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[A BIT SOLVED]Re: Systemd fun fun fun

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:50:02 +0100
"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:

> On 01/29/17 20:07, Joe wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:40:49 +0100
> > "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 01/29/17 10:01, Joe wrote:  

> >>>
> >>> In recent months, the *next* screen says 'loading ramdisc' or
> >>> similar, followed by 'press any key' and sits there for ten
> >>> seconds or so if I don't press a key. I haven't found anything
> >>> anywhere which seems to refer to this.    
> >>
> >> This would be in dracut settings, which is the one used in many
> >> distribution to build the initramfs image. Most likely a change in
> >> a script your distro uses or you have by mistake changed.
> >>  
> > 
> > Thatnks for the try, but dracut isn't installed here and
> > initramfs-tools is used to create the initrd.  
> 
> Should be possible with that too.
> 
> > I can find nothing
> > in /etc/initramfs-tools referring to a time.  
> 
> I would take a look at the script it may build into the initramfs, you
> could take the one you have and unpack it and see what's inside, if
> you don't seem to find it there then I'm not sure.
> 
> 
> 
> > There's no /etc/default entry for initramfs-tools, and the grub
> > entry contains only its own timeout.  
> 
> When reread your original post, you said it was before initrd, which
> then should rule out the initramfs file.
> 
> Have you looked at the scripts in /etc/grub.d ? those are used to make
> the entries in the grub menu.
> 
> 
OK, a bit of light is shed. I'm seeing these lines after the grub menu
selection or timeout:

oading Linux <kernel number>...
oading initial ramdisk...

ress any key to continue...


I'm making the assumption that the monitor has not yet synchronised and
there are the letters L, L and P at the beginning of these three lines.

If I make the assumption that there is also a vertical error, leave the
system sitting on the grub menu until I manually pull the sync across
and down, then go onto the next page, I see the line:

no symbol table

above the others. Light dawns. I still don't know what the problem is,
but I now know it isn't some new configuration that I'm missing, it's
something broken. It looks like this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841297

 except I don't have grub-efi. Poking around further, some people say
it can be fixed by repairing or reinstalling grub, but it's not causing
me enough trouble to be worth the risk. Presumably when a new grub2
arrives, it will sort itself out.

Hope this helps someone else, at least about the monitor gotcha...

-- 
Joe

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Re: Systemd fun fun fun Innocuous <myemail6622@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-28 10:30 -0500
  Re: Systemd fun fun fun William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-01-28 18:55 +0000
    Re: Systemd fun fun fun "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2017-01-28 22:23 +0100
    Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-28 22:13 +0000
      Re: Systemd fun fun fun Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-01-28 22:29 +0000
      Re: Systemd fun fun fun "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-01-29 02:43 +0100
        Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-29 09:01 +0000
          Re: Systemd fun fun fun "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2017-01-29 12:40 +0100
            Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-29 19:07 +0000
              Re: Systemd fun fun fun "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2017-01-29 20:50 +0100
                [A BIT SOLVED]Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-29 20:13 +0000
          Re: Systemd fun fun fun "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-01-30 04:23 +0100
            Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-30 08:38 +0000
              Re: Systemd fun fun fun "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-01-30 14:12 +0100
                Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-30 15:05 +0000
                Re: Systemd fun fun fun "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2017-01-30 11:53 -0600
        Re: Systemd fun fun fun Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-01-29 11:38 -0200
          Re: Systemd fun fun fun Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-01-29 19:54 -0500
      Re: Systemd fun fun fun William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-01-29 07:00 +0000
        Re: Systemd fun fun fun Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-29 09:01 +0000
    Re: Systemd fun fun fun Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2017-01-29 15:49 +0000

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