After noticing very high cpu performance (without any reason) i shutted down, a crash message appeared (didnt remember wich). I sended report but then the mashine didnt shut down and two “ok” green messages appeared for a long time. I pushed alt ctrl del and now starts with the message:
Welcome to opensuse 13.1 “bottle”-kernel 3.11.10.7-desktop (tty1). Any idea for what should i do please?
My VT reports the same. What’s the problem?
I guess the problem is that the system is booting to text mode instead of graphical mode, right?
Well, what graphics card/drivers are you using?
Does “Recovery Mode” work? (in “Advanced Options” in the boot menu)
Probably you shut down your system when it was installing updates? That’s always a bad idea.
It doesnt start on desktop. I tried startx as super user . It tries to start normally but then the message ‘low disk space in folder home’ appears . I chose the option to open file managerto free some space and nothong happens. I get a black screen. What are the steps that i should do to recover?
OK, then your / partition is full I suppose. (root’s home directory is on the / partition, whereas a normal user’s home directory normally is on a separate partition called /home)
So try to make some space there.
Things that should be safe to delete:
everything in /tmp/ and /var/tmp/, /var/cache/zypp/.
You could do that in text mode, by using “rm” or a filemanager like mc (I’m not sure if that is installed by default though).
That should hopefully give you enough space for logging in at least.
You can check the free space on your / partition with:
df -h /
Seems to be solved.
The steps that I followed was:
df -h
and found that the dev/sda7 was full of space
cd /var/log
ll -rSh
and found that the largest files were the “warn” and “messages” files
then
cp /dev/null warn
cp /dev/null messages
alt ctrl del
and now i managed to start normally in my desktop as usual.
The thing is to find out what caused the problem
You could have just deleted them as well:
rm messages warn
and now i managed to start normally in my desktop as usual.
The thing is to find out what caused the problem
Yes. You only fixed the symptom, i.e. disk full. If you don’t fix the cause, it might happen again.
Since you purged the files, there is no way to see what they did contain though.
Maybe keep an eye of their size, and have a look at their content when they start to grow too big again.
Btw, how big were they?
On 2014-05-03 14:26, phaethon wrote:
> and now i managed to start normally in my desktop as usual.
> The thing is to find out what caused the problem
Well, you should have looked inside those files to find out! Now that
you deleted the logs, you can not find out the reason.
To read the files you could have used “less filename”.
“Hopefully”, the problem will still be there and the logs will start to
fill up again.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
both of them 13 GB. Thanks for the interest.
On 2014-05-03 18:56, phaethon wrote:
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> wolfi323;2641003 Wrote:
>> Maybe keep an eye of their size, and have a look at their content when
>> they start to grow too big again.
>>
>> Btw, how big were they?
>
> both of them 13 GB. Thanks for the interest.
Well, typically something was seriously wrong and writing thousands of
entries to the log, probably repeated. It is just a question of having a
look at the logs and find out what are those repeated entries.
And probably, it also happened after the logs were rotated the last
time. If not, have a look at the old, compressed, rotated logs, to see
if you find unusual things there.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)