Failed kernel update Mx-23 [Solved]

[Pakos]

My Mx 23 install is 2 months old, had a kernel update last month that gave me errors but the system kept working. Yesterday there was another kernel update, but this time i am unable to boot into my system.

I get this at boot: https://imgur.com/JlumOJW.png

[m_pav]

First thing that comes to mind is you may have a dirty flag on your partitions. Boot with our Live USB, open gparted, right click your MX Linux root partition and select check, then click the button to perform the action. Repeat for all Linux type filesystems except for swap, then reboot and see how things go.

Before you reboot, can I suggest you fire up gsmartctl and see if your drive has errors. You'll know as soon as you select the drive if something is wrong because either the drive will be red before you select it for really bad faults, or the tab labels will be red after you open the drive to see its attributres. The brighter the red, the worse it is. This is assuming you have SATA drives, not NVME, those need a different tool which is not included on the ISO, but I think should be, nvme-cli

Once these things have been addresses, we can assist with the kernel.

[Pakos]

Done, no errors, no red. (sata).. Still no able to boot into, same screen.

[m_pav]

Next step, run MX Boot repair from Live. It'll ask you what drive to use so you can be sure you have the right drive.
Incidentally, this app also works running from an installed system to fix a Live-USB that was damaged by an unsafe removal from a Windows machine.

[Pakos]

I understand, last time when i did this. I kept selecting the wrong drive and made things worse. Could you tell me which one to select?

https://imgur.com/p5KCNfr.png

SDA4 was selected by default.

[j2mcgreg]

@Pakos
Is this the same machine for which you posted a QSI in post #15 in this thread from 2021?
viewtopic.php?t=64949&start=10

Is that ppa still active?

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 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           1: deb ppa:agornostal/ulauncher Ulauncher Ulauncher

Back then, your cpu was running way too hot:

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System Temperatures: cpu: 83.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 

Has this machine been cleaned and the thermal paste replaced since then?

[Pakos]

Is this the same machine for which you posted a QSI in post #15 in this thread from 2021?
Has this machine been cleaned and the thermal paste replaced since then?

No, i retired that laptop 2 years ago. It's not my daily driver anymore.
Yes, i regularly maintain my machines by cleaning and replacing the thermal pastes.
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Anyway back to my current machine, which partition to select during boot repair?

https://imgur.com/p5KCNfr.png

[j2mcgreg]

While you have a live session active, please post the QSI for this machine.

[Pakos]

While you have a live session active, please post the QSI for this machine.

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Skander@Mx23:~
$ sudo inxi -Fxz
[sudo] wachtwoord voor Skander:           
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: MX-23.3_x64 Libretto May 19  2024
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 9020 v: 00 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Dell model: 00V62H v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A25
    date: 05/30/2019
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-4690 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell
    rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2263 high: 2283 min/max: 800/3900 cores: 1: 2269 2: 2232
    3: 2268 4: 2283 bogomips: 27936
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW
    GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 8
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-21-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: n/a (root, process)
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
  IF-ID-2: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek 802.11ac NIC type: USB driver: btusb,rtl88x2bu
    bus-ID: 3-12:4
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
    lmp-v: 4.2
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
    bus-ID: 00:1f.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 883.1 GiB used: 39.55 GiB (4.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HTS723232A7A364 size: 298.09 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Samsung model: SSD PM871 2.5 7mm 128GB
    size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 3 MiB (0.1%)
    file: /live/boot-dev/swap-file
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 266 Uptime: 2h 4m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 4.31 GiB (56.2%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 2158 Shell: Sudo
  v: 1.9.13p3 inxi: 3.3.26

[Eadwine Rose]

Quick system info, from the menu please, thanks :)