[Wolves] how to keep linux mint 13 alive a bit longer?

[John Green]

Just go full debian .... mint ubuntu etc are all just broken versions of
debian.
On 21 Feb 2016 17:48, "Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint" <
mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:

> i wil he a look at installing the latest version of firefox on mint 13
> , it will be when i am left alone with the laptop. I may even install
> linx mint 13 in virtual box.
>
> i do not think its a drive corruption problem , i did have a look at
> the theme manager that had been added into firefox to give it disney
> like apperance from my view and that seemed to be buggy what ever OS i
> was running on and deleted and locked the add extentions options in
> firefox down so plain version. i will see if can move onto google
> chrome which i know a lot bette.
>
>
> i coming to view that best to let them get on with it and try my best
> to fix it when it breaks.
>
> mark
>
>
> On 19 February 2016 at 11:26, Adam Sweet <adamsweet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18/02/16 22:23, Kevanf1 wrote:
> >
> >> On 18 February 2016 at 18:21, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
> >> <mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> hi
> >>>
> >>> how do  i keep a laptop with linux mint 13 keep going? i am having
> >>> issues with firefox corrupting its profiles every so often?(i have
> >>> made backup of the profile directory/folder and make firefox account
> >>> which seems to back up bookmarks n passwords etc)
> >>>
> >>> I can't find out if firefox is still supported on linux mint 13 , is
> >>> that the problem really should be upgrading the machine to linux mint
> >>> 17.2?
> >>
> >> I think Mint 13 has been out of support for a long time now.  I am
> >> personally running Mint 17.3 and I love it.
> >
> > According to the following, Linux Mint 13 has long term support until
> > April 2017, which means that there should be updates available:
> >
> > http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
> >
> > If it's a Firefox bug, then you won't be only person to have suffered
> > from it and it would have been fixed at some point, so updating the
> > system *should* resolve it.
> >
> > I don't know what Mint's policy with keeping Firefox up to date with new
> > versions is but there are plenty of instructions on Google. Some people
> > are downloading a tarball from mozilla.org and extracting it. The Linux
> > Mint forums might be more help to you in this case.
> >
> > Doing a quick Google though, I can't see anyone else complaining about
> > Firefox corrupting the profiles on Linux Mint 13 which suggests that
> > there's something else going on. My first thought is that the filesystem
> > is corrupting or the disk is failing.
> >
> > If the filesystem is corrupted, it would get repaired at boot time. I
> > don't know Linux Mint well enough to say whether you can see it happen
> > at boot time, but booting would take an unusually long time. It's worth
> > making sure the owner actually knows how to shut the laptop down
> > properly. I've seen some weird issues in my time and it wouldn't
> > surprise me to find some people just hold the power button until the
> > laptop switches off. With Firefox open, that would corrupt the profile
> > eventually.
> >
> > With regards to the disk failing, I don't know if Mint has a GUI log
> > viewer or a disk utility. Ubuntu has 'System Log' and 'Disks'
> > applications. If it has a disk utility, open it and see if there are any
> > warnings. If it has a log viewer, open and look for lines which relate
> > to 'sda'. If the disk is failing you'll probably see 'I/O error', 'read
> > error' or 'Medium Error' messages like:
> >
> > Feb  4 12:52:52 somehost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector
> 0
> > Jul 11 23:52:30 somehost kernel: [   25.552475] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Sense
> > Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
> > Jul 11 23:52:30 somehost kernel: [   25.552543] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Add.
> > Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
> > Jul 11 23:52:30 somehost kernel: [   25.552587] end_request: I/O error,
> >
> > If you see any of those errors, it's time to backup and start shopping
> > for a new disk, it will die eventually.
> >
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> >
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