Problem "resolved" (for some value of "resolved") but leaving this here for context and reference.

No further help needed, but thoughts and comments welcome ...

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Last night I was installing pandoc, which went well enough, but then I needed \( \LaTeX\) so I did this:

$ sudo apt install texlive-full

All went well, until it got to here:

"Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time... "

I let that run overnight, but finally killed it. It advised me to run this:

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

So I did that, and once again it hung.

I killed the right sub-process and the remainder completed.

However ...

This morning I've been informed I have an update for vim. So I confirmed that, and now it's stuck again:

"Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time... "

Help?

#Linux #LinuxHelp #Ubuntu

Is it just me, or has Tidal's web player stopped responding to media keys (previous, next, pause)?

Related: Is there a streaming service that has a downloadable app for Linux (and isn't Spotify)?

Alternatively, is there some process that might be intercepting those keys? I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

#AskFedi #music #streaming #StreamingMusic #Tidal #Linux #LinuxHelp

#LinuxHelp #Gentoo Anyone have any idea what would cause the system to start building kernels that aren't bootable? Following Duxsco's guide, I've been fine since December, but 7.0.2 was the last bootable kernel I've been able to build. The build operation seems to complete successfully, as far as I can tell.

The guide in question: https://www.duxsco.de/

hey yall, need some linux help here

I'm on Linux Mint 22.3. On around December 7, 2025 my desktop environment seemed to have frozen. Ever since then at least once or twice a month I get either one of three things:

-Desktop environment and mouse freeze up and do not recover, requiring a force restart
-System crashes with a green screen, requiring a force restart
-System just randomly restarts on its own

I suspected from the green screen crashes that it was my graphics drivers, so I added these to my kernel parameters: amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1 which seemed to have fix it as I haven't gotten it since, but freezes and reboots still happen. It never happens under circumstances like playing video games or watching YouTube videos. It specifically happens when I'm just browsing the web normally. I'm unsure what is causing it. I checked if there's anything potentially causing overheating and there is not. I also checked journalctl and dmesg but those showed up with nothing. This did not happen under Windows 10 or Linux Mint for the few months until December 7, 2025. I do remember one green screen crash under EndeavourOS in 2024 when I first got this computer, but I haven't seen this problem again until a few months ago.

CPU is Ryzen 9 6900HX with integrated Radeon 680M graphics. Kernel 6.8.0-117-generic #linux #linuxhelp #linuxmint

Got to keep my work laptop and just realised that I'm now free to ditch Windows and install Linux. It's a Thinkpad E14 gen 3 with AMD Ryzen 5, 16 gb ram and a 256 gb ssd. I dabbled with Mint a long time ago but consider myself a somewhat informed newbie, who now has the time to experiment and learn.

So I'm looking for tips and advice about which distro I should check out, what I should take into account and anything that can help me with this project.

#askfedi #linuxhelp