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If your distro ships with the tool
inxi
, you can dump a lot of data about your system withinxi -Fazy
. Folks might be better able to help you then. The-z
flag filters sensitive information.That's a pretty neat tool. I'll definitely be using that for future troubleshooting.
My only, minor, gripe is that it shows kernel parameters which can contain the UUID of the LUKS partition containing your sysroot. This isn't a factor in most people's threat model, but it's worth pointing out.