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
>>> <https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Initramfs-Zstd-Too-High>
>>>
>>> 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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