Re: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 8 failed

[junky@mail.sheugh.com]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:41:59PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 06:33:14PM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 04:04:40PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> [ Re-adding the cc to the debian-efi list - please respond there
> >>   too... ]
> >> 
> >> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 10:55:51PM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
> >> >> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 03:39:32PM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
> >> >> >Dear Maintainer,

> >
> >Best guess : 200 files of less than 2K each in /sys/fs/pstore
> 
> Bah. :-( If you look at the filenames, you'll probably find that
> they're named something similar to the following:
> 
>   /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-erst-6661505009219272707.enc.z
> 
> (which is on one of my systems locally). The kernel can sometimes drop
> error logs there, but doesn't clean them up. If you remove the files
> yourself, then that should clear the space and fix your problem.
> 
OK :-)

Just FYI the files were created on three dates:
Oct 24 2017
Dec 18 2018
Feb 12 2019

filenames seem somewhat similar and are of the form : 
dmesg-efi-150885697001001
to
dmesg-efi-154998397713012

Thanks and HTH

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