Recurring Kernel Problem
by Ellster from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59HH7)
Hi all,
I'm dealing with a recurring problem and I just thought someone might be able to tell me what sensible next steps would be to figure out what's causing it.
A few weeks ago I got a Lenovo SL500 and installed Debian 9 with KDE. Around a week ago when I booted it up from standby it gave me the standard login mask and I logged in like normal. Then an error flashed up (too fast to read) and after that I only got a black screen. When I booted it up again, the GUI wouldn't load and after some google and experimentation I figured out the harddrive was full. I booted it with a puppy disc and found that the kernel log was pretty big, chalked it up to kernel error and reinstalled Debian.
Now on Debian 10 it's been working well for the past week, until yesterday while doing some work for Uni I a notice popped up that my drive is almost full. It was late, so I just saved and closed everything and when it wouldn't let me call up the shut down menu, I force shut down. Now when I booted it up (big surprise) it won't boot into GUI.
I don't have a problem just reinstalling Debian again, but if I have to do it every week it's going to get pretty time consuming so I'd like to figure out what's causing this. If I recall correctly the first time when I looked through the drive with Puppy Linux there was also around 30GB of full space unaccounted for, but I kind of just stopped looking once I saw the full kernel log. I did try to read the kernel log, but after an hour of stuff scrolling by too fast for me to read and it still going, I just gave up.
So, what should I do / look for now / after I reinstall Debian to figure out what's causing this?
Thanks everyone!
I'm dealing with a recurring problem and I just thought someone might be able to tell me what sensible next steps would be to figure out what's causing it.
A few weeks ago I got a Lenovo SL500 and installed Debian 9 with KDE. Around a week ago when I booted it up from standby it gave me the standard login mask and I logged in like normal. Then an error flashed up (too fast to read) and after that I only got a black screen. When I booted it up again, the GUI wouldn't load and after some google and experimentation I figured out the harddrive was full. I booted it with a puppy disc and found that the kernel log was pretty big, chalked it up to kernel error and reinstalled Debian.
Now on Debian 10 it's been working well for the past week, until yesterday while doing some work for Uni I a notice popped up that my drive is almost full. It was late, so I just saved and closed everything and when it wouldn't let me call up the shut down menu, I force shut down. Now when I booted it up (big surprise) it won't boot into GUI.
I don't have a problem just reinstalling Debian again, but if I have to do it every week it's going to get pretty time consuming so I'd like to figure out what's causing this. If I recall correctly the first time when I looked through the drive with Puppy Linux there was also around 30GB of full space unaccounted for, but I kind of just stopped looking once I saw the full kernel log. I did try to read the kernel log, but after an hour of stuff scrolling by too fast for me to read and it still going, I just gave up.
So, what should I do / look for now / after I reinstall Debian to figure out what's causing this?
Thanks everyone!