Re: Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-02-09 Thread David Baron
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 schrieb: > > > Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow and grow > > > quickly filling the /var filesystem's

Re: Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-01-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* David Baron 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 journalin

Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-01-29 Thread David Baron
This occurs randomly for no seeming reason for USB mice. It will definitely occur if the rodent gets unplugged or at random communications difficulties on wireless mice. It can be caused by other USB devices connected or operating: Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow an