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ceciline02 OP ,

just to be clear, you mean removing the battery, or do you mean using a command?

ceciline02 OP ,

If you’re gonna use Linux then go ahead and replace the battery so that you’re not worrying about it failing miserably to communicate with the charge controller or battery itself and tell you when telhe thing is fucked and need replacing.

I’m already using linux, macos was nuked.

I don’t understand this paragraph. Do you mean new batteries for this model (macbook pro from 2014) work better with linux?

ceciline02 OP ,

The most important part with batteries is to check if they start swelling up.

do you mean physically swell up? like I’m going to see it bent/bigger?

ceciline02 OP ,

When MacBooks are plugged in, they get their power from the charger. They are not simultaneously draining and charging the battery in general.

so when the battery is fully loaded a controller tells the mobo to stop loading the battery and to use power from the charger to simply power the notebook, is this so?

ceciline02 OP ,

this is what sudo tlp-stat -b prints:

— TLP 1.6.1 --------------------------------------------

+++ Battery Care

Plugin: generic

Supported features: none available

+++ Battery Status: BAT0

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer = DP

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/model_name = bq20z451

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/cycle_count = 666

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full_design = 6330 [mAh]

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full = 5043 [mAh]

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now = 4936 [mAh]

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now = 0 [mA]

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status = Full

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_start_threshold = (not available)

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_end_threshold = (not available)

Charge = 97.9 [%]

Capacity = 79.7 [%]

do you still recommend a new battery?

ceciline02 OP ,

backup done

/etc/apt/sources.list point to 24.04 noble

there are 2 packages disabled on upgrade to noble: mkv and imagereader, lines are commented so nothing wrong here

do you still recommend to execute sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a?

ceciline02 OP ,

it seems there is no -a option for dpkg-reconfigure:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a returns unknown option -a

if I delete -a it asks for a package to reconfigure

ceciline02 OP ,

after trying suggested command

sudo dpkg --configure -a

I get:

error processing package install-info (–configure): installed install-info package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127, errors were encountered while processing install-info

ceciline02 OP , (edited )

hi, thanks for your input.

Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me. Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

NMTUI shows that wlan works

ceciline02 OP ,

Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me. Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

NMTUI shows that wlan works

ceciline02 OP ,

I purged the broken package with sudo dpkg -P libfreerdp2-2 and immediately afterwards I executed sudo apt get upgrade. It unleashed a list of 96 packages to upgrade totaling 900 MB of data.

However, if I press yes on ‘do you want to continue?’ wlan seems to be off:

E: failed to fetch http… initramfs-tools-core… could not connect to 127.0.0.1, connection refused.

(I can write the whole address if you need it)

how do I enable wlan as root from initramfs?

Partial upgrade to xubuntu 24.04 from 23.10, FS only accessible in recovery mode as root + wifi may be down. Help appreciated

before the issue, wifi app was configured not to start automatically because I sometimes change the mac after logging in. I usually enable it afterwards with iftop and then systemctl start NetworkManager.service && sudo nm-applet...

ceciline02 OP , (edited )

in recovery mode as root I executed:

mount -o remount,rw /

mount --all

then cd’ed to /media/home, ls’ed and got no results.

I also don’t know if changes to make the system writable are made on the go or if I have to reboot. I rebooted and the system is still in read only mode.

ETA: another command that might be relevant:

dpkg --configure -a

returns

error processing package install-info (–configure), installed install-info package post installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127

ceciline02 OP ,

Does mount /home improve that ?

no

Im reading about nmtui

feel free to suggest other approaches

ceciline02 OP ,

dmesg prints a large log that I cannot copy, the only red lines I read regard bluetooth, but the log is huge and I can only see a fraction of it.

I can cd to /var/log and ls it, what file do I have to open? or what do I do now?

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