Hi all,

sorry; used Linux for quite some time but not done much in the way of submitting bug reports or the like.

Have an Acer Aspire E 15 laptop (E5-523G-90QW). Getting Devuan onto this thing was a massive headache, but Debian, live Devuan, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, LMDE and Mint 18.2 all failed completely; as far as I can tell, because the latest autodetected drivers for the video (AMD Radeon R5 M430) seem to HANG. Any install locks up; sometimes the live runs lock up.

The only partial success I've had is with Devuan, locking it down to Jessie before trying anything else. And that *seemed* to work (except for the r8169 driver failing after a while and the r8168-dkms package seems to be missing the autorun.sh scripts or a working Makefile, but I'll work on that later).

But tonight, I completed the base install, installed a bunch of packages. Powered down, took it home, started it up.

Dropped into emergency maintenance because various partitions/devices didn't resolve to checkfs. Substituted /dev/ entries, could then mount. So I checked the blkids for each partition.

The following is the relevant parts of my fstab; edited for clarity - the first UUID is the one assigned by installation. The second UUID is that detected by blkid /dev/sdaN:

# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
# UUID=ef1fd89d-d78f-4029-9174-b0b49f76ae20 /boot           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,sync 0       2
# UUID=190a271e-9a96-453a-a913-9a3af5ed9fee /boot           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,sync 0       2
/dev/sda1    /boot           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,sync 0       2

# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
# UUID=cb2a0ab4-a9d9-4242-bfc4-f218cd33cf27 none            swap    sw              0       0
# UUID=66c81ce0-f8d2-4c28-9f27-e3af66b1d3a2 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sda2 none            swap    sw              0       0

# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
# UUID=bdee91c0-75f8-4196-a6d7-8f57bbe8e9f7 /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# UUID=d8dc9adb-43d4-41c4-be1e-e0f1334814f7 /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda3    /               ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /home was on /dev/sda4 during installation
# UUID=a86ffaf6-d466-4560-9587-5fe660bdf07b /home           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime 0       2
# UUID=9f8e3a20-c97d-43a4-969c-02c2422fb0ed  /home           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime 0       2
/dev/sda4    /home           ext4    noatime,nodiratime,relatime 0       2

... if anybody could offer any advice as to how this went wrong (and where best to offer bug reports, plus what best to include), it would be *greatly* appreciated.
Many thanks...