Slow SSD / admin password not working

General system Newbie
1

Hi I am quite new to Linux and have been trying to get this distro to work, I have a 1TB SSD that I have installed this Linux on, but whenever I boot it up and log in it is very very very slow. I was told that it might have to do with some formatting of the SSD.

But when I tried to run these sudo commands within the terminal it asked for the admin password, but every time I entered it in, it would be wrong. So I reinstalled it and tried again, nothing. Reinstalled again but changed the admin password to just “q“ but that didn’t even work.

dpaste.com/385B4BMDD

2

If you are using sudo, enter your own password.

3

I tried but it always says “invalid password, please try again“

4

Does it have any special characters in it. I had a problem once, where terminals didn’t like a password with the £ character in it. Possibly because it’s not in the Ascii set.

5

nope, my first password just had upper, lower and number
i ended making the password just “q“ in the end and still not working

6

I’m not sure what’s going on there. Does using su and the admin password work to give you elevated privileges? The downside of that is it leaves you in a root terminal until you run exit

7

Just to check - you are booting into the actual installation? You’re not booting into the live installer environment, i.e., you have removed the install media?

8

Yes i am booting into the actual one, the bootable us works fine and is not even plugged in when I boot

1 Like
9

Okay so it did work but the command that I was told says it’s not supperted “sudo fstrim --minimum 1M /”

I just tried the nivida stuff at the top of the page and it did work and reinstalled it but it’s still slow, going to restart to see if it changed anything

10

It is infact not fixed

11

Can you post your specs ?

1 Like
12

@Zacky, yes… specs would help.

HARDWARE/SYSTEM:
Run inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog in terminal and post back the link provided.

13

Specs are on the post now, idk what else, I’m not really a hardware guy

14

That is very basic. Please do as I suddested above your post. It will provide much more info for others to use and possibly help with your issue.

15

There you go, link in main post

1 Like
16

Think you are missing a uefi partition/bootloader, look at this Wiki and you will see what I mean.

17

Wait so, should I try reinstall it? I’m a bit confused and it’s a lot of information

18

I still don’t see how to fix it, i installed the OS using the erase disk which should automatically install it all right?

19

What filesystem are you using ?

20

wdym filesystem?