Package: base Severity: normal Tags: newcomer Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Nothing. System is freshly installed. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Just installed a fresh system from CD. * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? DESCRIPTION: After fresh install and first boot I get /var partition completely filled up during few minutes. I discovered that it is filled by files kern.log, daemon.log, messages and syslog. All files reside in /var/log. On text console error messages "...rt2800cpi ...: firmware: failed to load rt2860.bin (-2)" HOW I FIXED: I installed firmware-ralink from non-free. Driver got loaded immediately and error logs stopped filling immediately. I thought that it's critical since filling up /var or even ROOT where /var and /tmp aren't on separate partitions, could make system at least unusable. The driver loader script should stop trying to load a driver after first try and not bloat logs until disk will be filled up. Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)