5 Mar
2012
5 Mar
'12
8:08 a.m.
All,
TDE crash on start:
The big issue is that TDE crashes on start without any apparent error or
anything written to .xsession-errors. After selecting the username from the
chooser list in tdm and entering the password, the following occurs:
(1) login appears to proceed
(2) normal black background and default X-cursor appears
(3) 3-5 additional seconds of load takes place, then
(4) tde crashes and tdm login re-appears.
So I look around to find out if there are any clues. None apparent.
/var/tmp/kdecache-root was created, but nothing in it, then I check disk space
left. WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my / partition and I have no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
I could not preserve the file because I had no way to compress it and git it
out of my virtual machine. I'll restart and try and capture a smaller log. What
in the heck could be causing tdm.log to explode like this? I know it would help
to see what was inside, but that will have to wait until I can get shared
folders setup and get another log out of the VM....
Anybody else ever experience this?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
5 Mar
5 Mar
8:31 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
All,
TDE crash on start:
The big issue is that TDE crashes on start without any apparent error or
anything written to .xsession-errors. After selecting the username from
the
chooser list in tdm and entering the password, the following occurs:
(1) login appears to proceed
(2) normal black background and default X-cursor appears
(3) 3-5 additional seconds of load takes place, then
(4) tde crashes and tdm login re-appears.
So I look around to find out if there are any clues. None apparent.
/var/tmp/kdecache-root was created, but nothing in it, then I check disk
space
left. WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my / partition and I have
no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
I could not preserve the file because I had no way to compress it and
git it
out of my virtual machine. I'll restart and try and capture a smaller log.
What
in the heck could be causing tdm.log to explode like this? I know it would
help
to see what was inside, but that will have to wait until I can get shared
folders setup and get another log out of the VM....
Anybody else ever experience this?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Not I, and this sounds pretty nasty. I'd love to have a look inside. ;-)
Tim
8:32 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
All,
TDE crash on start:
The big issue is that TDE crashes on start without any apparent error or
anything written to .xsession-errors. After selecting the username from the
chooser list in tdm and entering the password, the following occurs:
(1) login appears to proceed
(2) normal black background and default X-cursor appears
(3) 3-5 additional seconds of load takes place, then
(4) tde crashes and tdm login re-appears.
So I look around to find out if there are any clues. None apparent.
/var/tmp/kdecache-root was created, but nothing in it, then I check disk space
left. WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my / partition and I have no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
I could not preserve the file because I had no way to compress it and git it
out of my virtual machine. I'll restart and try and capture a smaller log. What
in the heck could be causing tdm.log to explode like this? I know it would help
to see what was inside, but that will have to wait until I can get shared
folders setup and get another log out of the VM....
Anybody else ever experience this?
You could at least look at its 'tail'. Looks like someone flooded with
error message in endless loop.
8:38 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
On 03/05/2012 10:08 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my /
partition and I have no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
Happened again, and I stopped tdm. However, the tdm, tdm_greet, and some trinity
task named 'tsak' kept running and filled the filesystem up again. So I rebooted
and restarted tdm again, immediately stopped it, then tried manually killing
tdm, tdm_greet and tsak. tsak stopped, but I had to kill -9 tdm and tdm_greet. I
was typing fast, but still ended up with 250M tdm.log. That one I'm saving and
I'll report back after I get it compressed and off the box.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
9:04 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
On 03/05/2012 10:38 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/05/2012 10:08 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
The answer is..... :
Mar 5 10:32:46 tdm_config[677] info: Cannot open master configuration file
/opt/trinity/share/config/tdm/tdmdistrc
X.Org X Server 1.11.4
Release Date: 2012-01-27
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.2-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux valkyrie 3.2.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27
21:51:46 CET 2012 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1570fb5b-7b73-4d40-a7ed-2f31bbb8b440
ro vga=0x318
Build Date: 29 January 2012 03:38:00PM
Current version of pixman: 0.24.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Mar 5 10:32:47 2012
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) AIGLX error: vboxvideo does not export required DRI extension
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(EE) VirtualBox USB Tablet: failed to initialize for relative axes.
Found 1 keyboard(s)
Reading from keyboard: (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard+tsak
Device created.
Hotplug monitoring process started
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
<.... snip billions more...>
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my /
partition and I have no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
Happened again, and I stopped tdm. However, the tdm, tdm_greet, and some trinity
task named 'tsak' kept running and filled the filesystem up again. So I rebooted
and restarted tdm again, immediately stopped it, then tried manually killing
tdm, tdm_greet and tsak. tsak stopped, but I had to kill -9 tdm and tdm_greet. I
was typing fast, but still ended up with 250M tdm.log. That one I'm saving and
I'll report back after I get it compressed and off the box.
11:10 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
<snip>
Found 1 keyboard(s)
Reading from keyboard: (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard+tsak
Device created.
Hotplug monitoring process started
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
<snip>
Interesting. I think I know where these messages are coming from (the
tsak daemon), and part of the problem is that the tsak messages are
somehow ending up in the tdm log.
I'm working on a fix, but I need to test it before I can push it to GIT.
Tim
1:05 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
<snip>
This should be fixed in GIT hash 696fe63. Please rebuild and test.
Tim
Found 1 keyboard(s)
Reading from keyboard: (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard+tsak
Device created.
Hotplug monitoring process started
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
No Device from receive_device(). An error occured.
<snip>
Interesting. I think I know where these messages are coming from (the
tsak daemon), and part of the problem is that the tsak messages are
somehow ending up in the tdm log.
I'm working on a fix, but I need to test it before I can push it to GIT.
Tim
2:25 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
On 03/05/2012 03:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
This should be fixed in GIT hash 696fe63. Please
rebuild and test.
Tim
will do and I'll report back. will take a couple of hours...
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
4:25 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
On 03/05/2012 03:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
This should be fixed in GIT hash 696fe63. Please
rebuild and test.
Tim
Tim,
Confirmed fixed! Thanks. Now I have to figure out why there is no TDE session
offered by tdm?? That's a packaging issue I believe :) Looks like the
trinity.desktop didn't end up in the right place... (never hurts to have fluxbox
installed as a backup :)
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tdm-no-session.jpg
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
9:06 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] TDE (git) crash on start - 5.8G tdm.log exhausted all disk space??
/var/tmp/kdecache-root was created, but nothing in it,
then
I check disk space
left. WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my /
partition and I have no
room left on my drive?? Searching...
/var/log/tdm.log 5876092928 -
WHAT? 5.8G log file??
Anybody else ever experience this?
Not directly, but perhaps I'll file a bug report against the problem. Unlike the
Xorg.0.log, tdm.log is never deleted and started fresh with each session. The tdm.log file
just grows and grows and grows....
In my Slackware system I long ago modified the stock rc.4 startup script to include
deleting the log file before actually starting run level 4, which for Slackware is the
graphical login. A more appropriate solution is TDM or TDE performing its own house
keeping.
With that said, unless this log file has been growing for a very long time and you did not
notice the ever shrinking file space, to grow to a GB size means a runaway loop of some
kind. I would test methodically. That is, reboot and before starting graphical mode,
ensure the log file is always deleted.
If your operating system allows a spare console for command line logins even when in
graphical mode (in Slackware console number 6 is excluded from graphical logins), use that
console to login and monitor the tdm.log file with tail. If there is no available console,
use ssh to monitor the log file.
Side note: sounds as though your /var file system is on the same partition as your root
file system. Placing /var on its own partition would have avoided any lock up due to file
space because only that partition would have filled and not your root system. Placing /var
on a separate partition is common practice and now you have real world experience why that
practice started. :)
Darrell
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