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  Interesting error Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2018-09-26 17:40 +0000
    Re: Interesting error Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-09-26 18:04 +0000
      Re: Interesting error Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2018-09-26 14:13 -0400
      Re: Interesting error Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2018-09-26 20:18 +0000
        Re: Interesting error "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-09-26 17:26 -0400
    Re: Interesting error Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-26 22:39 +0100

#24576 — Interesting error

	I notice the following error diagnostic in my X log today:

[27504:27504:0926/110651.589645:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc
(93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 32 characters (32 were expected).

	If I understand it correctly, the complain is that 32 characters 
have been read out of a total of 32, when only 32 characters were 
expected. I guess there is a difference between 32 and 32.

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#24577

In comp.os.linux.misc,
Jens Stuckelberger  <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> wrote:
> 	I notice the following error diagnostic in my X log today:
> 
> [27504:27504:0926/110651.589645:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc
> (93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 32 characters (32 were expected).
> 
> 	If I understand it correctly, the complain is that 32 characters 
> have been read out of a total of 32, when only 32 characters were 
> expected. I guess there is a difference between 32 and 32.

Did you actually check if /etc/machine-id has 32 characters? 

Here:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5903622

People were reporting that error when /etc/machine-id doesn't exist.
It's not clear that Chrome really needs it, but the error was silenced
(there) by makint /etc/machine-id a synlink to the new machine-id file
location (/var/lib/dbus/machine-id).

Probably any appropriate looking content would be fine.

Elijah
------
even a value that resets every time Chrome is run

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#24578

On 09/26/2018 02:04 PM, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc,
> Jens Stuckelberger  <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> wrote:
>> 	I notice the following error diagnostic in my X log today:
>>
>> [27504:27504:0926/110651.589645:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc
>> (93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 32 characters (32 were expected).
>>
>> 	If I understand it correctly, the complain is that 32 characters 
>> have been read out of a total of 32, when only 32 characters were 
>> expected. I guess there is a difference between 32 and 32.
> Did you actually check if /etc/machine-id has 32 characters? 

On my machine, there is no such file. The only one at all like it is
/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
and it is 32 digits followed by a newline, for a total of 33.

$ cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id | wc
      1       1      33

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)

-- 
  .~.  Jean-David Beyer          Registered Linux User 85642.
  /V\  PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine  1935521.
 /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey    http://linuxcounter.net
 ^^-^^ 14:05:01 up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load average: 4.73, 4.85, 4.83

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#24585

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:04:29 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.misc,
> Jens Stuckelberger  <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> wrote:
>> 	I notice the following error diagnostic in my X log today:
>> 
>> [27504:27504:0926/110651.589645:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc
>> (93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 32 characters (32 were expected).
>> 
>> 	If I understand it correctly, the complain is that 32 characters
>> have been read out of a total of 32, when only 32 characters were
>> expected. I guess there is a difference between 32 and 32.
> 
> Did you actually check if /etc/machine-id has 32 characters?
> 
> Here:
> 
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5903622
> 
> People were reporting that error when /etc/machine-id doesn't exist.
> It's not clear that Chrome really needs it, but the error was silenced
> (there) by makint /etc/machine-id a synlink to the new machine-id file
> location (/var/lib/dbus/machine-id).
> 
> Probably any appropriate looking content would be fine.

	I have no /etc/machine-id file. My /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file 
contains 33 characters, including a closing carriage return character. 
Quite frankly, this inspires very little confidence in whomever is 
responsible for this sloppiness.

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#24587

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:18:49 -0400, Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> wrote:

> 	I have no /etc/machine-id file. My /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file
> contains 33 characters, including a closing carriage return character.
> Quite frankly, this inspires very little confidence in whomever is
> responsible for this sloppiness.

It's used to try to uniquely id a machine, which makes it ideal for
tracking by websites.

See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html

 From "man machine-id" regarding /etc/machine-id, "This machine ID adheres
to the same format and logic as the D-Bus machine ID."

Your choices are to ignore the error message, give in to web site tracking
and create the /etc/machine-id file with the proper format, which can
be done with systemd-machine-id-setup on systemd based installations,
or by moving /var/lib/dbus/machine-id to /etc and then creating a symlink
with ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/, or get rid of the error, but
defeat the tracking by setting up the system so that a new value is
generated every boot.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

-- 
Change dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org to davidwhodgins@teksavvy.com for
email replies.

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#24588

Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> writes:
> 	I notice the following error diagnostic in my X log today:
>
> [27504:27504:0926/110651.589645:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc
> (93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 32 characters (32 were expected).
>
> 	If I understand it correctly, the complain is that 32 characters 
> have been read out of a total of 32, when only 32 characters were 
> expected. I guess there is a difference between 32 and 32.

It’s just a mistake in the diagnostic.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c07e9914260d37ad818dfb0fe2ac185eb1eceb7b%5E%21/#F0

-- 
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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