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/var/log filling up way too fast.

Asked by silent_h

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, and starting last week or so, my /var/log directory has been filling up way too fast. It gets to be about 7gb every few days. The main culprits are kern.log and messages. http://paste.ubuntu.com/549392/ has the stack trace that keeps repeating. It seems related to wireless - I do have a wireless card but only use wired ethernet on this computer. I've rebooted and run fsck, and have even had a kernel update during this problem that didn't fix it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

cd /var/log; sudo du -h

Thanks

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silent_h (dhrivnak) said : 		#2

This won't show the real issue because I cleaned /var/log before posting the original issue (my root partition only had 500mb free). I did du -h * because your command only showed the sizes of the directories.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/549436/

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silent_h (dhrivnak) said : 		#3

This won't show the real problem because I cleaned /var/log before posting the original issue (my root partition only had 500mb free). I did du -h * because your command only showed the sizes of the directories.

http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/549436/

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=174861

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silent_h (dhrivnak) said : 		#5

Thanks, actionparsnip, but that only fixes the effect, not the cause. The error stack trace continues to fill the logs, and rotating them more often just hides the problem.

Is there any way to actually fix this?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#6

You should convert this question into a bug against packet ieee80211.

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silent_h (dhrivnak) said : 		#7

Thank you delance! I see the ieee80211 package already noted here - is there anything I need to do to convert it into a bug?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#8

If I remember, there should be a button at bottom of Web page.

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silent_h (dhrivnak) said : 		#9

Created Bug #697284. Thanks all for your help!