[Solved] restarting USM??

[donald]

--> nouveau is loaded lspci -knn shows that <--

loaded,maybe, but is the driver used? - there should be a line like
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia

[obviously I use the nvidia driver]
If not, the driver isn't used.Check xorg.log for 'EE'

--> I have (only) Xf86-video-nouveau installed on my system <--

How about this one:
xf86-video-nv driver
https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/ ... nv.4.xhtml

Have you ever gotten a recent Linux to work with this historic hardware?

[Rava]

rm -r /var/usm/slacky/*

But what does * mean?

I am late to the party, still:
* here means: all files and folders but hidden ones.

Hidden ones are the special folders of "." and "..", and of course all standard hidden files and folders.
Usually you find lots of those in your user's ~ directory: (shortened output; you not need the full output to get what I mean)

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guest@porteus:/$ cd
guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld .??*
-rw-------  1 guest users    52 Dec  2 17:44 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 guest users  1210 Dec 27  2020 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 10 guest users   180 Dec  6 18:40 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 25 guest users   400 Dec 20 05:54 .config
-rwxr-xr-x  1 guest users   355 Dec 16  2017 .gtkrc-2.0
drwxr-xr-x  4 guest users    60 Dec 28  2020 .local
-rw-r--r--  1 guest users 15203 Dec 20 14:17 .xfce4-session.verbose-log

If you needed to remove hidden files and folders, you have to use this: (using as example the same folder that Kulle used, and by that I am not saying you need deleting hidden files and folders from there - it's just as example.)

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rm -r /var/usm/slacky/* /var/usm/slacky/.??*

Why do I use .??* instead of a simple .* ?

Because .* would also be valid for the special folders of "." and ".." - and these we do not want to remove. Usually the file system would not let them be removed anyway:

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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir /tmp/TESTDIR
guest@porteus:~$ cd /tmp/TESTDIR
guest@porteus:/tmp/TESTDIR$ ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 guest users  40 Dec 20 19:59 .
drwxrwxrwt 16 root  root  420 Dec 20 19:59 ..
guest@porteus:/tmp/TESTDIR$ rm -r .
rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '.'
guest@porteus:/tmp/TESTDIR$ echo $?
1

QED.

[Ed_P]

FYI Nothing special in the /var/usm/slacky/ folder Rava.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -la /var/usm/slacky/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  88 Nov  1 00:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 171 Nov  1 00:00 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Nov  1 00:01 CHECKSUMS.md5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Nov  1 00:01 LIBS.TXT
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Nov  1 00:01 OPTIFEST
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Nov  1 00:01 PACKAGES.TXT
 
guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld /var/usm/slacky/.??*
/bin/ls: cannot access '/var/usm/slacky/.??*': No such file or directory
guest@porteus:~$ 

[Rava]

/bin/ls: cannot access '/var/usm/slacky/.??*': No such file or directory

Seems you missed that part:

(using as example the same folder that Kulle used, and by that I am not saying you need deleting hidden files and folders from there - it's just as example.)

You understand what "it's just as example" means?

[Ed_P]

You understand what "it's just as example" means?

Do you understand what a topic's Subject means?

[Rava]

Do you understand what a topic's Subject means?

Do you understand what answering a question in a thread means?

But this is getting off-topic and quite silly so I stop there, no more replies from me about any of that in here. Rava out.