MX 23.5.1 ? [Solved]

[/df]

About to build one or more laptops with MX Xfce as the main OS. Should I be waiting for a 23.5.1 update given this

>Well the 23.5 rollout was not quite as smooth as we would have liked, ...

or will 23.5 remain as-is for now?

[MX_GRD]

I was thinking of upgrading to MX 23; should I wait?

[BV206]

I was thinking of upgrading to MX 23; should I wait?

Upgrading from what to MX 23?

[j2mcgreg]

@MX_GRD
Your last published QSI was from Nov 2023. Please give us the current one.

[Stevo]

The KDE version isn't going to have any XFCE 4.20 issues...

[MX_GRD]

I was thinking of upgrading to MX 23; should I wait?

Upgrading from what to MX 23?

MX-18; still works good without updates. I tried using live MX-23, but ran into BIOS issues and current partition; I had setup an sda5 ext4 extension partition and a little leery about losing it, sda1 ext4 for root, sda4 swap.
Also, MX-23 kept asking for partition password; passwords used on MX-18 was rejected.

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System:    Kernel: 4.19.0-27-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-27-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.14.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo March 31  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: K53E v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K53E v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends 
           v: K53E.213 date: 08/08/2011 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.3 Wh (72.3%) condition: 44.7/59.4 Wh (75.2%) volts: 11.7 
           min: 10.8 model: ASUSTek K53--54 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Unknown 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2330M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 2F cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 17560 
           Speed: 802 MHz min/max: 800/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 802 2: 809 3: 799 4: 868 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected 
           Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
           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: retbleed 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: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
           conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
           vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: IMC Networks UVC VGA Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
           chip-ID: 13d3:5710 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.14.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.7x8.0") 
           s-diag: 339mm (13.3") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 dpi: 163 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5") 
           diag: 184mm (7.2") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.19.0-27-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 12.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter 
           vendor: AzureWave AW-NE139H Half-size Mini PCIe Card driver: rtl8192ce v: kernel 
           modules: wl port: c000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8176 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: atl1c 
           v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: a000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1083 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 165.82 GiB (35.6%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS size: 465.76 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 
           serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 200.78 GiB size: 196.57 GiB (97.90%) used: 90.02 GiB (45.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 5.15 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2600 
Repos:     Packages: 3097 note: see --pkg apt: 3075 lib: 1735 flatpak: 22 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any 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-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/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
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 230 Uptime: 21h 43m wakeups: 3 Memory: 7.57 GiB used: 1.98 GiB (26.2%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 
           alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in default: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: quick-system-in 
           inxi: 3.3.06 

[dolphin_oracle]

About to build one or more laptops with MX Xfce as the main OS. Should I be waiting for a 23.5.1 update given this

>Well the 23.5 rollout was not quite as smooth as we would have liked, ...

or will 23.5 remain as-is for now?

I'm not planning any new isos. the main issue appears to be with upgrade-in-place, not fresh installs. but in any case, if you install updates before installing, you would be covered either way.

[/df]

>... if you install updates before installing ...

Thanks, that's a useful tip.