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Hi folks, it's been a longtime since I've posted here. I'm having a problem with a wired internet connection (something you almost never hear of). Just a couple days ago I got a Beelink EQ12 N100 mini pc. I've been testing it with a MX23-ahs LiveUSB, but haven't installed MX23 yet. For the most part...

If you're worried that /run/user/$UID might not be big enough (usually limited to 10% of RAM), how about using ~/.cache? Actually I never really considered having it in /run/user/$UID (before this). The temporary folder and files & scripts in it are quite small (du shows just 16K in my tests), ...

imschmeg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:08 pm Tried it, and it works.

Thanks for checking.

... I don't know that I'd choose ~ as target dir on a permanent basis, though.

I'm also not crazy about doing that as a permanent fix, but at least I know it works for you.

@imschmeg You can try this, it creates the temporary folder for the updateScript in your ~/ directory instead of in /tmp. Run the sed command below then restart MX Updater from it's Whiskermenu entry. sudo sed -i 's/mktemp -d \/tmp\/apt-notifier.XXXXXX/mktemp -d ~\/apt-notifier.XXXXXX/' /usr/bin/apt...

Should I continue from that point? Will the upgradeScript print to the terminal any error it encounters? If there's any error messages you should see them in the terminal. If you do the upgrades you'll have wait again until some more updates are available to troubleshoot this. Question, what's the ...

$ sudo bash upgradeScript [sudo] password for root: full upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: brave-browser (1.4.96 => 1.5.112) brave-keyring (1.9 => 1.10) mx-packageinst...

$ ls -l /tmp total 0 drwx------ 2 root root 40 Mar 19 12:56 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n srwxr-xr-x 1 me me 0 Mar 19 12:58 qtsingleapp-quiter-9c4b-3e8 -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 Mar 19 12:58 qtsingleapp-quiter-9c4b-3e8-lockfile drwx------ 2 me me 60 Mar 19 12:56 ssh-tTIgjmvAffdk $ ls -l /var/lib/synaptic/ total 0 ...

imschmeg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:30 pm OK - so just tried that MX Tweak setting - changing it from root to user. MX Updater still dies the same way.

What next?

Post the output of these

MX Updater -> About says it's 20.02.14mx19+1, which agrees with apt-cache policy apt-notifier. Have you tried using MX Tweak and changing it to use your User password for authentications instead of root? I did not know MX Tweak did that. Do you know off-hand what particular setting MX Tweak is twea...

Do you have the version apt-notifier installed (this thread has gotten kind of long and I've lost track whether you do or not) ? Does apt-cache policy look something like what's below, showing the 20.03.14mx19+1 version installed? apt-notifier: Installed: 20.03.14mx19+1 Candidate: 20.03.14mx19+1 Ver...