Filling up of messages and warn

[Duaine Hechler]

Running 11.3

Don't know when it started, probably within the last three months, also
no hardware changes have been done for about a year.

Every few days, /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn keep growing to take
up my root partition - going from 26% to 100%.

How do I stop this ?
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Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Reed Organ Society Member
Florissant, MO 63034
[phone]
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www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
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Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years

[Dave Howorth]

Post by Duaine Hechler
Running 11.3
Don't know when it started, probably within the last three months, also
no hardware changes have been done for about a year.
Every few days, /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn keep growing to take
up my root partition - going from 26% to 100%.
How do I stop this ?

The first step might be to look at the logs and tell us what they contain !?

[Duaine Hechler]

Post by Duaine Hechler
Running 11.3
Don't know when it started, probably within the last three months, also
no hardware changes have been done for about a year.
Every few days, /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn keep growing to take
up my root partition - going from 26% to 100%.

This is one reason why I keep /var on it's own partition...
The other reason is, /var has lots of writing activity
(for example /var/spool/mail and /var/spool/print, which
I do NOT want (for reasons of possible filesystem corruption)
on the same filesystem (root partition) as the OS.

Post by Duaine Hechler
How do I stop this ?

1. Did you READ the messages? Too many people these days
think that everything is supposed to be nothing more than
a visual impression. But that's not the case here --
which is why the log files are filling up with messages,
not "a giant blob which keeps growing bigger and bigger"
1b... After you READ THE MESSAGES, determine what the
problem is, and solve it. It could be anything from
smartd telling you that a disk is going to fail soon
to millions of attempted remote logins. If you don't
READ THE MESSAGES, you won't know what it is.
2. To avoid the root partition filling up (something
which seriously interferes with software updates),
put /var on its own partion.

The logs are filling up with these messages:

And I do know that cx88 is for my TV tuner card

Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859923] cx88[0]: irq vid
[0xffffffff] y_risci1* u_risci1* v_risci1* vbi_risc1*
y_risci2* u_risci2* v_risci2* vbi_risc2* y_oflow* u_oflow* v_oflow*
vbi_oflow* y_sync* u_sync* v_sync* vbi_sync* opc_er
r* par_err* rip_err* pci_abort* 20* 21* 22* 23* 24* 25* 26* 27* 28*
29* 30* 31*
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859965] cx88[0]/0: video
risc op code error
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859969] cx88[0]: video y /
packed - dma channel status dump
initial risc: 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859974] cx88[0]: cmds: cdt
base : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859976] cx88[0]: cmds: cdt
size : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859978] cx88[0]: cmds: iq
base : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859981] cx88[0]: cmds: iq
size : 0xffffffff
risc pc : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859986] cx88[0]: cmds: iq
wr ptr : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859988] cx88[0]: cmds: iq
rd ptr : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859991] cx88[0]: cmds: cdt
current : 0xffffffff
Jan 6 16:15:55 localhost kernel: [135144.859993] cx88[0]: cmds: pci
target : 0xffffffff
line / byte : 0xffffffff
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 1
9 18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 1
9 18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 1
9 18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 1
9 18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0xffffffff [ INVALID sol eol irq2 irq1 23 22 21 20 19
18 cnt1 cnt0 resync 14 13 12 count=4095 ]
0x00180c00 -> 0x183400
0x00180400 -> 0x180460
0xffffffff
0xffffffff
0xffffffff
0xffffffff

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Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Reed Organ Society Member
Florissant, MO 63034
[phone]
***@att.net
www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
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Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years

[Stephan Barth]

Hi,

Post by Duaine Hechler
And I do know that cx88 is for my TV tuner card

Yes, and either the driver is very talkative or there is an issue with it. As
far as I can see that driver is not included in the 11.3 kernel. Where did you
get it from?