[arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

[Sébastien Leblanc]

Dearest Arch Linux Mailing List,

So I was installing a few packages on a fairly recent Arch install,
when I got an error message from pacman:

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: Retrieving packages from community...
error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror1> : Failed
writing body (1435 != 1448)
error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror2> : Failed
writing body (104 != 4344)
error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror3> : Failed
writing body (6 != 2896)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from community
error: failed to commit transaction (download library error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

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I immediately thought of a full hard drive. `df` reported that my /
partition was full. My root FS partition is around 33G in size: that's
not huge, but since it is a fairly recent install, I thought there was
no way it could be normally that full.

I ran `du -sh` on things in my / drive, and it reported that /var/log
was using up 27G of space. The culprit was SLiM's log: it was making
up 99.99394 of all the space occupied by logs on my system. For some
reason, log rotation does not occur with SLiM on my system. All other
applications with logs work fine.

Is anyone having this issue?


I could not test it on other systems as it is the only one I have running SLiM.

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Sébastien Leblanc