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Author: tito
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] minor panic with host reboot
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:13:45 -0600
"Chris Richmond" <tomnykds@???> wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 07:53:34 +0200
> From: tito <farmatito@???>
> To: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] minor panic with host reboot
> Message-ID: <20210401075334.6573abb6@devuan>
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> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 10:29:52 +1100
> wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???> 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
>
>