Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-15 Thread Michael Butash
Things like that have always been hardware or acpi/bios errors for me, basically power management is broken. You can remove whatever hardware you can (or disable it at a bios level), and try looking for a bios upgrade. Maybe force APM mode and/or disable ACPI as JD said via kernel or bios. L

Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-14 Thread JD Austin
Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704 What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still get about 10 errors like the

RE: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-14 Thread Carruth, Rusty
x27; for a 'long time' (relative to past experiences). Just a few thunks Rusty -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of j...@actionline.com Sent: Fri 9/14/2012 6:47 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: why /var/log

Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-14 Thread James Mcphee
You could try patching you system and updating your BIOS. I don't recommend turning off acpi if you can avoid it. You may suppress repeated messages if it gets to burdensome until a patch is released. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, wrote: > Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog

why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-14 Thread joe
Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough files to regain enough file s