Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" Released

I'm glad I did a fresh Mint 21 install. From booting the UFD until the completed install took just under 10 minutes.

 

Funny enuff, i do have a rescue USB stick and its a windows based software to burn to USB stick...some distros like PopOS overwrites PBR etc...so there's no boot option to boot windows or linux. It scans and write its own PBR entry, so i can boot windows and linux.
Stupid PopOS and its PBR

 

issue fixed!! seems to be a growing issue with mint21 and timeshift. linux mint forums-networking-OP originaldondadda--wired connection ethernet disappeared from network manager. scroll to bottom for fix-6 commands(purge netplan.io) big shout out and thanks to OP and everyone here for your help. i'm going to wait awhile on this upgrade.

 

I find it interesting that if you install updates on Mint that require a reboot all you get is a banner that says "Reboot required" where in Ubuntu you get a button to actually reboot.

 

We went ahead an updated our server a couple of days ago. I took it offline and did a disk image. After the upgrade it seemed to run fine. The next days we found it did not run our scheduled database dumps. The cron job executed and the shellscripts seemed ok. The Python script gave an error immediately and closed. I tracked it down to needing to reinstall mysqlclient. After doing so it seems to run fine. No issues with graphics or networking or anything we have seen. Now we can run it for a couple more years without being forced to do any major upgrades just in case it wouldn't be compatible.

 

Has anyone had issue upgrading from Linux Mint 20.3 to Mint 21 regarding Firefox and LibreWolf browsers?
Seems that the user profile directory is locked as I can't open it from about : profiles. Didn't have this
issue when on Mint 20.3. Does Apparmor lock these profile directories?

 

Mint is now up to version 22, in case you didn't know.

 

Yes I'm aware of that. Linux Mint 21 (LTS) supported until April 2027.
I also usually wait until Mint 22 has made it through at least 1 point
release, but with all do respect you haven't answered my posted questions.

 

I have no answer to your question, sorry.

 

topo,

A fresh install of Mint 22 could be faster.

 

I can say I've had no issues but I doubt that really helps the situation.

 

Are you able to click on the Open Directory boxes in about : profiles in Mint 21
and see the contents for Firefox?

 

Yes, that is correct.

 

Ok thanks. One more question. Do you have Apparmor still installed and the module loaded with profiles?

 

Nope.

 

Apparmor comes pre-installed in Linux Mint AFAIK. It may however, not be loaded by default.
There also is apparmor-profiles, apparmor-profiles-extra and apparmor-utils, that IIRC need to
be downloaded to use with Apparmor in Linux Mint.

 

thats what i did. but in mint only firefox is set my working OS is still windows. windows needs a day, but i think windows to set up my way is much faster than i could do for mint (or linux in general)

 

I've never used Apparmor with Linux, for what it's worth.
I just enable the firewall (UFW) and that's it.

 

Thanks for the info on that. I have Mint the new version installer but am reluctant to delve deeper while i follow you Linux guys suggestion to wait for the first bug release update to fully implement it. It is a very nice O/S and i have used MINT to fix Windows under the hood for many years when something would malfunction. It always was dependable for that task