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[01:46] <Noob74> Why would my syslog be 33 GB?
[01:46] <Noob74> And is that where I would check for logs if my system keep crashing?
[01:47] <Noob74> (btw, xubuntu is seriously lightyears better than every other distro)
[01:50] <JackFrost> I'd say sounds like something is going a bit wonky, but since you mention repeated crashes that sounds about right.
[01:51] <JackFrost> I just had a system go crazy and fill the disk via kern.log and syslog, same repeated message being spammed who knows how many times a second.  Quite lovely...
[01:51] <Noob74> yep, kern is also bloated. Every distro does this. I think it's a driver problem
[01:52] <Noob74> I finally got tired of it and decided to get to the bottom of it
[01:52] <Noob74> The problem is I can't open the damn logs!
[01:53] <JackFrost> cat/grep won't?
[01:54] <Noob74> cat worked, thanks
[01:55] <Noob74> Dec 21 11:36:25 Laptop kernel: [ 2893.177752] rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: pci bus timeout, check dma status
[01:55] <Noob74> I will switch to open source driver and see if that helps
[02:11] <Noob74> On the bright side, this caused me to switch distros a million times and I found Xubuntu
[02:11] <Noob74> I've used it in the past but it's improved so much, especially the interface
[02:11] <Noob74> It's the best looking IMHO
[02:12] <Noob74> And I've never had a single problem with it, other than needing to add a script for touchpad scrolling
[02:13] <Noob74> Although, the default applications are not the greatest
[02:19] <tomreyn> if you don't strictly need syslog, you could purge rsyslog and just use systemd-journald, which doesn't let logs grow that large due to a broken driver spamming
[02:20] <Noob74> I'll look into that thanks
[02:20] <tomreyn> though you could also do the log rate limiting with rsyslog
[02:20] <Noob74> I think the crashes might be caused by the log being so big and not the error itself
[02:20] <tomreyn> but right now you probably have both rsyslog and journald
[02:21] <Noob74> Or it being written too fast or something
[02:21] <Noob74> Not closing the file in time?
[02:45] <tomreyn> i could also make up some random theories and add them here, or you could try to examine what is actually happening
[04:35] <Noob25> I don't know much about Linux or computer science. I found some solutions but they don't really give me an understanding of what's going on. I'm open to learning more if you have any suggestions
[04:36] <Noob25> But it has something to do with the proprietary driver. I haven't had a crash yet so I think switching drivers fixed it
[04:36] <Noob25> anyways thanks for the tips
[04:39] <Noob25> I plan on using linux the rest of my life so honestly if you know any good blanket learning resources let me know
[04:39] <Noob25> otherwise I'll just keep googling :)
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[23:53] <xu-help1w> Hello
[23:54] <xu-help1w> Excuse me! Is any one here?
[23:54] <Bashing-om> xu-help1w: Sure there are some looking on - what can we do for you ?
[23:56] <xu-help1w> Thanks! I need to download xubuntu lts 20.04.2 iso image... yet I can't find it anywhere. Where can I find the image?
[23:57] <tomreyn> xu-help1w: why do you need this one specifically, could you not use any newer 20.04.x image?
[23:57] <Bashing-om> xu-help1w: ^2 >> https://xubuntu.org/download .
[23:59] <xu-help1w> Sorrowfully I have problems with the NVIDIA driver! The 20.04.3 come with Linux Kernel 5.11 and the nvidia driver won't work with this 5.11 kernel.