Request for explanation of error message

Sat Jul 27 19:04:09 UTC 2019

On 28/07/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/07/2019, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> At Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:54:19 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not
>> for
>> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Can someone please advise as to what the following error indicates?
>>>
>>> The below is a subset of multiple repetitions of the error, with the
>>> number in the square brackets, immediately after the word "kernel",
>>> progressively increasing in each line.
>>>
>>> The error message appearsat the command line console ( <CTRL><ALT><F1>
>>> ), and, in /var/log/syslog , from whence the extract is copied.
>>>
>>> "
>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053210] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053216] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053219] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053221] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996887] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996893] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996896] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996898] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059307] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059314] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
>>> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059316] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>>> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059318] pcieport
>>> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>>> "
>>>
>>> "
>>> uname -v
>>> #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2 18:22:20 UTC 2019
>>> bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ uname -a
>>> Linux bret-MD34045-2521 4.15.0-55-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2
>>> 18:22:20 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> "
>>>
>>> Whilst I do not know how to get uname to show the Ubuntu version
>>> number, the console shows it as 18.04.2 .
>>
>> What does
>>
>> lspci
>>
>> display?
>>
>> Specificly, what sort of device is at
>>
>> 00:1d.0
>>
>> ?
>>
>> It looks like whatever is at the point of the PCI bus is having trouble.
>>
>> Also: what does the dmesg command display?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>>
>>
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>
> I have made two attempts to reply to the above message. They have
> apparently failed.
>
> My / partition has been progressively filled, over the last few hours;
> df -h shows the partition size to be 92GB.
>
> The /home partition is a separate partition, of about the same (92GB) size.
>
> I will try to reboot, to find whether that clears the muck from the /
> partition.
>

I rebooted the computer, and, it did not go to the GUI lohin screen -
it stopped at a console login screen.

So, I logged in at the console, and then ran
sudo apt autoclean
and then it went straight to the GUI login screen.

The autoclean appears to have freed up 2.3GB out of the 60-odd GB that
nappears to be full of muck.

"
bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G  1.6M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/sda7        92G   85G  2.2G  98% /
tmpfs            16G  4.0M   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0      128K  128K     0 100% /snap/software-boutique/39
/dev/loop1      8.0M  8.0M     0 100% /snap/pulsemixer/23
/dev/loop7       88M   88M     0 100% /snap/core/5328
/dev/loop2      161M  161M     0 100% /snap/midori/451
/dev/loop3       72M   72M     0 100% /snap/software-boutique/31
/dev/loop4       87M   87M     0 100% /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/335
/dev/loop5       89M   89M     0 100% /snap/core/7270
/dev/loop8      8.0M  8.0M     0 100% /snap/pulsemixer/250
/dev/loop6       88M   88M     0 100% /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/199
/dev/sda1        96M   31M   66M  32% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8        92G   63G   25G  73% /home
tmpfs           3.2G   44K  3.2G   1% /run/user/1000
"

Well, it appears to have been overturned, because, then, I got a no
free space left on device warning - 0GB left on /  .

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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