lately when i rebooted to my red hat 9.0 i got the followign error on startup
[drm:i830_wait_ring]*ERROR*space 131056 wanted 131064
[drm:i830_wait_ring]*ERROR*lockup
[drm:i830_wait_ring]*ERROR*space 131056 wanted 131064
[drm:i830_wait_ring]*ERROR*lockup

i am a newbie explorign linux..could any1 of you help me in recovering from this error..also the linux partition contains some important docs relating to my project, atleast help me recover that.
Thanks in advance for helping
Warm Regards

Hi,

I found a link that might help you. Good luck!
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhn-.../msg00016.html

Sam

P.S. You might consider installing a newer linux distribution than RH9.

thanks for that link. donno how my linux partition got full, pretty strange.i got following results
1. using df -h

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 3938 3744 0 100% /
none 3938 3744 0 100% /dev/shm

2.free

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem:
254288 61092 193196 0 9612 35372
-/+ buffers/cache: 16108 238180
Swap:
1020088 0 1020088

could u help me out, i mean i really donno how linux hda3 got full and i m really confused what to delete.

Well, I've a few questions.

How large are your partitions? I saw the output of df, but I'm not good enough to gleam partition size from that. Also, what does your partitioning scheme look like? For instance, do you have / mounted on hda1, swap on hda2, and /home on hda3, or something like that?

If you want to quickly free up some space to get things started, take a look in your /tmp folder. See if there are a lot of large files, or duplicate files taking up space. If so, I believe it's safe to delete them.

Also, check your /var/log folder. Services running in the background of some systems will routinely save log files there. Some of them can be quite large and could cause trouble if not regularly deleted or overwritten.

If you can copy your important documents to another partition temporarily, then do so before you do anything else.

Sam