Request for explanation of error message

Bret Busby bret.busby at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 19:17:53 UTC 2019


On 28/07/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/07/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27/07/2019, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>> At Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:54:19 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not
>>> for
>>> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please advise as to what the following error indicates?
>>>>
>>>> The below is a subset of multiple repetitions of the error, with the
>>>> number in the square brackets, immediately after the word "kernel",
>>>> progressively increasing in each line.
>>>>
>>>> The error message appearsat the command line console ( <CTRL><ALT><F1>
>>>> ), and, in /var/log/syslog , from whence the extract is copied.
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053210] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053216] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053219] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053221] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996887] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996893] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996896] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996898] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059307] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059314] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059316] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059318] pcieport
>>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>> uname -v
>>>> #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2 18:22:20 UTC 2019
>>>> bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ uname -a
>>>> Linux bret-MD34045-2521 4.15.0-55-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2
>>>> 18:22:20 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> Whilst I do not know how to get uname to show the Ubuntu version
>>>> number, the console shows it as 18.04.2 .
>>>
>>> What does
>>>
>>> lspci
>>>
>>> display?
>>>
>>> Specificly, what sort of device is at
>>>
>>> 00:1d.0
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> It looks like whatever is at the point of the PCI bus is having trouble.
>>>
>>> Also: what does the dmesg command display?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>> I have made two attempts to reply to the above message. They have
>> apparently failed.
>>
>> My / partition has been progressively filled, over the last few hours;
>> df -h shows the partition size to be 92GB.
>>
>> The /home partition is a separate partition, of about the same (92GB)
>> size.
>>
>> I will try to reboot, to find whether that clears the muck from the /
>> partition.
>>
>
>
> I rebooted the computer, and, it did not go to the GUI lohin screen -
> it stopped at a console login screen.
>
> So, I logged in at the console, and then ran
> sudo apt autoclean
> and then it went straight to the GUI login screen.
>
> The autoclean appears to have freed up 2.3GB out of the 60-odd GB that
> nappears to be full of muck.
>
> "
> bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
> tmpfs           3.2G  1.6M  3.2G   1% /run
> /dev/sda7        92G   85G  2.2G  98% /
> tmpfs            16G  4.0M   16G   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
> tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/loop0      128K  128K     0 100% /snap/software-boutique/39
> /dev/loop1      8.0M  8.0M     0 100% /snap/pulsemixer/23
> /dev/loop7       88M   88M     0 100% /snap/core/5328
> /dev/loop2      161M  161M     0 100% /snap/midori/451
> /dev/loop3       72M   72M     0 100% /snap/software-boutique/31
> /dev/loop4       87M   87M     0 100% /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/335
> /dev/loop5       89M   89M     0 100% /snap/core/7270
> /dev/loop8      8.0M  8.0M     0 100% /snap/pulsemixer/250
> /dev/loop6       88M   88M     0 100% /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/199
> /dev/sda1        96M   31M   66M  32% /boot/efi
> /dev/sda8        92G   63G   25G  73% /home
> tmpfs           3.2G   44K  3.2G   1% /run/user/1000
> "
>
> Well, it appears to have been overturned, because, then, I got a no
> free space left on device warning - 0GB left on /  .
>


In looking at folders in / , I find
/var is 81.5GB

/var/log is 78.9GB

/var/log/lightdm is 48.3GB

/var/log/journal is 1.5GB

and

Xorg.0.log.old is 29.1GB (can I delete that?)

Should that lightdm thing really be that big?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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