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2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/12/2018 09:29 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 06:19:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] Not sure. Noticed it recently after fixing a long standing problem involving a bad UUID for the swap partition. Perhaps it's no coincidence then that the Wanderer's earlier forum r

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/12/2018 09:29 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 06:19:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/11/2018 01:43 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 11:10:33 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. When booting one specific install, it di

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/11/2018 11:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: [snip] On my system (stable+testing, though with sysvinit rather than systemd): $ dlocate scripts/local-block mdadm: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block mdadm: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm lvm2: /usr/share/initramfs-

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/11/2018 11:22 AM, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] journalctl -xb > jan11test The string of interest not present. /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ does not exist /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts has 10 empty folders Doesn't sound right. [snip] Something is lookin

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 06:19:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/11/2018 01:43 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 11:10:33 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > >>When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: > Be

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-11 at 12:45, bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-01-11 at 12:35, bw wrote: >> >> > On stretch local_block is a function in a script named local, maybe using >> > a stretch tool on jessie has things confused? or the initramfs-tools pkg >> > is hosed on

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/11/2018 01:43 PM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 11:10:33 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. It then proceeds to bring up a

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/11/2018 01:28 PM, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/11/2018 11:35 AM, bw wrote: [snip] Sounds complicated, one version of grub but separate boot partitions always gets me confused too. Not sure best solution. But I'm used to it and have not discovered any pot

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 11:10:33 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: > >>Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. > It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. […] > sda8 -

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/11/2018 11:35 AM, bw wrote: [snip] Sounds complicated, one version of grub but separate boot partitions always gets me confused too. Not sure best solution. But I'm used to it and have not discovered any potholes. YET ;/ I've had it that way since Squeeze in order to force update-grub to

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-11 at 12:35, bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-01-11 at 12:10, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> > I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. >> > When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: >> >>> Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ..

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread bw
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: > > > Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. > > It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. > Would this be logged s

Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-11 at 12:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: >>> Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. > > It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. > Suggested diagnostics

[Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. Would this be logged somewhere? Where? Specifics: sda1 - Always has the latest v