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digitations
Greetings All,
attempting to install VLC and Audacious using apt-get, downloads the files and then locks up the system completely during the install.
using synaptic for the same S/W returns a broken package error and will not install and does not freeze the system.
over several attempts to resolve the above issue, i have lost the setting for changing work spaces via mouse scroll (not sure where to find that setting), the ‘man’ pages have become farkled and attempting to reinstall them via apt-get locks up the system, and sleep does not work, nor does shutdown actually power off the system.
using apt-get or synaptic for other S/W works as expected.
two other issues: screenlight does not work and wifi is not found with connman (wifi greyed out).
Thank YOU ALL in advance for any suggestions in resolving these issues.
fresh full install of Antix19 on an MSI Alpha15 total AMD system, machine specs below:
inxi -r Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cisofy-lynis.list deb https://packages.cisofy.com/community/lynis/deb/ stable main Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ / deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ / deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main$ inxi -zv7
System: Host: rookery Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Machine: Type: Laptop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16U6 v: REV:1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: E16U6AMS.106 date: 10/09/2019 Memory: RAM: total: 13.64 GiB used: 2.46 GiB (18.1%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Topology: Single Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: UP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 512 KiB bogomips: 4591 Speed: 2296 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2296 Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_l2 perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves Graphics: Device-1: AMD vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1002:7340 Device-2: AMD vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: vesa resolution: 1920x1080~N/A OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 1002:ab38 Device-2: AMD driver: N/A bus ID: 07:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 Device-3: AMD vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: AzureWave driver: N/A port: f000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c822 Device-2: Realtek vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:2600 IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> scope: link WAN IP: <filter> Use of uninitialized value $speed in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/bin/inxi line 9083. Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 25.46 GiB (0.9%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LX001-1RG174 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: GPT Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. RAID: Message: No RAID data was found. Partition: ID-1: / size: 145.77 GiB used: 4.92 GiB (3.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 label: rootantiX19 uuid: c2b63121-e2f2-44fc-98e5-915ee3bdfaaa ID-2: /boot size: 4.32 GiB used: 65.3 MiB (1.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: boot uuid: 4a591ee3-44ca-4ed0-ab70-fd5014ce88c4 ID-3: /home size: 612.03 GiB used: 20.48 GiB (3.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 label: homeantiX uuid: 580cc734-2384-41de-942b-f6d9e758c9d4 ID-4: swap-1 size: 343.44 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 label: swap uuid: a352ff3d-be07-4e57-b79d-f0dca1a156a8 Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 size: 300.0 MiB fs: vfat label: SYSTEM uuid: 5E98-A22E ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 size: 128.0 MiB fs: <root required> label: N/A uuid: N/A ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 size: 68.85 GiB fs: ntfs label: Windows uuid: 8E0E99520E9933E5 ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 size: 900.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: WinRE tools uuid: 062C99FD2C99E847 ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p5 size: 241.21 GiB fs: vfat label: N/A uuid: D12B-D078 ID-6: /dev/nvme0n1p6 size: 301.40 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: 2351cdc0-df06-412b-9ced-c617d8ad23b0 ID-7: /dev/nvme0n1p7 size: 318.76 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A uuid: a2b64641-986d-4dbc-ae11-aa928c8caabe ID-8: /dev/sda2 size: 20.06 GiB fs: ntfs label: BIOS_RVY uuid: 8EC8A330C8A3160D ID-9: /dev/sda6 size: 723.14 GiB fs: ext4 label: futuremax uuid: 8e0067bc-22a5-48b1-9d3d-1d42df6deb75 USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 Device-1: 3-1:2 info: N/A type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 5986:211c Hub: 3-2:3 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 05e3:0608 Device-2: 3-2.1:4 info: N/A type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0bda:0129 serial: <filter> Device-3: 3-2.2:5 info: N/A type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1038:1122 Device-4: 3-2.3:6 info: N/A type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0db0:0d10 Device-5: 3-2.4:7 info: N/A type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 13d3:3549 serial: <filter> Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0003 Sensors: Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? Info: Processes: 153 Uptime: 3h 57m Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm inxi: 3.0.36
caprea
Nice you posted your inxi -r, but I’m not sure if you mean that really.
antiX19 comes with buster, you are mixing jessie with testing , no antix-list and I don’t know what else.
??? It’s still running, wow !Anonymous
Ah, the joys of attempting to use “PPAs”, eh?
At the videolan site, they didn’t even offer me a download.
The page just reports “go see debian, they follow the 3.0.x branch”
The version from debian testing/sid, compared to the the buster (stable), does provide a few bugfixes
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/v/vlc/vlc_3.0.8-3_changelog
If you’re hoping to run any version newer than that… “no soup for you” according to videolan page.You might consider downloading the source package from debian sid and attempt to compile it on your machine
looks like i farkled the cut and paste with inxi -r… try again:
$ inxi -r
Repos:
` Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb https://mirror.freedif.org/MXLinux/repo/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
3: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main 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 `not sure what i actually did to confound the system, would there be any caveats about formatting and reinstalling the antix19 full on the root partition and leaving the home partition intact?
it would be nice to have the man pages back as well as having vlc and audacity and to find out if streamlight actually works on this system.
Thanks for all the thoughts and help!
VW
skidoo said
You might consider downloading the source package from debian sid and attempt to compile it on your machine
I was going to say that. I really wanted to. LOL
“These are the times that try men's souls" - Thomas Paine
caprea
would there be any caveats about formatting and reinstalling the antix19 full on the root partition and leaving the home partition intact?
Normally this is not a problem, and certainly worth a try, but there is a possibility that something is already fishy in your home partition.
Repos looks nice now besides deb,multimedia. Machine-specs look nice, too, btw.
This is a pretty new laptop, it’s using the vesa-driver for graphics, not optimal.You might consider updating the kernel.Hopefully also fixes your connman problem.It’s not nessecary at all to enable the multimedia-repos for vlc (installable through synaptic, control-centre > system > package-manager), or Audacious(installable through package-installer from control-centre > system > package-installer) or libdvdcss2 (control-centre > driver > codecs-installer)
But if you do, please stick with buster(stable) and just install what you need and afterwards disable the deb.multimedia-repos again, like skidoo already mentioned.If you don’t want to do without the latest testing-software, it’s better to put the whole system on testing. then you have a more stable system than mixing up all repositories.
Possibly worth a thought anyway with such new hardware.Greetings Folks,
just and update and observations.
a complete fresh install of antix19 full, using only those repos on the disk, results in the following behaviours:
invoking any man page, works as expected…
invoking firefox, locks up the system.. reboot
invoking any man page at this point locks up the systemreinstall system fresh, again..
after install there are 90 packages to upgrade…. as soon as man-db is hit, the system locks up.does not matter if upgrade is done via synaptic or apt-get.
aside from the lock up problem, the following items appear NOT to work:
sleep, hibernate, shutdown…. the system goes to the information page and locks up.streamlight does not change screen brightness, regardless of settings
wifi is greyed out/not found in connmani am able to apt-get install palemoon (my preffered browser)and running dpkg –audit returns no errors.
ANYTHING that has man-db associated will hang the system when it reaches man-db on install/upgrade.
YOUR thoughts, suggestions and questions are appreciated!
yes, man-db…
can take a long (5min+) time to complete, but I’ve never seen it fail to complete.
During the operation (rebuilding myriad copies of manpages for NN locales) it does run full-tilt.
To prevent the delay, you can (and I always do):during first liveboot (w/ persistence) session, PRIOR to performing the initial apt update operation
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
and untick all the pre-selected supported locales which will be unused on YOUR system
^—> a quicker way:
echo “en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8” | sudo tee /etc/locale.gen
LANG=C sudo dpkg-reconfigure –frontend=noninteractive locales
LANG=C sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8then
sudo apt update
(Even if you intend to immediately install to disk — i.e. you don’t plan to use liveboot+persistence — the performed-in-advance locales reconfiguration spares myriad unnecessary files being written to HHD|SSD during installation)a related, optional (but I recommend) step:
sudo apt install localepurge (prevents future installation of extraneous locale-related docs)a further, optional step:
sudo apt install bleachbit
sudo bleachbit
and use its “Localizations” file removal feature
(on antiX Full, you can expect it to find/remove 15k+ files, cumulatively occupying 200MB+ “size on disk”)Among the above, each is a one-time operation except for use of bleachbit. YMMV, spot-checking later you may discover that bleachbit “detects” a few unknown-to-localepurge files which have crept onto the system during package installs (or have been placed during installation of non- deb packaged program installers). Personally, I usually just “apt purge bleachbit” after its initial use.
caprea
If I was in your shoes, the starting point would be to install a newer kernel.
If this doesn’t work on the installed system, because of lockups, you can also change the kernel on another pc on your live usb.
change kernel on the usb-stickMaybe you are lucky with the 5.4 kernel
5.4 kernelthe journey continues….. now using the 5.4 kernel
skidoo: man-db absolutely fails to complete, failing somewhere between 60-80%.. i rebooted after waiting an hour. (seems to be kernel independent)
Thank YOU for your directions above… they improved both install times and boot-up times.
problems:
once the man-db portion of ANY install/upgrade hangs… no further changes can be made or completed even after rebooting….
sudo dpkg –audit
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg –configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
man-db on-line manual pagerdoing –configure man-db…. again hangs the system solid… power-off required.
WHERE is the file that tracks the condition of installs, i am finding plenty of scripts but not a data file, perhaps that file can be edited or deleted so that other files NOT using a man-db connection could be installed…. thoughts?the system sees, mounts and uses /dev/sr0 during install of antix, after that it will not mount even tho in devices (spacefm) it properly shows the name of the disk… as a consequence, dvd’s will not play from the MVP or spacefm.
invoking firefox hangs the system..
screenlight does not engage after making the day/night settings…. hit OK and the ‘which one’ box just repeats.Exit Session:
shutdown, stops the system, but does NOT power down.
suspend, hangs the system showing the current window and will not wake up … power down required.as a data point, antix15 on an older amd system worked perfect from the get-go, to bad i dumped a glass of ovalmaltine on it….
Thank YOU ALL once again for your patience and assistance!
Brian Masinick
If I was in your shoes, the starting point would be to install a newer kernel.
If this doesn’t work on the installed system, because of lockups, you can also change the kernel on another pc on your live usb.
change kernel on the usb-stickMaybe you are lucky with the 5.4 kernel
5.4 kernelFor what it’s worth, I’m using a 5.4 Liquorix kernel and it works quite well.
inxi CPU: Dual Core Intel Core i7-5500U (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 2395/500/3000 MHz Kernel: 5.4.0-1.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 Up: 1h 36m Mem: 916.6/7875.8 MiB (11.6%) Storage: 931.51 GiB (2.2% used) Procs: 145 Shell: bash 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0It really hasn’t mattered too much which kernels I’ve used; unless one of them had problems with specific configurations and was fixed or replaced, most of them have worked fine. Then again, the hardware I’m using, a Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop, has been very Linux friendly from the beginning, and runs great with antiX or MX Linux.
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Brian Masinickmasinick: aside from me being the dullest knife in the drawer, i think the majority of the issues i am having is due to the fact that my system is so new, to whit:
inxi
CPU: Single Core AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (-UP-)
speed: 3879 MHz Kernel: 5.4.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 Up: 2h 02m
Mem: 1179.6/13931.3 MiB (8.5%) Storage: 2.73 TiB (0.2% used) Procs: 130
Shell: bash 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36the Ryzen is actually a 4 core system, an additional 1TB card not seen, among other things s/w related.
since i am having lots of learning time with this antix19 over my old system with antix15, i will take a gander at the 5.4 Liquorix kernel.
Thanks for your input.
Brian Masinick
Yes, that is a likely reason for a few newer devices not to be correctly recognized and correctly configured.
That’s one reason why my hardware is older and the other reason is that I buy equipment well after it’s commodity value and therefore inexpensive.
I don’t take advantage of the latest features anyway…
That’s just me…
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Brian Masinickcaprea
You could try
sudo mandb -c
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1099184/random-freezes-in-xubuntu-18-04-caused-by-filled-up-ram
Also , I’ve read on the MX-forum stevo made a bleeding edge-version of MX , somewhere is the iso for downloading.
Sure MX is not antiX, but why not giving it a try.?
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