422b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Dell F3607gw v2 Mobile Broadband Module type: USB driver: cdc_acm,cdc_ether,cdc_wdm
    bus-ID: 2-1.6:4 chip-ID: 413c:8184 class-ID: 0202 serial: <filter>
  IF: wwx028037ec0200 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dell DW375 Bluetooth Module type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.7:5
    chip-ID: 413c:8187 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.0 lmp-v: 3.0
    sub-v: 4203 hci-v: 3.0 rev: 205
  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: 111.8 GiB used: 49.89 GiB (44.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS120G2G0A-00JH30 size: 111.8 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0000
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 111.79 GiB size: 109.48 GiB (97.93%) used: 49.89 GiB (45.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 10.7 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2397
Repos:
  Packages: 2679 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2674 libs: 1503 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 5
  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://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.sources
    1: deb https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable main
Info:
  Processes: 292 Uptime: 1h 17m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 1.43 GiB (18.5%) Init: systemd
  v: 252 target: graphical (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)