Bug 57745

I got burned by this also.  It took me quite a while to figure out why xfs was
dying, especially when /var/log/messages only reported the sucessful startup of
xfs and not its subsequent failure milliseconds later.

*** Bug 64963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Ok, I'm planning on fixing this before the next release. I didn't really
consider it a big issue before, but enough people have reported the
problem to me now that I've rethought it out and now consider it to be
something that really needs to be fixed.

It should be fixed before 4.3.0 comes out.  I'll probably backport the
fix and put it into any future erratum of 4.2.0 and 4.1.0 too.

*** Bug 75442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It appears that xfs in rawhide currently solves this problem:

Dec 20 11:05:32 claw Font Server[529]: terminating
Dec 20 11:05:33 claw xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Dec 20 11:20:25 claw syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No space left on device
Dec 20 13:06:39 claw xfs: listening on port 7100
Dec 20 13:06:39 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfa" registered more than
once
Dec 20 13:06:39 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfb" registered more than
once
Dec 20 13:47:21 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15137]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 20 13:47:21 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15137]: session closed for user root
Dec 20 13:47:39 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15146]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 20 13:47:39 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15146]: session closed for user root
Dec 20 13:49:25 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15164]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 20 13:49:25 claw sshd(pam_unix)[15164]: session closed for user root
Dec 20 13:50:10 claw xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets

It at least appears to either work, or to explode and log it for me anyway.
However this of course only works if /var/log has space on it too.

[root@claw root]# date ; killall -9 xfs ; cat /dev/urandom > /tmp/fillme ;df ;
service xfs start ; tail /var/log/messages ; date
Fri Dec 20 14:21:36 EST 2002
cat: write error: No space left on device
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              8254240   8254240         0 100% /
/dev/hda2               124443     17156    100861  15% /boot
none                    256976         0    256976   0% /dev/shm
Starting xfs:                                              [  OK  ]
Dec 20 14:18:53 claw xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets
Dec 20 14:18:53 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfa" registered more than
once
Dec 20 14:18:53 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfb" registered more than
once
Dec 20 14:19:36 claw xfs[15316]: terminating
Dec 20 14:20:13 claw xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Dec 20 14:20:13 claw xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets
Dec 20 14:20:13 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfa" registered more than
once
Dec 20 14:20:13 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfb" registered more than
once
Dec 20 14:21:36 claw xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets
Dec 20 14:21:36 claw xfs: Warning: font renderer for ".pfa" registered more than
once
Fri Dec 20 14:21:36 EST 2002

I think the above now shows that xfs is fixed now in current CVS.

If you experience this problem again in RHL 8.0 or higher, or using a rawhide
XFree86 in RHL 8.0, please reopen the bug report.  Also, if someone could
report to me wether or not this problem occurs in RHL 7.3 or 8.0 stock
with XFree86 4.2.0 or 4.2.1, it would be much appreciated.  I'm willing
to consider backporting whatever the fix was if someone tests it to find
if it is needed and worth the bother.  In either case please reopen if
problem occurs again in any release 7.3 or later.

Sorry for the delay digging into this one.

Closing as fixed in RAWHIDE for now