Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:43AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the
> > logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs.
> > (haven't looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below is a
> > sample of 'debug'. 'kern.log' and 'syslog' have the same messages. you
> > can tell by the time stamps that something is going wild in my system.
> >
> >
> >
> > Feb  7 10:50:26 localhost kernel: evbug.c: Event. Dev:
> > isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 31
>
> my understanding is that evbug is strictly for debugging (hence the
> big output). Unless you are specifically using it you should rmmod it
> and blacklist it or remove it from your kernel altogether.
>
> interestingly, I don't find it in my modules anywhere (sid here) but I
> seem to recall it in earlier kernels. I wonder if you are stuck in a
> transition -- some upgrade has removed it from your blacklists, but
> its still in the kernel and getting inserted automatically.
>
>

getting rid of evbug does it, but haven't been able to blacklist the thing. my 
modprobe.d/blacklist says:

	# evbug is a debug tool and should be loaded explicitly
	blacklist evbug

but it's still firing at bootup.

thanks,

tom