u/tgeorgescu

Chromebox stuck on black screen with logo

I upgraded yesterday my Acer CXI3 from stable to newest stable. It got stuck on a black screen with white ChromeOS logo.

I can recover with beta from https://cros.download/recovery/fizz

But, when it updates, the same happens (it gets stuck). I repeated it several times, not allowing immediate upgrade, and switching build to stable or to dev: same happens after OS update.

Finally, I recovered with LTC. This works okay. That is ChromeOS version 150.

Also, I have a Minisforum mini-PC (Venus series UN100C) with ChromeOS Flex. Same story. Except that sticking a USB stick inside one of its ports, allows ChromeOS Flex to boot.

In the end, I'm glad that I learned to use the LTC version: updates are really fast, and Android apps download really fast.

u/tgeorgescu — 6 days ago

Blocking Debian repositories

Zenarmor is blocking third-party Debian repositories. Even in Bypass mode. That is, I have a Debian trixie machine behind the firewall, and I cannot properly update software without disabling Zenarmor. I tried to create a "pass all" policy for that device, to no avail.

The repositories are on four different IPs, among them github and docker.com.

I use Zenarmor within Debian sid, with Linux kernel 7.3-rc1.

I have a paid home user subscription.

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u/tgeorgescu — 1 month ago