I thought I should share, this book edition was published in 2008, so it's not that current...

Kernel 2.4, netfilter, iptables (no nftables) and many of the links are old as well.

just a heads-up... it's quite expensive for a history story.

My friend bashed out Me and My Uncle, by the Grateful Dead the other day and I hooked on the vibes of this guitar and story telling.

Never really listened to them before this, although some of my friends suggested I should.
Not sure what they were referring to, my playing or writing, maybe both.

Hi, There are many more package managers available than I knew about.

BTW, I read it in a Linux Magazine April 2024. Maybe they were filling space.

Hi, when you do get to a tty, have you seen any errors about seatd? Because I found with a clean install seatd was not installed and the sddm would fail to show up and startx would not work either.

Once I installed seatd everything worked again. This was with kde/plasma desktop.

One other thing that may help... add console=tty12 to your grub line... I also add vga=794 to make the font smaller in-case the video module hasn't started, just makes it readable, for me. And may give more clues when it won't start properly.

hahahaha! That's some good ones... thank you for the laugh.

Hi, I saw this web artical on initrd and initramfs that may be informative in your case...

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/initrd-vs-initramfs

you might also check what services are running as something is probably waiting for a signal before the shutdown/reboot sequence can be finished.

btw, I usually use the login manager sddm for rebooting (I don't use sudo) or logging out and shutting down, but

when I'm stuck (with a frozen mouse), I ctrl-alt-F1-to-12 tty, depending on what is accessible and issue a ctrl-alt-del to reboot or

"shutdown -r now" if the console is already logged in. -r to reboot, or -h to halt.

imo, initramfs speeds up loading of kernel modules by not having to scan the devices before-hand, saving a few seconds.

The other thing I have come across is that after researching and configuring BT modules (and firmware) I could do

update-initramfs -u -k all

You should check this command so you know what it's doing...

and that saved a few more seconds and had the BT modules up and ready when the desktop started.

It also loaded all the module commands listed in /etc/module(s) files and directories (.d).

I gets like a custom kernel loading speed, but systems are so fast now-a-days you may not notice. Used to be I could make a cup of tea while waiting for a reboot... ymmv.

I hope this gives you something to look in to.

@rankbeginner Ahh, that looks like the new quality control systems,

if someone returns an item for any reason it's put back on the shelf to test it on the next purchaser,
it's cheaper that way, the purchaser gives up, and the seller keeps the money and the seller does not have to do a return authorisation affecting reputations and sales figures.

It seems to be a corporate tactic...

Bait and switch I think it's called. I always try to be aware of tampered packets when I'm shopping live, not as much control when shopping on line.

I had a similar event with a sonic bug repellor (AC wall socket vhf emittor) was quite inexpensive, but was for a foreign country power socket and cost just as much again (plus transport) for an AC adaptor to make it work. (Bait and switch) The company offered to exchange it at my expense... Sorry for the mistake (the company was inside australia selling foreign equipment...unlawful) I try to remember those cheats.

@quickfur ... "saddle light navigation" rotfl

Thank you

Great! It's the permissions I was reffering to. But glad you got it working.

Like @rolfie said, ease of return just in case is best for me.

Like memory sticks IMHO, are far too big for general use, but fs (fat) is too small for large iso s and videos @ 4gb max... Not suited for purpose!

My new spinner is a Seagate Baracooder, 4Tb st4000DM004.

I'll never fill it the way I'm going.

Hi, talking about permissions...

I used to run windows on a virtual (box) machine, and I used these changes to smooth the way...

#chown -hR vboxusers:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
#chown -hR vboxusers:vboxusers /usr/bin/VirtualBox
#chmod -R 755 /usr/bin/VirtualBox
#chmod -R 755 /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
#chgrp -h glenn /home/glenn/local/vm1/
#chmod -R 755 /home/glenn/local/vm1/

Just sharing the idea... I hope it helps.