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  • Linux Where You Least Expect It

    A price / coupon scanner in a nearby CVS evidently woke up dead:

    CVS Price Scanner - Linux boot screen
    CVS Price Scanner – Linux boot screen

    Yup, it’s a Linux console boot log, with the last line suggesting something horrible happened inside the device mapper:

    A start job is running for dev-mapper-cryptswap1.device

    The systemd timing status shows it’s been stuck for a while and has no hope of rescue:

    (2d 1h 41min 10s / no limit)

    I’d reboot that sucker if it had a keyboard …