On 2/22/20 1:56 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
On my initial 9.1 (sysv) build, I've now discovered why the system
was all-but full : a combination of log noise from pulseaudio (which
I new about, and logrotate was only rotating weekly.
I saw that sys.log was about 3.5G so I manually ran logrotate.
Nothing happened and I now notice that user.log is similarly huge.
Checked the conf against the manpage, got it to
After altering /etc/logrotate.conf to put a size on those two,
instead of 'weekly', it rotated them.
ken@deluxe ~ $ls -lh /var/log/
total 85M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Feb 22 18:22 auth.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.3K Feb 19 22:31 boot.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 15 20:57 btmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 16 19:20 chrony
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.3K Feb 22 18:22 cron.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 16 23:57 cups
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K Feb 22 18:40 daemon.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K Feb 16 19:43 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 17:10 kern.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root utmp 286K Feb 16 19:43 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79K Feb 22 17:58 mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 19:05 pm-dummy.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.4K Feb 22 17:12 pm-powersave.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.5K Feb 22 17:12 pm-suspend.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 9.2M Feb 22 18:44 sys.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34M Feb 22 18:36 sys.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.4M Feb 22 18:44 user.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34M Feb 22 18:36 user.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Feb 19 22:31 wtmp
So, in about 8 minutes I'm getting over 8MB in user.log (sys.log
gets other things apart from pulse, but looking at user.log it's all
pulse. First 100 lines below, it seems to just be looping through
everything.
When I first saw this I managed to stop pulse (for the moment I
haven't managed to connect any analogue output and get that working),
but it looks as if playing video clips in firefox restarts it.
Any suggestions for taming pulse, please ?
ĸen
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:11 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-lineout
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Hardware
volume ranges from -128.00 dB to 0.00 dB.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Fixing base
volume to 0.00 dB
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware volume control. Hardware dB scale supported.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Using
hardware mute control.
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Changed port of sink 1
"alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo" to analog-output-headphones
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] core.c: default_sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.6.analog-stereo ->
alsa_output.pci-0000_09_00.1.hdmi-stereo
Feb 22 18:37:12 deluxe pulseaudio[1487]: [pulseaudio] alsa-sink.c: Successfully
enabled deferred volume.
This is why I don't use pulseaudio. It is not needed alsa in sufficent.
I suggest make uninstall. Or in my case rpm -e pulseaudio.
This is also why I always use a package manager as it is really easy to
fix issues like these amongst other issues.
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