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[Member cherith_reddy]

would 32bit be useful for using a web browser

fatmac wrote:

Core 2 Duo is a 64bit processor, & therefore should run any 64bit distro, but if you have less than 4GB ram, either will work, but a 32bit may run just a little bit quicker.

Edit: I was typing as the above was posted; with just 1GB ram, I’d use the 32bit version, & give it an additional 2GB of swap, modern web browser are heavy on resources.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by cherith_reddy.

[Member fatmac]

Core 2 Duo is a 64bit processor, & therefore should run any 64bit distro, but if you have less than 4GB ram, either will work, but a 32bit may run just a little bit quicker.

Edit: I was typing as the above was posted; with just 1GB ram, I’d use the 32bit version, & give it an additional 2GB of swap, modern web browser are heavy on resources.

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

4.4.240-antix.1-686-smp-pae is the only 4.4.240 antiX kernel I can see in Synaptic.

Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

System:
  Host: dragon Kernel: 4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
  Distro: antiX-19_386-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: TOSHIBA v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5585 
  Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 
  bus ID: 02:09.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n 
  [Atheros AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 1-3:6 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 54.83 GiB (58.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 89.19 GiB used: 54.83 GiB (61.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 164 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 132 Uptime: 1h 23m Memory: 1003.0 MiB used: 429.2 MiB (42.8%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36

[Member andfree]

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease                                                                     
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease                                                                 
Hit:3 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease          
Hit:4 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster InRelease                    
Hit:5 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian buster InRelease                      
Reading package lists... Done                         
E: Release file for http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/InRelease is expired (invalid since 3d 11h 37min 11s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

These commands didn’t help:
sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
sudo hwclock --systohc --localtime

System:    Host: dragon Kernel: 4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
           Distro: antiX-19_386-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
           flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5586 
           Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1f.5 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
           driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 bus ID: 02:09.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n [Atheros AR9170] type: USB driver: carl9170 
           bus ID: 1-3:3 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 54.61 GiB (58.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 89.19 GiB used: 54.61 GiB (61.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 129 Uptime: 17m Memory: 1003.0 MiB used: 278.3 MiB (27.7%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

I recently did an encrypted install of antiX17.4 from snapshot on an SSD, leaving 50GB free space for puppylinux 😉
At first, this seemed great, but now I am seeing a growing series of error messages at bootup, after unlocking rootfs. These cause a few seconds’ delay, but so far the boot eventually succeeds.

For almost 2 years this drive had an antiX standard install with ecryptfs-encrypted home. The problems appeared after doing the encrypted install. At this point, I will revert to the ecryptfs-home setup unless someone has ideas for me to try first. Thanks in advance.

Sample error messages:

[   26.384752] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch }
[   26.384954] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[   26.385207] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:38:11:10/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq dma 4096 in
                        res 40/00:c4:a8:6e:94/00:00:03:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[   26.385764] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
repeats many times
[   27.880823] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[   27.880838] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] 
[   27.880851] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unaligned write command
[   27.880865] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 02 10 11 38 00 00 08 00
[   27.880873] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 34607416
repeats for many sector numbers
[   28.856064] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[   28.869778] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[   28.880688] ata1: EH complete
[   29.356131] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen
[   29.361105] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[   29.366082] ata1: SError: { CommWake DevExch }
[   29.370972] ata1: hard resetting link
repeats many times

Similar problem described here was solved by replacing crucial ssd with samsung:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=247820

trim enabled:
http://worldsmostsecret.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-activate-trim-on-luks-encrypted.html

booted from flash drive and checked encrypted fs:

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 name
sudo e2fsck /dev/mapper/name
clean

System:

Host: Wind Kernel: 4.9.221-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: JWM 2.3.6 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_386-base Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: MICRO-STAR product: U-100 v: Ver.001 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: U-100 v: Ver.001 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.3 date: 10/06/2008 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 3.77 GiB (3.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT120BX500SSD1 size: 111.79 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 59.23 GiB used: 3.57 GiB (6.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
  ID-2: /boot size: 486.8 MiB used: 202.9 MiB (41.7%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Harold96 wrote:

This was my first laptop ever, my mom bought it in 2008 for me, we use to share an old desktop machine as a family, but this was my very first computer and I really loved it.
One day the display stopped working, only the VGA port was working, so I could not keep using it, also it was already showing signs of an old laptop, was pretty slow and the computers from that time (2012) were much better, so it was time to say goodbye to an old veteran, I loved this computer so I kept it.
Not so much ago, I started to use Manjaro Linux as my daily driver, so I started to love Linux. One day I was cleaning my room, and I found this laptop, it has been a long time, so I never actually thought that it will work, I plugged the charger and turned it on, and for my surprise it was working.
I started looking for a Linux distro that could be good for this veteran laptop, so I came across antiX, I have been using it and I totally love it, antiX has brought life again to my old friend 🙂 />

Welcome to antiX!

That’s a great story. At this very moment I am using an old desktop computer with a nice, large HP monitor.

Here are the particulars:

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix-Brian Kernel: 5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
  Distro: antiX-19.1_x64-base Marielle Franco 23 December 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: s5747c v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2A6C v: 5.00 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 6.01 date: 09/29/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon II X2 255 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: K10 rev: 3 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 12455 
  Speed: 1900 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1900 2: 3100 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: N/A bus ID: 00:0d.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: vesa resolution: 1024x768~N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:05.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: e480 
  bus ID: 00:07.0 
  IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 15.12 GiB (2.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3750528AS size: 698.64 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 684.67 GiB used: 15.12 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 24.2 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 119 Uptime: 1h 01m Memory: 3.60 GiB used: 1.20 GiB (33.3%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Brian Masinick.

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Brian Masinick

[Member greyowl]

I am running antiX 17 (32 bit).
I am having problems with the new 4.9.240. After installing it with Synaptic, it takes 125 seconds to go from login to my desktop. Kernel 4.9.221 takes 10 seconds to go from login to desktop.
Is this normal? Can I do anything to fix this problem?

Here is my system information:

user@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.240-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17_386-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D610 v: N/A serial: <root required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0D4571 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A06 date: 10/02/2005
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 53.3 Wh condition: 52.5/53.3 Wh (99%)
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 800/1867 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1024×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.240-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:14:22:d8:99:f8
Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:16:6f:46:d6:28
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 14.27 GiB (38.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MP0402H size: 37.26 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 34.43 GiB used: 14.27 GiB (41.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3035
Info:
Processes: 153 Uptime: 9m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 489.0 MiB (24.4%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.36
user@antix1:~
$

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member Xecure]

AA BB wrote:

When GParted is run under AntiX, it shows my three MX partitions: ( MX Boot, MX root and MX swap).

I suspect that it was MX that managed the boot, as it is the one that has a boot partition.
I would use a live USb with antiX or MX, use the grub menu to serach for grub entries, and boot into MX. Once inside your MX Linux partition, use Boot Repair from the MX Tools to repair (maybe even reinstall grub) to the boot partition. Wasn’t that the reason you creted an MX boot partition, so that it would manage booting? Maybe it has another purpose.

At least this way you should be able to boot into you MX system and have it as the main boot manager.

If this is not the purpose, then we need to figure out how to get antiX grub to detect the other grub entries.

Does anyone have a good idea?

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member rayluo]

anilkagi wrote:

The capitalist would want to make more money by coaxing the consumer, to buy new and improved products, the consumers would get themselves busy trying to become a ‘greater’ consumer. The capitalists encourage the consumer to yield and the consumer perseveres to yield. However there are some people who do not want to participate in this Cat & Mouse game. They neither want to be the Cat nor the Mouse.

How many people want the latest, hi-tech hardware that can run the latest software? I presume, most of them just get carried away by the current and trend. Most home users don’t have to change their Hardware. They can ply on what they have. However, Microsoft and Apple want to offer us new things, better things, but the question is, are they necessary for everybody. They are not. Manufacturers make it inevitable. They stop support for older platforms, and bring newer versions which require newer machines. An average home user can continue to use the ten year old computer, for his simple home use tasks. Why should they buy new hardware and the new software? This is where Antix, comes in. What Antix says on its FAQ page is very much true.

antiX should run on most computers, ranging from 192MB old PII systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes.
...

……

FLOSS development is a revolution.

When, Eric S. Raymond said “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch” in his book “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, he was wrong.

The “FLOSS developers” does not start working on a software, to scratch his personal itch. They do it to keep themselves self reliant and others who join hands with them.

However, Eric S. Raymond was right in saying “Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone and a large user base leads to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”. That’s the advantage of the benevolent FLOSS revolution.

Thanks @anikagi for eloquently pointing out all these! At first, my logical mind did not think it that way, because, only a resource-hungry OS would exclude lower-specs machines, but a lean OS like antiX would run well on both low-end and high-end machines, so, it seems weird to say antiX philosophy is against capitalism. However, the more you think about this topic, the more you would realize that, it must take some determination from the core developers to make antiX strike relentlessly to become so lean and lightweight. (There are perhaps half a dozen Linux distro out there that are lightweight, but antiX is still unique.) So, @anikagi must be right that this *is* antiX’s philosophy. Heck, even our beloved admin here goes by ID @anticapitalista, with a signature line “Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.” 🙂

Long live antiX and its community!

[Member AA BB]

” First, which distro was managing your grub (antiX or MX)? Launch that distro and do
sudo update-grub…to update the grub list and let it find and add all available grub entries, including MX and antiX.
”
AintX is the mangler..and after doing the above, on re-boot only AntiX shows on the GRUB menu ..no MX

” If that doesn’t work, in antiX (or MX linux, if that was the distro that controlled grub) go to Control centre > Maintenance > Boot Repait. I would reinstall grub and then Repair grub.
”
Done.. but again, on re-boot only AntiX shows on the GRUB menu ..no MX

When GParted is run under AntiX, it shows my three MX partitions: ( MX Boot, MX root and MX swap).

” I reported that the stupid grub installer is stupid”… I would strongly agree the warning screen wording should be changed

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by AA BB.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by AA BB.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by AA BB.

[Member olsztyn]

rayluo wrote:

Running Live with root persistence without remastering”, that WAS my plan, while I was still experimenting different things. But then later when I finalize my tool set, I create my ISO snapshot, and then hardly use any persistence nowadays. But this method should presumably work with whatever ISO, you could possibly even swap in a different linuxfs from a different ISO.

Thanks…
So for myself to be clear, for this instance you are running: There is content of rootfs and/or homefs that is not yet merged by remaster into linuxfs and ISO Snapshot you are referring to is a snapshot of running system composed of linuxfs and rootfs?
What if you discard rootfs, does the system start correctly, although perhaps with incomplete app set?
I am just trying to understand underlying conditions…
Thanks and regards…
Edit:
Sorry for my questions that might seem confusing… What I am driving at is that in my understanding linuxfs should be pretty much static unless remaster has been performed, so I am curious what could have caused corruption of linuxfs…
Thanks and regards…

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member Mynaardt]

Hi again Xecure:

Xecure wrote:

We don’t know what version of antix you are using or your hardware.

First, try changing to a different Desktop Session first. Menu > Desktops > Other Desktops Space-jwm for example, and see if the volume icon and wireless pop up. What program were you using to connect to the router (connman, ceni, wicd, other…).

Check if teh audio works with
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Edit: Ninja’d. Don’t mind me.

Xecure wrote:

We don’t know what version of antix you are using or your hardware.

First, try changing to a different Desktop Session first. Menu > Desktops > Other Desktops Space-jwm for example, and see if the volume icon and wireless pop up. What program were you using to connect to the router (connman, ceni, wicd, other…).

Check if teh audio works with
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Edit: Ninja’d. Don’t mind me.

Okay, I’m using antiX 19.2; installed it a couple of months ago…
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
That did nothing, not a peep out of the speakers…

As for my hardware stuff, here’s what I got:
$ inxi -F
System:
Host: antiXmbm Kernel: 5.6.10-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3
Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
serial: <root required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: AM1M-A v: Rev X.0x serial: <root required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0602 date: 04/28/2014
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 bits: 64
type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
Speed: 1069 MHz min/max: 800/2050 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 799 2: 799
3: 799 4: 799
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8400 / R3 Series] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 5.6.10-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.1)
v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.10-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 10:c3:7b:9b:fa:14
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 123.40 GiB (13.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 913.65 GiB used: 123.40 GiB (13.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 19.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 20 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 165 Uptime: 36m Memory: 3.28 GiB used: 1.36 GiB (41.4%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36


What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from: sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water, and public health?

[Member rayluo]

olsztyn wrote:

rayluo wrote:

But then I figure that the damaged data on the flash drive would most likely happen at its single biggest file, the 1 GB “/antiX/linuxfs”…

Hi Rayluo…
Questions:
– When you are referring to 1GB linuxfs, the size of it seems minimal, with not many applications installed. Are you running Live with root persistence without remastering?
– In reference to ISO, which ISO did you mean – backup created from ISO Snapshot?

Thanks and Regards…

“Running Live with root persistence without remastering”, that WAS my plan, while I was still experimenting different things. But then later when I finalize my tool set, I create my ISO snapshot, and then hardly use any persistence nowadays. But this method should presumably work with whatever ISO, you could possibly even swap in a different linuxfs from a different ISO.

W.R.T. your curiosity about the size, I did add several very small command line tools, plus one big app i.e. the Chromium, into the stock ISO. But, by choosing xz compressing algorithm, the result iso is even smaller than the original antiX ISO. 🙂 @anticapitalista, if you haven’t already, this might help you to keep the antiX base package within 710MB for a little longer.

[Member lurker123]

The install script GUI for 13.2 worked fine, and installed the system to hard disk, but GRUB 0.97 had problems with my 19 Gb hard drive (17 Gb after deducting 1 Gb for swap and ~1 Gb for the boot partition); hopefully I can use a GRUB2 CD-ROM to fix the problem. And I’ve got a pointer to the wheezy repo at http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/ so I can add samba and other goodies. Thanks all for letting me know how far back I had to go for something that would work.

[Member andfree]

Xecure wrote:

Sorry for the negative assumptions. I was trying to rule out other possible reasons.

Don’t apologize, I wrote “of course” as an expression to emphasize my certainty that my packages were updated, not to imply any annoyance. I appreciate that you are trying to help me.

Xecure wrote:

See if at the systray icon for zoom you can (right-click) select other options (Like “Join Meeting”) and see if those windows also have a rendering problem.

I selected the “Join Meeting” option and an absolutely white window opened.

By the way, I used Package Installer to install Zoom to the other laptop I use. Some issues with dependencies were fixed after:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

It seems to work fine.

System:   Host: presario Kernel: 4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 
           Distro: antiX-19.2.1_386-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario 2100 v: KE.M1.54 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 002A v: NS570 Version PQ1A74 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: KE.M1.54 
           date: 12/17/20022 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Mobile Intel Celeron bits: 32 type: MCP arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 
           L2 cache: 256 KiB 
           flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3189 
           Speed: 1595 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1595 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS200M [Radeon IGP 330M/340M/345M/350M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.4.221-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:   Device-1: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard type: network bridge driver: ali1535_smbus 
           v: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 00:11.0 
           Device-2: National DP83815 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: natsemi v: kernel port: 2400 bus ID: 00:12.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 17.98 GiB (32.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK6025GAS size: 55.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 52.76 GiB used: 17.93 GiB (34.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 52.8 MiB (2.6%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 132 Uptime: 3h 53m Memory: 432.6 MiB used: 286.2 MiB (66.2%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36