[mythtv-users] MythTV error log Filled Hard drive.
E Norm One
enorm1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 20:13:21 UTC 2005
Chris Gackstatter wrote:
> In the process of installing a PVR-500, I got MythTV caught is some sort of
> loop. Prior to this I had about 235 GB free on my hard drive. When Myth
> stopped working I checked the mythbackend log that is out put on the screen
> and a saw repeating messages saying my hard drive is full or something to
> that effect. Being that machine was locked up a did a reboot of the
> machine. The Machine on which I run my backend is a headless pc that sits
> in my equipment closet in the basement. The only access I have to the
> machine is to VNC into in from my windows machine.
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When (and if) you get this machine up and running again - make sure that
you have a sshd deamon running as well. As a small-footprint backup for
vnc.
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> After the reboot I can VNC into the machine only to see a blank green
> screen.
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> Being that I can still Samba into the machine with the backend and see all
> the files. I suspect what has happen is that MythTV filled up my hard drive
> with some sort of error log file and now there is not enough hard drive
> space to start FC4 xWindows.
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> Can someone tell me which file might contain this large error log, and how
> do I get rid of it?
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Typically such logs will be located under /var/log
eg: Gentoo locates those files under /var/log/mythtv
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> Or if I missed the point completely and you direct me how to fix this
> problem.
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> Being that I am not a Linux guy I am sure I used some wrong term here to
> describe the problem. Please ask question if you need more detail.
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Are you able to temporily move some of the .nuv files to your Windoze
machine and reboot? That might give the space you need.
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