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?

  • TomAwsm@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      2 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