[04:27] <alireza> hey
[18:35] <willh> I have been attempting to install Jammy Jellyfish on my HP Pro laptop, using a USB drive, but was getting error messages when I rebooted after the "installation complete" message. After that happened I was able to try it out without installing and had no problems for a couple of days. Then Firefox crashed and could not be reopened. When I rebooted
[18:35] <willh> I got the following message: "ZSTD Compressed data is corrupted - System halted". I am wondering whether this indicates a problem now in the USB drive or if it is rather in the laptop itself.  Tomreyn kindly gave me some help a while back ( before I had a nick) which enabled me to eliminate one original error message I was getting (re VMX). Any
[18:35] <willh> advice would be appreciated.
[20:06] <tomreyn> willh: so you installed to your internal disk? is this a hdd, an ssd, or something else?
[20:25] <willh> to hdd from bootable flash drive.
[20:27] <tomreyn> willh: are you able to boot from the hdd now?
[20:27] <tomreyn> like, does it work sometimes or have you found a workaround?
[20:28] <tomreyn> does this happen to be you? https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=395876
[20:28] <tomreyn> it's the only occasion that i can find of the message you reported you see at boot
[20:30] <tomreyn> hmm, you seem to be in canada, not florida, and have a different name, so probably not.
[20:30] <tomreyn> this person also uses hp hardware, though
[20:32] <willh> Cannot boot, have no workaround.  I had read that post at that link. I am in Canada, as you say.
[20:36] <willh> That fellow in Florida clearly has higher level of technical knowledge than I do.
[20:42] <willh> I was thinking that maybe I should create a fresh bootable USB drive and try again with it.
[20:44] <diogenes_Vx15> willh, it looks like your HDD is dying.
[20:50] <willh> So Diogenes, you mean that the ZSTD compressed data is corrupt message relates to the HDD, not the flash drive?
[20:52] <diogenes_Vx15> willh, TLDR, i don't understand what is has to do with the USB drive, it is only used for installing the system, if it gives an error during the installation, in 90% of cases it's a faulty USB drive, in rest, it's HDD.
[20:55] <willh> OK
[22:07] <tomreyn> willh: you can try to boot to grub and then select an older kernel from the "Advanced" menu, this may let you boot
[22:07] <tomreyn> you can also try just booting the default kernel from the grub menu manually, sometimes this also helps.
[22:09] <tomreyn> if you can get the system to boot, you can check system logs with    journalctl -f    (which will print new log records as they are being logged)   OR    journalctl -b (which will show any logs since last boot)
[22:12] <tomreyn> if you suspect that the hdd may be defective, you should look for "media sense" errors on journalctl
[22:31] <willh> Thanks a lot Tomreyn, I will try these. Before the most recent attempt to install Jammy,  I ran an expansive test of the hard drive, and it passed, 100%. I was previously running Mint, by the way.
[22:32] <tomreyn> good luck!
[22:33] <willh> Thanks again.