#Mint froze while logging in/after booting

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polar marsh
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Already tried resetting my laptop through a force shut down and power on for 3 times now and the problem persists

formal horizon
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Coming in Benson...

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To be sure, you don't have any sensitive or important data that were affected?

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Were those backed up?

polar marsh
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Haven't done any major moving to any of my backed up files since my plan was to put them on a separate partition. My files were saved in a google drive so everything is fine file-wise

formal horizon
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Nice to hear that!

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Now well, for the sake of simplicity here, we'll just assume that the installation and the files in your drive are already corrupted at this point.

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To explain it simply, you interrupted an installation by removing your live media.

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You still have that USB around?

polar marsh
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Injected to the desktop or nah?

formal horizon
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Either would work, and uhhh, you didn't wipe that no?

polar marsh
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Nope, its still a bootable USB

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Aint planning to remove it either

formal horizon
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Thank God!

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Now, looking back to the partition thing.

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It's not really necessary to create another partition for your files in Linux Mint or any distro in general.

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The installation process covers this up already. Usually you have two main partitions, your bootloader and your system.

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The system has something called Home directory, which is under /home/user/

polar marsh
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So are folders in the home/user/ enough for organization?

formal horizon
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Yep!

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But if you want to keep your files and system separate, it will likewise be just fine. Might just be a bit tricky to add a partition in your installation. Nonetheless, I suggest sticking with the default partitioning.

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We fine on your understanding of partitions now?

polar marsh
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Absolutely. I blame Windows for this indoctrination of mine abt partition lmao

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But yeah besides that, can I restore my desktop? I kinda need it 😭

formal horizon
polar marsh
formal horizon
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Now well, you can proceed with the reinstallation process. Just boot to your USB live media like you did before and proceed normally with the entire procedure.

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That oughtta do it :>

polar marsh
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But what should I do If my screen froze in the duration of the installation?

formal horizon
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From my experience, the entire installation takes me less than 10 minutes.

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Just make sure that the screen doesn't go inactive or anything ;>

polar marsh
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Alright, I'll come back to know if it worked or if it froze

polar marsh
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@formal horizon Thank you for your service today! Really helped me big time >_<

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And yeah it didn't froze this time lol

formal horizon
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It worked?

polar marsh
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Yup

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Thank you again!!!

formal horizon
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That's nice to hear, have a good one!

polar marsh
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Uhhh

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It frozee again, this time its post-installation

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Was just setting up and it frozed

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😭

formal horizon
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That might be another issue on its own, which sadly I don't know how to deal with 😭

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@grave citrus sorry for ping, but you got any ideas on this one?

polar marsh
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Yeah its not letting me log in again

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Weird, i turned the wifi off and on again for a sec and now its not freezing (yet, but i hope not)

polar marsh
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Yeah its a wifi problem, for some reason if I booted up when the wifi was already on, it freezes my screen

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Update: its not a wifi problem, it only worked cuz it was a new reinstall and i don't know what to do anymore lol

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Oh right forgot to mention, i made the bootable USB through Rufus cuz for some reason Etcher can't detect my flash drive before or after putting the ISO file

polar marsh
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Mint froze while logging in/after booting

polar marsh
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Okay, today I made an observation. Before freezing after booting, I clicked the suspend button and turn the screen on again and the freeze was gone. That was cool yet annoying if it meant I must do that everytime I open Linux Mint. If anyone can help me fix this, that would to cool!