interesting. well... I would like to go back to the previous version but I
can't. I updated and then things went bonkers and they don't keep more than
the latest version on the mint site. what about the /home situation. will
/home be persistent across distros?
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:47 PM T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> I don't know the reason for why that is happening to you, but to me it
> seems like the initial ram state when your machine boots is not configured
> correctly. It is not finding systemd I guess. This is something your
> package manager should be doing when you upgrade kernel versions. Look up
> mkinitcpio. I'm only really familiar with this on Arch and maybe gentoo a
> bit. If this is happening when you upgrade to a new Ubuntu big version
> number, maybe you consider sticking to the older one for a bit. Don't feel
> bad about sticking to an LTS kernel if you want.
>
> You can distro hop if you want, but I generally would say if your machine
> is not stable to just downgrade to an older version if possible. You could
> go to a distro which has something other than systemd for init, 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, and there are a lot fewer people available for support.
> Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're
> using systemd. 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.
>
> If you're the only person experiencing this, you're probably doing
> something wrong or there's something irregular about your existing system.
>
> I have no idea if this is helpful, but good luck,
> --Zack
>
> Aug 16, 2022 11:34:46 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
>
> here is the attempt at support if you want to look at it and you are on
> mint's forum.
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=378087&start=20
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 2:16 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been fighting with Mint for a while now. I installed mint21 and it
>> runs great for about 5 loads then stuff happens. First it would boot into
>> busybox. I tryed the fsck and that would work sometimes then the kernel
>> began to panic after a week. I would reinstall and the process (busy
>> box.... reinstall) would start over. This has been going on about two
>> weeks. The kernel paniced tonight (it skipped the busybox step) and I
>> finally looked at the output:
>>
>> initramfs unpacking failed: ZSTD - compressed data is corrupt
>> Failed to execute /init (error - 2)
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.
>> Try passing init=option to kernel.
>>
>> So I ask those who are much smarter than me (you) what all this means.
>> What init=option could I pass to the kernel? And what about the ZSTD.....
>> data?
>> What can I do?
>> You know, now that I think about it this problem coincides with the date
>> of the new release (or at least my update of the system after such). Things
>> that make you go hmmmmmmmm.....
>> That was a post onto Mint's support page. I haven't received any replies
>> in like 4 days. I am thinking it is time to try a different distro. I was
>> thinking about VOID. A couple of questions: what about my /home partition,
>> will it transfer seamlessly? Do you think void will fix the problem or else
>> what do you recommend?
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>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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