Strange. Have you ticked the format option in the partitioner? I am without any clue what maybe wrong, at least without a better idea about what you have entered. Can you post your settings line by line please? When exactly does this message appear? When leaving the partitioner?

What kind of HW are we talking about? Brand of the laptop and the NVME would be interesting.

I haven't used the 6.1.1 netinstall myself yet, maybe I give it a try in a VM when I have a bit of time.

UEFI boards do that. If you boot the one without a note/prefix/postfix saying its efi or uefi then you boot the installer in legacy mode. And if you have a brand new laptop it will be uefi only.

Make sure you boot the install stick in UEFI mode.

The easiest way is to use the installer during partitioning, and to write a new GPT to the drive. That makes sure the old stuff is deleted. There is nothing in the bios that could do that.

Then you first create a 1024MiB large partition, assign it to be ESP, and the rest is done by the installer.

Next you create a whatever you like large partition for /, ext4 as file system and mount point /.

Take a read on the webpage I already mentioned, there is a installtion instruction with pictures. But as far as I know it just describes the auto mode. Manual partitioning isn't mentioned in there. Its a bit arkward.

Well, it depends on the kernel you use. No issue with 6.12, starts with 6.13 to I think 6.18 (not 100% sure, I am still on 6.12 and there it still works). Then its fixed again.

My dear friends, I think your are on the wrong track. I am not talking about the file system trash can but the one built in into Evolution. Its a folder like the Inbox, Archive, Send Messages, .... Similar to the setup in Thunderbird and other mail clients. Was my description that bad? In any case, thank your for your feedback.

I am aware of the built in functions "Save/Restore Evolution Data" or how its called in the English menu (I am from Germany so my menu is in German). Have used it many times to transport the Evolution settings and mails to a new release or a different computer over the years. And I am running a backup of my data with rsync normally. Please don't worry, I am no beginner.

I am sorry, I do not mean duplicates. I am talking about something like the weekly mailing from one of my email providers who spams his customers with a "magazine" I do filter out to the trash can without looking at it. Repeating messages of similar structure and slightly differing content. Or shippig information from ... whatever.

As of today I have not found a way to partially clean out am single one of the more than 10000 deleted mails in the Evolution trash can like I could do with Outlook. I miss this function.

I guess the problem is that you are mixing several approaches, and they don't go together very well. I have taken my setup from here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=45747#p45747. This is the initial Daedalus approach. The same thread then talks about different approaches and daemons ... never fully understood the differences, and never changed my setup. It works 18 months now. 

I have simply upgraded my Daedalus installation to Excalibur, ignored the release notes, and the old stuff simply works. Also on my travelling laptop.

You followed a different guide, and I guess you have to undo that stuff first of all. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

I got the same snippet in front of my .xsessionrc:

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
    . ~/.profile
fi

But according to my notes this was because of some conf change for gnupg. I don't think this hurts.

I would remove or comment out the addition from the release note in .profile. Give it a try.

Good to know that you have deciuded to follow the sudo path. Important for further support.

My guess would be that these partitions have been mounted already during system boot, and you are just opening them with Dolphin. Without looking more into the details, we can't say for sure, but the inxi output is enough for a qualified guess.
From there I can read that you have / on sda11, /boot/efi on sda1, swap on sda10 and /home on sda9. These partitions can be accessed by Dolphin w/o any additional mount because they are listed in the fstab which defines which partitions will be mounted during system boot (swap will remain hidden). To confirm please execute:

cat /etc/fstab

Looks very normal to me. sda7 seems not to be listed in the fstab since its not listed in the inxi report, so when you want to mount it you must enter your admin pw for elevated privilegues for this activity. This requirement is part of the Linux safety philosophy.

You can't bypass this procedure, except for when you follow pcalvert's advice: add sda7 to the fstab. Then its mounted during bootup and everything required is handled in the background.

All major DEs like Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, LXQT, Mate ... have so called automounters on board that take care for removable drives. These automounters handle the elevated privilegues in the background and supply the drives mostly in /media/$USERNAME/drive with access for the user. This is also valid for e.g. USB sticks or drives that are extx formatted or usb disk drives with any file system or encryption.

First of all: welcome to the Dev1Galaxy.

I am sorry, your statement definitely isn't close to correct. Mint, no matter if native or the LMDE variant, can fully be used w/o any flatpack. They have their "Anwendungsverwaltung" (don't know the English term) for installation of packages, they have ditched Synaptics from the default installation against a new tooling, but you can still install and use it. You also may use the console and e.g. apt.

You may install flatpacks, but that is an exception but no way the rule.

Here under Debian/Devuan Synaptics is fine, using the console is fine too.

Discover as a KDE app seems to habe problems every now and then. I have seen one or the other thread about Discover not connecting to the internet, not finding apps ... Well, I don't use KDE, I prefer Cinnamon.

More than one desktop: It may work, but I have also seen threads about conflicts due to Desktop dependent different configs for the same program. Give it a try, it may work, but don't be too much disappointed if you run into problems. When I try out something I use one desktop in a VM.

Nothing was removed, Devuan Daedalus installers won't boot from Ventoy. Period. Known fact, please search the forum. ISOs up to Chimaera and Excalibur again do work.

Its not the fault of Cinnamon nor a systemd influence. The package gnome-system-tools* is broken, and this for at least 4 years already. Don't try to use the gui, you can easily make it work on the console.
To be installed: ntpsec, ntpsec-ntpdate and ntpsec-ntpdig. Configuration in /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf.

* gnome-system-tools is a Debian package w/o systemd dependency. The maintainer got lost somewhere in the Ukrainian planes, and there seems to be no replacement.

You have to make sure that you just copy the relevant command which is [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS, not the leading prompt and not any response. The later leads to that bash: UEFI: command not found.

Don't know. I wouldn't dare to guarantee anything. Anyhow, on one hand it should not hurt. Give it a try.

My advice: when you go and modify any setting in the bios or in your sw, take notes you can later refer to. Makes life easier in the long run.

Another thing I would try: reset this autologin to normal login with username/password until the blank screen is solved. Removes an additional variable.

Hi Robin, according what you just showed it looks like you switched your PC from efi mode to legacy mode at 2026-05-09 10:59:46. The update is a consequence of that.

greenjeans thought its the other way round.

In any case, looks like you played around in the bios without understanding what you did. As a matter of fact, in efi mode Secure Boot can be on (=often called Windows OS) or off (Other OS or similar). It is better to turn it off since there is no real benefit in having it enabled. In legacy mode with CSM on, SB is automagically disabled.

On the other hand, just switching from efi to legacy should not at all affect the graphics, except for whatever reason?

Maybe its a good idea to show us details about what we are talking about. Please show us the result from

inxi -Fzr

from prompt to prompt in code tags please. It is possible that you have too install inxi first of all.

And in addition, the result from

[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS 

Do also set on hold: linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64