On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Jaromil wrote:
>
> dear Didier,
>
> thanks for this quick C monitoring tool using the inotify API
>
> I think this may be useful also for /etc/machine-id - which may be a
> different ID from dbus I believe?
>
> meanwhile an update on my adventures using chromium on Beowulf: it
> basically stopped working since I overwrote my machine-id with
> "d34dc0d3d34dc0d3d34dc0d3d34dc0d3" because, I believe, is not the
> machine-id that chromium registered for the sessions of my profile /
> users logged into Google.

Sorry Jaromil, but I can't reproduce this. I am running beowulf. I had
no /etc/machine-id. I installed the Chromium package through
apt-get. It complained that I needed to install chromium-sandbox as
well, and I did. I launched it from a terminal and it "worked" (no
machine-id so far).

Then I closed it, created a /etc/machine-id with:

# head -c 4 /dev/random | md5sum | cut -d " " -f 1 > /etc/machine-id

and restarted it. It worked. Then I changed the machine-id and
restarted it several time, and it worked. Then I put /etc/machine-id
equal to your "d34dc0d3d34dc0d3d34dc0d3d34dc0d3" and it worked. Then I
removed /etc/machine-id again, and chromium still works. Then I also
stopped dbus and removed /var/lib/dbus/machine-id, so no
/etc/machine-id, no /var/lib/dbus/machine-id, and no dbus
running. Close and open again, and it works.

Then I uninstalled chromium because it sucks anyway.

We shall probably dig a deeper into this...

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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