I've just experienced this after upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic. My syslog and kern.log were each 2.5 GiB, and my messages was 1 GiB. Deleted the files but don't know what caused them to get so large or how to fix it.
-- syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs