Request for explanation of error message

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:26:41PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 28.07.2019, 03:17 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> > 
> > In looking at folders in / , I find
> > /var is 81.5GB
> > 
> > /var/log is 78.9GB
> > 
> > /var/log/lightdm is 48.3GB
> > 
> > /var/log/journal is 1.5GB
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > Xorg.0.log.old is 29.1GB (can I delete that?)
> 
> yes, it will be re-created on next Xorg startup
> 
> > 
> > Should that lightdm thing really be that big?
> 
> no, it should definitely not ...
> 
> do you have logrotate installed (this is typically in every default
> ubuntu install and makes sure to compress logs and rotate them so not
> too much space gets used up in /var/log)
> 
> check with:
> 
> dpkg -l | grep logrotate
These are the directory sizes, while logrotate can compress old ones there is not 
a good reason for Gb of log messages. The pci problem suggests
an infinite mesage loop -I used to get that all the time from
misconfigured nullmaileri this may be a hardware issue. Just tail the most recent file in the directories
and see if it is a repeated message. 

It may be worth reducing runlevel or booting single user etc until
you can kill whatever generates this and sort it out. 







> 
> ciao
> 	oli



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