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Re: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 8 failed



On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:33:08AM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
>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

\o/ Thanks for confirming that solved the problem for you!

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