Thanks Till. I finally deleted all the 640,000 files. It took many hours, but the machine is working again. :-)
Rich
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:29, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I forward your problem to the CUPS and HPOJ developer mailing lists, so
> that the appropriate authors can check the problem. Similar problems
> (HPOJ issuing tons of error messages) for HP's multi-function devices
> not being turned on permanently are known, but never lead to such a
> severe situation.
>
> Till
>
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> Richard Tango-Lowy wrote:
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> > My LM9.0 SMP server locked up hard this evening, and I couldn't get it
> > to boot and stay up.
> >
> > Booting into single-user and (after some research) doing "df -i" showed
> > 650K out of 650K inodes in use. I tracked them down to
> > /var/spool/cups/tmp. There were many, many, gs_* files there. (I wrote a
> > script to remove them and it's been at it for several hours. Release 80K
> > so far).
> >
> > I found many instances of the following in the logs:
> >
> > Oct 14 12:21:48 neuron ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:2469,
> > dev=3D<mlc:usb:officejet_d_series@/dev/usb/lp[0-9]*>, pid=3D1271,
> > e=3D2 Couldn't find device: llioOpenOne failed!
> >
> > This error appears when cups is running but the officejet is turned off
> > or unplugged. I'm guessing the inodes problem and the cups error are
> > related. Thoughts?
> >
> > Rich
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