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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As long as it runs ok you are probably fine.
What you are seeing is the system log before your desktop environment starts (someone who understands systemd pleasr correct me). Generally the errors you probably are gonna get about are kernel panics, which will prevent your system from continuing to run.

This thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/1333069/acpi-error-on-every-boot/1333162#1333162 postulates that the errors you see are because the hardware vendor didn't implement the bios right. You could try updating the bios but if it runs ok then you are probably fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks, at least it's not something critical. I'll probably give updating the bios a try when I have some time.