From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 12:47:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD24106564A for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:47:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448808FC0C for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so4176929wyj.13 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.14.201 with SMTP id d51mr8095986wed.56.1317646044026; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm23048714wbo.17.2011.10.03.05.47.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E89AED9.3000705@my.gd> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:47:21 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2, sec.update -p3, switching between X and console prompt, /var full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:47:25 -0000 On 10/3/11 1:54 PM, n dhert wrote: > Hi, > I have FreeBSD amd64, 8.2-RELEASE, > I just applied the securtiy update p3 and now have > $ uname -r > 8.2-RELEASE-p3 > > I have X running and KDE, > My machine is a virtual machine (Vmware) > After boot-up I got a graphical login window (as always), I wanted to > switch to a console prompt, so hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 > but there is now NO reaction at all (neither with Ctrl-Alt-F2, > ...Ctrl-Alt-F8) > tried many times > > In the past this was never a problem (in the pas also as a Virtual machine) >>From a different PC, I also connected to my FreeBSD machine > Got a graphical window, here I could, after two tries, get the console > prompt, > went back to graphical mode via Ctrl-Alt-F9, OK, > but now neither keyboard, nor mouse reacts to input ... > Went back to my first PC, now here the same situatuon: > graphical window, keyboard and mouse: no more reaction > > Now I see, my /var is for 108% full > There was a huge file Xorg.0.log 16959946731 bytes > I deleted it, but still it remains 108% full and I can't create new file > > How to solve this ??? > help! That's because xorg still uses the log file. Type as root: sync If that doesn't fix you up, restart Xorg, you'll get your correct size.