Morning, all. I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 on a 512 Linode. It has been smoothe as silk until yesterday. Logwatch warned about a couple of kernel errors:

Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Temporary process spawn error: No space left on device
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Temporary process spawn error: No space left on device
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Temporary process spawn error: No space left on device
Jun 24 08:24:40 eleanor kernel: init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job

I checked disk space with df -h, and all is good:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda       9.7G  1.8G  7.9G  19% /
devtmpfs        249M  4.0K  249M   1% /dev
none             50M  188K   50M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            249M     0  249M   0% /run/shm
/dev/xvdc       9.9G  1.7G  8.1G  18% /backup

The only change I have made is to edit fstab to add a /backup disk. Here is my fstab:

/dev/xvda       /               ext3    acl,usrquota,errors=remount-ro   0       1
/dev/xvdb       none            swap    sw                  0       0
/dev/xvdc       /backup         ext3    auto,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Everything seems to still be running fine, but I get queazy ignoring errors. I’m hoping you guys can shed some light for me. Thanks much!

You can ignore that one see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/980917

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