Thanks Rick, Intel NUC series NUC7I5BNK Gen7 Core i5 - so Kaby Lake i5-7260U processor
BIOS updated on 3 Feb., just prior to installing ASCII with: BIOS Update [BNKBL357.86A] dated: 1/14/2020 A reboot leaves the syslog and kern.log files at about 9kb with only one ACPI error in each. Good enough for me :-) Ho hum. -- Owen o...@gonwanda.net On Sat, 15 Feb 2020, at 15:53, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Owen (o...@gonwanda.net): > > > So the answer is that both /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log are > > both 18GB large - see details below. > > tl;dr: A hardware-based bug is making the ACPI handler stumble and > respawn, quickly, over and over and over and.... > > Perhaps you should consider updating your system BIOS. And, just to > make clear that I'm serious about that: > > Perhaps you should consider updating your system BIOS. > Perhaps you should consider updating your system BIOS. > Perhaps you should consider updating your system BIOS. > > This isn't perhaps a system using Intel Skylake CPU architecture, nei? > It's infamous for this misbehaviour, even with recent kernels like > 4.9.189. > > -- > Cheers, "Why doesn't anyone invite copyeditors to parties, > Rick Moen when we're such cool people out with whom to > hang?" > r...@linuxmafia.com -- @laureneoneal (Lauren O'Neal) > McQ! (4x80) > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng