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Re: Spurious messages at the console

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On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 07:54:28AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > Folks:
> > 
> > I've installed Debian (latest) without X on a small form factor PC, and
> > typically SSH into it, though I also have a keyboard and monitor
> > temporarily connected to it.
> > 
> > I'm getting spurious error messages in groups on the monitor connected to
> > it. They look like:
> > 
> > [76056.389126] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: PCIe Buss Error: severity=Corrected,
> > type=Physical Layer, (Reciever ID)
> > 
> > That's just one line. Others are related but different. These happen every
> > few minutes, and only on the monitor, not where I'm SSHed in.
> 
> I don't know exactly what this is doing (to my naïve eye it looks like
> some part of the PCI bus is doing things the kernel doesn't expect but
> thinks it can fix) but...
> 
> > It would be neat to know what's going wrong, and if you can come up with a
> > reason, I'd be interested. But I'm not really fixated on that. Instead,
> > what I'm interested in is how to make them stop.
> 
> ...for that try "dmesg -D" (see man dmesg). You can also try to mess
> with the value of /proc/sys/kernel/printk, documented, e.g. here [1],
> to set it permanently.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/printk-basics.html
>     or, of course, locally. If you are in Debian, part of the linux-doc
>     package, in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/html/core-api/printk-basics.html
> 

Excellent advice. Thanks.

Here's an oddity. The following commands are equivalent, according to the
dmesg(1) man page:

dmesg -n 1 and dmesg -n emerg

But according to every document I've viewed, "emerg" is code for 0, not 1.
If anyone can explain, I'd be interested.

Paul

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Spurious messages at the console Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-10 23:40 +0200
  Re: Spurious messages at the console <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-11 08:00 +0200
    Re: Spurious messages at the console Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-05-12 03:00 +0200
      Re: Spurious messages at the console <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-12 08:00 +0200
  Re: Spurious messages at the console Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-05-11 08:30 +0200

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