On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:13:45 -0600 "Chris Richmond" <tomny...@frontier.com> wrote:
> Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 07:53:34 +0200 > From: tito <farmat...@tiscali.it> > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] minor panic with host reboot > Message-ID: <20210401075334.6573abb6@devuan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 10:29:52 +1100 > wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/molly-guard > > I looked at what this is, and it makes sense, but wouldn't have > helped unless it also detects an xterm in a VNC session. The why it > rebooted is obvious (keyboard chair interface failure), it's the what > happened after that didn’t make sense. > > Tito, > > > if I recall correctly there where some problems with a grub update > > recently. If is that booting with a usb drive and: > <procedure removed> > > should fix it, > > Hope this helps. > > I checked the grub version, and it wasn't updated: > > apt list | grep grub | grep install > grub-common/oldstable,now 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2 amd64 [installed] > grub-efi-amd64/oldstable,now 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2 amd64 [installed] > grub-efi-amd64-bin/oldstable,now 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2 amd64 > [installed,automatic] grub2-common/oldstable,now 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2 > amd64 [installed,automatic] > > and: apt list --upgradable | grep grub comes up empty. It looks like > grub.cfg got rebuilt in Jan when I last ran: apt update/upgrade > (Jan31'21), but the inputs in /etc/grub.d are original to the install > (Oct'18). > > My only point is grub doesn't appear to have been updated since it > last booted cleanly, which is why I was asking for ideas about what > might have happened. I've got a similar spare machine on older > hardware I'll have to fire up and play with that to see what I can > uncover. > just out of curiosity do you have more than one disk in the box or maybe a raid setup? Ciao, Tito > > P.S.: devuan/debian routers are great!!! > > I've been doing this sort of thing since maybe RedHat 7, so yeah, I > agree. I found Devuan when I tried to update my box to Centos7 and > ran into systemd. > > Thx, Chris > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
