clemens fischer wrote:
"too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..."
It was my fault after all. Maybe you'd have found it, if I had posted the entire fcrontab command: @mail(1),first(5) 8h ${tellit} "pacman sync"; \ { pacman --noprogressbar -Sy && pacman --noprogressbar -Qu || :; } 2>&1 and ${tellit} is: tellit="/root/bin/screen_backtick.sh -u root -b0" and screen_backtick.sh calls my very own eventlogger, which is a shell interface to mq_overview(7), the posix message queues. There are a number of writers in my systems sending status messages to be displayed in the screen/tmux status line. After switching to tmux, I increased the rate at which these messages are dequeued and displayed, so the queues filled up. There's resource limiter in eventlogger: if too many messages are queued, the STORM pseudo-message is shown to indicate an error. It so happens that STORM is set to "too much happens". I should have known better: If I am the only person with some problem, it just might be my fault ... clemens