On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:58:15 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
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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??
Um, just a shot in the dark, but it's probably spewing some message over and over. Maybe you should take a look at that.
Sounds only too computer-likely; but how do I look? Maybe if I startx for root, and get into that messages file with nautilus and gedit ...
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.
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Read the error message that's repeated millions of times, and investigate that.
Will do; or at least post it if I do find it. Stay tuned.