From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After successful install of FC3 in custom mode with default packages selection (only desktop was alter to xfce, gnome was deselected) on my Twinhead P88TE laptop with Celeron II 366M/20G/192M, the root partition had at least 1.5G free space. 'init 3' and 'yum update' were executed in console after first reboot. And 'yum update' aborted with writing disk error soon. Then I found free harddisk space decreased to nearly zero. Aparently the downloaded updating rpm pkgs coul dn't take all the 1.5G free space. Statistic of directories indicated nearly all the space was occupied by gdm log file /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1 with huge number "GE timeout" lines in it. And 'top' showed an X process was still running after 'init 3'. Kill that X process automatically decreased the log file to a "normal" size. Problem persists with my system was updated on 29th Nov. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): SysVinit-2.85-34 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run 'init 3' in a console with root privilege. 2. keep running 'df' Actual Results: You'll find fast decreasing free hard disk space in /var partition Expected Results: No fast swelling gdm log files to fill the whole disk Additional info: Workaround: kill the X process manully after 'init 3'
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
I'm currently using fc4, and the above-mentioned issue is gone. I know fc4 was changed to Fedora Legacy as well. I'd like to upgrade to fc5 or fc6 but there are some other issues of this old laptop with the latest 2.6 kernels, say unrecognized sound card, so I'll temporarily stay with fc4 until those problems resolved.
Thanks for the info.