I need some help regarding this problem.
Yesterday I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. Today I got an email saying the user could not create a "tmp" file to do anything.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 46G 46G 0 100% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 789M 82M 708M 11% /run
tmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 864G 4.0G 816G 1% /home
tmpfs 395M 0 395M 0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs 395M 0 395M 0% /run/user/1340
tmpfs 395M 0 395M 0% /run/user/1328
tmpfs 395M 0 395M 0% /run/user/1360
Also tried to find what was using such huge space with:
# find / -xdev -type f -size +200M -exec ls -lh {} \;
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 4.2G Jul 5 16:05 /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5.6G Jul 5 16:05 /var/log/kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16G Jul 5 16:05 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 9.6G Jul 5 16:05 /var/log/daemon.log
I'm not convinced that only 16G of syslog is my whole problem. But Id start with that, if I can make the system usable again. So I check the log just to see, over and over, this messages:
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1 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859352] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
2 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859358] rt2800pci 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)
3 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859359] rt2800pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
4 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco kernel: [66691.859361] rt2800pci 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper
...
Jul 5 15:35:58 beco systemd-udevd[16867]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/u dev_event': No such file or directory
...
24 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco wpa_supplicant[2357]: Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): Cannot allocate memory
25 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco wpa_supplicant[2357]: nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
26 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco wpa_supplicant[2357]: Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): Cannot allocate memory
27 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco wpa_supplicant[2357]: WEXT: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
28 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco wpa_supplicant[2357]: wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface
...
30 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco NetworkManager[1812]: <error> [1436121358.001526] [supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c:856] interface_add_cb(): (w lan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this interface.
31 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco NetworkManager[1812]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting -> down
32 Jul 5 15:35:58 beco systemd-udevd[16870]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/u dev_event': No such file or directory
...
This keeps going. You can see above, its only from 15h35min58s. During one single minute I got more than 7000+ lines added into syslog.
It seems a variety of problems. How can I get out from this EMERGENCY (system is not usable), and then with more calm and time, figure out what to do in the long term?
Thank you,
Beco.
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Dr Beco
A.I. researcher
"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant" -- Alan Greenspan