I am running LL 8.0, and for weeks it seems the only updates I get prompted for are for my browsers (FireFox and Brave). Is anyone else having this issue? It seems odd because in the same amount of time, my other computer that is still on LL 7.x has been getting all other types of updates.
In my Linux journey, I have tested Linux Mint (unstable), PopOS Cosmic (confusing and lacking necessary features), and now LMDE. When I reviewed LL 8.0, I was super impressed by the features and philosophy! It is certainly not light in features. So, I installed it immediately, thinking how bad could Xfce be? Well it was bad enough that I immediately left and installed LMDE. If there was only a Cinnamon, or other well-featured desktop, version, then LL is where I would be. This distro is far too good to be allowed to languish in an "Xfce only" playground, IMHO. Anyway, excellent work!
Some days ago I installed LL 8.0 for someone I know, on a very old machine.
Except some difficult time I had with the weird partitioning (GPT+BIOS-GRUB), I am very happy to let you know that everything went OK (set aside the snail speed...) and if you have anything close to the tech specs showed below, you'll be able to use it fairly well.
Linux Lite HWDB:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/hardware_results.php?q=Intel+Pentium+B960
The entry was made on 19-08-2026.
Hope this helps!
Best regards!
Hello there.
I've been searching for a niche and lightweight Linux distro and I've found this Lite. I had Mint before but it was very heavy and easy and not niche. Arch or Debian are stable but they are not niche to me and Ubuntu was heavy too because my PC heats up fast. In computer works my habit is to look for the underrated one instead of popular one And the game center in this distro looked helpful for keeping Windows programs.
But when I said I wanted Linux with challenge I was looking for challenge in setup and configuration, not instability.
My specs are:
Lenovo ThinkCenter
Intel I5 quad core 3470S
8GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics 2500
500 GB HDD
I've downloaded the latest version form its official site and when I installed it after a few days it did a big update. I also installed Wine to work with some Windows applications.
But I ran to several problems.
I enabled a screensaver and when I leave computer idle for a while, it will freeze. I thought it is because of Wine programs but it wasn't. I disabled all of screen locks so it was solved.
When I bring the power menu and and select a option with keyboard, it will all freeze.
I was trying to install Lazarus IDE for my work, but when I installed one of its dependencies or clicked on its launch then the system froze.
For each freeze I'd have to force shutdown by holding the power button and then the partitions become inaccessible when crashed. So I'd have to return to windows and run chkdsk.
I've heard about Ctrl+Alt+F3 or F1 or Backspace, but none of them helped.
Also, when I pause the VLC Media Player and then resume, mutes and unmutes several time each time. But it doesn't happens if I resume after lesser than 9 seconds.
If is there any solution to this, I'd be glad to keep working with this distro. But if nothing works, I'd have no choice but to move to new distro and abandon all the good memories.
I hope I'm posting this in right place because its my first ever time posting in a Linux forum.
And off topic, first time I found this distro in a video which was comparing Linux and Windows running in 512 MB of RAM and it was using Lite, but the system requirements in the Linux Lite site was 2GB of RAM. And if Lite has such problems while using 1GB of RAM when idle, then what about Arch which needs minimum of 512MB ? is this one gonna freeze even more?
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Linux Lite Updates Log
Date: Fri Aug 21 09:20:56 AM PDT 2026
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STATUS:LOCK_OK
--- Updating Package Lists ---
Started: Fri Aug 21 09:20:56 AM PDT 2026
STATUS:UPDATING
Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Get:2 https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf InRelease [5,649 B]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Ign:4 https://packagecloud.io/akopytov/sysbench/ubuntu noble InRelease
Err:5 https://packagecloud.io/akopytov/sysbench/ubuntu noble Release
404 Not Found [IP: 2600:1f1c:2e5:6901:4170:44af:7938:b440 443]
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:6 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite galena InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'https://packagecloud.io/akopytov/sysbench/ubuntu noble Release' does not have a Release file.
Finished: Fri Aug 21 09:21:01 AM PDT 2026
STATUS:UPDATE_FAILED
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this is a new/recent 'problem' occurring now, after SEVERAL attempts - today. i recognize parts & pieces w/in the report log: (1) MOST recently (yesterday) installed & dinked-around the "librewolf" browser...resulting in my own mixed experience a/o pos./neg. satisfaction. (2) also, recently & questionably successful / plus prob. MORE directly related to the 'reading package lists...release file' fetch failure mentioned - sysbench (an open-source, scriptable, multi-threaded benchmarking tool used to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, file I/O, and database systems) @ https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench
don't know to just wait it out & 'try later' or ask for recommended thoughts...meny grais!
I installed LL8.0, tried OEM and regular installation. Made sure it had Auto Login checked (tried several times just to be sure I did not miss it)
PROBLEM:
After restart, it asks for a password.
When I go to GUI where it has Auto Login ENABLE or DISABLE, and it shows user name - I click on ENABLE and it says saved. then restart and it is the same.
I also checked
sudo lightdm --show-configand it does show
autologin-user=user
autologin-user-timeout=0I also installed all the updates after the installation. Reboot - the same, still asking for a password.
Another strange thing that I cannot explain.
I think i remember installing LL8.0 from exact same USB on another computer and I think that installation did not ask for user password after restart. How is that possible?
Hi Jerry & team,
I'd like to suggest an improvement for the website/forums.
Currently to search within the forums the user need to go to the top and choose "Search" amongst the buttons to access different sections of the website. Not only is such a search button usually meant for searching a website, but in our case it is also not obvious that it is actually meant to search the forums! And after selecting the forums there is nowhere an obvious search field usually found within forums.
Therefore I'd like to suggest to
* convert the current search button on top to a button to search the website
* to add somewhere within the forums more prominently a button to search the forums
It could look like this (if the code allowed such implementation that is of course):
![[Image: forums-search.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/5HF2hfkD/forums-search.png)
# systemctl status logrotate
× logrotate.service - Rotate log files
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since ...
* Invocation: *********************
TriggeredBy: ● logrotate.timer
Docs: man:logrotate(8)
man:logrotate.conf(5)
Process: 364821 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 364821 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mem peak: 3M
CPU: 60ms
systemd[1]: Starting logrotate.service - Rotate log files...
logrotate[364821]: error: cloud-init-base:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/cloud-init*.log
logrotate[364821]: error: found error in file cloud-init-base, skipping
systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start logrotate.service - Rotate log files.So, the logrotate configuration file named cloud-init-base has a duplicate log rotation entry for /var/log/cloud-init*.log.
The path of addressing this failure depends on the answer to the question whether cloud-init needs to/should be available in Linux Lite? cloud-init is an initialization system designed for cloud instances (AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Google Cloud, OpenStack, etc.).
For people not using cloud-init functionality (I expect it to be the vast majority of Linux Lite users), the resolution can be to just remove cloud-init:
sudo apt purge cloud-init -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo rm -rf /etc/cloud /etc/logrotate.d/cloud-init-baseOtherwise, the duplicate logrotate entry needed to be fixed.
Same seems to apply to the next version of Linux Lite 8.2 - remove or fix
With previous versions of LL, updates to kernel are familiar events requiring reboots.
On a potato Linux Lite 8 system (which has been updated as suggested by the Linux Lite Update tray app), noted that no update/upgrade had suggested a reboot.
Opened Lite Kernel Manager which indicated 7.1.0 was available.
Is this the correct mechanism for a user to keep track of kernel updates or have I missed an indicator somewhere ?
In Lite Kernel Manager, clicked the 'Install From Repository', this downloaded the update and started an install process which failed.
Fetching package list from repo…
headers : linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb
image : linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb
Downloading linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb
Downloaded 10.8 MB (6.2 MB/s avg)
Downloading linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb
Downloaded 123.6 MB (6.3 MB/s avg)
Download complete. Requesting root access…
Installing: 7.1.0-linuxlite
==> Installing kernel headers
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite.
(Reading database… 265915 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb…
Unpacking linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite (7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1)…
Setting up linux-headers-7.1.0-linuxlite (7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1)…
==> Installing kernel image
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite.
(Reading database… 273789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite_7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1_amd64.deb…
Unpacking linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite (7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1)…
Setting up linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite (7.1.0-gea1dc2a2fe60-1)…
Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign
Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der
Autoinstall of module broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271 for kernel 7.1.0-linuxlite (x86_64)
Building module(s)...........(bad exit status: 2)
Failed command:
make -j2 KERNELRELEASE=7.1.0-linuxlite KVER=7.1.0-linuxlite
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 7.1.0-linuxlite (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
Autoinstall on 7.1.0-linuxlite failed for module(s) broadcom-sta(10).
Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall.
Refer to previous errors for more information.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 1
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-7.1.0-linuxlite
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background: /boot/grub_linux_lite.png
Found background image: /boot/grub_linux_lite.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-7.1.0-linuxlite
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-7.1.0-linuxlite
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-7.0.0-linuxlite
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-7.0.0-linuxlite
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite (--install):
old linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-7.1.0-linuxlite
Installation failed. Your current kernel is unaffected.Had a quick look through the links to the Lite custom kernel but couldn't find anything on this or release notes about 7.1.0. I realise this is new ground. Let me know if any further information is required.
============ Log ===========
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Get:2 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease [2.548 B]
Hit:3 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Err:2 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FD533C07C264648F
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Ign:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/thopiek...601/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Err:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/thopiek...601/ubuntu jammy Release
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.189.188 443]
Hit:4 https://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite fluorite InRelease
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists...
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY FD533C07C264648F
E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/thopiekar/mt7601/ubuntu jammy Release' does not have a Release file.