why /var/log/messages went crazy?

[JD Austin]

Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704

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


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, <joe at 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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