On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM,
<joe@actionline.com> wrote:
Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went
crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root
partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message.
Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough
files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I then
flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no
messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for about
a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all seemed to
be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog
files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the
most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were
added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the
messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I
figure out what is causing a flare-up like this?
I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link:
http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000
As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per second
before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added
every couple of minutes or so.
Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups
and how to stop it.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages
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What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still get about 10 errors like the one above when I startup, but at least its not the constant log filling that was happening before. I found some documentation listing the BIOS in the SR1700 series of Compaqs as broken.
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt