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sudo apt update && apt upgrade try sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade other wise the first "apt update" would run with sudo as use root and the 2nd "apt upgrade" would try to run as normal user and fails also "apt upgrade" would only partially upg...

A blank entry on the F12-boot options list may relate to the fallback-entry, where the label is constructed by the UEFI System from gathered hardware information of the drive, which may fail to get displayed e.g. in cases asian symbols/chars have been used by the manufacture, The most important one ...

It must have been a "one off" because with the latest update everything worked as it should. May be post the apt-history list of that occasion (where you updated with Synaptic) and mx-updater didn't want to refresh - in case you could identify those packages installed by synaptic. Also, h...

Yes, I do get the option "MX Linux" when I press F12 on boot, but not when I enter by pressing F2 Now you have confused me: Pleas explain what you mean with this "my boot options in bios show a blank" I wanted to check what's listed there to maybe get a clue why my boot options ...

I cannot find /etc/fstab anywhere. Have turned on hidden files in Dolphin to no avail. Running KDE. I wanted to check what's listed there to maybe get a clue why my boot options in bios show a blank (white hatch pattern grid lines) for MX. Booting from the "blank" does launch MX Perhaps t...

Have you closed Synaptic, b/c as long as synaptic is running it will hold a lock which mx-updater checks and wont' update the state.

I installed with subvolumes of @/ and @home on a 100 GB partition, so I don't think space for the snapshot is the issue. That's probably the reason for the issue. You have only /@ and /@home subvolumes. And later selected a swapfile at /swap/swap. By this the swap-file was created within the subvol...

man man.1 working wonderful, dito for 7, but the rest remaining invisible, by message: "no manual entry for man man.x, x ∈{2,3,4,5,6,8,9} " what do i miss? I hardly dare to tell you: Do read the "man man" page, esp. the part about the sections and you may find the answer of your...

zmiles wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:42 pm I have exactly same issue
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Any solution yet?

Perhaps, either study the provided solution within the post marked as [Solved] within this thread and apply, which would probably solve the "... exact same issue",
or
open a new thread, with details of your setup and symptoms.
Thanks

May be consider to mark this thread has solved, in case the thread title related issue is solved for you. Re: swap on LiveSystem: I do not have much experiences with swap on live, b/c I do normally run Live from RAM, using toram boot code and dynamic persistence (from ram). Suggest to open a new thr...