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by Captain Brillo
Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:49 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: Complete re-install and nothing but problems

Final note, my as*.
24 hours later PIA (Private Internet Access) has quit.
Dead as dirt.
Won't run, won't re-install.
Everything seemed fine, shut down. Started up later, no VPN.

And with this post, I'm about done.
viewtopic.php?f=104&p=488825#p488825
by Captain Brillo
Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:43 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: [ SOLVED ]Complete re-install and nothing but problems

A final (?) note:
nordVPN replaced with PIA v82
email works again
by Captain Brillo
Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:16 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: [ SOLVED ]Complete re-install and nothing but problems

I suspect the dust, clean and re-seat fixed whatever was wrong. I didn't find anything, but I'm not a hardware guru, and everything else is now fie, so far. Thanks, JayM - that demonstrated quite clearly that nordVPN's addresses are getting blacklisted - I tried half-a-dozen in various locations. Th...
by Captain Brillo
Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:10 am
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: Complete re-install and nothing but problems

Thank you, JayM I did that and yes, it's my VPN that's the issue. Tried it right before and right after VPNGate - can't connect. So that VPN is no good to me - it's NordVPN As I said, I coincidentally had a spat with tem just before the issues started. Don't know if that means anything, but, unlikel...
by Captain Brillo
Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:22 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: Complete re-install and nothing but problems

So I pulled everything apart - did a full dust, clean and re-seat. Then in Windows, ran Intel CPU checker - all good ran memtest overnight - all good disk manuf software - all good gsmartcontrols - all good chkrootkit - all good Can't find any hardware issues. wrote zeroes to disk just because re-pa...
by Captain Brillo
Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:37 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: Complete re-install and nothing but problems

I installed Vivaldi and Atom right away - I don't know where anything else might have come from.
It's just that compared to my first install on this same box I am not impressed.
by Captain Brillo
Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:03 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Re: Complete re-install and nothing but problems

[code] System: Host: mxMainBox Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.1_x64 Continuum Feb 9 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Machine: Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 3212AU5 v: ThinkCentre M92p serial: <filter> Mobo: LENOVO mode...
by Captain Brillo
Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:38 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Complete re-install and nothing but problems
Replies: 25
Views: 6028

Complete re-install and nothing but problems

Over the last couple of weeks my MX system has been falling apart - first there was VPN issues, then email issues.... So I just did a complete fresh install in a re-formatted partition. Random programs crash, every program freezes, it's really ugly. Even "Systemback" from your Test Repo do...
by Captain Brillo
Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:52 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Can't install from MX-Snapshot
Replies: 15
Views: 2294

Re: Can't install from MX-Snapshot

Um... from my earlier post, "I made the snapshot of this machine, which works fine." This may be the heart of the issue - maybe my current install does NOT work fine. I've been having issues with VPN connectivity and with Thunderbird (big-time) for a couple of weeks. It all started... hyuk...
by Captain Brillo
Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:58 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Can't install from MX-Snapshot
Replies: 15
Views: 2294

Re: Can't install from MX-Snapshot

Can't find it on the iso The whole issue here started with Thunderbird problems. So I wanted to isolate Tbird in a VM. Can't get it done. Also seems like my basic MX install on this box is messed up somehow, and this hole is getting deeper and deeper. I think I'm just going to blow the whole works a...

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