by Marnes » Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:08 pm
I've been running arch on a raspi2b for a little over a year with what I think is relative success, and miscellaneous distros (mosly arch-based) on pc for a few years for very sporadic use. I'm a programmer irl and spend a lot of time on tech, so I'm not a total idiot, but the intricacies and jargon of certain aspects of linux distros are still like quantum computing to me and there's only so deep 1 person can dig into the plumbing of a system he only uses for a hobby before just getting fed up with it and throwing the stuff back into the closet... So yeah, not a linux pro but it's not like I don't understand what a binary or terminal is and does
I just dont know what's supposed to look how to be correct (besides the obvious), what is and isn't safe to do or delete, how some aspects of the kernel environment work, etc.
Since some moment many months ago, I've started getting an error during kernel updates/mkinitcpio runs:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '=')=> WARNING: No modules were added to the image. This is probably not what you want.
Things never actually go really wrong, my kernel gets updated like it should and I can reboot all I want without problems. I've always been googling any error messages I get, and I can usually fix things, but this one keeps eluding me. None of the info and solutions I've found have done anything, and I can't make any meaningful conclusions from my own observations when running certain commands and checking certain files.
Aside from that, I just keep getting minor errors left and right, it seems there are little broken things all over my system and I can't find information on them.
I'm just gonna post some hopefully relevant debugging information here and ask if someone could please go over things and tell me if something looks wrong and what to do about it. I know, it's a broad question... I just don't know the exact problem either. I have a metaphorical machine and when I turn it on, it makes loud abnormal clanging noises, and that's all I know.
My system setup in a nutshell is an sdcard with a small vfat partition for booting (as required by raspi and iirc it came out of the box with the iso from this project), and a large btrfs partition with all my stuff on it. I control my raspi via ssh from my pc or phone, only hooking up a keyboard and screen when all hands need to be on deck.
Upon ssh login (fairly new warning, nothing to be found on google):
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'u')nicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/0
My /boot seems in order, with the kernel file having the timestamp from the latest build and all. I read in one forum post that the problem could be having your system set up for kernel version x while at runtime kernel y is loaded - I don't think I'm having that here (anymore).