On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> One of my F9 machines -- actually my #1 main machine -- started
> having display problems. I see this a lot, because my hardware isn't
> really up to date enough to handle my monitor optimally. So I tried a
> couple of tricks that usually help, and they didn't.
>
> Then I thought to run baobab. Lo and behold, I was running out of
> space -- because /var/log shows up consuming 54 GB of space! Yes, fifty-
> four gigs.
>
> What could be causing this, and what do i do about it??
>
> At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as
> root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. So I
> can't run Pan, and can't c&p directly between anything in it (including
> this list!) and the CLI.
>
> I can still do what I'm doing now: access the list via Pan on
> another machine, and go back & forth with my KVM switch; but it makes it
> hard, for instance, to post things like a list of contents for /var/log,
> or any whole file in it.
>
> Obviously, I want to cut /var/log with electronic double-bitted
> axes in both hands, to get to my user's GUI again; and to find the source
> of the bloat and correct it.
>
> What should I do first??
----
from command line, cut down your large log files by locating them...
# find /var/log -type f -size +2000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print
$8 ": " $5 }'
and any file that is really large (i.e. /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
command line empty it...
# > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
if startx only works as root, it sounds as if some permission isn't
correct (possibly /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not 644, readable by all users).
Of course if that were the issue, /var/log/Xorg.0.log would tell you
that or if it were some other permissions issue, the problem would
probably be listed in /var/log/messages
On Fedora 9, it often is enough to just do something like
# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-bak
# shutdown now -r
and it is automatically rebuilt upon reboot
Craig
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