#Linux is sorta damaged.

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paper jetty
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So I was doing updates when the power company cut the power, causing most updates to not quite finish installing.

This has caused a plethora of issues, I can't do reset from the GUI, I can't power off from GUI, I can't copy anything from linux to my backup drive that is NTFS, or my windows partition, also NTFS.

It's kinda glitched so to speak.

Any pointers on where I can go about fixing this?

frozen ravine
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if u have a working OS on any machine, make a bootable usb with Mint ISO (first choice is using Ventoy, from ventoy.net; second choice is with UUI (universal usb installer) from pendrivelinux.com; third choice is with Etcher from balena.etcher.io

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boot the pc with the usb, if u made a Timeshift backup, then restore it using the live timeshift app. If no backup, then salvage ur data from the live session to another usb stick. then reinstall while power is stable.

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  • tip: buy a UPS to save ur computer in case main power fails.
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  • tip: in a live boot session from DVD or USB, your other drives appear in the "devices" section of file manager. click to mount and ready them.
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  • tip: in a Linux Mint, or Ubuntu live session usb, use the included "disks" app to check ur disks, see various partitions on them, apply filesystem (partition) labels to them, and even do error-checking/correction on them
paper jetty
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I'm probably losing what little data I have

frozen ravine
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should kept one

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try the live boot I mentioned

paper jetty
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couldn't, no space, mint kept crashing, wasn't sure if any were still good

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gonna try to see if I can at least use the other backup utility to make a list of the software that's installed on the PC, albeit mint's is a bit wonky

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it doesn't generates a full list of software

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just some

frozen ravine
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i just screen snapshotted my start menu, each category

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and themes

paper jetty
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I don't have themes, it's going to be a pain to re dl everything -_-"

frozen ravine
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and export browser bookmarks

mortal glacier
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Cryptsetup? encrpyed home?

paper jetty
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nope, I just did the default mint install

frozen ravine
mortal glacier
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apartment?

paper jetty
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buying an UPS is a bit outside my range

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and yeah, I live in an apartment, desktop is plugged to a strip, so if anything, the strip is the first thing to go

mortal glacier
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ok ups might not even help so test before buying next time if you ever evne do...

frozen ravine
paper jetty
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still out of my range, I'm not employed and I live in Venezuela

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those things get inflated

mortal glacier
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your apartment get inernet more like an office building long story short if they don't have a ups there intenrnet will cut out anyway (and most won't either).

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oh yeah dont even bother I was assumeing usa and so even here unlikely most apartments internet won't cut out.

frozen ravine
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you can make ur own ups with a small 12V car or motorcycle battery and an inverter, but that's more a hobby project

mortal glacier
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homes tend to be better in that area

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I know but will save his internet from cutting out still. (can mess up some updtes shouldn't but dose)

paper jetty
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I mean, it took power on the entire block of apartments

frozen ravine
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internet doenst matter here. His computer got screwed on the disk cuz of a power failure, not an internet failure

paper jetty
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no electricity for a couple of hours, even if I had a way of hotspotting, it'd eat the battery

mortal glacier
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better though but inernet cuting out can cause kernal issues etc people will say it wont but my test show otherwise.

paper jetty
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... squints that's not obvious?

frozen ravine
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internet cutting out shouldnt matter. if even updating, and the update data gets interrupted, the update will just stall.

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(the linux updater always does the downloading FIRST, and once that's DONE, THEN it will install the update)

paper jetty
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anyway, I'll wait until I get my laptop fixed before asking how to salvage browser data

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because I have like 5 browsers

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Ffox, Chromium, Midori, Brave

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the other problem I'm having atm is that I can't copy stuff from linux to the NTFS partitions, even with elevated permissions

frozen ravine
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I know firefox and chrome hhave an easy option to EXPORT bookmarks as a json file in the case of firefox, or as a simple html file (wont keep bookmarked folder structure)

paper jetty
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I wanted to copy stuff from linux to the backup hard drive

frozen ravine
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json will keep the structure

frozen ravine
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simple as that

paper jetty
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yeah, but this is an issue that's happened before with mint

mortal glacier
# frozen ravine (the linux updater always does the downloading FIRST, and once that's DONE, THEN...

i know should I've had that cause bad kernals before. mostly I've had bad kenrals form updates with nv drivers... bug on linux same as win. nv updates can't have two ver but it will install two. It's low key worst part on haveing nv on linux is haveing that once every two years for 10+ years. though nomrally youd be right but propirtary drivers cna make that not so.... ugh I know it and still can't 100% get away from it.

paper jetty
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even before this update problem, for some reason the backup and windows are locked down (I know this because I wasn't aware a firewall I ran had turned into what is essentially malware)

mortal glacier
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fast boot on widows

frozen ravine
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all u gotta do is schedule ONE Timeshift backup every 2 weeks, (AND DONT DELETE THAT BACKUP) u can even send the backup to and external hdd

paper jetty
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I'm running a variant of windows 10, win 10 AME Atlas

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I think, fast boot is disabled, but I'll check tomorrow

frozen ravine
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alright i g2g. goodluck Duncan

mortal glacier
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ame atlas? I've only heard of atlas.

paper jetty
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I call it ame-atlas because it uses the ame framework to go forward

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and do the optimizations

mortal glacier
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ame framework?

paper jetty
# mortal glacier ame framework?

before Atlas was a thing, the first project to debloat windows 10 was AME, from there, people made a, ,fork, so to speak, using Atlas's base.

AME actually offers Atlas as a playbook, an edition.

mortal glacier
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I did a kernal update on two machines... it seemed to get pulled (meaning couldn't find it as an update the next day on another machine) and both machines can't use ethernet port (or my usb 2.0 ethernet adpater that I've tested as working with mint), one machine I roll back updates and it works, another even older kernals fail and that only way I know how to fix this I need to get ethernet to work whats going on? how dose a kernal update break like 3 pervious kernals? I'm going to post this as it's own thing just in case you had any ideas or have heard something.

paper jetty
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nada, sorry, I'm an amateur with linux @mortal glacier

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check HDD life?

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just in case it's dying and sectors are getting corrupted?

mortal glacier
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yeah not often or ever you run into ethernet not working and when you do the ports usally just dead.

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yeah health is fine last time I looked and checked recently. sucks that disks hasn't been patch for ssds you have to use term to see it sadly on ssds as far as I know so if your ever looking run...