What happened to my machine?

Brian Sturgill bsturgill at ataman.com
Thu Jun 9 20:54:44 MDT 2022


Guess what just came back:[image: Screenshot at 2022-06-09 20-51-03.png]

So what do I do now?... This is clearly going to drive me nuts.

Brian

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:01 PM Brian Sturgill <bsturgill at ataman.com> wrote:

> For years I thought I was running Linux... but I just ran "df" and clearly
> someone has replaced Linux with another operating system!
>
> brian at dobby:~$ df
> Filesystem                 1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> udev                         1927400        0   1927400   0% /dev
> tmpfs                         394484     1368    393116   1% /run
> /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root 110774660 13632712  91471856  13% /
> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                           5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/loop0                     56960    56960         0 100%
> /snap/core18/2344
> /dev/loop3                     63488    63488         0 100%
> /snap/core20/1518
> /dev/loop2                     56960    56960         0 100%
> /snap/core18/2409
> /dev/loop1                     63488    63488         0 100%
> /snap/core20/1494
> /dev/loop5                     69632    69632         0 100%
> /snap/lxd/22526
> /dev/loop4                     69504    69504         0 100%
> /snap/lxd/22753
> /dev/loop6                     48128    48128         0 100%
> /snap/snapd/16010
> /dev/loop7                     45824    45824         0 100%
> /snap/snapd/15904
> tmpfs                         394480        0    394480   0% /run/user/1000
>
> Seriously, what kind of device is /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root?
>
> Just last week, it was constantly badgering me to exit Firefox to upgrade
> its snap.
> It said I had to do so within 12 days if I wanted to "avoid disruption".
> Sounded like some kind of organized crime racket.
> I exited, waited, it complained again, (repeat 5 times)... finally told
> snap to upgrade it
> manually, but cannot remember what worked... I know it took like half an
> hour to figure it out.
> Snap upgrade is too easy of course.
>
> Really, I get less crap than this from Windows or MacOS.
>
> --
>
> Brian
>
>

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Brian
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