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I dont see any RAID setup on your machine in QSI, but that is what the mdadm package is all about

Check your /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf file and see if it is specifying an raid, and if it is, then you need to figure out why it is.

And if your not running any raid, you should be able to just remove ...

You can start by hitting esc at start up (as soon as the logo is on screen) and then reading / watching the terminal output... you should see a long lag between the last working startup process and then the next one which is most likely the issue. ( You may need to record the screen on your phone ...

siamhie wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2025 12:44 pm
What do you remember doing before the boot times changed?

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Moved to correct forum. Has nothing to do with installing MX Linux. Please be mindful where you post.


With respect I did spend some time thinking about which would be the most appropriate forum, bearing in mind I am no expert in such matters, I believed that I very much had an MX install issue ...

During the last few days my MX PC shows a very large MX Logo, on a plain dark background, occupying about 40% of the width of my 40" monitor running at 3840 x 2160. This phase of start up - after grub has been 'processed' but before the xfce desktop is displayed - is taking about 30 seconds ...

Any decent clock or calendar program should be able to change the time and date format without messing with locales or systemwide settings.

For example the Xfce panel Clock and DateTime plugins and Conky use strftime format that you can easily change.

To find the strftime syntax format you can ...

tony@mx:~
$ date
Wed 6 Aug 15:56:27 BST 2025
tony@mx:~
$ date -u
Wed 6 Aug 14:56:41 UTC 2025
tony@mx:~
$ ls -la /etc | grep localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 24 2024 localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
tony@mx:~
$ timedatectl status
Local time: Wed 2025-08-06 15:57:53 BST ...

There is a huge discrepancy between the information provided by 'file, properties' on folder '/var/lib' and that provided by disk usage analyser on this same folder. Screen shots of both of these are attached (hopefully). Moreover the 'file, properties' dialog tells me that some contents of this ...

Eadwine Rose wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 4:56 pm According to the forum rules (please read): Please provide full Quick System Info from the menu, use copy for forum button, no edits.

LiveUSB version is OK if needed.

Yes, of course; brain fade. Original post updated

Why does MX insist on displaying the wrong time for my location? It's always an hour ahead - no matter how many times I set it to the correct time in MX Date and Time Settings, as soon as I click 'Apply', the time is changed by MX to the wrong time. Why is this ?

System:
Kernel: 6.9.12-2-liquorix ...