linuxmemes @lemmy.world prof @infosec.pub 8mo ago

When I try to debug an issue on the OS side after a kernel update but it's fixed by unplugging the power cable for a few minutes.

Totally not based on a true story.

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Ah! the classic "Turn it off and on again (but for real this time)". Works every time.
- Works every time 72% of the time
Yesterday, I spent half an hour trying to figure out why SDDM wasn't seeing /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop before I realised that the reason it wasn't showing up in the menu was because I hadn't installed any fonts; so it was there, but it was invisible.
- How do you even manage to install a graphical sessions without installing anything that depends on a font
  
  % sudo xbps-install -Su sddm sway wayland
  
  % sudo ln -s /etc/sv/sddm /var/service
  
  % sudo sv up sddm
  
  "Hey, why aren't there any sessions?"
Once I spent several minutes trying to troubleshoot a network problem, turned out my ethernet cable wasn't properly plugged. The even dumber part is, I had checked the connection on the PC end, but had somehow neglected to do so on the router end.
- How could Linux do this to you??
  
  (Totally never happened to me /s)
- Classic!
Do you have fastboot enabled in your BIOS? Because it can screw up FW not being uploaded/transferred in devices like network cards
- I did check the bios settings but couldn't really find anything that would directly affect a pcie card.
  
  Most power management stuff that could cause issues is turned off. Fast boot itself was also off.
I can totally relate to you. Everytime we touch the software and even the slightest bit changes, the pitchforks are ready. I even read the entire forum post and man it is awesome.

Anyways glad you got it fixed
- Thanks! It's really funny. Especially since KDE updated to version 6 and caused a lot of issues for other users - so it had to be the a software issue of course!
  
  I'm still not entirely convinced, that it wasn't a software issue that caused the device to misbehave.
  
  I think it was sunspots.
This actually happened to me not too long ago. Things would randomly just crash. Turns out it was because my RAM had bad sectors in it.

On linux I'd just restart whatever crashed and it usually went along fine for another 30 minutes. Worst that happened was btrfs would make my drive readonly until a reboot because it knew some shit was up.

On windows it bluescreened several times before corrupting the hard drive (was thankfully able to recover it lol)
What's with the cat face?

Edit: Oh, it's the user's profile picture.

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- It's my cat, I am the user 😄

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