log getting spammed

elishac · 02-06-2010, 01:05 PM

Hello,

I'm using ubuntu, and my /var/log/syslog file is getting spammed (more than once per second) by lines like this :
"init: ureadahead-other main process (15488) terminated with status 2".
How to make this stop ?

Thanks.

EricTRA · 02-06-2010, 01:15 PM

Hello,

Seems to be bug related. Have a look here. I'd check if an upgrade or patch is available for that package in question.

Kind regards,

Eric

elishac · 02-06-2010, 01:20 PM

hello Eric,
thanks for helping me once more. Your link is too difficult for me to understand. Basically, does that mean there's no solution available at the moment ?
What's the package that is causing the problem ? ureadahead ? (what does it do? maybe I can just remove it if I don't use it?)

EricTRA · 02-06-2010, 02:11 PM

Hello,

No problem at all. Have a look at this link, I found it on the bug report I posted earlier, in one of the posts.

http://tech--help.blogspot.com/2009/...ther-main.html

It states this solves the problem, but refers to mounting of drives manually. Have you got any mounts put in manually in your /etc/fstab file?

Kind regards,

Eric

elishac · 02-06-2010, 06:05 PM

I googled it too, and I found it may be related to fstab issues, but I'm not sure, and I don't know enough anyway to modify it.
Here it is, tell me if there's anything wrong with it, and how to modify it :

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b58... /               ext2    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=a67... none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/sda2   /media/DATA   ntfs-3g   rw,auto  0   0

(copied from the first post of my previous topic)