Have you done a nuke and pave install or are you limping your /home along?
you could have some form of corrupted config file in your home that might
be causing problems. worth a thought. and a stroll through your home dir.
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
>>>>> <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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