Mike,
The most common reason to run out of space on /var
is that some of the log files in /var/log are incredibly
large. Try truncating or deleting some of the logs in
/var/log like old copies of the messages log to free some
space.
Kathy Bieltz
Michael Klama wrote:
> Larry,
> You are absolutely right. df -h revealed that /var is filled to
> capacity...absolutely no free space left. Being the amateur that I am,
> would it be possible for you to give me a clue as to how I can move files
> out of the /var directory to another directory? Or, better yet, is there a
> way to allocate some of the free space that I have in another directory into
> the /var directory? I really appreciate your help.
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Larry Grover
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Running a windows program on a linux box
>
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:38:53 Michael Klama wrote:
> > Hello Larry,
> > It is a grim day here, not only because of what has happened around
> > our
> > country but also because of a win4lin installation problem. I am
> > hoping
> > that you can help me with this problem. After the first step of the
> > installation, I am required to reboot. When I reboot, my machine
> > comes to
> > the graphical login at which point I enter my username and password
> > and hit
> > enter and I receive the following error: Startup program
> > /etc/X11/xdm/Give
> > Console exited with non zero status. Click ok to retry. At this
> > point it
> > takes me back to the graphical login and it starts all over. If you
> > or
> > anyone else can help me to restore my system and let me finish this
> > installation, I would greatly appreciate it.
> > Thank you
> > Mike
>
> I've never had, nor heard of, this problem myself, so I'm guessing
> here -- maybe the partition which holds /var on your system out of
> free space?
>
> Here's why I'm guessing this:
>
> -/etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole is a very short script which does 2 things:
> changes ownership of /dev/console and runs sessreg
> (/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg) which adds an entry to u/wtmp (in /var/log).
> I'd expect this to fail if there is no free space in /var.
>
> -the Win4Lin installer puts its files into /var/win4lin/, including
> the win4lin rpms (which go into /var/win4lin/installer_tmp/). On the
> machine I'm at right now, /var/win4lin has 138M of files. While
> you've probably got less in your /var/win4lin directory (mine has the
> downloads from several upgrades in it) -- it was probably enough to
> fill up the remaining free space on that partition, precipitating the
> problem you have now.
>
> How to fix this? You need to get into this system -- use you favorite
> rescue medium (your rescue disk, redhat CD, tomsrtbt, linuxcare BBC,
> etc -- or maybe you can ssh/telnet it from another system?) to get
> into the system and find out how much free space you have on the
> partition which holds /var ("df -h"). If I guessed right, you won't
> have any free space left on this partition, so you'll need to make
> some. Move some of the files in /var to another partition or delete
> some -- but be sure not to move/delete anything important.
>
> If I guessed wrong then you'll need to get help from someone else.
> Maybe somebody else on this list will have some better advice, or you
> could try 2 other places:
>
> -The netraverse techsupport web page
> (http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=supporthome -- click
> on the "ask a question" link to get an online tech support form to
> fill out -- when I've had a question in the past, someone from
> netraverse has answered quickly and accurately).
>
> -The win4lin-users mailing list (sign up at
> http://www.netraverse.com/support/maillists.php). This list has some
> really knowledgable and helpful people on it (including several of the
> netraverse people). It's a good resouce, and you may want to
> subscribe to it anyway, if you decide to keep on using Win4Lin.
>
> I hope this helps you out.
>
> --
> Larry Grover, PhD
> Assoc Prof of Physiology
> Marshall Univ Sch of Med
>
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