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nyarla33 (mr-somewhere) wrote : syslog and kern.log grow endlessly - related to Intel wifi

Ubuntu Mate 20.04, with all supplied kernels up to 5.4.0.33

I occasionally see a message on my screen that disk space is low. I try rebooting since my computer is unresponsive. Normal reboot does not work, sudo reboot does not work. I have to power off the machine using power button. Machine boots but hangs because its trying to repair journal info.

I can't see what causes that since I was not using my computer at the time.

So with a live session, I can see that syslog and kern.log files have grown to several GB until the drive is full.

When using an upstream kernel 5.4.43-050443-generic x86_64, I haven't any problem so far.
Never had this issue with previous Ubuntu versions, since 16.04.