I have a hard install of antiX-26-rc1_x64-full.iso. It boots very slowly. It needs the kernel cmdline parameter intel_iommu=off I edit /etc/default grub as follows # If you change this file or any /etc/default/grub.d/*.cfg file, # run 'update-grub' afterwards to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For…

starting the ntpd service (openntpd package) in antiX26 with dinit We start by installing openntpd apt install openntpd That only copies in the package. To start the service we need to configure ntpd. antiX 26 with the dinit init system supports a number of services by default $ apt-cache searc…

[image] Bill Berninghausen: prefer to invest my time exploring distros NOT burdened with shortcomings Hi Bill, I like your approach, but it. is not for me. Surely you did not have trouble with MX? It is reliable like Mint. Neville

I did it like fixing an unknown carburetor. Washed the bench. Scrubbed out the Ventoy program and files. Used Balena Etcher to load a fresh download of AntiX onto a clean usb. And it all worked. Using it now. Best I can tell is that my Ventoy stick was corrupted somewhere. The old ways are th…

I have never used Ventoy but it seems to be a source of problems? Use dd. It’s easy and it works! Sync and umount the USB stick before detaching.

[image] ihasama: never used Ventoy but it seems to be a source of problems I only tried it Once and it had problems…… thought at first the answer to me carrying several usb with different distro on each, but that is what I have gone back to doing.

[image] Bill Berninghausen: And it all worked. Using it now. Best I can tell is that my Ventoy stick was corrupted somewhere. The old ways are the best: clean up, back up, start up from fresh. Hooray for that. You must try switching WM’s dynamically while you have antiX going… it is clever ,…

[image] Neville Jackson: I can now see all my partitons. but now when I try and mount one of the partitions it says [mountfail] polkit is installed , and polkitd is running? I can mount it with a mount statement, as root, so it really is a permissions issue . This problem of using Thuna…

Have you did “ sudo chown -R nevj:nevj /home/nevj “ ?

No, but that is a good idea. The top level is OK … ie all owned by me. Do you have any idea why lxpolkit works and polkitd does not .?

Then you are working from root?

Continuing the discussion from antiX26-rc1: grub and other issues : [image] Neville Jackson: Do you have any idea why lxpolkit works and polkitd does not .? lxpolkit listens for polkitd requests and displays your login pop-up!! You are running antx as root!!

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