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drabit only took two afternoons...00:08
drabrebuilding a trimmed down version, I think I got rid of everything I could safely got rid of00:08
drabhopefully I didn't break it00:08
drabI'm now at 111MB with all the modules00:09
drab\o/00:16
drabmemtotal seems to have no bearing, I think the problem I had was that I messed up the tar...00:16
drabthis desktop I'm testing on has 6Gb and I see tmps / 5.8Gb 531MB used00:17
drabso it seems to just use whatever there's available00:17
TJ-Yes, I think so too00:18
TJ-yes, that's how tmpfs works00:18
drabthis is pretty damn cool, could even apt install xorg and get fluxbox going, in case people want to test something GUI00:37
drabnow if I could figure out how to change the motd to give some instructions...00:44
drabcan't find where all the ubuntu blah blah blah comes from... wiki says update-motd and mentions landscape, but none of those are debootstrapped00:45
drabanything I put in /etc/motd gets appended to that, not replacing it00:45
TJ-isnt't there an /etc/motd.d/ ?00:47
drabnope, not in the debootstrap chroot00:47
TJ-I'm pretty sure it uses runparts to call scripts to fill it00:47
drab /var/run/motd.dynamic has some bits of it, not sure how that's genarated tho and it's not the full motd00:48
drabI have no /etc/update-motd.d of sort00:48
draband no /etc/init.d/motd either00:48
drabdon't see a systemd motd unit either00:49
TJ-"dpkg -S motd "00:50
drabI'm blind00:50
drabsometimes I wonder how my brain works...00:50
drabthere is /etc/update-motd.d/ ...00:50
drabit's from base-files00:50
TJ-ahh sorry, I forgot the proper path name00:52
drabI think I did check that, somehow failed to see it, good call on dpkg -S00:53
drabbit burned out...00:53
TJ-:D00:53
TJ-it's my goto, followed by apt-file search00:53
drabvery opinionated, contriverd and overall messy, but in case anybody ends up needing it for now I've dumped the whole process in a gist01:18
drabhttps://gist.github.com/spikedrba/057acad8b3bfb0266544347ced8b53d401:18
drabit's actually fairly convoluted, especially to save space01:18
drabwill turn it into a script or something tomorrow, but that's enough for a saturday, considering it a win01:19
drabthanks TJ- for all the support01:19
TJ-be great to be able to mount the rootfs using webdav :)01:19
TJ-you're welcome01:19
drablol, you know what, I actually looked at it :P01:19
TJ-it's the obvious alternative to NFS if we want to use HTTP01:19
drabthe main problem seems to be filesting not really being supported01:19
TJ-shouldn't be too hard to do01:19
drabbut maybe I misunderstood and stuff01:20
drabgenerally speaking this imho would be a pretty darn good thing to have in a usable/stock fashion01:20
TJ-so the target only needs to fetch the files it needs from the untouched ISO/squashfs on the server, rather than transfer the entire thing over01:20
drabespecially in the world of containers01:20
drabwhere running something like nfs-kernel-server is not quite an option01:20
TJ-I think the MAAS stuff with image-streaming for clouds might be the best thing - use what's already available01:21
drabI guess I should look at that again01:22
drabI didn't see a clear path to get a rescue system out of that01:22
TJ-no, I was more thinking about incorporating that image streaming into PXE  boot methods. currently it only supports TFTP and there is a PR to add HTTP support, so WEBDAV wouldn't be a long stretch01:23
drabok, I'm down to 90MB compressed, fully functional with all the drivers etc, custom motd with autologin and blazing fast to a ramdisk installing additional sw04:45
drabpolished into a script that does all the building and spit up 3 files, roofs.tar.xz, vmlinuz and initrd.img ready to go to the pxe server04:46
drab\o/04:46
=== led_ir23 is now known as led_ir22
faekjarzhi, is "dmesg | grep -i edac" the only method of verifying that ECC RAM is actually running in error correcting mode? greping for edac returned nothing, and greping for "error", "ecc" or "memory" returned nothing indicative of ECC mode.15:39
TJ-faekjarz: see "man 1 edac-util"15:41
faekjarzTJ-: No manual entry for edac-util …oops *install edac-utils* (it's edac-utilS, btw, with an s ;)15:45
TJ-:D15:46
TJ-indeed15:46
TJ-the man-page is edac-util though15:46
faekjarzk :)15:47
* faekjarz goes off and reboots the machine that runs the router15:51
faekjarzedac-ctl --status returns "drivers not loaded." In /lib/modules/4.10.0-38-generic/kernel/drivers/edac are quite a lot of candidates, certainly edac_core, should i modprobe others on my Core i3-6100T? amd64_edac_mod, maybe? (I'm running 16.04 w/ the HW enablement kernel)16:30
TJ-faekjarz: amd edac driver on an Intel CPU?16:40
faekjarzwell, i thought it refers to AMD64 64 bit instruction set. i already discarded edac_mce_amd.16:43
faekjarzoh, right it depends on edac_mce_amd, i'll give skx_edac a shot16:47
TJ-faekjarz: no; it'll be one of the i*.ko drivers, it depends on the chipset of course16:47
drab.o/16:48
faekjarzaye, the i3-6100T is a skylake16:48
draburm, something really strange is going on with busybox and initramfs17:33
drabthe fs where I generated the initramfs had /etc/resolv.conf configured17:33
drabhowever when booted I get dropped into an initramfs shell because an address can't be resolved and indeed /etc/resolv.conf is missing17:34
drabbut pinging ips work as it works if I add /etc/resolv.conf and then ping hostnames17:34
drabthe dns was correctly passed with dhcp because the network script shows it17:35
drabeven stranger, and probably unrelated, after I started a ping to check I can't quit that anymore17:36
drabCtrl-c has no effect17:36
drabso now I have to reboot and can't get back to the initramfs prompt17:36
drabreally strange17:36
faekjarzAre those EDAC modules even required for ECC RAM to correct errors, or do they only provide an API for reporting and logging tools?17:51
trippehfaekjarz: pretty sure bios/uefi handles that, but you may need the drivers to control policy on multi-bit errors?18:39
trippehie kill process or panic/reboot18:39
trippehwith multi-bit I mean uncorrectable18:39
trippehhave to run.18:41
faekjarztrippeh: ok. Do you hav an idea why i can't load skx_edac? I mean, ok, modinfo says "MC Driver for Intel Skylake server processors" and some might consider an i3-6100T not a server CPU. …but it sure is Skylake. i7core_edac loads without errors, but doesn't seem to expose a memory controller to edac-util / edac-ctl18:51
arunpyasiHi everyone, what respository setup does Ubuntu use in http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ ?18:54
drabarunpyasi: how do you mean?19:24
drabarunpyasi: https://askubuntu.com/questions/28355/what-is-the-structure-of-an-ubuntu-repository19:25
arunpyasidrab, I mean does Ubuntu use Dak or something else to maintain the repo.19:46
rbasakarunpyasi: it uses Launchpad.21:05
rbasakThe "soyuz" component I think.21:06
rbasakIt's a fairly independent implementation.21:06

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