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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