[mythtv-users] OT: Linux problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Damian,

Sunday, September 27, 2015, 10:09:45 PM, you wrote:

> On 19/09/2015 11:57, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On 19/09/15 12:23, Damian wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It had a bit less space than this, but I just cleared some files,
>>> rebooted the server, and rebooted one of my computers that connects to
>>> the server. It's still having the same problem, but there should be more
>>> than enough space on there.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>
>>
>> Hm... you are using samba, right? Connecting from both Linux and 
>> Windows clients using the SMB protocols?
>>
>> IMHO, the key is the logs. Since my installation is Fedora (and just 
>> works ;) ) I don't have the Ubuntu setup at hand. It might be that 
>> samba logs in /var/log/samba, dunno. But you really need to find the 
>> server error message; the cripled information from the client can be 
>> just any problem.
>>
>> A quick google gives me [1]. Basically, I would try something like that.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --alec
>>
>> [1] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/ch04_08.html
> Thanks for this Alec,

> I've just looked in /var/log/samba and the most recent files in there 
> are 7 days old. I'm having this problem multiple times per day, so it 
> looks like an error isn't getting reported on the server end (unless I'm
> missing something).

> The 7 days old files are all 0 bytes.
> There are also some *.1.gz files, but the most recent of them is from 
> the 19th September.

> I have also taken a look at the link you posted, but I'm afraid it's way
> beyond my level of comprehension! :-)

> Cheers,
> Damian

Are you perhaps out of inodes on your logging volume?
`df` gives you info about space used/free on all volumes
`df -i` gifes info on the inodes.


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