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phil_n
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MX19 Final Hickups

#1 Post by phil_n »

19 is generally working well for me but there are a couple of things:

1) Grub didn't work in either of my installs (would not boot Win1o) and I had to use the Win 10 recovery drive to reset the grub path in bcdedit. For a complete grub menu - MX19, Mint, and Win10 - I have to point it to the file in the Mint (Ubuntu) folder (grubx64.efi).

2) VLC is not behaving - it won't go away when I close it. It stays in the tray (notification area?) and won't leave even if the exit option is pressed. I can only get rid of it by using ps -aux and killing the instance with kill -9.

Otherwise I thoroughly appreciate all the time and hard work put in by everyone there to produce a distro that doesn't have RedHat windoze controlling it.

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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#2 Post by JayM »

Please run MX Tools/Quick System Info, then right-click paste into a reply. (Quick System Info automatically copies the information to your clipboard, already formatted properly for pasting into the forum so all you have to do is a right-click/ paste, not a copy/paste.) Thanks.
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#3 Post by phil_n »

Here's the info:

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=10da9998-01b2-4929-8148-60c8ff9f2aa5 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: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-21 v: V1.20 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: SR model: Squirtle_SR v: V1.20 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.20 
           date: 03/13/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.5 Wh condition: 36.5/37.0 Wh (98%) volts: 8.7/7.7 
           model: PANASONIC AP16M5J type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A6-9220e RADEON R4 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 
           type: MCP arch: Excavator family: 15 (21) model-id: 70 (112) stepping: N/A 
           microcode: 6006705 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 6388 
           Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/1600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1205 
           2: 1214 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:98e4 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (DRM 3.27.0 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:15b3 
           Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 chip ID: 1022:157a 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.1 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
           driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0042 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR9271 802.11n type: USB driver: ath9k_htc bus ID: 3-1.1:3 
           chip ID: 0cf3:9271 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 178.84 GiB (19.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0 size: 931.51 GiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 97.66 GiB size: 95.62 GiB (97.92%) used: 60.90 GiB (63.7%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36 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/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ 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://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 222 Uptime: 50m Memory: 7.32 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (17.4%) 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
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#4 Post by teddyk67 »

Your / file system is almost full. LINUX acts weird when that is the case.

Clear up some of the space and I bet the problems go away.

Never Mind.
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#5 Post by JayM »

Unless I'm misinterpreting this (which is possible as I'm still trying to wake up) this could be the issue with VLC:

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Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:98e4 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (DRM 3.27.0 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
It looks like your ADM/ATI Radeon driver isn't being used and you have just the VESA video driver. (Edit: yes, I misread it. It's the VESA driver that's unloaded, not the ATI driver. So never mind.)

One observation: your system will be happier with one of the 4.9 kernels and installing then booting with it may solve the issues.
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#6 Post by phil_n »

Downloaded 4.9.193......smp through synaptic but nothing happened. Then did a kernel install from the package manager. It went through all the motions like it was installing even to where it said it was uninstalling the 4.19 kernel. Then a message kept popping up something like 'couldn't connect to the bus. Hadn't been started with systemd init.' But it still finished ok. So I rebooted and this is what I have:

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=10da9998-01b2-4929-8148-60c8ff9f2aa5 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: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-21 v: V1.20 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: SR model: Squirtle_SR v: V1.20 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.20 
           date: 03/13/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.5 Wh condition: 36.5/37.0 Wh (98%) volts: 8.7/7.7 
           model: PANASONIC AP16M5J type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A6-9220e RADEON R4 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 
           type: MCP arch: Excavator family: 15 (21) model-id: 70 (112) stepping: N/A 
           microcode: 6006705 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 6387 
           Speed: 1188 MHz min/max: 1200/1600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1187 
           2: 1187 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:98e4 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (DRM 3.27.0 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:15b3 
           Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 chip ID: 1022:157a 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.1 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
           driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0042 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR9271 802.11n type: USB driver: ath9k_htc bus ID: 1-1.1:3 
           chip ID: 0cf3:9271 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 179.33 GiB (19.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0 size: 931.51 GiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.75 GiB (98.17%) used: 61.38 GiB (32.0%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 32.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 32 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/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release-.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ 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://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 197 Uptime: 1m Memory: 7.32 GiB used: 571.0 MiB (7.6%) 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
As you can see the system is still using the 4.19 kernel but at least it appears to be using the amdgpu module now.

Thanks for the help.

One other thing - it takes literally forever to shut down - 5, 10, 15 minutes. The bar moves at a snail's pace and then freezes when it gets full. Then I hit the power button.

phil_n
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#7 Post by timkb4cq »

JayM wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 10:01 pmOne observation: your system will be happier with one of the 4.9 kernels and installing then booting with it may solve the issues.
Unlikely. There wasn't full amdgpu support in kernel 4.9 for the AMD Stoney graphics and support for freesync/adaptive sync wasn't added until 4.21
I suspect the better option would be to install a 5.x series kernel.
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#8 Post by anticapitalista »

before you install too much, follow teddyk67's advice.
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#9 Post by junoluna »

i am also unable to close VLC with MX19

tried killing the process in KSysguard but has no effect

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System:    Host: junogiraffe Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
           root=UUID=7d1ea286-40d6-458e-8e83-91fabcb699cc ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel, plank wm: xfwm4 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 8133 v: KBC Version 98.0E serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.1C 
           date: 10/29/2015 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.1 Wh condition: 38.7/38.7 Wh (100%) volts: 15.4/14.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP 
           arch: Jaguar family: 16 (22) model-id: N/A stepping: 1 microcode: 700010F 
           L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 11977 
           Speed: 799 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 799 3: 798 4: 792 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8330] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9832 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 4.19.0-6-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:9840 
           Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8136 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b723 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 12.54 GiB (2.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 2C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 463.48 GiB size: 455.21 GiB (98.21%) used: 12.53 GiB (2.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 14.0 MiB (0.7%) fs: swap 
           swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 52 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/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/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 199 Uptime: 38m Memory: 3.33 GiB used: 1.90 GiB (56.9%) 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
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Re: MX19 Final Hickups

#10 Post by junoluna »

working now for me ....

maybe just one of those things ... coincidentally happened while i was reading this thread.... or maybe vlc decided to get its act together after i installed sm player
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