azigni
2025-01-18 21:54:04 UTC
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PermalinkProcessors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700F
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ENVY TE01-3xxx
SSD hard drive
Did I have a Linux Virus...or serious compatibility issues? I have a
Nvidia card, and I know Wayland and Nvidia are not friends. I don't know
if this was Wayland and NVidia fighting. I do not know how I could have
picked up an extremely rare Linux virus either, fwiw.
I do not wander the Internet going to exotic sites. I visit the same
common sites I have for years, I visit pretty standard places, Yahoo,
Distrowatch, Alltop, etc. I do not trade files with anyone, and no one
uses this computer but me.
I first noticed a problem when I downloaded a .png file using Pan
newsreader. I stopped Pan from downloading as it was taking much too long.
I had 1,747 copies of a unusable *.png in my /home directory, and not
where I told Pan to download to. Next I started having screen freezes.
Followed by dropped connection to the network. These issues started
happening several times every few hours.
I went to do a /home backup, using a script I wrote last year. The script
copied where it was supposed to, then created a new directory, and started
making multiple copies of /home under it. The script also [allegedly]
copied /home to a new folder in my / directory, and locked me out of it.
Said it belonged to root - obviously some other root as I could not open
the directory as root.
I had been playing around with Fedora KDE on a separate drive for a week
or so when all this started happening. The KDE iso passed the sum check,
so I know it was good. At first I blamed all this on Wayland. I deleted
Fedora KDE, and the problems continued. I reinstalled Mint, and the
problems continued.
I changed out SSD's at this time....
On the third re-install attempt, something really strange happened. I was
using a USB stick with Ventoy, which had a few recovery distro's and my
latest ISO copy on it. When I was 'Live' and about to start the install, a
message popped up, "What is the root password...I need do a few things" I
shutdown my computer.
I installed clamav and RkHunter, along with a third Rootkit finder. They
all found something different they said was not right (warning), but those
few references I found said it was a false positive. I did not believe the
articles.
Using, 'clean' usb sticks and a live distro, I did an ISO download,
verified the checksum and installed it on a new USB stick. I shut down my
computer, waited a few minutes, rebooted, ran checks on the system (ram,
network, etc.), everything was good. I booted the clean ISO, zeroed out
the hard drive, turned off the zram swap, and re-installed.
It has been three days now, and everything is working as it should, afaik.
For the near future Wayland is out, no more playing around with it on my
pc. The question is compatability between Wayland and my Nvidia card, but
I did not find any articles describing my issues, and this was be a little
extreme. Have you experienced anything like this?