https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469872 Summary: zypper infinite loop logfile -> 20G as fast as the disk can write it Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5 Twice now zypper has consumed all of the available space on /var I eventually found this /var/log/zypper.log 2009-01-23 02:11:42 <2> jb(23999) [zypper] prompt.cc(read_action_ari_with_timeout):129 Unknown char 377 over and over and over again. 10's of thousands of times, often many thousands per second. This was zypper being run out of cron, apparently, for an automatic update. This is a very serious issue! I have had to disable automatic updates until this is fixed. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.