Hi all,
I'm new to LL. I needed to get an old laptop running to use as an audio player -- tried Mint and a couple of other flavours, but LL is the only distro that the wifi would work with. Now I'm up and running. Very straight forward.

Disclaimer - I'm playing around with VMs (using KVM on unRAID, if anybody cares) so there's nothing at stake here - I can wipe & reinstall without any issue.
I did a standard install of LL4 (to ext4) with no issues.  I then did a non-standard install to a BTRFS partition because I wanted to play around with Timeshift.
While the ext4 based install boots just fine, I find that the BTRFS install starts with the following message:

Quote:error: sparse file not allowed.
Press any key to continue...

Whether I press a key or let the message go away on it's own (takes about 20 seconds) the OS loads apparently without issue but seems to take a LOT longer to load than the standard ext4 installation (ext4 @ ~38 seconds vs. BTRFS @ ~6.5 min).

Does anybody have any thoughts on what the "Sparse file not allowed" message is about and whether it and/or the BTRFS OS is the cause for the LONG boot time?
Thanks!

Hi All,
My user name is charvie from the Philippines. New to the forum but a LL user since 3.2. Right now I have 3 machines running LL 4.0.

Yesterday I did an Install Updates on two of my computers. Both are running Lite 4.0. One computer has a Foxconn mb with an intel d2500 cpu and the other a china made oem mb with a AMD A4. On both machines after the update and reboot the boot process stopped short of completing until I moved the mouse or tapped some keys on the keyboard. The machines work normally once the bootup finishes.  If I change back to the previous kernel through the grub startup menu, (one was running -22, the other -23), they both come up normally.  For now I have changed the grub default so they bootup on the old kernel but not deleted the -24 kernel from the machines so that I can continue to install updates without -24 kernel becoming the default again.

Hi to everyone i made live linux lite usb and when i watched youtube video on preinstalled firefox i noticed horizontal screen tearing on video. Is that possible to solve??
Im asking because i want to replace windows 7 with linux lite in near future.

After installing 3.4 and deleting all my files I cannot open any programs(when I click on them the cursor changes like its trying to open then it goes back to an arrow and nothing happens.I can open my system files and terminal but thats it.I did the updates with install and that may be the problem, when I first installed 3.4 (when it first came out) everything worked properly except boot up(I always had to go to advanced options, update grub and restart) but it would work afterwards.I tried accessing some previous kernels but they didn't work either and since I was using another machine primarily I was just using this one as a back up but now it is useless.

Hi, I dont know how it describe.

I installed new version 4.0 couple days ago and I am facing with weird graphic issues (icons,cursors,etc).

I am adding some printscreen and I hope you will help me.

Thanks

Hi, all,

I've searched the manual and forum but with no joy.

I'm wondering whether it is worth downloading and burning a couple of CDs/DVDs as part of covering contingencies around security and disaster recovery.  From the little I've been able to glean online (still being relatively new to Linux), there are a couple of options which may be relevant to my needs.  But I'm hoping someone else has already thought about this.  My set up is perhaps a little unusual, in that I have opted for full-HD encryption at installation because I am using laptops.  I should stress, that at this time I am having no problems with my installations - I'm just thinking ahead.

1)  In the event that LL won't boot from HD, is it worth having a bootable disaster recovery USB, CD or DVD?  Would the Live USB / DVD perform this function anyway?  One option looks like it could be, for example, SystemRescueCD.

2)  In the event that I suspect malicious activity - or to routinely audit outside of booting from the HD installation - is it worth having a bootable security/auditing USB, CD or DVD?  In this instance I am thinking about Auditor, for example.

3)  Alternatively, might I be able to burn LL 3.6 or LL 3.8 live USB or DVD using systemback having built a bespoke system on my test unit?  If so, which programs would others think good to install?  Note that my personal preference is to restrict downloads to the official repos.

Many thanks,
Ian

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I updated today as I usually do and was prompted to reboot which I did.  I left for a while and when I came back the screen was black.  I restarted the machine and got the same thing.  I then rebooted an older kernel ( x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-23-generic ) which I am running now with no problems.  The only extra software I have installed recently is a VScode extension (tag wrapping).