On Monday 30 January 2012 12:19:06 David Baron wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:50:45 > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > > wrote: > > * David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> schrieb: > > > Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow and grow > > > quickly filling the /var filesystem's partition. I mean 10's of > > > gigabytes. The system still works but is now crippled, anything really > > > needing /var like mail is borked. So is ext3 journaling. > > > > Which messages exactly ? > > Messages about (missing?) mouse events. Honestly, I have not actually read > them in a long time (as I said, this is not a new problem).
Just tailed them before deleting the runaway logs--zillions of:e Feb 9 20:54:04 dovidhalevi /usr/sbin/gpm[3533]: *** err [daemon/getmousedata.c(47)]: Feb 9 20:54:04 dovidhalevi /usr/sbin/gpm[3533]: Error in read()ing first: No such device Top (or equivalent) will show gpm eating cpu cycles and additonally, user "logcheck" is running "egrep." I need to kill both of them to quiet things down. This problem likely only for USB mice. Pain. Actually, since xorg does its own mousing around, for what do I really need gpm? Nvidia's driver renders consoles mostly unusable anyway. Maybe the work around is simply not to run gpm at all. It can always be started if need be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202092108.29716.d_ba...@012.net.il
