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Just bought a laptop with Mint, shows errors on startup (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by TomAwsm to c/linux4noobs

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So I just bought this refurbished laptop with Mint pre-installed, and it's showing these error messages when booting. Boots just fine afterwards and seems to work normally. Is this normal? Should I get my money back, or should I do a fresh install?

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[–] TomAwsm 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for this.

Running dmesg I'm not sure what to look for in terms of checking if it keeps spamming them. And 'dmesg --wall' doesn't seem to be a valid command.

[–] kjetil 1 points 8 months ago

Oops, sorry, I meant 'dmesg --follow' (or 'dmesg -w' )

Normally the dmesg kernel log will be quiet after boot, and only give new messages when there's hardware related changes, like pluging in or out a USB device, or the charger cable.

In my case the log was spamming several messages every second non-stop so it was very obvious