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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] consolekit daemon problem
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:03
Message-Id: 7576.1319241536@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] consolekit daemon problem by Jonas de Buhr
1 Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net> wrote:
2
3 > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:11:33 -0400
4 > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
5 >
6 > >
7 > > Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:43:43 -0400
10 > > > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
11 > > >
12 > > > > Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net> wrote:
13 > > > >
14 > > > > > Am Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:58:11 -0400
15 > > > > > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
16 > > > > >
17 > > > > > > Hi. I am using consolekit on gentoo 64-bit unstable and its
18 > > > > > > giving me warnings saying unable to add monitor -- n o space
19 > > > > > > left on device. File systems seem to be fine and a google
20 > > > > > > search did not show anything relevant.
21 > > > > > >
22 > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas?
23 > > > > >
24 > > > > > yes. post log entries/error messages and the output of df.
25 > > > > Oct 21 14:42:15 ccs console-kit-daemon[20795]: WARNING: Failed to
26 > > > > add monitor on '/dev/tty4': No space left on device
27 > > > > and similar many messages like that. What file system is it
28 > > > > trying to use -- all the df's look good to me.
29 > > >
30 > > > hmmm. inodes? does df -i show 100% somewhere?
31 > > Nope. I wonder if the message is misleading?
32 >
33 > is there a specific reason that you do not post the output of the df
34 > commands?
35 >
36 > normally it's full HD or running out of inodes.
37 > searching the web i found one other guy having this problem a year ago,
38 > not reproduceable, no solution provided and in german:
39 > http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/console-kit-daemon-warning-failed-to-add-moni/#post-2513925
40 >
41 > are there other error messages regarding console-kit or with "no space
42 > left" in syslog?
43 > can you maybe strace the console-kit-daemon or run it verbose or
44 > increase its log level and see what it does when it prints this message?
45
46 I can see about its loglevel or strace.
47
48 I have a lot of volumes, so I didn't send the output, but I think it
49 uses sysfs or something. I saw one post which said something removing
50 something from grub, but no solution was there.
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57 John Covici
58 covici@××××××××××.com