Public bug reported:

The effect of this is that certain important things stop working. For
example, text messages are no longer displayed in the messaging app.

root@ubuntu-phablet:/# du -hcs /var/log/*
0       /var/log/alternatives.log
12K     /var/log/alternatives.log.1
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log
8.0K    /var/log/apport.log.1
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log.2.gz
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log.3.gz
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log.4.gz
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log.5.gz
8.0K    /var/log/apport.log.6.gz
4.0K    /var/log/apport.log.7.gz
16K     /var/log/apt
128K    /var/log/auth.log
212K    /var/log/auth.log.1
8.0K    /var/log/auth.log.2.gz
8.0K    /var/log/auth.log.3.gz
8.0K    /var/log/auth.log.4.gz
56K     /var/log/bootstrap.log
0       /var/log/btmp
0       /var/log/btmp.1
56K     /var/log/dmesg
44K     /var/log/dmesg.0
16K     /var/log/dmesg.3.gz
16K     /var/log/dmesg.4.gz
0       /var/log/dpkg.log
640K    /var/log/dpkg.log.1
752K    /var/log/faillog
4.0K    /var/log/fontconfig.log
12K     /var/log/fsck
4.0K    /var/log/installer
265M    /var/log/kern.log
311M    /var/log/kern.log.1
27M     /var/log/kern.log.2.gz
34M     /var/log/kern.log.3.gz
19M     /var/log/kern.log.4.gz
9.0M    /var/log/lastlog
12K     /var/log/lightdm
16K     /var/log/lxc
0       /var/log/mail.err
0       /var/log/mail.log
4.0K    /var/log/news
272K    /var/log/pm-powersave.log
200K    /var/log/pm-powersave.log.1
4.0K    /var/log/pm-powersave.log.2.gz
101M    /var/log/syslog
52M     /var/log/syslog.1
1.4M    /var/log/syslog.1.gz
4.5M    /var/log/syslog.2.gz
5.9M    /var/log/syslog.3.gz
764K    /var/log/syslog.4.gz
3.3M    /var/log/syslog.5.gz
6.4M    /var/log/syslog.6.gz
2.6M    /var/log/syslog.7.gz
156K    /var/log/system-image
340K    /var/log/udev
0       /var/log/ufw.log
4.0K    /var/log/unattended-upgrades
724K    /var/log/upstart
120K    /var/log/wtmp
100K    /var/log/wtmp.1
844M    total


root@ubuntu-phablet:/# ls -l
total 72
drwxrwxrwt   7 root   root     140 Jan 16 16:41 android
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Jan  7 13:39 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Oct 18 10:07 boot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      14 Oct 26 17:22 cache -> /android/cache
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      13 Oct 26 17:22 data -> /android/data
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root    6180 Jan 16 16:48 dev
drwxr-xr-x  98 root   root    4096 Jan  9 14:53 etc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      16 Oct 26 17:22 factory -> /android/factory
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      17 Oct 26 17:22 firmware -> /android/firmware
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root    4096 Oct 26 17:18 home
drwxr-xr-x  18 root   root    4096 Jan  9 14:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root   16384 Oct 26 17:18 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Oct 24 12:47 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Oct 18 10:07 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root    4096 Oct 26 17:18 opt
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      16 Oct 26 17:22 persist -> /android/persist
dr-xr-xr-x 236 root   root       0 Dec 31  1969 proc
drwx------   2 root   root    4096 Oct 26 17:18 root
drwxr-xr-x  18 root   root     600 Jan 16 16:41 run
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Jan  9 14:52 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    4096 Oct 24 12:47 srv
dr-xr-xr-x  12 root   root       0 Jan 16 16:41 sys
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      15 Oct 26 17:22 system -> /android/system
drwxrwxrwt   6 root   root     320 Jan 17 12:18 tmp
drwxrwx--x   7 system system  4096 Nov  4 08:20 userdata
drwxr-xr-x  10 root   root    4096 Oct 26 17:22 usr
drwxr-xr-x  13 root   root    4096 Oct 26 17:22 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root      22 Oct 26 17:22 vendor -> /android/system/vendor

** Affects: logrotate (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Oliver Grawert (ogra)
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: avengers

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