I posted this in the
Linux Mint forum but no one will help me, so I thought I'd try my luck here.
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linuxmint 16 Cinnamon 32 bit (MD5sum check is good and liveDVD "integrity check" reports nothing)
Dell Inspiron 6400 (see lshw output below)
I've been running Linuxmint on this laptop since version 12. I'm currently running version 14 Cinnamon 32 bit.
Here's my hardware:
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mint14-internal
description: Portable Computer
product: MM061 ()
vendor: Dell Inc.
serial: XXXXXXXX
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=portable uuid=44454C4C-4A00-1053-8047-B9C04F314231
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 0XD720
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
serial: .XXXXXXXX.CN4864365G5141.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
version: A17
date: 06/13/2007
size: 64KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 400
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.14.8
serial: 0000-06E8-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: Microprocessor
size: 1667MHz
capacity: 1800MHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 166MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts aperfmperf pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm dtherm cpufreq
configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 id=1 threads=2
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 700
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 701
size: 2MiB
capacity: 2MiB
clock: 66MHz (15.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.1
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.2
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1000
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 2GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: HYMP112S64CP6-Y5
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 0
serial: 00007333
slot: DIMM_B
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
product: HYMP112S64CP6-Y5
vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
physical id: 1
serial: 00001005
slot: DIMM_A
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:40 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:efd00000-efefffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV515/M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:efdf0000-efdfffff memory:efd00000-efd1ffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:43 memory:efffc000-efffffff
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:41 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:efc00000-efcfffff ioport:80000000(size=2097152)
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:efcfc000-efcfffff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:42 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:efa00000-efbfffff ioport:e0000000(size=2097152)
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:20 ioport:bf80(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:21 ioport:bf60(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:22 ioport:bf40(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB controller
product: NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 ioport:bf20(size=32)
*-usb:4
description: USB controller
product: NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:20 memory:ffa80000-ffa803ff
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: e1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
resources: memory:ef900000-ef9fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:15:c5:19:87:b9
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.11 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=64 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2
resources: irq:19 memory:ef9fd800-ef9fdfff
*-generic:0
description: SD Host controller
product: R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.1
version: 19
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=64
resources: irq:18 memory:ef9fd500-ef9fd5ff
*-generic:1
description: System peripheral
product: R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.2
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.2
version: 0a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: driver=r592 latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:ef9fd600-ef9fd6ff
*-generic:2
description: System peripheral
product: xD-Picture Card Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.3
bus info: pci@0000:03:01.3
version: 05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: driver=r852 latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:ef9fd700-ef9fd7ff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [IDE mode]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:bfa0(size=16)
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:10c0(size=32)
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9120817AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.AH
serial: 5RE1C837
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=17473bb1
*-volume:0
description: Windows NTFS volume
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /mnt/Jubilado
version: 3.1
serial: d4ef89f1-a98a-364a-9315-46e4018bcdd1
size: 94GiB
capacity: 94GiB
capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2013-08-04 11:19:55 filesystem=ntfs label=Jubilado mount.fstype=fuseblk mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: 06dfdfc0-56c6-4688-99c8-0a11b151cbbc
size: 14GiB
capacity: 14GiB
capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2013-04-05 13:03:21 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2013-12-03 14:31:06 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2013-12-03 14:31:06 state=mounted
*-volume:2
description: Linux swap volume
physical id: 3
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,3
logical name: /dev/sda3
version: 1
serial: e702e2bc-3cb5-4bd7-ab5a-bf9f142fe868
size: 3044MiB
capacity: 3044MiB
capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized
configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD+-RW DW-Q58A
vendor: SONY
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: UDS1
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-scsi:2
physical id: 3
bus info: usb@1:1
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 14GiB (15GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=00026a3f
*-volume
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: SYSLINUX
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /media/XXXXXXXX/MULTIBOOT
version: FAT32
serial: d03f-e83a
size: 14GiB
capacity: 14GiB
capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro state=mounted
I put the linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-32bit ISO file on a USB flash pen drive for a quick install. I get most of the way through the installation, up to the hardware configuration, and then I get this popup window:
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Installer crashed.
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We're sorry; the installer crashed. After you close this window, we'll allow you to file a bug report using the integrated bug reporting tool. This will gather information about your system and your installation process. The details will be sent to our bug tracker and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible.
So I click the "CLOSE" button and wait. Nothing happens. No bug reporting tool. I tried "bug" and "report" in the Menu on the live DVD but there's nothing there. Seems like the bug reporting process has a bug because it doesn't appear after an installer crash.
My Mint partition is small and I back it up twice a week with Clonezilla. I just restored my LinuxMint 14 Cinnamon 32 bit partition and posted this.