On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 10:59:14 +0000 Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Tim, > > > Program and web pages that I had to login into were no longer holding > > my password and I was having to log back into them, in some cases my > > login was rejected. Also noticed that my two web browsers (Firefox and > > Chrome) were acting as those I had cleared all my cookies and were > > giving the "accept cookies message" on the some pages. > > Your IP address on the Internet probably changed, some cookie values > were encoding that, and sites then noticed that your new IP address > didn't match the one from the cookie that was set when you authenticated > so you aren't logged in. OK, I can see that > > > late last night I decided to log off my PC and log back in again > > allowing the system to refresh my login. When I choose to log off, my > > PC decide to reboot (probably crashed). > > How long since you last rebooted? Have you been applying updates during > that time? Does SolydX restarted daemons that depend on updated > libraries from other packages, or have themselves been upgraded? > I'm wondering if there hasn't been a reboot for ages, many updates > applied, and a whole mishmash of different versions of things are > running and not too compatible. Previous reboot before last night was 11 days, but I have run longer than that before reboot in the past without issue. Normally if a service or daemon needs to be restarted I see the request to do so (I update via apt on the command line) . But I can see what you are saying. > > Upon reboot it crashed and left me at a recovery screen. I managed to > > get on to the PC this morning as root with a GUI desktop. One of the > > errors it had listed when it was starting was a duplicate entry in > > fstab, I checked the fstab file and that looked OK > > My initial RAM-disk image contains an /etc/fstab, though it's empty here > on Arch Linux. Perhaps it's not on SolydX and that's where the > duplicate error occurs? > > $ zcat /boot/initramfs-linux.img | > > cpio -vt | > > grep fstab > 45562 blocks > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 08:30 etc/fstab > $ Unfortunately I can't find the equivalent on my system but it has rebooted OK in the past > When you looked for the duplicate entry, did you check UUIDs, or just > that no mount points were present twice? I see here that I've a > duplicate UUID for two development boards; fortunately, I only use one > at a time. > > $ sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | > > tr -s '[:space:]' \\n | > > sort | > > uniq -d > 0 > 2 > bind > defaults > ext3 > ext4 > noauto,user > noauto,user,fmask=133 > none > UUID="02DD-A5BD" > vfat > $ > $ grep 02DD-A5BD /etc/fstab > UUID="02DD-A5BD" /media/frdm-kl25z vfat noauto,user,fmask=133 > UUID="02DD-A5BD" /media/frdm-ke06z vfat noauto,user,fmask=133 > $ > 0 2 defaults,noatime ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro swap /tmp tmpfs When I first looked at fstab, I just checked each entry and there was only one entry for each partition. When I could not find any double entries, I then checked each UUID comparing UUID with those in gparted which is when I found that the sda1 had the wrong uuid > > I decided to check that the UUID were correct and found that one of my > > partitions (/dev/sda1) had a completely different UUID. > > Did you notice /etc/fstab's modification time before you edited it to > update the UUID? Unfortunately not > > > I know that /dev/sda1 was mounted and working yesterday morning > > because I saved the .thunderbird data file and one of the locations I > > looked at was on /dev/sda1 > > Yes, but once the filesystem is mounted then neither the UUID in > /etc/fstab or the one stored in the filesystem will be used much. > They're just used to tie the two together at mount time, unless you do > something like `sudo -i blkid' to read from the devices. > > > I simply edited the fstab details entering the UUID given by gparted, > > saved it, rebooted and my PC booted and it booted up normally. > > Good to hear. > One of the programs I has a problem with was webmin as it refused to accept anything I used to login (it should be my normal PC login details) but that is the only page I have had a problem from the Chrome browser, all the other pages have been Firefox. Well it seems to be working ok after nearly 6 hours Tim H -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-03-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
