It's fairly well known that the design of EXT4 favors speed over data integrity, which is why I always use tune2fs to adjust the filesystem parameters after creating an EXT4 filesystem (if I care about the data on that partition). I'd post the command that I use, but I am currently composing this message on a Windows laptop, and don't have easy access to my notes.

Even so, I doubt that EXT4 is the culprit in this case. My intuition is telling me that you may have somehow gotten a hold of a trojanized (malicious) version of Sigil, as unlikely as that may seem. Since that's probably not the case, perhaps you were just hit with a rare, nasty bug (though not necessarily in ext4).

This information may be helpful:

How to verify that package-installed files match originals?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -originals

It's not working for me either. However, if I disconnect from my normal internet connection and reconnect using AT&T wireless internet, then the page loads fine.

Even though there are companies selling such cables, don't misinterpret that and assume that they must work. There are plenty of companies willing to sell worthless products if people are willing to buy them. I looked at the reviews for two such cables that I found on Amazon. For both cables there are multiple reviews claiming that the cables don't work and are worthless. If they do work at all, it's possible that the cables only work for very specific use cases.

Is there a good reason that you are considering doing this instead of using the simplest and most straightforward solution possible?

That's unfortunate. My hope is that we can learn some things from this distro. Perhaps some of the better ideas/features could be incorporated into Debian/Devuan -- or one of their derivatives.

Do you have a larger HDD with at least 3TB of free space? If so, you should make an image backup of the drive using GNU ddrescue.

Package info:
https://packages.debian.org/stable/gddrescue

If you're interested, I may have some links to some ddrescue tutorials. I need to look for them, and it's past my bedtime, so it will have to wait until later.

You can also block Google Analytics using your hosts file or, like I do, using dnsmasq.

Try using aptitude. It is much better at dealing with dependency problems. You may need to install it.

Like this:

# apt install aptitude

Then try this:

# aptitude -f install

Be sure to read the output very carefully before allowing aptitude to do anything.

Thanks for the suggestion. It tried it and most of the messages are related to missing firmware. A couple are related to ACPI, though:

# dmesg | grep -i "error\|warning\|fail\|segfault\|fatal" | grep -i acpi
[    0.531264] acpi PNP0A08:00: _OSC failed (AE_NOT_FOUND); disabling ASPM
[    3.900266] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000828-0x000000000000082F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000800-0x000000000000084F (\PMRG) (20200925/utaddress-213)

Monitoring this forum may be helpful for Ceres users:

Siduction Forum » Upgrade Warnings (DE / EN)
https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?board=22.0

Of course, that's more applicable to Debian than Devuan, but monitoring that forum is likely be at least somewhat helpful for Ceres users.

Hi Marjorie,

Thank you for your replies. I tried this workaround (hack) and had partial success:

https://notes.prkr.ca/2021/10/Intel-AX2 … Mint-20-2/

I found that here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2092127

After renaming the PNVM file and rebooting, there was no change. However, I then decided to run update-initramfs and reboot again. After doing so, I could see two local network devices -- the router and a wireless printer. Unfortunately, attempting to connect to the router was unsuccessful.

I will probably not spend much more time on this since I've been planning to install Chimaera. I would already be running it except for the fact that something urgent recently got in the way.