Have you done a nuke and pave install or are you limping your /home along? you could have some “could not be installed form of corrupted config file in your home that might be causing problems. worth a thought. and a stroll through your home dir.

To

Thanks for the update. Keep up the troubleshooting spirit!

TTFN

Matthew

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I spoke too soon. It boot into busybox this morning. So it is looking like it is the hard drive after all. One mor operating system to try before I buy the new hard drive. I was told arch works best so (while not arch) manjaro is what I will try. I tried to install arch but it failed while I was installing it.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 5:12 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

okay, here is a little update. I installed 20.3 and ran it like two days with no busybox error. I then update the operating system (not dist-upgrade) and the next boot gave the hardware splashscreen and then it went black. So I can live with the computer but can't update it. Oh well. It will only be for a year!

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:30 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

eh. Just pointed you in the right direction. Good luck in your distro-hop. 

Matthew

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to teach me how I should have looked into the error  and you solved my problem. So I’ll distro hop till I find something that doesn’t panic. 

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Salutations. 

Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs zstd compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael is using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent of Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression being run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by Phoronix which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression problem: Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy - Phoronix

It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the same problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion.

As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed init system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar with the technology and didn't RTFM. 

Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult.

Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes.

Steve, Stay Sassy friend. 

TTFN

Matthew

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for init, 

Yes yes yes yes, YES!!!

> but recognize  you will be missing some features (which could probably be done
> with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed differently,

s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system.

> and there are a lot fewer people available for support. 

Who ever needed init system support before systemd?

> Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're using
> systemd. 

Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway?

> I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me because
> either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their repositories which
> are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I would be
> compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts.

Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is supported. Void
uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts (called run
scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File.

Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and featureful, but what I
said about runit is true of s6 too.

SteveT
A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years


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