System crash - now shows "no space on device"

[Carruth, Rusty]

I don't know if this will fix your running out of space issue (mine is
usually a disk drive spewing error messages at a VERY high rate of speed
- like gigabytes of messages per hour), but:

Your SNMP (simple network management protocol) daemon is complaining
about something - a lot (Google is your friend, probably)

That message from klogd about ACPI is disconcerting, I'd search Google
about that even though there aren't that many entries in the log about
it.

In any case, get SNMP to stop complaining and your log will be smaller.


IMHO, Adding 682 entries upon bootup is nothing to worry about, really
(unless you boot every few hours :-) - in which case I'd say don't boot
every few hours :-)) - it's the ones that keep on coming that eat up
space.

Rusty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-
> discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> joe at actionline.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:12 AM
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> Subject: RE: System crash - now shows "no space on device"
> 
> 
> Thanks Rusty ... here's some more details:
> 
> > Unfortunately, once you've deleted /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/syslog
> > (and /var/log/kern*) any chance of knowing what happened is probably
> lost,
> > because those logs contained the spewing that was either the cause
of
> the
> > failure, or the information about the failure.
> 
> Fortunately, I did not delete all the messages and I still have them
> from
> mid-August forward. The number of entries is huge: 395,450 entries in
> /var/log/messages for two days (Sept 2nd through 3rd). I shut the
> system
> down last night about 8 pm to stop it from posting more error
messages,
> then restarted it this morning, Sept 4.
> 
> In the first 1.5 hours, it added 682 new entries to messages that I
> posted
> at this link:
> 
> http://www.upquick.com/temp/messagesSep4.txt
> 
> Here are the current 'df' results:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              12G  9.8G  1.5G  88% /
> tmpfs                 473M     0  473M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda6             168G   23G  145G  14% /home
> 
> 
> So, how can I find out what all these error messages mean and what
> changes
> I need to make to stop this huge ongoing posting of error messages?
> 
> Also, since /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog seem to be
redundant,
> can I safely delete one or the other (and which)?
> 
> 
> 
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