Hi Sébastien I have tried it once with SLiM, though the problem was that syslog-ng wasn't placed in DAEMONS in rc.onf... So you could check that. Sébastien Leblanc <leblancsebas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Dearest Arch Linux Mailing List, > > So I was installing a few packages on a fairly recent Arch install, > when I got an error message from pacman: > > --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- > > : Retrieving packages from community... > error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror1> : Failed > writing body (1435 != 1448) > error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror2> : Failed > writing body (104 != 4344) > error: failed retrieving file '<package>' from <mirror3> : Failed > writing body (6 != 2896) > warning: failed to retrieve some files from community > error: failed to commit transaction (download library error) > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. > > --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- > > I immediately thought of a full hard drive. `df` reported that my / > partition was full. My root FS partition is around 33G in size: that's > not huge, but since it is a fairly recent install, I thought there was > no way it could be normally that full. > > I ran `du -sh` on things in my / drive, and it reported that /var/log > was using up 27G of space. The culprit was SLiM's log: it was making > up 99.99394 of all the space occupied by logs on my system. For some > reason, log rotation does not occur with SLiM on my system. All other > applications with logs work fine. > > Is anyone having this issue? > > > I could not test it on other systems as it is the only one I have running SLiM. -- Mikkel
