Bogus syslog errors -> Disk full

[Scott R. Presnell]

Hello all,

	We had a disk full situation about a week ago.  We cleaned up a
little and now we're down to about 91% full and the inode usage is about 28%
(according to df), but ever since then, the syslog has continued to log
this error...

Mar 16 20:49:22 celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu grcond[3864]: CIO: no space on dev 1626
Mar 16 20:49:22 celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu last message repeated 17 times

Why? Should I be doing something about this? We haven't had any problems
writing the disk in the usual manner.  The system is a 4D/20G with a stock
380Mb disk, the disk is mounted from /dev/usr on /usr and is exported via
NFS.  The NFS traffic for the disk is heavy because it contains our homes -
that's why all this makes me a little nervous...


While I may have the attention of some of you, what does this message mean?
(you can see whatever it is, grcond is pretty adamant about it)

Mar 16 19:48:20 celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu grcond[29547]: CIO: SGI_set_rects:
	state not initialized
Mar 16 20:48:30 celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu last message repeated 12 times


And Another Thing :-)

#ifdef HAVE_GRIPE

What exactly does grcond do?  I can't find any documentation on it.  It'd
be really helpful to have more documentation on how the console processes
are handled and the /etc/gl directory in general.  More than once, we've
had bizzare little problems, like the window server not starting with a
nondescript error message, that might be solved by us if we had more
documentation.  In one particular case, the hot line people started
mentioning "board swap" - we said "no way, jack."  A ./MAKEDEV and re-boot
fixed the problem - but I'd like to know why.  Grepping strings output for
the source of error messages doesn't cut it.

#endif

These are *really* great machines. It's been a blast having one almost
completely to myself.  I'm looking forward to the day I can have one at home.


Thanks for your help on any of the above problems.

	- Scott

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