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Burned a new disc and reinstalled from that. One thing I did differently this time was I did not load the live session to RAM like I did the first two times. I still have the problem. What to do now?
Okay, it's still happening after the reinstall. Any ideas what to do? I guess I can reburn to a new DVD disc and try again.
I just installed the new version with Mate, and I've come across a problem I never had before. During boot-up, I get this screen below, and it stays stuck on it for about 30-60 seconds, after which it then continues to the boot-up. I'm going to reinstall after posting this and hope the problem gets resolved. And yes, the download of the iso file came through fine, I checked the checksum. (Maybe there was a problem with the burn to the DVD?) I'll post back here after the reinstall.

Ron wrote:that is how it is listed on the websites
No it isn't. Read the site you have linked again — it installs the script to /usr/local/bin/, which would need sudo, but you have installed it to ~/.local/bin/, which does not need sudo.
I see. I made an assumption when I made my first post in this thread (I have deleted the assumed part lest it cause problems for anybody who may read it and try it). Sorry to all. I do the installation as posted on the website (the image in my post above). I did not know this other way to install. Thanks to HoaS for (knowingly or unknowingly) pointing out my assumption. ![]()
@Ron: you shouldn't use sudo to download stuff into your home directory. If you didn't use sudo with wget then you wouldn't need to use it with chmod either. Never use elevated privileges unless you have to.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle … _privilege
I understand and agree with the principle of the link, but that is how it is listed on the websites, and that's how I did it. I never had a problem using either of them.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation

Hi MiyoLinux, I responded to your email.
I was using the Miyo version based on the unstable . . . I had a good two month run with no troubles until this. I decided this morning to switch to Miyo Modern.
MiyoLinux, is there a version based on Devuan 4? I thought that was what I was getting but this is based on 3.
I need some help. After today's updates, my computer won't boot up anymore, so I'm thinking one of the updates is causing this. When I boot up, I can see the wall of text that I usually do, but the log in screen doesn't appear. All I get is a blinking cursor in the extreme upper left hand corner, nothing else. Typing does nothing, and neither does moving the mouse. How to fix this?
The problem is Gooble is a monopoly and the U.S. government is doing nothing about it. Since Gooble is a monopoly, they dictate web standards (which of course they incorporate into their browser), and it's always a catch-up game for browsers not based on the same engine. Add in the fact of lazy web developers, and you have the mess of an internet we have today.
I'd suggest Pale Moon, but there will be a handful of sites that don't render properly on it, because of the 2 issues above. (For those, I hold my nose and use Vivaldi.)
Is policykit installed?
Answered above. Is there a reason why you asked?
Is policykit installed?
Yes, policykit-1 and policykit-1-gnome are installed.
It shuts down immediately when I click that button (if you don't do anything, then it shuts down after 60 seconds). But that, of course, requires two clicks of the mouse, clicking the original button in the panel, then the button in that popup window. I prefer just one click, which is why I asked. I agree with your feelings about that dialog box.
Thanks again for filling me in on how to get rid of it.
Question: Is this the same command that runs when I click Shut Down in the window screenshot I posted?
Thanks. Taking your command, I created a new "Custom Application Launcher" in the panel (right click in the panel and select Add to Panel), and in the Name box put in "Shut Down the computer" and in the Command box I put in your command "loginctl poweroff". It works. Thanks again.
This is a pretty generic question, so I'm not sure I should put it here, but here it is anyway. When I click on the Shutdown button, I get the window below with the choices "Restart" or "Cancel" or "Shut Down." Is there a way I can put a shortcut on the panel to just simply shut down the computer without being asked this?

Thanks MiyoLinux, it was the second one that I am familiar with. ![]()
Something about the Deepin startup sound is like fingernails on a chalk board.
Hi MiyoLinux, your ascii release of Miyo had a startup 'song' included, which is not in Miyo based on ceres. Do you still have the file of that? Right now I'm being sacrilegious and using the Windows XP startup sound. ![]()
Earlier I used the sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc command. It shows this:
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for ron:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-1-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.5
Device Model: ST9500424AS
Serial Number: - redacted -
LU WWN Device Id: - redacted -
Firmware Version: 0001BSM1
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Wed Nov 24 21:16:47 2021 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
- - snip - -I was able to test my two internal drives (they both passed), but I'm getting an error message trying to test the portable drive:
sudo smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-1-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Read Device Identity failed: Invalid argument
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.EDIT
Okay, I'm not sure if this was right, but I changed ata in the command to scsi, and that came back like this. On the internal drives it reads PASSED, but with this it reads OK. Did I do it right?
sudo smartctl -d scsi -H /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-1-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OKI'm just scratching my head now as to why I got that error message in the first place. ![]()
Thanks to all, especially Altoid.
I would strongly recommend a SMART test on that device.
Noted. I would need to download smart-notifier for that, right? I'm guessing its use would be self-explanatory.
Thanks for all your help.
ron@ron:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
--- snip ---
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.Did all three of the above. To me, it looks like there isn't a problem (which makes me wonder why I got that error message). Or am I mistaken?
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-desktop3-data libfluidsynth2 libgnome-desktop-3-19 libxkbregistry0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,892 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 287054 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libgnome-desktop-3-19:amd64 (41.1-1) ...
Removing gnome-desktop3-data (41.1-1) ...
Removing libfluidsynth2:amd64 (2.1.7-1.1) ...
Removing libxkbregistry0:amd64 (1.3.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.32-4) ...$ sudo apt install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,480 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 286777 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-amd64_5.15.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-amd64 (5.15.3-1) over (5.15.3-1) ...
Setting up linux-image-amd64 (5.15.3-1) ...