> On 2023-01-03, at 4:40 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 03:35:37PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> This has been annoying me for some time but since I'm waiting for yet another TestRunner run I have a moment to whine about it.
>> 
>> On my Pi I have no problems with the /etc/security/limits.d/squeak.conf file. Well, none that I know of. If I run a system from commandline there is no complaint about it.
>> 
>> On my x86 ubuntu machine I created the file. It has the same permissions as on the pi, and the same content, and the owner in both cases is root. If I run a system from a commandline the first thing I see is a complaint about needing the damn file!
>> 
>> What can I do to solve this? Is it simply the VM code being mistaken? Is there some other ubuntu related security dance we have to do?
>> 
> 
> Log out completely from your shell session, and then log back in. 

Oh, done that many times with no change in result :-(

> 
> If that doesn't work, unplug the computer and wait for the disk drive
> to come to a complete halt, wait another 30 seconds, then plug it back
> in and see if it starts working. Just kidding, kinda.

Tried that several times too. This is really weird.


tim
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