Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 sep 21, 07:05:37, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > What does it look like? > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / >

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-10-01 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Sep 29 2021 at 10:35:35 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> > From: Greg Wooledge >> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 >> > > What does it look like?

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:35:35PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > Would it be sensible for the message to actually mention ownership, > or can it apply to very different circumstances (beyond permissions, > that is)? I've failed to find any other cause, but see a lot of > people messing up their

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Nils
>From my experience gnome-disks automatically chowns / to the executing user >when creating a filesystem. But I don't think Peter did that. I'd rather say it's been caused by some installation script, those are usually buggy when it comes to file ownership. Peter, did you install anything via a

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: Greg Wooledge > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > > What does it look like? > > > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > > >

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:01:00 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > root@joule:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > #deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main > deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free > deb-src http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian/ bullseye main contrib

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. APPEARS SOLVED.

2021-09-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:35:10PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I can't explain why / was owned by me. According to the above it > happened in the release upgrade two days ago. No, that's not what that timestamp says. The timestamp in "ls -ld" is the modification time (mtime) on the

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. APPEARS SOLVED.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
From: Nils Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:16:30 + > Are you sure you still need these journals? I don't know. > ... my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs. Did that and rebooted. System behaviour unchanged. APPARENT SOLUTION root@joule:/home/peter# ls -ld / /var

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Greg Wooledge > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > What does it look like? > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
From: Nils Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:16:30 + > Are you sure you still need these journals? I don't know. > ... my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs. Did that and rebooted. System behaviour is unchanged. plymouth-label was the last package reported

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-29 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > What does it look like? > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var drwxr-xr-x 10 root root

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:33:52PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > systemd > > libpam-systemd:i386 > > policykit-1 > > policykit-1-gnome > > plymouth > > mate-polkit:i386 >

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the > following transcript. > > This page appears relevant. > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html > >

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the > following transcript. > > This page appears relevant. > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html > >

Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread Nils
Hi, Are you sure you still need these journals? Might be some nasty bug and my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs. I mean, it's kind of a hacky solution but I'm absolutely sure this allows the upgrade to continue. Hope it's a viable solution to you, Tuxifan Am 28.

Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

2021-09-28 Thread peter
Hi, Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the following transcript. This page appears relevant. https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html /var/log/journal exists here. The command "systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix