Request for explanation of error message

[Bret Busby]

On 28/07/2019, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>


The PCI error is repeated, and, is for a single device;

device [8086:a298]

from

"
[ 3518.680157] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
[ 3518.680163] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error:
severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e8(Receiver ID)
[ 3518.680166] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error
status/mask=00000001/00002000
[ 3518.680168] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
[ 3583.968465] pcieport 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
"

"
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root
Port #9 (rev f0)
"

I have no idea as to what is that device; othe than a "PCI bridge" (?).

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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