Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:47:21 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2, sec.update -p3, switching between X and console prompt, /var full Message-ID: <4E89AED9.3000705@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <CAEFCw4tiopWb2zSO390r8wTxK_=kTjd=d%2ByiBaQ97q1S163sRA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEFCw4tiopWb2zSO390r8wTxK_=kTjd=d%2ByiBaQ97q1S163sRA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/3/11 1:54 PM, n dhert wrote: > Hi, > I have FreeBSD amd64, 8.2-RELEASE, > I just applied the securtiy update p3 and now have > $ uname -r > 8.2-RELEASE-p3 > > I have X running and KDE, > My machine is a virtual machine (Vmware) > After boot-up I got a graphical login window (as always), I wanted to > switch to a console prompt, so hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 > but there is now NO reaction at all (neither with Ctrl-Alt-F2, > ...Ctrl-Alt-F8) > tried many times > > In the past this was never a problem (in the pas also as a Virtual machine) >>From a different PC, I also connected to my FreeBSD machine > Got a graphical window, here I could, after two tries, get the console > prompt, > went back to graphical mode via Ctrl-Alt-F9, OK, > but now neither keyboard, nor mouse reacts to input ... > Went back to my first PC, now here the same situatuon: > graphical window, keyboard and mouse: no more reaction > > Now I see, my /var is for 108% full > There was a huge file Xorg.0.log 16959946731 bytes > I deleted it, but still it remains 108% full and I can't create new file > > How to solve this ??? > help! That's because xorg still uses the log file. Type as root: sync If that doesn't fix you up, restart Xorg, you'll get your correct size.
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