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glenn69

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 125

Boot up problems

Upon booting up my machine today I noticed some FAIL lines on the boot screen.

The following failures occurred:
- Syslog-NG

-D-BUS System messagbus
   (failed to start message bus: failed to close "var/run/dbus.pid": No space left on device

- Cron
   ( mkdtemp: No space left on device)

- Hardware Abstraction Layer
 
Prior to this boot up everything was normal.  My last pacman update updated the following packages:
hdparm (9.36-1 -> 9.37-1)
libvpx (0.9.6-1 -> 0.9.6-2)
sox (14.3.1-2 -> 14.3.2-1)
tzdata (2011b-1 -> 2011c-1)
nvidia
kernel ( however I used the fallback kernel with the same results)

The end result is that I cannot start X system.  I get a text login. 
If I type mount with no options, I get nothing.  Nothing is mounted?  But I am able to display my directories with ls?  cfdisk shows my hard drive and partitions.
df -h results in -> cannot read table of mounted file systems

Where do I start?

I am panicking a bit because this is my work computer and I need to be up and running today.

Thanks for any help you can offer

Last edited by glenn69 (2011-03-10 16:08:05)

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: Boot up problems

looks like you are running out of disk space.

lagagnon

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Re: Boot up problems

To be on the safe side you should have a "/" partition of about 10GB, that will allow you to install the basics plus X graphics (~3GB) plus a bunch of other packages as you desire. You can use any Live Linux CD that contains the "gparted" application to alter the sizes of your partitions. There is also a gparted Live CD available for buring somewhere on the Internet.

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bohoomil

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Re: Boot up problems

Found this -- http://stason.org/TULARC/os/linux-faq/1 … stems.html -- and sounds somehow familiar.

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Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Boot up problems

Boot the install iso, chroot, pacman -Scc, du -sh /var/log, same with /tmp. Uninstall stuff you don't use etc

Edit: reinstall the packages pacman was working on when you ran out of space too.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2011-03-10 17:14:01)

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glenn69

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Registered: 2007-09-26

Posts: 125

Re: Boot up problems

du -sh /var/log results in 22GB.  That sound excessive to me.  How do I know what is OK to remove from there?

Thanks

whatshisname

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 163

Re: Boot up problems

Remove all your *.log.1,2,3,4 files to begin with.

I ran out of space on my "/" partition a couple of weeks ago.  Removing my pacman cache of uninstalled packages freed up a lot of space.  Do that with:

pacman -Sc

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Boot up problems

du -sh /var/log results in 22GB.  That sound excessive to me.  How do I know what is OK to remove from there?

Thanks

You should check exactly which logs are being spammed by what, so that you could fix the problem instead of just treating the symptome.

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