This morning my machine totally stalled: first thing I noticed was that there was a cat process causing heavy IO wait, next thing the hard drive was nearly full. After some digging it turned out that some unsuccessful printing attempts had left 75G worth of messages like below in the message log, which had just been archived. Printer still doesn’t talk to me …
... prnt/hpijs/services.cpp 386: unable to write to output ...
I personally don’t believe, that a printer driver should keep writing the same error message to syslog a gazillion times, even if that is an effective way of making the system go quiet eventually.
Being the proud owner of a license for VMWare Workstation for Windows, I could not help myself but noticing that this purchase has turned rather useless, as I have moved everything work-related to Fedora Linux. My request to move my license to my standard work platform was unfortunately denied:
Dear Customer, Unfortunately the platform exchange is only available on new purchases up to 30 days, my apologies you will need to purchase the platform you wish to change over to. Thanks! Global Support Services VMware Inc.
You’re welcome!