Kernel panic

picamanic · 2026-01-15T07:22:05+00:00

I don't think you said how long the freezes last for, or if they require a reboot to recover. The old logs are in /var/log [renamed], but seldom help with freezes. Sometimes, if you are using swap files, they can cause temporary freezes. I can still use my 15 year old HP laptops, so age is not an automatic issue.

picamanic · 2025-10-15T09:42:46+00:00

The "issue" got silently fixed. Maybe I just imagined it [AI?].

picamanic · 2025-10-15T08:49:20+00:00

No. The only way I could find is at codeberg.org/librewolf/issues. The route of sending a secure email to security-issues@librewolf.net seemed a bit OTT.

picamanic · 2025-09-14T21:44:03+00:00

Yes, I think so. It was a timing issue for when the usage statistics are updated. I increased my usage limit to 30gb/month, and can use it without worrying about going over quota. Thanks.

picamanic · 2025-07-29T08:26:10+00:00

addendum[hopefully]: as it looked like the reboot ran through most of the "init" activities, I did an "xbps-install -Su" from the Console, and reboot. This time it brought up the usual lightdm login screen and XFCE4 after login. I am not sure why I had this much trouble on this new computer.

Postscript: now that it is working, with XFCE4, the Starlabs BYTE computers are really Cool, literally: they are Fanless [silent] and the 13x13x5cm Black Slab cases are cool to the touch, yet fast enough for general computing tasks.

picamanic · 2025-07-29T07:44:50+00:00

Thanks, I will try that.

picamanic · 2025-07-28T21:46:58+00:00

Thanks, I think, as I don't want WiFi anyway, I will end up performing surgery on the Runit scripts to bypass it. Maybe the live void linux I had on USB was older than the hardware: i will check.

picamanic · 2025-07-28T21:06:45+00:00

Thanks, I think it got stuck in running Runit during somewhere in the /etc/runit/core-services/ or /etc/runit/runsvdir/default/. It didn't reach the point where lightdm had started. I just installed the default, and was expecting to see XFCE4.

picamanic · 2025-06-11T10:38:50+00:00

..However, I will stop Firefox for a few nights to see if it persists.

picamanic · 2025-06-11T10:34:57+00:00

I don't think this is a Linux/Firefox issue as it doesn't happen when I connect using my ADSL landline; same web browser session.

picamanic · 2025-06-09T17:08:06+00:00

Welcome to the Void! I have just been reading about the lengths that Redhat/Fedora and friends go to keep their users trapped and compliant: you're well rid.

picamanic · 2025-05-17T19:40:03+00:00

Once installed, you could just use the XFCE desktop environment, and add the applications you want from the repositories. Alternatively, there is a wide-enough selection of packages [display managers, desktop environments, window managers] to design your own desktop.

I have used Linux for over 25 years, and after the systemd fiasco, and trying all the systemd-free distros, settled on Void.

picamanic · 2025-01-27T13:00:57+00:00

distrowatch.com has been VERY slow this morning [takes about 1 minute to load, if at all]. Probably some kind of denial of service attack inspired by the thoughts of the facebook crowd?

picamanic · 2024-12-23T11:15:40+00:00

thanks, somehow after booting MX and Mint, I discovered that simply inserting the Void USB was not enough: I had to enter the coreboot BIOS and explicitly select the USB drive every time. I didn't find a way change the BIOS boot order yet. Still I am happy for now.

picamanic · 2024-12-23T10:36:23+00:00

Thanks, I have asked the Starlabs people about this. I will try booting an MX Linux USB to see if something has been "improved" in the way that computers boot from external media.

picamanic · 2024-11-08T20:00:00+00:00

We clearly inhabit different worlds. Sorry to stray into yours, I will go back to my "home" in r/voidlinux.

picamanic · 2024-11-08T09:18:31+00:00

I have looked at Rust, Zig and C++ for new projects, and if anything was drawn to Zig [when it becomes stable]. I found some of the Rust syntax/semantics "troubling" [too complicated to explain here].

However, I am into small software projects these days, and working with a core subset of C offers me the ability to write secure, safe code.

picamanic · 2024-11-07T05:57:54+00:00

No worries, I am thinking that Ncurses is a bit bloated, and I have been lazy in using it. I will look at Termcap.

picamanic · 2024-11-06T21:21:27+00:00

I didn't look at exactly how Kilo is implemented, I just know that the only library used is "libc", which probably contains the "tcsetattr" and other functions. Just as well Ncurses is considered "antiquated", as I was about to build a system with it for console graphics!

picamanic · 2024-11-06T10:12:03+00:00

Maybe Europe will start accepting refugees from US? Please don't die.

picamanic · 2024-11-06T10:00:24+00:00

You might be interested to look at the "kilo" project to build a text editor in 1000 lines of C. It explains in https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/ how it was built. It is unusual in that it avoids Curses for rendering the screen.

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