On 7/3/24 09:39, Charles M wrote:
Hi all,We had someone who ran into an issue with their Xubuntu laptop: a Dell Precision M4800 Laptop running Xubuntu 22.04. Initial symptoms were simply that the desktop environment wouldn't load. I booted a live environment and noticed that the SSD was 100% full. After digging I noticed that almost all the space was being used by a single log file: /var/log/uvcydnctrl-udev.log AFAIK Xubuntu doesn't install anything related to this file in the default install, so for many of you this might not apply. We install a few webcam related programs as part of our default installation that might touch this program: Zoom (from .deb), Guvcview, and Cheese. At this point we're not sure which program was the culprit (for the creation of the large log file), but we saw one suggestion to remove uvcdynctrl. The person making the suggestion indicated that removing it didn't seem to affect programs like Zoom. We're going to test it on our end and see how true this statement is. Has anyone else on the list run into this webcam-related log file large file issue? Cheers Charles
See https://askubuntu.com/questions/177312/filesystem-filling-up-due-to-large-uvcydnctrl-udev-log-file The problem file/lib is on my Xubuntu systems: uvcdynctrl uvcdynctrl-data And, I have zoom, cheese and Guvcview.And, I have the troublesome log file. An entry seems to be made each time I video chat. Going back a year, the log file is at present 140K.
So, manageable for now. -VictorPS- Always good to periodically take a look at /var/log/ to see if the log files are ballooning. Also (because of systemd):
# To view systemd log in reverse order (newest entries first)
sudo journalctl -r
# To view disk usage for log files
sudo journalctl --disk-usage
# To clear up disk space, use the --vacuum-files option, which deletes all but the specified number of journal files. For example, to retain only three files:
sudo journalctl --vacuum-files=3 -- -- Victor Forberger [email protected] blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com
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