Fwd: OS uninstallable

Fri Mar 31 11:48:54 UTC 2023

The message below, should have gone to the list - I should have selected 
Reply List, instead of Reply.

I now (I believe) have Thunderbird configured (almost) adequately on the 
new installation.

If only the hundred or so, superfluous language packs would not be 
installed...

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: OS uninstallable
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:33:56 +0800
From: Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
To: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>

On 31/3/23 19:08, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 21:31, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>> I have just spent about five hours unsuccessfully trying to install each
>> of Linux Mint Mate 21.1, Linux Mint Mate 21, and UbuntuMate 22.04 .
> They are all Ubuntu 22.04 under the hood.
>
> If there is some hardware or something too new for that OS, that's not
> understood, then all of those OSes will misbehave in much the same
> way.
>
> You haven't given us enough info for me to troubleshoot this.

The current state of the system, from Control Panel -> System Reports -> 
System Information, is this (the MS Windows installation is no longer 
visible):

"

System:
   Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 
Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 wm: marco
     dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ZBook 15 G3 v: N/A serial: 
<superuser required> Chassis:
     type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
   Mobo: HP model: 80D5 v: KBC Version 10.73 serial: <superuser 
required> UEFI: HP
     v: N81 Ver. 01.37 date: 01/03/2019
Battery:
   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 76.4/76.4 Wh (100.0%) 
volts: 12.7 min: 11.4
     model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
   Info: quad core model: Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3
     cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
   Speed (MHz): avg: 2700 high: 2701 min/max: 800/3700 cores: 1: 2701 2: 
2700 3: 2700 4: 2700
     5: 2700 6: 2700 7: 2700 8: 2700 bogomips: 44798
   Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
   Device-1: Intel HD Graphics P530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
v: kernel ports:
     active: HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2, 
HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0
     chip-ID: 8086:191d
   Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
driver: nouveau v: kernel
     pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: 
DP-4,DP-5,DP-6 bus-ID: 01:00.0
     chip-ID: 10de:13b0
   Device-3: Lite-On HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 
1-7:4 chip-ID: 04ca:7053
   Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: marco v: 1.26.0 
driver: X:
     loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 
screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
   Monitor-1: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: Dell ST2310 res: 1920x1080 
dpi: 96 diag: 585mm (23")
   OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics P530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 
22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
   Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: 
Hewlett-Packard
     driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
   Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] vendor: 
Hewlett-Packard
     driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 
bus-ID: 01:00.1
     chip-ID: 10de:0fbc
   Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic running: yes
   Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
   Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: 
e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
     bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7
   IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
   Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 
2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
     bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3
   IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
   Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb 
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-12:7
     chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
   Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> 
bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
     sub-v: 100
Drives:
   Local Storage: total: 505.85 GiB used: 36.76 GiB (7.3%)
   ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: MTFDDAV512MBF-1AN15ABHA size: 
476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
     serial: <filter>
   ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive size: 
28.91 GiB serial: <filter>
Partition:
   ID-1: / size: 59.77 GiB used: 12.35 GiB (20.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
   ID-2: /boot/efi size: 76.8 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (6.8%) fs: vfat dev: 
/dev/sda8
   ID-3: /home size: 91.1 GiB used: 96.4 MiB (0.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9
Swap:
   ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 30.52 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda5
USB:
   Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
speed: 480 Mb/s
     chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
   Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Logitech Premium Optical Wheel Mouse (M-BT58) 
type: Mouse
     driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip-ID: 046d:c03e
   Device-2: 1-5:3 info: China Resource Semico USB Keyboard type: 
Keyboard,HID
     driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip-ID: 1a2c:0e24
   Device-3: 1-7:4 info: Lite-On HP HD Camera type: Video driver: 
uvcvideo rev: 2.0
     speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 04ca:7053
   Device-4: 1-8:5 info: Validity Sensors VFS495 Fingerprint Reader 
type: <vendor specific>
     driver: N/A rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 138a:003f
   Device-5: 1-12:7 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: 
Bluetooth driver: btusb
     rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
   Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
   Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Lexar USB Flash Drive type: Mass Storage 
driver: usb-storage rev: 3.2
     speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 21c4:0cd1
Sensors:
   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C pch: 33.5 C mobo: 37.0 C gpu: 
nouveau temp: 37.0 C
   Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
   Packages: apt: 2207
   No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
   Active apt repos in: 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
     1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import 
backport
     2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted 
universe multiverse
     3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main 
restricted universe multiverse
     4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse
     5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main 
restricted universe multiverse
Info:
   Processes: 276 Uptime: 1h 28m Memory: 31.24 GiB used: 2.06 GiB (6.6%) 
Init: systemd v: 249
   runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown 
python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13
"

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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