[opensuse] Ran out of disk space
Hi All, On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it. I now see a new one with about 1.8KB in size, dated today of course. The only thing I did notice in the way of system activity over the last 2 days was Beagle working overtime, almost continually. Not sure if that is related. Anyone know what could have caused this? Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi All,
On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it. I now see a new one with about 1.8KB in size, dated today of course. The only thing I did notice in the way of system activity over the last 2 days was Beagle working overtime, almost continually. Not sure if that is related.
Anyone know what could have caused this?
Not without the contents of the file. You wouldn't need to examine the entire file. It's likely that all the lines are the same. If it happens again, try tail -100 .xsession-errors instead of trying to view the entire file. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOIjALPWxlyuTD7IRAouOAKCUCEiW9lN80Ptd+BpLMCZuRRBMtQCgp4hZ 9DN5DqhYYs5ABUgE3B3aHWw= =Hpjb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi All,
On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it. I now see a new one with about 1.8KB in size, dated today of course. The only thing I did notice in the way of system activity over the last 2 days was Beagle working overtime, almost continually. Not sure if that is related.
Anyone know what could have caused this?
Not without the contents of the file. You wouldn't need to examine the entire file. It's likely that all the lines are the same.
If it happens again, try tail -100 .xsession-errors instead of trying to view the entire file.
OK, I'll check it tonight. I did leave it running to see if it recurs. Will revert...... Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Flanagan escribió:
OK, I'll check it tonight. I did leave it running to see if it recurs.
If you can reproduce it again, please open a bug report, whatever process that goes mad and fills your harddisk, possible causing a D.o.S is a bug and should be fixed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi All,
On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it. I now see a new one with about 1.8KB in size, dated today of course. The only thing I did notice in the way of system activity over the last 2 days was Beagle working overtime, almost continually. Not sure if that is related.
Anyone know what could have caused this?
Not without the contents of the file. You wouldn't need to examine the entire file. It's likely that all the lines are the same.
If it happens again, try tail -100 .xsession-errors instead of trying to view the entire file.
-Jeff
Well, after running all day and all night, the file has not grown much at all. It does seem to change just by opening and closing windows, konquer etc. Not sure if this will help or not, but here are 2 versions of the file at different times. I do see some errors but am unsure what they mean. This might give someone a clue as to what is going on. xsession-error after up and running all day yesterday, mostly system idle. http://pastebin.com/m56aa5ba7 xsession-error after running all night after a reboot last night. http://pastebin.com/m1143521d In any case I'll keep monitoring and revert back if the thing takes off like before. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Flanagan wrote:
For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size.
Maybe that was bug #338009, even though in this bug the file is not _that_ big. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=338009 for more details. Next time this happens, open a shell and do the following: head -n 1000 .xsession-errors | bzip2 > head.bz2 tail -n 1000 .xsession-errors | bzip2 > tail.bz2 This will save the first and the last 1000 lines of the file, so that we can tell exactly what is going on. These two files should have only a few kilobytes, saving them should take a few seconds at most. Regards nordi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-11-12 at 09:59 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi All,
On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it.
Too bad. next time open it with "less".
Anyone know what could have caused this?
Too late. That file you deleted would have said it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHOL/9tTMYHG2NR9URAnwXAJ4grarkuLHZZEmuBIRSWSRKdNK96wCfdr7h /Co/f97Eizd4lSg+jjro8Ts= =pxuo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2007-11-12 at 09:59 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi All,
On a clean fresh install of oS10.3 done just 3 days ago, I get a notice this morning that I had run out of disk space. Both / and /home in the same partition, a 65GB ext3, freshly formatted. For some reason /home/user/.xsession-errors had grown to about 48GB in size. I don't have a clue as to why that happened, and opening it was taking too long so I just deleted it.
Too bad. next time open it with "less".
Anyone know what could have caused this?
Too late. That file you deleted would have said it.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Yeah I know, but it was so big and the system partition was so full I wanted to get rid of it before the install locked up. I guess I could have moved it to another partition, but it was early and still a very big file. I'm monitoring now to see if it recurs. The new small file has not been touched since early this morning shortly after it was created. I've had beagle off during the day is the only difference that I know of. Beagle is now back on. Will revert. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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