There is no nano editor in trouble because of fallback

A strange phenomenon

There is no nano editor. I read a few days ago about users who were in trouble because of fallback.

But I couldn’t find it.

I experienced this phenomenon last night.

All I wanted was to fix the fstab,
so I started from another manjaro, mounted the root partition, and edited it.

This is the fastest in my environment.

What was that??

Basically, with kernel 6.12rc bcachefs, even reisub didn’t work. Completely stuck. Many files were lost. fsck finished normally, but 100,000 files in lost+found kept coming back like zombies no matter how many times I deleted them (by su). I reset the user files to zero. . Laughable?

I think you have a few problems - and might be a bit confused about what happened.

the lost+found directory is a feature of ext2/3/4 file systems - but you talk about bcachefs in the same breath

If there are ever files in there, this is because fsck could not fully recover them and puts them there
(I actually never had this happen)
If you then delete those, they are truly lost forever.

nano is - as far as I know - the editor that is installed by default
I can be wrong - it could be vi - it might also be installed.
Not so easy to use for someone not familiar.

Of course everyone is free to remove nano (or anything, really).
Perhaps you did - and are then left without an easy to use command line editor.
Who knows? :man_shrugging:

thanks.

By the way, after fixing the problematic fstab,

sudo EDITOR=nano crontab -e

will work after booting. Nano is a must-have.

you are “talking” in riddles which I can’t solve :man_shrugging:

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Translating from Japanese to English and then to German (and vice versa) must not be an easy feat.

However, if you like riddles:

What is it that exists only once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a century?

Don't cheat...

The letter… m

To be honest, I find there are friendlier ways of doing this than using nano.

Micro is my favourite terminal editor - and you don’t need to prefix sudo to get access (using polkit, it only needs elevated permissions to save a file, so it’s safer).

pacman -S micro
micro /etc/fstab

Then ctrlg if you want to see keybindings.
altg brings up some good help, but it’s intuitive enough to get by without.

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nano is included with a default installation.

I think your issue is the filesystem errors - nano got lost with it.

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micro. very good.

Great.

FSTAB, in my case most of the problems I have are caused by fstab, so micro is sufficient.

The key assignments are also modern, so people coming from Windows may find it more familiar than nano.

In my case, I made major changes to my key bindings with nanorc, so I can use nano with my eyes closed.

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I’m the same; have always stuck with nano. It does everything I need it to, quickly and easily.

I’ve never used Micro. Will have a look in a minute to see if it’s even present on my system.

I recalling launching Vim (or might have been Vi) once and having to go to the web browser to find out how to close it.

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I use nano in Windows.

In fact, I use it in every active OS I have.
It’s easy enough to use and I enjoy cross-platform consistency.

That said, micro is also a capable editor. Though I have it installed I rarely use it.

Personal opinions only… No charge.

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I sincerely hope for the sake of your future sanity, that this is kept caged in VMs !! Or not on any of your hardware that you may depend on not launching at ballistic speeds at some point. :astonished:

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I have no issues with Windows; apart from the, well, you know… apps and crap. I’ve had years of experience to tame the beast, so I’m able to workaround privacy issues that most scream about.

The Windows 10/11 GUI is at least more stable than its predecessors. That said, I am still really keen for KDE to finally release a stable DE for Windows. :wink:

Apart from Manjaro I also use Debian, MacOS and BSD. None of these are in VMs, however, VMware is admittedly kept rather busy with a selection of other systems and experiments.

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manjaro-cinnamon-24.0.5-240729-linux69.iso.pkgs

nano 8.1-1

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