When I start up the computer, I get the following error when trying to log in as mythtv:
GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home directory could not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not possible to log in. Please contact your system administrator.

I can log in as mythtv from ssh, and can log in as root from the frontend.

df reveals the following:


I deleted a nuv file in the /myth/tv directory, so there's definitely room. What's up with that full /dev/hda1?

Check your logs in /var/log and subdirs. Something could have gone wrong that is causing zillions of log messages,

Have no idea what I'm looking for...
I notice that it is no longer loading my wireless driver during startup.

You would be looking for a LARGE log file to start with. Then you would be looking in that log file to see what is filling it up.

How can I find out the size of the log files?

Incidentally, I notice this seems to have occured shortly after I tried to burn my first DVD. Could this be at issue? Where do DVDs store their caches while burning? Could it be in /dev/hda1?

Hm, kern.log seems to be 200MB in size.
An inspection reveals thousands of instances of things like the following example:
[quote]ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW #7533 Stealing a buffer, 1025 currently allocated.[\quote]

OK, deleting most of the contents of kernel.log and messages.log (199 MB) seem to have got it working again...
What happened?

What do you mean what happened? From reading this thread, everything that happened is contained in it...

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Sorry, to be more precise, what caused it, and how do I avoid it in the future?

It looks to me like the main cause is that KnoppMyth only creates a ~2.5Gb for the root partition. This is fine for the default install, but if you start making any changes (or your log files start to go hog wild), you can run out of space quickly. I needed to compile a custom kernel for my HD tuner, and that filled the root partition pretty quickly. I could be wrong, but I think that you can change the partition sizes at installation time. Otherwise, you just need to clean it out once in a while, I guess.

- Stealth Dave

increasing the patition size will only give these runaway logs more room to fill

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Hi raffir,

Ran in to something simular to your problem a while ago,
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... ght=#29858 and you can do a copy and paste of the script there to cleanup the 'big' files.

The first time it happened to me I didn't have a clue, I'm still clueless but now know how to get big files cleaned up. However, you will have to figure out exactly what is causing the error so it doesn't happen again.

Hope this is helpful to you.
Mike

Thank you ver much, had same problem and this fixed it right up, thanks again!

--Michael Kory Woods

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Hi panth0r,

Happy to hear that you are good to go again! Be sure to check for the cause of the big logs as it was trying to tell you something is not set up properly.

Mike